Noh seizes lead with Woods in hot pursuit

Seung-Yul Noh capped a flawless nine-under 62 with two birdies to seize a one-shot first-round lead in the Deutsche Bank Championship, the second stop in the US PGA Tour playoffs.

South Korea's Noh, playing in more testing afternoon conditions, roared past early pace-setters Tiger Woods and Jeff Overton, who had shared the morning clubhouse lead on 64 but ended the day sharing third place alongside Ryan Moore and behind Noh and American Chris Kirk -- who carded an eight-under 63 at the TPC Boston.

Noh nabbed his first birdie of the day on the par-five second, then reeled off four straight birdies from the fourth. Four birdies coming home included back-to-back efforts at 17 and 18 -- where he landed a wedge five feet from the pin.

"Everything (was) good today," said the 21-year-old Noh, who won on the Asian Tour at 17 and earned his US tour card in qualifying school in December.

Like Woods, he works with swing coach Sean Foley, but he can't claim the name recognition of Foley's most famous client -- or much recognition at all yet in America.

"Some people say Kevin Na, like, 'Go Kevin,'" Noh said of fans who have mistaken him for the Korean-American player.

While he was delighted with his round, which was one shot off the course record of 61, Noh was well aware that plenty of golf remained in the event scheduled to end Monday on the US Labor Day holiday.

"Golf is playing 72 holes, so plenty of holes left," he said.

Woods, too, knows that after enduring some wobbly weekend play this season.

Woods has won three times this season, but he has also seen several title challenges unravel on the weekend. He shared the halfway lead at two major championships only to falter and last week at The Barclays he stumbled home with a 72-76.

He was off to an undeniably hot start, however, with a round that included a string of six birdies and was his second-lowest of the season, bettered only by the 62 he carded in the final round of the Honda Classic.

He walked off the course with a one-shot lead but was quickly joined at 64 by Overton, who like Woods had eight birdies and one bogey in his round.

"I played really well today," said Woods, who teed off on 10 and birdied 11 and 13 before launching his run of six successive birdies at the revamped par-five 18th.

"I hit a lot of good shots, and on top of that, I putted well at the same time," added Woods, who hit 16 of 18 greens in regulation and 10 of 14 fairways. "It was a nice little combination."

Woods' only miscue came at his final hole, the par-four ninth, where his approach shot missed the green.

"I hit the ball well enough to probably shoot maybe one or two more (under)," Woods said. "I missed a couple little putts out there. But also I made my share from outside of 15, 20 feet as well."

Overton, who needs a good finish here to advance to the next event of the playoffs at Crooked Stick -- birdied five straight starting at the 12th and punctuated his round with a birdie at 18.

Kirk teed off on 10 and his round included an eagle at the 18th, which was expected to be more difficult after a redesign that included making the green smaller.

World number one Rory McIlroy and American Bryce Molder shared sixth place on 65, one shot in front of Australian John Senden and South African Louis Oosthuizen.

England's Luke Donald and Ian Poulter were among a group of seven players on 67.

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10 things we learned during billionaires' battle

Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky talks to the media after losing his case against Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich as he leaves the High Court in London, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. Berezovsky lost his multibillion-dollar legal battle against a fellow Russian oligarch on Friday, with a British judge ruling that Roman Abramovich was the more truthful witness in their clash over vast oil wealth. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky talks to the media after losing his case against Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich as he leaves the High Court in London, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. Berezovsky lost his multibillion-dollar legal battle against a fellow Russian oligarch on Friday, with a British judge ruling that Roman Abramovich was the more truthful witness in their clash over vast oil wealth. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

LONDON (AP) ? The $5.6 billion legal clash between Russian oligarchs Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich offered a rare window into the lives of the fabulously wealthy. With judge Elizabeth Gloster ruling Friday in Abramovich's favor, let's look back at 10 things we learned during the testimony:

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OLIGARCHS DON'T PUT ANYTHING IN WRITING.

Gloster pointed out that almost all aspects of the alleged agreements between Berezovsky and Abramovich were in dispute, largely because many of the alleged deals were made orally. No one even took notes.

Abramovich said the cloud this created was partly intentional: He claimed that for a time, he went along with the fiction that Berezovsky owned part of Abramovich's oil company, Sibneft, because Berezovsky's political capital helped protect the business.

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AN OFFICE IS NO PLACE TO MEET.

Even when they were doing business, the two men rarely met in conventional places of business. Their meetings took place at all sorts of exotic and exclusive sites: Berezovsky's club in Moscow; on the Riviera; in the French Alps; at the Dorchester Hotel in London; in private planes and super-yachts; and at various heliports and airports.

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OLIGARCHS DON'T NEED TO DRESS UP.

In one of the trial's most colorful scenes, Abramovich said Berezovsky kept his fellow tycoons waiting for an hour at a high-stakes meeting in 2000 at London's Dorchester Hotel, and when he finally showed up he was wearing a dressing gown and looking disheveled. Berezovsky, who did not confirm his wardrobe choice, claimed that the description was an attempt to smear him and paint him as a Godfather-like mafia figure.

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A MILLION DOLLARS IS NOTHING.

Abramovich said Berezovsky was down to his last $1 million when he fled from Russia in 2000.

"He would not have lived long on that," Abramovich testified.

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WITNESSES ARE MORE EFFECTIVE WHEN THEY HAVE AN INCENTIVE.

Berezovsky admitted in court that he had promised two potential witnesses 1 percent shares of his judgment ? potentially tens of millions of dollars ? if he won his case.

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AN OLIGARCH IS MOST VULNERABLE WHEN SHOPPING.

It wasn't easy for Berezovsky to serve notice that he intended to sue Abramovich. He told The Associated Press that he carried the legal papers in his car for six months while he tried to track Abramovich down, once making a trip 200 miles (320 kilometers) north of London.

"I even flew to Manchester to a game between Manchester United and Chelsea, but he was with 20 bodyguards. It was impossible to give him papers," Berezovsky said at the time.

