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[November 06, 2012]  NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -- Cyprus' government on Monday dismissed a German media report that claims a financial bailout for the island nation would primarily benefit Russians who have stashed billions in ill-gotten gains in its banks.

Government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou rejected the article by German news magazine Der Spiegel, which cited the conclusions of a classified German intelligence service paper, as an attempt to sully the country's reputation as an international investment center.

Stefanou said Cyprus has enacted effective anti-money laundering laws that adhere to European Union law and which have earned plaudits from, among others, the International Monetary Fund.

The Spiegel article said that Germany's foreign intelligence agency (BND) estimates Russian deposits in Cypriot banks amount to over euro20 billion ($25.55 billion), more than Cyprus' euro18 billion in national GDP. The BND also accused Cyprus of facilitating money laundering by making it easy for Russians to obtain citizenship.

Stefanou said Russians prefer to deposit money in Cyprus mainly because of advantages offered by its banking system. For example, Cyprus has a treaty with Russia that avoids double taxation on investments and its corporate tax rate is 10 percent, one of the lowest in the EU.

Asked to comment on the Spiegel article, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said that the government on principle never discusses intelligence matters.

Cyprus is still negotiating its potential bailout with the so-called troika -- the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF.

"The discussion is currently moving forward with moderate speed," German Finance Ministry spokesman Martin Kotthaus said. He insisted that having a Cypriot bailout agreement before the end of the year "will be difficult."

Stefanou said Cyprus is now waiting for word on when the troika officials will visit the country for a final round of bailout negotiations.

Finance Minister Vassos Shiarly said the government has nearly met a troika demand to cut spending and raise revenue by euro975 million over the next three years and that only a few issues remain to be ironed out. They include privatizing profitable, state-owned companies and supervision over the country's cooperative banks.

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The main point of contention between Cypriot and troika officials is how much Cypriot banks need to recover from euro4.5 billion in losses they took on Greek government debt and bad loans.

Parliamentary Speaker Yianniakis Omirou said that the troika estimates the needs of the Cypriot banking sector -- which holds assets eight times the size of the country's economy -- to hover at around euro12 billion ($15.57 billion), twice as much as Cypriot officials believe. That's on top of the approximately euro4.5 billion the country needs to service its debt and pay its bills until 2016.

Cyprus has been unable to borrow from international markets for more than a year. A Cypriot request for a euro5 billion ($6.39 billion) loan from Russia -- twice the amount Moscow gave Cyprus as a rescue loan last year -- has so far gone unanswered.

The exact sum Cypriot banks will need won't be known before early next year when investment firm PIMCO and auditors Deloitte finish combing through the lenders' books. Shiarly said not having an exact figure won't keep the government from getting a bailout deal swiftly.

Although Shiarly said the government has enough cash on hand to pay public sector salaries for the next couple of months, state coffers are drying up fast. Moreover, prolonging the uncertainty over a bailout deal will tighten the noose around ailing domestic businesses and further drain confidence in the economy. That would be bad news for a country where unemployment has ballooned to 13 percent and the economy is projected to contract by some 2 percent this year.

Juergen Baetz in Berlin contributed to this story.

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Review: Great Xbox One game streaming, decent DVR functions, and garbage games store.

[Update, 8/13: Turns out some enterprising tweakers found a "very high" quality setting hidden deep in the Xbox app, which we proceeded to try out ourselves. Simply put, the setting makes a world of difference. It reduces artifacting and gets us very close to a 1:1 replica of the direct Xbox One signal, so long as users have either a very powerful WiFi router (which we used) or a direct ethernet connection. Also, that setting doesn't eliminate any of the occasional stutters we'd previously encountered. But should your setup be compatible, you'll want to make the tweak and enjoy the benefits post-haste.]

Original story: Throughout the 8-ification of Windows, Microsoft clearly failed to endear its OS to PC gamers. Above all else, Window 8's root-level Windows Store, and its unclear messaging on how it would coexist with other gaming software, was so bad that it lit a fire under Gabe Newell's ass to create an entirely new, competing OS built off of Steam.

It has been a long time since Microsoft was seen as an all-out winner in the "keep PC gamers happy" department. Sure, DirectX laid down the groundwork for the headache-free, high-end gaming we've enjoyed for over a decade—when's the last time you had to adjust IRQ and DMA settings for your sound card, for instance? But those are some long laurels to pin your reputation to at this point. Today, Microsoft is better known to PC gamers for Games For Windows, the Windows Store, and 2012's unclear Xbox Games On Windows initiative. What have you done for PC gamers lately, Microsoft?

Windows 10 brings two major initiatives intended to turn things around on this score. The first is DirectX 12, whose performance boosts, processor multi-threading optimizations, and Windows 10 exclusivity will be scrutinized in another article on Ars very soon. The second, which this article will focus on, is deeper Xbox integration than any Windows before it, by way of a major app and new features that connect console and PC players on the online gaming service. Because Microsoft has confused people in the past about Xbox features on computers, we have spent a little over a week fiddling around with the RTM version of Windows 10 to answer every Xbox-specific question you might have.

The Xbox app

Every retail version of Windows 10 includes a pre-installed Xbox app, and so long as you have a Microsoft account—the free one you've probably used to access other Microsoft services—you can become a free Xbox Live "silver" member and use every basic feature within the app. You'd better be online, however, as both the app's online and offline features require an Internet connection to function.

If you create a brand-new Xbox profile through the app, the service will automatically generate a new Xbox Live "gamertag"—your nickname seen in every single Xbox Live online game—with randomly chosen words and numbers, which we found puzzling. Changing that autogenerated name requires a dive through a few unclear menus, making this a brusque introduction to the world of Xbox for newbies—especially if they don't realize they have only 30 days to change the name for free.

[Update: Since a reader asked, we'd like to clarify that you can use a totally separate Microsoft/Xbox account within the Xbox app than whatever you used to log into Windows itself.]

Once you've logged in with an Xbox account, the app, like other Xbox SmartGlass apps before it, includes a number of rudimentary features that gamers can use to keep up with standard Xbox Live features: namely, profile editing, messages, achievement lists, and friends' recent activity. There's also a OneGuide tab which functions just like its SmartGlass counterpart, meaning TV watchers can flip through listings on their smaller Windows 10 screen while watching programming on their bigger Xbox One screen (provided their Xbox One is connected to an antenna or cable box, that is).

Weirdly, the Xbox app does not natively support customizing the service's "avatar" characters; instead, interested gamers are directed to the Windows Store to download a separate, free Xbox Avatars app. That app offers most of the same clothing and facial options that the Xbox 360 and Xbox One apps already deliver, but should users want to add any new avatar fashions, they'll be directed to a Web-based store full of free and paid options. That requires signing into your Windows account once more, and worse, it won't let users download free avatar items without entering credit card information (which is very much not the case on any Xbox console). Not a good sign...

We'll talk at length about the Xbox app's two biggest features, Game DVR and Connect, later in this article, which leaves two other tabs. One of those, the Store tab, is pretty puzzling, because it links to an external web browser store loaded almost entirely with smartphone-minded games. Asphalt 8, Crossy Road, Sonic Dash, Jetpack Joyride: It's a wasteland of Windows mobile software, as opposed to a bustling, Steam-like service.

The other tab, "My Games," will pop up for new Windows 10 users with nothing more than the years-old Microsoft Solitaire Collection on its list. (You'd be forgiven for having missed its Windows 8 debut, which Kyle Orland slogged through in 2012; what was once an optional Windows Store download now comes on every version of Windows 10, complete with miserable, subscription-based microtransactions.) We'll probably have to wait for the retail launch of games such as Fable Legends—which will eventually launch on PC and Xbox One simultaneously and enjoy cross-platform multiplayer—to see substantial changes to the Xbox "store" option in Windows 10.

