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Tickets: ALA member $33; RUSA member $30; non-ALA member $36; student/retired member $30. [http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2007a/registration.htm Click here for registration.]

== Tuesday, June 26, 2007 ==
== Tuesday, June 26, 2007 ==
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Friday, June 22, 2007
Resources and Remembrance: ALA Visits the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
A free pre-conference event
Friday, June 22, 9:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. Please arrive at 8:30 a.m. to check-in.
To register, email email@example.com or phone Ellen Zyroff at (858)694-2484.
Sponsored by EMIERT's Jewish Information Committee and The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM).
FRIDAY PROGRAM: four presentations, each about 1/2 hour, followed by a Q & A session. A presentation by Holocaust survivors will follow, also with a Q & A session. The program features resource experts who will focus on the following new research collections; also there will be a presentations by Holocaust survivors.
'Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive.' A major collection of over 985 hours of archival footage documenting the Holocaust and World War II.
'Photo Archives.' An expanding collection of over 85,000 photographic images gathered from archives, libraries, museums, photo agencies and private donors around the world documents the period from the end of World War I to the early 1950s.
'Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.' A national registry maintained by the Museum to document the lives of survivors who came to the United States after World War II. Currently the registry includes almost 200,000 records related to survivors and their families.
'The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education and the Museum's Oral History Collection.' Starting In 2007, the Museum has began to offer onsite access to almost 52,000 oral history interviews conducted by the Visual History Foundation,supplementing the Museum's own collection of almost 9,000 oral history testimonies.
'Archives.' A collection of almost 40 million pages, including microform reproductions of materials held by state and private archival institutions in virtually every European country.
Behind-the-Scenes Special Interest Tours (options will depend on final size of the crowd)
Lunch available at the Museum Café the day of the event or by pre-order through firstname.lastname@example.com.
Afternoon is free for touring the museum's permanent collection and special exhibits.
'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' (about 10 minutes to view) 'Children of the Lodz Ghetto' (about 30 minutes to view) 'America, Witness to History: Documenting the path of American Liberators'(30 minutes to tour) 'Genocide Emergency: Darfur: Sudan : Who will survive today?' 'Exhibiting the Nurenberg Trials: What is Justice?'
The USHMM is America 's national institution for the documentation, study and interpretation of Holocaust history. The museum, library and archive serve as America 's memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust, i.e., the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. Jews were the primary victims – six million were murdered; Gypsies, the handicapped and Poles also were targeted for destruction or decimation for racial, ethnic or national reasons. Millions more, including homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war and political dissidents also suffered grievous oppression and death under Nazi tyranny. In light of the re-emergence of a new generation of violent, anti-Semitic regimes that teach hate and violence against Jews, as well denial of the Holocaust in books and libraries, websites, schools, universities, and the media, the USHMM's educational mission becomes all the more urgent: to advance and disseminate knowledge about this unprecedented tragedy; to preserve the memory of those who suffered; and to encourage its visitors to reflect upon the moral and spiritual questions raised by the events of the Holocaust as well as their own responsibilities as citizens of a democracy. The Museum's resources and specialized reference services support the public, librarians, family history researchers, school children, and visiting fellows.
USHMM ADDRESS: 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Washington , DC 20024–2126 Main telephone: (202) 488–0400 TTY: (202) 488–0406
Saturday, June 23, 2007
ALA/ProQuest Scholarship Event
Saturday, June 23, 2007, 8:00 - 11:00 pm
The Scholarship Bash provides scholarships for library school graduate students. Among others, the event has featured the Indigo Girls, Three Dog Night and Mary Chapin-Carpenter, has been held at Universal Studios, and has raised almost one million dollars. This year's event will feature local political satirists Capitol Steps and additional entertainment that will be announced soon. Make sure to buy your tickets in support and celebration of a great cause. For more information visit http://www.ala.org/scholarshipbash.
Tickets: $35
Unshelved Poster Signing @ the Overdue Media Booth # 2552
Saturday, June 23, 2007, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum will be on hand at the Overdue Media booth to sign Unshelved Posters available from ALA Graphics. Posters ($12) will be available at the booth during the signing or all weekend at the ALA Store.
Saturday, June 23, 2007 - Monday, June 26, 2007
10th Annual Exhibits Round Table Silent Auction benefiting ALA Scholarships!
NEW! This year ALA partners with WVSA's ARTiculate Employment Training Program, a very dynamic D.C. non-profit that uses the arts to empower children and youth with special talents and special needs to master educational, employment and other life goals. These very talented youth are providing over 75 pieces of their original art to the auction! A portion of the profits will go direct to the artists to provide them with much needed income. The remaining profits will fund essential WVSA programs and ALA scholarships.
Of course that's not all! There are over 150 other exhibitor-donated items to bid on. Great things for both your library and for yourself! Thanks to our generous donors, you may bid on fabulous artworks, terrific gift baskets, a wide variety of cds and dvds to play, great chairs to sit on, books, books, books, and so much more! Check out the complete list of donated items up for bid. Come back often - new items are added weekly!
AND, you don't want to miss the 50/50 big money drawing! 50% goes to ALA Scholarships, and 50% goes to...well, possibly YOU!
Location: Washington Convention Center Lobby, across from the ALA Store -- Follow the signs!
Auction Hours are:
Saturday, June 23 – 8:30am-5pm
Sunday, June 24 – 8:30am-5pm
Monday, June 25 – 8:30am-12pm
Winner Pick-up day:
Monday, June 25 2pm-6pm
(if you can not be present to pickup your winnings, they will be shipped to you)
Remember, all profits fund $5000 ALA Scholarships. Visiting the auction may be the most important and meaningful stop you make at conference!
Sunday, June 24, 2007
LSSPS Annual Dinner
6:30-8:30 p.m.
The Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies' LSSPS Section is hosting its Annual Dinner in Washington, DC. It is an opportunity to spend an evening visiting with colleagues and meet new people, over an enjoyable dinner. We will honor the ASCLA/KLAS/NOD Award recipient, with sponsorship being provided by KLAS.
Tickets: $35 Click here for registration.
Literary Tastes: Notable Books Breakfast
8-10:30 a.m.
The Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES),of the Reference and User Services Association, is hosting a morning event of extraordinary authors and excellent cuisine for book lovers. Come join us at this annual celebration of the best writing of our time. Authors have been selected from the 2007 Notable Book Council's "List for America's Readers," an annual list of 25 outstanding fiction, nonfiction and poetry books for the adult reader. The writers will read from their work or talk about an aspect of the writing process while attendees enjoy breakfast. They will be available to sign books and for further discussion after the breakfast.
Tickets: ALA member $33; RUSA member $30; non-ALA member $36; student/retired member $30. Click here for registration.
Nancy Pearl Signing, Washington Convention Center, Ballroom C
10:00 am - 11:30 a.m.
Purchase your copies of the Nancy Pearl poster, her books (Book Lust, More Book Lust, Book Crush), and the Pearl Librarian Action Figures here throughout the conference. (Also available at the signing.)
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Inaugural Banquet
Tuesday, June 26, 2007, 7:00 pm - 12:00 am
Join us for the Inaugural Banquet honoring ALA President-Elect Loriene Roy and the Division President-Elects, to be held at the Grand Hyatt DC. The theme for this year's event is "Celebrating Community, Collaboration, and Culture." Attire for the evening is Black Tie or Cultural Dress. Make sure to buy your tickets in support and celebration of ALA's first American Indian President.
Tickets: $85


