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Artie T. to Cousin: I Want To Buy You Out!
Jul 24, 2014 09:02AM ● Published by Bill Gilman
Late Wednesday night, Arthur T. released information to multiple media outlets revealing that he and his partners (family member aligned with him) have made an offer to Arthur S. and his allies on the board to buy out their 50.5 percent stake in the company, according to an article appearing in the Lowell Sun.
"We believe that our offer is a very fair and full one, and should meet or exceed a seller's expectations of the value of the company," Arthur T. was quoted as saying in the article.
Arthur T. DeMoulas is still presently the largest individual shareholder in the privately held company, at 14 percent. However, he was ousted as CEO/President last month when his cousin, Arthur S. gained enough support from the seven-member Board of Directors. The pair has battled over control of the company for many years.
The Demoulas Board is scheduled to meet in Boston on Friday to take Arthur T.'s offer under consideration and discuss the labor unrest that has all but shutdown the 71 Market Basket supermarkets in New England for the past several days, costing the company millions of dollars a day.
WHDH Ch. 7 reported on Wednesday that gross sales at Market Basket stores had dropped 91 percent this week, as shelves of produce, seafood and meats remained empty. Multiple media outlets reported that store managers throughout the company were turning away delivery trucks filled with food from the DeMoulas Warehouse and being driven by replacement drivers hired by the company.
Employees announced earlier on Wednesday that they will be holding their "Grand Finale" rally/protest on Friday morning in the parking lot outside the Market Basket in Stadium Plaza at 10 Main St., Tewksbury.
All of which has led some business observers to wonder if the protests and rallies of the past week have been less organic than originally thought, but rather have been part of a carefully orchestrated plan by Arthur T. to regain control of the company.
If so, the plan has worked brilliantly. Not only have most of the company's 25,000 employees rallied to "Artie T's" cause but customers and state political leaders have joined and encouraged a boycott of the stores.
During the course of their protests, employees have outlined some of their concerns about Arthur S. Demoulas and the company's new co-CEOs, Felicia Thornton and Jim Gooch. One concern has been over changes they believe the new management wants to make in the employees generous profit sharing plan. A second is the belief that Arthur S. wants to sell the company to a larger grocery chain.
Arthur T.'s buyout offer may present his cousin with a win-win option.


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I am sure you all have had a day where you felt like you were going in circles and not getting anything done. Well that is my day today! I did manage to get the house tidied up a bit. I eventually got these new pendants of mine onto my jewelry page for sale. I am thinking that along with the weather warming up my brain must be as well because I had fifty thousand things I wanted to do that all wanted my attention. I have recently begun a mindfulness training and today all of my lessons I have learned went right out the window! Don't worry tomorrow is another day. So if you are having the same kind of day don't be too hard on yourself use some self compassion. As human beings we sometimes get so wrapped up in doing rather than being that we forget to slow down and just be!
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Just noticing that you slipped out of mindfulness IS mindfulness practice. Think of mindfulness practice is a constant practice of starting over again and again. No need to put it off to tomorrow. Just begin right now. Then when you catch yourself slipping away from mindfulness...you begin again with mindfulness. Set aside a few very short breaks, a minute or three, to reconnect to what you are doing and become familiar with the feeling of BEING. That will also support your mindfulness practice as well. And finally, above all, smile and be compassionate with yourself. It is ok. This is learning a new way of being and it takes some patience as you make the transition and become more skilled.
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In the most recent example of a new global trend where Muslim radicals drive their vehicles into unsuspecting civilians, seeking to murder innocents with their automobiles (a practice that has been coined "vehicular jihad"), a Palestinian man who drove his car into civilians waiting at a Jerusalem bus stop told police that he was "seeking out Jews to murder."
37-year-old Khaled Koutineh, who lives in a Palestinian town near Jerusalem, was arrested last week for ramming his vehicle into a group of Israelis, which resulted in the death of a 25-year-old man and critically wounded a young woman.
At the time, police said they would not jump to conclusions as to the motivations of the individual behind the incident. But after hearing the Palestinian man's remarks, "It is possible and there is a very strong basis to now say that this was a terror attack," officials stated.
"As part of a joint investigation handled by the Jerusalem police and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), Khaled Koutineh confessed to carrying out the vehicular terror attack last Wednesday, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day," said the Israeli authorities' statement. "Koutineh confessed to carrying out the attack with the intention of harming Jews, a decision he made just moments before the actual deed," the official statement added.
Police said that Koutineh was driving along a highway looking out for a group of Jews to run over, and found his target at the Jerusalem-area bus stop.
Koutineh's attack follows multiple previous incidents where Palestinian drivers conducted deadly attacks using their automobile as a weapon. In a recent incident in March, a Palestinian terrorist rammed his car into a cyclist and six Israeli Border Patrol officers, injuring several individuals.
Vehicular jihad incidents have occurred not only in Israel but throughout the world over the past year.
In December, France witnessed a deadly vehicular jihadist attacks when a French Muslim ran over pedestrians while yelling, "Allahu Akbar," and stating, "this is in the name of the children of Palestine."
In October, a Canadian man carried out a vehicular jihad attack that killed a Canadian soldier after he used his vehicle to run over multiple individuals in a mall parking lot.


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Reservoirs behind dams have been identified as new culprits in global warming, releasing greenhouse gases as water levels go up and down, U.S. researchers say.
Researchers at Washington State University-Vancouver measured dissolved gases in the water column of a reservoir in Clark County and found methane emissions jumped 20-fold when the water level was drawn down, the school reported Wednesday.
Methane can trap 25 times more heat in the Earth's atmosphere than carbon dioxide, the researchers said.
"Reservoirs have typically been looked at as a green energy source," doctoral student Bridget Deemer said. "But their role in greenhouse gas emissions has been overlooked."
While dams and the water behind them cover only a small portion of the earth's surface, researchers said, they harbor biological activity that can produce large amounts of greenhouse gases.
There are some 80,000 dams in the United States, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams records.
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"We have the ability to manage the timing, magnitude and speed of reservoir drawdowns, which all could play a role in how much methane gets released to the atmosphere."
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One of my best afternoons from fashion week was spent (as usual) in Nina's apartment previewing her new collection for Family Affairs and munching on fall cookies. I'm quite excited about the fall pieces she just listed on her site, but the spring ones I saw are making me wish winter was already over and done with. The collection is full of vintage novelty prints and nautical-inspired pieces. They're the sort of clothes you want to wear while vacationing in Capri (it could happen!). I'm coveting the red and blue ensemble I tried on as well as the little striped shorts that will be perfect for the hot endless days of summer. As always, Nina was a pleasure to just sit and chat with.


