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The patent war between Samsung and Apple took another turn this week, with Samsung dropping its patent-infringement countersuit against Apple to focus on its defense, reports Bloomberg.
According to Samsung spokesman Nam Ki Yung, who spoke with Bloomberg, Samsung dropped the suit on June 30 "to streamline the legal proceedings." Samsung will continue its patent defences in another counter-claim in a suit filed by Apple at the same US federal court in San Jose, California.
Samsung's now-void countersuit against Apple, originally filed in April, claimed that Apple had copied its Galaxy line of smartphones and tablets in the design of Apple's iPhone and iPad devices. This came in response to an initial lawsuit filed two weeks prior by Apple, which argued that Samsung had actually copied Apple's iOS devices with their Galaxy Tab touchscreen tablet and a variety of their smartphones, the Galaxy S 4G, Epic 4G and Nexus S.
The Samsung countersuit famously demanded that Apple show the company its upcoming iPhone 5 and iPad 3 devices, a request the presiding judge denied.
The Samsung-Apple legal battle has become an international fight, with litigation proceedings taking place in at least five countries across the globe, including South Korea, Japan, German and the UK. According to Samsung, the halt of one of its lawsuits in California will not affect the rest of its patent defenses elsewhere.
"Samsung will continue to actively defend and protect our intellectual property," said Nam.
Reports indicate that Apple could release both the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 as early as fall of this year.
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A mere two months after its release, Amazon's Cloud Player online music player has finally added what you might call grudging compatibility with iOS devices. However, that support doesn't come in the form of a native app, as many users had hoped, but rather as a silent update to the service's Web interface.
Previously, using Cloud Player on iOS required a little know-how—specifically, the use of a third-party browser. But Amazon has now enabled compatibility for the mobile version of Safari as well.
Unfortunately, Cloud Player's interface isn't terribly friendly towards mobile devices; it uses the same layout that you get on your Mac or PC, which ends up requiring a lot of panning around on the iPhone. Amazon even tacitly acknowledges that the experience may be sub-par, saying it recommends accessing Cloud Player via the latest version of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, or Safari "from your computer." In particular, I noticed that the volume control on the player didn't work, though you can easily adjust the level on your device itself.
Still, if you've uploaded some tunes to the 5GB of free storage that Amazon provides with its Cloud Drive service (or paid for one of the higher capacity plans), you'll be pleased to know you can actually play back songs via Safari on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. And, if you're running iOS 4, Safari will even continue playing that music in the background when you switch out of the app. It's not quite the same level of convenience that Amazon's Android Cloud Player app offers, but it at least makes the service usable on iOS.


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Attica inmate's serene golf art masks caged reality
Valentino Dixon's colored pencil drawings evoke carefree days on the links, dewy greens, open spaces, fresh air enlivened by flowers and crisply trimmed fairways.
But the artist has never set foot on a golf course.
For 22 years, Dixon's world has been concrete floors and metal bars, fluorescent lights and tiny spaces.
It is nothing like what appears on paper as he runs rainbows of pencils down to nubs on blades of grass, reflective ponds, sweeping branches — all the while hoping that someday it will exist for him outside of his imagination.
Outside the walls of Attica.
Hope hinges on Dixon's efforts to overturn his conviction for a murder that another man confessed to: the Aug. 10, 1991, shooting death of 17-year-old Torriano Jackson on a crowded street corner on Buffalo's east side.
Proclaiming his innocence through evermore legal motions and appeals, Dixon draws, spending 10 to 12 hours a day illustrating a kind of serenity he has never known.
"They'd have run me out if I talked about golf," he said during a recent interview with The Associated Press inside the maximum-security prison, recalling the tough city streets where football and basketball ruled.
He knew early on he had a talent for drawing, copying comic strip characters so perfectly his mother thought he'd traced them. An elementary school teacher guided him into Buffalo's Academy for Visual and Performing Arts for high school. But one class shy of a diploma, he entered a world of drug dealing and guns.
"I know I disappointed my teachers at performing arts," he says now, inside this upstate New York fortress infamous for a deadly 1971 riot. "I wanted to become one of the best in the world."
Dixon, now 43, knew trouble was brewing that night in 1991. But he said he was inside a store buying beer when he heard the shots that would send four victims to the hospital. Torriano Jackson was shot 27 times, and his older brother, Aaron, was among the wounded.
Out on bail with drug and weapons charges pending, Dixon went home and went to bed, he said, only to be arrested the next day.
"I wasn't nervous," he said. "I thought, 'The truth will come out.'"
But when investigators disregarded a confession by 18-year-old LaMarr Scott, saying it was coerced by Dixon's family, Dixon was on his way to trial and a sentence of 39 years to life. With no physical evidence, jurors in Dixon's trial relied on the testimony of three prosecution witnesses, Dixon said, and his own lawyer's refusal to call witnesses of his own. He's eligible for parole in 2030.
"To this day, I'm trying to figure out why they arrested me in the first place," he said. Since his conviction, several witnesses have come forward to say Dixon was not the gunman, and he has passed a lie-detector test, all part of his bid for freedom.
None of it sways prosecutor Christopher Belling, who built the case against Dixon.
"He's had at least three appeal proceedings and each time the courts have upheld his conviction," said Belling, now senior trial counsel in the Erie County District Attorney's Office.
Sitting in his prison cell in 1998, Dixon picked up the pencils an uncle had sent him and, for the first time in about a decade, began drawing. Animals, landscapes, people. When then-prison Supt. James Conway gave Dixon a picture of the 12th hole of Augusta National, home of The Masters, and asked if he would draw it in 2009, something about it spoke to him.
"I've been drawing the golf courses ever since," he said.
Hours of drawing are broken up by workouts, meals, prayers and reading. Earphones counter prison noise with the music of Celine Dion, Billy Joel, Whitney Houston.
Trapping his pencil between his fingers and thumb in a grip that got him in trouble as a boy, the white of the paper disappears completely, as if painted.
"It takes a lot of layering. Colors on top of colors," Dixon said, demonstrating a technique honed over time.
His mother, Barbara Dixon, knowing her son has never set foot on a golf course, is convinced a higher power is at work.
"Once he started drawing the golf courses, he said, 'Ma, I feel such a sense of peace unlike anything I've ever felt,'" she said.
A fellow inmate's Golf Digest subscription provides the pictures that have been his inspiration. More than 130 golf drawings later, the magazine opened another door with its regular feature, "Golf Saved My Life," written each month by a contributor with staff writer Max Adler.
"I've never hit a golf ball," began Dixon's essay, published last July. "Everything I draw is from inside a 6-by-10 prison cell."
He described his descent from art student to cocaine dealer to murder suspect to inmate inside Attica's "honor block" for those with the cleanest disciplinary records.
