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Saturday, August 3, 2013
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Study says Anchorage should steadily add jobs
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Anchorage should add about 2,000 new jobs each of the next three years.
That's according to the Anchorage Economic Development Corp., which released its jobs forecast on Wednesday.
KTUU reports (http://is.gd/dDinEp) the city saw employment growth of 2.2 percent, adding about 3,400 jobs last year.
Adding the most jobs were the professional and business service, healthcare, government and oil and gas sectors.
But transportation and the retail industries had flat years, while information technology saw a decrease of jobs in 2012.
The city has added about 3,400 jobs already this year. By this time last year, about 1,500 jobs were added
There's been a decline of about 700 jobs in the government sector this year, mostly due to cutbacks and fewer teachers working this summer.
Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/08/01/3536182/study-says-anchorage-should-steadily.html
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Friday, August 2, 2013
Frankel Photography Announces Big Summer Sale on Bar Mitzvah, Wedding Packages
WEBWIRE ? Thursday, August 01, 2013
San Marcos, California - ?Frankel Photography, located in San Marcos, California, has rolled out a huge summer sale on all wedding and Bar Mitzvah packages, with 10% off original pricing through September 15. ?Frankel Photography owner and lead photographer Albert Frankel has been in the photography business for over 30 years. He knows that customer services and professionalism go hand-in-hand with delivery of high-quality images from a family?s? special occasion, such as a wedding or Bar Mitzvah.
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?We are happy to offer this discount on our top quality photography services for the summer months,? said Frankel. ?We know that these events can be very costly for a family so we?d like to make it a little easier for them use our professional photography services for their wedding or Bar Mitzvah.?
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Recently, Frankel Photography starting using state of the art LED lighting in addition to traditional lighting methods when working on a photo shoot, because his experience has proved to him that using the most advanced equipment and lighting is the only way to deliver the very best photographic images to his clients. ?
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?LED lighting give us much greater ability to create images that are guaranteed to amaze,? said Frankel.
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As lead photographer at Frankel Photography, Al Frankel brings an extensive portfolio of knowledge and experience to every event he covers. His uncanny camera sense and ability to capture the moment is evident in the warmth and style of his work. Heather Frankel is also a big part of the team, specializing in digital image processing and album design, her skills are essential in turning photographs into treasured memories.
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About Frankel Photography:? Frankel Photography is located in San Marcos, California near the city of San Diego proper. The company has more than 27 years experience as professional photographers specializing in wedding photography, Bar and Bat Mitzvah photography, special event photography, pet photography and portrait photography.
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For more information about Frankel Photography visit their website or call 760-402-2531.
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Thursday, August 1, 2013
Man repays insurance money with 4 tons of coins
ST. LOUIS (AP) ? An Illinois businessman outraged by a court order that he return more than $500,000 in insurance money related to a 2001 wreck that killed his teenage son wanted to pay the money back in pennies in protest, only to recognize that was unfeasible.
So, Roger Herrin settled on quarters ? four tons of them.
Packed in 150 transparent sacks each weighing about 50 pounds, the $150,000 in coins were nearly one-third of the money an appellate court required Herrin to pay back to resolve years-long legal feuding among the crash's survivors over how $800,000 in insurance proceeds were apportioned.
Obtained from the Federal Reserve in St. Louis, the backbreaking load of change was brought in Wednesday by an armored vehicle and delivered on a flatbed truck to two law firms that represented other victims of the wreck.
"There was no satisfaction from doing that," Herrin, who also serves on the Southern Illinois University system's governing board, told The Associated Press on Thursday. "The loss of a child is the loss of a child, and all the money doesn't replace that.
"I just wanted to draw attention to what went on here," the 76-year-old man added before mustering a laugh. "I really wanted to do it in pennies."
It ended the legal wrangling that's happened since Herrin's 15-year-old son, Michael, was killed in June 2001. He was a passenger in a Jeep Cherokee that was broadsided by a truck that blew through a stop sign near Raleigh in southern Illinois' Saline County. Three other occupants of the Jeep were injured.
