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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
New Implant Enables 3-Year-Old Boy to Hear for First Time
A 3-year-old boy last month became the first child in the United States to receive an auditory brain stem implant.
The first time that Grayson Clamp heard sound was recorded on video. His mouth opens wide as he points to the person in front of him who is speaking, CNN reported.
Grayson was born without a cochlear nerve, which carries sound waves to the brain. He was fitted for a cochlear implant at an early age but the device didn't help.
Until now, auditory brain stem implants in the U.S. have been limited to adults. When Grayson's parents learned about a clinical trial for children at the UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, N.C., they signed the youngster up.
"He's sound aware, but we don't know what exactly he hears," said surgeon Dr. Craig Buchman, CNN reported. "We're relying on the plasticity of brain to start to sort this out."
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the implant for only 10 children.
USDA OKs Label for Meat from Animals Not Given Gene-Modified Feed
A label for meat from animals that have not been given genetically-modified feed has been approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The label is the first of its kind and says that meat certified by the Non-GMO Project is from livestock that never ate genetically-modified ingredients such as soy, corn and alfalfa, The New York Times reported.
This "allows companies to demonstrate on their labels that they meet a third-party certifying organization's standards, provided that the third-party organization and the company can show that the claims are truthful, accurate and not misleading," USDA spokeswoman Cathy Cochran said in a statement.
She said the approval of the label was not an indication of "any new policy regarding non-G.E. or non-G.M.O. products," The Times reported.
Flu Shot Approved for Those With Egg Allergies
A new flu vaccine that is produced without eggs was approved by a federal advisory panel Thursday.
The unanimous vote of recommendation from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will give adults with egg allergies a way to protect themselves in the coming flu season.
Called FluBlock, the vaccine was licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last January.
Using an insect virus and recombinant DNA technology, FluBlock is made by Protein Sciences Corp. of Meriden, Conn. The method used to produce the vaccine is also used in the manufacture of other vaccines, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Although officials do not know how many people might be allergic to eggs, an estimated one in every 66 children has the allergy. However, the new vaccine is currently only approved for use in people aged 18 to 49, the CDC added.
Side effects with FluBlock are similar to those seen with other flu vaccines, and include pain at the injection site, headache, fatigue and muscle aches, the CDC said.
FluBlock has a shorter shelf life than other flu vaccines, and doctors should check the expiration date before giving it to patients, the CDC said.


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Gas and Ice Giants
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NASA (from left: Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter)
Giant Balls of Gas (and unusual "ices")
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are often called "Gas Giants." They are basically gigantic gas balls compared to Earth and the other three rocky inner planets, or to the icy "dwarf planets" (Main-Belt asteroid Ceres and Pluto and its ice moon Charon, which are also classed as large Edgeworth-Kuiper (E-K) Belt objects). The four giant planets are comprised mostly of an outer layer of molecular hydrogen and helium and a much thicker layer of metallic hydrogen. However, each may have a small solid core as large as three to 20 Earth masses at their center. Sometimes they are called "Jovians" because Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are considered to be very similar to Jupiter ("Jove" is a variation of Jupiter in Latin).
Lunar and
Planetary Institute,
Solar System Exploration,
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The traditional "Gas Giants,"
Jupiter, and Saturn, are
mostly made of hydrogen and
helium, while the so-called
"Ice Giants," Uranus and
Neptune, have substantial
layers of unusual "ices"
(more on gas giant interiors).
Uranus and Neptune are also called "Ice Giants," although most of their pressurized ices are probably in the form of supercritical fluids rather than the ices found on Earth and Mars (Hofstadter et al, 2008 draft). These two giant planets probably have large fractions of oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur -- the next most abundant elements in the Sun and Solar nebula after hydrogen and helium -- relative to Jupiter and Saturn, as solids and gases trapped in water-ice clathrates (Hofstadter et al, 2008 draft; and Ingersoll et al, 2005). According to some planetary models, these two giant planets may have substantial layers of "superionic water" ice under relatively shallow hydrogen and helium atmospheres (in addition to "metallic ice" also found in Jupiter and Saturn), which would explain their unusual non-axisymmetric and non-dipolar, magnetic fields (Stanley and Bloxham, 2006). Simulations in 1999 and an experiment in 2005 suggested that water might undergo a phase change at very high pressures and temperatures below their heavy atmospheric envelopes, where it behaves like both a solid and a liquid because water molecules become ionized and the oxygen ions form a "lattice-like crystal structure" that hydrogen ions flow through like a liquid at high speed (David Shiga, New Scientist, September 2, 2010; Emma Marris, NatureNews, March 22, 2005; Redmer et al, 2010; Goncharov et al, 2005; and Carvazzoni et al, 1999).
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See an animation of the orbits of these outer planets around the Sun,
with a table of basic orbital and physical characteristics. A real-time
Plot of the Outer Solar System showing current planetary positions
within their orbits as well as comets, asteroids, and related objects
is also available from the Minor Planet Center.
In the several decades old, "bottoms-up" or "core-accretion" model, the primordial disk of gas and dust that coalesced into the planetesimals and formed the planets and other planetary bodies was colder in the outer Solar System, being much farther away from the developing Sun. As a result, water and other substances that existed as volatile gases and liquids in the inner nebula were frozen into ices and supplemented the mass of disk materials being accreted into large protoplanets. Because of the greater mass concentration from ices available beyond five times the Earth-Sun distance (AU) from Sol, these protoplanets are thought to have grown much more quickly to greater size than those in warmer, inner orbits. Once these ice-rock planetary bodies grew to a critical threshold size somewhere between five to 10 times the mass of the Earth, their gravity became so great that they began to pull in large amounts of gas directly from the surrounding Solar nebula to form giant protoplanets. Finally, as happened with the inner planets, the largest protoplanet in each local swarm drew in smaller ones to form the planets now observed through collisions, or threw them out of their original orbits into the Oort Cloud, interstellar space, or into collisions with other Solar System objects such as the Sun.
Pat Rawlings, NASA
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The core accretion model describes fails to
explain how the largest gas giants could have
formed quickly from Sol's protoplanetary disk.
According to astronomer Alan P. Boss (Astronomy, October 2006), there's little agreement among astronomers on how the largest gas giants in the Solar System (Jupiter and Saturn) and even larger, recently discovered extra-solar giant planets may have formed. According to the "top-down" or "disk-instability" model, concentrations of a protoplanetary disk's hydrogen and helium gas (which makes up most of its mass) can grow by pulling more gas onto themselves through gravitational attraction. Hence, in a few orbital periods, spiral arms can form and collide within the disk like those in spiral galaxies in a runaway process leading to clumps of gas within a thousand years. If dense amd cool enough, these gas clumps quickly contract and collapse into gas-giant protoplanets which attract dust particles that fall into planetary cores. Between the polar extremes of the tops-down and bottoms-up models, however, astronomers have also developed hybrid mechanisms that incorporate elements of both models (Alan P. Boss, 2007).
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Boss, DTM,
Carnegie Institution
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Disk instability can lead to the
rapid formation of spiral arms and
collapse of gas clumps into giant
planets (more).
On January 8, 2007, astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope announced their collection of evidence indicating that gas-giant planets either form within the first 10 million years of a Sol-type star's life, or not at all. They conclude that gas giant formation occurs relatively quickly after a star is born, as the lifespan for stars like the Sun with a spectral type around G2 is about 10 billion years. This hypothesis is based on a search for traces of gas around 15 very young Sun-like stars, most with ages ranging from 3 million to 30 million years, where all appear to have less than 10 percent of Jupiter's mass in gas remaining around them. The astronomers also suspect that orbital drag from abundant gas around a star may also be important for nudging rocky inner ("terrestrial") planets like Earth into relatively circular orbits as they form. Using Spitzer's Infrared Spectrometer, the astronomers searched for relatively warm gas in the inner regions of these star systems, in a zone comparable to the region between Earth and Jupiter in the Solar System. They also used ground-based radio telescopes to search for cooler gas in the outer regions of those systems, a zone comparable to the region around Saturn and beyond (Spitzer news release; and Meyer et al, 2006). Their observations were made as part of a Spitzer Legacy Science Program dealing with the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems (FEPS).
Tim Pyle,
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of newly formed
gas giant around
old Sol-type star,
as imagined by
Pyle with two moons
and white gas traces.
Recent research
supports theories
of quick gas-giant
planet formation
around Sun-like
stars with sufficient
gas (more).
