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Software AG acquires Terracotta Inc.
Software AG is acquiring Terracotta Inc., a recognized leader in distributed caching and in-memory computing for Java, to radically improve application performance and scalability for enterprise and cloud applications.
Terracotta is the company behind some of the most widely used software for application scalability and performance, including the de facto caching standard for enterprise Java. The company's software is deployed in more than 500,000 enterprise installations, including by the majority of the Fortune 2000.
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Tyrone Softball Association : Welcome
Fall 2014 Season Registration begins July 23rd, 2014 and runs through August 31st, 2014.
Welcome to the Tyrone Softball Association Home page. The Tyrone Softball Association (TSA), is established for the purpose of administering and promoting the youth softball program for the Town of Tyrone and surrounding areas of Fayette County, GA. TSA's sole purpose is to serve the community through organized athletics and to indoctrinate the ethics of character and sportsmanship. We have proudly renamed our softball teams to honor the memory of Tyrone Elementary School. Please join us in making the 2015 Tyrone Tornados softball season the best this county has seen!
2015 Spring Softball Registration is now open!!!!
Saturday, January 3
It's time to fire up the softball teams in the Town of Tyrone!!! We are bringing back softball for the young ladies in our town!! The Tyrone Softball Association has brought the beloved Tyrone Tornado back to life. The elementary school might be closed, but the legacy it left behind will live on in our children. The Tyrone Tordnado Softball teams will range from 6u all the way up to 18u. We have something for girls of all ages! Our dedicated coaches will work with each child teach them the skills they need to have a fun and learning season!
- Walk up registrations will be held Jan 17th and 24th from noon to 3pm at the softball fields, 130 Byewood Ln Tyrone Ga 30290

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Green card delays create problems for legal immigrants, employers
Immigration bills to ease green card wait times have been drafted several times, but ultimately failed to pass U.S. Congress. The immigration issue is now front and center in Michigan, as Gov. Rick Snyder is asking the federal government for 50,000 visas for highly skilled legal immigrants. See story
2014 American Dreamers
In many ways, metro Detroit was built by immigrants. They left their homelands to escape war and persecution, to get an education or to seek more economic opportunity.
The American Dreamers profiled in this section have built professions and businesses across industries as diverse as they are, from restaurants to automotive, life sciences, venture capital and social services.
But their stories share a common theme: Hard work and persistence pay off.
The Obama administration is relaxing a prohibition that prevents spouses of workers here on the H-1B non-immigrant visa from working.
The H-1B is targeted at highly skilled workers — typically Indians working in information technology — that the U.S. deems in short supply, and it allows them to stay up to six years. H-1B visa holders also can apply for a permanent alien resident status, known as the green card.
Allowing spouses to work will prompt more skilled H-1B visa holders to stay here rather than return to India, Koelsch said.
"Indian wives are educated and don't want to sit around in Troy all day," he said. "They want to work, advance careers and lead more fulfilling lives."
Immigrants at the other end of the financial spectrum can actually have a greater economic impact than temporary foreign-born high-tech workers, Koelsch said.
Less-skilled immigrants, many of them undocumented, stay in Detroit long term, he said. They put down roots, pay taxes, have kids and have a longer impact versus the Indian immigrants who often return home after five or six years.
"India is a decent place to live, and if you have U.S. work experience, you can punch your own ticket there," Koelsch said.


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Prime Minister Julia Gillard has singled out education and the National Disability Insurance Scheme as two key areas her government will focus on before calling a federal election next year.
Ms Gillard has indicated she won't go to the polls in the first half of the year as she took time out from her Christmas holiday to attend a forum with former Labor prime minister Bob Hawke at the Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland on Sunday.
She says the government will continue to work to keep the economy strong and grow jobs, but that the other two issues are her "two big ambitions for 2013 before we get around to winning that election", which is not due until October.
"I want to see us launch the National Disability Insurance Scheme on the first of July," she told the festival crowd.
"Then the other thing I've got a really big focus on is delivering on further education reforms.
"We had a fair old wake-up call in international testing. We can make sure our kids can get a world-class education."
Education Minister Peter Garrett this month used disappointing results from the NAPLAN and international testing to call for the states to get on board Labor's proposed Gonski schools funding reforms, which will require all governments to put up a total of $6.5 billion more a year for education.
Ms Gillard said on Sunday the government had already made changes to a number of schools that had been struggling.
"What we've got to do now is take it and upscale, and give it to every school and make a difference to every school," she said.
Ms Gillard ticked off getting the carbon tax introduced on July 1 this year, despite not having a majority in the parliament, as a significant achievement against "a fast and furious and hard debate".
"I think we can sit here on the cusp of 2013 and say `we've got that done now, it's going to start working in our economy now, it's going to start unleashing cleaner energy sources'," she said.
The introduction of the carbon tax was in some ways made better by the negotiations needed in a minority government, Ms Gillard said.
"It meant we could work across both houses - the House and the Senate - not just put something in the Senate and have it knocked over, which was the history of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, but actually work in a way which the proposition that went to the parliament was going to get carried," she said.
Labor had got its policies through despite a hung parliament, Ms Gillard said, pointing to the carbon tax, healthcare funding, the Queensland flood levy, and education and aged-care reforms. But she did not mention asylum-seeker policy.
"The really big decisions this government's taken would be effectively the same," she said.
Ms Gillard added she was also proud of becoming Australia's first female prime minister.
"If it's inspired girls out there to think this is an occupation for them, if it's inspired a generation of boys to think that it's just a really normally thing - then mission accomplished."
Ms Gillard said on the downside, there was "endless carry-on about hair and make-up and dress and stumbles in high heels".
Mr Hawke said Ms Gillard had overcome such "bloody ridiculous" attention.
"Julia's determination has come through and she's now respected absolutely in her right as a person and that's the way as it should be," he said.


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I'm going to guess that I'm in a minority here and that most people are going to say "I sleep like a baby!", but anyone else have problems sleeping after a ride?
I've been noticing more and more lately that after riding - even if I ride in the morning - that night I toss and turn and don't get a very restful night sleep. Its much worse if I go for a night ride . . . anyone else notice this?


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I recently had a scary conversation with a user, which can be broken down to:
User: Why would the data have customers with a birth date of MM/DD/2020?
Me: What are you talking about? Lemme take a look.
Me again, this time with a changed voice: Umm, Umm, i plead guilty with an explanation your honor!
User: Let's hear your explanation son.
Me: We receive a raw file with customer data. Date of birth is a field in that file, and it is supposed to contain data in 'DD-Month-YYYY' format. But, apparently, one fine day the file contained two digits for year instead of four. My import process decided that the two digit year 20 is 2020 and not 1920.
User: Okay, I'll let you go this time, but fix it. Won't you?
<end of story>.
Turns out, SQL Server automatically uses current century for two digit years less than 50, and previous century for years greater than or equal to 50.
SELECT CAST('01-January-49' AS DATETIME) [<50]
2049-01-01 00:00:00.000
(1 row(s) affected)
SELECT CAST('01-January-50' AS DATETIME) [>50]
1950-01-01 00:00:00.000
(1 row(s) affected)
Here is the books online explanation for the two digit year cutoff. Benjamin Nevarez (t|b) pointed me to this link when i asked for help on twitter using the #sqlhelp hashtag. Thanks Benjamin.
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A Bay County jury convicted Calvin Grubbs on Wednesday of first-degree felony murder and attempted robbery with a firearm.
Circuit Judge Elijah Smiley then sentenced him to life in prison.
Assistant State Attorney Jennifer Hawkins told jurors in her opening statement that Grubbs, 23, and three companions attempted to rob three men at a dice game the night of Sept. 7.
They were all armed as they came out of the bushes next to a residence at 2514 E. 11th St. and confronted the men playing dice on the porch. The robbers yelled, "Don't move," Hawkins said, but then started shooting.
One of the robbers was armed with an AK-47, the others had
handguns, and they sprayed the area with bullets. Marc Logan, 41, was struck in the head by a bullet fired by one of Grubbs co-defendants and bled to death before help could arrive. Hawkins said the robbers fled without even grabbing any cash.


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Being Judgmental of Others
More than once I have come across Jews who I felt looked down upon me for not being as observant as they, and don't respect me as a Jew. I got the impression I am not a good person in their eyes because I don't keep the rituals like they do.
Do you feel they have the right to be judgmental?
