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New York started with a single island. That first island was not Manhattan, but "Nut" Island, now called Governors Island. But the colonists soon expanded to Manhattan and then to Brooklyn. For more than three centuries, the focal point of life in New York City was the bountiful triangle of water, bounded by Brooklyn, Governors Island, and Manhattan. What was once the heart of the city now offers an extraordinary opportunity once again - if we take it.
Governors Island
The first European colonists in our area only took Manhattan after they had a secure foothold on Governors Island. Now, the roles are reversed. Earlier this year the state and city announced the formation of the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation. As part of the deal with the federal government which allowed the return of the island to state control, some type of educational facility is planned. A family entertainment center and artisan workspaces also seem to be on the list. Just last month, the new preservation corporation opened the gate to the island for public tours which are available to both individuals and groups. Wildly popular, (with long waiting lists each week) the collaboration between the preservation corporation, the National Park Service, and the handful of civics involved in organizing the tours (now extended through October) bodes well for the creative problem solving that the island demands. But will the novelty wear off?
Redevelopment of the island is hamstrung by two factors. The first is that nobody uses it now; it is not part of modern New York. Then, the island is accessible only by a ferry from Lower Manhattan and the price of this centuries-old disconnect grows higher. One way to cultivate visitation might be to link with other harbor attractions now. If art and craftsmanship is part of the future of the island then perhaps links to the gallery districts in Chelsea or DUMBO could be created. If tourism is anticipated to become a driving force then the 3+ million annual visitors to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island may want to come learn about New York's colonial history as well.
Brooklyn is close by, with a silent fleet of barges, lighters and container ships passing through Buttermilk Channel daily. Just last year, the state, city, and Port Authority took an important step in creating Brooklyn Bridge Park by consolidating Fulton Ferry Park with a patchwork of city and Port Authority controlled piers (numbered one to five) and other properties between the Manhattan Bridge and south almost to Atlantic Avenue. Now a second phase of planning has been initiated to the south along Piers six to 12 extending down around Atlantic Basin and into Red Hook.
Before any new structures have been built, concerns about commercial development versus open space are growing loud. The Church of Latter Day Saints, for example, has expressed its intent to sell its building on Furman Street, and this prime waterfront property could tie together two currently separated areas of the waterfront (Piers one to five, and Piers six to 12).
South of Atlantic Avenue along Buttermilk Channel, the wave of waterfront redevelopment seems to be crashing up against the bulkhead of Brooklyn maritime activity on Piers six to 12. At this confluence of the Channel, the East River, and the harbor the ecology within the water is almost as complicated as the political ecology on the land. The crux of the issue seems to be whether maritime and port land use still makes sense in this area (a report is expected in late September). Divergent visions for this area defined by Atlantic Avenue to the north and Atlantic Basin to the south range from a new Carnival Cruise Terminal, a beverage distribution center, or a southward extension of Brooklyn Bridge Park. A recent planning exercise by the New Amsterdam Development Corporation showed how low-scale housing might look where containers are now stacked four and six high.
The undeniable physical reality is that on an island home to more than seven million people, maritime trade and transit has to make sense somewhere. In a city where traffic congestion approaches lunacy levels on a near-daily basis, we have to cultivate and stabilize water- based alternatives not just for people but for goods as well.
East River Piers
Across from the Brooklyn Piers are the East River Piers of Manhattan. The canal on Broad Street that brought trade right to the door of today's Stock Exchange has long been filled in, and the river segregated from the prime office district of Lower Manhattan by a highway that is simply too big for its place in the city. Recently the Bloomberg administration convened an advisory committee to ponder new plans for the area that emphasize housing. A consultant is being sought to help think through the challenge of appending this waterfront to the body of Lower Manhattan. While housing needs are pressing, we can't forget what brought us to this spot on the island nearly 400 years ago: transportation.
Yes, Lower Manhattan is important for the commercial, cultural and corporate identities that are all embedded in the words "New York City." But this stretch of Lower Manhattan is even more significant because it's the one place in the city where the water and land transportation systems come together -- where the subway comes right to the water's edge.
Between the Staten Island Ferry Terminal and the Pier 11/ Wall Street Ferry pier lie probably the most underutilized stretch of waterfront in any part of New York City. This area was the commercial and transportation heart of New Amsterdam, largely because it was where the East, the Hudson, and the Harbor converged. Today, the Staten Island Ferry, the Battery Maritime Building (terminal for the Governors Island Ferry), the Port Authority heliport, and the Pier 11 Ferry Terminal at Wall Street make for a linear transit district that could be the basis for tremendous growth if they can be better connected, and possibly bolstered with new transportation uses.
What the Dutch knew and we seem to have forgotten, is that the value of waterfront lies not just in the return on investment, but how the water itself is used. From the founding of New Amsterdam on Governors Island to the creation of the first regularly scheduled ferry service between the shores of Brooklyn and Manhattan in 1642, the connections that were made between these areas over a just a quarter century fueled the growth and enabled a prosperity that lasted over 300 years. We have an opportunity to bring this area to prominence once again.
Carter Craft, an urban planner, is program director of the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance.


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Police slam Connecticut firearms board over permit reversals (document)
Police pushing to get rid of the state Board of Firearms Permit Examiners say it too often overturns their careful decisions on whether someone should be allowed to have a pistol permit and carry a gun.
When considering appeals, the board has overturned permit denials and revocations in slightly more than half the cases in the past two years.
(Prior arrests hinder getting gun permit.)
In 2012, the board overturned the police or first selectman's decisions 76 times, but upheld them in 70 cases, meeting minutes show. In 2011, the pattern was similar, with the board overturning 86 issuing authority decisions, and upholding 80.
Milford police Chief Keith Mello called these numbers "disturbing."
"Law enforcement agencies are putting in effort to determine someone's suitability," Mello said. "When we deny someone, it is because we have determined them to be unsuitable, so it is disturbing when the board overturns those."
According to Mello, Milford police denied a pistol permit due to an individual's narcotics conviction, for example, but the board overturned the decision in October.
"We go through our due diligence and do our best to determine suitability," Mello said. "We base our decisions on any felony convictions and adverse history with law enforcement. We are obviously denying people for a reason. There is a rational basis for it. We are trying to keep communities safe and keep firearms out of the hands of people who are unsuitable to carry a weapon. It is disconcerting when over half of decisions are overturned by the board."
Supporters of keeping the board in place say it gives people a place to fight for their right to get a permit, calling some decisions to deny or revoke them unfair. And they say eliminating the board would make it too costly for people to fight decisions, as people would have to take their appeals directly to Superior Court instead.
"The repeal of the board was requested by the police chiefs' association, because they believe it too frequently reversed the denials for permits," said state Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, D-New Haven.
Looney proposed the bill recently to abolish the board, which considers appeals of both pistol permit denials and revocations.
Cromwell Police Chief Anthony Salvatore, who is the legislative co-chairman for the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association, said it supports the elimination of the board, "or at least exploring other options."
According to Salvatore, some police chiefs have had positive experiences with the board, but others have had problems.
Salvatore said the board has never overturned any of his decisions, and applicants have only challenged his decision twice in two decades.
