Criminal Court, July 29, 2010
Sat ,31/07/20100 Comments | Republican & Herald; Pottsville, Pa., Jul 28, 2010 | by peter e bortner
A Pottsville man admitted in Schuylkill County Court on Tuesday that he had driven with a license that had been suspended for a driving under the influence incident.
Clayton R. Pepe Jr., 22, pleaded guilty to driving under suspension-DUI related.
Judge John E. Domalakes accepted Pepe’s plea but did not immediately schedule sentencing, instead ordering a presentence investigation.
Pottsville police charged Pepe with driving with the suspended license at 9:37 a.m. Jan. 22 at West Market and North 12th streets in the city. Magisterial District Judge Charles V. Moran had found Pepe guilty on May 26, but the defendant appealed that ruling on June 24.
Also on Tuesday, Domalakes found Dennis W. Spotts Jr., 27, of Pottsville, not guilty of driving under suspension when no prosecution witnesses appeared for the hearing.
Pottsville police had charged Spotts with driving under suspension on Oct. 22 in the city
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This is fine, and
Sat ,31/07/2010This is fine, and actually perfectly normal. Who wants to make love when they feel sick? As you enter your 2nd trimester, most of the time the morning sickness will start to vanish. Once this happens, you will feel better and your sex drive many appear. If you seem to just have no desire for sex at all, there are other ways to satisfy your needs and your partners needs for intimacy, such as kissing and holding each other.
Are there any positions that are more comfortable during my later months of pregnancy?
Once your belly begins to grow, it may become uncomfortable to have sex in the “man on top” position. The “spoon” position has become pretty popular among pregnant women! In this position, each partner lays on their side, with the man in the back.
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Fraser Coast developers thinking big
Sat ,31/07/20100 Comments | Press, The; Christchurch, New Zealand, Sep 22, 2007 | by McDONALD Liz
On Australia’s sunny Fraser Coast, a big tourism push has stimulated property developments worth billions of dollars. Property editor LIZ McDONALD flies across the Tasman for a look.
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When Queenslanders want something, they go out and get it.
Witness the way they have fattened up their tourist profile, their mining industry, and their population.
So when the beautiful but previously little-known Fraser Coast (300km north of Brisbane) wanted to join the boom, the locals didn’t wait for a leg up.
With multimillion-dollar revamps of its boat harbour, airport, hospital, industrial park and shopping centres, the region has enticed big city property developers into town, and they are building up large.
Already, $A3 billion ($NZ3.6b) worth of hotel, apartment, housing and other developments are on the drawing board or under way in the area’s main town of Hervey Bay.
Several new hotels are already open for business in the famous Queensland sun, and the number of new subdivisions has reached double figures.
“It’s not going to be a Gold Coast here — we are working with the area’s natural attributes,” says Margaret Armstrong, project manager for the $2 billion master- planned Golden Waters estate being developed on the coast by the Potter Group.
The group’s project will eschew Gold Coast-style high rises, opting instead for mid-rise hotels, a championship golf course, rainforest and wetland areas and mixed density housing.
A few kilometres south, developer Sam Saffuri of Monopoly Constructions is building a 300-home community on the site of an old Hervey Bay sugar cane farm.
“Hervey Bay is really a sleeping giant,” Saffuri says.”There are a lot of assets in the bay that haven’t been capitalised on yet.”
Among the assets boasted of by the developers are the world heritage- listed Fraser Island just offshore, the Great Barrier reef to the north, abundant stocks of sea and freshwater fish, calm waters and the Queensland climate.
The region also has the state-wide blessings of the resource boom, high employment and an infrastructure spending programme boosted by Queensland’s upcoming 150-year celebrations.
Hervey Bay itself was once a sleepy collection of villages attracting caravaners, sugar farmers, beer drinkers and fishermen. Its image was blokey, somewhat down-at-heel, full of holiday baches.
While remnants of that image remain alongside the big tourist developments, the city now has 55,000 residents and is the fastest growing population centre in Australia.
So how did the Fraser Coast get its development ambitions off the ground?
The answer is a combination of local stubbornness and generous infrastructure spending.
Two years ago the Hervey Bay City Council extended the local airport to accommodate the jets it hoped would arrive from interstate and beyond.
Without waiting for state or federal funding, the city council put up $12 million for the expansion, an amount the state government was obliged to top up with another $1m.
Qantas, Jetstar and Virgin Blue now fly in from Brisbane and Sydney, and annual passenger numbers have increased 10-fold, from 35,000 to 350,000, since 2005.