The Aish Rabbi Replies:
Unfortunately, there are some Jews who consider themselves observant who are judgmental. This attitude, however, has no source in Judaism, is quite contrary to Jewish teachings, and should be condemned. Judaism teaches that only God has the right and the ability to judge people.
To illustrate: There was once a young man who became the leader of a Chassidic group when his father died an untimely death. The elders approached him and asked how it is possible for such a young man to be the leader of those much older than himself. He answered with a parable. Two men trained for many months to climb a very high mountain. After weeks of climbing, they got to the end of their strength, and stopped to rest on a plateau. They were shocked to see a young boy playing and chasing butterflies. They asked him in amazement, how did you get here?! We spent grueling weeks to arrive at this point, and you are playing here! The boy replied, "My friends, I was born here!"
The point of the story is twofold. It is true that some are born into higher levels of scholarship and piety. However, those who climb the mountain to get to where the others were born are much higher in the eyes of God. They achieved it through their own efforts and toil.
It is possible that one mitzvah performed by a Jew brought up in a secular home is worth a hundred mitzvot performed by a Jew who was born into observance.
The Talmud says that one Jew cannot kill another, even to save his own life. This applies even if you are the most pious of Jews and the other Jew is a thief, a drug addict or even a murderer. The reason, says the Talmud, is that we can never know "whose blood is redder." There is no way for mortal man to judge another and to know who is considered more dear or valuable in the eyes of God.
The true Torah philosophy of life is to respect every Jew for whom he is, and to leave judgment to the Almighty.
Condescending attitudes are certainly not unique to any particular sect of Jews. You can find the same attitudes, at times, with Republicans to Democrats, or sports fans. It comes from a human need to "be right."
Our job is to view every Jew as a family member, and every human being as created in the "image of God." We should learn what we can from everyone. The Jewish Sages expressed it thusly: "There is no man who does not have his place and time."


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Iran's stolen election...
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This should help to clarify things, for the people who were blaming Bush for "isolating and antagonizing" Achmedinnerjihad. He's our modern-day Hitler, and he's made his mission clear and easy to understand.
The major problem is, what do you do with him? You can't negotiate with him, and going to war with Iran is not something we have the resources to take on right now. He's part of the global jihad, but he's also his own special case.
Iran's Clarifying Election
No longer can anyone pretend theocracy and democracy are compatible.
By AMIR TAHERI
Having won re-election amid allegations of fraud, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday tried to show that he also controlled the streets where the Khomeinist regime first seized power in the 1979 revolution.
The show was less than impressive. Despite efforts by the Ansar Hezbollah (Militants of the Party of God) and security services to manufacture a large crowd, the massive Maydan Vali-Asr (Hidden Imam Square) was unfilled. The official news agency put the number at "several hundred thousands" while eyewitnesses reported tens of thousands.
Even then, scuffles broke out on the fringes of the crowd as groups of dissidents tried to force their way in with cries of "Marg bar diktator!" (death to the dictator). That slogan may be on its way to replacing the normal greeting of salaam (peace) in parts of urban Iran.
Supporters of Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi march in Tehran.
No one knows exactly how much electoral fraud took place. The entire process was tightly controlled by the Ministry of Interior under Sadeq Mahsouli, a general of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards and a senior aide to Mr. Ahmadinejad. There was no independent election commission, no secret balloting, no observers to supervise the counting of the votes, and no mechanism for verification. It is impossible to know how many people voted and for whom.
Mr. Ahmadinejad was credited with more votes than anyone in Iran's history. If the results are to be believed, he won in all 30 provinces, and among all social and age categories. His three rivals, all dignitaries of the regime, were humiliated by losing even in their own hometowns. This was an unprecedented result even for the Islamic Republic, where elections have always been carefully scripted charades.
Many in Tehran, including leading clerics, see the exercise as a putsch by the military-security organs that back Mr. Ahmadinejad. Several events make these allegations appear credible. The state-owned Fars News Agency declared Mr. Ahmadinejad to have won with a two-thirds majority even before the first official results had been tabulated by the Interior Ministry. Mr. Ahmadinejad's main rival, former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, retaliated by declaring himself the winner. That triggered a number of street demonstrations, followed with statements by prominent political and religious figures endorsing Mr. Mousavi's claim.
Then something unprecedented happened. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the last word on all issues of national life, published a long statement hailing Mr. Ahmadinejad's "historic victory" as "a great celebration." This was the first time since 1989, when he became supreme leader, that Mr. Khamenei commented on the results of a presidential election without waiting for the publication of official results. Some analysts in Tehran tell me that the military-security elite, now controlling the machinery of the Iranian state, persuaded Mr. Khamenei to make the unprecedented move.
A detailed study of Mr. Khamenei's text reveals a number of anomalies. It is longer than his usual statements and full of expressions that he has never used before. The praise he showers on Mr. Ahmadinejad is simply too much. The question arises: Did someone use the supreme leader as a rubber stamp for a text written by Mr. Ahmadinejad himself? With Mr. Khamenei's intervention, Mr. Ahmadinejad's three defeated rivals are unlikely to contest the results of the election beyond lodging formal protests to the Council of the Guardians, a 12-mullah body that has the legal duty of endorsing the final results.
Buoyed by his victory, Mr. Ahmadinejad has already served notice that he intends to pursue his radical policies with even greater vigor. At yesterday's rally, he promised to pass a law enabling him to bring "the godfathers of corruption" to justice. His entourage insists that former Presidents Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammed Khatami, and former parliament Speaker Nateq Nouri, all midranking mullahs, may be among the first to fall in a massive purge of the ruling elite.
It is too early to guess whether these dignitaries would march to the metaphorical gallows without a fight. Even if they fight, they are unlikely to win. Nevertheless, Messrs. Rafsanjani, Khatami and other targeted mullahs could influence others who wish to prevent a complete seizure of power by Mr. Ahmadinejad's military-security clique, which is determined to replace the Shiite clergy as the nation's ruling elite. Nor is it at all certain that Supreme Leader Khamenei would stand by and watch his power eroded by a rising elite of radicals.
Mr. Ahmadinejad also plans to seize the assets of hundreds of mullahs and their business associates for redistribution among the poor. In his speech at his victory rally yesterday he promised to "dismantle the network of corruption," and vowed never to negotiate about Iran's nuclear program with any foreign power: "That file is shut, forever," he said.
Mr. Ahmadinejad's victory has several immediate consequences. First, it should kill the illusion that the Khomeinist regime is capable of internal evolution towards moderation. Mr. Ahmadinejad sees Iran as a vehicle for a messianic global revolution.
Second, the election eliminates the elements within the regime -- men such as Mr. Mousavi and Mahdi Karrubi (another of the three unsuccessful candidates who ran against Mr. Ahmadinejad) -- who have pursued the idea of keeping the theocracy intact while giving it a veneer of democratic practice. According to a statement published yesterday by Mostafa Tajzadeh, a former deputy interior minister who was among 132 anti-Ahmadinejad activists arrested over the weekend, the regime's "loyal opposition" would now have to reconsider its loyalty. With Iranian Gorbachev wannabes like Messrs. Khatami and Mousavi discredited, advocates of regime change such as former Interior Minister Abdullah Nouri and former Tehran University Chancellor Muhammad Sheybani look set to attract a good segment of the opposition within the establishment.
Mr. Ahmadinejad's victory has the merit of clarifying the situation within the Islamic Republic. The choice is now between a repressive regime based on a bizarre and obscurantist ideology and the prospect of real change and democratization. There is no halfway house.
The same clarity may apply to Tehran's foreign policy. Believing that he has already defeated the United States, Mr. Ahmadinejad will be in no mood for compromise. Moments after his victory he described the U.S. as a "crippled creature" and invited President Obama to a debate at the United Nations General Assembly, ostensibly to examine "the injustice done by world arrogance to Muslim nations."
Iran's neighbors are unlikely to welcome Mr. Ahmadinejad's re-election. He has reactivated pro-Iranian groups in a number of Arab countries, notably Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain. He is determined to expand Tehran's influence in Afghanistan and Iraq, especially as the U.S. retreats. He has also made it clear that he intends to help the Lebanese Hezbollah strengthen its position as a state within the state and a vanguard in the struggle against Israel.