"When I was a young man I wasn't useful to society — this I don't argue. But I'm not a murderer," the father of three wrote. "That's the worst thing somebody can be, and I'm not that. I hope all you need to do is look at my drawings to know that."
Adler spent five months delving into Dixon's story, reading thousands of pages of trial transcripts, police reports and affidavits and interviewing attorneys, the trial judge, a juror, witnesses and others. He followed the inmate's essay with a detailed retelling of the crime and conviction, coming away convinced an injustice had been done.
"In the accumulation of every detail," Adler said by phone, "I'm left without any doubt that he is innocent."
Shooting victim Aaron Jackson disagrees.
"I'm glad that he's found himself with whatever it is that he's doing," said Jackson, a community activist who mentors youth. "But my younger brother, his life came to a terrible end. … (Dixon) went to prison and Torriano went to a grave."


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Santi: Oh, yes.
Todd: Have you ever seen that?
Santi: I tried it once in university and it's quite great I think.
Todd: Yeah, actually, you know, recently I was watching the Olympics and I was thinking that should be an Olympic sport. I mean, I didn't see it in the Olympics. Maybe it is, but ... because people from South East Asia are so good at it and you need to have like that type of body ... very, you know, kind of light, and lean and very flexible. But for people that aren't familiar with the game, can you explain what it is?
Santi: The ball is made from rattan and then you have to be kind of like athletic and have special talents to catch the ball with every part of your body and then you have to have self-conscious of where the balls gonna go because once like it goes fast and just times oh my god go directly into you so have to catch the ball maybe with your head or maybe with your hands or even with your chest.
Todd: Its amazing ... an amazing sport. Actually, speaking of individual sports, what about golf. That's the ultimate individual sport.
Santi: I want to do it but actually the equipment is pretty expensive and I don't know much about it.
Todd: Now in your country, in Indonesia, are they many golf courses?
Santi: Yes, they have. We have an international tournament actually in Bali. It's very good place to play golf.
Todd: Oh, really. In Bali?
Santi: Yes.
Todd: So you can surf in the day, or in the morning,
Santi: and at night you have ... kind of like relax and enjoy a message and spa.
Todd: Wow. Sounds good. OK, well, anyway it was nice talking to you about sports, Santi.
Santi: Thank you, too.
Their bodies are light and lean.
'Lean' means low in fat. Note the following:
- Small portions of lean meats can be good for you.
- The boxers both looked lean and fit.
They have a flexible body.
Flexible people are able to bend their bodies easily.
- Dancers and gymnasts have to be very flexible.
- Stretching exercises help improve flexibility.
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People aren't familiar with the game.
To be familiar with something means to know or understand it. Note the following:
- I'm not familiar with that TV show.
- Are you familiar with the process?
You have to be self-conscious of where the ball's gonna' go.
Here, self-conscious means to notice or be aware of things around you. We usually speak only the word 'conscious'. Note the following:
- You have to be conscious of where the ball's gonna' go.
- He looked nervous and self-conscious during his speech.
That's the ultimate individual sport.
We use the word 'ultimate' to talk about the best or the worst of something or someone. Note the following:
- Mount Everest is the ultimate for a climber.
- That restaurant was the ultimate in terrible service!
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Gov. Pat Quinn said Thursday that he remains confident lawmakers can reach a deal to reform the state's government employee pension system by his Jan. 9 deadline, despite the fact House and Senate leaders can't even agree on which days to come to work.
Legislators initially were scheduled to return to Springfield beginning Jan. 2 and hold session every day through Jan. 9, when a new crop of lawmakers is set to be sworn in and the reset button is hit on legislation. But both chambers have shortened their schedules, meaning it will be even more difficult to hammer out an agreement in the time frame set by Quinn.
The Senate now plans to meet Jan. 2 through Jan. 4 and go home, with the House scheduled to convene Jan. 6 through Jan. 8. If necessary, the Senate may return on Jan. 8 to act on legislation passed by the House.
That pace is far from frenzied push Quinn has been calling for the past several weeks, but the governor says he hasn't lost hope. Even Quinn is planning a short break, a trip to Florida to watch Northern Illinois University compete in the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.
"I really feel that in that three-day period, we can accomplish a lot," Quinn said. "We have made some good progress, I think, in discussions on the pension reform. I think we're narrowing the differences. We have to work hard at that and I'm optimistic that we can get a plan that can get a good vote in both houses and get this behind us. This is our number one challenge and it'd be a great achievement if we can get it done."
The governor, however, offered no specifics on what that "progress" entails. A divide remains among lawmakers over which of two key pension reform proposals should move forward. Neither plan would fully address the state's $96 billion pension funding shortfall.
Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago, is pushing a plan that would cut costs for the two retirement systems covering state workers and legislators. The measure narrowly passed the Senate earlier this year, but has failed to gain momentum in the House.
Under the proposal, lawmakers and other state employees would be required to accept cost-of-living increases below the current 3 percent compounded level if they want to keep access to their state health insurance and have salary increases totaled into their final pension earnings.
Cullerton estimates the changes could save the state as much as $31 billion over the next 30 years. Critics say it's a half-measure because it doesn't deal with pension costs of teachers, judges or university workers.
Cullerton spokeswoman Rikeesha Phelon said the measure is a first step that moves the ball forward, and "the only pension reform bill positioned for real action."
Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of rank-and-file House lawmakers have unveiled a plan that would impact more workers. The proposal would require employees to contribute another 2 percentage points of their paychecks, limit cost-of-living increases and increase the retirement age for workers.
Advocates say the plan would immediately reduce the state's unfunded pension liability to $67 billion. Critics question whether the proposal is constitutional.
Quinn has said both plans have merits, but the key is getting something on his desk to sign in order to avoid another credit downgrade from ratings agencies. "This is not something to be delayed," Quinn said.
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Gov. Pat Quinn said Thursday that he remains confident lawmakers can reach a deal to reform the state's government employee pension system by his Jan. 9 deadline, despite the fact House and Senate leaders can't even agree on which days to come to work.


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Former New York Mayor Bloomberg to spend $50 million on gun control
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ramped up his efforts to fight gun violence on Wednesday with a plan to spend $50 million on a grassroots network to organize voters on gun control.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ramped up his efforts to fight gun violence on Wednesday with a plan to spend $50 million on a grassroots network to organize voters on gun control.
The initiative's political target is the powerful pro-gun lobby, including the National Rifle Association , that spends millions of dollars each year to back gun-rights supporters.
Bloomberg's group, called Everytown for Gun Safety, will focus on state and local lawmakers, corporate boards, and state and federal elections - "fields of play formerly occupied almost solely by the gun lobby," according to a statement.
The billionaire Bloomberg told NBC's "Today" show he did not view his $50 million investment as a "heavy political lift."
"Thirty-one thousand Americans either get murdered or commit suicide with illegal guns. That's the heavy lift," he said.