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6423.0 - Producer Price Indexes for Selected Service Industries, Australia, Mar 2000
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Attention Economic and Business Editors
Media Alert.....
ABS report on Producer Price Indexes for services sector
On 18 April the Australian Bureau of Statistics will launch a new quarterly publication, Producer Price Indexes for Selected Service Industries, Australia (Cat. No. 6423.0). It will present quarterly price index numbers for most industries within the transport and storage and property and business services sectors up to the March quarter 2000.
The new publication will contain price index series for important freight transport industries - road, rail, sea and air; property services such as real estate agents and the hire and lease of machinery and equipment; and a diverse range of business services including surveying, computer services, accounting services, market research and cleaning services.
Indexes for additional service industries will be released in the new publication as they are progressively developed under a long term program to extend the scope of the producer price indexes (PPIs) into the increasingly important services sector of the economy.
These service industry PPIs are being developed as part of a broad ABS strategic program aimed at better reflecting the contribution of service industries to the Australian economy. More details on this strategic program are provided on the bottom of this alert.
The main objectives of the PPI development program are to generate additional price index series:
Development of the new indexes has involved extensive consultation with industry associations and individual businesses to determine the most viable approach. An important consideration is to keep the workload involved in businesses completing their forms to a minimum.
The publication will be boxed in the usual way at the Press Gallery in Canberra.
Background: Producer Price Indexes for Service Industries
The development of the PPIs for service industries is an important part of a broad ABS strategic program designed to provide a range of statistics that will improve the measurement of service industries in the Australian economy.
The program was developed in response to the growth in the relative importance of service industries — which now account for some two thirds of gross domestic product — and the significant interest amongst users in assessing the structure and performance of this sector.
In addition to the development of the service industry PPIs, key components of the program include:
(i) The quarterly survey of inventories and sales which traditionally only collected sales from the manufacturing and wholesale industries, but from March quarter 1999 extended coverage to service industries. Estimates from these industries are currently being evaluated and are intended to be released as experimental estimates later this year.
(ii) Extension of the Economic Activity Survey to provide a more detailed annual picture of financial data for the services sector. The second set of experimental series were released in December 1999 and the first production series is due to be published in December this year.
(iii) The establishment of periodic surveys encompassing many Australian service industries which collect statistics on the nature, structure and operation of businesses. New surveys are added each year and information was collected for the first time in 1998-99 on industries such as employment placement and market research. For the 1999-2000 year, service industry coverage has been extended to include plant and household hire services and veterinarians. Also, the Cultural Industry Survey has been expanded to include a comprehensive number of services contained within the cultural industry.
(iv) The conduct of a survey of international trade services which collects information about the services provided to and received from non-residents. This information is important for compiling Australia's balance of payments statistics. The main types of services presented in these statistics are transportation, travel, communication, construction, insurance, finance, computer and information, royalties and licence fees, other business services and personal, cultural and recreational services.
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The shocking 2009 beheading death of Aasiya Zubair Hassan in Orchard Park and the murder trial of her husband Muzzammil two years later gripped the community and thrust the issue of domestic violence into the local spotlight like never before.
Although that case received attention around the world, countless more suburban domestic abuse cases go unrecognized, according to those who work with the abused. Because domestic violence knows no geographic or socioeconomic boundaries, many suburban residents have had greater difficulty getting help because more easily accessible resources are concentrated in the city.
That is slowly beginning to change.
The Williamsville Clergy Association has met three times in the past four months regarding the establishment of a Northtowns Family Justice Center, and subcommittees have been formed to scout out potential locations for a satellite office. That comes on the heels of the establishment of a location in Orchard Park that has worked with 160 victims since February, despite being open only 12 hours a week.
"Oftentimes, we like to keep our private lives very, very private, and that can be very destructive," said the Rev. Ethan Cole, rector of Calvary Episcopal Church, who is helping to spearhead the effort. "This is a real problem in our community, and we have a responsibility to respond to it, especially in communities of faith where we talk a lot about what family is all about."
That comes as a relief to people like Patty, a lawyer and Amherst resident who was married for seven years to a man whose rages and tirades left her cowering behind chairs and ducking flying objects. She was never beaten, but she still carries a lingering fear of his explosive, psychological abuse even though she left him six years ago.
"He hurt the pets. He smashed and broke things," said Patty, who asked that her last name not be used. "One time when my daughter was 2, she started mimicking that behavior, and it was so awful."
Had she not worked downtown, she said, she can't say for certain that she would have taken full advantage of the resources once offered only at the downtown Family Justice Center, whose headquarters on the 14th floor of 237 Main St. have handled a record 3,250 cases over the past two years.
"They put me back together," she said of the people there.
The justice center opened downtown in 2006 and has worked with more than 7,000 domestic violence survivors since then. The nonprofit operation costs $700,000 to run, with about $150,000 coming from county and state government, according to Mary Travers Murphy, the executive director. Charitable contributions from the United Way, Oishei Foundation and private donors make up the balance, she said.
But Patty, better than most, recognizes that many other suburban residents who suffer from abuse are too intimidated or overwhelmed to make it down to Buffalo's Main Street.
"For people who aren't accustomed to going downtown, they think downtown is difficult to get to, difficult to navigate and dangerous," she said.
The people working to add a site in Amherst have a good model in the Orchard Park location, which opened on the second anniversary of Aasiya Hassan's death.
From the outside, the building looks like a simple white house, adjacent to Orchard Park Presbyterian Church. The inside features soft couches, a generous-sized playroom for children and custom window treatments – almost all donated.
It also features a surveillance and security system, bulletproof windows, steel-reinforced doors and immediate access to 13 different agency's services – from forensic medical and police services to victim and child counseling and legal services. Southtowns clergy sent out a call for assistance on the project and raised $100,000 and countless volunteer hours to renovate a maintenance worker's residence.
"Sometimes you feel like you're paddling upstream, and sometimes you hit the current and it just carries you along, and that's how this was," said the Rev. Richard Young, pastor of Orchard Park Presbyterian Church. "It just took on a life of its own."
The Family Justice Center had no funds to purchase or renovate the Orchard Park satellite office, so the community raised the money on its own. At least eight trained volunteers help staff the facility and keep it running, though two paid staff members from the downtown center go there to handle things like victim safety planning.
Representatives with Erie County Crisis Services and the Erie County Sheriff's Office are also present during operating hours, along with the center staff member. Many other agency advocates are available by phone.
The abuse of spouses and loved ones in the suburbs is an undertold tale, despite its regular occurrence – sometimes with fatal outcomes, according to those who work with the abused.
The same year Aasiya Hassan was killed, Constance Shepherd's husband slashed her throat. The Town of Tonawanda woman's body sat in the morgue for a month because her husband, Stephen, still had custody of it. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed a bill into law last month that prevents individuals convicted of killing a family member from having any say over their burial.
This past June, surgeon Timothy V. Jorden Jr. lured Jackie Wisniewski, his ex-girlfriend, into the stairwell at Erie County Medical Center and shot the West Seneca woman four times in the head. He was later found dead near his Southtowns home.
In October of last year, Trevell Walker hanged himself in the Erie County Holding Center after leaving suicide notes saying he could no longer cope with the fact that he stabbed his wife to death in their Cheektowaga home in December 2010.
Three days prior to that death, Peter A. Vega was arrested for killing his girlfriend, Lourdes Rodriguez, in the Town of Tonawanda.
Family Justice Center supporters can point to those cases as proof that a need is clearly going unmet and evidence that the new site will help to meet it.
The Family Justice Center can be reached at (716) 558-SAFE. The Orchard Park branch can be reached at 662-0259 during the operating hours of 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The Erie County 24-hour domestic violence hotline is 862-HELP.
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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
School Bus Drivers Touched and Taunted by Supervisor, Then Forced Out Upon Complaining, Federal Agency Charged
LOS ANGELES — School bus operator First Student, Inc. will pay $150,000 and provide other relief to settle a lawsuit for sexual harassment and retaliation filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
The EEOC had charged that four female employees at the company were sexually harassed, retaliated against or forced to quit. Ohio-based First Student claims to be North America's leading school bus transportation services company.
According to the EEOC, a male supervisor at its facility in Los Angeles sexually harassed at least four women, including bus drivers and a human resources assistant. The supervisor began by making constant explicit remarks about their body parts and the sexual acts he wanted to perform on them. The harassment turned physical when the supervisor exposed himself, grabbed the breasts of a bus driver and rubbed his private parts onto her, the EEOC charged.
The EEOC contends that a male manager who received their complaints of harassment not only failed to correct the situation, but also disciplined one victim and transferred another in retaliation for complaining. The harasser cut another bus driver's hours upon refusal of his advances and promised extra hours to female employees who might acquiesce, the EEOC said. Three of the victims felt forced to resign as a result of the ongoing harassment.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits gender discrimination in employment, including sexual harassment and retaliation. The EEOC filed suit against First Student in September 2009 in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (EEOC v. First Student, Inc., Case No. CV 09-7102 RVBKx) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
Aside from the monetary relief, the parties entered into a consent decree, valid through 2012, which requires First Student to hire an outside EEO consultant to revamp the company's policies, complaint procedures, investigations and training of its employees on sex discrimination, harassment and retaliation. First Student must also require supervisors to report such complaints to the human resources department within 24 hours of receipt and create a centralized tracking system for those complaints. The decree covers First Student locations in the California counties of Los Angeles and Orange, and the EEOC will monitor compliance.
"Last year, retaliation charges became the number one type of complaint that the EEOC received," said Olophius Perry, district director for the EEOC's Los Angeles District Office. "The increase signals a widespread problem wherein employers seem to choose retribution over working toward eliminating the sources of discrimination in the workplace. Employers must understand that workers have the right to complain, and it is illegal to retaliate against those that do."
Anna Park, regional attorney for the EEOC's Los Angeles District Office, said, "We encourage all employers to implement proactive relief to focus on prevention rather than reacting to problems after they occur. Sexual harassment can happen in any workplace, to any employee, and it is the employer's responsibility to prevent and to immediately respond and correct the types of problems we saw in this case."
According to the company's website, www.firststudentinc.com, First Student provides student transportation services to schools in over 1,500 school districts in 42 states, transporting 6 million students across the country every day.
The EEOC is the federal agency that enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on the agency's web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Got this email a little while ago…
Hello European Bikepolo Teams
We're glad to invite you to the first European Hardcourt Bikepolo Showdown. The Tournament will take place on the 18th of october as a part of the Bicycle Film Festival in Zurich. We have confirmed registration form all over Switzerland, Germany and the U.K. Of course the main challenge will be to beat the current european champion Team Basel. We will play in a big warehouse so you dont have to worry about weather and temperature. Besides Polo and the Movies there will be other Bike Messenger related stuff going on all over the weekend. So we promise that the journey to Switzerland will definitely be worth it. If you're interested in entering the Bike Polo Tournament please write an email to firstname.lastname@example.com to register. More Info and a flyer will be up soon. Check back on fahrradkurier.ch for updates!
This looks good, and playing in a big warehouse sounds like fun, more info on http://bikepoloshowdown.wir24.de.
And if you fancy more European polo action check out Sweden on 14/09 for the Swedish Open Cycle Polo Championship more info http://club.kometbicycles.se/.


