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Pristiq is considered a next-generation antidepressant drug because of its ability to block the uptake of two neurotransmitters in the brain, serotonin and norepinephrine. Pristiq and other drugs of this kind are called SNRIs, or serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, and are considered to be slightly more effective in treating depression than selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), which act upon serotonin alone. In the past SSRIs were the most popular antidepressants on the market, although they may soon be replaced by SNRIs like Pristiq, which have shown success in relieving depression and improving certain mood disorders. The active ingredient in Pristiq is desvenlafaxine, which is a synthetic form of venlafaxine, sold under brand names Effexor and Efexor. Pristiq was approved by the FDA in 2008 for the treatment of major depressive disorder in adults and can be found in 50mg and 100mg extended-release tablets for oral consumption.
According to a number of antidepressant side effect studies, women who take certain antidepressants during pregnancy may significantly increase their chances of giving birth to infants with one or more serious side effects, particularly life-altering birth defects. One of the most dangerous birth defects allegedly associated with antidepressants like Pristiq is PPHN, or persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn. PPHN is a severe congenital malformation in which a child's circulation continues to bypass the lungs after birth, depriving the rest of the body of oxygen. Without a sufficient supply of oxygen over a period of time, the body's critical organs and tissues may suffer significant damage and begin to shut down. PPHN is an extremely dangerous condition and can lead to life-threatening complications like shock, seizures, heart failure, brain hemorrhage, kidney failure, mass organ damage, and death.
Although the majority of antidepressant side effect studies have concentrated on SSRI drugs in particular, mostly because these drugs have been around for a longer period of time, the similarities between SSRIs and SNRIs like Pristiq may allow researchers to examine SSRI antidepressant research in order to evaluate the potential side effects of SNRI antidepressants like Pristiq. In 2006, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study in which researchers found a shocking six-fold increased risk of PPHN among infants exposed to certain antidepressants after the twentieth week of pregnancy, compared to unexposed infants. According to researchers, up to twelve out of 1,000 infants exposed to an SSRI during pregnancy developed PPHN, compared to the expected rate among the general population, which is one to two infants out of 1,000. Shortly after reviewing the results of this study, the FDA issued a public health advisory warning patients and healthcare providers about the increased risk of PPHN among infants exposed to SSRI antidepressants in utero. The FDA also required all sponsors of SSRIs to change prescribing information to include the potential risk for PPHN.
Pristiq has been labeled a pregnancy category C medication by the FDA, a category reserved for drugs with the potential to cause serious harm to a fetus when taken during pregnancy. Because of this alleged danger, the FDA has advised healthcare professionals to avoid prescribing Pristiq to pregnant women unless the possible benefits of the treatment outweigh the potential risks to the fetus. If you are currently pregnant or planning to become pregnant, and you are taking Pristiq, consult your physician to discuss alternative treatment options. It may be dangerous to terminate use of a prescription medication without medical consent, but your doctor may be able to help you find a safer way to treat your condition.
Despite the potential dangers associated with antidepressants like Pristiq, these drugs remain on the market available to millions of consumers, including pregnant women. If you or a loved one has suffered from a birth defect and you believe Pristiq to be the cause, contact a Pristiq attorney to discuss the benefits of filing a Pristiq lawsuit against Wyeth Pharmaceuticals (Pfizer). The goal of Pristiq lawsuits and potential Pristiq class action lawsuits is to seek financial compensation for your injuries and medical expenses, as well as the pain and suffering endured by you and your family. Defective drug lawsuits also bring public attention to the importance of safe medications and the need for more strict regulations on the dangerous drugs already on the market.
Drug companies like Wyeth are responsible for the safety and effectiveness of their medications, and should be held accountable for any adverse side effects sustained by consumers of their products. Unfortunately, some pharmaceutical companies deny liability for dangerous drug injuries in order to shield themselves from negative consequences, such as a drug recall. This dishonest practice prevents injury victims from receiving the reimbursement they are entitled to, leaving them to shoulder the financial burden associated with birth defect medical bills on their own. The only way to protect your rights as a consumer and collect the compensation you deserve is to hire a qualified Pristiq lawyer to represent your case.


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PARLIAMENT has asked the police to investigate allegations a former police and crime commissioner lied to MPs when he gave evidence to a Commons committee about the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal.
The Home Affairs Select Committee has referred the allegations against Shaun Wright, former South Yorkshire PCC, to the Metropolitan Police for investigation.
In a statement, the committee said tonight: "The Home Affairs Committee has received two complaints alleging that a witness who was examined on oath by the former Committee in the last Parliament deliberately misled the Committee.
Read on… http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/shaun-wright-to-be-investigated-by-police-over-claims-he-lied-to-parliament-about-rotherham-abuse-scandal-1-8240105
Rotherham ex-police commissioner accused of perjury
A shamed former police commissioner faces criminal investigation for alleged perjury over claims that he lied to MPs about the Rotherham sex-grooming scandal.
Shaun Wright is said to have deliberately given misleading evidence under oath when he was summoned before a parliamentary inquiry. When he answered MPs' questions in 2014 the South Yorkshire police and crime commissioner was clinging to his job after a report found that 1,400 Rotherham children were groomed and sexually exploited between 1997 and 2013.
Mr Wright, 48, who had also been a Labour councillor in Rotherham with responsibility for children's services from 2005-10, finally stood down from the £85,000-a-year post a week after his appearance at a session of the Commons home affairs committee, at which one MP called him "the least credible witness I've ever come across".
Read on… http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/rotherham-ex-police-commissioner-accused-of-perjury-7whbxf3fs
Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KhUYVkze0k&w=560&h=315%5D

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At first it seemed this week would be a little barren of great games. The App Store doesn't seem to have fully recovered from its holiday break (too much eggnog and champagne, surely), and there don't seem to be all that many new titles popping up. However, the App Store is alive and well, if […]
At first it seemed this week would be a little barren of great games. The App Store doesn't seem to have fully recovered from its holiday break (too much eggnog and champagne, surely), and there don't seem to be all that many new titles popping up. However, the App Store is alive and well, if a little groggy, and we found some great casual games this week, including one that will really test your hearing abilities, and probably spook you a little bit too.
Papa Sangre ($6.99)
One of the more innovative uses of the iPhone's hardware yet released is Papa Sangre, a game without a visual component. If it sounds strange, it is: the game requires you to "see with your ears," and uses iOS 4's binaural audio capabilities, along with a pair of headphones, to put you into a darkened world where your only reliable sense is what you hear. Movement is handled with touchscreen controls, but they're very simple — a swipe turns your head so you can zero-in on a sound, and two touch buttons handle walking, one for each foot. Once Papa Sangre stops holding your hand to teach you how to play, the action really picks up, forcing you to avoid monsters in the darkness and really concentrate on what you're hearing, and where it's coming from. Papa Sangre is a very interesting, well-executed idea, best played in the dark to capitalize on its excellent, creepy sound design.
I Must Run! (Free)
I've got to admit, I'm getting a little tired of the rooftop runner genre: the games where your character endlessly runs and it's your job to tap the screen at the right time to cause him or her to jump, avoiding obstacles, monsters and gaps that would lead to death. They're a dime a dozen right now in the App Store (or actually, more like $0.99 each), and it's hard to come by one that has much in the way of inspiration. I Must Run! (which is still free thanks to FreeAppADay) is refreshing because it does have some inspiration, as well as a story and an ending. All the running your character does has a purpose, and time is of the essence: his wife is in danger, and that means escaping from prison, punching through all manner of obstacles, and running full-bore through five different levels. I Must Run! can get pretty tough, which is nice, and it changes up the formula by giving you the option to jump, punch obstacles with a well-timed hit, and slide under objects. A little variety in controls, high production values, and a goal in mind (plus a great comic-like opening cutscene for atmosphere) really help elevate this one.
Monkey Labour ($1.99)
It might be a bit of a novelty, but Monkey Labour nails its intended target in terms of nostalgia. The game pretty accurately recreates an old Game & Watch device — you know, one of those old hand-held video games that makes a lot of beeps and uses static black images moved around the screen by the player. If you've ever seen a Tiger Electronics game from the early 1990s, you know the graphical style. Monkey Labour is simple and addictive the same way those games were. As a robot, you have to move bricks from a pile to a furnace in order to stoke the fire, hoping to burn the monkey boss on the floor above. The monkey, for his part, hates you and is throwing bricks in your path the whole time. It's a simple concept, with simple controls, but things get hectic in a hurry and Monkey Labour can be a lot of time-killing fun. It also supports leaderboards through Game Center, so your arcade skills can be shared with everyone.