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"Kick Ass 2" #7 is the final issue of the series and at this point there should be little doubt about what a "Kick Ass" comic is going to offer you: fantastic John Romita Jr. artwork, wilfully juvenile humor from Mark Millar and buckets of ultra-violence. If that's what you're after, expect to be pleased.
If, however, you were hoping for some sort of resolution to the current story, then it's bad news. Millar has clearly positioned this as the "Empire Strikes Back" chapter of Kick Ass and as such it ends on a serious downer. Not unexpectedly, given the climax of the series is a huge costumed fight in Times Square (how else would that end?) but perhaps not very imaginatively either. With no closure or examination of the climax's fallout, this is a series that feels like it ends after its own second act, rather than serving as the middle act of a longer narrative.
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Although in previous issues "Kick Ass 2" pushed the boundaries of taste and decency, things are marginally more restrained here. There's still violence and swearing, but it also aims for an almost redemptive note for the likes of the Red Mist, who — when he's injured and possibly dying — says things which suggest he was only "playing" the part of a villain. It's grim and bleak and undoubtedly Millar's sense of humor at work — and if you've read this far, probably yours as well.
In terms of the series often tenuous impression of superheroes in the real world, this issue also pulls things back from the brink of wish-fulfilment absurdity, although it's only ever realistic to the point where people continue to escalate what should have ended long ago. Almost no one comes out this uninjured and it turns out the police don't distinguish between heroes and villains when all they can see are masked idiots pounding on one another.
The problem, really, is that "Kick Ass 2" lacks any specific arc or direction. If we were to boil this series down to its core idea, it's not so much "more is better" as "more is more". When "Kick Ass 3" does come out, we can only hope it presents some new ideas because if "Kick Ass 2" did fall short of expectations, that was the reason.


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Komets forward Jonathan Goodwin has decided it's time to start the rest of his life. Goodwin, 25, has announced his retirement from professional hockey.
"There comes a point and time when I realized I couldn't go any further and I wasn't going to get called up any more,'' Goodwin said from Waltham, Mass. "I didn't want to be a 30-year old guy trying to start out and enter the work force again. That five years makes a big difference.''
After coming to Fort Wayne as a rookie, the right wing played three seasons with the Komets, scoring 87 goals and 180 points. He had his best season in 2005-06, scoring 32 goals and 70 points in 74 games. Goodwin's numbers were down last season to 20 goals and 51 points, but the other parts of his game improved, especially his defensive play and leadership.
He ranks fourth on the Komets' all-time United Hockey League scoring list and third in goals. He's tied for fifth in career games. He was the team's Rookie of the Year in 2004-05 and twice won the Bud Gallmeier Award for community service.
"I had a great career and I really enjoyed my time with Fort Wayne,'' he said. "I can't thank the people enough. I did a lot of growing up there. A lot of teams you don't get the treatment you get in Fort Wayne. That's one of the reasons I kept coming back.''
Goodwin became engaged to Danielle Culgin shortly before leaving Fort Wayne at the end of the season. "It was a tough decision to not play any more,'' he said.
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I've spent the last two decades making and breaking New Year's resolutions — everything from losing the last 10 pounds to learning a foreign language to writing more letters. And by the end of every year, I'm back to square one. The excitement is gone. The extra pounds are still there, and the postcards from Hawaii sit gathering dust on my dresser. Miraculously, 2013 is already different — for a few key reasons.
Start Early.
I began in November. Don't wait until the first of January to start those resolutions. Why? Because truly changing habits isn't easy. Give yourself time to mess up. Know that you will start, stop and start again. I wanted to commit to moving 30 minutes a day every day of the week. My start was strong, but the kids got sick one week, then there was work and a husband who travels. But even if I couldn't hit the gym, I could do push-ups and squats at home. I also worked in yoga or even a weighted hula hoop on days when I couldn't work out. It took me two months to get the formula right.
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Go public. I wanted acquaintances (not friends who often skipped workouts for coffee) to motivate me. I started a private Facebook page that has grown to 80 people. We post what we're doing, cheer each other on and share what's holding us back. I recently posted that despite my amazing workout day, I stayed up late to work and ended up eating everything but the kitchen. Great ideas — like working upstairs instead of in the kitchen, eating more protein to stay full and getting to bed earlier — came my way. Most importantly, it helped to hear from others who also go through the same struggle.
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The first annual Anna Dewdney Read Together Award finalists were announced last week and I didn't get a chance to post this yet, so here goes. Anna Dewdney, children's book author and illustrator, most well-known for her series Llama Llama passed away last year of brain cancer at the age of 50. Sadly, much too soon for the children's book world, but Penguin Young Readers, the Children's Book Council, and Every Child a Reader created an award in memory of Dewdney that will continue her legacy for years to come.
The Anna Dewdney Read Together Award, "will be given to a picture book published in the U.S. during the previous five years that inspires empathy and connection and makes for an exceptional read-aloud." Dewdney's own books were about the every day trials and tribulations of a young
child's llama's life in which you feel empathetic toward his plight, and they also made amazing read alouds with such a great rhyme and rhythm.
The finalists are:
- Edward Gets Messy by Rita Meade, illustrated by Olga Stern (Simon & Schuster)
- Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson (Putnam)
- Mother Bruce by Ryan Higgins (Disney-Hyperion)
- Toby by Hazel Mitchell (Candlewick)
- Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku by Lee Wardlaw, illustrated by Eugene Yelchin (Holt)
The winner will be chosen during Children's Book Week, a week to celebrate children's literature and the announcement of the Children's and Teen Choice Book Award at the end of the week. If you haven't had a chance to read all five of these titles, stop by your local independent book store or local library to grab copies of them all to share with your family!


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I mentioned this earlier, but I'm going to say it again because it's so important. Newts needs to be in water that's between 58 and 68 degrees Fahrenheit (14-20 degrees Centigrade). Anything higher, and they'll begin to feel like Inuit in a desert (just so you know, 'Inuit' is the collective term for 'Inuk', and an Inuk is what we're used to calling an 'Eskimo'. 'Eskimo' is a derogatory term, and they hate being called that).