Roger Herrin got $1.6 million compensation through his own coverage. Of an additional $800,000 paid out through other insurance, the Herrin estate got the bulk of it because of Michael Herrin's death, with the remainder of that money distributed to survivors.
Those survivors appealed and won when the Mount Vernon, Ill.-based 5th District Appellate Court ruled against Roger Herrin, a retired foot surgeon whose business holdings include three southern Illinois nursing homes. Herrin has owned seven community banks, but he's sold those off in recent years.
Herrin complied in paying back the money, but "obviously in protest" with the plastic-sacked quarters he called "heavy as hell."
"I've had 10 years to think about this a little bit, and I'm very, very bitter at this ruling," he said. "It's wrong, and everybody knows it's wrong."
Mark Prince, an attorney for the Jeep's driver and her son, who was also a passenger, declined to discuss the case's merits Thursday, calling that "counterproductive" and a potential violation of a confidentiality agreement.
While saying Herrin's choice of repayment method was his prerogative, Prince said he did find the unannounced delivery "surprising" ? and a burglary risk for his law firm in Marion, Ill., given the media attention instantly foisted onto the thousands of dollars in coins.
"We've been on pins and needles because we had a lot of cash suddenly laying around, it was publicized," Prince said. "We don't have safes or vaults, and we lock our front door. Advance notice would have been nice, because we could have made arrangements to have it delivered to the bank."
Douglas Dorris, an attorney for the Jeep's fourth occupant, agreed.
"I am not going to criticize a man who lost his son, who is obviously upset with the decisions of the court," he said. "But I believe the decisions of the appellate court follow the law correctly."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/man-repays-insurance-money-4-tons-coins-145417956.html
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Senate kills effort to cut off aid to Egypt (Washington Bureau)
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
IRS Targeting Scandal Rooted Deep in Washington
WASHINGTON -- At the beginning of the IRS Tea Party targeting controversy, the White House insisted the scandal was confined to a rogue operation in the agency's Cincinnati office. But now, it's clear the scandal was rooted in the nation's capital.
"We're following the facts; they undeniably now lead to Washington," Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said.
During its recent hearing, the House watchdog committee uncovered a connection between the extra scrutiny of applications for tax exempt status of Tea Party groups and the IRS's Chief Counsel William J. Wilkins.
What does it mean now that the IRS chief counsel has been implicated in the Tea Party targeting scandal? Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, answers that question and more on The 700 Club, July 30.
Wilkins is one of just two IRS positions appointed by the president.
Carter Hull, a lawyer who retired from the IRS after 48 years of service, told the committee he was directed to send his recommendations about the tax applications of Tea Party groups to the Office of the Chief Counsel.
"Look, we know how this works. We know that when you put this much discretion and this much discretionary power in the hands of the few, eventually, it may well be abused for partisan political purposes. That happened here and we've got to get to the bottom of it," Rep. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said.
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The White House now calls the IRS scandal "phony."
However, soon after it broke, President Obama appointed Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to investigate. Lew said there's no evidence of political wrongdoing.
"We have to look at the facts," Lew said. "There have been lot of investigations; there have been a lot of hearings, IGs, the Justice Department. There is no evidence of any political decision maker who was involved in any of those decisions."
But when pressed by the host of "Fox News Sunday," he wouldn't say if anyone has asked Wilkins if he was involved with targeting Tea Party groups.
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Tom McClusky, works for the Family Research Council, a non-profit conservative group that was audited.
He told CBN News political targeting by the IRS is nothing new. He said the agency has become little more than a political arm of the party in charge of the White House.
"These are American citizens being targeted," he said. "They're not phony people. This is not an Astroturf kind of scandal. This is a scandal that has actual roots and shows the inherent problems at the IRS.