I Love Strawberries ($0.99)
Everything about I Love Strawberries is surprising, because outwardly, it looks like yet another cartoony casual game meant to appeal to children — of which there are many. And then you accidentally impale your limbless gray cube of a character on some spikes, and realize Atari has worked in at least a little wry humor with its addictive gameplay. Since your cube has no limbs, but still wants to collect strawberries scattered around each puzzle level (hence the name!), you have to help it jump around. Holding one thumb against the screen preps the jump, and the cube will turn red from bottom to top to signify how strong the jump will be. You aim where you'll end up by tilting your phone — and that's it. But the key is proper planning; you're scored by how many strawberries you nab and how few jumps you use, so seeing where you'll land and where you have to go next before your first move is key to mastering this one, but that'll take a while.
Save Toshi ($1.99)
I enjoyed casual puzzler Save Toshi almost immediately upon firing it up, but I was really sold the first time I accidentally killed my little digital Japanese pop star. You see, Toshi is standing atop different objects, and while she loves to dance, she's unable to walk. So you've got to break, slide, and knock over the objects she's standing on in order to drop or catapult her onto a nearby dance floor to complete each level. Trouble is, your only means of helping out is with a gun, so you can't shoot Toshi — she'll die. And you can't botch the puzzles or knock Toshi into the surrounding water, or she'll die. It seems Toshi dies a lot, which is itself funny because of the 3D game's cute anime-style graphics and the whole "get Toshi to the dance floor" premise. The puzzles are innovative in a sort of amped-up Angry Birds-type way, and rotating the camera around each puzzle level and addressing obstacles from different angles is a must. Save Toshi is a clever game and a new take on this sort of one-off casual puzzler, and it'll definitely keep you busy.


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Are you an action taker? I'm a big believer in investing in your business through continuing education and mentorship. But sometimes you have to take everything you've read, watched, and learned, and put it into action. All that education without implementing what you've learned isn't going to make you successful. I've made that mistake plenty of times.
At first glance, that seems pretty obvious, but is it really?
If you spend all of your time gaining new skills, that doesn't leave much time to take action. We all only have 24 hours in a day. You have to be stingy with your time, carefully choosing the best ways to work on your business.
I am not at all saying that you shouldn't spend any time furthering your business education. Far from it. The online world changes so quickly, if you didn't spend any time honing your skills you would quickly fall behind.
But you have to put what you learn into practice. After all, practice makes perfect. Over time, you will be able to spend more time testing your skills and less time reading and learning.
How to Learn in the Beginning
The biggest learning curve in understanding the ins and outs of your business is at the very beginning.
You're excited about your new venture but you have to learn everything about running your business at the same time. There are a ton of moving parts, which can make the learning process more than a little bit stressful. You're wearing all the hats. At times, you might wish there was a fast forward button that could take you straight to the "good parts".
Start by looking for blogs, books, and products created by those who are experts in your niche.
I strongly suggest finding a good mentor. They can help to dramatically speed up the learning process and reduce the amount of mistakes from the start.
One community I have found that includes an amazing number of resources and is run by experts in the online world is this one. If you're looking for an inexpensive way to get access to people who know what they're doing and TONS of resources, check it out.
As you get going, things will start to make more sense. It might seem overwhelming, but if you're at that stage right now, I promise it will get better with time. Start small and learn enough to allow you to start implementing things in your business.
Stay focused. Learn, implement, and repeat. If you start learning too many things all at once, you'll never get anywhere with your business.
I've made that mistake before. I spent so much time learning everything that I could about SEO, but burned myself out and didn't implement any of it for a long time. I've since learned to better pace myself and have seen drastic improvements in my business.
How to Practice in the Beginning
If you've been learning about your business up until now, but haven't taken any action, why not? There's no better time to start implementing what you've learned than right now. It doesn't matter whether you've only been in learning mode for a short time or for years, now is the time to claim your success.
Even if you're scared, a lot of learning is going to come from simply getting out there and trying new things.
Gathering the Right Kind of Information
Part of focusing your learning so that you can be an action taker is gathering the right kind of information.
What you're learning should be directly related to your business goals. There is so much information out there that it's easy to become distracted with everything that is available. I received some amazing advice from someone who's been doing this for a long time. She says that you should try to never purchase anything that you aren't going to use within 30 days.
Filter through everything you've gathered and focus on only the most relevant information. Don't feel like you're taking shortcuts by not reading every blog, article or course on your topic.
Keeping Your Focus
I've mentioned how important it is for you to keep focus. Try not to jump from one topic to the next.
This was one of the hardest things that I dealt with when I was first starting out. I was still trying to figure out what I was doing. I wanted to learn everything about everything. I guess I suffered from Shiny Ball Syndrome. Once I got focused on what I wanted to focus on and implement, things got so much easier!
Be An Action Taker
The only way that you can be successful is by being an action taker. Learning is an important part of the process, but it's only the beginning. Implementing what you've learned is what will lead to those big important changes. Even if you don't know 100% of what you're doing, do something, even if it's small. You'll never know everything there is to know and you can always make changes.
Those Who Take Action Are the Ones Who Succeed
If you look at the people who are truly successful, it is in large part because they have taken action.
The Difference Between Info-Gathering And Action Taking Is…
Hopefully you can see the difference. Keep yourself accountable as to whether or not you are truly taking action or you are just gathering information.
Remember: Learn. Implement. Repeat.
This is one of the most vital elements to your success, so please take it to heart.
The more action you take, the more successful you will be.


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January 18, 2020 | Ames, Iowa
Boys 3rd - 8th Grade
#Snowball Shootout
Registration Fee: $175
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Start your year with a day of play in Ames. Play 3 games with no need for a hotel stay.
PROJECTED SCHEDULE RELEASE DATE: Friday, January 10, 2020
3 Games Guaranteed
No Maximum Number of Teams
3rd-6th Grades: 14 Minute Stop Clock Halves
7th-8th Grades: 16 Minute Stop Clock Halves
Saturday Only - Starts 9 am.
Hotel Information
Email email@example.com with your group's hotel needs and well will get your team setup at one of the below, or our other hotel partners:
While we are not a stay-to-play event, we appreciate you using the blocks we setup in Ames. This keeps our hotels happy and therefore allowing us to continue to block rooms in advance into the future; so you will have a place to stay each year.


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Just a few days ago we were presenting software for one of the most popular mainstream Linux distribution – Ubuntu. Now let's cover the progenitor of all free and open-source software. Its operating system was released on October 5, 1991. The creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, was only 22 years old at that time! Let's dive into staff time management software free for Linux.
Linux is not very popular on the desktop computers (at least among regular users, software engineers, for example, prefer to work on it), but it is the leading operating system on servers, mainframe computers, and virtually all fastest supercomputers. It is also worth mentioning that without Linux there won't be no Android as we know it now, no network routers, video game consoles, and smartwatches. We really owe a lot to Mr. Linus.
According to Wikipedia, the development of Linux is one of the most prominent examples of free and open-source software collaboration. Its source code may be used, modified and distributed—commercially or non-commercially—by anyone under the terms of its respective licenses. Thanks to it we can use some great software like the already mentioned Ubuntu, but also Fedora, Gentoo Linux, Debian and more.
Okay, that's enough about Linux, let's get to the topic of this post – a presentation of time tracking software designed for this system. As it is not so popular as Windows or Mac OS, there are many of them but we have done some research and found a few pearls.
What is the best time tracking software?
1. TimeCamp
And again we place ourselves on the top. But it wouldn't be like this if we did not consider ourselves to be the number one time tracking app there is! Our desktop version for Linux offers the same features, as the app designed for Windows and Mac, including:
- Manual timesheets
- Productivity analysis
- Automatic computer usage tracking
- Detailed history on how people spends a day
- Provided list of the most time-consuming websites and applications
- Professional appearance invoices
- Tracking billable and non-billable time
- Automatic invoicing based on hours
- Integrated payment gateway
- GPS tracking
- Tracking holidays, days off, etc.
