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CES is known as the breeding ground for all things electronic. From the bold and bizarre to the shocking and necessary, manufacturers hock their wares in hopes of unveiling the next big technological feat. With hundreds upon hundreds of vendors making the trek to Las Vegas this week for CES 2009, we thought we'd shed some light on 25 products you shouldn't let slip through the cracks.
Read Your Car's Mind
Vehicle-related technology is always hot at CES and this year is no different.
Ever want to keep tabs on what your car is doing or how it's running? The CarChip Pro is sort of like a "black box" for your automobile.
About the size of a key fob, CarChip Pro helps you keep track of your vehicle and how you or others are driving it. It's easy to install, just plug it in, drive and download the information.
The CarChip Pro can store up to 300 hours of trip details, with new data recording over old information; it offers trip details including date, time, distance traveled and speed; it logs up to 4 of 23 engine parameters; provides individual graphs and summary reports; and records and illustrates extreme accelerating and braking. The device also lets users set thresholds with audible alarms for speed, acceleration and braking; features an automatic accident log with the last 20 seconds of data before impact; assigns trips as business, commute or personal; calculates gas mileage; views and resets engine diagnostics; and tests for preliminary emissions status.


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Editor's note: Last week was quite busy. We had great feedback from the preview announcement. If you weren't among those who took the earliest opportunity to get the software, or even if you did and just wanted to learn more about the preview program, we've invited Beth Petry, Senior Program Manager for Office Customer Programs to explain the various opportunities for participation. The preview release covers a lot of ground. Large enterprises, small or mid-size business and people at home have experiences offered for their specific needs. This post is less about the products, and more about the roadmap for participating.
I'm Beth Petry, I lead Customer Programs for the Office division. Throughout the cycle I've had the chance to work with many people evaluating Office. It is an exciting time for us to share it with the world. We're very excited to have your feedback. Office Preview is off and running!
Many thanks to those of you who have downloaded the preview release. We're getting a lot of great feedback. Please keep it coming! If you haven't had a chance to get it yet, you can find the preview release of Office on http://office.com/preview.
When you reach the site you are presented with many choices. How do you know what is right for you? We've pulled together this quick start guide to help you understand the navigation of the site and the opportunities and choices available to you.
Office Home Premium Preview
First things first, you'll need a LiveID to sign in. If you don't have a LiveID, you can get one here. Once you have your LiveID you are ready to begin.
If you go to the site and click the green button, you'll be directed to the Office 365 Home Premium Preview. This is what we recommend for general use, student or basic home use. Clicking the "Sign Up" button will take you where you need to go to begin.
Office Home Premium Preview allows you up to 5 PCs or tablets in your household, access to all your documents on Internet connected PCs and the applications you are familiar with. You'll log onto the service with your LiveID and save your files to SkyDrive.
Services for Business
Below the home user preview pane, you may have noticed the "Services for Business" area. In this section you are presented with three choices; Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Small Business Premium, and Office 365 Enterprise. Let's take a closer look at each one.
Office 365 ProPlus Preview is an Office client suite that provides you with Office as well as Lync. For enterprises seeking to evaluate the new version of ProPlus, we have made testing a bit easier. For the first time ever, when installing our Click 2 Run offerings, we'll support side by side installation of Office Preview with prior Office versions. Click 2 Run also offers improved updating efficiency, and as we have covered on the blog before, connects naturally to the Office 365 environment. Office 365 ProPlus Preview lets you create up to 25 user accounts, with 5 installations of Office 365 ProPlus per user. It includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Publisher, InfoPath, and Lync. Learn more about Office 365 ProPlus.
You can visit this page to learn more about the Office 365 ProPlus Preview
Office 365 Small Business Premium Preview is the next generation of Office 365. This service will transform the way manage your business, professionally while gaining efficiency – without the need for technical expertise. Office 365 Small Business Premium Preview is ideal for businesses with up to 10 employees. Each user can install Office, getting the same applications that are included in Office 365 ProPlus, on up to 5 PCs, and enjoy professional email, shared documents, and HD video conferencing in an easy-to-manage solution that is hosted by Microsoft. Learn more about Office 365 Small Business Premium.
Office 365 Enterprise Preview offers you efficiency and control. Create professional content, connect with customers and partners in a secure manner, powerful tools for more effective management, control and compliance with enterprise-grade security, data loss prevention, and rights management. Office 365 Enterprise Preview gives you the benefits of Office 365 ProPlus combined with Exchange Online, including archiving and legal hold to fully manage your company's email in the cloud. It also includes SharePoint Online to manage and share documents, and Lync Online to allow you to conduct meetings and collaborate across remote teams and team members. Learn more about Office 365 Enterprise.
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In addition to the Office Home Premium Preview, Office 365 ProPlus Preview, the Office 365 and Enterprise Small Business Preview, previews of individual products are available as well.
SharePoint – The newest SharePoint is designed to help everyone in your organization share content and ideas, organize teams and projects, and discover connections to get work done. Learn more. For IT Pros, try the SharePoint Server 2013 Preview
Exchange – The newest Exchange enables you to increase user productivity and keep your organization safe, while maintaining the control you need. Learn more. For IT Pros, try Exchange Server 2013 Preview
Lync – The newest Lync is an enterprise-ready, unified communications platform that connects people everywhere on Windows 8 and other devices. Learn more. For IT Pros, try the Lync Server 2013 Preview
Office Web Apps Server – With Office Web Apps Server, your users get browser-based productivity from nearly any device on your terms and within your own private network. For It Pros, try the Web Apps Server Preview
Project – The new Project offers flexible service or on-premises solutions for project portfolio management (PPM) and everyday work. Try it in these three versions: Project Online Preview, Project Server 2013 Preview, Project Professional 2013 Preview. Learn more. For IT Pros, try Project Server 2013 Preview, Try the Project Professional 2013 Preview
Visio – The new Visio lets you easily create professional, versatile diagrams that help you organize and make sense of complex information. Learn more. Try the Visio Professional 2013 Preview. Try the Visio Pro for Office 365 Preview
Office Professional Plus 2013 – For IT pros, you can also try the Office Professional Plus 2013 MSI-based installation, which includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Publisher, and Lync. Note that this is not the Click-to-Run installation used by Office 365 ProPlus and does not support fast streaming installation or side-by-side operation with older versions of Office. In addition, you must uninstall the existing version of Office on your PC to try Office Professional Plus 2013. For IT pros, try the MSI-based Office Professional Plus
Previews For IT Professionals and Developers
By now you are probably saying what about Developers? What If I'm an IT Pro? Where can we go? The starting point for IT Pro and Developer is located at the bottom of the preview page.
Resources for developers will take you to MSDN. Access to code samples, the new cloud app model and much more will get you up and creating your own apps in no time.
Resources for IT pros will take you to TechNet also known as the TechCenter. The information you need to deploy the on-premises versions, learn about Office 365 cloud service and Office hosted services is available here in an easy to understand structure.
Community and Support
If you have questions or need to reach out to a community of experts, we have that available too. These forums are active and filled with Microsoft employees, MVP's and knowledgeable users.
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Microsoft Answers Forums (for IWs): http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us
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· SharePoint 2013 Preview for IT Professionals forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/sharepointitpropreview
· Exchange Category: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/exchangeserver
· Exchange Server 2013 Preview forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangeserverpreview
· Project Category as it appears on TechNet: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/category/project
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Nancy Pelosi: VA Wait List Manipulation Isn't a 'Scandal With Intention and the Rest of It' Yet
Imagine the press letting a Republican or conservative get away with trying to avoid uncondtionally calling something as infuriating and outrageous as the Veterans Administration waiting list scandal a real scandal.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did that on Monday (HT Patterico and Real Clear Politics) in an interview with Vox's Ezra Klein, who naturally let it slide right on by:
EZRA KLEIN: What is your position right now on the ongoing scandal in the Veterans Health Administration? What do you think we know about it? What do you think should be done about it?
REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA): Well, I think any time that our men and women in uniform are not served in the manner in which they deserve, you could perhaps call it a scandal because it's scandalous that they're not. Whether it is a scandal with intention and the rest of that, the evidence remains to be seen. But the fact is that they haven't been served worthy of their sacrifice or their role in our country.
The short video appearing at many sites ends before we get to learn whether Klein called BS on Pelosi's dodging.
In the interest of finding out for sure, yours truly endured the entire 26-minute Klein-Pelosi video. I could do a dozen NewsBusters posts on the garbage Pelosi put forth without meaningful challenge from Kiein.
Pelosi's statement on the VA appears shortly after the 19-minute mark. She rambles on for over three minutes about why "Democrats have real standing on this issue" and claiming that the VA really has a "capacity" issue (i.e., it doesn't have enough money).
Klein did nothing with Pelosi's statement and claims. He just moved onto a discussion of Agent Orange.
Klein's announcement of Vox's formation claimed that "Our mission is to create a site that's as good at explaining the world as it is at reporting on it."
Ezra, old buddy old pal, you need to work on the reporting part before you even begin to try "explaining the world." You clearly stink at reporting. You might have pointed out that even the Associated Press is calling the VA situation a scandal. Frankly, there's hardly anyone who isn't. So on what credible basis is Pelosi holding out, given that people have died and that the problems involved have festered and grown for years?
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Marilla Payne, a young library student from Pennsylvania, recently journeyed to the Marilla Library when she learned they shared a name! During the visit, Marilla was so taken with the library's Battle of the Books T-Shirt that she created one from a logo screen transfer (she's shown here modeling it).
This is the note from Marilla Payne to the Marilla Library staff: "Just wanted to say thank you so much for your friendly welcome of my family and I when we visited in May. Since I am about to graduate with a degree in library science, I was so tickled to visit the Marilla Free Library. Also, many thanks for sending the iron-on transfer for a t-shirt. That was above and beyond your call of duty, and just proves that librarians always take the extra step to help their patrons! I attached some photos of me modeling my new favorite shirt."


