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Latin guys are so hot!
Couple more of Diego and Wagner
Wow! He looks like a ripped version of a guy I work with. Jaime's bod is way more built, but the face is uncanny. So weird to see!
mmmmmmmmmmmm I would suck that hot uncut cock after his workout
Bump! Great thread.
i have been with a few latino men and their cocks were never that big not complaining about what they had but damn i feel cheated
hola esta muy buenas esas fotos quienes son los modelos : P
esta bueno quien es el modelo
^ He's purdy....... .......
Oh Pedro! Why do you look so sad?
Love his uncut cock! Totally suckable!
^What an amazing dick!!!
That set practically has me foaming at the mouth! They are so hot!
Thanks for the Kaua pics - he is so damn SEXY! His plump nuts look so ripe and delicious.....mmmmm!
I especially love uncut Latinos, Here's a pic that I love.
that bottom's got a nice ass
Santana has a great cock, and those lips! Yummy!
Those guys are gorgeous! Love the way the bottom is sucking cock in that close up shot! Beautiful!
Those two are, indeed, Beautiful! And, I LOVE it when guys flip, and take equal turns Enjoying the FUN!
Keep smilin'!!
WISDOM is the Knowledge you've gained ... After you could have used it! _Me
Then, for round two, I'd like them to swap places, with Me STILL in the middle!!
OR ... I'd also be perfectly Happy simply Devouring the CUTE Bottom Boy!!
THANK YOU!, Wilbur33, for that valid link, and Superboy69 for bringing it to our attention!
Keep smilin'!!
WISDOM is the Knowledge you've gained ... After you could have used it! _Me
GOODNESS!!!!!!!!! Could that bottom BE any cuter?.......
FUCK......damn near blew my load when the bottom grabbed his top's balls at the end.......
Another great find Superboy! Gotta love Hector's puppy dog eyes! Nice cock on him too.
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handsome face and flashing dick! real latin man
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military guy! lame tattoo!
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yeah some of us have short foreskin
Very nice, thankyou.
I wish there was more of this guy! Ronny Rodriguez:
Superboy, this thread is awesome!
Sir Ron loves Latino men!
The Three Musketeers... Bashful, Chrisglass, and Ronboy!


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quote: If I ever walk by one that has a cover story "Hot review of new vibrators just for you!" I'll change my tune.
quote:In other words, "sexy," for me, rarely looks like the way it tends to be defined by the mainstream media, both in terms of my own feelings and experiences with my own sexuality and in terms of how I view partners.
quote:Sexy can be empowering because it gives you a certain power over the opposite sex, just in a different venue, and using sexiness to be empowering can work to an advantage. It's not demeaning to use sexuality, it's just a weapon that women have in their arsenal more than men do.

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Tamweel issues price guidance for securitisation
Dubai, June 26, 2012
Tamweel, a unit of Dubai Islamic Bank, plans to sell a $235 million sharia-compliant asset-backed securitisation, arranging banks said on Tuesday.
The Islamic instrument, due 2046 but callable after five years in July 2017, is seen pricing at between 335 and 345 basis points over the 1-month London interbank offered rate (Libor).
Dubai-based Islamic mortgage provider Tamweel concluded investor meetings on Monday and said any eventual transaction will be backed by properties and receivables located in Dubai. The certificates will be listed on the Irish Stock Exchange.
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, UBS and Emirates NBD are lead managers on the deal, which will be a rare example of a securitisation from the Gulf region.
Moody's has provisionally assigned the floating rate certificates Aa3, six notches higher than Tamweel's standalone credit rating of Baa3. DIB is rated Baa1 by the agency.-Reuters


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Thanks to UNICEF Indonesia for the Activate Talks
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This is such a perfect week for me, because I got a chance to join to the very 1st UNICEF Activate; Innovating for Children – Innovating for Equity by UNICEF Indonesia to celebrate the 25th Convention on the Rights of the Child. It was held on April 23rd, 2014 at Erasmus Huis, Jakarta, Indonesia. As a youngster, I feel really happy because there were many other youth that came to that place with the same purpose as me. We wanted to be inspired, to be involved and to be motivated in order to make and develop an innovation for children.
In the opening of the event, the participants were welcomed by
Ms. Angela Kearney, a Representative of UNICEF Indonesia. She is
a very friendly and passionate woman. She added a little joke in
the middle of the speech and a very good message for all of the
participants. I can't forget the way she said that, we
(Indonesians), need the passion, spirit and the energy of many
innovators, adventurers and risk takers in order to support the
government to ensure that children and young people get
everything they need to fulfill their rights and get their dream.
Her statement was really motivating and fired me up. After that,
the participants got the very warm regards from Ms. Linda Gumelar
as a Minister of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection in
Indonesia. For me, she is a very wise woman and I'm sure she will
always give her time and care for Indonesian women and children.
She was spending many time with the children and media in
Indonesia lately, because of some children's issues. Her concern
of child welfare made her really appreciate and support UNICEF's
programs, especially to declare '2014 as the Year of Innovation
for Children'.
In every Innovation, there is a very brilliant Innovator. Something special from this event is, they were not just invited one or two innovators but five amazing innovators in one time. They were; Ms. Tri Mumpuni, Dr. Ahmad Aziz, Mr. Toshi Nakamura, Ms. Mia Sutanto and Mr. Anies Bawedan. So now, let me tell you about their awesome innovation for the community and children.
The 1st speaker is Ms. Tri Mumpuni (@trimumpuni), she is an innovator who has been helping the people in a little village that haven't had electricity. Ms. Tri Mumpuni surely said, that every place must have their own sources which absolutely can be utilized and that was what she doing for the community. With the water resources, motivation, hard work, creativity and experience of her and the community, now they can utilize water as a power plant in the village and the children are happily able to study and do their homework in the night.
The 2nd presentation came from Mr. Toshi Nakamura (@toshikopernik). He is an innovator and also a founder of 'Kopernik' the non-profit organization which provide the technologies for the developing world. He has done so many things for the Indonesian people who live in the rural area. Mr. Toshi Nakamura and his team have provided the solar power, save cooking stoves and water purifier for the poor community. It makes the people's activity much easier to do. For example, the women and children don't need to find for firewood to cook, because they have a save cooking stove. He also introduced the tab application, which can help us to measure the impact of the use of technologies. He is a very funny man, because in the end of his speech, he asked the participants to give him a score for his presentation, via SMS and it surely made the room exploded with laughter.
Our next speaker is Dr. Ahmad Aziz, he is a very wise and absolutely a nice man. He is a doctor and social activist and had spent many years in North Maluku. He found the solutions to help the community in eradicating malaria, such as drained the lagoon and eradicated the mosquito nets with planting the herbs and other plants. My favorite statement that came from him is "Let them (the community) solve their own problems." It means, we just need to open and show them the way to get the solutions and let them control it by themselves.
Another beautiful speaker is Ms. Mia Sutanto (@miasutanto). She is the co-founder of 'AIMI-ASI', the Indonesia Breastfeeding Mothers' Association. She is a pioneer of mother-to-mother for supporting and sharing women's experiences during breastfeeding. In some slides of her presentation, she added a very interesting hashtag. That was #BreastFriends. She explained to the participants about the importance of breastfeeding and the father's role in supporting a child's growth. She also shared about her experience in using social media to share the information about the health of mother and child.
The last speaker is Mr. Anies Baswedan (@AniesBaswedan). He is one of Indonesia's youngest rectors and the president of Paramadina University. He is also a co-founder of 'Indonesia Mengajar'. For the Indonesian youth, 'Indonesia Mengajar (Teaching Indonesia)' is a very famous NGO in Indonesia, because the youth are totally involved in this program to live and teach the people and children in the rural place in Indonesia. He said there are lots of young people who want to help improve the quality of education for other people, but they don't want to make a lifetime commitment. So, Mr. Anies Baswedan and his team started thinking outside the box and made a system where the intelligent and educated young people are involved to teach in remote areas for several months or years. So when they moved, there will be many other young people to replace them. Mr. Anies Baswedan wanted to introduce the innovators and motivators to the children and community in those remote areas. With this program, the people will be able to empower and develop their own village and community.
I felt really happy at the panel discussion time, because my questions had been chosen to be answered by the speakers. Since the beginning of the presentation and discussion, the speakers were talking about technology, health, and education. But for me, there is also a very important thing which really closes with the community and children's life. That is, 'The Media'. So my question to the speakers is 'What is the media supposed to do in order to support children's rights?" And some of the speakers proudly answered my question. The point of their answers was about, say no to 'Bad news is a good news'. Because when the children watching the bad news on television, they'll ask something like "Why are there bad people in this world?" and it would be different when the children watching the good news in television. Then, this is our duty as the youth to make an idea and find the way to support children's right through the media.
At the end of this event, I finally realized that the most important thing in developing every idea to make an innovation and change a place and community is, 'Empowerment'. Every person in that place is supposed to be involved. The innovators just need to show them the way and help the people to control the idea. When the community has a confidence to empower themselves, the ideas will be much easier to be applied and manifested. I'm sure there would be many other innovators and motivators from all around the world and I really happy if I would be able to know about them. So I hope, UNICEF and especially UNICEF Indonesia is willing to hold many other events and involve the youth as the participants in order to support the children's rights.