Source: http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2013/July/FRC-Real-People-Targeted-in-Phony-IRS-Scandal--/
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Volcano doctors check the pulse of Mexico's 'Popo'
In this July 23, 2013 photo, Moises Dominguez of Mexico?s National Disaster Prevention Center laboratory shows equipment used to monitor the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico City. Technicians keep a round-the-clock watch on Popocatepetl, analyzing data for signs of a full-scale eruption, which they can never fully anticipate. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
In this July 23, 2013 photo, Moises Dominguez of Mexico?s National Disaster Prevention Center laboratory shows equipment used to monitor the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico City. Technicians keep a round-the-clock watch on Popocatepetl, analyzing data for signs of a full-scale eruption, which they can never fully anticipate. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
FILE - In this July 23, 2013 file photo, smoke rises from the crater of the Popocatepetl volcano as seen from a Mexican Navy aircraft on a volcano monitoring mission in Mexico. The Popocatepetl, or ?Smoking Mountain? in the Nahuatl language, is a stratovolcano, a steep conical formation built from layers of thick, slow-moving lava and ash. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)
FILE - In this July 23, 2013 file photo, smoke rising from the crater of the Popocatepetl volcano is carried away by wind, next to dormant Iztaccihuatl volcano, front right, seen from a Mexican Navy aircraft on a volcano monitoring mission in Mexico. According to Mexican legend, Popocatepetl was a warrior who sought the hand of Iztaccihuatl, a fair maiden whose reluctant father told her that her suitor had died in battle. The ?Romeo and Juliet?-style tale ends with the lovers turning into twin mountains east of Mexico City. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)
In this July 23, 2013 photo, Gilberto Castelan, director of instrumentation at Mexico?s National Disaster Prevention Center laboratory, shows a seismic graph from Dec. 18, 2000 when a large eruption was recorded at the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico City. Sensors feed data to the constantly scrolling seismographs as the crew and volcanologists analyze the concentration of gases and changes in the shape of the mountain. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
FILE - In this July 10, 2013 file photo provided by the Mexican Navy (SEMAR), steam and ash rise from the crater of the Popocatepetl volcano seen from the cockpit of an aircraft on the outskirts of Mexico City as pilots approach the volcano. At times the only way to really see what?s going on inside is to fly over the crater, something Mexican officials do regularly, feeding Mexico?s National Disaster Prevention Center laboratory more data. (AP Photo/SEMAR)
MEXICO CITY (AP) ? In a clean, hushed room in the south of Mexico City, cameras, computer screens and scrawling needles track the symptoms of a special patient, as they have every second of every day for the past two decades. The monitors indicate that "Don Goyo" is breathing normally, even as he spews hot rock, steam and ash.
That kind of activity isn't unusual for the 17,886-foot (5,450-meter) volcano, Mexico's second-highest, whose formal name is Popocatepetl, or "Smoking Mountain" in the Aztec language Nahuatl. But this volcano, personified first as a warrior in Aztec legend and now as an old man grumbling with discontent, is in the middle of two metro areas, where his every spurt can put 20 million people on edge.
Mexico's National Disaster Prevention Center laboratory keeps a round-the-clock watch on Popocatepetl, with anywhere from six to 15 technicians analyzing data for signs of a full-scale eruption, which they can never fully anticipate.
Though lava or glowing rock would only travel so far, an explosion could be deadly for 11,000 people in three farming villages within 10 miles (16 kilometers) of the base because of landslides and hot gas. A spectacular plume of ash could also wreak havoc on one of the world's largest metro areas, much as it did in 2003, when the sky over Mexico City more than 40 miles (65 kilometers) away nearly went dark in the middle of the afternoon. The neighboring city of Puebla on the other side of the volcano from the capital would also be clouded over.
"The volcano is like a patient, and we observe the different aspects," said the center's technical director Gilberto Castelan. "Here we receive over 60 indicators in real time."
The 20-by-30-foot (6-by-9-meter) laboratory resembles those that once housed old giant supercomputers, everything plain white with a server at one end and screens all around. Five remote-controlled cameras positioned on the side of the mountain emit real-time images, while sensors feed data to the constantly scrolling seismographs as the crew and volcanologists analyze the concentration of gases and changes in the shape of the mountain. The loudest laboratory sound is a regular ping that alerts technicians to every seismic shift, at least a half dozen an hour.
The data helps set the "volcano stoplight," a three-color system in which green means little activity, yellow means warning and red starts the evacuation process ? something that has occurred only twice since 1994, when the volcano awoke again after sitting dormant for seven decades.