Last year the region hosted 1.24 million visitors — including nearly 200,000 from offshore — spending a total of 5 million visitor nights.
It’s a combination of that influx, plus the wealth advantage big city and international travellers offer over fishermen and sugar farmers, which has stimulated the property boom now under way.
“We’d had enough studies, we just wanted to get on and do it,” says Larry Monk, the council’s manager for tourism and economic development.
“What the town is feeling now is the very different spending power of the people from Sydney. We’re not talking caravan parks.”
Branded hotel chains including Accor, Peppers and Mantra have set up shop along the Fraser Coast waterfront.
Monk says the property developers are coming into town with confidence.
“There’s been a whole change in tourism and development here — we’ve got some real serious players in town now.”
As well, rising Fraser Coast property values which have seen house prices leap by up to 250% and land prices by up to 365% in five years, have put more cash in local pockets and boosted demand for fancy quality homes.
Demographic changes to the resident population have seen retirees and battlers joined by middle managers and working families.
The extra flights have also opened direct markets for local fish into the big cities and breathed new life into the industrial estate.
Now the property developers want an even larger market to fill their hotels, apartments, houses and shops. So they are funding a campaign to lobby the airlines for flights from Melbourne and other cities.
Developer Simon Deathridge — whose two projects in Hervey Bay include an apartment complex topped off by $2m-plus apartments he calls “sky homes” — says the region must expand its market.
“The rate of growth in international visitors is faster than the domestic,” Deathridge says
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Rotary club moves into new premises
Sat ,31/07/20100 Comments | Tamworth Herald, The, Jul 29, 2010
TAMWORTH Rotary Club has moved to a new home after nearly 50 years.
The club, which used to meet at Drayton Manor, will now hold meetings at the Globe Inn, Lower Gungate.
The meeting time has been changed from 6pm to 5.30pm every Monday evening.
President Julian Jones said: “This gives the business people who work in or around the town the chance to wrap up at the office and drop in for a meal and a nice relaxing evening of fun, fellowship and perhaps even a spot of networking, before they head home.”
For further details contact Graham on 07796 365768.
‘Alcoholism is in my DNA’; Since she had her first drink at the age of 13, Tanya Gold has battled with alcoholism. Now teetotal, she describes with searing honesty her love-hate relationship with the bottle over the past 22 years – and why she firmly bel
Sat ,31/07/20100 Comments | Mail on Sunday (London, England), The, Nov 15, 2009
I am sitting in a room in a community centre in North London, on a Sunday afternoon. The carpet is faded, posters for self-help groups are hanging in their frames; half drunk cups of coffee and uneaten biscuits are lying around. Everything feels fusty, dusty and remote.
But I am staring at a beautiful young woman with brown eyes and black hair. She is maybe 28, or 29, and she is sitting in front of a group of women. She looks clean, healthy, functioning. She is talking about how alcohol nearly killed her. And her story is my story.
Every week I go to this meeting. It is an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. I didn’t want to go – I stood outside, angry and speechless, as I always seem to be whenever I am waiting to walk back into my past.
Why am I telling you this? Some people keep their alcoholism – and their recovery – in a cupboard. When it is over – if it is over – it stays there, locked. Don’t talk about the drinking. Don’t talk about the madness. Don’t talk about the nights in police cells or in casualty. Don’t embarrass yourself. Forget, forget.
The silence is for people who believe that alcoholism is something to be ashamed of – a moral defect. Evil. Weak. Twisted. And I do not believe this. I cannot. Last week, I heard a story about a woman who stopped drinking for 20 years. And then, one day, for some reason, she picked up a drink. Two weeks later she was dead. Weakness, you say? Evil? Depravity? Or is it sickness? About five per cent of the population of any country in the world is alcoholic. Not everyone who drinks heavily will become an alcoholic – a person for whom alcohol is irresistible, so much so that they will, as we say in AA, ‘pursue it to the gates of hell’. But, to become an alcoholic, you have to drink heavily. And everywhere, in this city and in others, I see the sort of drinking that can lead to alcoholism, like a path into the forest. Alcohol? It isn’t dangerous. Alcoholism? That wouldn’t happen to you, to me. Have a drink – it won’t do you any harm.
I also see the sorts of pressures that make you believe you need a drink. Not pretty enough, say the magazines and the movies and the adverts. Ugly. Have a drink. You’ll feel better. See? Not so ugly now.
What happened to me? The best way to start is to tell you how it ended. I am now 35 years old. By the time I was 26, I was a drunk. I cannot say it any plainer than that. I was, it seemed to me, a dead woman walking.