Berezovsky finally got his chance on London's swank Sloane Square, when he spotted Abramovich shopping in a Hermes boutique. Berezovsky walked in, to the horror of Abramovich's security detail, and served him.

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EVERY HOUSE NEEDS A ROOF.

The Russian word most bandied about during the trial was "krysha," which means roof. It also means political patronage that blurred the line between business, politics and shady mafia dealings.

Abramovich testified that in the 1990s, it was impossible for anyone to build up a major business without the help of someone with business and political connections. That someone was Berezovsky, who he claimed demanded millions of dollars in return for protection.

From yachts to French vacation homes to girlfriends' bills, Abramovich testified that there was nothing he didn't pay for to subsidize Berezovsky's extravagant lifestyle.

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IT STARTED WITH A QUACK.

Abramovich may be one of Russia's wealthiest men today, but his origins are humble. He was orphaned as a child, and lived with relatives. He did not finish college and went straight into business, with his first venture comprised of selling rubber ducks.

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IT PAYS TO BE HONEST.

Gloster's judgment did not use the "L'' word, but she did not mince her words in calling Berezovsky "an unimpressive, and inherently unreliable, witness, who regarded truth as a transitory, flexible concept, which could be molded to suit his current purposes. At times the evidence which he gave was deliberately dishonest; sometimes he was clearly making his evidence up as he went along ... at other times, I gained the impression that he was not necessarily being deliberately dishonest, but had deluded himself into believing his own version of events...

"I regret to say that the bottom line of my analysis of Mr. Berezovsky's credibility is that he would have said almost anything to support his case."

Outside court, Berezovsky denied he was dishonest ? and instead maintained that Abramovich was the liar.

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THE WINNER DOESN'T REALLY TAKE IT ALL.

Sure, Abramovich won the case. But let's not forget who's laughing all the way to the bank: London's lawyers. Each party shelled out untold sums to hire some of the world's top lawyers, and legal fees are estimated to be at least tens of millions of pounds. London lawyers fight a lot of Russian battles ? many Russians distrust the legal system in their homeland ? and say they're especially good for lawyers because the disputes are often intensely personal, with each party doing everything it can to win.

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Want to be happy? Ladies, it's in your genes

The "warrior gene" in men might be the "happiness gene" for women.

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A new study found that a low-expression form of the gene monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) seems to give women good feelings, but it doesn't have the same effect in guys. In fact, it's the same gene type that has been linked to aggression in men.

"This is the first happiness gene for women," lead author Henian Chen, of the University of South Florida, said in a statement.

MAOA controls the activity of an enzyme that breaks down serotonin, dopamine and other feel-good brain chemicals. The low-expression version MAOA leads to higher levels of monoamine, which, in turn, allows larger amounts of these neurotransmitters to stay in the brain and boost mood.

In the study, the researchers examined how this gene was expressed in 193 women and 152 men. They also analyzed the subjects' self-reported happiness.

The researchers found that women with even just one copy of the low-activity type of MAOA were much happier than women with no copies. Meanwhile, many of the men in the study had a copy of the gene variant, but reported no more happiness than their peers without it, the researchers said.

The study, which appears in the journal Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, controlled for various factors, including age, education and income.

"I was surprised by the result, because low expression of MAOA has been related to some negative outcomes like alcoholism, aggressiveness and antisocial behavior," Chen said in a statement. "It's even called the warrior gene by some scientists, but, at least for women, our study points to a brighter side of this gene."

Chen and his team speculated that testosterone might be to blame for this genetic gender gap, saying the hormone might mitigate the positive effects of MAOA in men.

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Computer viruses could take a lesson from showy peacocks

ScienceDaily (Aug. 29, 2012) ? Computer viruses are constantly replicating throughout computer networks and wreaking havoc. But what if they had to find mates in order to reproduce?

In the current issue of Evolution, Michigan State University researchers created the digital equivalent of spring break to see how mate attraction played out through computer programs, said Chris Chandler, MSU postdoctoral researcher at MSU's BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action.

"This is actually a big question that still generates a lot of debate," said Chandler, who co-authored the study with Ian Dworkin, assistant professor of zoology, and Charles Ofria, associate professor of computer science and engineering. "People have some good ideas, but they can be hard to test really well in nature, so we decided to take a different approach."

The novel approach involved creating promiscuous programs in a virtual world called Avida, a software environment in which specialized computer programs compete and reproduce. Because mutations happen when Avidians copy themselves, which lead to differences in reproductive rates, these digital organisms evolve, just like living things, added Ofria, who created Avida.

The researchers programed the Avidians with the ability to grow sexual displays -- e-peacock tails of sorts. They also allowed them to choose mates randomly. As the researchers predicted, they usually went for the showiest mates. But why?

"One school of thought argues that the main benefit of choosing an attractive partner is that your offspring also will be sexy," said Dworkin. "In the other camp are those who argue that these sexual ornaments are a sign of good health, and so choosing a showy mate ensures that you'll get good genes to pass on to your offspring."

Traditionally, biologists thought that ornamental displays clue in potential mates about an individual's virility because the structures are costly, biologically speaking; only an animal in really good health could bear the burden they impose. So the researchers altered Avidians' genetic code to allow them to grow exaggerated displays practically for free.

They expected this change to diminish the evolutionary benefits of preferring showy mates, since even the wimpiest of Avidians could now grow enormous digital tail feathers.

"I was surprised when we didn't find that at all," Chandler said. "Even when we eliminated the costs of these displays, they still evolved to be an indicator of a male's genetic quality."

MSU's BEACON Center is funded by the National Science Foundation.

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Antarctic breeding penguins vanishing

In the first complete survey of chinstrap penguins' breeding across Deception Island in the Antarctic, scientists have found a significant number of the chic birds have disappeared from the breeding grounds since the 1980s.

The largest colony, called Baily Head on Deception Island, which is located in the Antarctic's South Shetland Islands, saw a drop of more than 50 percent over the past two decades, the researchers added.