As the gas giants developed, their gravitational pull began to perturb the orbits of the planetesimals in the inner E-K Belt. Neptune began by grabbing many nearby planetesimals from their orbits and passing them to Uranus, which then handed many to Saturn and so on to Jupiter. As such planetesimals moved closer towards the Sun into smaller orbits, each lost orbital energy and angular momentum that was absorbed by each passing gas giant. As a result, Neptune, Uranus, and Saturn began to move outward. While Neptune may have moved out as much as 30 percent, however, Jupiter lost orbital energy because it absorbed or ejected the incoming planetesimals in its reach and so its orbit may have shrunk by about two percent from this cause alone (Curtis Rist, Discover, September 2000; and Hahn and Malhotra, 2000).
� Petr Scheirich
(Used with permission)
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The eccentric orbits of the
Hilda asteroids suggest that
Jupiter may have migrated
inward towards Sol by about
0.45 AUs (see orbit animation
and Franklin et al, 2004).
According to computer simulations inspired by the finding of "hot" Jupiter-class planets found in inner orbits around nearby stars, the Solar System's own Jupiter may have formed 10 percent farther from the Sun than it is now, and then spiralled in by about 0.45 AUs (70 million kilometers or 44 million miles) over at least 100,000 years as it lost angular momentum to drag within the thick dust disk that surrounds young stars. In the Grand Tack Scenario, Jupiter moved inward after formation at 3.5 AUs to settle for a while at Mars' orbital distance of 1.5 AUs (before the Red Planet had developed). Subsequent depletion of gas and dust in that region of the circum-Solar disk, however, allowed Jupiter to migrate back outward to their 5.2, and Saturn to around 7 then 9.5 AUs (NASA and GSFC news release; SWRI news release; and Walsh et al, 2011).
Tim Pyle,
Larger and jumbo illustrations (source).
The in-migration of Jupiter early in the
Solar System's formation depleted the
amount of circum-Solar dust and gas at
Mars' orbital distance and contributed
to its stunted size (more).
Supporting evidence of this in-migration comes from an unusual group of 700 or so rocky bodies known as the Hilda asteroids, which orbit the Sun three times for every two made by Jupiter, and of which the vast majority have slightly elongated elliptical orbits, whereas many other asteroids have near-circular orbits. Computer simulations (led by Fred Franklin's team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) indicate that Jupiter's early in-migration would have ejected any proto-Hilda asteroids with circular orbits from the Solar System and would have further elongated the orbits of those that remained (Franklin et al, 2004). Luckily, Sol's dust disk was probably thin compared with those stars that dragged their outer gas giants into inner orbits closer than Mercury or into the stars themselves, perturbing the orbits of any developing, inner terrestrial planets. Indeed, astronomer Phil Armitage speculates that the in-migration of Jupiter could also have disturbed the proto-planetary bodies of the inner Solar System so that they collided more frequently, to spur the formation and growth of Earth itself. (More discussion is available on planetary migration models from Phillip K. Armitage and W.K.M. Rice, 2005 and Matsumura et al, 2006.)
Other Information
David Seal (a mission planner and engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at CalTech) has a web site that generates simulated images of the Sun, planets, and major moons from different perspectives and at different times of the year. Click here to try his "Solar System Simulator."
For more information about the Solar System, go to William A. Arnett's website on "The Nine Planets", or to Calvin J. Hamilton's website on "The Solar System."
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Parkinson's group to meet Monday
ROCHESTER — The Rochester Parkinson's Support Group will hold its monthly meeting on Monday, Jan. 21, from 2-3:30 p.m. at the Frisbie Memorial Hospital Conference Center. Guest Speaker this month will be Kristen Aleva, ARNP from the Geropsychiatry Services Department at Frisbie Memorial Hospital. Kristen will talk about communication issues, stress and frustration for Parkinson patients and their family members/support persons.
Each month the group hosts a meeting with topics related to health and/or living with Parkinson's disease. There is also a time for questions and sharing of information/experiences. These monthly meetings are open to anyone — individuals with Parkinson's disease, family members, partners, friends and caregivers. There will be a facilitator present for this month's meeting. For more information, contact Claire Moorhead at (603) 254-5583 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Where The Wild Things Are Looking As Strong As Expected
Dave Eggers' adaptation of children's book Where The Wild Things Are is not expected until next year, but an apparent screen test circulating online is already drumming up more interest in the Spike Jonze film, if that's possible. In a deleted post about the clip, Entertainment Weekly writer Adam Vary wrote, "the emotional impact of this scene is... readily apparent," and mentioned "a peek at footage" he got last fall, in which "I was totally hooked from the first frame." (It's not clear why Vary's post was pulled, but it's worth noting that his magazine's parent company is producing the film.) Director Spencer Sloan is "more excited for the real deal than [I] ever thought possible. This is pitch perfect." All this just adds to the buzz around the film, whose script New York magazine called "really, really good" in the fall. The clip is after the jump, but here's a question while you watch, via Sloan: Who is voicing wild thing Carol?


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Georgetown 'Univeristy' Has Some Trouble With Spelling
A tipster sent in one of the above photos of Georgetown University's thick commencement book, which cleverly doubles as a last-minute spelling test. We're not, obviously, in a great position to criticize the typographical errors of others; on the other hand, we're not an accredited institution of higher learning. [other image via Jason Hettenbaugh]


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2013 USA Race Walking Grand Prix Series
The USA Race Walking Grand Prix begins its 10th year. It is a year-long series of Olympic Development competitions through which USATF crowns an overall champion for each competitive year based upon the National Championship schedule of events. Races are contested from 1 mile to 50 kilometers for men and women.
Individuals who are members of USATF in good standing prior to the start of each event are eligible to compete, however only US Citizens are eligible for awards. Athletes may compete as individuals and/or as members of a team. For individuals, the top 10 overall U.S. finishers, male and female, can score in each race in the Series (10 for first, 9 for second, 8 for third, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1). A bonus of 2 points will be given to the winner if he or she breaks the national record at the race distance.
The wide range in distances gives the top race walkers in the U.S. an opportunity to compete against each other all year long and aids in developing the next group of international-level athletes. The events selected provide athletes with a geographically diverse racing schedule and sponsors with national exposure for their products.
2007 saw the addition of a junior division, for athletes under 20 years of age. In 2009 a Masters Grand Prix circuit joined the junior series.
The top three individual men and women in the open, junior, and master divisions, and the top three men's and women's teams overall, will be presented with awards and recognized at USATF Race Walk meeting at the Annual Convention in December.
USA Race Walking Grand Prix Series: Masters
The USA Race Walking Grand Prix continues in the Masters Division with 10 venues and 11 races this year. Individuals aged 30 or older who are members of USATF in good standing prior to the start of each event are eligible to compete, however only US Citizens are eligible for awards.
This year USATF will crown the top overall man and woman champions as well as awarding certificates to the top 10 individuals.
At each race individual performances will be age graded using the 2010 age grading tables. Points will be awarded to the top 10 overall U.S. finishers, male and female (10 for first, 9 for second, 8 for third, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1).
USA Race Walking Grand Prix Series: Teams
Individuals may compete for a team only if they are registered under their team name with their association in the USATF Membership database prior to race day. All teams must e-mail a roster of USATF registered athletes, which includes the Athlete's name, birth date, address, and USATF number, to the Grand Prix Coordinator (Dave Talcott – email@example.com) before the race. If this list is not received prior, the team will not score in the Grand Prix for that race. Once the team has been verified, only additions or subtractions of registered athletes need to be made. No day-of-race changes will be accepted. All USATF team-change rules apply.
The top five teams will score points in selected team-scoring events, by gender (10 for first, 8 for second, 6 for third, 4 for fourth, 2 for fifth). Place will be scored by the cumulative time of the first three finishers of each registered team. Only one team may score per club, per gender.


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In addition to my day job as an early-stage venture capitalist, I spend some time on civic activities – I think I must have gotten the social justice gene from my Dad. One of my passions is my work as co-chair of the Progressive Business Leaders Network (PBLN), a nonpartisan group of business leaders that are committed to pro-business, pro-competitiveness policies that are also sustainable and socially responsible.
Last Thursday, I helped lead a delegation of over one hundred CEOs to Washington DC – our most impressive turnout ever – to advocate for policies consistent with our values. We met with over a dozen senators, a handful of Members of Congress and a number of executive branch leaders.