"We are asking for the legislature to look at the board, see if it is necessary, or look at the make-up of the board, such as if there should be someone from the mental health field," Salvatore said.
The board hears several cases each year and meets monthly, sometimes twice a month. It typically deals with about 15 cases per meeting. Currently, if an individual doesn't like the board's ruling, it can be appealed to Superior Court.
From February through June, the board is scheduled to hear 132 cases, including 65 permit denials and 67 revocations.
The board considers many appeals based on denials and revocations from the state police, with its decisions going both for and against state police, according to board meeting minutes.
State police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said he is not concerned about the board's decisions.
"The process is in place and has been for a long time," Vance said.
If lawmakers decide to keep the board, another option that has been suggested is to change its composition, according to Looney.
"Maybe we need to add a social scientist or a psychologist," Looney said. "I think some change is necessary and it makes sense (to evaluate whether the board should continue as it is.) I think some reform of the board is necessary."
The board members are appointed by the governor, and are a mixture of police, gun organizations and the general public. Members include T. William Knapp, secretary and a retired Wethersfield Police Chief; Chairman Joseph Corradino, who represents the commissioner of the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection; Craig Fishbein, a representative for the Connecticut State Rifle and Revolver Association Inc.; M. Peter Kuck, who represents Ye Connecticut Gun Guild Inc.; Col. Kyle Overturf, who represents the commissioner of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, and two public members, James Greer and Kenneth Tramadeo.
Attorney Ralph Sherman of New Britain has represented several people who either have been denied pistol permits, or have had their permit revoked.
"I see people turned down for all kinds of reasons, some which a lot of people would say are legitimate, but I also see cases where police didn't like the person's skin color, or that their name was hard to spell," Sherman said.
According to Sherman, he represented a woman whose white husband got a permit, but she is dark-skinned, with an unusual sounding name, and she was denied. The woman ultimately got a permit after a hearing before the board, when police didn't show up to defend their decision, Sherman said.
"The reason we have the board is because it is a quick, cheap and fair way to address the problem," Sherman said. "If you eliminate it, you are shutting people out of the justice system. People won't appeal because of it."
The cost of having to take an appeal to court would likely discourage people from pursuing that avenue, according to Sherman.
"The abuses we see now will be encouraged to increase," Sherman said. "It would make Connecticut ripe for a big civil rights lawsuit, because of police chiefs turning people down because of their race or their names."
The state Judicial Branch has no position on the proposal to eliminate the board, said Rhonda Stearley-Hebert, a spokeswoman for the Judicial Branch.
State Rep. Rosa Rebimbas, R-Naugatuck, said she would need to hear more information and testimony.
"The board has been established and has been working well," Rebimbas said. "Why are they asking for this? Is it an ego thing, because people don't want their decisions overturned?"
Rebimbas said she would want hard data on how often any people who got permits because of a board decision go out and commit crimes afterward.
Police reached this past week did not have any statistics on cases in which the board gave out a permit and the individual then committed a crime.
"Common sense would dictate that if something is not broken, don't try to fix it," Rebimbas said. "The last thing we want to do is put a financial burden on people, who'd have to take their case to court and hire an attorney, and bog down our judicial system, if the board is working."
While permit issuing authorities can consider one's "suitability" for a permit now, Looney has also proposed a bill that provides greater detail on what could be considered while determining one's suitability to have one.
The proposal would allow authorities to even consider one's association with persons who are not eligible to obtain a permit, for example.
Looney's bill would give issuing authorities 12 weeks to render a decision instead of eight. It would allow authorities to require applicants to consent to the release of any documents or evidence it reasonably believes will assist in determining suitability. It would delineate that an issuing authority may consider factors such as psychiatric disabilities, attempted suicide, participation in violent crime, arrests or convictions for use or distribution of a controlled substance, military service record, incidents of workplace violence, or any other factors which the issuing authority reasonably believes contributes to the applicant's suitability.
"According to the police chiefs, there are times when there is some disagreement about what is suitable, and there needs to be more clarification," Looney said. "This could and should mean other people in a household."
According to Looney, there have been cases in which a relative without a criminal record applies for a permit, in a household where someone has recently been released from prison.
"Then, the spouse with a clean record applies -- which raises questions," Looney said.
The police chiefs' association would like the extension for determining suitability to 12 weeks because sometimes there are delays in getting background information on candidates from other agencies, according to Salvatore.
"We would like to see suitability addressed, to allow the local chief to require any documentation that is necessary and consider matters like mental health," Salvatore said. "We can consider suitability now, but are asking for a specific definition."
John DeCarlo, a former Branford police chief who is now an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of New Haven, said the bill addressing suitability is a great idea.
"It gives the issuing authority more time and the ability to ask for more documentation," DeCarlo said.
Sherman, however, asserted that police and other issuing authorities abuse the "suitability" standard.
"I've seen police turn people down because a relative has a criminal record," Sherman said. "Police can do almost anything with this 'suitability' standard, and can pretty much turn people down for any reason. It is shameful."
"It is clear Looney wants to give police more power," Sherman added.
New Fairfield First Selectman John Hodge said many applicants appear to be deliberately deceptive on the applications when questioned about prior arrests or convictions.
There are specific cases when an individual doesn't have to acknowledge an arrest, such as if the charge was dismissed or nolled, if they were acquitted or received an absolute pardon.
However, Hodge said he has gotten applications that don't disclose the information that should be disclosed.
"There is great responsibility with owning and carrying a gun, and if you can't get past the first step with honesty and candor, then that is a problem," Hodge said. "There was one gentleman who said he was never arrested, but the background check showed seven different charges. It is not uncommon, and it takes a lot of legwork, and I get frustrated."
Hodge said he has approached state lawmakers about pursuing penalties for people who provide false information, such as making them wait at least a year before being eligible to apply again. While applicants are warned on the application that they could be subject to a second-degree false statement charge, a misdemeanor, if they lie, Hodge said he doesn't believe this is enforced now.
With much of the gun discussion coming in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Looney said his proposals are "not necessarily directly related to the circumstances of the Lanza case."
Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and six adults at the Newtown school on Dec. 14, using a weapon owned by his mother, Nancy Lanza, who he also shot to death.
Police seized a Bushmaster .223 caliber rifle with a high capacity 30-round magazine, a Glock 10 mm handgun, and a Sig-Sauer 9 mm handgun from inside the school, and a 12 gauge shotgun from Lanza's vehicle in the parking lot, according to state police.
The Bushmaster was used on the victims in the school, and Lanza shot himself with a handgun, according to Vance.
Vance has refused to say whether Nancy Lanza had a pistol permit, which allows an individual to carry a pistol, or an eligibility certificate, which allows someone to purchase a firearm and transport it to their home or place of business.
One solely needs an eligibility certificate to purchase the Bushmaster, according to Vance.
Newtown police Chief Michael Kehoe deferred comment to Vance.
The board has indicated they have had not had any hearings involving the Lanza family.
Scott Wilson, president of the Connecticut Citizens Defense League, noted that Adam Lanza committed the murders without any permit.