Thankfully, that tab has a prominent "Add a game from your PC" option, but clicking that will load a list of nearly every .EXE file on your PC—with the glaring exception of any games in your Steam library. Worse, there's no search or browse button, so players can't tell the Xbox app to hunt for those Steam games' files, or any other potentially missing games. At the very least, the My Games tab finds and includes games with gateways such as EA's Origin and Blizzard's Battle.net, and loading such games through the Xbox app will bring up their respective gateway apps en route to loading the games themselves. But if you were hoping for a one-stop interface for all of your favorite games, the current Xbox app isn't it. We can only hope a "browse" button comes to the My Games tab to let us find our games ourselves.

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How about some good Xbox on Windows 10 news? We are happy to report that the coolest feature, Xbox One streaming to Windows 10 PCs, worked quite well in our own tests. It's advertised as a way for gamers to take their Windows 10 devices around the house and still access Xbox One content. Is Dad hogging the TV? Take a laptop to the bedroom, sign into the same Wi-Fi network as your Xbox One console, and you can still shoot aliens in the face.

The option required a surprisingly minimal amount of setup. We already had an Xbox One that was signed up for the console's "preview" dashboard program, meaning it was already compatible with Windows 10 streaming. As long as both our Windows 10 device and console were connected to the same wired or wireless router, the Windows 10 Xbox app could find the console instantly. Once that happened, we told our Xbox One to stream to our Windows 10 PC, at which point we saw a fullscreen stream of whatever had been on our Xbox One system.

The major catch was that we couldn't control any Xbox One content on the PC if we didn't have a controller connected, either to the Xbox One console (assuming we were in wired or wireless range of that console) or to our computer. Microsoft has not ushered in a new era of mouse-and-keyboard control in its console games, sadly, but it did make one very, very welcome concession: you can actually, finally use an Xbox 360 controller on Xbox One. So long as your X360 pad has a way to connect to a PC, and the console is streaming via the Windows 10 Xbox app, the older pad will enjoy nearly perfect compatibility (only rumble support is missing). Considering how many 360 pads we have lying around, this is a great way to get those pads back into action, especially for insane, eight-player couch competitions like IDARB.

The app has three unclear quality settings—low, medium, and high—and we managed to run the app at the high setting with minimal stutters on both a wired connection and a wireless, 5GHz connection. To keep the stutters at bay at a wireless 2.4GHz setting, we ticked down to the medium setting. But so long as we were playing offline games, lag and unresponsive controls were absolutely tolerable.

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At the Tech Policy Summit in Los Angeles, MPAA CTO Jim Williams called on ISPs to install filters in their pipes, arguing that it was in their own best interest. Furthermore, Williams said that ISPs ought to start filtering content not just to please the movie studios, but for their own bottom lines. Filtering will "unclog the Internet," Williams said, and eliminate "a bunch of freeriders that are hogging bandwidth."

Williams' comments came in the wake of comments from Verizon CTO Richard Lynch, who admitted that the ISP does use a blacklist to stop access to child porn sites. Williams seized on that point. If Verizon truly isn't willing to police the Internet, why will it blacklist certain sites? Copyright concerns and child porn aren't quite on the same level, but Verizon's willingness to control access to certain kinds of content predictably leads others with content concerns to demand a similar sort of treatment.

We know this issue is on the minds of copyright owners (see our lengthy chat with NBC Universal's Rick Cotton, for instance), but Williams' remarks illustrate just how high a priority ISP filtering is to the movie business. When asked how he would rewrite the DMCA if he could go back in time and do so, Williams had no hesitation: he would "like to see some sort of encouragement to ISPs to do something about mass, indiscriminate reproduction of copyrighted works."

Williams stressed that he's not against P2P. The studios love P2P as a technology because of what it could mean for them: a cost-effective method of selling high-def content to consumers without the need to pay for huge bandwidth bills and server farms. But he does argue that "much of the Internet is being clogged up with stolen goods" and "you find that almost all P2P traffic goes away if you turn on copyright filters."

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After his talk, I asked Williams about issues involved in filtering P2P content, especially with encrypted content. He noted that it was still possible, though because the data is encrypted, the filtering software needs to do extra work (such as joining a BitTorrent swarm in order to gain access to the encryption keys) rather than being able to peer directly at the traffic passing over the wire. Williams did admit, though, that it was a "cat-and-mouse" game, one that might spawn a P2P arms race but that could still put a dent in piracy, especially of the casual kind.

For a hint of how this might play out, we need only consider Canada, where several of the major ISPs throttle P2P traffic. Ashwin Navin, BitTorrent's president, told me that his company has ways to bypass such restrictions but that it's a constant game of tweaking. As BitTorrent makes changes, the ISPs respond, leading BitTorrent to make more changes. We've also seen Vuze in the US adopt encryption of its legitimate P2P downloads in part as a way of avoiding Comcast's upload throttling. Widespread ISP filtering would certainly lead to similar see-saw battles.

Verizon wants no part of such battles, as Lynch reiterated that the ISP remains committed to an open Internet. In addition to throwing open Verizon Wireless' data network to more devices and applications, Lynch stressed yesterday that Verizon has no interest in being a content "policeman."

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Jim Davis, the CIO of UCLA, said that based on what was happening on his campus, the best approach seemed to be a combination of education, personal responsibility, and action against repeat offenders. The school takes its mission to educate its students seriously and it wants to create ethical adults who act out of their own sense of what's right. To that end, UCLA educates incoming students about what is and is not appropriate but has no interest in technological filters running somewhere in its network. It also targets repeat offenders with increasing sanctions.

YouTube's chief counsel, Zahavah Levine, also stressed the need for digital media education. While YouTube does employ audio and video filtering systems, these can flag copyrighted content but can't help educate users about proper behavior. This leads to "a lot of nasty e-mails from users" when content is taken down, she said. Some users think that because they bought a CD or DVD, they have the right to upload parts of it to YouTube; others think that the footage they took on a cell phone camera at a concert is theirs to do with as they please and that they can upload band performances.

Good ideas, all of them, but calls for "education" are unlikely to be enough for content owners, who see a clear and present danger. Education, whatever its merits, takes time.

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Immigrant tuition petition drive is all about bigotry

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Regarding the petition drive to suspend the law granting in-state tuition to illegal immigrants: At least the immigrants are trying to better themselves by getting an education that will lead to jobs so they can become self-supporting members of society. The reason people are signing the petition has nothing at all to do with money. It's about bigotry.

It's not as if the immigrants will be getting free tuition, after all. They will pay in-state fees.

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September 25, 1985|By Stephen Chapman.

Any event that includes a singing appearance by George Jones can`t be all bad. Nor will anyone object to raising money to provide unfortunate farmers with legal advice or job counseling. But Sunday`s Farm Aid concert didn`t stop there. It also featured an endless stream of witless philosophizing by uninformed entertainers, who revealed little about the reality of American farming and much about popular mythology.

The 15-hour wallow in sentiment is the sort of thing we expect from Jerry Lewis telethons, but it represents a new approach to economic problems. Nobody in Champaign seemed to think it odd to treat a entire industry--``our most important industry,`` several speakers insisted--as a giant charity case, to be cured with large injections of altruism.

Actually, this approach has something to recommend it, voluntariness, that government programs don`t. You think farmers ought to be subsidized? Fine --you send them money. It`s too bad Lee Iaccocca got a federal bailout instead of a benefit fundraiser. Given the quality of American automaking, it could have been called Lemon Aid.

Most of the performers who ventured opinions about the farm problem knew a lot of things that ain`t so. Concert organizer Willie Nelson, part of the influx of aliens who have made my native city of Austin, Tex., nearly unfit for habitation, cited the loss of 95,000 farms in the last three years and insisted, ``We can`t survive if we keep losing farms at the present rate!``

In fact, the nation has done just fine for the past 35 years despite--in fact, partly because of--losing an average of nearly 95,000 farms every year. The exodus from the farm is slower now than it was during the 1950s, which farmers depict as the golden era.

Nor is there anything unhealthy in the trend. In a society with constantly improving standards, the demand for food is relatively stable, while the demand for other goods rises with income. That, combined with increasing farm productivity, means fewer people are needed to grow wheat, while more are needed to erect buildings, treat medical ailments, drive trucks and program computers.