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Love pizza but afraid of trying to make it yourself and failing? That's how I was, so I decided to seek the advice of an expert. That expert was Shari Greicar of Eatz L.A.
Greicar is a native born Chicagoan, and, as you may know, Chicago is a very pizza friendly city. Shari was a mere teen when she started working at pizza joints, going from one venue to the next, picking up pointers at each until she moved west, sharing the skills she learned with others.
Eatz L.A. is basically one large room with a long table in the center where couples gather to practice what Shari preaches, be it steak or pizza do's and don't's. The back of the room contains all the necessary culinary ingredients, including every spice known to man.
To the left of the entrance are dual pizza ovens set at 500 degrees for the occasion.
Individual burners are set on the table for students to prepare the cool stuff that tops the pizza, like your basic tomato sauce. Also on the table are cutting boards, bowls, utensils, cups of salt and pepper and bottles of olive oil. In drawers under the table top are any other implements you'll need like knives and whisks.
Before commencing with the basics, Shari provides bottles of red wine and mushroom turnovers to whet your appetite. The pizzas won't be ready for a while, and heaven forbid our tummies should grumble during class!
We learned how to make six varieties of pizza that evening: a traditional Sopressata with Italian salami along with tomatoes, olive oil and garlic, Flatbread, Deep Dish, Pesto Calzone, Prosciutto and Arugula, Grill Pan and a Dessert Pizza topped with Nutella (don't ask…..) Shari cautions: sample a bite from each…take the rest home.
We each get enough dough to make six individual pizzas per person. We learn the basics: make your knife an extension of your hand; curl the fingers of your other hand so as not to accidentally chop off your fingers; keep your chopping arm close to your body. and for mincing, hold your knife like you're grasping the handles of a bicycle.
Next we're on to the dough.
- Prepare the dough by combining 3 ½ cups all purpose flour, ½ cup semolina flour for extra flavor, ¼ cup corn meal for crunch and 2 teaspoons of sugar.
- Activate yeast by shaking 2 packets, dropping contents into bowl, adding 1 1/3 cup of water at 110 degrees, whisking until there are no lumps and starts to foam. Let rest a few minutes.
- Scrape half of flour mixture with wooden spoon into bubbly yeast and stir…then add more flour slowly.
- Add 2 teaspoons salt and rest of flour mixture.
- Add ¼ cup melted butter or ¼ cup olive oil (butter better when it comes to taste). Stir.
- Scrape mixture onto board and knead at least one minute at quick pace. Your goal: elasticity. Use heel of hand with push-push-up and over technique.
- Put dough in bowl, coat with olive oil and cover lightly with plastic wrap and let rise….30 minutes if rapid rise yeast….2 hours if using regular yeast. Keep dough in warm spot…but not too warm to dry it out.
And that's that! At least as far as the dough is concerned.
While it's rising we move onto the toppings.
I won't go into each and every topping we prepared that evening, but I have to share the basic sauce:
- Chop open a head of garlic using the side of a large knife. Take a clove or three, and again chop it with the side of the knife to loosen the skin. Remove skin and mince cloves. Good trick if garlic tends to stick to knife: run the knife under hot water before you begin!
- Slice about 8 cherry tomatoes in half for small pizza.
- Coat bottom of sauté pan with olive oil on low heat. If you burn the oil, warns Shari, it will negate its positive health benefits.
- Scoop garlic into pan and keep stirring with wooden spoon to keep it from burning.
- When starts emitting wonderful aroma, add tomatoes and seasoning: kosher salt, pepper and maybe oregano or basil. If using dry herbs only use half what the recipe calls for. Dried herbs are more concentrated.
- When tomatoes lose their firmness, turn off heat.
When dough has risen punch to release it and turn out on lightly floured surface. Cut into the number of pieces you'll need to form your individual pizzas. Roll it out into either round or rectangular shapes, stab repeatedly with a fork and coat with olive oil. Add a light layer of Fontina and Parmesan cheese and top with your fragrant sauce.
Voila! Or should I say Ecco! (the Italian equivalent)
It's a two hour ordeal by the time we're done cooking and sampling our creations, but it's been both enlightening and entertaining. We've made new friends, learned some culinary basics and filled our bellies to the brim.
I wondered what brought others to Eatz L.A. and found out most were celebrating friends' or relatives' birthdays, others were foodies and wanted to learn another skill, while some had never cooked before and decided it was about time to jump in. One couple had come in from San Francisco while another woman was in town from Michigan.
Eatz L.A. not only has pizza classes ($95), but they have an intensive six week course in Cordon Bleu basics. For $650 you'll learn stocks, sauces, entrees, sides and desserts. They also host parties for fourteen or more where you can invite your friends to Eatz to prepare their own feast. It's a bit pricey at $1330, but it'll certainly be memorable.
The best part of the pizza evening for me at Eatz, I didn't have to clean up!
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City of Sioux Falls Expects Another Strong Year in Construction, Development
According to the City of Sioux Falls building construction set records in 2013. Now city officials are expecting similar results in 2014. And the reason behind the positive outlook is an increase in the city's population.
"While I'm not going to guarantee another year with new building permit records, 2014 is starting out strong, and it's only January," says Mike Cooper, Director of Planning and Building Services. "About 3,500 new people moved to Sioux Falls in 2013, and that is driving the need for additional housing and services. The people are coming here because our economy and job market are so robust."
Building activity already is slated to take on many different forms in 2014. Public buildings, such as a museum archive facility and an additional fire station in the northwest part of town, will begin construction this year, and the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center will open this fall. Nine public schools also will be built, added onto, or renovated in 2014. New hotels, convenience stores, retail stores, and office buildings are in the works. Health care building will pick up again in 2014, and more multifamily housing will take shape this year.
"Development across the city, both public and private, will once again be strong and diverse," states Darrin Smith, Director of Community Development. "The northwest with the new Sports and Entertainment District will dramatically change, along with continued steady development in the south and east portions of our city, in addition to downtown Sioux Falls, which will continue to evolve in a significant way with some big projects taking place in 2014."