The staunch gun control advocate already bankrolled a $12 million advertising campaign last year that promoted background checks and targeted key members of the U.S. Senate.
The new initiative will focus on expanding background checks for gun buyers at state and national levels rather than on sweeping federal weapons bans that have been stymied in Washington.
"I think the NRA should be very afraid," said Shannon Watts , a founder of gun control group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America , which is a member of Everytown for Gun Safety.
"The gun lobby has done a good job over the last 30 years of making a local minority afraid that people would take their guns away," she said on a conference call.
Gun control advocates have long called for a better system of background checks. After 12 people were killed in September at the Washington Navy Yard, President Barack Obama said the United States needed a better way to check whether gun buyers have mental health problems.
The NRA, the largest U.S. lobby group for gun rights, spent $20 million in the 2012 election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics .
The NRA, which claims nearly 5 million members, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Bloomberg has been particularly outspoken about tightening existing gun laws since a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at a Newtown, Connecticut , elementary school in 2012.
The three-term New York City mayor also advocated for measures to curb obesity, smoking and even salt content in food.
He told The New York Times he was proud of the work, which some critics said interfered with personal choice.
"I am telling you if there is a God, when I get to heaven I'm not stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It's not even close," he told the newspaper.
Bloomberg will chair the new gun control network , which includes the 1.5 million members of existing groups Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which he co-founded, and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America .
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Clayville accountant sentenced for stealing $800K
A central New York accountant has been sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison for stealing more than $800,000 from three people and a church.
Local media outlets report that 61-year-old Craig Podosek of Clayville was sentenced Thursday in Oneida County Court in Utica.
Prosecutors say he used a Ponzi-like scheme to steal nearly $400,000 from a Utica-area church and also bilked three people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Podosek pleaded guilty in September to four counts of second-degree grand larceny and one count of first-degree scheme to defraud. He admitted to repeatedly stealing money from one person to pay back debts owed to another person.
Podosek has since paid back some of the money he stolen but never explained what happened to the rest of it.


text: On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll<juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote: > [Cc. from c.l.l] > > I know that coding for free is quite an achievement, and that it is > daring to ask free developers for something, but I thought it would be > nice for once to be on the asking side ;-) > > I am setting up an automated process for downloading, building and > testing relevant, popular, or simply LARGE software made in Common > Lisp. The goal is to ensure that the code is not broken by changes in > ECL. It is a selfish goal, but probably exportable to other > implementations. > > http://ecls.sourceforge.net/logs_lib.html > > What I would like to ask CL developers is to begin shipping regression > tests with their libraries, and perhaps agree on an standard so that > one can programatically check whether a library builds or not. This > feature could be even included in ASDF, asdf-install, etc, just like > "make check" is now a de-facto standad in Autoconf. > > The agreement can be very simple: a package name (cffi-test for cffi, > etc) and a function that is to be executed and returns the number of > tests run, number of failures, and perhaps a descriptive list of the > test to be pretty printed. > > Do you think it makes sense? Definitely! (note that some of the applications don't use asdf though.) -- Gaby


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The following comment was posted on an online chat forum for Muslims yesterday inviting responses:
Some of the other members of the forum became suspicious by the strange comment and decided to check the new member's IP address:
More up-to-date checks of the IP address by other members of the forum showed the comment was posted by someone working at the Daily Mail Group (the Evening Standard used to be part of the Daily Mail Group):
The whole thread has now been deleted from the forum but it can still be viewed on Google's webcache here.
So it seems the Daily Mail ordered one of their journalists to pose as an extremist on a Muslim forum to try to elicit comments they could use for an anti-Muslim story.
Fortunately they were busted.
In a civilised society, a national newspaper journalist trying to stir up hatred and controversy with lies and subterfuge should be so professionally shameful it would normally lead to the sack for the hack concerned and investigations into standards of journalistic accountability at the publication.
At the Daily Mail – it's just another day at the office.
Related articles by Tom Pride:
The Daily Mail timeline of shame
It's time the Daily Mail apologised for supporting Hitler and its anti-semitic past
Oops! Mail on Sunday hack f*cks up his story attacking food banks
Daily Mail fail – newspaper uses false photo in Kenya shopping centre article
Photo of Mark Duggan at daughter's funeral cropped to paint him as a gangster
I've applied for a job at the Daily Mail. Here's my application letter
Daily Mail admits it was wrong about immigration (and hopes nobody will notice)
How Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre's father avoided the front-line in WW2
Daily Mail story about sunrises being shown on big screens in Beijing was made up
Daily Mail Apologises To Its Readers After Admitting Publishing Something True
Child abuse scandal can of worms – just who is Daily Mail reporter David Rose?
Oops! Daily Mail gets British immigration test wrong
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"Coming straight from the university," he says "you think you have some fundamental knowledge of economics and finance. But you don't know how things are actually really done in the real world."
The early years of his nine-year stint at EY, Boris says, taught him discipline, communication, how to work under pressure and how to meet the demand for high quality. "You learn to check and check again that what you have done is right."
"As you move up," he adds, "you start to learn certain industries, you see a variety of clients, you meet more people [and] you build the networking relationships within the firm. So you are actually trying to add some value to your clients. As you move up, that's also very valuable. … I'm very thankful for those."
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Waterline. 2012.
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The camera isolates one moment, embarking on storytelling while disrupting narrative, and permanently leaves us in a moment of suspense. Like finding a page torn from a book, beginnings and endings go undocumented, and the logic of the action remains unclear, complex, and shifting.
This set of images contains self-consciously manipulated figures that embody ideas. Instead of a body that functions in opposition to the mind, here the body acts in alignment with notions of thought or mindful purpose. Perception is guided by the senses of sight and touch, emphasizing the corporeal nature of knowledge. Reality is not automatic or clear-cut, but in question. The figures' imagination and creativity are key components in these stories of self-awareness, perspective and wisdom.
In my recent work, including series such as Story of Knowledges and Earthbound, I am interested in the degree to which we can visualize positive or productive relationships of people to the earth, and to other animals. Using panoramic, dioramic and sometimes filmic sweeps, I hope to offer narratives of interaction that press the essence of time.
I aspire to represent the vitality as well as the mystery of knowledges and scientific practices. This includes observation, evidence, emotional restraint, research, and the reading of instruments–with observation being first and foremost, and integral to the others, and perhaps referring back to the medium of photography itself. The photograph–enabling others to see something overlooked, previously unquestioned, or distant in space or time.
We are beginning to grapple with global climate changes and to mobilize society to build a more sustainable future. There is an urgent call for rethinking social, agricultural and political solutions to human operations that pollute, degrade and destroy the land, water and air. Our contemporary existence necessitates the understanding of natural systems. In my work, people explore the movement of the planets, our earthbound condition, and test their comprehension, resilience and inventiveness. From harmony, to notions of change, to parables of the failure of our stewardship, these digital photographic constructions delve into the intersection of art and the natural order.