And many, many more…
2. Project Hamster.
This is probably the most popular time tracking software designed for Linux environment. It is not very sophisticated but still does the trick, allowing its users to:
- Track their projects
- Tag their activities for easier sorting
- See and manually edit the overview of their working day, week or month
- Check the time spent on certain activities on the bar graphs
- Convert the analyses into a printable HTML format
It is a simple and intuitive time tracking app, it doesn't take much time to get familiar with all of its features. We write the tag of the project and click the START button. Once we change the activity, Hamster will stop tracking it. However, we have to add the new one manually – which is one of its flaws.
Overall, this is a great tool and as it is designed strictly for Linux, we can expect constant updates. Hopefully, the makers will automatize it a little more and make it nicer to the eye, especially the display of the tracked time.
3. Hubstaff
Hubstaff covers every major Linux distribution and also offers cross-platform solutions. Basically, it shouldn't make a difference what operating system the workers use, they should still be able to work together.
Once it's on, Hubstaff collects data (working in the background until the user exposes it.)
Every time a new upgrade for Linux is introduced, Hubstaff releases patches and updates to make sure that the software is secured. Perhaps not everyone can be comfortable with the fact that now and then Hubstaff is taking screenshots of our desktop. To tell the truth, this is how most of the time trackers work.
We can work on the free version, but if that is not sufficient enough, there are a few paid plans we can choose from. If we are not ready to make a purchase, trying the free version is still recommended, as it is a well-developed time tracking software.
Looking for a time tracking alternative? Check TimeCamp vs Hubstaff comparison!
4. Klok
Though Klok producers were aiming for Windows, they designed Klok as an adobe air application. It just so happens that most of Linux distributions support Air – all we have to do is to check whether we got the version that does so.
Klok is a decent time tracking tool with a number of features – colorful charts with reliable and detailed information on the time tracked throughout the day, automatic time tracking with the adjust feature, invoice generator or dashboard reporting to name just a few.
It does, however, have some weaknesses. There are many reports about bugs and glitches (especially in the Linux environment). The cloud storage is not offered, the data is stored on the user's computer and cannot by synchronized between different ones. What is more, most Linux users agree that Klok, as it is running on Adobe Air, is not a "true" Linux program.
It may be a tool worth trying if you are a freelancer – a free version is being offered, though it has some very basic features. If you are a manager, well, we recommend something more advanced.
See the differences between Klok and TimeCamp!
5. Kimai
It is a web-based software that tracks and classifies time. Thanks to it we have an access to our timesheets and can print them – from daily ones to yearly, sorted by customer, project, and action.
It can run cross-platform and cross-network thanks to the web browser based interface, we can install it as a web service and use in any place with a network connection.
Kimai offers different functions for multiple users – a customer, a worker and an admin. Besides, everyone has an access to customizable invoices and extensions that add additional functionalities. For a free open-source time tracker, Kimai is actually quite advanced and definitely worth recommending.
See the differences between Kimai and TimeCamp!
6. Task Coach
This is another simple, open source software for personal tracking and managing to-do lists. Its main job is to deal with composite tasks. Also, it offers categories, notes, and effort tracking.
Task Coach offers a considerable number of features, including:
- Ability to create or delete editable tasks and subtasks
- Advanced settings for tasks which we are able to track on a daily, weekly or monthly basis
- Possibility to sort tasks by all their attributes, e.g. subject, budget, budget left, due date, etc
- Included filters that enable us to, for example, hide finished tasks or view only today's tasks
- Ability to drag and drop an e-mail from Outlook or Thunderbird onto a task viewer to create a task
- Simple add attachments by dragging and dropping them onto the task
- Assign tasks and notes to categories
- Ability to set task's budget. Time spent can be displayed by day, week, and by month
- Tasks, notes, and categories can be exported to HTML, they can also be printed
- Multi-platform
7. Rachota Timetracker
The word is in Czech and means "manual work". Rachota is a Java application designed for personal time tracking. It offers customized reports and invoices as well as the analysis of measured data after which it provides a user with hints how to improve the time usage.
Among its features are:
- Security
- Powerful data mining features
- Thorough analysis on user's effectivity, prioritization, repetition, statusing, categorization and granularity
- Manual editing of measured time
- Feedback capability
- Tagging
- Generates reports or invoices as HTML, CSV or TXT files
- Extremely compact
- Support in 11 languages is being provided – English, Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian, Italian,French, and German
8. dotProject
Another web-based project management application available for many users and in many languages.
Instead of being a time tracker, dotProject is designed to be a generic project management tool. This written in PHP software is intended to serve as an information gathering and progress reporting tool.
Features include:
- Management of projects, tasks, contacts, ToDo lists, and resources
- Tracking and sorting tasks by date
- Tracking and assigning contact information
- Hierarchical task list
- Progress being instantly colored
- Forums
- Gantt charts
- Report generation
- Reporting and time logging
- History of all activities
- Calendar
- Troubleshoot ticketing system
- Invoicing
- Project Designer allows changes with regard to multiple projects and tasks
dotProject was awarded SourceForge.net's Project of the Month, April 2009.
9. Kontakt
Kontact is the integrated Personal Information Manager of KDE, but can be used with other systems as well. It supports email, address books, calendars, tasks, news feeds and much more.
It lets us handle email, agenda, contacts and other 'personal' data together in one place. Kontakt is delivering innovations to help us manage our communications more easily, organize our work faster and work together more closely, resulting in more productivity and efficiency in digital collaboration.
Kontakt consists of many components which are tailored to work well with each other. and each of them offers a different set of features. It takes some time to get familiarized with all of them, for more information we recommend visiting their website.
10. TimeSlotTracker
TimeSlotTracker is a time tracking tool written in Java. Users can split it into tasks (with hierarchy.)They can also store several time slots, and make reports based on gathered data.
Features include:
- Time tracking
- predefined and custom reports (csv, html, txt) Including:
- HTML summary, detail and journal report
- HTML timesheet table report (with description)
- CSV summary and journal report
- CSV timesheet table report
- TXT detail, journal and monthly report
- JIRA support (JIRA is issue tracking project management software)
- 7 localizations
- Native Windows installer
- Native Debian package
- Drag'n'Drop support: copying and moving multiple timeslots at ones
- icalendar support
- JNLP installer
Summing up
This is our list of 10 time tracking apps for Linux. Some of them may be hard to use for a person with insufficient knowledge on Linux environment. These days this is still a niche software but its value is undeniable and there is multum of reason to give it a try. Who knows, maybe one day it will go head to head with Windows and Mac OS.
Perhaps you know some project management tools for Linux that we omitted in this article. If yes, do not hesitate to share them in the comment section!


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Bowie & Jensen LLC Attorneys Recognized by the 2014 Super Lawyers Business Edition
Six attorneys from Bowie & Jensen LLC were recognized in the 2014 Super Lawyers Business Edition. This annual publication highlights notable attorneys from over 9,000 firms who have become exceptionally skilled in at least one of these five different business-related practice areas: Business Transactions, Construction, Real Estate, Environmental, Employment, Intellectual Property and Business Litigation.
Mark T. Jensen was recognized for his work in Business Transactions practice area.
Priscilla Carroll was recognized for her work in Real Estate.
Josh Glikin was recognized for his work in Intellectual Property.
The following attorneys were recognized for their work in Business Litigation:
Matthew Hjortsberg was also named to the Top Attorney List. As a Top Attorney Matthew was one of 100 attorneys in Maryland to receive the highest point totals in the nomination, research and blue ribbon review process.
This magazine is distributed to over 55,000 executives and in-house counsel across the United States and London, and serves as a guide for those in charge of making legal hiring decisions.
Read more about this prestigious recognition in the digital version of the publication here: 2014 Super Lawyers Business Edition


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The Volokh Conspiracy
Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent
No speech that 'degrade[s] or call[s] into question the integrity' of judges on courthouse sidewalks
The order is here; it covers a lot of behavior, but the most clearly unconstitutional provision is this one (bold added):
1. The term "Duval County Courthouse grounds" herein shall apply to the exterior of the Duval County Courthouse at 501 West Adams Street, Jacksonville, Florida, 32202; the lawn area in front of the Courthouse facing Adams Street, perimeter sidewalk leading from Adams Street to the front of the Courthouse, the front steps and the entrance of the Courthouse; the garages on Broad Street, on Pearl Street, and the Sally Port entrance; the adjacent building known as the "State Attorney's Office" which has an overpass bridge leading directly into the Courthouse; all perimeter sidewalks around the Courthouse (on Adams Street, Duval Street, Broad Street and Pearl Street), as well as around the State Attorney's Office building (on Monroe Street, Pearl Street, Julia Street, and Duval Street); and the fenced-in garage of the State Attorney's Office building directly across the street from the judges' garage.
