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FRIDAY: Welcome a new board to the Laguna Beach Chamber of Commerce and help honor local businesses at the chamber's Spirit of Laguna Awards and Installation Dinner from 7 to 10 p.m. at Tivoli Too, 777 Laguna Canyon Road. Tickets are $75. For more information about either event, call (949) 494-1018.

SATURDAY: Learn about the history of surf music from 2 to 4 p.m. during the Laguna Beach Historical Society's "Surf's Way Up: Our Surf Musical Heritage" program at the Susi Q Senior Center, 380 Third St. Tickets are $5 per person in advance, and $10 each the day of the program. For more information, call 497-2441.

SUNDAY: Enjoy great music and help flood victims at a concert planned to aid flood victims, "Here Comes The Sun!," from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Artist Theater, 625 Park Ave. Laguna musical legends Beth and Steve Wood, Jason Feddy, shown, Nick I and Sasha Evans, accompanied by Douglas Miller, will perform. A silent auction benefit will also be held. Proceeds benefit Laguna Relief & Resource Center. Tickets are $20 for general seating, $50 for preferred seating, and $250 for the VIP "Flood Angel" Package, which includes admission to an artist reception from 3 to 4 p.m. To purchase tickets, call (949) 734-5485. To volunteer, call Rick Conkey, (949) 573-8624.

Rotary Meeting

The Laguna Beach Rotary Club meets at noon at Aliso Creek Inn & Lodge, 31106 S. Coast Hwy. Anyone interested in attending should e-mail Lunch is served and the cost is $20. For more information about Rotary, visit

Today through Feb. 6

Felder as Bernstein

Hershey Felder portrays "Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein," at Laguna Playhouse, 606 Laguna Canyon Road. Tickets are $35 to $70. Performances are 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday matinees. For more information, call (949) 497-2787 or visit

Miles Corwin Speaks

Assistance League of Laguna Beach hosts a reading by Miles Corwin from his novel, "Kind of Blue," from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Chapter House, 547 Catalina St. This event is co-sponsored by the Laguna Beach Books, and the cost is $15. To attend, call Judy Sterner at (949) 661-2374.

Tuesdays through March 8

Great Discussions

Join a Great Decisions discussion group at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 429 Cypress Drive. The 1:30 p.m. group, led by Bill Foster, will discuss "American National Security since 9/11." The 7 p.m. group, led by Glenna Matthews, will discuss "The Caucasus." For more information, call Foster, at (949) 494-7358. Jean Raun is contact person for the evening session, (949) 494-2247.

Disaster Preparedness

The Laguna Relief and Resource Coalition's Citizens Advisory Council on Disaster Preparedness meets at 4:30 p.m. at the Community Center, 380 Third St. Volunteers will discuss and prepare for emergencies, encourage education, promote discussion and recruit volunteers.

'Shameless' Author Appearance

Laguna Beach Books welcomes Pamela Madsen, author of "Shameless: How I Ditched the Diet, Got Naked, Found True Pleasure… and Somehow Got Home in Time to Cook Dinner," at 6 p.m., 1200 S. Coast Hwy.

Winter Jazz

Laguna Beach Live! Jazz "Winter Series" Wednesdays presents saxophonist Adam Schroder in the Winter Series at Hotel Laguna. Shows are at 6 and 7:45 p.m., and the cover charge is $10 per show, with food and beverages available for purchase. Reservations can be made through the hotel at (949) 494-1151 and will be held until 15 minutes before the show begins. The second show is expected to be lighter in attendance. A complete lineup and more information can be found on

Open for Business

An "Open for Business" workshop for business owners and others interested in opening or expanding businesses in Laguna Beach will take place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Community Center, 380 Third St. For more information, contact Monica Tuchscher, principal planner at (949) 497-0745 or via e-mail at

Travel Open House

Laguna Travel Service is holding an open house with Princess Cruises and Trafalgar Tours from 5 to 7 p.m. at 260 Broadway. Attendees can enjoy wine and cheese and ask questions about cruising and tours. For more information, call (949) 494-1061.

Transition Dance

Transition Laguna holds an open dance party with a mix of world music every Monday from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Woman's Club of Laguna Beach, 286 St. Ann's Drive. $10 donation. No partner necessary. A portion of the proceeds goes to Transition Laguna.

Seniors Ping Pong

Seniors are welcome to participate in table top tennis, or ping pong, from 1 to 3 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in the Multi-Purpose Room at the Susi Q Senior Center, 380 Third St. Bring your own paddle or use one of ours. Participants must wear non-skidding shoes. Free. To register, call (949) 497-2441.

Farmers Market

The Laguna Beach certified California farmers market is from 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays at the Lumberyard parking lot, 384 Forest Ave. For more information, call (714) 573-0374.

Beach Cleanup volunteers meet at noon on Sunday at Mozambique's lower parking lot for a weekly beautification effort. Free parking available. To reward volunteers after the cleanup, Mozambique will provide a half-off lunch menu from 1 to 3 p.m. In addition, Mozambique will be showcasing British singer-songwriter Jason Feddy. For more information, visit

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ANNAPOLIS, MD — May 20, 2014 — In response to recent reports of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) cases in the U.S., the Organization for Safety, Asepsis and Prevention (OSAP) has developed an online toolkit specifically for oral healthcare professionals.

The online kit is designed to bring dental professionals up to speed on a disease that has only recently begun to make headlines in the U.S. The kit contains:

  • Links to CDC recommendations for prevention and control of MERS
  • Best clinical practices for preventing the spreading of MERS
  • A “talking points” script for front office for addressing early identification and possible deferral of patients with flu-like symptoms
  • Links to videos, articles and research related to MERS

The toolkit will also feature ongoing updates that keep readers informed of future developments concerning the disease.

“The MERS situation in the U.S. represents a very low risk to the general public in this country at this time,” said Therese Long, executive director of OSAP. “However, dental clinicians are an important part of the healthcare system and should be knowledgeable of MERS and other transmissible diseases. In addition to the toolkit, MERS will be a leading topic of discussion at the upcoming OSAP Annual Symposium in Minneapolis in June. Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), who has been interviewed on several NBC news broadcasts over the past week, will deliver a keynote address on MERS and other infection control topics of concern,” Long said.

Access the OSAP MERS Toolkit

The MERS Toolkit is accessible free of charge to all dental professionals at

Information on OSAP’s Infection Control Symposium

Seats are still available for the Symposium June 5-8 in Minneapolis featuring Dr. Osterholm and over 40 other speakers addressing relevant infection control topics, protocols and resources for busy dental practices. Click on this link for more information and to register:

About OSAP

The Organization for Safety, Asepsis and Prevention is the world’s leading membership association exclusively dedicated to preventing disease transmission and ensuring the safe and infection-free delivery of oral health care for all. As a nonprofit organization, OSAP helps dental practitioners close the gap between policy and practice. Its members include dental and other healthcare professionals, consultants, researchers and nongovernmental organizations, manufacturing and distribution companies, policymakers and academia. For more information, visit

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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 02:53 UTC, submitted by spectator
Xfce After more than two years of development, Xfce 4.4.0 has just been released. Xfce 4.4 features new tools such as the much awaited Thunar file manager as well as several improvements in its core components. Benedikt Meurer had also prepared a tour for the newcomers.
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RE: Some features still lacking
by xerverius on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 09:18 UTC in reply to "Some features still lacking"
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You can create a keyboard shortcut to 'xfce4-popup-menu' to open the panel menu plugin (part of xfdesktop). You can also run 'xfdesktop -menu' to popup the desktop menu.

Saving the size of the application window is a task of the application IMHO, Xfwm4 only tries to position the window right there where it's not overlapping other windows.

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BeOS & Derivatives In this video (.torrent, Quicktime) "you will see great attempts at crashing the Haiku app_server, some commentary on the robustness of the code, and a staggering amount of threads for Java running on BeOS R5." Here is more about the video.
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RE: Haiku Video
by bryanv on Tue 6th Sep 2005 15:23 UTC in reply to "Haiku Video"
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Nope, we were abusing it on Saturday afternoon or evening as I recall.

