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KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan government, increasingly at odds with Washington, is cracking down on advertisements that promote keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan after 2014 and has already shut down a spot aired by the country's most widely watched broadcasters.
The commercials - some funded by a U.S. organisation - have drawn official criticism because they urge President Hamid Karzai to abandon his refusal to sign a security pact with the United States that would enable the troops to stay.
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"We have launched an investigation into broadcasters to find out where they receive money from for such advertisements," Basir Azizi, a spokesman for the attorney general, told Reuters on Wednesday.
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PRAVEEN S. MEHTA, M.D., and ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL,
In a case involving the propriety of a district court order requiring the payment of a deposit for costs for a medical malpractice screening panel under K.S.A. 65-4901 et seq., the record is examined and it is held: (1) The district court's traditional inherent authority is not broad enough to alter the legislature's mandate that screening panel costs be paid by the side in whose favor the majority opinion is written, (2) the payor here was not a prevailing party at the time he was ordered to pay the deposit, and (3) requiring the party requesting the panel to prepay a portion of the costs in the form of a deposit is not a matter of discretion.
Appeal from Cloud district court, THOMAS M. TUGGLE, judge. Opinion filed March 5, 1999. Reversed.
Steven L. Hornbaker, of Harper, Hornbaker, Altenhofen & Opat, Chartered, of Junction City, argued the cause and was on the brief for appellant.
Susan J. Early, of Blackwell, Sanders, Matheny, Weary & Lombardi, L.L.P., of Overland Park, argued the cause, and Kristopher A. Kuehn, of the same firm, was with her on the brief for appellee St. Joseph Hospital, Cloud County Health Center, Inc.
Anne M. Kindling, of Goodell, Stratton, Edmonds & Palmer, L.L.P., of Topeka, argued the cause, and Wayne T. Stratton, of the same firm, was with her on the brief for appellee Praveen S. Mehta.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
SIX, J.: This case involves the propriety of a district court order requiring the payment of a deposit for costs for a K.S.A. 65-4901 medical malpractice screening panel. Sidney C. Johnson appeals the order dismissing the screening panel because he failed to either prepay $625 as a costs deposit or file an affidavit of indigence or hardship. Our jurisdiction is under K.S.A. 20-3018(c) (a transfer from the Court of Appeals on our motion).
The single issue is whether the district court has the inherent authority to order prepayment of K.S.A. 65-4907 screening panel costs in the form of a deposit from the party requesting the panel.
The answer is, "No." We reverse the district court.
Johnson filed a petition for the appointment of a medical malpractice screening panel under K.S.A. 65-4901. Named respondents were Praveen
S. Mehta, M.D. (Mehta) and St. Joseph Hospital, Cloud County Health Center, Inc. (St. Joseph). The district court convened a panel and ordered Johnson to pay a costs deposit of $625 to the court clerk within 10 days. In the alternative, Johnson could request a waiver of the costs deposit supported by an affidavit of indigence or hardship. The district court specifically stated in its order convening the panel that failure either to post the deposit or file an affidavit would result in dismissal of the proceedings. Johnson refused. In denying Johnson's motion for reconsideration, the district judge commented from the bench:
"My understanding is there's some clinical evidence to show that we have had problems with this, and I say we, at least in the court system, so for those reasons, and particularly where the Court has given the petitioner an opportunity to show an economic hardship, the Court finds that the motion to reconsider should be denied, and the panel is dismissed."
K.S.A. 65-4907 states in pertinent part:
"(b) Costs of the panel including travel expenses and other expenses of the review shall be paid by the side in whose favor the majority opinion is written. . . . Items which may be included in the taxation of costs shall be those items enumerated by K.S.A. 60-2003 and amendments thereto." (Emphasis added.)
Interpretation of K.S.A. 65-4907(b) is a question of law. Our review is unlimited. Hamilton v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., 263 Kan. 875, 879, 953 P.2d 1027 (1998).
Medical malpractice screening panels are creatures of statute under K.S.A. 65-4901 et seq. Supreme Court Rule 142 (1998 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 179) also plays a role in screening panel procedure, compensation, and expenses. Rule 142(c) provides that compensation and expenses of panel members "shall be as provided in K.S.A. 65-4907." (1998 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 180.)
A medical malpractice screening panel has three health care members and one chairperson. K.S.A. 65-4901. Each health care member is to receive $250 for all work performed (the chairperson of the panel, an attorney, receives $500). K.S.A. 65-4907(a). The costs are directed by the legislature to be paid by the side in whose favor the majority opinion is written. If the panel makes no recommendation, each side is responsible for paying one-half of the costs. K.S.A. 65-4907(b).
The district court assessed one-half of the $1250 to Johnson as a costs deposit. No assessment was imposed on either Dr. Mehta or St. Joseph. Johnson contends that the district court abused its discretion. Mehta and St. Joseph counter, asserting that the district court's inherent authority controls.
The Parties' Contentions
Johnson reasons that screening panels are creatures of statute. He argues that because there is no statutory authority for requiring a costs deposit for medical malpractice screening panels, the district court abused its discretion in doing so. Johnson relies on Hodges v. Lister, 207 Kan. 260, 485 P.2d 165 (1971).
Hodges holds that a district court's inherent powers do not include the ability to tax costs in violation of a statute. 207 Kan. at 265. The district court in Hodges improperly assessed jury fees, including lunch money and mileage, as costs in a negligence action. 207 Kan. at 264-65. Those items were not among the costs assessable to a litigant under K.S.A. 60-2003. By statute, such costs were payable by the county. K.S.A. 1970 Supp. 28-122 and K.S.A. 28-150.
Mehta argues that the district court's requirement of a costs deposit does not amount to taxing costs in violation of a statute. He observes that there is no statutory prohibition against requiring a costs deposit. In Hodges, the district court assessed costs in violation of a statute because the fees were supposed to be paid by the county, not the litigants. Here, the parties, by statute, are ultimately responsible for paying the costs. Thus, Mehta reasons Hodges is not applicable because, unlike Hodges, the costs at issue here were not assessed to a party other than one who might ultimately be required to pay. Mehta points out that Johnson would be required to pay all the costs if he prevailed or half the costs if no recommendation was given by the screening panel. The only circumstance in which Johnson would not be responsible for paying the costs would be if the screening panel's opinion favored either Mehta or St. Joseph. Mehta characterizes the $625 as a "deposit" which would be refunded to Johnson in the event he did not prevail.
Johnson also relies on The Manual of Procedure for the Office of the Clerk of the District Court (1998). Johnson alleges the Manual states that no costs deposit is required for the filing of a medical malpractice screening panel. While admitting that the Manual is not a rule or an authority, he suggests it offers "some guidance."
Mehta questions Johnson's reliance on the Manual. First, argues Mehta, the Manual is not authority but is a procedural guide for district court clerks. Second, the Manual simply says: "No docket fee is required," and a docket fee is very different from a costs deposit. Manual, CV-17.
Mehta invites our attention to State ex rel. Cranford v. Bishop, 230 Kan. 799, 640 P.2d 1271 (1982), in support of his inherent power argument. Respondent, Robert L. Bishop, an associate district judge, refused to issue further subpoenas in an inquisition initiated by a deputy county attorney. Judge Bishop reasoned further subpoenas would constitute an abuse of the inquisition process. 230 Kan. at 800. We denied a mandamus action directed against Judge Bishop and held: "Under K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 22-3101(1) the district judge must possess some inherent discretion to prevent abuse of the inquisition power." 230 Kan. at 801.
Johnson discounts the effect of Bishop by observing that there is no allegation or finding that Johnson was abusing process. Under the facts as presented here, we believe such a finding is improbable. The well-established inherent power doctrine is not controlling here.
St. Joseph observes that the costs at issue are statutorily mandated. As such, the hospital reasons, they are costs that "shall be taxed and billed against the parties as directed by the court." K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 60-2001(d). St. Joseph acknowledges 60-2001(d) is not referenced in the K.S.A. 65-4907 medical malpractice section.
St. Joseph argues: "By expressly providing that K.S.A. 60-2003 applies to screening panel proceedings, the legislature acknowledges that the cost provisions of Article 20 of Chapter 60 are relevant in screening panel cases."
St. Joseph's argument is tenuous because K.S.A. 65-4907(b) identifies a specific costs payor, the side "in whose favor the majority opinion is written." We do not rely on either Hodges or the Manual in resolving the issue. We are concerned here with the inherent power of the district court, not the duties of district court clerks.
Although the question is close, resolution is found in the history of screening panel compensation and expenses. Before 1986, Rule 142(c)(1) (235 Kan. cxi) limited panel members to $35 per day plus mileage and actual expenses. When the panel was convened, each party advanced $100 to the chairperson, to be applied to compensation and expenses. Final compensation and expenses were determined by the chairperson and paid equally by the parties. Rule 142 (c)(3).
Smith v. Frazier, 11 Kan. App. 2d 212, 717 P.2d 531, rev. denied 239 Kan. 695 (1986), a screening panel case, held that a district court had no discretion to increase the $35 per day and award reasonable fees in an exceptional case. Rule 142 did not give the district court any authority to deviate from the $35 per day fee. 11 Kan. App. 2d at 214.
The legislature amended the screening panel statute in 1986 and 1991, adding the language now before us. L. 1986, ch. 229, § 50; L. 1991, ch. 175, § 2. The costs of the panel are to be paid by the party in whose favor the majority opinion is written. K.S.A. 65-4907(b). At the same time the legislature also allowed the panel's written report to be admissible at any later trial. L. 1986, ch. 229, § 49 (now K.S.A. 60-4904[c]).
The novel concept of assessing costs to the prevailing party appears unique to K.S.A. 65-4907. No discretion is vested in the district court to deviate from assessing the prevailing party. The traditional costs assessment practice is expressed in K.S.A. 60-2002. Costs are allowed (not assessed) to the prevailing party, unless otherwise provided by statute or by order of the judge. No distinction is made between case type. The judge has discretionary authority to assess costs.
We reason that the legislature's rejection of the pre-1986 Rule 142 costs deposit approach is significant. Legislative intent is found in the K.S.A. 65-4907(b) mandate: The prevailing party pays. Johnson was not a prevailing party at the time he was ordered to pay. Legislative entry into screening panel costs assessment trumps the court's inherent authority.
We hold the legislature has controlled screening panel costs allocation with K.S.A. 65-4907(b). The district court's inherent authority is not broad enough to override the legislative signal placing payment on the prevailing party (the side in whose favor the majority opinion is written).


