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Once a fishing and logging town, Tofino, on the Pacific Rim of Vancouver Island, is swiftly becoming a popular holiday destination for travellers from around the globe. Tucked away at the entrance of the Clayoquot Sound, the area is home to the Pacific Rim National Park, gorgeous sandy stretches of beach, islands with spectacular old growth forest (still under threat from logging companies), hot springs, and Long Beach, Canada's premier surfing spot. Home to only about 2,000 locals, Tofino, with its mild climate, is resplendent with natural beauty. The area boasts plenty of activities for visitors, including kayaking, whale watching, surfing and fishing.
Hot Springs Cove, accessible only by air or sea, is open year round and visitors can soak in rock pools filled with boiling spring water cooled by ocean surf. Other popular sights include the Eik Cedar, an 800-year-old tree that was rescued by residents after it was condemned to be felled; the Tofino Botanical Gardens with acres of forest, shoreline and gardens; and the Whale Centre Maritime Museum housing fascinating artefacts. The Wickannish Interpretive Centre, containing interesting information about the region and the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations, the area's original inhabitants, is well worth a visit. Tofino offers visitors the perfect combination of a range of activities, as well as a chance to relax and put their feet up, surrounded by unparalleled beauty.
There are plenty of shops for holidaymakers in Tofino, with many specialising in First Nations art and crafts. The Bella Boutique on the Pacific Rim Highway specialises in unique Canadian fashion, jewellery and art; while the Tofino Gift Company carries a selection of traditional Vancouver souvenirs like sweaters, local art, and woodturnings.
Holiday visitors can find a number of restaurants in Tofino, ranging from pizza and sushi to regionally grown and organic handmade foods, fresh seafood, as well as Nuu-Chah-Nulth First Nations cuisine, deli-style offerings and classic Italian. There are also a number of catering services available.
Tofino is not celebrated for its nightlife, with only a handful of bars and pubs and not much of a nightclub scene.
There are a number of activities in Tofino and its surrounds, with plenty to enthral and entertain holidaymakers year round. Kayaking here is excellent; numerous bays and inlets provide a great way to explore the area in a sheltered manner, while the more adventurous can head out into the open ocean or opt to kayak with Orcas. Whale watching is also a popular activity as pods of migratory grey whales frequent the area in mid-spring, with guided tours on offer by various charter companies. Tofino and neighbouring Ucluelet celebrate this event with the entertaining and interesting Pacific Rim Whale Festival from mid-March to mid-April. Other activities in Tofino include world-class fishing, scuba diving, windsurfing, hiking through the rainforest or beach hiking, golfing, beach combing, eco tours, cultural tours and even winter storm watching, as winds whip up the ocean and create huge waves that crash spectacularly on the shore. Surfing, of course, is immensely popular in Tofino, with Long Beach offering arguably the best surf in the country, particularly in winter, and a unique Surf Camp is available, as well as an all-women surf school.
The lack of an energetic nightlife may disappoint some visitors.


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April 10. 2014 10:51PM
City health costs: Wellness coordinator is no fix
Why are health insurance costs for Manchester city employees shooting up even after most unions accepted higher copays and deductibles? One alderman seems to think that the cause is employee ignorance. We find that highly unlikely.
City health insurance costs dropped immediately after the contract concessions, but they are rising again and straining the budget. Ward 6 Alderman Garth Corriveau says the solution is to hire a wellness coordinator who can teach employees how to live healthier lives. But costs are not rising because employees don't know that eating well and exercising will improve their health.
"I think our plan design changes have helped a little bit, but if you look nationally, health care expenses are going up, approaching double digits," City Finance Director Bill Sanders said last week. Bingo.
City employees already have a wellness committee and access to a program that provides information on healthy living and lets them shop for lower-cost health services. Adding a wellness coordinator won't provide a dramatic change.


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Thieves broke into an apartment, stole the keys to a Bentley and a yellow Lamborghini with a Batman sticker and sped off in the vehicles, which were later recovered, police said.
The burglars entered the apartment in the city's East Falls neighborhood through a second-floor window early Tuesday, police said, and took the car keys, along with about $2,500 and two flat-screen televisions.
One of the vehicles, a 2006 Lamborghini Gallardo with a Batman sticker on the back window, was recovered about two miles away at around 6:30 a.m., police said. The other, a 2006 black Continental Flying Sport Bentley, was found around 9:30 a.m., less than a mile away. No one was in either car and police did not immediately have any suspects.
The victim told police the cars were worth more than $200,000 and that another car had been broken into earlier, but nothing was stolen. Investigators were planning to review surveillance video from the parking garage at the apartment complex.
"It appears that this particular owner has been targeted or somebody has been keeping an eye on him, due to the fact that these cars are so unique, easily identifiable and so high-end," Chief Inspector Scott Small told WPVI-TV.


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Kevin Larson wants Denver to jump into the pool.
But he knows his pool party scene won't rival the bacchanal currently coming down in Las Vegas.
"Let's face it," he says. "We don't have $5 million dollar pool with people ready to pay $40 just to get in. This is about having a relaxing day, hanging out with your friends, drinking cocktails, listening to a DJ. And no cover."
Larson's official kickoff of his weekly Recovery Pool Party is noon-5 p.m. Sunday at Sheraton Four Points Hotel at I-25 and Hampden.
"We even have towels," says Larson. "All you have to bring is yourself."
And a bathing suit?
"A bathing suit would be nice."
The bathing suits are very nice indeed in Las Vegas, where former Rocky itemizer Norm Clarke and I hit the pool Monday at Wet Republic, the new "ultra pool" at the MGM Grand. The $40 cover didn't deter about 1,000 hard bodies from jumping in, dancing in the water, drinking margs and beer, reclining in private pool-side suites with bottle service.
All this while house music is playing loud enough to peel the tramp stamp off your chest.
Clarke and I were the oldest people by the pool by, say, 30 years. I looked like a distraught father searching for his pop-wreck daughter, Clarke looked like a PI I hired to help me.
Advice: Don't go to a Las Vegas power pool wearing a Polo cap and Bermuda shorts, carrying L.L. Bean tote bag.
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Correction: Beach Boys-Wedding story
CLEVELAND (AP) — In a Sept. 2 story about an Ohio couple's wedding interrupted by a Beach Boys sound check, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of the bride. She is Jaime Diadiun, not Jaime Diadium.
A corrected version of the story is below:
Beach Boys sound check interrupts Ohio wedding
Beach Boys sound check interrupts Ohio wedding; bride pulled on stage to play tambourine
A northeast Ohio couple had planned every detail of their wedding — except for the sound check of a Beach Boys concert next door during their ceremony.
A few bars of "God Only Knows" played as Mark Kent and Jaime Diadiun exchanged vows next to the Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica in Cleveland last month.
The Plain Dealer in Cleveland (http://bit.ly/17uYbzg) reports that when the band found out about the timing of its sound check, the newlyweds' guests were told they could attend the concert for free. Many of them wandered over for a couple of songs.
When the bride stopped by the concert, she was brought on stage for the encore and played the tambourine next to Mike Love as he sang "Fun, Fun, Fun."
Information from: The Plain Dealer, http://www.cleveland.com