Even Latin America is likely to receive Mr. Ahmadinejad's attention. The first foreign leader to phone to congratulate the re-elected Iranian leader was Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez, whose "brotherly message" received headline treatment from the state-controlled media in Tehran. Later this year, Mr. Ahmadinejad plans to attend the summit of the nonaligned movements in Cairo to claim its leadership, according to Iran's official news agency, with a message of "unity against the American Great Satan" and its allies in the region.
Buoyed by his dubious victory, Mr. Ahmadinejad appears itching for a fight on two fronts. He thinks he can have his way at home and abroad. As usual in history, hubris may turn out to be his undoing.
Mr. Taheri's new book, "The Persian Night: Iran Under the Khomeinist Revolution," is published by Encounter Books.
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During the visit, rail officials discussed the importance of small freight railroads in Michigan with the congressman and provided an overview of why the shortline railroad rehabilitation tax credit is so important to the rail industry. Marquette Rail showcased how it has utilized the tax credit for tie installation work at its rail yard. Rep. Huizenga has been a co-sponsor of the bill to extend the tax credit, H.R. 721 The Short Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act, since May of 2011.
Rep. Huizenga also met with Harsco Rail employees. Harsco Rail was on property performing surfacing work for Marquette Rail. Most shortline railroads do not have the in-house manpower to undertake rehabilitation projects and must hire contractors, such as Harsco, to do the work. Huizenga received a firsthand look at what goes into rail maintenance when he climbed aboard one of Harsco's tampers.
The tour gave Harsco Rail, a member of the National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association, a chance to demonstrate to Rep. Huizenga how rail contractors benefit from investments that freight railroads make in their infrastructure and about the economic development opportunities that freight railroads and their contractors bring to a region.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust Inc (HCT.O) is in exclusive talks to buy Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II Inc, a deal that could value the healthcare real-estate investment trust at around $3.7 billion (2.20 billion pounds), according to people familiar with the matter.
American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust - known as ARC Healthcare - is trying to finalize a purchase agreement in the next two weeks with Irvine, California-based Griffin-American, which owns senior housing and nursing facilities, hospitals, medical office buildings and other medicine-related properties in the United States and Britain, the people said.
Discussions between the two could still fall apart and Griffin-American could turn to other bidders that remain interested in buying the company, cautioned the people, who asked not to be named because the matter is not public.
Spokesmen for Griffin-American and ARC Healthcare declined to comment.
ARC Healthcare, which was created in 2011 as a non-traded REIT, listed on the Nasdaq market in April this year and has a market capitalization of $1.66 billion.
The company is led by executive chairman Nick Schorsch, who also runs much larger American Realty Capital Properties Inc (ARCP.O), which has a market capitalization of just over $10 billion.
Under Schorsch, New York-based American Realty Capital Properties (ARCP) has pursued major acquisitions in recent years, including buying Cole Real Estate Investments Inc last year for about $7.2 billion to create the largest U.S. net-leased real estate investment trust.
On Friday, ARCP also announced a $1.5 billion sale-leaseback transaction for over 500 Red Lobster restaurant properties. In April, the company ended advanced discussions to buy $5 billion real estate financing company NorthStar Realty Finance Corp (NRF.N), Reuters previously reported.
Griffin-American is a non-traded REIT, meaning that it must file its financials publicly, but its shares do not trade on a stock exchange. The enterprise value of Griffin-American is about $3.4 billion based on its recent quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The company has acquired a diverse portfolio of healthcare-related real estate assets comprising medical office buildings, senior housing facilities, hospitals and skilled nursing facilities.
Healthcare REITs have attracted investors hunting for higher yields at a time when interest rates remain low and an aging population boosts demand for senior care facilities and other medical-related properties.
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CRYSTAL LAKE – Girls on the Run of Northwest Illinois has set the registration for its spring program.
Registration will go live at 10 a.m. Wednesday on the organization's website, www.gotrnwil.org. The organization is expects to serve more than 1,000 girls throughout McHenry and DeKalb counties this season, and several locations are apt to fill up in the first hours of registration.
"We have been preparing for our largest season ever by training new coaches and gaining additional sponsors," Girls on the Run Executive Director Laurie Dayon said. The nonprofit expanded to include programs in Rockford.
Girls on the Run empowers girls in third through eighth grade through activities designed to help them make good choices for a lifetime of self-respect and healthy living. The organization's mission is to inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident, using a fun, experience-based curriculum that creatively integrates running.
Locations for programs can be found at www.gotrnwil.org/locations.html.
"The enthusiasm for Girls on the Run and its growth has been amazing," said Kelly Lancaster, Girls on the Run coach and board member. "I think if you go to the 5K and see the girls as they cross the finish line, it's impossible not to be moved by their strength."


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Obama to Speak on Iraq, Missouri
President Barack Obama plans to speak Monday about the situations in Iraq and in Ferguson, Missouri, after meeting with top aides on both trouble spots.
The White House says Obama will issue a statement on both developments later Monday afternoon.
Obama met with his national security team Monday morning to discuss Iraq, where he has ordered U.S. air strikes against Islamic militants.
He also met with Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss the police shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old man in a St, Louis suburb.
Obama was in Washington Monday in a brief break from his family vacation in Martha's Vineyard.
(Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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One year on, what became of Ofcom's spectrum sale?
Absentee landlords and unwanted property
It's been a year since Ofcom flogged off chunks of 28GHz spectrum at bargain-basement prices, but 12 months on there's not a lot happening at the top of the dial.
One chunk of spectrum in that area has changed hands: last week Urban WiMAX bought 110MHz of Greater London spectrum off Red-M (who acquired the licence as an asset of Broadnet UK), but while the cheap spectrum should have left money for infrastructure the services are still a long time coming, and despite the lack of trading it's becoming increasingly difficult to work out who owns what.
A year ago the government tried again to shift spectrum that it had been hanging onto since failing to sell it after the last dot-com crash. Back in 2000 most of 28GHz was put up for auction, despite the industry having been burnt badly by the 3G auctions that took place a few months earlier.
Not that the crash was visible at the time, as Policytracker reports - the Guardian newspaper predicted another £2bn heading for the treasury as companies threw money at the higher frequencies in just the same way they had at the 3G licences.
But the industry wasn't going to be bitten twice, and of the 42 licences available only 15 got bought, and only £38m raised. The government tried shifting the spectrum again in 2001, allowing companies a whole year to get their bids in, but no one was interested and not a single bid was received.
Even those who did get a bit of 28GHz couldn't afford to do anything with it, and the regulator had to backtrack on the use-it-or-lose-it clause of the licences - but come 2008 there was still an awful lot of unowned spectrum to shift.
So, a year ago, four companies scooped up that spectrum very cheaply indeed. Arqiva got itself two national licences for a shade over a quarter of a million quid, while the other three paid sixty grand between them for three regional licences.
One company took part in both auctions - Faultbasic, a Pipex subsidiary, paid £10.5m for three regional licences in 2000, and then filled those out with £30,000-worth of regional licences to give them national coverage. Faultbasic seems to have had a plan, and is now making some use of the spectrum under the Freedom4 brand, unlike the other bidders.
Policytracker tracked down the four owners only to discover three of them have been busy girding their loins in preparation for business they believe will come knocking real soon now.
Transfinite and Red-M, the latter of whom who still have licences covering most of the country despite divesting themselves of Greater London, are planning to sub-let their spectrum to anyone who wants it, and have spent the last 12 months working on software and systems to manage that. That might seem a long time, but as Red-M Chief Executive Neil Clark pointed out - they only paid ten grand for the spectrum, so they can afford to wait.
Arqiva is planning to sell backhaul services, ideally to new players taking advantage of the forthcoming 2.6GHz spectrum. The continuing delays to the 2.6GHz auction has left that market undeveloped, but Arqiva reckons it too can wait for the market to develop - eventually customers will need that bandwidth.
Which leaves Freedom4 as the only company actually making use of its 28GHz spectrum, running the backhaul for the company's WiMAX network in Milton Keynes, Manchester and Warwick. Freedom4 is a joint venture between Pipex and Intel, the latter company being the primary champion (not to mention patent holder) of WiMAX, but given the squeezed economy it's not clear how long Intel will be able to continue funding WiMAX deployments around the world.
All this planning leaves one big gap in the 28GHz space - Energis bought the six regional licences in 2000, for £13.7m. These changed hands in 2006, for an undisclosed sum, and are currently the property of Fastnet Spectrum Holdings; which is fine, except that Fastnet Spectrum Holdings appear to have vanished entirely, leaving the UK with an unusable band of spectrum and an absentee landlord. ®
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Elmhurst police responded to a call from a woman screaming in distress in the 400 block of Ridgeland Avenue at 10:31 a.m. that day.
