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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that Vice President Joe Biden will lead an effort to come up with "concrete proposals" on preventing atrocities like the shootings that occurred in Newtown, Conn.
"But the fact that this problem is complex can no longer be an excuse for doing nothing," said President Obama. "The fact that we can't prevent every act of violence doesn't mean that we can't steadily reduce the violence and prevent the very worst violence."
The President said he wants proposals on preventing tragedies like the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in the next couple weeks and then he will push them forward as fast as he can.
Congressman-elect Ted Yoho will just be sworn in to the House of Representatives that first week of January.
"Those things have got to stop," said Yoho. "That pains us every time we see that in this country. And you know, we're a better country than that and we need to do better than that."
But the issues coming from Newtown's tragedy will certainly demand his attention as the country responds to the President's call for action.
"I'm with him 100 percent on curbing gun violence. How we do that, I'm sure we'll be at odds," said Yoho.
Congressman Ander Crenshaw sent Channel 4 a statement about the Newtown shootings, offering sympathy to the families and the community, promising change.
"All facets of this horrific crime will be carefully reviewed, and in that process, I fully expect that the policies and laws around gun control will and should be part of the national conversation that follows," said Crenshaw.
"We need to be responsible," said Yoho. "If you are a gun owner, if you drive a car, you need to be responsible. If you drink, you need to be responsible. We need to tread softly and not have a knee-jerk reaction and get into something that we'll regret down the road."
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(CBS News) Fewer children are being prescribed antibiotics nowadays compared to a decade ago, according to a new study from the Food and Drug Administration. But over the past 10 years, more kids and teens were given prescriptions for ADHD drugs.
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The study - published online June 18 in Pediatrics - tracked trends in drug prescriptions among infants, children and adolescents between the ages of 0 and 17 from 2002 to 2010. In 2010, 263.6 million prescriptions were prescribed for young patients - about a 7 percent drop compared to 2002. Meanwhile over that decade, rates for adult prescriptions increased 22 percent.
The most commonly prescribed drug for pediatric patients was antibiotics, but prescribing rates dropped by 14 percent over the decade.
"This could potentially be good news," Dr. Kenneth Bromberg, chairman of pediatrics at the Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York City, told HealthDay. "The antibiotic numbers are consistent with the efforts to decrease the use of antibiotics for upper respiratory infections."
A study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last September found a 25 percent drop in antibiotics prescribed for sore throats, colds and other upper respiratory infections, HealthPop reported. Overuse of antibiotics contributes to infectious germs resisting treatment with common antibiotics. World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan recently warned that overuse of antibiotics has gotten so prevalent worldwide that if the trend continues something as common as strep throat or a knee scrape may be deadly.
Trends also fell for other prescriptions, including allergy medications (61 percent decrease), pain pills (14 percent decrease) and depression (5 percent decrease). The large drop in allergy prescriptions may coincide with several allergy medicines going to over-the-counter formulations.
A 42 percent drop was also seen in the number of prescriptions for cold and cough medicines, the study found. That may be tied to a 2008 FDA advisory against the use of these medicines in children younger than 2-years-old.
While many decreases were reported in prescriptions given to children and adolescents, the researchers also found some big increases in prescribing rates for certain drugs.
Prescriptions for ADHD drugs climbed 46 percent from 2002 to 2012, and rates for contraceptive prescriptions rose by 93 percent. Increases in prescriptions for asthma medications rose 14 percent.
"What the article is suggesting is that the number of children that we are treating for attention deficit disorder has gone up," Dr. Scott Benson, a child and adolescent psychiatrist and a spokesperson for the American Psychiatric Association, told Reuters. "For the most part I think the overall increase reflects a reduction in the stigma ... It used to be, 'You're a bad parent if you can't get your child to behave, and you're a doubly bad parent if you put them on medicine.'"
MedPageToday reported that recent surveys suggest that more young women are not going on the pill, so the shift may reflect that teens already taking birth control are taking it longer. Another possible reason is more adolescents are taking birth control for secondary conditions, such as treating acne.
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An Introduction to Linux as a Server
Although it's relatively obvious at first sight what a Linux Desktop is, because we're all familiar with Windows and the two are not that dissimilar, the term Server often has people diving for cover. It's the box in the corner of the office that nobody touches, or even the box in the computer room that nobody sees. Because very few people interact with it, it's not an every day occurrence and hence, as a rule not well understood.
Desktop and Server Linux, what's the difference?
Essentially there is no real difference, apart from tuning and the choice of software installed from the CD by default. To put it into motor vehicle terms, it's akin to having an 'Economy/Sport' button on your dashboard .. basically the same car, but you can flick a switch to tune it differently depending on how you want to drive it.
The most immediate difference you will see is that the server version tends not to install the Graphical User Interface by default but instead leaves you with a command line interface, the textual installer looks something like this;
Beyond that, whereas Desktop Linux is tuned to run with one user at a time, providing as quick a response as it can to user interaction, Server Linux aims to be more efficient at handling non-interactive processes where response time is far less critical but the ability to handle heavy loads over long periods of time the prime concern. Things that are affected tend to be system parameters, memory allocations and Kernel schedulers, often things you don't see or even know about, but things that can make quite a bit of difference once you start to stress your computer.
What is a Server good for?
Typically anything you might want to do using a Windows server, you are likely to be able to do with a Linux server, it just you won't pay as much (if anything) for the software, it'll take less time to install, once install it'll probably run faster, and once it's running it will be far less likely to crash.
Typical uses for a Linux server might be;
As a web server or office intranet server
There are many web servers available for Linux, the most well known is probably Apache. This can be used to provide either static text pages, or link into other systems such as Zend/PHP to provide dynamic content or indeed pretty much any type of custom written online application. This site currently runs on an alternative called lighttpd, maybe not something you've heard of, but a number of other large vendors also use it, not least YouTube and Wikipedia.
As a CMS or CRM server
Content Management Systems are fairly common place these days and integral to the operations of many businesses. Some good examples would be Drupal, Joomla, or Brocolage. Although the likes of Goldmine and Salesforce have the top-end of the Customer Relationship Management business fairly well sewn up, there are a number of very good Open Source contenders knocking about like SugarCRM, OpenERP, Compiere, ERP5 and more.
