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Life after bankruptcy for the NAMA developers ? NAMA Wine Lake

?And by the way, being declared bankrupt in the UK does not mean NAMA loses interest in you ? far from it? NAMA chairman Frank Daly speaking on a Dublin radio station in April 2012

FreeRayGrehanWith Ray Grehan emerging this week from UK bankruptcy ? though with some legacy matters to be sorted out ? and his brother Danny emerging next week and path-finding Cork developer, John Fleming over a year since he emerged from British bankruptcy, this blogpost examines what lies in store for the NAMA developers who have ? to a greater or lesser extent ? escaped the grasp of the Agency, by obtaining bankruptcy orders elsewhere.

There was a frisson on here during the past week when a filing was made in the NAMA v the Dunnes case in Connecticut where the filing title referred to ?CH 13?. Had the heavily-indebted Sean Dunne obtained a Chapter 13 US bankruptcy? No, the CH 13 turned out to be a reference to the Connecticut legal code, and so, to date, David Drumm, the former CEO of Anglo Irish Bank remains the only publicized Irish national to have obtained a bankruptcy order in the US. The British bankruptcy courts have been busier and this is the record on here of the NAMA bankruptcies so far ? Minister Noonan said there were about 20, but because of the archaic British insolvency service, we can?t view bankruptcies where a recent address was in (the Republic of) Ireland, so the following may not be a comprehensive listing.

Bankrupts

Whilst Ray will emerge from bankruptcy, his dealings with NAMA aren?t over as the Agency appears to be still contesting the disposal of an apartment in the upmarket One Hyde Park development in Knightsbridge in central London. And whilst John Fleming emerged from bankruptcy in November 2010, NAMA still went on to pursue him for his personal pension, and at time of writing, it seems that this matter is outstanding. The NAMA chairman Frank Daly who was formerly the chairman of the Irish tax authorities, the Revenue Commissioners, has darkly warned that just because a developer obtains a bankruptcy order in the UK and subsequently emerges from bankruptcy, doesn?t mean that NAMA loses interest in that developer ? this was interpreted on here to mean that NAMA might continue to monitor developers after emergence from bankruptcy for evidence of undeclared assets or asset transfers.

Unlike Bank of Ireland and Anglo/IBRC, NAMA says that it is neutral on the jurisdiction in which its developers obtain bankruptcy orders ? Bank of Ireland fought tooth-and-nail to successfully have the bankruptcy of the O?Donnell couple, Brian and Pat, overturned in the UK and IBRC successfully reversed Sean Quinn?s bankruptcy in Belfast. AIB was unsuccessful ? on a technicality ? in its bid to bankrupt Ivan Yates in Dublin, but didn?t appear to object when Ivan obtained a bankruptcy order in Wales. Minister for Finance Michael Noonan revealed that NAMA was contesting the release from bankruptcy of one developer in the UK and the betting on here was that it was Sean McWilliams, but in any event, Sean won his freedom in a Belfast court in October 2012.

We do know that Martin Doran?s discharge from bankruptcy has been suspended indefinitely

So, what does bankruptcy hold for NAMA developers? It seems that many have started property consultancies and have been earning some income during their bankruptcy which has presumably been handed over to the trustee for distribution to creditors. Others like Ivan Yates, are contemplating writing a book. Income earned after the discharge is generally secure from former creditors except in the UK, certain court costs and social welfare clawbacks. Most emerge from bankruptcy with a slight blemish on their credit records but if they have wealthy spouses, that is likely to be a short-term problem, Restrictions on directorships can be imposed in some instances, and if creditors are unhappy with disclosures, they can resist a discharge. NAMA will also keep an eye on you.

Source: https://namawinelake.wordpress.com/2012/12/30/life-after-bankruptcy-for-the-nama-developers/

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Saturday, December 29, 2012

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MIDDLETOWN, R.I., Dec. 27, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Staying ahead of the bandwidth demands for its rapidly growing customer base, KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq:KVHI) has just doubled the capacity of its mini-VSAT Broadbandsm network in the busy Caribbean region. The capacity increase was provided as part of the ongoing global network upgrade involving deployment of Variable Coding, Spreading, and Modulation (VCSM) technology provided by ViaSat, Inc., (Nasdaq:VSAT), KVH's partner in the mini-VSAT Broadband network. This was the second major upgrade to the mini-VSAT Broadband network in less than a month, following the recently announced improvements that increased the capacity in Europe by more than 60%.

"The Caribbean region upgrade is part of our planned expansion to support the increased demand of our rapidly growing customer base," explained Brent Bruun, Executive Vice President of KVH's Mobile Broadband Group. "We are rolling out a new version of our modulation technology that enables us to handle transmissions much more efficiently, thereby increasing the amount of data that our network can carry. Thanks to our end-to-end design approach, we are able to upgrade the software in our large population of fielded TracPhone? systems over the air, providing a future-proof solution that we continue to improve as we add new features and network enhancements."

Since launching the mini-VSAT Broadband network in 2007, KVH has become one of the world's leading providers of maritime VSAT service. KVH's service differs from competing maritime VSAT services in its use of spread spectrum technology, which enables the use of antennas that are 85% smaller than competing products while still providing fast, high quality service. KVH is also the only maritime satellite service company that designs and manufactures the onboard terminals, owns and operates the satellite service network, and provides round-the-clock global after-sale support providing customers with a total end-to-end solution. Smaller antennas and fully integrated belowdecks equipment are less costly and faster and easier to install, offering significant savings to companies deploying broadband technology to a fleet of vessels.

KVH's business model is another key part of the company's growth strategy. Rather than investing in its own satellites, the company leverages the readily available commercial FSS satellite capacity covering the world's oceans, provided by industry leaders like Intelsat, Eutelsat, SES, and SkyPerfect JSAT. Currently, the mini-VSAT Broadband network uses 17 leased transponders to cover the globe with a unique hybrid network including both C-band and Ku-band coverage. KVH's unique 1 meter, dual-mode TracPhone V11 antenna, the world's only global 1 meter maritime VSAT solution, seamlessly switches among C- and Ku-band frequencies as easily as the 60 cm TracPhone V7-IP antennas and 37 cm TracPhone V3 antennas switch among Ku-band satellites. As KVH's customer base grows, the company will lease additional capacity covering exactly the areas of the world where it is needed. All of the company's TracPhone systems in the field can be dynamically updated to use new capacity as it comes online, ensuring continued delivery of high-quality service.