There were many highlights, but here were a few:
- Start-Up Visa. Rep Jared Polis (D-CO), a former entrepreneur, reports that the Start-Up Visa initiative is languishing because there isn't a single Republican in the House that will co-sponsor it. Sen Kerry (D-MA) and Sen Lugar (R-IN) put forward a bill in the Senate (Start-Up Visa Act of 2011) but it's not moving because of the House. Rep Polis also shared that he is starting a Congressional Caucus on "Innovation and Entrepreneurship" along with Rep Vern Buchanan (R-FL) – clearly an important movement to focus and coordinate policy efforts.
- Internet Privacy. Kerry and his staff told us about the recent Internet Privacy Bill he and Sen John McCain (R-AZ) have proposed. They believe a business-friendly, consumer-friendly version will get passed into law eventually after some negotiations with Sen Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), who is pushing for a more liberal bill that includes a Do Not Track provision.
- Deficit Reduction. Sen Mark Warner (D-VA) briefed us on his work as part of the "Gang of Six" – the six senators who are trying to develop a bipartisan, deficit-reduction plan. As everyone knows, the deficit data is scary (I recently read analyst John Maudlin's book Endgame, which is about as scary a book about the global economy as one can imagine). To take $4 trillion out of the deficit over the next 10 years (the common number focused on by the Ryan Plan, the Obama Plan and the Simpson-Bowles Plan), it is clear that entitlements, taxes and draconian spending cuts are all on the table. Many insiders believe a proposal will be put forward this week.
- Investment and Growth Policies. Austan Goolesbee, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors and a frequent guest on The Daily Show, provided his views on the economy and the policies required to drive growth. He seemed less focused on the deficit (scarily, frankly) and more focused on "growing our way out of this". He highlighted the President's focus on innovation policies and job growth, although when pushed he was squishy on details. He did observe that the fixing the IPO market malaise needs attention (an issue that is dampening growth – as analyzed extensively by these two Grant Thornton Reports, one titled "A Dysfunctional IPO Market Fuels Unemployment").
- Deregulation. Will Marshall and Mike Mandel from the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) briefed us on the need for deregulation. There is a growing awareness in Washington on the importance of reducing regulatory burdens on business. What a pleasure to hear a Democratic group advocate for this! In fact, Mandel shared a good insight: governments should apply regulatory policy during business cycles much like they do monetary and fiscal policy – loosen during times of economic weakness, tighten during boom times. He highlighted Sarbanes Oxley as a huge mistake, just when the economy needed less regulation in the IPO market, not more. He also railed against regulatory overreach on the part of the FCC.
These were just a few of the many highlights. The call to action given to us by the elected leaders still resonates. "We need you. Keep caring. Stay engaged." pleaded Senator Warner. We have only a few months left to achieve a long-term deficit reduction plan and making progress on pro-innovaton policies over the next few months before election fever strikes. Everyone needs to stay engaged in what happens next.


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Dodgers stockpile talent on second day of draft
After selecting two infielders on Monday, the Los Angeles Dodgers used the 82nd pick of the 2012 draft to select Steven Rodriguez, a left-handed reliever from the University of Florida.
The 6-foot-3, 225-pound Miami native projects at the very least as a lefty specialist out of the bullpen. After Toronto first round pick Marcus Stroman, MLB.com draft expert Jonathan Mayo views Rodriguez as the next most likely candidate from this year's draft class to first appear in the big leagues.
He went as far as saying Rodriguez could be seen as early as September when rosters are expanded, calling the young pitcher deceptive with good stuff.
In 32 appearances with the Gators this season, Rodriguez went 3-2 with a 2.08 ERA. He struck out 79 in 60 2/3 innings pitched and picked up four saves.
Rodriguez doesn't project as a closer, but as a setup man who could come in to get the Dodgers out of a jam and stay in the game.
The Dodgers took another left-handed pitcher in the third round, selecting Cuban defector Onelki Garcia, who has been working out locally in Los Angeles.
Garcia was declared eligible for the 2011 Draft after leaving Cuba in January 2011, but he was removed right before. He was made eligible for this year's draft, but there are concerns about his signability and a potentially large price tag.
The 6-foor-2 lefty has a low 90s fastball and a hard curve, and he was considered a possible first round draft pick in 2011 before his eligibility was reversed.
Following a pair of lefty pitchers, the Dodgers went with first baseman Justin Chigbogu, a strong left-handed hitter from Raytown South High School in Missouri, in the fourth round. Chigbogu, who played defensive end on the football team, is described as very raw and a high risk, high reward sort of prospect with big time power.
With the 176th pick in the draft, the Dodgers took righty Ross Stripling, a senior starter from Texas A&M. Stripling was tops in college baseball with 14 wins in 2011 and he finished with 10 victories in 2012.
The righty, who was a three-sport athlete in high school before breaking his leg, threw a no-hitter this past May.
Mayo said he shouldn't be a tough sign for the Dodgers.


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There will be no 41st Oscar Hickes Memorial Hockey Tournament in Port Alice this year.
Patrick Murray, one of the organizers for the longest running hockey tournament on Vancouver Island, broke the sad news on social media on Tuesday, Dec. 3.
RELATED: 40th anniversary Oscar Hickes
Murray stated the organizers asked the Village of Port Alice if the tournament could be held at the shuttered Doug Bondue Arena like it always has been (other than the one year it was held in Port Hardy in the 90s), but were told "no" by council, who, according to Murray, cited concerns over bringing in ammonia, loading and then evacuating the system after the ice is removed, the cost of hydro, and the financial burden on the taxpayers of the village.
Port Alice Mayor Kevin Cameron confirmed Murray's statement, noting it was "very accurate with what today's situation is without the financial backing of Neucel (Port Alice's dormant pulp mill). Basically, we've had to streamline operations."
Since the pulp mill shut down in 2015, the village has had to make numerous cuts to their operating budget, which included closing the arena for the 2018-2019 season (the rink did open for the 40th annual Oscar Hickes weekend in 2019, which cost $12,000).
Neucel still owes the village approximately two years worth of taxes (totalling around two million dollars), and Cameron stated there has been "nothing to this point" regarding any kind of payment from Neucel. "When the mill was running it brought in 28 million to the coffers for the island in general, with the majority of that being spent in Tri-Port," Cameron added, noting that if things do change financially for the better in Port Alice, the annual Oscar Hickes weekend will definitely return once again.
'Oscar Hickes' was born Oscar Tootoo in 1952 in Churchill, Manitoba. He grew up playing hockey with his brothers and absolutely loved the sport.
Tootoo and his two best friends, Ray Carter and Bill Poole, moved to Port Alice in 1972. In August of 1978, Tootoo went to Vancouver to see a specialist to correct a knee injury so he could play hockey that winter.
The doctor informed him his playing days were over, and he passed away minutes later in his car from a heart attack. He was only 27-years-old.
The Oscar Hickes Memorial Hockey Tournament officially started that same year in Port Alice.
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SWISS OIL CORPORATION v. SHANKS(1927)
[273 U.S. 407, 408] Messrs. A. Owsley Stanley, of Washington, D. C., and Edward C. O'Rear and William T. Fowler, both of Frankfort, Ky., for plaintiff in error.
Mr. Charles F. Creal, of Frankfort, Ky., for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.
The Swiss Oil Corporation, plaintiff in error, instituted a mandamus proceeding in the circuit court of Franklin county, Kentucky, to compel the state auditor, the defendant in error, to issue a warrant for the refund of taxes alleged to have been illegally assessed against it, on the ground among others, that the taxing statute was repugnant to the Constitution of the United States. This is the appropriate procedure, under the state law, for compelling a return to the taxpayer of taxes improperly collected. Section 162, Carroll's Ky. Stat. 1922; Craig, Auditor, v. Renaker, 201 Ky. 576, 257 S. W. 1018. [273 U.S. 407, 409] The trial court gave judgment for plaintiff which was reversed on appeal to the Court of Appeals of Kentucky. 208 Ky. 64, 270 S. W. 478. The case comes here on writ of error. Judicial Code, 237 (Comp. St. 1214).