As a file server serving files to Windows and /or Linux users
Linux has a number of methods of sharing files between Linux systems, however the most heavily used file sharing technology is generally between servers and Windows clients. Linux has (and has had for a long time) access to an Open Source application called Samba, which effectively allows a Linux Server, in many contexts, to pretend to be a Windows server. It will act as a host or client for Windows files haring, act as a direct or indirect print server for Windows clients, and indeed act as an Active Directory host in the place of it's Windows counterpart. Although it's still being developed and updated, this is very stable software that has been around for a long time.
As a Voice over IP telephony server / PABX
Again this is very much a black-box function, but if you consider the cost of BT based PABX's or indeed custom VoIP rig's from other vendors, you're looking at between £4000 and £12000 for a small office with a handful of people. A Linux server running Asterisk can do the same sorts of things (usually more) for a fraction of the cost. Typically you would use something like FreePBX , which provides Asterisk with a nice web based management console, and pay a couple of hundred pounds for an appropriate Digium card to plug your phone lines into, and you've saved yourself an awful lot of money.
As a 'terminal server' for remote users
Windows has a facility called terminal services, essentially this is like turning your Server back into a mainframe and having people log into it remotely in order to work – the difference is that users get a Windows terminal rather than an old Green Screen teletype terminal. (so effectively all programs run on the server and users connect to it remotely)
Unsurprisingly Linux has the same sort of functionality, the difference being that the Linux version is quicker / more efficient and free, i.e. not licensed per terminal. Take a look at NX (nomachine) , it is sold as a commercial product, but it is also available as a free / Open Source application.
As a mail or domain name server
There are many options here, for just back-end mail relaying you can take your pick of services like Postfix and Sendmail, or for more complete packages including Webmail, Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus and so forth there are applications like Zimbra which are pretty unbeatable in the commercial world – and of course Zimbra is free! (or at least the community version is free, and unless you're a very large company, this version will do the job)
As an application server for online applications
Application Server is one of those buzzwords you often hear banded about that can be difficult to nail down. Essentially it's a platform you would use to build dynamic application on and would include things like Zope, Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, The Mono Project (.NET for Linux). Another little-known web server is the Sun Java System Web Server, not of particular note in it's own right as a web server, but when you add a free plugin, it is able to run ASP code, making it an application server for ASP on Linux!
As a database server
Lots to choose from here too. The industry standard in open database technology is MySQL closely followed by Postgres, a long lost cousin of one of the original SQL applications, Ingres, which dates back to the 80's. There are also packages that allow Unix databases to interact with non-Unix systems (such as MSSQL) for example unixODBC. In addition there are a number of commercial applications such as Oracle, Sybase (the daddy of MSSQL) and IBM DB2.
As an infrastructure node in a Cloud Computing configuration
Linux can run as a host for virtualization technologies such as KVM, VMWARE Server, XEN, OpenVZ and VirtualBox.
Obviously the list is almost infinite, bear in mind also that ONE Linux server can provide ALL of the above functions, you don't need a difference box for each one. If you're now asking yourself, "so why do I need that Windows Server that I just paid £4000 for?", the answer generally speaking is "you don't". And the follow up, "can't I just put Linux Server onto a £500 PC and use that instead?", 9 times of out 10, the answer is "yup!".
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A notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves, explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others. Dr. Goffman uses the metaphor of theatrical performance as framework Each person in everyday social intercourse presents himself and his activity to others , attempts to guide and control the impressions they form of him and employs certain techniques in order to sustain his performance, just as an actor presents a character to an audience. The discussions of these social techniques offered here are based upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions.
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Jeepscum camp and picked me up for the run.
We drove the few miles over to the LT and unloaded at Durr Road.
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"1955 m38a1" tried out Jeepscum's quad.
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Next stop was the Oasis where we saw signs of new mudding.
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Jesus is everywhere these days. He's appeared on potato chips, an old rocking chair and even on a wet sock. Now it appears Jesus made a special guest spot on a woman's television, and it wasn't during a re-airing of Mel Gibson's 'Passion of the Christ.'
A woman in Port St. Lucie, Florida claims she witnessed her Lord and Savior making a special cameo appearance in the reflection of her screen during the finale of ABC's 'The Bachelor' on her bedroom television.
Guerda Maurice told local reporters that she was initially trying to take a photo of a design she liked on the hit ABC reality show. She also claims that after she snapped the picture, the phone suddenly stopped working. When she went to look at the image she'd capture off the TV, she noticed the reflection of Jesus in the screenshot from 'The Bachelor.' Freaky!
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Jordan Byrd is in his 15th year as Clemson associate golf coach. He has been regarded as one of the top assistant coaches in the nation throughout his time at Clemson. Three times he has been one of 10 finalist for the Jan Strickland Award (including 2017), which is presented by Taylor Made-Adidas Golf and given to the top assistant coach in the nation by the Golf Coaches Association.
The Strickland Award is presented to the NCAA Division I, II, III, NAIA or NJCAA assistant coach that, among other things, has excelled in working with their student-athletes both on the course and in the classroom.
From recruiting to golf instruction to facility enhancement to overall administration of the program, Byrd has had a positive influence on Larry Penley's program. He had a big hand in the design and fund raising for the Larry Penley Golf Building that was dedicated in the fall of 2011
Byrd was a big reason Clemson won the ACC Championship and finished in the top 16 at the NCAA National Tournament three of the last the four years. That includes a tie for eighth place at the 2019 national tournament in Arkansas, the best finish for the program in 11 years. The team featured Bryson Nimmer, Clemson's first, first-team All-American since 2009 (Kyle Stanley). Set numerous records, including stroke average in a season.
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In the summer of 2017 William Nottingham won the North-South Amateur at Pinehurst No. 2, then Doc Redman brought the program national acclaim by winning the US Amateur at Riviera, just the second Tiger to win that event. Byrd recruited both to Clemson.
The Tigers have had quite a run in the last four years with 11 victories, including the 2016 ACC Championship. The 11 wins in four years rank as the most for the program in that period of time in 15 years.