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Altdorfer, Albrecht äl´brĕkht ältdôr´fər [key], 1480–1538, German painter and engraver. He served as city architect of Regensburg, where much of his life was spent. Although influenced by Dürer, Altdorfer's works are less severe in mood. Altdorfer may have been the first German to paint pure landscape, of which the Danube Landscape at Regensburg (1522–25) is typical. His varied subject matter included allegorical and biblical themes such as Susannah at the Bath (1526) and Birth of the Virgin (c.1521). The Battle of Alexander (1529) displays his penchant for detailed, panoramic vistas. All four works are in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich. Equally skilled at woodcutting and engraving, Altdorfer often executed one subject in a variety of media.
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Economic freedom, enhanced by limited government, is critical to economic dynamism and job creation, as documented in the Index of Economic Freedom, an annual cross-country policy analysis by The Heritage Foundation. The individual economies of our 50 states are no exception to that. The strongly positive linkage between economic freedom and economic dynamism holds true for states as well as nations.
High-stakes policy battles are going on in all 50 states about whether to move toward more limited government and greater economic freedom. According to a 2011 state-level study by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, "Economic Freedom and Employment Growth in the U.S. States," states with greater economic freedom—defined as the protection of private property and private markets operating with minimal government interference—experienced higher rates of job growth. More specifically, the study notes that critical determinants of employment growth across all 50 states are "labor market freedom and a smaller state government."
As also shown in a study published in Public Choice, states with larger public sectors tend to have lower economic growth rates due to the negative impact of government spending on growth, which is "considerably larger at the margin." A quick analysis of more recent years' economic data of the 50 states also supports such findings. On average, states that spent a higher portion of their citizens' income on various government programs over the last decade had lower economic growth rates.
Not convinced? Need a real time example? Take a look at Texas. The Lone Star State has created more than 30 percent of all net U.S. jobs since mid-2009. As The Wall Street Journal points out:
Texas stands out for its free market and business-friendly climate. Capital—both human and investment—is highly mobile, and it migrates all the time to the places where the opportunities are larger and the burdens are lower. Texas has no state income tax. Its regulatory conditions are contained and flexible. It is fiscally responsible and government is small. Its right-to-work law doesn't impose unions on businesses or employees. It is open to global trade and competition: Houston, San Antonio and El Paso are entrepôts for commerce, especially in the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
There is an easy lesson here. The question, though, is whether President Obama is a willing student.
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Carthage police look?to issue firearms to officers
Carthage police officers would not have to buy their own pistols if a plan approved by the city council's public safety committee meets with council approval.
Interim Police Chief Barry Duncan asked for permission to take $5,000 intended for two in-car video systems, plus the trade-in value of more than 30 excess guns in the department's inventory, to buy pistols to issue to officers.
"It's gotten to the point where all of the departments around us are issuing their own handguns," Duncan said. "I hired two people in December and I said, 'OK, you're hired, now go buy a gun, go buy all your leather.' It's almost, to me, a slap in the face where we make them buy their own equipment when everyone else pretty much is furnishing everything."
Duncan said department issued handguns have a number of advantages beyond attracting qualified police officers to Carthage.
"Another issue is consistency and continuity in weapons," Duncan said.
Duncan recommended the department buy Glock .40 caliber handguns. He said with the $5,000 intended for the video systems and trading in the unused guns in the department's possession, he can buy 13 guns at a cost of $459 each, plus 13 secure holsters at a cost of $99 each.
"I think safety and liability are big issues, but my main reason is I believe we need to offer the new officers as much equipment as we can," Duncan said. "The highway patrol, conservation, department of corrections, Joplin, Webb City, the list goes on and on, they all issue Glocks."
The public safety committee agreed with Duncan's recommendation and voted to recommend approval by the full council.
Duncan said the department will pursue funding from a private foundation to buy the in-car video systems he said police also need.
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Jimmie Vaughan talks on opening for Jimi Hendrix
Jimmie Vaughan is a master of the Texas blues and an alumnus of the Fabulous Thunderbirds. He's performed with the likes of B.B. King and Eric Clapton, and he is the older brother of the late Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Today, his band comprises tenor and baritone saxophones, guitar, bass and drums, plus Barton's voice.
Last year, he released the album "Jimmie Vaughan Plays Blues, Ballads & Favorites," followed this year by "Jimmie Vaughan Plays More Blues, Ballads & Favorites." He's already working on a new album.
In a recent telephone interview, he spoke to The State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill., about opening for Jimi Hendrix and his "freaky" desire to play every day.
Q: What was it like opening for the Jimi Hendrix Experience?
A: I was in a band called the Chessmen, and we opened the show at McFarland Auditorium in Dallas, Texas. It was Jimi Hendrix, so everybody was completely excited, and I think maybe I was the most excited. I was an absolute crazy fan.
His roadie said that Jimi had busted his pedal, and it was on Saturday or Sunday, so he couldn't go buy a new one because the stores were closed.
He said he had this extra one, which was not a good one — they didn't like it — so they said we'll give you this one and $50 and you give us yours. And they only cost $29 or something like that at the time. They basically gave me double and a broken one for a souvenir.
Q: Do you still have it?
A: I do, yes.
Q: Did he influence your approach to the guitar?
A: Absolutely. When I first started hearing him play, on records, it was blues. It sounded like a young Muddy Waters on LSD, for lack of a better way to describe it.
I thought it was blues, I didn't know. I heard "Purple Haze," and if I've ever heard blues, that's blues.
It was kind of hard to figure out exactly what he was doing, but there was a lot of feedback and noises, and he brought everything together.
Q: In the era before you could look up YouTube videos of great guitarists to see what they're doing, how did you learn from people like Hendrix?
A: Mainly you would try to copy off the records, and it was on the radio, too. You just walk around your house and play the radio, and try to play along with the radio. That's really how I learned how to play. You just play all the time.
Q: Do you still play every day?
A: I do. I do. Play every day. I have a natural, freaky desire to play guitar all the time. It's like a — a yearning.
Q: Is there a typical day's session? Do you get up at 9 a.m. and play every morning?
A: You have this thing called life that goes in between it. So just when you can.
I'm in Fort Smith, Ark. We got off the bus at 7 (a.m.) and came to our room. I went and had breakfast and came down here and played for an hour and a half. That's just what I like to do. I'm always on kind of one trip or another, musically speaking.
Q: Is there something about the Fender Stratocaster in particular that defines your sound?
A: I just used to ride the bus downtown and look at them in the window. And I couldn't have one because I was a stupid little kid with no money.
