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Clarke County Reservoir Commission (CCRC) board members want to work with Clarke County Supervisors on future projects, but financially, now is not the right time.
Thomas Andersen, Clarke County engineer, attended a July 11 CCRC meeting to request approximately $15,000 in financial assistance for professional structural design services that would perform preliminary and final designs to replace a county bridge.
The sediment retention structure would help protect a proposed CCRC lake project.
"This road will remain closed unless we can get some help from some source," Andersen said. "This is a benefit to the reservoir. It will hold back a large amount of water, keep a lot of sediment out of it. It's a perfect project for the county and the reservoir commission, in our opinion."
Andersen added, the structure isn't going to go toward benefitting a hog confinement. There had been public speculation about that.
"But, it will help the reservoir that will help the whole county, in my opinion," Andersen said.
Lake project
An ongoing CCRC watershed project will provide a water supply for Osceola and Southern Iowa Rural Water Association (SIRWA) with an 816-acre lake in Clarke County.
The reservoir project could provide 2.2 million gallons of water per day. The total project cost for the reservoir is estimated at $37.6 million. Funding for the project includes many sources, especially funding from local option sales taxes (LOST).
Right now, CCRC is going through the process of declaratory judgment with the watershed project.
Declaratory judgment is a court review for acquiring land for a public project. It authorizes CCRC to purchase land from voluntary sellers and exercise eminent domain for involuntary sellers within the area of the watershed project.
A declaratory-judgment decision could be made by Dec. 24 about acquiring land for the project.
CCRC board member Dan McIntosh said CCRC funds are from taxpayer money, and that money is for building the lake.
"I think we need to go through that process before we spend money on anything else," McIntosh said. "I understand it's a great project, but if for some reason the lake doesn't get built, we've put some money out here that we had no right to put out. My feeling is, we shouldn't be doing anything until we get through this declaratory judgment (and) we know the lake's going to be built."
Mayor Fred Diehl, a CCRC board member, said McIntosh had a valid point.
"We've got to get through this declaratory judgment, and if we don't, it's all down the tubes," Diehl said.
Many board members said it was important to work together with the county.
However, CCRC board member Sandy Kale said the timing on the request was "just not really good."
A motion was made to table the decision until the first of the year, which is January 2014. The board approved the motion.


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LAHAINA - Lahainaluna High School honored the 2013 football program at the annual banquet held in the campus cafeteria last week. The 75 student athletes that made up the varsity and junior varsity Luna teams were recognized and applauded by their coaches, family and community supporters at the dinner affair.
Master of ceremonies Garret Tihada welcomed the gathering and introduced the guest speakers after the players sang a traditional Hawaiian prayer blessing to begin the festivities.
Former Lahainaluna player and coach Lanny Tihada, currently the leader of the Friends of Lahainaluna Football organization that is a leading financial supporter of the program, kicked off the evening with a poignant speech that related the true grit of the community affection for the Lunas.
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Taylor Kiko Kohler Fonohema (pictured) and Bronson Kaina won the scholarships.
Coach Lanny was followed by Lawrence Kauhaahaa, who guided the team's off-season weightlifting effort that was a leading factor in the success of the Lahainaluna team, which rang up a 10-1 record and was the state's top-rated Division II program throughout the season.
Next up was junior varsity head coach Aloha Kaniho, who introduced his staff, who, in turn, presented each player with his letter award. The varsity team then took the stage as the coaches, led by Coach Garret, presented each player with his award.
The Arthur Osamu "Oscar" Chihara Memorial Scholarship Award is a featured presentation at the annual banquet. The $1,000 awards are given each year to two senior players - selected by the coaches - in recognition of their passion and poise within the Lahainaluna football program, and who most exemplified Oscar Chihara's love of the game. (Oscar was Lahaina News sports writer Walter Chihara's brother.)
In the 15th year of the scholarship award, the 2013 recipients of the honor were Bronson Kaina and Taylor Kiko Kohler Fonohema, both stalwarts of the Luna defense.
Kaina and Kohler Fonohema received the scholarship checks (courtesy of First Hawaiian Bank's Lahaina Branch), a state-of-the-art plaque from Maui Marking Device and a beautiful, hand-sewn lei made by Sharon Nohara.
The award has been funded throughout the 15 years by the Harry W. Gorst Company of Los Angeles, CA, and its president, Michael Heagerty.
Jane and Mike Heagerty were close friends and business partners with Oscar Chihara before he unexpectedly passed away, leaving behind his wife and three daughters.
Before he died, Chihara and Mike Heagerty made a pact that if either of them passed on, the survivor would take care of the other's kids.
The Heagertys fulfilled their agreement and sent the Chihara girls through college. And, in memory of the girls' dad, they established the scholarship award.
"We are so happy to be able to honor Oscar's memory with this award," said Mike. "He was a great friend, and we are honored to be able to remember him in this way."
Coach Garret then gave his closing remarks as the evening - and another remarkable Lahainaluna football season - ended with a stirring rendition of the LHS alma mater led by Lori Gomez Karinen.

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USU Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame Announces 2013 Class
Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013
A four-time All-American hurdler, an All-American high jumper, two legendary football players, one of the best men's basketball players in school history and a contributor committed to Aggie Athletics comprise the latest class of Utah State University's Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame, announced Tuesday [Feb. 12, 2013].
The dinner and induction ceremony for the Hall of Fame's 11th class is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 13, at the Riverwoods Conference Center in Logan.
The six inductees include Candy Cashell, USU's first female track All-American; Jim Laub, a life-long contributor of Aggie Athletics; Jimmy Moore, one of the best Aggie basketball players ever; Corey Murdock, one of just two track athletes in school history to earn All-American honors at least four times; Roy Shivers, an All-American running back; and Jim Turner, an outstanding quarterback and kicker.
"We are extremely proud of the wonderful collective achievements of this year's class," said Utah State Director of Athletics Scott Barnes. "This group joins 69 other outstanding individuals, along with three teams, to further ensure the proud tradition of Aggie Athletics."
A total of 75 individuals and three teams have now been inducted into the Utah State Athletics Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame was founded in 1993 with 12 initial members, followed by eight members in 1994 and seven in 1995. The addition of any inductees was stopped until 2006 when five more individuals were added, followed by six recipients in 2007, five in 2008 to go along with the first-ever team inducted, seven in 2009, six in 2010, five in 2011 plus two more national championship teams, eight in 2012 and six inductees in 2013.
Located inside the Steve Mothersell Hall of Honor, the Utah State Athletics Hall of Fame gives fans the opportunity to view biographical information and watch videos on each of the inducted members. Both the Hall of Fame and the Hall of Honor are located inside the Jim and Carol Laub Athletics-Academics Complex in the north end of Romney Stadium.
The Hall of Fame Committee made its final selections for this year's class in January 2013. The inductees must fit into one of five categories: student-athlete, coach, team, athletics staff member, or contributor/special achievement. Contributor/special achievement includes individuals who have contributed to the ideal of sports at the University. Each nominee must receive at least 75 percent of the committee's vote to be eligible for induction.
Members of the committee are Scott Barnes, Jana Doggett, Gregg Gensel, Patty Halaufia, Craig Hislop, Dee Jones, Hal Labelle, Al Lewis, Carl Lundahl, Dale Mildenberger, Steve Noel and Doug Hoffman (chairman).
Read more about each inductee in the full release on the Athletics website.