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By Lisa Capobianco
Staff Writer
With the Southington Community Cultural Arts (SCCA) halfway into its 18-month capital campaign to turn the old Gura Building into an arts center, the Town Council voted in approval of a DECD Grant worth $500,000 Monday night.
During its meeting, the Southington Town Council voted 8 to 1 to accept a grant awarded to the town to help with renovation costs for the Gura Building, which formerly housed several town offices and became abandoned when the Municipal Center opened. The town allowed SCCA to start an 18-month fundraising period to make 80 percent of the renovation costs, leaving the SCCA with a goal to raise about $1.4 million.
Town Councilor Stephanie Urillo did not vote in favor of the grant.
Local artist Mary DeCroce, who serves at the forefront of the project, presented before the Town Council an overview of the project and the current fundraising work SCCA has completed to turn the Gura Building into an arts center.
As of November 18, DeCroce said SCCA has raised a large sum of money from a combination of donations, grants and funds. Besides receiving a $500,000 grant from the State Bond Commission, SCCA has raised $17,000 through a sponsorship from the bike parade as well as $25,000 committed from the Calvanese Foundation and $10,000 in pledges from the DePaolo Family Foundation. SCCA also received a $25,000 donation from the Italian American Festival this past summer as well as other donations and more donor pledges worth $15,000.
"We are getting there," DeCroce said. "We are nine months into the 18-month capital campaign, and I am amazed at how far we have come."
DeCroce also noted the current raffle at various Pilgrim Furniture City stores throughout Connecticut, with the goal of selling 1,000 tickets for $100 each. Winners have the chance to win $25,000 worth of furniture. SCCA will hold a gala on February 9 at Pilgrim City to choose the winning ticket. Currently, SCCA has sold 150 tickets.
"It is really interesting how the whole energy of this project just keeps growing and growing," said DeCroce, who also leads Harvest the Arts during the Apple Harvest Festival.
Besides holding art classes and exhibiting artwork, the new arts center will include rental art studios and an art supply store. The center will also feature a pottery studio as well as a gallery. DeCroce said funds for sustainability of the building would stem not only from the store, but also from monthly leases and rents for small performances in the gallery as well studio rentals.
"You cannot just rely on classes and exhibits to keep this going," DeCroce said. "Art centers operate with lease, with rental, and also with state grants—you have to bring something in from everywhere."
Although several members of the Council expressed concern over sustainability of the proposed arts center, DeCroce assured them that SCCA will achieve sustainability after the 18 months are up. She also emphasized that SCCA will continue to apply for grants and funds.
"We have had interest in renting the potter room, renting studio space, and Jerry's Artarama already wants to be our satellite store for art supplies," DeCroce said.
DeCroce also said the current activities she is involved in also enhance sustainability. Now recognized statewide, DeCroce has received phone calls from other towns for art work, including the Meriden YMCA. WFSB has also took notice of SCCA's project, and will feature DeCroce on Better Connecticut.
She has also partnered with several local artists to decorate ten windows of vacant buildings on Center Street with winter wonderland themes, with the hope of drawing more visitors and businesses to Southington.
"I am always inviting young artists in," DeCroce said. "I am a firm believer that when you have youth involved, that is what gives the energy and keeps it going."
Town Councilors Dawn Miceli, Victoria Triano, Tom Lombardi, Chris Palmieri and Paul Champagne formally congratulated DeCroce on her efforts to transform the Gura building into an arts hub, recognizing her passion, talent and skills.
"The 18-month deadline does not mean anything to me when I see how much money they have raised to try and advance this project," said Minority Leader Chris Palmieri.
Arts campaign at halfway mark; Council approves grant for Gura Building
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About Michael
For the second straight year I will be watching the Superbowl OTA, for free. (Well, really for the cost of renting my eyeballs to advertisers.)
How can it be a crime to stream the Superbowl, or any programming, that is simultaneously broadcast over the air for free?
Wait. You can pay people for sex?
That can be there new advertising slogan, "We have loooooooots of computers!"
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Lack of attention is a symptom. Students have been ignored teachers since the beginning of time. They don't even need paper and pencil to zone out.
I never had a good teacher that I ignored. Meaning a teacher that was able to engage and connect with the class almost always has the classes attention.
The teacher is/should be better equipped to handle mis-uses of technology in the classroom than legislation.
What really blows my mind is that they actually tested something without just assuming it was bad.
I love it when Mike rips into people. I would LOVE to see a live debate between Mike and anyone of the guys he shreds.
Actually this sounds like you're doing exactly what Mike said people had trouble with. Access and content are separate.
There is almost an infinite amount of content and very limited access. The mistake would be to think that content is only professional movies or news. But the quality and level of all media that can be served through an internet connection is infinite. There is no way that you can possibly consume all the content that exists.
The access is what you pay for because there is scarcity. Content isn't really what you pay for because it's abundant. After all, access to nothing is still access, content without access doesn't exist.
Must have been a Freudian slip. Supposed to be 'laws', not 'lies'. Oops!
If only this worked out in the US with lobbying groups.
"The **AAs want tougher, stronger, more stringent copyright lies. Maybe we should see what the other side wants?"
In general, I would say Wired's writing sucks on things outside of new gadgets or memes. If you've read anything from them about copyright, newspapers, etc. you would know what I mean. After reading http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/a-legit-pirate-bay/, I'm considering removing Wired from my RSS. There just isn't enough value anymore.
I think a great deal of this presupposes the quality of the movie. If the movie sucks, it will never do well...unless it's a whole new level of suck that happens to be cool. If it really is a good movie then the buzz should be quite good and sales of dvds and box office should support each other.
As Mike has suggested, if a movie is really good, being able to buy the dvd on the way out would be like an impulse buy.
One of my favorite movies is Wedding Crashers. I saw it three times in the theater and I couldn't wait for it to be released. I got curious looked around and found a crappy version online to tide me over until it was released on dvd. Then bought the dvd and watched it several more times. And, watch it whenever it's on tv.
I think, box office sales of dvds would be great...if the movie is good too.
I think this is a really good point. How many times have you seen a preview for a movie and totally forgot about it by the time it really comes out.
As for never releasing movies, that sounds like a great idea. Warner Bros. through infinite scarcity could whip up a frenzy of consumer anticipation by never releasing movies. Now that would be a captive audience...for someone else to sell their product.
What about those poor successful actors of the late 1800s. Along come this device that can record their acting once and suddenly there's no demand for them to ever act that movie again. Surely that destroyed acting as a career. Those poor misguided fools. If only they had lobbied their governments to make the movie camera illegal for ruining their business model.
Since 2003, annual UK broadband revenues have increased from £0.6 billion to £2.7 billion (2008). Recorded music revenues have fallen every year in the same period, principally due to illegal filesharing. It is therefore not difficult to see that the growth of BT's consumer broadband business has been assisted by the increase in illegal filesharing.Babies Kill People! As the birth rate increases so does the death toll. Therefore, babies kill people. We should act now and completely stop all procreation. Then we would never die.