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As the MBTA rebuilt Orient Heights Station, Massachusetts Department of Transportation's (MassDOT) Highway Division replaced a Revere Beach Parkway Bridge over the MBTA and State Road and Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) completed the Logan Greenway Connector project. All three projects required work on or next to the Blue Line right-of-way. Significant portions of that work were piggybacked together and completed during several Blue Line weekend service diversions, which were necessary to allow work crews to perform critical infrastructure work on track and signals.
Piggybacking construction work on the three projects during 13 weekends allowed the MBTA to schedule fewer weekend service diversions, each with an estimated cost of $147,899. MassDOT's bridge project saved a total of an estimated $1,665,495 by piggybacking and completing the work in less time.
"This is truly transportation reform in action as the T, MassDOT and Massport worked together on three important projects and saved millions of dollars," said MassDOT Secretary and CEO Richard Davey. "I applaud the planning and coordination that not only saved money but also minimized inconvenience for our customers."
The $27.8 million Orient Heights Station Project will make the station fully accessible to all passengers and modernize the station, including installation of a new overhead pedestrian bridge, four elevators and two escalators, new mechanical and power systems, a renovated Train Operations Building, new platforms and improvements to the bus access areas. The station will reopen November 26, after being closed since March 2013 for construction.
MassDOT Highway's Revere Beach Parkway Bridge Project work piggybacked with six Blue Line weekend closures, allowing MassDOT to replace the bridge superstructure in two weekends using accelerated bridge construction methods.
Massport's Logan Greenway Connector Project work piggybacked with seven Blue Line weekend closures to construct a dual use bicycle/pedestrian path in East Boston that will extend Bremen Street park use to Marsh Island. The Logan Greenway Connector Project also provided the MBTA with a 1,700-foot section of new fencing, retaining walls, tree and brush clearing, along with removal of the Neptune Road Bridge.


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A new research study has determined that Lee County's arts community is creating jobs and opening up entrepreneurial opportunities.
That doesn't mean there aren't a few in the industry that found those numbers skeptical.
The "creative industries," arts businesses such as nonprofit museums, symphonies, and theaters, have produced 1,856 nonprofit and for-profit businesses, 5,277 employees -comprising 3.6 percent of all businesses and 1.9 percent of the people they employ, according to the "Creative Industries: Business & Employment in the Arts in Lee County" report.
The findings are based on an analysis of Dun & Bradstreet data from January, with the study conducted by Americans for the Arts - a nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education - and includes analyses of 11,000 unique political and geographic regions nationwide.
"It's another indication of how important it is to have a diverse cultural community and that the arts are socio-economic drivers in Lee County and nationwide," said Lydia Black, executive director of Alliance for the Arts. "This study definitively confirms that the arts mean business."
Black said those reports are instrumental in determining what kinds of education are needed by students as they head into the work force.
"Do we need to add more arts into education so if colleges were to say 'You're required to take part in some arts programming so when you come here, you're an out of the box thinker and not regurgitating what you memorized," Black said. "They help our education guide what kind of curriculum we want and integrate it into the core."
The analysis shows a larger-than-expected prevalence of arts business establishments, while a mapping analysis shows that these businesses are broadly distributed, not strictly in the downtown areas.
Lee County's nonprofit arts and culture industry brought in $68.3 million of revenue in 2010 - supporting 2,038 full-time equivalent jobs and generating $9.4 million in local and state government revenues, according to the new Arts & Economic Prosperity IV national economic impact study.
Nationwide, the report reveals more than three-quarter of a million arts businesses employ 3.1 million people. This represents 4.2 percent of businesses and 2.1 percent of employees, respectively.
The report also shows that arts businesses and employment have maintained this share of businesses and employment and has been resilient during the nation's up-and-down economic cycles.
One person locally, who has worked in the arts his whole life, is somewhat skeptical of the numbers. Brian Weaver, who runs Circus Arts United, a company that hosts an arts festival downtown during the season, said the employment situation for artists is "the worst he's ever seen."
"When I came here two years ago, I couldn't find anything as far as art was concerned. That's why the show was born," Weaver said. "There are a lot of artists in the area and they have to work somewhere."
Weaver said it would be great to see Cape Coral give more help in establishing art festivals to allow arts festivals, since putting one on means the use of lots of resources and funding.
"It's expensive when we close down 47th Terrace and with all the permits and insurance, and the police costs $3,000," Weaver said. "Fort Myers does a lot to support its arts scene with the art walk. Cape Coral doesn't show much support toward that."
Dana Brunett, economic development director for the city, said the news is a mixed bag. Sure there are jobs, but what do they pay?
"You need the arts as part of your quality of life. People want to see shows or plays," Brunett said. "The other side of the coin is you don't get the high-paying jobs. That's just part and parcel. But it is a necessary piece of the puzzle."


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As a school year winds down, everybody starts talking about where they want to go over the summer. As you listen you might hear places such as the beach, amusement parks, etc.
However, for senior Christian Cicionne, those places were just a little too dull. During the summer he attended army boot camp for 10 weeks, for 10 weeks of his life he will never forget.
Christian was originally from Pennsylvania, but when he was only 7 years old he moved to Florida, and at the age of 17 he moved back. Christian initially wanted to join the marines; however, since they weren�t accepting infantry at the time, Christian decided to make his presence felt in the army. �I�ve always wanted to serve my country since I was a little kid,� stated Christian. So, to help fulfill that dream, Christian attended boot camp in Fort Benning, Ga., before finishing high school.
As you can imagine, many things were running through Christian�s mind as he entered boot camp on the first day.
�Arriving at boot camp was a wakeup call for me,� said Christian. Clearly, he doesn�t have a fear of needles because upon arrival he had to endure 18 shots before going through to basic training to make sure no diseases spread.
Many students complain about having to wake up early to come to school. Well, at boot camp Christian had to wake up at around 3 a.m. and sometimes didn�t get to bed until as late as midnight. In boot camp there are three phases: Red, White, and Blue. Red phase is the toughest phase. Red Phase is the phase where you have no room for error and where a simple mistake can be costly for the rest of the platoon. White Phase is a little more lenient, but you still want to make sure that you are on top of everything. Once you make it to the Blue Phase you have made it past the toughest rounds and boot camp becomes more enjoyable. However, if you mess up during Blue Phase, the drill sergeants would have a �smoke session� and severe punishments would be dealt.
During the Red Phase, Christian was put to a major test. He and his fellow boot camp recruits had to run through a tear gas chamber. However, when putting their masks on Christian had the wrong sized mask. Being only a medium size, but having a large mask, Christian�s mask had a gap in it which allowed gas to leak through. Instead of getting a different mask, Christian decided to stick it out and hold his breath through the entire run. Afterward when they took their masks off and recited their name, social security number, and why they were in boot camp, Christian�s drill sergeants noticed he was holding his breath. To make him pay for what he did, they punched him in the stomach and made him breathe all the gas in that was around him.
Boot camp isn�t all bad, however. Christian and his roommates enjoyed many things throughout boot camp. They all enjoyed handling many guns, from .50 caliber machine guns to grenade and rocket launchers. Also all the inmates enjoyed breakfast time, the most important meal of the day, and repelling off of a wall.
Christian had an amazing experience when he attended boot camp for 10 weeks.
�This experience changed how I view people and the world,� he said. �I see people as actual humans now instead of just people on the outside.� Christian displays what it means to have pride in your country. He is an extraordinary young man who loves his country and looks forward to serving it.


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An Australian man seized in Syria has been accused of interacting with a terrorist group by the Assad regime.
Foreign Minister Bob Carr's office has repeatedly tried to confirm the welfare of Muhammad Yusuf al-Kalkuni, who is an Australian-Syrian national, but his fate is unknown more than six months after he was captured.
A list provided to the United Nations General Assembly Security Council in October by the Syrian government names Mr al-Kalkuni among more than 100 foreign nationals who have been arrested for terrorism-related offences. The list has been published online this week.
A spokesman for Mr Carr could not confirm Mr al-Kalkuni's identity. He said the family of an Australian man who they claim was abducted from the city of Dar'a on June 30 had contacted the government asking for assistance.
The list on which Mr al-Kalkuni is named says he was arrested in Dar'a, where it is believed he lived and operated a business. His family is understood to have fled Syria shortly after his arrest, but it is unclear where they are living.
The Syrian government claims Mr al-Kalkuni was involved with a terrorist group in the city, but the nature of his involvement is unclear as the UN translation of that part of the letter says it was "illegible".
Mr Carr's spokesman said the Department of Foreign Affairs officials had attempted to contact the Syrian government through the Hungarian and Egyptian embassies, but had not been able to confirm anything about what the man had been accused of, where he was being held, or whether he was alive.
Three Australians have been killed in Syria, with the families of the men saying they had travelled to the troubled country as aid workers.
It is unclear where Mr al-Kalkuni had lived in Australia, or when he was last settled here, but it is believed he visited as recently as last year.
Two of the Australians killed in Syria were from Melbourne, the other from Sydney.
Free Syrian Army Australian head Zaky Mallah said he encouraged Australians to continue travelling to Syria to provide aid or battle Assad's forces, despite the violence plaguing the country.
Those who travel to Syria to fight could face federal foreign incursion charges, which carry a maximum prison term of 20 years.
Mr Mallah said he feared that Mr al-Kalkuni had been killed and implored the Australian government to save him.
"We need to find out where he is, what's happened to him and why Assad is free to lock up innocent people," Mr Mallah said.
Mr Mallah told Fairfax Media last week that about 250 Australians were providing aid in Syria, and acknowledged that some may be fighting with rebel forces.
Mr Carr's spokesman said there was 67 Australians registered in Syria.
"We have urged all of them to leave as soon as possible," he said.
"It's not safe."