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SNOWMASS VILLAGE, Colo., March 26, 2012 Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki opened the 26th annual National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic here last night, challenging more than 400 participants to draw on the qualities they demonstrated in uniform to live life to its fullest.
"Well, those are the very attributes that will carry you through this week here in Colorado," he said. "And more importantly, it is what will get you back into living life."
The winter sports clinic, jointly sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs and Disabled American Veterans, uses recreation as a rehabilitative tool for veterans with disabilities ranging from spinal cord injuries and orthopedic amputations to visual impairment and neurological conditions.
As the veterans learn adaptive Alpine and Nordic skiing and get introduced to rock climbing, scuba diving, trapshooting, wheelchair fencing, sled hockey, snowmobiling, and sled hockey during a six-day program, many discover a whole new world of opportunity.
"Here on the mountain, you are going to do things you never thought possible," Shinseki told the participants. "This week is about much more than learning to use adaptive skis or snowboards or learning to play sled hockey. It is not about conquering this mountain. … It is about conquering ourselves," he said, quoting Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to scale Mount Everest.
Shinseki, a disabled veteran who lost part of his right foot in Vietnam, praised the strides the veterans have made in their recuperation and urged them to continue striving to live life to its fullest.
"You may have been injured, but life isn't over. There is still a lot of living to do for all of us," he said. "It will be different, no doubt. And you are going to have to work hard to improve functionality. But that is the challenge and the triumph, every day: to keep on living while you are living."
Donald Samuels, national commander for the Disabled American Veterans and a first-timer at the clinic, recognized the challenge participants will face as they face "a lot of unknowns" in a new setting.
"You have all faced down challenges in your service to our country, and I am urging you to rekindle your fighting spirit and do the same with the hurdles you may face here this week," he said.
As they do so, Samuels reminded them, they'll have their fellow veterans encouraging them and giving them the boost they may need to succeed.
"Let this week be about you and your own personal goals and ambitions," he said. "Make it part of your healing process to revitalize your fighting spirit, your strength and your own independence. This time and this place is all about the incredible things you can accomplish."
This year's clinic includes 135 other first-time participants. Among them is former Marine Corps Sgt. Arthur Lee, who suffered a severe spinal cord injury in Afghanistan in 2003 after the vehicle in front of his hit an improvised explosive device so powerful that it flipped Lee's 5-ton truck over.
After two years of prodding by his caregivers at the VA hospital in Augusta, Ga., Lee relented, and already is fired up about the reception he and the other veterans here have received here.
"It's enormous," he said, sitting in Snowmass Village enjoying the opening-day "Taste of Snowmass" feast hosted by local restaurants to welcome the veterans. "I can tell this is going to be a good experience."
Shinseki paid tribute during the opening ceremonies to the corporate sponsors, donors and some 1,000 volunteers who make the clinic a success.
Nobody had to twist Nick Infanti's arm to get him to his first winter sports clinic.
A former Marine who suffered a traumatic brain injury two years ago during an IED attack in Afghanistan's Helmand province, he was looking forward to putting his snowboarding skills to the test on Snowmass Mountain.
"I came here for the experience. They say this is pretty exciting," he said, and he rattled off the list of other activities he plans to try: snowmobiling, scuba diving and marksmanship, among them.
Former Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Joseph Woods, another first-timer, shared Infanti's excitement about an action-packed week. Woods served as an operations specialist from 2001 to 2005, but left the Navy with multiple sclerosis and balance issues that force him to use a walker or wheelchair to maneuver.
But over the next week, Woods said, his physical challenges will be the last thing on his mind as he skis, snowmobiles, tries out kayaking and visits the hot springs.
"This breathes life into you to keep you going and keep you motivated," he said. "Just because you have a disability doesn't mean life is over…. And if there's one thing you can say about me, it's that I do not give up."
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"the difference maker" awesome name for that pitch.
Utley hit by the pitch. 3 in the last 2 innings.
I'm really worried about Chapman in this situation on the road.
Nice sell by Utley.
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We're gonna kill somone
That is crap. It never touched him.
Uh oh. The stufrf is wild tonight even though that pith did ot hit him.
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Want to edit video on your iPad? Apple's $4.99 iMovie is the go-to choice for most folks. But now there's another option, and it won't cost you a penny.
Pinnacle Studio 2.0 for iPad used to be Avid Studio for iPad, and it used to cost $4.99, same as iMovie. Now owned by Corel, it's now free -- and even better than before.
Pinnacle Studio lets you arrange and edit your photos and videos, ultimately turning disparate elements into a cohesive whole.
If you've ever worked with Pinnacle Studio on your PC, you'll feel right at home with the app's similarly straightforward interface. Though you can work with it in portrait view, landscape offers the better layout, with the top half of the screen devoted to your media and a preview window and the bottom half reserved for storyboarding.
To build a movie, you simply drag a photo, video clip, transition effect, title, or song to the storyboard or timeline, then arrange those elements to your liking.
The app also lets you trim clips, overlay sound effects and voice recordings, add custom pan-and-zoom effects, and so on. It supplies a handful of motion and static titles, but you can edit things like colors, fonts, and sizes to create more-customized text. Unfortunately, I could find no way to overlay a title on a photo or video; it seems you're limited to title cards that bookend them.
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Welch is BCAHOF inductee
Mike Welch, a Sweetwater native who during his high school days helped lead the Mustangs to their only state football title in school history in 1985 and later starred at Baylor University, was inducted recently into the Big Country Athletic Hall of Fame along with nine others during a banquet ceremony that was held at the Abilene Civic Center. Welch started at running back and defensive back while at Sweetwater, twice winning all-state honors, then started at Baylor all four years where he became a Baylor Legend after winning All-America honors and recording a school record-tying 16 interceptions, plus 319 tackles while playing defensive back. At Sweetwater, Welch recorded three interceptions in the team's 17-7 championship game win over Tomball when he was a senior. Last year, he was named a second-team defensive back on Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine's 50th anniversary high school football team, and he was the only Big Country athlete to be named to the team. This year's Big Country Athletic Hall of Fame class also included Cindy Shelton Raughton, a former Avoca basketball star who also played for Wayland Baptist College's legendary Flying Queens. She now lives in Roscoe.


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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Government is Mississippi's largest employer these days, state economist Darrin Webb told lawmakers Tuesday.
That's a big change from 20 years ago, when manufacturing held the top spot in the state. Mississippi lost manufacturing jobs in textiles and other industries after the North American Free Trade Agreement was put in place in the 1990s, Webb said.
He gave members of the House Appropriations Committee a chart that showed government employment in Mississippi has grown from about 200,000 jobs in 1990 to almost 250,000 in 2013. The government numbers include teachers and employees of local, state and federal agencies.
Mississippi manufacturing went from about 225,000 jobs in 1990 to about 140,000 in 2013. The number of retail jobs grew from about 120,000 in 1990 to about 140,000 in 2013.
"We need more private-sector growth in job creation," said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Herb Frierson, R-Poplarville.
State government employment has remained steady for the past decade, Frierson said, so most of the growth in government jobs has probably occurred on the local level.
Webb cited figures comparing the first three quarters of 2012 with the first three quarters of 2013. For those January-through-September periods, wages and salaries in the U.S. grew 1.9 percent. In Mississippi, they grew less than 1 percent, making the state eighth from last among the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
"I'm a little bit troubled by the lack of income growth in Mississippi," Webb said.
Employment in Mississippi grew 1.6 percent in 2013, and Webb said that's the largest growth rate since 1999.