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New Americans
NashView – Explore Your Community
Financial Empowerment Center
Opportunity NOW web portal
eBid Nashville
Development Services Center
The Parthenon
Ford Ice Center
Nashville B-cycle
Streaming on Metro Nashville Network
Video Gallery Archive
Broadcast Schedule
Citizens' Guide to the Metro Budget
Look up your Trash, Recycling, and Brush Collection
Receive and Pay Your Water Bill
Review and Pay Your Electric Bill
Renew Your Vehicle Registration
SUBJECT: Creation of the Metro Emergency Radio Management Committee
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Government and the Nashville Electric Service (N.E.S.) embarked on a project to purchase, construct and operate a 800 MHZ trunked radio system (the "System") to improve emergency dispatch and response throughout Davidson County; and
WHEREAS, even though the digital radio technology that will eventually be used in the System provides greater efficiency in the use of radio bandwidth, the license issued to the Metropolitan Government by the Federal Communications Commission provides only a limited radio bandwidth to the Metropolitan Government; and
WHEREAS, in order to utilize the System to its fullest potential and preserve its availability for emergency use, the Metropolitan Government must efficiently manage and control access to the System; and
WHEREAS, in December 1997, the Metropolitan Government and Nashville Electric Service entered into a Memorandum of Understanding which included a provision for a joint committee to manage the access to and operation of the 800 MHZ trunked radio system; and
WHEREAS, in August 1999, Executive Order Number 99-06 was adopted establishing the Metro Emergency Radio Management Committee to provide an organized structure to manage the System.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Bill Purcell, Mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me, do hereby direct and order the following:
That the Metro Emergency Radio Management Committee created by Executive Order Number 99-06 is hereby continued and will have the mission, operate and be composed as provided in this Executive Order.
The membership of the Metro Emergency Radio Management Committee shall be as follows:
the Director of General Services, or his or her designee;
a representative selected by N.E.S.;
the Chief of Police, or his or her designee;
the Fire Chief, or his or her designee;
the Purchasing Agent, or his or her designee;
the Director of Information Systems, or his or her designee;
the Metropolitan Sheriff, or his or her designee;
the Director of Public Works, or his or her designee;
the Director of Water & Sewerage Services, or his or her designee;
the Director of Parks & Recreation, or his or her designee;
the Director of the Office of Emergency Management, or his or her designee;
the Director of the Emergency Communications Center, or his or her designee;
The Police Department, Fire Department, Emergency Communications Center and N.E.S. are expected to be the major users of the System. The Department of General Services will have the major operating and maintenance responsibilities for the System. Therefore, these five (5) agencies will be the lead agencies on the Committee and shall have two (2) votes each. The other agencies shall have one (1) vote each.
The Director of General Services shall serve as Chair. The Committee shall select a Vice Chairman from another agency who will serve for a term of one (1) year. The Committee shall adopt any additional rules for internal governance it deems necessary. The staff services to the Committee will be provided by the Department of General Services.
The mission of the Metro Emergency Management Committee shall be as follows:
Develop and implement guidelines for the allocation of effective and efficient use of the System, including the loading and development for all users.
Determine the accurate maintenance and operating costs for the System and then recommend a plan to access each user a fair and proportionate share to recover these costs.
Develop and recommend guidelines to the Director of Finance and N.E.S. for the creation and maintenance of a reserve fund to cover unanticipated expenses and improvements to the System.
Provide long-range planning for the ultimate retirement and replacement of the System.
Ordered, Effective and Issued:
Bill Purcell
Metropolitan Mayor
Date: November 19, 2002
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With continued support from many area businesses, along with our Agents and Staff, The Danberry Company is making a positive difference in helping children and families in need throughout our area of Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan.
When serious illness strikes a family member, words simply cannot describe the emotional roller coaster it creates, particularly when the patient is a child. Many times, families experience emergency situations and lack the financial resources to promptly address the issues. The Danberry Treasure Chest was created to provide emergency funds to families in those times of need.
The annual Danberry Treasure Chest Charity Auction Dinner raises funds for the "Treasure Chest" which is administered by the ProMedica Toledo Children's Hospital Foundation. So far, in 24 years, we have raised nearly $1.2 million and provided support to more than 1,000 local families. This is outstanding!
We're excited to invite you to the save the date for the 2019 Danberry Treasure Chest Auction and Dinner Event! This year we will be celebrating our 25th anniversary and it will be out of this world. We hope to shatter more records this year in both funds raised and attendance. In addition to raising funds and sharing information about the families that benefit from this amazing cause, we are introducing the Danberry Treasure Chest's brand new look!
Join the cause by making a monetary donation, becoming a sponsor, donating an item for the live/silent auction, or simply purchasing a ticket to attend the event. If you would like to participate, please contact Allyson France at email@example.com. We are excited to see what this year will bring, please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions you may have.


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This means a few things. Firstly the blog is migrating to the community page of NoScrunchie.
Secondly that much as I expect everyone to start reviewing salons, I will also be rating and reviewing every salon I go into. A few weeks ago, I thought I would have a head start on this.
This meant critically looking at each salon on the aspects that we all think should be the bare minimum.
I have been to 3 salons in the past couple of weeks and they were all what I normally consider okay salons. But were they really?
- In the first salon, the hair dresser scrubbed my hair like it was a dirty wash cloth and was then shocked when it was tangled after the wash. She told me she was new to the job and I felt sorry for her so I did not complain. When I was leaving, I was asked to pay extra for blow drying my hair. I was shocked and asked if the option was to leave with wet hair. The lady explained that there was a difference between blow drying with and without a brush and I had been privileged with the brush option. I did not remember having a choice in this matter. Credit to her (I guess), she knocked that £25 off the bill.
- The second salon that I ventured into had a massive sign saying Afro Caribbean hair. I was informed that the lady who usually does Afro hair was not in. It was a Saturday afternoon which in my assumption is the busiest time for a salon. The very 'helpful' lady suggested that I go to another salon. Thanks, I think.
- The third salon is one that I have been to before and I knew that I could expect a clean environment at the very least.I had relaxer put in my hair and then when we got to the sink, the lady told me that it looked like the pipes were frozen as the water was ice cold. I asked what my options were, and she said, 'well the relaxer has to come out!' The minute the water hit my head, I got a headache. It was horrible and even she couldn't keep her hands in it for long, so we took a break every after a minute. I was really scared that today was the day I was about to discover chemical burn. Lucky for me it got washed out in time. The hairdresser did say she was sorry though so I guess that should make it okay.
But I am beginning to realise a pattern here and this affirms my belief about the need for NoScrunchie. I have rated all these salons. So whoever goes there after checking them out on the site can go with this knowledge.
I have read a number of people's stories about bad salon experiences especially with chemical
burn and I am often amazed when people say either they will never relax their hair again, or they will never use that brand again. What amazes me is how rarely we blame the salons or even warn our friends about them. Almost like the salon cannot be culpable.
Why do we let salons get away with it? If I got treated like this in any other service industry, I would throw my toys out the pram. If a restaurant told me all their drinks were super duper ice cold, I would say no.If I finished having my dinner and they tried to charge me for a warm plate, I would say no. Let's not even get into getting the possibility of getting to a restaurant and finding that the chef did not come in....
I can do a bit of this, but I cannot do it without you. So let's all honestly review those salons. And hopefully, we will ALL eventually get better service.
AND Goodbye to this blog here and hallo to the new blog
for a better salon experience.