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It's a popular notion: TV sets and other media devices let us in on the violence of war. "Look, nobody likes to see dead people on their television screens," President Bush told a news conference more than three years ago. "I don't. It's a tough time for the American people to see that. It's gut-wrenching." But televised glimpses of war routinely help to keep war going. Susan Sontag was onto something when she pointed out that "the image as shock and the image as cliche are two aspects of the same presence." While viewers may feel disturbed by media imagery of warfare, their discomfort is largely mental and limited. The only shots coming at them are ones that have been waved through by editors. Still, we hear that television brings war into our living rooms. We're encouraged to be a nation of voyeurs -- or pseudo-voyeurs -- looking at war coverage and imagining that we really see, experience, comprehend. In this mode, the reporting on the Iraq war facilitates a rough division of labor. For American media consumers, the easy task is to watch from afar -- secure in the tacit belief we're understanding what it means to undergo the violence that we catch via only the most superficial glances. Television screens provide windows on the world that reinforce distances. Watching "news" at the remote, viewers are in a zone supplied by producers with priorities far afield from authenticity or democracy. More than making sense, the mass-media enterprise is about making corporate profit in sync with governmental power. Exceptional news reports do exist. And that's the problem; they're exceptions. A necessity of effective propaganda is repetition. And the inherent limits of television in conveying realities of war are further narrowed by deference to Washington. Styles vary on network television, but the journalistic pursuits -- whether on a prime-time CNN show or the PBS "NewsHour" -- are chasing parallel bottom lines. When the missions of corporate-owned commercial television and corporate-funded "public broadcasting" are wrapped up in the quest to maximize profits and maintain legitimacy among elites in a warfare state, how far afield is the war coverage likely to wander? While media outlets occasionally stick their institutional necks out, the departures are rarely fundamental. In large media institutions, underlying precepts of a de facto military-industrial-media complex are rarely disturbed in any sort of sustained way -- by the visual presentations or by the words that accompany them. "Even if journalists, editors, and producers are not superpatriots, they know that appearing unpatriotic does not play well with many readers, viewers, and sponsors," media analyst Michael X. Delli Carpini commented. Written with reference to the Vietnam War, his words now apply to the Iraq war era. "Fear of alienating the public and sponsors, especially in wartime, serves as a real, often unstated tether, keeping the press tied to accepted wisdom." Part of the accepted wisdom is the idea that media outlets are pushing envelopes and making the Iraq war look bad. But the press coverage, even from the reputedly finest outlets, is routinely making the war look far better than its reality -- both in terms of the horror on the ground and the agendas of the war-makers in Washington. Countless stories in the daily press continue to portray Bush administration officials as earnestly seeking a political settlement in Iraq while recalcitrant insurgents, bent on violence, thwart that effort. So, with typical spin, a dispatch from Baghdad published in the New York Times on June 17 flatly declared that comments by U.S. commander Gen. David Petraeus "reflected an acknowledgment that more has to be done beyond the city's bounds to halt a relentless wave of insurgent attacks that have undercut attempts at political reconciliation." Of course, occupiers always seek "political reconciliation." As the Prussian general Karl von Clausewitz observed long ago, "A conqueror is always a lover of peace." At the same time, the more that an occupying force tries to impose the prerogatives of a conqueror, the more its commander must deny that its goals are anything other than democracy, freedom and autonomy for the people whose country is being occupied. In medialand, the lethal violence of the occupier must be invisible or righteous, while the lethal violence of the occupied must be tragic, nonsensical and/or insane. But most of all, the human consequences of a war fueled by U.S. military action are shrouded in euphemism and media cliche. Which brings us back to violence at the remote. While a TV network may be no more guilty of obscuring the human realities of war than a newsprint broadsheet or a slick newsmagazine, we may have higher expectations that the television is bringing us real life. Vivid footage is in sharp contrast to static words and images on a page. At least implicitly, television promises more -- and massively reneges on what it promises. We may intellectually know that television is not conveying realities of life. But what moves on the screen is apt to draw us in, nonetheless. We see images of violence that look and loom real. But our media experience of that violence is unreal. We don't experience the actual violence at all. Media outlets lie about it by pretending to convey it. And we abet the lying to the extent that we fail to renounce it. Artifice comes in many forms, of course. In the case of television news, it's a form very big on pretense. We're left to click through the world beyond our immediate experience -- at a distance that cannot be measured in miles. But away from our mediated cocoon, spun by civic passivity, the death machinery keeps roaring along. Norman Solomon's book "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death" is out in paperback. A documentary film based on the book will premiere this month. For information, go to: www.WarMadeEasyTheMovie.org
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Humans, but not chimpanzees, punish unfair offers in ultimatum games, suggesting that fairness concerns evolved sometime after the split between the lineages that gave rise to Homo and Pan. However, nothing is known about fairness concerns in the other Pan species, bonobos. Furthermore, apes do not typically offer food to others, but they do react against theft. We presented a novel game, the ultimatum theft game, to both of our closest living relatives. Bonobos and chimpanzee 'proposers' consistently stole food from the responders' portions, but the responders did not reject any non-zero offer. These results support the interpretation that the human sense of fairness is a derived trait.
1. Introduction
People do not behave in a purely self-interested manner. They assess their gains and losses relative to others, and this sensitivity to fairness is an important part of human sociality [1]. Important insights into the evolution of fairness sensitivity come from studies of our closest living relatives. Capuchin monkeys [2] and chimpanzees [3] have been suggested as being averse to disadvantageous inequity, but other studies have not replicated these findings [4,5]. An important shortcoming of all of these studies is that inequity is not created by conspecifics and rejection has no consequences for them.
One powerful tool to probe fairness sensitivity is the ultimatum game [6]. One participant (proposer) can divide a resource with another player (responder); rejection by the latter results in both getting nothing. People in Western societies routinely reject unfair offers of 20 per cent [7], though there is considerable cross-cultural variation [8]. The mini-ultimatum game shares the same features, except the proposer is given a pair of choices, such as a fair (50/50) split paired with an unfair (80/20) division which the responder can accept or reject [9]. A further strength of the mini-ultimatum game is that it tests sensitivity to unfair intentions as well as outcomes by pairing different alternatives against 80/20 [10]. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), the only species tested so far, show no sensitivity to fairness in the mini-ultimatum game, accepting all non-zero offers [11]. A possible limitation of this study is that chimpanzees and other apes do not typically offer food to each other [12], so it may be that unfair intent is not recognized—any offer is a surprise. Chimpanzees, though, are sensitive to food theft and will exhibit signs of anger and punish thieves in response [13]. We capitalized on this sensitivity by designing a novel mini-ultimatum game that involved changes in food allocations being created by the 'proposer' stealing a portion of the responder's share. We also tested more socially tolerant bonobos (Pan paniscus) [14] to provide a fuller picture of the evolution of human fairness preferences.
2. Material and methods
We tested five bonobos (two females) and five chimpanzees (four females) at the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Centre in Leipzig, Germany. Subjects were tested in their sleeping rooms in adjacent cages which were arranged around a booth that held the test apparatus.
The proposer was behind and to the left of the booth, and the responder was in the cage to the right (figure 1). Once the experimenter left the room, the proposer could pull a piece of paper causing any food on it to be taken from the responder's portion and added to the responder's. This action constituted 'theft'. The proposer could then pull a rope to move the tray holding the food halfway across the table until a rod was within reach of the responder's cage. The responder could then pull the rod to move the tray the remaining distance. When the rod was pulled, the grape halves became accessible to both subjects. Failure of the responder to pull the rod constituted a rejection. If the proposer did not pull the rope, or if the responder did not pull the rod, after 60 s the experimenter returned and removed the grapes.
There were four randomly ordered games (trials) per session (table 1). In each game, one possible outcome was a fair split (5/5). In the 5/3;2 (selfish theft) game, if the proposer pulled the paper, she stole three grape halves from the responder's portion and added it to the five she already had, resulting in an 8/2 outcome; doing nothing resulted in an even (5/5) split. Pulling the paper in the 2/3;5 (fair theft) game produced a fair (5/5) division by means of an 'unfair' act, whereas not pulling led to a generous (2/8) outcome. The 5/5;0 (greedy theft) game resulted in a hyper-unfair division (10/0) if the paper was pulled, fair (5/5) if it was not. The 5/0;5 (pointless theft) game resulted in a fair (5/5) outcome regardless of whether the paper was pulled or not.
Non-social controls were presented on alternate days with the test sessions to contrast asocial with other-regarding preferences, and a follow-up probe was given to proposers and responders to gauge their understanding of the task structure, notably inhibition of pulling. All trials were videotaped, and 20 per cent were coded for interobserver reliability (for paper pulling, Cohen's kappa = 0.934; for rod pulling, Cohen's kappa = 1). A Fisher's omnibus test was used to compare species, and one-tailed Wilcoxon tests were used to compare pulling rates against a baseline of 100 per cent (always pulling). For details, see electronic supplementary material.
3. Results
(a) Proposer
Proposers of both species pulled the paper equally often (Fisher's omnibus test, 256 permutations, p = 0.22); therefore, chimpanzee and bonobo data were pooled for subsequent analyses. There were no differences in paper pulling over all games of the social test and the non-social control (Friedman's p = 0.140, requivalent = 0.570); that is, proposers did not adjust their behaviour for the responders (table 1 and figure 2). Proposers were able to inhibit pulling when there was no food to be gained by pulling the paper in the test (5/0;5 in the test: Wilcoxon T+ = 36, n = 8 (two ties), p = 0.004, requivalent = 0.879, 1-tailed) and in the follow-up probes in which doing so decreased their own portion (T+ = 15, n = 5 (one tie), p = 0.031, requivalent = 0.912, 1-tailed).
(b) Responder
There was no difference in rates of rejections of bonobos and chimpanzees (Fisher's omnibus test in combination with permutations: 126 permutations, p = 0.83) and species were thus pooled for subsequent analyses (table 1). Whether a portion of the food had been stolen or not, as long as the responders had any amount of food on their side of the tray, they pulled the rod when it was within reach. The only condition in which they inhibited pulling the rod was when there was no food for them (a 10/0 offer in the 5/5;0 game: T+ = 28, n = 7 (two ties), p = 0.008, requivalent = 0.886). This pattern of acceptance was seen in the non-social controls as well, where responders pulled the rod in all conditions and only inhibited pulling when no food was available to them (T+ = 21, n = 6 (three ties), p = 0.016, requivalent = 0.895). The pulling rate for the zero outcome did not differ between the social and non-social control condition (T+ = 24, n = 7 (two ties), p = 0.109, requivalent = 0.657).
Anger, defined as displays and tantrums as in Jensen et al. [13], was rarely exhibited by responders and thus was not analysed statistically.
In the follow-up probe trials, responders consistently pulled the rod to access food from the proposer's position. When no food was available to them, responders inhibited pulling the rod just as they did in previous test and control conditions when they could not gain food (Fisher's omnibus test: d.f. = 8, p = 0.906).
4. Discussion
Proposers consistently stole food from responders, without taking into account the effect of their action on their partner, and responders accepted all positive 'offers', regardless of outcome and action. This indifference towards the outcome of others when choosing food distributions supports previous findings in chimpanzees [15–17] and extends these to bonobos. Proposers could inhibit pulling the paper when doing so led to the loss of their own food. Despite framing the proposer's decision as 'theft', responders still did not forfeit food to punish unfair outcomes or actions. Bonobos and chimpanzees in this study were equally insensitive to inequity. (Small sample sizes may have masked species differences, though there were no suggestive trends.) This finding replicates the result of the previous mini-ultimatum game [11] using a more ecologically salient paradigm and extends the results to the other Pan species.
One possible reason for the lack of rejections by the responders is that they did not feel entitled to the food, which they did not have a sense of 'ownership' [18]. Unlike a previous study involving food theft [13], subjects were not eating the food when it was taken away from them. Furthermore, the responders could only reject by not pulling, rather than actively collapsing the tray holding the food. However, it could simply be that the possibility of a food reward overrode any punitive motivation: the great apes in this study may not have been willing to pay a cost to punish unfairness. Future studies could increase the salience of theft and include a more active means of rejection to better tap into the role of anger.
Our conclusion is that bonobos, like chimpanzees, are self-regarding in an ultimatum game that uses unfair actions to produce unfair outcomes. Both apes act like rational maximizers, with no concern for fairness or the effects of their choices on the outcomes affecting others. This finding is very different from what is found in humans, including children [8,9,19]. While humans are strongly affected by concerns for fair allocations and fair intent [9], chimpanzees and bonobos do not appear to be. Concern for fairness and other-regarding preferences may thus be a derived trait in humans [1]. These concerns are likely to have important implications for the evolution of human cooperation.
We thank Roger Mundry for statistical advice, Sarah Swenshon for reliability coding and the keepers for their help with the apes.
- Received May 31, 2012.
- Accepted July 20, 2012.
- This journal is © 2012 The Royal Society