In his first 14 years with the program, Clemson finished in the top 20 at the NCAA Championships six times, a number-seven finish in 2006, a number-five finish in 2008, a 16th place finish in 2010, 16th place finish in 2016, a 13th place in 2018 and a number-eight finish in 2019. The program has reached the NCAA Tournament all 14 years Byrd has been an assistant and has been ranked in the final top 25 of the Sagarin computer rankings 10 times.
Byrd had a significant impact on Clemson's top five recruiting class that entered Clemson in August of 2006. Sam Saunders and Kyle Stanley were both ranked among the top 10 junior players in the nation and went on to have outstanding freshman seasons.
The class also included 2010 All-American Ben Martin, who was a three-time All-ACC player and was among the top 50 players in the World in 2015. All three are on the PGA Tour in 2019. They combined to help Clemson to a No. 5 NCAA Tournament finish at Purdue in 2008.
Byrd also recruited first-team AJGA All-American Crawford Reeves in 2009 and Corbin Mills, another top AJGA player. The top recruiting continued in 2011 when the Tigers signed first-team AJGA All-American Billy Kennerly and in 2012 when AJGA Player of the Year Cody Proveaux signed with Clemson.
The Tigers added AJGA All-Americans Carson Young and Austin Langdale in 2013. Three freshmen were in the starting lineup in 2018 when Clemson finished second in the ACC, second at the NCAA Regional and 13th in the nation. Bryson Nimmer joined the group with his ACC Player of the Year selection in 2019.
Byrd moved into the newly created assistant golf coach position at Clemson University on August 4, 2005. He became Clemson's first assistant coach in the sport since the 1982-83 academic year when Larry Penley held the position before he succeeded Bobby Robinson as Clemson's head coach the following year.
Byrd has considerable experience as a player and is familiar with the Clemson program. He was the Southern Conference Champion in 1997 as a junior, and is the brother of former Clemson All-American and current PGA Tour player Jonathan Byrd. Jonathan is a five-time winner on the PGA Tour.
Jordan Byrd was the captain of the Furman golf team his senior year (1997-98). He won the Southern Conference Championship as a junior in 1997 when the Paladins also won the team title. With that team championship, Furman qualified as a team for the NCAA tournament for the first time in the program's history.
Byrd had 11 top 10 finishes in his career at Furman and was named to the All-Southern Conference team in 1997 and 1998. He led the team in stroke average as a junior (74.1) and had a career stroke average of 75.72, one of the best in Furman history when he graduated. He had a career best 66 at the 1996 Old Dominion Seascape Invitational and was Furman's top golfer in nine different tournaments over his career.
Over his final two seasons as a collegian, he competed against his brother Jonathan and the Clemson Tigers four times. It is interesting to note that the brothers had the exact same 54-hole score in two of the four tournaments. They tied for eighth with 218 scores at the 1997 Furman Invitational, then had identical 229 scores at the NCAA East Regional later that year at Hot Springs, VA. Jordan was a junior at Furman and Jonathan a freshman at Clemson that year.
Byrd comes from an athletic family. In addition to the accomplishments of his brother, his father, the late Jim Byrd, was a standout football player at North Carolina in the 1960s. Jim Byrd and his wife Jo were omnipresent at Clemson golf events supporting the Tigers for many years.
Jordan also has had an outstanding amateur career, a playing career that continues today. He reached the semifinals of the North-South Amateur in 1997. In 2006 he finished second in the South Carolina Amateur (tied with Clemson player Phillip Mollica). He has also qualified for the US Amateur and the US Mid-Amateur. In both qualifiers, he won medalist honors. He also teamed with his father, to win the South Carolina Father-Son Amateur Championship in the summer of 2006.
In the fall of 2007 Byrd reached the quarterfinals of the United States Mid-Amateur. He was just three victories away from joining his brother at the 2008 Masters. Byrd was ranked among the top 100 amateurs according to the Golfweek Amateur rankings for most of the summer of 2007.
In 2008 he advanced to the second round of the US Mid-Amateur at Milwaukee Country Club before he was defeated in 23 holes by former Clemson golfer Stephen White. He also qualified for stroke play of the Mid-Amateur in 2009. He played in the National Four Ball Tournament at the Olympic Club in San Francisco in 2015.
A native of Columbia, SC, Byrd graduated from Spring Valley High School, where he was an outstanding golfer and wrestler. He reached the state finals in his weight class on the wrestling mat in 1994, the same year he finished in the top 10 in the state golf tournament. On the course, he led Spring Valley High to three top five finishes in the state tournament. He won the Spring Valley Invitational as a senior and captured the 1993 Junior World Optimist title.
After graduating from Furman in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration, Byrd pursued a professional career for two years. He played on the Hooter's Tour and the Tear Drop Tour during his professional career and had four top five finishes.
From May of 2001 to the summer of 2005, Byrd worked as a salesman, trader, portfolio manager, and technical analyst at DiBiasio & Edgington Inc. in Annandale, VA.
Byrd married the former Erika Newsom in December of 2012. They have two children, James Jones Byrd, who was born Feb. 25, 2014 and MacLane Elizabeth Byr, born on 3/15/16
Born: July 19, 1976 in Lexington, SC.
Education: Graduated from Spring Valley High School in Columbia, SC in 1994; Graduated from Furman University in Greenville, SC in 1998.
Family: Son of Jim and Jo Byrd of Columbia, SC; Brother of PGA Tour player Jonathan Byrd; Married the former Erika Newsom in December of 2012. They have two children, James Jones Byrd born Feb. 25, 2014 and Maclane Elizabeth Byrd born on 3/15/16
Playing Experience: Four-year letterman at Furman University, 1994-98.
Coaching Experience: Clemson assistant coach 2005-present; Clemson has been to 12 straight NCAAs tournaments and had two top 10 finishes and four top 16s; Recruited 2009 Ben Hogan Award winner Kyle Stanley and 2010 All-American Ben Martin. Both are on the PGA Tour in 2018.
Honors: Southern Conference Champion in 1997; Qualified for US Amateur and US Mid-Amateur in 2006; Quarterfinalist at 2007 United States Mid-Amateur; Finalist or Semifinalist for Jan Strickland Award (assistant coach of the year) in 2010, 2012 and 2017.