"KVH supports a large number of oil-and-gas industry customers in the Caribbean region, as well as a large number of yachts, a population that grows with the seasonal migration to southern Florida and the islands from the northern U.S., Canada, and the Mediterranean during the winter," said Mr. Bruun. "Our customers enjoy the highest quality satellite service available, with downloads as fast as 4 Mbps and uploads as fast as 1 Mbps, as well as crystal clear Voice over IP (VoIP) telephone lines with optimized service and prioritization of applications. The addition of this new capacity in the Caribbean in time for the busy winter season is a perfect example of how we actively monitor and manage our mini-VSAT Broadband network to ensure we are delivering the speeds and quality of service our customers expect."

With more than 2,500 onboard terminals sold, mini-VSAT Broadband service is the world's fastest growing, most popular maritime VSAT solution, according to three independent industry research reports published in 2012 by Euroconsult, NSR, and Comsys.

Visit www.minivsat.com/one for complete details about the global mini-VSAT Broadband network and award-winning TracPhone V-series antennas.

Note to Editors: High-resolution, press-ready images of KVH's TracPhone V-series systems and mini-VSAT Broadband coverage maps, are available at http://press.kvh.com for download and editorial use.

About KVH Industries, Inc.

KVH Industries, Inc., is the leading provider of in-motion satellite TV and communications systems, having designed, manufactured, and sold more than 150,000 mobile satellite antennas for applications on vessels, vehicles, and aircraft. In 2012, Euroconsult, NSR, and Comsys all reported that KVH was the market share leader in global maritime VSAT. KVH's mission is to connect mobile customers around the globe with the same digital television entertainment, communications, and Internet services that they enjoy in their homes and offices. The company is based in Middletown, RI, with facilities in Illinois, Denmark, Norway, Japan, and Singapore.

This release may contain certain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements include, for example, the functionality, characteristics, quality and performance of KVH's products and technology; anticipated innovation and product development; and customer preferences, requirements and expectations. The actual results could differ materially. Factors that may cause such differences include, among others, those discussed in KVH's most recent Form 10-Q filed with the SEC. KVH does not assume any obligation to update its forward-looking statements to reflect new information or developments.

KVH and TracPhone are registered trademarks of KVH Industries, Inc. "mini-VSAT Broadband" is a service mark of KVH Industries, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies.

Nicole Mongillo KVH Industries, Inc. 401-845-2443

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mugs Welcome to another Small Business Chat update ? with me! My original interview was published on Christmas Eve and when I asked myself where I planned to be in a year?s time, I answered, ?Well, I?ll have been full-time with Libro for a year. Hopefully I?ll be earning enough to support myself, I?ll have taken a holiday or two, and have a good solid roster of regular clients to keep me going?. Let?s see how I?m doing ?

Are you where you thought you?d be when you looked forward a year ago?

Yes! I have been full-time for a year, I?m earning more than enough to support myself ? it?s so nice to be able to have lunch out when I want to, or treat myself to some nice pampery toiletries in the sales, and to be able to buy my friends nice birthday and Christmas presents. I have had one holiday and some time off, I?ve got better at scheduling in time off, and I do indeed have a solid roster of regular clients to keep me going ? I?ve added one or two per month this year.

What has changed and what has stayed the same?

The main thing is having only one job ? much easier. I have been able to spend more time with my friends and with Matthew. I have stopped working with Master?s students through their course, as I discovered this was quite draining and gave rise to lots of urgent panicky work for people?s deadlines (I?ve been able to recommend such prospects over to a friend who?s great at working with such customers and is specialising in academic work). I?ve published one e-book and I?m about to publish another, so I should have some sort of passive income going on soon. What?s stayed the same? I?m enjoying my work still (hooray!) and enjoying working with clients around the world. And apart from a brief flurry around the beginning of the year and then September, when I presented my paper at the Iris Murdoch conference, I haven?t finished writing up my research project, although I have finished the questionnaire gathering side of it.

What have you learned? What do you wish you?d known a year ago?

I?ve learned to be better at stopping work to have the evening off, to not panic when the work goes quiet, and how to work on my own, I suppose. I wish I?d formulated some of my tips for homeworkers sooner so I could make sure I was looking after myself. I also wish I?d found some back-up people earlier, so I can be ill or busy without worry.

Any more hints and tips for people?

If you?re thinking about jumping ship from your full- or part-time day job, and you?ve got the money saved up to support yourself for a few months ? go for it!

And ? where do you see yourself and your business in a(nother) year?s time?

I?ve got some personal plans bubbling away, and I?d like to be training for a marathon in the next year or two. Business-wise, I would like it to be pretty well as it is now ? a good roster of interesting regular clients keeping me busy and keeping my income steady.

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Top 10 Legal Productivity Posts of 2012

Top Ten Legal Productivity Blog PostsiPads, Evernote, Treadmill Desks, Checklists, and M&Ms ? yes, the candy: 2012 was another banner year for the Legal Productivity Blog.

Thank YOU for coming back to read our posts, for sharing it on the social networks, and for your comments, suggestions, and engagement.

Here are our top posts for the year:

1. 9 IPad Productivity Tips ? Tips include how to: streamline Spotlight search functionality, lock in Portrait or Landscape mode, and restrict access to certain content.

2. Time Management, To-Do Lists And The 3 + 2 Rule ? First, identify only 3 big things and 2 small things to do in a day. Write down the 3 main activities you need to accomplish, each taking 2 to 3 hours, and 2 minor ones that take around 20 minutes each.

3. In Memory Of Finis Price ? Larry?s poignant tribute to a dear friend and giant in the legal profession.

4. 8 Great Sites For Mac Loving Lawyers ? Top sites that provide news, analysis, reviews, tips, tools and community for Mac loving lawyers and legal professionals.

5. 7 Purchases Under $15 That Boost Productivity For Attorneys ? When it comes to milking every last ounce of productivity out of your day, you don?t need to shell out for fancy executive coaches, sophisticated day planners, and related tools.

6. 5 Great Everyday Uses For Evernote ? A great daily-use application to store blog post ideas, to-do lists, meeting notes, and so much more.

7. Attorneys Take New Steps In Productivity With Treadmill Desks ? Between desk jobs, driving and television, attorneys are spending more time on their butts than ever. But some are taking this problem to court.
They?re walking and working at the same time, using treadmill desks.