Most of the other opinions were even less illuminating. Carole King lamented the ``corporate industrialization of our soil and water,`` doubtless unaware that corporations own a bare three percent of all U.S. farms. Neil Young, before his appearance, had a letter read endorsing Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin`s extravagant farm bill. Judging from his letter and songs, Young`s real preference is to hang all the bankers.

A Charley Pride song proposed the novel idea that ``if we can send a man up to the moon, we can keep a man down on the farm.`` One difference is that there aren`t 6 million people clamoring to visit the moon. John Fogarty startled urbanites when he disclosed that their meals don`t originate ``in a cellophane bag.``

Sissy Spacek portrayed farmers as ``victims of their own generosity`` who labor selflessly ``to feed strangers in distant cities and foreign lands.``

She didn`t mention the thousands who labor to fill government warehouses. Speaking as one who also labors for the benefit of strangers in distant cities, I always figured farmers did it to make a living, not from altruism.

In trying to dramatize a real problem--the excessive indebtedness of some American farmers--the entertainers employed all the stock myths, from the vanishing family farm to the looming specter of agribusiness conglomerates. They refused to consider the possibility that federal programs aggravate rather than ease farmers` woes. They also minimized the higher food costs consumers would pay under Sen. Harkin`s measure, which would amount to nearly $10 billion a year just for wheat and corn products.

When entertainers get the idea that their mere fame qualifies them to make pronouncements public policy, they usually make a mess of things. As a guide to understanding the economics of agriculture, Farm Aid made good music.


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2 Iraqis Guilty In Arson Scheme

December 22, 1985

Two Iraqi nationals who are resident aliens in the U.S. have been convicted of charges that they plotted an arson-for-profit scheme to burn two businesses they operated in Chicago. Found guilty Friday of conspiracy and other charges were Badie Abdulahad, 40, of 6036 N. Hermitage Ave., and Gabriel Gabriel, 36, of 1835 Foster Ave. U.S. District Judge Ann Williams ordered the two men to begin serving their sentences immediately. Assistant U.S. Atty. James Conway presented evidence showing that Gabriel, owner of Gabriel Grocery, 3037 W. Lawrence Ave., and Abdulahad, operator of the Golden Chicken Restaurant, 5418 N. Clark St., conspired unwittingly with two undercover agents to arrange to have the two establishments burned last summer.


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Lombard Sewer Issue Gets Epa Deadline

March 04, 1986|By Neil H. Mehler.

Lombard has until March 12 to clear up questions about its sewer system raised by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

The controversy stems from complaints of serious sewer problems from unnamed Lombard residents to the state agency despite the $60 million in local, state and federal funds that has gone to solve the problems in recent years.

Village Manager William Lichter declined to comment until Lombard had prepared its response. The 10-working-day deadline was set after a meeting in the Maywood EPA office Wednesday.

But Lichter said Lombard is no different from other communities in that ``any sewer system has a certain amount of problems.``

``You fund for them and you make repairs,`` he said.

Theodore Denning, manager of the Chicago region of the EPA`s division of water pollution control, instigated the investigation after receiving complaints, he said.

He said he and Lombard officials ``had a long discussion`` last week during which they were asked about ``complaints the agency received on overflows in various areas and information on what they plan to do with the West Road sewer and problems there.``

In a Jan. 28 letter to the village, Denning noted that Lombard planned to replace part of a sanitary sewer there between North Avenue and Pleasant Lane. He added, ``However, as-built drawings submitted to this agency by the Village of Lombard`s consultant show that substantially this same reach of sewer recently was pressure-tested and grouted utilizing construction grant funds. . . .``

He asked, ``Does the village have reason to believe that the sewer rehabilitation work was not properly completed?``

Denning, answering a reporter`s inquiry, said the agency does not ``at this time`` suspect that money was improperly spent by the village on the West Road sewer. He also said it was ``standard operating procedure`` and

``routine`` for his agency to meet with municipalities on complaints.

Richard Doherty, Lombard public works director, said the replacement of the West Road sewer section ``has nothing to do with the problem.``

``We have shown the EPA that the sewer is hydraulically overloaded and would continue to be,`` he said. ``The size will have to be increased for future development, and that is why we put the project into the capital improvement program two years ago.``

Doherty said of the complaints received by the EPA, ``I`d rather not say whether they`re valid. Situations could or could not have occurred on the dates indicated. We are trying to determine if they are still valid, considering the work that has since been done.``


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The Recent Tragedy Of Errors In Our Central American Policy

August 19, 1987|By William Safire, (copyright) 1987, New York Times News Service.

WASHINGTON — After a couple of years trying to run foreign policy without Congress, the Reagan administration then swung to the other extreme: It sought to wheedle continued aid to the contras by abdicating foreign policy leadership to the speaker of the House.

That, too, was folly. Nobody will go to jail for the latest collapse of the Reagan will; no public hearings will expose the blundering that led to the unconscionable sellout of our national interest in preventing further communist penetration of this hemisphere. No venality or corrupt secrecy this time; only the defeatism and confusion among the Caretaking Corps.

Howard Baker, the former Senate majority leader who took over as White House chief of staff, counted noses and found that contra aid was 35 votes short in the House and a couple short in the Senate. He decided that the President did not have the stamina or public support to make a fight on principle. So the amiable Tennessean sent a Texas emissary to Speaker Jim Wright, in effect offering to make him secretary of state in matters Central American.

Wright drove a hard bargain with the Baker White House. No extension of contra aid during the 60 days in which a cease-fire would be sought. No role for the contra leaders in determining their own fate; let them complain through the Red Cross. And not a peep out of the anti-Sandinistas in the United States--not one privately financed television ad, not one Reagan remark that would in any way irritate Managua--an unprecedented gag rule on the executive branch, perhaps in congressional retribution for the undue secrecy practiced in the Regan-Poindexter White House.

But Wright`s peace plan had one saving grace. In conjunction with a cease-fire and an end of military aid to the resistance, the Nicaraguan communist government would have to commit to some of the elements of democracy it promised when it took over in 1979. Although the Reagan cave-in treated the contras as badly as Nixon treated the Kurds, at least it did not adopt the let`s-not-meddle-inter nally theory of negotiator Philip Habib.

While the White House was concentrating on negotiations with Congress, Howard Baker gave little consideration to the effect of a drastic weakening of Reagan`s support for the contras on the Central American presidents about to meet in Guatemala with Daniel Ortega, the Nicaraguan dictator. Our State Department sent up no urgent red flags that a surprise Reagan compromise might trigger a major appeasement move.

That was why Baker (focused on making a political deal on Capitol Hill)

and President Reagan (preparing an Iran-contra speech to avoid the rigor of a news conference) were blindsided by the sudden adoption of the Arias plan in Guatemala. That was not in their scenario.

Improvising in what it had inadvertently made a dangerous situation, the White House did not knock down speculation that its deal with Wright had been designed to push the Central American presidents into action. The stunned Baker-Shultz crowd ``welcomed`` the unwelcome development, and took undeserved pats on the back for anticipating the reaction in Guatemala they did not expect and therefore speeding the ``peace process.``

Then Speaker Wright wilted under the heat from Democratic doves for having dared to suggest that withdrawal of contra aid be linked to political freedom within Nicaragua. Wright removed the sole element of backbone in the deal he worked out with Baker by hastily announcing ``it`s the Guatemala plan that has to prevail.``

Baker`s folly of a pre-emptive compromise with Congress thus failed spectacularly. The surrender in Guatemala calls for a cutoff of U.S. contra aid now, but guarantees that dictator Ortega remains in power through 1990;

the Sandinistas will continue to get arms from Moscow, during which time the resistance we abandoned will be ruthlessly crushed.

At that point, the Managua-sustained subversion of El Salvador will be renewed, but no Nicaraguans would be crazy enough to trust us in applying pressure to the Sandinistas` expansionist regime. Reagan will then be chopping wood in Santa Barbara; no wonder so many candidates are dissociating themselves from the policy likely to bedevil the next president.