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246 while ( ((plasma->world_size)%(plasma->group_size)) != 0 )
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j8jweb necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 29 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
online bingo website. Primary brand values are fun, entertaining, sexy.
Orientated at women between 35-45. Aspirational, sexy, fun.
I have a homepage design already completed (see attached file bingohall1.png), however a number of people have commented that the main female character is not attractive enough!
She needs to be very pretty, as she will be the main mascot for the site. I think I would like the mascot to be based on an Isla Fisher type of look. Here are some example images:
If using the Isla Fisher images as an example, it would be important to ensure the final character has a very pretty face (even though the design will be a cartoon style). I also think the bouncy, curly red hair is an important characteristic. It looks fun...
I have supplied two images. bingohall1.png shows the bingo design with the existing character in place, and bingohall2.png shows the bingo design withouth this character.
I would like to retain the character action of holding the bingo card above her head (she has won a game of bingo). The most important thing is that the character's face should be very pretty. You could design a brand new character or just use the same character with a new face.
I have two days before I submit the final designs to my development team, so this is a very quick turnaround.
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It was take off in Colombo and we had almost reached the point of no return when the plane burst a tyre, which delayed us 24 hours. We took off at 4am on the second occasion.
I had a short break in Bombay before sailing on the "City of Asia" for home. I was in charge of a deck of some 200 men. We eventually arrived at Liverpool on Christmas Day and went to a camp at Birkenhead. Then I caught a train to Blackpool and arrived home by taxi at 2pm.
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Present: Nix, Martin, Xabina, Olivier, Martin, James, Megan, Tom
Agenda -
- borrowing equipment
- computers
- screen printing room
- cave update
- darkroom update
- balcony update
- publishing update
- theatre update
- photocopy budget
- publishing / pamphlets
Facilitate - Nix.
- Borrowing equipment:
anybody can borrow equipment? No.
Who can borrow equiptment?
history: often forest people want to do outside things. we are erratic in our use.
Some stuff is going to glasgow which is good this time but maybe not always? Maybe it is ok?
Someone from the forest WG can borrow equipment when needed without deposit.
If a person in a WG - and known well - you must get a FWG member to be there with you / vouch for you.
Not in a WG - not possible to borrow equiptment.
What about Hall Hire? If someone wants to use it in the hall it needs to be here.
How about people can get the equipment only 2 weeks in advance if the hall does not need it. Do we quit using the PA for the hall?
Nix proposes - PA is always booked for the hall. If someone wants to use it than it is down to ryan's.
PA stuff goes through Building Manager. Gets borrowed via the hall calander so BM knows NOT to hire it out to hall people if in use by forest. First come, first serve.
Martin says - we had parts for 4 computer parts. One computer bits have been nicked (£80).
Shall we replace:
Hard Drives for file server / saver: people are dumping files on various computers etc. It needs to be all in one place and backed backed up.
Proposal: £90 on 2 x 250gig drives. Installed in server.
budget wise: £50 p/m for computers. this = 4 months budget.
also = pocket money?
Martin wants to be straight with the budgets but doesn't want it to be a trend as it seems unfair.
we decide to buy all equipt. in hopes that this will never happen again. as this theft was kind of an anomaly / last years business / than we feel it is okay to not include this re-buy on last year's budget.
Note: take care. security problems.
Action: ryan to find everything on the bb re: computers and will call dabs on Monday.
Action: No valuable stuff should be here. Martin to look into security cables.
Chris: the news is that the boiler room can have the space and needs to be organized and thought about. Suggests we hold a meeting with interested people and spend time in the space and come up with a time-line. When is the meeting:
ACTION: MEET thurs. 10th at 6pm - in Boiler / Live Sciences Room / action
ACTION: People Must read about screen printing and look into what SP is and how it works. When you meet up you can have knowledge. There is an internet full of things.
The Aim is to use photo-emulsion. An exciting prospect.
Action: chris to make a poster. ryan to put it on the webby thing.
People have been stealing from the cave. Fishing cash out. Nix thinks it is someone who has the key and has been stealing from the cave.
Screw box under the till and cave users will put money in there?
How about £20 unlimited access? nix says unlikely.
Action: nix to screw box in non obtrusive place under the counter.
Perhaps CCTV in the Cave? for Sunday the 20th.
Darkroom Update:
Martin has taken over from Danny Darko. He's emailed all the people that danny neglected. Martin gets the emails now. Has tried to fix second enlarger. See matin if you want to use the darkroom?
action: ryan can spread word via internet.
action: megan to get text and make poster. awesome.
martin sits in billl's seat. Balconies are fine. Bikes are away. Space is empty and tidy in front of lights.
Studios are now full we may be able to squeeze people in but they can go to the TK mailbox and will get put on a the waiting list.
Martin doesn't want people in there / storing stuff / using the organ. Anyone who has acess must lock door and keep it tidy.
do we still need a new drivebelt? No - we have elecrtic. cool.
August: it is iffy. martin feels that they will be unusable in august and also less safe.
martin's instinct is probably correct that they will be unusable but if someone is willing to work around it. The hall takes precedent.
action: ryan to contact eikon dave.
Publishing Update:
we continue to assist Read This by let
Theatre Update:
waiting for a theater license. check the mail get it to james.
james will phone them.
1st of may is deadline for expressed interest.
James will work out the schedule for the hall.
All - OK.
Photocopying Budget:
Martin wants to print out essays for forest that people can read. Martin has £1 per month for photocopies work. Martin to ensure they are read widely by the community. It will be subverseive.
pamphlet publishing:
wants to know more about what FP is capable of doing. Interested in producing a series of high quality pamphlets.
tom wants to start up kin again soon and maybe wants to have a regular publication.
FP says yes to using copier to making great pamphlets and kin projects. big up the forest Free Press. We want it.
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UK lawmaker steps aside as leader of parliamentary committee amid lobbying allegations
LONDON – A British lawmaker says he will temporarily step down as chairman of a parliamentary committee after undercover reporters appeared to show him claiming he could use his role to help a company.
Tim Yeo, a lawmaker with the governing Conservative Party, was secretly filmed by Sunday Times reporters who posed as representatives of a fictional energy company.
