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We live blogged the U.S. stock market\'s action on Tuesday. You can read a wrap of pre-market actions here and — shortly after the opening bell — get a compact rundown of the stock market in Market Snapshot.
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- 9:31 am
- New Ukraine concerns
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Good morning.
Ukraine news is dominating headlines again today.
Russia's foreign ministry warned Tuesday that any use of force by Ukrainian authorities to dislodge pro-Kremlin separatists who have seized control of government buildings in three cities in eastern Ukraine could plunge the country into civil war.
Read more here.
Photo credit: Reuters
- 9:33 am
- Mostly lower
- by Victor Reklaitis
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And we're off.
In the opening minutes, the S&P 500 and Dow are losing ground again. This would be their fourth straight down day.
But the Nasdaq is bucking the negative trend. The moves are all pretty small.
Dow -0.2%
Nadaq +0.1%
- 9:39 am
- 'Tis the season
- by Victor Reklaitis
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After the market's close today, Alcoa /quotes/zigman/246295/delayed /quotes/nls/aa AA will provide the unofficial start for first-quarter earnings season.
Sluggish earnings growth over the past three years hasn't held back stocks, MarketWatch's Bill Watts wrote in a recent story.
In fact, the period has been characterized by companies guiding estimates lower ahead of earnings season, then topping those lowered expectations when it's time to report, he reported.
Alcoa isn't a Dow component anymore, but that hasn't been hurting the stock lately. The aluminum producer is up 50% over the past 12 months, and it's up nearly 19% in 2014 to date.
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- 9:44 am
- Stocks strengthen
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Stocks are now strengthening after the S&P 500 and Dow dipped out of the gate.
Those two indexes have turned mildly positive in the last few minutes.
Meanwhile, the Nasdaq has shifted from slight gains to solid gains.
Dow +0.1%
Nasdaq +0.6%
- 9:51 am
- Stabilizing?
- by Victor Reklaitis
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U.S. stocks "appear to be stabilizing suggesting that the two day selloff that followed Friday's nonfarm payrolls report may have run its course and is subsiding for now," says Colin Cieszynski, senior analyst at CMC Markets, in emailed comments on Tuesday.
He notes that there's not that much for investors to grab at in terms of economic data, so it's all about earnings season and how the rough winter might have hurt results.
"Economic news in North America has been light to start the week so attention now turns toward earnings season which starts with Alcoa's results after US exchanges close this afternoon," he writes.
"Results over the next month may give another indication of which parts of the economy were most impacted by winter storms (and we can expect that weather will likely get the blame for any shortfalls)."
Credit for the adjacent photo of Alcoa workers loading aluminum: Bloomberg
- 9:54 am
- Choppiness
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So much for strengthening and stabilizing.
The S&P 500 and Dow have now turned lower, while the Nasdaq is slightly positive to flat.
The trading range for today still remains relatively narrow though.
While the indexes are switching between gains and losses, they're not making huge swings.
Dow -0.2%
Nasdaq +0.1%
- 10:02 am
- Tech rebound
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Tech stocks showed some signs of life in early trading Tuesday as the sector tried to rebound from several days of losses, reports MarketWatch's Ben Pimentel.
Advancers included Pandora /quotes/zigman/5419837/delayed /quotes/nls/p P , Netflix /quotes/zigman/87598/delayed /quotes/nls/nflx NFLX and Facebook /quotes/zigman/9962609/delayed /quotes/nls/fb FB , says his short story.
Yahoo /quotes/zigman/59898/delayed /quotes/nls/yhoo YHOO is another winner today, last up 0.9%.
- 10:23 am
- Looking for a tech bounce
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Are some tech stocks oversold?
Templeton's Mark Mobius and an Oppenheimer's Ari Wald both suggested that yesterday.
Technical analyst Andrew Thrasher also is making this point.
"With the recent period of weakness I've begun looking for some setups of markets testing support and showing signs of potential mean-reversion, and I think the First Trust Internet ETF ($FDN) looks interesting here," Thrasher writes.
You can get his full take over at TraderPlanet.
- 10:32 am
- Internet ETF chart
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Here's a chart for that Internet ETF /quotes/zigman/1497276/delayed /quotes/nls/fdn FDN that Thrasher thinks is showing signs of potential mean-reversion.
- 10:38 am
- Mostly lower again
- by Victor Reklaitis
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About an hour into today's session, stocks are mostly lower.
They've pulled back from their best levels hit around 9:45 a.m. Eastern, when all three main indexes showed gains.
But they've also lifted up from their session lows reached around 10:30 a.m.
Dow -0.3%
Nasdaq basically unchanged
- 10:45 am
- New breed of index ETFs
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Smart beta ETFs. Indexing 2.0.
Whatever you want to call this trend in exchange-traded funds, it's attracting more investor dollars.
Smart beta ETFs use newer, tailor-made indexes that have been constructed with outperformance, lower volatility or some other goal in mind besides just tracking a market.
Find out what you need to know here, and you'll also get four handy charts like the one above.
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- 10:57 am
- Market update
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Today's trading session is indeed choppy with the main indexes dipping in and out of negative territory. The trading range is narrow, however.
SPX +2 points
DJIA +5 points
COMP +25 points
- 11:01 am
- Gaffney: Forward guidance is key
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Today's calendar is light on economic news. So, all eyes are on earnings.
"Investors already lowered their expectations for the first-quarter earnings and it is not the results themselves but the forward guidance that will be key," said Chris Gaffney, senior market strategist, EverBank.
"The selling of high-momentum stocks is not surprising as their valuations were too high. We are now seeing a rotation from those high-flying companies into large-cap cyclicals and dividend-paying defensive stocks," he added.
- 11:27 am
- Does high-frequency trading benefit investors?
- by Anora Mahmudova
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With all its faults and the dangers highlighted in the system, and in the news lately, could high frequency trading actually benefit the average investor? Capital One Sharebuilder President Dan Greenshields discusses. Photo: Getty.
- 11:35 am
- Thank God it's Tuesday!
- by Anora Mahmudova
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The main indexes are moving higher. It could be a bounce from oversold levels or could be because it's Tuesday.
Bulls have one thing going for them today, it is Tuesday. So far this yr been down just twice. $SPX http://t.co/GRGXNJm2u3
— Ryan Detrick, CMT (@RyanDetrick) April 8, 2014
- 11:51 am
- 5 warning signs of a stock market bubble
- by Anora Mahmudova
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MarketWatch's Mark Hulbert writes that the current sentiment is unlike that of March 2000:
The stock market slide in recent days, after the S&P 500's 30%-plus surge last year, doesn't represent the bursting of a bubble.
That's crucial to consider, given the comparisons made by some pundits between the current market and that of March 2000, when tech stocks started evaporating.
Whatever else you might say about today's stock market, it is nowhere near as overheated as it was 14 years ago. And that's not a subjective view. My conclusion is derived from a data-driven focus on objective measures that were identified by the leading academic study of investor sentiment.
- 12:22 pm
- April is the Cruellest Month
- by Sue Chang
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The recent retreat in so-called momentum stocks the likes of Tesla /quotes/zigman/118681/delayed /quotes/nls/tsla TSLA and Facebook /quotes/zigman/9962609/delayed /quotes/nls/fb FB has prompted various comments on why these high-fliers are stumbling with the consensus pointing to a correction.
But Andrew Wilkinson at Interactive Brokers suggests that tax season is to blame. "I have become increasingly convinced that tax selling is likely a factor in those stocks' declines," he said in a note titled "April is the Cruellest Month"
The rationale is this: 2013 was a very good year for most investors, and active investors would likely have found themselves with a series of short and long term gains, and thus a hefty tax bill due next week. If those investors remained fully invested in the market, using margin to trade the momentum stocks, they would need to sell some of their holdings to pay the IRS. As the stocks began to decline last week with the first wave of taxable sellers, the selling continued, fuelled by fears of margin calls, and the recent rout was on.
Both Tesla and Facebook have regained some of their composure this week with Tesla up 4% and Facebook gaining 2.4% as of midday.
- 12:33 pm
- Tuesday's big movers
- by Sue Chang
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First Solar /quotes/zigman/102025/delayed /quotes/nls/fslr FSLR topped the S&P 500 after analysts at Citi recently said the stock will benefit from investors' interest in renewable energy.
Check out MarketWatch's Movers & Shakers for a look at notable stocks in action.
- 12:53 pm
- Apple may be feeling Samsung's blues
- by Sue Chang
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Apple /quotes/zigman/68270/delayed /quotes/nls/aapl AAPL shares are fractionally off in the wake of a Cantor Fitzgerald report suggesting that despite stronger-than-usual sales of Apple products in March, quarterly numbers may fall short of expectations.
The stock's lack of energy may also stem from the fact that Samsung Electronics /quotes/zigman/189457/realtime KR:005930 , its biggest competitor, announced overnight that operating profit in the first three months of the year fell between 2.1% to 6.6% from a year earlier.
Normally, that would be good news for Apple but given the recent worries about saturation of the global smartphone market, it could be a grim harbinger for the industry as a whole.
- 12:54 pm
- Stocks halt slide in choppy session
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Stocks are modestly higher. Traders put the brakes on three days of selling in a choppy session. Neil Hennessy, chairman of Hennessy Funds says the market has not yet reached a top. He says the recent weakness gives investors who are out of the market a chance to "get their toes wet."
- 1:17 pm
- More on biotechs
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Biotechnology stocks that saw heavy selling in the past few sessions are still moving lower. The Nasdaq Biotechnology index /quotes/zigman/12633939/realtime NBI is down 0.3%. MarketWatch's Russ Britt ask if biotech is caught in a bubble and if it is popping.
Confused investors looking for advice on where biotechnology stocks are headed might get a clue from the head of one company in the sector.
Or not.
Rajesh C. Shrotriya, chairman and chief executive of Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, says with conviction that a lot of biotech shares are overvalued because, simply put, they've been "selling a dream" instead of focusing on fundamentals. Shrotriya stops short of declaring the current state of affairs a "bubble," though he understands why some investors see it that way.
- 1:37 pm
- Tech stocks rally
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Some of the tech and Internet companies are attracting buyers today. Rex Crum says tech stocks are seeing another day of erratic trading.
TripAdvisor /quotes/zigman/7619815/delayed /quotes/nls/trip TRIP +4.4%
Yahoo! Inc /quotes/zigman/59898/delayed /quotes/nls/yhoo YHOO +3.7%
Google /quotes/zigman/93888/delayed /quotes/nls/googl GOOGL +3.3%
Netflix /quotes/zigman/87598/delayed /quotes/nls/nflx NFLX +2.8%
Amazon.com /quotes/zigman/63011/delayed /quotes/nls/amzn AMZN +2.6%
Facebook /quotes/zigman/9962609/delayed /quotes/nls/fb FB +2.3%
- 1:50 pm
- Kocherlakota says Fed falling short on employment growth
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By Jeff Bartash
Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Narayana Kocherlakota on Tuesday said the central bank is not doing all it can to promote faster job creation and a quicker decline in the U.S. unemployment rate. In a speech in Rochester, Minn., Kocherlakota restated his belief that the Fed is moving too fast to reduce economic stimulus meant to boost growth. He would prefer the Fed to maintain an easy-money policy until unemployment falls a lot further from its 6.7% rate – or inflation rises a lot faster.
In March, Kocherlakota was the sole Fed official to dissent when the bank voted to trim its bond-buying economy stimulus program by another $10 billion a month. He said inflation remains too low at 1% and the jobless rate too high to justify such a reduction. "We have to conclude that the [Federal Open Market Committee] is underperforming with respect to its goal of promoting maximum employment," he said
- 2:04 pm
- Requiem for Windows XP
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Remember Windows XP? Well, finally, Microsoft is going to euthanize it. From MarketWatch Radio:
The death of Windows XP is a mercy killing. It's been brain dead for years. Andrew O'Day reports.
- 2:23 pm
- Dow loses ground
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Dow turns negative and is now down 10 points. According to Bespoke Investment Group, a big sell order pushed it down.
Saw some big sell program trades hit the market right when 2 o'clock hit. Took the Dow from up 35 to flat in a few minutes.
— Bespoke (@bespokeinvest) April 8, 2014
- 2:42 pm
- Utilities are leading gains
- by Anora Mahmudova
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The S&P 500 utilities sector stocks are finding lots of love today. The sub index is up 1.2% today and gained more than 10% since the start of the year. Typically, that is not a good sign when defensive stocks outperform growth stocks – because that is the classic case of a bear market.
Chris Gaffney, senior market strategist at EverBank says that it is not always the case.
"We are seeing a rotation from high-growth stocks to cyclicals and defensives. But we do like utilities, especially infrastructure companies, those dealing with exporting energy – because there is a lot of organic growth in those companies.
- 2:42 pm
- Tuesday's Movers & Shakers
- by Kaitlyn Wells
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Today, some energy companies performed well, while some tech stocks took a hit.
First Solar Inc. /quotes/zigman/102025/delayed /quotes/nls/fslr FSLR leads the S&P 500, having jumped 8.8%. Analysts at Citigroup identified First Solar as one of the few stocks to likely benefit from investors' interest in renewable energy. Likewise, coal producers Consol Energy Inc /quotes/zigman/190880/delayed /quotes/nls/cnx CNX climbed 3.4%.
But Apple /quotes/zigman/68270/delayed /quotes/nls/aapl AAPL shares slipped 0.1% following a 1.5% loss in the previous session. Gigamon Inc. /quotes/zigman/17459162/delayed /quotes/nls/gimo GIMO shares plummeted 32% after the network data traffic tech company cut its revenue outlook because a large international order fell through.
See more in MarketWatch's Movers & Shakers column.
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- 2:54 pm
- Trading sideways
- by Kaitlyn Wells
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The abrupt downturn on Friday, coupled with an exhausted market, make us believe that in the near term stocks will likely trade sideways, writes Nuveen's Bob Doll in a recent commentary.
First quarter earnings seem to have been negatively affected by weather disruptions, currency and emerging market weakness, Doll says. It's been a tough quarter, so things should be watched more closely compared to the last several quarters.
- 3:01 pm
- Euro rebounds
- by Kaitlyn Wells
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The euro rose to $1.3803 from $1.3742 late Monday. That's the highest level since March 25's $1.3827, according to FactSet.
The European Central Bank may be considering unconventional measures to battle the region's low inflation, writes MarketWatch's Saumya Vaishampayan.
But the ECB has sent mixed signals on the chances of quantitative easing.
Photo credit: Bloomberg
- 3:07 pm
- The IMF on euro-zone and Ukraine volatility
- by Anora Mamudova
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Sluggish euro zone growth, volatility in emerging markets, and the political battle between Russia and Ukraine threaten to weigh on weak global economic recovery. IMF Chief Economist Olivier Blanchard discusses the outlook with WSJ's Ian Talley. Photo: Associated Press.
- 3:19 pm
- Busy IPO week feels like 2007
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Despite recent selloffs, companies interested in going public are finding market conditions favorable.
From Ben Eisen's Tell Post:
An eclectic group of companies intend to debut on U.S. stock exchanges this week in what could be the busiest week for IPOs since 2007.
In all, 14 companies plan to price their shares, according to data provider Dealogic. If all proceed as planned, it would mark the most IPOs in one calendar week since November 2007. The total value of the deals could be $4.8 billion, assuming all offerings price at the middle of their indicated ranges. That would be the most for one week since last December.
- 3:37 pm
- Stocks are trading higher
- by Anora Mahmudova
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With less then half an hour before the closing bell, stocks are trading higher. The gains so far are modest, however.
SPX /quotes/zigman/3870025/realtime SPX +0.44%
DJIA /quotes/zigman/627449/realtime DJIA +0.13%
COMP /quotes/zigman/12633936/realtime COMP +0.91%
- 3:47 pm
- S&P 500 and its 50-day line
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Chart watchers have been noting today how the S&P 500 kissed its 50-day moving average:
S&P 500 hanging around the 50dma. Next support levels I see r 1813,1800, then 1775..all highlighted here: http://t.co/0IYZPvWL47 $SPX $SPY
— Michael Lamothe (@MichaelGLamothe) April 8, 2014
- 3:49 pm
- Emerging markets ETF
- by Victor Reklaitis
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As a key emerging markets ETF touches a four-month peak Tuesday, strategists are asking whether the recent EM bounce will continue.
At Citi, the answer to that question is apparently yes, while Credit Suisse analysts aren't as upbeat.
Read more here.
- 4:01 pm
- The close!
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Dow +0.1%
Nasdaq +0.8%
- 4:04 pm
- 50-day support
- by Victor Reklaitis
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This chart (of the biggest S&P 500 ETF /quotes/zigman/714403/delayed /quotes/nls/spy SPY ) shows that support at the 50-day moving average mentioned in the post at 3:47 p.m. Eastern.
- 4:08 pm
- More on today's close
- by Victor Reklaitis
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With today's gain, all three main indexes halted three-day losing streaks.
Each index also closed in the vicinity of its session high.
The S&P 500 has yet again turned positive for 2014 to date — up 0.2%.
- 4:14 pm
- Alcoa up
- by Victor Reklaitis
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After the bell, earnings season has now begun, and it looks like a positive start.
Alcoa /quotes/zigman/246295/delayed /quotes/nls/aa AA is up in extended trading after its quarterly report.
MarketWatch's After Hours column will be out shortly with details on Alcoa and other late movers.
That's a wrap for this live blog. Thanks for following it today.
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New York State had the only teenager to compete in the Whitewater Grande Prix World Class Kayaking, a 14-day, five race event held in Chile in December 2012, which attracted 30 of the world's best kayakers.
Galen Volkhausen, 18, from Ithaca, N.Y., was honored to be invited to participate and place in the top 10 in the world. He has signed a contract to be on the kayaking teaching staff this summer at a camp in Canada.
Volkhausen is the son of Christiann Dean, who is from Westfield and currently living in Ithaca, and the grandson of Jack Dean of Westfield.
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Galen Volkhausen kayaks on a 79-foot drop on Rio Palguin in Chile.
Volkhausen said Chile was the ideal location for the grande prix because of its many world-class white water rivers. These free-flowing rivers are a big part of Chile's strong ecotourism economy. He said waterfalls make a race more technical, and it is no longer about paddling as hard as one can, but about paddling as hard as one can while hitting hard lines down waterfalls and steeper sections of whitewater.