The 20-year-old Adam Lanza was too young to even apply for either a pistol permit or an eligibility certificate.
"Now that there is a window open after this atrocity, (some lawmakers) are trying to put everything under the sun on the table," Wilson said. "It is not fair to the law-abiding citizens of Connecticut."
Wilson said he thinks the board should remain in place, as he asserted that many denials are made because an issuing authority just doesn't want to issue a permit.
"(The board's hearings are) a fair process, and going to the board is a better option than going to court," Wilson said. "The board has voluntary members who work very hard. They are very fair. If they have an instance where someone is unsuitable, they are going to stand by it. We have a system that works. It would be a shame to force people to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars in court."
Wilson claimed some municipalities make it harder to get permits than others, such as Hartford and New Haven.
"We need an impartial board," Wilson said.
Vance said police don't keep a list of how many permit applicants are rejected and why.
Typically, an applicant will be rejected "because they don't meet the statutory qualifications," Vance said.
Felony convictions, certain misdemeanor convictions, pending restraining or protective orders and being deemed "unsuitable" to carry a pistol or revolver, can result in being denied.
Many cases are withdrawn or resolved before they come before the board.
"We don't keep statistics on how often we side with police versus an appellant," Knapp said. "It truly is on a case by case basis. Sometimes we find for the issuing authority, and sometimes the reasons for the denial were ridiculous and we found for the appellant. Sometimes the appellants have a good day, and other days, people might wonder 'Why bother appeal?'"
In response to proposals to eliminate the board or change who is on it, Knapp said, "I know police chiefs -- I was one. Some have big egos. I can give ridiculous reasons why people have been denied, like vindictiveness -- one chief was getting back at someone who had competed against him for the police chief's job."
"If they want to expand and put a psychiatrist on the board, then do it," Knapp said.
Knapp said he doesn't know of any cases in which someone committed a crime with a gun after the board overruled a permit denial or revocation.
"The board works very hard for long hours," Knapp said. "One time, we went until 5 a.m., and we are volunteers. If there is no board, people who appeal would have to spend money and add to the court docket."
Call Michelle Tuccitto Sullo at 203-789-5707.


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Fast food crave sent drink-driver crashing into tree
A MERRY birthday bash for a mate left Lochlan Philips in strife when his fast food craving sent him crashing into a tree.
Philips, 20, was nearly five times the legal limit when he wrecked his Nissan Patrol 4WD in the crash at Tannum Sands.
Philips pleaded guilty in Gladstone Magistrates Court to driving under the influence at 8.30pm on Sunday, July 31. He had a blood alcohol level of .231.
Magistrate Melanie Ho told Philips it was one of the highest readings to come before her.
Police prosecutor Gavin Reece said witnesses told officers at the scene that Philips struck a tree on the Hampton Dr median strip.
They said he appeared to be heavily intoxicated and in shock.
Philips was taken by ambulance to Gladstone Base Hospital where a blood sample gave the .231 reading.
Lawyer Bradley Krebs said Philips suffered facial injuries including fractured sinuses, broken teeth, cuts and abrasions.
His uninsured Nissan Patrol, worth $6500, was written off.
Mr Krebs said the facts were not in dispute. He said Philips had well and truly got caught up at a friend's birthday party and "overindulged" that afternoon, his judgment significantly impaired.
Mr Krebs said Philips was four kilometres from home when he stopped off at a fast food drive-through.
When Philips drove off he leant down into the passenger footwell to grab his food and the Nissan veered off the road and slammed into the tree.
"He has no traffic history. He is no hoon who needs to be kept on a tight leash," Mr Krebs said.
"He fully co-operated with police and recognises he should not have been driving.
He is not a drinker and it was a one-off binge.
"He did a safety awareness tutorial and has suffered economically."
Mr Krebs said the former rugby league player had to have his dental damage fixed and later faced the cost of having an Interlock device fitted so he could drive, "a further sting in the tail".
Ms Ho fined Philips $1300 and disqualified his licence for 12 months, saying she reduced this because he had no criminal or traffic offences and had done the driving course.
"It is an exceptionally high alcohol reading," Ms Ho said.
"You hit a tree that jumped out in front of you and have suffered a lot."
She said the incident made no sense for someone with no history.


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Ten years ago we bought our lodge. October 30, 2003 Fly Fish Farm was officially established with the goal to achieve for fly fishers a cozy accommodation. Unfortunately the house was at that time not as comfortable as we would wish. To give you an impression how it looked then and how it is now, we give you a tour so you get an idea of then and now, 10 years later!
Enjoy the photos of the old house, and then compare them to the photos how it is now!


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Ocean Odyssey Complex
Expanding Your World View
A while back I was a guest speaker at an aerospace technician class. This was the first semester for the class in a two year program. I asked the students where they planned on working after graduation and to the man/woman, they all said "the Space Shuttle program" at Kennedy Space Center. I pointed out the program would be over by the time they graduated in two years and a look of surprise and dismay crossed their faces. I then asked if they were aware of and could name other space ports in these United States of America and they indicated they were not aware of any others. I proceeded to teach them about the other space ports and to explain that the skills they were learning will be needed there also.
Kennedy Space Center gets all the publicity because of Human Space Flight, but there are currently nine space ports in use and 3 proposed ones. The nearest space port is just right across Mosquito Lagoon from KSC at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS). The primary companies that launch there are United Launch Alliance and SpaceX. (SpaceX also has a launch facility at the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean.) Many unmanned NASA probes, government, and commercial satellites are launched from this facility at multiple launch pads. Also Pegasus launches are conducted from there. CCAFS has been launching rockets since the 1950's.
Further up the east coast is NASA's Wallops Flight Facility at Goddard Space Flight Center. Wallops is responsible for launching sub-orbital and small orbital launches along with testing and research. Wallops has been in business launching these smaller rockets since 1945.
Just next door to Wallops is the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS). MARS launches both commercial and government payloads. MARS has been launching rockets since 2006.
Moving out west, there is the Nevada Test and Training Range responsible for launching sounding rockets and test vehicles. It was formally known as Nellis Air Force Base and is also home to Area 51. They have been launching since the 1950's along with many other activities.
The next launch facility is in New Mexico called Spaceport America. It's most famous resident is Virgin Galactic which will be launching tourists into sub-orbital flight within the next year. Spaceport America also does sub-orbital commercial launches. Spaceport America has been an operating spaceport since 2006.
California has three spaceports, including one that is mobile. First is the Vandenberg Air Force Base which specializes in ballistic missile tests, along with the typical government and commercial satellite payloads. Vandenberg has been launching rockets since the 1950's.
The second California spaceport is the privately owned Mojave Air & Space Port. This facility is famous for the two historic launches of Space Ship One. Mojave Air & Space Port has been operating since 2004.
The third California space port is Ocean Odyssey Complex owned and operated by Sea Launch. Ocean Odyssey Complex is a converted oil rig with associated support ships whose home port is in Long Beach California but does the actual launches at the equator in the Pacific Ocean. Ocean Odyssey Complex has been doing commercial launches since 1999.