He said 53 counties gained jobs from 2012 to 2013, and 29 counties lost them. The biggest gains were in DeSoto County, which added 2,605 jobs, and Kemper County, which added 1,684.
Kemper, in the east central part of the state by the Alabama line, is not typically among the more robust counties, but Webb said construction of a Mississippi Power Co. plant spurred the growth. DeSoto has been Mississippi's fastest-growing county for several years.
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Build color confidence into artwork
Artists and craftspeople know that the colors they choose — and leave out — are critical ingredients in their works' success, no matter the medium.
Color done well is captivating. Color done badly? It's just bad. Or drab.
Yet a color tweak may be all it takes to turn up a piece's vibrancy and magic.
An eye for color is both intuitive and learned, say the experts.
Kaffe Fassett has spent a lifetime experimenting. The septuagenarian is exuberant with color in his embroidery, knitting and fabric designs. He's known for bold florals, fruits and vegetables, and geometric shapes — in sweaters, knitted coats and needlepoint. The author of 15 books, his latest, "Kaffe Fassett Quilts: Shots and Stripes," goes minimal with vibrant swaths of color — a simplicity that's a stretch for him.
A Londoner for 40 years who was born and raised in California, Fassett eschews conventional color rules, although he subscribes to a few intuitively.
"I left art school the minute the color wheel came out," he muses. "I thought that was the work of the devil."
When Fassett talks about harmony and "bounce," his language is as energetic as his artwork.
"Pick up one color and stick it next to another and see if you get a bounce from it," says the textile artist. "Colors can either dampen each other or they can light each other up. It's just fantastic to see color that is pulsating. It's just vibrating with life. Other times, the most wonderful color is dropping dead because it's in the company of something that's killing it."
"I want to make the colors lush," Fassett continues. "I'm after the glow all the time."
During the quilting workshops he teaches in the United States and elsewhere, including online, he recommends using myriad shades of the same color to create depth and harmony.
"Whenever possible, you have 10 shades of something rather than just one," says Fassett, who is inspired in part by faded, antique carpets.
For example, while knitters are usually told to adhere to a single dye lot when buying multiple yarn skeins for a project, Fassett recommends working with several dye lots.
"I never had dye-lot angst," he says. "Just the opposite. I loved when a color ran out."
Also, stick to a color theme but make it "pop" with little surprises of a different color. That ensures a piece won't become muddy or drab from a color theme's overuse. For example, if you're working in warm tones of red and orange, inject a little cool blue. This works in quilting and in other artistic media, such as painting.
"It can go very mushy if you don't have enough vivid differences," says Fassett.
In quilting and other textile arts, mix up the fabric patterns — use both large and small prints — to add interest.
Anna Maria Horner, a Brentwood, Tenn., fine artist turned fabric and home-decor designer, echoes some of Fassett's tips.
"What people overlook is arranging the light and dark — the depths of every shade," says Horner, who designs fabrics and needlework products for Westminster Fibers. "You can throw all the right colors into it, but maybe you don't have the right lightness and darkness and depth of shade."
Meanwhile, too much of a good thing — too much vibrant color — creates chaos, she says. Injecting a neutral color can help.
"There's a difference between vivid and chaos," Horner says. "It's really a fine, small step between the two."
Betina Fink, an oil painter for 25 years, teaches art classes — including one about color — at The Drawing Studio in Tucson, Ariz. She recommends studying the same color wheel that Fassett detests and learning about color theory, including how our brains process color.
"Color is a system," Fink says. "You can take a lot of the mystery out of it if you follow the system."
For starters, learn about complementary and analogous colors, she says. Complementary colors are opposite each other on the color wheel — say, blue and orange. Analogous colors, such as blue and purple, are near each other on the wheel.
Learn how to mix complementary colors and how to use them side by side. Learn about their values — their lightness or darkness — to understand different aspects of the same color.
Then, see what color combinations appeal to you, says Fink.
Her main advice: Don't use too much color in your artwork.
"It will all start to cancel each other out," she says. "There's more impact in your artwork when you use a limited art palette."
Finally, avoid using white to lighten and black to darken a color, Fink says; each mutes colors. Instead, lighten and darken color with another that's near it on the color wheel. For example, lighten orange with yellow. Darken orange with red.
This same color advice can be used elsewhere in our lives — when planning a garden, decorating a room or dressing for a night out.
Likewise, get color advice from your surroundings. Horner turns to fashion, Fink looks to nature and Fassett is inspired by antique quilts.
"The main thing is to get out your colors and keep looking at them," says Fassett. "See which ones make each other happy, and which ones overshadow and dominate the scene and make things dull. Get it to the point of glowing."
Fassett teaches a class, Rosy Quilt Design, online at creativebug.com. The show "Kaffe Fassett: A Life in Colour," chronicling his 50 years in the textile arts, appears through June 29 at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London.


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Some scary moments Saturday morning in one Panama City neighborhood as police searched for an armed ex-convict on the run. It all started when the ex-convict 31 year old Phillip Mathes tried to break into a car parked along Stephen Drive near Lisenby Avenue.
Traffic along Lisenby Avenue was diverted as police scoured the neighborhood and nearby woods, looking for the Mathes. Investigators say residents along Stephen Drive in Panama City called police after witnessing the suspect breaking into a vehicle. When police arrived at the scene, they confronted him.
"Speaking to him about his possible involvement, he become irritated that I was speaking to him and started wrestling with myself," said Officer Chris Taylor with the Panama City Police Department. "During the course of us wrestling, his sweatshirt comes off and I observe a firearm on him."
According to Taylor, after the scuffle, Mathes reached for the firearm before running into the woods. The Panama City Police Department and Bay County Sheriff's Office both responded to the incident, bringing out their SWAT team and their K-9s to find the suspect. The K-9s found Mathes hiding under some trash in the woods. Investigators say he resisted commands and efforts of officers during his arrest and received injuries from the K-9.
"We immobilized in the wooded area and the suspect was located in the wooded area and taken into custody."
Police transported the suspect to the hospital for medical attention before taking him to the Bay County Jail. Investigators want to assure residents in the area that they are safe and the threat has been taken care of.
Charges against Mathes are extensive including aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence, battery on a law enforcement officer, and armed burglary of a vehicle.


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Earlier today, we showed you the new Battlefield 4 map, Paracel Storm. At Gamescom 2013, I played a match on the tropical island on the PlayStation 4.Battlefield 4 feels familiar, but with the advent of next-generation hardware, it looks better than ever before. The game is running at 60 frames per second, which complements the new dynamic aspects of the map.At the start of a match on Paracel, the sun is shining and the wind is calm. As the battle progresses, the skies darken and a storm rolls in. The changes are subtle while playing, but looking at before and after pictures reveal a stunning change.Battlefield 4 also encourages a new level of player agency. New actions that are as simple as closing a metal container door (preferably to protect yourself from enemy gunfire) or as significant as crashing a large ship into the island provide arenas that are constantly in flux. In combination with the traditional Battlefield environmental deformation, these new opportunities to interact with the landscape offer new options when combating the enemy.
I'll play this on PS4 for sure, but isn't on my "MUST-HAVE" list.. Those two are Killzone: Shadow Fall and Infamous: Second Son.
That is good to hear.
I can't to get this for my Xbox One!
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Michael Laudrup has been linked with a move to Goodison Park to replace David Moyes in recent weeks, however Laudrup has ensured Swansea City fans that he will remain at the Liberty stadium next season.
