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The Land Development Code 309.2 requires the Engineer of Record to notify this division of the following key activity startups a minimum of five (5) working days in advance:
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5. Final inspection.
In order for the County to participate in a final inspection, the Engineer shall provide a signed and sealed certification of completion and three (3) signed and sealed sets of record drawings along with one (1) disk containing .pdf and .dwg format files. Record drawings shall be signed and sealed by both the Engineer and Surveyor on each page and shall accurately depict all conditions "as built."
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A pub on the Euston Road in London was the venue for a document that has caused quite a stir in political circles in Britain and the United States.
The document, called the Euston Manifesto, was drawn up in a series of meetings at O'Neill's, opposite the British Library and not far from Euston station.
It is set for a public launch on 25 May (not at the pub), but it has already been published and extensively discussed on the internet, where it had its origins.
It was drafted by a veteran left-wing academic, Norman Geras, professor emeritus in politics at Manchester University. Geras runs his own blogsite called normblog.
"We wanted to declare support for values that are being compromised," he told me.
"We did not want a socialist document but one which would appeal to others who are liberal and democrats.
"For example, it is quite regular to read about terrorism that 'Yes, putting bombs on buses is bad, but you need to understand it'.
"The word 'understand' has two meanings. It means to explain and to condone - and that 'but' often tends to condone the act."
And then there's a lot of blah-blah about whether the Euston group should be ashamed of the support of neo-cons like Bill Kristol, and predictable rejoinders from the New Statesman and the Guardian. Never mind, go read the article anyway.
Here's why the Euston Manifesto matters. There are many matters of governance on which reasonable people can reasonably disagree - Great Society vs. Small Government, and so on. But these conversations can only take place when there is common ground and a set of shared values and interests. By isolating itself in a shrill, nihilistic orgy of radicalism, the Left not only sabotages itself; it also deprives the greater society of the benefit of a constructive critique.
Whether or not you agree with the social/economic program of the Euston Manifesto, remember that it is an important step toward the renewal of true debate in the Western world - an all-important, intellectual "commons" that seems very much in danger these days.
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Gaddafi's men are cleaning up Zawiya, the town they have finally taken after bombarding it for a week. They have brought in road sweepers to brush away the evidence of the worst fighting between Libyans in a century. It is certainly the worst devastation I've seen in any town centre.
Mix a huge IRA bomb with a tank battle and add the aftermath of an artillery barrage, and you get some idea of the damage to the centre of this town of 250,000 people. At least it used to be home to that number. When I arrived, the first journalist to enter after the fighting ended, the streets were almost deserted for half a mile in every direction beyond the main square. The only people were bands of Gaddafi's men, high on victory and bent on revenge, searching buildings for any sign of the rebels who had held them at bay for a week. A resident told us by phone two days ago that there wasn't an animal in the street or a bird in the air above Zawiya. She was right.
Dozens were killed in the battle for Martyrs' Square. There are now many more "martyrs" buried there. I counted more than 20 new graves. Clean-up crews swept furiously, trying to make the square look normal.
Soon there will be no sign of what I saw: blackened tanks being loaded on to transporters; militia vehicles burned and peppered with bullet holes; the clothing of the newly dead, shot in a battle in Gaddafi's backyard.
The town, 30 miles from Tripoli, fell to Gaddafi's son Khamis, who runs the 32nd Brigade, described by US diplomats as the best trained and best armed of all Gaddafi's forces. They're also known as the Deterrent Battalion and they are now involved in a second and rather more chilling clean-up operation.
They are sweeping through Zawiya, rounding up young men they suspect might have been involved in the rebellion. As we left, we saw one young man inside a speeding jeep, bloodstains on his shirt and a soldier virtually standing on him. Troops are going house to house, according to one resident, rounding up dozens of suspects. We talked to one man who said: "People are being arrested for no reason, people who stayed in their homes for the whole seven days of the fighting. You cannot imagine what is happening here."
He put the death toll at around 150. Looking at the rocket and bullet holes in the town's buildings, it would not be surprising to learn Gaddafi's troops had fired tens of thousands of rounds. The minaret of the mosque, perhaps once 100 feet high, has been shorn in two, the top now a mess of mangled concrete.
We left the square to go to the hospital where doctors had told me on Sunday they believed Gaddafi was guilty of war crimes, including killing doctors. I hoped to talk to them. At the gate where we had been stopped by soldiers I saw one of the doctors. He made a sign with his hand warning me not to acknowledge him. He was clearly scared. He knows he treated rebels. He also treated government soldiers. He abided by the Hippocratic oath. But he knows his comments about war crimes could get him killed.
We tried to get into the hospital. Not only were we refused permission, we were taken away under armed escort to a superior officer. He and six of his men took our cameras, stripped our car and bags and took every piece of TV equipment they could find – our tapes with the story we had shot in Zawiya, everything. We feared we might be detained and beaten, like the BBC team who tried to get into Zawiya earlier in the week. They suffered mock executions and a night in a cell amid the screams of tortured detainees before they were eventually freed. But we avoided that.
On state television they have been showing off weapons and ammunition left behind by the rebels. The reporter says they were captured from "terrorists, dogs and traitors". Then, a threat: "These rats will be chased from house to house, from farm to farm and from one city to another city. The armed people's force have started from al-Zawiya and will continue to cleanse the whole country. The armed people's force is announcing that every citizen should report to them any rat if they know of their whereabouts. Libya will remain great thanks to its leader."
The death toll may never be known in Zawiya. But Gaddafi will count this as a great victory. And indeed it does mean that all of western Libya is now in his grip. Only the border frontline between east and west will now be contested. But Zawiya may not be the victory Gaddafi thinks it is. The survivors have a story to tell; the doctors know what they have seen and the injuries they have treated. They are clear. Zawiya may prove a pyrrhic victory for the Great Leader.
Bill Neely is the international editor for ITV News


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250 Nigerian Businesses for Africa Economic Forum in Sochi
The Presidency says about 250 Nigerian business interests will participate in the African Business Forum, which will bring together African and Russian business leaders in Sochi, Russia, between Oct. 23 and Oct. 25.
Malam Garba Shehu, the President's Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday.
According to the presidential aide, the forum will be held during the Russia–Africa Summit to enhance Russian investments in Africa, and promote African business interest in the host country.
"It is important that this meeting is taking place at this time. All the big economies are picking a stronger interests in Africa.
"We now have US-Africa Summit, India-Africa Summit, China-Africa Summit and Japan-Africa Summit, so Russia has signified its interest for political, cultural and economic partnership.
"Nigeria has had an excellent relationship with Russia over the years. We will not forget how the country assisted us in keeping Nigeria as one during the civil war when some of our traditional allies deserted us,'' he said.
He noted that Russia had also stood behind Nigeria in the fight against terrorism, Boko Haram and ISWA, and had also demonstrated its capacity in gas production, "a resource which Nigeria has a huge potential of utilising.''
Shehu, who also confirmed the arrival of President Muhamamdu Buhari for the event on Monday, said the three-day inaugural Russia-Africa Summit and Economic Forum would focus on peace, security and development.
He said the summit would look into issues of sustainable energy, mines and steel, infrastructure development in Africa, nuclear energy and trade and investment.
On security, the Senior Special Assistant said the meeting would come up with proposals for a security architecture driven by new technology.
The Economic Forum and Summit would hold between Oct. 23 and Oct. 24,, with four plenary sessions to be attended by more than 30 African Heads of State and governments.
This included the Chairman of the African Union and President of Arab Republic of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
The summit would be co-chaired by President Vladimir Putin, with a keynote address at the opening on Wednesday, and el-Sisi.
Buhari and Putin will meet at Nigeria and Russian bilateral meetings on Oct. 23 while the Nigerian leader will make a statement at the summit on Oct. 24.
Other participants at the summit that will showcase Russian interest and investment potential in Africa include businessmen, experts, investors, leaders of major sub-regional associations and organisations. (NAN)


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John Walker--Traitor or brainwashed cultist?greenspun.com : LUSENET : Unk's Troll-free Private Saloon : One Thread
What do you think should be done with this young white-bread from Marin County who was captured as a warrior for the Taliban? I do not know the legal definition of "traitor"; I do not know if he renounced hisw US citizenship; I do not know if he fired bullets at Americans.
My gut reaction is to treat him as a POW. Keep him in a military prison with the other POWs. Release him when the others are released but do not ever let him return to the US.
A modern day Man Without a Country.
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Hang him at noon in the town square of Mill Valley.
-- (email@example.com), December 09, 2001.