The culprit? The scientists point to climate change.

The study, detailed this week in the journal Polar Biology, complements another recent tally of chinstrap penguins on Deception Island. That survey focused on just one chinstrap colony on Deception, showing that more than one-third of the Vapour Col ?colony had vanished in the past 20 years. [ Photos: Chinstrap Penguins on Deception Island ]

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In the new study, Heather Lynch, assistant professor of ecology and evolution at Stony Brook University, and her colleagues surveyed the entire island in December 2011. Field work in Antarctica is not for the faint of heart; the 12-day period of their work using the yacht Pelagic as a base station occurred "in the harshest of conditions ? persistent clouds, precipitation and high winds, the latter sometimes reaching gale force and requiring a lot of patience waiting out the blows," said study researcher Ron Naveen, founder of the nonprofit science and conservation organization Oceanites, Inc. "But, in the end, we achieved the first-ever survey of all chinstraps breeding on the island."

The team estimated 79,849 breeding pairs of chinstrap penguins at Deception, including 50,408 breeding pairs at Baily Head.

"We combined our field count with an analysis of satellite image analysis showing for the first time that satellite image census estimates are indistinguishable from ground counts," Lynch told LiveScience in an email, referring to the Baily Head numbers."

Then, by comparing the updated numbers with previous population estimates (after accounting for uncertainty), the researchers found strong evidence of a more than 50 percent decline in the abundance of chinstraps breeding at Baily Head since 1986-87.

The study also seems to clear up, at least for the Baily Head colony, a concern that tourism may be harming the birds.

"While there has been considerable focus in the policy and management community about the potential impact of tourism on these penguin populations, we cannot forget the overwhelming evidence that climate is responsible for the dramatic changes that we are seeing on the Peninsula," Lynch said in a statement. "If tourism is having a negative impact on these populations, it?s too small an effect to be detected against the background of climate change."

In the 1990s, some thought the melting sea ice would favor chinstrap penguins, which, unlike Ad?lie penguins, prefer the ice-free waters. However, the sea-ice decline in the winter has reached a point where it is impacting the penguins' favorite food, krill, said Andres Barbosa of the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid, who conducted the Vapour Col study.

The new study is part of the Antarctic Site Inventory project, which has been collecting and analyzing Antarctic Peninsula-wide penguin population data since 1994.

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Corporate Class | Faiella Financial Group - Managing General ...

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What is Corporate Class?
A group of mutual funds structured as a corporation rather than a trust. This enables investors to make investment decisions without being affected by tax concerns and allows them to benefit from tax deferral and increased compound growth over the long term.

How can it be used

• To minimize or eliminate annual distributions.
• To receive tax-efficient capital gains or Canadian dividends from traditional income funds.
• To rebalance your portfolio on a regular basis without triggering capital gains or losses.
• To potentially lower your taxes, because you can defer them and choose when to realize capital gains.
• To allow for tax-efficient charitable donation planning.
• To preserve or increase income-tested government benefits.

Who uses it?

• Any investor with non-registered assets should consider Corporate Class, especially if you:
• have maximized your tax-free savings account contributions
• are a higher-income earner who has maximized your RRSPs
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Corporate Class Case Study

Janet and Paul have been investing their money for the past 10 years and have built a sizeable non-registered portfolio. Their account is a conservative, balanced portfolio with a mix of interest income, dividends and capital gains making up the return. However, the yields they are receiving, on an after-tax basis, are not providing the returns they hoped for. Janet and Paul are concerned that they will have to pursue a potentially riskier investment strategy in order to obtain higher after-tax returns.

The Solution

Janet and Paul invest in Corporate Class investment funds. By doing so they are able to minimize distributions, receive tax-efficient capital gains or Canadian dividends from income funds, reduce their tax bill and increase their after-tax returns. Furthermore, as Janet and Paul?s investment objectives change, they can rebalance their portfolio inside the corporation without realizing any taxable capital gains. The power of tax-deferred compounding is illustrated in the graph where Janet and Paul could save $35,000 in taxes over 30 years on an initial investment of $50,000. When they retire, Corporate Class could reduce clawbacks of their Old Age Security and trim their annual tax bill. Ultimately, Janet and Paul not only save taxes, but are also able to build a considerable nest egg to leave their children and grandchildren.

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With the advent of web, we have noticed the explosion of businesses on-line. You could possibly personal an off line company and wish to take it on-line. The fundamental principle of on the internet and off line businesses may be the same. You do hear stories of people making it large all the time online. Always take these stories with a pinch of salt, and be prepared to function difficult and place in the work expected to make your online business productive.

You can find specific positive aspects of a web-based enterprise, 1 of them becoming the numerous advertising opportunities. There are numerous tools that support in online marketing, which includes natural Search engine optimization or natural seo. Not all of them want loads of funds, so you don?t have to be concerned on that front. A few of these tools are very easily available and undoubtedly greater than several off line company advertising and marketing tools.

Natural Seo is nothing at all but natural approaches employed for marketing and advertising against the sponsored or purchased strategies. All-natural Search engine marketing primarily is of two varieties, the off page Search engine optimization along with the on page Seo.

The least important of the two natural Search engine optimization tactics will be the on page natural Seo, it really is just the fundamental kind of Seo performed on the internet page itself. Here, the web site owner wants to take care of optimizing the Title, Search phrases, Content, and Description, making sure that when the search engines verify the net page, they may be convinced that the key phrases offered are pertinent with the content provided inside the internet page.

The far more crucial natural Search engine marketing method will be the off page Search engine marketing, which is performed at some other region other than the web page. One particular of the techniques of off page all-natural Seo is inbound links towards the web page from pages which have the similar keywords and phrases associated with the niche of one?s internet site. When the search engines see several such inbound links from various websites in the exact same niche and relevant key phrases, they assume that your webpage is becoming observed by other websites as becoming a contender for the specific keywords and phrases.