The 48-year-old Dane has ruled out any move away from his current club and described all reports as 'pure speculation'.
Laudrup told reporters: "My intention is to be here. I don't have dreams of going to other clubs, I live in the present."
Laudrup has had an impressive season with Swansea City, he has led his team to the League Cup trophy thus booking a place in the Europa League next season. Furthermore Swansea are also set for a top-half finish in the Premier League, which further strengthens Laudrup's credentials as a capable manager.
Laudrup signed a contract extension with Swansea recently until July 2015, and if Everton want to acquire his services they will have to pay a reported £10m as compensation to prise him from the contract.
Laudrup further stated: "I haven't spoken to anyone [at Everton], I don't have time I have so much work to do here."
Laudrup's comments were further backed by his agent, Bayram Tutumlu, as he also insisted that Laudrup will remain at Swansea.
Tutumlu told reporters: "He will not be changing clubs. He likes Swansea and is very settled.
"But he is the manager of Swansea and that will not change. The Swansea fans do not need to worry. He will be there next season.
"People always talk about Michael becoming a coach of other clubs because he has done very well."
Swansea City's chairman has already stated that they have a plan in place if Laudrup decides to leave, yet it is obvious that the fans would want their manager to stay at the Liberty Stadium.
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Shortly after 8pm, Thursday, January 5, 2011, Waterloo Police responded to a report of a gunshot victim at Allen Memorial Hospital. The victim was identified as 17-year-old Martavious Taveros Johnson of Waterloo. Johnson was transported by private vehicle to Allen where he died. The shooting is believed to have occurred in the 500 block of Sumner Street in Waterloo. An autopsy has been scheduled to determine the cause of death. No further details are being released at this time.
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According to the Register:
The world's source for global temperature record admits it's lost or destroyed all the original data that would allow a third party to construct a global temperature record. The destruction (or loss) of the data comes at a convenient time for the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in East Anglia – permitting it to snub FoIA requests to see the data.
The CRU has refused to release the raw weather station data and its processing methods for inspection – except to hand-picked academics – for several years. Instead, it releases a processed version, in gridded form. NASA maintains its own (GISSTEMP), but the CRU Global Climate Dataset, is the most cited surface temperature record by the UN IPCC. So any errors in CRU cascade around the world, and become part of "the science".
Professor Phil Jones, the activist-scientist who maintains the data set, has cited various reasons for refusing to release the raw data. Most famously, Jones told an Australian climate scientist in 2004:
Even if WMO agrees, I will still not pass on the data. We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it.
In 2007, in response to Freedom of Information Act requests, CRU initially said it didn't have to fulfil the requests because "Information accessible to applicant via other means Some information is publicly available on external websites".
Now it's citing confidentiality agreements with Denmark, Spain, Bahrain and our own Mystic Met Office. Others may exist, CRU says in a statement, but it might have lost them because it moved offices. Or they were made verbally, and nobody at CRU wrote them down.
As for the raw station data,
"We are not in a position to supply data for a particular country not covered by the example agreements referred to earlier, as we have never had sufficient resources to keep track of the exact source of each individual monthly value. Since the 1980s, we have merged the data we have received into existing series or begun new ones, so it is impossible to say if all stations within a particular country or if all of an individual record should be freely available. Data storage availability in the 1980s meant that we were not able to keep the multiple sources for some sites, only the station series after adjustment for homogeneity issues. We, therefore, do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (i.e. quality controlled and homogenized) data."
Even if the Register is accurately reporting the story, I have no idea whether the motivations of the scientists at CRU are noble or not.
More importantly, I have no idea whether CRU has accurately summarized the original data. A careful and ethical scientist could do so, but a sloppy or unethical scientist might end up with different values than the actual data set.
My views on climate are complex. But the one thing I know for sure is that we need accurate data, because the stakes are high.


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One thing I've noticed on my computer is I have a normal CD/DVD drive and a CD-RW drive. The cds I burn with my CD-RW as data disks for backup purposes will not play in my CD/DVD drive. My computer will tell me there is no cd in the drive. So every time I reformat and install my back up disks, I have to use the CD-RW drive to back up personally made CDs.
If the CD you are using is not factory then I would be pretty sure this is why this is happening to you.


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The point where your oligarchs completely stop pretending you have any democratic say in your country.
You would think the banks would ha e an obligation to protect investors' money.
You would think the banks would have an obligation to protect investors' money.
Banks were securitizing the bad loans and selling them off immediately.
They protected their investors money, it's the poor assholes who bought those fraudulently rated AAA bundled loans that weren't protected.
The people who want to blame this on government housing policy or sub-prime borrowers are the financial equivalent of climate change deniers (yes, I'm talking about the GP).
All of the official reports blame widespread fraud on the part of lenders.
Anyone who disagrees with this is in an alternate universe.
This was written in 2009 by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland:
Ten Myths about Subprime Mortgages
http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/commentary/2009/0509.cfm [clevelandfed.org]
This is the Senate Oversigh Report from 2011:
Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse (646 pages PDF)
http://www.hsgac.senate.gov//imo/media/doc/Financial_Crisis/FinancialCrisisReport.pdf [senate.gov]
This is the Congressional Report from 2011:
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report: Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-FCIC/pdf/GPO-FCIC.pdf [gpo.gov] (663 pages PDF)
They lay out in extensively footnoted detail who was responsible and who wasn't, but I'll save you the trouble of reading them:
The collapse was caused by weak regulatory controls, conflicts of interest in the banking sector, lending fraud, credit ratings agencies' fraud, massive failures in risk management by the financial sector, and insufficient capital reserves.
These financial deniers need to cite legitimate research that supports their position.
At the bare minimum, supporting documents would need to lay out (with numbers) what deserves the blame.
Because the official reports say things like
Research indicates only 6% of high-cost loansâ"a proxy for subprime loansâ"had any connection to the [1977 CRA] law. Loans made by CRA-regulated lenders in the neighborhoods in which they were required to lend were half as likely to default as similar loans made in the same neighborhoods by independent mortgage originators not subject to the law.
The facts are out there, if only you'd look past the media noise machines.
i agree that its not the banks fault.
So a bank that hands somebody a few hundred thousand dollars without due diligence is not at fault?
While we're at it, what changed? I got my mortgage in 1999, and it came with all sorts of things beyond (a largely meaningless) credit check, like past tax returns showing level and continuity of income, disclosure of other debt, and all sorts of sniffing up my butt even though I have an honest face. What suddenly made banks so trusting? (hint: look up CDO's, CDS's, and all sorts of other three letter scams that were popular around 2000-2008).
i agree that its not the banks fault. Its the people who bought the homes, but its also the governments fault for mandating banks make the loans
Ah, the CRA red herring. Passed in 1977, but magically took 30 years before it had any ill effect.
And that wasn't even the real problem. the collapse happened becasue there where taking c/d/f loan and bundling them up with A loans and calling the whole package an 'A'
And we are talking abut millions of loans being resold.
The collapse would never have happened if banks where forced to sit on a loan the made for 5 years.
So a bank that hands somebody a few hundred thousand dollars without due diligence is not at fault?
At fault for what? They wasted their own money and the money of their investors, nothing more. Their kind of greed and stupidity punishes itself in a free market.
The injury from the mortgage "crisis" arises from the fact that the government forced people who spent their money prudently to bail out the banks and borrowers who had made stupid and greedy decisions.
well, you are demonstrably wrong. This is thoroughly investigated, but hey, you don't let facts change your narrative. The next thing you know you'll have to start applying thought to your biases, and you can't have that, can you?