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Submission + - First Aperiodic Tiling With A Single Shape (technologyreview.com)
KentuckyFC writes: The einstein problem (from ein meaning one and stein meaning tile) is to find a single tile that can cover a 2D plane in a nonrepeating pattern. An answer has eluded some of the world's greatest mathematicians. In 1962, the first nonrepeating tiling was discovered but it required 20,426 shapes. This was later reduced by Roger Penrose who found a way to do it with two shapes: a kite and a dart. Now a pair of mathematicians have discovered the first aperiodic tiling using a single shape. Their solution is a modified hexagon with a 3D shape that determines how the tiles slot together.


text: The Knoxville Softball Squad allowed ten unearned runs in a nightmare sixth inning and fell to Newton last night 11-1. The Panthers and Cardinals were tied at one going into Newton's half of the sixth when Knoxville committed an error on what looked like a double play ball that would have ended the inning. However, four more errors allowed the runs to score. Knoxville Coach Steph Christner said the girls lost all confidence during that inning. Knoxville's run came in the third inning when Haley Worrall singled home Marissa Lenger to tie the game. Emily Wallace took the loss going six innings. Knoxville drops to 4-7 on the season and 2-2 in the Little Hawkeye Conference, the Panthers travel to the Chariton Invitational today to play the host Chargers and Clarke.


text: Anyone interested in filling a vacancy on the Hopkinton Housing Authority should submit a letter of interest by Tuesday. The elected position was left open after the resignation of Deborah Kollmeyer, who moved out of town. The Board of Selectmen and remaining members of the housing authority will appoint a member to fill her seat on the five-member board until the annual town election in May. The housing authority consists of four elected members and one appointed by the governor, and is charged with providing "safe and adequate housing" for low-income families and seniors in town, according to a press release. Regular meetings are held on the second Wednesday of every month. An online volunteer form can be completed at www.hopkintonma.gov/home/about/hug , or a letter can be submitted to: Jamie Hellen, operations assistant, town manager's office, 18 Main St., Hopkinton, MA 01748.


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Get going in the morning with our free hot breakfast buffet, then plan your day online with free Wi-Fi Internet access. Freshen up your clothing using our guest laundry facilities. Get on and off the road with ease thanks to our free guest parking, even if you are driving an RV or larger vehicle. The suites at our Lithonia hotel are equipped with kitchenettes, sleeper sofas and a wet bar, and handicapped-accessible and non-smoking accommodations are available.
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It seems that celebrities have plenty to give to their fans as most of them venture off to explore other domains than the one that catapulted them to international recognition. One of the latest celebrities to admit to being drawn to fructify her skills is Rihanna. The 'We Found Love' singer recently announced that she's teaming up with fashion label River Island to create her very own capsule collection. The entertainment world and the fashion world go hand-in-hand as image is very important for public personas, this is one of the reasons w... Read More


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Judge Orders Piracy Trial To Test IP Address Evidence 321
another random user sends word of a case in Pennsylvania District Court in which Judge Michael Baylson has ordered a trial to resolve the issue of whether an IP address can identify a particular person. The plaintiff, Malibu Media, has filed 349 lawsuits against groups of alleged infringers, arguing that getting subscriber information from an ISP based on an IP address that participated in file-sharing was suitable for identification purposes. A motion filed by the defendants in this case explains "how computer-based technology would allow non-subscribers to access a particular IP address," leading Judge Baylson to rule that a trial is "necessary to find the truth." "The Bellwether trial will be the first time that actual evidence against alleged BitTorrent infringers is tested in court. This is relevant because the main piece of evidence the copyright holders have is an IP-address, which by itself doesn't identify a person but merely a connection. ... Considering what's at stake, it would be no surprise if parties such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are willing to join in. They are known to get involved in crucial copyright troll cases, siding with the defendants. We asked the group for a comment, but have yet to receive a response. On the other side, Malibu Media may get help from other copyright holders who are engaged in mass-BitTorrent lawsuits. A ruling against the copyright holder may severely obstruct the thus far lucrative settlement business model, meaning that millions of dollars are at stake for these companies. Without a doubt, the trial is expected to set an important precedent for the future of mass-BitTorrent lawsuits in the U.S. One to watch for sure."


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The Indie Royale just keeps on rolling, and now an "April Fools" bundle has launched. As usual, it packs five indie gems together on the cheap, with a musical bonus for paying a little more than the minimum. Of course, given that it's themed after a holiday of deceit, you might open up your bundle only to get a pie in the face.
This particular pack grants you the tower defense game Defense Grid: The Awakening, 2D platformer Explodemon, shooters Alien Zombie Megadeath and Astro Tripper, and dungeon crawler Hack, Slash, Loot. Defense Grid also packs in the Resurgence Map Packs 1-4.
If you pay more than the minimum, currently standing at around $4.50, you'll also get chip-tune album Rock: Deluxe Edition from Sexy Synthesizer. The bundle will last about another five days, after which you'll never be able to buy an Indie Royale Bundle again as long as you live. Or for three weeks, when the Spring Bundle launches. Whichever comes first.


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The Dolphins and Texans traded touchdowns in the third quarter as Miami continues to cling to a 1-point advantage.
The Texans got a 12 yard TD catch from Andre Johnson to take a 20-14 lead. That came after Johnson caught a 61 yard pass to set up the score.
The Dolphins answered with a six-play drive that culminated with a 5 yard TD run by Ricky Williams to regain the lead.
The live blog continues in the comments section below.


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Developer Michael Peaden withdrew the issue from the Cedar Grove Planning Commission on Monday due to the controversy it has caused.
About 20 Cedar Grove residents attended Monday night's planning commission meeting, many prepared to voice their opinions.
Residents from the Pine Tree Place subdivision have complained that the park will lower their property values and ruin their nice neighborhood.
Peaden says he plans to place traditional homes in front of the park as a way to conceal the trailers but some residents say that won't do. His withdrawal of the proposal from Monday's agenda means the debate will continue.
Also, planning commission members are still no closer to finding out if current land use codes even allow the park.
A comprehensive plan from 1990 allows mobile homes in residential areas, but several on the commission argue the plan is outdated.
Residents and planning commission members both say they want development in Cedar Grove, it just has to be the right development.