Elmhurst Police Deputy Chief Jim Kventon said the victim was walking her dog, a Chow mix, on a leash when the Lab mix attacked it.
The victim suffered extensive injuries to both of her hands after she attempted to stop the dog fight. Following the attack, the victim underwent surgery, police said.
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Giants and Pats are doing the same. Should be mentioned.
Jets to Wear Helmet Decal on MNF Honoring Newtown Victims
The impact of the shootings in Newtown, Conn., on Friday have been felt far and wide, from the immediate area of Sandy Hook Elementary School in western Connecticut, 60 miles from New York City, throughout the tristate area and in all parts of the country and beyond.
The New York Jets will honor the victims, 20 of them schoolchildren, tragically killed Friday morning by wearing decals on their helmets for their Monday night game against the Titans at LP Field in Nashville, Tenn. The circular decals will display the initials S.H.E.S., for Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Both Jets owner Woody Johnson and head coach Rex Ryan spoke to the events in Newtown in the last 24 hours.
"Thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by today's horrific tragedy in Connecticut," Johnson offered via Twitter.
Ryan started his news conference today with a statement about the tragedy, saying, "First off, obviously, with the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., our thoughts and prayers are with all the people impacted by that tragedy."
Giants and Pats are doing the same. Should be mentioned.
One of the kids who lost his life was a huge Victor Cruz fan, and Victor is wearing his name on his shoes and gloves today.
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If the Jets (or the NFL or other NFL teams) want to support the victims, they should send a very big check to the appropriate authority. Everyone with ties to that school is going to need a lot of grief counseling.
It's hard to imagine what Connecticut is like right now.
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On the jobs crisis, people want to see action now | Selim Jahan
23 Sep 2013
Sustainable and inclusive development will not be possible unless economic growth is combined with the creation of decent jobs. The International Labour Organization has warned that 470 million new jobs are needed for new entrants into the labour market between 2016 and 2030, in addition to jobs for 202 million currently unemployed people.
Tackling the global jobs crisis is not an easy task; it will require bold national policies, private-sector dynamism and an enabling global framework. The discussions on the new post-2015 development agenda represent a unique opportunity to put job creation in the center of the new framework.
"Growth and employment" was one of 11 themes at the heart of consultations we organized with nearly 1 million people, asking them what should replace the Millennium Development Goals after they reach their 2015 deadline. This global outreach helped us to better understand the concerns people have regarding employment; it also helped us combine and present their main recommendations to UN Member States and to the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, which are taking the lead in the post-2015 planning processes.
And what are these recommendations from people all over the globe? Six key messages from the new report on growth and employment launched today in the Jobs Challenge side event for the 68th Session of the General Assembly include:
• Adopting a stand-alone goal on employment generation in the post-2015 agenda, with clear and measurable indicators.
• Shifting policy attention and public discourse from quantity to quality of growth, focusing on inclusiveness, generating decent jobs and reducing inequalities.
• Promoting productive sectors through coherent economic and industrial policies.
• Expanding social protection to reduce poverty and inequality and enable sustained and inclusive growth.
• Strengthening the voice of workers so as to improve working conditions and ensure a fairer distribution of benefits.
• Reforming global economic governance with a focus on supporting the weakest members of the international community and enhancing the development gains from international trade.
We all already feel the consequences of the global jobs crisis. Widespread unemployment diminishes trust in political leadership and government institutions, weakens social cohesion, widens inequality and fosters economic and social instability. As 75 million young people are currently unemployed, long-lasting negative impacts to the future of human development will be felt if the post-2015 agenda fails to tackle such a serious emerging crisis.
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Quintessentially Carleton qualities connect two alums separated by 20 years
When he set out to hire a new junior consultant for his firm's first Latin American office, Mark Frein '92 could easily have recruited at the Ivy Leagues. "But I'd probably be looking at people with attitude," he says, with an apologetic laugh. "I knew I could trust in the 'product' I would get out of Carleton. I wanted someone smart, driven, not stuffy—they'd have that pleasant Carleton outlook on life."
Personality is a central asset at the Refinery, where Frein guides a team of consultants who help global companies develop better leaders. "We do that in a lot of quirky ways. We have them play games, we lead them through unique experiences together, we help people develop their own sensibility about what it means to lead," he says. "One quality all leaders must have is that open-mindedness and a liberal attitude about the way they look at the world that helps them see possibilities. That's very core to the Carleton mindset."
That realization led Frein to pay attention to Carleton's Engagement Wanted program. Through the program, students post spirited mini-profiles to a weekly list-serv that goes out to prospective employers and Carleton alumni.
Evan Rowe '09, a member of the Career Center Alumni Board, says part of the Engagement Wanted program's success lies in the fact that alumni know what to expect from Carleton grads, and feel a bond with them. "There is something undeniable about the common experience that people share in Northfield, and the sense of responsibility we generally feel towards each other. These close connections create a real sense of comfort and confidence—to pass along a resumé, to talk to a student, or to make a job offer."
Will Tynan '11, a Career Advisor with the Career Center last year, ran a workshop to help students write winning profiles for the list-serv. "I wanted to show them that these profiles should really express their personality, so I created a sample blurb for myself," he says. "I described my skills, including Spanish, said I was 'strong-backed,' and loved travel."
He wasn't terribly serious about it, since he already had a job offer. But Tynan's sample profile went out with the rest, and captured Frein's attention. "I sent Will an email, two days later we had an interview over Skype—I think he was sitting on his bed in his dorm room. We had a great conversation. I asked him if he'd fly to Vancouver and learn about our business. Three days later he was on a plane," Frein says. "Our firm requires a dynamic approach to life and work, and that willingness to jump in and do something nuts told me he was a strong candidate."
Although exactly 20 years separate Frein and Tynan's time at Carleton, they immediately discovered shared common interests and values. Frein enjoyed catching up with his alma mater through the eyes of a recent grad, and was pleased to see that his notions about Carleton students were not outdated. "The core weirdness and beautiful eccentricities that define Carleton were definitely there during both of our tenures," says Tynan.
Tynan liked what he saw in Vancouver, decided to help the Refinery open a U.S. office to serve Latin America, and he's never looked back. He's now based out of Austin, Texas, which suits this music fan perfectly; in fact, his band played a show at the 2012 South by Southwest music festival. By the way, that first job offer, the one he turned down? It came from Google.
"I know, I know. But I knew this was the right choice, partly because of the relationships I immediately started to build with Mark and the rest of the company. Mark is an incredibly thoughtful and visionary person, and we hit it off really well. The culture is collaborative, personal, and creative, and with a bigger company, I wouldn't get to have the kind of responsibility and experiences I have here," he says.
"I probably spend half to two-thirds of my work time speaking Spanish. I get to go to amazing places all over the hemisphere, and feel I have an impact on companies and individuals. This is about as liberal arts a job as anyone could hope to have."


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BBQ is a stunning and interesting simulated operating cooking game for kids specially tailored to iPad. Pitched as an amusing Island Life Simulation game, BBQ targets at children aged at 4 to 7.
BBQ contains eight kinds of adorable sea creatures: funny seal that performing acrobatics, nice sea star with a cowboy hat, sea urchin that brandishing his spines, sea turtle grandpa that reading newspaper, jellyfish with big eyes, beautiful sea horse princess and noble fish lady. With the rich set of game and lively design of those cute characters, BBQ gives you unprecedented experience of barbecue in abysmal sea.
Unlike many other usual cooking games which just provide you an opportunity to make foods; BBQ gives you and your kids a great new addiction to stay close to nature and those lovely sea creatures. Those hilarious sea creatures and the amazing music effects with ocean waves lapping on a beautiful beach can make you feel relaxed while playing BBQ.
With this fast paced and interesting barbecue game, kids can learn to judge when the food is ready and compare the difference between cooked and uncooked vegetables which helps with their observation ability. It can also train them to respond quickly, stimulate their imagination and interest in the marine life and nature. Through serving those adorable sea creatures with toothsome food, kids can enlarge their knowledge about the real life and it can also bring out all their intelligence to well manage their barbecue site.