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ABOARD THE AVALON EXPRESSION — What's it like on river cruising's newest ship, the 166-passenger Avalon Expression? See for yourself with a scroll through our new deck-by-deck photo tour of the vessel -- the latest from fast-growing Avalon Waterways.
We got a sneak peek at the Avalon Expression earlier this month during inaugural events in Germany, and as you'll see in the photo tour, it boasts 64 extra-wide cabins that are about 30% larger than the standard river ship cabin. The latest in the line's new Panorama class of ships, it also boasts panoramic, floor-to-ceiling windows.
Avalon Expression will sail on Europe's Rhine, Main and Danube rivers.
Designed as a research tool for vacationers considering a voyage, the Avalon Expression photo tour is the 87th in our ongoing series of cruise ship galleries.
For previous photo tours, click on the links below:
Alaskan Dream Cruises: Admiralty Dream
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The euro turned down against the U.S. dollar on Thursday after comments from European Central Bank President Mario Draghi boosted some analysts' expectations that the central bank could lower interest rates
The ICE dollar index DXY, +0.21% which tracks the currency against a basket of six major currencies, rose to 80.250 from 79.774 late Wednesday in North America.
The euro EURUSD, -0.1950% fell to $1.2968 from late Wednesday's $1.3078, near its highest level since October.
In a news conference, Draghi said the policy-setting committee had a wide discussion on rates, but instead opted to keep benchmark rates at a record low. The ECB also offered a downbeat outlook on the euro-zone economy, but expected growth to return in the latter half of 2013. See: ECB stays on hold after lowering growth outlook.
"That comment suggests that there was a body of support for easing monetary policy and so the market is looking to the next meeting as perhaps a time to seek a cut," said Andrew Wilkinson, chief economic strategist at Miller Tabak.
The ECB announced its big push to support the shared currency and economic union months ago, saying it would buy the sovereign debt of a country that asks for financial aid. The focus was on Spain and Italy, which were (and still are) seen as the next most likely countries to need a bailout.
So far they haven't asked for aid, so the ECB hasn't bought anything, but the expectation that they would has kept the country's bond yields low — reducing the need for a bailout in the first place.
The bond-buying "program announcement was aimed at enabling Spain to request a bailout, but it could well end up eliminating such an event thanks to the stabilizing environment created by the September announcement," said Ashraf Laidi, chief global strategist at City Index.
Since then, sovereign bond yields have fallen at least 25% from their August highs, he said.
Spanish and Italian bond yields rose on Thursday, with Italy's move in part attributed to questions about how long Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, credited with showing up the country's balance sheet, can last. See: Political risk rises as Italy's Monti feels the heat.
"Although we are constructive on the single currency in the short term, we are concerned about the long-term outlook due to record-high debt issuance from Spain next year, which increases the chances of a spike in bond yields," said Kathleen Brooks, research director at Forex.com.
The high from September, around $1.3195, "is likely to attract some selling interest and will be a test of the sustainability of a euro uptrend," she said.
Wednesday saw the dollar move higher, helped by losses for the euro after a weak Spanish bond auction. See: Dollar up as Spain problems keep pressure on euro
U.S. fiscal cliff
As for U.S. news, a report showed a faster-than-expected drop in weekly jobless claims, though market focus remains squarely on Washington lawmakers' efforts to avoid going over the so-called fiscal cliff, the massive tax increases and spending cuts that will occur next year if no deal is reached. See: Obama spurns Republican fallback plan
The dollar has been caught somewhat between a risk-sensitive environment — in which it falls as equities gain — and a more fundamentally-driven trade — as slowing growth is seen as negative for the currency. But Crédit Agricole analysts said the gains would soon give way to dollar losses until the fiscal cliff is resolved.
Once at least a short-term fix to the U.S. fiscal cliff is achieved, then "a comparison of expected 2013/14 growth profiles clearly favors renewed [dollar] strength."
The dollar USDJPY, -0.02% gave up earlier gains against the Japanese yen, buying ¥82.39 compared with ¥82.35 late on Wednesday.
The weaker yen during the Asian session helped push the Nikkei Stock Average NIK, +0.40% to a 0.8% gain as opinion polls showed an increasing likelihood that the opposition Liberal Democratic Party would win a parliamentary majority in the Dec. 16 elections. See: Asia stocks struggle; Japan at 7-month high.
The LDP and its leader, Shinzo Abe, are vowing to push the central bank toward significantly looser monetary policy, which would help weaken the yen further, said Chris Weston, chief market strategist at IG Markets.
Among other currency pairs, the British pound GBPUSD, -0.3699% turned back down to buy $1.6055 from $1.6103. The Bank of England also took no new policy action at its meeting, as expected.
The Australian dollar AUDUSD, +0.0133% shot higher after better-than-expected employment data, but it soon pared gains to $1.0478 from $1.0460 late Wednesday.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 10th Feb 2008 21:58 UTC, submitted by Vincent
"Xfce is just as customizable as KDE or GNOME, so I set myself a goal: make Xubuntu look like Windows Vista. Though you won't be told how to achieve the exact same end result, this guide provides comprehensive instructions helping you make Xubuntu look the way you want it to. In any case, I would certainly not recommend such a setup for someone new to Xubuntu. Xubuntu is different than Windows; making it look similar is only confusing."
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RE: XFCE is not light weight?
by SlackerJack on Mon 11th Feb 2008 14:07 UTC in reply to "XFCE is not light weight?"
I dont see how xfce can launch apps faster unless you have not much ram and KDE/GNOME tips it over that, then xfce would be faster.
A while back I was able to use xfce on a P266 with 96mb of ram laptop(last version) and it ran great. XFCE was made for that in the first place, other DE's(Like KDE/GNOME) openly admit that they need 256mb to run optimally, so there's a difference.


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Gunshots disrupted a normally quiet southwest Denver neighborhood Friday morning when a suspect allegedly shot two women, one of whom died, and booby-trapped the street as children played nearby.
Denver's bomb squad recovered a hand grenade and spent the afternoon dismantling several gunpowder-covered propane tanks found on South Irving Street.
"They are somewhat a booby trap, so his intent was to harm," Denver Police Chief Robert White said of the barbecue-style propane tanks. "As officers approached, he actually shot one of the tanks."
White said officers fired on the man after he attempted to detonate one of the propane tanks with a gunshot.
Police identified the man Friday night as Daniel Abeyta. He was treated for wounds to his shoulder and chest and remained in critical condition at Denver Health Medical Center as of late Friday afternoon.
Police said he is being held for investigation of first-degree murder and other charges.
Two women were allegedly shot by the man, White said. One was found dead in her home. A second woman was shot in the leg and was found on the porch of a different house. She is in serious condition, according to police.
The victims remained unofficially identified Friday evening. White said the relationship between the victims and the alleged gunman is unknown.
Police received a 911 call at about 10:40 a.m. reporting an active shooter in the neighborhood around the 2200 block of South Irving Street. The callers reported a man was carrying a rifle.
The incident panicked the neighborhood for about 30 minutes Friday morning.
Melissa Allen said her 18-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son were at home alone when a man she has known since she moved to the neighborhood three years ago began walking down South Irving waving guns.
Her daughter called in a panic, saying she could hear arguing from a house two doors down and saw the man had propane tanks.
"I said, 'Go get your brother. Go in the back room and hide. Hang up and call 911."
Both of Allen's children were questioned by police.
Allen said the man with the gun lives in a house on South Irving with his wife and a son and daughter who are in elementary school.
"He seemed like a nice person," Allen said. "He was always with his kids outside."
Allen said neighborhood kids often run from house to house. Children crowded close to police lines shortly after the incident, and according to the 911 call, children were nearby during the shooting.
Throughout the afternoon, several people approached police lines trying to check on friends or relatives whose houses were beyond the barricaded area. Neighbors and friends offered refuge for those who couldn't return home near the crime scene.
Marilyn Sorensen lives a couple of blocks away and heard gunshots. She hurried toward the scene when she saw her friend's house behind police tape on the news.
"I live so close that when they said somebody's randomly walking through the neighborhood with a rifle, I was like, 'Oh my God,' " she said. "I got really scared and I came up to make sure."
Sorensen said she's always lived in the neighborhood and "nothing as bizarre as this" has ever happened.
"I have no point of reference," she said.
But Derrick Disanza said he rides his bike around the area daily and sees bullet shells on the ground often. His friend who lives on South Irving was at work, and Disanza had come over to try to check on his dog.
Disanza lives with his blind mother one street over on South Hooker Street. He was at work during the shooting but came home when his mom called.
"She told me she heard two explosions," Disanza said, "and that's what made me drop my tools and head home."
The neighborhood is west of South Federal Boulevard and south of West Evans Avenue.
The incident is being investigated as an officer-involved shooting. It is the second shooting this week of a suspect by an officer. Tuesday, police shot and killed a man who was using a knife to menace people near a light-rail station in Five Points.