Belatedly, Cap Weinberger and Frank (I was absent) Carlucci explained the extent of our perfidy to Reagan, who then told State to restrain envoy Philip Habib from administering the coup de grace to the contras; that was why Habib quit in a huff.

What a tragedy of errors. As the saying goes, none of this would have happened if Ronald Reagan were alive.


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Maintain renewable fuel standards

October 01, 2013

The Tribune’s recent stories on new fueling stations for electric cars points to another popular option at the pump: ethanol fuel, which has grown thanks to the Renewable Fuel Standards. The RFS has decreased greenhouse gases, reduced our dependence on foreign oil and helped family farmers like me.

But now, Big Oil and some members of Congress want to roll back the measure, which would have disastrous consequences on not just our environment, but on family-owned farms and local economies.

As family farmers for more than 40 years, we have had our share of ups and downs. The RFS gave farmers like us a new market for our corn, helped bring corn prices up to fair, competitive values and boosted farm values across the Midwest, including in Illinois.  By extension, the RFS has also boosted local economies — from the shops in towns, to the major farm equipment manufacturers, to the small agriculture businesses.  Our children now want to come back to the farm and continue our business.

In addition, the RFS boom has helped my hog production. I am now buying about 20 percent of my feed directly from the local ethanol plants, giving my hogs a healthier, more protein-rich diet of distillers grains. I’m not alone, either, and the hog and poultry industries are thriving and expanding all over. With total crop yields going up each season and total acres planted far surpassing where we were before the RFS, there is still more than enough corn crop for food and fuel.

Removing the RFS would drag us back decades, back to a time when farmers were dependent on taxpayer subsidies, when harvests were small,  when feed was hard to come by and when the rural economy was desolate.

We need to preserve the RFS.  Americans want more choices at the pump, and they want more renewable fuels. If we let the RFS work, Americans will choose higher blends of ethanol at the pump for the savings and benefits. Energy economist Philip K. Verleger recently estimated that the RFS has saved Americans between 50 cents and a-dollar-and-a-half per gallon. The ethanol industry has benefitted all Americans, has transformed the country’s economy and has revolutionized our nation’s fuel supply. Why change it now?

I am a farmer. I raise hogs. I support the RFS. And I believe in domestic fuel production. It’s good for the Midwest and good for the country.

— Tim Burrack, Arlington, Iowa


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High-speed chase raises safety concerns

November 14, 1996

Staff Writer

Tom Immer got a close look at Wednesday morning's police chase of a fleeing bank robbery suspect, and he's not happy with what he saw.

"There's no excuse for a 100 mph chase through town,'' said Immer, who watched as the suspect's car plowed into his Ford Taurus, which was parked in front of his 1020 Oak Hill Ave. home.

The chase reached speeds of up to 85 mph in a 40 mph zone on Eastern Boulevard, according to court documents.

Immer said that he was upset by the damage to his car, but said his main concern was safety.

"What if it had been 2:30 p.m. and kids were coming home from school?'' Immer said. "Chases like that just shouldn't be allowed.''

The sounds of sirens filled the air as the chase moved along Jefferson Boulevard past Antietam Drive to Eastern Boulevard.

It continued onto Mealey Parkway, to Irvin Avenue, View Street, to Manila and back onto Oak Hill and then to Prospect Avenue and west on Park Place.

City, county and state police chased the vehicle south onto Potomac Avenue to McComas Street and then to North Mulberry.

From there, the car was channeled onto North Mulberry and into an alley, when the chase came to abrupt halt when it hit the fence bordering Hagerstown Fairgrounds.

Immer said many of the streets on the chase's course are residential.

"It is absurd,'' Immer said.

William Moats, of 436 N. Mulberry St., said he was on the telephone when he heard sirens coming from all directions.

"When I went out front, I saw police running down the street toward the alley,'' Moats said. The chase ended in the alley, just yards from Moats' back yard.

"High speed chases? I think they are a necessary evil,'' Moats said.

Area police agencies have discretionary policies concerning high-speed chases. Factors such as identity of the suspect, whether the suspect is armed and the proximity to other jurisdictions are taken into consideration.

Sgt. Mark Knight of the Washington County Sheriff's Department said the fact the robbery suspect had a gun was a major factor in the Wednesday morning chase.

But Immer said that if a man has a gun and is standing in a crowd of unarmed people, police shouldn't have the right to fire at that man.

As far as the damage to his vehicle is concerned, Immer said he isn't happy with how that was handled.

"The police came back later and told me `tough luck' as far as insurance is concerned,'' Immer said.

Knight said Immer will be provided with insurance information for the car driven by Clark.

"That was the only civilian car that we know was damaged in the chase,'' Knight said of Immer's car.

A number of street and road signs were damaged, but they were replaced by the City of Hagerstown almost immediately, Knight said.

Deputy 1st Class Paul Boyer's cruiser sustained moderate damage, Knight said.

Anyone with damage to report in connection with the chase may call 791-3020 and ask for patrol, Knight said.

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Protecting the rule of law and the rights of suspects

Current U.S. law provides sufficient interrogation flexibility to deal with possible ongoing terror plots. The Questioning of Terrorism Suspects bill would give short shrift to individual rights.

August 10, 2010

Ever since the attempted Christmas Day airliner bombing, a debate has raged over whether the U.S. criminal justice system is equal to the challenges posed by international terrorism. This page has long believed that it is, but Rep. Adam Schiff (D- Burbank) has a different view, reflected in a bill known as the Questioning of Terrorism Suspects Act of 2010. As we see it, the legislation gives needlessly short shrift to individual rights.

The bill would do two things. It would express a nonbinding "sense of Congress" about how the Miranda rule should be applied to terrorist cases, and it would provide a terrorism exception to current practices that exist to ensure that suspects are brought before a magistrate without "unnecessary delay." In both cases, the intention is to allow interrogators more freedom to extract information from suspects for intelligence purposes without jeopardizing a criminal case.

We agree with Schiff that that's a laudable goal. But we disagree with the balance he strikes between acquiring intelligence and protecting the rights of criminal suspects.

Take the provisions in the bill dealing with the Miranda rule, which, as most TV watchers know, requires that suspects in custody be advised that they have the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney. Law enforcement officers and prosecutors worry that once terrorism suspects are advised of their rights, they might stop talking about pending or planned attacks — but that if they're not advised of their rights, their confessions might not be admissible in court. So Schiff has proposed applying to terrorism cases an existing exception to the Miranda rule under which police may question a suspect without reading him his rights if there is a danger to public safety — and still have the evidence used in court. (The exception was first announced in a 1984 case in which police questioned a suspect about the location of his gun without reading him his rights.)

We have no problem with that proposal in theory, although we think it's unnecessary. The public safety exception already has been invoked in the terrorist context; the Justice Department cited it in delaying Miranda warnings for Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the accused Christmas Day bomber. The Supreme Court is likely to ratify its use in that context whether or not Congress asks it to do so.

The problem with the bill is that it interprets the public safety exception too broadly. It would allow agents to question suspects without warning them of their rights "for as long as is necessary to protect the public from pending or planned attacks when a significant purpose of the interrogation is to gather intelligence and not solely to elicit testimonial evidence." The "significant purpose" language would allow Miranda warnings to be withheld even if the primary purpose of questioning was to obtain evidence for use in court. That goes too far.

Equally objectionable is the suggestion that a confession by a suspect in foreign custody be admissible in court even if there was no Miranda warning given. Our view is that if Americans are involved in the questioning, and the suspect is in jeopardy of prosecution in U.S. courts, the same rules should apply abroad as in this country.

Unlike its Miranda proposals, the bill's detention provisions would actually change federal law. The key provision would allow the government to ask a court for permission to question a suspect for 48 hours, or in some cases 96, before bringing him before a magistrate, a process known as "presentment." Currently, an otherwise valid confession is deemed inadmissible if a suspect is not taken before a magistrate within a reasonable amount of time, usually six hours.

Allowing the government to postpone a presentment and use the results of the extended interrogation encourages the abuses that a prompt presentment is designed to prevent, including, most notably, coerced confessions. Last year the Supreme Court emphasized the dangers of prolonged questioning in secret, saying, "No one with any smattering of the history of 20th century dictatorships needs a lecture on the subject."