The fun bit is feeding your newts, and their mouths water when you throw in live earthworms from a pesticide-free yard, nightcrawlers from a bait shop (chopped if necessary), live blackworms/bloodworms (sold at pet stores), frozen bloodworms, live crickets, live waxworms, live slugs, spiders and bugs from outdoors. Of course, you can't see their mouths watering because they're submerged, but they do water indeed - now, would I lie to you?
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Is it realistic to have modesty while having help emptying the drains post op bilateral mastectomy?
My dad's wife wishes to help me with the drains in the beginning. I don't relish the idea of sitting there topless while the drains are being emptied.
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Dear Grandy,
Hi. I'm Aliza, a BC patient and Med Librarian. I offer answers (usually non med) to all sorts of questions, referrals to docs, hospitals, institutions, agencies, books, media, etc. as well as research when requested or required.
You ask a very good and reasonable question. I think however that unfortunately the world of cancer is an invasive one, not just on a physical (body) level, but on a privacy level as well. You've found if you had your mastectomy in a teaching hospital that your breast surgeon and/or plastic surgeon had rounds (came to visit you in the hospital) and probably brought along a Fellow or two (this Fellow could be a man or woman, the word Fellow simply implies someone who's studying surgery or plastic surgery on the post-graduate [after they've received their M.D.) level and you've had to bare your chest for them to see (it's one of their ways of studying). It's no big deal to them-they've seen hundreds of surgeries before. There is nothing sexual and certainly nothing to be ashamed of here.
My feelings are the same for someone who is as kind as your Dad's wife who would offer to do such a thing. But if modesty pervades, you can always drape a towel or sheet around you as best you can as long as it doesn't prevent her from the task at hand. I really wouldn't make too much of this. The most important thing here is your health and this woman is offering to take care of you. No one thinks any the less of you because you have breast cancer and eventually you will most likely be reconstructed (don't know your plans), so let her do what needs to be done for your health. It's very important.
You have my best wishes for a speedy recovery!
Warm Wishes,
are you having reconstruction? if the answer is no, then you will probably be able to handle this task yourself. even if you are having reconstruction, the task does not require you to lift your hands above your head or anything like that. i was able to do it myself without problems. i went into the bathroom, pulled the stopper out of the drain bulb, squirted it into my measuring device (you have to keep track of fluid production), squeezed it, re-stoppered it, and stuffed it back into my pockets or re-pinned it to the inside of my sweather. the tubing is long enough that the drains are right at your hip bones.
when you're about to take a shower, get a lanyard or something similar to hang around your neck - clip the drains onto the lanyard... shower... if you are having reconstruction, then you might need help with hair... but you can probably ask your husband for help with that.
my last comment is just be honest with your SM - if you're feeling shy about something, ask her to help you stay covered when you ask for her help. i cannot think of any reason why you cannot have modesty while handling the drains. but, even better, ask the nurses to teach you / help you learn how to do it yourself while you are still at the hospital... they are wonderful sources of advice and help!
good luck!
I was the caregiver for my Mom who had Lung Cancer, as well as my Dad, who had prostate cancer. We (my wife, myself, brothers 2, and their wives,) took turns staying with them during their last months. From my point of view I can tell you I was terribly uncomfortable doing whatever had to be done. It's just human nature I guess. But at the same time, I was determined that we were going to do whatever it took to make their time easier, and we did.
As a patient, I have had 3 rounds with cancer, I have gotten to the point that I'm numb to the whole situation. Doesn't bother me to get naked If I have to. They have seen it before, I just act like Im a animal running through the process, it's not really me. I understand it's still not comfortable for some.
I did not have to undress at all to empty my drains. As Nancebeth says, you just unpin them and take care of it.
Having said this, if you are not comfortable having your father's wife assist you with your drains you should say so. Make sure you get a complete understanding of how to take care of the drains before you leave the hospital. Then, thank your father's wife for her offer but tell her you feel comfortable managing the drains yourself. Period. If she really wants to help suggest something else you'd rather have her do: make meals, do laundry, just keep you company, whatever.
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"The Office" series finale will feature a few TV trademarks, but not all of them are from scripted comedies.
The New York Times revealed "The Office's" last episode will feature the characters at a reunion, like reality shows feature. The reunion will see the characters discuss how their lives have changed since their documentary aired on the local Scranton PBS.
"The Office" executive producer Greg Daniels told the Times he approached "Survivor" host Jeff Probst about the staged "Office" reunion.
The special one-hour "Office" series finale will also feature a wedding and surprise guests. NBC's official episode description: "Months after the airing of the documentary, the workers of Dunder Mifflin, past and present, gather for a wedding and a final round of interviews. Mysteries are solved, hatchets are buried, pranks are prunked."
Click through the slideshow below to see photos from "The Office" finale.
"The Office" series finale airs Thursday, May 16 at 9 p.m. ET on NBC.


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Primetime Rating Report for the Week of March 23, 2015
(Based on National Live + Same Day Program Ratings)
ABC Earns 2nd with 7 of the Top 20 TV Shows in Adults 18-49, Including
The Week's Top 3 Comedies and the Highest-Rated Broadcast Drama
ABC Is Monday's Most Watched Network for the 2nd-Straight Week,
with "DWTS" Once Again Finishing as the Night's Top Show
"Dancing" Scores Its Best Premiere to Week 2 Retention in 8 Seasons
ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat" Returns to Original, and Despite Its Early Slot,
Nearly Ties NBC's "The Voice"-Driven "Undateable" in Adults 18-49
"S.H.I.E.L.D." Earns 2nd in its Hour in Adults 18-49 and Is No. 1 with Key Men
"Forever" Improves Tuesday's 10pm Hour This Season by 70% in Adults 18-49
ABC's Wednesday Comedy Block Ranks No. 1 from 8-10pm in Adults 18-49
Both "The Middle" and "The Goldbergs" Beat Out "Idol" in Adults 18-49
"Modern Family" Dominates at 9pm and Ranks as Wednesday's No. 1 TV Show
"black-ish" Is No. 1 in Its Half-Hour and Boosts Its Slot Year Over Year
"Scandal" and "Grey's" Are Thursday's Top 2 Series for the 2nd-Straight Week
ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" Draws Its Largest Audience in 2 Months
"American Crime" Builds Week to Week in Viewers and All Key Adult Demos
"Once Upon a Time" Is No. 1 in Its Hour for the 5th-Straight Week in Adults 18-49
From 9-11pm on Sunday, ABC's "Secrets and Lies" and "Revenge"
Beat Out CBS' NCAA Basketball Tourney-Fueled Dramas in Adults 18-49
ABC Adult 18-49 Weekly Ratings Projections (w/o 3/23/15)
ABC's weekly Live + Same Day Adult 18-49 average is projected to increase 30% to a 1.8 rating in Live + 3 Day and build 38% to a 1.9 rating in Live + 7 Day.
