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The case was dismissed against a Pickens County woman who was arrested and charged with failing to return a VHS rental of Monster in Law.
Kayla Michelle Finley, 27, was charged with failure to return the video cassette Feb. 13. According to the South Carolina Judicial Department website, the case was dismissed Wednesday.
According to a warrant issued by a magistrate, Finely rented the J. Lo movie Monster-In-Law from Dalton Video in 2005, which is no longer in business, and the tape was not returned within 72 hours.
Finley was sent letters to return the video several times but never responded, according to the warrant. It also said a certified warrant was sent to the woman on Sept. 12, 2005.
Finley denied ever getting those warnings. Finley was arrested after a record check showed the offense.
According to a press release issued by the Pickens County Sheriff's Office, the former business owner of Dalton Video notified the court that they wanted the charge withdrawn and did not want the case prosecuted.
Deputies said though the sheriff's office was not involved in the case, they confirmed through the court that the charge was dropped.
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In the interest of giving its reasons for buying and wanting to restore the former Sievert's/J.C. Penney's building at 12 S. Sixth S....
no no no, this money should not go to saving a building that requires that much work, why not help some already standing businesses to decrease utility costs or upgrade their buldings. Knock it down and create a nice little park.
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Amber Alert Issued for Missing Indiana Girl: Sophia Snow
An AMBER Alert has been issued for Sophia Snow, an 8-year-old central Indiana girl.
Police believe Snow was abducted by her mother, 37-year-old Jennifer Ansari. She may be taking her daughter toward the Louisville area where Ansari has relatives.
Sophia is 3' 10" and weighs 50 pounds, has shoulder length blonde hair and blue eyes. Ansari is 5' 4", weights 130 pounds and also has shoulder length blonde hair and blue.
Ansari was last seen driving a 2012 burgundy 4-door Honda Civic with Kentucky license plate 779 NZJ.
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Espn recently put out a list of uncommited prospects in the top 150 and where they think they will go. Those predicted to Michigan?
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Silent Witness needs help finding a woman who hit a store clerk with a 12 pack of beer she was stealing from a Walgreens store in Phoenix.
The incident happened during the early morning hours of Feb. 1 at a Walgreens store at 5100 W. Indian School Rd.
The woman walked up to a beer cooler and grabbed a 12 pack. She then walked behind the counter, took cigarettes from the shelf and tried to leave without paying.
The clerk stood in her way trying to stop her from leaving when the suspect took the 12 pack and hit the employee in the arm.
The suspect, who is black, fled the store and climbed into a waiting vehicle, which left the area. The driver is described as a white man between 40 to 50 years old. The car was a white four-door Nissan Pathfinder with black racks on top and a spare tire on the rear of vehicle.
The woman is described as 5'6" tall and weighs between 180 to 200 pounds. She is between 30 to 35 years old. She has a short Afro. She was last seen wearing a green jacket with gray shirt underneath and jean shorts.
Police need help finding two other wanted fugitives.
Vincent Ray Perez, 41, is wanted for probation violation on an original charge of attempted sexual conduct with a minor. He is 5'6" tall and weighs 135 pounds. He has black hair and green eyes.
Matthew Weir, 39, is wanted for probation violation on original charges of attempted assault and kidnapping. He is 6'4" tall and weighs 250 pounds. He has blond hair and hazel eyes. He has a tattoo of an American Eagle on his left arm.
Anyone with information about the suspects is asked to call Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS OR 480-TESTIGO.
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Suncorp shares have slumped after the insurer paid shareholders a lower share of profits than expected, as it sets aside capital to shield itself from claims caused by ex-Tropical Cyclone Oswald.
Buoyant financial market conditions and lower insurance claims from natural disasters lifted Suncorp's profits by almost half, to $574 million profit in the six months to December, it said today.
It declared a fully franked interim dividend of 25 cents, an increase of 25 per cent on the previous period.
However, the dividend payment amounted to 55.7 per cent of its profits, shy of its full-year dividend payout ratio of 60 to 80 per cent.
Suncorp was also hit by an after-tax loss of $140 million in its ''non-core'' bank, which houses a series of bad commercial property loans.
In early afternoon trade Suncorp shares had lost 3.7 per cent, or 43.5 cents, to $11.24, as the overall market rose.
The chief executive, Patrick Snowball, said the board was being conservative after the effect of Oswald, which is expected to cost the business between $200 million and $220 million in claims.
Floods and bushfires have cost the business $417 million this year so far, which is less than its allowance of $520 million for 2012-13.
''I recognise that the payout ratio is below our full-year target range,'' Mr Snowball told analysts. ''But as you are by now aware we are always conservative at the half-year, and ex-Tropical Cyclone Oswald was a reminder of why our interim dividend might still be slightly lower than you'd otherwise expect given the strong operating performance in the first half and also the strong balance sheet.''
He said the board was committed to returning 60 to 80 per cent of profits to shareholders as dividends. Weather permitting, it planned to provide a ''healthy'' payout at the end the year.
Despite the negative market reaction, Suncorp's core insurance business posted a solid result after being battered by market volatility and claims from natural disasters in recent years.
The company's insurance trading result - a reflection of profits on its underlying insurance business – was up sharply to 18.6 per cent, from 12.8 per cent.
Bell Potter analsyt T S Lim said the market had been spooked by the lower dividend but stressed that the company remained committed to paying out higher dividends later in the year.
"This is what always happens. They always have a lower pay-out in the first half," Mr Lim said.
Mr Snowball said the company would go to the reinsurance market in the next few months, and he expected premiums to rise more gradually than the rapid growth experienced in recent years.
''We are very aware rates might go up, but I don't think they will go up as much as they have,'' Mr Snowball said.
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#1 Former 60s Activist Bill Ayers Among May Day Protesters05-17-2012, 10:39 AM
By Richard Esposito
May 1, 2012 12:27pm
Former 60s Activist Bill Ayers Among May Day Protesters
(William Ayers, right. Image credit: Andy Carpenean/Laramie Boomerang/AP Photo)
Occupy protesters have amped up May Day labor demonstrations across the country with a wide range of partnering organizations and individuals. Former 60s anti-war activist William Bill Ayers is among those protesting in Chicago on Tuesday.
He said he planned to participate in the May Day demonstration at Union Park in Chicago and the subsequent march.
Well march right past the scene of the Haymarket massacre, Ayers said of the protest in favor of an eight-hour work day in 1886 that was bombed. There used to be a big statute in tribute to police power but it was taken down. Now theres a wonderful piece of public art celebrating the movement for labor rights and the anarchists movement.
Ayers is a retired professor of education reform at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of multiple books, including Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist from 2009 and To Teach: The Journey, in Comics from 2010.
He and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, former leaders of the radical anti-war group the Weather Underground, paid a visit to Occupy Wall Street protesters in Union Square Park in New York on March 30.
In a call with ABC News, Ayers declined to comment about that meeting.
Ayers said he has participated in May Day labor demonstrations for about 50 years.
May Day is an international workers holiday all over the world. Only in U.S. do we not celebrate that history.
Dohrn is a clinical associate professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law and founder of its Children and Family Justice Center.
Ayers did not mention the May Day protests on his blog, instead drawing attention to a petition on April 29 opposing educational privatization while undermining public education.
Ayers was a flashpoint for a brief controversy during the 2008 presidential campaign. Opponents of Barack Obama criticized the then candidate for having ties to the former radical. Ayers later disputed the claim, writing an op-ed in the New York Times.
ABC News Susanna Kim contributed to this report.
Domestic terrorist with longstanding ties to Obama participating in an Occupy event, a movement which Obama has praised? Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. It's been reported and dropped down the memory hole. Now, about that Romney beat-down in high school...--Odysseus
Sic Hacer Pace, Para Bellum.
Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the people!
I'm shocked, I tell you, truly shocked.........
05-17-2012, 12:10 PMWoe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB
05-17-2012, 12:37 PMMay Day is an international workers holiday all over the world. Only in U.S. do we not celebrate that history.Good men sleep peaceably in their beds at night because
rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Real superheroes don't wear capes. They wear dog tags.
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is looking to relieve the burden of student loan debt. Today, he signed a presidential memo expanding a program that lets borrowers pay no more than 10 percent of their income every month. And he threw his support behind more sweeping Senate legislation targeting the issue.
The president was flanked by student loan borrowers at the White House. He said the rising costs of college have left America's middle class feeling trapped. He put his pen to a memorandum that he said could help an additional 5 million borrowers lower their monthly payments.
An existing repayment plan Obama announced in 2010 lets borrowers pay no more than 10 percent of their monthly income in payments, but it's available only for those who started borrowing after October 2007. Obama's memo expands that program by making opening it to those who borrowed anytime in the past.