Planning on having a few friends over for a Barbecue this winter? Not sure how much food to buy, or need help with some grill skills? Want to impress all your guests with a repertoire of grill skills? Here this newly launched app BBQ based on the abysmal sea background can help you to serve those adorable sea creatures with multiple options of grilled food and turn you into a Grill Sergeant!
In this fast paced and addictive game, you are the grill master at a floating barbecue site full of hungry sea creatures; keep them happy by serving up perfectly grilled food. Food varies from level to level. From Level 1-10, vegetables like potato, mushroom, broccoli and more are available; Level 11-20, meats like sausage, steak, and chicken wing can be unlocked; Level 21-30, sea foods are on your option; Above Level 31, there will be more special dishes waiting for you. Burnt food should be thrown into the garbage can. If you serve your customers with burnt food, they will be mad about you and walk away without any payment. Shells paying by your customers can be used to unlock more special foods in shop. With your levels up, customers are not only required for one kind of food, but more. Serve your food in a requested sequence or else they wont pay for you. The better service you give, the more shells you can get as award.
Stunning cartoon graphics with hilarious characters
Multiple options of food and drinks to serve
Challenging gameplay with endless mode
Easy to get into, hard to put down
Amazing music effects
How to Play
Drag the customers requested food to grill
Keep tapping them to flip when there is a smoky fire
Drag the food that gets stars to serve
Burnt food should be thrown into the garbage can on the bottom right
Customers will pay by shells which can be used to unlock more special foods in shop
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This is my sencond game, is it good ? will you buy it (purchase in-app)?
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Ebola Patient to Be Flown to U.S. for Treatment
FRIDAY, Aug. 1, 2014 -- An American who is battling the Ebola virus in West Africa will be flown to the United States for treatment over the next few days, according to staff at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
The name of the patient is not yet being released, but there are two known American patients currently fighting Ebola in medical centers in Monrovia, Liberia: Dr. Kent Brantly, 33, and Nancy Writebol, 59. Both had been working at clinics in Liberia, helping victims of an outbreak that the World Health Organization says has already killed at least 729 people.
Both patients are described as being in stable but grave condition.
According to NBC News, Emory said Thursday that it was preparing a special isolation ward to receive the Ebola patient "within the next several days."
A plane rigged with special equipment designed to contain the virus and care for the patient during flight will carry the individual to Atlanta, with help from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NBC News reported.
A State Department spokesman told the news network that, "The CDC has devised plans and equipment to do it safely. Patients were evacuated in similar ways during the SARS outbreak in 2003 and in cases involving drug-resistant tuberculosis in 2007."
According to Emory, the patient will be cared for in a special isolation unit with ""equipment and infrastructure that provide an extraordinarily high level of clinical isolation." The hospital told NBC that its staff is regularly trained "in the specific and unique protocols and procedures necessary to treat and care for this type of patient."
There's no cure or vaccine for Ebola, which wreaks life-threatening havoc on the body by attacking multiple organ systems simultaneously.
Instead, doctors must fall back on the basics of "good, meticulous intensive care," supporting the patient and targeting treatment toward organs that are under attack, explained Dr. Lee Norman, chief medical officer for the University of Kansas Hospital and an expert on the disease.
"You treat the things that are failing," Norman said. "If a person is dehydrated, you treat them with IV fluid support. If a person has respiratory failure, you put them on a ventilator."
As the disease progresses, the impact in terms of illness is "additive," Norman noted. "Every time you add another organ system that's failing, a person's chance of survival goes down exponentially."
The human body responds to this multiple-pronged attack by initiating a massive and intense inflammatory response -- which actually adds to the damage being done, Hirsch noted.
"It's a combination of the viral destruction and the inflammation that takes place in response that's so life-threatening to us," he said.
Ebola's ravages are such that even young, healthy patients, who usually can fight off most serious illnesses, have a high death rate, explained Dr. Bruce Hirsch, an infectious diseases specialist at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y.
Pumping fluids into patients remains the best front-line treatment for Ebola, to limit the damage caused by inflammation, Hirsch said.
Beyond that, doctors must pay close attention to the patient and be ready to treat whatever organs are on the verge of failure, Hirsch and Norman said.
It doesn't sound like much, but this basic care can dramatically enhance chances of survival.
"If you look at the overall statistics, the mortality rate is around 50 to 60 percent, but if you get out into remote areas the mortality rate increases to around 90 percent," Norman said. "I think that reflects the fact that if more care is given and care is given early, the more survival improves."
On Thursday, the CDC issued a travel warning for the West African countries affected by the Ebola outbreak.
The "Level 3 travel advisory" urges that all non-essential travel to the affected countries -- Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone -- be avoided.
"The bottom line is that Ebola is worsening in West Africa," CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden told reporters in a press briefing.
He said the travel advisory will allow those countries to focus on the outbreaks without worrying about new people coming into the region, while keeping air travel open to people who are headed to the countries to provide medical aid.
He also said that the outbreak has been bad in part because these countries haven't dealt with Ebola before and weren't prepared for it.
In the meantime, putting a halt to the epidemic is "not going to be quick. It's not going to be easy. But we know what to do," Frieden said. He said that the CDC is sending 50 additional experts to the region over the next month.
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What: Installation of new pastors
When: Sunday, 11 a.m. service
Where: Faith Community Lutheran Church, 9775 Ute Highway, Longmont
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LONGMONT -- Faith Community Lutheran Church will join a nationwide trend of multi-pastor congregations Sunday as it welcomes two new pastors to the staff.
Pastors Derik Yarian and Erik Gravrock will join longtime Pastor Dan Hansen to make up the church's first three-person leadership team.
Since Hansen joined the church nearly 25 years ago, weekly attendance has grown from about 90 people to more than 500, increasing the need for staff support.
"Between four weekend services and weddings and funerals, there is just too much for one person to handle," Hansen said.
Large congregations across the country are hiring additional pastors to support growing attendance, which is spurred by the opportunities available to members of mega-churches and other sizable congregations, Yarian said.
The services offered by large churches are appealing to members seeking more than a Sunday sermon, he said. Before moving to Longmont, Yarian was part of a two-pastor staff at a church in Iowa.
"Large churches are getting larger because people are gravitating to the opportunities they offer," Yarian said.
Several local churches, including Longmont's Grace Church, First Presbyterian Church of Boulder, Firestone Baptist Church and mega-churches LifeBridge Christian Church and Rocky Mountain Christian Church, have two or more pastors on staff.
Pastor Joe Dapelo, administrative assistant for the American Association of Lutheran Churches, said most of the large churches, in the group of about 70 congregations, have more than one pastor.
"There used to be one pastor who did it all, but now there are more specialized pastors," Dapelo said. "It differs depending on the size of the congregation for what needs that might arise and what pastors they might need to fill certain duties."
Faith Community is not affiliated with the American Association of Lutheran Churches.
Dapelo said youth and worship pastors have become common in churches that can afford to hire the additional staff. Other specialty positions that Dapelo has seen recently include preaching pastors, administrative pastors and pastors who are responsible for hospital and home visits to sick members of the congregation.
Hansen said Faith Community's pastoral team will share and separate duties depending on the needs of the congregation and skills of the three men.
All of them will give sermons on Sundays on a rotating schedule, but Derik will be responsible for administrative duties and missions while Erik is focused on young family ministries.
Members will still see plenty of Hansen, who said he will be available to members and working as hard as ever, despite the new hires.
"It's dangerous to do too much around one person in any situation," Hansen said. "Besides needing help, we also wanted some fresh ideas and to secure the future of the church and make sure it's in good hands."
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Three brother, three All-State players
When I visited recently with the three Roberts brothers one thing kept coming up: They made it clear that the support and encouragement from their parents enabled them to excel at whatever they tried.
On Monday, Ashton Roberts will play in the Arkansas All-Star Baseball Game in Fayetteville at Baum Stadium, and next year he will be playing college baseball at Crowder Junior College in Missouri.
He is the youngest of the three children of Pat and Debra Roberts. His oldest brother, Jon Chris Roberts, graduated in 2004 and his other brother, Colby, graduated in 2009. All three earned All-State honors and played in Arkansas All-Star games (Ashton and Colby in baseball and Jon Chris in football). This will not be Ashton's first time to play at Baum stadium, where the Razorbacks play. Ashton played on the 2009 Benton Panthers baseball team that earned a state championship, along with Colby. In fact, I remember when Colby came in to pitch and the bases were loaded with no outs; Colby was able to get things under control, but the last pitch of the inning was hit long into the outfield.