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Legal Well, this is unexpected. The iPhone 4G saga just got a whole lot crazier - dare I say it, a whole lot more ridiculous. Have you ever reported anything like a phone or something similarly small stolen to the police? What was their reaction? Did you ever get the device back? Did they send an army of officers to get your device back? No? Odd. They raided Jason Chen's house, and took four computers and two servers. Update: And thus our true colours reveal. "The raid that San Mateo area cops conducted last week on the house of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen came at the behest of a special multi-agency task force that was commissioned to work with the computer industry to tackle high-tech crimes. And Apple Inc. sits on the task force's steering committee." Update II: According to TechCrunch, the investigation has been put on hold while the DA ponders Gizmodo's shield defence. Update III: Some legal insight from a constitutional law and first amendment expert and a law professor. The gist? The DA has said no one has been charged with anything here, making this just an investigation - however, this makes the search and seizing of material worse. "If the police are literally just gathering information, with no suspect targeted yet, then a subpoena against a journalist would have probably been smarter than a search warranted that resulted in the front door of Chen's home being bashed in."
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RE[5]: i dunno
by Thom_Holwerda on Tue 27th Apr 2010 14:03 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: i dunno"
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After paying $5000 to dissect the product and post pictures and information about it online...

That is what GIZMODO did. The original finder, however, FIRST contacted Apple.

This isn't rocket science, people. Try to keep up.

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Internet Explorer After several months and preview releases, Microsoft has finally lifted the curtain for the Windows Explorer 9 beta release. Internet Explorer 9 is Microsoft's attempt at not just catching up to the competition, but at actually surpassing them. Since enough sites will be focusing on just how many nanoseconds faster or slower the beta is compared to the competition, I'll talk a little about the new minimalist interface.
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OSX renders fonts very close to the intended glyphs, giving a close representation to what you see when you print. Windows thins fonts out, to optimize for on screen readability, but ends up being not as "accurate"

It takes about half a day for most people to get used to one or the other, but seeing them side by side is jarring.

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Internet & Networking With yesterday's news that Google will be dropping H.264 support from the Chrome web browser, the internet was split in half. One one side, there's people who applaud the move, who are happy that Google is pushing an open, royalty-free and unencumbered video codec (irrespective of Google's motivation). On the other side, there are the H.264 supporters, who believe that H.264 is the one and only choice for HTML5 video. One of the most vocal and public figures in the latter group is John Gruber. Following his five questions for Google, here are ten questions for Gruber about WebM, H.264, and standards on the web.
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by FellowConspirator on Wed 12th Jan 2011 20:22 UTC
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The article's a little hyperbolic and has some inaccuracies.

1.) strictly speaking, h.264 and WebM are equivalent with respect to royalties and patents with the exception one of the holders of VP8-related patents (Google) has given public license to them; WebM will be cheaper, but not free. The royalty-free nature of h.264 is now set to expire in 2014, but so will many of the patents covering it.

2.) MPEG-LA wouldn't be a patent-troll per se. They were formed by the consortium of the technology developers and original patent holders and they've always been up front about their claims.

3.) Is correct, but it's not clear why it's important. It will take a few years before the technology is pervasive, at which time it probably won't be relevant.

4.) Some browser makers. However, web browsers make a minority of the video distribution and production space. Almost all modern video tech outside of the web is based off h.264.

6.) VP3 is improperly compared to h.264. It's much closer to ISO/IEC 14496-2 which came out a year prior to VP3. ISO/IEC 14496-2 (h.264) are most closely comparable; they are contemporaneous and use many of the same technical approaches.

7.) This overlooks the fact that perceived patent issues with VP8 and it's predecessors contributed to the sale of VP8 to Google.

9.) It's a loaded question. The browser should rely on the platform it runs to provide support for codecs. The only reason this conversation exists at all is because some want to move responsibility for implementing video codecs directly into the browser itself instead of the operating environment (the idea being that it might simplify implementation and consistency).

10.) I don't think Apple cares, honestly. They use h.264 because everyone else does. Their platforms offer video playback and transcoding through a common API and a codec plugin architecture (as does Microsoft). Adding support for WebM really only requires pushing out the codec in an OS update (or an OS X download). You don't find WebM anywhere yet, thought, so why add bloat?

The arguments are kind of silly. Google has good reasons to push for adopting a codec wholly controlled by them as the de facto standard. It gives them the ability to be the sole arbiter on matters of DRM, etc. For Apple and Microsoft, it's pretty much an annoyance. For the video production and distribution industry, it'll be an enormous pain in the butt.

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Windows As you may have seen, David's been taking care of OSNews for a few days because I'm quite busy with work. Still, there's one thing I'd like to talk about: the desktop mode in Windows 8. I wish I could've added this to the first impressions article, but I only arrived at this conclusion yesterday: desktop mode in Windows 8 is Microsoft's equivalent of Mac OS X's Classic mode.
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RE: A bit torn on this one
by neticspace on Wed 7th Mar 2012 02:51 UTC in reply to "A bit torn on this one"
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I think it's time for Microsoft to make a dedicated work-oriented operating system. Of course, Windows 8 doesn't look work-friendly IMO.

Instead, Windows 8 looks very gamer-friendly.

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Windows The Verge has a learned a few interesting things about Google deprecating EAS and how this will affect Windows Phone users. As it turns out, Google informed Microsoft it was planning to remove EAS in the summer of last year, but without giving a firm date. Microsoft has been trying to get a six-month extension from Google, but so far with no luck. In the meantime, Microsoft is also working on adding CardDAV and CalDAV support to Windows Phone - so yay open standards.
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So? Everything in business is politics; the main goal of a publicly traded corporation is to make a profit thus their actions will represent that goal. Google does not want to pay for a volume license, since they have to eat the costs for their non-paying (free) users. And Microsoft does not want to make EAS an open and free technology, since they make a pretty penny off it.

Again, if EAS is such a superior technology this is great news for Microsoft, since they have a clear value proposition for their mobile OS offerings over android.

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Windows "A senior Samsung Electronics executive said Friday the launch of Windows 8 has failed to bolster demand for PCs and he does not expect the PC industry to rebound soon." Of course, Samsung and other OEMs could've, you know, built better computers. Just a suggestion.
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Windows 8 Failure
by snip3rm00n on Tue 12th Mar 2013 21:17 UTC
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Given the discontent with Windows 8, I have a feeling that if Apple were to officially open its Mac OS X platform to non-Apple hardware in response, there would be a mass-migration and it would deliver a crippling blow to Microsoft.

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Editorial Like many of you, I've been watching the big changes in user interfaces over the past few years, trying to make sense of them all. Is there a common explanation for the controversies surrounding the Windows 8 UI and Unity? Where do GNOME 3, KDE, Cinnamon, and MATE fit in? This article offers one view.
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RE[3]: Ubuntu Unity
by ndrw on Wed 3rd Jul 2013 07:53 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Ubuntu Unity"
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It's not just about convenience or user's habits, although they are also important.

My laptop has a numeric keyboard and the main keyboard and touchpad are shifted to the left. Because of that there is only one sensible place for the panel/dock - on the right side of the screen. Otherwise I would have to look at the panel all the time.

I am currently using Xfce with a fairly wide panel (plenty of space on the right anyway) configured in a "deskbar" mode.

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Syllable, AtheOS Norwegian ex-Amiga coder Kurt Skauen started designing & writing AtheOS in 1996. Until late 1999, AtheOS (a name derived from the Greek Goddess Athena) used to be called AltOS. AtheOS has even seen complete rewrites along the years, and today is on version 0.3.7. Come with me and see what AtheOS has to offer today to you. All your questions answered and we also include five new screenshots.
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Learning to write an OS
by Rayiner Hashem on Fri 23rd Nov 2001 02:54 UTC

A lot of people have been asking about learning to write an OS. I found myself with exactly the same problem a few months ago, and I've found some helpful stuff in addition to the links already mentioned. I suggest you go in this order, because you kinda get led nicely from one to the other.