The paper posted footage showing Yeo apparently suggesting he had coached a businessman with an existing company on how to influence his House of Commons' Energy and Climate Change Committee.
On Monday, Yeo said he would step aside as chairman of the committee while the claims are investigated by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner.
He insisted he had not breached parliamentary rules when he spoke to the undercover reporters.


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DTE Energy Co.'s "smart grid" is getting smarter with the installation of at least 150 power line sensors that can detect potential power outages on its electric distribution lines in Southeast Michigan.
Announced today in Denver at the Clinton Global Initiative, DTE spent $300,000 to purchase Tollgrade Communications Inc.'s LightHouse MV smart grid sensors and its predictive grid analytics software system.
A smart grid is the transmission of electricity though distribution lines using remote line sensors, smart meters and information technology to manage the system more effectively. The smart grid can more accurately predict power outages and direct repair crews to more quickly resolve problems before they occur or to bring power online sooner.
DTE hopes to reduce nearly 500,000 customer outage minutes over the next three years in the service territory where Tollgrade's system is installed.
U.S. businesses lose up to $200 billion in business annually when their power goes out, said Ed Kennedy, Tollgrade's CEO. The figure is based on estimates that an average business loses $15,709 every 30 minutes during a power outage.
"It allows us to pinpoint problems before they begin to occur," said Kennedy, who said the 5-pound, bread loaf-sized sensors are clamped onto the line and individually communicate with utility information systems.
"The cost savings for DTE is measurable and large, and to the end users, it is quite large," he said.
Haukur Asgeirsson, DTE's manager of power systems technologies, said about 60 percent of DTE's distribution system is modern, with a variety of sensors on the lines and in substations to detect potential outages.
The Tollgrade sensors expands DTE's smart grid and ability to predict power outages, Asgeirsson said. "This will cover our legacy infrastructure and help us restore service faster to customers," he said.
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RCA Looks to Make Mark in Tablet Market With Free Live TV
It's not a name you hear too often anymore when it comes to tech products, but today, RCA introduced a new Android tablet that lets you watch live TV on the go for free.
The RCA Mobile TV Tablet features two built-in tuners — one standard over-the-air DTV tuner for when you're stationary and one mobile tuner for when you're on the go. It's the first tablet to support Dyle's mobile TV service, which provides access to 130 TV stations across the U.S.
Dyle is currently available in 35 markets, and works with the Samsung Galaxy S Lightray 4G smartphone from MetroPCS and iOS devices, using a $100 accessory from Elgato. Compared to the smartphone experience, viewing video should be more enjoyable on the tablet's larger eight-inch, 1,024 by 768 pixel touchscreen.
The RCA Mobile TV tablet also has twin speakers, dual cameras, eight gigabytes of memory and an HDMI port. RCA estimates battery life at up to four hours in mobile TV mode or up to 10 hours when just browsing the Web.
While there are many ways to watch TV shows on tablets, Dyle is a bit different in that it's free, and doesn't require a data or Wi-Fi connection. But it also has its limitations.
As my colleague Lauren Goode found out when she tested Dyle on the Samsung Galaxy S Lightray, the service was inconsistent. Also, while it displays program information and closed captioning, it does not offer HD content or DVR options.
There's also the question of whether people really want live TV on their mobile devices. Companies like Qualcomm have tried it before, and the feedback hasn't been all that great.
RCA introduced a similar tablet at last year's CES, but it never made it to market. RCA said it held off in order to incorporate more features like access to the Google Play App store.
The RCA Mobile TV Tablet will be available this spring for $299, and will also be on display at International CES.
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ESSAY- Thanatourism: Can 'dark travel' offer illumination?
Not long ago, I went to Dubai, where mega project after mega project competes for the world's headlines. There I stood in the shadow of the Dubai Sunny Mountain Ski Dome– just a metal tube from the outside– and looked around.
On the horizon I could see the desert, where they were building Dubailand, a two billion-sq.-ft. theme park designed to encompass "the entire human experience." It will contain "Snow World" and "Water World" and "Extreme Sports World" and "Bio World." In an interview with Newsweek, Franz Fischnaller, the head designer of Dubai's Space City amusement park, summed it up. "Today," he said, "travel is part of the entertainment industry."
Dubai may be the poster child for this sort of travel. We arrive at a destination like a movie set, buy a ticket, and walk through the experience according to plan. That's what many people love about Dubai: you get just what you expect. But these things that many people love about Dubai are exactly the opposite of what others of us love about travel.
We don't want be delivered from inconvenience. We don't want to escape from reality. We want to see how things really are. After all, these are dark times. Sometimes, we want to see how dark.
Now a couple of new books offer some help. First, the Lonely Planet 2007 Blue List has a section on what it calls "dark tourism," meaning everything from Ground Zero tourism in New York City to Killing Fields tourism in Cambodia to Favela tourism in Brazil to Apartheid tourism in South Africa. Dark Tourism means travel to sites associated with death, disaster, and depravity.
The Blue List has great pointers on destinations, like Kutna Hora in the Czech Republic and Actun Tunichil Muknal in Belize and Toul Sleng in Cambodia. It even asks whether volunteering overseas for disaster relief isn't a new manifestation of this fascination. And finally, it gives another, more hopeful side, somewhat awkwardly labeled "phoenix tourism," meaning travel to the beaches in Sierra Leone, the national parks in Rwanda, and the Roman Ruins of Libya: post-traumatic tourism.
Some scholars note that dark tourism (also known as thanatourism, or grief tourism) "raises questions about appropriate political and managerial responses to the range of experiences perceived by visitors, local residents, victims and their relatives," according to the website for the first dark tourism conference, which took place earlier this year.
But dark tourism also raises questions about packaged, bundled, marketed, and scripted entertainment experiences. I can't help but think that the allure of the dark side is in part a backlash to the aggressive theming and constructing of the travel experience, which unfolds as others have determined it to unfold, where we feel things we've been told we'll feel, and where our travels are not, on some fundamental level, our own. Because sometimes we want more than that. We travel exactly because we want to see and feel things for ourselves. We want to write the script to our own story, not just read someone else's.
Which is why I was happy to see another book cross my desk recently, one that could also be a good antidote to planet theme park, if unwittingly.