My opinion hasn't changed from the one expressed in this thread.
I DO believe that the article I posted there included the definition of TREASON.
-- Anita (email@example.com), December 09, 2001.
Traitor or brainwashed cultist
Does it really matter? By definition it is not treason [sorry Anita; but only Congress can declare war] but his actions are covered by at least 6 sections of the law [there may be more]. Conviction requires the death penalty under most of those sections. So it really doesn't make any difference.
Best Wishes,,,,,
-- Z1X4Y7 (email@example.com), December 09, 2001.
Z: I thought that the law regarding "actively fighting against one's own country or aiding and abetting an ememy" was in force even if war hadn't been declared. I could be wrong.
-- Anita (email@example.com), December 09, 2001.
We really need Porter here. The original definition dealt with an enemy in time of war. Now there may have been changes that I am not aware of. I posted the statutes a long time ago; back when Clinton was President [you remember those times; no war, no deficit, low unemployment ;o)]. At the time, Porter agreed. Of course, I could be as wrong as you since neither of us are constitutional authorities.
Best Wishes,,,,,
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Z: I don't think Porter is a constitutional lawyer. Of course that could be the SECOND thing I'm wrong about [just in THIS thread.] Heh.
-- Anita (firstname.lastname@example.com), December 09, 2001.
Just an observation about this: I heard an interview wherein an American said the Taliban prisoners were being bound for security purposes in order to begin transporting them somewhere else. Then, this American said, the Taliban inexplicably became convinced that they were being bound for execution, and they revolted.
Later I saw the tape of the CIA guy who was later killed interviewing the young American Taliban. He and the other guy were playing good cop/bad cop. The other guy told the American Taliban that he would either talk or die there. "HERE" was the word he used as place of death. When the American Taliban refused to talk, they put him back with the other Taliban prisoners.
I think I heard a time frame of about an hour later when the revolt started.
Do you suppose...?
-- helen (email@example.com), December 09, 2001.
Let's leave John Walker to the justice he chose
By Mark Steyn
A FORTNIGHT ago two Americans met in the northern Afghan desert, at the Qala-i- Jhangi prison. One was a CIA special-ops man, Mike Spann. The other was a prisoner he was interrogating, a Taliban soldier called "Abdul Hamid", the nom de guerre of John Walker, formerly of northern California.
Mr Spann will be buried tomorrow by his wife and three young children in Arlington National Cemetery. He was kicked, beaten and apparently bitten to death in an uprising of captured Taliban, who then booby-trapped his body with grenades.
Mr Walker, by contrast, is one of 86 people to survive the four-day prison battle, and the question now is what to do with him.
If nothing else, he's usefully nailed one of the self-serving myths peddled after the awesome intelligence failure of September 11: awfully sorry we failed to see it coming, said the high-ranking suits, but it's impossible to do any covert deep-cover stuff out in Afghanistan; these fellows are all cousins and brothers-in-law - a guy from Jersey would stick out like a lap-dancer in a burqa.
As we now know, instead of being full of fearsome Pashtun warriors renowned down the centuries, the Omar/ Osama ranks were like a novelty Gap ad, "Losers of Many Nations" - misfit Saudis, Pakistanis, Brits and Californians.
Anyone can walk in off the street and be assistant supervisor of the third-floor latrine in Tora Bora by nightfall. The only distinguishing feature about John Walker is that he's such an obvious compendium of clapped-out cliches from America's Left Coast the wonder is the mullahs didn't automatically take him for a CIA plant.
Mr Walker was born John Lindh in 1981, and comes from a bastion of well-heeled dopehead progressivism, California's Marin County. Just north of San Francisco, it is a place where your average hippy-turned-lawyer stays true to his Sixties values on property that stays true to its late Nineties values (average house price: just shy of a million bucks).
Following the traditional Marin pattern, his parents divorced, his mother converted to Buddhism, and the children were taught Native American spirituality. John went to an "alternative" high school. (In the Bay Area, they are all "alternative". The problem for parents is trying to find any alternative to the alternative.)
The set texts included The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and John liked it so much that, like the late Mr X, he decided to embrace Islam and change his name, to Sulayman. His parents, putting their foot down for what seems to be the first and last time, demanded the right to continue calling him John.
They had, after all, named him after one of the colossi of the age, John Lennon. To this, he consented. In return, they let him study at the Mill Valley Islamic Centre.
In 1998, after an awkward trip to their ancestral Ireland in which John trudged dutifully round the auld sod wearing his turban and white robes, Frank Lindh agreed to let the 17-year-old spend a year in Yemen, on the next stage of his "spiritual odyssey".
Last year, John e-mailed home to say al-Qaeda's attack on the USS Cole was justified - oh, and by the way he was off to enrol in a Pakistani madrassa. So Dad wired him a couple thousand bucks, which goes a long way in Bannu.
Aside from a glowing school report from his Imam, that was the last Mr Lindh heard from Junior until he turned up brandishing an AK47 and declaring his approval of the events of September 11.
John Walker's CV bears eloquent testament to his parents' scrupulous observance of the Bay Area's First Commandment: Thou shalt be non-judgemental. Yeah, man, Yemen. Cool. As one headline put it: "A Product Of Bay Area Culture".
Exactly, I thought. But, this being The San Francisco Chronicle, they were applying the label with pride. Rhapsodising about the region's "religious tolerance" and the way children are taught to value "critical thinking about the US role in the world", Louis Freedberg concluded that Walker's only misfortune was that "his search for identity intersected precisely with the World Trade Centre attacks".
If not for this unfortunate "intersection", he might have become an "idealistic doctor". The President, he said, should allow the boy home "and let him get his life back on track. We'd want nothing less for our own children, who could easily have found themselves in a similar mess."
In fairness to the youth of northern California, that last part is an unjust slur. The marvel is that, after labouring under the twin burdens of the education system's multicultural orthodoxies and the preening moral superiority of their boomer parents, no more Bay Area teens have signed on with Mullah Omar.
None the less, there is a difference between "tolerance" of other cultures and the moral inertia displayed by the Lindhs. We can, in any case, guess the limits of Marin County's much-vaunted "tolerance".
Imagine that the Marinated Muslim had instead announced that he was going to do what the late Mike Spann did at his age: enlist in the Marines. Would Marilyn Walker have seen that as a valid part of his "self-discovery"? Or would she have got out her joss sticks and wailed, "Oh, my God, where did we go wrong?"
Mom says she's "proud" of John, but says he must have been "brainwashed". From the look of him, his brain's the only thing that's been washed: John Walker resembles one of those cadaverous, deranged guys who stumble up to you late at night at Greyhound bus stations and demand money for medication.
But right now that's shrewd image-positioning. President Bush seems to have bought the "misguided" line, describing Walker as a "poor fellow" who thought he was fighting for a "great cause". "I can't see him as being unpatriotic," says a neighbour. "This is where his journey led him."
For four decades, "non-judgemental" flower-children like Marilyn Walker have reflexively characterised men like Mike Spann as the dark agents of Right-wing militarism. We are entitled to judge Marilyn's son, the comrade of Spann's killers, as the dark agent of Left-wing Marinism.
Raised by peaceniks and Marinated in "tolerance", he took up an AK47 in defence of misogynists and gay-bashers: not a paradox, but the logical reductio of the Left's moral nullity. Cocooned in one of the most prosperous enclaves on the planet, he was taught everything - from Buddhism to Malcolm X - except what it means to be an American citizen.
When a 13-year-old girl wants an abortion, the Marin County crowd insists that "a woman's right to choose" is sacred. Twenty-year-old men make choices, too. John Walker chose to go to war against his own country. Americans should respect his "right to choose" and let him live with the consequences.
I'm not in favour of trying him for treason: Alan Dershowitz and the other high-rent lawyers are already salivating over the possibility of a two-year circus with attendant book deals and TV movies. But there is another way: on page four of John Walker's US passport, it states that any American who enlists in a foreign army automatically loses his citizenship.
Mr Walker wants to be Abdul Hamid: Mr Bush should honour his wishes. Let us leave him to the Northern Alliance and let his San Francisco fancypants lawyers petition to appear before the Kabul bar, if there is one. It would, surely, be grossly discriminatory to subject Mr Hamid to non-Islamic justice.
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Geoengineering, a roll of the climate dice
Published Tuesday, September 18, 2012 in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal.
Geoengineering is the process of using man-made interventions to deliberately manipulate our global climate. Far from being a theory pulled from science fiction, it is actually an area of much research, discussion and debate. Here's a short overview.