1) Modern Operating Systems, by Andrew Tannebaum.
7) Understanding the Linux Kernel: From I/O Ports to Interrupts, Orielly.
9) /usr/src/linux

After that, look around at various articles and research papers on the internet. In particular, look for stuff about Solaris, since they tend to document their additions to UNIX really well. Unlike most people, I don't reccomend just going out there and reading code. You'll quickly get lost and intimidated. Instead, read some of the papers and books first so you have a high level overview of how everything works, then read the code once you're comfortable with the concepts.


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IconScala looks like it is becoming the web 2.0 darling, popular with Twitter and LinkedIn developers but also heavily utilized in the corporate space. Martin Odersky speaks in detail about the language in this interview. He talks about why it could become the language of choice for social networking platforms, particularly after doing well in the acid test of being used by sites like Twitter and LinkedIn. "Twitter has been able to sustain phenomenal growth, and it seems with more stability than what they had before the switch, so I think that's a good testament to Scala," he said.
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Microsoft "The Singularity project (an OS written in managed code used for research purposes) has provided several very useful research results and opened new avenues for exploration in operating system design. Recently, MSR released a paper covering an operating system research project that takes a new approach to building an OS stack with verifiable and type safe managed code. This project employs a novel use of Typed Assembly Language, which is what you think it is: Assembly with types (implemented as annotations and verified statically using the verification technology Boogie and the theorem prover Z3 (Boogie generates verification conditions that are then statically proven by Z3. Boogie is also a language used to build program verifiers for other languages)). As with Singularity, the C# Bartok compiler is used, but this time it generates TAL. The entire OS stack is verifiably type safe (the Nucleus is essentially the Verve HAL) and all objects are garbage collected. It does not employ the SIP model of process isolation (like Singularity). In this case, again, the entire operating system is type safe and statically proven as such using world-class theorem provers." Channel9 has an interview on video with one of the developers behind this MSR project. Source code to Verve is available.
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RE[4]: Real OSNews
by galvanash on Thu 9th Dec 2010 07:46 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Real OSNews"
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certification, verification is the same. looked at solution based on certain circumstances and parameters set by persons/mechanisms which control quality

Its not the same, not how it is being used by this project. Mathematical verification means you have a proof backing your logic at every level from the bottom up. You are building a construct, starting from nothing, where every component you add is proven mathematically sound - you have to prove out the design. That of course doesn't mean that the implementation is perfect and does not contain flaws, but it does mean the model is logically perfect - there are no unknown corner cases - all possible permutations have been factored in.

tests can be incomplete. in fact in real world, they are always incomplete. there is simply no way to predict every possibility

Hence why the scope of what exactly is being verified is so limited. There IS simply no way to predict every possibility - but with a thorough understanding of how a compiler/runtime/jit generates code you can with absolutely certainty identify code which performs certain unsafe operations. That is verification.

Certification is a form of insurance based on reputability, verification is a form of insurance based on mathematical certainties.

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RE[5]: Real OSNews
by somebody on Thu 9th Dec 2010 08:23 in reply to "RE[4]: Real OSNews"
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not to be nitpicking;)

one part of your answer excludes other.

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RE[6]: Real OSNews
by galvanash on Thu 9th Dec 2010 10:14 in reply to "RE[5]: Real OSNews"
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I don't really know what you mean by that... Maybe Im not being clear. The verification software is mathematically proven. Again, that doesn't mean it has no bugs, but it is logically consistent and all permutations of input have been factored into its design. It is not possible to give it input that produces an unknown output.

The software it is verifying on the other hand is not. The verification software can be given a block of code, and based on the assumption that the code is annotated correctly - it can with absolutely certainty make certain claims about it, one such claim for example being "this block of code does not cast an int to a pointer".

That doesn't mean that the code being tested is bug free, but it DOES mean that it does not cast an int to a pointer. There is absolutely no way it could do that, because the verification software has been mathematically proven to catch any input that would represent a cast of an int to a pointer.

Sure, the verifier could have a bug in it, you still have to do due diligence. But the point is very few software products are proven out this way - this is a way to apply the benefits of proven code to other code - and it doesn't require a runtime to do so (like for example the way .NET does it).

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Internet Explorer Yes, yes, yes - that's what you get for releasing Internet Explorer 9 in the middle of the night, Microsoft! A post on OSNews that's late! I'm sure that'll teach you. Anywho, as you may have noticed, Microsoft is back in the browser game - Internet Explorer 9 has been released.
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RE[4]: Not going back
by lemur2 on Tue 15th Mar 2011 22:02 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Not going back"
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"That second part you lost me. I said competition is good and you more or less repeated my sentiment and then said my attitude is what caused the IE problem in the first place. Then you went off about how everybody is targeting webkit. As far as I'm aware IE has it's own render engine, Firefox has it's own, Chrome has it's own, Opera has it's own. Safari and Konquerer use Webkit. So I'm not real sure where you are actually going with that.

The problem I have is that people seem to forget 10 years ago ... IE6 was the only decent browser.

I went off about targeting webkit because it is becoming the new IE6, I see a lot of people targeting webkit specific extensions, especially on mobile devices. There is no decent competitor to webkit on smartphones and we will end up with sites just not working/looking odd on other devices because webkit has been targeted.

Clarification: Konqueror uses KHTML. Opera uses its own renderer, and Firefox and its derivatives use gecko. Chrome, Safari, iOS and Android use webkit.

Amongst that lot, gecko is the most prevalent, not webkit.

With the imminent release of Firefox 4, there will very soon be a version of Firefox for mobiles:

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Friday, September 30, 2011

Garlic S'mores Goldfish Crackers

GRANDCHILD ADVISORY/ LEVEL ORANGE-YOU-GLAD-I-ONLY-HAVE-ONE: I am hooked on my Grandkid and as always, addiction tastes better when you can draw others into your vice and get them hooked right beside you. I do realize however, that like the times my Father forced us to view slide after slide of the Grand Canyon.... you just have to be there to appreciate its cuteness (I know, I know...... Grand-eur would have been closer to a pun. Love to you all. Today's a good day!

My blog guest host today is my grandson Gavin, who is currently home-schooling himself in the culinary arts. He feverishly works his tidy whitey didy off every day to come up with a new and tasty snack for all to enjoy. Today he will show us how to make garlic s'more's goldfish crackers. (YUM?)

With limited vocabulary, he uses visual aids and grunts to teach the thousands who flock to see him perfect his art. Each recipe begins with the selection of proper cooking utensils and we see him here evaluating this bowl for its capacity,

its sturdiness,

and it's ability to showcase his finished recipe properly.

Chef Gavin uses only quality ingredients and demonstrates here his penchant for Penzey's Spices. However, he insists that the success of this particular recipe necessitates that the Penzey's garlic powder bottle be completely empty of its contents. (I've learned to never question his procedures... it makes him cry)

Step 1: Gather one snack container of smore's goldfish crackers and one empty jar of Penzey's garlic powder (Gavin's instructor stands behind him for guidance and any questions Gavin may have.)

Step 2:
Remove the lid from the empty Penzey garlic powder bottle. (again with the instructor nearby in case of emergency)

Step 3:
Shove entire empty garlic powder bottle into snack container.

That's it! In just three easy steps and with only two (really only one) ingredient, you too can have a special homemade snack for the day! Please feel free to write me with any questions regarding this recipe. Any mistakes and/or misinterpretations are my own.

Now here's a video to see the chef in action:

thisoldbroad said...

What a cute little chef!
He has more counter space than I do.
And an assistant.

June said...

He's absolutely too darn adorable. Loved this post and so glad you're having a good day! Bunches of hugs comin' your way.

Barbara said...

I know, I know! Those grandsons just completely steal our hearts! Mine did the same thing, and I wouldn't trade it for the world. Gavin is marvelous in the kitchen and such a cutie pie!

Lolly said...