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Investigators explain why officer's arrest took 4 daysBy PAT GROSSMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 28. 2013 9:42PM
BEDFORD - Bedford investigators did not arrest a Manchester police sergeant when they went to his house hours after a hit-and-run crash that injured two teens because they did not have probable cause to believe he was the driver, according to Hillsborough County Attorney Patricia M. LaFrance.
Stephen Coco, 41, of Bedford turned himself in to Bedford police Tuesday, four days after the crash and a day after he was fired from the Manchester Police Department. By then, police had a warrant for his arrest on two class B felony counts of conduct after an accident, which carry a maximum sentence of 3 1/2 to seven years per charge.
LaFrance said investigators wanted to be certain when they sought an arrest warrant from a judge that they had the needed probable cause.
A little more than five hours after the crash, detectives had information that Coco was the man at the wheel of an SUV that hit the two teens as they walked along Harrod Drive. Investigators had matched a broken part of a plastic lens, found at the crash scene, to Coco's damaged 2007 Nissan Pathfinder that was parked in the driveway of his 29 Meadowcrest Drive home.
LaFrance explained, however, that while the part appeared to be a match to the "naked eye," that is not forensic evidence. An expert, she said, is needed at trial to show that the part came off the Nissan.
And, according to the affidavit filed in 9th Circuit Court, Merrimack District Division, Coco also denied he had driven the Nissan at all that night.
Meanwhile, Manchester police have said they have concluded an internal investigation into the hit-and-run as well as events preceding it. Coco had been visiting the Harrod Lane home of Jeff Harrington, a fellow Manchester police officer whose son suffers from leukemia.
"A large amount of information was gathered during the investigation, the scope of which encompassed the periods of time that preceded and followed the collision. The only employee misconduct identified during this investigation was on the part of Stephen Coco and based on those findings, he was terminated," said police Lt. Maureen Tessier.
LaFrance said the case is still under investigation. She said it will be prosecuted by another county attorney's office - which one has yet to be determined.
Dean Drukker, 18, and Noah Hickman, 17, were struck from behind on the night of March 22 as they were walking along Harrod Lane. Drukker suffered a serious head injury and was hospitalized for several days, while Hickman broke his right elbow.
The driver of the SUV fled the scene. Police were led to Coco's home after Hickman told them he and Drukker saw the SUV leave a nearby home, which turned out to be Harrington's residence.
Later on Saturday, investigators impounded the SUV, which was an undercover vehicle assigned to Coco as a sergeant in the Special Investigations Unit at the Manchester Police Department. They obtained a warrant to search it and found fresh damage to its front, numerous indentations in the front hood on the driver's side and fabric impressions on the front bumper consistent with the clothes Drukker had on when he was hit, according to the affidavit.
Coco is free on $20,000 personal recognizance bail, pending a probable cause hearing set for April 16.
Coco, who was employed with the Manchester Police Department for 17 1/2 years, was fired Monday for violating several standard operating procedures, according to Manchester Police Chief David Mara.
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How did high school dances end before November 8, 1971? That's the date that Led Zeppelin released a promotional disc to FM rock stations that would become the world's most-played radio hit and cross over to teen-packed auditoriums everywhere, "Stairway To Heaven." It was an unlikely on-air success at eight-minutes long, but in the early '70s FM DJs could still play the full-length version of "Inna Gadda Da Vida," Iron Butterfly's 17-minute bathroom break anthem. And the length of "Stairway," plus the song's long quiet build-up, made it perfect for slow dancing until the explosive finale, which provided an outlet for the hormonal energy that the slow dancing generated.
The song that Gibson Les Paul legend Jimmy Page described as "crystallizing the band" started taking form in 1970 during Page and Robert Plant's famous songwriting vacation in rural Wales at a cottage called Bron-Yr-Aur. Page developed the acoustic opening section there, and Plant wrote the initial verse. By the time the entire band regrouped at the Headley Grange rehearsal and recording building in East Hampshire, England, Page had several distinct pieces of electric and acoustic music that he felt were related to that initial theme. While Page tried to weave the sections together with drummer John Bonham and bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, Plant sat in a corner, writing. When he stood up and started singing, about 80-percent of the lyrics for "Stairway To Heaven" were complete.
Led Zeppelin cut the basic rhythm tracks for "Stairway To Heaven" in December 1970 at Basing Street Studios in London. Plant cut his vocals in early 1971 at Headley Grange. Then Page retuned to Basing Street to cut his solos. Initially it went poorly. Page couldn't quite hit the mark after a number of passes. According to Jones, he could see concern in Page's eyes, so Jones broke the tension by turning toward the guitar wizard and declaring, "You're making me paranoid!" Page shot back, "You're making me paranoid!" And with the air cleared by laughter he nailed the solo's elaborate architecture in a few more passes.
Page saw "Stairway" as a successor to "Dazed and Confused," an epic musical adventure in several movements. As for Plant, he'd drawn on Scottish folklorist Lewis Spence for his lyrics.
The song got its first live airing on March 5, 1971, well before the album Zoso, a/k/a Led Zeppelin IV, was released in November. It reportedly took a few weeks for the tune to win fans over, but by the time the group appeared at London's Paris Cinema on April Fools' Day 1971 for a concert recording by the BBC it was in full bloom and drove the audience mad.
One of the song's visual signatures is Page standing in the spotlight with a Gibson EDS-1275
double-neck guitar strapped over his shoulders. More important than the guitar's striking looks was its functionality. The EDS-1275 saved him the trouble of switching between six- and 12-string necks. In 2007 the Gibson Custom Shop built 250 Vintage Original Spec Jimmy Page Signature EDS-1275s, modeled after his red 1971 original.
Atlantic Records pressured the band to edit "Stairway To Heaven" down to a more traditionally radio-friendly length for the November 1971 release of Zoso/IV, so it could be pitched to programmers as a conventional single. But Led Zeppelin were staunch in their refusal. "Stairway To Heaven" was a fully realized work of art, they contended, so Atlantic had to be content with servicing radio with an EP — an amazing EP. Side A was "Stairway"; side B was "Black Dog" paired with "Rock 'n' Roll."
As of the year 2000, "Stairway To Heaven" had scored more than three million radio plays and remains the most popular piece of sheet music in rock, selling 15,000 copies annually. (Take that, "Free Bird!") Nonetheless, it scored a mere 31 on Rolling Stone's 2004 list of "The 500 Greatest Rock Songs of All Time," although Guitar World ranked Page's stunning solo number one in its list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Solos in Rock and Roll History."
"Stairway" wasn't the only epic number on Led Zeppelin IV. Their definitive cover of Memphis Minnie's blues chestnut "When the Levee Breaks" also clocked in at more than seven minutes and featured blistering sequences of guitar and harmonica. Another song, "The Battle of Evermore," also captured the idyllic influence of Bron-Yr-Aur. And "Misty Mountain Hop" and "Four Sticks" added to the album's visceral side, while "Going To California" displayed their mastery of blues dynamics. Zoso/IV reached number two on Billboard's top albums list, but "Stairway" dominated the radio charts for a triumphant 44 weeks.
Page still considers the song a milestone. "Every musician wants to do something of lasting quality, something which will hold up for a long time," he told filmmaker and music journalist Cameron Crowe in 1975. "I guess we did it with 'Stairway.' "