The background
Our planet's atmosphere is like a thin, one-way blanket. It allows sunlight to enter and reach the surface of Earth, where it turns to heat. Most of that heat is radiated right back up into space, but our atmospheric blanket keeps in just the right amount to keep our planet at a perfect temperature for life.
But that delicate balance is changing. By burning oil, coal and natural gas, humans are dumping 90 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the air every day, and that is making our thin atmospheric blanket keep in more heat than before – so the planet is warming.
Earth's temperature is expected to rise to dangerous levels unless global emissions are cut soon, but breaking our global addiction to fossil fuels is an enormous challenge. So if we can't prevent climate change, scientists and engineers are trying to assess whether there are things we can do to somehow reverse or offset it. In a nutshell, that's geoengineering.
Two strategies
So how does one go about modifying a planet's climate? There are two main strategies under consideration.
The first is to reduce the amount of sunlight reaching Earth's surface. In the past, big volcanoes like Mount Pinatubo and Mount St. Helens have caused temporary global cooling because they emitted large amounts of sulphur high into the atmosphere, and that sulphur acted as a shade, keeping out sunlight. So the thinking is that if we mimic volcanoes and shoot sulphur particles into the upper atmosphere, we should be able to offset the warming caused by the greenhouse gases we've produced.
Other proposed ways to reduce sunlight include placing huge numbers of small mirrors in space above Earth; whitening clouds to make them more reflective; and setting up huge reflectors in deserts.
The second main strategy is to devise ways to absorb carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, restoring our thin blanket so it goes back to keeping in just the right amount of heat. The leading proposal would have us sprinkle massive amounts of iron into our oceans to enhance the growth of algae. The algae would absorb CO2 from the air, then die and sink to the bottom, taking the carbon with it.
The risks
Perhaps you found yourself getting a bit uneasy while reading the above paragraphs. A fair reaction; geoengineering is rife with uncertainty.
For example, how can we be sure any technique eventually chosen will work, or that we can control it once started? (The short answer is, we won't know until we try – and given that the sole laboratory for experimentation happens to be the planet we live on, it's a risky roll of the dice.)
Or – how can we know there will not be unexpected side effects like acid rain or changes in rainfall patterns?
Or – how would diminished sunlight affect the growth of the crops we depend upon?
Or – how would global geoengineering be administered? Who would determine how much, and who would pay? What would it take to get global agreement? What if some nation decided to go it alone?
Et cetera. And geoengineering doesn't address the root of the problem, global greenhouse gas emissions. Unless we reduce emissions, there will be a constant need for ever more geoengineering to offset ever more warming.
'A bad idea whose time has come' is how some pundits have described geoengineering. The fact it is even being considered speaks to the depth of our climate crisis.
The last word
In 2009, the respected Royal Society in London conducted an extensive study on geoengineering. It concluded, "The safest and most predictable method of moderating climate change is to take early and effective action to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. No geoengineering method can provide an easy or readily acceptable alternative solution to the problem of climate change."


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Orange Sorting Machines: success, grain by grain
Even as a student he was fond of making things. While pursuing a diploma, S Srinivasan made and sold doorbells and video games.
His journey as an entrepreneur took off when he started a company that would make machines to sort and remove defective foodgrains. The idea for this venture came from a small-scale industries exhibition he attended in Coimbatore more than a decade ago. This business is now worth almost Rs. 75 crore a year.
The Mainstay
During the exhibition, a few rice-mill owners asked him if he could develop machines to sort black rice from white rice. An engineering graduate, Srinivasan discussed the idea with his friend Zahir Hussain, who had worked in ISRO and TIFR. This led to a partnership and the development of the first product in 2002. The company, Orange Sorting Machines (India) Private Ltd, was born.
Imported sorting machines cost about Rs. 15 lakh, while he offered them for Rs. 6 lakh then. The rice sorter is the mainstay of his company's business, accounting for 95 per cent of its production.
The Coimbatore-based company started off making machines to remove and discard coloured rice grains to ensure consistent high quality. The company, according to Srinivasan, is now being courted by private equity investors. It is looking to forge ties with overseas manufacturers through a technology transfer agreement. Srinivasan, Managing Director, said that in its previous avatar, his company provided service support to textile and engineering industries. Started in 1994, it was known then as Nanotek Electronic Engineers. It had 13 employees and the turnover was just a few lakhs of rupees. It also supplied products such as temperature controllers to rice mills.
Growing Turnover
Srinivasan, 45, said that in 2012-13, Orange Sorting Machines sold nearly 350 sorting machines. This fiscal, he expects to sell about 410 machines. The company's turnover has increased from Rs. 17 crore in 2008-09 to Rs. 53 crore last year. This fiscal year he expects it to range between Rs. 70-100 crore. It has exported the machines to Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal. Exports to other countries are also on the radar


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We all know that feeling when the blueberry muffin you have is cut open and you find one blueberry.
When you prepare a large ripe avocado and find a stone so large it could act as a cricket ball.
When your box of sultana bran has 3 sultanas.
If you're promising things in your delivery that people can't see before they buy, better make sure that you deliver or they won't come back to you.


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Sunfish in oils by Barbara Haviland
©copy: Barbara Haviland-Sunfish
This is a study I did from a photo I found. I like to see how close I can get to the real thing. I do like how this came out. It has textues on the canvas.
Title Sunfish
Medium oils on canvas
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Puppet Masters
Cash Transactions Banned by Louisiana: Government Takes Private Property Without Due Process
Ackel and Associates L.L.C.
Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:30 UTC
This summer, the State Legislature and Governor of Louisiana passed a law that bans individuals and businesses from transacting in cash if they are considered a "secondhand dealer". House Bill 195 of the 2011 Regular Session (Act 389) broadly defines a secondhand dealer to include "... Anyone, other than a non-profit entity, who buys, sells, trades in or otherwise acquires or disposes of junk or used or secondhand property more frequently than once per month from any other person, other than a non-profit entity, shall be deemed as being in the business of a secondhand dealer. " The law then states that "A secondhand dealer shall not enter into any cash transactions in payment for the purchase of junk or used or secondhand property. Payment shall be made in the form of check, electronic transfers, or money order issued to the seller of the junk or used or secondhand property..." The broad scope of this definition can essentially encompass everyone; from your local flea market vendors and buyers to a housewife purchasing goods on ebay or craigslist, to a group of guys trading baseball cards, they could all be considered secondhand dealers. Lawmakers in Louisiana have effectively banned its citizens from freely using United States legal tender.
The law goes further to require secondhand dealers to turn over a valuable business asset, namely, their business' proprietary client information. For every transaction a secondhand dealer must obtain the seller's personal information such as their name, address, driver's license number and the license plate number of the vehicle in which the goods were delivered. They must also make a detailed description of the item(s) purchased and submit this with the personal identification information of every transaction to the local policing authorities through electronic daily reports. If a seller cannot or refuses to produce to the secondhand dealer any of the required forms of identification, the secondhand dealer is prohibited from completing the transaction.
This legislation amounts to a public taking of private property without compensation. Regardless of whether or not the transaction information is connected with, or law enforcement is investigating a crime, individuals and businesses are forced to report routine business activity to the police. Can law enforcement not accomplish its goal of identifying potential thieves and locating stolen items in a far less intrusive manner? And of course, there are already laws that prohibit stealing, buying or selling stolen goods, laws that require businesses to account for transactions and laws that penalize individuals and businesses that transact in stolen property. Why does the Louisiana State Legislature need to enact more laws infringing on personal privacy, liberties and freedom?
Motivating the introduction of this legislation was an increase in criminal activity, necessitating law enforcement to develop additional tools in tracking potential criminals. Thefts of copper and other precious metals have risen recently with higher commodity prices and mounting pressures from the economic downturn. The added restrictions under this recent legislation have come about under the pretense of cracking down on crime and helping the government take care of you, all at the cost of your individual privacy, economic, civil liberty and freedom.
Interestingly enough, although Pawnshops are still required to obtain clients personal information and transmit their client database information to law enforcement, they are exempt from the restriction of cash payments. A jeweler next door to a pawnshop cannot offer clients the same payment method offered by its competing pawnshop neighbor.
Act 389 passed by unanimous consent of the Louisiana House of Representatives and only mustered one nay vote (Senator Neil Riser) from the State Senate. The governor signed legislation into law on July 1, 2011.
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Reader Comments
Did not know this, thanks for the info!
Ain't that just swell.
These are the sheeple loopholes they are plugging not the 1% tax dodgers
This is about the taxes not being paid. The IRS needs records of transactions therefore, they need to end cash. Tax evasion is one of the reasons our country is in so much debt. It is the same reason why the government recently did a sting operation on the California medicinal marijuana trade...too much illegal trade (no tax).