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Table Talk
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In 1517, Martin Luther's 95 Theses sparked
the Protestant Reformation by challenging the practices of the Roman
Catholic Church and the authority of the pope. Many of Luther's books
were ordered to be burned as a result of Luther's dissent. Despite this
fact, a copy of Martin Luther's Table Talk (then entitled
Discourses) was found preserved under the foundations of a German
citizen's home in 1626. Table Talk contains a series of informal
conversations Luther shared with his students and colleagues in his
home. The topics of these conversations range from religious doctrine
and history to instructions regarding government, church, and the
academic university. Throughout this text, Luther presents his beliefs
boldly, and at times, his opinions may seem extremely biased. While the
ethical implications of Luther's views are highly debated, Table
provides an uncensored look at Luther's influential
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Laser etched rubber stamps
From Bloominglabs
I made some rubber stamps on our laser machine. I went ahead and cut a wood base and turned a nice handle on our wood lathe. Just used some common fast-setting household glue to hold it all together. Note: you do NOT want to use regular rubber from a hobby store. That stuff creates very very bad fumes. This stuff is specially formulated for laser etching, it smells bad but is tolerable.


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This is our library on scientific research related to CBD, the Endocannabinoid System, other cannabinoids and Fibromyalgia. Below you will find a list of conditions for which there are one or more scientific studies of CBD. The source of these scientific studies relates primarily to PubMed, an online service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Important: The studies that are listed by PubMed are for the most part preclinical research. These relate in most cases to animal experiments with isolated CBD (pure CBD) and not fully extracted CBD extract. Although mammals have cell receptors that respond to cannabinoid compounds, the data collected from animal studies are not always 1: 1 applicable to humans. Always check with your physician before starting a new dietary supplement program. Learn more at The Basics of CBD Oils and Cannabis as a Therapeutic Agent
- Cannabinoids for fibromyalgia
- Cannabis use in patients with fibromyalgia
- Cannabis & fibromyalgia in Israel
- Clinical endocannabinoid deficiency (CECD): Can this concept explain therapeutic benefits of cannabis in migraine, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome and other treatment-resistant conditions?


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England v New Zealand, Twickenham, December 1
All Blacks look to cap unbeaten year in style
ESPN Staff
November 29, 2012
Gloucester playmaker Freddie Burns could make his international debut for England from the bench © Getty Images
Head to Head
England will look to add some much-needed gloss to an otherwise disappointing autumn campaign against an all-conquering New Zealand at Twickenham on Saturday.
Stuart Lancaster's side went into their end of year series full of hope after finishing their summer tour of South Africa with an impressive 14-14 draw. Things began well with an easy victory over a woeful Fiji in their opener but they then fell to a beleaguered Australia before losing to the Springboks by a solitary point in their most recent outing. Captain Chris Robshaw's decision making has been questioned both on and off the pitch but the England management have stuck by their skipper and he will hope to make amends against the Kiwis.
England now know that they cannot break into the top four of the IRB rankings and in the process secure the best possible seeding for the 2015 World Cup pool draw next month so they will be playing for pride rather than ranking points. And their opponents also do not have that worry of a World Cup seeding hanging over them as they have been by far and away the best side in the world for some time - a fact reflected by their No.1 ranking.
The All Blacks are on a 20-match unbeaten run that has seen them add the Rugby Championship trophy to their already over-loaded mantelpiece. On their latest tour of the northern hemisphere, they have also swept all before them with wins over Scotland, Italy and Wales but it has not been plain sailing for them off the pitch.
The media focus has centred on hooker Andrew Hore who was hit with a five-match ban earlier this week for striking Wales second row Bradley Davies - a ban which some deemed lenient - and the squad have also been rocked by the Norovirus with coach Steve Hansen claiming that all but two of their players have been sick.
England - Player to Watch: Owen Farrell is one of the four best players in the world, according to the latest IRB Player of the Year shortlist, and he gets the nod at fly-half in place of the injured Toby Flood. He will be under pressure to shine, especially as he is up against the best No.10 in the world, and the All Blacks will need to keep a close eye on him.
England - Team News: Lancaster has made just one change from the side that fell to the Boks with Farrell coming in for the injured Flood. And he has also made two tweaks to the bench with the fit again Courtney Lawes replacing Mouritz Botha. Uncapped Gloucester fly-half Freddie Burns is also named among the replacements and could make his debut for England if given the nod.
New Zealand - Player to Watch: Julian Savea is the in-form winger in world rugby. He has made an electric start to his time with the Kiwis and has scored ten tries in his first eight games. He will come up against a resolute England defence but has all the ability to squeeze over the tryline from the most unlikely of positions.
New Zealand - Team News: Dan Carter comes back into the Kiwis' side after missing their win over Wales with a calf injury. Elsewhere, Keven Mealamu starts at hooker in place of the suspended Hore but Mealamu along with prop Tony Woodcock will face late fitness tests on calf injuries. And in another change, Brodie Retallick gets the nod ahead of Luke Romano in the second row.
Key Battle: Robshaw will hope to put in a solid showing after coming in for criticism during the week, but it will not get any easier for the England skipper. He faces the world's best openside Richie McCaw who will be looking to end the year on a high note ahead of his sabbatical from the game.
Trivia: Tony Woodcock's try in last weekend's Test was statistically significant: firstly because it was the 1700th try scored by an All Black in a Test match. Secondly, the try took the All Blacks beyond 13,000 points in Test rugby.
Stats: The All Blacks first XV boasts 788 caps while England's totals just 206.
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"We asked for a big response from the players after Australia and we got one last Saturday against South Africa, although ultimately we were denied. That frustration has been channelled this week and the whole squad has reacted with a determination to get a victory against the top team in the world." - England boss Stuart Lancaster
"The ban is what we expected. We don't want to see that in the game and although we love Andrew, we didn't love what he did. The intent was to do something else but he got it drastically wrong. As a result of that he hit the man on the chin and knocked him out. You don't want to see that in the game. He was embarrassed, we were embarrassed. Our thoughts were with Bradley Davies." - All Blacks coach Steve Hansen on Andrew Hore's suspension
Prediction: The All Blacks will end the year unbeaten but Lancaster's team will push them close
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Mazda 3 2.2d Sport Nav review
* Face-lifted Mazda 3 hatchback driven * Price 21,195 * On sale now...
The Mazda 3 has been face-lifted, and changes include cleaner, less-thirsty engines, and various styling and trim tweaks inside and out. Here, we test the revised top-end diesel version of Mazdas small family car.
What's it like to drive? The Mazda 3s 2.2-litre diesel engine pumps out a hefty 182bhp and 295lb ft of torque, so performance is pretty lively, no matter what gear youre in.
The 0-62mph dash is covered in just 9.2 seconds and top speed is 127mph, but better still is the way the engine pulls strongly from low revs in a high gear. This means theres rarely any need to change down if you need a burst of pace on the motorway, while hills are given short shrift.
Youll want to stick to the smooth(ish) surfaces of our motorways as much as possible, though, because the ride is pretty firm. Theres no sports suspension, but the 17-inch wheels of the Sport Nav trim allow bumps, potholes and surface joins to really whack their way into your conscience.
In town, you get bounced around in your seat, and speed bumps are definitely best avoided or crawled over.
The payback is decent body control and sharp handling, and the steering is at least consistently weighted and accurate.
Nonetheless, a Golf is far more comfortable, while a Ford Focus is significantly more entertaining and is more supple, too.
The 2.2-litre engine is reasonably quite and smooth at all revs, although the amount of road and wind noise increases too much once you get beyond town speeds.
Whats it like inside? Theres loads of equipment as standard, but the downside of this is that the interior contains more buttons than the average Marks & Spencer outlet.
This can make it tricky to find the function you want at a glance. Nonetheless, that standard equipment list includes climate control, cruise control, Bluetooth and satellite-navigation. Theres also a keyless entry and go system, and rear parking sensors as standard.
Space is perfectly reasonable; the 3 matches the Ford Focus for passenger space and beats it for luggage capacity, although both cars trail the class-leading Golf on both counts.
Getting into and out of the rear seats is more awkward than it might be, too, because the door opening is compromised by the rear wheelarch.
The Mazda is also close to the Focus for cabin quality, if not style, and again both cars are significantly behind the VW.
Should I buy one? The Mazda 3 stacks up well as a private purchase. It is undeniably cheap to buy, undercutting its major rivals by at least 2000, although this gap narrows by around 1000 once our Target Price is taken into account. It should also be as reliable as gravity.
However, it doesnt work quite so well as a company choice. This version of the 3 is too thirsty and isnt clean enough, despite the latest improvements.
The 2.2d can average only 52.3mpg and emits 144g/km. This puts it in the 21% band for company car tax, which will increase to the 22% band once the company car tax bands change in April.
Its numbers are no doubt hindered by the fact that an engine stop-start system is still absent.
Ford Focus
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Full Time Opening at Prisma Baptist (Wed-Sat 9 AM-8 PM)
The Patient Service Representative Onsite ll is responsible to screen patients on-site at hospitals for eligibility assistance programs either bedside or in the ER. This includes providing information and reports to client contact(s), keeping them current on our progress.
Foundation Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities Required: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Review the hospital census or utilize established referral method to identify self-pay patients on a daily basis.
- Screen those patients who are in-house and are designated self-pay for state, county and/or Federal eligibility assistance programs.
- Initiate the application process when possible.
- Identifies specific patient needs and direct them to the appropriate agency for assistance.
- Introduces the patients to MedAssist services and informs them that we will be contacting them on a regular basis about their progress.
- Provides transition, as applicable, for the backendPatient Account Representatives to develop a positive relationship with the patient.
- Records all patient information on the designated in house screening sheet.
- Document the results of the screening in the onsite tracking tool and hospital computer system.
- Identifies out-patient accounts from the census or applicable referral method that are designated as self-pay.
- Reviews system for available information for each outpatient account identified as self-pay.
- Screens patients on site as able.
- Attempts to reach patient by telephone if unable to screen on site.
- Document out-patient accounts when accepted in the hospital system and on site tracking tool.
- Outside field work as required.
Additional Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintain a positive working relationship with the hospital staff of all levels and departments.
- Report any important occurrences to management as soon as possible (dramatic change in the number or type of referrals, etc.)
- Access information for the patient account representatives as needed (discharge dates, balances, itemized statements, medical records, etc.).
- Keep an accurate log of accounts referred each day.
- Meet specified goals and objectives as assigned by management on a regular basis.
- Maintain confidentiality of account information at all times.
- Maintain awareness of and actively participate in the Corporate Compliance Program.
- Maintain a neat and orderly workstation.
Job requirements
Educational/Vocational/Previous Experience Recommendations:
- High School Diploma or equivalent required.
- Prefer Bachelor's degree.
- Prefer 3 – 5 years experience of medical coding, medical billing, eligibility (hospital or government) or other pertinent.
- Prefer previous customer service experience.
- Must have basic computer skills.