Not caused by banks? So all those bank executives who were bundling up bad mortgages together and selling them as premium mortgages so that they could make made money off of bad investments had absolutely nothing to with it.
I'm going to just make a wild guess and say that you know nothing about what actually happened.
Doesn't matter. It's called fraud. It's a criminal offense.
Then you haven't put much thought into it. People with bad credit history (or good) are utterly incapable of forcing a bank to lend them money. The decision to lend money for a mortgage is at the sole discretion of the lender. They alone decide if the credit-worthiness of the borrower justifies the loan. They created the sub-prime packages for investors in hedge funds, and they alone then bet against those packages...YES, the very packages they created! The government didn't force them to make those loans. That whole thing was built as an investment vehicle by the banks, allowing wealthy Americans to purchase the debt owed on sub-primes with higher interest rates, thus higher ROI. And everyone ate it up: the investors, the lenders, and the least qualified to know what the hell was going on...the borrowers.
I witnessed this shady practice first-hand as a first-time home buyer (my credit was fine though). I went to a broker and told him what I could comfortably afford for a mortgage payment (including taxes, insurance, etc.). I asked, based on that figure how much can I offer on a house. He gave me an amount, and I went house shopping. I found a home, made an offer, and he came back with a mortgage payment that was 25% more than what I said I could afford. Needless to say, I was pissed and told him off. 25% isn't a lot when you are talking about dinner, but it's hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars when talking about a mortgage. When I stopped the deal, the real estate agent called the broker to find out what was going on. He told her that he didn't know what the problem was...I was approved, I just didn't like the price. That in itself is telling. They approved me for a loan that was well in excess of what I already told them I could comfortably afford. Then the real estate agent, a licensed realtor mind you, told me that since I made the offer I was legally bound to honor it (total bullshit).
It may be more cleaned up now, but back in 2007, I think everyone involved in real estate became a con artist drunk on the promise of easy riches. I of course cannot speak to the motives of every person who got a sub-prime mortgage loan, but blaming people with bad credit for that crisis feels a lot like blaming the victims. It's possible these people, knowing their financial straights, would have never even considered buying a home. But here comes a letter from First National Never Trust telling them, "Hey, it's not as bad as you think!. You can OWN your house for just a bit more than you're paying in rent." And they trot out spreadsheets and graphs to back up that claim. So the financially challenged are thinking, "Wow, I had no idea! Sure!". You can buy that mail list you know. Give me every person in the United States who pays rent and has a sub-650 credit rating (or whatever the number). They're ambulance chasers.
And you want to blame the borrower for that? Wow. That's just willful ignorance; a total lack of understanding that companies, like people, need to take responsibility for their actions; and a complete lack of empathy for people being emotionally prayed upon by those companies.
Please, get off my planet.
$500,000 mansion? What state do you live in? No, scratch that. What century do you live in??
> You do, because you live in a country where sub-prime rated folk think they can afford a $500000 mansion. And thus need the Government to prevent stupid.
That's entirely the result of corrupt bankers lying to those sub-prime rated folks. You are trying to fault the least qualified and experienced member of that exchange and going out of your way to ignore the people that are supposed to be "the adults it the room".
Bankers should act like they have something to lose but don't because an entire framework
There are primaries going on in the coming weeks in many states. If you are not voting in them, you shouldnt be complaining. If you ARE, you pretty much dont have a reason to complain about the voting in this country.
Protip, we have cycled leaders a number of times while Putin has remained in charge in Russia.
Quit encouraging apathy; if you think there is a problem go vote.
If you ARE, you pretty much dont have a reason to complain about the voting in this country.
Except with the current 2 party system, primaries are useless to the minority party in many districts. Not to mention national-level elections are more determined by the amount of money spent than actual positions, which was his point. If the Koch brothers want to spend millions on a candidate, they usually win. There's plenty of reason to complain...
As opposed to the private credit rating agencies that have all your personal credit information with zero transparency and accountability?
I'd rather this be in the public sphere where hopefully the agency has my interests at heart, rather than some private, for profit corporation.
Of course I live in Soviet-Canuckastan, so my opinion may differ from my "freedom loving free marketer loving" cousins to the south...
I'd rather this be in the public sphere where hopefully the agency has my interests at heart, rather than some private, for profit corporation.
key word there is hopefully. I dont have any hope in our current government to do the right thing
I dont have any hope in our current government to do the right thing
I don't have much hope either, but I am certain that the financial industry will do everything in its power to fuck me up the ass. I'll take ineffectual any day of the week.
100% under-rated.
well you know for a fact, and hove no control over, the private companies will sell and manipulate your data.
The government gives you the opportunity to find out what they are doing.
The government gives you the opportunity to find out what they are doing.
i wish this were true but if it were wouldnt have the need for wikileaks and edward snowden. As I said to the other poster though, I can chose to do business with private company ABC, i dont get to choose if i do business with the federal government. Ill take the option of choice over force anytime
hate to burst your utopian-bubble, but the last time i checked, in world history Government has caused, roughly, about a bazillion times more pain and sufferings than any corporation could ever even begin to conceive of.
i can't get my head around this "trust the government" meme..."government" is nothing but a group of busybody people (yes the same type of people who work in corporations, and at taco bells, and everywhere else btw) who crave power and use personality and politics, NOT merit or compassion, to secure their base and influence and really care much less about your personal miseries and stresses then the typical corporate executive does.
its bad business to anger and kill your customers, governments rarely care about that sort of stuff, esp. they get in the way of maintaining their power over you and your life.
at least corporations have to compete for your blessings, and can pretty easily be displaced.
hate to burst your utopian-bubble, but the last time i checked, in world history Government has caused, roughly, about a bazillion times more pain and sufferings than any corporation could ever even begin to conceive of
So now you think you live in Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia? Now who has delusions.
i can't get my head around this "trust the government" meme
Neither could the people who wrote the Constitution, which is why we're supposed to have freedom of the press and elections. It's far from perfect, and thanks to corporate influence it's getting worse, but I'm still not learning the Horst Wessel Song or the Internationale.
BTW, you do know that one of the main complaints of the people who wrote that Constitution was the way the British government was influenced by the East I
You sound just like the Jews who chose not to flee Germany prior to 1938. It's all just a bunch of rhetoric, they said. No reason to be afraid, they said. Yeah. Nazi Germany really didn't exist as a cohesive unit, up until a point--and then unholy hell broke out. Ol' Adolf was legitimately elected, and used the liberalized rights guaranteed by the Weimar constitution to get himself there. Likewise, prior to 1922, nobody lived in in a Soviet transitional state. That's the point about keeping an eye on the pa
I'd rather this be in the public sphere where hopefully the agency has my interests at heart,
They don't.
Um, i would rather have it with the commercial entities, they want to make sure they can make more money from me in the future, the government just wants to take it all and redistribute.
As opposed to the private credit rating agencies that have all your personal credit information with zero transparency and accountability?
I'd rather this be in the public sphere where hopefully the agency has my interests at heart, rather than some private, for profit corporation.
From the article:
As many as 227 million Americans may be compelled to disclose intimate details of their families and financial lives
The key difference is that private credit rating agencies don't have the legal authority to compel you to provide them with any information. They might use some underhanded means to obtain some of that information, but they can't send you to prison for not telling them what they want to know. The government, however, does have that power. It is the powers of compulsion, not the database itself, which has me worried.
hmmm...so why would us Americans have to give to the feds the very number they assigned to us?
sheesh...no wonder the healthcare website cost is at over $1bil and climbing.