If you don't mind the cold, there is the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska. Kodiak is operated by the Alaska Aerospace Development Corporation and specializes in satellite and ballistic missile interceptor launches. They have been in operation since 1998.
There are three proposed space ports that have not yet launched any rockets: Oklahoma Spaceport in Burns Flat OK, Corn Ranch in Van Horn TX, and Spaceport Sheboygan in Wisconsin.
There are also numerous spaceports throughout the world if you feel like working outside of the country. You can find a list of these spaceports along with the appropriate links here.
The point is, though Shuttle work at KSC (though some other work there continues) is coming to a standstill, there is still lots of work at CCAFS (for example SpaceX and ULA) and other spaceports throughout the country and the world for certified aerospace technicians both in government and private companies. Don't limit your talents and skills to just one spaceport. Think outside of the box and the area when it comes to pursuing the career you have chosen.


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Born prematurely, Lillian Yuska struggled to feed, and she suffered from chronic gastrointestinal problems and repeated infections. After years of shuttling her from specialist to specialist, Lillian's parents turned to cutting-edge technology: They had their daughter's genetic code mapped. This genomic sequencing, which began when Lillian was 4, revealed that she had tricho-hepato-enteric syndrome-2, a condition caused by a gene mutation that disrupts gut function and immunity. Only six other children worldwide are known to have the condition.
Families dealing with rare genetic disorders will be the first beneficiaries of genome sequencing. But researchers say the technique may one day help find clues to such common conditions as heart disease and diabetes, which may also be triggered by rare mutations.
"Most common diseases are merely a collection of rare diseases that happen to have the same end point," says David Dimmock, a paediatric geneticist at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) in Milwaukee. In other words, common conditions are actually rare disorders in disguise, which means that the same methods that helped the Yuskas promise to deliver personalized medicine for us all.
Over the past three years, a clinic run by MCW and the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, where Lillian, now 7, was treated, has sequenced the genomes of about 40 patients. It got off to a spectacular start with its first patient.
At age 4, Nic Volker's inflammatory bowel disease was so severe that food in his gut would leak into his abdomen. The clinic's team zeroed in on a genetic mutation that can cause a leukemia-like disorder.
Hoping to avoid that outcome and suspecting that the defect might also be causing Nic's immune system to attack his bowel, his doctors recommended a bone marrow transplant. It worked, and while it was too late to save Nic's colon, he is leading a healthy life today.
Not every diagnosis has led to a similar breakthrough. But for families such as the Yuskas, ending the diagnostic mystery is a huge step forward. For a bleak couple of weeks, the leading contender for Lillian's condition was Fanconi anemia, which typically kills people in their 20s.
Lillian's diagnosis, based on the sequencing of her genetic code, holds more hope: While her health problems won't go away, her life will not necessarily be cut drastically short. "Now we need to find out how best to care for her," says her mother, Danielle Yuska.
Even when the news is the worst possible, families have been grateful to know what's wrong. Dimmock recalls telling the mother of an infant with severe liver disease that the mutations responsible would quickly lead to fatal neurodegeneration. The mother cried, then turned to Dimmock and said: "Thank you. That really helps." The diagnosis meant that her daughter could be spared a liver transplant that would have proved useless.
Geneticists had hoped that heritability of common conditions such as heart disease would be explained in large part by a few relatively common genetic variants. It hasn't turned out that way. Instead, the genetic roots of common disorders seem to be spread across a plethora of rare mutations, some of which may even be unique to their carriers.
This transforms the process of genetic discovery.
To find common disease-causing variants, you might recruit 1,000 people with the condition in question, plus a similar number of controls, and look for variants that seem to be inherited with the disease. But if 1,000 people with the same external symptoms have hundreds of different mutations causing them, finding the gene variants responsible becomes a needle-in-a-
haystack problem.
That might sound hopeless, given that a typical genome contains several million departures from the reference human DNA sequence. But you can winnow down the list of candidates using algorithms that predict whether a variant is likely to disrupt a gene's function. A premature "stop" instruction, for instance, which cuts a protein short, is an obvious candidate for further scrutiny.
These algorithms work in various ways. Some flag mutations if they occur in DNA sequences that differ little from species to species. The thinking goes that if evolution has preserved a gene's sequence, then any change in it is likely to be bad.
Other algorithms are more sophisticated, for instance assessing how gene variants might change a protein's shape, which might affect how it works.
A mutation may be damaging to a protein without causing disease. This is because many of our metabolic pathways have a degree of redundancy, which means that when individual proteins "break," there are often others available to take the strain.
While sequencing methods and the tools used to sift for damaging mutations have advanced far enough to spot single variants causing rare diseases, the signal-to-noise problem becomes more challenging when the symptoms are common. But as our knowledge of rare variants expands and prediction algorithms become more sophisticated, the genome's dark matter should come into view.
Even at this early stage, there are valuable nuggets to be mined from a typical genome. The most useful information surrounds carrier status for genetic disorders and clues about how commonly used drugs are likely to work.
The full benefits of the genomic revolution will come when doctors are routinely able to pick out the rare variants triggering certain symptoms and prescribe drugs that have been specifically designed to correct the biochemical pathways concerned. This may still be decades away.
This article is excerpted from a longer story originally published by New Scientist magazine.


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DRIVERS – Rubens BARRICHELLO (Williams), Jenson BUTTON (McLaren), Felipe MASSA (Ferrari), Daniel RICCIARDO (HRT), Michael SCHUMACHER (Mercedes), Bruno SENNA (Renault).
Bruno, I think, first of all, you've had a pretty busy time since Abu Dhabi because you came straight here?
Bruno SENNA: Yeah, well, to be honest last week I took [off] to rest and to get acclimatised as well. It was a bit cold in Brazil, so I didn't get to enjoy the sun but this week has been very busy and I think it's going to be a very busy weekend overall. But it's a home race so you have to get used to it and get on with it.
Are you excited about the fact it's a home race?
BS: Very excited yeah, it's my second time racing in Brazil and it's the first time I've going to be here in a competitive car so I think it should be an interesting race weekend, lots of pressure but very exciting as well.
You've had less than a half season, how tough has that been and how pleased have you been with the way you've tackled it?
BS: It's been very tough of course, competing with the guys that have tested and have done the whole season. It's not easy: these guys are not joking around here, they are the best drivers in the world and mixing with them is very satisfying. Overall, it's been a good experience, it would have been much better if I'd done the whole thing, for sure, but I think I'm pleased with the results. There have been ups and downs but the performance normally speaks for itself and hopefully we will still finish this race on a high note.
And the future?
BS: Well, that's still up for…ah… [it remains] to be seen, but I'm working very hard for the seat and hopefully we'll know the future as soon as possible.
Rubens, just going back to the last race, that was a great drive from the back of the grid, were you pleased with that?
Rubens BARRICHELLO: I was! I was very pleased and, you know, even more that we had so many conversations with the team because there was some idea that Cosworth wanted to take the engine back to the factory and try to work around the engine, not to break the seal. I said: 'look, if it happens then you're going to have to open it anyway, the engine. I'm not going to use that engine in Brazil because I'm going to pay a penalty.' And the only other engine I had was a Friday engine that already had some mileage, so they said: 'OK, let's take the gamble' and when they broke the seal with the FIA there, they saw that it was such a minor thing. The engine became a ninth engine instead of the eighth, so I paid a penalty – but I was on the back anyway so, I have kind of a fresh engine for here. It was good to race hard in that respect. I didn't finish in the points but I still have a lot of pleasure from the drive.