Just too darn stinkin' cute!!
I can't put my finger on it but something about him reminds me of Ben at that age. He was also into the culinary arts at that age.

Haden News said...

What a cutie pie! I can't wait till I can teach my grandson some cooking skills...he is 6 months old, they grow so fast, I know it won't be long!!

Sue said...

Oh, I know all about grandma-love:) What a cutie! My grandkids have a similar assistant, waiting for crumbs:)

Moogie said...

Sooooooooo adorable! Got to love a man that cooks bare-chested.

stephchows said...

hilarious :)

Anonymous said...

What a doll! And quite the chef too! lol, grand kids are the BEST!:)

Kat said...

That post was so darn cute!! And so is your grandson, I can see why you are smitten!


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1. Foods that contain histamine including pickled or yeast-containing foods, e.g cheese, bread, alcoholic drinks like cider, beer and wine (red is worse than white)

2. Gluten, the protein in wheat and some other grains, can produce inflammation in the body and aggravate the reaction you have to allergens.

3. Cigarettes and cigars are a known trigger for people with sensitive sinuses or respiratory issues.

4. Stress causes your body to release hormones and other chemicals, including histamine, the cause of allergic reactions. It also lowers the immune system.

5. Chlorine and bromine in swimming pools and hot tubs is highly irritant to mucous membranes found in your lungs and nose, aggravating existing allergies.

So what to do about it?

1. Avoid the allergen. This does rather depend on what you’re allergic to. It is not realistic to expect to completely eliminate many allergens such as mould, pollen, dust and dust mites. You can, however, reduce exposure.

2. Avoid the aggravating factors listed above.

3. Increase the amount of beneficial foods that you eat.
• Omega 3, found in fish, flax hemp and chia seeds – reduces the risk of developing allergies and is anti- inflammatory helping to reduce reactions.
• Antioxidants found in fresh fruits, onions and tomatoes.

4.Use hot drinks, steam from hot water or saline rinses (Neti Pot) to release congestion and flush out allergens.

Medication: Over the counter and prescription pills, nasal sprays and eye drops can bring temporary relief. They do not, however, resolve the issue and can cause many side effects such as drowsiness, palpitations and anxiety.

Allergy shots: (allergy immuno- therapy) is a form of long-term treatment that decreases symptoms. A tiny amount of the allergen is injected to produce a low-grade reaction. Over time, the amount of the allergen is increased which allows the body to become somewhat desensitised to the allergens. This process can take 5 years or more and is painful. Many people report improvement but not total relief from symptoms.

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Politics is an extreme blood sport.

When things are good, they're great. Politicians walk on air. They exude that golden glow of success.

They can do no wrong.

When things are bad, it seems nothing can pull them out of the slump.

And right now, things are going very badly for Premier Dalton McGuinty.

First, there was the scholarship story from Hong Kong.

The government will spend $30 million - $20 million from taxpayers and $10 million from universities - to give full $40,000-a-year scholarships to 75 foreign doctoral students.

To add insult to injury, Training, Colleges and Universities Minister John Milloy defended the scholarships by saying the government wants to "strengthen that system by attracting the best and the brightest."

Well, hello. Don't we have the best and brightest homegrown talent here in Ontario?

Tell parents struggling to pay tuition bills they now have to pay for the "best and brightest" to come in from overseas and show us how its done, and you'll get outrage.

McGuinty also got the bad news that the government's pay freeze has hit a roadblock. An independent arbitrator has awarded 2% a year pay raises for the next two years to nurses and other unionized hospital workers.

McGuinty balked at telling reporters he'd bring in a law mandating a wage freeze.

He said his government wouldn't give money to the hospitals to pay the bill.

"Our interest is to ensure the taxpayers aren't paying any more - and they won't," he said. The government won't give the hospitals more money to deal with the pay hike.

So how are supposed to hold the line? Close beds? Shut operating rooms? Layoff nurses?

McGuinty's been in power seven years and never seen a public sector union he wouldn't cave in to. He stands up timidly in his budget and freezes all the non-union government salaries.

But when the going gets tough with the unions, he's a pushover. It's not his problem. Let the hospitals do the dirty work.

Meanwhile, Tory Leader Tim Hudak revealed an embarrassing document put together by Sussex Strategy group - a lobbying company - advising clients that renewable energy is anticipated "to be a wedge issue in the election."

The document says the Tories will support a move away from renewables, so the industry needs to rally support for green energy.

"In this, it will be critical to 'confuse' the issue in the political/public/media away from just price to include key value attributes such as jobs, clean air, farm income, etc."

So, we're all so stupid, we can be "confused" by slick bafflegab to believe high hydro prices are good for us?

You wonder how much their clients paid for this crap.

Ironically, McGuinty's news conference was at the site of a planned solar panel factory in Hamilton - with locked out Stelco workers picketing outside.

Sussex huffily responded to the leak: "The document released today was a proposal to a coalition of interests to engage the public in a balanced and broader debate that includes the many benefits of renewable energy and not just about price," the company said in a statement.

And here I was thinking the idea was to confuse we buffoons in the media and the public.

McGuinty's well-oiled election express is off the tracks.

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Hi everyone, I'm new here with a question of corse. I'm sure this has been discussed before but I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for using search.

I would like to hear how people successfully trained their beagles on an invisible fence.

Here's my story. We live on 7 acres and are surrounded by a river on 3 sides. We have a 3 year old Lab that we adore. 6 weeks ago a male beagle appeared on our doorstep. His face was cut up and his pads were sore so I'm guessing he's a lost hunting dog. I put an ad in the paper, called the local(kill)shelter and several vets in the area. No one has claimed him. I won't take him to the shelter so it looks like he is ours. He gets along great with Abby, our Lab. They play and snuggle like they've been together forever.

Last week we had an invisible fence put in and it is really hurting me watching the poor beagle. He keeps approaching the flags, grabbing them, and getting shocked in the process. He now refuses to walk on a leash with the e-collar on.

During the day while we are at work, we put him in the goat pasture where he has access to the barn, water, etc. He gets along great with the pygmy goats. We remove his e-collar during this time. Unfortunately he is escaping from there. Abby has a 10x10 kennel she is in while we're away but I'm afriad that's too close for the two of them without supervision. When we are home they are in the house or outside with us. Abby is doing well on the system she stays about 20-30 feet away from the flags. She did however attempt to chase a squirrel this morning and would have gotten zapped if I hadn't pulled her back.

Anyone have words of wisdom they would like to share. I've talked to our trainer and he says let the beagle continue to get shocked and he will eventually learn.
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It's hard with beagles because of their hunting instincts. When they get a scent of something, noting will stop them from going after it.

Our neighbor has a system like yours. She's a two year old beagle that has learned what her boundaries are. The collar makes a beeping sound if she is about to leave the area. When she hears it she makes a beeline back to the yard. I've never seen her get shocked so I don't know how she would react to it.

I'm assuming the system came with instructions on how to train the dog and use it properly. Have you gone through that? If not, you might want to do some research on the web for some help in training your dog with the new setup.

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I know their are success stories with beagles and invisible fences!! I KNOW there ARE! Unfortunately, there are a lot of un-success stories, too! My Toby finally figured out that it only hurt for a second and started running through it. Beagles are tough because they just follow that nose with little regard for anything else. If you had a professional put in your fence, you might contact them for advice specifically for beagles.

