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Important information regarding Anderson Cooper's visit to Penn State Altoona
Anderson Cooper's scheduled appearance at Penn State Altoona for Thursday, April 2, 2009, has been postponed due to circumstances beyond our control.
Penn State Altoona has just learned that Anderson Cooper is being sent on assignment to London to cover the G20 Summit and therefore unable to deliver his speech at Penn State Altoona. The college is working to secure a new date in the near future for Cooper's campus appearance. It is anticipated that a date will be finalized very soon, at which time Penn State Altoona will immediately release that date and relevant details.
The college apologizes for any inconvenience that this may cause to ticketholders and thanks you for your patience, understanding, and support of Penn State Altoona.
Please check the Penn State Altoona Web site for updated information about the rescheduled visit and ticket procedures.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Anderson Postponed
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Entretien, entretien, entretien
Talk, talk, talk... No Nudity -- Booo! Booooo!
"The Shot" was in the evening, the actual press conference with Monsieur Mesnil took place this morning in Paris. Here he is, in all his handsomeness, talking... and talking... and talking, for 4:08 minutes he talks but not a single piece of clothing comes off. Interesting (if you understand French) but disappointing.
A closer view of Monsieur Mesnil!
An even closer view of Monsieur Mesnil!
"Ooh, la la. Mon Dieu! M. Mesnil!
Je pense que je suis dans l'amour"
"The Shot" was in the evening, the actual press conference with Monsieur Mesnil took place this morning in Paris. Here he is, in all his handsomeness, talking... and talking... and talking, for 4:08 minutes he talks but not a single piece of clothing comes off. Interesting (if you understand French) but disappointing.
Je pense que je suis dans l'amour"
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"Please, No Jokes..."
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Monday, March 30, 2009
Manliness, huh?
This Just In…..The 11 Manliest Anchormen of All Time
March 18, 2009
With the advent of television came the arrival of the anchorman. Sitting behind his desk, earnestly staring into the camera and reporting the news each evening in his calm and steady voice, he was a man you could trust. Night after night, Americans invited him into their homes as a friend to steer them through the nation's tragedies and cast light on its triumphs. These days, more Americans are going to the internet to get their news. There is a veritable dearth of real newsmen out there, and the manly anchorman is becoming an endangered species. Male anchors are now in the minority nationwide. And the anchormen who are left are often not up to journalistic par. From Fox News to CNN, the news industry is beginning to replace real journalists with those whose only qualification is a winning smile. Fake tans and plastic surgery are becoming the norm, and real journalism seems to now be relegated to print (which is dying a slow death itself. Egads!) While there are obviously some newsmen we respect that did not quite make the list, we feel that those who did make it are a good representation of journalists who were and are dedicated to their work, rather than the appearance of their work. Please note that the newsmen listed below are American or prominently featured in American TV News. Feel free to add your favorite manly anchorman from abroad. Without further ado, here is our list of manly men who happen to do a little thing called "anchoring the news."
Roger Grimsby
Most famous for his run as co-anchor (along with the equally esteemed Bill Beutel) on the Big Apple's Eyewitness News, Roger Grismby was a pioneer of network broadcast news. An orphan raised by a minister and a veteran of the Korean War, Grimsby was a news anchor who didn't take guff from anyone. He was an intimidating and brutally honest man; co-anchors thought he hated them, and if they were incompetent flyweights, he probably did. He famously had on-air feuds with news team members like Howard Cossell and Geraldo Rivera. But once you earned Grimsby's respect, he was fiercely loyal. Grimsby wasn't a prima donna; he just really cared about the news. He didn't do the kind of sensational fluff stories that now dominate local news; he tackled NYC's pressing issues, flew to Ethiopia to cover its poverty, and traveled to the Middle East to report on Israeli-Egyptian relations. His introduction ("I'm Roger Grimsby, hear now the news") and sign-off ("Hoping your news is good news, I'm Roger Grimsby") were as memorable as his stories. And while he took the news seriously, he never took himself seriously. Grimsby had an unforgettable personality and a sharp wit; he was famous for rescuing news show's from the awkward moments that paralyzed everyone else. His most famous quip can be seen here at 5:23:
Hal Fisherman
Fishman was one of the last of a dying breed: an anchorman with editorial control over the news he covered. Fishman holds the distinction of being the last Los Angeles-based anchorman to have this privilege. He is also noteworthy for being the longest running news anchor in American television history. Fishman anchored the news in LA for an astonishing 47 years; only death could remove him from his desk. Fishman, who came to prominence with his reporting of the Watts Riot, was the first to air footage of the Rodney King beating. If being a bad ass anchorman wasn't enough, Fishman was an accomplished pilot who set 13 records for speed and altitude. Pretty dang manly. He even found time to appear in movies like Forrest Gump and Spiderman 3.
Jon Stewart
Although mostly known as the wise-cracking, sarcastic anchor of the "fake news" show, The Daily Show, Stewart is one of the most ballsy men on television. He may do it for laughs, but his skewering of the hypocrisy on both sides of the aisle is frequently nothing short of genius. Stewart also interviews interesting guests on topics rarely covered elsewhere and pulls no punches with his questions. It's hard to pick a favorite Stewart moment-is it when he went on CNN's Crossfire and took Tucker Carlson to town for the show's divisive rhetoric and partisan hackery? When he bore his soul and got choked up talking about his country in his first show post 9/11? Or perhaps it is his recent skewering of Wall Street and CNBC:
|The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
|M - Th 11p / 10c
|CNBC Financial Advice
One thing's for sure, there will be many more such great moments to come, and it's good to know there's a gadfly out there irritating the mad cow that is today's media.
Peter Jennings
Jennings earns manly props for being a self-made man. Although he dropped out of high school in tenth grade and never attended college, he became, at age 26, the youngest US network anchorman ever and went on to become one of the most prominent and well-respected men in the business. He established the first American television news bureau in the Arab world and became an expert in the affairs of the Middle East. Jennings was committed to uncovering and reporting the important news of his time, to avoiding the fluff stories, and to helping Americans understand important and complicated international issues. On Sept. 11, he held his anchor chair for 17 straight hours as he guided Americans through the crisis. The tragedy of that day so stirred his soul that it led this Canadian to become an American citizen.
Bob Schieffer
When it comes to national politics, few newsmen have covered the beat better than Bob Schieffer. Schieffer is part of an elite club of reporters who have covered all four of the major Washington assignments: Congress, the Pentagon, the White House, and the Department of State. Schieffer got his first taste of the action as a reporter for the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram. Although initially disappointed in having not been assigned to cover JFK's visit to Texas, Schieffer stumbled into a golden opportunity when in the aftermath of the assassination he was asked to drive Lee Harvey Oswald's mother to the police station. Upon arriving, he used his manly resourcefulness and pretended to be a detective (he always wore a snap-brimmed hat for just such a purpose) to gain access to an office with a telephone. He then spent several hours calling his paper with dispatches from fellow reporters, enabling the Star-Telegram to have several extra editions of the paper put out. This past year, Schieffer was praised for moderating a presidential debate in which then candidates Obama and McCain finally came within at least a few miles of answering the actual questions asked. Well done Bob.
Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow got his start in the news business before television had even been invented, and yet he would arguably shape the medium more than anyone else. In the early days of World War II, he kept Americans abreast of events through his revolutionary live radio broadcasts from London. It was during this time that he developed his famous "good night and good luck" sign-off, a catch phrase inspired from a common comment Londoners gave one another as they parted ways and prepared for another night of air raids. In the 1950's, Murrow made the transition to television and gained fame and respect for unveiling Joseph McCarthy's hypocrisy on his See It Now news program. The show covered other controversial issues, often to the chagrin of nervous CBS execs. After the show ended, Murrow criticized the media for refusing to tackle the big issues. He prophetically announced, "During the daily peak viewing periods, television in the main insulates us from the realities of the world in which we live. If this state of affairs continues, we may alter an advertising slogan to read: Look now, pay later."
Eric Sevareid
Eric Sevareid got his start in journalism in a way that foretold his commitment to chasing a story wherever it led; on a trip sponsored by the Minneapolis Star, Sevareid paddled a canoe for 2,250 miles, journeying from Minneapolis to York on the Hudson Bay. Sevareid was recruited by Edward R. Murrow during World War II to be a correspondent for CBS. As one of the famous "Murrow boys," Sevareid covered such events as the fall of France and the Battle of Britain. He wasn't afraid to be in the thick of the action. He parachuted into the jungle when his plane failed while covering the Burmese-China theater, and he then helped rescue other passengers from the crash. Could you imagine any anchorman doing that today? I didn't think so. He also accompanied the first wave of American troops as they made their way from France into Germany. He continued reporting the news for CBS after the war, serving as the head of the Washington bureau and then their roving European correspondent. He showed some manly mettle by being one of the first in the media to criticize Senator Joseph McCarthy's hunt for communists, a move that prompted an (later proven unfounded) investigation of him by the Red-fearing FBI. From 1964 until his retirement, Sevareid kept alive the Murrow tradition of news commentary by giving his two minute analysis of current affairs on the CBS Evening News.
Anderson Cooper
Born into the prominent Vanderbilt family, Anderson Cooper's life could have been that of the perpetually charmed socialite. Instead, his father's death when Cooper was 10 and the suicide of his 23 year old brother set the young man on his path to journalism. Like any good journalist, Cooper had questions he wanted answered, the biggest being: "Why do some people thrive in situations that others can't tolerate? Would I be able to survive and get on in the world on my own?" Cooper sought to find out. First he interned with the CIA, and then, when he couldn't get his foot in the door at ABC, he made a fake press pass and traveled to war torn regions like Somalia, Rwanda, and Bosnia, filming stories and selling them to Channel One. After cutting his teeth on news stories for middle and high schoolers, Cooper continued to work his way up the journalism ranks, starting as a correspondent for ABC and eventually anchoring his own show, Anderson Cooper 360. While 360 sometimes veers into more fluffy stories, Cooper gets props for being one of the few current newsmen trying to cover the more important news and doing it without yelling, partisan idiocy, or stupid gimmicks.
Ron Burgundy
Sure, Ron Burgundy was a chauvinist prone to citing the scientific fact that women's brains are a third the size of men's and threatening to punch a female co-worker in the ovary. And yeah, he lacked tact and had a weakness for reading anything put up on the teleprompter. But no one can argue Ron's manliness. In the 1970's he led San Diego's Channel 4 news team with bravado and swagger. He shopped for suits when feeling blue, was fond of scotchy, scotch, scotch, had many leather-bound books and an apartment that smelled of rich mahogany, and took on a bear to save the woman who took his job. And he wasn't afraid to show his softer side: confessing a love of poetry, playing a mean jazz flute, and being hopelessly devoted to his best friend Baxter. And in the end he got over his sexism to co-anchor the World News Center program with Veronica Corningstone. You stay classy Ron. In addition to his talent for reporting the news, Burgundy could also wield a bedpost with murderous accuracy:
Howard K Smith
Another of the original Murrow boys, Smith was a Rhodes Scholar who immediately after graduation went to London as a writer/journalist for the United Press. In early 1940, he was the nation's correspondent in Berlin, where he conducted interviews with prominent Nazis including Adolf Hitler, SS leader Heinrich Himmler, and propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. After the war, Smith continued reporting for CBS and chaired the first televised presidential debate between Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon. In 1962, he left his job at CBS over a dispute about a documentary on the civil rights movement called "Who Speaks for Birmingham." An advocate for desegregation, Smith ended the piece with Edmund Burke's famous quote, "All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing." Told to remove the quote, Smith instead resigned from CBS and joined ABC where he co-anchored the ABC Evening News. Despite his formerly friendly relations with President Nixon earlier in his political career and his reputation for conservatism, Smith notably became the first national television commentator to call for Dick's resignation after the Watergate scandal broke.
Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite's title as the Most Trusted Man in America was well-earned. Cronkite began his career in 1937 with the United Press, wherein he became one of the top US reporters of WWII. He covered battles in the North African and European theaters while at the same time serving as an active member of the US Coast Guard. He covered the Battle of the Bulge as well as the Nuremburg Trials. After the war, Cronkite again made a name for himself in his coverage of political news; in fact, the term 'anchor' was coined to describe his coverage of both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Cronkite went on to cover events such as the Vietnam War, the Kennedy Assassination, and the early stages of the US Space Program. He was also widely respected for his role in bringing the Watergate scandal to the forefront of the American public's attention. The duration of, and the level of professionalism he employed during his career made him a living legend in the industry, and he is widely considered the preeminent anchor of the twentieth century.
Anchorman Hall of Shame
The anchormen of yesteryear tackled the world's most important stories and did it with true professionalism, disguising their own biases to deliver the news in an unbiased way. Today's newsmen host "opinion news" programs and try to outdo each other in the amplitude of yelling, fluff, snark, sarcasm, hyperbolic accusations, and gimmickry. Some of today's newsmen have taken the presenting of news to a new low and deserve a place in the Anchorman Hall of Shame.
Sean Hannity
If Hannity was any more smug, he'd be twins. Prone to exaggerations and cringe-worthy partisanship, Hannity is like a puppet that says, "Socialism, socialism, socialism!" whenever you pull the string. Hey Sean, knock off your Smugs McSmugs-a-lot schtick. It just makes you look like a schmuck.
Keith Olbermann
Just as partisan as rival O'Reilly but with a liberal bent, his feud with the Irishman is tantamount to a pissing contest where each gets pee on their respective shoes. As former Los Angeles Times television critic Howard Rosenberg wrote, "Countdown is more or less an echo chamber in which Olbermann and like-minded bobbleheads nod at each other." And this blowhard is so pretentious that he's co-opted legendary anchorman Edward R. Murrow's "good night and good luck" sign off. Manly sacrilege. You should have stuck to sports. Olbermann's enormous ego and penchant for over the top rhetoric was satirized brilliantly by Ben Affleck on SNL:
Bill O'Reilly
If former anchormen reported the news with dignity and stately bearing, Bill O'Reilly does so by yelling his opinion over that of his invited guests. Those that don't agree with him are "pinheads;" those that kiss his butt get a free book. It's hard to argue with the fact that Bill O'Reilly is immensely entertaining to watch, but his pomposity crosses the line of manly propriety. And despite his positioning of himself as a moral crusader, it's hard to trust a guy who is prone to outbursts like this (warning: explicit language):
Chris Matthews
Mr. Matthews doesn't even pretend to impartiality. His outright fawning for Obama and partisan remarks got him and his fellow Hall of Shamer Keith Oldermann removed from co-anchoring MSNBC coverage of the presidential election. Such inability to disguise his biases was again made manifest when he let slip an "Oh God!" on air as Bobby Jindal emerged to give his rebuttal to President Obama's national address:
Stephen Colbert
Despite putting on a manly front, when push comes to shove, Colbert has shown a soft underbelly. His all-consuming fear of bears, distaste for books, love of Dungeons and Dragons, and disdain for facts and thinking is not very manly. Colbert does have potential for rising to the ranks of manly anchormen. He did defeat freshman congressman Jason Chaffatz in Indian leg wrestling three times.
|The Colbert Report
|Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
|Better Know a District - Utah's 3rd - Jason Chaffetz
Stephen, if you'll join Pizza Hut's Book It! reading program, wrestle a bear, and read Art of Manliness religiously, you'll become a man. Return and report.