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1. K.S.A. 38-1683 is construed and applied.
2. K.S.A. 60-2103a is construed and applied.
3. K.S.A. 38-1663(i) is construed and applied.
4. K.S.A. 21-3414 is construed and applied and held to be constitutional.
Appeal from Dickinson District Court; BENJAMIN J. SEXTON, judge. Opinion filed October 3, 2003. Affirmed.
James C. Heathman, of Heathman Law Office, of Topeka, for appellant.
Daryl E. Hawkins, assistant county attorney, and Phill Kline, attorney general, for appellee.
Before RULON, C.J., LEWIS, J., and WAHL, S.J.
RULON, C.J.: Respondent J.A.B. appeals the judgment adjudicating him guilty of aggravated battery and simple assault. The respondent challenges the constitutionality of the aggravated battery statute and argues that the record provides insufficient evidence to support an adjudication of aggravated battery. We affirm.
Late afternoon, on April 17, 2002, C.P., the victim, was walking to a friend's house along with her friend, L.C., and L.C.'s younger brother, W.W. As the group passed the home of D.M., a boy in the victim's class, the respondent ran around the house from the backyard carrying a plastic pellet gun, and D.M. closely followed. The respondent ordered the victim, L.C., and W.W. not to move or they would be shot.
The respondent pointed the gun at the victim, who hid behind W.W. The respondent told W.W. to move. When W.W. did not move out of the way, the respondent cocked the gun before saying: "I have to shoot it now." The respondent turned the gun towards L.C., who jumped behind a tree. The respondent then again aimed the gun at the victim and shot her in the leg.
The victim shouted when the pellet hit her leg, rubbed her leg where the pellet had stung her, and joined L.C. behind the tree. When the victim peeked out from behind the tree, she noticed that the respondent had handed the gun to D.M., who was reloading it. The victim ran towards L.C.'s house, hearing pellets zinging past her as D.M. continued to shoot at her.
Later, the victim and the others went over to a police officer's house to recount their version of the events. The officer contacted the police, and Officer Pritchard was assigned to handle the call. After taking the statements of the victims, Pritchard called the residence of the respondent and talked to the respondent's grandmother. The grandmother reported that the respondent told her that he had pointed and fired the gun downward and that the pellet had ricocheted and hit the victim The officer visited the home of D.M. and eventually spoke to D.M. D.M. reported that the respondent had pointed the gun down, the gun had fired, and the pellet had ricocheted and hit the victim in the leg.
The State ultimately charged the respondent as a juvenile with one count of aggravated battery, in violation of K.S.A. 21-3414, and one count of aggravated assault, in violation of K.S.A. 21-3410.
On August 8, 2002, the juvenile adjudication hearing was held before the district magistrate judge. On August 20, 2002, the magistrate court entered judgment, finding the respondent guilty of aggravated battery and simple assault, as a lesser included offense of aggravated assault. On September 12, 2002, the magistrate court sentenced the respondent, later filing its journal entry of sentencing on September 24, 2002.
On October 10, 2002, the respondent filed his notice of appeal to the district court. The district court reviewed the record before the district magistrate judge and took evidence from the respondent before affirming the magistrate court's decision.
The district court entered its journal entry, sentencing the defendant to probation for 12 months under the supervision of community corrections on November 12, 2002, and the respondent filed a timely notice of appeal to this court.
Notice of Appeal
As a preliminary matter, this court is faced with a question of jurisdiction. Whether this court possesses jurisdiction is a question of law over which this court has unlimited review. See Cypress Media, Inc. v. City of Overland Park, 268 Kan. 407, 414, 997 P.2d 681 (2000). If a district court inappropriately exercised jurisdiction over a case, any order imposed by the district court has no effect, and this court lacks jurisdiction to review the subject matter on appeal. See In re Habeas Corpus Application of Horst, 270 Kan. 510, 515, 14 P.3d 1162 (2000).
According to K.S.A. 38-1683(b), appeals of juvenile adjudications from a magistrate court are to be taken in the manner set forth by article 21 of Chapter 60 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated. K.S.A. 38-1683(a) provides for an expedited appeal of a juvenile adjudication from a magistrate decision, requiring the appeal to be heard within 30 days of the filing of the notice of appeal. However, the statute provides no indication as to when the notice of appeal must be filed.
The procedure for appealing a magistrate decision outlined by K.S.A. 60-2103a(a) provides:
"(a) In actions commenced in the district courts of this state all appeals from orders or final decisions of a district magistrate judge shall be heard by a district judge. Except as otherwise provided by law, such appeals shall be taken by notice of appeal specifying the order or decision complained of and shall be filed with the clerk of the district court within 10 days after the entry of such order or decision. The notice of appeal shall specify the party or parties taking the appeal; shall designate the order or decision appealed from; and shall state that such appeal is being taken from an order or decision of a district magistrate judge. The appealing party shall cause notice of the appeal to be served upon all of the parties to the action in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 60-205 and amendments thereto. Upon filing the notice of appeal, the appeal shall be deemed perfected."
The parties disagree upon the interpretation to be given the terms "orders or final decisions" within K.S.A. 60-2103a. The State contends that a juvenile adjudication is in the nature of a criminal proceeding, to the extent that the judgment is entered in open court with the respondent present to hear the sentence of the court. Consequently, the State urges this court to calculate the time for filing a notice of appeal from the date the judgment was declared. In contrast, the respondent contends that juvenile adjudications have historically been deemed civil proceedings and, consequently, the time for filing a notice of appeal should not begin to run until the filing of the journal entry of judgment.
In the criminal context, the judgment is effective, thus starting the time period for appeal, when the defendant's sentence is pronounced from the bench in open court. See State v. Wilson, 15 Kan. App. 2d 308, 310, 808 P.2d 434 (1991) (citing State v. Moses, 227 Kan. 400, 402-03, 607 P.2d 477 [1980]). Moreover, when a criminal defendant is sentenced by a magistrate court, the sentence must be imposed in open court within the defendant's presence. See Wilson, 15 Kan. App. 2d at 310 (citing K.S.A. 22-3424[1] and K.S.A. 22-3405[2]).
In contrast, the Juvenile Justice Code does not specifically mandate a respondent's presence during the proceedings. For certain juvenile proceedings, such as a determination whether a juvenile should be prosecuted as an adult, the legislature has specifically enabled the court to continue without the presence of the juvenile. See K.S.A. 38-1636(d).
However, even if a juvenile is present for sentencing, the legislative scheme for juvenile adjudications clearly marks the procedure as civil in nature, rather than criminal. See State v. Clint L., 262 Kan. 174, 177, 936 P.2d 235 (1997). In a civil proceeding, the clock for filing a notice of appeal does not begin to run until the date of the filing of the journal entry of judgment. See K.S.A. 2002 Supp. 60-2103(a) ("[T]he time within which an appeal may be taken shall be 30 days from the entry of the judgment, as provided by K.S.A. 60-258.").
Similarly, under the Juvenile Justice Code, the notice of appeal must be filed within 10 days of the entry of sentence. See K.S.A. 38-1681(b). Had the legislature intended the appeals time to begin running from the date the sentence was announced in open court, it could easily have provided that the notice of appeal must be filed within 10 days of sentencing. The language contained in a statute is to be afforded its ordinary meaning, and the courts should not read statutes to include matters not readily found in the language or to exclude matters which are plainly included. See GT, Kansas, L.L.C. v. Riley County Register of Deeds, 271 Kan. 311, 316, 22 P.3d 600 (2001).
Moreover, in discussing sentencing, the Juvenile Justice Code clearly states that any sentencing order does not become effective until it is filed into the court's journal and, thereupon, it becomes immediately effective. See K.S.A. 38-1663(i). Because the court's sentencing orders do not become effective until the journal entry is filed and because appeals must be taken from the entry of the sentence in a juvenile adjudication proceeding, the time for filing a notice of appeal from a district magistrate court to a district court in a juvenile adjudication proceeding should not begin until the magistrate court has entered its sentencing order into the court's journal.
Here, the magistrate court filed its journal entry of sentencing on September 24, 2002. The district court properly calculated the appeals time from this date. Because the sentencing order becomes effective by journal entry, the order must be mailed to the respondent. According to K.S.A. 2002 Supp. 60-206, this mailing extends the time for filing a notice of appeal by 3 days, if necessary. The operation of this statute would move the start date from September 24, 2002, to Friday, September 27, 2002.
According to K.S.A. 2002 Supp. 60-206(a):
"(a) Computation; legal holiday defined. In computing any period of time prescribed or allowed by this chapter, by the local rules of any district court, by order of court, or by any applicable statute, the day of the act, event, or default from which the designated period of time begins to run shall not be included. The last day of the period so computed is to be included, unless it is a Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, in which event the period runs until the end of the next day which is not a Saturday, a Sunday or a legal holiday. When the period of time prescribed or allowed is less than 11 days, intermediate Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays shall be excluded in the computation."
Because the start date with the application of the mail rule is Friday, September 27, 2002, day 1 of the filing time would begin on Monday, September 30, 2002. The 10th day in the period, excluding weekends, would fall on October 11, 2002. Because the respondent filed his notice of appeal in the district court on October 10, 2002, the appeal from the magistrate's decision was timely.
Consequently, the district court properly exercised jurisdiction over the appeal, and this court has not been deprived of jurisdiction to review the district court's rulings. See Horst, 270 Kan. at 515 (an appellate court lacks jurisdiction to review a district court's decision entered without jurisdiction).
Sufficiency of Evidence
The first substantive issue raised by the respondent concerns the sufficiency of the evidence supporting a finding that he was guilty of aggravated battery under K.S.A. 21-3414(a)(2)(B). When the sufficiency of the evidence in a juvenile adjudication proceeding is challenged, the standard of review is whether, after review of all the evidence viewed in a light most favorable to the petitioner, the appellate court is convinced that a rational factfinder could have found the respondent guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. See In re B.M.B., 264 Kan. 417, 433, 955 P.2d 1302 (1998).
A finding of guilt under K.S.A. 21-3414(a)(2)(B) is a severity level 8 person felony. In order to reach such a finding, the finder of fact must find either that the respondent recklessly inflicted bodily harm on another person with a deadly weapon or recklessly inflicted bodily harm upon another in a manner whereby great bodily harm, disfigurement, or death can result.
Here, the weapon used was a hand-held, spring-loaded handgun which fired synthetic nylon pellets. The respondent contends that the district court properly found that the pellet gun cannot be categorized as a deadly weapon. However, the respondent also argues that the manner in which the gun was used could not possibly have caused C.P. great bodily harm, disfigurement, or death.
In the context of the aggravated battery statute, a deadly weapon is an instrument that, in the manner used, is calculated or likely to produce death or serious bodily injury. See State v. Whittington, 260 Kan. 873, 878, 926 P.2d 237 (1996). The determination that an instrument is a deadly weapon is based upon an objective standard; in other words, an instrument is a deadly weapon if the instrument is used in a manner which a reasonable person would believe likely to produce death or serious bodily injury. See State v. Kelly, 262 Kan. 755, 763, 942 P.2d 579 (1997).
Because the determination of whether an instrument is a deadly weapon is so tied to the circumstances in which the instrument is used, this determination is generally a question reserved to the finder of fact. See State v. Colbert, 244 Kan. 422, 427, 769 P.2d 1168 (1989). Here, the district court made a negative finding concerning the deadly nature of the pellet gun. The petitioner did not object to the district court's determination at trial and does not cross-appeal this determination. As such, this issue is deemed abandoned. See State v. Brown, 272 Kan. 843, 844, 35 P.3d 910 (2001); Gilkey v. State, 31 Kan. App. 2d 77, 77-78, 60 P.3d 351, rev. denied 275 Kan. ___ (2003).
In contrast, the district court found that the respondent's actions constituted aggravated battery under the provision which defined the crime as the reckless infliction of bodily harm upon another in a manner whereby great bodily harm, disfigurement, or death can result. When reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence, this court must interpret disputed facts in a light most favorable to the petitioner. See In re B.M.B., 264 Kan. at 433. Given our standard of review, we are satisfied that the record demonstrates a sufficient potential for great bodily harm to the victim to support the district court's finding that the respondent was guilty of aggravated battery.
The Constitutional Challenge
Next, the respondent contends that the provision of the aggravated battery statute under which he was adjudicated guilty is unconstitutionally vague because, in any circumstance in which one is acting recklessly, another person could possibly become seriously injured.
The courts of this state have previously considered whether different aspects of the aggravated battery statute are void for vagueness and have upheld the statute. See State v. Bowers, 239 Kan. 417, 426-27, 721 P.2d 268 (1986) (finding "in any manner" to provide a sufficiently definite warning of criminal act); State v. Sanders, 223 Kan. 550, 552, 575 P.2d 533 (1978) (upholding element of "great bodily harm" from constitutional attack for vagueness); State v. Kleber, 2 Kan. App. 2d 115, 118-19, 575 P.2d 900, rev. denied 225 Kan. 846 (1978) (ruling that the phrase "can be inflicted" was not unconstitutionally vague).
Although these cases involved a prior version of the statute, which did not contain the recklessness element of the current statute, the provision under which the respondent was adjudicated involves identical elements except that "recklessly" replaces "intentionally." See K.S.A. 21-3414.
In State v. Cope, 29 Kan. App. 2d 481, 29 P.3d 974 (2001), rev'd in part on other grounds 273 Kan. 642, 44 P.3d 1224 (2002), this court considered a constitutional challenge to the criminal threat statute, which prohibited the communication of violence in reckless disregard of the risk of causing terror or evacuation from a building. Establishing the test for vagueness, this court noted: "A statute is not void for vagueness and uncertainty where it employs words commonly used or previously judicially defined, or the words have a settled meaning in law." 29 Kan. App. 2d at 485 (citing State v. Kirkland, 17 Kan. App. 2d 425, 428-29, 837 P.2d 846, rev. denied 251 Kan. 941 [1992]). The court then noted that "reckless" carries such a settled legal meaning. 29 Kan. App. 2d at 486. In light of this court's reasoning in Cope, the respondent's argument that the new "reckless" subsection of the aggravated battery statute is void for vagueness is without merit. K.S.A. 21-3414(a)(2)(B) is not unconstitutionally vague.
Finally, the respondent contends that the aggravated battery statute was unconstitutional as applied in his case. In essence, the respondent contends that the district court improperly construed the aggravated battery statute in determining that the facts presented in this case constituted the conduct prohibited by the statute. We disagree.