8. How To Not Make Mistakes Using A Surprisingly Simple Tool: The Checklist ? So how can, as Mr. Gawande puts it, ?a stupid little checklist? be so powerful, especially when the people using them are very smart, educated, and come loaded with experience (i.e. doctors and lawyers)? The short answer is they reduce complexity.

9. 4 Twitter Productivity Tips ? Tips for a more productive daily Twitter experience.

10. Van Halen?s No Brown M&Ms: The Greatest Checklist Of All Time? ? Van Halen had a ?no brown M&Ms? rule along with other requirements at venues where they performed. They were management experts all along. Who knew?

We?re excited about 2013 and have lots more new, original content planned for you so keep checking back, or subscribe to our RSS feed so you don?t miss a post.

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Friday, December 28, 2012

Wild Dolphins Give Gifts To Researchers Studying Them In Tangalooma, Australia

'Tis the season for giving, but in Australia, wild dolphins have been documented offering gifts to the researchers studying them for quite some time.

We hope those "gifts" came with a receipt, though, as the offerings seem likely to trigger the gag reflex in some humans. So far, the presents include eels, tuna, squid, at least one octopus and a variety of other fin fish. Discovery News reports the gifts are highly valued food sources for dolphins.

The first gift, from an adult male dolphin named Fred, was a dead moray eel, offered in July 1998, the Daily Mail notes.

According to a recently released report in the journal Anthrozoos: A Multidisciplinary Journal of the Interactions of People & Animals, a group of wild bottlenose dolphins near the resort of Tangalooma, in Australia, have offered gifts to the biologists studying them at least 22 more times since the first incident with Fred. The paper notes that "[gift] giving has become an established but infrequent part of the culture" of that particular group of dolphins.

While food-sharing is not all that uncommon among animals of the same species, inter-species sharing (aside from the dead birds your cat tracks into the house) is a rare occurrence, Discovery News notes.

As of yet, researchers in Australia aren't 100 percent sure what triggered the dolphins' generosity, but according to EarthSky, they believe it may be some form of play behavior. Other explanations include a desire on the dolphins' part to give back, as the researchers have been feeding them for quite some time. The dolphins may also see the researchers as incompetent hunters that require an occasional handout.

(Image courtesy Flickr user Hans Pama)

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Katie Holmes' Broadway play 'Dead Accounts' closes

FILE- This undated file photo provided by Boneau/Bryan-Brown shows Nobert Leo Butz as Jack, left, and Katie Holmes as Lorna, in a scene from "Dead Accounts" at Broadway's Music Box theatre in New York. Holmes' play ?Dead Accounts? will close within a week of the new year. Producers said Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, that Theresa Rebeck's drama will close on Jan. 6 after 27 previews and 44 performances.(AP Photo/Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Joan Marcus, File)

FILE- This undated file photo provided by Boneau/Bryan-Brown shows Nobert Leo Butz as Jack, left, and Katie Holmes as Lorna, in a scene from "Dead Accounts" at Broadway's Music Box theatre in New York. Holmes' play ?Dead Accounts? will close within a week of the new year. Producers said Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, that Theresa Rebeck's drama will close on Jan. 6 after 27 previews and 44 performances.(AP Photo/Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Joan Marcus, File)

(AP) ? Katie Holmes' return to Broadway will be much shorter than she would have liked.

The former Mrs. Cruise's play "Dead Accounts" will close within a week of the new year. Producers said Thursday that Theresa Rebeck's drama will close on Jan. 6 after 27 previews and 44 performances.

The show, which opened to poor reviews on Nov. 29, stars Norbert Leo Butz as Holmes' onstage brother who returns to his Midwest home with a secret. Rebeck created the first season of NBC's "Smash" and several well-received plays including "Seminar" and "Mauritius."

Holmes, who became a star in the teen soap opera "Dawson's Creek," made her Broadway debut in the 2008 production of "All My Sons." She was married to Tom Cruise from 2006 until this year.

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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Less Than 1 In 10 Americans Sleep Naked, Survey Finds

Americans are a bunch of prudes when they go to bed, according to a new study.

Less than one in 10, or eight percent, of Americans sleep naked, according to a poll of 3,700 people by linen and home d?cor company Anna's Linens. Reportedly, 74 percent of Americans wear pajamas to bed, and the rest wear "something else," according to the company, which is based in Costa Mesa, Calif.

Sadly, 65 percent said they get a "restful night's sleep" only three nights or less per week, and 47 percent said they share a bed with someone who snores. 74 percent of respondents said they sleep on their side, which leaves 16 percent who sleep on their stomachs, and 10 percent who sleep on their backs.

The company also found that many people don't remember their dreams. More than half of the respondents said they could recall less than a quarter of their dreams, while about 10 percent said they remembered nearly all their dreams from the previous night's sleep.

As for the nature of the dreams, nearly 70 percent felt their dreams were not as "interesting" as their friends' dreams. However, another 44 percent said their dreams were "more bizarre'' than their friends'.

And why, you ask, did a linen company conduct this poll? Here's a clue, from the CEO, Alan Gladstone.

"We were surprised eight percent of our respondents admitted to sleeping naked. For that group, we suggest our 100 percent Egyptian cotton sheets," Gladstone said. "They feel great against the skin."

However, there is one upside to the masses sleeping clothed. According to Travelodge, the incidence of naked sleepwalking, which occurs almost exclusively among its male guests, has increased sevenfold in the past year.

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Hundreds more flights canceled as Christmas storm moves east

Tornadoes were reported across parts of the South, compounding what was already likely to be a travel nightmare. Jim Cantore of The Weather Channel reports.

By M. Alex Johnson, NBC News

More than 500 more flights were canceled across the U.S. on a snowy, blustery Christmas Day, many of them in Texas, where the Dallas and Houston areas were smacked with a rare coating of snow and ice Tuesday.

The travel website?flightaware.com?reported that?523 flights into or out of U.S. airports were scrubbed. Many were at the Dallas and Houston airports, which got rare Christmas snowfall.

NBCDFW.com: White Christmas brings delays, cancellations to DFW airport

With 8 to 15 inches of snow expected across northern Ohio on Wednesday, United Airlines canceled at least 60 percent of its flights at Cleveland Hopkins Airport beginning at noon Wednesday, NBC station WKYC of Cleveland reported.


Numerous traffic accidents also stalled motorists across Texas and Oklahoma as drivers slid and crashed in a mixture of wind, sleet and snow. Twenty-one cars and tractor-trailers crashed in a massive pileup on roads coated with freezing rain in Oklahoma City.