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Best, Better & Bestest.
Asa MurphyGo to Asa's Home Page
SF Women's Style Examiner
Favorite male newscasters for brains and style
The camera lights are on, the news director gives the appropriate cue, and the newscaster is on, delivering breaking news on TV. The job of a TV anchor is rarely glamorous; more often than not, it is intense and demanding, and requires extreme attention to detail. To top everything off, most newscasters, male and female, will occasionally be criticized for their garb and their grooming choices. We superficial viewers will consciously (and subconsciously) judge a book by its cover. It is human nature. And anyone on TV knows how to attract and retain larger audiences by combining journalism with a polished style.
Let's take a look at some of the most famous TV newsmen. These guys combine brains and style. Who scores highest in both categories?
1. The inimitable John Stewart never ceases to amaze with his unique sense of humor and quick witt. How does he fare against his fellow newscasters?
2. Matt Lauer from the NBC's Today show is a perpetual favorite among women, both for his presence on screen and his approachable tone. Clothing choices aren't all that bad, either.
3. Stephen Colbert loves a well-pressed suit and sports a colored arm band, which usually is color coordinated with his tie. The Colbert Nation is a sensation and Stephen Colbert's face is everywhere, from magazine front pages to mugs. How many votes will he score?
4. Larry Smith is a sports anchor for CNN. With a southern sense of decorum and a real knack for sticking his foot in his mouth (or maybe he is just stupid). What do you think?
5. CNN host Anderson Cooper has many fans. How many are women and for what reasons? Will you vote for him?
6. Keith Olbermann, the host of MSNBC's Countdown, is sharp all around. One of the most prominent reporters on TV, and one of the best dressed in my opinion. He frequently opts for the more formal three-piece suit, but he accessorizes with a loud tie, giving him that unique Olbermann signature style. Any other fans?
Women in a follow-up article, so stay tuned.
The vote so far, as of 1:00 PM ET:
|Of course, Anderson is winning, there's no surprise about that.
Post a comment here: Anderson Cooper.
I was the first to comment, and this is what I said:
"Asa Murphy,
I vote for Anderson Cooper, no doubt about it. But in his description you ask "How many [fans] are women...?" Yet you didn't give us a place to list whether we are a woman, a man, or gay. That would be an interesting poll! I bet you the gays would be the most numerous -- I am gay, and Anderson will always be numero uno, dos y tres with me! Jon Stewart comes close right next in line."
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Stolen puppies returned to Louisville pet store
Stolen puppies returned to Louisville pet store
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —
The search is underway for a man who stole two puppies from a Louisville pet store.
The puppies were returned to the PetSmart on Westport Road Thursday morning.
They were taken from the Woodstock Animal Adoption Center inside the PetSmart Wednesday morning.
Workers with the adoption center inside the store contacted police.
Workers said a man asked to see the two mixed breed puppies and when a worker wasn't looking, he grabbed them and walked out.
The puppies were dropped off in front of the same store.
Witnesses described the suspect as a white man, about 5 feet 7 inches tall in his mid20s with sandy blonde hair.
He was seen wearing a black jacket and sweatpants.
Anyone with information should call police.

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Plaistow man contests seized video evidence of alleged abuse of toddlerBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
July 12. 2013 1:15PM
BRENTWOOD – A Plaistow man charged with abusing his girlfriend's 3-year-old son contested Friday the search of his home computer, which led police to finding videos of the boy allegedly being coached what to say about his injuries.
The hearing on Friday dealt with key evidence against Roland Dow, 27, who is charged with first-degree assault, making illegal recordings of the boy, and other charges related to the abuse that prosecutors say occurred over three days in November.
The boy, James Nicholson, 3, suffered burns and bruising to his face, forehead, hands, buttocks, leg and back.
His mother, Jessica Linscott, 24, is expected to go on trial later this month in Rockingham County Superior Court on child endangerment charges for allegedly failing to seek medical attention for her son. She also is charged with witness tampering for taking part in the coaching prior to a home visit by a child advocacy worker on Oct. 23 and as an accomplice to making the illegal recordings, prosecutors said.
Defense lawyer Tom Gleason argued on Friday that police went beyond the scope of their search warrant for Dow's Dell desktop computer by making a "mirror" copy of the hard drive.
"You are taking in an entire universe of information," Gleason said in court on Friday.
Gleason also suggested the search violating his client's right because it went beyond the seven day time frame that police were allotted to look for evidence.
Police obtained a warrant for the couple's Main Street apartment in Plaistow on Nov. 16, and obtained a second warrant specifically for the computer on Nov. 20, according to Assistant County Attorney Michael Zaino.
But police did not discover the computer videos of Nicholson on the mirror copy of the hard drive until early January, days after the warrant expired.
Zaino said the second warrant allowed police to seize "all files, documents and hard drives."
"We were granted permission to go through everything on the computer," Zaino said. "It is impractical to get that search done in seven days."
Gleason likened the hard drive search to a situation where police came to the courthouse looking for drugs in the building, yet seized everything inside in building during their search.
Judge Marguerite Wageling asked Gleason how the police in Dow's case acted any different than authorities who seized a trove of documents while investigating a theft then spent days examining what was collected.
Wageling suggested it would seem an impossible expectation for police to comb through every paper document within seven days of the search warrant being valid.
"And after those seven days, you would have to close the book and can't look at it anymore," Wageling said.
Gleason said he believed the computer search still amounted to an unreasonable search and seizure.
Prosecutors have requested that the abuse charges and ones concerning the illegal recordings be consolidated into one trial.
The defense has until early next week to object making the cases into a single trial.
Wageling said she expects to reach a decision within in the next couple of weeks.


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In conjunction with interventions that involve addicts where sudden withdrawal is dangerous, a nurse accompanies them to the rehab center, providing medical assistance for the addict. Patients with addictions that could cause serious risk to their health upon cessation of the substance abuse usually spend time in a detox facility before entering rehab.
The "cast" for each episode is primarily the addict and their family members, circle of friends and others. The only regular cast member in each episode is the interventionist, whose job it is to conduct the intervention. The show originally featured three regular specialists:
Later additions to the cast:
Occasionally, other therapists have made appearances to offset the workload among the regulars:
Jeff VanVonderen took an extended leave of absence in Season 5 after admitting during the special episode "Intervention: After-Treatment Special" that he relapsed with alcohol. He returned in Season 6 and has remained with the series since then.
Ken Seeley left the series after completing the intervention for Linda in Season 8 to focus on his personal intervention service, Intervention-911. He returned to conduct the intervention for Al, a crystal meth/painkiller/marijuana addict, in Season 13, and returned to the series in Season 14.
Most episodes feature "everyday" people struggling with their addictions, but entertainment professionals have also been featured.
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Melanie McFarland, another television critic, also laments that the show does little to educate on successful intervention and instead deceives the subjects of each episode in order to film them at their lowest point.
During the spring of 2011, AE aired the series Relapse , which ran for five episodes. Each episode focused on sober coaches' work with long-time addicts who have been unable to get clean despite repeated attempts at treatment. Seth Jaffe, one of the coaches, later became an interventionist on the main series.