It was always a beautiful object: part ashtray, part machine gun, part ray gun and part lamp. I used to look in the window at the music stores and want a Stratocaster or a Telecaster or an SG Gibson. They were beautiful and modern and exotic.
Q: You started playing guitar as a teenager — picked it up pretty easily, right?
A: I don't know if I was any good, but I could play pretty quick. I remember that feeling of not wanting to stop.
Q: Your sound has changed over time. Some of the earlier Fabulous Thunderbirds albums were very bluesy and then progressed into more of a rock-blues sound. Would you call yourself a blues purist, or does the form have to evolve?
A: I don't know if I would call myself a purist. Purist sounds stuck and afraid. I just play what I want to hear. I try to play what's in my head. But you have to do it very quickly, as you feel it. You have to develop that.
Basically, you're just trying to play — trying to learn how to play — all the time, constantly. All the material is a scenario you set up so that you can play guitar.
But don't forget all the fun. This is just technically speaking, we're talking here. It's really just fun, and it's a way to express yourself in front of people.
They like it, and you're getting it from them right then. It's all in the now, and you have a framework of how it goes, but once you get to the ad-lib part, anything can happen. You can go anywhere as long as you can get back.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Dozens of fellow "yellow shirt" security guards were among the hundreds of people mourning a man who died helping others escape the deadly Las Vegas concert shooting.
At the funeral Thursday morning for Erick Silva, 21, loved ones and dignitaries hailed him as a hero for helping people climb over a barricade at an outdoor country music festival as the gunman perched high in a casino-hotel tower unleashed more than 1,000 bullets into the crowd.
His mother, Angelica Cervantes, was emotional and cried at times, heaving into the embrace of her husband. She said Silva was great a son, a tender brother and well-liked by many. She's proud of him and his generosity, whether it was saving others from the massacre or just buying fellow colleagues lunch in the office.
"I'm sure if he could save more lives, he would have," Cervantes said in Spanish.
Silva was a Contemporary Services Corporation security guard working the Route 91 Harvest Festival when he was shot in the head on October 1. He was among the 58 people killed in the massacre. Hundreds of others were wounded.
"Without him and people like him, Las Vegas could not be the entertainment capital of the world," said Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak.
The funeral service included songs in Spanish with tearful mourners clutching flowers and the security guards in uniform standing in formation in the aisles. One fellow guard came on crutches after his own injuries from the shooting.
Photos of Silva also appeared on screens during the funeral, alternating between him posing as a toddler in a graduation cap and gown, and him at work standing watch at various events — a reminder that Silva died just as he was coming into his own as a man.
"He could have run but he didn't," Gregorio De La Rosa, his stepfather, said in Spanish. "In a hard moment, he gave up his life. We're very proud."
Gina Argento, Silva's boss who was like a second mother to him, said in the packed chapel that Silva loved his family immensely. He was driven by duty and lived at home to help support his mother.
"You have to watch over your mom and your brother and your family," Argento said in tears. "And your CSC family. You need to go to the events."
Argento said that Silva took pride in his work, especially his ability to spot fake wristbands at the major events that he worked at over the last three years. He collected them to show off his "x-ray vision" to his co-workers.
Silva was also on his way to a promotion within the company, and was so excited when he heard about it four days before the shooting, that he immediately told his mother. Silva was buried in a blue supervisor's uniform.
"We counted on him and he didn't let us down," Argento said.
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NEW: Obama to support Feinstein effort to reinstate assault weapons ban
Sandy Hook shooting might become a tipping point for gun legislation
Several pro-gun Democrats have said it is time to look at all options
Some Republicans say fewer restrictions on guns are what are needed
It has happened before: Aurora. Columbine. Tucson. Virginia Tech.
But, this time, the White House and a growing number of Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill promise it will be different. This time, they say, things will change.
In Washington and around the country, the legacy left by the 26 people – 20 of them young children – slaughtered in a school shooting on Friday in Newtown, Connecticut, might indeed be meaningful legislative reform.
Over the past few days, several lawmakers have promised to introduce or reintroduce gun control legislation, ranging from a reinstatement of a federal ban on assault weapons to banning the sale of high-capacity magazines.
On Monday, there was a moment of silence on the floor of the U.S. Senate to honor those killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The chamber's chaplain called on lawmakers to "act promptly." The House also observed a moment of silence Monday evening.
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"To me and to others, this one feels different," said Jon Vernick, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research. "Maybe because of the timing, maybe because of the victims, 20 young children. Maybe it's because we have a president who has been re-elected who is not going to be running again. That doesn't mean those political obstacles aren't still there, but it does feel different."
Friday, just after the shooting, White House spokesman Jay Carney said President Barack Obama was willing to consider reinstating the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004.
On Sunday, in his remarks at the vigil in Newtown, Obama hinted that he'll "use whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens … in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this. Because what choice do we have?"
On Monday, the White House inched closer to addressing what Carney called a complex problem. And Tuesday afternoon, Carney said the president now supports Sen. Diane Feinstein's intended effort to reinstate the assault weapons ban.
Will Newtown change America's attitude toward guns?
Pro-gun Democrats
The most notable shift in tone comes from some conservative Democrats who have high rankings from the National Rifle Association for their pro-gun rights legislative stances.
Friday's shooting was a "game changer," tweeted Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, who'd previously received an "A" rating from the NRA.
"This awful massacre of our youngest children has changed us, and everything should be on the table," Sen. Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat from West Virginia and "proud gun owner," said Monday in a statement. "We need to move beyond dialogue – we need to take a sensible, reasonable approach to the issue of mass violence."
New Jersey Democrat Sen. Frank Lautenberg plans to reintroduce legislation in the next Congress that would prohibit the sale of high-capacity magazines, his office confirmed Monday. He and California Sen. Feinstein hail from states that advocates of gun control, such as the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, say have some of the toughest gun restrictions.
Feinstein announced Sunday she'll reintroduce an assault weapons ban when Congress reconvenes in January.
Movement in the White House
Citizen-created petitions on the White House's website have netted thousands of signatures on both sides of the issue in just a few days. But the political reality is that crafting meaningful legislation is a tricky prospect.
The White House has said Obama supports reinstatement of a federal ban on assault weapons – a position he took in the 2008 campaign but failed to press during his first term.
"It does remain a commitment of his," Carney told reporters Friday.
But later that day, an emotional Obama did not address the issue directly in a televised statement from the White House.
"We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics," said Obama, the father of two girls.
A White House source told CNN that on Monday afternoon, Obama had discussions with White House senior staff, the vice president and several Cabinet members, including Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder to begin looking at ways the country can respond to the tragedy in Newtown.
The politics of guns
Obama largely avoided the issue of gun control during his first term.
He wrote an opinion piece two months after the 2011 assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, acknowledging the importance of the Second Amendment right to bear arms and called for a focus on "effective steps that will actually keep those irresponsible, law-breaking few from getting their hands on a gun in the first place."