Also, you cannot tax marijuana because it is a weed and weeds cannot get taxed. The reason why marijuana is illegal is so that they can raise the price of it. If marijuana was legal then anyone could grow it and the price for it would be minimal. The gangs that sell marijuana are funded by that same banking cartel. Not to mention that the same banking cartel continues to build prisons, (the U.S. has the most people incarcerated in the world) and without putting the actual criminals into prison(ie. the bankers and psychopaths in office) those financiers need prisoners for their investments to pay off. And what better way to get slave labor then to have people who smoke a little marijuana make license plates and only see the sunlight one hour a day? That is how the banking cartel controls the marijuana trade from plant to prison.
Another Fed bank chairman to save us yet again. More of that 'business experience' so prized by the electorate, right? Cash doesn't need the IRS, the IRS needs sheep they can keep track of.
It costs too much, too much paperwork and costs are excessive.
Can you imagine if you were the children who were running a lemonade stand, and we're told you needed a license? It is cost prohibitive to pay for the 'privilege' of having a business. Link with video here: [Link]
Solution: Underground Economy by 99%ers
I use BitCoin "electronic transfers" with my junkman so I am compliant.
Anyone can use bitcoin. Google it. It is totally anonymous electronic cash. And since is is an "electronic transfer" it complies with this "law" which states:
"Payment shall be made in the form of check, electronic transfers, or money order..."
carry on
All this as BP walks after destroying the Gulf of Mexico. Sounds fair and balanced to me. So much for this Saturday's yard sale. This will just make people dig in their heels and help the black market explode.
Cash transactions do not incur a debt.
For example:
In some jurisdictions legal tender can be refused as payment if no debt exists prior to the time of payment (where the obligation to pay may arise at the same time as the offer of payment). For example vending machines and transport staff do not have to accept the largest denomination of banknote. Shopkeepers can reject large banknotes — this is covered by the legal concept known as invitation to treat. However, restaurants that do not collect payment until after a meal is served would have to accept that legal tender for the debt incurred in purchasing the meal.


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VLS Announces the National Center On Restorative Justice
Vermont Law School (VLS) is proud to announce the receipt of a $3-million federal grant to create and host the National Center on Restorative Justice in South Royalton, Vt. In partnership with the University of Vermont (UVM), the University of San Diego (USD), and the U.S. Office of Justice Programs (OJP), VLS is excited to launch expanded educational opportunities and research initiatives that will shape and move forward the restorative dialogue and movement that is being seen and applied in many facets of US society from our criminal justice system to education and beyond. United States Senator Patrick Leahy, long a champion of justice reform, was instrumental in helping to secure the funding.
What is the National Center on Restorative Justice?
The National Center on Restorative Justice will serve as the premier education, training, and research location for the advancement of restorative justice (RJ) principles and practices, focusing on less punitive responses to harm, substantial input by victims, accountability, opportunities for people who cause harm to make amends, stronger and more resilient individuals and communities, and broader academic options for those under court supervision or sentence.
Three partnering academic institutions bring considerable strengths to the Center. VLS is the only law school in the nation to offer a master's degree in RJ as a stand-alone degree or in conjunction with a law degree. UVM brings research expertise and an established program of educating incarcerated individuals. USD provides geographical diversity and extensive experience in delivering national RJ trainings and curriculum design.
Leveraging the strengths of these three diverse, accredited institutions, the Center will provide justice systems education and training through semester-long and two-week summer courses delivered residentially and online. The Center will host two RJ Institutes annually deepening the RJ knowledge base for justice professionals. The Center will expand educational opportunities for those under sentence and in a court-supervised substance abuse program. Through research and evaluations, the Center will disseminate reports on the impact on attitudes, recidivism, and costs of the educational initiatives.
NCRJ will strengthen criminal justice policy and practice by:
- Expanding and deepening RJ and justice systems educational curriculum;
- Educating undergraduate, graduate, law students, and professionals in the history, philosophy, and practices of juvenile, criminal, and restorative justice;
- Training criminal and juvenile justice professionals to infuse RJ into their work;
- Increasing educational opportunities for incarcerated people;
- Providing education and training for people participating in a judicially supervised drug or other treatment court; and,
- Researching, evaluating, and reporting on the impact on attitudes, recidivism, and costs of expanded RJ education for students, professionals, and justice involved individuals.
Why Restorative Justice?
For too long our response to harm and conflict has been to punish, isolate, and stigmatize. As is clear by the staggering use of incarceration and the rates of recidivism, removing and isolating people from their communities is not the answer. Restorative justice allows individuals and communities to be more actively engaged in responding to harm. Restorative justice creates opportunities for people who have experienced harm to have a voice in shaping a response, and for people who caused harm, to make amends and be accountable for their actions. Restorative responses to harm honor the individuals and communities affected and allow for tailored and empowering responses appropriate to those most affected.


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Winter 2015 Newsletter
Winter 2015 Newsletter
While you wait for this brutal winter's snow and ice to melt, we encourage you to curl up next to a fireplace and enjoy reading this edition of the Golan & Christie Newsletter. We've tried to include interesting information and important news that may impact you and your business decisions.
ESOPs: THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION
If you're a business owner worried about what may happen to your company after you retire, learn how an ESOP can preserve the corporation as an ongoing independent business and offer unmatched tax advantages.
We're pleased that more than a dozen of our attorneys have earned spots on the prestigious list of "Super Lawyers" and "Leading Lawyers" 2015. Find out who has been honored.
Beverly Berneman reports on two January 2015 rulings by the Supreme Court that impact intellectual property, including a case involving the issue of trademark tacking.
In this newsletter you'll also find information on employment law matters, plus we welcome our new attorney, Keith R.C. Pozulp.
We hope that 2015 turns into a successful and prosperous year for all of our clients and friends. Please remember that Golan & Christie is always just a phone call or email away from assisting you with whatever you need.
-Stephen L. Golan
Managing Partner
ESOPs: The Ultimate Succession Solution
ESOPs: The Ultimate Succession Solution
Baby Boomers currently own 66 percent of all private businesses that have employees. Those Baby Boomers are now reaching retirement age at a rate of 10,000 per day. An estimated $10 trillion — that's trillion with a "t" — worth of businesses will change hands in the next 10 years. For Baby Boomer entrepreneurs with no inheritance option (due to the fact that Boomers had fewer children than their parents), succession and the associated liquidity needs require a solution.
Possible solutions include a sale of the business to a "strategic buyer," a venture capital group or incumbent managers (a "leveraged buyout"). These transactions may make sense but they all have drawbacks. Many entrepreneurs hate to see their business legacy absorbed in a disruptive transaction that results in the liquidation of the business and the termination of the employees.
An Employee Stock Ownership Plan offers an underutilized alternative – a solution that preserves the corporation as an on-going independent business and offers unmatched tax advantages.
What are Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)? Think of them as ordinary profit sharing plans on steroids. ESOPs have two features that distinguish them from a typical profit sharing plan: (1) the ability to fund primarily with the sponsoring employer's stock, and (2) the ability to borrow money. This allows the ESOP to borrow money to buy company stock (a "securities acquisition loan") in a leveraged transaction. So, a business owner can sell his or her stock to the ESOP in a tax-advantaged transaction.
If the company is a private C corporation and you have owned your stock for at least three years, you can defer capital gains tax on the sale of your stock to the ESOP so long as you sell at least 30 percent of the outstanding shares andyou invest the proceeds in "qualified replacement property." No capital gains tax will be assessed until (and unless) you "dispose" of the qualified replacement property. Qualified replacement property is broadly defined to include stocks and bonds of any U.S. domestic operating company. That definition encompasses most of the publicly traded securities that are available to private investors – in other words, the same investments you probably already own in your personal portfolio. So, you can accelerate liquidity and diversify your investment without selling the company – or even giving up control.
Improving Morale & Productivity
Most ESOPs are sponsored by small and medium sized companies (there are over 500 ESOPs in Illinois). Do not be put off by the bad press associated with troubled ESOPs set up by United Airlines or the Tribune Company ESOP transaction engineered for Sam Zell's takeover. And many ESOP sponsors find that, beyond the unique ESOP tax advantages, the most important ESOP advantage turns out to be improved employee morale and productivity.
Baby Boomer entrepreneurs are well advised to put ESOPs on their succession planning short list. ESOPs are flexible, require no negotiation or post transaction dealings with adversarial buyers, and they offer unique tax advantages that subsidize both the cost of borrowing and the selling shareholder's net return.