The natural Search engine marketing strategies price no money, whether or not it really is submitting articles to several directories or posting on blogs or perhaps getting links back from other websites, unlike other methods of Search engine marketing such as Pay per Click, that is paid traffic. Paid traffic is only limited to what you pay for. The minute your account is out of money, you?re PPC ads quit and with it stops the traffic, in contrast to all-natural Seo that continues to work.

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Panasonic's 145-inch 8K PDP eyes-on (video)

Tucked away into a dark corner of Panasonic's booth is the clear highlight of the outfit's IFA 2012 showcase: a 145-inch 8K plasma display panel. Developed in partnership with Japan's NHK, the prototype is merely a proof of concept for the broadcaster's planned 2020 launch of Super Hi Vision TV. In person, the flat screen is truly awe-inspiring, offering such richness of detail that even up-close we weren't able to discern any pixels, while colors appeared balanced and natural. Overall, the image quality -- 16 times that of regular full HD -- nearly apes the real-world images it replicates. Unfortunately, you'll have to wait sometime before this tech trickles down to the mass market level. In the meantime, content yourself with a brief video demo after the break.

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Let's Talk Gefilte Fish; the Graham Opens in Williamsburg ...

? Just don?t call it a ?staycation?: Travel + Leisure magazine will host its Global Bazaar at the Lexington Armory over the weekend of September 28. Four separately themed sessions promise global shopping and performances, plus exciting food and drinks from celebrity chefs like Morimoto and Michael White. Tickets are $75?$125 via Ticketmaster. [Grub Street]

? Celebrate the New Year ? Rosh Hashanah, that is ? with ?Gefilte Talk? on Thursday, September 6, at the Center for Jewish History. Mitchell Davis will moderate a panel discussion on culinary traditions, and there will be a tasting of classic and updated gefilte dishes. Tickets are $15. [Grub Street]

? Just a handful of blocks from the increasingly briny Lower East Side, seafood joint Bait and Hook is opening at Second Avenue and 14th Street. Has downtown seafood already, ahem, jumped the shark? [EV Grieve]

? The West Village?s Monument Lane is transitioning to an all-American wine list, to better complement their commitment to local ingredients and American cooking. Share their patriotism by helping drink off the excess old-world bottles at their series of four-course wine tasting dinners, held every Wednesday in September (5, 12, 19, and 26). Tickets are $92 plus tax and tip at Brown Paper Tickets. [Grub Street]

? The proprietors of 4th Avenue Pub and Fulton Grand have expanded their beer-bar mini-empire into Williamsburg with the opening of the Graham. Stop by for happy hour: $2 off everything before eight. [Zagat]

? The Lower East Side?s caf?-gelato shop Stellina has reopened after a months-long renovation, just in time for the tail end of ice-cream-cone season. [Eater NY]

? Are you a slave to Seamless or more of a PB&J kind of luncher? Food Republic wants to know: They?re conducting a survey of lunch habits, looking to definitively find out how long is too long to wait at a food truck, among other questions. [Food Republic]

? If you love to cook but hate to shop (or just don?t have time) the newly launched Blue Apron may be for you. The website will deliver subscribers ingredients for three meals that can be prepared in under 45 minutes every week. [Grub Street]

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How (and why) you should enable two-step verification on your Dropbox account

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After some security woes, the folks at Dropbox have finally made two-step verification available to their users. Here's what that means, why it's important?and how to use it.

Two-step (or two-factor) verification means that logging into an account?requires two proofs of identity ? typically a password and a temporary code sent to a cellphone or generated by an app.?This process keeps?your account safe even if your password is somehow compromised (or if the cellphone which receives the temporary codes is misplaced). Without both items, it's not possible to log into the account.

In order to enable two-step verification on your Dropbox account, you'll need to sign into the Dropbox website and open your account menu (by clicking on your name, in the upper-right corner). Once in there,?open the settings and click on the "security" tab. In the "account sign in" section, you'll find the option to turn on two-step verification.?You'll be asked to enter your Dropbox password and then get the option of receiving your temporary security codes via text message or by using a mobile app. You'll also be prompted to write down a?backup code, which you should keep somewhere safe?? so that you have it in case your phone ever disappears.

And that's it. After you've gone through these steps, you'll use your password and a temporary security code to log into Dropbox. And you'll rest easily, knowing that your account is far more secure.

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Lightning Strikes Twice

Over the past two Olympics, the sleepy island of Jamaica has shown itself to be a true power in world athletics. The track and field events in London were dominated by Jamaican athletes for the second Olympics in a row. Jamaica has been producing great athletes for years, but many had left Jamaica at an early age only to represent different nations.

The most notorious athlete of Jamaican descent is Ben Johnson. In 1988, Ben Johnson won the hundred meter sprint at the Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He shattered the world record and easily beat long time rival, Carl Lewis. Ben's victory was short lived, as after the race he tested positive for a banned substance and was stripped of his gold medal. Second place finisher, Carl Lewis was awarded the gold.

As a result of this positive test, Ben Johnson was banned from sprinting and his career was essentially over. He did try a comeback two years later, but he again failed a ban substance test, thus ending any further comebacks. It is sad to note that a total of five sprinters from that 1988 race have since been caught using banned substances.

Next in line for sprinting fame was Jamaican born Donovan Bailey. Donovan was born in Manchester, Jamaica on December 16, 1967. He emigrated to Canada at the age of thirteen. At the 1996 Summer Olympics, Donovan broke the world record in the hundred meter sprint with a time of 9.84 seconds. He also became the first Canadian to legally run the 100 meters in under 10 seconds. At that same Olympics, he led the Canadian 4x100 sprint to gold as well.

In 1997, a special race was set up between Donovan Bailey and American, Michael Johnson to determine who was the fastest man in the world. The race was held over a distance of 150 meters as Johnson was a 200 meter specialist and Donovan excelled at 100 meters. Donovan easily won the race and collected a cool 1.5 million dollars for his efforts.