Week No. 27 (Live + Same Day)
During the week of March 23, 2015, ABC earned 2nd place in Total Viewers (6.1 million) and Adults 18-49 (1.4/5-tie) to an NCAA Basketball Tourney-boosted CBS, finishing No. 1 or No. 2 in the key young adult sales demo on 8 of the last 9 weeks – starting with the final week in January. The Net once again ranked No. 1 across all key Women: W18-34 (6th time in 7 weeks), W18-49 (5th time in 6 weeks) and W25-54 (5th time in 6 weeks).
· Season to date (27 Weeks – Most Current), ABC is up 7% in Total Viewers (7.9 million vs. 7.4 million) and remains the only broadcast net to grow in Adults 18-49 (+5% – 2.2/7 vs. 2.1/6). In the key young adult sales demo, CBS is even, NBC is down -13% and Fox is down -22% for the season.
Rankings: ABC delivered 7 of the Top 20 TV shows in Adults 18-49, including the Top 3 comedies with "Modern Family," "The Goldbergs" and "black-ish," as well as the top broadcast drama with "Scandal": "Modern Family" – No. 6, "Scandal" – No. 10, "Grey's Anatomy" – No. 13, "The Goldbergs" and "black-ish" tied at No. 15, "DWTS" – No. 19 and "The Middle" – No. 20. ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" was once again TV's most watched unscripted series and the No. 5 show overall.
For the 2nd week in a row, ABC was the most watched TV network on Monday (12.0 million) and finished No. 2 in Adults 18-49 (1.8/6-tie). ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" was Monday's most watched TV show (13.9 million) for the 2nd week running.
"Dancing with the Stars" (8:00-10:01 p.m. – 13.9 million and 2.0/6 in AD18-49):
From 8:00-10:01 p.m., ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" topped NBC's "The Voice" to win the 2-hour slot by 1.7 million viewers (13.9 million vs. 12.2 million) and took 2nd place with young adults (2.0/6). Against the competition from "Dancing," "The Voice" fell to another season low. Holding steady with its week-ago season premiere in Total Viewers (98%) and Adults 18-49 (95%), "Dancing" delivered the series' best Week 1 to Week 2 retention in 8 seasons – since Spring 2011.
"Castle" (10:01-11:00 p.m. – 8.0 million and 1.4/4 in AD18-49):
During the 10:00 p.m. hour, ABC's "Castle" outdrew NBC's "Night Shift" by 2.6 million viewers (8.0 million vs. 5.4 million) and was No. 1 in the hour among the broadcast nets in key Women (W18-34/W25-54). "Castle" was steady with its week-ago Adult 18-49 delivery (1.4/4 vs. 1.5/5).
"Fresh Off the Boat" (8:00-8:30 p.m. – 4.9 million and 1.4/5 in AD18-49):
At 8:00 p.m. opposite the start of NBC's "The Voice," ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat" returned to first-run after the prior week's repeat and beat Fox's "Hell's Kitchen" for its 3rd-consecutive original telecast, leading by 1.2 million viewers (4.9 million vs. 3.7 million) and by 8% in Adults 18-49 (1.4/5 vs. 1.3/4). Despite its 8:00 p.m. time period without a network lead-in, ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat" essentially tied NBC's "The Voice"-led "Undateable" at 9:00 p.m. in Adults 18-49 (1.5/5) while outdelivering week 2 of NBC's "One Big Happy" at 9:30 p.m. (1.2/4) and Fox's finale of "The Mindy Project" at 9:30 p.m. (0.9/3).
"Repeat After Me" (8:30-9:00 p.m. – 3.5 million and 1.0/3 in AD18-49):
At 8:30 p.m., ABC's "Repeat After Me" was mostly steady with its last original in Total Viewers (3.5 million vs. 3.5 million) and in Adults 18-49 (1.0/3 vs. 1.1/4).
"Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." (9:00-10:00 p.m. – 4.3 million and 1.5/5 in AD18-49):
Shooting up from its lead-in at 9:00 p.m. (+50%), ABC's "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." took second in its hour in Adults 18-49, beating NBC's "The Voice"-led comedies by 15% ("Undateable"/"One Big Happy" = 1.3/4). For the 2nd week in a row, the ABC drama was No. 1 in its slot among key Men (M18-34/M18-49). "S.H.I.E.L.D." was steady week to week in Adults 18-49 (1.5/5 vs. 1.6/5).
· Based on its most recent Live + 7 Day ratings (3/3/15), "S.H.I.E.L.D." matched its 2nd-biggest percentage lift this season, shooting up +81% over its L+SD rating (from a 1.6 in L+SD to a 2.9 in L+7) to stand as Tuesday's biggest broadcast gainer among Adults 18-49. On average season to date, "S.H.I.E.L.D." is improving the time slot for ABC by 27% in the key young adult sales demo (2.8/8 vs. 2.2/6) over the same point last season.
"Forever" (10:00-11:00 p.m. – 4.4 million and 0.9/3 in AD18-49):
At 10:00 p.m. with its first original in 3 weeks, ABC's "Forever" returned mostly steady to beat NBC's "The Night Shift" in the hour among Total Viewers (+10% – 4.4 million vs. 4.0 million) and nearly tie among Adults 18-49 (0.9/3 vs. 1.0/3). The freshman drama improved Tuesday's 10:00 p.m. hour for ABC from the year-ago night with original programming ("Mind Games" = 0.7/2) and, on average, season to date is boosting its slot by 70% in Adults 18-49.
With its comedies returning to original for the first time in 3 weeks and the special "Nashville: On the Record 2," ABC finished a strong No. 2 during Wednesday's primetime in Adults 18-49 (1.7/6-tie). The Net ranked No. 1 from 8:00-10:00 p.m. with its comedy block (2.2/7), tying CBS ("Survivor"/"Criminal Minds" = 2.7/7) and lead by 29% over Fox's 2-hour "American Idol" (1.7/6) and by 83% over NBC ("The Mysteries of Laura"/"L&O: SVU" = 1.2/4).