To discuss these issues or others related to ESOPs, contact: Andrew S. Williams, (312)696-1373, email@example.com.
G&C Attorneys Earn Spots on 2015 Illinois Super Lawyers List and 2015 Leading Lawyers List
G&C Attorneys Earn Spots on 2015 Illinois Super Lawyers List and 2015 Leading Lawyers List
We are very pleased to announce that Golan & Christie attorneys have been named to the prestigious list of "Super Lawyers" and "Leading Lawyers."
We would like to thank all of our firm's clients, friends and referral sources for helping us continue to receive these high honors, year after year. We share these awards with you to honor your continued support and partnership.
In 2015, Golan & Christie partners Stephen Golan, Barbara Yong, Margaret Gisch and Barry Siegal have all been named by Illinois Super Lawyers® magazine. Only five percent of the lawyers in the state are named by Super Lawyers.
The selections for Super Lawyers are made by Law & Politics, a division of Key Professional Media, Inc. of Minneapolis, Minn. Each year, Law & Politics undertakes a rigorous multi-phase selection process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, independent evaluation of candidates by Law & Politics' attorney-led research staff, a peer review of candidates by practice area, and a good-standing and disciplinary check.
Additionally, Golan & Christie partners Laura Balson and Matthew Wasserman were selected by Illinois Super Lawyers magazine as "Rising Stars" in Illinois for 2015.
The selection process for Rising Stars is the same as the Super Lawyers selection process except that a candidate must be either 40 years old or younger or in practice for ten years or less. While up to five percent of the lawyers in the state are named to Super Lawyers, no more than 2.5 percent are named to the Rising Stars list.
Also in 2015, the following Golan & Christie partners have been named as Leading Lawyers in Illinois: Stephen Golan, Margaret Christie, Margaret Gisch, Donna Hartl, Anthony Taglia, Barbara Yong, Peter Katsaros, Barry Siegal, Robert Benjamin, Beverly Berneman, David Saltiel and Andrew Williams.
Leading Lawyers is a division of Law Bulletin Publishing Company. Leading Lawyers surveys lawyers, asking them which of their peers, indeed their competitors, they would recommend to a family member or friend if they could not take a case within their area of law or geographic region. To maintain the quality and credibility of the survey, lawyers cannot nominate themselves or anyone at their own law firm. Based upon survey nominations and approval by our Advisory Board, only the top lawyers are nominated and eligible for membership in Leading Lawyers. Leading Lawyers limits the total number of Leading Lawyers in a state to less than five percent of all lawyers licensed to practice law in that state.
Pictured top to bottom: Stephen Golan, Margaret Christie, Margaret Gisch, Donna Hartl, Anthony Taglia, Barbara Yong, Peter Katsaros, Barry Siegal, Robert Benjamin, Beverly Berneman, David Saltiel, Andrew Williams, Laura Balson and Matthew Wasserman.
New OSHA Regulations Impose Immediate Reporting Obligations
New OSHA Regulations Impose Immediate Reporting Obligations
As of January 1, 2015, the Occupational Safety & Health Administration ("OSHA") has updated requirements regarding an employer's responsibility to report any workplace injuries or deaths. While serious workplace injuries are rare, it is important that all employers are aware of their responsibilities under OSHA, should tragedy occur.
Under the new requirements, if an employee is killed as a result of a work-related incident, the employer must report the fatality to OSHA within eight (8) hours of the incident. If an employee is injured in a work-related incident and requires in-patient hospitalization or if an employee's injury results in amputation or loss of an eye, the employer must notify OSHA within twenty-four (24) hours of the incident. A company may be fined if they fail to notify OSHA within the time limits. These reporting requirements are in addition to the mandatory logs that all employers must maintain of any work-related injuries. For copies of necessary forms, you may contact OSHA through its website at www.osha.com or the toll-free central telephone number: 1-800-321-6742. If you have additional questions, please feel free to contact Golan & Christie.
Illinois Supreme Court Sides With Employers In Defeating Alleged 'Whistleblower' Claim
Illinois Supreme Court Sides With Employers In Defeating Alleged 'Whistleblower' Claim
In December 2014, the Illinois Supreme Court issued a decision that narrows the burden on employers who are trying to defend against a claim of retaliatory discharge tort claims. The holding in Michael v. Precision Alliance Group, LLC, 2014 IL 117376 was that an employer is not required to provide a reason for an at-will employee's discharge when facing a retaliatory discharge claim, but if an employer does provide a reason, and the judge or jury believes that reason, the employee's case is over because the causation element of a retaliatory discharge claim cannot be met.
The employees in Michael alleged that they were whistleblowers and that the company discharged them in retaliation for reporting the company to the State of Illinois for allegedly shipping underweight bags of agricultural products, in violation of Illinois law. The company responded to the allegations by stating that the plaintiffs were actually discharged for either engaging in horseplay with a forklift or as a result of a reduction in force. The circuit court determined that the company's reasons were believable and therefore dismissed the claims. On appeal, the appellate court reversed and remanded, applying the familiar burden-shifting framework which is common in federal discrimination cases. On appeal to the Supreme Court, the appellate court's decision was overturned, based on a finding that once the company provided its reasons for the discharge, and those reasons were believed by the trier of fact, that ended the inquiry.
There are several take-aways for employers: 1) always document the reason for an employee's termination and 2) consider whether the reason would be believable by a trier of fact in light of other circumstances occurring around the same time as the termination decision.
To discuss how these issues apply to your company contact:
Laura A. Balson, (312)696-1351, email@example.com
or Margaret A. Gisch, (312)696-2039, email@example.com.
Report On The U.S. Supreme Court's Busy Intellectual Property Docket
Report On The U.S. Supreme Court's Busy Intellectual Property Docket
In January 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) decided two cases involving who decides issues in Intellectual Property cases.
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. et al. v. Sandoz Inc. et al.
The first case, Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. et al. v. Sandoz Inc. et al. involved the standard of appellate review for patent claims construction. The Federal Circuit had reviewed the District Court's factual findings on the de novo standard and invalidated several of Teva's patents for a multiple sclerosis drug. In a 7-2 decision written by Justice Stephen Breyer, SCOTUS held that patent claims construction should be treated like any other factual findings by a trial court. Patent claims construction requires familiarity with specific scientific principles. Therefore, appeal of the factual findings should be reviewed on the clear error standard. Justice Breyer explained that the district court judge who presides over the case and listens to the entirety of the proceedings would be more familiar with the facts than an appeals judge who would have to rely on reading a transcript of the proceedings. The legal conclusions based on the facts, however, can still be reviewed de novo on appeal.
Hana Financial Inc. v. Hana Bank
The second case, Hana Financial Inc. v. Hana Bank, involved trademark tacking. Trademark tacking allows a trademark owner to slightly modify a trademark and maintain priority based on the original date of first use. The defendant had previously used the name "Hana Overseas Korean Club" before the plaintiff started using its trademark, "Hana Financial". After plaintiff started using the Hana Financial trademark, the defendant started using "Hana Bank". The defendant argued that it could claim priority over the plaintiff's mark by tacking its revised trademark onto the original trademark. The plaintiff argued that only a judge and not a jury can decide the matter. In a unanimous decision written by Justice Sonya Sotomayor, SCOTUS held that tacking was a factual issue that could be decided by a jury. The plaintiff had argued that allowing a jury would reduce the predictability required for a functioning trademark system. Justice Sotomayor explained that in every area of the law, juries have been able to decide factual questions. The fact that different juries might come to a different conclusion has never stopped juries from deciding factual questions.
To discuss how these issues apply to your company contact:
Beverly A. Berneman (312)696-1221, firstname.lastname@example.com
Golan & Christie Welcomes New Attorney
Golan & Christie Welcomes New Attorney
We're pleased to announce the addition of Keith R.C. Pozulp to the Golan & Christie team. Mr. Pozulp concentrates his practice on complex commercial disputes and also has experience in commercial transactions, patent litigation, false advertising, employment matters, and regulatory compliance. He has represented clients in a wide variety of industries. His experience includes representing pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers, real estate developers, hospitality groups, and retailers.
Mr. Pozulp has significant experience in all aspects of litigation in state and federal court, from the discovery phase through trial and appeal. In honor of his pro bono work, Mr. Pozulp received the Northern District of Illinois and Federal Bar Association Award for Excellence in Pro Bono and Public Interest Service.