I was listening on the radio and my heart sank until Ashton made the catch to end Searcy's last chance to score with the bases loaded. I said at the time, "If one Roberts' brother doesn't get you out, then the other one will." Not only did Colby Roberts pitch that state championship game against Searcy in 2009, but last year he was part of the Crowder team that made the Junior College World Series. Next year Colby will be playing for James Madison University in Virginia, and currently he is playing summer ball in Virginia, where he was selected player of the week over several players who played for SEC teams during the spring.
The press release noted, "The Player of the Week is Colby Roberts of the Harrisonburg Turks. Roberts, a James Madison product, has helped the Turks to seven wins in the first nine games of the season with 12 hits in 32 at bats for a .375 average. Roberts also has two doubles and one triple so far this summer." Colby graduated in 2009 and played in the All-Star game that year. Older brother Jon Chris earned All-State honors in the fall of 2003. He played in the All-Star Football Game in Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville.
Jon Chris played receiver for the Panthers in 2003. In that season the Panthers won the conference and earned a No. 1 playoff seed. Jon Chris had 1,297 total yards during the season, including 217 yards on 13 receptions and three touchdowns against Lake Hamilton. Currently he is serving in the Air Force at Beale Air Force Base in California and will deploy in the near future to Afghanistan. Jon Chris loves to talk about his girls, wife Carmen and daughter Zowie.
Jon Chris said, "My dad probably had the biggest influence on me as a teen. The talks we had on the way to school each morning before I started driving were what shaped me into who I am today. My father is a very wise Christian man, and a good husband to my mother, and I respect him.
"He would watch game films with me and tell me what different steps I could have taken. He showed me how to come off the ball and fake out defenders with my eyes alone."
Colby said, "My family always does their best to support me and make it to as many games as they can. My father was a great encourager growing up and even now. He wanted us to do what made us happy and be successful at whatever we do.
"If we started anything, we finished it period.
"He's his son's No. 1 fan, and there is no doubt who my brothers, and I hear when he is in the stands. Sometimes I would be down after a bad game at Crowder Junior College, and I would call to fill him in on stats. When he knew I didn't play well, he always would remind me, 'Baseball is all about reps, you will get more opportunities just take advantage of those. Get 'em next time; think line drives.'"
Ashton said, "My parents make it to every single game that they can. My dad played a huge part of my baseball development, and he really helped me in learning the game of baseball. He taught me to be a student of the game and to learn from the mistakes I've made in each game.
"Some coaches that have had an impact on me over the years are coach Pryor, coach Roseberry, coach Davis, coach Ben Hickman and certainly coach Mark Balisterri. Coach Pryor was my tournament baseball coach for four years and helped me become the baseball player I am today. His passion for the game and his attitude toward the game has rubbed off on me."
The Benton Panther chapter of the Roberts boys life has come to a close, but don't be surprised if you see them down at the games rooting for their Panthers.
Everette Hatcher is the president of Little Rock Broom Works. Everette and his wife, Jill, live in Alexander and have four children and two grandchildren.


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Coldplay is keeping the latest release, Mylo Xyloto, off streaming sites like Spotify, Rhapsody and MOG. The band has expressed a dislike at their inability to control downloads and the smaller royalty rates they receive using a streaming service. You can get the new album the old-fashioned way, buy visiting a place that sells cds or if it's mp3's you insist, Itunes & Amazon is selling the new album.
Meanwhile, Chris Martin is still worried about music fans' perception of Coldplay.
He tells Spin, "Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture. They question the soulfulness of Coldplay because we've done okay…But in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it. I always feel like the big bad outside world just…hates us."


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(RNN) - Pro-gun advocates have argued the United Kingdom is a perfect example of how ineffective gun laws are on crime. Despite having some of the strictest gun laws in the world, the U.K. has a far higher violent crime rate than the U.S.
However, a closer look shows the U.S. has more burglaries, rapes, and murders than the U.K. The reason for the U.K.'s higher violent crime rate is their far broader definition of a "violent" crime.
An oft-cited source for the argument that the U.S. has a lower violent crime rate than the U.K. is a 2009 article in the Daily Mail, an English tabloid. The story put the U.K. at the top of a so-called "League of Shame" for its violence.
The statistics in that article were compiled by Britain's Conservative Party and drawn from different reports by the United Nations and the European Commission. They do not appear to be part of an official study, and specific reports used by the U.N. and E.C. were not named.
Citing various crime statistics, the article claims the U.K. was the most violent country in the EU. However, that title was not given by the EU or U.N.
Rather, it was Britain's Conservative Party that named Britain "the most violent in the EU" on a day when one of its members was scheduled to give a speech on crime.
Despite the lack of sources for the numbers, and the possible partisan politicking of Britain's Conservative Party, it's worth comparing to U.S. numbers compiled by the FBI.
The robbery rates were similar between the two countries:
U.S. 2009 robbery rate: 133 per 100,000.
U.K. 2009 robbery rate: 164 per 100,000.
The burglary rates were far higher in the U.S.:
U.S. 2009 burglary rate: 716.3 per 100,000
U.K. 2009 burglary rate: 523 per 100,000.
And in the U.S., you were nearly four times as likely to be murdered:
U.S. 2009 murder rate: 5 per 100,000.
U.K. 2009 murder rate: 1.49 per 100,000.
So far, it looks as if one has a much higher chance of getting burgled and killed in the U.S. than in the U.K.
However, the Daily Mail article says the U.K. has a violent crime rate of 2,034 per 100,000 residents, while the U.S. has a violent crime rate of 466 per 100,000 residents.
According to the FBI, there are four crimes classified as "violent" in crime statistics: murder/non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault.
The list does not include burglaries, which is considered a property crime in the U.S. but a violent crime in the U.K.
In addition to murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault and burglary, England and Wales classify domestic violence and all sexual offenses - not just forcible rape - as violent.
Scotland and Northern Ireland compile their own statistics and systems.
In England and Wales, sexual offenses and domestic violence contain a wide range of offenses and make up a significant part of the overall number of their violent crimes.
Sexual offenses include rape, sexual assault, sexual activity with children, soliciting prostitutes (but not prostitution itself), sexual threats, sexual touching and indecent exposure.
Domestic abuse, described as a form of "intimate personal violence," includes the following: non-sexual emotional or financial abuse, threats, physical force, sexual assault and stalking carried out by a current or former partner or other family member.
Several other crimes that are classified as violent in the U.K. include vehicle theft, purse-snatching and bicycle theft.
In all, the definition of "violent crime" takes approximately six pages to thoroughly explain. It is found in a user guide to crime statistics published by the Home Office, a U.K. government department addressing crime.
The definition of rape is an example of how different the two countries classify crimes.
Until 2012, the FBI only counted "forcible rape" in its violent crime statistics, defining it as "the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will."
The narrow definition has affected the FBI's overall numbers. In 2010, the Chicago Police Department could not include 1,400 sexual assaults in federal numbers because the city's definition of rape was broader than the FBI's definition.
In England and Wales, a person is guilty of rape if "he intentionally penetrates the vagina, anus or mouth of the complainant with his penis, the complainant does not consent and the defendant does not reasonably believe consent has been given," according to the BBC.
With these different definitions in mind, England and Wales reported 14,000 rapes in 2009. Based on a female population of approximately 27 million (although males are included in official reports), that comes out to 51 rapes per 100,000 females.
The U.S. reported 88,097 rapes in 2009, which comes out to 56 rapes per 100,000 females.
Despite having a narrower definition of rape that only includes female victims, the U.S. still has a higher rate of occurrence than England and Wales.
The U.S. also has a higher rate of murder, and most happen by way of gun: the FBI said 67.8 percent of murders in 2011 were by firearm.
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When Jason Daniels told his wife, Heather, he would be teaching in Australia for a year, she kept waiting for him to finish the joke.
There was no punch line.
Jason is a fourth-grade teacher at Kalifornsky Beach Elementary -- but will be teaching a third-fourth split class in Australia as part of a teacher exchange. It is an exchange in every sense of the word -- the Daniels will be exchanging residences with Gavan Brown, Jason's exchange partner, and his wife, Margaret.
"(Gavan)'s got a nicer house than I do," Jason said. "So I score on that -- he's got a swimming pool.
"With 90-degree temperatures, I'm thinking that's not a bad deal, not at all."