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Best Comic Book Movie - Captain America: The First Avenger
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Captain America didn't boast the enthralling action set pieces that some of its comic book movie peers have offered, but it was a fun blockbuster that featured some great characters, pleased comic book enthusiasts with its similarities to the source material - and, most importantly, made people all the more excited to see Steve Rogers return in both The Avengers and future Captain America solo ventures.
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Most Disappointing Comic Book Movie - Green Lantern
Some two and a half months have passed since this superhero title hit theaters, and fans are still a bit tetchy, to say the least. While the majority of professional critics agree the movie was a mediocre attempt to realize the Green Lantern universe in live-action form, there remains a vocal minority of the fan community who feel that director Martin Campbell's comic book flick is undeserving of all the flak it's had to endure.
One thing we can (hopefully) all agree on is that Green Lantern certainly could've been better. Case in point: how many people who had never read a Lantern comic book prior to seeing the film honestly walked away afterwards with a solid understanding of how the Green Lantern Corps works? Or didn't think there were there, at times, some gaping holes in the plot? Or didn't feel that Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan kind of came off as DC's answer to Marvel's Iron Man - but not in a good way?
Perhaps this "I'm a Marvel... and I'm a DC" skit put it best: We all love the Hal Jordan character - now we just want to see him appear in a good movie.
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One of the undoubted highlights of this year's Glastonbury was the surprise Friday evening appearance by Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood in The Park. But, as it was completely unannounced – and the BBC don't film The Park stage – we realise that lots of you didn't get to see it.
So, when this wonderful video was uploaded to YouTube showing the climax of their amazing set – Karma Police and Street Spirit (Fade Out) – we thought we really ought to post it here.


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OAKLAND — An Oakland man was sentenced Thursday to more than five years in prison for robbing various East Bay bank branches of thousands of dollars in 2012 and 2013, according to federal authorities.
Amanuel Moreno, 21, admitted to stealing more than $6,100 by robbing five banks in Hayward, Oakland and San Leandro between December 2012 and January 2013, according to federal authorities. Moreno pleaded guilty to all seven counts last October.
He also attempted to rob Chase Bank branches in Alameda and Union City on two different days last December, federal authorities said.
Moreno was arrested last year by local law enforcement officials and remained in custody on a probation violation until he was transferred to federal custody last July.
During robberies and attempted robberies, Moreno entered the banks and passed the tellers threatening notes demanding money and alerting them that he had a gun, authorities said. In the last three incidents Moreno threatened to shoot the tellers, authorities said.
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English Teacher
Hi all!
I'm new in the field of teaching English as a Foreign Language. I currently have difficulty grading learners in the 6th until the 10th Grade into beginner, intermediate and advanced levels Is it safe to assume that 6th and 7th Grade are beginners, 8th and 9th Grade are intermediate, and that 10th Grade and upwards are advanced learners??
Thanks in advance.
My beginners (even though we don't exactly classify them like this)
have a range of about 4-5 years commonly. It's the same for the other levels as well. Much of this comes from how much learning they've experienced outside of their regular schools and (I hate to put it this way) but how smart and determined they are. I have had 10 year olds taking English class with 13-17 year olds and not struggling at all.