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CINCINNATI — A man who killed three of his classmates at a Kentucky high school in 1997 is fighting to take back his guilty plea and get a trial, arguing that his schizophrenia made him incompetent and unable to accept responsibility for the crime.
Four days after the 15-year anniversary of the shooting, a three-judge panel with the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati heard arguments from convicted shooter Michael Carneal's attorney and the Kentucky Attorney General's Office.
The killings, more than two years before the fatal attack at Columbine High School in Colorado, garnered national attention at a time when mass school shootings were uncommon.
Carneal's attorney, Timothy Arnold, argued that his client's appeal of his guilty plea was timely and should be allowed to proceed. The attorney general's office countered by saying that the appeal came too late in the process and that Carneal's conviction and life sentence should stand.
If the panel finds that the appeal was timely, the case could be sent back to a lower court judge to consider whether Carneal should be allowed to take back his guilty plea. The panel could take months to issue a decision.
Carneal, now 29, opened fire on a Dec. 1, 1997, school prayer meeting in Paducah, killing 17-year-old Jessica James, 15-year-old Kayce Steger and 14-year-old Nicole Hadley. Five others were wounded.
It came two months after a school shooting in Pearl, Miss., that killed three and injured seven. Then on April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold's attack at Columbine killed 12 students, a teacher and themselves.
Arnold said in an interview that Carneal, who was a 14-year-old freshman at the time, was schizophrenic and having delusions when he agreed to plead guilty but mentally ill to murder and attempted murder charges.
Arnold said that Carneal didn't reveal that he had been hallucinating until years later and wasn't competent enough work on an appeal of his guilty plea until late 2003. The appeal was filed in June 2004.
Kentucky Assistant Attorney General Ken Riggs argued that Carneal took far too long to file his appeal, saying that he proved he had achieved a working level of competency in 2002 in the form of letters to his psychologist and others.
Riggs argues the appeal should have been filed that year.
"Mr. Carneal knew full well that he had a right to file an appeal if he wanted one," Riggs said, adding that Carneal wrote about complex legal theories and discussed his case in the letters.
"This is not the mind of a person who is so far removed from reality that he couldn't put pen to paper and articulate the fact that, 'Hey, there's something wrong with the way my case was handled, my attorney was ineffective, and maybe I was insane at the time but otherwise not criminally responsible,'" he said.
Riggs emphasized to the judges the seriousness of the decision before them.
"People died when Mr. Carneal walked into his high school and singlehandedly opened fire," he said.
Last year, Carneal testified about his hallucinations and schizophrenia, saying that he was commanded to shoot his fellow students by delusions in the form of voices he called "the danes."
He said that he didn't remember pulling the trigger and only realized what he had done when he saw one of the teens on the ground bleeding.
"I still have nightmares about it," he testified. "I did these things to all these people. I wish I could take it back, but I don't know how."