Plaintiff is engaged in producing crude oil in Kentucky and delivering it to pipe lines for transportation to points outside of the state. The tax in question was levied for the period from March, 1922, to February, 1924, pursuant to the Act of March 29, 1918, c. 122 (Acts 1918, p. 540), which requires those 'producing crude petroleum oil' in the state to pay 'in lieu of all other taxes on the wells producing said crude petroleum' an annual tax 'of one per centum of the market value of all crude petroleum so produced.' Section 3 of the act provides:
By other sections those engaged in the business of transporting oil are required to report to the tax officials, the amount of oil transported by them and to pay the tax, and they are authorized to collect the amount of the tax from the producer, either in money or crude petroleum. This act, as stated in its title, is an amendment and re-enactment of the Act of May 2, 1917, c. 9 (Acts 1917, p. 40), which similary required oil producers to pay in lieu of other taxes a 'license' or 'franchise' tax for the 'right or privilege of engaging in such business,' within the state. The producers themselves, under the 1917 act, were required to pay to tax and to report the amount of the oil produced to the state tax commission on the 1st day of July of that year and at the end of each succeeding three months. The taxpayer was entitled, under the 1917 act, to notice of the valuation placed by the commission upon the oil produced and had 10 days from the time of receiving notice to go before the commission and contest the valuation. He was privileged to [273 U.S. 407, 410] introduce evidence, and the commission was authorized, after a hearing, to change the value set for taxation purposes upon the oil produced.
This act, as amended, was construed by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, in an earlier decision. Raydure v. Board of Supervisors, 183 Ky. 84, 209 S. W. 19. It there held that the Legislature had no power under sections 171 and 172 of the state Constitution to substitute the production tax authorized by the act of the 1917 as amended by the act of 1918 for the ad valorem method of taxing oil producing property required by the Constitution, nor to exempt such property from ad valorem taxation. Following this decision, the wells and oil producing property of plaintiff and others have been subjected to state, county, and local ad valorem taxes in addition to the production tax imposed upon plaintiff.
Plaintiff in the state court drew in question the validity of the act of 1918 as thus construed under the Kentucky Constitution. It contended that if construed as imposing a license tax, the statute was unconstitutional in attemption to substitute an occupation for the ad valorem tax required by section 172 of the state Constitution. The main contention however was that the tax in substance was a property and not a license tax and hence invalid under section 171 of the state Constitution requiring uniform taxation since oil properties were subject to two property taxes whereas other classes of property were subject to but one. These contentions translated into terms of the federal Constitution were urged below and renewed here.
It is argued (a) that the act of 1918 as construed and administered by the state authorities imposes double taxation upon the plaintiff not put on other classes of property, thus denying the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment; (b) that it authorizes a tax upon interstate shipments, thus interfering with interstate commerce in violation of article 1, [273 U.S. 407, 411] s 8, of the federal Constitution; (c) that the tax is assessed and collected without notice and without opportunity to the taxpayer to be heard, in violation of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The court below upheld the tax as a license or production tax valid under the laws and Constitution of Kentucky, notwithstanding the imposition of a separate ad valorem tax upon the oil producing lands or leases. It disposed of the objections to the tax under the federal Constitution, saying:
The court also pointed out that as this is a proceeding by a taxpayer for a refund of taxes under a statute which permits the refund only if the taxes paid were not due, there could in any event be no recovery by the plaintiff since the tax, if not due under the act of 1918, was due and payable under the act of 1917
As the case is brought here from a state court, the construction put by the court below upon the statutes [273 U.S. 407, 412] and Constitution of its own state is not open to review here. Southwestern Oil Co. v. Texas, 217 U.S. 114, 119 , 30 S. Ct. 496; Brown- Forman Co. v. Kentucky, 217 U.S. 563, 569 , 30 S. Ct. 578. Since the Kentucky Court of Appeals has held that the plaintiff is not entitled under the state law to the relief prayed even if the act of 1918 be deemed invalid, no questions as to the validity of that act under the federal Constitution is presented for decision on this record.
But plaintiff argues that this determination of the state court presupposes the validity under the federal Constitution of the act of 1917, which has the same vice as the later act. It is contended, as it was of the act of 1918, that the one per cent. production tax imposed is in effect a property tax. Since to Constitution of Kentucky as construed in Raydure v. Board of Supervisors, supra, does not admit of the substitution of a production tax for an ad valorem tax and requires the latter to be levied in addition to the production tax, there is therefore double taxation not imposed on other classes of property and hence a denial of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.
We are unable to distinguish the act of 1917 in its constitutional aspects from the statute of Kentucky imposing a license tax at the rate 1 1/4 cents per gallon upon those engaged in the business or occupation of rectifying or blending spirits, considered by this court in Brown-Forman Co. v. Kentucky, supra. There the tax imposed was assailed on the ground that it was a property tax not assessed upon similar classes of property whether produced within or without the state, and that its imposition resulted in a denial of the equal protection of the laws. But this court, accepting the state court's interpretation of the tax as a license tax, upheld the statute as based upon a classification which was neither arbitrary nor unreasonable, saying that the reasonableness of the classification was the ultimate ques- [273 U.S. 407, 413] tion to be determined whether the tax be regarded as a license or a property tax (page 571 (30 S. Ct. 578)). See, also, Southwestern Oil Co. v. Texas, supra, where an occupation tax upon wholesale dealers in coal and other mineral oils was upheld despite the fact that wholesale dealers in other commodities were not similarly taxed.
Without a labored analysis of the nature of the taxing measure, we see no reason for not accepting the interpretation of the state court that this statute authorizes a license tax to which there can be no serious constitutional objection. Texas Co. v. Brown, 258 U.S. 466, 481 , 42 S. Ct. 375; Bowman v. Continental Oil Co., 256 U.S. 642, 649 , 41 S. Ct. 606; cf. Watson v. State Comptroller, 254 U.S. 122 , 41 S. Ct. 43. But even if regarded as a property tax, it is imposed alike upon all crude oil produced within the state and there is nothing in the record to suggest that the classification is so palpably arbitrary or unreasonable as to render it invalid. Unlike the state Constitution (Dawson v. Kentucky Distilleries Co., 255 U.S. 288 , 41 S. Ct. 272; Greene v. Louisville & Interurban R. R., 244 U.S. 499 , 37 S. Ct. 673, Ann. Cas. 1917E, 88), the Fourteenth Amendment does not require uniformity of taxation (Davidson v. New Orleans, 96 U.S. 97 , 105), nor forbid double taxation (St. Louis, S. W. Ry. v. Arkansas, 235 U.S. 350, 367 , 368 S., 35 S. Ct. 99; Shaffer v. Carter, 252 U.S. 37, 58 , 40 S. Ct. 221; Fort Smith Lumber Co. v. Arkansas, 251 U.S. 532, 533 , 40 S. Ct. 304; cf. Fidelity & Columbia Trust Co. v. Louisville, 245 U.S. 54, 58 , 38 S. Ct. 40, L. R. A. 1918C, 124; Cream of Wheat Co. v. Grand Forks Co., 253 U.S. 325 , 40 S. Ct. 558; Citizens' National Bank v. Durr, 257 U.S. 99, 109 , 42 S. Ct. 15). It is sufficient, as stated, that there be some adequate or reasonable basis for the classification. Kidd v. Alabama, 188 U.S. 730, 733 , 23 S. Ct. 401; Watson v. State Comptroller, supra, 124, 125; Maxwell v. Bugbee, 250 U.S. 525, 540 , 40 S. Ct. 2; Northwestern Life Ins. Co. v. Wisconsin, 247 U.S. 132, 139 , 38 S. Ct. 444; Coulter v. Louisville & Nashville R. R., 196 U.S. 599, 608 , 609 S., 25 S. Ct. 342. The particular classification adopted 'is not open to objection unless it precludes the assumption that (it) was [273 U.S. 407, 414] made in the exercise of legislative judgment and discretion.' Stebbins v. Riley, 268 U.S. 137, 143 , 45 S. Ct. 424, 426 (69 L. Ed. 884, 44 A. L. R. 1454).
Judgment affirmed.


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Editor's Note: Surprise, surprise. After a long hiatus, Geaux Therefore is back – just in
time for the Super Bowl!
It's game time.
In the days leading up to the Super Bowl in the Mercedes-Benz Super Dome Feb. 3, New Orleans may be the world's largest construction zone. Construction is nothing new for the Crescent City. This place has been under construction constantly since Hurricane Katrina left her battered and wounded, down but not out.
Aided by the massive reshaping and rebuilding, the city came back with passion and spice. And when New Orleans was announced as the host city for the 2013 Super Bowl, NOLA ordered up yet another round of updates and improvements. The Super Bowl is a chance for the city shine and I believe she will look good for her close-up.