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At various times over the decade I've been writing this column (and longer!), I've proposed -- based upon having worked in, or reported upon, the high-tech world for more than 30 years -- one new law or another to describe the forces at work in the modern world.
It's a natural human tendency to come up with some overarching rule that takes a bunch of largely inchoate experiences and gives them a simple coherence … whether it's entirely true or not. We are wired to like the surprise of seeing disorder suddenly have meaning, especially when the spin it gives is slightly sardonic. It enables us to say, when something goes wrong, "Well, everybody knows that blah-blah-blah."
The classic example of this is Murphy's Law. It's not really a law, of course, but more like a talisman to protect us against bad luck. "If anything can go wrong, it will" is just accurate enough as a description of daily life -- making us chuckle ruefully even as we wince -- that we keep it in our back pocket to pull out as needed to make the world a little less painful.
Murphy's Law has, of course, provoked hundreds of imitators, from the Jelly-Side Down rule to arcane descriptions of recurring disasters in the far reaches of scientific research.
The technology world seems to provoke a lot of Murphy-like laws. One possible explanation is that the world of electronic engineers and code writers is so precise and so empirical, the belief so strong that you can precisely quantify "luck" and failure rates, that when things do go haywire, when the program crashes or the device self-immolates, the only answer is to shrug and blame yet another pseudo-scientific law. It beats admitting that the world is irrational, chaotic and awash with plain, old bad luck.
Of course, there are some real laws in high tech, from the chilly perfection of Maxwell's equations down to the odd world of quantum mechanics. And, of course, there are those two celebrated "laws" to describe the behavior of high tech as it interacts with the world of human beings.
The first, and most famous of these, is Moore's Law of semiconductors. As I've noted many times before, Moore's Law is the single most important predictive tool in the modern world. The pace it sets -- the doubling of performance at the chip level every 24 months -- defines the world we live in better than any demographic or other sociological measure. Trillions of dollars have been made betting on Moore's Law (including billions by Gordon Moore himself at Intel Corporation), while no one has ever won betting against it. Meanwhile, all of us are likely to live under the regime of Moore's Law for the rest of our lives.
Moore and Metcalfe
Interestingly, Moore's Law, as Moore himself has often reminded us, is not really a law at all, but an implied contract between the semiconductor (and now the entire electronics) industry to keep pushing technology forward at that breakneck pace forever -- or until it crashes into the limitations of physics. And so far, so good.
The other increasingly important law is Metcalfe's Law of networks, which states that the value of any network increases by some large factor with the addition of each new node. Interesting, it is a real law, and the explosive growth of the Internet is its proof. The problem is that nobody seems to agree on what that "factor" is. Bob Metcalfe thought each new node doubled the value of the network. Others who have followed have argued that it might not be that much.
So, of the two defining technology laws of the modern world, one is very accurate but isn't a real law, and the other is a real law but nobody is sure what it says. This could, in fact, be another example of Murphy's Law.
The Laws
My "laws" are neither very precise, nor very serious. Yet, if you do a Google search you might be surprised how many times they are cited. In listing them, I find myself looking back at the trajectory of my career and that of high tech itself over the last quarter-century. Here they are:
Malone's Law No. 1 -- Whenever a company builds a new corporate headquarters, short the stock.
This first one dates to the early '80s when I was writing for newspapers. It was provoked by the construction of Hewlett-Packard's headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. What I noticed at the time, and which was confirmed over and over again in the years to come, was that whenever a company finally reaches the point that it needs a fancy new headquarters, it has usually lost track of the lean and mean style that made it a success in the first place. And if that doesn't do it, then the months company executives spend poring over the design of the new facility, jockeying for the best offices and lobbying for an executive dining room, inevitably distracts them from the real job of making money.
Malone's Law No. 2 -- Any true technology revolution has its own underlying law.
This one dates back to 1992, when I was covering high tech for business magazines. The world was just catching on to Moore's Law in those days and it became the big thing for companies to announce that they were the leaders of a tech revolution in their particular industries. P.R. departments loved the world, as did ad agencies.
But the truth was that even in our day, true scientific, technological or business revolutions are pretty rare events. You know when you're in one -- the industrial revolution, the digital revolution, the Internet revolution -- because society itself is turned upside down. And when that happens, you typically can identify some kind of engine -- a law -- at the heart of that revolution setting the new pace. Everything else is just fast (and often short-lived) growth.
The Laws: Breakthroughs and Communities
Malone's Law No. 3 -- Every technology breakthrough takes twice as long as we expected and half as long as we are prepared for.
I introduced this 'law' in this column in 2003, right smack in the middle of one of the biggest consumer electronics booms ever -- and have used it as clever explanation for just about everything ever since. It has the nice characteristic of also being true: Every day we read about some new technology that supposed to show up at any moment -- digital music, smart phones, handheld computers, digital television, nanotechnology, etc., etc. -- but always seems to take forever to arrive. And then, suddenly, one day it's here, destroying entire industries, creating new companies and new tycoons, disrupting everyday life -- and despite years of warnings, we always seem to be totally unprepared for it.
OK, it's now been six years since that last law. What's happened in the intervening years should be self-evident to everyone: the rise of online social network, the so-called Web 2.0 -- MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and hundreds more. Everywhere you look in places like Silicon Valley, start-up teams are racing to create products -- applications -- not just for these communities, but even more (in the hundreds of thousands) for that defining Web 2.0 personal portal of our time, the Apple iPhone.
It is the dream of every one of these teams that their product will take flight and become a world of its own, filled with millions of customers linked together in their own social network. But the truth is that for nearly all of them -- let's say 99.99 percent -- a dream is all that it will remain. But that doesn't keep them from pretending that they are a community, nor from deluding themselves that this is so.
Hence, my latest law, designed to puncture some pretensions and provide a devastating comeback to anyone being pelted by a little too much Web 2.0 P.R. I came up with it while writing to a very promising new start-up.
I've mentioned in the past that I was helping Qik, a fast-growing service that enables people to port videos from their cell phones directly to the Web. Qik was growing exponentially until it got blind-sided, like everyone else, by the crash. Still, it is testimony both to the company and the tenacity of its management that, against all odds, Qik just closed a new round of venture capital investment. A few days ago, I wrote to congratulate the management team -- and as an afterthought, added a P.S. with a warning. I only realized later that it is my fourth law:
Malone's Law No. 4 -- Until you're a community, you are only an app.
Just because you call yourself a social network doesn't mean you are one. Building Web 2.0 communities is hard work, and it requires close-up dealings with your customers and learning their needs -- not to mention continuous maintenance of the site. If you aren't doing that, you are just a tool.
I'm thinking about making T-shirts ...
This is the opinion of the columnist and in no way reflects the opinion of ABC News.
Michael S. Malone is one of the nation's best-known technology writers. He has covered Silicon Valley and high-tech for more than 25 years, beginning with the San Jose Mercury News as the nation's first daily high-tech reporter. His articles and editorials have appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and Fortune, and for two years he was a columnist for The New York Times. He was editor of Forbes ASAP, the world's largest-circulation business-tech magazine, at the height of the dot-com boom. Malone is the author or co-author of a dozen books, notably the best-selling "Virtual Corporation." Malone has also hosted three public television interview series, and most recently co-produced the celebrated PBS miniseries on social entrepreneurs, "The New Heroes." He has been the ABCNews.com "Silicon Insider" columnist since 2000.