And what does this race mean to you. This one here?
RB: Well, you ask me that every year!
It probably gets more important every year…
RB: It is! It's getting better. They know already that I've lived 20 years of my life just on the other side of the road and I know pretty much everyone around here. It's a lot of emotion coming to Interlagos and to drive here, so even though I don't have a competitive car you have to put hopes… you have to dream. My dream here this weekend is to put the car in the points and have the best finishing position that I can manage.
And are you worried about the future? What are your feelings about the future?
RB: I think it would be sad to be worried about the future. I had 19 lovely seasons, you can see that as much as I wish Bruno all the success in the future, he's having his second year, one-and-a-half years pretty much, working hard to stay there. I've been there for 19 seasons, I've been doing this for such a long time, I've been wanted for such a long time here, so I feel good. I feel that I still have a lot of youth on me, and it's not something that I'm asking 'please, give me the drive'. If somebody wants me to drive on a competitive basis it's because they believe I can do a very good job – that's why I'm here.
And after Abu Dhabi, presumably you've proved that you still can?
RB: Absolutely. It was really good – but I don't think the results right now would make any change in what people think I can do and what I cannot do. It's based on different parameters. I hope that it's enough to secure me a good drive for next year.
Daniel, a new circuit for you. Have you had a look around? How far have you managed to get so far?
Daniel RICCIARDO: I was here last year playing a reserve role, so had a walk last year and I've done a few laps on the simulator so, yeah, I guess I'm coming to the new circuits already a little bit prepared. Y'know, this is another one the drivers seem to enjoy. It's a short lap here, we go round and round in circles for quite a few laps in Sunday and it's going to be good. I'm looking forward to it. I think like everyone else here, you know, I'm trying to end the season on a high and go home over Christmas and have something to be pleased about.
What are your thoughts on your half-season?
DR: I think it's been not bad. Obviously, it took a while to get the big wheel going but I think I then gained some momentum and have had some pretty good races since then and some good qualifying. Coming in half way through the season, as Bruno said, it's not the easiest thing to do. There's always going to be things that you're not 100 per cent happy about or things you know you could have done better. But there's been a good race along the line and a good qualifying at least so I know definitely the potential is there. Just got to try to put it together more often. I think that comes with experience as well and more time in the car. I'm pretty happy, especially if I'm to finish this weekend on a good note, then I'll be satisfied with the last 10 or 11 races. I don't know, it's gone bloody quick!
What do you know about your future?
DR: Not much! Like a few of us we're not really sure what's happening next year but I think I'll live for the moment and try to do the best I can this weekend and see what comes from there. Hopefully I'll keep Dr Marko and the guys at Red Bull happy and see what opens up for next year – but, yeah, it's not really something I'm prioritising at the moment. My mind's set on the weekend.
Jenson, I'm sure a lot of memories of this circuit. It's where you scored your first point, for example, and where you sealed the World Championship.
Jenson BUTTON: Yes. Lots of very positive memories, so it's great to be back. For me, the memory that really stands out is obviously 2009. Winning your first point means something but winning the Championship means a lot more, so clinching the title here with a race to go was the perfect way to win the World Championship. It wasn't an easy weekend for me obviously, with terrible [time in] qualifying but a great race and a fighting race, which I really enjoyed. So, some very special memories and hopefully this race will be special as well. I've only been on the podium here once. I'd like to stand on the podium again.
And that came all the way from 14th on the grid as well…
JB: Yeah, I think my best qualifying [here] for the last six years has been 14th on the grid so I'm hoping to go a little bit better than that this time.
Also, there's second in the Championship up for grabs, how important is that?
JB: Not so important I suppose. I think it's nice to know over a season you can finish in front of obviously some very good drivers but also some teams. To finish in front of a Red Bull would be great, considering that Sebastian's won the championship in a Red Bull. And Fernando has obviously been very strong in the Ferrari so, if I get the chance to beat them at the end of the season in terms of points, yeah, of course I'll be happy but as we all say, we'd rather come away from here with a victory, that means more to us than finishing second in the Championship – but it's still nice, I suppose, if you can come away with second.
You've almost had a better Championship season than when you won the World Championship. Particularly the second half.
JB: I don't think that's ever the case really if you haven't won the World Championship. The second half of the season in '09 was pretty tough but it's a very different situation now. The Championship's won: we can have a lot of fun this weekend and, looking back on 2011, yeah, I'm pretty happy with what I've achieved. We haven't been quite good enough to win the Championship but I think we've had a pretty strong year and hopefully we can build on what we've achieved this year, next year and really take the fight to Red Bull.
Felipe, obviously you're looking already at next year but this is a very important race for you as well.
Felipe MASSA: Yes, for sure. I think when we have the last race in Brazil you cannot just forget and look at next year. This is a very important race for us. I think for all of us Brazilians this is also like a championship, this race. I think when you race at home it's like a different championship. So we try to do the best we can here. I'm happy to already have achieved two victories here in Sao Paolo, in Brazil and looking forward to having another strong weekend and just thinking about this race 100 per cent. And then on Sunday after the race just move everything to next year, which I definitely hope will be much better than this year.
What do you think you can give to your tifosi this weekend?
FM: Well, for sure we have the same car from the Championship. No new parts on the car but I think when you race at home it's better. I think you feel extra power and everything from the people and I think it's a help. I hope definitely I can have a good weekend here fighting for the podium. If it is the first place, that would be fantastic but I'm definitely looking to have my best result from the Championship in this race.
And as well as those two wins, three consecutive pole positions as well, so it's been a good circuit for you.
FM: It's the place where I started my career, over the other side of the wall, which we always say here, which is in the go-kart track in the other side. And then when I was 16 I moved to this side and started my career here at this track. It's a very special track for all of us and it also a great feeling to race here in Formula One in a place that I always came to as a kid to watch Ayrton and Nelson – not Emerson! – but it's a place that's so special for me.
Michael, again a driver with a lot of memories here: 2006 is one of our great memories, which is yours?
Michael SCHUMACHER: Obviously, having been around for so long there are many special memories but yes, 2006 was a particular one. Last race before the retirement and a pretty special race that initially, after the puncture I got, I thought 'might as well go into the pits and start the party early', but then I thought 'give it try and see where you go'. It turned out to be a memorable race and a very exciting one.
You've also had a lot of podiums. Not just the four wins but six podiums as well.
MS: Yes, it worked out over the years. It's a very interesting and very challenging circuit and we seemed to have the right car and combination to do well here in the past.
I'm intrigued that you're still making progress or seem to be making progress with the Mercedes. Even though you're not necessarily putting new bits onto it you are seeming to understand it and getting more pace from it. It seems extraordinary.