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Diabetes Education @ HMSA Center
Beginning of a series of three weekly meetings
( December 6 • December 13 • December 20 )
TIMES Pharmacy Diabetes Self-Management Education Program includes one (1) hour of individual counseling and nine (9) hours of small group classes -- in three (3) 3-hour classes.
Enrollment / Registration required at least a week prior to the first class meeting. To Enroll, please email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 808-832-8261.
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OWASP Project Manager Activity Reports/February 11 2013
From OWASP
OWASP Project Manager Report
Work accomplished since January 14, 2013
- Project Numbers
- Active Projects: 129
- Inactive Projects: 67
- New Incubator Projects
- Project Announcements
- OWASP ZAP 2.0.0 is now available for download.
- Simon is hosting a Google hangout demonstrating many of these features at 17:00 UTC on Friday 8th Feb.
- Details to be announced via https://twitter.com/zaproxy
- OWASP AntiSamy Version 1.5 is finally released.
- Projects Under Review
Project Manager Q1 2013 Objectives
- Continue grant funding research: Target $150 K in 2013.
- Finalize and Implement New Project Infrastructure processes.
- Coordinate OSS and OWASP Track documentation, guidelines, and processes as they apply to Global AppSec Conferences. (Ongoing for 2013)
- Increase Sales Force use for project management.
- Complete and Launch Projects page.
- Finalize the Project Leader Handbook.
Currently Working On
- Grant Opportunities Recap & Updates
- Guidebooks Proposal: We are still waiting for the first payment.
- Amount: $25,000
- ESAPI Proposal: This proposal is still under review.
- Amount: $25,000
- Google Grants: We have been awarded this grant. Working on developing strategies to implement/use these funds.
- Amount: $120,000 a year in Google Adwords Money
- ModSecurity Proposal: This proposal is now complete, and it has been submitted and accepted by DHS
- Amount: $30,000
- OWASP Static Analysis Tools Funding Opportunity: DHS
- There is a possibility of funding some of our Static Analysis tools.
- The interested party is a different department within the DHS.
- I am currently in talks with the DHS representative responsible for these initiatives.
- Total Grant Funds Awarded: $145,000 for 2013 so far.
- New Project Web Page
- The web page has been launched.
- It has replaced the OWASP Projects Page
- I am focusing on updating and maintaing our projects page at least twice a week.
- Projects Handbook 2013
- The Projects Handbook is now live.
- Users can download it on the Projects Web Page.
- FOSDEM went very well for the Event team in Brussels.
- The flyers went down very well.
- Simon's presentation on ZAP went very well according to attendees.
- The OWASP representatives at the event mentioned that many developers were not aware of OWASP.
- It is suggested we attend more events like these for outreach.
- Preparation for London BSides
- Fabio Cerullo and I had a conversation about flyers and Schwag for this event.
- We are still in the process of creating, and sourcing items for this.
- Security BSides London
- Guidebooks Project Management
- The Guidebooks Projects have now begun their work.
- We are using a collaborative Gantt chart tool to manage our work flow.
- Start Date: February 4th 2013
- End Date: June 4th 2013
Important Projects Division Outcomes and Discussion Points
- GPC Meeting: January 18 2013 Project Manager Report
- GPC Meeting: January 25 2013 Project Manager Report
- GPC Meeting: February 01 2013 Project Manager Report
- GPC Meeting: February 08 2013 Project Manager Report
- GPC members have decided to meet once every month to discuss project related issues/initiatives.
- I have scheduled the call, and all of the community is welcomed and encouraged to join in.
- I will add the meeting time and details to the Global OWASP Calendar.
- Meeting Date: March 08, 2013.
- I continue to developing a template, visual branding, and review criteria to meet this need as I feel it is a very important distinction to make between our projects.


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- 1 English
- 2 Czech
- 3 Dutch
- 4 Middle English
- 5 Polish
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English knotte, from Old English cnotta, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô ("knot"); (cognate with Old High German knoto (German Knoten, Dutch knot, Low German Knütte); compare also Old Norse knútr > Danish knude, Swedish knut, Norwegian knute, Faroese knútur, Icelandic hnútur). Probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- ("to bind"), compare Latin nōdus and its Romance descendants. Doublet of node.
knot (plural knots)
- A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
- Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.
- (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.
- The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.
- A maze-like pattern.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- Flowers worthy of paradise, which, not nice art / In beds and curious knots, but nature boon / Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- A knot can be defined as a non-self-intersecting broken line whose endpoints coincide: when such a knot is constrained to lie in a plane, then it is simply a polygon.
- A knot in its original sense can be modeled as a mathematical knot (or link) as follows: if the knot is made with a single piece of rope, then abstract the shape of that rope and then extend the working end to merge it with the standing end, yielding a mathematical knot. If the knot is attached to a metal ring, then that metal ring can be modeled as a trivial knot and the pair of knots become a link. If more than one mathematical knot (or link) can be thus obtained, then the simplest one (avoiding detours) is probably the one which one would want.
- A difficult situation.
- I got into a knot when I inadvertently insulted a policeman.
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- When preparing to tell stories at a campfire, I like to set aside a pile of pine logs with lots of knots, since they burn brighter and make dramatic pops and cracks.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- Jeremy had a knot on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.
- A protuberant joint in a plant.
- Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
- the swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family; Canidae
- The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- the knot of the tale
- (engineering) A node.
- A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
- A group of people or things.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- his ancient knot of dangerous adversaries
- (Can we date this quote?) Sir Walter Scott
- As they sat together in small, separate knots, they discussed doctrinal and metaphysical points of belief.
- 1968, Bryce Walton, Harpoon Gunner, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY, (1968), page 20,
- He pushed through knots of whalemen grouped with their families and friends, and surrounded by piles of luggage.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- with nuptial knot
- (Can we date this quote?) Bishop Hall
- ere we knit the knot that can never be loosed
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- (nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour. (From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every 1/120th of a mile.)
- Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots.
- (nautical) A nautical mile
Related termsEdit
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
knot (third-person singular simple present knots, present participle knotting, simple past and past participle knotted)
- (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
- We knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling.
- (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- She knotted her brow in concentration while attempting to unravel the tangled strands.
- To unite closely; to knit together.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- (transitive, obsolete, rare) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
- (intransitive) To form knots.
- (intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.
- (form into a knot): bind, tie
- (form wrinkles in forehead): knit
- (unite closely): attach, join, put together; see also Thesaurus:join
- (entangle or perplex): baffle, flummox; see also Thesaurus:confuse
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Etymology 2Edit
Supposed to be derived from the name of King Canute, with whom the bird was a favourite article of food. See the specific epithet canutus.
knot (plural knots or knot)
- One of a variety of shore birds; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
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knot m
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle Dutch cnudde, from Proto-Germanic *knuttan-; cognate with knod, English knot, Frisian knotte, (Middle) High German Knotze (German Knoten), Danish knude, Norwegian knute, Swedish knut, etc.
knot f or m (plural knotten, diminutive knotje n)
- A knot, bun (of hair), skein
- The top or crest (with messy branches) of certain woody plants, notably willows
- A flax seed box
- (dialect) A marble to play with
- A prank, joke
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From the cognate English knot, possibly influenced by Vulgar Latin canutus ("grey-headed", "grizzled")
knot f or m (plural knotten, diminutive knotje n)
- The bird species Calidris canutus (syn. Tringa canutis)
Middle EnglishEdit
knot m inan
- A wick (as of a candle)