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MILFORD - Cody Thompson will be Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire's lone representative at the 2013 Iowa State Wrestling Tournament this week after winning a district title at heavyweight on Saturday.
Wrestling at Okoboji High School in Milford, Thompson started the day by pinning Central Lyon/George-Little Rock's Nolan Geerdes in 1:10.
Thompson needed overtime to defeat Kuemper Catholic's Alex Bruch, 5-1.
The Class 1A first round and first-round consolation matches are scheduled for 9 a.m.-12:15 .m. on Thursday, Feb. 14 at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.
GT/RA's other two district qualifiers placed third.
At 113 pounds, Alex Hoffman won by forfeit over West Lyon's Kyle Vierck, but then lost 4-1 to Pocahontas Area's Mitch Brinkman in the final.
That forced a wrestleback against West Sioux's Jose Montes with Montes eking out a 2-0 victory.
At 126 pounds, Austin Thompson was pinned by Central Lyon/George-Little Rock's Colby McIntire in 3:35. Thompson came back with a 7-2 decision over Okoboji's Kaleb Vanderpool, but did not get a wrestleback.


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Retro 2013 Bikini
Added Aug 18, 2013
Stockholm, Sweden
My somewhat guilty pleasure in making my own bikinis, started off many years ago when I found this second hand swimsuit from Triumph, very typical 70ies looking but in a mint condition. Once it must have fitted a lady with a generous bust why I easily could make it last for pattern pieces my size. I guess I was more challenged by the "make over" idea than the very result. But that bikini actually served me a couple of summers and always generated compliments and wows.
This one is another labour of love in that sense it took me over 2 seasons to finalise it. I first found the lycra fabric at a tradeshow in November 2011. It was new, had a vintage feel to it and sold by meter which I find very rare. Once I embarked on the bikini design (free hand) the following spring, I immediately got a picture of the elastic band to combine it with. And you know what's it like – sometimes you just can't let go from a particular idea. So I started to hunt that elastic band down. Eventually, from looking around the globe another 5 months, Kleins Haberdashery in Soho could offer exactly what I had in mind. That was in September last year. And hear we are!
Photos: Sofia Valtersson
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Jun 19, 2016, 01.13 PMby nrobson
amazing, love it =D
Nov 29, 2013, 12.31 PMby Ruffles Gazebo
love the sportiness to it, and the colour and also the retro feel!
Aug 22, 2013, 07.10 PMby BOWSandGLAM
Absolutely fab!! Well done!
Aug 20, 2013, 02.11 PMby celinesompayrac
Magnifique, very pretty.
Aug 20, 2013, 01.14 PMby steffania
I really like your bikini! It has a seventies style that reminds me my childhood. You made a perfect job in the choice of fabric and pattern. love it!
Aug 19, 2013, 08.47 AMby Mary Athey
fab bikini, i would love one of these as well x
Aug 19, 2013, 03.20 AMby papermothballvintage
So cute, love the striped band!
Aug 19, 2013, 12.53 AMby bethmaryharley
Awesome bikini! The elastic band hunting was definitely worth it!
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Aug 18, 2013, 10.26 PMby flowergirl22
really looks nice,, great for your shape.
Aug 18, 2013, 08.58 PMby Ellen Hatteland
Lovely bikini! I would love to have one of these! :)
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By Mark Doyle
Ahead of this weekend's meeting with Catania, Juventus coach Antonio Conte was doing his utmost to guard against complacency. With title rivals Napoli facing what looked like a far easier assignment against struggling Chievo, the Bianconeri boss warned his troops: "Dropping points could be lethal."
And so it proved. Just not for his men.
Napoli's faltering Scudetto challenge finally broke down in Verona, with Walter Mazzarri's overstretched squad slumping to a dismal 2-0 defeat at the Marc'Antonio Bentegodi that left them nine points adrift of the now runaway leaders. Had Catania secured a draw in Turin, one could have argued that there was still a flicker of life left in the title race. However, Emanuele Giaccherini's last-gasp winner in Turin has effectively extinguished it.
Mazzarri unsurprisingly refused to admit as much. "I think the glass is half full and we cannot admit defeat yet," he said defiantly. Conte also refused to entertain the idea that Juve are out of sight. "We cannot make calculations right now, so [we'll] take it one game at a time," the former Italy international insisted.
|MATCH FACTS | Juventus 1-0 Catania
The Bianconeri boss is right, of course. Mathematically speaking, anything is still possible. There are, after all, still 10 rounds remaining. However, Juve's matchwinner, Giaccherini, merely said what everyone else is now thinking when he mused: "Of course now that we are nine points up on Napoli, we might have to close the [Scudetto] discussion."
The harsh reality of the situation is that Napoli, who are without a win in eight games in all competitions, should be more concerned with holding on to second, than overhauling Juve. Indeed, even if Edinson Cavani does start scoring again; even if the Partenopei do start winning again; even if the San Paolo surface suddenly becomes playable; is it really conceivable that Juve will throw away what is, in light of their superior head-to-head record over their nearest title rivals, effectively a 10-point lead?
There is nothing about this current crop of Bianconeri to suggest that a collapse is even remotely possible. They are in form, have no major injury concerns and, most importantly of all, have been here before. Indeed, Juve not only managed to fend off a far greater title challenge from AC Milan last season, they also kept their unbeaten record intact while doing so. Bottle is not a concern. This is a side for whom winning truly has become a habit.
The Old Lady laboured for 91 minutes against the Rossazzurri on Sunday but still managed to find a way to secure three most precious points. As per usual. True, Juve have had the occasional wobble this term, but then, that's primarily because this season, unlike last, they have been burdened by participation in the Champions League. Viewed in that light, the serene nature of their march towards a second successive Scudetto seems a far more impressive feat, even accounting for the dearth of genuine pretenders to their throne.
That they have all but clinched the title with 10 rounds remaining is not only a terrific achievement, it is also a massive boost for their hopes of European glory. With the league virtually in the bag, Conte is now in the very enviable position of being able to rest key players ahead of and in between the Champions League quarter-finals, just like a number of their prospective opponents, including Real Madrid, who have all but given up on holding onto their La Liga crown.
As things stood before his weekend, Juventus represented a very dangerous opponent for any side in the last eight. With the Scudetto now all but taken care of, they look lethal.
- Milan are hoping to deliver a death blow of their own on Tuesday night, against Barcelona at Camp Nou. However, while they will arrive in Catalunya on the back of another domestic success, having triumphed 2-0 over Genoa on Friday evening, all did not go according to plan for the resurgent Rossoneri. Not only did Milan perform poorly against relegation-threatened opponents, Massimiliano Allegri also pointed out that they senselessly expended more energy than they should have done following Kevin Constant's needless red card midway through the second half. Most worryingly of all, though, the Diavolo will travel to Barcelona without in-form forward Giampaolo Pazzini, who was forced off through injury just moments after opening the scoring at the Luigi Ferraris.
- Still, Andrea Stramaccioni would gladly trade places with Allegri right now. After an embarrassingly tame capitulation at White Hart Lane on Thursday, Inter were humbled by Bologna at San Siro on Sunday evening. The most disturbing thing about the Nerazzurri's 1-0 reversal against the Rossoblu was that it was not in the least bit surprising. The one saving grace for Stramaccioni is that the supporters at least acknowledge that he is working with a horribly substandard squad of players. "Let us have a go," implored one of the banners at the Giuseppe Meazza, "one of us is bound to be good and at least we'd be Interisti."
- Unlike Inter, Lazio actually enjoyed their Europa League endeavours, winning away to Stuttgart. However, the effects of their midweek excursion were there for all to see in a disappointing defeat at home to Fiorentina, who, after their alarming mid-season slump, have seemingly rediscovered the form which prompted giddy talk of a Champions League place for the Viola. As if Napoli did not have enough to worry about with Milan now breathing down their necks ...


