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MAYFIELD, Ky. ? A group of Amish men were sent to jail in western Kentucky Thursday for refusing to pay fines for breaking a state highway law that requires their horse-drawn buggies to be marked with orange reflective triangles.
The men have a religious objection to the bright orange signs, which they say are flashy and conflict with their pledge to live low-key and religious lives.
Ananias Byler, the first of 10 Amish men who appeared in Graves County District Court on Thursday, was sentenced to 10 days in jail. The men were jailed for being found in contempt of court for refusing to pay fines. Byler told Judge Deborah Crooks Thursday that he would not pay the $489 he owes.
"I totally understand your objection," the judge told Byler. "But you're in violation, and it's not up to me to change the law. It doesn't really matter what I think about any of this."
The men belong to a conservative breakaway group of Amish known as Swartzentruber. They live simply, with no electricity, plumbing or appliances. But in recent years they have been running afoul of the law here for refusing to use the triangles on their buggies, and some were sent to jail last year.
The Amish men, wearing long dark coats on a snowy day in Mayfield, removed their black wide-brimmed hats before entering the courtroom. They sat quietly until their names were called.
Jacob Gingerich said he and the other men will continue to refuse to pay the fines. Gingerich owed more than $600 and was sentenced to 13 days in jail Thursday.
"We're just not going to pay," Gingerich, a farmer with 12 children, said before the court appearance.
Their sentences ranged from three to 13 days for fines ranging from $153 to $627. Serving the jail time will clear their fines off the books, at a rate of about $50 a day.
County Jailer Randy Haley said the men were staying together Thursday in a large holding cell. They will wear special dyed jail uniforms because they object to the orange jumpsuits, he said. The men also asked that they not be submitted to mug shots, and Haley said he agreed.
The issue over the orange triangles has come up before in other states with Amish populations. Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania have allowed exemptions for the Swartzentrubers, and courts in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan have sided with them.
But police and prosecutors in Kentucky say the orange triangles are the law because they help motorists see the buggies and avoid collisions.
"You get behind one of the buggies at night, you can't see it," Graves County Sheriff DeWayne Redmon said. "We're citing them for their own safety as well as the safety of others."
Gingerich and two other Amish men, with help from the Kentucky chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, have sued over the state highway law, saying it infringes on their religious freedom. The Kentucky Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case later this year after the state appeals court rejected the Amish men's argument in June.
Gingerich said Thursday that he wished the judge would have waited for the state Supreme Court to hear the case before throwing the men in jail.
Kentucky lawmakers are considering changes to the highway law to allow the Amish to use gray reflective tape instead of the orange triangles.
Of Kentucky's 120 counties, Graves County has recorded the most violations for failure to use the orange triangles in the last five years, according to data obtained by The Associated Press. The county has recorded 57 of a total of 89 violations statewide since 2007.
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MTN Satellite Communications (MTN), the global provider of communications, connectivity and content services to remote locations around the world, announced it has won a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) in the category ?Development of Integrated, Deployable Systems for Live Reporting from Remote Environments.? The award recognizes MTN?s CTO Richard Hadsall, NBC and the late David Bloom for constructing the Bloom-Mobile, a satellite-based mobile communications platform, to broadcast live coverage of the War in Iraq.
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The concept of the Bloom-Mobile was inspired by Mr. Bloom himself in order to deliver live coverage of U.S. military forces in Iraq in 2003. MTN collaborated with Mr. Bloom and NBC over a 45-day period to design, build, commission and equip the vehicle with live television and satellite transmission equipment, allowing the Bloom-Mobile to send live, full-motion broadcast-quality video and audio as U.S. troops moved towards Baghdad. By securing a 200-watt stabilized 1.2-meter Ku-band antenna to the back of a custom-built Ford F450 4WD diesel truck, MTN enabled NBC to provide the first live ?On the Move? broadcast coverage while traveling at speeds up to 70 mph.
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?With the high demand for news as it happens, it was essential for NBC to have the technology in place to relay information to its viewers, and the Bloom-Mobile made this possible,? said Richard Hadsall, CTO at MTN. ?Not only did MTN make David?s concept into a reality in 45 days, we also provided the broadcast industry with a vehicle that changed the delivery of news from the Middle East. We are proud to receive this recognition from NATAS for our work with NBC and it?s a fitting tribute to David?s vision to deliver live coverage of the War in Iraq to viewers at home.?
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Since the Bloom-Mobile?s launch, its presence in the broadcast industry continues to expand. The vehicle is used to cover a variety of stories including hurricanes and elections, and is leveraged the U.S. government for both tactical and non-tactical applications.
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The Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards honor companies, organizations and individuals for innovative advances in broadcast technology that have a ground-breaking influence on television engineering. The awards were presented on January 12, 2012 during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
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About MTN Satellite Communications
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MTN Satellite Communications (MTN), the first company to offer a stabilized Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite solution for ships at sea, has contributed to the evolution of the satellite industry over the past three decades, delivering communications solutions that address the needs of people moving around the world.? Through MTN?s reliable global satellite network and expertise, the company continues to deliver solutions across various markets while addressing the unique challenges and needs for each. Today, MTN offers services and solutions to cruise lines, commercial shipping, oil and gas, mega yachts, government entities and aviation markets.? With sales and service offices, teleport gateways, Points of Presence (PoPs) and spare parts depots located in all corners of the globe, MTN?s global footprint allows them to successfully serve more than 600 vessels sailing around the world and to U.S. government and commercial aircraft on transatlantic routes. In addition to bandwidth management, MTN delivers and supports a broad array of integrated turnkey services, including remote access for Internet, VoIP, voice services, remote IT management, global vessel tracking, bandwidth optimization, real-time video capabilities, crew calling solutions, and other enterprise solutions. For more information, visit www.mtnsat.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) ? The massive earthquake that devastated Haiti two years ago prompted an outpouring of charitable donations and propelled a new way of giving ? through text messages ? into the public eye.
A new study shows that text messages are becoming a viable avenue to give and receive charitable donations, even though the amounts people give are smaller.
A nationwide campaign after the January 2010 disaster encouraged people to donate $10 to recovery efforts by texting the word "Haiti" to a number, such as 90999 for the Red Cross. The donation would be added to their monthly cellphone bill.
A survey released Thursday by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project asked the people who sent those text donations why they gave, who they are and whether they have contributed to charity since.
Only donors who agreed in advance to be contacted were included in the survey. This amounted to only about 13 percent of those who contributed to the Haiti relief effort via text, so it's possible that the people who were excluded have different attitudes.
With that caveat, here are some of the findings:
? Eighty percent of the Haiti donors did not contribute money to the relief efforts through any means other than texting.
? Most donations were the product of impulse-giving. Eighty-nine percent of the donors heard about the "Text to Haiti" campaign on TV and half of them donated right away.
? Three-quarters of the donors said they don't do a lot of extra research when donating via text message.
? The majority of those surveyed ? 56 percent ? have contributed to more recent disaster recovery efforts via text since the Haiti quake. These include the earthquake and tsunami in Japan last March and the Gulf oil spill in 2010.
? Text donors tend to be younger and more racially diverse than the people who give to charity through more traditional means.
The survey conducted in September and October by Princeton Survey Research Associates International on behalf of Pew, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the mGive Foundation, a mobile-giving nonprofit. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
The results of 863 donors randomly selected from those who agreed to participate were included in the study.
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