We recognize that a prompt appearance before a magistrate might discourage some suspects from continuing to answer questions about an immediate threat to public safety. But even under present law, the six-hour rule isn't absolute, and a court might well conclude that an additional delay for the purposes of averting harm was reasonable and that the confession should be admitted.

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Bucks Administrators Told To Expect Work-force Cuts

February 06, 1986|by HAL MARCOVITZ, The Morning Call

Administrators in the Bucks County Courthouse have been told by the county commissioners to expect layoffs and similar personnel cutbacks by the end of the year.

Commissioner Carl F. Fonash said yesterday that the commissioners, in a meeting earlier this week with several key administrators, spelled out the Democratic administration's intentions to trim the county work force.

In addition to layoffs, Fonash said the commissioners discussed "attrition, cutbacks in hours and layoffs" with the department heads.

The commissioners disclosed earlier this year that they plan to slash the county's personnel costs due to expected cuts later this year in federal revenue-sharing funds.

While giving few details of the administration's plan thus far, Fonash said department heads are being asked to "define their needs" for 1987.

The county employs about 2,000 workers. The payroll accounts for nearly half the $105-million county budget.

The cuts will affect most departments of county government, Fonash said, although some staffs will probably be saved from the knife.

"Obviously, we have to man a correctional facility with 300 people around the clock. That department would be treated differently from other departments," he said.

Republican Commissioner Andrew L. Warren reiterated his criticism of the administration's plan. Warren said the Democratic commissioners should not consult the department heads and should instead impose an immediate wage and hiring freeze on county government.

Warren voted against hiring five employees who he said were not vital to the county's work force. The employees included a corrections officer and a cook for the prison; a clerk-typist for the Drug and Alcohol Commission; a food services supervisor for the county's nursing home, and a deputy sealer for the Consumer Protection Department.

Despite Warren's vote, the employees were hired because they received votes of approval from Fonash and Democratic Commissioner Lucille M. Trench.

The Republican was particularly critical of the administration's action to hire Vern C. Summerville for the consumer protection job. Summerville is a Democratic Party leader from Falls Township.

"I've heard all kinds of dire actions will be necessary, like letting go all kinds of long-term county employees," Warren said. "Who's kidding whom about patronage and whether this county is in a financial crisis?"

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Politics As Usual

October 18, 2009|By John L. Micek and Josh Drobnyk Of The Morning Call

The difference between Bob and Tom

Attorney General Tom Corbett was at a star-studded reception for Bob McDonnell, the Republican nominee in Virginia's closely watched gubernatorial race. What's so important about McDonnell?

Political junkies may recall he's the Old Dominion's former attorney general who quit his post in February because he didn't want politics to intrude on his day job.

McDonnell told the Virginian-Pilot it would be inappropriate to work as a part-time attorney general while campaigning.

"For 32 years, I've been a public servant. I've been an Army officer, a prosecutor, a legislator, attorney general," he told the newspaper. "And now I'm interviewing for a new job for the people of Virginia. And that is to be the next governor of Virginia."

By contrast Corbett has resisted calls to step aside as he pursues charges in the Bonusgate public corruption probe.

-- John L. Micek

Ed & Arlen, Ned & Joe

U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter might have the backing of Gov. Ed Rendell, but his primary opponent's got Ned Lamont behind him.

U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, D-7th District, will unveil the endorsement of the former Democratic Senate candidate from Connecticut on Monday.

The significance? Lamont won the Democratic primary in 2006 against Sen. Joe Lieberman, before Lieberman switched his registration to independent and beat Lamont in the general election.

For those not paying attention, Sestak's opponent switched parties earlier this year to avoid a tough Republican primary. What Specter can't do, under Pennsylvania law, is switch to independent after the primary, should he lose the contest.

-- Josh Drobnyk

Three's a crowd

The GOP race for governor just got a little bit more crowded.

State Rep. Sam Rohrer, R-Berks, one of the Legislature's most vocal fiscal conservatives, says he'll contend for the party's 2010 nomination against Attorney General Tom Corbett and U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach, R-6th.

"Being in the House as long as I have been … has given me a breadth of experience that is different than the others," Rohrer told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette last week. "I have concentrated my time, not solely but significantly, on the financial and economic side of the equation."

Maybe so, but the bigger question is whether Rohrer, whom most Pennsylvanians wouldn't know if he snuck up and hit them on the thighs with a hairbrush, can raise enough money for a statewide profile.

-- John L. Micek

Sestak brings Anita Hill into Senate contest

In 2004, it was U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter's opposition to Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork that his Senate rival used against him. This year, it's Specter's grilling of Anita Hill during Clarence Thomas' confirmation hearings.

U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak posted a video of Specter's hard questioning of Hill on the site therealspecter2010.com and referred to it in a solicitation to supporters today.

"What's Arlen done for Democrats?" Sestak asked in the e-mail. "A simple reminder -- besides supporting Geroge [sic] Bush's policies with 2000 votes -- on the anniversary week of Professor Anita Hill's testimony, the actual painful impact on America caused by Arlen's true beliefs and approach."

-- Josh Drobnyk

Roddey rips Gerlach over use of quote

The lesson: Don't use someone else's quote against your opponent. Particularly when it comes from a political player who has yet to publicly weigh in on the race.

Hence, the predicament facing GOP gubernatorial hopeful U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach, whose campaign sent a press release Friday blaring: "Allegheny GOP chair makes clear case for Corbett resignation."

What Jim Roddey said, though, made no mention of Attorney General Tom Corbett, Gerlach's Republican primary opponent. Instead, he was referring to possible U.S. House candidate Mary Beth Buchanan, a U.S. attorney from western Pennsylvania, and how she was entitled to ponder a bid for office while keeping her prosecutor job.

All of which steamed Roddey into writing a nasty letter to Gerlach on Monday, calling the Berks County lawmaker out for what he called "intentional deception."

"I had a great deal of respect for you," Roddey wrote. "Unfortunately, that has now changed."

He went on to endorse Corbett.

-- Josh Drobnyk

Retired judge in Senate bid

The field of U.S. Senate candidates is poised to grow, with retired commonwealth court Judge Doris Smith-Ribner set to join the contest on the Democratic side, Pa2010.com reported.

Smith-Ribner served on the bench for two decades before retiring last summer.

"It's not a decision that you make lightly," she told the Web site. "This is a very major undertaking, and after spending 21 years as a state appeals court judge, you don't just go out and make a decision on a whim."

-- Josh Drobnyk

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Tv Host Cancels Hearing To Stop Libel Lawsuit

October 20, 1985

TAVARES — A Friday hearing was canceled to consider a motion to dismiss a libel lawsuit against the Rev. George Crossley, a WIYE-Channel 55 TV host who accused a Leesburg commissioner of criminal conduct.

Kenneth Hawkes, Crossley's attorney, withdrew the motion that was to be considered by Circuit Judge C. Welborn Daniel.

In a suit filed last month, Commissioner Joe Knowles charges that Crossley's comments during a February broadcast of In Defense of Liberty falsely accused the commissioner of making a donation to the Okahumpka Volunteer Fire Department to ensure a post office would be built on property he owns in Okahumpka.

Knowles also is suing because of comments by Crossley that were printed later in newspaper articles. The suit seeks damages of more than $5,000. Crossley has refused to retract accusations he made about Knowles, who has denied the accusations.

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State education board to take up Common Core again Tuesday

February 17, 2014|By Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel

Common Core will get a second vote in Florida on Tuesday, with the State Board of Education deciding whether to approve minor revisions to the academic standards it adopted nearly four years ago.

The board likely will be greeted by Common Core critics when it arrives at the Orange County school district's headquarters, at 445 W. Amelia St. in Orlando, for the meeting. They plan to protest before the 8:30 a.m. start and to speak against Common Core when the board allows public comment before its vote.