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AMBERGRIS CAYE, Belize (CBS/AP) — Police were urging software company founder John McAfee to come in for questioning and help solve the killing of his neighbor on the Caribbean island where they lived, a spokesman said Tuesday.
McAfee, 67, has been identified as a "person of interest" in the killing of 52-year-old Gregory Viant Faull, whose body was found on Sunday. McAfee reportedly told Wired magazine on Monday that he had nothing to do with the death, but feared police would kill him if they find him. He said he hid in the sand when he saw police coming to his house Sunday and put a cardboard box over his head to breathe.
"We want to encourage him to come in," said Raphael Martinez, spokesman for Belize's Ministry of National Security, to The Associated Press on Tuesday. "If he feels threatened, we need to tell him, 'Get someone to go along with you, but come in. Let's solve this crime and you can free yourself.'"
Faull was found with a gunshot wound to his head inside his two-story home north of San Pedro, a town on the island of Ambergris Caye, Martinez said. The housekeeper discovered the body Sunday morning and called police. Martinez said that no charges had been filed in the case.
McAfee told Wired that whoever shot Faull may have been gunning for him instead and mistakenly killed his neighbor.
Belize police said they believe McAfee is still in Belize, but they have also contacted authorities in Mexico and Guatemala, which border Belize, for help in locating him.
The AP tried unsuccessfully to contact McAfee by email.
McAfee sold his stake in the anti-virus software company that is named for him in the early 1990s and moved to Belize about three years ago to lower his taxes.
He told The New York Times in 2009 that he had lost all but $4 million of his $100 million fortune in the U.S. financial crisis.
Last April, Belize police raided McAfee's home looking for drugs and guns. McAfee said officers found guns, which he said were legal, and he was released without charge after being detained for a few hours.
Residents said Faull was a longtime home owner there who had recently retired as a builder and moved from Florida to live full-time on the island.
One resident of the island told the AP that Faull had complained about McAfee's behavior, and others said the former software executive was hard to befriend.
"His physical appearance doesn't really inspire you to go over and make friends with him. He's a little scruffy looking," said real estate agent, Bob Hamilton.
Wired reported that McAfee said his dogs were poisoned on Friday night and that he blames the deaths on Belize authorities, not Faull.
Police said Faull's computer and phone were missing, but there were no signs of forced entry at his home. Police reported finding a single 9-mm shell casing and said it appeared Faull was killed between late Saturday and Sunday morning, which was a rainy night on the Caribbean island. Faull was last seen at 10 p.m. Saturday.
Martinez said police are still investigating whether the gun used in the murder has any connection to McAfee.
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A motor boat can travel 45 km downstream in 2 hr and 30 min, and 39 km upstream in 3 h and 15 min. What is the speed of the boat in still water? What is the speed of the current?
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Corner Bakery Cafe Targets Boston for Multi-Unit Franchise Candidates
Rapidly growing fast-casual chain looks to open 18 signature neighborhood cafes in Greater Boston area
By: PR Newswire
Feb. 20, 2013 03:19 PM
DALLAS, Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Fresh off the heels of a record-breaking year, Corner Bakery Cafe plans to significantly expand its presence in the Northeast by opening approximately 18 new restaurants in the Boston area. The company recently sold out markets in neighboring Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Growth of the fast-casual bakery cafe, known for its ingredient-inspired menu, will be accomplished through franchising, and Corner Bakery Cafe officials are actively seeking experienced restaurant professionals with the ability to open multiple locations to drive the development.
Company executives believe Boston represents a tremendous growth opportunity that will play a key role as Corner Bakery Cafe moves forward on its goal to double its U.S. footprint by the end of 2015. Founded in downtown Chicago in 1991, today there are more than 145 Corner Bakery Cafes open in 14 states and Washington, D.C.
"Corner Bakery Cafe and Boston are a perfect match," said Jonathan Benjamin, vice president of franchise sales for Corner Bakery Cafe. "Neighborhoods are an important part of the Boston community and we are confident that once we find the right franchisees, our cafes will quickly become a local favorite."
The announcement comes after a strong 2012 in which Corner Bakery Cafe signed 10 new Area Development Agreements representing 125 new cafes, raising the total to 147 open cafes and 288 under development.
Corner Bakery Cafe's made-to-order menu features hot breakfast scramblers, signature paninis and sandwiches, homemade soups, hand-tossed salads, pastas and decadent desserts while providing a friendly gathering place for families and friends. Corner Bakery Cafe also provides a robust, best-in-class catering platform, presenting fresh food perfectly packaged for delivery or pick up.
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|Tuesday, 27 November 2012 00:00
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The South Tama School Board will conduct a public hearing on Monday, April 8, on the estimated 2014 fiscal year budget totaling $19,368,558.
The hearing will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the STC?Partnership Center Professional Learning room, 219 W. 9th St., Tama.
Following the hearing, the board will enter into special session with approval of the budget, approval of the budget guarantee and personnel listed as action items.


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Firefighters are continuing to battle a large bushfire north of Melbourne which has burned since 6pm on Saturday.
The Country Fire Authority said this morning that the grassfire at Whiteheads Creek, west of Seymour, was contained but still burning.
The blaze has destroyed more than 1800 hectares so far and 36 crews remain on the scene.
CFA incident controller John Leben said no homes were currently at risk, but crews were expecting the bushfire to burn for two or three more days.
''We still have major fire activity within the control lines. Yesterday our job was to stop the run of the fire, today it is to contain it,'' Mr Leben said.
''We're particularly worried about winds from the north-east on Wednesday.'
Kobyboyn Road and Highlands Road remain closed as the fire heads slowly south and east. Smoke is expected to be visible in the Seymour area during the day
Residents have been advised to monitor the CFA website and local radio for updates.


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Submission + - Treading the Fuzzy Line of Game Cloning and Theft (arstechnica.com)
eldavojohn writes: Ars analyzes some knockoffs and near knockoffs in the gaming world that lead to problems with the developers. Jenova Chen, creator of Flower and flOw, talks about how he feels about the clones made of his games. Chen reveals his true feelings about the take down of Aquatica (a flOw knockoff), 'What bothers me the most is that because of my own overreaction, I might have created a lot of inconvenience to the creator of Aquatica and interrupted his game making. He is clearly talented, and certainly a fan of flOw. I hope he can continue creating video games, but with his own design.' The article also notes the apparent similarities between Zynga's Cafe World and Playfish's Restaurant City (the two most popular Facebook games). Is that cloning or theft? Should clones be welcomed or abhorred? Are the necessary or just the result of a lack of imagination?