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Dead Island
Death takes a holiday
Posted in Personal Tech, 13th September 2011 12:00 GMT
Review Sweaty locals and voodoo always remind me of Angel Heart and I was as confused as Mickey Rourke after watching Dead Island's appalling intro. Seriously, who says "git" these days? Must be all those red pills and JD. This may explain the reverse time trailer I saw a few months back, which mislead me into thinking there might be some semblance of a plot to get to grips with here.
Circle of death
With weapons creation and four-person multi player Dead Island is a dead ringer for a couple of recent zombie game franchises I am sure you'll recognise. Stuck on the Tiki-style resort island of Banoi, somewhere in the pacific, getting my face munched off could have been a grind but some epic environments, neat character development and a bucketful of quests kept me kicking ass – yup, this game is all about kicking zombies while they're down.
I figure I'll need a gun but be warned they turn out to be few and far between. So out of the four characters available I chose Purna a self-proclaimed, gun-wielding bitch with a chip on her shoulder. Surely, a better bet than cheeky Xian Mei, the sharp weapons specialist; Logan ex-NFL celebrity and throwing master or Sam B, a second-rate rapper who gets off on blunt objects.
Now that's what I call a brow-bar
I really enjoyed the voice acting, even though it was badly sync'd, probably due to it being a couple of steps up from your average Neighbours episode. My character Purna is an ex-aussie policewoman and VIP bodyguard. This Sheila is as hard as nails. Yay, for some uncouth girlie RPG action.
So whaddya know? After choosing my character it's off to tackle the multitude of walking dead. I managed to rack up about 30 hours due to the massive maps, literally crowds of zombies and some bonzer addictive side quests.
War in the ward
Yet throughout, the graphics are constantly triggering my gag reflex. All I could think was, if you're going send me a promo copy of your hot new game why send a console version? This game looks so rough around the edges it's almost serrated. With such stunning tropical vistas to behold, why are the textures heavy and jumpy. Hey guys, there are a lot of zombies heading my way but I keep being distracted by wishing I playing the PC version.
Bay of the dead
I start with no weapons, which is always a niggle for me. Having a weapon at the start of a game increases your sense of fear. If you are given a weapon right at the beginning you know something is waiting round the next corner. Best get my kick and punch on! Pushed out the door onto the beach I am just lucky someone's left me a paddle. It doesn't last long though, degrading quickly with every zombie crunching impact. Best find the nearest workbench to fix it up before that thug does me a mischief. Look out for legendary weapons they will make your zombie killing experience Kuoni, rather than Club 18-30.
Shelter from the pain
I have a finite energy bar, so I can only swing so many times. Energy drinks and fruit aren't in abundance either, so I have to make sure every hit counts. This tucker can't be carried, so I top up my health whenever I can. Luckily, death on Banoi isn't such a biggie as I respawn seconds later just a few bucks short, which I can always loot again from the nearest suitcase or changing room.
It's the gore in Dead Island that gets me going and seriously who doesn't go for some enthusiastic dismemberment? Oh how you spoil me with your fully rendered bone and muscle tissue.
I started this game with quite a few negatives but quickly it's clear Dead Island's main selling point – apart from the bloodletting – is its scope. Following the noob-friendly mini map, each environment – whether beach, sewer or big smoke – is haunted by the screams and roars of the undead and disorderly. Killing every tortured soul for XP just becomes too long and the game soon becomes a sneaking and running for survival saga.
Full metal straight jacket
Yet Dead Island redeems itself in other ways, as it invites me to create an individual personality and – from the impressive backstory of the characters to the weapons I chose – I felt increasingly like I was the decision maker. The skills tree allows you to personalise your abilities to an even greater extent – every point really counts. This will set you apart from other players who pick the same character as you and make this game a truly individual experience.
A non-intrusive dialogue box will indicate if those around you are available for co-op making multiplayer is a breeze. But Dead Island also appealed to my antisocial side, with the option to effortlessly jump back into single player mode, if I got sick of the banter.
Is Dead Island my definitive zombie game? Of course not, but as a gore gallery, it's good fun. The lack of attention to detail, that gives me an uncomfortable hangnail feeling throughout the game, is going to annoy a lot of people though. Oh, and Square Enix, don't even bother with Dead Island 2 if you can't afford to pay someone enough to think up a decent plot.
Bloody tourists..?
I really enjoyed my time on Banoi but I feel let down by Dead Island, it's not the game I really wanted it to be. Yes, there are a multitude of quests to complete in a vast and impressive landscape. Lest we forget a legion of undead to put out of their misery. Yet the unrefined graphics and unfinished feel stop this getting anywhere close to my top ten games of the year. That said as the English autumnal twilight approaches, I recommend you give Dead Island twenty plus hours of your time, just to catch some rays. ®
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Patriots coach Bill Belichick said Monday that fault for the controversial penalty call that gave second life to the Jets' game-winning drive on Sunday did not lie with rookie defensive lineman Chris Jones.
Jones was flagged with a 15-yard penalty that negated a 56-yard miss by Jets' kicker Nick Folk and allowed him a second-chance to kick a game-ending field goal in overtime of the 30-27 win by New York.
"I think Chris is obviously trying to do the right thing by stepping up and taking responsibility but that's not his responsibility, it's ours," Belichick said. "We just have to do a better job of coaching that. It's not his fault, that's on me [and] the coaching staff, we just have to do a better job there."
Jones was flagged for a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty — which technically should have been unnecessary roughness — for violating Rule 9, Section 1, Article 3, which was introduced this year: "players cannot push teammates on the line of scrimmage into the offensive formation."
In discussing the call during his post-game press conference, Belichick noted that "we weren't on the second level when we pushed him" but it appears this is where the mistake was made by New England. There is no mention of players coming from the second level in the actual rule.
Game referee Jerome Boger clarified to a pool reporter that the rule states that one teammate cannot push another teammate into the opponents' formation. On replay, Jones is pushing Will Svitek forward just after the snap.
Belichick was asked on Monday where he got the notion of second-level players being part of the rule, and he said, "Because obviously we are wrong. What else is there to say? We're wrong."
Asked further if the rule was not properly articulated by the league, Belichick responded, "Look, it's our job to understand the rules. Whatever the bottom line is, we didn't do it properly. So what else is there to say?"
As much as Belichick said it's a coaching error, one question came as to whether Jones was simply acting on instinct, but again Belichick pointed the finger at himself and his staff.
"No. We have to coach him better," Belichick said. "What he did was basically what he was being told to do. We just have to coach it better. That's not Chris Jones' fault."