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FORT MYERS, Fla. – It was a year ago at this time, just after the calendar flipped from September to October, that the Florida Burn organization out of Sarasota, Fla., had decided it was going to make the 2012 Perfect Game tournament season its own.
The Burn won the 2012 16u Perfect Game World Series in early August and then captured the championships at the PG WWBA Underclass World Championship and the PG WWBA Florida Qualifier on successive weekends in early October.
The Burn haven't gone away, but a couple of other long-standing Florida-based organizations are vying to claim naming rights to the eastern half of the 2013 PG national tournament schedule, and both programs can gain a foot-hold on that pronouncement at this weekend's PG WWBA Florida Qualifier.
The Florida Qualifier, with its automatic paid invitation to the PG WWBA World Championship across the Florida peninsula in Jupiter on Oct. 24-28 as the grand prize to the event champion, begins its four day run Friday with 14 games at the former Boston Red Sox Player Development 5-Plex, City of Palms Park and Terry Park.
Games will continue throughout the weekend at those venues along with the Red Sox's jetBlue Player Development Complex, the Minnesota Twins' spring training facility at the Lee County Sports Complex, and a couple of Fort Myers high school fields.
The 70 teams in the field will play four pool games across Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with the playoffs scheduled to begin Sunday afternoon and the semifinals and championship game slated for Monday morning at the jetBlue Complex.
The powerful Florida Burn Orange and it's brother squad, Florida Burn Navy, are back in the field this year, and their rosters include a total of 10 NCAA Division I commitments from the 2014 class. Three of those commitments are to the University of Florida, led by shortstop Dalton Guthrie, the nation's No. 91-ranked prospect; catcher Michael Rivera, No. 177; and shortstop Deacon Liput, No. 185. All three play for the Burn Orange.
The Burn certainly promise to be a factor again this weekend. There are also at least two more established Florida-based organizations that look loaded with enough high-profile prospects to make sure the Florida Burn don't repeat as PG WWBA Florida Qualifier champions.
The Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based Orlando Scorpions program has two teams at the event: the Orlando Scorpions '15 Prime and Orlando Scorpions '15 Purple. Orlando Scorpions teams won Perfect Game national championships this summer at the PG WWBA 17u National Championship and the 16u Perfect Game World Series and were runners-up at the 18u PG WWBA Memorial Day Classic.
The Scorpions '15 Prime certainly look primed to challenge for this title with at least 12 2015 prospects and one 2016 player already committed to NCAA Division I schools. And no, this isn't an underclass event.
Fans of the Florida State and Central Florida universities' baseball programs might be especially inclined to get out and watch the Scorpions '15 Prime perform, although the 2015 MLB First-Year Player Draft might push aside those programs' best-laid plans.
FSU commits (all class of 2015, all Floridians) on the Prime roster include middle-infielder Brendan Rodgers, the nation's 10th ranked overall prospect; right-hander Cole Sands (No. 34); right-hander Alex Carpenter (No. 100); right-hander Logan Crouse (No. 103) and catcher Jackson Lueck (No. 233).
Among the three Central Florida commits on the roster is top 2016 infielder Joe Skinner, ranked No. 8 nationally in his graduating class. Scorpions '15 Prime middle infielder Jonah Garrison, a Miami commit, is ranked 126th and fellow middle-infielder Ramon Alejo, an Ole Miss recruit, is ranked 127th.
Historically strong Florida Travel Ball (FTB) out Kissimmee has four teams in the field: FTB Louisville Slugger, FTB Chandler '15, FTB Rawlings 2015 and FTB 2017. FTB Mizuno-Chandler won the national championship at the 18u PG BCS Finals and FTB Chandler finished second to the Scorpions Prime at the PG WWBA 17u National Championship this summer.
There are 22 D-I commits just between FTB Louisville Slugger and FTB Chandler '15. Shortstop Ryan Mountcastle, a 2015 Central Florida recruit playing for FTB Chandler '15, is ranked 33rd nationally, and Chandler '15 2016 shortstop Bo Bichette comes in as the nation's No. 6-ranked prospect in his class.
FTB Louisville Slugger's top player is middle-infielder and North Carolina commit Forrest Wall, ranked 99th nationally. Sluggers' 2014 left-hander Logan Browning has committed to Florida and is ranked 375th nationally.
IMG Academy out of West Bradenton, Fla., features 2014 outfielder Luke Bonfield, an Arkansas commit from New Jersey ranked 48th nationally; 2015 left-hander Logan Allen form North Carolina, a South Carolina commit ranked 118th, and 2014 shortstop Taylor Lane from Virginia, a Florida commit ranked 172nd.
Other more highly ranked prospect expected to perform this weekend include Chet Lemon's Juice 2014 right-hander Drew Carlton, another Florida State guy ranked 119th nationally, and 2015 left-hander Thomas Szapucki, a Florida recruit ranked No. 24 playing for Gatorball.
At an event like this when no one can be sure which top prospects will definitely be in attendance – especially the top level pitchers who might be shut down until Jupiter – any team in the field is capable of playing into Monday.
A few of the other top contenders – along with the Florida Burn, Orlando Scorpions and FTB – based on history and experience include Chet Lemon's Juice, IMG Academy, Sarasota Baseball Club and SCORE International. The latter always seems to be playing on the final day of PG events.
This is the 6th annual PG WWBA Florida Qualifier and four alumni of the event have made their major league debuts: Jose Fernandez (2010 Florida Qualifier, Tampa Bay Warriors); Michael Zunino (2008, Southwest Florida Baseball 18u); David Holmberg (2008, West Coast Wave) and Ryan "Scooter" Gennett (2008, Southwest Florida Baseball 18u).
Two-hundred and eight alumni have been drafted and nearly 1,200 moved on to college careers.


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Sharks can be worth far more when they are swimming around the reef than when they are in a bowl of soup — as much as nearly US$2 million each, in fact, according to the results of a study released on Monday.
For the study, researchers from the Australian Institute of Marine Science considered the expenditures of divers who travel from around the world to the tiny Pacific nation of Palau to dive with the mainly gray reef and reef whitetip sharks that inhabit its waters, which were declared a shark sanctuary in 2009.
As a remote country of more than 300 islands — Manila, more than 800km away, is the closest city of consequence — Palau does not have many attractions beyond diving, so spending by international tourists on airfare, lodging and diving makes up an important part of the nation's economy.
The economic logic is straightforward: Diver tourism contributes about 39 percent of the country's GDP of US$218 million, and 21 percent of divers chose their vacation there specifically to see the sharks, meaning that tourism to view sharks contributes about 8 percent of GDP, the study said. The researchers concluded that the roughly 100 sharks that inhabit the prime dive sites were each worth US$179,000 annually to the island nation's tourism industry, and that each shark had a lifetime value of US$1.9 million.
Sold in pieces for their fins and meat, those same 100 sharks would be worth only about US$10,800 total, the researchers estimated.
"It clearly indicates that no matter how you slice it, that a shark is worth more in the water than the sum of its parts when it's cut up and sold," said Matt Rand, director of global shark conservation at the Pew Environment Group, which financed the study.
The Australian researchers were not the first to reach this conclusion, but they found individual sharks to have a much higher value than previous studies did. A study conducted in the Maldives had found the sharks to be worth US$33,500 each to the government of that country. The Bahamas, cognizant of the tourism draw, bills itself as the "Shark Diving Capital of The World."
Millions of sharks are killed each year for their fins or as bycatch, but there has been halting political progress toward reducing the pressure, like the creation of Palau's shark sanctuary, the world's first.
Just a few years earlier, Palau had been considering opening a shark fishery with the aim of exporting fins.
Local residents now gain an estimated US$1.2 million annually from the shark-diving trade, the researchers found, while the government reaps about US$1.5 million.
With warm clear seas and World War II wrecks, Palau is a special place, of course. Mark Keegan, principal research scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science and the lead researcher for the study, said in an interview that the same economics might not apply to sharks in, say, the cold waters of the North Atlantic.
Still, there is a strong argument that sharks are an economically valuable part of the ecosystem, he said, noting that the Chesapeake Bay scallop industry was devastated in recent years by a proliferation of cownose rays caused partly by the overfishing of the rays' main predators, which include hammerheads and other sharks.
Sharks grow slowly and give birth to few young, Rand said.
"Once they lose these species, they won't recover like other fish," he said, adding that quick action was therefore needed by governments.
"Fishermen see sharks as a commodity," Keegan said. "We see them as an important part of the ecosystem. That's a very hard argument to make to them. But make an economic argument, that it's worth more letting people look at it than it is taking it, that's something they can understand."
The idea is catching on. The Maldives has declared itself a shark sanctuary, and tourism operators and conservationists in Fiji, the Bahamas and other dive destinations are now calling for shark protections.