Mr. Pozulp graduated in 1999 from the University of Illinois with a B.S. in Finance. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, in 2005 from the Loyola University-Chicago Law School, where he was a member of the Loyola Law Journal. Prior to joining Golan & Christie, Mr. Pozulp spent seven years as a litigator with Winston & Strawn LLP.


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Le Grand Debat
There wasn't much on the big topics - child care, US relations, handguns. So, at the very least, it served as a way to shed some light on a wide range of policy issues. Duceppe was probably the best, but he always has the easiest ride in these things. The fact that Adscam got a lot of play is bad for the Liberals, and Martin, even if Paul wasn't that bad in this debate.
Anyways, here's my minute by minute recap. There may be some large lags in there, when I dozed off or switched over to Wheel of Fortune.
Opening Statements
6:03 pm: 15 seconds into his speech and Duceppe has already mentioned the Sponsorship Scandal.
6:04 pm: "A process that will end Canada"...wow. Way to keep the hollow rhetoric down Paul.
6:05 pm: Look at the bloody camera Stephen!
6:07 pm: "We will reduce the cost of drugs" - Jack Layton is trying to cozy up to Boiclair, I see.
The Questions
6:11 pm: Guess who? "We tried to make Parliament work".
6:18 pm: Duceppe loves talking Sponsorship, doesn't he? He's definitely winning so far.
6:23 pm: Duceppe, on access to information: "We got documents that looked like crossword puzzles with more black squares than white ones." heh.
6:30 pm: The moderator says "you have all made tens of thousands of dollars in promises..." What election are you watching? Hopefully it was just a bad translator.
6:35 pm: Paul's helping the hearing impaired by giving all his answers in sign language.
6:42 pm: Harper says he doesn't understand the question for the second time. I don't blame him - these questions are just...dumb.
6:51 pm: There's a question on homeless people dying. Be careful Jack...
7:01 pm: Booo! No beer and popcorn jokes during the child care portion. Is anybody going to say anything remotely confrontational tonight?
7:29 pm: Someone asks a question on when Quebec will ratify the constitution. Good grief.
7:33 pm: The CBC has live blogging updates here.
7:41 pm: Zing! Martin gets the question about the "referendum election" and whether or not he'd recognize a BQ majority as a "yes" vote. Martin tries to blame Duceppe for starting it. I'll quote Paul Wells on this one:
And what does he do when his adversaries say something absurd? Jump right in:
"If that's how they see it, we'll fight on that basis." So if Boisclair and Duceppe announced that Canadians would be electing the next prime minister of Spain on Jan. 23, apparently Martin would start campaigning in a lispy Castilian accent.
7:44 pm: Duceppe's response is very forceful, calling the Liberals "liars" several times. He gets the hard follow up from the moderator about a large number of Bloc MPs being good for sovereignty.
7:52 pm: I take back my prediction for question Duceppe would least like to see. The question is "what's your vision of Canada in 30 years?".
7:53 pm: OK, OK. Duceppe handles it alright. Layton rambles on about social programs. Harper goes on about "endless potential" again. Martin says "I've already made spending announcements up to the year 2036, so obviously I have the best vision for the country." (OK, not really)
CBC has a full play-by-play here. They're better people than I am for staying awake through this thing. Of course, they are probably getting paid for it.


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RRsat carries over 50 religious broadcast channels worldwide
February 16, 2011
RRsat Global Communications Network, a provider of comprehensive content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industry has announced that it will be attending the 2011 National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) Convention & Exposition, in Nashville, Tennessee. RRsat executives will be available to discuss RRsat's ability to combine its Holy Land location with advanced technology, in order to enable services geared specifically for the religious programming industry. RRsat's executives will address some of the following capabilities:
Live from the Holy Land –
With a studio in Jerusalem, Israel, used by over 20 broadcasters, including GOD TV and TV Visjon Norge AS from Norway, RRsat provides religious networks with direct access to the sights and sounds of the Holy Land. Networks can produce 24/7 or occasional programming regarding religious news directly from RRsat's facilities and the other locations in Jerusalem. RRsat also assists in the production and broadcasting of live religious events, such as the live multi camera program out of the Inbal Hotel in Jerusalem, Israel, by LeSea Broadcasting, where RRsat has provided the entire crew, equipment and production services, as well as the uplink back to South Bend, Indiana, for the past ten years, and the weekly live programs of TBN Russia.
"Based in Israel, RRsat has always found providing services specifically for the religious broadcasting community especially important," said Shmulik Itzhaki, Sr. Director, Broadcast Sales, at RRsat. "Our location coupled with our technological capabilities allows RRsat to cater to the specific needs of religious broadcasters."
An Advanced Hybrid Network Carrying 50 Religious Channels-
Capturing the essence of Jerusalem is just one aspect of RRsat's commitment to providing high quality services for religious programming. RRsat offers advanced technological solutions to address the challenges of global broadcasting. RRsat continues to grow its hybrid network of satellite and fiber connectivity that enables the delivery of content from one geographic location to another geographic location in all commonly used formats, whether SD, HD or 3D.
In August 2010, RRsat announced the launch from RRsat's Hawley Teleport in Pennsylvania of a new platform on the Galaxy 19 (G-19) satellite, which is devoted to the distribution of religious and ethnic radio and television content to the Americas. This new platform joins other RRsat platforms on satellites such as Hotbird, Thaicom, Hispasat and Amos, which combined, broadcast over 50 religious channels globally such as: 3ABN, Daystar Television Network, GOD TV, Hope Channel, TBN, and CNL.
Over-the-Top of the Internet –
Religious content providers are able to further reach out to their communities Over-the-Top of the Internet. With RRinternetTV religious networks can either stream their broadcasts directly to their own websites, or opt to house it on the RRinternetTV site. RRinternetTV attracts a monthly average of a quarter of a million unique viewers, who view approximately three quarters of a million hours and consume close to 150TB of TV. This makes religious programming even more accessible to the millions of people worldwide who we believe seek this service.
RRsat's executives will be in attendance at NRB 2011 and are currently scheduling interviews for that time. If you have any questions for RRsat, or would like to schedule an interview, please contact Josh Kail, whose contact information is provided below.
In addition, some useful quotes from current RRsat religious broadcasters are available below.
"I have been working with RRsat since 2005 and we have had a very good experience having them as a partner for our productions in Israel," said Haakon Sengsvoll, Deputy Head of Broadcast of TV Visjon Norge AS. "So, for me as a project manager and producer, it is good to know that I have a company in Israel that is service minded, reliable and is able to deliver what we want."
Moses Primo of 3ABN said "We've been using RRsat's satellite services for over 15 years and this G-19 coverage is just what we needed to reach free-to-air (FTA) viewers from Canada, The United States, and all the way down to Central America."
"Our recent launch on G-19 has opened up valuable markets for LLBN in the Caribbean and Latin America. Also, our LLBN Arabic and LLBN Chinese networks are experiencing rapid growth across G-19's North American Market." said Derrell Mundall, Vice President of Marketing, LLBN International.
"The RRsat service for North America is an appealing service," says Brad Thorp, President of the Hope Channel Inc network, which currently operates ten unique channels. "We also use RRsat for our service on Hotbird 6 and IS 10, and believe the new RRsat platform will have special benefit to millions of viewers in the Americas."


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Date of Graduation
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Degree Name
Master of Science in Cell & Molecular Biology (MS)
Degree Level
Biological Sciences
Kenneth L. Korth
Committee Member
Vibha Srivastava
Second Committee Member
Ralph Henry
Third Committee Member
Pengyin Chen
Biological sciences, Calcium oxalate, Glyoxalase, Medicago truncatula
Calcium oxalate crystals are found in most plant species. In Medicago truncatula wild-type A17, crystals accumulate in leaves along the secondary veins and the only role attributed to them so far is defense against chewing insects. Calcium oxalate deficient (cod) mutants were isolated in M. truncatula; the cod mutants include cod5, which completely lack crystals in the leaves and cod6 that accumulates fewer and smaller crystals compared to A17. We analyzed gene expression in the cod mutants and A17 using GeneChip® Medicago Genome Arrays and found important differences in transcriptome between the three genotypes. In particular, we found a gene annotated as glyoxalase I (GLXI) referred by its tentative consensus number, TC122307, which is up-regulated in cod6 and down-regulated in cod5 as compared to constitutive levels in A17. Similarly, another GLXI-like gene, TC123769, is up-regulated in cod6 and transcripts are down-regulated in cod5. In previous studies, overexpression of GLXI has been linked to salt tolerance using transgenic approaches. Therefore, we evaluated salt tolerance in the cod mutants to determine if they respond differently to salt stress and if this response could be attributed to differential expression of the GLXI-like genes in M. truncatula. The cod6 mutant was significantly more tolerant to sodium chloride compared to A17 and cod5. Transcript levels of TC122307 and TC123769 do not increase in leaves following sodium chloride treatment. We also measured GLXI activity in the cod mutants and A17 and found no differences between genotypes. Moreover, tolerance to methylglyoxal, the substrate of GLXI, was evaluated and we found that the three genotypes were equally sensitive to toxic levels of methylglyoxal. Therefore, we conclude that TC122307 and TC123769 do not encode a functional GLXI. Another gene, TC122323, which is more likely to encode GLXI based on sequence analysis, is constitutively expressed in the three genotypes which would explain the similar glyoxalase I activity levels in the cod mutants and the equal sensitivities to methylglyoxal. Overall, TC122307 and TC123769 are not likely to encode GLXI, but potentially contribute to salt tolerance in cod6 and encode members of the vicinal oxygen chelate enzyme superfamily. Therefore, the genes encoding these proteins are excellent candidates for further study as tools to enhance salt tolerance in crop plants.