2. The public sidewalks along Adams Street; across the street from the Duval County Courthouse on Broad Street; and across the street from the Duval County Courthouse on Duval Street; are all excluded from the designation of "Duval County Courthouse grounds." [EV notes: This means that many of the public sidewalks covered in item 1 are included.]
3. Demonstrations or dissemination of materials that degrade or call into question the integrity of the Court or any of its judges (e.g., claiming the Courts, Court personnel or judges are "corrupt," biased, dishonest, partial, or prejudiced), thereby tending to influence individuals appearing before the Courts, including jurors, witnesses, and litigants, shall be prohibited on the Duval County Courthouse grounds….
6. Any person engaging in the type of expressive conduct as indicated in this Order may be found in criminal contempt of Court….
9. If an individual is observed to engage in conduct that is in violation of this Order after having been provided notice as set forth herein, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office is hereby DIRECTED to arrest and charge the offending individual with indirect criminal contempt of Court (and any other charges deemed appropriate) and transport such person to the Duval County Jail for identification and processing.
But all public sidewalks near the courthouse are "traditional public fora" (see United States v. Grace (1983)) in which content-based speech restrictions—and, even more clearly, viewpoint-based speech restrictions such as the one in item 3—are unconstitutional.
I realize that some courts have (wrongly, I think) allowed restrictions on speech outside courthouses that advocates jury nullification. But whatever courts might say about this sort of specific call for juries to disregard judges' instructions, this can't be extended, I think, to general condemnation of the character of judges—public officials (in Florida, elected officials) who must always be subject to public scrutiny and criticism. Nor is the judge's order justified by the argument that "reasonable restrictions are necessary to limit expressive conduct, speech, or dissemination of materials, tending to influence individuals as they enter the Courthouse, which serves the reasonable purpose of protecting the actual or perceived integrity of judicial impartiality and independence of the courts." Government officials can't protect the "perceived integrity" of their "impartiality and independence" by suppressing speech that accuses them of not being impartial and independent.
Grounds within the courthouse complex (setting aside sidewalks) are not public fora, so some content-based restrictions on speech there are permissible. But even in such nonpublic fora, viewpoint-based restrictions such as this one are not allowed.
The order also bans "videotaping of secure locations on the Duval County Courthouse grounds, such as the judges' secure parking garages (under the Courthouse at the Pearl Street and Broad Street entrance), the State Attorney's Office garage (on Pearl Street) and the Sally Port, and all security features of the Duval County Courthouse, including non-public entrances to and exits from the Courthouse, shall be prohibited for the protection and security of the judiciary and to avoid breaching the security systems, or revealing the security systems, or security procedures of the Courthouse in place." This order was apparently prompted by videotaping that "include[s] license plates of some of the judges' vehicles and showed some judges driving out of the secure garage, including their faces and their associated vehicles (make, model, year, and license plates). This disclosure puts the judges in a vulnerable position because the videotape is available on the Internet …." (The order excludes "credentialed media representatives' ability to use the front Courthouse steps and any exterior areas where the Courthouse has traditionally been used as a backdrop while performing newsgathering, photographing, filming, recording, and broadcasting functions consistent with journalistic practices.")
This ban is also, I think, likely too broad to be constitutional, despite the judge's security concerns. Among other things, judge's faces and cars cannot, I think, be treated as secret matters that may not be photographed, even despite the potential risk that the public availability of this information creates. But the law related to permissible restrictions on photography and videorecording in public places is less well-settled than the law related to outright speech restrictions, so the constitutionality of this provision is less clear.
Finally, here's part of the judge's rationale for the order:
[T]he proper procedure for challenging a court's decision is to file an appeal with the appropriate appellate court. Shouting out on the Courthouse grounds that the Court and judges are "corrupt" during business hours while people are entering the Courthouse is entirely inappropriate and disruptive and is analogous to falsely shouting "fire" in a crowded theater ….
Completely analogous! Except that it's not a proven false statement of fact, but either an expression of opinion or a statement of fact as to which there has been no trial to determine its falsity. And it's not likely to immediately start a stampede in which people might be trampled to death. And it criticizes a government official, with the very official being criticized trying to restrict it. Other than that, they are totally the same thing.
Thanks to Michael Westendorf of the Saginaw Valley Journal for the pointer.


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Suspected Oakland gang member charged in fatal shooting
OAKLAND — A suspected member of a West Oakland drug gang is scheduled to enter a plea today to felony charges he fatally shot an innocent bystander March 31 during a failed attempt to kill a rival, authorities said Tuesday.
Bryant "Mook Mook" Walton, 23, who police said is a member of the Acorn gang, is charged with murder, attempted murder and being a felon in possession of a gun. The murder and attempted-murder charges include sentencing-enhancement clauses because the shootings are thought to be gang related.
For further sentencing-enhancement purposes, Walton also is charged with a prior felony — sale of narcotics. He is being held without bail in Santa Rita Jail.
Walton is charged with fatally shooting Kevin McKinsey, 29, of Stockton, on March 31 in the 3000 block of West Street in what police said was a failed attempt on a leader of the Ghost Town gang. The Acorn gang has been involved in a long-running violent feud with Ghost Town.
Authorities said Acorn gets its name from the West Oakland housing complex it considers its main turf, while Ghost Town is in the heart of where the shooting happened. Over the years, there have been several fatal shootings and other acts of violence linked to the rivalry, police said.
Homicide Sgt. Tony Jones said Walton confirmed the feud between Acorn and Ghost Town but denied being involved in the March 31 shooting.
Jones said McKinsey, who grew up in the Ghost Town neighborhood and had come back to visit friends and relatives, was an innocent victim who was shot while leaning into a car talking to Walton's intended target.
The intended target, who was not identified, suffered minor injuries, police said.
Relatives said McKinsey was the father of three children, ages 9, 3 and 1.
Jones said police have statements from witnesses that Walton was the person responsible for the shooting.
Walton was arrested May 15 at his West Oakland home by the department's Targeted Enforcement Task Force on charges of violating parole and possession of marijuana for sale. Because of the parole violation, he has remained in custody since his May arrest while police built the murder case against him. He was charged with the shootings Friday.
Walton was also in custody when Oakland police and other law enforcement agencies arrested more than 50 suspected Acorn members June 17 on various charges following a lengthy investigation.


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In 2017, Dr. Yang joined the Regenexx Network and has flown 15-plus hours one way to attend multiple IOF courses as well as shadow us in the Centeno-Schultz Clinic. On Saturday, we were able to review multiple cases and indications for both bone marrow-derived stem cells and platelet-rich plasma (PRP).
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Spin qubit chip built in a regular fab.
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As the only broadband connectivity option available everywhere across the U.S., satellite technology today is a key, integrated component of the country's telecom infrastructure. Over one million subscribers enjoy the benefits of high-speed satellite Internet access, representing a rapidly growing percentage of the estimated 10 to 15 million households either unserved or underserved by terrestrial broadband technologies. And that's in addition to the several hundreds of thousands of large and small enterprise and government agency sites connected by satellite networks.
But in times of disaster, satellite takes on an even more critical role. It presents the only true alternate communications path when terrestrial wireline and wireless networks are most vulnerable to disruption and outages—and it can be deployed immediately after disaster strikes to support life-saving emergency response and recovery activities.
In October 2012, when Superstorm Sandy pummeled the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions, many thousands went without power for weeks. And while flooding and power outages had knocked out base stations, towers, and switching centers of terrestrial providers, satellite networks withstood the disaster with limited or no service disruption. Hughes heeded the call to action in Sandy's aftermath and supported extensive relief efforts across the region.
The Rockaway Peninsula of Queens, New York was especially hard hit during the storm and left with little or no communications for its population of more than 175,000. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) quickly opened Disaster Recovery Centers (DRCs) in the region impacted by the storm, including in Rockaway, to provide information about services such as housing, rental assistance, and referrals to other agencies. But with terrestrial lines down, volunteers and disaster victims were unable to make calls or apply for services online. Hughes joined the recovery battle and provided 20 of the DRCs with terminals and high-speed satellite connectivity, including voice over IP, to help people obtain needed services.