MS: I'm not sure it's actually true. Each car has a certain character and certain tracks may fit better or not so good to it. Maybe lately we've had some tracks that fit the car well. Certainly since mid-season from our side we are able to maximise the potential of the car, a lot more consistent which I'm obviously glad about.
And is that going to be the case here? Do you feel this is going to be a circuit that suits it?
MS: Ah well, I'll tell you later.
Q: (Andrew Benson – BBC Sport) Jenson, when you joined McLaren, you talked about the challenge of taking on Lewis in the same team, and since then you've talked about him being one of the fastest drivers there's ever been, so what does it mean to you to finish ahead of him over a season?
JB: You would think I would have a good answer for this by now; I've been asked it enough times. When you're working closely with a teammate, when you're off the track you're sharing everything, trying to make the car go quicker and trying to improve your performance compared to other teams, which is the way it should be. But when you're on the circuit, you obviously both want to get the best out of the car, which means beating your teammate is necessary. I think if we're fighting for the World Championship and one of us came out on top it would be a very special feeling but we're not in that position right now but for me, I'm happy with what I've achieved this year in terms of getting the best out of the car and getting some reasonably good performance. For me, Japan really stands out as being a great race, but also some other races that we haven't been able to win, so I take more comfort from just the results I've got out of…on a race weekend, and also how I've felt that I've done over a race weekend. It's not so much about whether you beat your teammate over a whole season, because so many things can happen: reliability issues, incidents that maybe aren't your fault. I think if you clinch the title, as you said, it makes a big big difference, but when you're fighting for second it's not quite the same.
Q: (Livio Oricchio – O Estado de Sao Paulo) In the last race we saw that some drivers could overtake the competitor in front, and the following straight you could get the position back. Here there is more or less a similar situation: we have a great pit straight and then you brake hard and then you have another straight where you can use the DRS. Do you believe you will be in the same situation as you were in the last race?
FM: I think you can. If you have overtaken the car on the main straight, which is the better place for overtaking, without using DRS, it is possible you can be overtaking again at the next one, because in the next one you're going to have the DRS. I think it can be the same situation. For sure, maybe it could be the same as what happened in the last race.
MS: I think that if you are able to pass on the main straight, you would actually definitely be the quicker car, because you do it without DRS and then the chicane itself should be enough to clear yourself so that the guy behind shouldn't have sufficient power, even with DRS, to then re-pass you, so you probably only pass at equal speed on the back straight, because of the DRS, but it shouldn't be similar to what we saw in Abu Dhabi.
JB: I agree. I'm in the middle.
MS: I don't think it was contradictory of what Felipe was saying. It's just an add-on.
BS: I agree with Jenson!
JB: Good to hear!
Q: (James Allen – Financial Times) For Michael and Rubens; you both obviously raced here in the days when Ayrton raced here and it was a very, very special atmosphere, with the drums going – incredible days. I wonder, when you arrive here on a Thursday and you get out of your hire car and you look around at the atmosphere here, do you ever think of him?
RB: I think for me, obviously, it's a different thing to what Michael's going to answer because by being a Brazilian, I lived by Ayrton for most of the time. People still talk about him a lot, it's a time now of his commemoration of the three times World Champion, so it's very special, very, very special. I'm so proud that I was here a couple of times when I raced with him on the same track, and I was here with the same buzz from the people. Even though we haven't been so successful as he was, we still have a lot of good feeling with the crowd to hear our names and to hear this feeling, to feel that makes me always feel that Senna is involved, because people always remembered that, whenever they were cheering, it's because of him, because of Nelson, because of Emerson, but I think even more from Ayrton.
MS: He's certainly someone you will always have in your memory. For me, it goes way back to when I saw him in his go-kart days, becoming a fan of what he was doing, particularly in these go-kart days because I think he has been so exceptional and so special. And then being able to race him over here and having had those years together, it's a privilege and I'm very honoured to have done so. It's great to see that none of us – and even outside – forget what Ayrton has done, as if it was yesterday. It's so fresh, he's just around and that's great.
Q: (Tales Azzoni – Associated Press) This is for Michael but the other drivers can comment too: what are your impressions of the rule changes to improve racing this year? Do you think it's had a positive impact, as the season comes to an end?
MS: It's about DRS, I guess. To me, I think it is very obvious that we have improved big time. We have had incredible races this year. I take one particular example and I think it's pretty fresh still, and that's Korea. If you think about the fight that Mark Webber and Lewis had together over there; without DRS, it would have been nowhere close, we wouldn't have seen anything. It would have just been a normal kind of old traditional kind of race and in that respect, it may not always work out perfectly, there's a little room to improve the situation but in general it has contributed a lot to some great racing.
JB: Personally, I think it's brought a lot to the racing. You obviously have races where you think it's too easy to overtake, there are always going to be negatives to something like that, but I think the positives outweigh the negatives and I think we've had some great racing this season on circuits where we've never had overtaking before, especially with two competitive cars, you can have a bit more of a fight now. Even if it doesn't make the pass for you, it can bring you a lot closer so that you can have a go elsewhere on the circuit. I think DRS on its own is good but personally I feel that having KERS has really helped us this year. I think we can really use it to our advantage, to overtake and obviously to try and block a position, so that, for me, has been as big as DRS.
RB: I enjoy it very much. I think it's been an incredible year and the fact that in life, sometimes you can see people are never happy with that, because I heard for 20 years that there wasn't enough overtaking in Formula One and all of a sudden I'm hearing people saying there's too much! It's just 18 races and they come up with numbers saying that there's been a hundred overtaking manoeuvres so it looks a bit too easy, but I think it has been quite good. It's still difficult to follow the car in front because the cars are going fast because of its aerodynamic balance, and whenever you have something that destroys that, you basically don't follow the car, so the DRS has helped. It is true that sometimes it may make it too easy, sometimes it wasn't enough, so I think the FIA had all the good numbers to make the show even better for next year. So I'm very much in favour of that. Obviously the new people that come into Formula One will still have to get their hands on the buttons and everything, which we were complaining about at the beginning of the year. Now it has become a much easier thing because we've got used to it, but the new guys will have to adapt to that and I hope there's not too many new guys, so that the old one are kept on. We are used to it, so it's fine.
Q: (Dan Knutson – National Speedsport News) Rubens, looking back to your first ever F1 race, what one thing stands out to you about that weekend in South Africa?
RB: To be very honest with you, I was over the moon. I'm not an anxious guy but I remember that I was sleeping a little bit less, because I woke up very early to go to the track, I was ready to go at any time, but for me, whenever Ayrton came walking to my garage to offer me help, if I needed anything – for me, that's been my weekend at Kyalami.
FM: And he had a lot of hair at that time!
RB: Someone who talks about hair, you should have a look whenever it's raining and he's running in the rain, because now it's combed and it's OK, but you should have a look when he's running. It looks worse!
FM: I think it's better if we stop, huh?
RB: We're going to be fighting even over that now!
Q: (Alessia Cruciani – La Gazzetta dello Sport) Felipe, do you have any news about your new front wings, the problems?
FM: Well, we're going to have all these front wings from the last three races here again and I hope it's not going to shake. I'm looking forward to run these front wings without any problems.