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"Bad luck and misfortune." That's how Matthew Murphy laughingly described the life turns that led to his career in music as a tour manager. "I was a musician myself," a bass player, he said Saturday from somewhere outside Detroit. "I got injured and was laid up for a while, but stayed in the business."
To put it mildly. He handled the biggest bands of the 1970s and '80s: Blondie, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Eurhythmics, Brian Ferry, UB40, Fine Young Cannibals. The list goes on.
And then one day he found himself standing in the East Room of the White House being greeted by Barack Obama. "He and Michelle were so gracious and nice. We're standing there and I'm the first one they walk up to: 'What's your name?' 'Hello, Mr. President.' " A few weeks after the fact, Mr. Murphy spoke as if he still couldn't believe it. "We all left the experience so high, it was so uplifting. They're such good spirits."
About that "we": He was there with Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers, who, it so happens, will bring their bluegrass and banjo act to Guild Hall Saturday night, a show that's already sold out.
Fans of Mr. Martin's comedy albums of the '70s — back when, unheard of for a stand-up comedian, he packed stadiums — will recall his banjo playing onstage. It's a happy instrument, he would say, before demonstrating its imperviousness to gloom as he intoned "Oh death" and so forth over its chipper pluckings.
"He's a world-class banjo player," said Mr. Murphy, who has worked with him for two years. Here and in other aspects of his performing, "he's intent on getting it right. He works on his craft constantly."
Mr. Martin joined up with the Steep Canyon Rangers, admired bluegrass players in their own right, after meeting them on tour in Asheville, N.C., where they're from.
"They take the stage together and there's music, some conversation, they'll banter," Mr. Murphy said. A couple of a cappella numbers are real showstoppers, he added.
The concert's a chance for the tour manager to converse as well, catch up with family, keeping as he does a house in Wainscott, with a sister, the watercolorist Michelle Murphy, in Amagansett. (His brother is Elliott Murphy, a singer and songwriter who will be making his yearly trip to the Stephen Talkhouse in December.)
The respite will be brief; the life of the road calls: Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers will perform at a Fourth of July concert in Washington, D.C., "A Capitol Fourth," which will be broadcast on PBS. Then to England and onward till the end of August, at which time Mr. Martin and Mr. Murphy will, for now, part ways. Which for the tour man means hello, Incubus.


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TUCSON, Ariz. – The applause for Oregon State coach Mike Riley started about five years ago, and it has been going ever since.
That's when former OSU linebacker Joey LaRocque thought it would be funny to clap for the head coach in a team meeting. In every meeting since, players have given Riley a round of applause.
"We're just proud of what he does, and we love him,'' said receiver Markus Wheaton. "It's been like this ever since I've been here.''
On Saturday night at Arizona Stadium, the cheers grew louder. The Beavers' wild 38-35 win over the Wildcats not only moved them to 3-0 but it also was Riley's 75th as OSU coach, breaking Lon Stiner's school record that stood for 64 years.
"The main thing is having been some
place for a while,'' Riley said after the game. "That's the biggest thing to
me, because when I came back, that's what I set my mind to do because I gave
that up when I left. I'm just thankful I had this kind of time to get a chance
at a record like this.''
Of all those 75 wins, this was one of the craziest. The Beavers built a 10-point halftime lead only to give it away as Arizona scored 21 points in the third quarter – the only third-quarter points OSU has given up this season.
It wasn't until the final minute, after Sean Mannion hit Connor Hamlett with a 9-yard touchdown pass and Rashaad Reynolds made a game-saving interception, that Riley could exhale.
It is fitting that the record would come this way. After Riley's rock-bottom year of 2011, when the Beavers went 3-9, they have come out in 2012 and matched that total in three tries – the last two coming on the road.
Mannion was 29 of 45 for 433 yards and no interceptions. It was the fifth-highest passing total in OSU history and worthy of a standing ovation in itself.
On Saturday night, the OSU contingent included some 60 family members and friends of Wheaton, the Arizona native who caught 10 passes for 166 yards and two touchdowns.
The orange-wearing throng stood and cheered well after the game ended, and the applause finally stopped as the buses pulled away.
But for Riley, it has not. Not even in 2011. It remained consistent, a reflection of the 12-year Riley era that began in 1997, with a four-year break (1999-2002) while he coached in the NFL.
"His consistency has really helped,'' offensive coordinator Danny Langsdorf said. "We've stayed pretty even-keeled through the good and the bad.''
Saturday night's win also was the 48th league victory for Riley, tying him with California coach Jeff Tedford for 17th place all-time. He trails only Tedford (80) in overall wins by a current Pac-12 coach.
Riley is also the only OSU coach to have won more than one bowl game (he has won five) and the first to lead the Beavers to more than one winning season in conference (also five) since 1969.
When he began his OSU coaching career in 1997, the Beavers were mired in a 28-year streak of losing seasons. If 75 seems a modest number for an all-time victory leader, it's because Riley's native Corvallis has not been a hotbed of college football success through the years.
"This is a tough job, and it's a place we have to go the extra mile to win,'' Langsdorf said.
And that's part of the appreciation Riley receives in every single team meeting.
"I've always laughed at that,'' Langsdorf said. "It's neat. It's a pretty unique thing. It's a sign of respect for him.''
According to the players, the applause is well-deserved – even before the record.
"He's the dad of us,'' tackle Colin Kelly said. "He deserves our respect.''
And, Riley says, his staff deserves the record, too.
"It's not my record,'' Riley said. "(Defensive coordinator) Mark Banker's been with me every game here. (Special teams coach) Bruce Read has been here for most of them, Danny Langsdorf, we have a great group of guys.
"That's why I do this thing. I love the camaraderie of the staff. We all have one vision: We try to build these kids up and coach them like crazy, and we've been able to do that at Oregon State, and we're proud of that.''