That was not supposed to be my story. I was born into a warm, affluent, Jewish home. I grew up in Esher, Surrey, that most gently suburban of suburbs; even the trees in Esher looked cared for, and bored out of their minds. There is no tidy explanation for what happened to me. Although my parents got divorced when I was 12, I always knew they loved me. I was never molested or neglected. There is no history of alcoholism in my family; no mad aunts in the attic; no depression. I hated school, but so what? I was afraid of boys, but so what? So if you want a polite cause-and-effect parable that explains away alcoholism, I can’t write it. It just happened.
I remember my first drink very well. I can close my eyes and watch myself drink it. It was 1987, and I was 13. I was having a cup of tea with a neighbour when she suggested I try a glass of gin. I remember that as soon as I smelt that sharp, slightly antiseptic scent, I had to swallow it all. I drank the whole bottle, as she giggled. She was, I now know, a heroin addict who thought it was normal for 13-year-olds to drink spirits. I vomited on my school uniform and collapsed. When I awoke, I felt filthy and sick, yet somehow at peace, as if something I had been in search of had, at last, found me. All alcoholics say this – even as children, we felt afraid.
It was a response to that unspoken terror, a key turning in a lock. Every day, I was drunk by 6pm – not giggly, sweetly .
And so I became a secret drinker. I would come home and pour myself a mug of vodka, careful to keep it a secret from my parents. It wasn’t difficult. A schoolgirl alcoholic? They didn’t exist. Alcohol gave me confidence. It made me feel warm, and comfortable – less ugly, less lonely. No one else at school lived like I did – I felt fascinating, and sophisticated, and apart. If I had known where it would lead, I would have been terrified. But I didn’t. I began to smoke a lot of marijuana as well – the drugs bled into the alcohol, and back.
Exactly how is a mystery – I smoked marijuana before each of my A-levels – but I was accepted into Oxford University to study history. I was terrified, but I didn’t have the emotional awareness to know it. I spent the week before I started in Amsterdam, alone, taking drugs. A clue, you say, to the disintegration of my personality. Not for me. I was sleepwalking.
The alcoholic in me woke up in my first week at university.
drunk, but venomously, angrily drunk. By the end of that week I was a laughing stock and my system was so soaked in alcohol that I had my first psychotic episode.
I went round to see a man that I was sleeping with. I can’t say that we were any more intimate than that; alcoholics seek out people who will make them suffer. He wouldn’t open his door. I started screaming at the door and beating it. The rest, I forget. It was my first alcoholic blackout, the first of many
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Humans produce milk to feed their
Sat ,31/07/2010Humans produce milk to feed their young too. That is nature?s way of starting a baby on the right and proper nourishment. But none of the mammals are meant to produce milk forever. We/they begin to dry up after a year or so. In order to produce more milk, it takes producing another baby. Yes, cows and goats have to be bred on a yearly basis in order to continue to produce milk ? it wouldn?t happen any other way. (And by the way, I?m glad I am not a cow having to get pregnant on a yearly basis for my milk production, with my new baby yanked away from me as soon as it arrives!)
Today?s dairies greatly differ from the farm milk cow when I was a child.
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Challenge to Create New Energy-Efficient, Low Cost Air Conditioner Is Solved
Sat ,31/07/2010Market Wire, November, 2008
The Barr Foundation , a
private family foundation committed to enhancing the quality of life for
all citizens in the Boston area, and InnoCentive, Inc. , the global
innovation marketplace, today announced the conclusion of a Challenge
seeking the design of a radically energy-efficient method of cooling and
dehumidifying residential and small commercial spaces.
Two solvers, John Barrie and Dr. Norbert Muller, were awarded $30,000 for
the cooling technology which they submitted. Barrie and Muller’s solution
was selected from 38 submissions, reviewed by a panel of national experts
in the field.
Kendra Tupper, a member of the panel of judges and a Senior Consultant with
the Built Environment Team at the Rocky Mountain Institute, said: “We
looked at a number of impressive designs, but this one really stood out
because of its potential to consume significantly less energy and reduce
peak demand compared to standard air conditioners. RMI believes that this
extremely promising technology can break through the cost barrier with
further development and will offer cost savings for consumers in the
future.”
This Challenge, called the Boston Innovation Prize, was developed as a
collaboration between The Barr Foundation and the Cambridge Energy
Alliance (CEA), an organization that seeks to significantly reduce the
City of Cambridge, Massachusetts’ carbon footprint in the next five years.
The Alliance is working with homeowners, businesses and institutions in the
City of Cambridge to achieve energy savings and to expand clean energy
sources. Barrie and Muller plan to beta test the new air conditioners in
Cambridge.