On September 9, 2011, Intervention Canada debuted on Slice Network .
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This technique has worked for many species for some time, with probably the oldest known such instances of captive mating being attributed to menageries of European and Asian rulers, an example being the Père David's deer . However, captive breeding techniques are usually difficult to implement for such highly mobile species as some migratory birds (e.g. cranes) and fishes (e.g. hilsa ). Additionally, if the captive breeding population is too small, then inbreeding may occur due to a reduced gene pool and reduce immunity .
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One main factor that influences the ability for a driver-less automobile to function is mapping. In general, the vehicle would be pre-programmed with a map of the area being driven. This map would include data on the approximations of street light and curb heights in order for the vehicle to be aware of its surroundings. However, Google has been working on an algorithm with the purpose of eliminating the need for pre-programmed maps and instead, creating a device that would be able to adjust to a variety of new surroundings. [284] Some self-driving cars are not equipped with steering wheels or brake pedals, so there has also been research focused on creating an algorithm that is capable of maintaining a safe environment for the passengers in the vehicle through awareness of speed and driving conditions. [285]
Another factor that is influencing the ability for a driver-less automobile is the safety of the passenger. To make a driver-less automobile, engineers must program it to handle high risk situations. These situations could include a head on collision with pedestrians. The car's main goal should be to make a decision that would avoid hitting the pedestrians and saving the passengers in the car. But there is a possibility the car would need to make a decision that would put someone in danger. In other words, the car would need to decide to save the pedestrians or the passengers. [286] The programing of the car in these situations is crucial to a successful driver-less automobile.
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For survival analysis, both cohorts were pooled and PC1 scores were categorized by outcome specific receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses using Youden's index (Sensitivity - (1 - Specificity)) [] to identify the threshold for 'high' and 'low' cardiovascular death-associated PC1 scores in both cohorts separately. The relationship between PC1 score and outcomes was determined using the Cox proportional-hazards regression in unadjusted models and in models adjusted for established risk factors that included age, gender, BMI, serum creatinine, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, smoking, statin use, AMI and CAD (>50% luminal stenosis) all at baseline. The ability of the standard clinical model for predicting adverse events was calculated using the C-statistic before and after addition of the PC1 score.
Gene enrichment analysis was performed with the ToppGene Suite [], and showed a highly significant enrichment (hypergeometric = 4 × 10) for 18 genes annotated to the set of 222 genes known to be up-regulated in CD133 relative to CD133 hematopoietic stem cells in the 'Jaatinen_HSC_Dn' Molecular Signatures Database (MSigDB) [] entry. No other significant multiple comparison-adjusted enrichments were reported.
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You can't beat a system you can't understand
Our perception defines the way we respond to everything in our life experience. Today's column is about the skewed perception of two young boys who had limited knowledge of time zones and how they work.
A recent trip to the Midwest brought me to the area where Eastern Standard Time changes to Central Standard Time. In a restaurant where I was eating breakfast, a family was sitting at the next table. Two young boys about 7 or 8 years old were having an intense conversation about passing through the time zone. Keep in mind that these boys were at the age when most youngsters just begin to grasp the concept of time. The following transcript of their discussion tells us why we should be careful when we explain the essentials of life to our children. If we cut corners, we could cause conversations like this:
"My dad said we're going to pass through a time zone," said the first boy.
"What's that?" asked the second boy.
"It's a place where we gain an hour when we pass through it," said the first.
"What happens when you gain an hour?" asked the second.
"I think it means that we repeat whatever hour we're in," said the first boy.
"You mean you'll do everything you did in the hour before you went through the zone?" asked the second.
"I guess so," said the first.
"That seems dumb. Why would anybody want to do that?" said the second.
"It's not dumb if you're doing something really cool," said the first.
"Like what?" asked the second. "Like, I know we're going through the time zone in less than an hour after we leave here. So I'm going to eat a piece of apple pie. After we pass through the time zone, I'll get to eat it again," said the first.
At that point, the second boy looked skeptical. He wasn't sure why, but somehow this "time zone" idea wasn't making any sense, so he changed the direction of the questioning.
"What's the time zone look like?" he asked. "How do we know when we pass through it?"
"I'm not sure," said the first boy. "It probably looks like that liquid wall in the 'Stargate' movie. You go through it and you're in the next zone," he continued.
"Oh - you mean it's a portal," the second boy said.
"Yeah. Something like that," said the first boy.
"So you're telling me that this liquid portal sits in the middle of the road and everybody drives through it?" asked the second boy.
"Yeah, I guess so," said the first.
"Well what about the people driving the other way? What happens to them?" the second boy asked. "Do they lose an hour?"
"Probably," said the first.
"Well, what happens to that hour?" asked the second boy. "You get to re-live an hour if you go through one way, but you lose an hour when you go through the other way. Do you look an hour older? The hour can't just disappear. Does it erase your memory so you don't remember what happened?" he added.
"I dunno," said the first boy. "I'll ask my dad."
So he asked his dad, but pay close attention to what he asked.
"Dad, does going through a time zone erase your memory?"
"No, son. It doesn't do anything to your memory," his father answered.
"Well - if you go through the time zone the other way and you lose an hour, do you look an hour older?" the first boy asked.
"No, son. You aren't an hour older," the father answered innocently.
"I can't wait to see this," the second boy said. "Because if what you say is true, you'll eat that piece of pie, drive through the time zone, and eat it again. Then you'll drive through the time zone and the same thing will happen over and over."
"I don't think so," said the first. "Somehow, I don't know exactly why, but it only happens once," he continued.
Obviously, the idea of time zones confused these kids. They were totally baffled about the concept. The Oxford-American Dictionary defines time zones as, "Any of the 24 longitudinal divisions of the earth's surface in which a standard time is kept, the primary division being that bisected by the Greenwich meridian. Each zone is 15 degrees of longitude in width, with local variations, and observes a clock time one hour earlier than the zone immediately to the east."
I'm sure you can imagine how that definition would have been received. I think the time zone experience was the first indication to these young lads that they were living in a system they have no hope of ever understanding. Better that they learn while they're young that you can't beat a system you can't understand


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Since giving birth to her son and losing more than 40 pounds, the "Jersey Shore's" most popular character has opted for sleeker, more sophisticated styles than the big hair and heavy make up that made her famous.
On Monday, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi posted an unusually mature Instagram photo of herself posing in a long, white gown on the set of her new cover shoot for Annex magazine.
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Polizzi told US Weekly back in March that she'd lost weight for herself as well as her fiance, Jionni LaValle.
"I lost it for me," the 25-year-old reality star said. "But I also wanted Jionni to know that I can be hot as a mom."


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Several years ago, monies were owed to our construction company and we were forced to retain the services of a collection agency. This agency was successful in getting a check issued to our business' name in the amount of $47,500.00 and the check was sent to the collection agency. The agency asked us to sign the check and it would be cashed and their fee of 10% would be removed from the total amount and the rest would be forwarded to our offices. That amount was never forthcoming and our telephone calls and letters went unanswered. After several months, we were advised to write to the District Attorney's office and to give all the pertinent information with regard to this matter and that they would conduct a criminal investigation. By the time the D.A.'s office investigated, the perpetrators had already given up their office space and were long gone with our money and sadly with the monies of several other businesses who had trusted them.
As small business owners, this was a very serious setback to us and as the years passed, we truly lost all hope that we would ever see any portion of our money again.