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Kyle Boller (STL) - Undisclosed injury
Calvin Johnson (DET) - Knee injury
Mario Manningham (NYG) - Bruised chest
Ben Watson (NE) - Concussion
Glen Coffee (SF) - Leg Injury
Cedric Benson was a pleasant surprise this season and he even paid off when the Bengals faced the Steelers and he gained 76 yards and a score on their previously impenetrable defense. But this week was a time when you could finally feel safe in benching Benson for some other option because running in Baltimore just doesn't happen much. The Ravens defense always played the part of cowboys roping calfs when opponents would dare to handoff to a running back. Except for Sunday.
Cedric Benson not only rushed for 120 yards on 27 carries and scored once, he not only was instrumental in the Bengals actually winning in Baltimore, he was the first opposing running back to rush for over 100 yards in Baltimore since 2006.
The 49ers were spanked 45-10 by the Falcons in a surprisingly decided fashion and the beat was on early in the game when Michael Turner scored a touchdown in the first quarter. After a three-and-out by the 49ers, the Falcons were driving the field again and Mike Singletary called a timeout after Roddy White caught a 16-yard pass down to the SF 31-yard line. He brought the entire defense to the sidelines and gave a quick pep talk/death threat and sent them back to do their jobs. The next play, White caught a 31-yard touchdown.
Roddy White went on to score a 90-yard touchdown which concluded with a failed somersault and a penalty for Unsportsmanlike Conduct. He ended 210 yards on eight catches which set the all-time franchise record mark of 198 yards set by Terance Mathis 11 years ago.
Through Week 4 there had only been five wide receivers who had scored twice in a game this season. In Week five, there were nine of them and Reggie Wayne dropped what would have been the tenth. One week had almost twice the number of big games for wideouts as the previous four combined. We even had two wideouts exceed 200 yards in a game. That does bring us up to the same level of 2008 when the first five weeks also produced 14 multiple score games for wideouts only they did not mostly come from just one week. Nine. In one week. But last year at this time there had been 44 instances of a 100 yard game by a wideout but it is only 34 this year so far.
Weirder yet is that we have already seen 31 games of 300+ yards passing but we only had 23 at this point in 2008. It's been a slow year punctuated by some monster games until this week when so many scored twice. After five weeks in 2008, the best game was only 167 yards and in one day we just saw two player exceed 200. Big weeks but a small year it seems.
1. The Good Teams to me - Bengals, Colts, Broncos, Giants, Vikings, Saints, Jets and maybe the Eagles, Patriots and Ravens. Those nine teams will all make it to the playoffs even though there are 11 more weeks to play because so many teams suck this year and these guys are only widening the gap between themselves and the rest of the league. Seriously - Bengals and Saints are two of the top teams? I personally pretend they are both new franchises this year and are not dragging the anchor of losing around anymore. This year is getting easier than most any to predict the winner of games unless one of the nine are facing each other. Consider that the Colts and Broncos already have three game leads in their divisions. I can tell you that next week will have the Game of The Week but the Saints versus the Giants. It's almost like watching two leagues playing intramural football. Another scary facet - both the Broncos and Bengals seem to be almost inexplicably just good enough to win. All their games other than when they played each other and Denver stole the win with the Stokley touchdown.
2. The Bad Teams to me - Bills, Dolphins, Browns, Titans, Raiders, Chiefs, Redskins, Lions, Rams, Buccaneers and Panthers. That is one third of the league that I am comfortable in saying that their year is already over and that they have zero chance to beat one of the nine Good Teams. I think it is an unprecedented amount of bad teams. The Titans, Panthers and Dolphins WON THEIR DIVISIONS LAST YEAR. All I can say is that the biggest competition will be who gets the early draft picks because it may end up with a lot of tie breakers to figure out the first ten teams to draft in the 2010 draft.
3. Here is the amazing thing to me. I strongly believed that DeAngelo Williams would not come close to his league leading production of 2008. Yes, he was the highest scoring running back in many leagues when he had 1636 total yards and 20 touchdowns and this year his schedule was going from one of the easiest to one of the worst. But when he falls back, he takes it serious. After four games, he has gained only 220 yards on 59 carries for an average of 3.7 yards per carry instead of the 5.5 he had last year. He has scored just twice. Basically, he's done in four weeks just a little more than he was doing per game last year. This week at home against the Redskins? 40 yards on 18 carries. Wow. Most people who drafted him did so while saying "and I just could not let him go by." Ends up you should have.
4. My opinion - the Cowboys should just use Tashard Choice as the primary back, Marion Barber on short yardage and Felix Jones becomes another Reggie Bush type who plays on third downs and catches 5 passes a game whenever he is healthy. Choice is the best runner the Cowboys have because he can run inside and outside and so far he does not get hurt. He was amazing at the end of last season when nothing else on the Cowboys could be described as "amazing" (at least not in a good sense). This week was just a standard game - Barber rushed 15 times for 53 yards while Choice ran only 8 times for 92 yards and a touchdown. Barber doesn't seem to run as hungry anymore to me. Choice just wants to play.
5. For being a malcontent who started the season with two forgettable games, Brandon Marshall has apparently seen the light since he has scored in each of the last three games including twice against the Patriots this week. His yardage is off his 2008 pace to be sure but scoring every week? Makes a difference. A big difference.
6. Remember back to 2004 when Peyton Manning had his career best season of 4557 passing yards and 49 passing touchdowns to set the NFL record (before Brady)? Well, seems that after the first five games of that year he had 1321 yards and 14 scores. Currently, he has 12 passing touchdowns and a mere 1645 yards. That is a pace to end with 5264 yards and 39 touchdowns. Manning has yet to fall below 300 passing yards so far and the Colts are 5-0. The year of the Manning seems to be happening again.
7. There were only five tight ends with a touchdown on Sunday thanks in part to Antonio Gates being on bye but overall seems like tight ends are not a big deal this year other than the one big game that a few have had. Consider that the best tight ends to use on Sunday were Kellen Winslow (9-102, 2 TD), Heath Miller (5-54, 1 TD), Vishante Shiancoe (4-49, 1 TD), Owen Daniels (8-94) and Jeff King (2-30, 1 TD). Just how late could you have drafted those guys in your league?
8. Plan ahead. We are coming into week six where DAL, MIA, SF and IND are on a bye week. That will affect many teams covering for players who are out. But use this coming week to prepare to cover weeks 7 and 8 when six teams are going to be off each week. This includes DEN, JAC, DET, BAL, SEA and TEN in week seven and CIN, TB, KC, NE, WAS and PIT in week eight. You'll already be going against others looking to fill holes in their rosters and if you get an injury to players on your roster this week, you could be in a very bad spot. Take a look at your rosters for week 7 and 8 bye week players and figure out what you need to do now.
9. We've already had four shutouts recorded this season. There were only a total of six in all of 2008. We are on a pace to more than double last year's mark because there are so many bad teams. Four teams remain winless and the Rams have already incurred two shutouts. Not a lot of fantasy points coming from a shutout. And we're not even counting the Browns winning 6-3 in Buffalo when Derek Anderson literally completed two of 17 passes for 23 yards and one interception and won the game. It boggles the mind.
10. I know I am in the minority. The miniscule minority. But I sort of feel bad for Terrell Owens. Yes, he was a loud mouth and a malcontent and a egocentric player. But he was also a hard worker and one of the most prolific wide receivers to every play in the NFL. He's now winding down his career in an apparent Siberia (just wait for the winter, T.O.) in Buffalo where he already broke his 185 game streak with at least one catch and by now has one touchdown and a total of 202 yards over five games. He is second to only Jerry Rice with 140 touchdown catches. So I maybe I do not feel badly toward Owens the man because I do not know him and his public persona is less than popular. But as a football player, it is a hard way to see someone end a prolific career.
Miles Austin (DAL) - When Roy Williams was made inactive for the game against the Chiefs, it thrust Austin into a starting role. Recall Austin as the popular sleeper pick last summer that many fantasy owners had dumped since he only had five catches in the first four games and that included getting blanked by the Panthers in week three. Going into the game on Sunday, Austin had 81 receiving yards on the season. Thanks to overtime, Austin not only had a personal best of 10 catches for 250 yards and two scores, he also set an all-time record for the Cowboys. He had a 115 yard game as his previous best and almost no other decent games. It is a sure thing that Austin will not forget Kansas City and the Chiefs will not soon forget him.
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This season is an odd bird to be sure. Another shut out. The Browns winning 6-3 in Buffalo. The 49ers suddenly falling apart and the Falcons becoming a road warrior. The Bengals apparently think this is 1989 instead of 2009 because they are winning games as if the Super Bowl was a possibility. the Broncos may be the biggest "go figure" of them all though their constant minimizing of fantasy points is not appreciated. There were a number of blowouts this week as is becoming normal but the Game-O-The-Week with the best fantasy angle was clear.
Houston 21, Arizona 28
The Cardinals scored on their first possession when a solid drive reached the goal line and Tim Hightower stole yet another good chance to give the rookie Beanie Wells some work. The Cards reached the HOU 9-yard line near the end of the first quarter but Anquan Boldin lost a fumble. That led the Texans to march down the field and once the drive stalled at the ARI 16-yard line, Kris Brown had his field goal attempt blocked. The game was a bit short on excitement.
WIth only 1:50 left to play in the first half, Warner finally found Larry Fitzgerald for a 9-yard touchdown and a 14-0 lead. The Texans got the ball and went three-and-out and punted with only 1:14 left to play. But that gave the Cardinals the ball around midfield and completions to Jerheme Urban and Boldin led to a 26-yard touchdown pass to Fitzgerald for a 21-0 lead. It was going to be a laugher. At least the Cardinal receivers were doing well.
After an uneventful third quarter, the Texans finally mounted a drive from their own 36-yard line to the four yard line where Steve Slaton gained three yards. That was much too close to being a touchdown so Slaton was yanked and Chris Brown bulled in the score for a 7-21 deficit.
Holding the Cardinals to a punt, the fourth quarter started with the Texans on the move again. Daniels had a 27-yard completion. Slaton caught a 23 yarder and David Anderson had a 15-yard reception. With 13 minutes left in the game, the Texans reached the ten yard line where Andre Johnson caught a touchdown. 14-21 and getting closer.
The Cards once again were ineffective and marched from their own 34-yard line with a four minute drive that ended with a 17-yard touchdown pass to Larry Fitzgerald - his second in the game and now a 21-21 tied game with only seven minutes left to play.
The Cardinals once again went three-and-out using all passes. The Texans got the punt and six player later with only 2:30 left to play, Matt Schaub threw his third touchdown only this went to CB Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie who jumped the route and intercepted the ball. 28-21 in favor of the Cards again.
The ensuing kickoff had Andre Davis returning the ball 63 yards to the ARI 40-yard line. And once again, Schaub led the team down using short passes to five different receivers and a five yard pass to Slaton brought the ball to the 1-yard line and in appreciation, he was once again yanked fro Chris Brown who ran for no gain. Then Schaub missed Joel Dreessen on a pass and on fourth down it was right back to Chris Brown who once again was stuffed going right up the middle. Splat. He could not have hit that logjam any more squarely.
The Cards killed the clock with two runs and the Texans lost despite outscoring the Cardinals offense 21-0 in the second half. The Schaub interception was the difference in the game. It was an exciting finish even though the Cards won without showing up in the second half.
We all knew going into this matchup that sparks were bound to fly. And what is not to like about the game producing exactly what we were expecting? Both quarterbacks passed for over 300 yards and had two touchdowns. The #1 wideout for each team had a big game - Andre Johnson (8-101, 2 TD) and Larry Fitzgerald (5-79). Owen Daniels (8-94) had a great game as did Anquan Boldin (7-81). Both teams are apparently abandoning the run this year which is just good to know even if the truth hurts.
What was disappointing was that this would have been the greatest chance of the year to let Beanie Wells loose and with only seven runs in a game that they led 21-0 at the half, it is evident that they will never use Wells or even Hightower much. Short yardage score? Use Hightower. Sort of begs the question - why did you draft Wells, anyway?
And for Slaton - what a burn. He gets the team near the goal line twice and gets yanked for Chris Brown who comes up short on the most important play of the game. Slaton only had 13 runs in the game anyway but at least had six catches for 59 yards to salvage some mediocre fantasy value.
We know who is bad now. We know who is good. We know what to expect and that is precisely the problem because now is when things change and the season's best studs start to pull away and more than a few fall to the wayside. Throw in a lot of teams on bye in the next three weeks and the NFL and your league could look different by November.
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Real Madrid president Florentino Perez believes that goalkeeper Iker Casillas is one of the greatest captains to ever wear the club's jersey.
The Spain international has appeared 472 times for the capital outfit since making his professional debut in 1999, helping them to win five La Liga titles and two Champions League trophies in the process.
At a charity event organised jointly by the BBVA, the Real Madrid foundation and Casillas, the club's chief hailed the achievements of the 31-year-old.
"Iker Casillas is a Real Madrid and Spain legend - one of the great captains of the club's history," Perez told AS.
"He has shown that, as well as enjoying sporting success, he can take on board the success of the club.
"That's why we will be supporting him, so we can crowd the Palacio de los Deportes for the [charity] match that will take place on December 23."
Casillas said he was delighted with the backing he has received during his career, and also thanked the "club, [the] BBVA, friends and peers, which in recent years have overwhelmed me with their support."