Since that time, Jamaican runners, actually representing Jamaica, have taken over the sport. Of the top nine fastest times ever recorded in the 100 meter sprint, six of the athletes are from Jamaica. In 2005, after a long dominance by the United States, Asafa Powell took back the world record for Jamaica, with a time of 9.72 seconds, and held it until 2008, when it was again broken by another Jamaican.

Usain Bolt, born in Trelawny, Jamaica, roared onto the scene at the 2008 Olympics and shattered the 100 meter sprint record with a time of 9.58 seconds. In the same games he set a world record in the 200 meter sprint and helped the Jamaican 4x100 team to a record breaking run. He was only 21 at the time and still not fully developed as a sprinter.

Usain returned to the world stage at the 2012 Olympics in London, and the big question on everyone's mind was could the young phenom match his achievements from the previous Olympics. In the lead up to these games there had been injuries and some, by his standards, poor performances. All fears were soon put to rest as Usain, almost leisurely, won the 100 meter, 200 meter and again help set a world record in the 4x100 for his Jamaican teammates. Usain is now the only sprinter to win back to back golds in both the 100 and 200 meter sprints.

Usain Bolt will be only 29 by the time the next Olympics roll around. Many feel that he will be at his athletic peak at that point. It will be very interesting to see if Usain can defend his titles for a third time and set new records. The world will be watching with baited breath.

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One Family's Sherie de Burgh to give masterclass on challenges ...

Posted on August 27, 2012 by comms

One Family Counselling Coordinator Sherie de Burgh will be delivering one of a series of masterclasses aimed at giving professionals in-depth knowledge and skills to resource them in managing the challenges that present around unplanned pregnancy. The masterclasses are being organised by the Deptartment of Adult and Community Education, NYU, Maynooth. Applications will be taken on a first come first served basis for all classes and early booking is advisable. The first class is at the end of September. See the link below

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Electronic sutures can monitor wounds

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Nic Halverson , DiscoveryNews

A stitch in time might save a little more than nine now that researchers have successfully developed electronic sutures that monitor wounds and help speed up the healing process.

Invented by John Rogers, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the smart stitches contain ultrathin silicon sensors that can be blended with polymer or silk strips thin enough to thread through needles. In animal tests, Rogers and his team were able to lace the sutures through skin and knot them without damaging the sensors.

Because elevated temperatures can indicate infection, the sutures monitor temperature at the wound site. The stitches can also deliver heat, which can aid healing.

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However, Rogers envisions that they could also be used to deliver medicine.

"Ultimately, the most value would be when you can release drugs from them in a programmed way," he said, according to Technology Review.

Doing so would mean coating the electronic sutures with drug-infused polymers that can release chemicals when prompted by heat or an electrical pulse.

The team built two kinds of sensors: A silicon diode that changes its current output according to temperature and a platinum nanomembrane resistor that alters its resistance to temperature. The sutures' micro-heaters, made of gold filaments, produce heat when an electric current passes through them.

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All materials are safe for use in the body. However, the researchers have only tested the sutures on rat skin. Next on their to-do list: making the smart stitches wireless.

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Dell's Profits Shirnk 18% as Mobile Computing Puts - Eco Tech Ninja

Posted on 22 August 2012 by Ninja Bear

Dell was once the most well-respected and recognized computer company on the planet. Those days appear to be over, at least for now. Dell reported an 18% loss in their profits over the last estimates. While other PC makers like HP and Lenovo are also struggling due to the emergence of the iPad, Dell?s struggles are particularly troubling for its owners and shareholders. Hard days are ahead for the company as they attempt everything they can to try to get their profits headed back in the right direction.

The release of Windows 8 in October might be able to help Dell and its fellow PC makers to make up some lost ground. They will be able to sell tablets that are very user-friendly, according to Microsoft executives. Microsoft 8 was designed to be compatible with touch screen devices similar to the iPad. The entire computer industry is trying to keep pace with Apple right now as their latest products have firmly cemented them as the head of the pack. Dell is struggling the most because their technology is seen as outdated and old.

Dell continually fails to produce good products in the smartphone market, where Lenovo is making headway in China. It?s estimated that Lenovo has sold 7 million units in China, and they are quickly approaching Dell?s revenue on a quarterly basis. Dell must act fast or they will become a company of the past. They are forecasting much lower sales than Wall Street has anticipated for them. People as a whole are generally no longer willing to invest in stationary desktops. Even laptop computer sales are hitting low numbers that they haven?t experienced in years.

People are ditching the big, bulky, immobile computers for tablets. It?s now Dell?s job to figure out how they can take their current compatibility with computers of the past and transfer it to computers of the present and future. If they can?t, we might just be seeing the end of Dell computers as we know them. iPads only cost about $350 when you buy them online. They are truly a good alternative to regular computers, since they cost more and can?t be transported everywhere.

The message that the market has sent to Dell is clear: get with the times or get out of the business. While Dell was once a decorated, celebrated computer company 10 years ago, its relationship with consumers has been shaky at best in recent years. Most people feel that Dell doesn?t do enough to keep up with the latest innovations that other companies are producing every day. Online web applications for mobile phones are making it easier than ever for people to play games and stay connected.

If Dell doesn?t figure out how to please the new generation of computer-buyers, they will be digging their own grave. People would still trust the Dell brand if they knew their products are more in line with the current trends.

Source: http://www.ecotechninja.com/eco-technology-industry-news/dells-profits-shirnk-18-as-mobile-computing-puts-pc-sales-in-a-slump-85442/

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Federer, Murray could have rematch in Open semis

NEW YORK (AP) ? Though no player would admit to looking so far ahead, Novak Djokovic may have been the biggest winner when the U.S. Open bracket was set Thursday.

The defending champion and No. 2 seed can reach his third straight final at Flushing Meadows without having to face either Roger Federer or Andy Murray. Those two, meanwhile, wound up on the same side of the draw and could meet in the semifinals for a rematch of their recent finals at Wimbledon and the London Olympics.