Navia-Gine, W. G. (2010). Analysis of the Response of Medicago Truncatula Calcium Oxalate Mutants to Abiotic Stress. Graduate Theses and Dissertations Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/58


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Oscar Isaac wins Best Actor in a Limited Series for Show Me a Hero at the Golden Globes
Isaac took home the Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television for Show Me a Hero, which told the story of a white middle-class neighborhood's resistance to a federally mandated public housing development in Yonkers, New York. The show was based on Lisa Belkin's 1999 book of the same name.
Isaac, scoring his second Globe nomination — the first was in 2014 for his work in Inside Llewyn Davis — beat out fellow nominees Idris Elba, Mark Rylance, David Oyelowo, and Patrick Wilson.
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Lots of exciting events this week between the eclipse, the Taylor Swift madness, and the Lilly Pulitzer After Party Sale date! So much to be excited about!
I was down in Columbia with Emory for the eclipse which was super exciting because we were in the path of totality. It was cooler than I ever imagined and I couldn't believe what I was experiencing. Casey, the popular YouTuber captured it perfectly and was in Columbia just like me!
If you're anywhere close to the path of totality to the eclipse happening in 2024 you have to drive to it!
Happy Friday!
My favorite kind of breakfast :)
Lots of heart eyes for this spectacular Charleston wedding.
Don't forget to shop the Lilly Pulitzer After Party Sale on Saturday!
So much blue and white and I'm in LOVE.
Taylor Swift practically broke the internet with her new song and here's an analysis of the new lyrics!
An exclusive tour of the new KJP flagship store.
First look at Season Two of This Is Us. Ekkk so excited!!!
Reese is on the cover of Southern Living!
I've been following artist Kayce Hughes for a while now but had no idea she is the niece of Lilly P!
Make sure check out the Shopbop Sale.


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Number of pages
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Croatia (Fraktura)
France (Éditions Hoëbeke)
Italy (Keller editore)
Mexico (Ediciones Arlequín)
UK (Istros Books)
English pdf, Spanish pdf
travel novel, migration, immigrants, writing, search for inspiration, loss and change, home, Ireland – Belgium – Bosnia
by Dušan Šarotar
A writer, perhaps the author's alter ego, looks for peace and inspiration as he travels slowly along the rainy, foggy coast of Ireland. From there he goes to Belgium and then, by way of Ljubljana, to Sarajevo, but for the most part his journey leads him ever deeper into the landscapes of his own inner world. The narrative takes the form of an associative stream of consciousness in which different times, places, and events overlap to create an unusual story with many narrative voices. Although the connections between them may not be immediately obvious, it is not entirely accidental that they find themselves sharing a common story. Standing out among these narrators without a country are Gjini, an Albanian driver and occasional tour guide; Jane, an Irish-American woman; Spomenka, an émigré professor of literature from former Yugoslavia; a random audience member at a literary event in Brussels; a poet from Sarajevo; and others. Their diverse narratives create a panoramic view of the search for something they might call home.
The narrator's extraordinary depictions of landscape reveal the inner experience of the writer in a foreign setting, far from a home that seems ever more elusive. In the manner of W. G. Sebald, the story is supported and complemented by photographs taken by Šarotar himself.
Awards and nominations
Shortlisted for the Kresnik Award for best novel of the year 2015
Shortlisted for the Oxford–Weidenfeld Prize 2017
César López Cuadras Readers Award for fiction 2017
Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2018
This is not a novel in which anything happens; it has all happened already, catastrophically, and the condition of exile is the only place from which one can achieve peace or perspective. This is what I think this marvellous book is telling us. …
… the hydraulic ebb and flow of Panorama's sentence waves subsumes the role of narration … Giving oneself to these meditative rhythms represents the true depth and joy of this novel—and it is a spiritual joy. .
... dense but rewarding series of W.G. Sebald-like meditations on ideas of belonging ...
Some literature defies simple description. Case in point, Panorama, by Slovenian poet and writer Dušan Šarotar. One might be inclined to define it as a meditation within a travelogue within a novel. Or perhaps you would prefer to rearrange those terms, it probably wouldn't matter, because in spite of its subtitle: A Narrative about the Course of Events, Panorama stands at a curious angle to space and time. It is a novel of remembering, of telling and retelling, narratives within narratives, bound together by a coarse thread of repeating themes that are at once timeless and timely.
This book is about a lot of things. Like all good novels, it is about language ... It is also about exile and identity and belonging (and not belonging). Of course, it is also about war and death and the terrible upheaval that war causes. It is about the dark side of life, for there is always a dark side. But it is also about friendship and remembrance and learning about the world.
But while Šarotar (and his narrator) serve as the mouthpiece for the various emigres who show up in Panorama, Šarotar, who still lives in Slovenia and writes in Slovene, does not seem to share the emigres' preoccupation with the loss of their birth languages. His ultimate goal is an attempt to capture in a grand, sweeping gesture of language the ineffable sense of being alive, of finding oneself human on a strange planet. It's both a search for personal understanding and an attempt to test the limits of language.
Panorama is an extraordinary, uncategorizable book, that is moving in its human dramas and ambitious in its cultural scope. It is also a topical novel of belonging and non-belonging, and of the different kinds of exile – national, linguistic, cultural – that lies at the heart of one strand of the European experience. "A narrative about the course of events" is its subtitle, and it is indeed a rangy, poetic, journalistic, fictional melancholy book of travel in time, place and mind.
… A meditation on loss and change ... and on time, migration, language, ocean, love and war. It is densely compacted: its two hundred or so pages seem to expand much as a paper flower from childhood did when put in water ...


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Commitment, Running and Overcoming
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Commitment, Running and Overcoming
Since October of '15 I have been having digestive issues. After working diligently on my food choices (hey, I wrote a book!) and losing about 100 pounds, I was convinced it was medical. I had lots of imaging, been scoped front and back, had a battery of blood tests, even a couple of suspicious things sent for biopsies - oh, and got to crap in a cup.
The doctor also changed my diet. He wanted to rule out food sensitivities.
I got rid of gluten, apples, and dairy. Then we added medication, fiber, and probiotics. It seemed like I was going backwards. Every run got slower and the cramping got worse. My hopes for running Dublin in October were dashed.
I even cut back on coffee!!
Things got worse over time. In fact it was worse than it ever. Despite not running more than 8 miles for months, I kept running. In fact I ran more days and my mileage per month has been going up. I have worked too hard for all the benefits running offers to give up.
I am committed. (Maybe I need to be committed.)
Commitment is important for lots of reasons. It's good for relationships, it's good for getting the hard part of losing weight or finishing a marathon too! I have a good friend. He and I have run across Massachusetts, Rhode Island and I did a few legs of his run across New Hampshire, too.
We finished the Boston Marathon together in 2014; the year after the bombings.
This past Sunday David ran his 96th full marathon. I promised to finish it with him. I didn't register for the race because my health has been a daily struggle. I was going to run the half but the courses were not the same.
I promised to cross the finish line with him. I had to find another way.
I confess, I called to ask him what his plan was. I was sort of hoping he would back out. I had read on Facebook that he had an MRI on his knee. He told me that he had planned to make Boston his 100th in 2017.
"I will finish if I have to walk," he said.
My new plan was to meet him at the 23 mile mark and run the last few miles with him. As it turns out, the course was closed and I just had to run the course backwards until we met. I ran for almost an hour up and down the hills of Keene, NH.
I still didn't catch up with him.