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Fiscal Cliff Protects 'the 99 Percent' From Income-Tax Hikes? Hardly
On Wednesday, as President Obama signed — er, auto-penned — the legislation preventing the onset of the "fiscal cliff" passed by Congress the previous day, the establishment press was busy understating its impact. A Friday evening Wall Street Journal editorial (note: not a regular news report) in today's print edition lays out the gory details.
But first, I will cite four examples of coverage which pretended that 99 percent of Americans won't see their income taxes increase in 2013.
First, an unbylined Associated Press report at least took note of the fact that a large majority of Americans will see a payroll tax increase this year, but blew it on the income-tax impact (bolds are mine throughout this post):
Fiscal cliff avoided, but most Americans will still pay more federal taxes this year
While the tax package that Congress passed New Year's Day will protect 99 percent of Americans from an income tax increase, most of them will still end up paying more federal taxes in 2013.
… The Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan Washington research group, estimates that 77 percent of American households will face higher federal taxes in 2013 under the agreement negotiated between President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans. High-income families will feel the biggest tax increases, but many middle- and low-income families will pay higher taxes too.
Households making between $40,000 and $50,000 will face an average tax increase of $579 in 2013, according to the Tax Policy Center's analysis. Households making between $50,000 and $75,000 will face an average tax increase of $822.
"For most people, it's just the payroll tax," said Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center.
The TPC's estimated "average" is very misleading. The numbers cited are as low as they are only because many public employees are exempt from Social Security taxation, and because retirees don't pay Social Security taxes on their monthly pension payments or retirement plan distributions. I'll bet that the "average" impact in the income ranges cited among full-time workers who pay Social Security taxes is over $800 in the $40K-$50K group, and well over $1,000 in the $50K-$75K group.
At BusinessWeek (or "Business Weak," as I prefer to call it), Peter Coy demonstrated the class warfare bias so often seen there in the following paragraph:
The Fiscal Cliff Deal and the Damage Done
Congress voted to permanently preserve the Bush tax cuts for roughly 99 percent of taxpaying households, but the rate increase for the 1 Percent has infuriated antitax purists, who vow to exact more spending cuts in a couple of months, when the U.S. faces the triple threat of a debt ceiling, postponed automatic spending cuts, and expiration of the law that keeps the government funded.
At the LA Times, Lisa Mascaro and Kathleen Hennessey went with "rounghly 99%":
House approves 'fiscal cliff' deal, rescinding broad tax hike
… The deal, largely negotiated by Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), had passed the Senate early Tuesday morning. It blocked income tax hikes for roughly 99% of households, but allowed rates to rise for those with incomes above $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for couples.
Reuters also went with the 99% claime in its earlier reports, as seen in this Google News search result obtained this morning:
But the linked unbylined report as currently presented at CNBC's web site doesn't contain a 99% reference at all, instead citing the following provisions:
* Permanently extends tax cuts enacted in 2001 under former Republican President George W. Bush for income below $400,000 per individual, or $450,000 per family. Income above that level would be taxed at 39.6 percent, up from the current top rate of 35 percent.
… * Caps personal exemptions and itemized deductions for income above $250,000, or $300,000 per household.
The final bulleted item is why the wire service saw the need to change its original 99% reference. Everyone else who has gone with the 99% claim should also revise what they've reported, as the Wall Street Journal's editorial explained in a Friday evening editorial appearing in Saturday's print edition:
The Stealth Tax Hike
Why the new $450,000 income threshold is a political fiction.
Anyone still need a reason to abandon "grand bargains" and deals negotiated between this President and GOP Congressional leaders? Here it is: The revival of two dormant provisions of the tax code means the much ballyhooed $450,000 income threshold for the highest tax rate is largely fake.
The two provisions are the infamous PEP and Pease, which aficionados of stealth tax increases will recognize immediately as relics of the 1990 tax increase. Those measures, which limit deductions and exemptions for higher-income taxpayers, expired in 2010. The Obama tax bill revived them this week. It isn't going to be pretty.
… The Senate Finance Committee informs us that in effect the loss of the personal exemptions, currently $3,800 per family member, can mean a 4.4 percentage point rise in the marginal tax rate for a married couple with two kids and incomes above $250,000. A family with four kids in that income range faces about a six percentage point marginal rate hike. The restored limitations on itemized deductions can raise the tax rate by another one percentage point.
High-income Americans with incomes of more than $1 million may lose up to 80% of their itemized deductions for home mortgage payments, health care, state and local taxes—and charities. Cue the local symphony's development office.
Add it together and families in the 33% tax bracket could see their effective marginal rate paid on each additional dollar earned rise to above 38%.
… Democrats are advertising the higher $400,000-$450,000 threshold as a victory for affluent taxpayers in blue states. But with PEP and Pease these Democrats are hammering their own constituents via the backdoor.
Taxpayers in blue states claim roughly twice as much in itemized deductions as those in red states. Income tax rates are steeper in California and New York than Texas and Utah.
Both parties appear to be banking on ignorance: Democrats as just noted, and Republicans, given that a letter from Mitch McConnell's campaign quoted in a separate Associated Press report brags: "In the end, he ensured that over 99 percent of Kentuckians will not pay higher income taxes."
That could conceivably be true for "Kentuckians," but I'll bet that McConnell's staff didn't try to prove it. It certainly isn't the case for the country as a whole.
Two or three times as many Americans (probably closer to if not greater than the latter) as Washington and most of the establishment press want us to believe will be paying more in federal income tax, while virtually everyone who works in the private sector is seeing a 2-point hike in the payroll tax. As the Journal asked in its editorial's opening: "Anyone still need a reason to abandon "grand bargains" and deals negotiated between this President and GOP Congressional leaders?" I sure don't.
Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org.


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Paper currency comes (now) in fives, tens and twenties (and before decimal currency £1 as well).
British Boy Scouts used to have "Bob a Job" weeks, when they went round asking householders if they could do small jobs for them, for a fee of one shilling. Girl Guides had something similar I believe with the slogan "Please give a shilling to a Guide who is willing", but that was dropped owing to the possible connotations of the term "willing".
I was interested in the origins of "Tanner" etc. Cabbage weevil. An old uncle of mine who had been in the Army in India in the 1920s used to say that something of very low monetary value wasn't worth a pice, this being a low denomination Indian coin.
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Effects of Caffeine Discussed
April 24, 2012
ALLIANCE, Ohio — "The Effects of Caffeine on Memory and Attention" was one of many topics discussed during the University of Mount Union's fifth annual SCHOLAR Day, held Tuesday, April 17.
SCHOLAR Day stands for Student Celebration Honoring Our Latest Academic Research and is a campus-wide day filled with presentations showcasing academic excellence and scholarly research conducted by Mount Union students. Three formal presentation sessions and one poster session were included this year, highlighting 34 formal presentations and 63 speakers during three hour-long sessions. There were also 16 posters on display this year, with 26 students standing by to talk about their projects.
The annual event gives students a chance to share their latest academic research with faculty, staff, students, family, friends and the surrounding communities.
"The Effects of Caffeine on Memory and Attention" presentation was given by students Elizabeth Bauer, a senior cognitive and behavioral neuroscience major of Allison Park, PA; Brooke Tonero, a senior cognitive and behavioral neuroscience major of Cambridge, OH; John Piechuta, a senior cognitive and behavioral neuroscience major of Alliance; Rachel Brady, a senior cognitive and behavioral neuroscience major of Newton Falls, OH and Abigail Yahraus, a senior psychology major of Willoughby, OH. Their research project was sponsored by Kristine Turko, associate professor of psychology.
According to group members, caffeine is the most widely used psychoactive drug. Because caffeine is so readily available, many people don't realize it is a drug. The use of caffeine is especially prevalent among college students, who often consume it with the idea that it will help them perform better on exams and assignments.
The group did a study on 28 Mount Union students who are daily caffeine users, measuring reaction time as doses of caffeine were given to students. Participants were asked to perform tasks before and after taking caffeine pills. Students hypothesized that reaction time would increase as the caffeine dose increased and found that reaction time decreased at 200 and 400 mg dosages. Limitations to the study, according to students, included a limited age group and the use of two different locations for the research — participants may have been distracted, thus affecting the results.
SCHOLAR Day, which began in 2008, highlights the research projects of Mount Union's undergraduate students. The continued success of this academic tradition is made possible through the generous support of George '58 and Sally (Shrake '59) Stradley of Hartville, OH and the Donald and Alice Noble Foundation of Wooster, OH.