It is so awesome of you to take in this little guy! Beagles can be tough on some matters, but they are awesome mates for Labs (as you are already seeing) and they have a way of making you fall in love with them!!!
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I have no advice on electric fences, and I've never used one, but just wanted to say Hi and Welcome!!
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I have never considered an electric fence because of our geography. We are on the very edge of a city that boarders the Rocky Mt. foothills. It is sort of a Critters-R-Us area. I would be very concerned with what could come IN the yard while my dogs could not get OUT. Mountain lions, bears, deer, you get the idea. I would press the electric fence guy for some real serious lessons and instructions for your new family member. Just remember that Beagles are a totally dedicated nose on 4 paws as far as smells go! LOL Welcome aboard - I am sure your Lab must be estatic about a new playmate.
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We have an invisable fence around our home and cottage areas and it works great for my little beagle who is always on a leash when not in those two areas as she loves to run but never goes out of the fence no matter what may be over the other side.She knows her limits and doesn't even go to the beep. I check her batteries often because if she ever got out she would be gone.I think she would come back but would never take that chance.I think your beagle will catch on quickly, just keep taking him to the beep and even to the shock a couple times and bring him back.It really doesn't hurt and is worth is for the safety in the long run.
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Hi all. I am new to this board. I saw this topic and had to chime in. My beagle, Chloe is a smart cookie. We have a Petsafe containment. Its the same as invisable fenceing. But you do it your self and it is cheaper. Well Chloe was great with it loves her new found freedom instead of being in a kennel all the time or tied to a high tie. We live in the country and we have a 1/2 acre fenced off for Chloe. Well recently she has been getting out. Not sure how but she won't come back into the yard. Well we called the company and they suggusted a new collar This collar beeps as the other but won't let the dog linger in the tone zone by giving it a vibration. If the dog leaves the zone and comes back in it resets if not then the vibrate then sends a mild stimulation. Retreat it resets does not retreat gets stronger ect ect. Needless to say Chloe is a sad puppy now she has not got past the vibration. She will realize before long that the vibration doesn't hurt. Then she will get hit with it.
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I can't imagine that it works with a beagle. They are too smart, too stubborn, too resilient, etc... I will say that we have a totally fenced in back yard, but have had to resort to adding an electric fence in some areas that our newest Beagle has decided are just too fun to dig in and escapes (along with the other 3). Even the electric fence that shocks her when she touches it hasn't really stopped her completely. She continues to try to dig there, but it has slowed her down some. She's my most determined little one, but partially because she is new to us I am sure. The other three only escape the yard when she has dug them a passage to freedom. lol

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Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. I know next to nothing about beagles and hope to spend more time with you guys learning about the behaviorisms of the fun little beagle.

Taco, that's what we've named him, is doing really well today. I'm so proud of him. He did however have his first accident in the house but I'm not telling DH. It really was my fault; I slept in this morning and did not get the pups outside right away when Abby asked. Taco did aim in the right direction. He peed on the toilet.

I'll try to post a pic and tell you more about Taco this afternoon. I appreciate your positive comments.
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BATTLE CREEK, Mich.  Fun Entertainment, LLC announced today that they have purchased the Battle Creek Baseball Club of the Midwest League from Riverside Baseball, LLC. Fun Entertainment will rename the team the Southwest Michigan Devil Rays and will be the Class A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2005.

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Bill and Alan have committed to our staff all the necessary resources to be successful, Cordaro said. Our goal is to create memories for kids, both young and old, for many years to come.

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Our boots begin to smolder as we walk across the beach. All around, pinpricks of light bob in the darkness as other hikers hop gingerly from foot to foot. Then, with a noisy hiss, crackle, and spit, another wave of molten rock hits the Pacific, rolling instantly into glowing, red-neon balls. The 2,100-degree lava burns for a moment beneath the waves until—poof—in a cloud of white steam it's transformed into grains of black-sand beach. Here, at Kilauea Volcano, on the Big Island, we've just witnessed the creation of the world's newest patch of terra firma.
Hawaii is constantly being remade. Large swaths of it have become everything that adventuresome travelers dread: crammed, canned, plasticized, mai taied. But other pockets of Hawaii remain as they always have been: serene, lush, silent. And empty. Paradoxically, the more tour groups and honeymooners crowd Waikiki and Honolulu, the quieter the island backcountry can seem. Too many discriminating types dismiss and avoid this archipelago now. It's where people go for blue drinks and a bad sunburn. It's not a land, they think, of cloud-forest treks and badlands gallops and utterly deserted beaches.

But you can have this Hawaii—and have it to yourself—if you're willing to leave behind both established resorts and voguish preconceptions of the islands. Pack a lunch and a tide chart and kayak out to an evanescent sandbar. Swim to a remote beach accessible only by boat. Stare out for hours over a sea devoid of ships, populated by humpbacks, and indistinguishable at its far edge from the horizon. This is the Hawaii of those of us who live here. This is the Hawaii we seek out and love. We need refuge from Waikiki now and then, too.

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The Ultimate Edition coming to PC includes the full base game along with the two DLC add-on chapters, Reverie and Resurrection. The press release also goes on to state that it "boasts enhanced 1080p HD graphics, runs at a solid 60 frames per second via recommended spec, and offers trophy integration through Steam with Cloud saving." The recommended spec, according to the Steam page, is Windows 7 or higher, a quad-core CPU, 2GB RAM, and a DirectX 11 compatible video card with 1024MB RAM. So most PC gamers should have no problem running it maxed. And while the press release doesn't state "and above" after 1080p, the Steam page does say it supports multi-screen displays, so higher resolutions should indeed be supported. If you're not interested in maxing it out, you'll be able to get away with Windows XP, a dual-core processor, and a DirectX 9 512MB video card.

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U.S. transportation officials said they are working to meet a federal audit’s requirements before starting in the next few weeks the cross-border pilot trucking program with Mexico, including monitoring and placing tracking devices on Mexican trucks.

Truck traffic at the southern border could increase soon if issues raised in a federal audit are adequately addressed.

The U.S. Office of Inspector General’s Aug. 19 audit of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s pilot program concluded the agency had adequate border inspections, but more action is necessary to meet U.S. regulations.

Federal law requires the OIG report to Congress on the program. FMCSA must address the office’s concerns before Mexican trucks cross the border.

FMCSA’s response to the report noted action or plans to satisfy these requirements before the end of September, when the report was expected to be sent to Congress.

In June, FMCSA officials told OIG they will comply with the law for conducting Pre-Authority Safety Audits and compliance reviews, but have not developed plans and safeguards for conducting PASAs in Mexico.

Two Mexican carriers, Grupo Behr De Baja of Tijuana and Transportes Olympic of Monterrey, have successfully completed the PASAs. FMCSA said it is processing applications of three other carriers.

In a PASA review, the carrier must demonstrate it complies with requirements for drug and alcohol testing, hours of service, insurance, vehicle maintenance and inspections, and qualified drivers.

FMCSA said it has begun soliciting proposals for the electronic monitoring devices and tracking service it will require for Mexican trucks for three years. In April, it had estimated the total cost at $2.5 million, but the OIG puts that price at $3.2 million. Although the agency will retain ownership of the hardware, its plan to fund these devices has drawn criticism.

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The Teamsters and Public Citizen petitioned a federal appeals court to review the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s plans to proceed with a cross-border trucking pilot program with Mexico.

The organizations filed the petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Jonathan Weissglass, an attorney with the Altshuler Berzon firm representing the Teamsters, said unlike a complaint, the petition does not detail the legal challenge that is discussed later in briefing.

He said one argument will be that the standard of comparable treatment of trucking on both sides of the border “is not met because of the lack of widespread availability of ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel (in Mexico) and that the requirement of safety equivalence is not met because of Mexico’s lower vision standards.”

FMCSA issued a statement saying it will review the filing after it is served with the lawsuit.

In 2002, Altshuler Berzon attorneys obtained a ruling from the same appeals court for the plaintiffs and other organizations to block the previous cross-border program with Mexico, which the U.S. Supreme Court overturned in 2004.

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Truckers will have to find alternate routes on trips to Louisville, Ky., following closure of the 50-year-old Sherman Minton Bridge. The bridge, which carries I-64 and U.S. 150 traffic across the Ohio River between Louisville and New Albany, Ind., was shut down for months after cracks were discovered in the steel structure.

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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration appears likely to issue an hours of service final rule by its Oct. 28 deadline.

FMCSA sent a final rule to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood Aug. 11, just two days past target date. After LaHood’s office completes consideration, the Office of Management and Budget will review the rule before publication in the Federal Register. A federal court originally set the publication deadline for July 26, but later extended it until Oct. 28.