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The evening of Aug. 6 was a night for tears of joy and gratitude as 14 Northwest Florida charities received checks adding up to $1.375 million from Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation.
Founded in 2005, DCWAF has donated more than $6 million to Northwest Florida charities through hosting world class wine and culinary events. These funds have impacted the lives of more than 50,000 youths.
The organization was founded by Wine World owner Chan Cox.
Calling Tuesday a huge day, he said, "I continue to be surprised. The auction is ranked as one of the top in the country and we're able to do all this through community support of this small community. It's a tribute to the generosity of the people here. The day we present those checks is the best day of the year for me. I am blessed to be in this area. We have great people who are very generous. We are all blessed to be here."
One by one, representatives of each charity took the podium as the foundation's president presented the checks, and a spokesperson for each told how the monies will be used in their organization. After receiving more than $1 million from DCWAF over the years, Children in Crisis has been able to build three homes on its campus to house children who need a place to go. CIC received $150,000 Tuesday night to go toward more housing for abused, neglected, and abandoned children in the area.
During the ceremony, other organizations also received checks:
- Pathways for Change received $163,500 to fund comprehensive addiction treatment and family programs.
- Emerald Coast Autism Center received $150,000 to fund a land purchase and facility construction, and scholarships for children on the autism spectrum.
- Horizons of Okaloosa County received $145,000 to fund the renovation and expansion of the Children's Center for those living with disabilities.
- Children's Volunteer Health Network received $139,000 to fund more than 1,000 underinsured and uninsured children's healthcare.
- Emerald Coast Children's Advocacy Center received $130,000 to fund more than 2,000 direct mental health therapy sessions and child services for abused and neglected children.
- Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast received $110,000 to fund healthcare and a Pediatric Navigator for children.
- Habitat for Humanity of Walton County received $101,000 to fund the building of two homes for families with children.
- Shelter House of Northwest Florida received $85,000 to fund support groups, counseling, and advocacy for youth ages 6 months to 17 years, who are touched by domestic violence.
- Youth Village received $71,000 to fund 40 low-income children's scholarships for after school and summer learning programs.
- Boys & Girls Clubs of the Emerald Coast received $50,500 to support the Club Power Hour tutoring and Healthy Habits youth development programs.
- Food for Thought received $40,000, which will fund food insecurity prevention for school-aged children by providing weekend backpacks of nutritious meals.
- Opportunity Inc. received $30,000 to maintain the children services department at Opportunity Place, an emergency shelter for homeless families.
- Fisher House of the Emerald Coast received $10,000 to fund housing for military families during medical emergencies.
This is the foundation's largest charitable distribution to date and represents a 12.7 percent increase, up $155,000, over 2012.
"We are grateful for all the support that has made this possible," said foundation President John Russell.
He said raising $155,000 more this year is consistent with the goals and mission to always be growing the auction.
"The needs of the children we are helping are going up, not down, so, we must do likewise and raise more," said Russell.
He plans to continue that mission and to accomplish it through diversifying.
"Typically, we have relied on the wine weekend, but now we are adding wine dinners, a golf tournament in the fall, we are partners with the Taste of he Beach, and we are the beneficiaries of the South Walton Beaches Food and Wine Fest," he said. "And we are continuing to work hard to make sure the wine weekend grows by attracting more vintners."
Russell has held the position of president with DCWAF for 18 months.
"I love it. It's nice to be around generous people. They are our partners and it's a recipe for success," he said.
DCWAF's wine auction was ranked as Wine Spectator Magazine's top 10 charity wine auctions in the United States last year.
"It was great to celebrate for one night, but now we have to get back to the work of raising more funds for children in need," said Russell.
The next event is the DCWAF Vine to Wine on Aug. 23. Tickets are on sale now online.
The dates for next year's Destin Charity Wine Auction weekend are April 25 - 27.
For more information visit www.dcwaf.org.