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As wars near end, robot firm battling
Bedford's iRobot fears cutbacks
WASHINGTON - IRobot, the scrappy Bedford start-up that has earned millions of dollars selling products that help safeguard troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, is aggressively lobbying lawmakers to forestall cuts in Pentagon spending, according to a review of federal records.
For most of the past decade, the company relied on its surveillance robots to largely sell themselves as it earned a reputation as an innovative developer of high-tech battlefield solutions. Now, with the wars winding down and budget pressures ramping up, that's not enough.
In the last 2 1/2 years, the company has spent more than half a million dollars on three teams of Washington lobbyists, many of them former congressmen or staffers. The amount, nearly double what it spent in the previous seven years, is part of a massive effort by defense contractors across the nation to protect their turf - and sales.
For iRobot, the effort appears to be paying early dividends.
The House Armed Services Committee this week voted to provide nearly $100 million in new funding for unmanned ground systems and has listed as one of its priorities this year funding programs to counter improvised explosive devices and to bolster "unmanned intelligence'' projects.
Outfitted with cameras and sensors, robots help identify roadside bombs, explosive-laden vehicles, and booby traps so soldiers don't have to be put at risk.
IRobot's interim general manager for defense and security, Tim Trainer, hailed the committee's commitment as a "an understanding that IEDs [improvised explosive devices] are here to stay.''
Yet some defense specialists say the company's lobbying is more indicative of an industrywide effort to undo Pentagon attempts to cut spending and rethink strategic priorities.
"Their value to the military so far is marginal,'' Loren Thompson, a defense industry consultant at Source Associates in Arlington, Va., said of iRobot's devices.
The robots mostly get high marks on the battlefield, but the need for their services is dwindling. Thompson said the Massachusetts congressional delegation needs to make sure their support does not go to a contractor whose products do not yield a high benefit across the military.
After the House committee passed its version of the defense budget this week - at $642 billion, $8 billion more than requested by the Pentagon - military officials expressed concern that lawmakers are larding up the proposal with pet projects.
"If Congress now tries to reverse many of the tough decisions that we reached by adding several billion dollars to the president's budget request, then they risk not only potential gridlock . . . they could force the kind of trade-offs that could jeopardize our national defense,'' Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday.
IRobot has secured a formidable lobbying team, including two former members of Congress: Charlie Rose, a Democrat from North Carolina, and Ron Klink, a former Democrat from Pennsylvania. One of the company's main lobbyists, hired this year to the tune of $10,000 a month, is Mick Nardelli, a former aide to Representative John Tierney, the records show. The district of Tierney, a Salem Democrat, includes iRobot's headquarters.
The company, founded in 1990 by MIT robotics scientists, has become one of the nation's leading manufacturers of robotic systems for both the military and commercial markets, with annual sales of more than $450 million. Among its most popular consumer products is the Roomba vacuum.
It is defense and security business, however, that has fueled its meteoric growth. The unit's revenues rose from $11 million in 2003 to $187 million in 2011, according to company spokesman Charles Vaida. Much of the increase came from the sale of 5,000 of its Unmanned Ground Vehicle systems to the military, including the so-called Packbot used for close-up surveillance of roadside bombs.
But the company's outlook has dimmed recently with growing pressure to cut defense spending and as combat operations overseas diminish.
Last year iRobot lost a key Army subcontract for a suite of robotic ground vehicles and had to lay off several dozen employees in anticipation of more Pentagon budget cuts. In February, it reported that it expects a 20 percent decrease this year in its government business. So far this year, total company revenue is down nearly 10 percent.
Joe Dyer, a retired Navy admiral and iRobot's chief strategy officer, said the company believes it is more important than ever for it to have a voice in the budgeting and policymaking debates in Washington, where iRobot has a small office near the Pentagon in northern Virginia.
"We are there because so much of our defense business and government policy development is there,'' he said.
A main concern is that as spending decreases, Congress will fund big-ticket weapons such as ships and airplanes at the expense of innovative technologies such as unmanned platforms, he said.
"We think that is wrong-headed,'' Dyer said. "We think unmanned systems have an important and beneficial role. We're working hard to educate congressmen. Many don't have any idea what a robot is or what it does.''
Dyer said the company is also relying on its lobbying power to help identify other potential uses for its products by the government, including other branches of the military and the Department of Homeland Security.
Last month the company announced its first sale to a US nuclear power plant after sending four Packbots to Japan to help monitor radiation and assist with cleanup after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
Yet the focus of much of the company's lobbying efforts, according to a spokesman, is a group of lawmakers called the Unmanned Systems Caucus, which includes more than 50 House members headed by Representative Howard "Buck'' McKeon, the powerful chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
The caucus's website says its mission is to "support policies and budgets that promote a larger, more robust national security unmanned system capability.'' In addition to iRobot, Foster-Miller of Waltham is competing for such contracts.
Others say the main goal is to keep the contracts flowing whether the military needs the equipment or not.
"The defense industry is fighting a lot more than it really had to during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,'' said Ben Freeman, a national security researcher at the Project on Government Oversight in Washington. "They are lobbying more aggressively and looking to see how, if the [Pentagon] budget is tight, how they can find more government money.''
Bryan Bender can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeBender
Correction: An earlier version of this story mistakenly identified Tim Trainer as "Tom." Trainer is interim general manager for iRobot's defense and security unit, not vice president. Also, Joe Dyer is iRobot's chief strategy officer, not chief operating officer.


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The Drake Advantage.
The Drake Advantage.
I had to go to the Drake U. admissions page to make sure that wasn't a joke. Everyone associated with that image should be fired.
Next Reds manager, second shooter. --Confirmed on Redszone.
"The players make the manager, it's never the other way." - Sparky Anderson
Got to loooove the Drake!
"I can make all the stadiums rock."
-Air Supply
Technically isn't that a University pass?
That's not a grade they like to give out very often.
Come to Drake, we have an awesome track meet.
What if this wasn't a rhetorical question?
All models are wrong. Some of them are useful.
I guess one could assume they specialize in replacement level students.
Are you guys sure this wasn't the singer's website? Probably not, a D+ would be too high.
Then maybe he should get out of the music business and use them!
It's now Drake +
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22 Feb 2009 08:45:30 AM
Video: Josh Koscheck Is Pissed
Josh Koscheck is clearly not happy about the stoppage in his UFC 95 fight with Paulo Thiago. In this backstage video from The Telegraph he insists his hands were up, his eyes were open, and his guard was ready. His cornermen seem to feel the early stoppage was part of a trend on the night — perhaps a dig at "regional referees" in the U.K.?
The replay showed that Koscheck was definitely out after the punch landed and may have come to when his head hit the mat, though how lucid he was at that moment is debatable. What say you, Potato Nation? Early stoppage, or whiny Koscheck?


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(Kansas City, Mo.) - The UMKC men's tennis team (1-10) fell 4-1 on Tuesday afternoon to No. 43 Arkansas (14-5) at the Dills Indoor Tennis Facility in Fayetteville, Ark., despite the Kangaroos taking the doubles point with victories in two of the three matches.
The two teams opened up the day with doubles action, where the Razorbacks' pairing of Manfred Jeske and Taj Harrison defeated senior Gustavo Guerin and junior Tim Akhmedov, 8-0. The 'Roos, though, quickly evened the matches at one each with an 8-6 victory by freshman Conner Edwards and sophomore Tomas Patino over Victor Hoang and Jovan Parlic from the No. 3 line. UMKC then claimed the doubles point with a win at No. 1 by the duo of junior Grant Fleming and sophomore Cameron Schoenhofer over Gregoire Lehmann and Mike Ward, 8-6.
In singles action, Arkansas evened the match at one point apiece, as Hoang downed Akhmedov, 6-3, 6-1, before taking their first lead of the day with a 6-4, 6-0 win at No. 4 by Parlic over Schoenhofer.
At No. 3, the Razorbacks picked up their third point of the day with a 7-5, 6-3 win by Ward over Guerin, while Harrison's 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 win at No. 5 over Edwards gave the hosts the match win.
In UMKC's other two singles matches, Patino and Lehmann were tied early in the third set at No. 2, with the score sitting at 2-6, 6-2, 2-2, while Fleming was trailing Jeske, 6-3, 4-6, 2-0 at No. 1.
The Blue & Gold will be back in action again on Mar. 20 when they take on No. 46 Drake in Des Moines, Iowa, at 6 p.m.