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PELHAM -- John Zimmerman's wife and three children had made it safely out of their burning house on Little Island Pond, and they were able to grab birth certificates and other valuables before they ran out.
But something they didn't immediately think to take was missing.
"My son is in there," Zimmerman told an officer.
"Your son?" the officer asked, ready to yell to firefighters for a rescue.
"Well, he's already passed," Zimmerman said.
Their son, Jacob, died only days after he was born about five years ago. His ashes were kept in an urn in their master bedroom.
Jacob's ashes made it out but not until after firefighters knocked down the fire and smashed a window to get inside. That's when a firefighter handed the urn to John Zimmerman, who, with both hands on the urn, walked quickly over to his wife, Pam, in their neighbor's yard.
The Zimmermans hugged, and John Zimmerman put the urn in his neighbor's house for the time being. He came back out and gave Pam another long hug.
"It was awesome," John Zimmerman said later of seeing a firefighter return from his bedroom with the ashes. "A great relief."
The fire on Spring Street Extension, which started around 6:30 p.m. Thursday, started with embers that shot off the grill where they were making grilled chicken for dinner. With the ground covered in dry pine needles, it quickly spread to the kitchen side of the house.
John ran to get a fire extinguisher but in moments the fire had spread too far. Strong winds off the pond quickened the spread of the fire and sent smoke across the neighborhood.
"It caught the corner of the house, the flames up to 10 or 15 feet, and I couldn't do anything at that point," he said.
The fire went to three alarms, requiring mutual aid at the scene from Hudson, Lowell, Methuen, Salem and Windham. As late as 8 p.m., flames were still shooting out of the roof in some pockets and firefighters were still breaking windows to ventilate.
The Pelham Fire Department wasn't immediately able to provide additional information Thursday evening.
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Here's an interesting one geographically at least; Taarma is supposedly from Zhob, Balochistan. Balochistan is a province of Pakistan and is extremely "underdeveloped"; mostly tribal. The people fight the infiltration of the government at every turn. It could be bullshit but is mostly credible. Anyway, here it is, fairly accomplished for a droning band I guess :/There's lots of other little interesting ones, of varying quality:-Burzukh-Myosis: Personally don't care that much for them, but they are interesting.And one non-metal favorite, highly recommended with the caveat that it has strong rock elements: 1 and 2Edit: Headhunter D.C. is utterly mediocre, avoid.
Arghoslent represents the minority of melodic death metal artists that haven't forgotten about the death part. They combine the "war machine" rhythm of mid-era Bolt Thrower into the "heavy metal" melodic stylings of Dissection/Sacramentum.They can be compared to another excellent artist, Infester(some of the most doomed death metal ever) in a way that the racist overtones of their lyrics have made them an outsider artist, arousing polarized opinions.
Arghoslent doesn't sound like death metal to me (apart from the vocals and occasional blasting). Mostly it just sounds like old Running Wild or Manilla Road.
The Mentors
Quote from: Humanicide on April 15, 2013, 11:05:27 AMThe MentorsOstensibly tongue-in-cheek misogyny, rape, hetero sodomy and degredation content set to vanilla heavy metal music. The content replaces the gore and satan form of socially offensive stuff as if an alternative.As it turns out, the front man affirmed his belief in the content which is another divergence from the all too common "don't take us too seriously" defensive responses from some other bands. He was busted for juvenile rape of groupie fangirls a few times.
NONBlue Cheer (yeah this should be obvious, but I'm wondering what album I should start with)The Mentors


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Crowded heights: New apartments ritzy or risky?
Luxury apartment complexes are popping up like May flowers, and one local firm has already unveiled a big gun– an off-site rental office– to keep business blooming.
Since 2002, six upper-end complexes close to 1,300 units have been planned, built, or are under construction. That's more units in one year than in the previous 12. What's going on?
"This is a good area," says Gregory Godfrey of Godfrey Property Management Corp. "A lot of people want to live here."
While Godfrey says his company, which focuses on single-family residential houses, has little to fear from a possible glut in the high-end market, others say that vacancy rates are already climbing, and developers are gearing up for battle.
One of the boldest marketing moves comes from Atlanta-based developer Nathan Metzger and his developing partner, Dave Matthews Band manager Coran Capshaw. In a spot better known for restaurants and theaters, the duo just opened a flashy rental office for two of their complexes. It's on the Downtown Mall.
Though neither Metzger nor Capshaw returned The Hook's calls by press time, property managers interviewed by The Hook can't recall another such ambitious off-site method of attracting residents.
Fellow developer Richard Spurzem thinks the Mall-front office is a good idea for promoting Capshaw's complexes, Riverbend Apartments on Pantops and Walker Square in Fifeville. "Riverbend is behind a shopping center, so you can't find it, and Fifeville isn't built yet," explains Spurzem, who notes that a Mall-front office might not have been necessary just two or three years ago.
Spurzem is the force behind Jefferson Ridge, a luxury apartment complex currently under construction near the Redfields subdivision off Fifth Street Ext.
Spurzem says the high-end apartment frenzy started back around 1994 when developer Rip Cathcart leased all 148 units of Phase I of Lakeside apartments on Avon Street Extended– six months before opening day. Phase II of Lakeside had similar success, Cathcart says.
The response to Lakeside, says Spurzem, offered proof "that people were willing to live south of town."
When Cathcart built Carriage Hill on Pantops Mountain, behind the Rivanna Ridge shopping center, he stirred a budding tempest. Cathcart says vacancies in high-end complex dipped below a percentage point, while rents began soaring over the $1,000-a-month mark comparable to rents in cities like Austin and Atlanta.
"Little sirens went off at developers all over the country," Spurzem says. "Every major apartment developer in the country," continues Spurzem, came to town to build a luxury complex. But he says they couldn't find the land a fact that led some out-of-towners to join forces with local developers.
Atlanta-based Metzger developed plans for the Riverbend complex on land behind the Pantops Shopping Center where Capshaw had originally hoped to put an amphitheater. Their second project, Walker Square, slated for completion later this year, lies on Capshaw land in the Fifeville neighborhood next to Union Station.
Cathcart agrees that filling the new complexes may not be as easy as developers thought when they first put their plans on the page.
"Nobody would deny we're going to be in an overbuilt situation here," he says.
Cathcart says he is in a position to feel the softening of the market on a day-to-day basis as he and his property management company attempt to fill Phase II of Carriage Hill. "We're at about 80 percent occupancy," he reports.
Though he believes there is enough demand to fill his upscale units, the larger of which come with direct access two-car garages, his business plan has changed.
"We're taking the show on the road," he says. Until he and his partner, his brother David, see how the market absorbs all the apartments under construction now and those in the planning stages, Cathcart Properties Inc. won't undertake any new projects locally. Instead, Cathcart says they'll look to other cities in Virginia and in neighboring states.
As for how the glut of high-end digs will affect less ritzy developments, both Cathcart and Spurzem say that while vacancy rates may increase across the board, the news is good for renters. With supply outpacing demand, rents won't increase as rapidly as they have in the past.
Spurzem also believes there's still demand for the new complexes but how much remains to be seen. As each project is completed over the next year, he says, "We'll find out once and for all how deep the market is."