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Alleviating Congestive Heart Failure with Coenzyme Q10February 2008
By Peter H. Langsjoen, MD, FACC
Your Trusted Brand for Over 35 Years
Life Extension Magazine
By Peter H. Langsjoen, MD, FACC
One of the most frequent causes of hospital admissions in older adults is the devastating condition known as congestive heart failure. Characterized by disabling symptoms of difficulty breathing, fatigue, and swelling of the extremities, congestive heart failure also increases the risk of early demise.
Fortunately, scientists have discovered that the mitochondrial energizer coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) can offer powerful assistance to those challenged with congestive heart failure, improving the heart's pumping ability and even reducing the need for medications.
Since CoQ10 levels are depleted by aging and statin medications and tend to be low in those with congestive heart failure, achieving optimal blood levels of CoQ10 may be an important strategy for safeguarding cardiac health.
What is CoQ10?
It has been 50 years since Fred Crane discovered CoQ10 in 1957.1 Since that time, scientists have discovered what this extraordinary molecule is and what it does in settings of both health and disease. It is important to clarify that a coenzyme should not be confused with an enzyme (a protein that accelerates a biochemical reaction). A coenzyme is a simple molecule (many vitamins are coenzymes) that is essential for the normal function of specific enzyme systems in our cells. Coenzyme Q10 is the cofactor or coenzyme for three large enzyme systems that are essential for 90% of cellular energy production. Because the heart muscle uses more energy than any other tissue and normally has the highest concentration of CoQ10, it is very sensitive to CoQ10 deficiency.
Coenzyme Q10 is well established to be a clinically relevant first-line antioxidant in our defense system against excess oxidative stress. It is the only fat-soluble antioxidant that is synthesized by our body and is capable of regeneration back to its reduced or antioxidant form through normal cellular enzyme systems. Its location in the lipid mitochondrial membranes is particularly important, as mitochondria are the major site of free-radical production, and CoQ10 is an excellent free-radical scavenger.
Coenzyme Q10 and Congestive Heart Failure
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, it became clear that patients suffering from congestive heart failure had measurable deficiency of CoQ10 in both blood and heart muscle, and that the degree of deficiency correlated with the severity of heart failure. Much of this work was performed as a collaborative effort between Professor Karl Folkers, PhD, Gian Paolo Littarru, MD, and Denton Cooley, MD.2 In 1980, my father, cardio-logist Per H. Langsjoen, MD, met with Karl Folkers, and together they performed the first human trial of CoQ10 in the treatment of congestive heart failure in the United States.3 I joined my father as a cardiology fellow in 1983 and after this favorable controlled study was published in 1985, we went on to evaluate the long-term efficacy of CoQ10 therapy in 126 patients with congestive heart failure.4
Congestive heart failure is a condition in which there is weakening of heart muscle function so that fluid or congestion backs up and causes swelling or edema in the liver, lungs, the lining of the intestine, and the lower legs and feet. It was our initial concern that CoQ10 may have been acting as a stimulant that could bring about short-term improvement in heart muscle function but actually increase mortality over time. This is similar to flogging an exhausted horse, making him run faster for a few hundred yards only to promptly drop dead. By following these 126 heart failure patients for six years, it became clear that the improvement in heart function was sustained and that overall mortality was one third of expected.4 It was at this time that we realized CoQ10 represented a major advance in the treatment of a disease that previously could be only palliated and never cured.
In the course of this six-year study, the 126 patients were followed very closely with measurement of blood CoQ10 levels and heart function every three months.4 We unexpectedly came across the detrimental effect of the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, or more simply as statins. The first statin drug, lovastatin (Mevacor®) came on the market in 1987, and five of our heart failure patients were started on this drug by their primary care physicians. All five of these stabilized patients had a significant decline in their blood CoQ10 levels and a decline in their heart function and clinical status. Their heart failure worsened to such a degree that two patients became critically ill and one went on to require a heart transplant. This clinical deterioration in our patients was particularly frightening at the time because we had no idea of the dramatic CoQ10-depleting effects of the newly released statin drugs. One patient in particular showed a simultaneous drop in plasma CoQ10 level and ejection fraction when started on statin therapy, with improvement after the statin was discontinued (see figure 1). My father first presented these data in Rome, Italy, in January of 1990.5 Shortly after my father left the podium, a member of the audience shouted into one of the aisle microphones, "This is pharmaceutical terrorism!" To which my father calmly responded, "Yes, but who is the terrorist?" Later that year in May and in June of 1990, Merck went on to secure two patents that would combine CoQ10 with statin drugs in the same capsule to prevent muscle and liver damage.6 The first of these patents was with co-inventor Michael Brown of Nobel Laureate fame for his work with low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors. Unfortunately, these patents have never been acted on and to this day, the vast majority of physicians and patients are completely unaware of statin-induced CoQ10 depletion.
The Trouble with Statins
All statin drugs block the biosynthesis of both cholesterol and CoQ10, which explains statins' common side effects of fatigue, muscle pain and muscle weakness, and a worsening of heart failure (see figure 2).
When CoQ10 levels are lowered by statin drug therapy, one of the first changes to occur is a weakening of heart muscle function, known as diastolic dysfunction. This has nothing to do with diastolic blood pressure, but rather represents impairment in the relaxing or filling phase of the cardiac cycle. After heart muscle contracts, it takes a great deal of cellular energy, or ATP, to re-establish the calcium gradients such that muscle fibers may relax. Thus, if diastolic dysfunction is severe, it can result in congestive heart failure.
In 2004, a study published in the American Journal of Cardiology showed that diastolic dysfunction (heart muscle weakness) occurred in 70% of previously normal patients treated with 20 mg a day of Lipitor® for six months. This heart muscle dysfunction was reversible with supplemental CoQ10.7 Heart failure that develops after years of statin drug therapy can be termed statin cardiomyopathy and may well be playing a role in the epidemic of congestive heart failure in the United States.
It is important for the reader to be aware that for every adverse side effect caused by statin drug therapy, one can find a drug company-sponsored trial concluding that statins actually benefit the condition they may induce. Good examples are studies that suggest statins are useful in the treatment of cancer,8 when in fact some studies suggest that they could be carcinogenic;9,10 another study suggests that statin therapy may be helpful in dementia,11 when other evidence indicates that statins impair mental function;12,13 finally, studies that conclude statin therapy improves heart failure,14 when in fact it appears to weaken both skeletal muscle and heart muscle.7,15
In an effort to determine the prevalence of adverse effects from using statins, we studied 50 consecutive new patients, all of whom were taking a statin drug at the time of their initial visit.16
All 50 patients were found to have one or more side effects from statin therapy, so we discontinued their statin drugs and began supplemental CoQ10. Patients were followed for an average of 28 months with the following observations in the prevalence of adverse effects:
There were no adverse effects from stopping statin drug therapy with no cases of heart attack or stroke during follow-up. Overall, there was an improvement in heart muscle function on discontinuation of statin therapy and addition of supplemental CoQ10. However, due to powerful propaganda surrounding both cholesterol and statin drug therapy, many patients and physicians are afraid to stop statin therapy.
Cholesterol and Heart Disease
Atherosclerosis remains a disease of unknown cause. Many factors more important than cholesterol—such as stress, smoking, hypertension, insulin resistance, high triglycerides, diabetes, and low testosterone (in men)—contribute to atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.17-19 Despite this, the theory that cholesterol is the dominant villain responsible for atherosclerosis has been promulgated for over 60 years, making the pharmaceutical industry's anti-cholesterol campaign the most profitable medical myth of all time.
Statin drugs do show some benefit in reducing mortality in individuals with pre-existing coronary artery disease.20 This benefit occurs irrespective of cholesterol lowering and is likely secondary to their subtle anti-inflammatory or plaque-stabilizing effects.21 The vilification of cholesterol and the associated aggressive lowering of cholesterol blood levels has brought about increasingly severe CoQ10 deficiency in a large number of patients, making it absolutely critical to restore CoQ10 levels in these individuals.
Optimal CoQ10 Levels Improve Heart Failure
In the early years of our experience with CoQ10 therapy, no one knew the therapeutic or ideal plasma level of CoQ10 for the treatment of heart failure. Over the course of 25 years, it has become clear that maximum improvement in heart function will not occur unless plasma levels are greater than 3.5 micrograms per milliliter (mcg/mL). By 2006, there were a total of 22 randomized, controlled trials involving a total of 1,605 patients evaluating the therapeutic benefit of supplemental CoQ10 in congestive heart failure.22-24 The majority of studies were favorable, showing significant improvement in heart muscle function. Furthermore, there have been 34 open-label trials involving 4,221 patients evaluating the clinical utility of CoQ10 in heart failure, and again clear benefits were observed without any adverse effect or drug interaction. Despite these studies, CoQ10 remains obscure to most physicians and is not routinely used in the treatment of congestive heart failure. This is in part due to the pervasive anti-nutrient bias in conventional medical practice, medical literature, and medical education.
Out of a total of 22 controlled trials of supplemental CoQ10 in congestive heart failure, only three have failed to show significant benefit. The first study by Permanetter et al. failed to measure plasma CoQ10 levels, such that there is no way to know if therapeutic CoQ10 levels were attained.25 The second trial by Watson et al. demonstrated a mean treatment plasma CoQ10 level of only 1.7 mcg/mL, with only two of the 30 patients having a plasma level greater than 2.0 mcg/mL.26 Finally, the third study by Khatta et al. demonstrated a mean treatment plasma CoQ10 level of 2.2 ± 1.2 mcg/mL, indicating that some patients on treatment had levels as low as 1.0 mcg/mL.27 Unfortunately, these last two trials with sub-therapeutic CoQ10 levels are the most frequently quoted as evidence for a lack of benefit for CoQ10 in heart failure
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The National Transportation Safety Board has released its preliminary report on the airplane crash in East Haven on August 9 that killed four people and it includes information from a witness who said he saw the plane, inverted and traveling at a high rate of speed before the crash.
William Henningsgard, of Medina, Washington, was operating the airplane and his 17-year-old son, Maxwell, was a passenger onboard when the aircraft went down on Charter Oak Avenue at 11:21 a.m. on August 9 and struck two houses at 64 and 68 Charter Oak Avenue, according to officials.
Sade Brantley,13, and her 1-year-old sister, Madisyn Mitchell, were in one of houses that was struck. All four were killed.
A student pilot who was traveling on Interstate 95 at exit 51 right before the crash told the NTSB he looked to his right and saw the airplane at the "end of a right roll." It was "inverted and traveling at a high rate of speed, nose-first" toward the ground in the vicinity of Tweed-New Haven airport.
When the witness stopped at a local business, he learned that it had crashed.
A witness who lives two houses away from the crash scene told NTSB he was in his living room and saw the plane descending at a 90-degree angle, right-side down, into the houses.
The airplane Henningsgard was operating had left Teeterboard Airport in New Jersey around 10:49 a.m. on the day of the crash. Two minutes before the crash, the pilot told air traffic control that could see the airport.
The last radar target was at 11:20 a.m., according to the NTSB.
At that point, it was .7 miles north of the runway the plane was scheduled to land at and it was traveling at an altitude of 800 feet, according to the report.
When investigators arrived at the crash scene, they would find the front half of the plane, including the cockpit, left engine and front two-thirds of the fuselage in the basement, according to the NTSB.
The right wing struck another house and the right engine and propeller struck the ground between the two houses.
Fire consumed most of the wreckage.
The NTSB also noted the wind as of 11:26 a.m. as 12 knots, gusting to 19 knots, along with a visibility of nine miles and an overcast ceiling at 900 feet.