As a demonstration of your willingness to comply.
in a world where a game can cost 100+ million to make, getting close to a billion for a federal level health care system isn't really that bad.
Mortgages are public records. State and local governments already have all that data. Anyone can look it up. Data companies have already collected it for most parts of the US and use it for marketing.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is only going to have a 1 in 20 sample of the data. That's enough to look for improper activity by lenders. There's a lot of funny stuff going on in the foreclosure area, but nobody has been analysing that as a "big data" problem.
Mortgages are public records. State and local governments already have all that data. Anyone can look it up.
I don't think mortgages are public record. Sales of houses and their prices are public record, but that is a far cry from knowing your actual mortgage (maybe you paid cash?)
There's a lot of funny stuff going on in the foreclosure area, but nobody has been analysing that as a "big data" problem.
Yes, "big data in a cloud with web 2.0" is the solution. It is reasonably known what "funny stuff" goes on, but instead of cracking down on these practices, we are going to do reports. Reports are needed to identify the problem when it is a mystery.
Any real estate that has a mortgage will have a lien on the title. That lien will be recorded along with the title at a public records office so the owner cannot sell the property without clearing the lien.
The details of what gets recorded in the lien are a matter of state law, but certainly there will be some description that the lien is in fact a mortgage.
Mortgages are public records.
Most are. Some are not.
Some (wealthy) people conduct property transactions partially or entirely as private contracts. Back when I was in a business involving engineering in public right-of-ways, many county property records just described transactions as "for the price of $20 and other valuable considerations". Often for multi-million dollar waterfront lots. And then there's property which is held by a corporation, where the records of transfer (unregistered securities not available to the general public) will never be a matter of public record.
But these sorts of transactions are beyond the authority of the FHFA and CFPB. And that is by the design of the parties involved. So, in one sense, who cares? The common folk (who need consumer protection) are already a matter of record and the rich don't want/don't need the government meddling in their affairs.
Problems arise when parties at the margins of the public/private transaction decision look at this new body of law and push their decision over to the private side. I don't care about the mortgage fraud issue so much. But there is already a massive amount of property value that is 'off the books' and not contributing to local tax bases. And this sort of nonsense will just make it worse.
Lots of land doesn't have a mortgage on it. In fact my home doesn't have a mortgage. I think I saw a statistic that some 30% of US homes are free of mortgages.
However that has nothing to do with a title history for a piece of land. That title is on file at a government office somewhere, assuring that the history of ownership is recorded, and there is a record of the taxes on the land. If the taxes don't get paid the government will take title and generally sell it to recover taxes owed.
that interesting I work for an agency that does those exact kind of purchases and every nickle it public record.
IT's also routinely given to universities and the press.
Your credit rating, payment history, and other details; however, are NOT public record. The government wants that information now so it can "help" people.
"Oh hey, we notice you haven't paid your mortgage in three months. We'll just send your tax refund to the bank to help you stay in your house."
That's what this is all about - helping government help its corporate overlords.
", are NOT public record"
Yes they are.
If you want to buy something from me using credit, I can get ALL that information. It's not even expensive.
", are NOT public record"
Yes they are.
If you want to buy something from me using credit, I can get ALL that information. It's not even expensive.
You are saying if I authorize you to obtain a copy of my credit report, and give you my SSN, data of birth, name and address, you can obtain a copy, and this means it is public record. You and I have very different definition of public record.
I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
My place may be tiny (single-wide trailer on a
Trailer is nice because its disposable. Now you can save up for one of those nifty shot-crete dome homes. Low maintenance and near indestructible.
According to TFA:
Late car payment? It'll be recorded.
Late creditcard payment? Skipped a child support payment? Forgot to pay the water bill? It'll be recorded. Or so TFA says.
The database will also encompass a mortgage holderâ(TM)s entire credit history, including delinquent payments, late payments, minimum payments, high account balances and credit scores, according to the notice.
Really?! "high account balances?!"
The composition of your family? Feast your eyes on this little nugget FTFA:
The two agencies will also assemble âoehousehold demographic data,â including racial and ethnic data, gender, marital status, religion, education, employment history, military status, household composition, the number of wage earners and a familyâ(TM)s total wealth and assets.
Folks.. it *is* big brother. People are focusing on only the mortgage aspect, but if TFA is to be believed, it's a financial dragnet.
What the fuck are they looking for? People spending large sums on strange things?
It won't be for bureaucratic purposes. This will get tied in with law enforcement somehow. That's just my gut feeling, folks... but I do really think LEOs will want in on this.
"Mr Smith, we'd like to have a word with you.. every two weeks you withdraw $100 cash, then as you can see in these pictures, the city's automated license plate readers catch you visiting the address of a known marijuana dealer every time you make that withdrawal. Please step into the van, sir."
It's coming. Maybe not for a bag of sweet leaf, but surely for other things.
2001 was the year the US ended. We sold out to the Gov't and did so willingly; because Terrorism!, because Think of the Children, because War on Drugs! But mainly because Terrorism.
To hell with the federal government, might as well call it the Reich now.
The corps already have this and more. Why are you worried about government having it when corporations have vastly more power over your life anyway.
The funny thing is how little you know about credit industry. every piece of information you list is available right now.
The ret of your rant I have heard since the 70's.
One thing is to have financial information about individuals and their families scattered across multiple entities with defined boundaries and different search mechanisms -- it's another thing entirely to have the same financial info in one nice, convenient, easy-to-search, easy-to-abuse place.
A convenient central financial info database with intimate detail. What could *possibly* go wrong, right?
Now that I've had some time to chew on the news and my post, it occurs to me that this is also a profiling tool. Perhaps predictive uses could also be found for it?
The ranting will continue, by the way, by myself and others, until either we're dead, or a dramatic change of course happens to this country. And yes, I remember the ranting 30 years ago. Vividly. Along with images of Carter and Shah, Reagan and Ayatollah, Bush and Noriega, Bush II and Saddam, Obama and bin-Laden, brought to us by talking heads and punctuated by the nodding of a million muggles' heads.
No one. Fucking. Listened. Now we're playing the same songbook again, only the music is much more sinister, faster and more intense.
Wake the fuck up, people.
One thing is to have financial information about individuals and their families scattered across multiple entities with defined boundaries and different search mechanisms -- it's another thing entirely to have the same financial info in one nice, convenient, easy-to-search, easy-to-abuse place.
How many private - corporate - entities have the resources needed to cross those boundaries and build a comprehensive, centralized, financial database of their own? How many of these databases already exist? How difficult are they to access?
Despite being prohibited by Congress, the federal government is still assembling the components separately.
You mean some federal SWAT-types are gonna bust down my door and force me at gunpoint to fill out a form? Answer intimate questions like "boxers or briefs?", "pink or stink?", or perhaps even (gasp) "paper ot plastic?" OH NOES!!!
Oh wait..."compelled" means that CoreLogic (the corporation that already has all my mortgage data) wants to sell the data to the CFPB. Mmmm...doesn't look like much in the way of compellin goin on. No SWAT Team for me, then.
Look at what data CoreLogic has access to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... [wikipedia.org]
CoreLogic, Inc. is a North American corporation providing financial, property and consumer information, analytics and business intelligence. Headquartered in Irvine, CA, the company analyzes information assets and data to provide clients with analytics and customized data services. Data sources include property and mortgage information, motor vehicle records, criminal background records and tax records.