"It's a question of luck," Djokovic said when asked about the only true drama in the unveiling of Thursday's bracket ? whether third-seeded Murray would end up on his or top-seeded Federer's side of the draw. "You try to focus on what's in your hands, what's in your power. Thinking about the semifinal at this moment, I don't think it's the best thing."

In the women's bracket, third-seeded Maria Sharapova drew a possible semifinal matchup against top-seeded Victoria Azarenka and fourth-seeded Serena Williams could play No. 2 Agnieszka Radwanska in the semifinals.

Rafael Nadal, ranked third, is out of this year's tournament with a knee injury, marking the first time since 2008 that the quartet of Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Murray haven't been seeded 1 through 4 in some order at the U.S. Open.

Taking the fourth seed this year is David Ferrer, who has never made a Grand Slam final, and could face Djokovic in the semifinals.

Of the 16 semifinal spots over the last four Grand Slam tournaments, 14 have been occupied by one of the big four. Only Ferrer, at the French Open, and Jo Wilfried-Tsonga, at Wimbledon, have managed to break the stranglehold.

Djokovic has an 8-5 record against Ferrer, including a straight-set win in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open this year.

Top-seeded Federer is 8-9 against third-seeded Murray and the two have split their last two matches, both on Centre Court at the All England Club; Federer won the Wimbledon final and Murray took the gold-medal match at the London Olympics.

The potential men's quarterfinals are Federer vs. No. 6 Tomas Berdych, who upset him in the 2010 Wimbledon quarterfinals; Djokovic vs. 2009 U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro, seeded seventh; Murray vs. No. 5 Tsonga; Ferrer vs. No. 8 Janko Tipsarevic.

Sharapova completed the career Grand Slam at the French Open earlier this year, while Williams has 14 Grand Slam titles and is coming off wins at Wimbledon and the Olympics. Azarenka has one Grand Slam title ? in Australia this year ? while Radwanska's best finish in a major was her three-set loss to Williams in this year's Wimbledon final.

Williams' older sister Venus, who is ranked 47th this week and not seeded, plays American wild-card entry Bethanie Mattek-Sands in the first round and could face sixth-seeded Angelique Kerber in the second. Venus Williams, the 2000 and 2001 champion, pulled out of last year's U.S. Open hours before she was scheduled to play in the second round, revealing that she had been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease.

Four-time major champion Kim Clijsters will begin what she says will be the last tournament of her career against American wild-card recipient Victoria Duval. Clijsters, a 29-year-old Belgian who is seeded 23rd, might face the defending champion, seventh-seeded Sam Stosur, in the fourth round.

Clijsters won the U.S. Open the last three times she entered the hard-court tournament, in 2005, 2009 and 2010. She missed it last year because of a stomach muscle injury.

Stosur, meanwhile, has struggled since defeating Serena Williams in the final last year for her first Grand Slam title. She lost in the first round of the Australian Open and the Olympics and the second round of Wimbledon. Her only big run in a major this year came at the French Open, where she fell in a mistake-filled, three-set semifinal to Sara Errani.

"It's been a year of a few ups and downs, but a lot of players go through that," Stosur said. "In the last few weeks, being on hard court, I feel a lot better and a lot more comfortable on this surface. It's conditions that suits my game, so I'm glad to be back here."

No American man hasn won the U.S. Open since Andy Roddick in 2003. There are four seeded U.S. men trying to halt that streak: No. 9 John Isner, No. 23 Mardy Fish, No. 27 Sam Querrey and Roddick, who is seeded 20th. Roddick won a hard-court tournament in Atlanta in July, but has since fallen to Djokovic in the second round of the Olympics, then to 38th-ranked Jeremy Chardy in the first round in Cincinnati.

James Blake and Ryan Harrison are among the unseeded Americans in the draw. Roddick could face del Potro in the fourth round, while Isner is in the same quarter of the draw as Ferrer.

Federer, who has a record 17 Grand Slam titles, opens against another American, Donald Young, who is 2-20 this year.

Djokovic's first match is against 69th-ranked Paolo Lorenzi of Italy.

Serena Williams opens against another American, Coco Vandeweghe, the 2008 girls champion.

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How your computer is making you fat

It's common sense that sitting in front of computer and TV screens is making people fatter. A study out this week puts some precise numbers on it, though ? and finds a surprisingly steady pattern across rich and poor countries.

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Archos' Gen10 XS Tablet Line Comes Out of Its Shell

Archos on Wednesday unveiled a new Android tablet line, the Gen10 XS. The first product in this family, the Archos 101 XS, is a 10-inch tablet that weighs 21 ounces and is 0.3 inches thick. The tablet line runs an unskinned -- meaning a pure -- version of Android Ice Cream Sandwich and is Google-certified. It will be upgraded to Jelly Bean in Q4, Archos said.

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Intense bursts of star formation drive fierce galactic winds

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Fierce galactic winds powered by an intense burst of star formation may blow gas right out of massive galaxies, shutting down their ability to make new stars.

Sifting through images and data from three telescopes, a team of astronomers found 29 objects with outflowing winds measuring up to 2,500 kilometers per second, an order of magnitude faster than most observed galactic winds.

"They're nearly blowing themselves apart," said Aleksandar Diamond-Stanic, a fellow at the University of California's Southern California Center for Galaxy Evolution, who led the study. "Most galactic winds are more like fountains; the outflowing gas will fall back onto the galaxies. With the high-velocity winds we've observed the outflowing gas will escape the galaxy and never return." Diamond-Stanic and colleagues published their findings in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The galaxies they observed are a few billion light years away with outflowing winds of 500 to 2,500 kilometers per second. Initially they thought the winds might be coming from quasars, but a closer look revealed these winds emanate from entire galaxies.

Young, bright and compact, these massive galaxies are in the midst of or just completing a period of star formation as intense as anyone has ever observed.