Roberto Cremonini, Chief Knowledge & Learning Officer of the Barr
Foundation, said: “At the Barr Foundation, it is our mission to find and
utilize resources that will better serve the lives of Boston residents.
This design, with the potential cost savings it offers, will do just that
and offer new environmentally friendly options for all.”
Dwayne Spradlin, CEO of InnoCentive, said: “This Challenge represents a
commitment by The Barr Foundation and the Cambridge Energy Alliance to
engage the creative potential of people everywhere in solving truly
important problems that affect all of us. We at InnoCentive congratulate
the Solvers for their outstanding efforts in solving this Challenge and
commend Barr and CEA for their vision in this important area.”
About The Barr Foundation
The Barr Foundation is a private foundation committed to enhancing the
quality of life for all of Boston’s citizens. The Foundation’s primary
areas of emphasis are education and the environment, with additional
support for arts and cultural activities.
About InnoCentive
Founded in 2001, InnoCentive built the first global web community for open
innovation, enabling scientists, engineers, professionals and entrepreneurs
to collaborate to deliver breakthrough solutions for R&D-driven;
organizations. InnoCentive Seekers, who collectively spend billions of
dollars on R&D;, submit complex problems to the InnoCentive Marketplace
where more than 160,000 engineers, scientists, inventors, business people,
and research organizations in more than 175 countries are invited to solve
them
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LeadPile Hires Three Proven Performers in Online Digital Marketing to Bolster Introduction of New Q3 Platform
Sat ,31/07/2010Market Wire, June, 2010
LeadPile, a premier performance marketing company and top industry lead provider, is pleased to welcome three proven performers in SEM, Web Development, and Online Affiliate Marketing to its team in order to bolster the introduction of its new Q3 platform. The new Q3 platform is highly robust in its technology and provides users the ability to more effectively target quality leads, clicks and traffic.
Mohib Ahmed joins LeadPile as Director of Online Marketing, and is responsible to ensure LeadPile’s Q3 Platform, brand vision and strategy is fully integrated into the online advertising, network, and lead marketplace ecosystem. Mr. Ahmed brings to LeadPile over 6 years of online marketing experience, three undergraduate degrees, and a MBA from Oregon State University.
John Botos joins LeadPile as Director of Web Design and is responsible to design web site structure and efficient user interfaces, layouts, and navigational menus utilizing various design technique to assist the company and its top tiered affiliates to monetize their traffic. A graduate from Collins College in Visual Communication, John brings several years of successful agency work to LeadPile.
Christina MacKinney joins LeadPile as Senior Affiliate Manager and is responsible for penetrating new online markets and maximizing the LeadPile’s current presence in its existing channels. Ms. MacKinney brings extensive digital media advertising experience to LeadPile, and earned her degree in Business Administration and Marketing from Concordia University.
Florin Ilie, President of LeadPile, says, “We are delighted to Mohib, John and Christina join our team. Their commitment, experience and education will be key components in assisting us to continuing to positively change the online advertising and lead industry by introducing our new Q3 platform. Where quality counts
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And I am
Sat ,31/07/2010And I am not only talking about the sacrifice of our thumbs to the almighty Blackberry?s and Treos.
Not only has perceptions of work changed but the type of work has drastically changed. When my uncle started his career in 1966 most everyone worked in some type of manufacturing or factory facility. The type of work was very repetitious and blue collar. Please don?t think I am demeaning that type of work because it is still very necessary to our country. However, the need for thousands and thousands of factory workers is not there any more. We still do need some ?factory? workers but even those who work in manufacturing today are very skilled workers. The need for general labors is not nearly as high as the need for engineers and technicians of all types.
Since the perception of work and the type of work has changed the attitude of the employee has changed. Employees do not feel as committed to their company for a variety of reasons which we will briefly mention today:
Commitment as a whole across society has waned drastically (i.e. the United States divorce rate of over 50%).
Students are told from a young age that the world is their?s for the taking.
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Jail games ’stop reform’
Sat ,31/07/20100 Comments | Mail on Sunday (London, England), The, July 18, 2010
THE computer game culture in Scotland’s jails is preventing the rehabilitation of prisoners, Labour claimed yesterday.
Only 165 prisoners joined anger management courses in 2009-10 compared to 210 the previous year, a trend the party blamed on prisoners’ use of video games.
Labour justice spokesman Richard Baker said: ‘Fewer violent offenders are receiving help to address their behaviour.’ A Scottish Prison Service spokesman said its violence reduction schemes are currently being updated.