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Obama for America: New iPhone App
Presidential candidate frontrunner Barack Obama has found another way to get into the pockets of his supporters. The senator's campaign today launched a new iPhone app called Obama for America, which is designed to mobilize his base, recruit new users, and, of course, pick up donations along the way.
The app automatically "organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making it easy to reach out and make an impact quickly," perfect for drunk-dial recruiting of all of those exes who have since fled to Pennsylvania and Ohio. According to CNET, the app reports back the number of calls you've made using the feature, but not the phone numbers themselves; so Joe Biden won't be chatting up your exes anytime soon.
The app also offers a "get involved" feature, letting users find their local campaign headquarters; a media section with Obama-related links; and a "local events" button with fundraisers and such happening in your area.
Obama for America is available for download now at iTunes.


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EL PASO - A West Texas lawyer and former Carnegie Mellon University trustee was found guilty Monday of conspiring to launder hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money for a Mexican cartel.
Marco Antonio Delgado was accused of devising a scheme to launder up to $600 million for the now-disbanded Milenio cartel from 2007 to 2008.
Delgado faces up to 20 years in prison on the single count and is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 24. Defense attorney Richard Esper said they plan to appeal.
Prosecutor Anna Arreola said Monday morning during closing arguments that Delgado had to know he was meeting with affiliates of a Mexican drug cartel when they allegedly asked his help with moving money and trying to slow down extraditions of suspects from Mexico to the United States.
"What (kind) of people have $600 million to move and want to slow down extraditions?" Arreola asked. "Drug dealers. You know."
She accused Delgado of contradicting himself on the stand and trying to claim he thought the money was an inheritance or from legitimate business interests.
"It's not enough to turn a blind eye, to bury your head in the sand," Arreola said.
But Ray Velarde, Delgado's attorney, questioned the credibility of a key prosecution witness and the testimony of agents who said they heard Delgado confess and talk about his dealings with drug cartels. Velarde asked why certain conversations detailed by agents weren't recorded.
"If that were the case, you would have heard that," Velarde said.
Last week, prosecutors presented recorded phone calls from Delgado to other members of the conspiracy and testimony by federal agents and Victor Pimentel, a former associate of Delgado's.
Delgado took the stand Thursday and told jurors that federal agents lied and misrepresented facts or oversimplified matters in his case.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have previously testified that after Delgado was arrested in 2007 with $1 million, he confessed and agreed to cooperate. After his initial arrest, court records show, he confessed the money was part of a "trial run" in what agents say was a money-laundering operation.
But agents said Delgado continued moving drug money behind his handlers' backs, including picking up $50,000 in Chicago in the summer of 2008.
Delgado testified he didn't know that any of the money was connected to drug trafficking and didn't learn about its true origin until he was re-arrested in 2012.
"I never discussed a $600 million amount with any ICE agent," he told prosecutors Thursday.
At the time of his arrest, Delgado had given a $250,000 endowment for a scholarship named after him to assist Hispanic students, the Carnegie Mellon University website said. He also was a regular contributor to the El Paso Symphony Orchestra and a member of a local educational foundation.
Delgado's defense team has claimed that associates of Lilian De La Concha, the ex-wife of Mexico's former president Vicente Fox Quesada, had asked him to help move the funds associated with an inheritance and the construction companies.
The prosecution presented emails and recorded phone calls between Delgado and De La Concha, in which she agreed to relay messages between Delgado and a man known as Chuy, who federal agents say was the contact for the drug trafficking organization.
While the scheme was in play, De La Concha and Delgado were romantically involved, witnesses have testified. De La Concha was divorced by then, and Fox had already left office.
Delgado is scheduled to face another trial for money laundering and wire fraud in November. According to the multi-count indictment, Delgado defrauded an energy company that built a power plant in Mexico and, through a series transactions moved funds allegedly obtained by misrepresentation from Mexico to the Turks and Caicos to the U.S.