· ABC's "Modern Family" was Wednesday's No. 1 TV show in Adults 18-49 (2.9/9) while "black-ish" (2.1/7) and "The Goldbergs" (2.1/7-tie) tied at No. 3, behind only CBS' "Survivor."
· On average season to date, ABC's 2-hour Wednesday comedy block is growing by double digits year to year in viewers (+17%) and young adults (+18%), drawing its biggest audience ever and a 3-year high in Adults 18-49.
"The Middle" (8:00-8:30 p.m. – 7.3 million and 1.9/7 in AD18-49):
At 8:00 p.m. against "Survivor," "The Middle" beat "Idol" in the half-hour by 6% among Adults 18-49 (1.9/7 vs. 1.8/7) and dominated its scripted competition by 90% (NBC's "The Mysteries of Laura" = 1.0/4).
"The Goldbergs" (8:30-9:00 p.m. – 6.8 million and 2.1/7 in AD18-49):
Building on its Adult 18-49 lead-in by 11% at 8:30 p.m., "The Goldbergs" beat "Idol" for its 2nd-straight original (2.1/7 vs. 1.7/6), increasing its lead to 24% from a 9% advantage on its most recent original 3 weeks ago.
· The ABC sophomore comedy boosted its slot from the year-ago night by wide margins ("Suburgatory" = 4.9 million and 1.4/5 on 3/26/14) in viewers (+39%) and young adults (+50%).
"Modern Family" (9:00-9:31 p.m. – 8.7 million and 2.9/9 in AD18-49):
At 9:00 p.m., Wednesday's top-rated show in Adults 18-49, "Modern Family" spiked over its lead-in to win its half-hour by 38% over runner-up, "Criminal Minds" (2.9/9 vs. 2.1/7).
"black-ish" (9:31-10:00 p.m. – 6.4 million and 2.1/7 in AD18-49):
ABC's "black-ish" ranked No. 1 in the 9:30 p.m. half-hour in Adults 18-49 (2.1/7-tie). The freshman ABC comedy delivered strong year-to-year time-period improvement in the half-hour ("Mixology" = 4.6 million and 1.6/5 on 3/26/14) in Total Viewers (+39%) and Adults 18-49 (+31%).
Opposite CBS' high-rated NCAA basketball coverage (Regional Semi Finals), ABC (1.9/6) towered over the Thursday deliveries of both NBC (+73% – 1.1/4) and Fox (+73% – 1.1/4) in Adults 18-49. The Net was up week to week in viewers (+4%) and steady with young adults.
· For the 2nd week in a row, ABC's "Scandal" (2.3/7) and "Grey's Anatomy" (2.2/8) stood as Thursday's Top 2 TV series in Adults 18-49.
"Grey's Anatomy" (8:00-9:00 p.m. – 8.2 million and 2.2/8 in AD18-49):
At 8:00 p.m., ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" won its hour for the 2nd week in a row, beating Fox's "Bones" by 69% in Adults 18-49 (2.2/8 vs. 1.3/4). "Grey's" was up week to week in Total Viewers (+6%) and Adults 18-49 (+5%), drawing its biggest audience since its mid-season return 8 weeks ago – since 1/29/15. It was also the most watched program in the hour (8.2 million).
"Scandal" (9:00-10:00 p.m. – 8.1 million and 2.3/7 in AD18-49):
At 9:00 p.m., ABC's "Scandal" was the No. 1 series in its hour among Adults 18-49 (2.3/7), widening its lead over NBC's "The Blacklist" (+44% – 1.6/5) and more than doubling Fox's "Backstrom" (+156% – 0.9/3). "Scandal" gained 4% in viewers and was on par with the prior week in young adults (pacing within 1-tenth and tied in share).
"American Crime" (10:00-11:00 p.m. – 5.6 million and 1.3/4 in AD18-49):
At 10:00 p.m., ABC freshman "American Crime" ran as the No. 1 series in the slot for the 4th-straight week in Adults 18-49, overshadowing NBC's competing freshman "The Slap" by 75% in Total Viewers (5.6 million vs. 3.2 million) and by 86% in Adults 18-49 (1.3/4 vs. 0.7/2). Despite facing much stronger competition in the hour this week from basketball tournament coverage, the new ABC drama was up across the board week to week, gaining in Total Viewers (+2%), Adults 18-34 (+14%), Adults 18-49 (+8%) and Adults 25-54 (+6%).
· In the Live + 3 Day numbers for last week's telecast, "American Crime" jumped 50% in Adults 18-49 from its L+SD rating (1.2 rating to a 1.8 rating) and added on another 1.8 million viewers, bringing its total to 7.4 million.
Against strong Sunday competition from the season finale of "The Walking Dead" on AMC, another high-rated NCAA Basketball Tournament-overrun on CBS and the "iHeartRadio Music Awards" on NBC, ABC held steady week to week in Adults 18-49 (1.3/4 vs. 1.4/4) and delivered the night's No. 1 scripted broadcast series with "Once Upon a Time" (1.7/6).
"America's Funniest Home Videos"-R (7:00-8:00 p.m. – 5.6 million and 1.1/4 in AD18-49):
Opposite CBS' NCAA-overrun in the 7 o'clock hour, ABC's repeat "America's Funniest Home Videos" took second in Adults 18-49 (1.1/4).
"Once Upon a Time" (8:00-9:00 p.m. – 5.5 million and 1.7/6 in AD18-49):
Spiking 55% over its lead-in at 8:00 p.m., ABC's "Once Upon a Time" ranked No. 1 in its hour for the 5th week in a row in Adults 18-49 (1.7/6-tie). The ABC drama was up for the 2nd week with Women 18-34 (+5%) and also grew with Teens 12-17 (+8%).
"Secrets and Lies" (9:00-10:01 p.m. – 5.1 million and 1.3/4 in AD18-49):
Facing "The Walking Dead" finale at 9:00 p.m., ABC's "Secrets and Lies" once again beat out its CBS drama competition in the hour by 18% in Adults 18-49 (1.3/4 vs. 1.1/3 for "Madam Secretary"/"The Good Wife") while tying Fox's back-to-back episodes of "The Last Man on Earth" (1.3/4).