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"To save a little bit of money, we're actually putting people out of work here and sending this work to India, and employing those people with taxpayer dollars."—Massachusetts State Senator Jack Hart
As CEO, Mitt Romney advised businesses on how to increase profits for investors by moving U.S. jobs overseas. The Washington Post described the companies that Romney's firm owned as "pioneers" in the practice of outsourcing work to overseas call centers and factories.
Years later, as governor of Massachusetts, Romney borrowed a page from the same playbook. His administration moved state jobs, in areas like child support enforcement and food stamp administration, overseas—in one instance signing a $160,000 a month contract with a firm that used a consumer call center in India.
And, when Massachusetts legislators proposed a law that would have barred this type of outsourcing for government contractors, Romney vetoed it.
In this way, Mitt Romney applied the lessons he learned in the private sector to government—with disastrous consequences for the workers who lost their jobs as a result.
Get all the facts about Romney's record—visit barackobama.com/romneyeconomics.


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We told you back in January about the, um, heavy record he's
devouring pursuing, but Miguel Cabrera reportedly lost anywhere from 20 to 50 pounds before the season began. And it shows! Just look at him sky for that ball that caroms off the backstop! Chris Stewart never had a chance.
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Lemon and Dill Deviled Eggs
Makes 24
12 hard-boiled eggs, peeled
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons sweet pickle relish
1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
1 tablespoon minced fresh dill
Sea salt, cracked black pepper
Dash of hot sauce
Small sprigs of dill, garnish
1. Cut the eggs in half, lengthwise. Carefully remove the yolks; transfer them to a medium bowl.
2. Add the remaining ingredients to the yolks; mix with a fork or whisk until creamy and light.
3. Fill a pastry bag with the mixture and pipe the filling into the egg white halves, or simply portion the filling out with a spoon into each half. Top with dill leaves. Chill, up to 2 days, until ready to serve.
— Ashley English, "Handmade Gatherings" (Roost Books, $34.95, 258 pages)


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Simply release the spring loaded mechanism on the handle and the ratchet grows from 460mm (18") to 601mm (24"). Manufactured from polished Chrome Vanadium.
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Spectral Decomposition Techniques as Hydrocarbon Indicators. A Case Study of West Waha and Worsham Bayer Field, West Texas.
The West Waha and Worsham Bayer fields, West Texas are a gas producing province with about seventy percent of its production from the Ellenburger group. The Mississippian limestone, Thirtyone formation and Fusselman group ...


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A 20-year-old Colorado Springs woman has been sentenced to 41 years in prison for the gruesome stabbing murder of her mother-in-law, authorities said.
Ellyzabeth Rainey was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty in January to the second-degree murder of her husband's mother, Deborah Rainey, 59, whom she killed by throwing boiling water on her, hurling free weights at her head, stabbing her and pouring bleach into her mouth and nose.
The events took place in April 2013 at Ellyzabeth Rainey's apartment in the Tanager Meadows complex in southeast Colorado Springs, where she lived with her husband Jason Rainey and newborn baby, according to an affidavit signed by a Colorado Springs police detective.
At the time, the couple's relationship was deteriorating and they were about to get a divorce, police said. Deborah Rainey had been staying at the house for two weeks to help take care of the couple's 2-month-old baby.
"Ms Rainey commented that Deborah has never liked her anyway … she got tired of being pushed around so 'she killed her,'" Det. Shawn Peterson said in the affidavit.
Investigators said Ellyzabeth Rainey had long quarreled with her mother-in-law and had been hospitalized recently for "hallucinating." The 20-year-old said "voices" told her that her mother-in-law was going to take everything away from her.
On April 3, Ellyzabeth Rainey invited her moter-in-law for a home-cooked dinner, then violently killed the woman and covered her body with an air mattress before her husband came home from work.
Ellyzabeth Rainey admitted to boiling hot water and throwing it on her mother-in-law while she was sitting on the couch to "distract her," police said. She then threw her husband's loose weights at Deborah Rainey's head and stabbed her multiple times in the stomach, heart and throat to make sure she was dead. At some point, Rainey forced bleach into the woman's mouth and nostrils.
When police arrived at the apartment to respond to a noise complaint from a neighbor, they heard a baby crying and went inside the home where they saw a bloody butcher's knife lying on the kitchen counter.
Ellyzabeth Rainey picked up the baby and told officers to take the child because she was about to run. When they asked why, Rainey said "because I just killed someone," police said.
Rainey then threw the baby at one of the officers before bolting, said police. One of the officers caught up with Rainey further down the street, while another went inside the house and discovered the body.
At the station, police noted the woman smelled strongly of bleach and took a statement from Rainey, in which she admitted she had been diagnosed as bipolar when she was 10, but did not take any medication, police said.
ABC News was unable to reach Jason Rainey or Ellyzabeth Rainey's attorney, Todd Johnson, for comment.