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GREENVILLE, Ill. – GC men's tennis dismantled SLIAC foe Fontbonne University on Thursday, taking all singles and doubles matches and registering a 9-0 win.
Greenville College rolled 4-0 in doubles action and followed with a swift 5-0 showing in singles play to earn the decisive sweep.
With the win GC men's tennis advances to 6-3 (2-1 SLIAC) and will continue their 2012 campaign on Friday, April 3 as they travel back to Concordia, Mo. and take part in a two-day tournament at Bethel Park.


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As the digital age evolves, finance technology is evolving to support the essential characteristics of a digital business: agility, nimbleness and real-time response.
We're in the third stage of finance transformation. The first era brought Enterprise Resource Planning implementations to automate transactions and accounting.
In the second era, database-driven information management and e-commerce led to deeper data insights, changing the CFO organization's role from keeper of accurate records to analysts of performance.
The third, or digital era, enables seamless technological enablement of routine functional tasks, liberating finance professionals to focus on a new role: creating enterprise value.


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The Folly of Fulfillment Theology
A new form of Replacement Theology
Rev. Malcolm Hedding
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In recent years a new form of Replacement Theology has arrived on the Christian scene called Fulfillment Theology. Like Replacement Theology it ends up contending that, since the time of Jesus, the Jews no longer enjoy a god-given national destiny in the land of Canaan. This time around it is not the Church that replaces Israel and takes over all her promises in scripture but in fact Jesus. He fulfills in His life and redemptive work all the promises that God ever made to the Jews; even the promise that Canaan would be the everlasting possession of the Jewish people! Jesus is the Promised Land. This allows the proponents of this theory to distance themselves from the awful evil (as in the Apartheid State) and anti-Semitic consequences (as in the Christian pogroms of history) of Replacement Theology. However, they end up believing the same thing!
God and Israel's modern day restoration


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It's not still on the front page. That was a few hours ago. A nice image of Walker, don't you think? Flattering because he's eating lunch at his desk. It's not conventionally flattering to catch the bald spot like that, but it's politically flattering to have him bending over his work. (On the other hand, what's the big deal? I eat lunch while working almost every day. Don't you? Breakfast too, and often dinner. But I like to see my public servant working, and it's nice of the NYT to offer political support to a new governor who doesn't represent the newspaper's political preference.
Here's the article:
Mr. Walker, who has said publicly that he hopes to force public employees' wages and benefits "into line" with everyone else's, urged leaders against the session, saying he needed "maximum flexibility" to handle the state's coming budgets, but Democrats argued that the contracts were not particularly beneficial to workers anyway (they included no raises and furlough time that amounted to a pay cut)....I'm one of those state employees. Should I retire? (I'll be 60 on January 12th.) Is that the way to get while the getting is good?
State workers here are predicting a flood of retirements by those who will not want to bear the uncertainty of it all, and particularly the prospect of shrinking pension benefits. Some employees were already talking about moving elsewhere, getting new jobs, retiring.


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Reviewed By mitchell J (grove city, OH) Reviewed for a 2001 Chevy Camaro —4/27/2017 5:21 AM
really great improvement on handling
Reviewed By Jeff Y (Houston, TX) Reviewed for a 2001 Chevy Camaro —7/22/2015 2:21 PM
I can't rate the Koni Sport (yellow) shocks & struts purely on their own merit, because at the same time I replaced the shocks & struts, I also installed H&R springs (112K mi). I bought the car from its original owner (my brother), & it came w/the Bilstein suspension. Before I picked it up, he installed Eibach Sport springs. The Eibachs lowered it more than the H&Rs do, but the ride was intolerable - too stiff, too "jittery". With the new Konis and H&R springs, it rides & handles PERFECTLY.


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Although a bit off our musical mandate, members of the hard rock/heavy metal community have paid tribute to Phil Everly who passed away on Friday, January 3rd of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at a Burbank hospital. About the EVERLY BROTHERS, BOB DYLAN once said, "We owe these guys everything. They started it all." Along with his brother Don Everly, the pair's hits included 'Bye Bye Love', 'Wake Up Little Susie' and 'All I Have To Do Is Dream'. They were inducted into the Rock `n' Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.
SCORPIONS' Klaus Meine: "Always loved The Everly Brothers. RIP Phil Everly. Your music lives forever in my heart."
MEGADETH's Dave Mustaine: "It is with great sadness that I just learned music legend Phil Everly has passed away. Since joining his Cleartone String Company, one of the things I looked forward to most was meeting him. My sympathies to the family."
JACK RUSSELL (ex-GREAT WHITE): "Another sad day in music! Rest in peace Mr. Phil Everly of The Everly Brothers. Our condolences to his family, friends and fans."


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Gawain Jay Roberts, 36, of Fort Collins, appeared on bond in 8th Judicial District Court on Thursday for what was scheduled to be a disposition hearing. But while his attorney, Kirkland Brush, said he received plea papers from the district attorney's office on Wednesday, he requested additional time to review the agreement with his client.
Roberts, who taught at the Ferguson High School-based SOARS alternative education program, was arrested last November following a month-long Loveland police investigation into a 16-year-old girl student who reported that Roberts had taken inappropriate pictures of her.
With a search warrant, police seized Roberts' computers and cellphone as part of the investigation and reportedly found images of multiple females believes to be younger than 18 years old.
The Fort Collins man quit his job at the start of the police investigation, school district officials have said.
Roberts faces felony charges of exploitation of a child and attempted sexual assault on a child.
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In the newest installment of the Batman: Arkham series, the Dark Knight has the freedom to explore the entirety of Gotham, swooping between buildings, crossing through the high supports of bridges, and diving down onto thugs in the streets below. But in 2009, our first glimpse of this new version of Batman's universe was inside the dark confines of Arkham Asylum itself.
Arkham Asylum is a captivating setting, filled with hidden secrets from the past, creepy nods to its many storied inmates, and endless opportunities to engage Batman's awesome abilities and gear. Drawing inspiration from the detail and ruin evident in Irrational's city of Rapture in BioShock, Rocksteady's Arkham Asylum is a masterpiece of environmental storytelling.
Unlike the truly open worlds of the later Arkham games, Arkham Asylum begins with a limited selection of tight corridors and metal-clad rooms to visit. But even in those early scenes, the player doesn't need any complicated narration to get across the point; something has gone horribly wrong in the asylum. Inmate documentation papers lie strewn around the floors of rooms. Hallways are painted in hastily crafted graffiti. Electricity has been knocked out in numerous areas, leaving areas swathed in shadow as dangerous criminals patrol through the dark.
Beyond recent and disastrous events, Arkham Asylum also feels like a place suffused with history. Ceilings and walls are worn and rusted, and the offices of asylum officials are cluttered. Search carefully, and hidden audio and written files offer a glimpse into this place's terrifying past, from the slow corruption of Harley Quinn to details about the Asylum's founding.
However, perhaps the most interesting aspect of Arkham Asylum is the way that powerful personalities permeate specific areas. The botanical gardens are a perfect fit for Poison Ivy's green thumb. The wet sewers beneath the facility offer a frightening and confined space to confront Killer Croc. Joker decorates interior areas in his ludicrous comic style to create strange juxtapositions of bright colors and dark stone. Each new place the player visits offers hints and nods to familiar villains and personalities from the long-running Batman fiction.
Before Batman: Arkham Asylum, few if any licensed games grabbed the attention of the gaming public with such skill and authenticity to the subject matter. While Batman's wide range of activities and awesome combat abilities are due a large part of the thanks for the game's success, the setting of Arkham Asylum was no less important. It's often been said that heroes like Batman are defined by their villains. But, in the case of Arkham Asylum, our hero is equally defined by his environment, and this bleak prison for the insane super-criminals of Gotham City emerges as one of the great game settings of this generation.
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When you have diabetes, you make the acquaintance of a lot of high-tech tools to help you manage it: monitors, meters and pumps. One very handy tool that sometimes gets overlooked is a digital scale for weighing and analyzing the nutritional content of food.
Ideally, a food scale should have a handsome, unobtrusive design, a large database and the ability to quickly impart a load of useful information.
One scale that meets that ideal is the EatSmart Nutrition Scale from Bill Geronimo, a New Jersey pharmacist who had people with diabetes in mind when he designed it.
"When you have diabetes, you are concerned about a lot of things when you eat," says Geronimo. "How many carbs does a food have? How many calories? How much fat? What kinds of vitamins or calcium or minerals? Knowing the answers to these questions helps immensely with a diabetic's sense of control."
How It Works
The scale has 999 foods stored in its database, ranging from fruits and vegetables to grains, pasta, meat and dairy. Many of the foods for which it gives information don't come with detailed nutritional information when you buy them.
Using the scale is simple. Let's say you want to measure the calories in a piece of salmon. First you enter the three-digit number for salmon that comes with the user's manual, and then you place the fish on the scale. The readout immediately indicates the weight and the calories, and it provides information on 11 other nutrients and measurements, such as carbohydrates and fat, that are important to cardiovascular health.
A second mode has a nutrition facts calculator that allows you to input the serving size and calories from the label of a box of food or cereal. It then calculates the amounts of various nutrients as you pour the contents into a bowl on the scale. (The scale automatically adjusts for the weight of the bowl.)
Easy to Learn
The scale's design is well thought out. The unit doesn't take up a lot of space, so I had no trouble finding a convenient spot for it in the kitchen. Readouts are large and clearly marked.
Operating the scale is intuitive, and it doesn't take more than a few uses to feel at home with it. Within two days I found myself routinely plunking my food down on the scale, inputting its number, getting a fast readout and quickly toting up its calories, carbs and nutrients on my mental checklist.
Like any useful habit, such as brushing your teeth or paying bills on a certain day every month, using the EatSmart scale takes a bit of conscious effort at the start. But your effort is soon rewarded by the ability to confidently replace "guesstimates" with solid, accurate information.
Geronimo says nutrition scales are still fairly new to the market, which means that people often don't know about their usefulness. "But once they do," he says, "they find that these scales are great educational tools that really bring home the connection between food types, portion sizes, and blood sugar control.
"But even better," asserts Geronimo, "in the short time it takes people to incorporate a scale into their daily routines, they find that their behavior changes. They pay much more attention to what and how much they eat because they have a reliable, convenient way to keep track."
Pretty smart.
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VATICAN CITY (AFP) The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility, a report in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said Saturday.
The pill "has for some years had devastating effects on the environment by releasing tonnes of hormones into nature" through female urine, said Pedro Jose Maria Simon Castellvi, president of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, in the report."We have sufficient evidence to state that a non-negligible cause of male infertility in the West is the environmental pollution caused by the pill," he said, without elaborating further."We are faced with a clear anti-environmental effect which demands more explanation on the part of the manufacturers," added Castellvi.
"Once metabolised, the hormones contained in oral contraceptives no longer have any of the characteristic effects of feminine hormones," said Gianbenedetto Melis, vice-president of a contraceptive research association, quoted by the ANSA news agency.The hormones contained in the pill such as oestrogen "are present everywhere... in plastic, in disinfectants, in meat that we eat," added Flavia Franconi, of the Society of Italian Pharmacology.
Pope Benedict XVI in October reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's condemnation of artificial birth control.
Contraception "means negating the intimate truth of conjugal love, with which the divine gift (of life) is communicated," the leader of the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics wrote on the 40th anniversary of a papal encyclical on the topic.An encyclical is a letter usually treating some aspect of Catholic doctrine and issued occasionally by the pope.
The landmark document, whose title in English is "On the Regulation of Birth", was published at a time when the development of the Pill was giving new sexual freedom to women across the world.Millions of Catholics distanced themselves from Rome as a result.
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Clarence "Gene" E. Hall, 76, beloved husband, father and friend, 76, of Lexington, died Sunday, July 14, 2013, at Roanoke Memorial Hospital, Roanoke, Va.
Clarence "Gene" E. Hall, 76, beloved husband, father and friend, 76, of Lexington, died Sunday, July 14, 2013, at Roanoke Memorial Hospital, Roanoke, Va.
A service will be at 12:30 p.m. Monday at Haven Lutheran Church, 207 W. Harrison St., Salisbury, by Dr. Beeg. Burial will be at 2 p.m. in the Salisbury National Cemetery, 501 Statesville Blvd., Salisbury, with military honors by the Lyerly Funeral Home Honor Guard.
Visitation will be from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. prior to the service at the church.
He was born Aug. 28, 1936, in Forsyth County to Clarence Hall and Ella Jane Lakey Hall. Gene was a retired Special Forces PSYOPS and physician's assistant in the U.S. Army. He was of the Lutheran faith. He was highly active in American Indian Pow-wow and a vigil member of the Order of the Arrow Boy Scouts of America. He was a member of the VFW and lifetime member of the American Legion. He sang baritone in a quartet while at Virginia Tech. While in high school he was in the glee club and sang on TV several times. Gene was asked by the Winston-Salem Sports Commission to do an Eagle Dance at Bowman Gray Stadium for the pro football expo. Gene was asked to perform American Indian dance in Seoul, Korea, at the international stadium in front of dignitaries and the president of Korea.
Those left to cherish his memories are wife Amy Gray Hall; son Kip Hall; daughter Margaret Hall; special family members Grace and Ralph, Judy and Marty, Harriet and Glen, Stella, Kevin and Sherri, Keeli, Keira and Michaela, Donna, Jean, Judith and Bill, Kathy; and many more extended family and beloved friends.
Online condolences may be made at www.lyerlyfuneralhome.com.