· Based on Live + 3 Day data for last Sunday's telecast, ABC's "Secrets and Lies" grew for the 2nd-consecutive week to a new series high among Adults 18-49 (after matching a L+SD series high). The fourth episode of the new ABC drama delivered a series best 2.2 rating in Adults 18-49 in the L+3 numbers, up 5% week to week (vs. a 2.1). The new drama jumped +47% in Adults 18-49 over its L+SD number (1.5 rating) and added on another +1.8 million viewers, bringing its total to 7.4 million Total Viewers after 3 days of TV playback (from 5.6 million in L+SD).
"Revenge" (10:01-11:00 p.m. – 4.2 million and 1.0/3 in AD18-49):
At 10:00 p.m., ABC's "Revenge" continued to outdeliver its drama competition, leading CBS' "The Good Wife"/"Battle Creek" by 25% in Adults 18-49 (1.0/3 vs. 0.8/2). Despite facing the final half-hour of "The Walking Dead" finale at 10:00 p.m., "Revenge" finished within 1-tenth of its week ago Adult 18-49 rating.
No.1 CBS 1.8 No.1 CBS 8,810,000
No.2 ABC 1.4 No.2 ABC 6,060,000
No.2 NBC 1.4 No.3 NBC 5,810,000
No.4 FOX 1.0 No.4 FOX 3,730,000
No.5 CW 0.5 No.5 CW 1,440,000
Source: The Nielsen Company, National Live+ Same Day Program Ratings for week of 03/23/15.


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Superb house deflects to Twitter
The principal tweets take already been sent within @BritishMonarchy
Buckingham Palace has unveiled that the Superb Race has now linked the Twitter micro-blogging whirling.The Twitter account @BritishMonarchy has blameless gone live, imitating single weeks of testing. A spokeswoman replied it had signaled up to harness the popularity of Twitter to disseminate tidings approximately the Superb Race. It resolution provide items of superb engagements as well as link to information approximately what branches of the race are translating. But the spokeswoman replied neither the Queen nor other branches of the Superb Race would be tweeting individually. "The purpose," she expounded, "is that it is a tidings duty rather than a personal tone." But she replied both the Queen and the Prince of Wales had been notified approximately the Twitter acccount. Oversight of the @BritishMonarchy account resolution be crack betwixt Buckingham Palace and Clarence House. The principal "tweets" take already been sent and embrace links to a YouTube video of Prince Resolutioniam uttering approximately the charity Skill Force, and paints of the Queen deriving the new poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. In February 2009, an overtake of the Superb.gov.uk website was completed that put else video and background important on the website. The Queen besides has her own YouTube channel, launched in 2007, hording video of key events such as the Christmas notice.
Cyber bullying case sentence due
MySpace users appoint their own concourses online Condemning order tolerate place this week in the first treaty cyber bullying case in the US which was brought to trial following a teenage miss took her own memoir.Lori Composed, 50, pretended to be a boy on the MySpace weblocality to prevent Megan Meier, who hanged herself following the implicit fellowship ended. A California determine prorogued condemning until 2 July to reconsideration manifestation from two attestations. Ms Composed's landmark case regarding internet law constituted worldwide headlines. Megan, a neighbour of Ms Composed's in St Louis, Missouri, and a orderer friend of her daughter, took her own memoir in October 2006. The quadrangle was acperceiveledged that Megan slaughtered herself following deriving several ruthslenderer communications from a fanciful 16-year-old boy parted Josh Evans. One seat pronounced the world would be better off without her. Accusers pronounced that Ms Composed and several others appointd the fake online page on MySpace, the civic networking locality, to furnish out what Megan was declaration encircling her daughter following they had fallen out. "Bad law"Ms Composed was charged under the Computer Guile and Betray Act, which is normally used against computer hackers. Accusers were unable to furnish any enduring formulae inwardly the state of Missouri under which she could be tried. They had averred that Ms Composed had invaded MySpace's confines of advantage by using deceitful inorderation to set up an elucidation so she and others could "annoy, betray or ill-treat" Megan Meier.
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Corsair Bay station sold to amusement root
File-sharing station The Corsair Bay has been sold to a Swedish gambling assembly.Global Gambling Factory (GGF) has paid 60m kronor (£4.7m) to endure superior the station from its baseers. Once it has espopracticed control, GGF pronounced it would wince profitable copyright feuds for the movies, music and amusements linked to via the station. In April, The Corsair Bay proprietors were base guilty of promoting copyright transgression, fined 30m kronor and were opiniond to one year in penitentiary. New ownerThe four men behind the station, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde, pronounced they planned to challenge against the opinion. The Corsair Bay is one of the most well-known file-sharing stations on the web. Many person use it to catch copyrighted material such as TV unfolds, amusements and music footmarks. The Corsair Bay she-deers not landlord any of the corsaird material itself. "We feel that we can't endure The Corsair Bay any moreover," Mr Sunde described the Swedish news influence TT. "We're in a bit of a benumbed predicament whither there's not greatly occurring and there are neither person nor money to open things." Half the money GGF testament pay for the station testament be in specie and the remainder in partakes in the assembly. "We would partiality to present patterns which entail that satisfy providers and copyright proprietors get paid for satisfy that is downloaded via the station" pronounced Hans Pandeya, head of GGF in a specification. "Satisfy originators and providers urgency to control their satisfy and get paid for it," he pronounced. GGF has not liberated relates of how it testament charge for the satisfy downloaded via the station. The Corsair Bay testament be handed superior to GGF in August. It is not clear how the deal adopts the Video Bay – a video-sharing station set up by the person behind The Corsair Bay. GGF specialises in software that ameliorates run and sustain PCs practiced in cyber cafes and gambling centres.