Meanwhile, in the Breezy Point area of New York, more than 100 homes were decimated by a six-alarm fire during the storm. The difficult conditions were complicated by the fact that no terrestrial communications were available at the command center set up by Habitat for Humanity of Westchester, New York to help coordinate the rebuilding efforts. Responding to a request from the Global VSAT Forum, Hughes, along with Cisco, provided key communications capabilities, including broadband services, to assist in the recovery effort.
"The combined assistance from the Global VSAT Forum, Hughes, and Cisco was invaluable," said Jim Killoran, Executive Director, Habitat for Humanity of Westchester. "This support was critical to our success in helping to alleviate suffering and get families closer to being in their homes."
As part of its normal satellite service delivery, Hughes continuously monitors customer sites across the region, which includes thousands of gas stations, restaurants, pharmacies, and hotels. Through this site monitoring, Hughes was able to provide a valuable service to the All Hazards Consortium (AHC)—identifying which businesses had power, along with other site-related data—and quickly disseminating up-to-date information to first responders, officials, and key emergency operations centers. (See related story "In the Aftermath of Superstorm Sandy" in Channels Winter 2012.)
"Satellite technology has again demonstrated its resilience in the face of a disaster," said Tony Bardo, assistant vice president of Government Solutions at Hughes, "We're honored to be playing an important part in supporting these efforts to help families rebuild their lives."
There is no predicting the next disaster. But no matter when or where it may occur, advance planning and preparation is essential to save lives. And as proven in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, that calls for deploying the robust power of satellite technology to support critical relief and recovery efforts.
At Hughes, a satisfied customer is always the first goal. That's why the company is constantly adding to and improving its capability to provide new and improved product and service offerings. As part of its program of excellence for customer satisfaction, Hughes adheres to a comprehensive set of standards, certifications, and industry guidelines to assure the highest quality throughout the entire lifecycle of a Hughes product or service.
For example, Hughes assures overall quality management and process performance across all functional areas by adhering to the ISO 9001:2008 quality management system standard, developed by the International Organization for Standardization. The company meets U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations, which protect the communications infrastructure across all technologies, as well as complying with similar standards from regulatory agencies around the world. Hughes has developed optimized data transport standards, such as the Internet Protocol over Satellite (IPoS) standard to promote improved performance of global broadband satellite technology by using an industry-standard open interface based on IP-centric technology. The company also complies with standards such as the Payment Card Industry/Data Security Standard (PCI/DSS), which ensures that rigorous security levels are in place to protect sensitive consumer financial information.
Hughes also voluntarily goes beyond mandatory standards by qualifying for additional industry certifications that help lead directly to a happier customer and an improved customer experience. For example, the company is certified as a Cisco Cloud and Managed Services Master Partner, which provides customers with the assurance that Hughes has the service quality capabilities to deliver cloud and managed services employing Cisco technology. The company also adheres to technology standards such as the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework. ITIL is a set of best practices for IT service management that focuses on aligning IT services with the needs of the business, as well as using IT as a tool to facilitate business improvements and growth.
Certification to all of these standards requires Hughes to participate in either an independent audit or a formal review from an accredited organization as performed by certified industry experts. The rigor of the evaluation process demonstrates to customers that Hughes has the processes, tools, and training in place to meet industry standards and best practices.
In the telecommunications industry, the technology, customers, products, and services are always changing. Even though standards are somewhat static, the company must be agile enough to adapt to what the customer needs today, while still meeting the formalized requirements for standardization. To accomplish this, Hughes leverages the quality management practices that are called out in the ISO 9001:2008 standard to both company and customer advantage, by going beyond simple compliance, and applying these practices to create a better customer experience.
"Not all service providers go to these lengths," said Bob Stedman, assistant vice president of Service Quality. "We take a number of extra steps on behalf of our customers to develop the capabilities to ensure that we're consistently delivering a high-quality service experience. For instance, the use of the ISO standards and the ITIL service framework isn't required by our customers, but the adoption of these standards gives Hughes access to a collective embodiment of knowledge and best practices that directly benefit our customers."
The Hughes company philosophy is to integrate everyone from the Hughes family into the value chain, blending all functional areas, including engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and customer care into the quality of every Hughes product and service. The company measures its effectiveness in driving customer satisfaction with regularly scheduled self-assessments, customer surveys, and audits. Hughes Quality Assurance takes the feedback from these and other sources, checks for patterns and trends, and sets up working teams to better align what the company does with customer expectations.
The teams constantly ask themselves, "How do we add value to our services and improve the customer experience?" Hughes believes that going the extra mile on the customer's behalf is an important key to a satisfied customer. By refining its approach on an ongoing basis, Hughes can continually integrate customer expectations, customer service, and product and service quality with all the support activities put in place throughout the company to create the best customer experience possible.
In today's tough economy, organizations are constantly looking for ways to gain competitive or operational advantage by delivering compelling new services, enhancing the customer or constituent experience, training and retaining good employees, and maximizing overall network performance and efficiency. Though new technologies and applications offer great promise in helping achieve these goals, the significant investment required to keep pace with them in a sustained and cost-effective way presents challenges for any organization, taxing already constrained IT staff and budgets, no matter the size.
Welcome to HughesON Managed Network Services. Building on the Hughes heritage of innovation and leadership in broadband technology and services, HughesON is a comprehensive set of managed network services, ranging from high-capacity access and high-availability solutions, to digital signage and training solutions— optimized for the unique needs of enterprise and government organizations.
HughesON managed network services employ new Hughes technologies that transform "best-efforts" broadband into true enterprise-class WANs. Hughes ActiveQoS™, ActiveBonding™, and ActiveCompression™ (see box) are core ingredients that enable cost-effective data, voice, and video convergence with high application performance. Incorporating sophisticated edge intelligence and backed by enterprise-grade Service Level Agreements (SLAs), HughesON Network Solutions™ deliver MPLS-like performance over broadband VPNs at significant savings. For high-impact messaging, HughesON Digital Media Solutions™ arm organizations to stand out from today's noise, enabling the most compelling communications with customers, constituents, and employees.
By converging all network elements—transport, devices, and applications as part of a comprehensive service architecture—HughesON solutions deliver better performance, higher reliability, and assured security. Ideal for distributed enterprises, such as retail, restaurant, oil/gas, hospitality and financial services, as well as distributed government agencies, HughesON managed network services power organizations to better serve their customers and constituents, engage their employees, and streamline their operations.
Real-time applications such as VoIP and point-of-sale require priority handling on the network. Hughes Performance Optimization™ employs Hughes ActiveQoS technology to connect all locations with end-to-end application prioritization, guaranteeing that critical apps get through—even in the presence of lower-priority data competing for bandwidth. This method of adding end-to-end QoS (Quality of Service) over affordable broadband networks, such as DSL and cable, is far more economical than an MPLS network with T1 or Ethernet access.
Keeping up with the latest security threats and compliance requirements can be overwhelming and expensive. HughesON Managed Security™ provides best-in-class security for the unique needs of distributed organizations, including next-generation firewall capabilities, such as data leak prevention, vulnerability scanning, and intrusion prevention. The recently introduced Hughes HR4000 Series of Branch Gateways combines industry-leading security capabilities from Fortinet with Performance Optimization technology, designed with the needs of the multi-branch network in mind. With this single, easy-to-deploy, managed platform, Hughes has combined security, routing, and performance optimization—saving enterprises the expense and complexity of deploying individual devices. Now that's delivering applications smarter.
Neither enterprises nor government agencies can afford network downtime. Hughes offers a cost-effective method of adding a truly diverse, high-speed backup solution using any combination of DSL, 3G/4G wireless, and broadband satellite. Available nationwide, Hughes High-Availability Networking™ employs alternate path links to ensure maximum network resilience, even when disaster strikes. Back-up links can also double as part of a load-balancing configuration in which multiple applications are sent via different links to improve overall performance.
Dynamic, high-impact digital media and video are the most effective means for organizations to easily and creatively stay connected with their customers, constituents, and employees. HughesON MediaSignage™ provides customer- and constituent-facing signage solutions, including interactive touchscreens, which inform, engage, and encourage action. HughesON MediaTraining™ provides rich-media training solutions delivered to employees in break rooms and conference rooms, or on mobile devices such as an iPad, thereby improving workforce know-how, morale, and productivity. And HughesON MediaTV™ offers customer/constituent and employee-facing signage solutions that incorporate live broadcast TV, or infotainment. HughesON Digital Media Solutions offer a complete organization-wide solution to manage, schedule, and deploy digital media, ensuring that organizations get the right message out to the right people at the right time.