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By Ben Nicholson-Smith [December 13 at 1:39pm CST]
1:39pm: It's a five-year, $125MM contract, ESPNDallas.com reports.
Hamilton received and turned down a qualifying offer from the Rangers, which means he'll be linked to draft pick compensation. The Rangers will obtain a compensatory selection for losing Hamilton, and the Angels will have to surrender their top pick (#22 overall) in 2013.
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- Recruit a unique cast of Dragon Quest monsters and create an indestructible party of your own
- Brace yourself for some life-altering decision making – A key decision will affect the outcome of the game, and change the course of the hero's life forever
- Take a breather from the main quest with addicting mini-games like Bruise the Ooze, T 'n' T, the Slurpodrome and the tombola
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August 16, 2011 > Do You Suffer from Chronic Pain?
Washington Hospital Class Shows How Yoga Can Help
If you suffer from chronic pain, you know it can take a heavy toll on your life. It can keep you from enjoying time with friends and family, and even affect your ability to perform everyday tasks like bathing or dressing. "Chronic pain can cause frustration, anger and depression," said Bonnie Maeda, RN, a certified yoga instructor. "Yoga can help address some of the physical pain you feel as well as the emotional and spiritual pain that often accompanies it." Maeda will present "Yoga and Chronic Pain" on Monday, August 22, from 6 to 8 p.m. The class is part of Washington Hospital's Totally Good Information for Females program and will be held in the Women's Center Conference Room, Suite 145, 2500 Mowry Avenue, in Fremont. You need to preregister for the class, which is limited to 15 participants. To register and prepay the $15 fee, call (510) 608-1301. The class is open to women who are dealing with pain on a regular basis. Some of the most common causes of chronic pain include arthritis, fibromyalgia, peripheral neuropathy, and cancer. "Even if you have limited mobility, this class can help," Maeda said. She will start the class by discussing different types of pain, including physical, emotional, and spiritual, and how they are all interrelated. She will help participants understand the pain response and how negative emotions like fear, anxiety and depression can intensify pain. "Understanding how pain affects you emotionally is critical," Maeda said. "Pain can interfere with living, and that takes an emotional toll, which can make pain worse. For example, depression can deplete your energy, making it harder to cope with the pain." It is also important to be able to identify and assess your physical pain, she said. "Is it sharp or dull; steady or intermittent? You need to be able to accurately describe your pain to your physician," she explained. "Write it down so you can give your doctor a clear picture of what's going on with you."Moving Toward Relief According to Maeda, yoga can help decrease physical pain while improving your ability to cope with it. "Yoga helps you get in the moment, concentrate on the here and now so you can cope with what is," she explained. "The focus on breathing and relaxation also reduces stress, which is important because stress causes muscles to tighten and hurt." Studies show that gentle stretching and movement can decrease the intensity and duration of pain, according to Maeda. It helps to reduce muscle stiffness and tension, alleviating pain along the spine, including in the shoulders and upper back, she explained. She will first teach the class a gentle yoga sequence while participants sit in a chair. "We begin by being aware of what is going on with the body and honoring the body for where it's at," she said. "Body awareness is critical. You need to be aware of your body so you know what you can and can't do; know your limits so you only do what is appropriate and keep your body safe. Body awareness also helps you stay present, be in the moment." She will guide the group through movements that increase range of motion by gently stretching major joints like the shoulders and hips. Next, participants who are able to stand will learn some gentle poses that increase circulation and respiration. "Breathing is very important," Maeda said. "Anyone dealing with chronic pain and stress tends to have a shallow breathing pattern. Yoga gets them breathing deeper, which helps bring oxygen to the brain and other major organs. Deep breathing also helps to alleviate depression." Yoga can also help participants feel more control over their bodies, which also improves their ability to cope with pain, Maeda explained. "Resistance to your situation can often cause more pain," she said. "A lot of people who suffer from chronic pain are very hard on themselves. My goal is to help people be kind and compassionate toward themselves. The class is a way to see if yoga can help you feel better and talk to others who share your struggles." For more information about other programs and services offered by the Washington Women's Center, visit www.whhs.com/womenscenter.


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Greetings from Boston: Vintage Postcards
August 2010–March 31, 2011
Central Library, Copley Square (Johnson Lobby)
Souvenir picture postcards made their American debut at Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. These new cards appealed immediately to a budget-conscious public as inexpensive keepsakes and an economical means of communication; by the early 1900s, the United States was in the throes of a postcard craze. In 1908 alone, Americans mailed more than 677 million cards. Although the "Golden Age" of postcards ended with World War I, postcard collecting (deltiology) is still one of the most popular collectible hobbies in the world, surpassed only by coin and stamp collecting.
Generous gifts from the public have built the Boston Public Library's postcard collection to total nearly 165,000 cards. Housed in the Print Department, the BPL's postcard collection is particularly strong in Boston-area subjects including architecture, businesses, views and whimsical salutations. We invite you today to tour "vintage" Boston through this wonderful collection of postcards depicting some of our city's most famous places and spaces in bygone days.
Greetings from Boston! And welcome to the Boston Public Library.
Photography: © Chuck Choi
Greetings from Boston was made possible by the generous support of two anonymous donors and the Boston Public Library Foundation.