"You definitely have to worry about everyone while you're driving, especially out here," Dallas resident Jerdal Whitaker told NBC 5 of Dallas. "We're not used to the weather that comes, especially when it's ugly, so you definitely have to drive slow."

With temperatures expected to drop into the teens, little melting was expected overnight.

Christmas storms spread snow, tornadoes across US, snarling travel

The Midwest was also heavily hit. A blizzard was forecast to end up having dropped 10 to 15 inches of snow on parts of Indiana, where road crews began work last Friday on keeping roads as passable as possible.

"We're hoping to make it there in time before that weather hits," said James Mason, who was driving home Tuesday to Missouri with his wife and three children through Indiana.

"We don't want to get caught up in it. That is when accidents happen and people get stranded," he told?NBC station WTHR of Indianapolis?during a rest stop in Plainfield, Ind.

The heavy snow spread into Kentucky, where state officials urged people to stay at home and off the roads.

"Try to avoid travel from, say, 9 or 10 Tuesday night through about noon on Wednesday, simply because the conditions are going to be so brutal," said Keith Todd, a spokesman for the state Transportation Department. "If you do go out, you ?need to be prepared like you're going to the North Pole."

In Ohio, the Transportation Department planned to have more than over 100 snow plows on the streets by 4 a.m. Wednesday.

The storm is forecast to hit the Northeast sometime Wednesday evening, bringing a mix of heavy sleet, snow or heavy rain, depending on its track.?

Motorists were warned to expect whiteout conditions in falling and blowing snow overnight Wednesday in the Buffalo area, where some locations could get as much as 14 inches by late Thursday, NBC station WGRZ of Buffalo reported.

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The Most Shocking Celeb Scandals of 2012

From Kate Middleton's topless photos to LiLo's troubles with the law, see what star travails surprised us the most this year

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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Delays litter long road to vehicle rearview rules

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? In the private hell of a mother's grief, the sounds come back to Judy Neiman. The SUV door slamming. The slight bump as she backed up in the bank parking lot. The emergency room doctor's sobs as he said her 9-year-old daughter Sydnee, who previously had survived four open heart surgeries, would not make it this time.

Her own cries of: How could I have missed seeing her?

The 53-year-old woman has sentenced herself to go on living in the awful stillness of her West Richland, Wash., home, where she makes a plea for what she wants since she can't have Sydnee back: More steps taken by the government and automakers to help prevent parents from accidentally killing their children, as she did a year ago this month.

"They have to do something, because I've read about it happening to other people. I read about it and I said, 'I would die if it happens to me,'" Neiman says. "Then it did happen to me."

There is, in fact, a law in place that calls for new manufacturing requirements to improve the visibility behind passenger vehicles to help prevent such fatal backing crashes, which the government estimates kill some 228 people every year ? 110 of them children age 10 and under ? and injures another 17,000.

Congress passed the measure with strong bipartisan backing, and Republican President George W. Bush signed it in 2008.

But almost five years later, the standards have yet to be mandated because of delays by the U.S. Department of Transportation, which faced a Feb. 28, 2011, deadline to issue the new guidelines for car manufacturers. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has pushed back that deadline three times ? promising in February that the rules would be issued by year's end.

With still no action, safety advocates and anguished parents such as Neiman are asking: What's taking so long to remedy a problem recognized by government regulators and automakers for decades now?

"In a way, it's a death sentence, and for no good reason," said former Public Citizen president Joan Claybrook, who once directed the federal agency responsible for developing the rules.

The proposed regulations call for expanding the field of view for cars, vans, SUVs and pickup trucks so that drivers can see directly behind their vehicles when in reverse ? requiring, in most cases, rearview cameras and video displays as standard equipment.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, charged with completing the new standards, declined requests to discuss the delays. Spokeswoman Karen Aldana said the agency would not comment while the rulemaking process was ongoing but was on track to meet LaHood's latest cutoff date. In a letter to lawmakers in February, LaHood said his agency needed more time for "research and data analysis" to "ensure that the final rule is appropriate and the underlying analysis is robust."

Others insist the issue is money, and reluctance to put any additional financial burdens on an industry crippled by the economic crisis. Development of the new safety standards came even as the Obama administration was pumping billions of dollars into the industry as part of its bailout package.

"They don't want to look at anything that will cost more money for the automobile industry," said Packy Campbell, a former Republican state lawmaker from New Hampshire who lobbied for the law.

NHTSA has estimated that making rear cameras standard on every car would add $58 to $88 to the price of vehicles already equipped with dashboard display screens and $159 to $203 for those without them.

The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, a lobbying group that represents automakers, puts the total cost to the industry at about $2 billion a year. Last December, the group met with White House budget officials to propose a less expensive alternative: reserving cameras for vehicles with extra-large blind zones and outfitting the rest with curved, wide-angle exterior mirrors.

The alliance declined comment, but earlier this year the group's vice president, Gloria Bergquist, told The Associated Press that it urged the government to explore more options as a way to reduce the costs passed on to consumers.

"There are a variety of tools that could be used," she said, adding that automakers also were concerned that the cumulative effect of federal safety regulations is driving up the average price of a new car, now about $25,000.

Industry analysts also question whether cameras are needed on smaller, entry-level class cars with better rearview visibility.

"It may just be a couple hundred dollars, but it can grow pretty significantly if you are talking about ... an inexpensive car that was not originally conceived to have all these electronics and was only going to have a simple car stereo," said Roger Lanctot, an automotive technology specialist.

Before the delays, all new passenger vehicles were to carry cameras and video displays by September 2014. The industry has now asked for two more years after the final rules are published to reach full compliance.

Despite its resistance, the industry on its own has been installing rearview cameras, a feature first popularized two decades ago in Japan and standard on nearly 70 percent of new cars produced there this year. In the United States, 44 percent of 2012 models came with rear cameras standard, and 27 percent had them as options, according to the automotive research firm Edmunds.

Nine in 10 new cars had console screens available, according to market research firm iSuppli, which would put the price of adding a camera on the low end of the NHTSA's estimates.

These backing crashes are hardly a new phenomenon. Emergency room doctors, the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the NHTSA have produced dozens of papers on the problem since the 1980s.

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, started looking into the issue in the 1990s after noticing toddlers showing up in hospital databases of injured child pedestrians. They found that many of those children had been killed or hurt by vehicles backing out of home driveways.