To our great joy, the District Attorney's office contacted us earlier this year to inform us that the two individuals running this so-called collection agency had been apprehended and were being brought to trial. I am happy to inform you that a check arrived at our offices today in the full amount that these criminals stole from us. A letter accompanying the check explained that the two individuals were made to make restitution in the amount of $400,000.00 to everyone that had fallen victim to their fraudulent collection agency scheme and that they have each been sentenced to several years in prison for their crime.
I write this letter so that others that require services from a collection agency will investigate the agency prior to doing business with them and will not fall prey to unscrupulous criminals as we did. I write it also to remind other criminally minded individuals that the wheels of justice grind slowly -- but grind they do -- and they grind very fine!
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The East Gadsden Jaguars received plenty of support from their fans as they faced off against the Marianna Bulldogs this past Friday night for their homecoming game. The Jaguar's offense had trouble getting into a rhythm and executing, but their defense played well and kept Marianna's quarterback on his heels the first two quarters of the game and held the Bulldogs to seven points at the half.
For the second week in a row, the Bobcats of Robert F. Munroe Day School roared out to a commanding first-half lead, only to see it slip away in the second half.
The high scoring-affair with the rival Aucilla Christian Warriors, marked by big plays and turnovers, started with a bang as quarterback Will Harris faked a handoff to fullback Daniel Winburn and hit a streaking Jaylen Lewis up the visitor's sideline for a 64-yard scoring strike (Cole Skipper Kick) and an early 7-0 lead.
The four county volleyball teams — East Gadsden, West Gadsden, Tallavana and Munroe — will soon begin district play. In the meantime, they have a little more than a week to go in the regular season. In this week's action:
MUNROE vs. GRACE CHRISTIAN: Grace Christian made short work of the match between themselves and Munroe, winning in three straight. Games 1 and 3 were close with the Cougars winning 25-22 and 25-21. The score for game two was 25-17.
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This past Friday the West Gadsden Panthers traveled to Sneads to take on the Pirates for their homecoming game. Minutes before the start of the contest, both the inside of the stadium and the long line outside of the stadium were filled with excited fans of both teams eager to see this rivalry game.
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It was a game of two halves.
The first half was dominated by the East Gadsden Jaguars on the road against the Wakulla War Eagles on Friday night. The Jaguars capitalized on mistakes made by Wakulla to take a 26-7 first half lead.
But the second half was a different game, and the War Eagles scored 27 unanswered points to win.
All county volleyball teams continue to fall below .500 on the season. Last week Munroe split two games, picking up a district win in the process. Both East and West Gadsden were handed losses.
Coming off of a 1-9 season last year, some might say you don't have anywhere to go but up. There's a little more to the turnaround by the Bobcats of Robert F. Munroe Day School this season than simply the law of averages.
On September 13 the East Gadsden Jaguars suffered a tough 61-0 loss to the Godby Cougars. Last week the Jaguars were off, the team used the extra time to rest their bodies and do some team-building exercises. East Gadsden's head coach, Tracy Laing, described the mood of the team after the Godby game as "kind of disturbing' the game was a big letdown. (We have) got to take the loss and move on. I'm ready to get the Godby game out of sight."
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Parcells among seven added to NFL HallBy The Sports Xchange
February 02. 2013 10:05PM
NEW ORLEANS - Offensive linemen Larry Allen and Jonathan Ogden and defensive tackle Warren Sapp highlighted the list of seven people selected Saturday for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Former head coach Bill Parcells, wide receiver Cris Carter and senior candidates Curly Culp and Dave Robinson will also be inducted into the Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio on Aug. 3.


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The Orioles stuck to their usual September story line on Monday night, opening the first full series of the month here against a division rival that came into Camden Yards on a roll and bursting with incentive to mop the infield with the last-place home team.
This time, it was the Tampa Bay Rays, who just swept the Boston Red Sox to re-assert themselves as a legitimate wild card contender and need badly to stay on a roll in Baltimore to keep their once-faint playoff hopes alive.
So far, so good.
Rays right-hander Jeff Niemann pitched a strong 7 2/3 innings and sizzling center fielder B.J. Upton set a team record by extending his on-base streak to nine plate appearances on the way to a 5-2 victory before an announced crowd of 11,924.
The Rays' fifth consecutive win inched them a half-game closer to the Red Sox, who were nine games ahead of them as recently as 10 days ago, but now have just a three-game cushion in the wild card race with 16 regular season games remaining for each club.
"We started the playoffs last Friday against the Red Sox,'' said Rays manager Joe Maddon. "There is no letting up. No taking any mulligans. We have to go out there and believe we can win every night."
In other words, the Rays have everything to play for and the O's have little more than the chance to avoid 100 losses, but O's starter Zach Britton (9-10) — who gave up four runs over five innings on the way to his 10th loss — clearly was disappointed that he did not put up a better fight.
"We all know that they're in the battle for it, they are playing really well,'' Britton said. "So I actually want to go out them and beat them. You don't want them to get it on your clock. So I was really disappointed that I didn't put together a good effort and got us in a hole early and we couldn't put it together. So it's just a mixture of walking those guys and, at the same time, you give them chances to score runs, they are going to score runs."
Even though they are trying to overtake the Red Sox and time is running short, the Rays started rookie Brandon Guyer over veteran Matt Joyce in right field to take advantage of the right-left matchup against Britton. Joyce hasn't been playing much against lefties, but he is batting .280 with 18 homers and 64 RBI and Guyer has played in just nine major league games and came in hitting .192.
So, what happens? Maddon pushed the right button again. Guyer led off the third inning with a double to start the three-run rally.
The Rays got their first two runs on a double by Ben Zobrist and added a third on a seeing-eye single by Sean Rodriguez. The middle of the Rays lineup continued to make things tough on Britton in the fifth, starting with a leadoff double by Upton that turned into the fourth Tampa Bay run on a sacrifice fly by Johnny Damon.
Upton came into the game having reached base safely in five straight plate appearances. He walked his first two times up and doubled in his next two at-bats to stretch his on-base streak to a record-breaking nine plate appearances before striking out in the eighth.
Britton gave up four runs on five hits before giving way to reliever Jeremy Accardo. It wasn't anything to cry about, but he couldn't have been thrilled that all four runs scored with two outs or that he walked four batters and neither was his manager.
"It starts and stops with fastball command,'' manager Buck Showalter said. "That's one of the reasons Tampa is doing a good job with their starters. They have guys with good command of the fastball. Zach didn't have it tonight. Didn't have command. He's just inconsistent with it, like a lot of young pitchers. Hopefully he'll figure it out with the help he's got and will continue to get.'
The Orioles scored in the fifth on an RBI double by Robert Andino, but again left two runners in scoring position with fewer than two outs at a point when they could have gotten back in the game. Matt Wieters accounted for the other O's run with a 402-foot homer off Niemann in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Wieters' 18th homer snapped a 40-inning homerless streak for the team – the second longest streak of that kind this year.


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Monroe, NY
Ida Ostrow, a longtime resident of Monroe, NY, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at Orange Regional Medical Center. She was 87.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, She was the daughter of Cantor Rubin and Ethel Selbst. She was the widow of Murray Ostrow.
Ida was a dedicated homemaker, wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was also a whiz at casino poker machines, mah jong, crossword puzzles, yahtzee, scrabble and other games. But her interests did not end there. She was a great cook and possessed one of the largest collections of cookbooks ever to grace a kosher kitchen. Ida also enjoyed whale watch cruises from Cape Cod and bird watching, especially the hummingbirds that flocked to her back deck every year.