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Police say a Bible helped save the life of an Ohio bus driver after he was attacked in an apparent "gang initiation."
The Dayton Daily News reports Rickey Wagoner, 49, was shot three times when he stepped outside his bus to check on a problem. One bullet hit his leg while the other two hit him in the chest.
The two bullets aimed for his chest were stopped by a copy of the New Testament that was tucked away in his shirt pocket.
"There was obviously some kind of intervention involved in this incident, because he probably should not be here," Dayton PD Sgt. Michael Pauley said.
Wagoner was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
In a police report, he told authorities that the shooting may have been a gang initiation rite as he heard one of the gunmen tell the other to kill him if he wanted "to be all the way in the club."
Police aren't making any connections to gang violence at the moment and say Wagoner was already heavily sedated at the hospital when they spoke to him.


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Fast Facts on Coffee Consumption
Pouring in Your Cup: Fast Facts About Coffee Consumption is a good infographic from Hamilton Beach.
This is a good example of a company publishing an informative, marketing infographic about a topic related to their products (coffee makers), without feeling like a sales pitch or ad for their products. However, I don't think there is a clear story told by the infographic. It's generally a bunch of coffee and caffeine statistics put together in an infographic without a clear message.
I like the design and the simple color palette. Most of the visualizations are clear and easy to understand except the bunch of coffee cups lined up in the middle. I think each cup is supposed to represent the 20 cups/week the average office worker drinks, and all of the cups together is supposed to represent a year of coffee consumption. When you line up images like this, the rows really should have only 10 images each for the reader to easily understand the quantity. So, there should be 52 cups to represent the whole year, but there are only 48 cups shown.
There are a handful of stand-alone statistics that are just shown in text, that could have been visualized. The clock image shown next to the stats "24 minutes a day" should have had a highlighted portion showing 24 minutes. I like the male/female symbols used on the coffee cups, and the Venn-diagram style of coffee blends is great.
I'm going to go pour myself my third cup of coffee this morning…
Found on Infographics Showcase, Infographic Pics and Infographipedia


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CVT Ventures is a venture-development group dedicated to helping entrepreneurs create and accelerate information technology businesses. CVT's principals are proven and passionate entrepreneurs with expertise in the strategic, business development, sales, technology, financial, and operational needs of early-stage information technology companies. CVT's three Partners were the Senior Management Team of Infogate (formed in 1994 and sold to AOL Time Warner in 2003). We are augmented by stellar backers and Board of Directors who are industry leaders on Wall Street and Main Street. .
Our core purpose at CVT is to work with entrepreneurs to accelerate their businesses. Fundamentally, we are not consultants, we are fellow entrepreneurs. In addition to providing guidance and strategic contributions, we "jump in" to help actually execute. We rigorously search for entrepreneurs and business opportunities that we believe in and determine that we can help. We typically become Board members and "fractional executives" in portfolio companies, augmenting and rounding out the team with any combination of roles including fractional CFO, CTO and Senior Business Development Advisor.
CVT currently has ten active portfolio engagements.
CVT Ventures was founded and is led by Clifford Boro, Vidar Vignisson and Thomas Broadhead. Prior to establishing CVT, the founders worked together as the management team for Infogate, Inc., a software and information network that was formed in October 2000 as the result of a merger between Internet Financial Network and Entrypoint Technologies (the company that bought Pointcast). The team transformed Infogate from a free and direct information provider to instead partnering with leading media companies (including CNN, USA Today and Tribune Company) to develop turnkey, subscription-based personalized products. The team architected and managed the sale of Infogate to AOL Time Warner in March 2003. CVT Ventures' non-executive Board Members include Adam Klein (the former Lead Partner of the Media practice at Booz, Allen and Hamilton, the former President of Ask Jeeves, and the former President of Global Marketing at Hasbro) and Dr. Howard Morgan (the Vice Chairman of Idealab and President of the Arco Group). The company has been financed personally by Jack Rivkin, the Chief Investment Officer of Neuberger Berman and former head of CitiGroup's Technology Venture Group.