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The Times is to launch an internet TV service later this week as part of a strategy to branch out into online and mobile content.
Details of the venture, called Times TV, have yet to be revealed but Reuters reports that content would be provided by a number of different partners. The whole shebang is being sponsored by Cisco.
One potential content partner could be sibling Sky, which earlier this year launched a video-on-demand (VoD) service giving punters access to sport and movies via a broadband connection. Sky, which is 38 per cent owned by News Corporation, also launched a service that beams its content to mobile-phone users.
Details of the Times TV service emerged yesterday as the exec chairman of News International, Les Hinton, explained that the firm's strategy is to "protect and extend".
"While we grow and protect the circulations of our newspapers, we are extending our online and mobile audiences," he said.
His comments follow a speech given by News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch who said newspapers need to embrace the iPod generation or risk losing out in the digital world.
He said that content was "king" in this digital age, and that it was up to newspapers to provide that content via a variety of different platforms such as the web, iPods, mobile phones or laptops.
He told a meeting of newspaper bosses: "Power is moving away from the old elite in our industry...a new generation of media consumers has risen demanding content delivered when they want it, how they want it, and very much as they want it. This new media audience - and we are talking here of tens of millions of young people around the world - is ALREADY using technology, especially the web, to inform, entertain and above all to educate themselves."
News of the imminent launch of Times TV comes amid speculation that the BBC and ITV are on the verge of developing a live TV broadcast service for mobile phones.
A six-month trial - believed to be carried out with Samsung and LG - is thought to slated for later this year. ®