For over a year the touristy sections of town have been reduced to a maze of traffic cones, barriers and orange construction netting. Street and sidewalk work in the French Quarter, a new streetcar line on Loyola Avenue, and a $300 million airport makeover. And the work continues. On Jan. 23, Mayor Mitch Landrieu declared the city Super Bowl ready. Mission accomplished … almost. I suspect the work will continue right up until people begin to arrive for the big game. Maybe we should change the welcome signs to read, "Welcome to New Orleans: Careful, The Paint is Still Wet."
This Super Bowl is important for our city. We've survived Katrina, the BP oil spill, a cantankerous little storm named Isaac and the corruption trials of countless civil "servants." The game brings an influx of cash. It means major exposure. People will visit and want to come back. You just can't help falling in love with New Orleans.
New Orleans has already hosted nine Super Bowls. But this tenth one, though very important, isn't our most important Super Bowl. That came in 2010. We didn't host it, but the Saints won it. Rarely has sport been so transcendent. The win was so much more that a reason to brag about a game. Players and coaches alike wanted to win it for the city. They wanted to make a statement. The win said our city was back from the brink. It gave a measure of hope just when we needed it.
I will always treasure my memories of the victory parade that follow that Super Bowl win. We saw Drew, Reggie, Pierre, Sean and the team. That was cool. But the best part was sharing the night with 800,000 other Saints fans – people of all walks of life. We shared something special together as a city and a region. We experienced community. My love for the city and its people grew that evening.
But a championship can only do so much. It provided some hope, but it didn't solve all our problems. Our educational system is improving, but it is what it should be. We still have a ridiculous murder rate holding us back. Still we have a lot going for us – food, history, music, art, architecture, passion, etc. All this good needs to be matched with good schools, safe streets and opportunity – in a word, hope – real and lasting hope.
This Super Bowl won't solve our lingering problems either. We will look good for the camera. I won't discount the importance of that, but we need to be good. We need to be good for the children of this city. We need to foster their potential to rise above the status quo.
It is game time, but the paint is still wet. Solutions to our problems still can be found. The solution rests with you and me – everyday New Orleanians. It won't be easy … in fact it often seems like fourth and long. It's game time. Will you get in the game?


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Cisco Sues Apple for Trademark Infringement — Suit Filed to Protect Cisco's iPhone® Trademark — Cisco® today announced that it has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against Apple, Inc., seeking to prevent Apple …
Dan Farber / Between the Lines: Cisco sues Apple over the iPhone name
Scott McNulty / The Unofficial Apple Weblog: Cisco sues Apple over iPhone trademark
Justin Mann / TechSpot: Apple sued by Cisco over the iPhone name
Sarah Gilbert / Blogging Stocks: Cisco sues Apple over 'iPhone' moniker
Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage: Cisco Files Suit Against Apple Over "iPhone" Name
Rafat Ali / PaidContent: Cisco Sues Apple Over "iPhone" Usage
Emil Protalinski / Neowin.net: Cisco Sues Apple Over Use of iPhone Name
Arik Hesseldahl / Byte of the Apple: Dueling iPhones: Can You Say Lawsuit?
Jordan Robertson / Associated Press:
Cisco Sues Apple Over Use of iPhone Name — Cisco Sues Apple Over Use of iPhone Name for Its New Handheld Device — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Cisco Systems sued Apple Inc. in federal court Wednesday, saying the computer maker's new iPhone violates its trademark.
Discussion: Gizmodo, Cisco, Gear Live, Techdirt, Hardware 2.0, Gadget Lab, John Tokash's Blog and GigaOM
Chris Cardinal / Gear Live: CES 2007: Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Name
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0: Cisco sues Apple over iPhone trademark
Rob Beschizza / Gadget Lab: OMG: Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone
Cisco PR / News@Cisco Notes:
UPDATE on Cisco's iPhone Trademark … Today's announcement from Cisco regarding our suit with Apple over our iPhone trademark has spurred a lot of interesting questions. Most importantly, this is not a suit against Apple's innovation, their modern design, or their cool phone.
Discussion: The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Between the Lines, Mashable!, GigaOM and CenterNetworks
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!: Breaking: Apple Sued over iPhone
Om Malik / GigaOM: Battle for iPhone ... Cisco Sues Apple
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Cisco sues Apple over iPhone name
Cisco sues Apple over iPhone name
Discussion: Strategic News Service, Engadget, Paul Colligan's …, The Apple Blog, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog and Lost Remote
Mark Anderson / Strategic News Service: NAMING KARMA STRIKES IPHONE
Paul Miller / Engadget: Cisco sues Apple for trademark infringement: ruh roh!
Nick Santilli / The Apple Blog: "iPhone" Troubles: Cisco is Suing
Cory Bergman / Lost Remote: Cisco to sue Apple over iPhone trademark
Owen Thomas / Business 2.0 Beta:
Cisco Sues Apple: Do They Have an iPhone Case?
Cisco Sues Apple: Do They Have an iPhone Case?
Discussion: Associated Press
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
Holy Toledo! Cisco Sues Apple over iPhone Name
Holy Toledo! Cisco Sues Apple over iPhone Name
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Cisco Is Expecting "Signed Agreement" On iPhone Trademark Today
Cisco Is Expecting "Signed Agreement" On iPhone Trademark Today
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Bruce Stewart / O'Reilly Emerging Telephony: Cisco Files Suit on iPhone Trademark
Nick / Rough Type:
Steve's devices — It's hard to imagine the pleasure Steve Jobs must receive from singlehandedly upstaging the entire Consumer Electronics Show. There was just one moment during his two-hour presentation yesterday when he went off script, but it was a telling one.
Discussion: San Francisco Chronicle, STEVE JOBS, Mickeleh's Take, The Blog Herald, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Technovia
Ellen Lee / San Francisco Chronicle: Apple's latest wonder gadget
Scott Karp / The Blog Herald: Blogging Your Convictions — Steve Jobs doesn't give a s**t what anybody else thinks.
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog: Nic Carr on the iPhone
Peter H. Lewis / Fortune:
How Apple kept its iPhone secrets — Bogus prototypes, bullying the press, stifling pillow talk - all to keep iPhone under wraps. Fortune's Peter Lewis goes inside one of the year's biggest tech launches. — SAN FRANCISCO (Fortune) — One of the most astonishing things about the new Apple iPhone …
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Christopher Grant / Engadget: How the iPhone avoided being leaked
Mary E. Tyler / Infinite Loop: Loose lips sink iPhones
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration: Jonathan Ive: The Designer of Apple iPhone
Gizmodo iPhone Hands On Part Deux: Why Isn't it White and Other Questions — When we got our sweaty palms on the iPhone, we weren't allowed to take photos for our usual gallery. But we got a Q&A with Apple's VP of Applications, Eddie Cue, and Senior VP of Worldwide Marketing, Phil Schiller.
Discussion: Forever Geek, O'Grady's PowerPage, InformationWeek Weblog and The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Griffith / Forever Geek: the iPhone — I woke up today, turned on my laptop, and I've been "wow'ed" ever since.
Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage: MWSF: iPhone Tech Details Begin to Emerge
Mitch Wagner / InformationWeek Weblog: iPhone Hype: I Just Don't Get It — Reading up on the Apple iPhone …
Mary E. Tyler / Infinite Loop:
iPhone is awesome (restrictions apply) — So, after watching the iPhone announcement—the gadget we've all been jonesing for—what's the first thing we all do? That's right, figure out all the things that are wrong with it and why it's not going to be the "killer app" for Apple.
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
The Five Biggest Issues with iPhone
The Five Biggest Issues with iPhone
Discussion: Don Dodge on The Next …, Joe Duck, Jeffrey McManus, Guardian Unlimited, Changing Way, Engadget and Between the Lines
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited: Hands-on iPhone, and life without a keyboard
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The iPhone reality distortion field
The iPhone reality distortion field
Discussion: TechBlog, Gadgetophile, Hardware 2.0 and John Tokash's Blog
Ben / Gadgetophile: iPhone Post-Hype
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0: Thoughts on Apple iPhone and Apple TV
John Tokash / John Tokash's Blog: The iPhone - 3 Lies
David Pogue / Bits:
Some Hands-On Time With the iPhone — Macworld attendees check out the iPhone.
Some Hands-On Time With the iPhone — Macworld attendees check out the iPhone.