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Last week's defeat of the Lieberman-Collins cybersecurity bill sends lawmakers back to the drawing board to craft legislation that walks a fine balance between protecting critical national infrastructure against attack and addressing the privacy and cost concerns expressed by opponents of the original bill. While at this point it is uncertain when new legislation can be introduced, it is becoming increasingly clear that the United States, as well as a number of other countries, remain highly vulnerable to attack by foreign nations, cyberterrorists, hacktivists and also your garden-variety of cybercriminal.
"Cyberwarfare is especially inviting to countries that don't have the same level of military capability," said Chris Petersen, CTO of LogRhythm, a Boulder, Colo.-based SIEM vendor. "We have enemies who look at cyberwarfare as a great asymmetric weapon. They could use it to disrupt our communications, transportation, energy grid, etc. They don't even really have to do the actual attack. Sometimes it is the threat that makes a difference in certain cases. But, if they can disrupt the operation for a prolonged period of time, that would put us in a very bad position from the ability to project policy and project power."
One of the things that makes the United States especially vulnerable is the fact that much of our crucial infrastructure is either owned or controlled by private corporations. This means that the investment necessary to protect that infrastructure depends on budgetary survival in an environment where cost control and shareholder value are the preeminent business objectives. And, given that large-scale attacks have not yet occurred, many opponents of the cybersecurity bill have questioned the validity of the threat.
[Related: The Biggest Data Breaches of 2012 (So Far)]
"We have to rely on businesses to do the right thing, and for them, doing the right thing is to take care of the shareholders unless some overarching reason compels them to do otherwise," Petersen added. "They will protect their networks to the degree that they need to in order to fulfill their first obligation of the shareholders. But, I'm not sure that it's reasonable to expect them to defend themselves to the extent where they are preserved against an attack by a nation/state. This is not a trivial cost."
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Nokia Lumia 800
Finn Win phone comes out fighting
Early days, then
Office is included, saving files to Skydrive and Sharepoint servers, and is nicely implemented; and Xbox Live allows subscribers to check in. And the power user will soon find the Tiles+List UI tiring. I found it limiting almost right away – it's simply quicker to find seldom-used apps when they're in a grid – and easier to organise things when they're in folders.
Marketplace apps can be viewed by category and some of them are actually quite useful.
Both Nokia and Microsoft have a long way to go together on this new, but very promising platform. Microsoft badly needs a high quality and trusted phone manufacturer to make the software into a great product. Nokia badly needed a modern platform, and now it's got one. The partnership doesn't look such a bad idea at all, now.
Most importantly it's got momentum, with a decent range of software already in the Marketplace – Plane Finder, for example – and more arriving all the time. It can't be too long before Skype and Opera grace the platform.
Nokia is clearing the decks to push the 800 out in time for Crimbo and its haste in getting this product to market is understandable – but evident in the duplication of music and maps, and some design decisions. Was this really the best enclosure the company had to hand? If the case design isn't to your liking, the cheaper and fairly cheerful Lumia 710 has the same internals, runs just as fast, yet has a few more curves on its corners that might appeal.
In need of a few tweaks, but a fairly sound offering overall
Aesthetics aside, the speed and ease of use of the Lumia 800 – and the remarkable People application – make this a very attractive alternative to the iPhone. Even if you don't do much social networking, it's nice to have communications and events aggregated under by contact or group. People who see it, like it. ®
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All Accounted For In Virginia Navy Jet Crash [VIDEO]
Fire officials say they have accounted for everyone who lived at a Virginia apartment complex where a Navy fighter jet crashed.
Capt. Tim Riley is the battalion chief and spokesman for the Virginia Beach fire department. He said Saturday morning that the last three people at the apartment complex had been accounted for, and that there appeared to be no fatalities.
Riley says crews are not actively searching for anyone, but that could change if there may have been a guest in an apartment that authorities don't know about.
The fighter jet was being piloted by a student and his trainer Friday when the plane malfunctioned over Virginia's most populated city. The men ejected moments before the jet crashed into the apartment complex.
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from the sounds of it he doesn't actually need flex hours.
he needs a company with a management that understands working day being 8 hours..
12 hours would still be 12 hours no matter how "flex" it was!
I agree but for one bit: It all depends on the individual, and what's going on at the time. A project that is interesting will keep me happily occupied for 12-14 hours straight (yet only feels like a couple of hours). A task that is exceedingly difficult will likely require a couple extra hours to solve (or reach a good stopping point) - just to avoid having to re-familiarize yourself with the problem all over again come the next day (or worse, waking up at 2:00 am to write down ideas and things your restle
well yes.
but if the company expects you to do that every day then they're shafting your ass. at least if they're not paying triple the going rate for a developer in that locale.
It's not easy to get another good job these days, so I suggest either having a mental breakdown due to stress and suing your boss or going Fight Club on them and getting paid to do nothing for the rest of your life.
Whatever you do, make sure your bosses know why you are going. Otherwise they will never learn.
I much prefer to work from home, provided I have a dedicated work area/machines.
Ditto - I found that I was way more productive when there wasn't a stream of folks interrupting, ambient noises, etc. As long as everyone at home knows to leave you be unless the house is on fire, working at home is awesome for productivity.
OTOH, it does make things harder for you in regards to office politics and all the intangible bits that can make or break your career...
If you're in a cube [imdb.com], someone will die.
Agreed. I always insist upon a tetrahedron in my employment contract.
Having worked in cubes and open spaces, I'll take my cube any day. Inadequate privacy to concentrate in is much better than no privacy.
Noise canceling headphones work as long as you don't mind having to listen to music all your working day.
Sadly they don't stop people from talking to you.
I was whining about the price tag too. Finally I got one and it is the best ever investment (after a Kinesis keyboard and a quality trackpad)
I was going nuts over ambient noise at the office where I was abroad, plus being winter I had to have the heater on at the hotel.
I first got a "noise cancelling" Sony, that turned out a joke, then tested the Bose QC 15 at Best Buy with the airplane noise simulation
I had various fans at my home office before my Bitcoin miners went water cooled, and without them
White noise works well if you don't want music.
Pointless telephone calls and stupid 'do you have a minute' conversations waste about half of my day.
I'm with you on working outside office hours and ideally outside the office.
Those developers in Bangalore must have it made!
Those developers in Bangalore must have it made!
The only thing I've seen them make is a mess.
Good managers or team leads will make sure their coders are not distracted.
Yes, a good manager shields his team from the rest of the company.
Good point about distractions. Good managers or team leads will make sure their coders are not distracted. Someone mentioned phone calls and silly questions taking up half of their work day, but interruptions are worse than that: interrupting a coder who is in "flow" even for one minute can easily cost half an hour or more of that coder's productivity. Even worse: nudging a coder out of flow several times a day for an extended period of time will lead to severe fatigue and, when under pressure to deliver, a high risk of burnout. Working coders need to be left alone. Not because they are prima donnas, just because of the nature of their work and the mindset required for it.
Hamming, a famous programmer at Bell Labs talks about open-doors and closed-doors. The general consensus is that people with open-doors tend to be more successful than people with closed-doors.
It is very important to keep your ears to the ground and know what is going on in the workplace. Those "distractions" can sometimes be very important information that can save you hundreds of hours of works or advance your career. A "minute" talking to a person can reveal what a thousand words cannot.
In fact, I find that after the distractions of the office are gone, either because I am working at home or everybody has gone home, I can get a lot more done.
In fact, I find that after the distractions of the office are gone, either because I am working at home or everybody has gone home, I can get a lot more done.
Agreed. I'm the most productive when everyone else has gone home. But I pay for it by being dull and generally unresponsive the next morning. I'm thinking it's like the old proverb, you can't make a string longer by cutting off a piece and tying it to the other end.
I think what we're saying is that there are productive hours and hours that you're required to
The collateral damage of staying late is that the company will start *expecting* you to stay late.....
Ever give a thought to a compressed work week of 4x10-hours instead of 5x8-hours? You could also try 3.5x12-hours (3x12 one week, 4x12 the next week) but that kind of schedule works better when you need 24/7 coverage.
Ever give a thought to a compressed work week of 4x10-hours instead of 5x8-hours? You could also try 3.5x12-hours (3x12 one week, 4x12 the next week) but that kind of schedule works better when you need 24/7 coverage.
My impression is that companies argue (at least to themselves) why do I need to offer 4x10 when I'm already getting 5x10? I'd just be letting them take another day off.
I worked for a manager once that didn't believe that anyone who practiced WFH actually worked when they were at home. His position was, you must be visibly in your cube to be considered to be working. Or, an employee at all. One might argue that just being seen at one's desk doesn't necessarily mean one is working, but I didn't make that
My impression is that companies argue (at least to themselves) why do I need to offer 4x10 when I'm already getting 5x10? I'd just be letting them take another day off.
And that's when you describe to them the fact that they are exempt from paying you overtime, and part of that deal involves you working whenever you damn well feel like it. =)
I worked for a manager once that didn't believe that anyone who practiced WFH actually worked when they were at home. His position was, you must be visibly in your cube to be considered to be working.
Sounds like he was assuming other people would behave like him.
Solving problems is like marinating meat. It takes time. If you rush it, you get a quick solution, but not the best. A quick solution might be acceptable for one meal, but not for future meals.
The "Eureka effect" isn't something new.
In creative endeavours like coding, an 8-hour day of actual work is never, ever 8 hours of successful coding, and often results in questionable code that I have to rewrite later because looking busy when you really need a bit of time away from the desk. I think that if I could get away from the desk more without being perceived as slacking off, I would actually get more done.
Get up, take a walk around the block, play a little guitar, or whatever suits your fancy. As long as it gets your mind off the present obstacle. Come back with a fresh perspective and a fresh mind.
It certainly does worlds of good for my own free-time projects, but at work? It seems more like people believe they are paying for time, and not for actual work done.
I absolutely agree. When talking about the number of hours worked, for any creative process, you're almost certainly asking the wrong question.
I recommend a 4 hour work day with same pay as the standard 80 hour work week.
No i sort of jest. You have to figure a few things. Management isn't rated on how well the code is written or how productive the people they're managing are... well in the most cases where you have the upper management who are brain dead. What instead is how much they can push their employees to make them look like effective managers.
Let me give you a basic example. If i work 8 hours a day, and the work i have assigned will take 3 weeks but i only have 1 week to do it in, a good manager will convince you to work twice as fast but not meet the deadline and then complain that they don't have enough resources. A bad manager will say it can't be done to upper management. Guess who is rewarded? The guy who puts on the dog and pony show for the upper management showing they can rally the troops in doing extra whether or not they met their goal.
So back to the point. It doesn't matter how effective you are. It matters how much they can squeeze out of you. Change that mindset and you've won. Good luck though, i doubt you'll change anyone's mind.
For me, it depends on the context of what I'm doing.
If I am doing something very complex, with many pieces that I have to keep in my head at once, I am much more productive if I stay with it and work late, even through the night.
But if I am doing mundane bs stuff, one hour is too long before I start becoming unproductive.
I have found multiple days of late hours will fry me if I do too many back to back. I need a night off somewhere in there or I wind up sitting in my chair just staring and doing nothing.
As a developer, once I'm in the 'zone' I can code until I'm practically asleep... Although if I was forced to code for X hours, I couldn't say if I could 'enter' that zone or not - my guess is I wouldn't considering I would probably be thinking more about how pissed I was.
I discovered that "the zone" isn't just something that happens randomly, you can get into it regularly and at a time of your choosing with some practice. You have to be well rested, well fed, free from stress and distractions, comfortable. In other words the biggest impediment is bad management.
As a developer, once I'm in the 'zone' I can code until I'm practically asleep...
Yeah, imagine you were working for yourself and set your own hours, would you really believe yourself saying "Nope, put in eight hours today no way I could get anything more done." or not? At the expense of having a life, sure I could put in more hours.
my guess is I wouldn't considering I would probably be thinking more about how pissed I was.
I'd be thinking about all the overtime pay I'd be getting, 150% and if they went all out then 200%. Did I mention I don't live in the US?
I've 'coded' for 16+ hours straight both 'on the clock' for a given company, and working on my own. It comes down to wanting to accomplish something or not, personally if I've come up with a funky way of doing something (code wise) I'll stick with it until it works or it doesn't.
If you don't live in the US, your getting ripped off in the first place - the majority of the US is "ONLY" about profit, not living in the US changes the ball game completely.
I've been there, too, but I couldn't put my hand to my heart and swear that the stuff I produced after twelve hours was any good. I've never looked into it.
But lets assume for sake of argument that "being in the zone" produces top notch code, that you're just as productive after ten or twelve hours in the zone as you are after three or four. You can't *demand* that somebody be in the zone. You can't make it happen by chaining somebody to their workstation for ten hours. In fact, the best thing if you
I have found that I really only have a few good hours of high productivity (not a programmer now, but applies just the same to other work). This is usually in the morning and I find I can get a lot done if I don't have meetings and interruptions. The rest of the day I just schedule low engagement tasks.
I am productive in "sessions", usually lasting about 1.5-2.5 hours. I usually have two sessions a day (morning, afternoon). The remaining time I browse the web (hello, Slashdot!), or go to meetings (does that count as "productive"?). I could easily produce the same amount of quality working 5 hour days, instead of 8 hour days. After 6 hours, I'm pretty much useless, other than answering silly questions.
On top of that, I am more productive than entire departments (because I automate those departments!).
6 hours max per 24...
I one took a job for a company developing a Futures Trading system, and they pushed us hard (at least 12 hours a day, 6-7 days a week) in order to meet their imposed deadline.
We finally got the system to pass the entire test suite on a Sunday afternoon.
Monday morning, when I arrived at work, the outer office was full of boxes containing all of the personal belongings of the developers, along with the CFO, who was handing out pink slips.
Amazingly, they actually issued a press release boasting of how they had gotten rid of all of their expensive software developers since they were "done" with software development.
In 3 months, they were out of business.
Hope you fare better!
I can work about 30 minutes on really boring stuff before I want to start sabotaging the work so no one is ever tempted to try to get me to do that kind of work ever again, and I can work like 16 hours a day on something if I find it really interesting.
For my current job I am obligated to work 9 hours a day, and that seems pretty doable most of the time. I do however get a disproportionate amount of interesting work compared with other developers though.
I find 12 hour days 7 days a week are okay for a while. After about 6 weeks you start to burn out and need to get some down time. I used to work 20 hours a day for weeks at a time back in my 20's and 30's. Now that I'm 50 I can't pull that kind of schedule. It's kind of like you work, eat and sleep and nothing else. Life turns into a fog.
One problem that IT folks often come across, especially with development jobs and especially at startups, is the expectation that long hours produce better results. Large companies also do this -- Google, Microsoft, etc. have on-site everything as a perk for employees, but also to keep them there for the maximum possible time. This works very well when you're just out of college -- you're used to working long hours to finish stuff, the dorm-like atmosphere is inviting, etc. But it really gets old when you're older, more established and have things outside of work like a marriage, family, etc.
Also, employers hate to add staff in IT roles because most of them see the entire function as a necessary evil. If you're in one of these places, you'll never get free of being called to fix stuff out of hours and working like crazy to put out fires. On top of that, many see themselves as "great places to work" and don't think that their workers feel any of this pain.
The one common myth throughout IT employment is that every place is like this. It isn't -- I happen to work for a place that allows flexible hours. And although we're lean in the staffing department and often have to work *a little* extra time, the workload isn't crushing. There are trade-offs, and people who work here know them. Pay isn't at the top of the range, the stuff we work on is typically not cutting edge (but not ancient either,) and the work our department does (systems integration) is very difficult if you don't have the right attitude/mindset/troubleshooting brain. In addition, those flexible hours get cashed in for marathon work sessions on very rare occasions. My company basically says "keep sane hours, make sure you're around for meetings, and we reserve the right to fly you halfway across the world if a disaster happens." I could get a job working myself to death for an investment bank or video game company, but I have a family at home now.
Seriously, not everywhere has a toxic culture. And yes, I'm aware that there are a lot of people who love working insane hours and have very little to do outside of work. That's why different companies have different work styles.
What are the maximum number of hours you can work in a day/week and still be reasonably productive?
Entirely dependent on the project. If I was intensely interested, I could work much longer.
When you absolutely must work beyond that limit, what steps do you take to minimize degradation of quality?
There is no 'absolutely must'. If you have a limit, it's a limit. It's unhealthy to push past that, people have died.
If you're able to structure your time differently from the typical 9-5 schedule, what method works best for you?
Four long days followed by three off.
Finally, how do you communicate the quality problems to management?
Walk up, say "Hey....
Management at my company seems to think that our developers can get extra work done if they work extra long days.
Your management's "thinking" is nothing new.
What you're really asking is how to deal with your management.
So here, check out Death March by Yourdon. [amazon.com]
This will answer all your questions (as well as things you didn't think to ask), with more wisdom and insight than you're likely to find via "Ask Slashdot."
It will also give you some perspective to make informed decisions about your options.
The reviews on Amazon will tell you if this is a book for you.
In a perfect world managers would just tell their employees
Your job description and duties are those that an average person of your skills can do with a 40-hour workweek. You can set your own schedule and work as little or as much as you need to, just get the job done and be available for meetings on short notice during "core business hours." If you get bored, let me know, there is always more work to do.
There is no such thing as a perfect world.
Unfortunately, management is a largely evidence-free space. Research on all your questions, and a thousand more, exists. 99% of managers don't seem to know anything about management nor people. Not in the way anyone else knows anything about their profession. That's largely because few people actually study management, most are something else by profession and were promoted to management positions, and if you're lucky they got two weeks of training.
Your case is typical. Managers don't know about how people work, so they try to manage them like any other resource. But, as the excellent little book "Peopleware" put it: "Adding manpower to a late project makes it later."
If you want to have a good job - leave. A company with that kind of management is unlikely to change.
If you can't or don't want to, buy your manager that book, or some other. Send it to his private address, anonymously. You don't want to embarass him. He most likely knows that he needs help, but he would never admit it.
Your case is typical. Managers don't know about how people work, so they try to manage them like any other resource. But, as the excellent little book "Peopleware" put it: "Adding manpower to a late project makes it later."
Umm I think they got that chapter and figured "Well if we can't add people, the people we already have must work more." At least that was the implication I got from the summary.
This is a well-researched topic with hard data available. And it's pretty unambiguously and consistently the case that the hard data show that working extra hours results, not just in lower productivity per hour, but lower productivity overall. Which is why people who start pushing for extra hours can't seem to catch up -- they're making it worse rather than better.
Your managers are trying to find out just how much gasoline they have to pour on this fire to put it out, and I don't think you can reasonably expect them to get smarter.
That is all true, but the days of "scientific management" are over, and research does not matter.
Managers believe that you achieve efficiency and greatness through gut feeling and tough talk and catchy slogans. They are not interested in learning otherwise, and 90% of them were never taught management, they just got promoted into it.
There are a few companies that will make sensible, evidence-based choices, but the only true fix is to work for yourself.
I work for myself, so no one tells me when to start or stop working. I rent an office and work offsite most of the time so I'm able to come and go as I need to. In some sense I'm the extreme example of someone who is free to work whenever, however, and sometimes whereever I want to. The only complication is that fact that a few of my clients end up schedule regular (very useless) meetings on status. Apart from that I tend to work normal hours - 9 AM to 6 PM. Then, if I have the energy and the appetite
I worked in hospital IT several years back. Hospitals routinely schedule doctors and nurses for 12 hour shifts 3 days a week.
While I was there a report was released that said that after extensive study of doctor and nurse patient care habits throughout their work day, they determined that the quality of patient care dropped sharply after 8 hours. During hours 9-12 the risk of being misdiagnosed (incompletely or inaccurately), administer incorrect medications (patient allergies or medication contraindications), administer incorrect dosages of medications, etc. The risks were almost double compared to the previous 8 hours. After hour 12 the risks got even worse. The study estimated that preventable accidents would fall over 75% by changing to four 8 hour days.
Unfortunately, the attitudes of doctors and nurses were that the quality of their patient care was just fine, and nobody wanted to give up the schedules that they currently had. The medical field has a culture of overworking yourself and working while tired, so they are highly resistant to change even in the face of such profound data revealing how destructive their behavior was to patient well-being.
Is that better than 8 hours at one place followed by 8 hours at another place, and 6 hours sleep per day, for each of 5 days a week? Probably.
A few years ago I was on a very large project (over 1MLOC of C++ code in the end). The customer required us to be using and audited to at least SEI CMM level 3 (I think this is called something different now) and so we underwent putting in all the processes in place. We all predicted we'd hate all the formal process, but an interesting side effect is we got very good at sizing new features and the various other change requests we'd get, and the consequence of this was it was very rare we actually needed to
I keep most of my coding for my own self-employed projects because I know that no manger would ever let me work how I want to. I can spend a week mulling over a problem, every waking and sleeping hour and the solution will come to me while I'm jogging or eating or on the can and it will take an hour of coding and twice that testing/debugging. It might only be ten lines of code but it will be something that gives me a glow inside of something being properly right.
My point is that coding is a creative process
I did thinking on the throne today for my current project. Started coding. Hit an incompatibility in the script I'm calling. So back to thinking. Back to the throne.
Management doesn't want you to think. They just want you to code.
Coding is more like writing a book than building a car. There is little reason to enforce a schedule and central location on everyone.
In the end, it's all about your ability to deliver - that's what determines your worth, so it should be up to each individual to determine what works best for them, as far as schedule and location.
Cut full time down to 32 hours a week or less.
Also there can be some dead / down time in jobs where you are just waiting for stuff to happen or others to sign off / work there end.
Also to many jobs have all of this face time BS as well.
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. -- James Bryant Conant