Survivors include her close friend and daughter Robin of Monroe; and her sons: Stephen of Middletown, and Paul of someplace called Fresno, CA. She is also survived by her other best friend and granddaughter, Ariel of Monroe; granddaughter, Andrea and her husband, Michael of Fresno; grandson, Jeffrey and his wife, Chelsea of Fresno, and great grandson, Logan also of Fresno.
Graveside Services will be held at 12 noon, Thursday, August 29th at Temple Sinai Cemetery in Circleville. The family will sit shiva at the family home, 17 Cunningham Drive in Monroe with shiva minyanim at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.


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Signs of Life :: Small Stories About Big Change
Amazon Tribes Win Against Big Oil
In the Amazon rainforests of Peru and Ecuador, indigenous groups are on the front lines of the climate change battle.
Communities in both countries bear the brunt of demand for oil and gas resources buried in the rainforests. The Amazon is one of the world's most significant "carbon sinks," and when resource-extraction industries destroy forests to make way for roads, drilling, and pipelines, they release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming. In Ecuador, toxic dumping by oil giant Texaco has also created deadly pollution that locals say has caused cancer rates to soar.
Native groups in both countries have scored recent victories, but at great cost.
In Bagua in northern Peru, demonstrators blocked a road in protest of new laws that would have eased the process for foreign companies to acquire land title and road-building rights-of-way in the Amazon. The protest erupted into a confrontation with police on June 5 that left dozens of demonstrators dead. International outcry over the deaths forced Peruvian President Alan Garcia to rescind two of the nine laws in question.
On July 21, James Anaya, U.N. Special Rapporteur on indigenous rights, called for an independent investigation of the events in Peru. Activists have accused the Peruvian government of attempting to destroy the powerful indigenous organization AIDESEP, whose leader, Alberto Pizango, has been accused of sedition and is currently in exile in Nicaragua.
Meanwhile, Ecuadorian communities have won a ruling against Chevron Corp., which owns Texaco. Their 16-year-old, $27.3-billion liability suit concerns Texaco's nearly three decades of activity in the Lago Agria area of the Amazon, during which, plaintiffs say, the company dumped 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the rainforest. Chevron merged with Texaco in 2001 and has been fighting the case in both Ecuador and the U.S. On June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court tossed out an appeal by Chevron to shift the liability to Ecuador's state-owned oil company.
Demonstrators in both Ecuador and Peru have received an outpouring of international support. Images of the Peruvian massacre circulated online, galvanizing supporters, who held demonstrations in South America, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe in solidarity with the Amazon activists.
Activists have lobbied for alternatives to free trade agreements that require governments in developing nations to loosen restrictions on natural resource exploitation. The decrees that led to the Peruvian protests were a response to the U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement.
Chevron has also tried to use trade agreements to retaliate against Ecuador. Four U.S. senators—Ron Wyden, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Dick Durbin, and Patrick Leahy—recently urged the U.S. Trade Representative to reject Chevron's plea to deny trade benefits to Ecuador.
—Lisa Gale Garrigues is a YES! contributing editor.
India's "National Solar Mission"
India will soon embark on a "National Solar Mission," part of the country's eight-part climate plan. The plan calls for boosting India's solar energy output from nearly zero to 20 gigawatts by 2020. Greenpeace India campaigner Siddarth Pathak says the move could bolster the country's leverage in U.N. climate talks in December, though India's refusal to commit to carbon emission limits has vexed richer countries demanding tougher action.
Amanda McKenzie, organizer with the Australian Youth Climate Coalition. McKenzie and 1,500 youths met in Sydney, Australia, in July to learn how to stage direct action to pressure government leaders to address climate change.
Sit-In Keeps Factory Open
Inspired by last year's win by employees at Republic Windows and Doors, workers at the Des Plaines, Illinois, Hartmarx factory voted to stage a sit-in this June against banking giant Wells Fargo.
Wells Fargo was the man creditor of Hartmarx, a century-old apparel company that manufactured the tuxedo Barack Obama wore to his inauguration. Early this year, Hartmarx declared bankruptcy after Wells Fargo denied the company a line of credit. Wells Fargo then threatened to liquidate Hartmarx and lay off its workers, rejecting offers by several investors to buy the company.
Nearly 500 Hartmarx workers voted to occupy the factory to prevent its closure, taking inspiration from the Republic workers who successfully recovered their accrued vacation time and severance pay after occupying the Chicago factory last year.
Forty-three members of Congress sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geither, asking him to pressure Wells Fargo to keep Hartmarx intact and decrying "financial institutions that are receiving taxpayer assistance but refusing to provide credit in this tough economic climate."
Illinois treasurer Alexi Giannoulias threatened to move the state's accounts out of Wells Fargo. "They can either do the right thing and save 1,000 jobs, or they are not going to do business with the state of Illinois," Giannoulias said.
These efforts pushed Wells Fargo to accept a bid from Emerisque Brands to buy the company and preserve the workers' jobs.
The win adds fuel to another campaign targeting Wells Fargo's move to cut off credit to Quad City Die Casting in Moline, Illinois, jeopardizing the jobs of its 100 factory workers. This summer, members of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America held protests at 20 Wells Fargo branch offices. On July 9, nearly a dozen union supporters were arrested for blocking a road in front of a Wells Fargo branch in Rock Island, Illinois. The protesters called Wells Fargo "a roadblock to recovery."
—Laura Kaliebe is a journalist living in Seattle.
Green Economy Going Strong
Despite the recession, the green economy is outperforming the rest of the global economy, according to two new reports. New energy investment in renewable sources in 2008 surpassed worldwide investment in fossil fuel power for the first time, says a report released by the United Nations in June. In the United States, green jobs grew more than twice as fast as the overall job market between 1998 and 2007, and the green economy has suffered fewer setbacks than the economy as a whole, according to data released by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Legal Settlements Protect Voters
Organizations in Ohio, Missouri, and elsewhere are correcting problems that prevented thousands of people from voting in recent elections.
The League of Women Voters reached a settlement in July on a four-year-old lawsuit against the state of Ohio. The lawsuit was intended to fix problems that were rampant in the state's elections systems in 2004, when voters waited in line for up to 14 hours and registered voters cast provisional ballots that were never counted.
The settlement mandates monitoring of poll worker performance and voting equipment malfunctions and requires the secretary of state to oversee activities of county elections boards.
In June, ACORN reached a settlement with the state of Missouri requiring the state's Department of Social Services (DSS) to provide voter-registration applications to its clients. DSS first began offering this service in July 2008, following a preliminary court order. Since then, more than 100,000 low-income voters have registered at public assistance offices. Only 15,000 such voters registered in the three years prior.
In July, a voting rights coalition—including ACORN, the NAACP, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Project Vote—filed lawsuits in New Mexico and Indiana. The suits allege noncompliance with the National Voter Registration Act, which requires states to make voter registration available at public assistance offices.
The national voting rights group, Project Vote, says few states are following that directive. During the first two years after the law went into effect in 1995, 2.6 million low-income voters registered, but registration among that demographic has since dropped by as much as 90 percent in some states.
"In this last election, there were still something like 11 million low-income eligible voters who were not registered to vote," says Brenda Wright, director at Demos, a national policy think tank. "Making voter registration accessible and convenient at government agencies is a proven way to give people access to the process."
—Susie Shutts is a freelance writer based in Ohio.
Cities Eat Local
Increasing numbers of U.S. cities are looking to lessen their climate impact by growing and eating local food.