Discussion: Smart Mobs, InformationWeek Weblog, Engadget, The Mobile Gadgeteer, Ted Leung on the Air, Valleywag, Sadagopan's weblog …, TechEffect, Fractals of Change, The Universal Desktop, CenterNetworks, 21talks, Reiter's Camera Phone Report, The Mac Observer, Guardian Unlimited, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, Between the Lines, Mickeleh's Take, A VC, Hardware 2.0, Apple Gazette, The TNL.network, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Mobile Opportunity, I4U News, Gizmodo, Paul's Down-Home Page, Michael Gartenberg, kottke.org, O'Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog, MuniWireless and digg
Marshall Sponder / Smart Mobs: Handicapping the iPhone — Tomi T. Ahonen wrote two posts today …
Stephen Wellman / InformationWeek Weblog: I've Been Waiting For The iPhone For Three Years And It's Still Not Here
Paul Miller / Engadget: David Pogue gets friendly with the iPhone
Matthew Miller / The Mobile Gadgeteer: The touch screen kills the Apple iPhone for the business user
Sadagopan / Sadagopan's weblog …: The iPhone Mania — Smartphones are now becoming not just the teens …
Brian Ward / TechEffect: David Pogue takes the iPhone for a spin
Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop: Possibilities for developing Rich Internet Applications for the iPhone
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks: What about the Microsoft iPhone, IBM iPhone, Dell iPhone or the HP iPhone
Alan Reiter / Reiter's Camera Phone Report: New York Times' Pogue likes iPhone's screen for photos, questions refresh rate
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited: iPhone started as a tablet PC
Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard: iPhone: the interface's the thing
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: iPhone neglects the prosumer
Fred / A VC: The Four City Day and iPhone
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0: Pouring cold water in the Apple iPhone
Tristan Louis / The TNL.network: The iPhone is here [The TNL.net weblog]
Scott McNulty / The Unofficial Apple Weblog: David Pogue gets his hands on the iPhone
Michael Mace / Mobile Opportunity: Impact of the Apple iPhone
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Apple iPhone FAQ
Apple iPhone FAQ
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Apple-Cisco iPhone dispute resolved
Lev Grossman / Time:
Apple's New Calling: The iPhone
Apple's New Calling: The iPhone
Brad Linder / PVR Wire: Steve Jobs announces the iPhone
CBC News:
Canadian coins bugged, U.S. security agency says — They say money talks, and a new report suggests Canadian currency is indeed chatting, at least electronically, on behalf of shadowy spies. — Canadian coins containing tiny transmitters have mysteriously turned up in the pockets …
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Derek / UNEASYsilence: Oh Canada is watching you
Donald Melanson / Engadget: Canadian coins reportedly bugged by spies
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
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Cyril Kowaliski / The Tech Report: OLPC laptop to be sold to the public
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Andrew Parker / The Gong Show: OLPC Plan: One for you, One for 3rd World
Brandon Barker / Blogging Stocks: Google, eBay help the One Laptop Per Child project
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!: Confirmed: eBay Buying StubHub for $310 Million
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
eBay Scalps StubHub
eBay Scalps StubHub
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Peter Caputa / pc4media: Ebay Gets Into Event Biz
BUZZMETER: Web 2.0 hits saturation — Web 2.0 hits saturation — It would be premature to say that Web 2.0 is over. But use of the cliched phrase in mainstream publications and news services dipped last month. Finally. Web 2.0, a catchphrase coined in 2004 by O'Reilly Media …
Discussion: All about Microsoft
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft: Microsoft's Office 2007 team wants in on Web 2.0
Mark Slee / Facebook Blog:
Facebook Your Phone … Facebook was invented to make sharing information with your friends easier and better. Mobile phones were invented for pretty much the same reason. People needed an easier and better way to get in touch with each other, and mobile phones made it happen.
Discussion: Mashable!, TechCrunch, Social Degree and PaulStamatiou.com
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!: Facebook Mobile Coming Together
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Facebook Goes Mobile
Brian / Social Degree: More Facebook Mobile — Facebook launched more to its facebook mobile platform.
Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal:
Newspapers Set To Jointly Sell Ads on Web Sites — Gannett, McClatchy — And Tribune to Form — Nationwide Network — Yahoo's Competing Effort — The nation's three largest newspaper publishers are gearing up to sell advertising jointly on their newspapers' Web sites …
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Activision Blizzard and Terminal Reality announced today an all-new The Walking Dead video game. Based on AMC's Emmy-Award winning TV series, the do-whatever-you-need-to-survive first-person action game will allow players to assume the role of the mysterious, crossbow-wielding survivor Daryl Dixon, alongside his overbearing brother Merle, on a haunting, unforgiving quest to make their way to the supposed safety of Atlanta.
"The work AMC has done with the TV series has been amazing and we're ecstatic at the opportunity to be brought into the fold," said Drew Haworth, Creative Director at Terminal Reality. "The studio is made up of fans of the show, and we think other fans will see that the situations and walkers featured in our game are every bit as gruesome and shocking as they are in the TV series — they look, move and react as expected with full authenticity — and they will surprise you. The player's fight-or-flight survival instinct is constantly engaged. 'Flight' is usually a good bet."
Terminal Reality's The Walking Dead video game takes the undead and brings them out of the TV show and into console gaming systems in a new, terrifying way. The iconic walkers will relentlessly hunt down players like their television counterparts, using a combination of sight, sound and smell. As Daryl, players will need to tread carefully throughout each new area they explore. Once discovered, it doesn't take much to attract an unstoppable horde of undead walkers, so every threat needs to be assessed, and every situation analyzed. Players will have to choose between whether to stay and fight while risking a gruesome death or using stealth to avoid the undead. No place is truly safe for Daryl as he makes his way through the Georgia countryside in this new, post-apocalyptic world.
"Activision and Terminal Reality are working to deliver a powerful combination of a deep, engrossing story with intense action," said Charlie Collier, AMC's president. "Daryl is such a unique and complex character and we're excited to offer fans the opportunity to experience this new video game."
Resources are scarce and scattered in The Walking Dead video game, and gamers will have to not only ration supplies, but carefully consider their food, medical needs, ammunition, and other goods as survival in the game is based upon wit and intellect more so than simple, sheer skill. In order to endure this constant state of danger, players will have to do all they can to silence the noises they make and avoid detection. Throughout his journey, Daryl will encounter a slew of other characters that can help or hurt him in a variety of ways, and whether or not they accompany him is completely up to player choice and represents just some of the major decisions that will constantly be made while fighting to survive.
The Walking Dead video game is scheduled for release in 2013 for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation3 computer entertainment system, and Windows PC, and is currently rated "RP" (Rating Pending) by the ESRB. For more information, visit www.TheWalkingDeadBegins.com
I am a big fan of both the comic and the TV show, and I really like what TellTale Games have done with their game so I am excited to see what Activision will bring.


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Champagne is an exclusive drink, in all senses of the word, what with its upmarket associations and the fact that it can be made only from the grapes grown in the Champagne region of northern France. The centre of champagne production is Épernay, a town that's made much of its association with the fizzy stuff, and where all the maisons of the well-known brands are lined up along the appropriately named Avenue de Champagne.
All of these champagne houses offer tours and tastings, and one of the best places to indulge is at the maison of Moët et Chandon, arguably the best-known brand in the world. The splendid, cathedral-like cellars afford suitable dignity to this most regal of drinks, while the multilingual guides divulge the complexities of blending different grapes and vintages to maintain a consistency of flavour from one year to the next. During the tasting, an enthusiastic sommelier explains the subtleties of flavour in the different cuvées, and although the whole experience can feel rather impersonal, it's nonetheless an essential part of any visit to the region.
For an altogether more exclusive experience, head 15km or so north of Épernay to the village of Bligny. Here, the eighteenth-century Château de Bligny is the only one in France still producing its own champagne and, if you call ahead, you can arrange a private tour. Driving through the wrought-iron gates and up the scrunchy gravel driveway, a sense of understated class strikes you immediately, and things only get classier as you're taken through the tastefully furnished rooms and vaulted cellars, and shown the family's cherished champagne flute collection. A tasting of several prize-winning vintages, taken in the opulent drawing room, is of course included, and as you savour your second glass, you'll doubtless conclude that there's no better place to get a flavour of the heady world of champagne than the home ground of this "drink of kings".
The tourist office in Épernay (www.ot-epernay.fr
) has information on touring the town's champagne houses.
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Iraqis seeking justice for 17 people shot dead at a Baghdad intersection responded with bitterness and outrage Friday at a U.S. judge's decision to throw out a case against a Blackwater security team accused in the killings.