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Stephen Bergmeier, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at OHIO, researches the design and synthesis of new therapeutics for cancer and infectious diseases and regularly uses the Science Citation Index Expanded database for his research.
Photographer: Tyler Stabile/Ohio University Libraries
From left, Hannah Brenneman, a sophomore in nursing; Kylene Williams, a junior in nursing; and Rachel Stevens, a sophomore in nursing; work in Alden Library on Dec. 2.
Photographer: Tyler Stabile/Ohio University Libraries
Apr 2, 2014
By Jen Doyle
Ohio University Libraries took approximately 200 years to collect three million volumes. The acquisition of its first million electronic volumes, however, was an entirely different story — that endeavor took just a few years.
Which is to say: Times are changing quickly, and the Libraries is at the cusp of those changes. In a world where the ubiquity of digital information can be overwhelming, the OHIO community relies on the Libraries to select, organize and navigate information more than ever. The Libraries' acquisition and management of digital resources presents incredible opportunities for advancements in scholarship, research and citizenship — opportunities that OHIO students and faculty have been utilizing in big ways.
With information migrating from books to bits, the physical space constraints of a library are increasingly obsolete. This allows for an expansion in collections of complete, unaltered digitized primary sources.
Renee Benham, a doctoral student in literature, spent a semester working alongside six classmates in Dr. Nicole Reynolds' course "Romancing Romantic Books" to document influential 18th century writers who were excluded from mainstream history on account of their race, class or gender. The Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), billed as the most ambitious scholarly digitization project ever undertaken, enabled them to do just that. The database consists of over 32 million pages of text-searchable primary sources in 205,639 volumes from the times of the American, French and Industrial Revolutions.
"[The people who determined the 18th and 19th centuries' literary canons] left out many authors who, in their own time, were tremendously important," Benham said. "Scholars are using these sources — found in ECCO — to do recovery work and restore these authors to their proper place."
Janet Hulm, assistant dean for collections and access, oversees the departments responsible for the purchase of ECCO and nearly 90,000 other electronic resources. Accessibility and diversity of resources is key.
As such, those who negotiate the Libraries' contracts with outside vendors work to ensure that once a resource is acquired, it is electronically accessible to current students, faculty and staff from anywhere in the world.
Kevin Haworth, author and OHIO assistant professor of English, noted that instant access to the Libraries' resources can be paramount to creativity and innovation.
"Being able to access the Library remotely allows for a really organic, flexible creative process," he said. "I get to just follow my curiosity in a way that I would not be able to otherwise."
Haworth regularly connected to the Libraries from San Francisco and Tel Aviv while writing his books, and took comfort in knowing he was always just a login away from reliable information when inspiration struck.
The Libraries also strives to support the full academic spectrum — currently, its electronic databases span from sports training videos to cutting-edge chemical engineering procedures.
In no uncertain terms, access to quality information is an investment. OHIO Libraries' contribution toward a statewide subscription for a high-impact medical or science database can approach six figures per year.
"The science, technical and medical databases can be very expensive," Hulm said. "But they are absolutely critical."
OHIO science faculty would agree. The databases are springboards for progress, and access to resources like Scifinder and ISI Web of Knowledge is routine in the life of an academic scientist.
Stephen C. Bergmeier, professor and chair of OHIO's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, reported regularly using Science Citation Index Expanded — a massive index of scientific journal literature and conference proceedings that is part of the ISI Web of Knowledge database — to search for new studies relevant to his grant writing. Bergmeier heads a medicinal chemistry research group at OHIO that strives to advance the design and synthesis of new therapeutics for cancer and infectious diseases.
"The research that we do has the potential to help provide new drugs to address serious human health issues," Bergmeier said. To date, he has co-invented nine patents.
In addition to supporting student and faculty research, the Libraries has served the larger public as a Federal Depository for the Sixth Congressional District since 1886. Recently, the Libraries purchased over 500,000 electronic volumes and official government documents.
It is an acquisition that not only tripled the size of the Government Document collection, but increased its practicality and accessibility as well. The digitized materials are now discoverable by keywords and even text within the documents themselves.
"The United States federal government is the single largest publisher in the world," said Scott Seaman, dean of University Libraries. "Because it's such a broad range of topics and because so often the government documents are linked to policy decisions, it's crucial to have that content available to the public."
Access to existing information and research is crucial to the creation of new knowledge, and the Libraries plays an essential role in accessing that existing information and research.
Each book, electronic journal and database comprises a solid foundation for future teaching, learning and research. Whatever information you seek, wherever you are, Ohio University Libraries can help you find it.
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Tips on obtaining money from a Securicar in GTA IV
The quickest way to obtain money from a Securicar is to detonate a hand grenade under it. Once it blows, there will be bundles of bills around the burning wreckage. However, grenades are expensive to buy and acquiring them by fighting a gang is risky.
Fortunately, a Securicar can be detonated by crashing it around until it catches fire. This method is time-consuming and has its own risks, but it is fun!
A Securicar is massive enough to knock most other vehicles around easily; however, its slow acceleration and clumsy handling makes any police pursuit an exercise in tension. The player who loses his wanted level while driving a Securicar is likely to feel that he has made a difficult accomplishment. This vehicle is also vulnerable to tip-over, in which case the player may have to expend lots of ammunition (as from an assault rifle) to do further significant damage.
On account of the camera angle, a player may not become aware that his damaged Securicar has caught fire until it blows up, leaving his character with less, not more, money than before. A damaged Securicar should be monitored from different angles as much as possible so that its smoke or fire output can be seen (it can start smoking with relatively little external damage). Once flames are visible, your character should leave the vehicle quickly. Occasionally, the flames will disappear just before the Securicar blows up.
Your character should scoop the money as quickly as possible after the blast, while avoiding the flames! Watch for other vehicles which may strike a burning Securicar and blow up themselves (that's why a Securicar which is about to hatch should be parked off-road if possible). Once the Securicar burns itself out, any uncollected money will disappear. Angilbas 03:25, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
- This is excellent stuff, and should be attached to the main page. Have you considered creating a separate article for this info? Along those lines, how do editors think we should manage this sort of information? This is exactly the sort of stuff we want to be visible to readers of this wiki, i.e. detailed information on gameplay, etc. After all, this is likely to be the sort of information people most often come here to acquire. EganioTalk 04:34, 3 July 2008 (UTC)


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CHAPEL HILL – Researchers at the University Of North Carolina School Of Medicine have discovered a possible cause of autism.
A key group of enzymes, called topoisomerases, can have profound effect on the genetic factors behind brain development. Associate professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Mark Zylka, says that these enzymes work to help keep DNA normal during developing times in a child's life.
"These are enzymes that are called topoismerases, we like to think of them as the scissors and glue for DNA," Zylka said "so DNA is a molecule that often gets tangled up inside of cells, and to relieve these tangles, these enzymes can cut the DNA, untangle it, and glue it back together."
When topoisomerase inhibitors are present it may limit what genes are "untangled." Zylka said that he found when these inhibitors are present long genes and genes related to autism are the most affected.
"So what we found was that these enzymes seem to play a very important role in neurons in the brain, these are brain cells, and in particular these enzymes seem to be important for allowing genes that are very long to be expressed, and in particular a large number of genes that have been linked to autism spectrum disorders" Zylka said.
These inhibitors that affect the enzyme topoisomerases are known to exist in chemo-therapeutic drugs and have been around for over 40 years. It was while studying these drugs that Zylka first began to study the effect the inhibitors would have on neurons. Zylka says they noticed that the drugs had effects on long genes, and that autism genes are also very long.
"So that's when we sort of put two and two together and realized that inhibiting these enzymes could have a profound effect brain development" Zylka stated.
Discovering these enzyme inhibitors can lead to new discoveries for autism and diagnosing what exactly is happening. Zylka says that he thinks studying these inhibitors can help us identify what in nature may have inhibitors like these that could cause autism.
"We found that if you inhibit these enzymes, the expression of a lot of very long genes is impaired and so a lot of these genes are autism genes," Zylka said "and so we think this could be used as a way to diagnose or to identify other factors or chemicals in the environment with similar effects."
Currently the known inhibitors that Zylka is studying are in Chemo-therapeutic drugs and would only affect cancer patients that are going through Chemo-therapy.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO, -0.25% jumped 7% in premarket trades on Wednesday after the networking equipment maker's first-quarter profit of 48 cents a share beat the analyst estimate by 2 cents, according to data compiled by FactSet. Analysts at J.P. Morgan said the company's "upbeat tone on U.S. enterprise spending trends was surprising to us considering the more negative general tone during...earnings season." Cisco's second-quarter forecast matched their estimate, J.P. Morgan analysts said. The analysts reiterated their neutral rating on the stock and said headwinds remain. Cisco Systems is one of 30 stocks included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.30%
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Just thought this was an interesting story. I hope Tim Taylor is still a climber.
"Hiker who left note on Sierra Nevada peak in 1972 is found"
"Larry Wright and his son and grandson found the note left by Tim Taylor. Monday, Wright and Taylor, now a San Diego County judge, discussed their two hikes 40 years apart.…"


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School Sports
Tigers singed by Redwater Dragons
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- Category: Sports News
- Published on 07 November 2013
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
Noah Craver returns the football for the Tigers after a kick off. He returned four kick offs for a total of 96 yards. The Mount Vernon Tiger football team lost 42-6 to the Dragons Friday, November 1 in Redwater.
The Tigers had trouble getting traction early in the game and lost starting running back Mason Cook to an ankle injury in the first quarter. They will be hosts for New Boston this week. For more information, see the November 7 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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Sunday, July 1, 2007
Meat balls
Here are the words:
Little man walked up and down,
To find an eatin' place in town.
He looked the menu thru and thru,
To see what a dollar bill might do.
One meat ball,
One meat ball,
One meat ball,
All he could get was one meat ball.
He told that waiter near at hand,
The simple dinner he had planned.
The guests were startled one and all,
To hear that waiter loudly call.
repeat chorus
Little man felt so ill at ease,
He said: "Some bread Sir, if you please."
The waiter hollered down the hall:
You get no bread with your one meat ball.
Little man felt so very bad,
One meat ball is all he had.
And in his dreams he can still hear that call
You get no bread with your one meat ball.
Maybe I was inspired by this song, today, when I decided to prepare an experimental dish of meat balls. It's more likely that I was thinking of a Greek restaurant in Sydney—called simply The Greeks—that proposed this delicacy back at the time I was a student. In any case, my experiment was conclusive, and future visitors at Gamone are likely to be served this dish.
One would imagine that meat balls and tomato sauce are a simple dish. In fact, they require some twenty ingredients. And their preparation and cooking, from start to finish, take about an hour of fiddling around. The quantities of ingredients indicated here are for two people.
Meat balls
— 350 grams minced steak
— 30 grams breadcrumbs
— 1 medium-sized onion, chopped finely
— 1 clove garlic, crushed
— 1 tablespoon dried thyme leaves
— 1 tablespoon dried oregano leaves
— 1 teaspoon caraway powder
— 1 egg, slightly beaten
— 2 tablespoons olive oil
— 1 medium-sized onion, chopped finely
— 2 cloves garlic, crushed
— 100 ml red wine
— 400 grams tomato pulp [can]
— 50 grams tomato concentrate [can or tube]
— 150 ml chicken stock [commercial soup cube]
— 1 tablespoon dried oregano leaves
— 1 teaspoon sugar
— 1 pinch cinnamon
Mix together the ingredients for the meat balls, then form eight balls about the size of eggs. Don't start to cook them until the sauce is ready. Start the preparation of the sauce by cooking the onion and garlic in oil. Cover with wine and let it simmer until reduced to about half its volume. Add the other ingredients for the sauce, along with salt and pepper, and let it simmer, without covering the pan, for ten minutes. Meanwhile, start to fry the flattened meat balls, on both sides, in a non-stick pan. Cover the meat balls with the sauce, and let them cook gently for another ten minutes. Sprinkle finely-chopped fresh mint on the meat balls, and serve with saffron rice.
Naturally, if unexpected guests arrive, you can always be inspired by Calvin Russell and only give one meat ball to each person... with or without bread, depending on your attitude to such guests.
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On day, my father decided to use grated carrots instead of breadcrumbs. I adopted his method and my friends seem to appreciate my meat balls. You should try one day.ReplyDelete
That sounds like an excellent modification, because the meat mixture in my basic recipe tends to be a little dry. I also intend to see whether meat balls react favorably to the deep freezer (there's no reason why they shouldn't), which plays a major role in my Gamone lifestyle. For ages now, my deep freezer has contained stocks of two of my favorite dishes, which I prepare regularly: curried turkey and a kind of chile con carne. Lately, in the gastronomic domain, I've been experimenting with roast duck lacquered with a mixture of honey and soy sauce. Talking about cooking, the Internet describes a new animated film in the USA called Ratatouille, whose star is a sympathetic rat. I can understand that the author must have been thrilled to find the name of a French dish that starts with "rat". But the choice of this title has obvious drawbacks: (a) No Americans have ever heard of this term, and they probably know nothing about this dish. (b) They surely can't pronounce the word. (c) Ratatouille doesn't have much to do with grande cuisine.ReplyDelete