"It's one of the most advanced laboratories of its kind in the world, and the scientists in charge are using the best methods," said Michael Sheridan, a volcanologist at the University of Buffalo in New York who has studied Popocatepetl. "It is very difficult to predict the behavior of a volcano that has not had an eruption in recent history."
Earlier this month, Popocatepetl released ash that grounded plane flights and dusted cars, but it quieted down enough last week for the warning to drop from yellow-3 to yellow-2. The Mexican government has designated evacuation routes and shelter locations in the case of a bigger explosion.
Popocatepetl, nicknamed Popo or Don Goyo, is a stratovolcano, a steep conical formation built from layers of thick, slow-moving lava and ash ? the same type as Mount St. Helens in Washington state, scene of a 1980 eruption that was the most deadly in the U.S., killing 57 people.
Mexico's disaster prevention center says Popo has been active for at least 500,000 years and has had at least three eruptions as large as Mount St. Helens, the most recent 23,000 years ago. Unlike Hawaiian volcanos and their rivers of lava, the biggest dangers for those nearby are mudslides and swift-moving clouds of gas. For those farther away, it's the ash, which can ruin motors, stall airplanes, cover roofs with material heavy enough to make buildings collapse and cause respiratory diseases.
"Considering the number of people who would be affected, it could be considered among the most dangerous volcanos in the world," said Ramon Espinasa, director of geological hazards for the disaster prevention center.
According to Mexican legend, Popocatepetl was a warrior who sought the hand of Iztaccihuatl, a fair maiden whose reluctant father told her that her suitor had died in battle. The "Romeo and Juliet"-style tale ends with the lovers turning into twin mountains east of Mexico City. The dormant peak of Iztaccihuatl has since become part of a national park, while access to Popocatepetl is closed off.
Don Goyo, meanwhile, is the nickname for Gregory, a character who supposedly was the spirit of the volcano and would come to warn the locals of eruptions or to assure them that the mountain, despite plumes of smoke, was calm.
Today that's Castelan's job. He and his crew of technicians don't have much to say about the myths or legends, preferring to stick to the hard data in their laboratory, which opened right after Popo's reawakening two decades ago. At the time, Mexico was about to plunge into one of its worst economic crises. Since then, Mexicans say the eruptions are just Don Goyo showing his discontent with the course of his country, including blowing off smoke and ash a year ago, just before the presidential election.
Castelan prefers to look to the sensors to read Don Goyo's thoughts. The trick is monitoring the crater, where it's too hot for instruments, and that's where the seismographs offer clues.
Some tremors indicate an internal buildup of magma, while others result from expulsions of rock and ash. At times the only way to really see what's going on inside is to fly over the crater, something Mexican officials do regularly, feeding the laboratory more data.
The technicians are especially watchful of lava domes that can form inside the crater in hours, days or weeks, creating a pressurized cap.
The domes usually grow and then collapse. But they could also harden into a sort of bottle-stopper, allowing pressure to build until the volcano violently dislodges the cap in an explosion. What seems to be happening with Popo is lava settling inside, bringing the crater floor closer and closer to the rim, Castelan said.
"The volcano becomes more dangerous as the crater fills with lava, and the domes that form are closer in elevation to the crater rim," Sheridan told The Associated Press in an email. "Explosions can more easily throw red hot lava fragments over the rim and onto the volcano flanks."
In 2000, Popo's floor was 150 yards (meters) below the rim of the crater, compared to 50 yards (meters) today, he said. In the case of Mount St. Helens, the summit slid away and a new crater was formed, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Mount St. Helens' huge eruption came just 15 to 20 seconds after a 5.1 magnitude quake.
Castelan, a 42-year-old father of three, has worked in the laboratory since 1997 and steadily moved up to technical director. The job has meant days without going home, or tending to equipment failures on nights and weekends.
Sometimes he thinks, "Not again," when he's called while off duty. But he said he does the work gladly because he knows how important it is that the people in the shadows of Popo stay alerted and safe.
"It's a very important relationship that we've established," he said. "We take care of this volcano."
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