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Auchtermuchty! (I like rolling out the name with a strong Scottish accent.)
If you're familiar with Auchtermuchty you probably already know of its famous sons. There are three that I know of: Jimmy Shand, Charlie Reid and Craig Reid. Jimmy Shand, or Sir Jimmy to give him his formal title, was not actually born in Auchtermuchty but his family moved there when he was young and Auchtermuchty has adopted him as its own. He was an accordianist so famous that there's a life-size bronze statue of him surrounded by bonnie purple heather in the town:
Charlie and Craig Reid are also famous for their music, but in their case it's as the identical twin vocalistis in Scottish band The Proclaimers. This is not perhaps their best known song but it's called after a place I used to live and the video has a nice shot of the Forth Rail Bridge about halfway through:
There's no statue in Auchtermuchty of Charlie and Craig yet, but this might be because they're both still alive.
The tearoom we were bound for is also famous, not so much in its present form but as a location in the popular Scottish TV drama series Dr Finlay, which centred round the life of a village doctor in the 1940s. In fact, much of the town was used for filming Dr Finlay, the older part being quite quirky and characterful. For one thing, it's the only place I've ever seen a cross-eyed red lion door knocker:
The tearoom, no doubt with a nod to its televisual history, has an old-fashioned post-war feel about it:
Thankfully, the menu is more up to date and we had a very tasty light luncheon with lovely fresh side salads. I had a slice of toasted ciabatta with tangy strong cheddar cheese, cherry tomatoes and herbs, and my assistant had a ham salad roll:
A very tall bottle of dressing accompanied our meal:
Lurking in one corner of the tearoom were two wally dugs (I'm afraid I can't shed any light on why they're called that but, for those of you not in the know, they're curious dog-like china ornaments). I took a couple of shots of them but each time one of the dogs was slightly out of focus. Their movement was barely perceptible to the naked eye, but I'm convinced that they moved just as I clicked the button:


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Ninefold fires back at AWS with US launch
Minnow versus whale
With Amazon's worst-kept-secret finally becoming a live service in Australia, upstart provider Ninefold has announced the launch of its first presence in America.
The Macquarie Telecom subsidiary has created a US "availability zone" in an unnamed California facility, saying that the move is in response to customer demand to improve delivery for customers on the other side of the Pacific.
Customers will be able to choose whether to host their data in Ninefold's Australian facilities or in America, where that provides latency benefits for users.
Taking the now-obligatory dig at the legal debate surrounding America's PATRIOT Act, chairman and co-founder Peter James said "If our customers require absolute certainty regarding the laws governing their data, there is only one way to achieve this: in an Australian based data facility, owned and operated by an Australian company. For customers who are less concerned about this issue and for whom latency is a key issue, then our new Californian facility is a great option."
All availability zones will be managed through a single dashboard. America will be offered in the dashboard as an additional location option when customers are launching a new instance.
The company says the US availability zone will be progressively rolled out during December, coming into full operation for all customers early in 2013. It has declined to state how much kit is being installed, or which facility in Silicon Valley it is using. ®
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Dec. 29, 2006
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Looking quite refreshed after 27 days off for exams, the Yale Bulldogs got their first win over a ranked opponent this season by upsetting No. 8/9 UConn 3-0 in the first game of the Nutmeg Classic Friday afternoon at Ingalls Rink. Senior forward Sheila Zingler, freshman defenseman Berit Johnson and sophomore forward Crysti Howser scored, while junior goaltender Shivon Zilis made 28 saves for the shutout. The win means that Yale's game vs. Quinnipiac at Ingalls Rink Sunday at 4:00 p.m. (WYBC 1340 AM) will determine the Nutmeg Classic championship.
The Bulldogs came out firing, hammering UConn goaltender Brittany Wilson with 23 shots in the first period. Senior forward Christina Sharun had the best opportunity to score early on, as a loose puck in the UConn zone drifted toward her with no defender nearby. Sharun unleashed a powerful slap shot that hit the post and deflected away from the net.
A great job of forechecking by senior forward Jenna Spring set up Yale's first goal, as she took the puck away from the Huskies in their own end and sent it toward the board behind Wilson. Zingler picked it up there and sent it in front of the net, where it slipped past Wilson at the 14:45 mark.
"I thought we were peppering that goalie with a lot of quality shots and we couldn't buy a goal," said Yale head coach Hilary Witt. "Then all of a sudden we just throw the puck at the net trying to make a pass and it goes in. That's hockey. That's how it works some times."
Despite limiting UConn (11-5-1, 7-1-1 HEA) to only six shots on goal for the period, it looked as if the Bulldogs (6-7-0, 3-6-0 ECAC) would only have a 1-0 lead to show for it as the first period wound down. Finally, a faceoff in the Husky zone set up another Yale score with 1:53 to play. Freshman forward Mandi Schwartz won the draw back to Johnson. Her first shot was blocked, but she grabbed the loose puck and sent it past Wilson for her first collegiate goal.
"She had the poise to get it under control, walk it around the defender and get another shot off," said Witt.
The Bulldogs, enjoying the deepest roster they have had in a long time, rolled all four lines effectively in order to negate any chance that the long stretch without games would have a negative effect on the team's stamina.
"We tried to make the shifts short," Witt said. "We tried to get everybody in the game, and save some people. I think we got a little tired in the second period after the first. The first period was the best period of hockey I've ever seen them play."
The second period saw another barrage of shots from Yale matched by saves from Wilson, who would end the game with 41 stops. The Huskies had an early chance to get on the board spoiled when Johnson broke up a pass from Jaclyn Hawkins in the Yale zone. Sophomore defenseman Maggie Westfal denied another scoring chance from the Huskies after having her own shot blocked -- she got back on defense to disrupt Dominique Thibault during a two-on-one for UConn.
Wilson continued to keep her team in the game, denying a wraparound try by Zingler midway through the period and then closing the five hole on a backhander by Howser right in front of the net off a feed from behind the net.
The UConn defense also had its share of moments, deflecting a shot by sophomore forward Danielle Kozlowski high and wide after a pass from Sharun found her all alone in the slot.
As the period wore on the Huskies were able to generate some more offense, but Zilis was up to the task. Hawkins skated in and managed to snap off a shot with a Yale defender right in front of her in the slot, but Zilis kept her eye on the puck and kept the puck out of the net.
With 41.9 seconds remaining in the second period Zilis covered Britney Chandler's shot from just outside the crease, but that sequence led to the first penalty of the game: an interference call against senior defenseman Regan Gilbride. Zilis gloved a Thibault shot with 7.9 seconds to play and then denied another shot with 1.3 seconds left. With the faceoff in Yale's zone with that little time remaining, the Huskies pulled Wilson and set up for a brief 6-on-4. Howser won the draw, however, negating UConn's chance to utilize the two-man advantage.
Howser then placed Yale firmly in control of the game with the Bulldogs still killing off that penalty 31 seconds into the third period. She stole the puck at the Yale blue line and came in all alone on Wilson, wristing one past her stick side for a short-handed goal.
"She created that goal on her own," Witt said of Howser, who has five points in the last four games. "She took the puck away and then had the breakaway. If she can score goals like that, we're going to score a lot more than we have been."
The Huskies got another power play 1:43 into the period but once again came up empty. Two more penalties on the Bulldogs later in the period also came and went without a goal, though they did help make the third period the lone one in which UConn had the edge in shots (13-7). Zilis stopped all of them to register Yale's first shutout of the season.
The win was Witt's first over her former college coach, Heather Linstad, who coached Witt when both were at Northeastern. Still, Witt was quick to give credit for the victory to her assistant coach, Kim Mathias. Until Friday morning Witt was in Lake Placid, N.Y., for the USA Hockey Holiday Camp that started on Tuesday (she will be an assistant coach for Team USA at the 2007 IIHF Women's World Championship). With associate head coach Harry Rosenholtz away recruiting, it was up to Mathias to handle Yale's three practices in the two days leading up to the UConn game.
"Obviously Kim prepared them well the last couple days, so I have to give her some credit there," Witt said. "She's really stepped up to the plate with me being gone."
Mathias and Rosenholtz shared the coaching duties earlier this season when Witt missed two games while coaching at the Four Nations Cup, and Yale won both of those games.
Thanks to Friday's win, the Bulldogs can win the Nutmeg Classic championship if they beat Quinnipiac on Sunday at Ingalls. UConn plays at Quinnipiac Saturday in the second game of the tournament. The Huskies won the inaugural tournament two years ago and the Bobcats won last year, a fact that has not been lost on the Bulldogs.
"We talked about how it's important because Quinnipiac and UConn have both won it," Witt said. "It's time for us to step up to the plate and give ourselves a chance to win it. We took the first step today."
Note: The game was broadcast on USCHO.com as its "Game of the Week", and an archive of it (video and audio) is available on USCHO.com.