In 1993, the NHTSA sponsored several studies that noted the disproportionate effect of backup accidents on child victims. One report explored sensors and cameras as possible solutions, noting the accidents "involve slow closing speeds and, thus, may be preventable." Still another 1993 report estimated that 100 to 200 pedestrians are killed each year from backing crashes, most of them children.

Three years later, Dee Norton, a reporter at The Seattle Times, petitioned the NHTSA to require improved mirrors on smaller commercial trucks and vans after his 3-year-old grandson was killed by a diaper delivery truck that backed over him.

The NHTSA started looking into technology as a solution, but in one proposal ? issued in November 2000 ? it noted that sensors, cameras and monitors were still expensive and promised to later reevaluate the feasibility of such emerging technologies.

Adding to the scrutiny were studies by Consumer Reports magazine, which started measuring "blind zones" to determine how far away a toddler-sized traffic cone had to be before a driver looking though the rear window could see it. The research found an overall trend of worsening rear visibility ? due in part to designs favoring small windows and high trunk lines, said Tom Mutchler, the magazine's automotive engineer.

"Cameras are basically the only technology that is going to let you see something right behind the bumper," he said.

With a growing body of research, better statistics and inaction by regulators, advocates such as Janette Fennell, president of a safety group called Kids and Cars, and Sally Greenberg, then with Consumers Union, turned to Congress for a solution.

In 2003, U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-New York, introduced the Cameron Gulbransen Kids and Cars Safety Act, named for a 2-year-old Long Island boy whose pediatrician father backed over him in their driveway. Five years later, it finally became law.

While no one doubts that cameras could help reduce deaths, they aren't regarded as a perfect solution either.

One recent study by a researcher at Oregon State University found that only one in five drivers used a rearview camera when it was available, but 88 percent of those who did avoided striking a child-sized decoy.

In its proposed rule, the NHTSA estimated that rearview video systems could substantially reduce fatal backing crashes ? by at least 95 a year ? and result in at least 7,000 fewer injuries.

Judy Neiman's 2006 Cadillac Escalade didn't have any cameras installed. They weren't added as an optional package until the following model year. Instead, her vehicle was equipped with a "rear parking assist system" ? bumper sensors, an alarm and lights that are supposed to go off within five feet of objects or people.

Neither Neiman nor the 10-year-old neighbor boy who had accompanied her and her daughter to the bank on Dec. 8, 2011, would recall hearing any alert, according to a police report.

Sydnee was carrying her purple plastic piggy bank and account book, so she could deposit $5 from her weekly allowance. After the transaction, Neiman slid behind the wheel and waited for the children. She heard the door slam, then saw the boy sitting on the right side of the back seat as she put the car into reverse.

She figured Sydnee was seated behind the driver's seat. Instead, the boy had gotten in first, telling Sydnee to go around and get in from the left side. He would later tell a police investigator that the girl had dropped her piggy bank on her way around the SUV.

Even if she were upright, at 4-feet-3-inches tall, Sydnee would have been practically invisible through the rear window, the bottom edge of which was a few inches taller than she was.

As the first anniversary of her daughter's death passed, Neiman hoped that sharing her story might spare other parents from enduring the pain she feels every day.

She tortures herself by replaying a conversation she had with Sydnee the summer before she died. Her daughter always had taken her heart condition, a congenital defect, in stride. She never complained or showed fear, despite her many surgeries.

Then one night Sydnee started crying, and she wouldn't tell her mother what was troubling her until the next morning.

"She said, 'I don't want to die, Mom,' and when she died, that's all I could think about. She didn't want to die," Neiman says. "She survived four open heart surgeries. If God had taken her at that time, I could accept it. But who could take her with her being hit by my car? And my hitting her?"

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Associated Press writer Joan Lowy in Washington, D.C., contributed to this story.

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Best apps, books, and games to enjoy this Holiday season

Best apps, books, and games to enjoy this Christmas

It's Christmas Eve! And in the mass craziness that comes with the holidays, sometimes a nice break with a good app, game, or book is what you need. That's where iMore is here to help! We've rounded up some of our favorite Holiday apps and games for you to enjoy during the holidays and your time off work and school.

Santa Rockstar

Rock out with Santa during the holidays with Santa Rockstar for iPhone

Santa Rockstar is a Guitar Hero-style game featuring rock 'n roll versions of popular Christmas songs and Santa Clause. You must help Santa deliver presents in the Merry Christmas Stage sled by touring around the world with the Reindeer Band. If you like Guitar Hero and Tap Tap Revolution type games, rock music, and Santa Clause, then Santa Rockstar is a must-have.

Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift

Who doesn't love the adorable little Om Nom -- in a Santa Hat? Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift is the popular game with a fun, festive twist. If you're not familiar with the game, you simply cut ropes just the right way with the goal of delivering candy to the cute little Om Nom. But be careful, you must avoid spiders, spikes, and other obstacles in order to successfully get that candy to Om Nom.

Angry Birds Seasons

Here's another popular iPhone and iPad game with a holiday twist -- Angry Birds Seasons. In this version of Angry Birds, a new level was unlocked every day this month with Christmas Day revealing the last level. But even if you haven't been playing these levels since Dec 1st, you can still enjoy playing through them all now. Angry Birds Seasons marathon during Christmas Eve? Sounds like a plan!

Doodle Jump Christmas Special

Doodle Jump gets in the Holiday spirit with 5 new Christmas outfits

And here's yet another popular game with a special Christmas edition just for the holidays -- Doodle Jump Christmas Special. In this special version of Doodle Jump, the goal is still the same, to get as high as you can, but the surrounding and enemies are now Christmas related. For example, you must watch out for the chill-breath monster that will freeze you, and avoid other scary monsters dressed up in Christmas gear. You can also purchase other festive characters with coins that you earn in the game (or buy as in-app purchases).

A Charlie Brown Christmas

A Charlie Brown Christmas is one of the most classic Christmas stories and you can enjoy it right on your iPhone and iPad as an interactive story. This flip-style book is extremely well made, fun, and engaging for kids and adults alike. In the story, you must help Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang as they try to find the true meaning of Christmas.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Here's another great book too add to your interactive-iOS-books collection -- How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Embark on the tale of the grouch Grinch who hates Who-ville's holiday celebrations and plans to steal all the presents to prevent Christmas from coming with professional narrations and beautiful, enlarged artwork. For the little ones in your life, the words on the page will highlight as they are read so that

ElfYourself

You're sure to create some holiday cheer with your family by creating fun videos with ElfYourself. Just watch the video above... enough said!