Jared Loughner sentenced to life in deadly Arizona shootings
But in the aftermath of that shooting and as the election season loomed, the Justice Department backed off from a list of recommendations that included measure designed to help keep mentally ill people from getting guns.
There are also other political considerations.
While Democratic lawmakers took to the airwaves this weekend to call for congressional action on gun control, the few Republicans who did speak out pointed to numerous court cases that have upheld Second Amendment rights and said guns are needed as mechanisms for self-defense. And others have said the solution is more guns in schools, not fewer.
Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert said on "Fox News Sunday" that if school principal Dawn Hochsprung had an assault rifle in her office, she could have killed the shooter.
"I wish to God she had an M-4 in her office locked up – so when she heard gunfire, she pulls it out and she didn't have to lunge heroically with nothing in her hands," Gohmert said. "But she takes him out, takes his head off, before he can kill those precious kids."
NRA big supporter of politicians
Protecting those Second Amendment rights has also included hefty campaign donations.
During the 2012 election cycle, the NRA donated $719,596 to candidates. Republicans received $634,146 of that, according to the Center for Responsive Politics' analysis of federal campaign data. For example, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, ranked among the top five recipients, having received $7,450 in this cycle.
Some $85,450 went to Democrats, many of them in states that are considered more conservative when it comes to gun control laws. For example, Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson got $6,950 this cycle and represents a district in Utah, a state gun control policy advocates say has some of the nation's weakest gun laws.
A number of Democratic lawmakers who hail from conservative states are up for re-election in 2014, which may also increase the pressure not to touch the gun issue.
Gun policies are "still a third rail especially if you're really going to try and do something about it," said Alan Lizotte, dean and professor at the State University of New York at Albany's School of Criminal Justice. "There are a lot of issues there."
According to a new ABC News/Washington Post survey on gun control conducted over the weekend, 52% of people see the mass shootings as a sign of broader problems in society. This up from 24% in August shortly after the deadly theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado.
The poll also found rise in people who strongly favor stricter gun control, 44%, and a double-digit gap between them and the 32% who say they strongly oppose stricter gun control laws. In August, 39% supported tougher laws and 37% opposed them.
A Pew poll conducted after the Giffords shooting found that 49% of Americans said it was "more important to protect the rights of Americans to own guns," while 46% said it was "more important to control gun ownership."
But a survey conducted by CNN/ORC International in August shortly after the Aurora incident found that 76% of those surveyed believe "there should be some restrictions on owning guns."
And as debate is sure to ensue in Washington, so it has already online.
"You can make as many laws as you want it will NOT change people who want to hurt others. We all need to arm our self now. That is the only way," reader Steve Lahey commented on CNN.com.
Which prompted another reader to reply: "That worked so well for the shooter's mother, didn't it?"
View from abroad: Sorrow, but little hope for U.S. gun control
CNN's Ashley Killough and Brianna Keilar contributed to this report.


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I've finished my ATC Artist Trading Card. It's called,'Let the Leaves Fall'.
As a quick recap an ATC, or Artist Trading Card, is a mini work of art made onto sturdy card 2.5″x3.5″. Orginially hand drawn or painted, ATCs are never sold but are swapped with other artists. Their original aim was to enable people to collect small works by artists which they would otherwise not be able to afford.
Ali from Very Berry Handmade has organised this particular fabric based ATC swap.
There are 50 of us. We have all been allocated a fabric mad partner and given a theme which is 'Autumn'. We all do the swap in early November. I hope mine stands up to scrutiny.
Here are the various stages of my card.
I'm so looking forward to seeing the complete collection.
I hope you all had a relaxing (????) weekend.
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I think the lowest moment was this morning as I stood in one of those long, snaking security lines in the Delta portion of Terminal 3 at JFK International Airport. The high ceiling has pigeon nests in it, and the evil birds occasionally fly over the helpless travelers below and poop on their heads.
Following on our previous "Heathrow Diversion" post, this is our final report on a failed geological trip. Because of the snow and ice in England, our London flight was alternately canceled and reinstated (or at least that's how it was communicated to us). We feared yet another mid-Atlantic diversion or, worse, getting to Heathrow and not being able to return home before the holidays. After many little adventures, we gave up on getting to London. I just arrived in Wooster and Megan is on a flight home to Detroit. My luggage, of course, is missing in action, but fortunately I did not keep in it the Permian type specimens or our Cretaceous collection. [Update: My luggage apparently never left Detroit!]
Throughout this journey we were accompanied by people who just want to get home to their families for the holidays. Here's to their safe and successful travels.


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Diplomate, ACVS, ACVA, ACVECC
Professor of Surgery
Tracheal collapse is a progressive, chronic, debilitating disease occurring primarily in middle-aged toy-breed dogs. Pomeranians, Poodles, Yorkshire Terriers, and Chihuahuas are most commonly affected. The clinical signs of tracheal collapse are a chronic nonproductive cough, exercise intolerance, and varying degrees of dyspnea. The cough often resembles a "honking-sound." Clinical signs are exacerbated by excitement or anxiety and may proceed to collapse and syncope.
The dorsal membrane and cartilage rings are both involved in the degenerative process. The rings become hypoplastic or fibrodystrophic and cannot maintain the normal C-shaped configuration. Affected tracheas lack glucosamine glycan chondroitin sulfate resulting in loss of cartilage rigidity. The dorsal membrane is redundant and drawn into the cervical tracheal lumen during inspiration and into the thoracic tracheal lumen during expiration. The disease often progresses to involve the bronchi. The degree of collapse is classified from grade I (slight collapse with mild membrane redundancy) to grade IV (total collapse with the dorsal membrane lying on the tracheal ring).
Palpation of the cervical region often reveals a flaccid, flattened trachea and stimulates a cough. The degree and severity of the collapse is best determined by radiography and tracheoscopy. Radiographs of the sedated patient during both inspiration and expiration will help to determine whether the collapse is in the cervical or thoracic trachea or both are involved. Tracheoscopy often gives a more accurate picture of the disease than does radiography. Flexible endoscopy provides the opportunity to evaluate the entire airway including laryngeal function, trachea, and bronchi. The need is to evaluate the entire airway including the bronchi where correction is not currently possible.
Medical management includes weight loss, cough suppressants, bronchial dilators, and sedation as needed to control anxiety and excitement. Medical management can result in long-term resolution of clinical signs in many cases as long as other medical problems are appropriately addressed. Some cases are refractory to medical care while others progress to a point of requiring surgical treatment.
Numerous techniques have been described for surgical correction of collapsed trachea. One of the first was dorsal membrane plication. This procedure results in significant reduction in trachea diameter. External splinting has been used for many years. Surgical placement of polypropylene C-shaped stents made from syringe barrels has been proven to be effective especially in dogs less than 6 years old.