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Celebrated California chef Wendy Brodie creates lively, enticing recipes in each episode of Art of Food With Wendy Brodie. The new series highlights plate design and presentation, decor and centerpiece design and inspiring entertaining ideas. Brodie cooks from her large home kitchen, but she also ventures to unusual locations in California: rustic farms in Salinas, a ranch in Big Sur, wine festivals and an annual gathering of world-renowned chefs and winemakers. Art of Food guests represent a diverse range of culinary culture - from celebrity chefs to expert winemakers, caviar-mongers and table-setting mavens.
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The dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr., memorial will take place this Sunday, October 16. One of the women in attendence will be Edith Lee-Payne.
You might recognize her. A photographer snapped a photo of Edith, then a 12-year-old girl with her mother, holding a banner at the March on Washington.
But although the photograph was taken in 1963, Ms. Lee-Payne did not know about the image until 2008. With the help of a librarian and an archivist, she was able to locate the photograph of herself at the march.
Here, in her own words, is her story of attending the march on August 28 and finding her record in the National Archives more than 40 years later.


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text: The beauty of live television and events is that they leave open the possibility of a nip slip or "wardrobe malfunction". Sure, we at Girls Gone Wild see thousands upon thousands of nipples every day, both on our official website as well as when filming on location. But we'll be honest: it's more fun to see the nipples of a famous celebrity who never goes topless. If you find a woman sexy, and she never goes topless, you'll want to see how she looks naked. The mystery adds a higher level of desire. So when the Tiny Fey nip slip happened at this year's 65th Emmy Awards, the entertainment world and the Internet gave a collective gasp of excitement. Why is that? It's because Tina Fey is the living embodiment of a sexy, smart and funny woman—the kind of gal most if not all men, and probably many women—would love to be with. Never has there been a more perfect nipple slip than Tina Fey's, because it happened in such a seductively subtle way that it hit us all in our subconscious. With that said, we congratulate Tina on her Emmy win, and assure her that this little slip-up is nothing to be embarrassed about. It all happened so fast, but luckily there's pictures, courtesy of Peeperz.


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Get Nina Dobrev's Messy-Sexy Ponytail
Last night, Nina Dobrev attended a Max Mara cocktail party sporting a loose ponytail. Hairstylist Alex Polillo chose the subtle style to really allow her ensemble to have the spotlight. "Hair up was appropriate with the neckline, but an updo seemed too stiff," Polillo said. "So a ponytail fit right in place — young and fun while still being able to show off the top."
Polillo began by prepping hair with Bumble & Bumble Surf Spray ($24). The salt in the formula helps create volume and gave Nina's hair a windblown appearance. Then, her hair was blown dry and curled with a medium-barrel iron. Polillo arranged her hair in a loose medium-height ponytail and used bobby pins instead of a hair tie to hold it in place. In order to create a carefree air, Polillo pulled out pieces to frame Nina's face. Finally, the entire style was spritzed with L'Oréal Elnett hair spray ($15) for an all-night hold. The best part? This style is simple enough to re-create for a cocktail party of your very own.


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Love is in the air
They say the way to your Valentine's heart is through his or her stomach… Okay, maybe that's not quite how the phrase goes, but you catch our drift!
In the spirit of Valentine's Day, our clubs across the country are serving up the perfect Valentine's evenings: one cup exquisite cuisine, a heaping spoonful of romance and just a dash of fun.
First, we visit Harbour Club in Charleston, SC where their Valentine's Day Dinner consists of three courses and ands with dessert. Cake lollipops?! Sign us up.
Over in Tampa, Countryside Country Club welcomes Members to a Wine & Valentine's Dinner complete with wine pairings and beautiful live music from a local harpist.
For Members in the Northwest, Canterwood Golf & Country Club is hosting a Valentine's Sweetheart Dinner with three luscious courses. Did we mention that there's a chocolate merlot sauce on the menu?
We finish our Valentine's National Tour at Hamlet Golf & Country Club where Members not only enjoy a delicious dinner, but a romantic night of dancing with live music!
Wishing a happy Valentine's Day to all our Members and their sweethearts.


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ALTOONA, Wis. (WEAU) – The holidays may be over, but the season of giving never ends. On Thursday, one lucky woman had an unforgettable and unexpected day thanks to local businesses that are giving back.
Veronica Young was nominated and chosen for the 90 Days of Giving.
Morrie's Mazda partnered up with Gordy's County Market and Metropolis Resort to make the event possible. Three cars, $1500 worth of gas or groceries and a package for Metropolis Resort will be given to three people nominated and well-deserving, much like Veronica Young of Altoona.
When Bill Bertrand, general manager of Morrie's Chippewa Valley Mazda, knocked on Young's door Thursday afternoon, Young had no idea what was coming.
"I can't even explain how shocked I am. I'm too excited. I'm so excited I want to cry, but not in front of the camera, I'm going to wait till I get in the house and cry," said Young.
Bertrand said the point of the 90 Days of Giving is to give back to the community.
"That's the whole reason for it. We wanted to do something that would reward people locally for their patronage to our business and really something to get involved with in the community," said Bertrand.
With more than 600 nominations in this second round, Young's story was one that stood out from the rest.
"Veronica is a single mom who oddly enough, the person who nominated her is a school counselor at her daughter's school and that school counselor noticed Veronica walked her daughter to school and back from school every day regardless of the weather," said Bertrand.
Guidance counselor of Altoona Middle School Brooke Kaldor nominated Young after one of her co-workers heard about the event through B95 radio.
"I was really impressed. She persisted through the cold and snow and to go to work every day, provide for her daughter and do what was best, I thought she was very deserving," said Kaldor who added the school tries to do its part to help families in need.
Young's daughter Alona who goes to Altoona Middle School said she loves her mom regardless of whether she has a new car or not.
"She's the best mom in the whole world, so I hate when she walks to work because it takes a long time and it's really snowy out there," said Alona.
Veronica was the second of three nominated winners to take home a car and other prizes.
That means there is one more car left.
If you know someone or a non-profit organization that's in need, it's not too late to nominate.
To find out how, click on our "COMMUNITY FIRST" tab on the homepage of WEAU.com.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- The incoming chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents predicted Thursday that it will press legislators next year to undo higher education cuts enacted this year.
The reductions total $44 million over the next two fiscal years, beginning in July. For each year, state funding for public universities, community colleges and technical colleges is almost 3 percent lower than current state funding, with the bulk of the reductions coming from the universities' budgets.
Like other regents, Fred Logan, who takes over as board chairman in July, argues that the cuts will hinder efforts to improve the higher education system and train additional doctors, nurses, engineers and other professionals. During a board meeting, Logan said the regents will have a hearing on budget issues next month and submit proposals to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback in September.
"It's hard for me to see that the board would not ask for a complete restoration of all cuts that have been made," said Logan, of Leawood. "I would anticipate that, that would be at the center of our budget requests for next year."
The Republican-dominated Legislature approved cuts in state funding for higher education even though Brownback sought to keep it flat over the next two fiscal years.
The regents on Wednesday approved tuition increases for this fall proposed by the universities and made a point of calculating that the bulk of the increases would offset reductions in state funds. The increases will range from 3 percent to 8.8 percent at the universities and are expected to raise an additional $34 million during the next fiscal year.
Logan is a former Kansas Republican Party chairman, and his interest in pushing to reverse this year's cuts has solid support among the regents. Regent Ed McKechnie, a former Democratic legislator from Arcadia, said he believes many legislators already have "buyer's remorse."
"I think those cuts should be restored and that we ought to reimburse that portion of the (tuition) increase back to the students," McKechnie said. "I didn't want to increase tuition like we did. It's too high — it's too much — but we're left with no other choice."
Some conservative Republican legislators also have questioned whether the universities are operating efficiently and see the reductions as a way to force them to look for savings.
Sen. Ty Masterson, a conservative Andover Republican and chairman of the budget-writing Ways and Means Committee, said he was disappointed with the tuition increases and that the regents should look for ways to reduce spending on their own.
And Rep. Scott Schwab, a conservative Olathe Republican, said the regents are "programmed" to seek increases in spending and, "If we don't get it, we've got to cry."
"I think the regents system's fine," Schwab said. "I don't understand why they're crying that much, except for maybe they feel like they have to, or else they won't get their money in the future."
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THE broadcasting watchdog has dismissed allegations the 7.30 host, Leigh Sales, showed bias against the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority investigated the interview, broadcast on August 22, in which Ms Sales grilled Mr Abbott over his claim that BHP suspended its Olympic Dam project as a result of the carbon tax.
Ms Sales extracted an admission from Mr Abbott that he had not read BHP's statement, which made no mention of the tax.
The timing could not be worse for the Opposition Leader, who is now under attack for failing to read a Federal Court judgment dismissing the sexual harassment case against the former speaker Peter Slipper.
Despite not reading the judgment, which found the case to be a politically motivated abuse of process, Mr Abbott said Mr Brough acted ''rightly at all times''.
Mr Abbott said he was too busy ''doing important things for the people of Australia'' to read the judgment.
The probe into 7.30 was sparked by two complaints (the watchdog does not name complainants). One claimed Sales's treatment of Mr Abbott ''was very bad … she made it obvious that she does not like him.''
Another stated, ''I believe [her] personal left-wing views are showing through … I also believe the ABC is responsible for a great deal of left-wing bias.''
In response, the ABC told the watchdog that Sales had employed a ''devil's advocate'' interviewing style and that it does ''not believe that posing testing questions to an interviewee and then allowing them to respond to those questions is biased or bad mannered. It is, in fact, a recognised standard of objective journalism.''
ACMA announced its investigation found no breach of the ABC's Codes of Practice.
It said: ''ACMA accepts that the nature of current affairs reporting can require presenters to be questioning, and at times sceptical, in their analysis of issues.
''Viewers of 7.30 would be familiar with [Sales's] presentation style and may expect her to conduct probing interviews, particularly when dealing with a significant and experienced politician such as Mr Abbott.''
The report said Sales ''provided several opportunities for Mr Abbott to respond to her questions and to put his views across at some length''.