TextPics

Don't be one of the boring mass-texters that sends out a "Merry Christmas!" text to everyone in their contacts list. Instead, pick up TextPics and be the mass-texter (or not) that sends out a fun little text graphic in celebration of the holiday. TextPics includes many different options for Christmas and Hunukkah as well as other holidays and special occasions.



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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Autism and the special, special education | EDB-NEWS

The burials began Monday, Dec. 17, just three days after evil rained down upon Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut. On Saturday, Dec. 22, just two days before many of the massacred would have, should have, celebrated Christmas Eve with their families, the last of all 26 innocent victims were laid to rest in peace ? their souls bound up in the bonds of eternal life.

Sandy Hook Funeral Home, Newtown, Connecticut

Twenty-six souls ? 20 of them forever 6 and 7 years old ? lost amidst a haze of gunfire, gunpowder and violence. Within minutes, they were gone. Within hours of hearing that their loved ones had perished, families, still in the throes of denial and anger, began to compose stories of their loved ones. These were based upon the Pulitzer Prize?winning New York Times "Portraits of Grief" section, which was created in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The profiles were "stories, anecdotes, tiny but telling details that seemed to reveal something true and essential about how each person lived.... The profiles... were closer to snapshots ? concise, impressionistic, their power at least as much emotional as intellectual. And, they were utterly democratic." And yet, "each profile is only a snapshot, a single still frame lifted from the unrecountable complexity of a lived life."*

Like an onion, layer by layer the stories and faces of the Sandy Hook School victims came into focus. And, like an onion, each individual story brought tears to our collective eyes as we learned about each person unfairly robbed of the chance to reach his or her full potential and each family robbed of helping make those dreams a reality. We learned about the child who wanted to be a firefighter... the teacher who hid students in the closet... the boy who idolized the New York Giants... the teacher who idolized the Miami Dolphins... the girl whose mother finally allowed her to wear her favorite dress to school that fateful day... the boy who enjoyed playing baseball with his dad... the extraordinarily smart and cute boy gunned down, while his twin sister survived... the first-grade boy with special needs found cradled in the arms of his special education aide, who also died as she tried to shield him from harm.

Dylan Hockley and Anne Marie Murphy

Sandy Hook Memorial, Newtown, Connecticut

The. First. Grade. Boy. With. Special. Needs. Found. Cradled. In. The. Arms. Of. His. Special. Education. Aide. Dylan Christopher Jack Hockley, age 6, and his special education aide Anne Marie Murphy, age 52, entered into eternity together. Like Dylan, whose family lives 20 minutes from my own, my son is a first grader with autism spectrum disorder. Like Dylan, my son is in a typical classroom and has a one-on-one aide by his side. And my heart and soul believe that Ethan's educators and paraprofessionals, as did Dylan's, would sacrifice their lives to protect his. There but for the grace of G-d go I...

Just as Anne Marie had loved and protected Dylan during his short life, she loved and protected him during what was, hopefully, a death without suffering.

"We take great comfort in knowing that Dylan was not alone when he died," his parents, Ian and Nicole Hockley, said.

They went on to say that "Dylan loved Mrs. Murphy so much and pointed at her picture on our refrigerator every day.... Though our hearts break for Dylan, they are also filled with love for these and the other beautiful women who all selflessly died trying to save our children.... We cannot speak highly enough of Dawn Hochsprung and Mary Sherlach , exceptional women who knew both our children and who specifically helped us navigate Dylan's special education needs.... Dylan's teacher, Vicki Soto , was warm and funny, and Dylan loved her dearly."

At Dylan's funeral, his mother told a story about asking Dylan why he sometimes flapped his arms, as some children with autism do. Given Dylan's limited language, she expected no answer. But Dylan surprised everyone when he said, "Because I am a beautiful butterfly."

Catching up

Outside, after Dylan's service, the mourners watched as Jake, Dylan's brother, released 26 symbolic balloons ? 20 purple for the children, six white for the adults. After a beat, another purple balloon was released, which drifted up to the others, in a proverbial game of catch up. You see, when you have a child with autism, you learn that your child's life will be one long symbolic pursuit of catching up.

A woman of valor

At Anne Marie Murphy?s funeral Mass, led by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York said, "Annie's life and death bring light, truth, goodness and love to a world often shrouded in darkness, evil, selfishness and death."

Her Mass began with a reading from the Book of Proverbs : "She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy.... Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.... Honor her for all that her hands have done and let her works bring her praise."

Even in death, Anne Marie will protect children with autism; her family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Autism Speaks.

"Annie's life and death bring light, truth, goodness and love to a world often shrouded in darkness, evil, selfishness and death"

Divine intervention

While the Hockley, Murphy and 24 other families mourn their loved ones, here I sit in my own home, blessed to faintly hear my son playing the piano in another room. I am moved and awed to hear him play Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," a song he's never played before. Perhaps Divine Intervention, or Anne Marie's and Dylan's spirits, are responsible. There is no logical way to explain how my son, out of the blue, plays a new song whose apropos lyrics talk about "a lady we all know, who shines white light and wants to show, how everything still turns to gold."

Surely, Anne Marie is the lady who shines light and goodness, as she continues to assure Dylan that everything will be all right. Except this time, Dylan no longer needs to be cradled in the safety of Anne Marie's loving arms. Now, Dylan truly is that beautiful butterfly he always wanted to be. And this time, when he flaps his wings, he can ascend the stairway to Heaven all by himself. He is, after all, a butterfly. And butterflies are free.

Postscript

Throughout the year, especially during the holiday season and in the wake of the Newtown tragedy, my husband and I would like to recognize and thank the Anne Marie Murphys in our world, our very own "Women of Valor." Their love and light protects Ethan every way, every day.

School: Alison Mata, Bobbi Burns, Caitlin Massey, Caren Kemp, Catherine Carmona, Cheryl Bliss, Christina Andreassi,?Dawn Collins, Dawn Sutfin, Ed Huydic, Elena Wetmore, Jessica Olson, Jennifer Nolan,?Jessica Rohr, Kelly Conte, Linda Codeghini, Linda Johnson,?Lindsie McLean, Mary Imperioli, Matthew Barrett, Sandra Resnick, Susie DaSilva and Valerie Babich.