The current hours rule, in effect since 2004, made four primary changes to the regulations then in place: increasing the daily driving limit from 10 hours to 11 hours; increasing the required minimum daily rest from 8 hours to 10 hours; decreasing the number of hours on duty after which a driver may not operate a commercial motor vehicle from 15 hours to 14 hours; and allowing a driver to “reset” the weekly 60 or 70-hour on duty limits with 34 consecutive hours off duty.

Under the current proposal, FMCSA is considering whether to reduce the daily driving limit from 11 hours to 10 hours and has proposed to limit the 34-hour restart provision by requiring that it include two periods from midnight to 6 a.m. and limiting its use to once per week.

In a letter to Cass Sunstein, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget, the American Trucking Associations earlier this month urged the Obama administration to live up to its promise to relieve the burden of unnecessary regulations as it considers hours of service changes.

— Staff reports

FMCSA says CSA helps compliance

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced an independent evaluation of its Compliance Safety Accountability test program confirms that it substantially improves enforcement and compliance.

The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute’s findings confirm the CSA test model enables the agency and its state partners to contact more carriers earlier to correct safety problems and ensure compliance with regulations to reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities. However, FMCSA says the evaluator also identified areas that require improvement.

Launched in 2008, the CSA test program divided carriers from four test states between test and control groups. FMCSA later added states to the test.

FMCSA reported these results:

• SMS is an improvement over the SafeStat system in identifying unsafe carriers.

• Crash rates were higher for motor carriers identified with safety problems in the SMS’ seven Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories than for motor carriers that were not identified with safety problems in the BASICs.

• The crash rate for motor carriers that were identified with safety problems by the SMS in the Unsafe Driving BASIC was more than three times greater than the crash rate for motor carriers not identified with any safety problems by SMS.

— Staff reports

Study: Satisfaction with engine quality improves

Owners of new heavy-duty truck engines are more satisfied this year than last year, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2011 U.S. Heavy-Duty Truck Engine and Transmission Study.

The study finds that 42 percent of owners of one model-year-old, heavy-duty truck engines report experiencing some type of engine-related problem, down from 46 percent last year. This compares with the historically low average in 2004, when 26 percent of owners of truck engines that were two model-years old reported experiencing a problem. This low problem incidence level occurred prior to two rounds of major technology changes to comply with emissions standards that took effect in 2007 and 2010.

The most-commonly reported engine problems concern the exhaust gas recirculation valve (cited by 23 percent of owners) and electronic control module calibration (21 percent).

Also in 2011, engine problems have decreased to an average of 66 problems per 100 vehicles from 72 in 2010.

Navistar’s International MaxxForce engines rank highest in customer satisfaction and perform particularly well in four of eight factors: engine reliability and dependability, engine warranty, vibration at idle and average fuel economy. The other factors are acceleration when fully loaded; electronic control module; accessibility to components for service or maintenance; and maintaining speeds on grades.

— Staff reports

Hazmat tracking changes suggested

The National Transportation Safety Board, in a Sept. 2 letter to Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, recommended steps for the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration to take to gain a more accurate accounting of the distribution of hazardous materials hauled in cargo tanks.

Obtaining a more accurate accounting would enable enhanced safety-data analyses of hazmat haulers and increased safety, the board said.

NTSB recommended requiring all hazmat carriers to annually submit tank types and numbers of owned and leased fleets to the DOT, in addition to data displayed on the specification plates of such tanks.

— Staff reports

New York arrests 51 for CDL fraud

New York police recently arrested 51 CDL holders with two or more licenses under different names after police used facial recognition technology on CDL photos.

The New York Department of Motor Vehicles and other state and federal officials were involved in the investigation of truck and bus drivers who fraudulently obtained multiple driver licenses by using a fake name, according to a statement from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office.

The software resulted in the arrests of 70 other CDL drivers earlier this year. In the past 18 months, New York law enforcement arrested about 800 people for having two or more drivers’ licenses under aliases.

In the most recent round of arrests, police charged each driver with offering a false instrument in the first degree and falsifying business records in the second degree. Those with “excessive” unpaid tickets also received a charge of aggravated unlicensed operation in the second degree.

State driver licensing agencies began using facial recognition software in 2002. In a survey last updated 18 months ago, 16 states used or were installing the technology for driver license applications, according to the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators.

— Jill Dunn

Broker rates top shippers in some U.S. lanes

Trucking companies received the highest truckload rates from freight brokers and other intermediaries in 24 percent of routes in the United States throughout the second quarter, according to a TransCore report.

In April the average difference between spot and contract rates on the higher paying lanes was 19 cents a mile; by June, that figure had risen to 24 cents.

The report is the first of a series showing the dynamics of the spot market and the influences of seasonal and regional demand on truckload and less-than-truckload pricing. The data is based on $5 billion of invoices updated daily for vans, reefers and flatbeds across the U.S. and Canada.

— Staff reports

Swift lawsuit can move forward

A class action suit against Swift Transportation over mileage pay is expected to proceed after the Arizona Supreme Court denied the truckload carrier’s petition for review.

On Aug. 31, the higher court declined to review a trial court’s decision to certify a broad class action. Last November, a Maricopa County trial court entered an order certifying a class of owner-operators and expanded the class to include employee drivers.

The truckers allege the Arizona-based company insufficiently paid drivers for miles driven, using a database that shorts drivers a significant percentage of mileage. The class action potentially could affect anyone who drove for Swift from 1998 to the present.

Swift did not respond to a request for comment on the case, which has endured eight years of legal wrangling. However, it stated in an Aug. 9 Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it believes the class is improperly certified and “that the claims raised have no merit or are subject to mandatory arbitration.”

The plaintiffs’ Washington, D.C.-based law firm, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, has said Swift breached contract and the implied covenant of good faith because of its alleged failure to pay for all miles driven.

— Jill Dunn

Alcohol problem leads to lawsuit

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a discrimination suit against Old Dominion Freight Line over its alleged policy of banning recovering alcoholics from driving.

EEOC charged the general goods hauler violated Americans with Disabilities Act compliance after it fired a trucker who reported he had abused alcohol.

The ADA recognizes alcoholism as a disability. The U.S. Department of Transportation allows workers who report themselves for alcohol abuse to return to driving.

The carrier had not responded to the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas in mid-September. Bill Canfill, Old Dominion assistant general counsel, said the carrier would vigorously defend itself.

The driver worked for Old Dominion for five years without incident until late June 2009, when he told his supervisor he had an alcohol problem and was suspended.

He started meeting with Alcoholics Anonymous June 29. He met July 1 with a DOT-certified counselor, who said the driver would have out-patient treatment and could return to work.

That day, supervisors told him he probably couldn’t return. The commission stated earlier that year that other Old Dominion “banned” drivers who reported substance abuse were fired.

The employer had allegedly told him he could become a part-time dock worker but without benefits.

The driver is said to have believed he would have to pay for private out-patient treatment, for which he would be reimbursed only if insurance approved the care. He told his supervisor he could afford only group treatment and was attending it.

Old Dominion says it fired him for job abandonment July 24.

EEOC sued to reinstate the driver’s job, back pay, compensatory and punitive damages and lost benefit compensation, and an injunction against Old Dominion against future non-ADA compliance.

— Jill Dunn

DOT warns about marketing tactics

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued an alert about companies using aggressive tactics to sell training or products or falsely claiming an association with the agency.

In recent weeks, the FMCSA has received numerous inquiries from carriers about pushy attempts to sell products such as log books. The agency does not sell or endorse companies marketing products. It also does not certify trainers or training companies and does not pre-approve curriculum.

When applying for operating authority, some employer information is made available on the FMCSA public website, which businesses may use to try to market to employers.

The agency wants carriers that receive advertisements improperly claiming an association with the U.S. Department of Transportation or the FMCSA to contact investigator Tom Frazier at (540) 504-6436.

Carriers should also call Frazier if a business attempts to obtain banking or credit card information from truckers, if not related to a purchase.