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The Union Knights will be continuing their effort to raise money for after prom activities with a special "Pack the Gym" event next Friday, January 18, at the basketball games.
Union will be hosting Wapsie Valley with the girls tipping off at 6:15 p.m. There will be discounted admission prices of $2 for adults and just $1 for students.
Door prizes will be given away by the Booster Club and the After Prom Committee will be putting on a special Soup Supper in the cafeteria from 4 to 7 p.m.
In addition, there will be a Silent Auction to raise additional money for this worthy cause.
Junior varsity basketball tips off at 4 p.m. with a freshman game to follow, and the varsity girls and boys will be at 6:15 and 7:45 p.m., respectively.
The Booster Club and After Prom Committee would like to encourage residents to get out and support not only the athletic teams, but the student body as a whole at this event.


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- Research into the H7N9 virus suggests the risk of contracting serious illness rises with age
- China's health ministry on Monday confirmed a total of 105 cases and 21 deaths
- The virus has been identified in Beijing, Shanghai and four provinces including Shandong for the first time
- The WHO has said so far there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission in H7N9
Research into the H7N9 virus suggests the risk of contracting serious illness rises with age and that more people may be infected than the 105 cases reported, according to a study by the Hong Kong University.
Benjamin Cowling, associate professor at HKU's public health research center, told CNN that a disparity had emerged in data focusing people's exposure to live poultry.
"Essentially there are more exposures to poultry in older adults than in younger adults, but the difference in exposures is not as big as when we look at the differences in age of the number of serious H7N9 infections," Cowling said.
He said that if age were not a factor in the seriousness of infection, then researchers could expect the pattern of the disease to exactly match the pattern of exposure.
"What we're seeing is that half the serious cases are above 60 years of age," he said. Milder symptoms also meant that many more people may be infected with the virus than is currently known because people potentially infected with H7N9 were not seeking medical attention for what seems like a mild cough or fever.
"One of the reasons that SARS was easier to control was because all of the infections were serious so the patients had to be hospitalized and isolated," he said. "It's easier, then, to reduce onward transmission."
So far, however, there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission in H7N9. Researchers were struggling to discover why an early strain of bird flu -- H5N1 -- attacked a mainly younger demographic of people in their 20s and 30s.
Exactly why influenza strains are more serious in different age groups was still a subject of ongoing investigation, Cowling said.
"It's not completely clear what happened in the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic," he said. "Certainly the burden of severe illnesses fell disproportionately on younger adults."
He said the normal profile of an influenza epidemic was that the highest proportion of infection is with younger children.
"That is a classic feature of influenza viruses but it seems from the mortality curves (of Spanish flu), the highest death rate was in young adults and that suggests something unusual."
World Health Organization officials this week visited Shanghai as part of a week-long visit to China to gauge the response to the outbreak. Keiji Fukuda, assistant director-general for health security and environment of the WHO told a news conference that there was no "sustained" pattern to the H7N9 outbreak that suggested human-to-human contact. Last week, however, a spokesperson from the Chinese Center for Disease Control said that as many 40% of the cases had had no contact with poultry.
China's health ministry on Monday confirmed a total of 105 cases, in Shanghai, the capital Beijing and four provinces including Shandong for the first time. A death on Monday night in Shanghai brought the death toll from the epidemic to 21 people.


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I love clothes as much as the next woman, but I've never paid much attention to the big fashion shows, preferring to let top styles filter down to stores where I shop.
So when a recent blogging assignment landed me a seat at New York Fashion Week, I was pleasantly surprised to be turned on to a myriad of higher-end, but not haute designers.
The fashion world calls them Ready-to-Wear. I call them Ready-to-Buy. For the professional woman who wants to give her look an extra edge, these designers are worth it:
Steven Alan: Effortlessly chic. A mix of casual and office-friendly looks. Versatile shirt dresses cost about $198. www.stevenalan.com.
Costello Tagliapietra: Soft, feminine dresses and jumpsuits that really will take you from day to night, from $298. Available at www.barneys.com.
Tibi: Designer Amy Smilovic offers up a little bit of everything—sexiness, sportiness and edginess—in her easy-to-wear casual chic line. Dresses start at $300 www.tibi.com.
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Offensive World Cup ad
Anybody catch the offensive Hyundai ad during the U.S.-England soccer game last Saturday?
I was a bit shocked, but not offended, at the one with the European widow standing over the coffin of her husband--dressed soccer fan gear--but I apparently stepped away from the TV or turned the channel when they aired one with Argentinian fans receiving pizza like it was Communion.
Hyundai, according to the Wall Street Journal [1], was surprised by the "unexpected negative response" and pulled the ad.
The theme of the commercials was brand loyalty, and the ad creators were turning around things that people are ordinarily loyal to--marriage, religion--and making them about soccer. A clever idea and in best light perhaps it compliments religious people for being loyal (I admit, I'm stretching it in trying to give them the benefit of the doubt).
But clearly, it was poorly executed, which makes me wonder, if they didn't want to offend anybody, wouldn't they have simply asked a sampling of Catholics what they thought?
Where's the line for you? Was the whole commercial a failure? Or if they hadn't done the pizza/Communion swap would it have been an OK concept?


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With the possibility of missing the playoffs for the first time in 22 seasons hanging over them, the Detroit Red Wings will try to boost their postseason chances when they visit the first-place Vancouver Canucks on Saturday.
Since last missing the playoffs in the spring of 1990, the Red Wings have made 21 straight postseason appearances. It's the longest such streak currently going in any of the four major professional sports leagues in North America.
Detroit, however, has lost four of its last five games (1-2-2) and finds itself two points out of the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference. Columbus currently occupies the eighth seed, but Detroit holds two games in hand over the Blue Jackets, who are idle on Saturday.
Dallas is currently tied with the Red Wings in the ninth spot, but the Stars are also on idle on Saturday. Detroit has one game in hand over Dallas.
The Red Wings failed to earn a point in their most recent game, as they dropped a 3-2 decision Wednesday night in Calgary. The contest was tied at 1-1 after 40 minutes, but Steve Begin scored twice in the third period to stake the Flames to a 3-1 lead. Johan Franzen cut the deficit to one goal for Detroit with 2:42 left in regulation, but the Red Wings couldn't get the equalizer.
Gustav Nyquist also scored for the Red Wings and Jimmy Howard allowed three goals on just 17 shots in defeat.
"This is an urgent moment for us," Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said. "You have to win your way in, you can't watch your way in. We're not at the level that we've been in the past, for sure, but we've still competed hard. I thought we competed hard tonight (but) we didn't start on time and we made a couple of mistakes."
Detroit is playing its penultimate road game of the regular season on Saturday and will open a three-game homestand with Monday's tilt against Phoenix. The Red Wings, who are 10-7-4 at home this season and 10-9-3 on the road, will then close the season next Saturday in Dallas.
The Red Wings have fared well against Vancouver this season, winning both meetings by a combined score of 13-5. The most recent encounter was on March 16 in Vancouver and the Red Wings recorded a 5-2 decision behind a two-goal performances from both Henrik Zetterberg and Justin Abdelkader.
Detroit has won four of six in this series overall and two straight in Vancouver.
While Detroit's quest for a playoff spot could go down to the wire, the Canucks can officially clinch a postseason berth with a win in Saturday's game. Vancouver, the third-seeded team in the West, is also closing in on its fifth straight Northwest Division title, as it sits four points ahead of second-place Minnesota with four games to play for both teams. The Wild are idle on Saturday before hosting Calgary on Sunday.
Despite its firm playoff standing, Vancouver has lost two straight and three of its last four games. The Canucks were dealt a humbling 5-1 loss in Dallas on Thursday to complete a five-game road trip with a 2-2-1 record.
Jamie Benn and Cody Eakin both tallied one goal and one assist to lead the Stars to the rout. The game was tied at 1-1 after 40 minutes before Dallas scored four unanswered goals in the third period.
Derek Roy tallied the lone goal for the Canucks, who could have clinched a playoff berth with a win. Corey Schneider allowed five goals on 30 shots.
"I think we need, after tonight, to regroup tomorrow and focus on Detroit," said Vancouver head coach Alain Vigneault.
Vancouver has played the last two games without defenseman Kevin Bieksa, who is questionable for Saturday's test with a lower body injury.
The Canucks are 13-5-3 as the host this season and are kicking off a three- game homestand tonight. Vancouver will complete its regular season next Saturday in Edmonton.