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Silvio Berlusconi is back in the headlines after he was forced into an embarrassing U-turn over his support of the government of Prime Minister Enrico Letta in a crucial parliamentary vote.
While it has been almost two years since he was forced to resign as prime minister, Berlusconi has never been out of the Italian political spotlight.
One of politics' greatest survivors in his eight-and-a-half years in power, Berlusconi has managed to shrug off many scandals. But it now seems that members of his party are tiring of Berlusconi's antics.
Earlier this weekend, Italy's longest-serving prime minister, ordered ministers from his People of Freedom party (PdL) to resign from government, forcing current premier Enrico Letta to call a vote of confidence in what left of his fragile coalition government.
However, members of his own PdL party have since rebelled, arguing it would be a mistake to let the government fall. Now the former prime minister has said his party will vote in favor of Letta.
Berlusconi was forced to resign as prime minister in November 2011 after failing to demonstrate majority support in a vote in the lower house of Parliament.
The former prime minister, Italy's longest-serving, is preparing to face a vote to remove him from his seat in the upper house after Italy's highest appeal court upheld his conviction for tax fraud.
The 77-year-old billionaire -- long associated with sex scandals and accusations of inefficiency and failing to tackle Italy's structural problems -- may no longer be deemed a credible figure to lead his party.
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The runaway 16-year-old New Jersey girl who set off a Twitter firestorm after she falsely indicated an intruder was in her home and then disappeared has been found safe, police say.
Kara Alongi was at a rest stop near Exit 1 on the New Jersey Turnpike when she spotted a state trooper and approached him Tuesday afternoon, police said. The Clark teenager was taken to a hospital in South Jersey for evaluation and then reunited with her family later Tuesday evening.
Alongi was released after undergoing additional evaluations at a different hospital and returned home. Clark police say detectives will interview Alongi to learn about the circumstances surrounding her running away and why she told followers there was an intruder in home before she did.
"We still don't know why she tweeted that tweet," Police Chief Alan Scherb told NBC 4 New York.
Alongi gained thousands of followers after asking people on Twitter to call 911 Sunday because an intruder was in her home and then vanishing. People re-tweeted her message and #helpfindkara trended on the social network.
Investigators later said it appeared Alongi had voluntarily called a taxi company and gotten a ride to the Rahway train station, which police say was confirmed by a surveillance photo captured of her at the depot.
Alongi's case continued to polarize the Twittersphere Tuesday, as some insisted she had met foul play and prayed for her safe return.
Others were skeptical from the get-go, pointing out a Tweet that allegedly popped up on Alongi's account shortly after her initial call for help that said: "Why is everyone saying I'm missing? I was jkin haha" and was deleted a short time later.
When NBC 4 New York called the missing girl's home, someone quickly answered "no comment" and hung up. No one answered the door.


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It's hard to believe it's been more than a year since Public Service Electric & Gas filed its $3.9 billion Energy Strong plan with the Board of Public Utilities.
Fourteen months ago, when PSE&G officially took the wraps off the nearly $4 billion infrastructure-hardening plan, Obamacare was still a far-off nightmare, Chris Christie seemed like a presidential candidate, and Edward Snowden hadn't yet become a household name. And somehow, for a project of its substantial scope and ambition, it's no closer to getting started now than it was in the wake of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy.
It's hard to argue that this is a pro-business state when a company that wants to create some 6,000 jobs and spend $3.9 billion to upgrade electrical utility infrastructure — its plan to defend against future hurricanes and superstorm events — has its application shelved for so long. There is every reason for the BPU to take a close look at this, given the high cost and the fact that ratepayers will be footing the bill, but the time to hash out this back and forth was months ago. Meanwhile, a winter as bad as this one saw the state escape the kind of widespread outages caused by Sandy and Irene, but only because a few potential nor'easters wound up blowing off track.
The biggest arguments against PSE&G's investment plan are two: the aforementioned payment plan, which puts customers on the hook for the money, and what critics call an unfocused series of upgrades. For executives, who pay a substantial share of the rates, the cost of the upgrade makes sense when measured against the costs of outages, which mean not only lost business but lost time as they are foxed to deal with FEMA, insurers and the like. As to the charge that the work isn't focused in a way that can help the most customers — well, again, it's been more than a year. Somebody tell PSE&G how to manage their planned upgrades better than they themselves have determined and at least we'll have something to go on here.
Nobody expects that, at the end of a 10-year investment plan, PSE&G will be able to predict the weather. But it shouldn't be too much to ask that the utility can keep the lights on for businesses the next time a disastrous storm strikes. A plan like this can provide that assurance. Let's hope PSE&G gets its answers — and soon.


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The workshop will educate parents on the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and the most effective ways to access coverage and treatment for autism.
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (Feb. 3, 2014) – Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) presents a free two-hour workshop, titled "California Insurance Funding for Autism," to help parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) navigate their way through the insurance coverage process. Parents will learn what must be covered under California law and the most effective ways to access coverage. The workshop takes place on Saturday, March 1, 2014, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., at the CARD treatment center in Thousand Oaks, located at 325 E. Hillcrest Drive, Suite 140. Refreshments and light snacks will be provided. Attendees must register by Feb. 27, 2014 to firstname.lastname@example.com.
California is one of the 27 states that, effective Jan. 1, 2014, now offers autism insurance coverage for applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy through its state exchange, the insurance marketplace created as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly referred to as Obamacare. In addition, the California autism insurance mandate (SB 946), implemented on July 1, 2012, requires most health plans to cover ABA therapy for individuals with ASD.
"Many families are struggling to access the treatment that is mandated by California law," said Bryce Miler, CARD director of contracts. "With this seminar, we hope to empower parents with the knowledge necessary to gain coverage for their children."
Attendees will learn what insurance companies will and will not cover, types of plans and rules regarding coverage, effective strategies to maximize benefits, how to understand the complexities of different insurance carriers, which plans must comply with SB 946 and ACA, and what to know during open enrollment.
ABA is the only scientifically validated treatment for ASD, and research shows it is most effective when delivered early and at a high level of intensity. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one in every 88 children in America is diagnosed with ASD, making it more prevalent than pediatric cancer, juvenile diabetes, and pediatrics AIDS combined.