HughesON is new, but carries with it the Hughes heritage of over 25 years of experience building and managing large-scale distributed networks for business and government. Plus, an unbeatable combination of talented people, worldwide network operations centers, and broadband technology and business leadership: That's why the HughesON suite of managed network services is the right choice to power enterprise and government networks to new heights—faster, smarter, more reliably, with greater impact, and cost-effectively. For more information visit HughesON.com.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's RadNet system monitors radiation levels of air, drinking water, pasteurized milk, and precipitation across the U.S. During 2013, the EPA will upgrade its existing network with the addition of Hughes satellite broadband technology. The Hughes solution includes its HN9000 broadband satellite terminal and a dedicated Access Gateway, supporting expansion and potential conversion into a private network. Under the order, Hughes will provide 50 sites with 12 months of satellite broadband service.
HughesNet Service Supports Repairs at Washington Monument In August 2011, a 5.8 magnitude earthquake 84 miles southwest of Washington, D.C. damaged the Washington Monument, the city's most prominent structure and a popular tourist destination.
Work is now in progress to repair the damaged marble panels near the peak of the 555-foot tall marble obelisk, which honors founding father George Washington. With HughesNet® high-speed Internet service at one of the construction trailers, surely the repairs will go faster, hastening the reopening of this treasured monument for locals and visitors alike!
Distributed enterprises can now consolidate their nationwide voice and data requirements under a single managed services provider—with Hughes Enterprise VoIP. A full-featured, fully managed voice solution, Hughes Enterprise VoIP was named a 2012 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year by TMC, a global, integrated media company.
The solution provides business-grade telephony over broadband terrestrial networks (DSL and cable), enabling enterprises to enjoy consistent high-quality voice over cost-effective broadband. Hughes Enterprise VoIP employs Hughes ActiveQoS™ technology to ensure proper treatment of voice packets on an end-to-end basis. This patent-pending technology monitors the network capacity in real-time and applies dynamic rate limiting and prioritization to control packet loss and jitter, resulting in high-quality voice calls for distributed enterprises.
What do a one-man, non-profit organization in Georgia, a home-schooled family in Louisiana bayou country, and a comptroller in Arkansas farmland have in common? Despite the many differences in their pursuits and situations, they all live in picturesque locations that are beyond the reach of high-speed terrestrial Internet service.
These families are not alone. There are an estimated 10 million to 15 million households and small businesses in the U.S. that are unserved or underserved by land-based broadband services. And today, when dependable, high-performance Internet access is considered a necessity by most people, some don't think they have any broadband options at all.
In fact, they do. Thanks to Hughes satellite technology, HughesNet® high-speed Internet service is available throughout the country. With over 659,000 subscribers at year-end 2012, HughesNet is the world's #1 high-speed satellite Internet service—reaching consumers and small businesses in North America no matter where they live or work. All they need is a clear view of the southern sky. And now HughesNet Gen4 is delivering dramatically greater speeds and enabling customers to do more online than ever before.
HughesNet Gen4 is the latest-generation Hughes satellite Internet offering, providing customers the performance required to support today's high-bandwidth applications. With download speeds from 10 Mbps up to 15 Mbps and download allowances of up to 40 Gigabytes per month, HughesNet Gen4 delivers a robust Internet service no matter how it's used—for work, school, social media, video clips, music, or just keeping connected with friends, family, and colleagues. Let's take a look at some of the people who are enjoying the benefits of HughesNet Gen4.
Blake Paul is a comptroller for the Assemblies of God Church, as well as owner of an independent management and accounting consultancy, which he runs from his home in an Arkansas farming community. His wife is a teacher who needs Internet access for research and developing lesson plans. The couple's 15-year-old son uses the Internet for writing papers and other classwork. HughesNet Gen4 enables the Pauls to stay connected for both business and personal use—everything from communicating with clients, to shopping online, to viewing services from a church in California, to taking online classes.
Meanwhile, in Elmer, Louisiana, surrounded by wildlife preserves, Nathan and Cindy Babb run two businesses—a truck brokerage and a satellite service company—and educate their three children from their home. The high performance of HughesNet Gen4 enables the Babbs to conduct business and educate their children all at the same time—with no logjams.
"The speeds are awesome," said Nathan Babb. "My wife can be on the computer or the VPN or working with all three kids remotely. We've never had a problem with the bandwidth; no one has ever yelled 'turn that off!' because the Internet slowed down."
And on any given day, as many as 150 people rely on Tim Josey to help them get prescription drugs. Josey runs a one-man, non-profit organization called MedService out of his home in Hazlehurst, Georgia. MedService helps low-income, disabled, elderly people receive donated medicines from pharmaceutical companies. After struggling with multiple dial-up services, Josey now uses HughesNet Gen4 to communicate with his clients and their doctors, research insurance rules and pharmaceutical companies' free medication policies, as well as for personal tasks like downloading movies and updating computer software.
HughesNet Gen4 is built on the industry's most advanced network of high-capacity satellites and on-the-ground equipment, with the new EchoStar XVII satellite with JUPITER™ high-throughput technology as the cornerstone. From Arkansas to Georgia to Louisiana and beyond, HughesNet Gen4 has launched a new era in high-speed Internet services, keeping people connected to the world and enabling them to get the most out of their online experience.
With growth of its HughesNet® satellite broadband consumer service continuing at a record pace, Hughes is once again embarking on a world first. The company recently announced plans to launch in mid-2016 what will be the world's highest-capacity broadband satellite—JUPITER™ 2/EchoStar XIX.
With over 150 Gbps throughput, the new Ka-band satellite will have 50 percent greater capacity than JUPITER 1/EchoStar XVII, which was launched in July 2012. Building on the success of EchoStar XVII, the new satellite is being designed with a next-generation architecture having more than 120 spot beams, facilitating optimization of high-quality Internet coverage across the U.S. and parts of Canada and Central America.
Space Systems/Loral (see "The Making of Jupiter") has been selected to manufacture the new satellite whose expected service lifetime is 15 years or greater. Joining the fleet of Hughes satellites, EchoStar XVII and SPACEWAY® 3, the new satellite will further power the growth of HughesNet in North America—the world's largest high-speed satellite Internet service—to meet the soaring demand for higher speeds, robust applications, and media-rich online experiences.
The milestone launch of the EchoStar® XVII satellite with JUPITER™ high-throughput technology on July 5, 2012 was a transitional moment for Hughes. Built by Space Systems/Loral and employing a multi-spot beam, bent-pipe Ka-band architecture, our new geostationary satellite boasts a capacity equivalent to approximately 80 conventional Ku-band satellites and an order of magnitude greater than that of our SPACEWAY® 3 satellite, the world's first switch-in-the-sky, which enables single-hop, site-to-site connectivity.
Setting the stage for the introduction of HughesNet® Gen4 services less than three months later, it represents a major step forward in satellite communications technology, significantly optimizing the use of bandwidth and power with minimum latency.
A bird's-eye view inside the JUPITER high-throughput system reveals an array of specialized ground components. Let's talk about some of the most important ones.
The Gateways
Each JUPITER gateway provides multi-Gbps access to the Internet, and is designed with the latest Ka-band RF electronics, along with a flexible and highly reliable baseband subsystem to enable a range of IP services and applications. Each gateway operates in a frequency reuse scheme, and connects to multiple user spot beams, providing services to all the terminals in the beams. Utilizing the latest DVB-S2 ACM waveforms with enhanced LDPC coding schemes, the gateways are also programmable to enable a set of software-defined waveforms, as transport technology evolves for more efficient use of bandwidth and power, and flexible, "future-proof" capability.
The Network Management System
The JUPITER Network Managed System (NMS) is a fully redundant, highly automated, IPv6 subsystem that provides full remote access and control to each of the unmanned JUPITER gateways, many of which are co-located with SPACEWAY gateways.
The Terminals
The new Hughes terminals incorporate dual-protocol stacks for IPv4 or IPv6 operation, and run the latest Hughes F.A.S.T Web Acceleration software to enhance the user experience. The outdoor unit is highly integrated with the latest Microwave Monolithic Integrated Circuit (MMIC) technology, along with advanced passive microwave devices, for improved reliability and better performance. It is also lighter in weight, and facilitates easier, faster installation and commissioning. The terminals are deployed with many of the latest Hughes techniques and algorithms to optimize both transmit and receive performance in a Ka-band link.