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Opening Sequence
U.S. troops leave Syria, cross into Iraq
Trudeau hopes to cling to power as Canada votes
Warren takes swipe at Mark Zuckerberg over political ads
Powerful tornado plows through Dallas
UK's Johnson sends unsigned request for Brexit delay
Lebanon's Hariri agrees to reforms amid protests
Qantas tests world's longest commercial flight
Apple to debut a new TV show tackling #MeToo
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Slavery Goes Public
Chances are, they're in your pockets, your closet, and even your body.
From cotton to coltan, materials tainted by slavery and child labor flow through opaque, fragmented supply chains to end up, often without our knowledge, in the products we buy. It's a global reality that has received little mainstream scrutiny, but a new California law may herald a changing national attitude towards holding corporations accountable for the materials they use.
This week, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed California's Supply Chain Transparency Act. The law, sponsored by state Senator Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), requires companies operating in California and making more than $100 million in annual revenue to publicly report on voluntary efforts to monitor their direct supply chains in order to eliminate exploitation.
The use of slave and child labor is common in the mines and fields where resources are obtained as well as in the factories where they're manufactured. The International Labor Organization reports a staggering 200 million children at work worldwide, while global estimates of people in slavery are as high as 27 million. But in a market that rewards the companies selling the cheapest goods, reform has been sluggish at best.
Corporations that benefit from underpaid or slave labor, including that of children, have also long enjoyed the benefits of plausible deniability—essentially, shoulder-shrugging—when human rights violations occur on their watch. When child labor is discovered in sweatshops at the lowest rung of production at companies like Nike, Apple, Firestone, or Abercrombie, those suppliers are reprimanded and sometimes put out of business. But the companies themselves, which contract for the mining, sewing, and harvesting involved in getting their products on the shelves, often pay little or no penalty.
California's new legislation could change that. Well, sort of.
While some corporations have voluntarily published official statements on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for years, this law requires all businesses with substantial profits to use a fraction of that money to report on strategies for tracking and responding to slavery in the work they commission. If they don't have a strategy, they must report that too. And that doesn't look good.
Compliance also requires answering basic questions about CSR policies, including whether or not the company ensures that its suppliers follow laws regarding slavery and trains employees to recognize and deal with exploitative labor. Most importantly, a CSR policy must state whether it uses third-party verification—in other words, does it allow outside auditors to conduct independent assessments and unannounced check-ins with suppliers? Think of it like a secret shopper for human rights.
Companies such as Target, Wal-Mart, and Disney have published CSR initiatives for a long time, but it's hard to say how effective or transparent the internal assessments of any company's efforts are. Internal reporting is susceptible to corporate greenwashing, whereby businesses promote socially responsible positions that are often sugared with self-praise, but weak when it comes to real action. Allowing outside auditors to inspect what's happening on the ground and publishing independent analyses is a first step of good faith from companies to consumers.
Sponsors of the law chose to pioneer this effort in California because its robust economy—the 10th largest in the world—makes it fertile territory for pushing the limits of corporate accountability. Hundreds of billions of dollars in imports pour into the state each year, and it is responsible for $1.8 trillion of total U.S. economic activity. Anyone who wants to continue doing business in California (read: any major player in the U.S. economy) will have to investigate their own supply chains—and make their efforts transparent for consumers all over the world—by January 2012. An estimated 3,200 companies will be affected.
One test of the law's potency is how strongly corporations pushed to kill it, and the one thing corporate lobbies were (bewilderingly) transparent about was protecting their interests. "These are the kinds of issues that create great consternation for my companies, which spend a lot of time worrying about their image," Dorothy Rodrock of the California Manufacturers and Technology Association told the Los Angeles Times. Additionally the California Chamber of Commerce expressed concern about the fact that retailers and manufacturers doing little or nothing to eradicate slavery from their supply chains would get bad press.
Well, yes.
Corporate interest groups fretted about the feasibility of monitoring entire supply chains, but the law only applies to companies with adequate resources to pull it off. It may even help smaller businesses that have prioritized fair trade compete with multinationals that have not.
The California law comes on the heels of the expansive Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act, which included a provision requiring electronics companies to publicize whether their products are sourced from conflict-ridden regions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and, if so, how they intend to protect human rights in those supply chains.
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How the "Just Pay It!" campaign on college campuses leveraged $1.5 million for Nike garment workers.
Such policies are not intended to punish businesses but rather to steer the whole economic constellation towards a more responsible future, argues Lisette Arsuaga of the L.A.-based Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST), a co-sponsor of the California law. It's the most basic principle of supply and demand: Suppliers produce what the market demands, and the market is changing.
More consumers are asking questions about the origins of the products they buy—and those at the helm of global production are beginning to have to come up with answers. The purpose of this move by California, then, is to make sure those answers are based on transparent information, not misdirection or corporate greenwashing.
Just as environmental consciousness and the burgeoning organic food movement have given way to growing awareness of the impact that each of us has on the world we share, a cultural shift towards economic justice is leading many to confront their "human footprint": the impact that behavior–especially consumer behavior–has on others.
Ultimately, laws like these are only tools. Without consumer action, there's zero consequence for continuing to use the worst forms of exploitative labor: Enforcement is left to the market itself. Helping people access and make sense of the information that the California law makes public will be critical in preventing it from atrophying into thousands of glossy but toothless CSR policies, and making it a tool of real change instead.
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City of Lincoln
Mayor's Office
2004 Media Releases
Voluntary water restrictions continue
Mayor Coleen J. Seng today said the water conservation by Lincoln residents is paying off, with the average daily usage below usage at this time last year.
Under the voluntary outdoor water conservation measures, residents with addresses ending in even numbers are asked to water lawns on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Those with addresses ending in odd numbers are asked to water on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Mondays are reserved for watering golf course fairways and other special needs.
While precipitation in the Lincoln area has been above normal recently, the sources of the City water supply from the Platte River and its tributaries continue to receive below normal precipitation as the drought continues in western and central Nebraska.
"It is extremely important that citizens continue to comply with the voluntary restrictions to maintain an adequate water supply," said Mayor Seng. &qukot;We never know what the summer will bring, but conserving now will help to maintain our water supply and avoid mandatory restrictions."
In 2003, the City made changes to the water management plan to make it easier for residents to comply with voluntary outdoor water conservation measures.
Citizens are asked to wash vehicles on the same schedule as lawn watering. The Lincoln Water System recommends the following conservation tips:
If the voluntary restrictions become mandatory, residents would be required to follow the watering schedule. Customers who violate the restrictions would be subject to fines and could have their water service terminated. Violators would be liable for all costs of enforcement.
To help residents reduce their outdoor water use, the Mayor's Water Conservation Task Force has published a brochure called "A Guide to Planting Waterwise." The brochure is available on the City web site at and at the County-City Building, local nurseries and retailers carrying lawn and garden stock and supplies.
City residents are also reminded that water fees are structure to encourage conservation – the more water used, the higher the rate. Information on water rates can be found on the City web site under Public Works and Utilities.


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Blake Lanham necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 93 diseños de 32 diseñadores freelance.
LanCon Qld
We are a small construction company specialising in renovations and new houses. It's a family business that is growing fairly rapidly but core staff is my father an ex-builder and designer, my brother, a fully qualified plumber and myself, an experienced residential and commercial construction manager. Our actual company name is Lanham Constructions Qld Pty Ltd but we're hoping LanCon Qld is going to set a better professional image in peoples minds. We want to be seen as professional construction company but of a good size not just a two man band operating out of a ute. Our licences cover all building and plumbing works for both residential and smaller commercial applications.
All people looking for affordable house renovations from a bathroom to the whole house. Companies looking for new office fit outs or extensions.
Anyone looking to build a new house, duplex or townhouses or even new commercial tenancy.
Many small construction companies are named by their surname followed by "Constructions" and while we still want that name incorporated we believe that LanCon Qld will make the company seem larger and more professional which is what we're after.
We have no real opinion on graphics so that's totally up to you but nothing making us look cheap.
I'd like to see LanCon Qld as the main Logo with Lanham Constructions Qld Pty Ltd in smaller font.
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Earth First! We can strip mine the other planets later!
Quote from: Wulfhere on April 24, 2007, 06:35:29 PMEarth First! We can strip mine the other planets later!You know, "Earth First" might be a great name for a 'nationalist'/planetarist movement one distant day from now.
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