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By Ben Levisohn
Poor JPMorgan (JPM). All it's trying to do is make a little–make that a lot of–money, and it gets hit with lawsuit after lawsuit. The weight of those cases hang over the banking giant like a pool table in an oak tree–its shares have dropped 9% in August, more than three times Bank of America's (BAC) 2.7% drop.
To add insult to injury, JPMorgan has gained just 15% in 2013, less than half Morgan Stanley's (MS) 35% rise, and lagging Citigroup's (C) 23% advance and Goldman Sachs' (GS) 21% gain.
Now, however, Baird's David George and team say it's time to buy JPMorgan's shares. They write:
Though recent JPM headlines have documented board structure and litigation issues, investors should stay focused on the core fundamentals, which we believe remain quite good. Despite the elevated litigation costs, the ROTCE has consistently trended in the mid-teens (vs. ~10% large/mid-cap bank peer median)…
Though mounting legal fees are frustrating, the company is well positioned to earn through the litigation costs. Reasons to buy in our view include: very compelling valuation at ~8.2x 2014E EPS (vs. 10.5x peer median), ~3% dividend yield, excess loan loss reserves (~2.7% of loans), and longer-term earnings power of ~$7/sh. We would get more aggressive sub-$50.
JPMorgan has gained 0.4% to $50.77 today, one again lagging Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs.


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Chiefs General Manager Scott Pioli touched down in Indianapolis alongside Head Coach Romeo Crennel Thursday afternoon. The presence of the two men together might simply be a travel coincidence.
Super Bowl festivities draw top football personnel from all 32 NFL teams.
Of course, Pioli and Crennel's trip to Indy could also be related to the team's search for a new offensive coordinator.
Whatever the itinerary holds for the two men in Indianapolis, Crennel says that the Chiefs are close to naming a new offensive coordinator. A deal could potentially be reached over the weekend.
"We are still working through that process and I hope to have it done relatively soon now, because we've had a couple weeks now that we've been talking to guys," Crennel told Soren Petro of 810 WHB on Radio Row at the Super Bowl XLVI media center.
"We are a lot closer, and I think that we will be able to get some things done over the weekend."
Most expected this to be a quiet week in Kansas City with the focus of the NFL world on Indianapolis. Instead, it's been one of the most active weeks since Crennel was promoted to head coach on January 9th.
Three staff members were let go on Monday and one was added. Then, on Wednesday afternoon, offensive coordinator Bill Muir decided to call it a career after 47 seasons around the game.
Muir's retirement came as a bit of a surprise, even to Crennel.
Rumors of Muir's retirement swirled shortly after the season ended, but Crennel wanted the veteran coach to continue instructing the team's offensive line and Muir's presence at the Senior Bowl last week was a strong indicator he'd be back.
The only staff members missing in Mobile – receivers coach Richie Anderson, assistant offensive line coach Pat Perles and special teams coach Steve Hoffman - were the three coaches who Crennel later announced would not be retained.
It's been an active week, but it doesn't change the Chiefs approach to finding an offensive coordinator.
Crennel made it clear at his introductory press conference more than three weeks ago that a search for a new coordinator, both internal and external, would be conducted. Even if Muir had decided to keep coaching, he wasn't going to return as the Chiefs OC in 2012.
"It's one of those things that just now popped up," Crennel said of Muir's retirement. "So now I have to extend my search a little bit, because I have to include an offensive line coach in that search."
So who are the Chiefs talking to?
I don't have names, but I'm certain that the team has talked to candidates beyond those who've already hit the public eye.
"We'll work through it, but I think we should be able to tell everyone relatively soon who we have and how we're going to go forward," Crennel said.


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The Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services of St. Joseph County received a modest windfall last week.
The Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services of St. Joseph County received a modest windfall last week.
Executive director Liz O'Dell said her counterpart in Oakland County shared with the agency in excess of $211,000.
O'Dell said Oakland County Community Mental Health Authority CEO Jeff Brown.
Bringing up the news at Tuesday's monthly meeting, O'Dell said Oakland County received the funds as reimbursement from another organization.
Although accounting practices directed by the state are complicated, O'Dell said, in simple terms, the money was due to Oakland County before balancing out its 2011-12 fiscal year, which concluded Sept. 30, 2012.
Because the money arrived after its previous fiscal year ended, it had the option of sending it to Lansing or dispersing it to other agencies.
O'Dell said she is grateful to have enjoyed a professional relationship with Brown.
"Even if we hadn't been given the money, I have a lot of respect for Jeff Brown and I think very highly of him in his professional capacity," O'Dell said. "Having said that, of course I'm happy to take his money. No way I was going to tell him no."
O'Dell said the money — $211,555.71, to be exact — was the amount the St. Joseph County agency owed for "spin-down" costs. O'Dell said spin-down costs are incurred when the county fronts for its Medicaid clients deductible or co-pay for their doctor visits.
"They had balanced their 2011-12 fiscal year out and not factored in this money," she said. "I'll see (Brown) at the end of the month and I definitely owe him a hug."
O'Dell said she and Brown became heads of their respective CMH agencies at the same time. Their professional relationship grew through New Directors, an organization O'Dell created for a large group of directors who were new to the job all around the same time.
In other matters Tuesday, a board election of officers resulted in no changes. Barb Parker will remain board chair, Robin Baker as vice-chair, Ronnie Atkins as secretary and Gaylene Adams serving in the capacity of citizen-at-large.
Also, the board approved a motion to terminate contracts with Sturgis-based Michigan Agency With Choice. The measure ends the relationship with the MAWC, which last week requested to exercise its termination clause. The relationship will end in mid-June.


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