The Iraqi government vowed to pursue the case, which became a source of contention between the U.S. and the Iraqi government. Many Iraqis also held up the judge's decision as proof of what they'd long believed: U.S. security contractors were above the law.
"There is no justice," said Bura Sadoun Ismael, who was wounded by two bullets and shrapnel during the shooting. "I expected the American court would side with the Blackwater security guards who committed a massacre in Nisoor Square."
What happened on Nisoor Square on Sept. 16, 2007, raised Iraqi concerns about their sovereignty because Iraqi officials were powerless to do anything to the Blackwater employees who had immunity from local prosecution. The shootings also highlighted the degree to which the U.S. relied on private contractors during the Iraq conflict.
Blackwater had been hired by the State Department to protect U.S. diplomats in Iraq. The guards said they were ambushed at a busy intersection in western Baghdad, but U.S. prosecutors and many Iraqis said the Blackwater guards let loose an unprovoked attack on civilians using machine guns and grenades.
"Investigations conducted by specialized Iraqi authorities confirmed unequivocally that the guards of Blackwater committed the crime of murder and broke the rules by using arms without the existence of any threat obliging them to use force," Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said in a statement Friday.
He did not elaborate on what steps the government planned to take to pursue the case.
The shootings led the Iraqi government to strip the North Carolina-based company of its license to work in the country, and Blackwater replaced its management and changed its name to Xe Services.
Five guards from the company were charged in the case with manslaughter and weapons violations. The charges carried mandatory 30-year prison terms, but a federal judge Friday dismissed all the charges.
U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina cited repeated government missteps in the investigation, saying that prosecutors built their case on sworn statements that the guards had given with the idea that they would be immune from prosecution.
That explanation held little sway with Iraqis outraged over the case.
Dr. Haitham Ahmed's wife and son were both killed in their car during the shooting.
"The rights of our victims and the rights of the innocent people should not be wasted," he said.
Iraqis have followed the case closely and said the judge's decision demonstrated that the Americans were considered above the law.
"I was not astonished by the verdict because the trial was unreal. They are using double standards and talking about human rights, but they are the first to violate these rights. They are killing innocents deliberately," said Ahmed Jassim, a civil engineer in the southern city of Najaf.
Dozens of Iraqis have filed a separate lawsuit alleging that Blackwater employees engaged in indiscriminate killings and beatings. That civil case was not affected by Urbina's decision and is still before a Virginia court.
Mohammed al-Kinani, whose son was killed, said he had been invited once to the U.S. by the Justice Department as a witness but said he went two more times after that to follow the case.
"I will not despair," he said.
Gen. Ray Odierno, the commanding general in Iraq, said he understood that people would be upset with the decision.
"Of course people are not going to like it, because they believe that these individuals conducted some violence and should be punished for it, but the bottom line is, using the rule of law, the evidence is not there," he said. "I worry about it because clearly there were innocent people killed in this attack."
Of all the private security companies that mushroomed in Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion, Blackwater was the most well-known and vilified.
Their employees were at the center of what is considered one of the key moments of the war. A vehicle with four Blackwater employees driving through the western city of Fallujah, a center of the Sunni insurgency, was hit by gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades in March 2004. Their charred, mutilated bodies were dragged through the streets and hung from a bridge over the Euphrates river.
The bloody incident was one of the key reasons the U.S. military attacked Fallujah in April 2004.
Another Blackwater guard, Andrew Moonen, was accused by the family of a guard for an Iraqi vice president of shooting and killing the guard without provocation on Christmas Eve of 2006 after Moonen got drunk at a party in the Green Zone and then got lost. Moonen's lawyer has described the incident as self-defense.
An October 2007 report by a House of Representatives committee called Blackwater an out-of-control outfit indifferent to Iraqi civilian casualties. Blackwater chairman Erik Prince told the committee that the company acted appropriately at all times.
Were the incident to happen again today, the legal outcome might be much different. The U.S.-Iraqi security pact that took effect Jan. 1, 2009, lifted the immunity that foreign contractors had in Iraq. A British security contractor accused of shooting two colleagues is currently being held in Iraq and could be the first Westerner to face an Iraqi court since the immunity was lifted.
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So I got the idea for this recipe from NEWBIE MOMMY. She has her version which she graciously let me try…fabulous! Here is what I came up with this afternoon when I felt like a sweet treat. There is a little prep time for this recipe, but it's worth it! It's so good!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream/Shake
Frozen Blender Ice Cream Mixture (recipe below)
Soy, Almond or Rice Milk
Cocoa Powder
Peanut Butter
Depending on how much you want to make- determines the quantity of the ingredients. I made it just for me and my 5 year old- so I cut up about 1 1/2 cups of the frozen mixture (which I made yesterday and put in my freezer). I cut it up in about 1.5 inch squares and place in my blender. I then added a heaping TBS of cocoa powder and 2 TBS of peanut butter. I began blending up the mixture while added rice milk to help it all come together. Add as much liquid as you want, depending on how thick you want the shake. This can be made into ice cream if wanted…just add less liquid.
It's great to pour it into individual cups and place them in the freezer for a later dessert.
This is a fabulous treat and definitely hit the spot.
Blender Ice Cream
1 cup cashew nuts
½ cup soft chopped dates
½ cup honey
½ tsp. salt
2 tsp. vanilla
4 cups water
Place all ingredients in the blender with 2 cups of the water. Blend for about 2 minutes until very smooth. (High powered blender is needed, i.e. Vita-mix).
Add remaining 2 cups of water and pour about 1 inch deep into cake pans or similar. Place in freezer overnight.
When ready to serve, or about 1 hr. before, remove from freezer, cut into squares that can be blended easily.
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QuoteOn that [line] extending between Newcastle and Berwick, 66.8 miles of double way, the iron rails laid down in 1847 weighed 65 pounds per yard. Renewals commenced in 1855 and terminated in 1867. In these the weight was increased to 82 pounds per yard. The maximum duration of the 65-pound rails was 21 years and the minimum 8 years, the average being 12.8 years. Mr. T. E. Harrison stated in 1867 that on 700 miles of permanent way of the North-Eastem Railway the average duration of the last complete set of rails was found to be about 15.5 years; and some which were laid down in 1834 were still in use.
QuoteAbout 1864 the Erie Railway Company ordered from John Brown and Company, of Sheffield, England, 1000 tons of Bessemer steel rails at £25 per ton.
Quote1922: The GCR placed a stores contract order for 8000 tons of 95 lb/yard steel rails (equivalent to 100 miles) at £7.13.6d per ton. ... Thirty years previously, the same [suppliers] had sold to the M. S. & L. 86 lb/yard steel rails at £4.10.0d. per ton
Quote from: jamespetts on August 19, 2013, 04:58:52 PMWas there not a long period of history in which one US cent was equal to one British penny (then being 1/240th of a pound)?


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Battery back-ups are available that will keep your Dog Guard system up and running in the event of a power outage in your neighborhood. Run time is approximately 41/2 hours.
Button Batteries
Button batteries are available in 6 Volt Lithium for the Micro Receivers only.
Your Dog Guard professional dealer will set you up with the correct battery for your equipment.
Cat & Dog Collar
Collars come in cat, xsm, sm, med, lg, xlg and are available in red, hot pink, blue, black, green or purple. They feature quick release clasps.
Chew Protector
The Dog Guard chew protector is designed to safely fit around the receiver to protect it from damage by your pet. They are available for all receivers. If you have experienced damage from a dog chew, ask your Dog Guard dealer about the chew protector.
Probe Caps
Probe caps are rubber caps that slide over the probes and prevent the pet from receiving a stimulus. They allow for training with an audible tone. These can be used during the initial training period, allowing the pet to learn the perimeter through the tone prior to initiating the stimulus.
Probes are nickel plated brass and come in various sizes and shapes allowing the Dog Guard professional dealer to assemble the receiver with the probes best designed for your pet. This will assure that good contact is made.
Remote Strips
Remote Strips are designed for those hard to contain pets. They do not increase the stimulation that the pet receives; but spreads the stimulation out to the neck and ear area of the pet.
Shunts are resistors that can be placed on the receiver posts to control the maximum level of stimulus for each of the DG receivers. Shunts enable your Dog Guard professional dealer to customize the level of stimulus that is correct for your pet.
Silver Oxide Batteries
Batteries are tack welded and are available in 357 Silver oxide, 386 Silver oxide.