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Posted 31 October 2003 - 05:19 PM
yep, this is definitively a pycnogonid
did you folks know that iin pycnos the gut has side tubes or caeca which go far into each leg ?
also, MALES of most species have so-called ovigers, special legs that carry the eggs (cemented together by a sticky substance) after these have been fertilized
there are some beautifully coloured pycnos in temperate Australia, the Western Canadian species are pretty boring ..
Posted 31 October 2003 - 06:15 PM
Thanks for the info, Art. I'm learning a lot about critter ID this week. And enjoying it very much!
yep, this is definitively a pycnogonid
Tucker, Georgia
Nikon D300 in Aquatica housing with housed SB800 flash.
Posted 03 November 2003 - 05:08 PM
sorry, had to post it twice:
Matty's small critter was confirmed as an asellote, spider-like ISOPOD, possibly a new species (!!!) of Munnidae, and the red isopods are, according to an expert in Sydney, rather Munnidae than Paramunnidae, and poissibly new, too (!!!)
next time you guys dive in Jervis Bay, PLEASE pick up a few specimens in a plastic bag and preserve them in rum (Havana Club would be OK) or better in 70% dilluted pharmacy alcohol
Posted 03 November 2003 - 07:44 PM
Posted 03 November 2003 - 10:14 PM
thats kinda neat
full compliments to my spotter
i gotta borrow a mx10 macro lense to geta better shot .
ill be in the bay this weekend . so lndr and i can try and get a few of em .
thanks for the id
Posted 03 November 2003 - 11:56 PM
You wanna get real close? You'll have fun trying the uw-magnifying glass built by Jens Schulte. It's absolutely great for finding these small critter in the first place.
My buddy carries one when I'm doing macro. It got approx. 2.5 times magnification and is built to withstand 70m depth. Works both on land and uw.
Helge ;-)=)
Posted 04 November 2003 - 09:22 AM
by the way, snapping shrimps are really not easy to find, they must be ACTIVELY searched under stones, in sponges, in rubble and in various burrows made by other inverts (echiuran and polychaete worms, yabbies = mud- or ghost shrimps and mantis shrimps)
Posted 04 November 2003 - 03:21 PM
As you can tell, I'm not adverse to photographing the small and overlooked so if they're there you'll end up with a photo Must admit, still not sure exactly what a snapping shrimp is though In my books description of what makes a shrimp a snapping shrimp are rather cryptic
hmmmm ...
However, it is important to precise that many snapping shrimps do not have snapping claw and are unable to snap, some have really bizarre-looking claws.
The taxonomy of this group is extremely difficult and most people are unable to identify these shrimps even with scientific literature and keys.
and that's not encouraging
Posted 05 November 2003 - 10:35 AM
ok, if you see a crayfish-looking shrimp under a stone or in a sponge there is a good chance that this is a snapping shrimp !
if you see a small, red-banded or deep red-patched shrimp with two large claws extended forwards - it is a snapping shrimp, too !
I attach picture of two tropical Alpheus spp. that I described in 2001, but these are
Posted 05 November 2003 - 10:39 AM
anyway, I attached a picture from Singapore in the previous message and attach another small picture below:
Posted 05 November 2003 - 02:06 PM
will keep an eye out for anything remotely resembling those guys
Posted 08 November 2003 - 11:28 AM
I made a more extensive investigation in my crab literature recently, and came to the conclusion that your pebble-mimicking crab from the Solomon Islands matches best several species of the genus Oreotlos, which is a member of pebble crab family Leucosiidae, and not Calappidae, as I thought
I guess you don't have a dorsal view and a higher resolution of this guy ? in frontal view the carapace appears to be typical box-crab looking, with two humps (as in Calappa), but the chelipeds (claws) are rather leucosiid-like
Oreotlos species are poorly known, it would be good to have some specimens - new species "guaranteed" !
Posted 12 November 2003 - 09:51 PM
ill post any other shots i have of the little rubble crab probally tomorow or sat when i get home.
i would be prepared to travel to the solomons again to collect samples ....if someone finances me lol. i think 7 to 10 days on the spirit of solomons would do . i would need an assistant, mmm lndr would do. she could take the close up high res photos .
i think in the intrest of science and marine studys this would be a good idea. l
serously though thanks for the info art.
i was in JB on the weekend , diddent get any more shots of the other little critter , ill try next time .
Posted 06 January 2004 - 07:46 PM
Heya Art,
next time you guys dive in Jervis Bay, PLEASE pick up a few specimens in a plastic bag and preserve them in rum (Havana Club would be OK) or better in 70% dilluted pharmacy alcohol
Have some isopod specimens. Not sure if they are the same species as before ... but very similar. Collected at Ulladulla (about 70km south of Jervis Bay). They are preserved in isopropyl alcohol (couldn't get ethyl alcohol).
Posted 06 January 2004 - 08:40 PM
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Posted 07 January 2004 - 10:38 AM
thanks for the wonderful pictures !
all pycnos are carnivorous, preying mostly on various sessile inverts: with their long proboscis they suck body liquids out of their prey, such as zoids of bryozoans, polyps of hydrozoans, small barnacles etc.
in this particular case it's possible that the pycno is trying to suck on the "external gills" or cerata of the nudibranch, maybe to get some nematocysts (AEOLIDS usually store nematocysts in the so-called cnidosacs in the cerata) for its own protection ? or may the pycno is just crawling over the nudibranch, feels the presence of nematocysts and is a bit confused ?
Posted 07 January 2004 - 10:42 AM
>Have some isopod specimens. Not sure if they are the same species as before ... but very
>similar. Collected at Ulladulla (about 70km south of Jervis Bay). They are preserved in isopropyl >alcohol (couldn't get ethyl alcohol).
Hi Lndr !
cool ! the best is to send them to an isopod specialist in Sydney (Australian Museum), his name is George "Buzz" Wilson, I can give you his email and his address
Posted 07 January 2004 - 01:43 PM
send me a message or an email with the contact details and I'll get in touch
BTW have been "digging" around for snapping shrimps and have only spotted one suspect. Too deep in its hole for a photo and I had no air left to stake it out


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The ultimate couch potato
Less than two centuries ago, people were migrating to the west from the New England area to settle the then unknown frontier. Entire families would band together and bring all they needed with them, from cattle to seed for crops. The pioneers became accustomed to living in remote, isolated areas.
When they found a piece of land that suited their purposes, they would stake their claim, cut timber and establish a homestead.
They were self-sufficient and resourceful. Sometimes other human beings wouldn't come their way for months, or even years. Roads and methods of communication were nonexistent. Electricity had yet to be invented. There wasn't even mail.
The settlers were a tough lot. Living like hermits was an accepted way of life to the adventurous pioneers. No phones, no 911, 411, or any other emergency services could bail them out of tough situations. However, as the years went by, urban centers developed. Industry, innovation, and mankind's need for community and culture brought civilization and societal living to the forefront.
After W.W. II, the suburbs made their presence known, and the country became interconnected from coast to coast. Even farmers and ranchers in the most remote areas now have telephones, cell phones, computers, and satellite televisions that get more than 200 channels from around the globe.
It is just as easy for a person residing in the mountains and hills of North Dakota, Montana, or Wyoming to direct dial a friend in Japan or India, as it is for any of us to order a pizza from a local vendor.
Nonetheless, the pendulum is swinging. A long forgotten way of life has come to the forefront. The recluse, the self-proclaimed hermit is beginning to lead the isolated life of the new pioneer. However, this anti-social isolationist is not the tough, resilient, self-sufficient pioneer of yesteryear. No, Sir! We now have — the ultimate couch potato!
A product of the "me" generation, the ultimate couch potato is computerized, digitized, and wired in to the max, thus giving him the ability to isolate himself from society as we know it. He's a gamer, a geek and an online freak.
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winter whitesMonday, January 21, 2008
Because, this week, I know that I will have no new knitting to show, I decided to join in Shari's Winter White week.
And really, I will have to stop myself from making more thorpe hats ( I have another on the needles) in order to work on the tangled yoke. It is time I faced it. I really don't want to, and I don't know why. But I will. I will finish this sweater. Because I want to. Well, I really don't want to knit it, I just want to wear it. Do you ever think this way?
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I think most of the things I knit end up being "things I want to wear" rather than "things I want to knit". lol Sometimes makes me wish I wasn't the only knitter in my family - I want handknit gifts too!!! Oh and the Tangled Yoke? I'm dying to make that too. I can't wait to see yours!!ReplyDelete
Sometimes it would be easier to have a knitting machine wouldn't it to make the things we want to wear!!ReplyDelete
OK, OK, I need to cast on for a thorpe hat - yours are so great. My nephews would love them!ReplyDelete
Oh yes, I get that. I just casted on for the Phiaro Scarf out of the new knitscene and I was knitting away last night and though, OMG, I have to knit straight for 22"??? I just want to wear it!
I wish my son would wear the thorpe hat...showed it to him and he just shrugged his shoulders. Maybe he's not old enough.ReplyDelete
I also have the same problem...I want to make many sweaters and my brain niggles me and says "yeah, but then you have to knit 2 sleeves AND you have to sew it up". I'm working on Elsebeth Lavold's Ljod cardigan right now and I keep finding other things to knit in between.
Well, that's why I've been doing only low stakes projects recently, I just can't get it together to do anything more substantial!ReplyDelete
i want to wear mine, too. the knitting part...well, let's just say i'm bored.ReplyDelete
sometimes i go in the opposite direction...i really want to knit it, but i don't want to wear it.ReplyDelete
I totally understand the desire to run right past the knitting to the finish line! Yours will be gorgeous, I'm sure.ReplyDelete
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Isn't that always the way "I just want to wear it already!" I think that is my biggest inducement to avoid acrylics -- I need the pleasure of the yarn running through my fingers. Having an interesting pattern helps, too. That cardigan will be lovely, but I imagine all that stockinette could get you down...ReplyDelete
Mmm, love the winter whites.ReplyDelete
I definitely get that way with a few sweaters, but once you are wearing you can hardly remember that feeling.


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Encouraging news about the housing market and trade helped nudge stocks up in early trading, but by midday indexes were little changed.
Traders are looking ahead to Friday, when the Labor Department releases its closely watched monthly jobs survey.
The Dow Jones industrial average was down a fraction at 15,253 as of noon Eastern Daylight Time Tuesday.
The Standard & Poor's 500 rose a fraction to 1,641.
The Nasdaq rose seven points to 3,472, an increase of 0.2 percent.
General Motors gained 2 percent on news that the company will be added to the S&P 500 index on Thursday, replacing H.J. Heinz Co, which is being acquired by Berkshire Hathaway and the private equity firm 3G Capital.