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Term Dates for Portuguese Schools Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Term Dates for Portuguese Schools Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Europe Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message gtideyJoined: 18 May 2004Posts: 93 Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 10:07 am Post subject: Term Dates for Portuguese Schools Bom Dia, I'm starting a CELTA course in Lisbon next year, but was wondering.... I finish University in the end of May and hope to be out in Portugual by July, where I will do the course for a month. THEN, I want to find employment (in August, Sept, etc). I think that the portuguese terms start in october, so my question is; if the new terms start in october, is there a much higher chance of getting employment in june/july than there is in august/sept? Basically, when is the best time to look for employment there? Any help whatsoever would be great, Cheers, Graham Back to top grahambJoined: 30 Apr 2003Posts: 1945 Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 10:15 am Post subject: Recruitment Schools are already recruiting for the next academic year. Apply now. Back to top gtideyJoined: 18 May 2004Posts: 93 Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 11:00 am Post subject: I will be heading out to Lisbon in 2005, by the way, not this year. So you think I should apply for jobs before I even have my CELTA qualification, around March, April, May time nxt year? Back to top grahambJoined: 30 Apr 2003Posts: 1945 Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 10:07 am Post subject: Applications Sorry, I didn't read your original posting carefully (lack of caffeine on my part). Schools begin recruitment around May, but as you'll be there in person you might be able to find work in August. Your course provider should be able to give you good advice regarding recruitment. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Europe Forum All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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What Is a Smartphoneby Michael Juntao Yuan
- Smartphone
- A Smartphone combines the functions of a cellular phone and a handheld computer in a single device. It differs from a normal phone in that it has an operating system and local storage, so users can add and store information, send and receive email, and install programs to the phone as they could with a PDA. A smartphone gives users the best of both worlds--it has much the same capabilities as a handheld computer and the communications ability of a mobile phone.
In this article
- Mobile Phones and PDAs
- Emergence of the Smartphone
- Developing Smartphone Applications
- So, What Is a Smartphone?
The word "smartphone" is defined as "a mobile phone that incorporates a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant)" by the Oxford American Dictionary. So, by definition, a smartphone is a converged, multipurpose device. Historically, mobile phones and PDAs have evolved along very different paths. Mobile phones started as dumb voice terminals while PDAs started like mini-PCs. Before we start discussing smartphones, let's have a brief review of how mobile phones and PDAs got to where they are today.
Mobile Phones and PDAs
The original mobile phone was a wireless telephone device primarily for voice communications. Like any other telephone, the mobile phone is only useful when it is hooked into a network and has a service agreement with an operator (a.k.a., a carrier). As a result, mobile phone technology is tightly coupled with the underlying wireless network technologies and the available network services. So far, the wireless network and devices have gone through several generations:
- The first generation (1G) network is only capable of transmitting voice via analog signals. The handsets are big, heavy, and expensive. Those 1G mobile phones are "dumb" voice-only terminals. 1G networks and mobile phones have been phrased out in most parts of the world.
- The second generation (2G) network uses digital signal to transmit voice. Compared with analog signal, digital signal is more accurate, reliable, and scalable. As a digital network, the 2G network can carry text messages along with voice. Those text messages, known as SMS (Short Messaging Service), are hugely popular. In addition, a 2G mobile phone often integrates a data modem. It can connect to the internet by making modem calls to certain dial-up service numbers provided by the carrier. Through the internet, a 2G mobile phone can browse the internet via the WAP browser software built into the device.
- The second and half generation (2.5G) network uses a packet-switch infrastructure to provide always-on internet connections to phones. The data speed in 2.5G network is much faster than that in 2G network. You do not need to wait for the modem to dial and connect. You are not charged for the air minutes for the time you spend browsing the internet. Instead, the data traffic is metered by bandwidth or is simply unmetered with a flat monthly rate. The 2.5G mobile phone supports data centric applications such as email, MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service), and generic web browsing. The 2.5G networks and phones are widely deployed in developed countries.
- The third generation (3G) network provides very fast data access to the phones. You should be able to enjoy stream audio/video contents on a 3G mobile phone. But the availability of 3G phones and services is still limited.
For PDAs, the story is much simpler. Unlike mobile phones, PDAs do not require subscription-based network services. They are standalone minicomputers, pretty much like PCs before the internet.
The first generation of successful PDAs are Palm Pilots. They primarily function as electronic organizers with support for address books, calendars, email, notes, etc. The PDA only occasionally needs to connect to a companion PC (pairing) for "synchronization." For instance, a PDA can be synchronized with your PC address book, calendar, and email inbox, via a USB or serial cable. Newer PDA models can also connect to PCs wirelessly via Bluetooth, or connect to the internet via WiFi.
A key characteristic that makes PDAs "smart" is that they are programmable. You can use regular computer-programming languages such as C, C++, Java, and BASIC to write PDA applications. In fact, thousands of applications, from medical dictionary to music players to web browsers, have been written for Palm and Microsoft PocketPC PDAs. Those applications are essential for the wide adoption of PDAs. In addition to user-installed software, PDAs can also work with an array of hardware add-ons. For instance, you can attach a thumb keyboard or a GPS unit to a PDA.


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Can-shaped cranberry sauce. Blech. I truly don't recall anyone ever eating any of it. Why is it there?
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The $10 billion clean energy finance corporation will not deliver additional clean energy by 2020 but will just shuffle renewable energy investment from wind power to solar, new modelling says.
But the modelling found the "green bank" could deliver "bang for its buck" if the government expanded the renewable energy target to apply to the projects it funded.
Two sets of modelling for the WWF and the Australian Solar Council found that, as it is proposed, the green bank's proposed $2 billion a year in investments would drive no additional renewable energy investment by 2020.
But expanding the renewable energy target - which requires electricity providers to source 45,000 gigawatt hours of power from renewable sources by 2020 - could see Australia generate an additional 3 per cent of its electricity from renewables (26 per cent rather than 23 per cent) without any change to government spending and without hitting electricity prices.
The green bank is intended to provide both commercial and subsidised loans to big clean energy projects, but from its inception green groups argued that while the carbon price was still relatively low the projects would also need the additional "leg up" from the ongoing effective subsidy of being included in the government's renewable energy target (RET).
The modelling shows that, if the RET was expanded, both wind and solar photovoltaics would get a boost, substantially reducing emissions.
And it argues that because renewables, especially solar, reduce peak demand and lower wholesale prices, this would offset a slight increase in retail prices from the move - resulting in no net increase for household power bills.
"There is an opportunity for the CEFC to have a greater benefit..at potentially no additional cost to the public," said WWF climate change manager Kellie Caught.
Chief executive of the Australian Solar Council John Grimes said even though solar would be the winner under current policy settings, it made sense to boost renewables overall.
The modelling will be provided to the Climate Change Authority which is reviewing the RET, with many industry groups and state governments arguing that it should be wound back rather than expanded.
The new modelling came as proponents confirmed the demise of the $1.2 billion Solar Dawn project, which was to begin construction of a 250 megawatt solar thermal power plant near Chinchilla in 2013, after the decision by the new Queensland Government earlier this year to cancel promised state funding.


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The U.S. operations of iconic but long-troubled video game maker Atari have filed for bankruptcy in an effort to break free from their debt-laden French parent.
Atari is So friggin DEAD!
They really revolutionized gaming but had No vision on how to push forward like Nintendo SOny MS and all the PC Devs!
So I guess they are just making some Money by trotting out Atari 2600 Classics every chance they get. Atari needs to shed the French Debt and develope Solid Modern games for Sony/MS/PC/Mobile
Starcraft 2 generates more money in a 14 days than Atari does all year and now we have a Large generation of Gamers who have Never ever even seen an Atari console let alone plyed on an Arcade machine so Atari needs to change with the times.
Atari simply forgot to move forward thus this is the consequence of their humongous mistake.
its an icon and unfortunately some icons do fizzle out but i hope they build up and do some good things.
:-/ Atari is amazing
I still game on the Atari 2600 every now and again
the first video game system I ever played