Private: Barbara Greenspan, MS, OTR ; Bekah DeMieri, MT-BC ; Emma Caplan ; Janaya Jones Hernandez, BCaBA ; Joan Faulkner, R.P.T. ; Kathleen Stowell, MA, PT, C/NDT ; Michael Weiss, PhD ; Rachel Stanford ; Salko Farm & Stable ; Shari Goldstein, CCC-SLP ; Stephanie "Stevi" Giurco, OTA ; and Tom Crowley .

*Nancy K. Miller,?"Portraits of Grief: Telling Details and the Testimony of Trauma," Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 14, no. 3 : 112?135.

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interfere artus: Twenty Chanticleers Graduate

Dec. 24, 2012

2012 December Graduation Photo Gallery (provided by student-athletes)

CONWAY ? Coastal Carolina University recently held its annual December graduation ceremony which included 20 Chanticleer student-athletes and two athletics staff support student workers.

Headlining this class was a group of 11 football student-athletes, including Marcus Whitener graduating cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in accounting. Joining Whitener was Chris Floyd, Chris Presley, Jamel Davis, All-Big South selection Quinton Davis, former Big South Defensive Player of the Year and two-time All-Big South pick Andrae Jacobs, Dominique Whiteside, Akeem Wesley, All-Big South honoree Johnny Hartsfield, All-Big South pick Dontavais Johnson and All-Big South selection Chris Thomas.

The volleyball, women?s golf and women?s track and field programs each had two student-athletes graduate. Erika Lightsey, who led the 2011 Chanticleers in kills, and Kelsie Mauck represented the volleyball program, while the women?s golf programs featured Eugenia Guerra, who earned Big South Presidential Honor Roll twice, and two-time All-Big South selection Kaitlin Higginbotham. Darriale Henley, who is still competing for women?s track and field program, was a member of the CCU record-setting 4?100 relay team and was the 2010 Big South Indoor long jump champion. Middle distance runner and All-Big South selection Christian Johnson was one of nine Chanticleers to graduate from Coastal?s College of Science.

Daniel Bowman, the 2012 Big South Player of the Year, represented the baseball program, decathlete Darren Tymczak represented the men?s track and field program and Dean?s List honoree Ty Wengel represented the men?s golf program.

Also graduating were support student workers Dylan Richardson (football), who graduated cum laude, and Jatavia Clay (men?s basketball).

2012 December Coastal Carolina Student-Athlete Graduates
Daniel Bowman (Baseball) Recreation and Sport Management
Jamel Davis (Football) Communication
Quinton Davis (Football) Communication
Chris Floyd (Football) Recreation and Sport Management
Eugenia Guerra (Women?s Golf) Marketing
Johnny Hartsfield (Football) Political Science
Darriale Henley (Women?s Track) Exercise and Sport Science
Kaitlin Higginbotham (Women?s Golf) Management
Andrae Jacobs (Football) Communication
Christian Johnson (Women?s Track) Health Promotion
Dontavais Johnson (Football) Communication
Erika Lightsey (Volleyball) Biology
Kelsie Mauck (Volleyball) Management
Chris Presley (Football) Management
Chris Thomas (Football) Communication
Darren Tymczak (Men?s Track) Recreation and Sport Management
Ty Wengel (Men?s Golf) Management
Akeem Wesley (Football) Communication
Marcus Whitener (Football) Accounting (cum laude)
Dominique Whiteside (Football) Recreation and Sport Management

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Monday, December 24, 2012

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Stocks as stocking stuffers: Three ideas for kids

A weekly allowance isn't the only way to teach kids about personal finance. Here are three tips for giving stocks as Christmas gifts.

By Angela Colley,?Contributor / December 23, 2012

A bird used by a Chinese man, unseen, to perform, holds a yuan collected from a tourist as it prepares to drop it into a piggy bank, in Houhai district, in Beijing, China in this 2010 file photo. Financial tools, like stocks, can make great gifts for kids with the right presentation.

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Parents have been trying to teach kids about money in clever ways for ages. Take the old standby: allowance. I remember doing chores around the house to earn my weekly allowance as a kid, and now that I?m an adult those early money lessons have come in handy.

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But manual labor isn?t the only way to get your kids excited about personal finance. You could dress those money lessons up with a ribbon and bow ? or put them in a stocking this Christmas.

Now that you?ve got the idea, let?s hash out the details?

1. Choosing stocks

When you?re an adult, any stock that performs well is exciting. Kids?tend to care more about brands?they recognize than return on investment ? so when you pick investments for them,?pick from companies that make or sell what they?re?into. RankingTheBrands.com has a list of?Kids? "Top 100 Most Loved Brands"?to give you some ideas. For example:

Predicting the Future of Teaching | HalalTec - ligugen's Space

Dec 23, 2012

There is a mountain of speculation and debate about what school and learning will look like in the near future. Will education be online? Individualized? Self-paced? Flipped? Hybridized? Maybe even completely irrelevant? Rarely, however, is much speculation given to the role of the educator in the future of learning. All people seem to want to know is whether lectures are better recorded or in person or if educators at every level are giving students enough real world skills to be successful in the global economy. In reality, however, the radical changes in technology and the increasing demands on teachers are going to fundamentally change the very act of teaching. What will the educator of the future look like? How will the job description and qualifications change? And what effect will all of that have on students?

The Future of Learning

An October, 2012 video released by telecom company Ericsson presents a survey of educational experts and entrepreneurs speculating about the future of education. This promotional video for the company relies heavily on Knewton and Coursera as the models for the kinds of adaptive, individualized technology that will drive learning in the future.

The focus of the video is the ability of these technologies to track minute user data and facilitate intimately individualized instruction based on that data, including student learning preference, peak performance times, prior knowledge, and a host of other information. Even so, teaching and the role of the instructor was largely missing from this conversation about the techno-facilitated future of education.? One rather vague reference to the role of the educator was attributed to Coursera CEO Daphne Koller in an article accompanying the piece on GIGAOM:

?Coursera?s Koller says one of the revolutions in education is that teaching will be less about conveying information and more of a return to its original roots where instructors engage in dialogue, develop critical thinking skills and spark passion about a discipline.? (23 Oct., 2012)

The Role of the Educator on an Individualized World?