I expect the Tea Party and libertarian-leaning Democrats to be up in arms about this.
I expect "business Republicans" and non-libertarian Democrats to see this as A Good Thing or at least a "neutral thing, but serving a good purpose" thing.
Let the sparks fly.
Full Disclosure: Worked at one of the money center banks in both Small Business and Credit Cards for six years and a foreign bank with a US presence for 4.
What is this thing and do I need to get my foil hat?
The database they are constructing is being used to conduct performance reviews on originated mortgages. The database won't pick you up unless you start a mortgage. Once you originate the mortgage this database is being put into place in order to monitor your performance on that mortgage and your corresponding financial condition.
Why are they doing this?
To stop the next credit crisis as the system would allow surveillance over mortgages originated by banking institutions. Today, banking regulators have broad powers to request information out of banks including everything that's going to be held in this database (personal information about you, you bet - your bank is pulling regular credit reports on you and the regulator can check your progress when they come in for an exam. Building the database would shortcut that request and help get a better view as to how institutions are originating. No longer would regulators have to show up and start poking around at a bank, but they could monitor the health of the banks portfolio.
Who would be against this? This sounds like a way to crack down on banks.
It is a way to crack down on banks and ensure that what's being originated isn't crap. Think about it. We could have better monitored the health of the entire mortgage system by have having this database in place. Those who are against this are most likely those who have a vested interest in ensuring that the mortgage industry opaque to regulators. Those concerned about privacy should realize all of this data is being collected today, I can pull your credit report and cross it with data from CoreLogic and do roughly the same thing. Yes it is all in one place and with a government entity, but so long as its being used responsibility I don't have a problem with it as it would create an excellent tool for finding bad actors within the mortgage industry.
The credit crisis didn't happen because people took out loans they couldn't afford. People will do that every chance they get. The bankers wanted the rules loosened up. The government did that and before long whole new financial commodity products were created using all these new "sub-primes" everywhere.
It's like knocking down part of a dam and then blaming the water for flooding the place.
Make a list of who has what....
As part of the conditions of setting up the serial number of every person in the US, it was written into law that the government shall not use the magic number for anything other than social security accounting. Yes, I know they broke that law long, log ago and continue doing so. But it's still the law. (Did you know you can get a TAX ID number if you wish not to use your SSN when filing 'voluntary' taxes?)
Though it's far more poignant today than ever before, the government doesn't follow its own laws.
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There is so much supernatural angst and drama in the Twilight Saga books and films, it's hard to believe author Stephenie Meyer is so, well, normal.
''Disappointed?'' the 38-year-old writer says, enjoying the observation that she's nothing like her books might suggest. Meyer is dressed elegantly in black pants, suede boots and a red top with vintage blue cameo necklace. She calls my accent ''cute'' and says how much she wants to visit Australia - and makes it all feel like more than just polite small talk. It's hard to see why she avoids interviews, as she's clearly in her element talking about the final film, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2.
Meyer also loves a good joke, Twilight actor Taylor Lautner says. ''Stephenie was the last person I expected to be a practical jokester,'' he says, ''but all of a sudden when we were filming this movie, we exchanged practical jokes and suddenly we had this war going the whole time.''
This lights up the happily married mother of three boys, aged 15, 12 and 10. ''I had the chef at a restaurant create a vampire cheesecake and write on it 'Team Edward' and send it to [Lautner's] table,'' she reveals, ''and later that night he sent one back that said 'Team Potter', made into the shape of a wizard hat.''
Meyer is one of the most successful writers in the world, alongside her supposed ''nemesis'', J.K. Rowling. She's sold more than 120 million books and the Twilight films have grossed more than $US2.5 billion worldwide. Her four books have become five films: Twilight, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, parts one and two. But unlike Rowling, who is a recognisable star in her own right, few people know what Meyer even looks like, or that she lives in a modest (now gated) house in Cave Creek, Arizona, a tourist town (population 5000) on the way to the Grand Canyon.
''I've never met J.K. Rowling but I don't think she [would be] interested in meeting me,'' Meyer says. ''I do totally admire her work, however, and think she's brilliant.
''My middle son is obsessed with Harry Potter; that's the book that started him reading, so of course I'm grateful to her for that.''
Like Rowling, Meyer was a full-time mum in 2003 when the idea for the Twilight saga first came to her. ''I dreamt the meadow scene in the first book,'' she says. ''There was a beautiful vampire standing opposite a normal human girl and he's talking about how he really wants to kill her but he also thinks he's in love with her. Then I woke up and thought, 'Man, what would they have done next?' I wanted to know more.''
A devout Mormon, Meyer spent three months of late nights writing the book while her family was sleeping, and also included an outline for the final book.
After a publisher pulled her manuscript out of a slush pile and bought it, he had some advice. ''He loved it but said, 'I want to go back to high school with them,''' Meyer says. ''I had skipped over all that to get to the end too quickly so I went back and wrote New Moon and Eclipse, knowing the whole time where they were going at the end.''
Elevated to a full-fledged producer for the final two films, Meyer moved her family to Louisiana and Vancouver for the consecutive six-month shoots. In the last chapter, Bella (Kristen Stewart) has become a vampire and she and Edward (Robert Pattinson) must protect their daughter from the Volturi coven. Meyer candidly admits the actors ''were not exactly the characters that were in my head'' and quickly adds, ''but they've created their own characters and stayed true to that''.
Meyer graduated from Mormon college Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, with a degree in English and married her husband, Christian, known to friends as Pancho, when they were 21.
As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Meyer is unapologetic towards critics who lament the lack of physical intimacy in her books and Bella waiting until her wedding night to lose her virginity.
''I definitely didn't write this thinking, 'I'm going to preach a moral lesson,''' she says without any defensiveness - although it seems she expected the subject to come up. ''But it just felt right for me. You write your own experience and it's not one that's popular in literature and movies right now, so it's nice to have something for those of us who are a little different, right?''
What of fans' pleas for another Twilight book?
''If I had to decide today, then I would probably say no, you won't see them again,'' she says. ''But in my mind, I've plotted through their whole lives, so whether or not I write it down, I'll have to tell everyone at some point before I die.''
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 is out on Thursday.


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Adult Detention Center Administration
The Pinal County Jail operates a combination of Direct and Indirect supervision facility. Direct supervision provides for amore productive form of inmate management that facilitates interaction between inmates and staff, thereby reducing incidents of violence, inmate grievances, destruction of property and improved operational efficiency. This form of supervision allows for the greatest level of interaction between Detention Staff and offenders. Indirect supervision allows for the random monitoring of activities, and provides a lesser degree of interaction between the Detention Staff and offenders.


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I have these sql statements stored in the database. I retrieve them and store the in a variables. eg. a variable sqlquery varchar2(1000) will hava a value of 'SELECT sum(dr_total) INTO balance FROM gl_balances'. How can I retrieve the value from the variable i.e 'SELECT sum(dr_total) INTO balance FROM gl_balances' and run it in a pl/sql program unit. SRW.DO_SQL does not work because it does not recognize the INTO key word within the sql query. I tried SRW.DO_SQL(sqlquery) but it failed. Any Ideas.
How can I insert quoted text into the database using SQL insert command . Eg How would I insert this string Select name from employee where name = 'NEWTON'


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University of Mount Union Named Tree Campus USA
March 09, 2011
The University of Mount Union recently earned Tree Campus USA recognition for 2010 for its dedication to campus forestry management and environmental stewardship. This is the first year Mount Union has been named a Tree Campus USA.