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Opportunity Awaits!
Carrols owns and operates more than 800 Burger King Restaurants, and we need great people on our team! As a Closing Team Member, you will be essentially putting the restaurant to bed while serving excellent food to our late night guest.
What Does a CLOSING TEAM MEMBER do?
Our stores get flaming busy! Our Team Members need be able to work as a team in a fast paced environment to keep our guests happy and full. Your part of the team effort includes packaging food and drinks, and making sure the restaurant is clean and maintains health and safety standards.
We always want our customers to be happy, so you may have to answer a question or two, or resolve issues every once in a while.
Our People are Made To Order We are looking for awesome people to be on our team!
Working Hard! The Closing Team Member Position requires several physical demands including:
Carrols Cares We start our Closing Team Members with competitive pay. Have it your way and enjoy flexible scheduling and sizzling benefits!
Carrols participates in the BKC student scholarship program started by the founder, Jim McLamore. Jim believed in higher education and so do we! By awarding over $7 million in scholarships to over 24,000 students each year, BKC plays a big part in making students' dreams of going to college a reality!
Real Good Food Carrols is committed upholding the Burger King Brand and to serving our customers the exact sandwich they want, made to order and delivered quickly by a friendly team member!
Success never tasted so good! If you want to unwrap your new career in a business that sizzles with potential, and have a great time doing it, click APPLY to submit an application today!
Our greatest asset is our people
Carrols Corporation is headquartered in Syracuse, New York. Carrols owns and operates more than 800 restaurants under the Burger King brand. Carrols operates in over 18 states and employs over 22,000 people.
Due to our size and continued growth, career opportunities are always present at Carrols. These opportunities are even more likely to become available due to our policy of "promotion from within". It is our philosophy and our strong desire to fill each of our management openings by promoting an existing Carrols' employee.
If you are a dynamic individual who is frustrated by bureaucracy and tenure rules, Carrols is for you. We offer quick advancement, training and no pre-determined time requirements. All we want are the best employees in the business.
What is a Talent Network?
Talent Networks enhance your job search and application process. Whether you choose to apply or just leave your information, we look forward to staying connected with you.
Why Join?
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Dogster brings our attention to Tonik, a dog with a human face who's looking for a home. I'm a little creeped out right now, but also: dogs with human faces deserve love too!
Tonik is available for adoption from the Homeward Bound Animal Welfare Group in Mishawaka, IN. and I kinda want him. But also, I kinda think he'll kill me and then take my spot and my boyfriend will never notice. Because honestly, I can't remember a time in recent history when I wasn't confused for a Poodle-Shih Tzu mix.
So, what do you think? Could you love this little boy trapped in a dog's body as your very own? Or are you already calling the Ghostbusters?


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The Justice Department, which has raised antitrust concerns about college football's Bowl Championship Series, will meet with the organization this summer.
BCS executive director Bill Hancock tells The Associated Press that a Justice Department attorney has asked for a voluntary background briefing on how the BCS operates. Hancock says he agreed to provide one, adding he sees it as an opportunity to emphasize that the BCS was crafted with antitrust laws in mind.
The Justice Department initially raised its questions to the NCAA, but NCAA President Mark Emmert responded in a letter last month that the department's questions were best directed to the BCS.
Critics say the BCS unfairly gives some schools preferential access to the title game and lucrative, top-tier bowls at the end of the season.


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It's the "new normal" . . . the paradigm has shifted again.
Who will dominate the technology landscape? Google? Microsoft? or someone else?
Given that we're still experiencing the biggest recession most of us have ever known, and given that we're undergoing a major technology shift at the same time, what does the future hold for the information industry, which is coming together this week in London?
According to David Snowden, founder and chief scientific officer at Cognitive Edge, in times like these, the dominant players will now "drop off" and recover in new forms, while others will move into the space.
Going forward, will the larger landscape be defined by Microsoft or Google? Or will someone new emerge from left field? The answer may surprise you.
Watch the video clip from an interview, conducted recently at KMWorld '09, to find out.
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So you're sitting a home on a rainy Sunday, y'know, not doing anything, 'cuz its raining, the Sawx aren't on and there's no point in taking the cherry '32 Ford Deuce out in weather. Suddenly the bumper of a fawking Sebring's giving you a lap dance.
Listen, this is the weirdest thing. We get the guy out of his Sebring, says he blacked out or something, was all apologetic and not hurt. Cops come, say it looks like he hit a pole out on Route 3A at the speed of sound, flipped around four lanes of traffic backwards and then went airborne until the descent from gravity's rainbow was cushioned by my living room. And the Deuce. And my chopper. Fawk it all.
But hey, I'm not complaining. I'm just lucky. Even the TV news says so.
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Retired breast cancer surgeon and grandfather of three Roger Allsopp today became the oldest person to swim the English Channel. At 70 years and four months, Allsopp beat the 2004 Guinness record held by George Brunstad, who was a youngish 70 years and four days when he crossed the Channel and who also happens to be the uncle of Matt Damon.
After his swimn, Allsopp found himself craving lemonade and had this to say: "My body has told me not do anything like this again."
He may or may not have also been overheard repeatedly screaming, "How 'bout dem apples?"
Retired surgeon becomes oldest person to swim the Channel [The Guardian]


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Electronics Projects: How to Flash an LED with a BASIC Stamp
A BASIC Stamp is serious overkill for an electronic circuit that simply flashes an LED on and off: You can do that for a few bucks with a 555 timer integrated circuit (IC), a capacitor, and a couple of resistors.
But learning how to flash an LED on and off with a BASIC Stamp is an important step toward completing more complex projects. To flash an LED on and off, you first have to connect an LED to an output pin in on the homework board. Once that is done, all that remains is learning how to write a PBASIC program that will flash the LED.
To write such a program, you need to know the following five PBASIC instructions:
HIGH — Sets one of the Stamp's I/O pins to HIGH. You use this instruction to turn the LED on.
LOW — Sets one of the Stamp's I/O pins to LOW. You use this instruction to turn the LED off.
PAUSE — Causes the Stamp to sit idle for a specified period of time. You use this instruction to delay the program a bit between HIGH and LOW commands so that the LED stays on for a while before you turn it off, and then stays off for a while before you turn it back on.
GOTO — Causes the program to loop back to a previously designated location. You use this to cause the program to repeatedly flash the LED on and off instead of flashing the LED on and off only once.
Label — Marks the location that you want the GOTO statement to loop to.
Here's the complete program that flashes the LED:
' {$STAMP BS2} ' {$PBASIC 2.5} Main: HIGH 15 PAUSE 1000 LOW 15 PAUSE 1000 GOTO Main
Take a look at how this program works, one line at a time:
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|Indicates that the program will run on a BASIC Stamp 2.
|Indicates that the program uses version 2.5 of PBASIC.
|Creates a label named Main that marks
the location that the GOTO command will loop back to.
|Makes I/O pin 15 HIGH, which turns the LED on.
|Pauses the program for 1,000 ms, which is the same as one
second. This allows the LED to stay on for one full second.
|Makes I/O pin 15 LOW, which turns the LED off.
|Pauses the program for 1,000 ms. This allows the LED to stay
off for one full second.
|GOTO Main
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through the HIGH, PAUSE, LOW, and PAUSE instructions over and over again.
The net effect of this program is that the LED on pin 15 flashes on and off at one-second intervals.
This project shows how to build a simple circuit that connects an LED to pin 15 and then download and run the LED Flasher program so that the LED flashes on and off.


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ELON � Elon University is emphasizing no decision has been made as to whether Chick-fil-A will remain on its campus, at the same time announcing plans for further study of the issue.
Dan Anderson, an Elon spokesman who is one of the university�s vice presidents, announced Thursday the university is creating a committee that will make recommendations to the university�s board of trustees.
While local news coverage has been accurate, Anderson said, there have been �many erroneous news reports� online following a vote by the Student Government Association to recommend that Chick-fil-A no longer be allowed to operate on campus.
That followed a request from some students, faculty and staff that the university drop the restaurant as a food choice. The university-level discussion began after a national controversy earlier this year about Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy�s position against making gay marriage legal and the company�s donation to charities that have been described as anti-gay.
Anderson said the university is creating a study committee to examine the broader issue of Elon�s relationships with vendors doing business on campus. That committee will make recommendations to the university�s board of trustees later this year, Anderson said.
Anderson said the plan is for trustees to outline procedures as to Elon�s relationship with its vendors, with the university�s leadership then applying those procedures to Chick-fil-A.
�This is not going to be a policy that says Chick-fil-A can stay or Chick-fil-A can go,� he said, but will provide guidance on how to handle the situation and potential future controversies.
The study committee will include students, faculty members and alumni, Anderson said. It will be headed by Elon trustee and alumnus William N.P. Herbert and Connie Book, Elon�s associate provost for academic affairs.
CHICK-FIL-Anow occupies a spot in a food court in Elon�s student center. Anderson said plans are for it to stay there until a decision is made. In the meantime, he said, it won�t be included in plans for a new dining hall that will open in January, where it was to have relocated before the controversy prompted the discussion on campus. He�s not sure, Anderson said, where Chick-fil-A would continue to operate on campus if the decision is that it should stay.
Those arguing Chick-fil-A should not remain on campus have said its presence is inconsistent with Elon�s often-stated goal of providing an inclusive environment for students of all backgrounds, including their sexual orientations. Supporters have argued students have the freedom to choose where and where not to eat on campus.
In the wake of publicity about the campus discussion, Anderson said, Elon has received significant input from people off campus, including some with and some without connections to the university. He characterized those comments as overwhelming in favor of keeping Chick-fil-A on campus.
On campus, Anderson said, opinions have been more mixed. Determining how many students and other community members come down on each side of the debate isn�t the key issue, he said.
�We�re not taking a campus vote,� he said, since that is not how university decisions are made.
Still, the university is asking for opinions and is providing an email � email@example.com � for people to share their opinions with the study committee.