More Capability for More Users
But what does all this mean to the customer? With over 100 Gbps of capacity, JUPITER technology is transformational, enabling better services at significantly higher speeds to more customers than ever before. The combination of the high-capacity JUPITER System, alongside the SPACEWAY 3 System with reprogrammable capacity coverage, provides for optimum nationwide service over the continental U.S., including the busy East Coast and West Coast population centers. This not only provides more features and choices for users, but also makes HughesNet service much more competitive in areas where DSL and wireless are commonly deployed today.
As the combined power of EchoStar XVII with JUPITER high-throughput technology and SPACEWAY 3 accelerates the growth of HughesNet Gen4 services in North America, it is also setting the stage for JUPITER technology expansion to other parts of the world. The JUPITER System, inclusive of its gateways, terminals, and NMS, has enormous international potential, as the emergence of Ka-band unfolds around the world. In addition, the technology can address other frequency bands, such as Ku-band, C-band, and X-band, and we expect to roll it out in the next few years in regions such as Russia/CIS and Latin America.
Throughout the development challenges, tight timeframes, and just plain hard work of these launches, the whole company, including engineering, operations, manufacturing, quality, program management, and sales and marketing, made significant contributions, continuing our long tradition of providing best-in-class products and services of the future.
Today, all that work is paying off. As a new-generation, Ka-band system platform that is propelling the world's largest consumer satellite Internet service to even greater success, the JUPITER System design will be the driver for new Hughes products. We look forward with great enthusiasm and energy to serving the expanding consumer marketplace and its ever-growing demand for higher bandwidth, as well as new opportunities in the enterprise, government, and small/medium business markets.
As the world's largest democracy and one of its fastest-growing economies, India has made a major commitment to the financial inclusion and education of its citizens. One of India's greatest challenges is its geography, which, between teeming cities and majestic mountains, includes great swaths of rural and remote landscape that lacks terrestrial networking infrastructure. Fortunately, satellite broadband is helping to bridge this digital divide.
The goal of the Reserve Bank of India is that every village with a population exceeding 2,000 be served by a bank branch or through a business correspondent, or agent. As a result, public sector and private banks are setting up branches, ATMs, and retail kiosks, including fixed and mobile/transportable solutions—all of which require broadband connectivity.
High reliability, availability, and security are critical for banking applications, and as a major provider to the banking sector, Hughes Communications India Ltd. (HCIL) today powers over 20,000 branches and more than 30,000 ATMs that annually process 1.5 billion ATM transactions and 170 million credit card transactions.
For example, HCIL recently announced a contract to connect 27,000 offsite ATMs with a secure broadband satellite network and provide managed network services for public sector banks. The contract is part of one of the largest outsourcing deals in the financial sector, under which the Ministry of Finance and a consortium of public sector banks have contracted with nine managed services providers to install and manage 63,000 ATMs across urban and rural India.
With 63 ATMs per million residents, India has a per capita ATM penetration of only one for every 15,000 people, far lower than developed markets such as the United States and the European Union, or neighboring China with one ATM for every 2,000 people. This initiative is expected to increase the Indian ATM density by over 60 percent, helping to meet the goals of financial inclusion and delivery of e-Government services directly to citizens.
In addition, C-Edge, a joint venture of TATA Consultancy Services and the State Bank of India, selected Hughes to provide over 3,500 branches of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) with a broadband satellite network and managed services. Other key customer banks include State Bank of India, Allahabad Bank, and Central Bank of India.
Meanwhile, with a population of 560 million under the age of 25, and 225 million between the ages of 10 and 19, India considers education a top priority. HCIL helps connect the Edusat network, a government-based project that spans 14 states and is funded by the Indian Space Research Organisation and the Ministry of Human Resource Development. As part of this project, each state has set up a hub that connects to state-run schools and colleges, which are growing at the rate of 4,000 to 5,000 sites per year.
HCIL was also contracted by the government of Punjab to supply and operate a comprehensive, satellite-based Edusat network to deliver quality education content to students in 2,960 educational institutions throughout the state. Industry is also addressing the critical need for skilled manpower. For example, HCIL is providing Maruti Suzuki, Ltd. with a digital training academy incorporating satellite broadband technology to provide live training across its distribution chain, including factories, offices, and dealer outlets. At the same time, many distance learning classes are available in semi-urban centers throughout the country via satellite-powered HughesNet® Fusion Kiosks.
HCIL recently passed the 65,000 milestone of sites on its nationwide service, representing a 40 percent share as the leader of the Indian broadband satellite market in 2012. Among many honors in 2012, the company won the "Best Innovative Product: Broadband" award from the Economic Times Telecom Awards 2012, and is proud to play a key role in India's financial and educational growth.
There's not much that celebrates the northern spirit and lifestyle quite so perfectly as the Yukon Quest, a 1,000-mile sled dog race between Fairbanks, Alaska and Whitehorse, Canada. Every February, dog teams brave the mail trails, frozen rivers, and historic Gold Rush routes of the Yukon River Valley in temperatures as low as -50 degrees. The race course takes mushers hundreds of miles from the nearest settlement, alone with their dogs and whatever they can carry on their sleds, with no help from crews between checkpoints.
On the Canadian side of the Quest, coordinating operations and supporting the mushers are enabled by an extensive cell phone network in the Yukon. The Alaskan half is another story. With no permanent infrastructure to rely on, organizers turned to HughesNet® satellite broadband for high-performance Internet connectivity on the U.S. leg of the race.
The team uses email, social media, and VoIP to check on supplies, coordinate personnel movement, and file flight plans. Journalists file stories and images from checkpoints; race teams blog live from the route; and thousands of fans track progress on the Web and through social media.
"The U.S. side is a total dead zone," said Marti Steury, executive director of Yukon Quest. "Northern Alaska has no cellphone coverage more than 10 minutes outside of Fairbanks. Alaska Satellite Internet and Hughes have been critical for providing connectivity at the checkpoints."
Alaska Satellite Internet, a Hughes reseller, has provided Yukon Quest with Hughes satellite broadband service for six years. In 2013, Hughes donated four Hughes satellite terminals and HughesNet Gen4 Business Internet service for the checkpoints. Alaska Satellite owner Will Johnson, who maintains a full-time Hughes account for the Yukon Quest Web site, donated the installation and maintenance service.
To get the service set up at the checkpoints, Johnson flew his small plane to each location, carrying Hughes satellite broadband equipment including antennas, radios, and modems. He landed on a roadway at one checkpoint that lacked an airstrip; two other sites had no electric grid, so Johnson connected the satellite equipment to generators.
"The HughesNet service worked beautifully," said Johnson. "We had a small glitch when we lost access to service tokens, but we got good support from Hughes and got them back. It's a pretty darn powerful service with good customer support."
"The Internet is our lifeline," added Steury. "We start at the same spot, then leapfrog from one checkpoint to another during the race. We have personnel and material spread over 500 or 600 miles, so it's vital that we know where everyone is and what they're doing."
In previous years, high demand for bandwidth at the checkpoints had crashed the team's Internet connections. This year, not only did the checkpoints have more than enough bandwidth, but the higher-capacity service provided the Yukon Quest with a tool for promoting itself, as well as for coordinating operations.
"Because we're operating on a lineal, thousand-mile-long playing field, it's hard to get direct fan participation in the race," said Steury. "What Hughes has done is open us up to a global fan base. We do something very unique here. We and the Iditarod are the only 1,000-mile sled dog races in the world."
Unique, indeed. And Hughes is delighted to play a role in keeping the mushers connected during this exciting adventure at the top of the world.
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Two Oldhamers to play key roles for England Rugby League
Date published: 24 January 2019
Oldham rugby league legend Kevin Sinfield
Oldhamers Kevin Sinfield and Paul Sculthorpe will play lead roles in driving England Rugby League forward in 2019.
A restructure of the England Performance Unit (EPU) involves an expanded role for Paul MBE and contract extensions for Kevin MBE and Jamie Peacock MBE.
'Scully', named England Pathways coach, will work with all EPU teams and focus on the country's outstanding young players, from junior academy to Knights level.
'Sinny', who joined the RFL as rugby director in 2016 and has continued in that role since being appointed director of rugby at Leeds Rhinos last summer, has committed to the RFL role until 2022.
Peacock, who has been working as England team manager since July, 2016, has also extended his agreement with the RFL until 2021.