Adam Russ's 101 Places Not to Visit: Your Essential Guide to the World's Most Miserable, Ugly, Boring and Inbred Destinations is written in a kind of cheeky British way, and is kind of a faux guide, though not quite in the extreme ironic vein that Phaic Tan and San Sombrero are, nor in the political vein of No Holiday: 80 Places You Don't Want to Visit. And it's not nearly as testosterone-fueled as Robert Young Pelton's The World's Most Dangerous Places.
Rather, it's a halfway serious list of "the world's most miserable, ugly, boring and inbred destinations," places like Murmansk, Russia; Astana, Kazakhstan; Deshnok, India; Rabbit Flat, Australia; or Yomoussoukro, Ivory Coast. Places, in other words, you'd never think to go.
Each entry in 101 Places has a clever description of the place, along with a starred "boredom rating" and "likelihood of fatal visit" and a (mostly ironic) "likely cause of death." (Runaway Camel Train in Ulaanbaatar, Attempting to Cross the Road in Madrid, The Mine with Your Name On It in Mogadishu.)
Despite the tone and humor, this book's value lies elsewhere. Where else (besides the atlas) can you find a list of obscure, largely undesirable places in the world, places where with nothing pulling people, places where very little is scripted or staged, and where you can just see life going on, and maybe even be a part of it?
In my understanding, that's the way travel used to be. You heard about a place, developed an inexplicable curiosity, and went there to see it. It wasn't easy. It may not have even been fun, and definitely not like a gentle trip to Disneyland. But it was real.
This urge to have some actual personal experience, some meaty interaction with the world, still exists, driving a small but growing number of people off the path, into the dark and hard corners of the world. The way is harder, but as one traveler who visited Dubai long before the first mall was a glint in the sheik's eye noted, that just makes the journey all the more worthwhile.
This essay originally appeared in World Hum, an online travel magazine.
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I spent the spring and the first half of the summer in Blacksburg. I couldn't help but wonder on several occasions how much the town's economy had been stimulated by the throngs of tourists who stopped to walk around the makeshift memorial to the shooting victims. By mid-summer, the ramps for handicap access were going in. By now, they probably have a souvenir stand set up. In a couple of years, maybe a museum.


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Serene, sand-strewn shorelines, the rustling of palm fronds in the sea breeze and the gentle lull of the tide; it's time to leave your worries behind and relax in the tranquil tropics.
As you head North from Mackay, a world of adventure awaits. Visit the distinctively different communities in the Northern Beaches, then continue your journey to the captivating Cape Hillsborough.
Cape Hillsborough Beach provides one of the most iconic Australian photo backdrops, the famous "Roo on the beach." Enjoy this unique phenomenon as the morning sky is ablaze in spectacular shades of magenta as wild marsupials bound up and down the beach.
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Mackay City
Begin your adventure with exploration and breakfast in the vibrant city of Mackay. Beside the blue Pioneer River, Mackay is a great destination to refuel and experience regional culture before your journey.
Northern Beaches
A 20 minute drive from Mackay's city centre, each community in the Northern Beaches area is distinctively different. Dolphin Heads boasts a fantastic resort with ocean views and a poolside restaurant. Eimeo Beach is a popular destination for swimming and is patrolled during the summer months and school holidays. It is home to the heritage-listed Mango Avenue.
TIP: Enjoy lunch with a 'million dollar view' at the Eimeo Pacific Hotel.
Drive: Mackay to Cape Hillsborough.
TIP: Stop at The Leap to browse gemstones and learn about the history of Kowaha at the Leap Hotel.
Keep an eye out for fresh fruit stalls along your journey, then stop at the Old Station Tea House for tea and scones.
Settle in for the evening at the Nature Tourist Park at Cape Hillsborough and enjoy the serenity.
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Sunrise with wallabies: Wake early to enjoy a spectacular sunrise on the beach. Watch as kangaroos and wallabies fossick through the tide for their morning breakfast and capture an iconic Australian photograph.
Explore Cape Hillsborough through a number of easily-accessible walking tracks. The trail from Casuarina Beach to Beach Comber Cove is a must-do for butterfly lovers, in fact, there are approximately 25 species of butterflies within Cape Hillsborough National Park.
The Andrew's Point walking trail provides breathtaking views and is a great vantage point to see turtles feeding on the grass beds.
Starting from Hidden Valley, the Yuibera Plants walking trail shows how the original inhabitants of the area gathered food within Cape Hillsborough.
Drive to Seaforth: Continue your journey North to explore the coastal villages of Seaforth, Ball Bay and Halliday Bay.
A boat ramp at Victor Creek provides an ideal launch location for fishing and exploration of nearby islands. Crocodiles do inhabit the area so caution is advised.
Ball Bay is a popular location for swimming and beachside barbecues.
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(CNN) -- News that government agencies have been collecting phone data, and apparently tapping into popular Web services, has sparked a predictable amount of anger and apologists, political charges and counter-claims.
But the Web being the Web, it's also gotten its share of snark.
There's fairly delicious irony to people taking to the Internet to joke about the government monitoring the Internet. So as not to be alarmist, we don't have any reports of tweet-related drone strikes as of this report.
Sure, there was plenty of outrage about the alleged snooping by the National Security Agency. But there was so much chuckling mixed into reaction on Twitter that the joke hashtag #NSACalledToTellMe became a trending topic.
Here's a look at some of our favorite funny tweets on this as of Friday morning. Let us know about others you've seen in the comments.
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On the surface, "restricting" and "self-care" sound like polar opposites and I know this is such a core issue that so many of us experience in the gluten-free community. Generally we think of restrictions as a way of saying "no", of controlling and denying. I'm sure everyone knows or has seen someone take even concepts about healthy eating and eating the "right foods", and push them too far. Yet for people with food allergies, Celiac, gluten sensitivity, etc., food restrictions can really be a way of simply living more fully, or taking better care of health. Chances are if you're on this blog, you know where I'm coming from.
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One of the major themes of the "going green" environmental movement is the concept of bringing the outdoors indoors. It's as if the high-tech revolution has people craving for nature to rejuvenate their stressed-out human psyche.