"We need as many parents and concerned citizens there as possible," said Stacie Clarke, a Seminole County mother and one of the founders of Florida Parents Against Common Core. "We need to let them know we're watching. Our children and their future depends on it."

Clarke said she knows some parents who are traveling from as far away as Miami and Tallahassee to attend but noted it is a workday so that could limit attendance.

The board is expected to give Common Core another stamp of approval, as its members have been strong supporters of the new academic standards.

Common Core sets benchmarks for what students should learn in language arts and math. Florida adopted them in 2010, one of 45 states to do so, with little fanfare and no public outcry.

The standards are generally dry reading, detailing, for example, that third graders should learn the function of nouns, verbs and adjectives.

But in the past year, Common Core has become a hot-button political issue, with Tea Party activists and left-leaning groups alike arguing the standards are detrimental to public education. Some critics call them a "federal intrusion" into public education and fear they will lead to even more high-stakes standardized testing of students, among other problems.

The standards were created by the states, with help from national associations, but have been pushed by the Obama administration.

In response, Gov. Rick Scott last fall asked the Florida Department of Education to seek public comment on the standards. The department held three hearings, which drew hundreds, and took comments online, too, receiving more than 19,000.

It then proposed about 100 minor revisions to the 11,000 standards that make up Common Core, and the board is to vote on those.

Advocates say Common Core standards are better because they demand more of students and will ensure they leave high school better prepared. Common Core standards, for example, require students to read more complex texts, they say, and to do more problem-solving in math.

"I just hope we all are putting our hearts in the right place … so we are educating our children so they can be completive in a global economy," said Gary Chartrand, the state board's chairman, at a meeting last month. "We've got to raise our standards." or 407-420-5273

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Residence In Line With Ordinance

October 20, 1985|By Todd Nelson, Staff Writer

HILLSBORO BEACH — A guest house on Vice Mayor Richard McCarty`s property does not violate town zoning ordinances by serving as the home for McCarty`s in-laws, a Broward County code enforcement official said.

John Wright, the county`s chief code enforcement officer, said he saw no distinction between the in-laws living in the guest house or in McCarty`s residence at 921 Hillsboro Mile.

The distinction, Wright said, is whether an occupant pays rent to live in a guest house.

McCarty said he never had collected rent from his mother- and father-in-law, Phyllis and Erwin Burstadt.

``The only thing they compensated us with is the love and interest they give to our children,`` McCarty said Wednesday.

An anonymous letter to town officials alleged that the Burstadts` permanent residency in the guest house made the property a multiple-family residence, violating the property`s single-family zoning.

Wright said, ``As far as I`m concerned, it`s a closed case. We have determined that this is a single-family residence and that there is a single family living there.``

Wright inspected the property at the request of town officials and reported his findings at the Town Commission`s October meeting last Tuesday. He will submit a written report on the inspection, the final action to be taken in the matter because no violation was discovered.

The guest house, Wright said, meets size requirements for zoning ordinances and other building and zoning specifications.

Wright said he would limit his report to zoning concerns and wouldn`t address the legal questions raised in the letter, about whether permanent residents who are registered voters can live in a guest house.

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Sunrise Loses Bonaventure Claim

December 15, 1985|By Kevin Davis, Staff Writer

The city of Sunrise has lost its latest attempt to annex parts of Bonaventure, the 1,250-acre housing development just south of State Road 84 in unincorporated Broward County.

The 4th District Court of Appeal has turned down an appeal by Sunrise, leaving intact a Broward County Circuit Court decision that blocks the city from annexing about 400 acres in Bonaventure, according to Dick Coker, the attorney representing Sunrise.

The decision represented the final appeal for Sunrise after three attempts to annex portions of Bonaventure. Those attempts were challenged in court by Broward County at the request of homeowners who did not want to be annexed into Sunrise.

Murray Chermak, president of the 500-member Bonaventure Homeowner`s Association, said he was glad the issue has finally concluded.

``We thought this was going to happen all along,`` he said. ``It was a long, hard fight for two years and we finally won. The people in Bonaventure did not want to go into Sunrise.``

But not everyone in Bonaventure agreed.

Bernie Goldberg, president of the 300-member Bonaventure Civic Association, was in favor of being annexed into Sunrise, saying he believed the city could provide better police and fire protection.

``The services Sunrise could offer us would be to our advantage,`` Goldberg said. ``The issue of security is a great thing here.``

Since the annexation attempts, there have been disputes over who the official law enforcement agency serving the development should be.

Sunrise police patrolled sections of Bonaventure for several months while the annexation was being challenged in court. In addition, the Broward Sheriff`s Office patrolled the development.

But Sunrise police withdrew after the city lost its second appeal. Under a contract with Bonaventure, Sunrise still provides private security and some maintainence services.

As a result of the appeals court denial, Coker said the city has no further legal recourse.

``Sunrise is now legally out of Bonaventure,`` Coker said. ``The city would have to adopt an annexation ordinance and start the process all over again.``

The annextion attempts involved only portions of Bonaventure, and because the land areas were finger-like and created enclaves of unincorporated land, the proposals were denied, Coker said.

Sunrise, under the direction of former Mayor John Lomelo, has sought the annexation of Bonaventure since 1983, going to court during each of its three attempts.

Broward County is now trying to work out a plan to have cities annex all unincorporated areas with hopes of submitting legislation in Tallahassee for an annexation plan. Sunrise and Davie have expressed interest in annexing Bonaventure.

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Experts Ease Bite Of Mosquito Season

June 9, 1986|By Jonathan Susskind, Staff Writer

Last year, South Florida was lucky. The summer rainy season was delayed until July, and so was mosquito season.

This year fate may smile on the mosquito.

Several heavy rains in late May and early June have filled fields, swamps, plant cavities and old containers left around the yard.

Mosquitos will be in that stagnant water, hatching from wispy rafts of eggs to become wriggling larvae, then gnarled pupae, and seven to 10 days after birth, turning into the familiar insects of summer.

``There are mosquitos out there,`` said Nelson Davis, head of mosquito control for Broward County for two years. ``They`re not nearly as bad as they will be after the rains start and continue. Then we`ll be getting into the season.``

Mosquitos hang around Broward year-round, but ``the season`` is when Davis and his 18 workers, nine spray trucks, three larvacide trucks, two crew trucks and one van will be very busy, spending most of his $654,000 budget.

Davis said he hopes that this season won`t be as hectic as last, when the rains started late but continued with a vengeance. In mid-August Davis had to spend $28,000 for a one-time airborne insecticide attack on west Broward swamps to quell a particularly biting batch of bugs.

Last week his office (765-4062) got an average of 50 calls a day from all over the county. Responding to those complaints generally the next day, crews sprayed the neighborhoods with malathion, a cheap but effective chemical that trucks disperse in a superfine fog.

The previous week, the workers had been out in marshes with Altrosid, a hormone that prevents the larval mosquitos from becoming adults. Diesel oil, which covers the water surface and suffocates the insects, also was used.

But nothing`s perfect. As Davis likes to say: It`s mosquito control, not elimination. Lots and lots of mosquitos made it to adulthood and set out in search of food.

Most of them found it in flowers. Usually, both male and female mosquitos sip nectar through their tubelike snoot, called a proboscis. Only the female ``bites`` for blood, and then only when she is ready to lay her eggs. (It`s not really a bite, either, because adult mosquitos cannot open their jaws.)

Some mothers will do anything for their children, but it takes a special mom indeed to beat the feat of a female mosquito. She`ll fly a block or 20 miles to get blood, using her antennae to smell a likely victim -- a bird, a dog, you.

Touchdown! She pierces the skin with a half-dozen needlelike stylets in the center of her proboscis and probes for a blood vessel. The blood flows freely from the wound because her saliva keeps it from clotting.

The saliva also causes an allergic reaction commonly seen as a pink bump on the skin -- the ``bite.`` If the mosquito was carrying germs -- more on that later -- they entered the victim with the saliva.

Then, if she`s had enough blood to foster the development of the eggs in her body, it`s off to the nursery in or near water to lay them. In her 30-day life, she may lay as many as 3,000 eggs, but 97 percent won`t become adults, having been eaten by frogs, birds or other bugs or killed by a lack of water.