I took a little G'ade at a water stop and kept running. Between mile 21 and 22 I found him limping along. "How is the knee?," I asked?
"On a scale of 1 to 10, a 7." he said. "If anyone else asks, a 2." I gave him a hug and we took off jogging slowly towards the finish. I really was a nice day out - a little hot, but sunny. We carried on talking about life in our always sarcastic style. I actually know some who can out smart ass me.
"Did you know I met my wife on a half blind date? It's true, I only have sight in one eye." He quipped.
"I hope it's still Sunday when we get to the finish line." We were running at 14 minute miles.
Then we saw a guy walking his dog. His shirt said F&^K and there were three checkboxes. Me. You. Off. David said, "nice shirt buddy!"
The man looked down and replied, "oh $h1t!"
We fired back, "no f$%k!^
On and on we worked on our comedy routine - some new jokes and retelling some old ones. His PT, Amanda came along for the last few miles. That poor woman.
The miles came and went and then we were in sight of the finish line. The crowds rang cowbells, the announcer announce David and congratulated him on his 96th marathon finish.
As we took photos the last 2 runners came across too. "Hey, you're not dead-freaking-last!" I chided.
I met a friend and headed back to the car. My sports tracker congratulated me on 9 miles. My longest run of the season.
Posted on 9/27/2016 by dsjohndrow
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The 5 Stages of Food Grief
Terminally ill patients often go through fairly predictable stages as they begin to accept their life is coming to an end (hopefully, they have an eternal home). I have watched it happen with both my parents. It's sad, but thank God we get some time when it counts the most!
If you were a fatso like me when you first logged onto MFP, you're going to go through some emotional stages too - lots of them. Like a maturing baby, you'll probably throw a few tantrums along the way, too. If you don't believe me, read the message boards!
Stage 1: Denial: It's not just a river in Egypt! If you have a BMI over 30, you are obese, and if it is over 25 you are overweight according to the National Heart Lung and Blood Association. The problem is what you eat, not big bones and if you are here on MFP, you and I both know why; it's not to get recipes! (Although that is a good reason to be on MFP!)
Stage 2: Anger: You probably think Jillian Michaels is too skinny, and that guys with 6-pack abs got them from sitting around watching football. Poor you, you didn't get them. I know I am mad when I go to lunch with someone my age, and they freakin' eat an entire pizza while I limit myself to 1 or 2 slices. You might be mad at God for making everything that tastes good bad for you.
Stage 3 Bargaining: "Lord if you let me indulge this day and it doesn't show up on the scale, I will give money to the next organization that knocks on my door!" Are you kidding? You popped a pants button and a dead pigeon fell from the sky; you are a frequent flier at Big & Tall: it's no deal! "Real" is the root word of reality.
Stage 4 Depression: Drinking water, putting away the salt shaker, logging your meals, dumping fast food as a dietary option - and gasp, exercising so that you sweat! Who wouldn't be depressed?!? It's normal to be bummed out that we can't be like others and eat anything we want, in any quantity we want to.
Stage 5 - Acceptance: Time to snap out it! "It's going to be okay."; "I can't fight it, I may as well prepare for it." That's right! Unlike terminal patients you have a chance to change your history, your health, and your waist line.
The health benefits of losing weight and keeping it off are amazing. But who cares what your BMI is when you have a donut in the break room with your name on it? If you really accept where you are, you'll stop defending your bad food choices and making excuses for why the scale hates you.
Stage 6 - The Party Stage: Why not focus on what you can do when you lose the weight and get healthy.
- You'll feel better and your depression will be less.
- You'll have better skin!
- You'll be less likely to be sick from viral and bacterial disease.
- You'll have more positions you can use for "that."
- You will eventually acquire a taste for what is good for you.
- You'll live longer with the ones you love.
- You'll have more choices for clothing stores.
- You'll be more comfortable on planes and camel rides.
- Your joints will feel better.
- You can eat from the children's menu if you use the curb-side pick up at most of the chains. This saves money!
- You'll need less medication when you do need it.
- You'll have more energy.
- You'll look younger.
- You'll probably only have one chin to shave and not two or three.
- You'll sleep better.
- You'll reduce health care costs.
- You can buy shoes that tie - in fact you might even see your feet for the first time in a while.
- You'll put on new underwear and feel like touching yourself - that might just be me.
Thanks for the comments and votes. You guys are awesome!
Exceprt from my book, ICU to Marathon.
Posted on 9/21/2016 by dsjohndrow
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Stuff Weight Losers Do and Say
No matter what industry, business or hobby you are into, there is always a vernacular that goes with it. For instance, if you work in retail and you have customer with a chip card, you tell them to "put it all the way in." You might hear this in a lot of other situations in which you wish you hadn't. Hey it sure beats "strip down, please."
There is also stuff we do. Some of it doesn't make sense. I used to get a small portion and then get seconds. Yup, I did that.
So here is my list of stuff for weight losers only.
- You poop before you weigh in - twice!
- You wear stretchy pants because you forgot how to read size tags.
- You eat salads for lunch everyday.
- If you have one mini candy bar, the bag needs to be taped to the outside of a window 60 floors up or it's gone.
- You say, I'm going for a run, but it's really to the liquor store.
- Your favorite part of Couch to 5K is the couch.
- You eat broccoli with your Everything Burger because it's healthier.
- A heaping teaspoon of peanut butter counts the same as a level one.
- You eat a donut and tell yourself "today will be better."
- You suck it in for your progress pictures.
- You save your best profanity for the scale.
Did I miss any?
Thanks for the votes and comments. Friend me at your own risk!
Health update: I spoke with the surgeon and he and I agreed that despite the latest news, I can wait until January. This is causing a change of plans. I will not running the Dublin Marathon. I have chosen to spend a week in California with my loved ones. The job front continues to be discouraging and I am seriously contemplating starting my own business. I mean, I have to eat, right? :)
Posted on 9/13/2016 by dsjohndrow
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Famous Quotes
I read a lot. I have a pretty good education for a guy who smoked enough pot in high school to get all of Chicago high for a day. On the Internet, most people don't want to spend more that a few minutes reading. Did you know 47% of all music videos don't even get listened in their entirety?! If you are into food, you'll see that so were many of our most famous orators.
Today I decided to quote some of the literary masters while messing with them a little bit.
Everything on the Internet is true.
-Abraham Lincoln
You can't mess with perfection!
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
That pizza and beer looks delicious. I won't die.
If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison
It's safer to stay on the couch and binge watch TV whiling eating Doritos.
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
-Albert Einstein
Einstein was not talking about bagels and donuts.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Count your calories.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-Maurice Switzer
No truer words were spoken about the message boards.
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
-Dr Suess
Nothing like some jerk eating the last piece of cake!
If you want something done right, do it yourself.
-Charles-Guillaume Étienne
Is this a veiled attempt to talk about sex?
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
-St Augustine
Chocolate strawberries!
Necessity is the mother of invention.
This is why we have a 24-hour drive-thru windows.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
I'd prefer a large denomination gift card from Outback Steak House
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
-Theodore Roosevelt
For decades I couldn't believe it until I was all the way there. Then I had to lose 100 pounds.
Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
-Forrest Gump's Mom
Chocolate is from the gods.
Be yourself, everyone else is taken.
-Oscar Wilde
I am sort of glad no one wants to be me. So far I have avoided capture.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
This is why I help my kid look for chocolate I stole from her.
It is always darkest just before the dawn.
-Thomas Fuller
It is always darkest when the lamp in the refrigerator needs to be replaced.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
-Winston Churchill
Why waste time doing stuff you can avoid all together.
Whether you think you can or think you can't – you are right.
-Henry Ford
Donuts are no match for a sugar craving.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-Albert Einstein
I don't know, I saw the Deer Hunter and it worked for Russian Roulette.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
-Benjamin Franklin
This is why McDonalds doesn't have a Dollar Menu at the turnpike locations.
Ignorance is bliss.
-Thomas Gray
It's also good way to end up in jail.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
-Kahlil Gibran
This happened to me with Tofu.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
-William Edward Hickson
Part of the morning weigh in ritual.
I think therefore I am.
- Descartes
I call BS.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
My kid brought home her class' pet boa constrictor.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
-Walt Disney
A word to the wise ain't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.
- Bill Cosby
Responsible, who wants to be responsible? Whenever something bad happens, it's always, who's responsible for this?
- Jerry Seinfeld
This why alarm clocks have snooze features.
I'm at the age when food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
- Rodney Dangerfield
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
- Kurt Vonnegut
I'll leave you with that. Happy Tuesday.
Posted on 9/06/2016 by dsjohndrow
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