This movement offers a wonderful opportunity for health club owners to create environments that use different aspects of nature in their clubs. A club should be one of the few places where people can escape into a world that can be quite different from their day-to-day experience. And, just as the right outdoor environment can help motivate people to be more active, a natural-looking health club environment can do the same.
Of course, this objective requires balance. Most people think that health and fitness are about the latest state-of-the-art technology with advanced equipment and programs, so this needs to be combined with the green theme. In other words, when joining a club, people are not looking to use an old manual treadmill in a tent. It is more about adding certain features that help achieve a natural effect that balances with technology.
One of the key aspects in bringing the outdoors indoors is increasing the use of windows. Natural light puts off an energy that pulses harmoniously with the human vibration level. With new clubs, the workout areas (especially the cardio area) should be placed where they can take maximum advantage of the best possible outdoor views.
But what if the view is of a parking lot or an ugly building? If possible, you can place plants or trees directly outside a window, providing a natural green effect and helping block the undesirable view. If that option isn't possible, then windows can be installed higher off the floor so the view is not directly visible, but the natural light is visible and felt. Clubs that add more windows when renovating can create a surprisingly profound effect — a club seems larger.
Another feature that people love in clubs is the use of water, such as a water wall or fountain. This can be the single-most talked about design feature in a club. Ideally, water should be located where members see it when they first walk in and when they are exercising. Water wall units have gotten more efficient and easier to maintain in recent years, making them more attractive to club owners.
Natural-looking materials and finishes can also help clubs bring the outdoor world indoors. This would include earth tones for floor and wall tiles (giving a natural stone effect), bamboo and other types of wood flooring (real wood or vinyl), and laminates that give all kinds of natural effects. These materials should produce a natural, clean look with minimal edges and should not be too rustic. They work better as features than as the dominant décor. The goal is to have a beautiful, state-of-the-art facility, not a hunting lodge.
One last concept to consider is the creative use of plants. Naturally, plants give off carbon dioxide, a positive effect on any environment. After checking with a plant professional about which plants will thrive in your space, you should hire a professional to regularly maintain the plants rather than leaving that task to your staff. A beautiful, healthy plant has a positive effect, and a dying plant has the opposite effect.
Combining a number of green elements can prove a welcome surprise to people visiting your club. This natural experience can make a clear difference in how your club is judged. Just like the beautiful outdoors, your club can be a place people can't wait to get to — and don't want to leave.
Bruce Carter is the president of Optimal Fitness Design Systems International, a club design firm that has created about $420 million worth of clubs in 45 states and 26 countries.


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Working with local databases
In Visual Studio 2005 we added a number of features to help developers build and deploy applications that need a local data store. Here's a quick peek at how it works.
In order to work with a local database file, you can simply add the file to your project (e.g. using the Project/Add Existing Item… menu). We currently support adding SQL Server data files (.mdf), Jet (Access) data files (.mdb) and SQL Mobile data files (.sdf). Note that in order to be able to use .mdf files, you need to have installed SQL Server Express. SQL Express is available on the VS CD or at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=49251. With SQL Server Express installed, you will also be able to create new databases through 'Project/Add New Item…/Database'.
Once the database file is in the project, VS will do a few things:
1. It will automatically add a connection in the Database Explorer so you can edit the database schema or the data.
2. It will make sure that the connection strings are serialized using a relative path (more on this below).
3. The first time the file is added, VS will also launch the Data Source wizard to create a new typed dataset.
Full path vs relative path
One of the reasons why it was hard to work with database files before is that the full path to the database was serialized in different places. This made it harder to share a project and also to deploy the application. In this version, the .NET runtime added support for what we call the DataDirectory macro. This allows Visual Studio to put a special variable in the connection string that will be expanded at run-time. So instead of having a connection string like this:
"Data Source=.\SQLExpress;AttachDbFileName=c:\program files\app\data.mdf"
You can have a connection string like this:
"Data Source=.\SQLExpress;AttachDbFileName=|DataDirectory|\data.mdf"
This connection string syntax is supported by the SqlClient and OleDb managed providers.
By default, the |DataDirectory| variable will be expanded as follow:
– For applications placed in a directory on the user machine, this will be the app's (.exe) folder.
– For apps running under ClickOnce, this will be a special data folder created by ClickOnce
– For Web apps, this will be the App_Data folder
Under the hood, the value for |DataDirectory| simply comes from a property on the app domain. It is possible to change that value and override the default behavior by doing this:
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetData("DataDirectory", newpath)
For customizing the connection string at runtime, please see our team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/smartclientdata/archive/2005/07/25/443034.aspx
Where is my data? — Understanding the file copy for desktop projects
One of the things to know when working with local database files is that they are treated as any other content files. For desktop projects, it means that by default, the database file will be copied to the output folder (aka bin) each time the project is built. After F5, here's what it would look like on disk
At design-time, MyProject\Data.mdf is used by the data tools. At run-time, the app will be using the database under the output folder. As a result of the copy, many people have the impression that the app did not save the data to the database file. In fact, this is simply because there are two copies of the data file involved. Same applies when looking at the schema/data through the database explorer. The tools are using the copy in the project, not the one in the bin folder.
If this copy behavior is not what you want, there are few ways to work around it:
1. If you select local database file in the Solution Explorer window, you will see a property called 'Copy to Output' in the Properties window. By default it is set to 'Copy Always' which means that on each build, the data files in the project folder will be copied to the output folder overwriting the existing data files if any. You can set this property to Copy Never and then manually put a copy of the data file in the output folder. This way, on subsequent builds, the project system will leave the datafile in the output folder and not try to overwrite it with the one from the project. The downside is that you still have two copies so after you modify the database file using the app, if you want to work on those changes in the project, you need to copy it to the project manually and vise-versa.
2. You can leave the data file outside the project and create a connection to it in Database Explorer. When the IDE asks you to bring the file into the project, just say no. This way, both the design-time and the run-time will be using the same data file but the downside is that the path in the connection string will be hard coded and therefore it'll be harder to share the project and deploy the app. Before deploying the app, just make sure to replace the full path in the settings with a relative path.