Your Dog Guard professional dealer will set you up with the correct battery for your equipment.
Surge Protector
Protect your pet and automatically disconnect your transmitter in case of a rare catastrophic surge or direct lightning strike.


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foul air trap (horizontal & vertical)
Foul air traps are inserted between the channel run and the canal (sometimes inside trash boxes). They prevent foul air and unpleasant odours from the canal system from escaping. Usually, the foul air trap consists of a bent piece of pipe (U-bend) filled with water, or of an external container inside of which is an internal container with an overflow edge.


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VIDEO: Erin Andrews Interviews a Riled-Up Richard Sherman After NFC Victory
The Seattle Seahawks will face the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl next month, but thanks to Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman's antics after the NFC Championship game Sunday, no one is talking about the game, at least for now.
During a post-game interview with Fox's Erin Andrews, Sherman went on an angry rant, calling himself "the best corner in the game" and describing San Francisco's Michael Crabtree as "a sorry receiver."
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Sherman had a (literal) hand in a fourth-quarter end zone interception that became the game-winning play. He tipped a pass intended for Crabtree away, securing Seattle's 23-17 victory over the San Francisco 49ers. After the play, Sherman and Crabtree exchanged words, with Crabtree eventually shoving Sherman in the face. Sherman later made a choking gesture towards the 49ers' bench.
"Don't you ever talk about me!" Sherman yelled during his post-game interview, prompting a baffled Andrews to ask, "Who was talking about you?" Sherman then continued to rail against Crabtree, before the interview was abruptly cut short.
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The two also appear to have taken their feud - which, according to Sherman, started because of a personal matter in the offseason - to Twitter. "Film don't lie... @nflnetwork @espn pull up the tape of that game and show me where this guy is the best? #fake #fake #fake," Crabtreetweeted after the game.
Sherman's response? "A lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of a sheep," heposted shortly after Crabtree's tweet.
Sherman also feels that race played a role in the backlash he faced after the post-game interview. "Last night shows that racism is still alive and well... And that's so sad.... At Least some people respect MLKs dream," he tweeted Monday.
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Report: Obama's oldest daughter Malia works on TV set for a day
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama's oldest daughter, Malia, was spotted working as a production assistant for a day on the set of a CBS television program starring Academy Award winning actress Halle Berry, according to the entertainment web site TheWrap.
Malia Obama, who turns 16 on July 4, was allowed to clap together the board that marks the start of shooting a scene, on the set of "Extant," a science-fiction series that is due to begin airing in July, TheWrap said, citing an individual with knowledge of the production.
The office of first lady Michelle Obama had no comment on the report. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said he had seen the report but declined to comment. A CBS Corp representative could not immediately be reached for comment.
Malia will be in the 11th grade come September at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. She is an aspiring filmmaker and a fan of the television program "Girls," the New Yorker said in a profile of the president in January.
Amblin Television, a production company founded by Steven Spielberg, is one of the producers of "Extant." Spielberg is listed as executive producer for one of the program's episodes.
Spielberg gave $1 million to Priorities USA Action, a super PAC (Political Action Committee) that supported the re-election of Obama in 2012, according to OpenSecrets.org, which tracks political fund-raising.
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Trust Sally is smiling for Blue Monday and much stronger. Even though we cannot link in, you can still visit http://smilingsally.blogspot.com and perhaps get news of her condition.
Blue skies are smiling on Sally as she is improving. The dancing waters even got excited and began preforming.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Blue Monday
Trust Sally is smiling for Blue Monday and much stronger. Even though we cannot link in, you can still visit http://smilingsally.blogspot.com and perhaps get news of her condition.
Posted by LV at 6:54 AM
Labels: Blue Monday
20 comments:
- Under Her Wings said...
LaVoice, I love fountains! We used to live in the UAE, and there were such lovely fountains. Thanks for such a good reminder. Glad Sally is improving. Thanks for the reminder to pray for her!
- July 25, 2011 at 6:57 AM
- Becky K. said...
That looks refreshing. It is still hot here....not as bad as it was...but warm for sure. I do hope you are keeping cool down there where it truly is HOT.
- July 25, 2011 at 7:05 AM
- Ruth Hiebert said...
That is quite the display.I like that.
- July 25, 2011 at 8:33 AM
- Kaye Swain - SandwichINK for the multigenerational caregiver said...
Hi LOV - lovely blue pictures for a lovely Blue Monday. Have a blessed week :)
- July 25, 2011 at 8:46 AM
- Ann said...
What a wonderful thought that the fountains are dancing for Sally. Very beautiful blue sky. We're back from Colorado--had a fab trip.
- July 25, 2011 at 8:53 AM
- gengen said...
Oh i like that fountain...happy blue Monday too.
- July 25, 2011 at 9:24 AM
- Betsy Banks Adams said...
The dancing waters are gorgeous next to that blue sky.
- July 25, 2011 at 10:41 AM
- Stephanie @ La Dolce Vita said...
Glad to hear she is doing better! Beautiful fountain shot!
- July 25, 2011 at 10:57 AM
- Barbara F. said...
Last night I went to Sally's blog and a link was up, two people had already linked up so I added mine. I was surprised to see it gone today. I hope she is doing well, last night the note said she would be going to rehab. xo,
- July 25, 2011 at 11:36 AM
- racheld said...
I hope you're staying cool as those blue skies and showers of misty water would suggest. Ours has broken somewhat, with a big rainstorm yesterday p.m., and today it's "only" 85 so far---feels like Spring out there.
- July 25, 2011 at 12:57 PM
- Julie D said...
LV, thank you for the beautiful card you sent me for the loss of my Mom. It meant the world to know you were thinking of me.
Love, Julie
- July 25, 2011 at 4:20 PM
- jeanne said...
Hello LV, Today you can link to Sallys blog. She wrote a post and is heading to rehab. Maybe you already know this.
Love the blue skies and the fountains.
You are a dear person and I love to come and see what you post.
Hugs, Jeanne
- July 25, 2011 at 4:36 PM
- Anonymous said...
The fountains are so refreshing against the blue sky!
- July 25, 2011 at 5:21 PM
- George said...
It's good to hear that Sally is getting better. I'm like your dancing waters.
- July 25, 2011 at 7:24 PM
- Vintagesouthernlife said...
The fountain looks so refreshing in this summer heat wave! Thanks for visiting and your nice comment.
- July 25, 2011 at 9:11 PM
- Ginny Hartzler said...
I love fountains!
- July 26, 2011 at 1:42 PM
- Annesphamily said...
So pretty! I am glad Sally is getting better. All the blues have made her smile! :)
Love visiting you LV.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:26 PM
- Ann, Chen Jie Xue 陈洁雪 said...
synchronizing dance? Do you get young drunks in the fountain too?
- July 27, 2011 at 1:49 AM
- genny said...
nice shot1 i'd love to be there and see it for myself. visiting you back.:-)
- July 28, 2011 at 2:08 AM
- Crystal said...
I guess you never outgrow dancing waters....I still love them!!!! Beautiful!!!
- July 28, 2011 at 6:57 AM


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I am often creating dishes from whatever I have and here is an example of something I threw together in a hurry before work recently. I am really pleased with how it turned out and have since recreated this dish several times.
I recently started eating a lot of zucchini noodles, and this is by far my favorite version I've made yet. If you've never used or even heard of a spiralizer be sure to check out this link:
Without a Prime membership to Amazon.com there may be a cheaper option available (I didn't check shipping prices) however, with Prime I found this to be the cheapest option. If you are not used to unusual kitchen appliances, do not be intimidated! Here's a link to a video I like that shows just how simple and straightforward using it really is:
- Raw zucchini noodles, spiralized
- Pine Nuts
- Cilantro
- Shelled Hemp Seeds
- Pairs well with Avocado
- Almond Butter
- Water
- Hoison Sauce
- Gluten Free Soy Sauce (or Braggs Amino)
- Lime juice
- Coconut Milk (optional)
- Udo's oil (add last, also optional)
To make the sauce I whisked together a fair amount of Almond Butter (main ingredient, be sure to use enough) with just a bit of water until the consistency was smooth and creamy. And then I added about a tablespoon of Hoison Sauce, a dash of GF Soy Sauce, squeezed the juice from about half of a lime, a tablespoon or so of coconut milk and at the end I also added a bit of Udo's oil for added nutrients.
I hope you give this a try and enjoy it as much as I have!
Cheers to good Health!