Q: (Bob McKenzie – Daily Express) Bruno, the success of the Senna film all around the world seems to have re-awakened – for a lot of people – memories of the great man. Has that also increased pressure on you and what's it like being here? Can you walk around the streets, do people expect you to deliver what he delivered?
BS: No. The movie has only awakened the spirit of Ayrton to people. People come to comment about the movie all the time. Everybody's completely touched by the movie, but that hasn't changed anything from my perspective at all. The most that people will go to when they talk about me in the movie is when they see me driving the boat with Ayrton and stuff like that but not really about my racing. People in general, especially in Brazil, are very supportive of my very short Formula One campaign so the pressure is on, it's been on since I started and it's not going to change for sure. Yes, I can walk about the streets. People recognise me but they don't attack me. I'm not any type of superstar or Hollywood film star so it's alright. I bet Rubens and Felipe have much more of an issue with that. They also look much better, of course.
RB: They tell me Bruno looks very good in the film, but he's grown and he's got a different face. It looked very pretty in the film, that's what people tell me.
BS: We'll see when I get to your age...
RB: As long as you will have some hair that's fine.
Q: (Rodrigo Gini – Estado de Minas) Question especially for Felipe and Bruno: you've both had problems with stewards' decision in the last races; Felipe in India and Bruno also. How do you feel about it, how do you expect them to behave here, are you satisfied with the stewards' decision, because racing is much closer this year and it tends to create some situations that sometimes you may not agree with.
FM: I'm sure they will behave much better than in India, I'm sure.
BS: I blame it on Jenson anyway! No, when there is a situation where people are judging then there is variability unfortunately so sometimes you can get away with it, depending on the way it looks, sometimes you can't. I think we all want the same thing happening to everybody and in the same situation. This will probably never be the case but whenever we have our meetings with Charlie and the FIA, we try to put our perspectives in front of them and I think it just gets better and better every time we come up with something, so let's hope that everybody gets the same treatment every time.
Q: (Kate Walker – Girl Racer) Now that we have a whole season under our belts of racing on the Pirelli rubber, I was wondering if you could tell us what effect you think that's had on overtaking as opposed to KERS and DRS?
JB: Yes, I think it has helped. I think that at the start of the season, especially, when we were trying to work out what the tyres were like and how many laps they would run and what the degradation was like, I think there was a lot of overtaking. Some of it came from looking after the tyres but also a lot of it came from people pitting, coming back out onto the circuit and being two or three seconds quicker than other cars. It seems a little bit different now, the degradation of the tyre doesn't seem to be as high, it doesn't seem to drop off a cliff like it did earlier this year. Maybe that's just our car, I don't know, but that's the way it seems. It seems that they are more conservative with the choice of tyres towards the end of the season, meaning that the degradation is lower and I think that that will be the case here also. I personally liked it at the start of the year when we had a lot of degradation, I thought that was more fun but personally I feel that Pirelli's done a great job this year. To come into Formula One… you know you can't hide coming into Formula One. I think that they've done a great job, they've definitely been a part of the action this year. There's been a lot of great overtaking and some of it does come down to tyres. So yeah, I think KERS, DRS and the Pirelli tyres have all worked very well together. We've just got to hope that it doesn't change too much next year.
RB: If you want to have the degradation I still have it! You can have mine. I think it's fun, the way it is. Obviously when you give a tyre to a driver you're talking about more or less grip, you're always trying to go for more grip and the faster you go, the more pleasure you have, so at the beginning of the year, I think everyone had to adapt a little bit, not that the Pirelli was worse than the Bridgestone, it was just different and you had to treat the tyres differently. That was the special feeling about it and when we talked about grip, in testing it seemed that it was not enough with the temperature that we had there, but then when we went racing, there was a lot of overtaking and I think Pirelli had done a really good job to actually help that. So together with the DRS and the KERS, I think the show has improved and let's hope that's the way Formula One's going to be for the long term.
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Garvey Group Obtains Schawk Large-Format Division
NILES, IL—The Garvey Group announced it has acquired the wide-format printing division of Schawk Inc., a brand management firm. The new facility will be rebranded as The Garvey Group West Large Format Facility, and will remain in Los Angeles.
"I am thrilled that we were able to make this important acquisition, and I am convinced that all customers and employees will benefit greatly as we join together to offer a full range of digital, lithographic and creative services," said Ed Garvey, owner and CEO of The Garvey Group, who represents the third generation of his family to run the 94-year-old business. "This acquisition continues our development as one of the most sophisticated, technology-driven strategic marketing partners in our industry."
The Garvey Group's operations in Niles, IL, specializes in printing point-of-purchase displays, packaging and box wraps, while the company's Milwaukee, and Sturtevant, WI, plants focus on digital and custom commercial printing, marketing collateral and distribution services. The Garvey Group West produces out-of-home signage for major clients, including some of the biggest brand names in the film industry, the electronics world and the retail sector.
"The inclusion of this facility in our group provides the opportunity to work with new customers and develop new business connections, to grow our presence in the West and to provide expanded production resources for all of our customers," Garvey added.
In other company news, The Garvey Group recently installed a new 110˝ Saber XXL paper cutter from Colter & Peterson.


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Jess's work has been exhibited internationally at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the Aperture Foundation, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, the Catherine Edelman Gallery, the Griffin Museum of Photography, and at many colleges and universities nationwide.
Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Harvard Art Museums, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum and the Alfond Collection at Rollins College, the DePaul Art Museum, Fidelity Investments, JP Morgan Chase, and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. Her work is also included in the Midwest Photographer's Project at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, IL.
Dugan's monograph Every Breath We Drew was published in 2015 by Daylight Books and coincided with a solo exhibition at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum. Dugan is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, an Artist Fellowship from the Regional Arts Commission in St. Louis, and was selected by the White House as a 2015 Champion of Change. In that year, Dugan founded the Strange Fire Artist Collective to highlight work made by women, people of color, and LGBTQ artists. In 2016, Dugan was honored as a Commended Artist by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. for her photograph Self-Portrait (Muscle Shirt), exhibited in The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today. She regularly teaches workshops at venues including the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, and the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops in Santa Fe, NM.
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Trains multiply choices
Having devoted many years to dealing with rail transportation issues, I must firmly disagree with the arguments that Janis Jaquith put forth in her April 7 essay ["Trojan train: Keep D.C. a car commute away"] opposing improvement of rail passenger service to Washington, D.C.
For travel to that city, local residents at present have available only one daily train and one thrice-a-week train, so nearly everybody opts to drive individually. This adds to fossil fuel consumption and pollutes the environment, particularly when gasoline is wasted during the almost inevitable jam-ups on Interstate 66 (not to mention stops at the numerous traffic lights that have sprouted like dandelions all along U.S. Route 29).
There are perhaps hundreds of business travelers each day from the Charlottesville area to Northern Virginia, some weekend commuters heading up to D.C. jobs (perhaps staying in an apartment as I did when working at USDOT from 1992 to 1997), plus certainly hundreds (maybe thousands) of UVA students going to and from home on weekends. So the market is already there for having more trains that would provide a benefit to the environment by reducing auto trips to D.C. by current residents of this area.