The city of Berkeley, California, has approved a climate-action plan that sets a target for reducing citywide greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050 and includes measures to localize the food sector. The plan will fund new community gardens and park projects, develop a community orchard on vacant city land, and provide financial incentives to restaurants that sell local organic food.
Last year San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom convened a panel of experts to find ways to make food grown within 200 miles of city limits available to locals. On July 8, the mayor's office directed all city departments to identify unused city land that could hold community gardens, and required all farmers markets operating in the city to accept food stamps.
The city of Minneapolis recently passed a resolution that creates a local food task force and opens up city land to community gardens.
Seattle is also implementing its Local Food Action Plan. This year, the city committed $500,000 from a parks levy to build new community gardens on vacant city land.
—Jessica Bell is a former staff member of the California Food and Justice Coalition.
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A prompt from DoGood, an iPhone app designed by University of Michigan students that encourages its 1,000 users to do a new good deed each day.
Tribes Approve Same-Sex Marriage
Same-sex marriage may not be legal in the state of Oregon, but an Oregon tribe has exercised its sovereignty to recognize same-sex marriages on its 10-square-mile reservation near the Oregon coast. The Coquille Indian Tribe allows marriage licenses and benefits for gay and lesbian couples as long as at least one partner is an enrolled tribal member. On May 29, two women became the first same-sex couple to legally marry on the reservation.
The Suquamish Tribe in Washington state may soon follow suit. Its tribal council has approved a proposal to amend the Suquamish constitution and will finalize a same-sex marriage ordinance pending two public hearings later this summer.
—Heather Purser is a YES! editorial intern and member of the Suquamish Tribe.
Act Two for Clean Water
The U.S. Senate may be poised to undo a Bush-era policy that undercut protection of the nation's waterways.
Until 2002, the U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers had the authority to keep pollution out of creeks and stop builders from paving over small wetlands.
But two rulings on the Clean Water Act by the U.S. Supreme Court took a narrow reading of the law's language, limiting the Act's jurisdiction to "navigable waterways" and the small streams and rivers that are connected to them.
The rulings stripped protection from 20 million acres of wetlands and 60 percent of the nation's stream miles, such as the Los Angeles River and nearly all of Arizona's small streams.
Now 24 senators have sponsored a bill that would restore those protections. The Clean Water Restoration Act has passed the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and is headed for the Senate floor. The act has the support of a large number of environmental, wildlife, and fishing and hunting groups, along with the Water Environment Federation, which represents the water treatment industry, though the law is meeting resistance from big agriculture and developers.
—Madeline Ostrander
Bundanoon, Australia, May be First to Legally Ban Bottled Water
In a July 4 vote, Bundanoon, Australia, may have become the first community in the world to legally ban bottled water. The ban was promoted through the grassroots "Bundy On Tap" campaign. The town plans to implement the law by September, once it sets up bottled water alternatives, such as several new free filtered "water stations" to be placed around the community.


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Belmar Won't Use Rainforest Wood to Rebuild Boardwalk
A Jersey shore town says it won't use tropical rain forest wood to rebuild a boardwalk destroyed by Superstorm Sandy.
Belmar Mayor Matthew Doherty announced the decision Tuesday, saying officials had decided the municipal government should avoid a protracted legal battle with environmentalists.
The town wants to have the new boardwalk completed in time for the summer tourism season. But some groups had threatened to seek an injunction that could have postponed the work for up to two months.
Belmar had awarded a $6.6 million contract last month to a company to provide ipe wood for the project.
Ipe has proven popular with coastal communities. It looks good, lasts for decades and can support the weight of a police car or fire engine, not to mention thousands of people.
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Finally there is closure on the Adam Thomson saga - and the All Black flanker will be available for selection to play England next week.
The IRB appealed the findings of the independent judicial inquiry that found Thomson guilty of standing on the head of Scotland flanker Alasdair Strokosch at Murrayfield on November 11. Thomson was handed a two-week suspension that was reduced to one for his previous clean record and lack of intent.
The IRB claimed the sentence was too lenient - but lost the appeal, with the committee finding the initial judgement of a two-week suspension to be in line with the recommendations laid down by the governing body. The committee agreed the act had been entry level, but they upheld the IRB's contention that the initial sentence should not have been cut in half - therefore meaning that Thomson's ban was extended to two weeks.
The All Blacks had withdrawn him for selection for both the tests against Italy and Wales meaning the 30-year-old is able, if required to play against England.
The outcome will be of some relief to Thomson who is still undecided about what he is doing in 2013. He did not want the test against Scotland - where he was yellow-carded at the time - to be his last.


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Prince William and bride Kate Middleton weren't the only ones able to enjoy the stylish pomp and pageantry of the royal wedding. Mini attendants — Hon. Margarita Armstrong-Jones, 8, Tom Pettifer, 8, Lady Louise Windsor, 7, Master William Lowther-Pinkerton, 10, as well as Grace van Cutsem, 3, and Eliza Lopes, 3 (not pictured) — were also exquisitely dressed.
The girls wore custom Nicki Macfarlane gowns, handmade with the same fabric as the bride's dress and embroidered with their names and the date of the wedding. And the boys wore striking red uniforms reminiscent of a Foot Guards officer during the Regency era, with its insignia drawn from the Irish Guards, whose Colonel is Prince William.
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In this week's What to Ask Series we're going to talk about middle management. They get so little attention. Yet, when we do SEO Organization Assessments, we find middle management plays the biggest role in helping (or hindering) a company's ability to get SEO stuff done, and the SEO department's success.
Because of this, Jessica Bowman asked a few in-house SEOs about middle management. Enjoy!
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Question: What Does Management Need to Do in Order to Make Stuff Happen?
We also asked AOL's Director of Audience Development, Simon Heseltine, what middle management should be doing in order to make SEO happen. Here's what Simon had to say:
What have I experienced when working with the SEO team and middle management? Here are a few of my thoughts on the subject:
- Middle management tends to escalate things that are taking too long, need to be descoped, etc., but they do not always understand nor communicate the impact on SEO. As a result, management descopes things for SEO.
- A lot of SEO requirements can be incorporated into other projects, but SEO teams either do not know how to do this or just don't do it. Either way, middle management can usually weave in smaller SEO changes fairly, if they want to.
- Few SEO teams give lower-to-middle management the right tools for SEO success. As a result, these managers become an obstacle.
- The best way to influence middle management is to properly equip their teams with tools, resources, and win over their teams so they become SEO advocates.
- Too many SEO teams inadvertently frustrate middle management, and lose their respect through poor training, mediocre deliverables, inconsistent recommendations (which is often common for SEO), and failing to communicate SEO metrics and successes for their teams' time.
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Swiss bank UBS swallowed a $1.5 billion fine and admitted to fraud on Wednesday after a global probe revealed its staff orchestrated the manipulation of benchmark interest rates over three continents.
UBS traders colluded with brokers to rig the Libor rate, which is used to price trillions of dollars worth of loans worldwide, rewarding them for their help. They also teamed up with traders at other banks.
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The penalty agreed with U.S., UK and Swiss authorities is more than three times the $450 million fine levied on Britain's Barclays in June, also for rigging Libor, and is the second largest fine ever levied on a bank.
"The findings we have set out in our notice today do not make for pretty reading," said Tracey McDermott, head of enforcement and financial crime at Britain's FSA regulator.
Shares in the Swiss bank rose 1.6 percent to hit a 17-month high of 15.5 francs ($16.97)in early trade as dealers said the settlement, which was expected, removed a major uncertainty.
"You can see from the stock movement that the fine is already baked in," said Markus Jordi, principal at Zurich-based investment manager Cosmos Capital.