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By GREGORY L. WHITE, DANA CIMILLUCA, ALEXIS FLYNN and SELINA WILLIAMS
BP is close to a pact to sell its 50% stake in troubled Russian venture TNK-BP to state oil giant OAO Rosneft for about $25 billion, according to people close to the discussions, in a deal the British oil giant hopes will secure its position in a vital energy market.
Rosneft also has signed a preliminary agreement to buy out BP's partners in TNK-BP - a group of Soviet-born billionaires known as AAR - for as much as $28 billion, according to the people. A deal for all of TNK-BP, Russia's No. 3 oil company by output, would reshape the oil industry in the world's largest energy producer, shifting ownership further into Kremlin hands.
Acquiring all of TNK-BP would cement Rosneft's position as the largest publicly traded oil producer in the world, giving it output of 4 million bpd - more oil than produced by Iraq.
Rosneft president Igor Sechin, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, is expected to present his offer to BP in London in the next few days.
People familiar with the talks said the situation remains fluid and one or both of the deals could fall through. Buying out both AAR and BP would be a heavy burden for Rosneft, so it could wind up playing the partners against each other to get the best terms, possibly buying out only one in the end.
AAR would likely prefer to sell out entirely rather than simply switch partners, given than it would clearly be the junior partner should Kremlin-backed Rosneft buy just BP's stake.
Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said that while he had heard that Rosneft and AAR had signed a preliminary deal, "there are no legally binding agreements yet." Mr. Dvorkovich has opposed Rosneft's ambitions to expand in Russia's oil sector, but officials said Mr. Putin has so far backed Mr. Sechin in his drive to build the company into a so-called national champion.
For BP, a TNK-BP deal would resolve one of the major concerns that have troubled investors, alongside the terms of a settlement of U.S. government claims over the massive 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP shares rose 3% to 448 pence Wednesday in London trading.
Still, TNK-BP has been one of BP's best investments, returning $19 billion in dividends on the roughly $8 billion paid for its 50% stake in 2003. The venture accounts for nearly a quarter of BP's reserves and production. But tensions with AAR over strategy and governance have plagued the venture for years, leading investors to question its value to BP.
Last year, AAR went to court in London to block a planned Arctic partnership between BP and Rosneft. In May 2011, the three groups were close to a deal to buy AAR out of TNK-BP for about $32 billion in cash and stock, but the deal fell through at the last moment.
In June of this year, BP announced it was considering selling its TNK-BP stake. Offers are due Thursday, but Rosneft is expected to be the only bidder. AAR's efforts to raise money for a bid of its own met with little success, according to people close to the process.
Rosneft is expected to offer between 10% and 15% of its own shares - worth as much as $12.5 billion - to BP as part of the deal to buy its stake in TNK-BP.
While BP shareholders may welcome any cash component of a Rosneft deal, shares in Rosneft are less attractive because of weak management and financial performance, investors and analysts said. BP brought western management and technology to TNK-BP, something that would be harder to do with state-controlled Rosneft, analysts said.
"If BP sold the whole stake and got Rosneft shares, I'm not sure that would be that satisfactory because they'd be holding a relatively unmarketable holding, and they wouldn't have any direct say in their future," said Paul Mumford, senior fund manager at Cavendish Asset Management, a holder of around $3.6 million of BP shares.
But people close to BP argue that a Rosneft stake would help cement BP's unique relationship with the dominant oil company in an important energy-producing nation - ties that could open the way to lucrative agreements in other parts of Russia, such as the Arctic shelf.
For Rosneft, buying 100% of TNK-BP at a valuation possibly over $50 billion, even if it used shares for part of the payment to BP, would be a major, but not impossible, financial burden, analysts said.
People close to AAR said the Russian government, which has publicly said it aims to reduce state ownership of the energy sector, seemed unable or unwilling to intervene to block Rosneft's bid, making it unlikely an AAR bid for BP's stake would have succeeded. President Putin, Russia's paramount leader, has been less categorical in his support for privatization.
Once it became clear last month the Kremlin wouldn't oppose a Rosneft buyout of BP, AAR scrambled to raise financing to make an offer for BP's stake but couldn't do it in time partly because Rosneft had already lined up many big lenders.
People close to AAR said that if BP accepts Rosneft's offer, Rosneft might pull out of the preliminary agreement to also buy out AAR because a BP deal would give it effective control without the extra financial burden of buying out AAR. That would leave AAR essentially trapped in TNK-BP with Rosneft as a partner, likely unable to sell its stake because of the Russian government presence or to earn the rich dividends it has come to expect from TNK-BP if Rosneft decides to limit payouts.


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Readshaw bill aims to protect teens from violence
March 23, 2010
The state House has overwhelmingly passed a bill co-sponsored by Rep. Harry Readshaw, D-Allegheny, aimed at protecting teens from a potentially violent boyfriend or girlfriend.
Mr. Readshaw said the legislation (H.B. 2026) would require school districts to integrate teen dating violence education into middle and high school curriculums, and to develop an anti-dating violence policy. Age-appropriate education would inform students about the danger of teen dating violence, how to recognize its warning signs and how to avoid becoming a victim.
The bill is named the "Demi Brae Cuccia Law" as a memorial to a Monroeville, Westmoreland County 16-year-old girl stabbed to death in 2007 by her 17-year-old boyfriend. The boyfriend was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Rep. Readshaw noted statistics show teenage girls are three times more likely to be victims of relationship violence than adult women, and physical or sexual assault by their dating partner is reported by one in five high school girls.
"There's plenty of evidence that shows we need to ensure that our teens are aware of the possibility they could be harmed by a boyfriend or girlfriend and that in many instances there are early warning signs that their date may be inclined to hurt them and what they can do to short-circuit the danger," said Mr. Readshaw. "Instructing teachers, aides, school nurses and counselors how to inform students about dating violence and alert them to the warning signs is the most effective way to head it off before a student gets hurt, or even killed such as happened in Monroeville."
Rep. Readshaw said the measure now moves to the Senate for consideration and he is hopeful the broad bipartisan support it received in the House will provide it with the momentum to see final enactment.
Family and friends have created the Demi Brae Cuccia Awareness Organization (www.demibrae.com) in her memory to promote awareness of teen dating violence and educate young people on how to avoid becoming a victim.


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attractive pricing...
attractive pricing...
Can I order now or do I have to wait until the 14th to order?
damn, nice prices.
where can I buy 2? :)
The RED CF station also uses the latest revision of the CF reader inside our RED ONE to ensure reliable read and write speeds.
I'll take one of each, please.
Will you take orders in the same fashion as other waiting lists? ex..date we received our red?
diggin how rugged it is.
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Dungeon Blade PLUS (English)
- Publisher: Park Jong-suk
- Genre: Role Playing
- Released: 23 Oct, 2012
- Size: 33.2 MB
- Price: $4.99
- App Store Info
Description★ PLUS Version: We give you a present items about $10 value if you purchase the game.
This game is for players of all ages, even if they are not familiar with the action genre.
The simplest controller EVER—ONE button does it all!!
Our Auto Combo System enables you to perform Normal and Aerial combos automatically, all the time!!
5 features that set Dungeon & Blade apart from all other iPhone action games
1) Auto Combo System with just one attack button
2) Stages that are randomized every time
3) Realistic attack motions that get you pumped every time
4) 43 unique skills and a wide selection of Consumables
5) World-class graphics and sounds
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★ Auto Combo System
Just one button enables even the most complex combo attack, while on the ground or in midair.
Simply tap the Attack button to perform blood-pumping combo attacks.
You can also use commands to perform skill combos.
(ON/OFF option in pause menu)
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A new map every time!
Expect to see a new world each time you play.
Each map consists of up to 200 different pieces that are randomly combined each time you enter it.
You can never play the same map twice in Dungeon & Blade.
★ Suspenseful Dungeon Exploration
Trust your instincts!
Use the Crystal Detector in the screen to save a girl.
The detector blinks as you get closer to her.
Your objective is to quickly save the girl, and locate and eliminate the boss.
★ Upgradable Items and Skills
Increase your Character Level to grow stronger and learn new skills.
Fill the Certain gauge to activate your Ultimate skills. Various Special and Ultimate skills are available for fast-paced monster hunts.
Over 100 Different Items
Obtain Rare Equipment through hunting, and upgrade it to fight inconceivably strong monsters. Each stage may require its own set of Equipment depending on the objective.
Throwing Weapons, Grenades, Mines, Traps, Magic Scrolls, and other Consumable items are available, making your fighting experiences more versatile and exciting.