Paul Anderson will continue as Knights head coach in a consultancy role after joining Warrington's backroom staff and ex-Warrington forward David Elliott remains as National Programme Manager and head coach of the England Academy team, after the 2-0 series victory over Australian Schoolboys last month.
Ralph Rimmer, RFL chief executive, said: "We created the EPU last January, after looking at proposals from Kevin Sinfield, and results in 2018 speak for themselves.
"Our senior England men's team won four out of five Tests, three of them against New Zealand.
"England Women had a big win in France, although we recognise that securing more international competition for them is a major priority for 2019 and beyond, and on a memorable Saturday in October, the Knights made it three wins out of three for our England teams when they won their first international in Papua New Guinea.
"That was followed by the superb performances of Dave Elliott's England Academy team against the Australian Schoolboys.
"So it's great to announce that Kevin Sinfield, Jamie Peacock and Paul Sculthorpe - three outstanding players of the Super League era – will retain key roles in the EPU, as we continue to build towards hosting the Rugby League World Cup in 2021."
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Old Holstein Cemetery, Sumerco, Lincoln, West Virginia, USA
Notes: It is quite small, on top of a hill across the interstate (Corridor G) from our Pine Grove Baptist Church and Cemetery where many of my family are buried. One of my ancestors donated the land, and my grandmother was the organist, and so we all get buried for a $50 fee! Pine Grove is located outside Charleston, WV but still listed as Sumerco, WV, referring back to a descriptor that best suited it prior to the interstate's completion. There are no signs to the Holstein Cemetery or even roads, it was hillside all the way, through weeds and brambles.
My mother's cousin took she & my sister there about 15 years ago. They had to get special permission and go through a guard to get onto the property as it is now owned by a mining company, I believe. She said it was so overgrown you could barely find any graves, so they were happy to locate this one clearly marked - most were stones with faded carving. -LGJproduct
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VARANASI, India — It was after sunset on Tuesday when Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of the Aam Aadmi Party in India, asked a field packed with spectators whether he should run for Parliament in the ancient holy city of Varanasi.
"Yes!" roared the crowd, who had gathered at the Benia Bagh Maidan in a poor area occupied by both Hindus and Muslims.
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"I accept this challenge," said Mr. Kejriwal, the former chief minister of Delhi, to the sound of applause and cheers, thereby turning Varanasi into one of the most hotly contested battlegrounds in the 2014 Indian national elections.
Mr. Kejriwal, 45, will be facing Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party, who is also contending for a seat in the Lok Sabha, or lower house of Parliament, from this city on the banks of the Ganges River, where 1.6 million voters will head to the polls on May 12.
Recent opinion polls, including a Pew Research Center survey conducted in December and January, have suggested that the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party is favored by voters to lead the next government.
At the three-hour rally, Mr. Kejriwal and other leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party, which translates as the Common Man Party, appearing in clothes spotted with black ink thrown on them by a detractor earlier in the day, accused both the governing Indian National Congress party and the Bharatiya Janata Party of corruption.
They also attacked Mr. Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat, for creating religious divisions and criticized the dynastic politics of the Indian National Congress party.
"Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Christians come together and sweep," Mr. Kejriwal said, referring to his party's symbol of the broom, signifying his party's intent to clear out corruption.
Several supporters of Mr. Kejriwal at the rally said that they would vote for him because he represented change from the divisive politics of caste and religion in India.
"I'm fed up with the divide-and-rule tactics of politicians," said Vijay Yadav, 55. "Kejriwal speaks against corruption, raises problems of electricity and water, which are important. Everyone else has done little to help India except fill their own pockets. Why not see what a new man can do?"
Mr. Kejriwal is likely to seek votes from Muslims, who make up 19 percent of the electorate in Varanasi. In a show of respect, on two separate occasions Aam Aadmi Party leaders stopped speaking for a few minutes during the rally as the call for prayer rose from the nearby mosque.
Mohammed Khalid, 25, who teaches at a religious school, said that he was relieved that a strong challenger to Mr. Modi had emerged.
"For what I have seen so far, it seems that Kejriwal is sympathetic to all religions," Mr. Khalid said, speaking in between the cheers of the crowds.
During the day, Mr. Kejriwal, who took a dip in the Ganges, a river worshiped by Hindus, and visited two temples, also faced protests organized by Bharatiya Janata Party workers in the city, who shouted, "Go back!"
"This kind of behavior is disgusting. Everyone has the right to campaign and speak their views," said Robin Yadav, a 39-year-old auto-rickshaw driver.
For the past month, Aam Aadmi Party workers and volunteers have been preparing the battleground in Varanasi by campaigning door to door and by carrying out street skits on battling corruption.
But Mr. Kejriwal faces a huge challenge. The city's Lok Sabha seat is held by the Bharatiya Janata Party and its leaders are consistently voted into power in both state and national elections here.
Both Mr. Kejriwal and Mr. Modi are contesting national elections for the first time. Mr. Kejriwal, whose party came to power in the state of Delhi within a year of being formed, was dubbed a "giant-killer" after he defeated the Congress Party leader Sheila Dikshit, who had led the state government in Delhi for three terms.
During his 49-day tenure, Mr. Kejriwal continued his firebrand style of politics, staging a sit-in protest to demand the federal government put the capital's police force under state control, and filing a criminal complaint against the billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani that accused him of fixing gas prices.
In February, Mr. Kejriwal resigned as Delhi's chief minister, saying that the Indian National Congress Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party had blocked his efforts to pass an anticorruption bill in the city's legislative assembly.
Some supporters saw the abrupt resignation as an idealistic stand. Others ridiculed Mr. Kejriwal for what they said was a failure to govern. Analysts have said that Mr. Kejriwal timed his resignation so that he would be able to contest the national elections.
Santosh Yadav, who runs a cigarette shop in Varanasi, said that Mr. Kejriwal no longer inspired confidence to govern. "I'm a B.J.P. loyalist but not a Modi fan, so I may have considered voting for him," he said. "But if he can ditch the people in Delhi, he can ditch us too."
At the rally, Mr. Kejriwal said he would not have taken on one of the toughest electoral challenges in India if his goal was to acquire power. "I would have taken a safe seat. I go fight in those places where a man should be defeated," he said.
Betwa Sharma is a freelance journalist based in New Delhi. Follow her on Twitter @betwasharma.
An earlier version of this post misstated the percentage of Muslims voters in Varanasi. They make up 19 percent of the city's voters, not two percent.


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Wednesday Morning Meditation – Psalms
Nevertheless He regarded their affliction, when He heard their cry; and for their sake He remembered His covenant, and relented according to the multitude of His mercies. He also made them to be pitied by all those who carried them away captive. Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the Gentiles, to give thanks to Your holy name, to triumph in Your praise. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting! And let all the people say, "Amen!" Praise the Lord! (Psalm 106:44-48)
The Multitude Of Our Sins Does Not Diminish The Mercy Of God
Israel was a rebellious nation almost from the beginning. They rebelled by the Red Sea, lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, envied Moses, made a calf in Horeb, forgot God their Savior, despised the pleasant land, murmured in their tents, joined themselves to Baal of Peor, rebelled against the Holy Spirit, angered the Lord at Meribah over water, mingled with the Gentiles, sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons, played the harlot by their own deeds and became abhorred by the Almighty God. On a few occasions had it not been for Moses we would not be reading about Israel. The steadfast love of God endures forever and because the Lord is good Israel was saved from utter annihilation.
Psalm 106 is a powerful testimony to the mercy of God and the tragic power of sin. The psalmist outlines in 'cliffs notes' the history of Israel from their deliverance at the Red Sea to the punishment of bondage. It is not a pretty picture. The only reason we cannot recoil in horror at how sinful Israel was is because we are viewing a mirror of our own lives. Sin has a domineering power on man. All men shoulder the burden of sin with its destructive influence. The psalmist is not highlighting sin but exalting the mercy of God. Like Israel we rebel. We fail the Lord in a rebellious spirit of self. Jesus did not come to die for sinless man but a creation that mastered the art of evil. Yet the grace of God is given to a people as undeserving as Israel.
My life should not be characterized by "many sins" but regardless of one or more sins I have failed my Father. When we stand before the Lord in judgment it will not be to sit and talk about the affairs of the world but to utter in the words of the publican, "God be merciful to me a sinner." I need mercy. You need mercy. Thank God He gives His mercy. Let us say in a loud voice, "Amen."
Mercy imitates God, and disappoints Satan. (John Chrysostom, Homilies, c. 388)


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