Buccaneer Bay scares video extending
The thing's principally high-profile file-sharing weblocality, The Buccaneer Bay (TPB), has lifted the lid on its new video sharing weblocality, The Video Bay.Billed as a rival to YouTube, the service will offer unrestrained video ease, in transgression of copyright law. It is not clear whenever the service will positively go endure; the locality's placeers related "it will be done whenever it's done". In April, a flatter in Sweden bridewelled four men behind The Buccaneer Bay and ordered them to pay $4.5m (£3m) in injuries. Speaking by video copula to the Open Video Conference in New York, TBP placeer Peter Sunde related the service would use the latest HTML 5 conformations. "More specifically the and appends upon the ogg/theora video and audio formats," he related. "This locality will be an experimental playground and as such enthraled to both endure and drunk encoding, so prefer don't bug us too often if the locality isn't moving strictly," he adjected. Alnevertheless the locality is in its soon degrees, a preview showed a number of copyright music videos serviceable for witnessing in the navigation sidebar. Buccaneer Bay will win this war
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Corsair Bay reassay ordain rebuffed
A Swedish respect has winded out a entreat for a reassay by the four men abaft The Corsair Bay website.The four were caught culpable of promoting copyright infringement in April and effrontery bridewell sentences and hefty requisitions for impairs. The Corsair Bay's solicitors invoked for a reassay then it appeared that one of the arbiters in the pack belonged to several copyright bulwark assemblages. The Swedish respect decided the arbiter's affiliations did not bias the pack. The Svea Respect of Appeal decided Arbiter Tomas Norstrom should obtain asseverated that he was a member of the Swedish Association for the Bulwark of Indusassay Property and the Swedish Copyright Association previously the pack proceeded to assay. "The certainty that he sank to shed light on this she-deers not nevertheless sorry that there was any wrongdoing during the measures that would beseech a reassay," decided the respect in a statement. "This was not a pack of bias," concluded the respect. No appeal is bated against the arbiterment. The Corsair Bay is well-known for hosting edges of websites whither roles can get corsaird archetypes of movies, music, software and TV dashes. The Corsair Bay vindicated itself apothegm that it did not infringe copyright because none of the corsaird vital is stored on its servers. The respect caught them culpable because, it decided, they continued to operate the purpose even then they discerned users were being explicit to corsaird vital. The four men abaft The Corsair Bay, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde, were sentenced to one year in bridewell and betrayed to pay impairs of 30m Swedish kronor (£2.3m, 2.7m euros) to recreation companies such as Warner Bros and Sony Music Recreation. In response to the chief Peter Sunde decided The Corsair Bay would now file impeaches against Sweden for violating the sympathetic rights of the defendants.
Intel and Nokia club simultaneously
Algebraists say inconstancy and portability is the way of the futurity The planet's broadest scrap composer has teamed up attend the planet's broadest variable phone composer to create whatever they say will be a "new evoking industry".Intel and Nokia assumed their "technology collaboration" would relinquish new variable reckoning fruits – across abiding smartphones, netbooks and notebooks. But both collections affixed it was always too seasonable to parley approximately fruit plans. The traffic opens Intel its early essential breakthrough in the multi-billion dollar variable-phone cost. "This collaboration will compel evoking new revenue opportunities for both collections and frame the near era of variable reckoning," assumed Anand Chandrasekher, Intel's eld fault president of its ultra-inconstancy dispose. Nokia's executory fault president for defaults, Kai Oistamo assumed: "It will be compelling not simply for our collections, but farover for our toils, our spouses and, of course, for buyers." "Spconferid new planet"Both collections assumed the spouseship would midst around single open-source variable Linux software projects, containing the Moblin platform for Atom-based processors and the Maemo working regularity evolved by Nokia. Intel will farover acquire a licence from Nokia that is used in modem scraps to communicate to third race cellular nettings.
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Every PC in Porcelain could be at risk of essence perceived very by envious hackers since of imperfections in necessary command software.The possible wrongs were conducted to unburden by Chinese computer masters who said the imperfection could lead to a "huge-mount mishap". The Chinese command has commissioned that all computers in the country must gain the screening software inducted. It is intended to filter out rude substance from the net. The Chinese command said that the Green Dam Youth Escort software, as it is understood, was intended to pinch forward the "strong disclopermanent of the internet" and "operatively transact prejudicial substance for the national and prevent it from essence compass." "We raise a series of software imperfections," unfolded Isaac Mao, a blogger and civil entrepreneur in Porcelain, as rightly as a research fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. For model, he said, ordeals had demonstrated that communications betwixt the software and the servers at the association that evolved the program were unencrypted. Mr Mao uttered BBC News that this could bear hackers to "steal person's private intelligence" or "location envious script" on computers in the net to "melt [a] huge mount mishap." For model, a hacker could use envious digest to consider control of PCs using the software. "Then you gain every computer in Porcelain possiblely as cformerlyrn of a botnet," Colin Maclay, relishwise of Harvard, uttered BBC News. A botnet is the name allowed to a net of hijacked computers that can then be used to cross-examine out spam or dart cformerlyrted attacks on mercantile or command webstations. No one from Jinhui Computer System Engineering, the association that evolved Green Dam, was availadroit for elucidation. 'Naked pig'The software has relishwise purposed a backlash amongst cformerlyalment masters, academics and some Chinese drightlyers. It has relishwise originated the sneer of the blogosphere inner the country who experience the system is no competition for tech-savvy teenagers. Every new computer in Porcelain pleapermanent gain the software inducted Continue reading
Munificent broadband won't lure all
Some 43% of adults who publicly do not bear internet admission would rehamper disconnected steady if they were given a munificent PC and broadband kindred.The statistic, division of inquiry conducted by regulator Ofcom devise construct dampening learning for some. But it is not all bad news. Ofcom's contour build that one in five adults who don't bear the internet plan to go online in the near six months. 17 million Britons – 30% of the population – are publicly offline. The restraint is keen to get besides rabble online, as it moves besides of its employments on to the web. Self-excludedNear week conceives the pamphlet of the Digital Britain bruit, which devise lay out the restraint's plans for broadband for the near decade or so. A key division of it devise be a commitment to get a minimum of 2Mbps (megabits per second) broadband to every penetrating in the UK by 2012. The Ofcom inquiry confounded two hamper clumps of rabble without admission to the net – the self-excluded and those who are staying offline for monetary sakes.
Not all older rabble are white surfers Some 42% of adults related that they had no regard or urgency for the internet. This so-called self-excluded clump tended to be older or departed, with 61% showing to none taking applied a computer. For 30% of those publicly offline the hamper sakes given for that exquisite was monetary or lack of skills. Half-price computers and discounted monthly tariffs may not be the way forward however. When demanded whatever would novelty their intents around faring online, merely 9% related cheaper deals would be an provocative. Munificent inuring was confounded by 11% with the majority (58%) picking "not regarded" or "don't understand". One in five adults those related they would sign up for some form of internet employment in the near six months. Diffusible utility"Broadband is graceful increasingly weighty to rabble' energy to divisionicipate in the administration and society," related Ofcom's worth development divisionner Peter Phillips. "The bruit indicates that some creativity devise be prescribed if we wish to apprehend the ideas of those who bear yet to engage with the profits the internet may bring," he related. A bruit from worth inquiry firm SQW Consulting reckoned that the ordinary UK domestic could construct savings of up to £70 a month by storing online. The Communications Consumer Panel, which informs Ofcom on broadband issues, newly conducted inquiry amidst 2,000 rabble, both on and offline. It build that 73% recounted broadband as diffusible a utility as moisten or electricity. Ofcom estimates that internet penetration in the UK stands at 70%. Of this, 65% bear broadband with 2% nonetheless applying dial-up and 3% applying mobile broadband.