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Following Thursday's student elections, junior Mason VanEssen, a native of Tracy, Minnesota, was elected president of the Augustana Student Association (ASA). Sophomore Abbie Sell, a native of Brookings, South Dakota, was elected vice president.
Two Students Prepare for Ministry Internships in Washington State
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Augustana Chemistry Students Attend National Research Meeting
Augustana University students and faculty presented their research at the American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition March 13-18 in San Diego, California.
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Forty-three students were recognized in chapel earlier today as nominees for the 2016 Augustana Covenant Awards.
Augiethon Raises More Than $28,000 for Children's Hospital
After months of fundraising and a full day of dancing on Saturday, April 9, the student group Augiethon raised a record $28,046 for Sanford Children's Hospital in Sioux Falls, a member of the Children's Miracle Network.
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Hardcastle is in his first year as the Tennessee Tech volleyball graduate assistant coach under head coach John Blair, after spending the last three seasons as the team's manager and a student-assistant.
A native of Johnson City, Tenn., Hardcastle recently completed his four-year undergrad in accounting, and will continue towards his MBA.
In 2009, Hardcastle co-founded the men's volleyball club team at Tennessee Tech and has served as a player/coach since the club's inception.
Hardcastle, 22, attended high school at Providence Academy in Johnson City where he played four seasons of basketball as a small forward. He also competed in one season of cross country.
Hardcastle has also helped out at several volleyball camps, including the Volley Performance camps in Atlanta and several of the TTU volleyball clinics over the past few years. He has also participated in volleyball camps at Clemson University, along with former TTU graduate assistant Kelsey Murphy.


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I have to agree with the parent poster. I haven't replied to an OSNews story in months(? Well, it has been a while...) because I usually either agree with the general consensus of the thread or simply because do not feel I can contribute much to the topic at hand but whenever I see a post of yours I cringe lately so I HAD to reply this one.
Almost half of the posts on this story so far are from you, trying to defend what is obviously yet another indefensible bone headed decision from MS.
Is there anything that MS does or will do that you will not defend as if people were threatening your mother? Geez!
In fact it kind of became something to expect here at OSNews: as soon as something slighlty negative about MS comes up, there goes Nelson to the rescue!
You appear to be level headed when posting on anything that is not related to MS or one of its direct competitors (Android, sigh!) and one can even find insightful information about MS technologies or trends within your posts. You are clearly an experienced professional, possibly a MVP, and it shows. That's probably where the shill accusations are coming from and that's understandable. But boy is it hard to read the drivel you post in here sometimes...
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Analysis: Backlash for NYPD as Bloomberg era ends
NEW YORK (AP) — They took responsibility for keeping New York City safe in the aftermath of Sept. 11. And for years, their approach was seen as nearly beyond question, as the threat of terror attacks was kept at bay and the crime rate fell to record lows.
Now, as Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly near the end of Bloomberg's tenure, a backlash against the street stops and surveillance programs they call cornerstones of building "America's safest big city" has added a tone-changing last chapter to the narrative of policing New York in the past 12 years.
A federal judge this month gave credence to years of complaints that the New York Police Department has stopped millions of people in a racially discriminatory way, ordering a monitor to oversee sizable changes. A City Council that scaled back a 2004 anti-racial profiling law this week voted to make it easier to sue over profiling claims and established a watchdog to investigate police procedures, defying Bloomberg vetoes.
Bloomberg is appealing the court ruling and signaled he will sue to try to block the profiling legislation, but those prospective challenges may not be resolved before he leaves.
Is it a defining episode or a footnote in the administration's public safety history? That will be up to the next mayor, New Yorkers' memories and what unfolds in the courts and on the streets, observers say.
"We may have reached an historic point — depending upon what happens," said William Eimicke, a Columbia University public affairs professor who was a deputy city fire commissioner from 2007 to 2010.
Bloomberg is clear about how he sees his policing record. And he warns that the recent calls to rein in stop and frisk might only prove his policies were right.
"It's been almost 12 years now where people have walked the streets of New York City without having to look over their shoulder. I suspect that's a pretty good legacy," he said after the court decision. Break the NYPD's embrace of stop and frisk, he admonished successors, and "be responsible for a lot of people dying."
Terrorism was the top safety concern when Bloomberg took office in January 2002, reappointing Kelly to the commissioner's job he'd held from 1992 to 1994. They set about sculpting a muscular antiterrorism operation with more than 1,000 officers, some sent overseas to gather information.
Building on a drop in street crime that started under Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Bloomberg and Kelly stepped up the use of statistics to pinpoint crime hotspots and flood them with officers. The mayor became a national voice on gun control. And they upped emphasis on stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking people seen as doing something suspicious but not plainly arrest-worthy: 97,296 stops in 2002 rose to 685,724 in 2011, dropping to 533,042 last year.
There were flares of tension, including over mass arrests of demonstrators during the 2004 Republican National Convention and the 2006 shooting of an unarmed bridegroom on his wedding day.
But overall, the message many New Yorkers heard was one of foiled terror plots and America's lowest big-city crime rate, as measured by the FBI. Killings repeatedly hit the lowest points on record and are on track for another record low this year.
Kelly has enjoyed the highest approval ratings of any city official.
Still, over the last two years, long-rumbling complaints about stop and frisk became a roar amplified by the mayoral race. The extent of the NYPD's surveillance of Muslims came to light when The Associated Press detailed tactics that included infiltrating Muslim student groups and putting informants in mosques, disclosures that partly fueled the City Council legislation.
Bloomberg and Kelly went on the offensive, denouncing the practices' critics and portraying the stakes in ominous terms. "Remember what happened here on 9/11," Bloomberg chided in one speech.
Some New Yorkers wondered at the officials' combativeness.
"It's a shame Kelly's been so hostile" to the court and council moves, said Karen Lalor, 38, an upper Manhattan home care worker who considers the commissioner generally "a reasonable man."
It was a fight the powerful mayor and popular police commissioner seemed not to imagine they could lose. But at least for now, they have lost their campaign to stop new checks from being imposed on the NYPD at a time when last impressions can count.
"There's been a giant shift in the sentiment that was generally very hands-off on policing in New York City and now is very hands-on. ... Kelly and Bloomberg came in as crime fighters, and they may be going out as racial profilers," even if the image is unfair, said Eugene O'Donnell, a John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor.
Besides the courts, the next mayor will shape how the push for NYPD oversight plays out, including by choosing a police commissioner.
Early in the mayoral race, criticisms of Kelly were few. But some candidates now hail plans to rein in stop and frisk and replace him. Others, though, laud him and the policy.
Ultimately, Bloomberg and Kelly's counterterror and crime rate successes may be what's remembered, for better or worse, said police history expert Tom Reppetto. Especially if it's for worse.
"After this administration leaves, the public will say, if there's a terrorist attack or crime starts to go up ... 'It would never have happened if Kelly were here,'" he said.
Queens resident Eliza Irving feels the Bloomberg administration has focused too much on stop and frisk and given police too much power.
"I don't feel safer because of his policing policies. In fact, I feel less safe," said Irving, a 23-year-old high school teacher.
But John Rivera thinks back to being in the city on 9/11. The account manager lives in the suburbs but is concerned for the safety of the city where he works every day, and he still welcomes seeing the NYPD's added presence when threat levels are raised.
Bloomberg and Kelly "haven't done the best job," he said, "but they've done a fair job."
Associated Press writers Bethan McKernan and Tom Hays contributed to this report.
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Fewer chickens walking around without wings... Fewer wings slathered in butter and Buffalo sauce.
This lesson in economics comes courtesy of the National Chicken Council, which told MSN that a 1 percent drop in production means wings have hit a record high price - wholesaling for $2.11 a pound, 26 cents more than a year ago.
The council also says Americans will eat 12.3 million fewer chicken wings this Super Bowl Sunday than they did last year, because there are fewer of them. To put that into perspective, MSN reported, if 1.23 billion wing segments were laid end to end, they would stretch from Candlestick Park in San Francisco to M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore 27 times.
Closer to home, P.J. Whelihan's Jim Fris - who supplies the wings that will be eaten in Wing Bowl - says his own prices are up 20 percent compared with last year. He has raised menu prices 5 percent, he said. Fris suspects that poultry companies have cut back production to drive up prices.
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Black Friday bargains aside, uncertain economic times have launched consumers on a never ending quest for "great value on great products", the president and CEO of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers old CNBC on Friday.
In the midst of a widening debate about whether early bird Thanksgiving deals are creating shopping fatigue, Steve Tanger, who runs the eponymous chain of North American outlets, told CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" that traffic at Tanger's shopping centers was set for another record year.
The search for value was not just limited to occasional holiday oriented sales, he said, alluding to something that could be even called 'Black Everyday.'
"Consumers want value every day on the best brand-name designer products in the world," Tanger said. "They get those at Tanger Outlets. There are a lot of different shopping venues. The outlet stores remain the place where they get the best value every day of the week," he added.
The CEO cited Coach, Under Armour, Nike, Michael Kors and Gap as among the hottest selling retail items at Tanger shops. "They still offer great value on great products."
Despite a blanket of uncertainty covering the U.S. economy and retailers, Tanger said his outlet centers were doing brisk business, adding that his stores were "about 98.6 percent occupied" as of the third quarter of this year.
"We're going to try and fill as much of the demand for consumers loving the outlet experience and our tenant partners trying to provide great products for the consumers," Tanger said.
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