— Jill Dunn

MORE THAN 50 PERCENT of vehicle out-of-service violations cited during roadside inspections were for brake-related violations, according to Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance Roadcheck 2011 program, held during September.

THREE TRAVEL PLAZAS on the Pennsylvania Turnpike are closed for repairs for about nine months: the Plainfield travel plaza, at mile post 291; Blue Mountain travel plaza, at mile post 202; and South Somerset travel plaza. The travel stops are scheduled to reopen in May.

TRUCKING PAYROLL employment dipped by 900 jobs in August, though compared with August 2010, trucking employment is up by 40,000, or 3.2 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.

CLASS 8 total net orders in August for all major North American truck makers were projected at 20,513, an 11 percent increase over July, FTR Associates said. ACT Research Co. projected the August rate at 20,800 units. Despite the improvement, the numbers reflect a level not seen since October. Annualized Class 8 orders for the six months ending in August stood at 299,600 units, sharply higher than a year earlier.

Virginia progresses toward tolling I-95

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell Sept. 19 said the Federal Highway Administration has granted the state preliminary approval to toll I-95 under a pilot program if it meets certain conditions.

The state estimates it could generate $250 million over the first five years of the toll program and over $50 million annually afterward.

The state would use toll revenues to finance capacity expansion and operational and safety improvements. Examples of potential projects include widening I-95 between I-295 and the North Carolina border, enhancing Intelligent Transportation Systems and installing over-height detectors on bridges, the Virginia Department of Transportation said.

Virginia will be one of only three states in the Interstate Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Pilot Program with authority to toll Interstate facilities after it completes studies and meets other statutory requirements, the state said.

As part of this approval, the state dropped preliminary plans to toll I-81, a statement said.

— Staff reports

President signs highway funding extension

President Obama Sept. 16 signed legislation that extends taxes funding federal highway spending through March and the Federal Aviation Administration through January.

The Surface and Air Transportation Programs Extension Act of 2011 (H.R. 2887) resulted from an agreement between House and Senate leaders and was seen as a high priority because both federal highway and FAA funding was due to expire.

The American Trucking Associations said that while a jobs proposal announced by Obama in September could boost employment temporarily, it is no replacement for passing long-overdue multiyear transportation legislation.

ATA President Bill Graves said that while the $27.5 billion in Obama’s jobs proposal would help the nation’s economy by funding needed repairs and expansion of roads and bridges, it doesn’t solve the real problem.

Graves also said ATA was skeptical of the president’s plans for an infrastructure bank and for using increases in other taxes to pay for roads and bridges and other programs in the jobs bill.

— Staff reports

TRADE USING SURFACE TRANSPORTATION between the United States and Canada and Mexico rose 11 percent in June over a year earlier to $ 77.5 billion, the U.S. Department of Transportation says.

A WEIGHT-LOSS CONTEST aimed at truck drivers and other trucking industry workers is being sponsored by the Truckload Carriers Association, which is partnering with Lindora Clinic. Prizes will be awarded to the fleet and individual achieving the greatest percentages of weight loss. Further information is available at Truckload.org.

NICHOLAS LEWIS, a driver for Swift Transportation, is a Truckload Carriers Association Highway Angel. On July 31, Lewis was driving through a construction zone on I-70 in Lawrence, Kan., when a car attempted to pass him along the shoulder of the highway. When the shoulder ended, the driver swerved in front of Lewis, who steered into a ditch to avoid a collision. Lewis and his truck were OK.

TOLLS HAVE INCREASED and will go higher on bridges and tunnels managed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The toll for E-ZPass customers during peak hours rose from $40 to $50 for a five-axle truck and will increase another $2 an axle each December from 2012 through 2015. Cash customers pay a penalty of $3 per axle. The tolls apply to eastbound crossings. The E-ZPass overnight fee remains at $27.50 and the overnight window is expanded to 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.

CLASS 3-8 used truck sales fell 10 percent in July, due in part to lack of inventory, says ACT Research Co. Total commercial trailer net orders declined 2 percent in July from June.

TRUCKING ACTIVITY as measured by the American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index decreased 1.3 percent in July from June. The July index was 3.9 percent higher than a year earlier, ATA reported.

Carriers can prepare for Health Care Act

Trucking industry preparation for the Affordable (health) Care Act appears similar to the industry view of the Compliance Safety Accountability program in 2008, TrueNorth Companies representatives said Sept. 13.

Some companies took two years to prepare for the enforcement program that was due to begin in late 2010. Some of those who didn’t act found shipper contracts falling away due to bad rankings in the Safety Measurement System.

TrueNorth urged companies to take a proactive approach to the health care changes to avoid being surprised by new requirements and penalties.

Uncertainty remains about the legality of the individual mandate to buy health insurance in 2014. “There are 26 lawsuits in the judicial system right now” challenging the mandate, said TrueNorth Account Manager Bob Mreen. “Ultimately the fate of the mandate will be decided by the Supreme Court.”

Mreen said such a decision may occur during the 2012 national election. “It’s going to be a bellwether issue, depending on the timing of the Supreme Court decision,” he said.

For companies utilizing independent contractors, TrueNorth stressed the need for insurers and carriers to talk with contractors about health insurance developments, such as:

• In effect since the 2010 tax year is a business tax credit available to employers with fewer than 25 full-time employees, exclusive of owners and family members. If the employer, whether a small fleet running under its own authority or leased to a larger carrier, contributes at least 50 percent to its employees’ health insurance premiums, it can deduct a growing percentage of premium costs from its federal income taxes.

• The Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan is in place, offering individuals who’ve been without insurance for six months or more and who’ve been denied insurance due to a pre-existing condition access to a relatively affordable plan. Participation in the plan since its introduction a year ago has been low, TrueNorth said, with only 25,000 individuals enrolled of a total 375,000 projected in the legislation.

— Staff reports

CONNECTICUT. The state will receive $1 million in federal funds to help pay for cleanup and road repairs following Hurricane Irene. The state Department of Transportation says cleanup and repair may cost more than $5 million.

FLORIDA. The Federal Highway Administration awarded $1 million to add 90 truck parking spaces at the recently opened 595 Truck Stop near the junction of Interstate 595 and State Road 7 in south Florida. On-highway cameras will display real time traffic images. The stop will have about 125 paved spaces and 50 to 70 unpaved spaces when the job is finished in 2013.

ILLINOIS. Jan. 1, tollway I-Pass tolls will rise from 40 cents to 75 cents. Cash tolls will increase from 80 cents to $1.50. Tolls will fund a 15-year, $12 billion project for an Elgin to O’Hare airport bypass, an interchange between I-57 and I-294, and reconstruction and widening of I-90.

MARYLAND. I-270 lanes between the Capital Beltway and Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda will be closed into next summer and resurfaced. Northbound I-270 single-lanes will be closed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., Monday through Friday. Double lane closures are set for midnight to 5 a.m. Sunday through Thursday. Similar lane closures are planned for southbound I-270.

NEBRASKA. Pavement repair on I-80 from west of the Aurora I-80 interchange to 5.5 miles east will be done this year. Bridge, milling and asphalt work will start next year and is set for completion in late summer.

NEW HAMPSHIRE. The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded $1 million for repair of roads and bridges, many near White Mountain Forest, damaged by floods from Hurricane Irene.

NEW JERSEY. A project to redeck the Walt Whitman Bridge on I-76 crossing the Delaware River between Philadelphia and New Jersey will close one lane of the bridge through summer 2014. The right-hand eastbound lane will be closed for five months. One-lane closures will follow during the project.

OREGON. The State Department of Transportation and Portland General Electric are building a $10 million solar energy project at the Baldock rest area on I-5 near Wilsonville. About 7,000 solar panels will be erected near the rest area and will generate up to 2 million kilowatt hours yearly.

PENNSYLVANIA. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration awarded $7.9 million to the Commonwealth for projects including enforcement at high-crash corridors and safety audits of new truck and bus companies. The agency also made awards to the Philadelphia Police Department for truck inspections and inspector training.