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Visual Studio Data Design-time
Published Friday, August 26, 2005 9:24 PM by SmartClientData Filed under: Blogicles, Whidbey Q & A


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Walk from Obesity
Lace up your shoes and join Lexington Medical Center for the Walk from Obesity, Saturday, May 4, 2013, at Saluda Shoals Park. The event features a 1 and 3-mile walk along the Saluda River and benefits the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery and the Obesity Action Coalition. These organizations advocate for insurance to cover obesity surgery, educate individuals affected by obesity, work to ensure obesity treatments are safe and effective, and strive to eliminate the negative stigma and bias associated with obesity.
The Walk from Obesity is critical to raise awareness and promote healthy living as South Carolina becomes increasingly affected by the obesity epidemic. Statistics show that 66.9 percent of adults in our state are overweight and 31.5 percent are obese. In addition, an estimated 93 million Americans are obese and that number is expected to climb to 120 million in the next five years.
Lexington Medical Center is committed to helping the community fight obesity by offering comprehensive weight management programs to ensure successful weight loss through the South Carolina Obesity Surgery Center, a Lexington Medical Center physician practice.
Walkers will enjoy healthy refreshments, children's activities, a coloring contest, raffles, and education on how to make a healthy plate. Registration, check-in, and t-shirt pickup will begin at 8:00 AM. The Walk will kick off at 9:00 AM at the River Birch Center and finish by 11:00 AM.
Online registration is $25 and will be available until May 3, 2013. Those who register will have their very own Donor Drive fundraising page where online fundraising tools will help you meet your goal or invite friends and family to join you at the walk. On-site registration will be available at $35 on the day of the event.
For More information or to register visit www.walkfromobesity.com. Find Lexington Medical Center's walk under the "Find a Walk" tab. Click on "W. Columbia/Lexington" under South Carolina for our registration page.
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ALBANY -- A federal judge sentenced former state Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno to two years in prison on Thursday after admonishing the rags-to-riches political leader for failing to apologize for, or even acknowledge, his crimes.
"I know you don't believe you did anything wrong," U.S. District Judge Gary L. Sharpe told Bruno. "You're not sorry because you don't believe you did anything wrong. ... (But) you trampled on the integrity of the state Legislature."
The sentencing is not the end of the case as Sharpe said Bruno, 81, can remain free on his own recognizance until an imminent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the honest services statute used to convict him. In addition, Bruno has vowed to appeal.
When it was his turn to speak, Bruno stood and walked to the courtroom podium, retracing for the judge his impoverished upbringing and the decisions as a young businessman that sparked his interest in elected office.
"Judge, I ran for the Senate because it was a part-time job, that's why I ran," Bruno said, glancing hard at assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Coombe, one of the prosecutors. He said he was offended that prosecutors accused him of enriching himself through his legislative powers, and not because he earned his wealth.
Bruno recounted his hardscrabble upbringing and invoked the memory of the premature death of his 44-year-old mother due to medical error. He said the work ethic instilled in him by a proud father, whose face was scarred with burns from shoveling coal at a paper mill, remains etched in his mind. "I grew up with my father saying: 'If you didn't earn it, it doesn't belong to you.'"
"I can say this to you as honestly as I can say anything in my heart and mind: I did nothing wrong," Bruno said. "Maybe I used bad judgment. Maybe I was a little cavalier in the way I handled my business judgments. ... I knew I wasn't bribed. I knew I didn't extort anybody."
When Bruno's remarks shifted to the role of his Senate lawyers, who guided him on his ethics disclosure forms and approved the business deals that lead to his conviction, the judge cut him off.
"Whose lawyers?" Sharpe interrupted. "Were they doing your private business while they were on the public payroll?"
The judge called the testimony of Bruno's former Senate lawyers "eye-popping" and said he was "disgusted" they had advised state senators to hand-deliver their annual ethics disclosure forms to avoid federal mail fraud charges. Sharpe also reminded Bruno that those lawyers worked for the state of New York and its citizens, not Bruno.
"I thought that was totally appropriate," Bruno said.
U.S. Attorney Richard C. Hartunian, sworn into the job last week, said he doesn't question Sharpe's imposition of a sentence far less severe than the eight years Bruno could have faced.
Bruno was not given a date to report to a federal prison. Instead, Sharpe said, Bruno may remain free until the U.S. Supreme Court decides three cases in which the honest services statute is being challenged. If the high court throws out the more than 20-year-old federal statute Bruno would likely be absolved of his felony convictions. If the court decides the law was misapplied in those cases Bruno would likely head to prison pending an appeal. His attorney, William J. Dreyer, could ask the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to release Bruno pending the outcome of the appeal.
The packed courtroom included two rows of Bruno's relatives and supporters jammed shoulder-to-shoulder as the mood of the nearly three-hour proceeding shifted from serious to jovial and back to serious. At one point Bruno and Sharpe exchanged light-hearted verbal jabs about a trial showdown when the judge scolded Bruno for a remark he made in front of the jury.
The judge also told Bruno he watched his daily news conferences outside the courthouse during trial.
"I didn't hear one word of contrition here," Sharpe said.
Bruno was charged with enriching himself through consulting deals with people who had an interest in his legislative decision-making. The government said he failed to disclose material conflicts of interest as required. Bruno also must pay $280,000 in restitution to the state of New York, the amount of money he gained in the two felony counts on which he was convicted.
The conviction of Bruno followed an aggressive FBI investigation that began in 2005 with an examination of some free private jet flights provided to Bruno by a Loudonville businessman, Jared Abbruzzese. It was his dealings with Abbruzzese, who benefited from Bruno's legislative power, that were central in the two felony counts on which Bruno was convicted.
The trial of Bruno provided an unprecedented look inside the state Legislature, which has exempted itself from the state's Freedom of Information Law and set its own rules allowing the public only limited or no access to its ethics opinions and financial disclosure forms.
Outside court following the sentencing, Bruno said he has done nothing that requires an apology to the public.
"I'm proud of my public service," he said. "I would do those things again in terms of the dollars we allocated."
After Sharpe imposed the two-year sentence Bruno walked into the audience surrounded by his supporters.
"Thank you, guys. We'll be fine," he said, as one of his daughters kissed his cheek.
Staff writer Jordan Carleo-Evangelist contributed to this report. Brendan J. Lyons can be reached at 454-5547 or by e-mail at email@example.com.