The Daniels will embark on their adventure Dec. 26, stopping in Los Angeles and Fiji along the way. The stopover in Los Angeles is crucial because they will be able to meet Gavan and Margaret for a rare in-person meeting before taking up each other's residences.
"We're staying in the same hotel before we go in our separate directions," Daniels said. "Which will be great to be able to shake hands face-to-face."
Brown garnered the chance to meet the Daniels on the way up to Alaska.
"Naturally, this is a rare opportunity to live for a year in someone else's shoes so to speak," Brown said. "He'll be living in my house and we'll be in his -- it's not so often that you share such an experience with someone else.
"So it's important to me that we get on well and everything goes smoothly."
Daniels, 39, will be teaching a third-fourth grade split class at Wodonga South Primary School in a town called Wodonga, in the state of Victoria. Daniels said the whole school is divided into split classes, something Daniels has not dealt with in his 14 years of teaching.
"I have not taught a split class, I have taught third grade, and I'm teaching fourth grade," Daniels said. "So that is my sweet spot on comfort level and knowledge base."
Brown, who has taught for 31 years, has completed exchanges in Canada and the United Kingdom -- coming to Alaska was a chance he couldn't pass up.
"(It was) a case of opportunity and luck of where there was an appropriate match," Brown said.
Both Daniels and Brown are looking forward to the opportunity to teach somewhere so far away from home, but with that, both teachers will face challenges. With his three decades of teaching in Australia, Brown will have to adjust to a whole new way of doing things, not to mention a completely different climate -- Brown will be coming to Alaska during the middle of winter, and Daniels will be arriving in Australia during their summer season.
Brown said he is not fazed by the change in the climate.
"(I'm) not daunted," Brown said. "It will be warmer than the (negative) 35 degrees Celsius that greeted us in Canada.
"I'm prepared for long periods of darkness and the inevitable putting on and removal of coats."
Daniels is looking forward to arriving during Australia's summer, while the students are coming up on their summer break.
"Their school year is different than ours," he said. "They go from February to December -- so coming up in a few weeks they'll go on their summer break, it's 85s and 90s right now."
Aside from the seasonal change, the two teachers face challenges within the classroom. Although both countries speak a form of the English language, there will be certain words that both teachers will have to spell differently.
"The word 'color'," Daniels said. "I just realized the other day, I have a feeling the kids are going to be correcting my spelling over there -- and I think the kids here are going to correct Gavan's spelling."
'Color' is spelled 'colour' in Australia, and other words have different spellings. Daniels will also have to adjust to some of the differences in the schools.
"The kids have uniforms, which is different from here," Daniels said. "The kids are going to call me by my first name.
"So I've already heard some hinting of things that will be different. But it's all good, it's all part of the experience."
Other challenges ahead of Daniels include the metric system and driving on the left side of the road.
On top of driving on the right side of the road and using yards instead of meters, Brown will have to get acclimated to the United States and Alaska education system.
"The biggest challenges are adjusting to the subtle variations in culture, expectations and language," Brown said. "My perspective on teaching is colored by 30 years of Australian educational development and priorities.
"I will know very little of this context in Alaska and so clarifying expectations and processes will be important."
Both teachers feel their experiences on the other side of their worlds will be invaluable when they return to their home countries after the fall term of 2012.
"One goal would be to come back and use some of the things I've learned in my teaching (in Australia), hopefully it will make me a more well-rounded teacher," Daniels said. "I'm sure they have teaching strategies and methods over there that I can learn from and apply here."
Brown feels the same way, he hopes to gain an insight into the way of life in Alaska and the educational priorities for the system, he said.
"Hopefully I can leave something of my own expertise when I go home again," Brown said.
For both men, it's not just about the teaching aspect of the exchange. Each place has its own culture, history and lifestyle.
"One of the main things I'd like to accomplish, besides learning about how they teach and learn in Australia -- is the traveling and the learning about another culture," Daniels said. "And learning about the Aussie lifestyle."
Not having taught in America before, Brown is excited to learn about American and Alaskan culture.
"What I know of the U.S. and Americans is based on the limited experience of a few friends and a couple of brief visits," Brown said. "So I'm looking forward to fitting in the community and experiencing the lifestyle first-hand."
For Daniels, this might be his only chance to do something of this magnitude.
"I will call it a once-in-a-lifetime (experience)," he said. "I don't know if I'll ever do this again in my career, so I really do need to live it up -- and explore and do."
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Tune in and watch Ground War, Ottomans Versus Christians: Battle for the Mediterranean, and She-Wolves: England's Early Queens every Monday, from April 11 to April 25, beginning at 8 pm.
8:00 pm – Ground War
4/11 – Warrior Weapons
This episode traces the evolution of soldiers and their gear, from the phalanx formations of Alexander the Great to the the development of wearable exoskeletons that will one day soon make human soldiers stronger and faster.
4/18 – Battlefield Mobility
This episode explores mobility on the battlefield and the never-ending challenge to maximize effectiveness and find the right balance of protective armor, speed, mobility and firepower.
4/25 – Firepower
This episode tracks the development of artillery from the ancient Greeks through the invention of gunpowder in China, to the very latest generation of big guns and directed-energy weapons.
9:00 pm – Ottomans Versus Christians: Battle for the Mediterranean
4/11 – Empire Builders
In part one, Julian Davison begins his journey in Istanbul, the gateway between East and West and former epicenter of the Eastern Christian Empire of Byzantium. He charts the rise of the Ottomans and their momentous conquest of Constantinople, which they transform into the capitol of their empire, Istanbul.
4/18 – Masters Of The Mediterranean
In part two, Julian Davison travels to the site of one of the most extraordinary sieges in European history, the island of Malta. During 16th century it was the object of desire for Ottoman Sultan Sulieman the Magnificent and he was prepared to risk all to possess it. Here, Julian enlists in a local re-enactment group and tries his hand at the weapons of the day before dissecting a siege that would become one of the Ottomans' most shocking defeats.
4/25 – Clash Of Civilizations
Part three begins in the legendary city of Famagusta on the island of Cyprus. Once the wealthiest city on earth, Famagusta was the jewel in the Venetian crown when Ottoman armies surrounded it in 1571. Julian Davison takes us on a tour of the city's magnificent gothic cathedrals and intimidating fortress, detailing the gory battles and fabled acts of heroism that took place here during the Ottoman conquest of the city.
9:55 pm – She-Wolves: England's Early Queens
4/11 – Matilda And Eleanor
More than 800 years ago, Matilda came within a hair's breadth of being the first woman to be crowned queen of England in her own right. Her daughter-in-law Eleanor of Aquitaine was an equally formidable woman. Despite being remembered as the queen of courtly love, in reality, during her long life she divorced one king and married another, only to lead a rebellion against him. She finally achieved the power she craved in her seventies.
4/18 – Isabella And Margaret
In 1308 a 12-year-old girl, Isabella of France, became queen of England when she married the English king. A century later another young French girl, Margaret of Anjou, followed in her footsteps. Both these women were thrust into a violent and dysfunctional England and both felt driven to take control of the kingdom themselves.
4/25 – Jane, Mary And Elizabeth
In this program, Helen Castor looks at what happened when England was faced not just with inadequate kings, but no kings at all. In 1553, for the first time in English history, all the contenders for the crown were female. In the lives of these three Tudor queens – Jane, Mary and Elizabeth – Castor explores how each woman struggled in turn with wearing a crown that was made for a male head.


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Senate Bill No. 592
(By Senators Unger, Klempa, Foster and Stollings)
[Introduced February 15, 2012; referred to the Committee on Government Organization.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §29-3-5b of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the adoption of the International Energy Conservation Code; and requiring certain public projects to use the International Energy Conservation Code.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §29-3-5b of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
§29-3-5b. Promulgation of rules and statewide building code; energy conservation code.
(a) The State Fire Commission shall propose rules for legislative approval in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code to safeguard life and property and to ensure the quality of construction of all structures erected or renovated throughout this state through the adoption of a state building code. The rules shall be in accordance with standard safe practices so embodied in widely recognized standards of good practice for building construction and all aspects related thereto and have force and effect in those counties and municipalities adopting the state building code: Provided, That each county or municipality may adopt the code to the extent that it is only prospective and not retroactive in its application.
(b) The State Fire Commission has authority to propose rules for legislative approval in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, regarding building construction, renovation and all other aspects as related to the construction and mechanical operations of a structure. The rules shall be known as the "State Building Code."