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One-time aide to Sen. Bob Menendez could benefit from contract tied to donor under FBI scrutiny
A former aide to Sen. Bob Menendez might benefit from a major overseas port deal that's supported by the powerful Democrat and is tied to a South Florida donor whose offices were raided last week by the FBI.
The one-time aide, Pedro Pablo Permuy, is a key official in the security firm ICSSI, according to a defender and relative of Dr. Salomon Melgen, an investor in the company.
Melgen is under FBI scrutiny, partly for his relationship with the New Jersey senator, who ran afoul of Senate ethics rules by taking freebie flights on the eye-doctor's plane to the Dominican Republic.
In the fallout of the criminal investigation, Permuy has become tight-lipped and denied being a board member or employee of ICSSI, according to an email he sent the New York Times on Monday night. Permuy refused to return calls or respond to emails from The Miami Herald.
Permuy, 48, appeared to be a perfect fit for ICSSI as it tries to enforce a contract to X-ray and inspect port cargo in the Dominican Republic.
Among ICSSI's "executives is the former assistant secretary of defense of the United States Pedro Pablo Permuy," Melgen's cousin, Vinicio Castillo Seman, said in a written statement Monday obtained by The Miami Herald.
Castillo mentioned Permuy to rebut criticisms that Melgen didn't know anything about the security business because he's an eye doctor.
Castillo's comments were made as part of an effort to defend Melgen from claims that he helped procure prostitutes, including minors, for the senator. Melgen and Menendez deny it, as does Castillo.
The three men and others were implicated in the illicit activity by a shadowy tipster who helped launch the FBI investigation into the underage prostitution claims. Last week, the FBI raided Melgen's West Palm Beach offices. However, the raid was related to a Medicare-fraud investigation connected to Melgen and not Menendez.
But Melgen's relationship with Menendez is also under examination in a parallel FBI probe. Any documents seized from Melgen's offices, the nerve center of a dozen businesses — including a company tied to ICSSI — can be used in the investigation tied to the senator.
Menendez acknowledged after the FBI raid that he neglected to pay for two trips to the Dominican Republic on Melgen's jet in 2010.
He said he reimbursed the doctor $58,500 for the flights a few weeks ago. But Menendez's office has refused to show a copy of the check. It also won't provide a breakdown of the expenses detailing how much the senator paid for airfare and whether he paid for food or lodging at Melgen's exclusive home in the elite resort enclave of Casa de Campo.
Menendez's office said he has flown just one other time, but it was paid for by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which Menendez once led.
Melgen also has an outstanding $11.1 million lien the Internal Revenue Service placed against him. The IRS had placed two other liens on Melgen, but those were satisfied.
The tax trouble hasn't stopped Melgen's political contributions. Of the more than $1.14 million he, his family and company have given over the decades, $616,200 flowed directly and indirectly to Menendez.
Menendez, about to become the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, advocated last year for Melgen's company, ICSSI, without naming the company directly during a committee meeting. Menendez and his office said the contract will help stop the flow of illegal drugs.
The contract could be worth as much as $500 million and, according to critics, could reach $1 billion over two decades.
Menendez was unaware of the potential involvement of his former aide, Permuy, in the company behind the contract, a spokeswoman told the Times.
A graduate of Belen Jesuit Preparatory School who attended the University of Miami, Permuy has drifted back and forth between government and the private sector as an aide and a lobbyist, most recently for the heavy-hitting firm of Greenberg Traurig.
Permuy worked as an aide in the mid 1990s with Menendez and then again in the early 2000s. A "revolving door" report from the open-government group, Center for Responsive Politics, said Permuy also held his defense department post during the Clinton administration and, before that, worked as an aide to Florida Sen. Bob Graham, who told The Herald he doesn't remember Permuy well.
In talking to the Times, Castillo seemed well-aware of Permuy's role at ICSSI where, he said, the former Menendez aide "will run the operations."


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General Electric reported first-quarter earnings on Wednesday that topped Wall Street's expectations, as it sold more oil and gas drilling equipment and shed its stake in NBC Universal.
Weakness in Europe, though, limited gains in sales of power and water equipment, and shares fell more than one percent in premarket trading after briefly rising.
During the quarter, GE posted operating earnings, excluding items, of 39 cents per share. That compared to 34 cents per share in the comparable year-ago period.
Revenue slipped to $35.0 billion from $35.18 billion a year ago, but it topped estimates.
Analysts had expected General Electric to report earnings per share of 35 cents per share on $34.51 billion in revenue, according to a consensus estimate from Thomson Reuters.
(Click here to track the market reaction to GE's earnings report.)
Earlier this year, GE sold its stake in NBC Universal, the parent company of CNBC and CNBC.com, to Comcast for $16.7 billion.
Orders surged during the quarter, with aviation up 47 percent, gas gaining 24 percent and equipment rising 10 percent.
GE Chairman Jeff Imelt said in a statement that markets were mixed, with strength coming from the U.S. and emerging markets but Europe showing weakness.
"Europe might negatively surprise a lot of us here," Tim Ghriskey, chief investment officer at Solaris Asset Management. "European corporations are reluctant to step up and make major cap expenditures in this environment. It's probably a sign that if it's weak for GE it's going to be weak for a lot of other industrials."
GE Capital earnings rose 9 percent for the quarter.
"Despite the challenging macro environment, GE is well- positioned for stronger performance for the remainder of the year and we are executing on our strategic priorities," Immelt said.


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Car drivers are fairly isolated from the world around them. Motorcycle riders are totally open to the environment. Never was this more clear than when this good samaritan rider rescues a cup left on a SUV's bumper.
I don't know who this rider is (all I know was this happened in Orem, Utah), but I salute you, good guy motorcycle rider. May no cup be Raising Arizona'd ever again.
(Thanks to literally the entire Internet for the tip!)


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California Couple Pleads Not Guilty on Charges They Shot and Killed Daughter's Pimp
(SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.) -- A San Francisco couple accused of murdering the man they say pimped their teenage daughter could face the death penalty if they're found guilty.
Barry Gilton, 38, and Lupe Mercado, 37, pleaded not guilty Friday, as friends and family members packed the courtroom to support them. Because the couple allegedly planned what District Attorney George Gascon called a "vigilante murder," they are eligible for the death penalty, according to KGO-TV, ABC's San Francisco station.
Gilton's and Mercado's defense lawyer said he thinks prosecutors are making a "big mistake."
"This case is getting more ridiculous by the day if they go after our clients with the death penalty," Tony Tamburello, the defense attorney, told KGO-TV.
The parents allegedly shot and killed Calvin Sneed, 22, close to their Bayview home on June 4. They had also allegedly followed him to North Hollywood just days before, and shot at his car but failed to fatally wound him.
The couple had tried to get their daughter to come home, without success, and sought help from San Francisco police as well, filing a missing persons and abuse report, Eric Safire, Gilton's attorney, said.
The DA acknowledged that Gilton and Mercado were also victims, because they were trying to get their 17-year-old-daughter back, but "murder is murder."
"Basically, what we have is we have the parents who become the judge, the jury and executioners," Gascon told KGO-TV.
"The death penalty is not a tool that I am in favor of," Gascon said. "But, again, in order for us to seek other remedies, we have to use special circumstances that were appropriate in this case."
Sneed's father admitted that his son was a pimp, but said he felt his murder was undeserved.
Defense attorneys said Sneed had other enemies who wanted him dead.
The couple's daughter and her siblings are safe and staying with family members, according to KGO-TV.
Gilton, a San Francisco public transit driver who is on disability, and Mercado were both ordered held on $2 million bail. They are scheduled back in court Monday.
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