Modification of the external ring technique includes a polypropylene spiral which attempts to provide a continuous support of the trachea. These rings and spirals are rather stiff and must be drilled for placement of sutures. Another modification includes the use of a polyvinylchloride ring made from intravenous drip chambers in place of the polypropylene rings or spirals. The rings can be purchased in various sizes commercially (New Generation) and are preferred over the home-made ones.
Tunnels are carefully dissected around the trachea preserving the tracheal blood supply and the recurrent laryngeal nerves. The trachea is sutured in four locations to the ring using 4-0 polypropylene suture. The sutures pull the collapsed trachea outward to the ring, relieving the collapse. A ring is placed every centimeter (every 3rd-4th ring) along the cervical trachea. Placing rings on the thoracic trachea is difficult. All of the external devices require some interruption of tracheal blood supply and dissection of the recurrent laryngeal. This can result in major morbidity and mortality. To overcome this latter complication, some have combined the rings with arytenoid lateralization. Over time the trachea tends to collapse between the rings or at the proximal or distal ends of the external rings. The collapse often proceeds to involve the bronchi.
Permanently implanted internal stents have been used to support human tracheas collapsed from malacia or cancer. These have recently been employed in cases of canine collapsed trachea. The Palmaz® stent was used but complications included pulmonary edema, stent migration, stent collapse, obstruction with granulation and cough. Better results were obtained from the use of Wallstent.®
We began to use the Ultraflex® stent (Boston Scientific) several years ago. We limited the use to dogs with either grade III or IV collapse who were severely compromised by their disease. Definitive diagnosis of collapsed trachea and the diameter and length of the collapse was determined by radiography and endoscopy. Endoscopy appeared to be more accurate at determining the severity of the collapse. The diameter of the collapsed trachea and the size of the stent to be placed was determined by placing a cuffed endotracheal tube in the larynx and applying positive pressure to the airway. The maximum tracheal diameter was then measured from a lateral radiograph with the trachea under positive pressure of 20 mmHg. A 4 to 8 cm long stent was chosen with the diameter equal to the maximum trachea size under positive pressure as determined by radiographs and endoscopy.
The dogs were anesthetized with injectable anesthetic (propofol) with oxygen provided through the endoscopy. The proximal and distal extent of the collapsed segment was determined with endoscopy. The stent catheter was positioned and the self-expanding stent was deployed. The positioning of the stent and dilation of the trachea were confirmed with endoscopy. Anesthesia was discontinued, and the dogs observed in the ICU overnight and then discharged the following day. Corticosteroid and antibiotics were administered for 14 days post-implant.
Stents can be placed in both cervical and thoracic trachea. The stents are available in various lengths and diameters. Most dogs will require only one stent, but some may require two placed end-to-end. Some stented patients do very well long-term with only a slight cough. However, others have developed some granulation tissue over the stent, and others have fractured the stent resulting in re-collapse.
Stents have many advantages over rings. Some of these include: no chance of damage to the segmented trachea blood supply or to the recurrent laryngeal nerve, can be placed quickly avoiding lengthy surgery, provide continuous support along the entire stented trachea, and subsequent stents can be placed if additional collapse occurs.
The disadvantages are that the stent is very expensive, proper application requires both endoscopy and fluoroscopy, chronic cough can occur if the stents are placed close to the cricoid, granulation tissue can build up at the ends of the stents, and the stents can fracture, resulting in recurrent collapse. A possible "best" approach might be to place rings on the cervical trachea to reduce expense and reserve stents for the thoracic trachea where rings are not feasible.
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Bacterial Pathogens and Rising Temperatures Threaten Coral Health
January 20, 2009
Coral reefs around the world are in serious trouble from pollution, over-fishing, climate change and more. The last thing they need is an infection. But that's exactly what yellow band disease (YBD) is—a bacterial infection that sickens coral colonies. Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and colleagues have found that YBD seems to be getting worse with global warming and announced that they've identified the bacteria responsible for the disease.
Just as a doctor can diagnose a child with chicken pox by the small, round bumps on her skin, you can tell a coral with yellow band disease (YBD) by its own characteristic markings. This affliction etches a swath of pale-yellow or white lesions along the surface of an infected coral colony. The discolored band is a mark of death, indicating where the bacterial infection has killed the coral's photosynthetic symbionts, called zooxanthellae. The coral host suffers from cellular damage and starves without its major energy source, and usually does not recover.
In a paper published in the November 2008 issue of the Journal of Applied Microbiology (JAM), lead author James Cervino, a guest investigator in the WHOI Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry department, and his colleagues report isolating the bacteria that cause YBD: a group of four new Vibrio species, which combine with existing Vibrio on the coral to attack the zooxanthellae. This is the first demonstration that the same bacterial culprits are to blame for the disease throughout the Caribbean as well as half way around the world in Indonesia.
The broad distribution of the core group of Vibrio also helps explain the expanding incidence of YBD throughout the world's tropical oceans, Cervino says. The JAM study documents YBD infection in Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. According to Cervino, "In the U.S. Virgin Islands, Florida, the Caribbean, YBD is one of the most threatening coral diseases."
The Vibrio bacteria that cause YBD are part of a family with a reputation for disease. "What we have are coral pathogens that are genetically close to shellfish pathogens," Cervino says. For example, one of the Vibrio bacteria found in corals also causes infections in prawns, shrimp, and crabs. The bacteria are also distantly related to Vibrio cholera, the pathogen that causes human cholera epidemics. There is no known danger to humans from YBD, however.
Cervino and colleagues grew Vibrio pathogens together with healthy coral. They found that YBD infection occurs at normal ocean temperatures, but that warmer temperatures made the disease even more virulent. Cervino explains, "Contrary to what many experts have assumed, this disease occurs independently of warming temperatures." However, when the temperatures go up and the corals are already infected, the infection becomes more lethal. "Thermal stress and pathogenic stress are a double-whammy for the organism," emphasizes Cervino. With the Vibrio core group occurring in tropical oceans all over the world and water temperatures on the rise, he says, the prognosis for corals and the spread of YBD is rather grim.
Cervino is a professor at Pace University in New York and a visiting scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Cervino works in co-author Konrad Hughen's lab in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry. Of their joint work Cervino says, "You have biology and chemistry merging together in this lab at WHOI and it's turning out to be an amazing collaboration."
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a private, independent organization in Falmouth, Mass., dedicated to marine research, engineering, and higher education. Established in 1930 on a recommendation from the National Academy of Sciences, its primary mission is to understand the oceans and their interaction with the Earth as a whole, and to communicate a basic understanding of the oceans' role in the changing global environment.


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Four years ago McGraw-Hill asked me to review the new book by Lorrie Thomas, The McGraw-Hill 36 Hour Course: Online Marketing. Because the book provided so many valuable marketing guidelines and recommendations, I gave Online Marketing a 5 star rating in my video and text review.