Her likening of Albemarle County to unspoiled tropical paradises seems a stretch, since this area is already becoming spoiled by unbridled development that is smothering the utility of Route 29 as a formerly efficient intercity travel corridor.
Development pressures are arising due to growth in the present local population, plus the more-than-decade-long touting of this area among the well-to-do and retirees as a #1 place to live. The absence or presence of train service will have little effect on the existing momentum of the development juggernaut being propelled by in-migration.
But gaining more trains to D.C. will create a larger palette of choices for regular commuters or occasional travelers, will lessen congestion along Route 29, may see fewer young people killed in auto wrecks, and will reduce the demand pressure that is pushing up prices of a gasoline supply that is now limited by refinery capacity constraints and the declining quality of untapped reserves.
Our community needs more choice in transportation options, and getting more intercity trains onto the schedule is the way to go.
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In the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan, Palestinian children play surrounded by heavily armed officers and large Israeli flags fluttering on top of the nearest settlements.
Silwan is a highly militarized area due to the presence of Jewish settlements in the occupied neighbourhood, where around 500 settlers live among 45 000 Palestinians.
According to the Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem, the settlements "infringe the right of the local Palestinians to freedom of movement, privacy and security." The constant presence of security forces "intimidate the residents" and limit their movements, even of children wanting to play near their homes.
Bashar Jamal, advocacy offer for Defense for Children International, warns that children in Silwan are "subjected to various forms of violence". Experts are concerned about the psychological toll of the violence in the neighbourhood, as children suffer from fear and anxiety.
"When I go to school the soldiers are always there. Once there were clashes close to my school, there was a lot of tear gas. I don't like the stun grenades, the sound is frightening. Sometimes when I have to pass by soldiers I am afraid one of the boys will do something and the soldiers might arrest us," says 12-year-old Amjad.
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E-Discovery: Team EffortBy Elizabeth Millard Print
Discovery in legal cases may require a whole lot more of your company's stored data than you know. And it's your boss, the CIO, who will be responsible for making that data available to the legal team. Here are some tips for mitigating the electronic discovery chain.
Team Effort
Although e-discovery is driving more awareness of protocols and procedures at some companies, that doesn't seem to be the case in most firms.
Storage firm Kroll Ontrack performed a survey of in-house counsel, focusing on how they managed ESI in litigation and internal investigations. The study showed that only about 25 percent of U.S. in-house counsel claim to be fully up-to-speed with all case law, developments and regulations related to ESI, and the percentage is even smaller in the United Kingdom, the other country covered by the survey. Of all respondents, about half noted that they don't have any ESI policy.
Although the survey covered just in-house counsel, respondents reported that primary responsibility for ESI strategy development could be found in other departments. About half the companies had in-house counsel as the ESI leaders, but among the others, those accountable might include CIOs, IT managers, CFOs, HR managers and compliance officers.
"The most interesting part here is where the blame gets put if something goes wrong with e-discovery," said Michele Lange, Kroll Ontrack director. "In-house counsel tends to blame the CIO as well as themselves if the company is sanctioned, even if the CIO isn't directly responsible for setting the policies."
She suggests that CIOs create a data map of the company to show how data is being transferred inside and outside the firewall, and also where it's being stored. "How accessible is this data if you have to produce it in litigation?" she notes. "Is it something that requires a Herculean effort to get to, or can you get it fairly inexpensively? These are the kinds of questions to ask during a tabletop drill, when you go through hypothetical situations."
Another strong approach is to develop a team-based effort, in which C-level executives and department heads from HR and accounting are brought together to learn about how to store information, Hathaway says.
It won't do much good, for instance, if the CIO has a stellar storage strategy in place, but HR and accounting are digitally shredding all documents more than a few months old. And if it's found that information has been erased, it could be even more damaging to a case than if it's used by the other side, Ziff adds.
"You're almost highlighting it by deleting it," he says. "These days, if other departments aren't properly trained by CIOs in how to handle potential litigation situations, all they're doing is creating liability."
What e-discovery preparation essentially boils down to, Hathaway believes, is the CIO's ability to emphasize that all information is company property, whether it's a voice mail, text message, or personal e-mail on the company's network.
Staying current on regulatory policies, creating a plan for information retrieval, and training departments on proper document and communication preservation can go a long way toward dealing with e-discovery, rather than getting derailed by it.
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by Aquverse |
Item # 10783
|Model # 5H |
About this item
- Commercial Grade Series Hot/Cold Water Cooler
- Energy Star®
- Heavy Duty Construction
- Patented Leak Prevention
- Stainless Steel Tanks
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current price: $223.98
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Aquverse is proud to be the first commercial grade water cooler manufacturer to offer the general public a water cooler with true commercial-grade construction and a sleek, contemporary design.
The Aquverse Commercial Grade series provides you with the same heavy-duty framework and internal hardware of the high-end coolers traditionally leased and sold through national water delivery companies, but at a significant cost savings. While they are durable enough to withstand years of abuse and heavy traffic, they also have a contemporary design that fits perfectly into any home or office décor, and a whisper-quiet running sound that will ensure they go unnoticed except when they're in use.
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- LG high-efficiency compressor with the lowest cycle rate available ensures a long lifespan
- Convection cooling with internally spring-mounted, hermetically sealed compressor with automatic overload protector
- High-volume, 304 electro polished stainless steel hot and cold tanks with internal heating coils and copper refrigerant lines ensure no off taste to water
- Energy Star® compliant for exceptional energy efficiency
- Cold Rolled Metal sides are treated to be fingerprint and smudge resistant and clean up easily with a damp cloth
- Super cold and hot output (38 - 58 degrees cold and 185 degrees)
- Fast fill rate (16oz. in less than 8 seconds!) and deep fill area for large sport bottles and containers
- Heavy-duty hardware and encased metal external construction makes units rugged and durable
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- Removable and dishwasher-safe splash guard for easy insertion and removal of 5-gallon bottles
- Push style faucets offer comfort and ease with patented child safety hot water protection
- Removable dishwasher-safe drip tray
- Hot tank on / off switch
- Built-in handle on back of unit for easy tote and carry
- Fits any standard 110 volt socket
- Steel body and internal construction High-density polyethylene cabinet does not rust or corrode (3H)
- Adjustable cold water thermostat – factory set for maximum efficiency
- UL, NSF certified
- Product Color: Available with midnight black high-gloss front and cold rolled steel sides, clear push style faucets
- Electrical: Takes a standard household 110v outlet
- Refrigerant Type: R134a
- UL-Listed: Yes
- Construction: High-density polyethylene cabinet with cold rolled steel side panels
- Quantity of Cold Water Served Per Hour (GPH): 0.9GAL of 50°F/HR
- Quantity of Hot Water Served Per Hour (GPH): 2GAL of 185°F/HR
- Hot Water Thermostat: Yes - temperature is controlled to 185° F
- Cold Water Thermostat: Yes - temperature is controlled to 35.6° to 53.6° F
- Removable Drip Tray Type: One-piece ABS plastic
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- Product Dimensions: 12.3" (W) x 12.7" (D) x 37.9" (H)
- Product Weight: 37 pounds
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