"The bank has already kicked out some traders, apologized, said it will shut down parts of the investment bank and overhauled management."
The UBS deal is likely to be followed by a raft of other settlements between big banks and regulators over the rate-rigging scandal, which has transformed the London interbank offered rate (Libor), from esoteric financial acronym to household name.
The UBS fine comes a week after Britain's HSBC agreed to pay the biggest ever bank penalty - $1.92 billion - to settle a probe in the United States into laundering money for drug cartels.
UBS's unit in Japan pleaded guilty to one count of fraud relating to manipulation of benchmark rates, including the yen Libor.
The revelations are yet another blow for UBS, which over the past 18 months has lost an eye-watering $2.3 billion in a rogue trading scandal, suffered management upheaval and thousands of job cuts.
The impact of the deal on the flow of client funds into the bank will not be known until the first quarter of next year.
"We deeply regret this inappropriate and unethical behavior. No amount of profit is more important than the reputation of this firm, and we are committed to doing business with integrity," UBS Chief Executive Sergio Ermotti said in a statement disclosing the extent of the wrongdoing, which took place over six years from 2005 to 2010.
UBS said it will pay $1.2 billion to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), 160 million pounds to the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) and 59 million Swiss francs from its estimated profit to Swiss regulator Finma.
The UK penalty is the largest in the history of the FSA and more than double the 59 million pounds paid by Barclays.
The bank said the fines would widen its fourth quarter net loss to up to 2.5 billion francs but said it would not need to raise new capital.
"Despite the scale of UBS's connection to the Libor scandal, it will perhaps find it easier to put the incident behind it than other institutions given its decision in October to withdraw from or substantially downsize most fixed-income related investment banking activities," said Michael Symonds, credit analyst at Daiwa.
Britain's financial regulator said at least 45 people were involved in the rigging, which was discussed in internal chat forums and group emails but never detected by UBS's compliance staff, despite five audits.
The FSA said the manipulation was considered to be "normal business practice" by a wide pool of people within the bank.
In addition to traders trying to move the Libor rate up or down to make money for themselves, senior managers at the Swiss bank directed dealers to keep Libor submissions low during the financial crisis to make the bank look stronger.
The extent of the wrongdoing was highlighted in a series of emails released by the FSA which showed how traders and brokers conspired to rig the rate and referred to each other in congratulatory terms such as "superman" and "be a hero today".
In one email, a trader wrote :"I need you to keep it as low as possible ... if you do that .... I'll pay you, you know, 50,000 dollars, 100,000 dollars... whatever you want ... I'm a man of my word".
It is the first time that brokers have been accused of taking payments to aid manipulation. ICAP, the world's largest inter-dealer broker, and rival RP Martin have suspended employees in connection with the probe.
Britain's FSA said attempts to manipulate Libor and Euribor, its European equivalent, were so widespread that every submission UBS made over a six year period from 2005 to 2010 was suspect.
The Libor benchmarks are used for trillions of dollars worth of loans around the world, ranging from home loans to credit cards to complex derivatives.
Tiny shifts in the rate, compiled from daily polls of bankers, could benefit banks by millions of dollars. But every dollar a bank benefited meant an equal loss by a bank, hedge fund or other investor on the other side of the trade - raising the threat of a raft of civil lawsuits.
In a memo to staff on Wednesday, Ermotti said it was too early to determine whether or how clients were affected, pending further regulatory probing of the rate fixing.
Until the rate-rigging scandal broke, Libor had been ignored by regulators and left up to the banks to police. From next year, Britain's FSA will have oversight of it as part of a major overhaul.
The steep fine for UBS is despite the bank, since 2011, cooperating with law-enforcement agencies in their probes. The bank said it received conditional immunity from some regulators.
A similar admission by Barclays in June touched off a political firestorm that forced its chairman and chief executive to quit. Ermotti said around 40 people had left UBS or been asked to leave the bank as a result of the investigation.
(Additional reporting by Martin de Sa'Pinto, Huw Jones, Blaise Robinson, Sarah White and Steve Slater; Writing by Alexander Smith; Editing by Carmel Crimmins and Anna Willard)


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- Nonprofits create big economic impact in northern New Mexico
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LeBron James Did It for You and I
LeBron James had a stupendous game last night against Boston, the kind we all know he can have. The question, and the reason why one of the most seismic LBJ performances ever is as much about us as him, is whether this is a half-full or half-empty scenario. Has James flashed for us that consummate greatness of which he is most surely capable on a regular basis (Magic suggested that America bottle it up and drink deep, or something), or reminded us of how much he's keeping from us and himself? Is this a King rising to his highest heights as the circumstances demand or a tease? Is it who he should be or a defiance of who he really is? And jeez, how is it possible that somehow James doesn't do "enough" the rest of the time?
Facts first: James didn't blow us away with highlights. He just couldn't miss. He was given the green light to carry the weight and leave Bosh and Wade in the dust, an unfortunate recurring motif in the history of the Big Three. Exclusion always seems to yield the most tantalizing results.
At halftime, James had an expression we had never seen before, one halfway between cynicism and candor. When it was over, he looked vulnerable in a different way, almost like he was about to cry. Turns out he was tired, though one wonders whether the wear and tear had been as much internal as external. That game cut against how LeBron usually approaches the sport. He dug deep because he had to, and what resulted was a blunt-force triumph of all that makes LeBron James impossible to stop. Minus any of the guile, wit, or resourcefulness that he himself so prizes, sometimes to a fault. Fittingly, the NBA Draft Combine was airing at the same time.
The man and his actions aside, let's get to the thicket of discourse, the range of argumentation, that is as much as part of James as the man himself. In other words, James is about us, not him. I finally wrote something unkind about LeBron and Wade after Game 4. I'm not sure I retract it entirely; despite the heady grandeur of his play last night, there remains a way in which we're left wondering whether this LeBron would come out in a desperate-seeming Game 7. Or what exactly motivated James to flip that switch. It sure as hell wasn't just "his night" or "hot shooting." That level of dominance, or something approaching it, is within his reach whenever he wants it. The question is, how often and for how long, should we expect him to sustain it? How great is he, really? And isn't he great enough without all this muck-muck?
At this point, the discussion is either self-serving or nearly metaphysical, depending on how awful you feel about yourself. The fact remains, though, that this game isn't a climax like 2007's Detroit adventure. There was zero drama as soon as LeBron announced his presence. Welcome to a facet of LeBron James we have trouble making sense of, even if it's the most obvious one he offers. It's likely he feels the same way about it himself.
What happens next will likely decide how we look back on last night's game. If the Heat flame out, especially with LeBron relatively passive (i.e. not dropping 40), this only makes matters more grim. It may even dog him into the Finals, assuming they make it there. Really, though, it's on us, not him. We simply have to make due that, unlike Kobe Bryant or Kevin Durant, James's search-and-destroy mechanism is not linear or easy to decipher. Even at his most somber, he likes to experiment, play, work with others and then lash out with bouts of aggression. This game was measured by comparison. It was also, from the stats, the utmost in one-man team-ness.
The strangest thing about LeBron James is his aversion to the obvious; it's almost as if the powers he's been blessed with leave him forever searching for an answer about how to give purpose to his game. We know what Happy LeBron looks like, as well as Joyless LeBron. This was a glimpse into the fact that, from a basketball standpoint, it's really easy being LeBron. If you switch over the Human Condition channel, though, it's extraordinarily hard. LeBron James just doesn't know what to do with himself, no more than we know what to do with him.