The Koller quote indicates that teaching will take a step backward (historically) with the implementation of these new technologies. Pretty far back, to the time of Plato, in fact, where the teaching and learning process was more about interpersonal interaction and fostering the individual ability to critically apply knowledge and cultivate individual passions for learning. While that is a wonderful plan, it is nearly impossible to imagine a way in which it could happen in a world where a factory model of education still dominates and teachers are overwhelmed with dozens of students in a single class. Plato never had 30 students following him around all attempting to interact at the same time. Given the reality of our education system, here are some more realistic roles for instructors in the world of high-tech education:

  • Facilitator/Learning Manager: If instructional materials really become individualized to the extent that the video describes, there will need to be someone present to help students navigate the technical aspects of performing the work that the system pushes to them. Additionally, the instructor will have a role in keeping students on task, and in providing support when learners fail to reach the standards pre-programmed into the adaptive learning system. There may also be an increased role in making sure that each student is completing their own work, rather than the work of peers.
  • Remediator: When students fail to achieve the learning objectives outlined by the automated system, the instructor will need to step in to troubleshoot the learning disconnect and either provide alternative instruction or adjust the learning system through some sort of control interface.
  • Enricher: Playing off the flipped classroom model, the teacher?s role could shift to providing enrichment activities beyond the scope of the automated system. If adaptive content is provided that helps students master basic concepts and learn background information, teachers can focus on helping students use the information that they have gained in authentic ways to help turn it into knowledge.
  • Collaborator/Mentor: One intriguing possibility in a technology-facilitated education future is for teachers to serve as collaborators and mentors with students engaging in real world, possibly entrepreneurial, activities. Such activities would help students develop actual marketable skills and could potentially provide a new and much needed revenue stream for schools and universities.
  • Content Creator: One role that teachers already have ?unless their curriculum is standardized- is that of content creator. This is actually one of the most important functions that educators at all levels perform, and one for which they are well trained. Add to these qualifications the fact that they actually know their students, their strengths, weaknesses, and capabilities, and educators could become a valuable resource to be employed to help bolster the content in these adaptive systems. This serves the additional purpose of de-centralizing the curriculum so that a diverse set of perspectives and ideas can be assured.
  • N/A: It is possible, though fairly far-fetched, that the further refinement of these adaptive learning systems will make educators obsolete. The Internet is rapidly becoming a repository for all human knowledge (information), and there is potential for these systems to become sophisticated enough to take existing content and reformulate it to create new learning opportunities. This is a frightening possibility that seems awfully close to the scenario that serves as the backdrop for the Terminator movies though.

While it is exciting to think about the rich possibilities that these new technologies could provide for students and the potential they have for liberating teachers from much of the routine, standardized content that all students must master in order to be successful. It is important to remember that true learning happens in context and through a socially mediated process of meaning making.? No technology can accomplish that (yet?), so we will need to keep teachers around to provide the most important aspect of education ? the human touch.

by Justin Marquis Ph.D.

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Sunday, December 23, 2012

'Phonehenge' Builder Alan Kimble Fahey Sentenced To Jail

LANCASTER, Calif. -- A man who built a quirky Mojave Desert compound known as Phonehenge West was sentenced to nearly 18 months in jail because he failed to pay for its demolition, Los Angeles County prosecutors said Friday.

Alan Kimble Fahey was ordered to pay more than $83,000 in costs incurred for the dismantling of the 20,000-foot labyrinth of interconnected structures and telephone poles. But Fahey has repaid just $1,250 to the county, the Los Angeles Times reported.

On Wednesday, L.A. County Superior Court Judge Daviann L. Mitchell questioned Fahey's claims of financial hardship before sentencing him to 539 days in jail.

After the ruling, Fahey's attorney Jerry E. Lennon said the nonviolent nature of his client's offense and his documented heart condition will likely make him eligible for early release.

The retired phone company technician was convicted of a dozen misdemeanor building code violations. Fahey never got building permits for the structures, which included a 70-foot tower, and authorities said the compound was a danger.

Prosecutors said it took four big-rigs to haul away 53 tons of telephone poles, and trucks hauled another 280 tons of debris.

Some had praised the compound 50 miles north of downtown Los Angeles as an example of American folk art. The 70-foot tower had stained-glass windows and energy-producing windmills. There were nearly a dozen other buildings, including a replica of a 16th century Viking house.

Fahey had been defiant, saying authorities never should have forced him to tear down Phonehenge West. He added that his buildings are better constructed than the county courthouse he was convicted in.

Fahey said he did obtain building permits when he started Phonehenge West, but the county lost them.

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Celebrities with Eating Disorders: Jane Fonda Discusses her Long ...

When most people hear the name Jane Fonda, the first image that is likely to come to mind is that of the original fitness guru. The actress-turned-fitness queen inspired a generation to take cardiovascular exercise seriously with her once-ubiquitous aerobics tapes.

However, she wasn?t always the picture of health. ?The 74-year-old actress revealed on Katie Couric?s Dec. 11th show that she, spurred by pressures to appear thin, battled bulimia for decades. Fonda?s revealing admission follows a string of other celebrities who have been candid about their battles with eating disorders?including Demi Lovato and Lady Gaga. Even Katie Couric recently discussed her own once-private struggle with bulimia on her show.

Jane Fonda has revealed that much of her negative body image stemmed from pressure she received from her father, actor Henry Fonda. She told Harper?s Bazaar magazine ?I was raised in the ?50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.? She continued, ?He sent me messages that fathers should not send: Unless you look perfect you?re not going to be loved.?

Though it would be great if such pressures from loved ones were anachronisms, the fact is that many parents still put enormous pressures on their children to look a certain way. Poor body image can be a factor that contributes to eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia. Fonda stated that it wasn?t until she was about 50 that she was able to replace her negative body image with a healthier one.

However, there are many women who harbor negative body images even later in life. A study published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders showed that 60% 60-70-year old women were dissatisfied with their bodies. It has also been shown that older women are getting help in eating disorder clinics with greater frequency. ??Fonda has cautioned women who are struggling with eating disorders to get help as soon as possible. ?If you suffer from bulimia, the older you get, the worse it gets. It takes longer to recover?? She said.

Fonda made her choice to turn to recovery more than 30 years ago. ?I had a career, I was winning awards, I was supporting nonprofits, I had a family. I had to make a choice: I live or I die.? It was then that Fonda was able to reinvent herself as an aerobics queen. Since her recovery, Fonda?s name has become synonymous with health and fitness. Fonda has shown that with will and the right treatment, it is possible to recover from an eating disorder at any age.

Source: http://eatingdisorderstreatment.com/celebrities-with-eating-disorders-jane-fonda-discusses-her-long-bulimia-battle/

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