More than 2,500 species of mosquito live worldwide, from the tropics to the Arctic. But in Broward just 38 species have been located and of those, only about 10 bother people, Davis said.

The Big Five are:

-- Psorophora columbiae, a prettier label than its common title, Glades mosquito, lets on. They prefer to breed in grassy swales and freshwater swamps and are the legendary critters that old-time Floridians say got so thick in the air that you couldn`t breathe.

-- Aedes taeniorhynchus, an agressive pest of the saltwater marshes along the Intracoastal Waterway. (Even Davis has trouble spitting out that name: ``You get these weirdos, that spend their time looking at mosquitos in microscopes, that name them.``) With increased coastal development, this species is not so common in Broward anymore, but in Dade and Gulf Coast counties it is prevalent.

-- Aedes atlanticus, the woods mosquito, because that`s where they hang out.

-- Psorophora ferox, which also likes woods and shady pools.

-- Aedes aegypti, which breeds only in manmade containers. ``They have developed over the eons to live only around human habitation,`` Davis said. They are also disease carriers in undeveloped countries, spreading yellow fever and dengue fever in the Caribbean and South America.

Davis worries about one other mosquito: Culex nigropalpus, which transmits deadly St. Louis encephalitis. However, that rare disease generally is not a threat until September or October, when Culex populations are greatest. Because the mosquitos prefer to bite birds and rarely bite humans, health officials keep flocks of sentinel chickens at various sites around Florida to check their blood for the virus.

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Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia 1920 – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 1960

Head c.1954 Place made: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Creation Notes: Date estimated by curator
Materials & Technique: drawings, drawing in brush and ink and gouache Support: paper

Primary Insc: no inscriptions.
Tertiary Insc: Inscribed verso upper left in red pencil, 'H(D)33'
Dimensions: sheet 27.7 h x 37.6 w cm
Acknowledgement: Purchased 1973
Accession No: NGA 73.34
Image rights: © Joy Hester. Licensed by Viscopy
  • Purchased by the Acquisition Committee [Australian National Gallery], from South Yarra Gallery. Melbourne, 1973.


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Off-Center @ The Jones

Introduction Process Impact

Denver Center Theatre Company (A division of The Denver Center for the Performing Arts)

With an annual budget of $11 million, Denver Center Theatre Company (DCTC) is the largest professional company in the Rocky Mountain region.  DCTC was established in 1979 and operates under the umbrella of The Denver Center for the Performing Arts.  Led by artistic director Kent Thompson, DCTC produces a season of classical and contemporary plays on three stages and hosts the annual Colorado New Play Summit.  Over three decades, DCTC has mounted more than 330 productions, including 88 world premieres.

Starting Conditions

In 2010, economic conditions led DCTC to cut $1.3 million from its budget, reduce its number of productions, and phase out the National Theatre Conservatory, its Master of Fine Arts Acting Program.  The organization believed that these steps would protect DCTC’s core mission and give it flexibility to reinvent its business model.  However, Thompson realized that DCTC had to reconsider more than just marketing, pricing, and space.  He had to put content, what happens on stage, on the table. Thompson challenged the staff to think about:

  • What will the next development in theater performance will look like?
  • How can we use technology to engage audiences?
  • How do we make the audience co-creators?
  • How can we make The Jones feel like a neighborhood haunt?
  • And how can new programming create a dialogue with our regular season and fuel further innovation at DCTC?

At the same time, the staff recognized that The Jones, a small theater located on a difficult to access area of their campus was being underutilized.  They decided it was an ideal testing ground for new ideas and starting developing Off Center @ The Jones, as a multimedia laboratory designed to expand the Theatre’s audience base, engage patrons in new ways, and diversify programming.

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The Innovation Lab

DCTC was accepted into Round 4 of the EmcArts’ Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts and started the program in June 2010. The Innovation Lab is a three-phase program that provides a strong framework in which new strategies can be explored and prototyped in relatively low-stakes environments before a full launch.  Read more about the Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts.

Two younger staff members, Charlie Miller and Emily Tarquin led the DCTC project team.

Transformative Moments

During Phase I of the Lab, the team realized they needed guidelines for the programming.  Tarquin suggested they call it a”recipe” for The Jones and delineate the qualities of what The Jones should offer into ingredients.  Ultimately, the five criteria identified by the team for the recipe – immersible, convergent, connective, inventive, and now – became a vision statement for seeking our new, non-traditional material and how to produce it.

Initially, DCTC’s team focused on young audiences whom they believed would be most interested this new programming.  The Lab, however, challenged their assumptions about their target audience and they started talking about their audience more in terms of adventurous spirit than age.

The team also thought young people would be more engaged by splashy technology and edgy, less traditional plays, but learned that their DCTC’s Fourth Wall Group responded equally well to traditional plays.  As a result, the team stopped viewing The Jones as a testing lab for how to use technology and instead began thinking about using technology to engage people.

Prototype #1 – The Ultimate Wii Baseball Game

The first prototype was an “The Ultimate Wii Baseball Game,” an after-party for The Catch, the Theatre’s world premier production about a man who tries to catch a record-breaking homerun.  “The Ultimate Wii Baseball Game” was designed as a night at the stadium, with teams, scoreboard, live commentators, coaches, mascots, baseball snacks and beer, and other activities.  Guests were assigned a team via red and blue t-shirts handed out at the door, although no one was required to participate in the game.

With “The Ultimate Wii Baseball Game,” the team said it succeeded in creating an event where the “normal rules of theatre did not apply.”  Follow-up focus groups indicated that people had enjoyed the event, participated in the game, and interacted across social groups.  About half the 140 attendees were newcomers to DCTC.  The biggest challenge was internal: how to enroll the staff more effectively in new projects.  “We need to better educate our staff about the dual purpose of our programming…about how our work exists on a spectrum between audience development and theatrical innovation.”

Prototype #2 – Buntport Reading

In the second prototype, DCTC created a multimedia lab, collaborating with local artists, engaging audiences in the creative process, and building an interactive environment in The Jones.  The Theatre commissioned Buntport, a local ensemble, to create a multimedia play and workshop the piece with technology at the New Play Summit.  The curatorial team designed activities to take place before the show and followed up with participants afterward.  DCTC also used polling technology ( to create a “choose your own adventure” talkback after the workshop,  incorporating audience feedback in real time.

The collaboration with Buntport produced mixed reactions.  Although DCTC says it learned a lot about how to use technology to engage audiences, the project also forced Buntport to work in a way that was uncomfortable for them.  This stifled Buntport’s creativity and resulted in a final piece that was not as good as it might have been.  “We learned that we can be better curators by working together to determine the goals, content and process,” staff say.  Using interactive technology, however, was a big success, and DCTC reports that the Poll Everywhere voting was effective in engaging audiences and guiding a conversation.

Prototype #3 – Hip Hop Jambalaya

The final event—Hip Hop Jambalaya—was designed to help DCTC establish an effective curatorial process.  A showcase for local hip hop talent, the event was unlike other prototypes in that it had a substantial rehearsal and development period and four performances over two weekends.  DCTC says prototyping helped them move more quickly than they had expected.

What DCTC learned about marketing and curation during the first two prototypes helped demonstrably in Hip Hop Jambalaya.  The curators worked closely with the show’s conductor, helping shape his vision and providing the logistical, artistic and technical support to realize it.  The team is now documenting formal curatorial procedures.  At the same time, they generated considerable word-of-mouth buzz—primarily through social media—about the show by working with a group of artists/collaborators who had large followings of their own.  The team was surprised, however, that the promotional reach did not generate large audiences.  The first two shows attracted 56 people, but the third jumped to 118.  DCTC is still trying to understand the reasons for the initial poor showing, as well as the reasons for the big jump at the end.  Most of all, they say, “we realize that growing an audience takes time…we need to build on that momentum.”