(c) The State Fire Commission shall propose a rule for legislative approval in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code to include the following building energy codes in the State Building Code:
(1) The 2009 edition of the International Energy Conservation Code for residential buildings or other building energy code or codes for residential buildings that meets or exceeds equivalent energy savings; and
(2) The ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2007 building energy code for commercial buildings or other building energy code or codes for commercial buildings that meets or exceeds equivalent energy savings.
(d) On and after the effective date of the amendments to this section enacted during the regular session of the West Virginia Legislature in the year 2012, all new building construction projects of public agencies or any building construction project receiving state grant funds and appropriations, including public schools, shall be designed and constructed in compliance with the ICC 2009 International Energy Conservation Code as the minimum building code standard and the ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2007: Provided, That if any construction project has a commitment of federal funds to pay for a portion of such project, this section only applies to the extent such standards are consistent with the federal standards. This provision applies to building construction projects that have not entered the schematic design phase prior to July 1, 2012. For purposes of this article, "Public agency" means every state office, board, commission, committee, bureau, department or public institution of higher education, counties, school boards and municipalities.
(d)(e) The State Fire Commission has authority to propose rules for legislative approval, in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a, establishing state standards and fee schedules for the licensing, registration, certification, regulation and continuing education of persons which will conduct inspections relating to the State Building Code, which include, but are not limited to, building code officials, inspectors, plans examiners and home inspectors.
(e) (f) The State Fire Commission has authority to establish advisory boards as it deems appropriate to encourage representative participation in subsequent rule-making from groups or individuals with an interest in any aspect of the State Building Code or related construction or renovation practices.
(f) (g) For the purpose of this section, the term "building code" is intended to include all aspects of safe building construction and mechanical operations and all safety aspects related thereto. Whenever any other state law, county or municipal ordinance or regulation of any agency thereof is more stringent or imposes a higher standard than is required by the State Building Code, the provisions of the state law, county or municipal ordinance or regulation of any agency thereof governs if they are not inconsistent with the laws of West Virginia and are not contrary to recognized standards and good engineering practices. In any question, the decision of the State Fire Commission determines the relative priority of any such state law, county or municipal ordinance or regulation of any agency thereof and determines compliance with State Building Code by officials of the state, counties, municipalities and political subdivisions of the state.
(g) (h) Enforcement of the provisions of the State Building Code is the responsibility of the respective local jurisdiction. Also, any county or municipality may enter into an agreement with any other county or municipality to provide inspection and enforcement services: Provided, That any county or municipality may adopt the State Building Code with or without adopting the BOCA National Property Maintenance Code.
(h) (i) After the State Fire Commission has promulgated rules as provided in this section, each county or municipality intending to adopt the State Building Code shall notify the State Fire Commission of its intent.
(i) (j) The State Fire Commission may conduct public meetings in each county or municipality adopting the State Building Code to explain the provisions of the rules.
(j) (k) The provisions of the State Building Code relating to the construction, repair, alteration, restoration and movement of structures are not mandatory for existing buildings and structures identified and classified by the State Register of Historic Places under the provisions of section eight, article one of this chapter or the National Register of Historic Places, pursuant to 16 U.S.C. §470a. Prior to renovations regarding the application of the State Building Code, in relation to historical preservation of structures identified as such, the authority having jurisdiction shall consult with the Division of Culture and History, State Historic Preservation Office. The final decision is vested in the State Fire Commission. Additions constructed on a historic building are not excluded from complying with the State Building Code.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to promote construction of energy efficient public buildings; provide a uniform minimum construction standard through adoption of the ICC 2009 International Energy Conservation Code as well as the ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2007; and to require its use when new public facilities are constructed.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.


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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced the recall of several dietary supplements that contain the undeclared drug tadalafil, which is used to treat erectile dysfunction.
The products -- SexVoltz, Velextra, and Amerect -- were manufactured by BeaMonstar Products of Queen Creek, Ariz., and were distributed nationally, according to the FDA.
"These undeclared active ingredients pose a threat to consumers because tadalafil may interact with nitrates found in some prescription drugs such as nitroglycerin and may lower blood pressure to dangerous levels," read an FDA notice of the recall.
"Consumers with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or heart disease often take nitrates. BeaMonstar Products has not received any reports of adverse events to date related to this recall."
Tadalafil is FDA-approved. The products were being sold as dietary supplements, however, and the agency considered them to be unapproved new drugs.
The affected SexVoltz brand SKU's are 626570609490, 827912089028, 626570617877, 626570615316. The affected Velextra brand SKU's are 626570619475, 626570619475, 626570619475, 626570619475. Amerect SKU's are 626570619031 and 626570619598, according to the FDA.
The affected "Maximum Strength" SexVoltz, Velextra, and Amerect are all lots distributed and sold from January 2012 to May 7, 2013, and contain various expiration dates.
BeaMonstar Products is arranging for credit of all recalled products, the FDA said. Consumers should return the product to the place of purchase.
Consumers with questions regarding this recall can contact BeaMonstar Products at (480) 735-1424 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Consumers should contact their physician or healthcare provider if they have experienced any problems that may be related to using this drug product.
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Ramon Galloway scored a career-high 31 points, and La Salle accomplished a feat it hadn't achieved in 61 years with Saturday's 69-61 victory over 19th-ranked VCU at Verizon Wireless Arena at the Siegel Center.
Fresh off a dramatic 54-53 last-second win over No. 9 Butler on Wednesday, the Explorers knocked off a ranked foe in back-to-back games for the first time since the 1952 NIT Tournament, overcoming an eight-point deficit with under 15 minutes left behind Galloway's big performance and a strong defensive effort.
La Salle (14-5, 4-2 A-10) held the Rams to just 38.3 percent shooting for the game and a 4-of-16 success rate from 3-point range, handing VCU (16-5, 4-2) its second consecutive setback following a string of 13 straight wins.
"I'm really proud of our team," La Salle head coach Dr. John Giannini said. "VCU is terrific and hard to play against."
Galloway netted 20 of his points after halftime to lead the comeback, with Tyreek Duren contributing 16 points and Steve Zack pulling down 11 rebounds to help the Explorers prevail.
Juvonte Reddic had 22 points on 9-of-13 shooting and grabbed 10 rebounds for the reeling Rams, who fell in overtime at crosstown-rival Richmond on Thursday. Treveon Graham finished with 13 points and 12 boards in defeat.
The Explorers' tight defense stifled VCU all throughout the first half, with the Rams going just 30.3 percent from the field in falling behind by a 34-25 count at intermission. VCU came out blazing after the break, however, putting forth a 17-0 run to begin the period that completely turned the momentum around.
The Rams forced four turnovers and knocked down seven of their first eight shots during the tear, which ended with Reddic's jumper that staked VCU to a 42-34 lead with 14:35 remaining.
La Salle regrouped, however, and went on a 22-7 spree over a stretch of nearly nine minutes to forge ahead. Galloway accounted for 12 points during the pivotal surge, including a pair of triples that helped give the Explorers a 56-49 advantage with under six minutes to go.
VCU answered with six straight points, with Graham's jumper pulling the Rams within one at 56-55 with 2:49 left to play. Galloway then buried a pair of free throws on the ensuing possession, and following a Reddic turnover, Duren drove the lane and scored to make it a five-point game with under two minutes remaining.
The Explorers held on by making all eight of their foul shots in the final minute, with the Rams never getting closer than four points down the rest of the way.
A 12-2 Rams' run in which La Salle missed 8-of-9 shots and Reddic put up eight points gave the hosts a 23-19 edge with just under eight minutes left in the first half, but the Explorers countered with a 14-0 burst to go ahead by double digits.
Galloway had an impact there as well, draining consecutive 3-pointers to conclude the flurry, the last of which sent La Salle ahead by a 33-23 score heading into the last four minutes of the session.
Game Notes
La Salle topped No. 4 Duquesne, No. 11 Dayton and No. 10 St. John's in the Third Round, Quarterfinals and Semifinals of the 1952 NIT for its last sequence of wins over ranked opponents ... Galloway's previous career best was 28 points, set against George Washington on Jan. 25, 2011 ... VCU had won all three of the previous meetings between the schools, the last coming during the 2004-05 season ... The Explorers are now 10-0 when holding the opposition under 70 points this season ... La Salle was facing ranked teams in back-to- back games for the first time since losing to No. 4 Villanova and No. 1 Massachusetts in February of 1996.