Tree Campus USA is a national program that honors colleges and universities and their leaders for promoting healthy management of their campus forests and for engaging the community in environmental stewardship. Tree Campus USA is a program of the Arbor Day Foundation and is supported by a grant from Toyota.
"We (Mount Union) are very proud to have received this prestigious acknowledgment," said Blaine Lewis, director of the physical plant at Mount Union. "We take great pride in incorporating sustainable practices into everything we do at the University and this is truly a testament to our efforts. We plan to work hard each year to maintain this recognition."
Mike Bondini, grounds supervisor and Dr. Charles McClaugherty, professor of biology at Mount Union, co-director of environmental science and director of the John T. Huston-Dr. John D. Brumbaugh Nature Center, served as team leaders in the application process.
"By encouraging its students to plant trees and participate in service that will help the environment, Mount Union is making a positive impact on its community that will last for decades," said John Rosenow, chief executive and founder of the Arbor Day Foundation. "One goal of the Tree Campus USA program is to help create healthier communities for its citizens through the planting of trees, and the city of Alliance will certainly benefit from Mount Union's commitment to Tree Campus USA."
Mount Union met the five core standards of tree care and community engagement in order to receive Tree Campus USA status. The standards are: the establishment of a campus tree advisory committee; evidence of a campus tree-care plan; verification of dedicated annual expenditures on the campus tree-care plan; involvement in an Arbor Day observance; and the institution of a service-learning project aimed at engaging the student body.
In Mount Union's award notification letter, Rosenow reiterated the benefits trees have on a college campus. "Trees in urban areas, and especially on campuses, reduce the heat island effect caused by pavement and buildings. Leaves filter the air we breathe by removing dust and other particles. Properly placed trees create a welcoming environment that makes students, administration and alumni want to be a part of the campus," Rosenow said.
The Arbor Day Foundation launched Tree Campus USA in the fall of 2008 by planting trees at nine college campuses throughout the United States. Twenty-nine schools were named a Tree Campus USA in 2008, and in three years the number of schools has more than tripled.
For more information about the Tree Campus USA program, visit www.arborday.org/TreeCampusUSA.


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BOISE, Idaho -
The evening included all the presentations in the Boise Muffler Gold Cup Championships. Our appreciation goes out to every presenting company, manhy of which included: Rod Page (Boise Muffler); Rayce & Marissa Kidd (Kidd Performance & Dyno); Matt Compton (Performance Solutions); David Wood (Woody's Outdoor Power); Rex Petersen (Fairly Reliable Bob's); Glenn Watts (Capitol City Transmission) and Rich Pedraza (Rich's Auto Care & Dyno). All of the top finishers were recognized along racers in the United Dairymen of Idaho/CWI High School & Alumni Championships, Junior Dragster chase, Lyle Pearson Acura Sport Compact Series, Carl's Cycle Sales Street Bike, Moffitt & Bratton Outlaw Street program, Lyle Pearson Acura Sport Compact series, and other points chases during the evening.
Voted on by his peers, Randy Williamson was awarded Bracket Racer of the Year. Williamson also won the Pro Track Championship. Sweeping honors for "Lady Driver of the Year" was Judy Radford.
Boise Muffler Gold Cup Championship Series
Kidd Performance Super Pro: Chris Jaggers Performance Solutions Pro: Randy Williamson United Oil Sportsman: Tyler Rush Woody's Sled/Bike: Scott Grondahl Junior Dragster: Michael Jaggers United Dairymen/CWI High School Teams: Middleton High (AAA) and Renaissance High (AA) High School - Individual: Dustin Smith, Middleton High Alumni: David Meimann Lyle Pearson Acura Sport Compact: Stephanie Meimann Carl's Cycle Sales Street Bike: David Kletzien Moffitt & Bratton Outlaw Street: Mike Ritz Street Truck: Ashton Davis Capitol City Transmission Nostalgia: Carl Youngstrom Rich's Auto Care & Dyno Super Shifter: Glen Phillips Fairly Reliable Bob's Club Champions: Melba Outlaws (Silver Cup), Flyin' Brick (Bronze Cup), and Modern Rodders (Copper Cup)
2013 Year-end special awards
Perfect Light Club Treasure Chest (drawing) - Rayce Kidd Rising Star-Maggie Watts Top Rookie-Rachel Rush Best Appearing Race Car-Sharlene Lancaster Outstanding Perseverance-Tim Shawver Good "Guy" 2013-Andy Strunk Outstanding Crew-Cutler & Rush Family Racing Most Improved Driver-Chad Campbell Team Member of the Year-Andy Varin Lady Driver of the Year-Judy Radford Bracket Racer of the Year-Randy Williamson Racemaster-Mike Montgomery
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Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax; good things come to those who wait. Progress from serenely ambient levels into varied and challenging worlds. Confront attractors, repulsors, and intelligent motes with similar abilities and goals as you. It is 100% DRM and region free, and features procedural generation (play random versions of any level) and an electronic soundtrack by Loscil, Gas/High Skies, Julien Neto, Biosphere, and more.
BoxWorld is a puzzle game where the player has to place boxes over special places in order to gain energy to teleport to the next level. The boxes can only be pushed, not pulled, thus requiring ordering of the boxes with caution. If the boxes are put into positions that prevent further movement, the player can start the level over, but loses a life by doing so. There are no time limits, so the player can relax and think before acting. The game features nice graphics, enjoyable music, and 525 increasingly difficult levels. The player must come up with more complex strategies on the later levels, with many more pushes and special tricks in order to place the boxes in corners or long corridors. Sometimes most of the boxes are already placed in the appropriate area, but the player has to replace all the boxes just to be able to move another box and arrange it where it belongs.
A disk which can boot into an OS whose bootloader is broken.
A file integrity daemon with support for centralized monitoring.


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I need to create a simple HTML file that can be opened with chrome so that it can be used with google chromecast. (if you haven't used chromecast before, it simply casts whatever is being displayed in the web browser onto a tv LIVE). When opened I need the html file to be up dateable on the fly (when i add to the list it shows up on the screen). For example, i'm using this to update a simple list of karaoke singers that will be cast to a TV with Google Chromecast. As new singers come up they will be added to the bottom of the list.
This computer does not have internet access, but it does have a router. (hence how i can use chromecast)
Any ideas????
Using an open field like the one i am able to type in right now on this forum could possibly work. Is there a way to create a simple text field without having internet service and embed it in a simple html file? It will have to be saved locally. Ideally I would like to be able to change fonts/size/color.
I am using Dream Viewer to design a website in HTML, I have never used Google Chromecast.


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The Bruins continued to stock up on intelligent prospects in the fifth round.
After taking the Cornell-bound Brian Ferlin in the fourth round, Boston used the 151st overall pick on Yale-bound Rob O'Gara.
O'Gara, who stands 6-foot-2, 185 pounds, is the second defenseman selected by the Bruins in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft in St. Paul, Minn.
He's a New York native who last season helped Milton Academy to its first ever prep title. O'Gara is scheduled to land at Yale for the 2012-13 season.


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KHQ.COM - The 2013 Spokane Lilac Festival Armed Forces Torchlight Parade is in the books. With tens of thousands of people in downtown Spokane watching the parade, the floats, the marching bands, we know you took plenty of pictures! Well, we want to see them!
To submit pictures for this slideshow, send them in .jpg format to email@example.com
Have a good week everyone!