"These galactic-scale crazy-fast winds are probably driven by the really massive stars exploding and pushing out the gas around them," said Alison Coil, professor in UC San Diego's Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences and a co-author of the paper. "There's just such a high density of those stars it's like all these bombs went off near each other at the same time. Each bomb evacuates the area around it, then the next can push gas out further until they're evacuating gas on the scale of the whole galaxy."

Galaxies with winds this fast are also quite rare, opening up the question of whether these are unusual events or part of a common phase in the evolution of massive galaxies that is seldom observed because it is so brief.

Astrophysicists still lack an explanation for how and why starmaking ends. Theorists who model the evolution of galaxies often invoke supermassive black holes called active galactic nuclei, which can also generate savage winds, to explain how gas needed to form stars can be depleted.

These new observations demonstrate that black holes may not be neccesary to account for how these kinds galaxies run out of gas. "The winds seem to be powered by the starburst," Diamond-Stanic said. "The central supermassive black hole is apparently just a spectator for these massive stellar fireworks."

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Politics thwarted closure of immigration jail

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When The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency announced its intention to close the Etowah County Detention Center in Gadsden, Ala., in 2010, Alabama's congressional delegation turned on the pressure to block the closure.

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By Lisa Riordan Seville and Hannah Rappleye, NBC News

GADSDEN, Ala. -- The serpentine Coosa River once brought people and goods aplenty to this pretty Southern town, known first for its riverboats and later for its rubber and steel plants.?

But those times are mostly a memory. The city has struggled since the 1980s. Plants shuttered, and industry moved abroad. Many jobs shifted into the service sector.?

Then, in the late 1990s, a tide of immigrants flowed into Gadsden, delivering an unlikely economic boost. The essential revenue they generated came not from their work in fields, factories or hotels, however, but from their presence in the county?s jail cells.

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Ever since, the Etowah County Detention Center has typically held hundreds of immigrant detainees, incarcerated at the behest of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE, as they either await deportation or fight it.?

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The stable jail population has meant a steady income for the county -- $40 per detainee per day, plus additional payments that bring the total to more than $5 million a year ? and good-paying jobs. But the revenue stream appeared to be about to dry up in late 2010, when ICE decided to move the detainees out of the remote and controversial Alabama jail, where critics say they often are subjected to indefinite confinement far from their families and lawyers.?

Alabama politicians weren?t going to let that happen without a fight. Records obtained by NBC News show that members of Congress waged a successful battle to stop ICE from ending its deal to lease over 300 beds at the Etowah jail, part of a plan to consolidate its detention facilities and house detainees closer to the courts where their cases are heard.?

The Etowah County Detention Center in Gadsden, Ala., holds as many as 350 suspected undocumented immigrants for open-ended stays as they await deportation. Critics say conditions in the rural lockup are "inhumane." NBC's Mark Potter reports.

The story of the Etowah County jail demonstrates how politicians can shape not just policy, but everyday operational decisions at ICE, an agency responsible for nearly 34,000 detainees on any given day.?

?ICE has understood very clearly ? that moving people out of Etowah would not be welcomed,? said Michelle Brane, director of the detention and asylum program at the Women?s Refugee Commission, which recently published a report detailing what it said are ongoing human rights abuses at the jail. ?Etowah was a facility we felt should be closed, and to keep it open because of local politics and favors obviously does not seem to be in the best interest of American taxpayers, or the detainees.??

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The Obama administration has deported record numbers of illegal immigrants in recent years, including nearly 400,000 in fiscal 2011. It also has detained record numbers of immigrants, thanks to 1996 legislation that expanded the jailing of immigrants pending deportation proceedings.?

Floyd Abdul, a Zimbabwean national, describes the four months he spent locked up in Alabama's Etowah County Detention Center.

As a result, ICE now operates the largest detention system in the country. Most detainees await their court appearances or deportation dates not in ICE facilities, but in a network of private and local jails and prisons that offer the agency beds for far less than it would cost to build its own. ICE currently makes use of more than 200 such facilities.?

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Many, like the Etowah jail, are in financially struggling rural counties that have come to depend on ICE, which pays between $40 and more than $100 per person, per day to house and feed the detainees.?

But ICE itself is under pressure to strengthen oversight and improve conditions in the detention facilities. It has taken aimed numerous steps to improve conditions in the facilities, including increased inspections, regular visits by ICE staff and an expanded oversight structure, ICE spokeswoman Gillian Anderson wrote in January 2012 in response to inquiries about conditions in the lockups. The agency has also tried to centralize operations, and give detainees greater access to family and lawyers, Anderson said.

Those initiatives can be at cross-purposes with the needs of cities like Gadsden, the seat of Etowah County, where the fierce pressure brought to bear on ICE when it sought to remove the detainees illustrates how economically dependent the community has become on immigrant detention.?

Immigrants have been dispatched to the Etowah County Detention Center ? a large, gray block that sits across the street from shops selling guns, bail bonds and barbecue -- since 1998, when the agency then known as the Immigration and Naturalization Service began using it to house detainees it had no room for at its detention facilities in Georgia.?

The federal government helped pay for an expansion of the jail in 2003, kicking in about $8 million to help finance the $13.5 million project.?

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The relationship was good for both sides. It meant steady revenue for Etowah County and much-needed ? and cheap -- space for the INS and its successor agency, ICE, which is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.?

The county receives not just the $40 per detainee payment from the feds, but reimbursement from ICE for expenses arising from transporting detainees. ICE also rents offices in Gadsden and pays the county officers assigned to the detainees $17 an hour.?

The facility remains a bargain for ICE, which pays day rates nearly three times higher at detention facilities in some northern states.?

But the remoteness of the jail poses problems. For years, detainees and ICE employees have had to travel two hours each way to reach the ICE field office and courts in Atlanta.?

That was one of the justifications cited two years ago when ICE, under pressure from Georgia politicians to make use of a half-empty detention facility there, announced that it planned to pull detainees out of Etowah County in December 2010.?