VERMONT. The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded $5 million for repair of roads and bridges damaged by Hurricane Irene. Damage to Vermont’s federal-aid highways is estimated to exceed $125 million.

VIRGINIA. The state Department of Transportation is partnering with CRH Catering Co. to provide ATMs and maintenance to the state’s 42 rest areas. CRH is required to pay VDOT $2 million a year under the three-year contract.

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Posts Tagged ‘Indian tribes’

August 24 roundup

  • Ingenious tactic to get bad review off search engines: arrange and win a pretend lawsuit in some other state [Paul Alan Levy]
  • Law professor proposes to give out tax breaks based on race. Constitutional problems with that? [Caron/TaxProf]
  • $2,250 for the legal right to thread existing barrels: presidential order expands definition of “manufacturer” under arms treaty, which leaves some gunsmiths nervous [The Truth About Guns]
  • Political corner: Michael Greve reacts to Jonathan Rauch’s Atlantic article, “How Did Our Politics Go Insane?” [Liberty and Law] And for those following my commentary about the Gary Johnson campaign (see earlier), I’ve got a piece at Cato on his rocky relations with conservatives as well as a letter to the editor at the Baltimore Sun;
  • On Naomi Schaefer Riley’s new book, The New Trail of Tears: How Washington Is Destroying American Indians [Carla Main, City Journal; Chris Edwards]
  • But which way would the causation run? Econometric analysis finds “EU membership is positively associated with economic freedom.” [EPI Center] Will Brexit promote freer outcomes in areas like agricultural subsidy, or simply a return to national protection? [Simon Lester, Cato]

Indian Child Welfare Act symposium at Cato Unbound

I’m one of four participants in a symposium at Cato Unbound this month on the Indian Child Welfare Act. Timothy Sandefur (Goldwater Institute) writes the principal paper to which I respond; other responders include Profs. Matthew L. M. Fletcher (Michigan State) and Kristen Carpenter (Colorado). Earlier coverage of the Indian Child Welfare Act here. Excerpt from my contribution:

Someday we might want to design a legal regime that minimizes state intrusion into families, limits the discretion of faraway bureaucrats, and empowers parents by clarifying their rights. But ICWA sure isn’t it. It’s a power play that’s meant to serve the interests of one governmental actor on the scene, the tribe. It regards children and parents as tribal resources to be conscripted, and it designates a vastly overbroad group of children to grab as “Indian children,” the better to maximize resource intake.

Constitutional law roundup

  • Ilya Shapiro on round II of Fisher v. University of Texas, the racial preferences case [Pope Center]
  • “Supreme Court Endorses Tribal Courts; Bad News For Corporate Defendants?” [Daniel Fisher on Sixth Amendment case U.S. v. Bryant]
  • “Is The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Unconstitutional?” [Susan Dudley]
  • “Dueling perspectives on Lochner v. United States” [Andrew Hamm, SCOTUSBlog on Paul Kens vs. Randy Barnett debate, earlier]
  • First Amendment and commercial speech: “Crazy Law Allows ‘Discounts’ for Cash but Not ‘Surcharges’ for Credit” [Ilya Shapiro on Expressions Hair Design case]
  • Who ‘ya gonna call if you need a Third Amendment lawyer? [humor]

May 12 roundup

April 6 roundup

  • Do lawyers find ways to litigate over the effects of the leap day, Feb. 29, that is inserted into the calendar every four years? Glad you asked [Kyle White, Abnormal Use]
  • Weren’t regulations supposed to have fixed this, or is it that accommodation rules for air transport are legally separate from those for ordinary commerce? “More flights seeing odd animals as emotional support companions” [WHIO]
  • Tiny desk and art magnets: Zen Magnets wins partial but important legal victory against Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) [Zen Magnets, Nancy Nord, earlier]
  • Federal government, which has passed no law on private-sector LGBT bias, considers withholding funds to punish North Carolina for declining to have one [New York Times; earlier on Obama EEOC’s wishful effort to generate such coverage through reinterpretation of other law]
  • Spirit of trade barriers: Nevada workers walk off job to protest use of workers from other U.S. states [Alex Tabarrok] Expansion of foreign trade “has revealed, not created, problems in the American economy” [Scott Lincicome] More: “Limiting trade with low-wage countries as severely as Sanders wants to would hurt the very poorest people on Earth. A lot.” [Zack Beauchamp, Vox; related Jordan Weissmann, Slate (what Sanders told NYDN “should be absolutely chilling to the developing world… inhumane”)]
  • Latest ICWA (Indian Child Welfare Act) cause célèbre is over 6-year-old Lexi, whose world is getting upended because of her 1.5% Choctaw descent (a great-great-great-great grandparent on her father’s side) [Christina Sandefur/Federalist Society blog, Naomi Schaefer Riley, New York Post earlier generally on ICWA and in my writing at Reason and Cato on the Adoptive Couple case]

March 23 roundup

  • Never know who’ll benefit: supersedeas appeal bond limits, sought by tort reformers, may now save Gawker from ruin [WLF, earlier] Plus a Florida appellate court ruling on newsworthiness, and other reasons the scurrilous media outlet is hoping for better luck on appeal if it can get past the bond hurdle [Politico New York]
  • Governance in Indian country: Native American lawyer Gabe Galanda disbarred by Nooksack tribe while fighting disenrollment of some of its members [Seattle Times, followup (tribal judge rules due process was lacking, but in so doing, as employee serving at tribe’s pleasure, “potentially left herself open to being fired”)]
  • Revenge of the broken-winged pterodactyl: Maryland Democrats accuse each other of complicity in gerrymander in fight for Van Hollen’s House seat [me at Free State Notes]
  • Oh, DoJ: “enforced donation to ‘public service’ organizations that just happen to support the ruling party’s goals” [Jeb Kinnison citing this post of ours on mortgage settlements]
  • “Trump’s long trail of litigation” [Brody Mullins and Jim Oberman, WSJ; our earlier here, here, here, etc.]
  • Lansing prosecutor, an “outspoken advocate for ending human trafficking and prostitution,” now facing charges of go ahead and guess [WILX; our Eliot Spitzer coverage]

Supreme Court and constitutional law roundup

  • Constitutional right to teach children in a foreign language: the story of Meyer v. Nebraska, 1922 [Dave Kopel]
  • Court to address Indian law issues in three cases this term: right of counsel in tribal courts, conditions of removal from tribal to federal courts, tax authority on former tribal land [Daniel Fisher]
  • As constitutional conservatives go, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are at odds on Lochner. Why that’s important [Roger Pilon]
  • 2013 Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Shell decision hasn’t killed off Alien Tort cases, especially not in Ninth Circuit [Julian Ku/Opinio Juris on rejection of certiorari in Doe v. Nestle, background John Bellinger/Lawfare]
  • Textbook-resale case from 2013 term, Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, is coming back for a ruling on fee award standards in copyright cases [ArsTechnica]
  • High court will review federal court’s jurisdiction to resuscitate denied class certification [Microsoft v. Baker, Ninth Circuit ruling; Fisher]
  • “Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh: If You Don’t Want To Be Tracked, Turn Off Your Phone” [Motherboard/Vice on stingray surveillance]

George Will on the Indian Child Welfare Act

“Identity politics can leave a trail of broken bodies and broken hearts… [ICWA treats] children, however attenuated or imaginary their Indian ancestry, as little trophies for tribal power.” George Will (alternate link) on a law I’ve also written about, the Indian Child Welfare Act:

The act empowers tribes to abort adoption proceedings, or even take children from foster homes, solely because the children have even a minuscule quantum of American Indian blood. Although, remember, this act is supposedly not about race….

In final adoption hearings in Arizona, a judge asks, “Does this child contain any Native American blood?” It is revolting that judicial proceedings in the United States can turn on questions about group rights deriving from “blood.”… This is discordant with the inherent individualism of the nation’s foundational natural rights tradition, which is incompatible with the ICWA. It should be overturned or revised before more bodies and hearts are broken.