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Now at least I know where everybody went.
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Four Hatters scored in double figures Friday to propel Stetson over Mercer and into the Atlantic Sun Conference Women's Basketball Tournament title game.
Stetson coach Lynn Bria has said time after time this season that the Hatters are a better team with more balance than a year ago.
Friday afternoon in the Atlantic Sun Conference tournament semifinals, the Hatters proved their coach correct once again as four players scored in double figures to counter a game-high 24-point effort by Mercer's Precious Bridges in a 67-52 victory at Hawkins Arena in Macon, Ga.
Junior forward Sasha Sims led Stetson (23-8) with 19 points, followed by senior guard Shanasa Sanders (17), senior guard Victoria McGowan (12) and sophomore forward Cherisse Burris (10).
"I feel like we're a better team than we were last year," Bria said after Stetson beat Mercer for the third time this season. "I feel like we share the ball more. Last year, we were the Victoria McGowan show, and the offense we ran was just that. She had the ball 90 percent of the time and she shot the ball. But she was supposed to -- she did what I asked her to do.
"This year's team, we share the ball more. I have asked (McGowan) to pass more and get her teammates open, where more people touch the ball."
McGowan, who stands just 5-foot-3, also had a game-high 11 rebounds, and with a basket at 8:52 of the second half became just the third Hatter and 25th A-Sun women's basketball player to pass 1,500 career points.
Personal accolades aside, this time of year is about the sum of a team's parts, and from that perspective second-seeded Stetson is right where it wanted to be when the season began -- in the A-Sun title game for the third year in a row.
The Hatters will take on conference power Florida Gulf Coast (27-5), which cruised to its 41st consecutive win over an A-Sun opponent with its 73-44 triumph over North Florida earlier on Friday.
Saturday's 5:30 p.m. championship tipoff is a rematch of last year's title game, won 67-39 by the Eagles. The winner gets an automatic NCAA tourney berth. FGCU, with a 21-game winning streak that ranks as the fourth-longest in the nation, could possibly be in line for an at-large bid to the NCAAs if upset by the Hatters, but historically the A-Sun has advanced just one team to the NCAAs. The worst-case scenario is the loser will head to the WNIT.
Stetson matched its school record for wins (23) that was set last season, and the Hatters would love to make it 24 on Saturday against rival FGCU.
"We started a tradition," said McGowan, who as a sophomore led Stetson to an A-Sun tourney title and NCAA berth two years ago. "We want to finish it out on top, especially the seniors. I think they're a great team, but we have confidence in ourselves. We're not going to lie down and die, let them just walk all over us. We're going to come out and play hard. We have to play a good game."
Stetson has lost twice this season to FGCU by scores of 74-55 and 72-55.
Stetson's victory over Mercer (20-11), the tournament's No. 3 seed, came after the Bears had used a slower tempo to keep it close three-quarters of the way through. Stetson led 40-38 with 11:15 to play before going on a 10-0 run that decidedly turned the game in the Hatters' favor.
Once again Stetson's balance paid off as five different Hatters scored in the 10-point spree that pushed the lead into double figures. Mercer wasn't able to get within single digits again.
Stetson, which usually plays man defense, dropped into a 2-3 zone that rattled the Bears. The Hatters used transition baskets to boost their shooting to 60 percent (18 of 30) in the second half after shooting just 29.6 percent (8 of 27) in the first half, which ended with a Sims 3-pointer at the buzzer for a 25-21 lead.
"I felt like the zone bothered (Mercer) in the second half," Bria said. "I felt like that was the difference. It was effective. I thought we were very active in it."
Picking up the pace played to Stetson's advantage.
"I think we were a little bit passive (in the first half), but I think we did a good job responding in the second half," Sims said.
"We went into the zone and that slowed them down," McGowan explained. "We started rebounding and getting out in transition, and the stops (led to) some easy baskets."


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When Tonya Wallace returned home from grocery shopping, early Sunday morning, what she saw at the next apartment over shocked her.
"There were police all over the place," said Wallace. "They were behind the house, in front of the house, in the street. I put my groceries upstairs and came back downstairs. The police had blocked everything off and we couldn't leave."
Wallace and other concerned neighbors soon learned what happened.
"At approximately 12:15 a.m., on the day of November 18th, the police department responded to the 1100 block of First Street for shots fired," said Lt. Chris Simpson of Jackson Police. "Officers got there and discovered a body."
It was the body of 42-year-old Christopher Taylor of Jackson. Police say Taylor had been shot in the chest just a couple of hours earlier and that he was initially found by his girlfriend.
"We are treating this as a homicide," said Simpson.
Police say Taylor didn't own the apartment he was shot in, but he stayed there from time to time. A woman living in the apartment below said she heard three distinct gunshots.
"We're looking for suspects and also, potential witnesses who may have been in the residence at the time of the shooting," said Simpson. "As of right now, we don't have a suspect in custody."
Neighbors say, they are worried, but also angry. Rose Mary Heise has lived two doors down from the suspect apartment for 37 years and while she isn't planning on moving, she says the neighborhood is not what it used to be and incidents like this don't help.
"We try to take care of it and it makes me sad because it used to be a very nice place to live," said Heise.
Jackson Police are asking anyone with information on the incident to give them a call at (517) 788-4100.


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Guide Bulletin 2013-3 announces revisions and updates to default-related servicing requirements
February 15, 2013
Single-Family Seller/Servicing Guide (Guide) Bulletin 2013-3, released today, announces a series of revisions related to default management and reminds Servicers that prompt loss mitigation activities are critical to helping family members and heirs of a deceased borrower avoid foreclosure if there no longer is a borrower remaining on the note.
The Guide Bulletin also reminds Servicers that they will be required to use the Servicer Attorney Tracking System (SATS) website, announced on January 30, 2013, to complete and submit required information regarding law firms selected to handle Freddie Mac's default-related legal matters. SATS will be available on March 1. On and after that date, Servicers will be able to register on the website, complete and submit Servicer Selection Forms, and complete optional training. The online system will help Servicers and Freddie Mac efficiently manage the form submission process. Please note we will not review any forms submitted to any Freddie Mac email address.
In today's Guide Bulletin, we also are:
- Revising our state foreclosure time lines and related compensatory fee calculations.
- Updating our requirements regarding preserving our right to pursue a deficiency.
- Revising our requirements for participation in Hardest Hit Fund assistance modification programs by:
- Eliminating the requirement that Servicers must include partial principal forbearance in the modification if the Servicer participates in state Housing Finance Agency (HFA) modification assistance programs, and
- Requiring Servicers to report to Freddie Mac the amount of HFA assistance received.
- Revising our documentation requirements regarding medical hardship and eliminating our requirement for verification of a three-year continuance for alimony, child support, and separate maintenance income.
- Providing additional information on reporting payments received during a Trial Period, and actions to take if a borrower does not successfully complete the Trial Period Plan.
- Requiring Servicers to use the Service Loans application instead of BPOdirect® to obtain a property value and minimum net proceeds when evaluating a borrower for a Standard Short Sale who is current or less than 31 days delinquent.
- Revising our requirements for reduced, suspended, or denied mortgage insurance claims, as announced in Guide Bulletin 2012-20.
- Updating contact information for investor reporting, non-performing loans, and distressed properties.
More Information
- Read the Guide Bulletin 2013-3.
- Contact your Freddie Mac representative.


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Submission + - PSMs could be used for 'brain-like' computers (gizmag.com)
cylonlover writes: Unlike human brains that make no real distinction between memory and computation, computers currently deal with processing and memory separately. This means data has to be constantly moved around, resulting in a speed and power "bottleneck." Now, using phase change materials that can store and process information simultaneously, researchers at the University of Exeter in the UK have developed a new technique that could lead to the development of "brain-like" computers.


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Nokia wants applications for its smart home box, but it's also sniffing around for companies interested in selling the Linux-based home-automation gateway with their own branding.
The Nokia Home Control Center (NHCC) is a Linux-based box incorporating a swath of wireless technologies, with room to add more, in the hope of becoming the home hub from which the pad of the future is controlled. Interfacing with a custom S60 client, or through a web interface, the box can take control of Zigbee, Z-Wave, KNX or proprietary devices to present a unified interface to the user who doesn't want everything depending on their Windows box.
If we accept that the home of the future is going to feature a large number of connected devices - door locks, light switches, alarms, and so forth - then there is a long-running debate about whether such a home will have a single point from which those devices are controlled. Microsoft would like that to be a Windows-based PC, while Apple has its own ideas. Nokia has jumped into the fray with its own box it hopes to sell with the aid of network partners such as mobile or broadband operators.
Those with short memories might have forgotten that Nokia used to make some of the best set-top boxes on the market, and demonstrated some impressive interactive-TV products before the last-crash-but-one. Of course, that was back when we thought people wanted the internet on their TVs, and Nokia was as beguiled by that vision as everyone else at the time.
Companies such as Alertme.Com are selling Zigbee-based home-automation products, with their own hub to manage them; but with different technologies being deployed around the home the idea of an open hub from a third party is attractive, just as soon as Nokia can find a killer application for it - which is the thing they'd like a little help with.
Interested parties can browse the technical details (pdf) and submit a proposal if they reckon they know just what Nokia should be doing with their resurgent set-top-box. ®


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The Sheriff's Department has not released whether they are searching for other suspects, but one man is facing charges as an accessory after the fact.
"Warrants are being issued for Carl Wesley Bell of the Espey Road location we were at yesterday," said Lauderdale County Sheriff Billy Sollie. "He is being charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and two counts of accessory after the fact to murder."
Bell was quickly discovered when investigators realized he owned the mobile home where one of the suspected victims lived. And it was something in that mobile home that raised their suspicion.
"Based upon what they found, and certainly we can't release that information until our trial date, led them to believe there had been a violent act inside the trailer, itself," Sheriff Sollie said. "That just caused them to refine their search, itself."
After broadening their search, one of the investigators stumbled upon a human bone protruding from the ground, which in turn, led them to the discovery of the graves.
The autopsy was completed on Friday morning. DNA samples were taken from the supposed victims should provide results on the true identities of these people.
But the coroner says because only skeletal remains were left, finding the exact cause of death could be tricky.
"Unfortunately, if it was something manual as far as strangulation, toxicology, such as overdose something like that, that's going to be null and void because of the weather and everything else," explained Lauderdale County Coroner Clayton Cobler. "Hopefully if there was a bullet wound of stab wound, we can match something up with that. But other than that, unless it was a traumatic death, it's going to be hard to find out cause of death."
The Sheriff's Department hopes to learn their identities soon.


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A federal judge is set to hear arguments on whether the federal Health and Human Services should be allowed to cut off funding to Texas' Women's Health Program in a battle over abortion.
Attorneys for federal and state authorities are due in federal court in Waco Friday morning.
Texas has asked Judge Walter Smith to issue a preliminary injunction that would stop federal authorities from pulling Medicaid funding for the state program. About 130,000 low-income women receive services like cancer screenings from the program. It's largely funded by Medicaid dollars.
The state wants to kick Planned Parenthood out of the WHP. Federal officials have sought to pull Medicaid funding in response, but have been stopped by the courts.
Texas wants Smith to extend that ban pending trial.