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The county decided to fight. A Dec. 7 email obtained by NBC News through an open records request shows Alabama Rep. Robert Aderholt?s staff contacted ICE the day after the announcement.?

?Mr. Aderholt is quite concerned about this move and is requesting any information we have on the decision,? the email reads.?

The email was among more than 800 pages of documents obtained through a Freedom of Information request that detail the fight to keep immigration detainees at Etowah.?

In phone calls, meetings and interviews with the press, Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin implored the county?s congressional representatives to intervene.?

?The financial impact of ICE voiding their contract with Etowah County and Alabama will be economically catastrophic to the employees, the county and Northeast Alabama,? he said, according to local newspaper accounts. Voiding the deal, which generates approximately $5.2 million a year for the county, would mean ?49 individuals losing their jobs only days before Christmas with no notice whatsoever,? he said.?

The county also was still paying off about $3 million in debt associated with the jail expansion. ?Without the ICE contract, Etowah County will not be able to meet these obligations,? Entrekin told the Gadsden Times.?

Members of Alabama?s congressional delegation, including Reps. Aderholt and Mike Rogers and Sens. Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions, all Republicans, reacted swiftly. Within days, they sent emails to and met personally with high-level ICE officials to plead Etowah County?s case.?

'Secret, unprofessional and unfair'
Aderholt also publicly assailed the decision, saying, ?The manner by which this decision has been made by ICE has been secretive, unprofessional and unfair,? according to the newspaper. ?I will continue working with the Alabama delegation and Etowah County to further challenge ICE to reverse any plans to end their agreement with Etowah County.??

ICE staffers told the Alabama politicians that the withdrawal from Etowah was ?inevitable,? documents show. And ICE said the agreement between the county and the agency, set to expire in 2014, simply set terms for ICE to use the facility -- it did not guarantee the agency would do so.?

But emails show ICE officials soon grew concerned they would face budgetary repercussions if they did not find a solution that would satisfy Etowah County.?

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An email from an ICE employee cited a conversation on Dec. 7 with Allen Cutler, Sen. Shelby?s appropriations staffer. ?Cutler stated there would have to be a resolution that would satisfy Shelby or there would be a stop to all ICE reprogramming requests," it read, referring to requests from the agency for more funding.?

The next day, the local newspaper reported ICE had decided to postpone the pullout.?

In meetings over the following days, ICE staff presented reports that outlined the cost-savings of using Georgia detention centers. They also encouraged Alabama officials to "highlight the need for Secure Communities in AL, which would lead to the use of more facilities in the state." Secure Communities is a controversial program that uses a federal database to identify immigration violators when they are booked into local jails.?

The agency also looked for other solutions -- including the transfer of detainees from other facilities. "We can move 100 women out of Etowah, and replace them with a hundred others,? read one Dec. 15 email. ?Not a zero-sum issue."?

ICE eventually backed down, guaranteeing that the detainees would stay at the Etowah County Detention Center at least until March 2011. Records show that the Alabama lawmakers were placated, but wary. Sen. Shelby?s office told ICE they would continue to negotiate on behalf of the county, and asked for a personal meeting between the senator and ICE staff members to discuss their ?poor performance,? according to emails.?

True to his word, that March, the senator again queried ICE about the agency?s plans, communications logs show.?

ICE, Rep. Aderholt?s office, and Etowah County officials declined to speak on the record with NBC News. Shelby?s office issued a statement, saying, ?In light of the unreasonably short notice of unnecessary job losses just before the holidays, in addition to the fact that the Etowah County facility was already obligated to hold a significant number of beds for ICE for several more years, members of the Alabama congressional delegation met with ICE to request a more realistic drawdown period.??

But records suggest representatives went beyond such requests. Not long after Rep. Aderholt become chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security in January 2011, giving him power to shape ICE?s budget, he demanded a meeting with ICE.?

'Serious repercussions against our budget'
?I met with Aderholt?s personal staff,? wrote Gary Mead, ICE?s executive associate director for Enforcement and Removal Operations, or ERO, in a March 29 email to top ICE staff. ?I do not believe we will be allowed to leave Etowah without serious repercussions against our budget. I have a meeting tomorrow with ERO folks to figure out if there is a reasonable way to make some use of Etowah long term. Discretion may be the better part of valor here."?

Throughout that month, local newspapers reported what a pullout would mean for the county. Sheriff Entrekin said that, in addition to losing revenue from leased beds and jobs, his department would no longer collect fees that ICE detainees paid for phone calls and commissary items, forcing cuts in programs like substance abuse treatment and inmate work details in the community.?

By June 2011, ICE had developed a proposal that satisfied the Alabamians. The agency decided that the detention center would be switched to the New Orleans regional office. That would enable the transfer of long-term detainees held at different facilities throughout the Southeast to Etowah.??

In emails, ICE reasoned these detainees have often exhausted legal remedies and would not need to be transferred regularly to immigration courts hundreds of miles away. At Etowah, it said, they could fight their cases by mail or await their deportation.?

But for some detainees, those waits are open-ended.?

Neville Swaby, a detainee sent to Etowah after the New Orleans Field Office took over, has been at the facility for nearly a year. He is an undocumented immigrant who entered the country illegally from Mexico. He was detained by ICE after serving a sentence stemming from a marijuana possession charge.?

An order for Swaby?s deportation has been in force for more than nine months, but his case is complicated because he has no official country of birth.?

?I don?t have a country to go back to -- I would go to any country,? Swaby told NBC News reporters who visited the Etowah jail in May. ?I?m not fighting deportation.??

ICE has requested travel papers from Jamaica, where Swaby says he was born. But the request has been pending since August 2011 and still no records have been delivered. Meanwhile, the agency has refused to free Swaby, saying his removal is expected in the ?reasonably foreseeable future.? To Swaby, it seems simply to be a sentence without end.?

?After six months? time, nine months? time, I?m still here,? he said.

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Source: http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/22/13398156-when-feds-sought-to-shutter-immigration-jail-politics-intervened?lite

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