Obstacles and Enablers

What made DCTC successful in moving its prototypes forward?  Several things were certainly critical:  the composition of the team, Thompson’s unflagging support, and his willingness to empower the team to make decisions.  Seventy percent of the team was under 35, and while Thompson refuses to take credit for the team, his willingness to vest authority in others created deep ownership of the process and outcomes.

The Jones, too, was a critical asset.  “The DCTC is a bit like a castle,” explains Thompson, “and people feel like they have to cross a moat to get to us.”  Because The Jones has an entrance separate from the other theatres it is a more accessible entry point to the DCTC “Castle”

But it wasn’t all easy.  Thompson says it was “startling” to discover how hard it would be to make their case once the team returned to Denver.  The Denver Center is a huge organization—with a $52 million budget (including a large Broadway touring series) and lots of employees, many of whom have been around a long time.  The team admits they hadn’t really thought about the difficulties of enrolling others in their ideas, and they discovered they had to answer persistent questions about why they wanted to move in a new direction.  The team credits the Lab with helping them work on their enrollment message and tactics.  As Miller says, “There is a big desire in our organization to do this work, but there’s such momentum in the direction we’re already heading…and we are learning a lot about what it’s like taking on an initiative like this inside a big organization.  It’s a tremendous undertaking to change the organization’s culture, and it’s going to take a lot of time, a lot of thought and conversations to make that happen.”

Transformation Moments

Another defining moment came as the team worked on developing prototypes.  They had an epiphany when they realized that prototyping was not just about testing programming and ways to attract audiences.  It was also needed to learn how the skills and capacities to curate multi-disciplinary events and how to fit them into our existing organizational structure.  Thinking more broadly inspired the team to see The Jones as a permanent learning space both for staff and the DCTC as well as for external audiences and participants.

Perhaps the biggest learning from DCTC’s prototyping was that The Jones attracts its own core audience.  While DCTC will continue to target people who are enticed by a specific event, curators are focusing now on “building our core audience of adventurous patrons who get excited about anything that goes up in The Jones.”

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New Pathways to Mission

Thompson says the organization has come a long way in building capacity for innovation in preparing for a new way of working.  Such a radical shift is challenging for DCTC, and the Theatre is learning to work more collaboratively with local artists and audiences, trying to modify a deeply entrenched 30-year-old model.  Thompson hopes DCTC will ultimately apply the techniques it learns in The Jones to its other stages.

Continuing Innovation

The Board voted to raise an extra $100,000 to support the first season of Off-Center, and a donor has pledged to pay for a new marquee for The Jones.  DCTC also has formed a core team of four staff members to manage Off-Center, and the organization is budgeting additional staff support to free up the team’s time for this work.

Artists who never had a place at the DCTC table participated in the prototypes and are staying engaged, providing feedback, advice and energy to Off-Center.  Staff are talking regularly with other organizations around the country. This has a huge impact, not only because it brings new perspective to the organization, but also because it contributes to the development of emerging leaders in the field.

Above all, DCTC has developed discipline around Off-Center programming.  The team chooses projects that reflect the values and strategies they have defined, and they are specific about what they want to test and how they will evaluate success.  While they acknowledge they are still learning, they are deeply motivated and energized.  Thompson says the impact of this work is being felt everywhere.

Our old way of thinking was about big productions and high production values all put together in a well-organized season.  In our new way of thinking we want to keep our dedication to classics and new plays, but we want to be more nimble—breaking the mold, mixing it up, and making people feel the way they do when they come to the Summit.  This will be healthy for us as an organization.

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  • Lia

    I’ve been following Off-Center @ The Jones through Facebook, and I’m really excited that not only have Charlie and Emily been given this level of responsibility and trust by the DCTC Board and Kent, but that the programs are bringing in a kind of audience willing to think outside of the traditional conventions of artistic programming. Go Team Off Center!


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Drive through Cipularang Toll, Bandung Indonesia now can be easily accessed from Jakarta in about 2 hours. Perhaps, you think that Puncak is no longer available to be a place for “stress releasing”, because of the traffic jam every weekend. The traffic of Jakarta – Bandung is better. Moreover, you can take regular train to reach Bandung. Indonesian Railway Company provides 5-6 departures daily. However, if you want to escape from your daily stressful work, try to get Bandung Hotel in some weekend.

What will we get in Bandung in 48 hours weekend? Of course, you can firstly enjoy hotel service. Hotel in Bandung is as well as Jakarta’s or hotels in Bali. There are some 5 star hotels here. If you are too tired to hang out, stay in hotel for a while and enjoying its bar, café, or karaoke is good enough. But you also can optimize your weekend by looking around some tourism spots in Bandung like Sate Building, Pakuan Building, and other historical places; buy nice T-shirts in Braga Street, exploring traditional market in Pasar Baru, Pasar Gedebage, and so on. Don’t forget to check handicrafts, textile, and leather-craft in Cibaduyut, Cihampelas, and Cigondewah.

Anyway, you can take a room hotel with competitive room rate but have at least 4 star qualities and service. Here, some 4 star hotels which offer room rate not excess than IDR 500,000. First, it is Aston Braga Hotel. This art-deco style hotel is located at Braga City walk, Braga Street 99-101, Bandung City. The location is just in the heart of Bandung’s popular place. It is near Pasar Baru, and not far from “Saung Angklung Udjo”. By paying IDR 364,000++ a night for “limited & popular” superior room, you can get hotel’s facility like swimming pool, exotic restaurant, and some tour-packages.

Carcadin Business and Entertainment Hotel is one of 4 star hotels which makes guess feel fully entertained. This hotel offers extra comfort like coffee shop, massage, Jacuzzi, gym, sauna, steam room, spa, and business facilities. Its 79 rooms are located in Kebon Jati Street 71-75, Bandung City. From this place you can be relaxed by enjoy walking to Paskal Hypersquare and Gardujati in minutes, and try to taste various food stalls on your way. This hotel offers special price IDR 436,000 a night for deluxe room. Much cut off from its normal rate IDR 1,138,000++.

Just on Cihampelas Street 23, you may find Novotel Bandung Hotel. Located in the down town, in the center of a lot of factory outlets and exotic food stalls along Cihampleas Road, this hotel offers only IDR 498,000++ for premier floor superior room. Some guests feel satisfied with hotel’s food and location. Furthermore, hotel’s well known name is the guarantee of its service.

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Three Days Somewhere Warm and Relaxed to Get Work Done

I'm in NYC and need to complete 20 hours worth of super annoying editorial work. Was thinking of going somewhere warm to do it. [more inside]
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Getaway weekend with dogs starting in Maryland

We have until May 4 to take a 4 day weekend getaway. We live in MD and are thinking about heading South to warmer weather. We want to take out 2 dogs. They are well trained. We like places to swim with our boys. We enjoy a hike of not more than 6-8 miles. We enjoy walking places and eating at dog friendly out door cafes. Bonus points if there are doggy spas or gyms. Dog lovers please tell me about your city and why we should visit? I know about bring fido.com, but want first hand experience.
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Another warm vacation question

Where can we go that is warm (80s), DRY, and beachy that is within the U.S., will avoid El Nino, and is within 2-4 flight hours of STL in the middle of February?
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Where to go for a February babymoon, someplace warm?

The husband and I would like to go on a trip in before we have our first child. Our ideal would be a relaxing and beachy vacation spot in the tropics (Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico?)—big bonus if it's a place we might want to return to in later years with our kid or kids! Specific resort/condo/hotel recommendations appreciated. [more inside]
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My group of six young professionals would like to get out of the Boston freeze for five days or so around New Year's. (We can see it coming and we're not looking forward to it!) We'd like to go someplace tropical, and we'd like to spend less than $1000/pp. Where should we go, where should we stay, where should we eat, and what should we do? [more inside]
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Say you have 5 days, $1000 for flight+hotel (+maybe car rental) and you want to get out of rainy Seattle to somewhere warm and relaxing. Where do you go? [more inside]
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Someplace warm

What warm, relaxing, beach destination (probably in Europe) do you recommend that will be easily accessible from Dublin via RyanAir (or other low-cost carrier) this coming September? [more inside]
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