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Scientists Breed Big-Brained Guppies To Demonstrate Evolution's Trade-Offs 121
An anonymous reader writes "Scientists have long suspected that big brains come with an evolutionary price — but now they've published the first experimental evidence to support that suspicion, based on their efforts to breed big-brained fish. A Swedish team found it relatively easy to select and interbreed common guppies to produce bigger (or smaller) brains — as much as 9.3 percent bigger, to be precise (abstract). But the bigger-brained fish also tended to have smaller guts and produce fewer babies."


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Willie Ruth Hill Byerly, 92, of Carolina House in Lexington, passed away Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, at Wake Forest Baptist Health — Lexington Medical Center.
Willie Ruth Hill Byerly, 92, of Carolina House in Lexington, passed away Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, at Wake Forest Baptist Health — Lexington Medical Center.
A graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Holly Hill Memorial Park by the Rev. Jason Koontz.
There will be no formal visitation. The family will be at the home of the grandson, Scotty Byerly, 211 Lindel Court, Lexington, NC 27292.
Mrs. Byerly will remain at J. C. Green and Sons Funeral Home in Thomasville until taken to the cemetery for the service.
She was born Dec. 31, 1919, in Davidson County to Bennie Braxton Hill and Sadie Yates Hill. She was retired from Fair Grove Elementary School and was of the Baptist faith. She was preceded in death by her parents; one son, Rocky Wayne Byerly; one brother, Ralph Hill; one sister, Rita Nance; and one grandson, Frankie Byerly. She married Willard Calvin Byerly, who also preceded her in death.
Surviving are one son, Bennie Byerly and wife Pansy of Thomasville; one sister, Pat Nifong of Thomasville; and five grandchildren, Scotty Byerly and wife Angie and their daughter, Amber, Holly Byerly and Lisa Harrison and husband Rick, all of Lexington, and Lane Byerly and wife April and Joey Byerly, all of Thomasville.
Memorials may be given to American Diabetes Association, 1300 Baxter St., Suite 150, Charlotte, NC 28204 or to Alzheimer's Association, Western Carolina, 3800 Shamrock Drive, Charlotte, NC 28215-3220.
Online condolences may be sent to the Byerly family at www.jcgreenandsons.com.


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'[Australian film has the] ability to tell our stories through image and sound, infused with cultural nuances, has a powerful impact on how Australians see themselves, how they see others and how others see Australians.
Feature films lead this charge.'
Patterns of screen media consumership were analysed over a five year period revealing motivation for and changing manner of consumption.


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Original: The downloadable collaboration between Bejeweled maker PopCap and Final Fantasy developer Square Enix will hit PC and Xbox 360 on November 18.
A puzzle-RPG a la Infinite's Puzzle Quest, Gyromancer combines the quest and experience mechanics of traditional role-playing games with combat based on the color-matching gameplay of Bejeweled. No price yet, but we'll keep you updated. BOOM video 2893


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NEC breakthrough paves way for powerless standy-by modes
Flip-flop fiddling
NEC has announced the development of a memory circuit element that, it claims, will allow chips to consume no power when they're put in stand-by mode.
The circuit component is a non-volatile magnetic flip-flop (MFF) - not a reference to cheap footwear but to a transistor-based circuit of the type assembled by schoolboys to make two lightbulbs flash alternately.
In processors, the circuit is used as the basis of a 1-bit memory cell, storing a bit in its two possible states, within the register storage space.
Existing flip-flops require power to maintain their state and a clock circuit to control them. NEC's MFF uses magnetism to eliminate the need for juice.
So, says NEC, use MFFs instead of traditional memory flip-flops and non-volatile MRam cells instead of SRam, and you have the basis for a system-on-a-chip part that can be completely powered down yet still retain data - something traditional SoCs can't do.
Using MRam, the company added, also gets over the limited write life of Flash chips - MRams have "unlimited write endurance", NEC said.
NEC said it has made a working MFF that can operate at 1.2V or less - the same voltage range as standard SoC flip-flops - and at clock speeds of up to 3.5GHz. By working to these parameters, NEC said, it should be easy to integrate the new flip-flop structure into existing chip circuit designs. ®
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If you don't think Lost is the best show on TV, you need to move on to another group.
I love lost and i enjoy it hee are some ideas of what the island is
1. purgatory.
2. a true island that has unicorns and polar bears
wright you thoughts.
ill miss lost :(
I will be a slight bit disappointed if the island ends up being Purgatory. I say that because the producers said, in the first season, that the Island is NOT purgatory. So if, in the end, J.J. Abrams and the rest of the producers were to take back what they said, I'd be kind of let down. Just sayin'.
I think it might be the garden of eden, remember the conversation between the black shirted man and Jacob, the black shirted man said that people had been there before. Maybe Adam and Eve.
I dunno, now, there bla bla going around that it's hell. But I think that's just figuratively speaking. From 6 years ago to now, I still don't have the slightest clue as to where J.J.'s going w/ this? Only 9 hours Abrams... 9!!!
I think it just a island.
@ Fox J.J. Abrams hasn't worked on the show since season 1