Lorrie and I became Internet acquaintances. Soon I invited her to appear as a guest on "The Communication Corner," a radio show I co-hosted with Kristina Rhoades at Brenau University. Lorrie agreed, even though she lived in Santa Barbara, California–meaning she would join our broadcast at 6:00 AM in her time zone. As expected, she helped our listeners understand what today's business leaders must do to market their products and services successfully. She earns her moniker: "The Web Therapist."
My favorite Lorrie Thomas Ross (she married after the book's publication) advice: "The true meaning of marketing is maximizing relationships." Close by is this gem: "start small, then snowball."
A few weeks ago, Lorrie e-mailed me that she had moved to Alpharetta, Georgia in the metropolitan Atlanta area, just an hour's drive from my Gainesville, GA office. Not long afterward, we met in person for the first time when we attended the book club meeting hosted several times a year by Bob Littell, author of The Heart and Art of Netweaving. What a privilege to meet someone I had admired from across the continent!
In addition to her writing skills, Lorrie has become an in-demand speaker, seminar director, and consultant. Already, she has started filling her professional calendar in her new location–and still works nationwide.
I encourage you to benefit from Lorrie's book, as I did along with many other readers. Here's my video review:
Clearly, I remain grateful that Lorrie expanded my understanding of marketing–and that she moved to Georgia, where we will enjoy both professional affiliation and friendship.
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Bolton and Menk and Wilkus Architects are providing design services for the wastewater treatment plant.
Wilkus Architects is part of the integrated design team that will provide services for the improvements to the Blue Earth Wastewater Treatment Facility in Blue Earth, Minn. Bolton and Menk, Inc., an environmental engineering firm, leads the team.
The biosolids storage expansion includes a 2,000-square-foot, brick clad control room and two new sludge storage tanks. Construction is under way. The general contractor is The Joseph Company of Austin, Minn. The new facility is scheduled to be open this spring.
The city of Blue Earth is located in Faribault County and is situated on the Blue Earth River and conveniently located on the I-90 corridor. The river was given the Native American name "Mahkota" (meaning Blue Earth) for the blue-black clay found on the river banks.
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This free webinar will inform attendees on the most significant updates and modifications in the new standard, known as E1527-21 Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Process.


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Romney supporters were up in arms regarding a Pew poll released two days ago of 1,956 registered voters that showed Obama leading Romney by 10%, 51%-41%. Much of the controversy centered on Pew's sample of registered voters, which included 459 self-identified Republicans compared to 813 Democrats, with the remaining 684 declaring as independents. Critics argued this partisan distribution was heavily and unfairly skewed toward Democratic respondents. They pointed out that the partisan difference in 2008 – a strong Democratic year – was only 7- in favor of Democrats according to the CNN exit polls, and that two years ago the parties were evenly divided in the midterm elections. But the Pew poll suggests that partisan advantage has almost doubled.
How can Obama be up by 10%, particularly when the forecast models I've discussed in previous posts based on the fundamentals suggest that in contrast to 2008, this race is practically a dead heat? To understand the seeming discrepancy, you should keep four key points in mind. First, remember that Pew doesn't simply report the raw sample results; they do adjust the sample to bring it in line with broader demographic variables such as race, ethnicity, and even cell phone use. So, Obama's final margin is based on a weighted sample of 38% Democrats, 25% Republicans, and 33% independents – not the 41% Democrat subsample that some sources reported yesterday.
However, Pew does not adjust based on partisan self-identification – that is, they don't try to "match" the sample to some national distribution of Democrats and Republicans. Critics who think they should do so are mistaking the nature of partisan self-identification in these polls. Often, they confuse self-professed party identification with party registration data. Party identification is an attitude – not a demographic figure akin to one's religion, or race, or ethnicity. As such, although partisan identification is generally stable on the whole, it can change, and often does in response to how survey respondents are reacting to the current race and candidates. As evidence, consider this chart from Pew that shows the changes in party self-identification dating back one year.
You can see that the number of self-professed Democrats and Republicans has varied by as much as 8% during this period. Yes, yesterday's sample contained a relatively high number of Democrats, but the average partisan Democratic lean across this period is about 7%. Keeping in mind that there is always some random variation in probability sampling, a 10% Democrat skew is not unexpected in a Pew poll, given changes in past partisan distributions among registered voters.
Third, as I noted many times before, polling organizations like Pew all have their own house formulas for choosing a survey sample and deciding how to weight survey results. Pew's methodology has consistently produced results that show Obama leading Romney in head-to-head matchups. Other polling firms, such as Gallup, show this to be a much tighter race. It is for this reason that I have long cautioned against relying on any single poll to gauge the state of the race. But neither should you discount any poll, such as Pew, just because you don't like their results. Instead, I prefer to rely on the aggregate tracking polls, such as those at RealClearPolitics or Pollster.com. Although they also have their own methodological bias based on how quickly they adjust trend lines to the latest polls, and the degree of "smoothing" they use to handle polling outliers, I think they give a better indication of the actual state of the race than does any single polling outfit.
What do they show? As of yesterday, the RealClearPolitics "poll of the polls" has Obama up over Romney by 2.7%, 47.3%-44.6%. The Pollster.com aggregate poll, meanwhile, shows the race dead even with both candidates pulling in 46.1% of the vote. For what it's worth, the TPM poll tracker has Romney up by .6%, 46.3%-45.7%, but since this is a left-leaning partisan site I don't normally look at the polling data there.
The aggregate polls, then, indicate that this is a very close race – one that is too close to call. That is consistent with at least some of the political science forecast models I've discussed in previous posts. Note also that at this point most polling firms are still sampling registered and not likely voters for the simple reason that their likely voter screens don't achieve a high level of accuracy until we get closer to Election Day. Historically, for reasons dealing with education, income and other factors related to voting, the pool of likely voters skews a bit more Republican than does the one based on registered voters.
A final point. Several of you have emailed arguing that based on Electoral College forecast models, Obama has a much bigger lead than is indicated by the popular vote. At this point, however, I'm not ready to pay much attention to state-level polling and Electoral College projections, in part because there's not always enough state level polls on which to gauge the likely outcome. But even at the national level, polls are still not nearly as predictive as they will be in another month, as this graph based on research by Chris Wezlien and Robert Erickson indicates:
Moreover, history says that it is highly unlikely that the winner of the popular vote is not going to take the Electoral College as well. Yes, there are exceptions – and this year might be one of those. Of course, at some point shortly before Election Day, these state-level polls will become numerous and accurate enough to project state winners and to calculate an Electoral College result. Until then, however, I don't see much point paying any attention to state-level projections. The aggregate polls tell us pretty much what we can hope to know at this stage of the race – and they suggest a very close contest.