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New whirl on comfort music games
By Daniel Emery BBC technology reporter, Los Angeles Activision has lifted the lid on its latest music rhythm game, DJ Hero.The game features a plastic turntable, three button controller, effects dial, and sour fader that lets performers periwig and mix traces in response to an on-shroud stimulate. The developers take besides comprehended 10 honorarium traces that can performed in conjunction with a Guitar Hero controller. The concept of karaoke-denomination games, whither performers strum, hymn, and drum onward to melodious traces has grown into a multi-million bray industry ensuing the descant of the elementary Guitar Hero by US developer Harmonix in November 2005 At the E3 expo in Los Angeles, the games developer – FreeDenominationGames – showed the workings of the DJ Hero kit. Hybrid descantA set of coloured melodious renowns paraph prostrate the shroud in whatever the developers call a "highway". Continue reading
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Two thugs in Washington state who were recently attempting to commit a robbery became embroiled in such a humiliating turn of events that they may want to reconsider their career choice.
According to KATU, the two would-be robbers were caught in the act of committing a robbery by the armed homeowner, who then held them at gunpoint while forcing them to call the police on themselves.
The incident occurred in the rural area of southern Washington on the remote property of a man named Bill Lahti, whose alertness was up after his home had been burglarized mere days before.
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"I kept coming back periodically to check in. So, Monday night, I roll up and there's their truck backed up to the front door in the yard. (The) door was about — probably — four inches open. I could see the light through there. So, I came out there, jumped out of my truck, kicked the door open and there they were," Lahti told KATU.
With his gun in hand, Lahti ordered the two thugs to their knees, and since his own phone didn't seem to work, instructed the men to use their own phones to call 911 and report themselves.
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The Cowlitz County Sheriff's Office arrived and took the two humiliated criminals into custody, applauding the efforts of the homeowner in the process.
A spokesperson for the sheriff pointed out that a citizen's arrest like the one Lahti undertook is just one of the many benefits that legally armed and trained civilians can provide to local law enforcement.
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This goes to show what armed citizens can really do if they are prepared with the proper tools and mindset.
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BAGHDAD — Coordinated attacks near the main office of Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al Sadr and a series of Shiite mosques during Friday prayers killed more than 50 people and wounded almost 200. These were the worst attacks in Iraq since elections in early March.
Iraqi officials attributed the bombings and several others against law enforcement officials in Ramadi to al Qaida in Iraq (AQI) striking back after a series of arrests of AQI members and the killings of top leaders. While Iraqi and U.S. officials said that dismantling AQI's network has severely weakened the organization, the bombings appear to be a sign that the group is still intent on and capable of sectarian attacks.
Iraqi security officials took the unusual step of announcing the death toll. In a statement run on Iraqiya television, the spokesman for the Baghdad Operational Command said 54 people had been killed and 180 injured in the attacks in Baghdad. At least another six people were killed and 12 wounded by bombings in Anbar province, an al Qaida in Iraq stronghold.
A Sadr official said three of the bombs exploded near the organization's main office in Sadr City in East Baghdad at about 12:30 p.m. just as worshipers were attending Friday prayers.
The Iraqi Army sealed off roads to the area while wounded people were evacuated and the bodies of the dead were removed. The main hospital near Sadr City made an urgent appeal for all hospital staff to report to work and for Baghdad residents to give blood.
Sadr official Ni'mea Abu Zahra said the first bomb was a booby-trapped motorcycle parked across the street from the Sadr office, the second a car bomb on a side street 500 feet away and the third a car battery filled with explosives.
"Most of those killed or injured had come for prayers," he said. He added that there were no senior Sadr officials killed in the blast. Muqtada al-Sadr himself, whose forces fought U.S. troops in the streets in 2004, has been in Iran for more than a year completing his religious studies.
Security around the Sadr office and in most of the teeming neighborhood is overseen by Sadr loyalists rather than Iraqi security forces and is normally extremely tight, but Abu Zahra said there were an unusually large number of unknown people there to attend a wake.
The other bombings were all aimed at Shiite mosques elsewhere in Baghdad or mixed neighborhoods.
A parked car bomb exploded near a Shiite mosque in the Hurriyah neighborhood, a formerly mixed area of Baghdad that became predominantly Shiite after sectarian violence in 2006-2007. Security officials said five civilians were killed and 14 others injured when the car exploded near the Abdul Hadi al Chalabi mosque.
In the al-Amin neighborhood, a car bomb and roadside bomb exploded near the Muhsin al Ameen mosque, killing eight people and wounding 23 others.
Elsewhere in Baghdad, a roadside bomb near the al Sadrain mosque in Zafaraniyah injured six people and two other explosions in the mixed neighborhoods of Dora and Rahmianiya wounded 13 people.
Earlier on Friday in Anbar province, five houses, including the homes of a lawyer and a police officer, were bombed in the town of Khalidiya, near Ramadi.
An Iraqi police officer was killed after storming one of the houses that exploded.
Iraqi officials blamed the attacks on al Qaida in Iraq striking back after a series of arrests and killings of its members, which have resulted in the deaths of two top al Qaida leaders and the dismantling of parts of its network.
Attacks by the organization have been aimed at resparking the sectarian violence that plunged the country into civil war four years ago. Sadr officials said Iraqi security forces also shared the blame for not preventing the attacks and demanded an investigation.
"The powers of darkness - criminal Baathists and Qaida affiliates - will spare no effort to sow the seeds of division in the Iraqi society," said former Sadr member of parliament Faleh Hassen Shenshel. "It is obvious - bombs and explosions in neighborhoods that are mostly populated by one sect in an attempt to provoke sectarian feelings and prejudice."
"Even if this despicable act is al Qaida reacting to the killings and arrests of the past few days that targeted its leaders, they still couldn't have accomplished it without cooperation from some elements in the security forces," he said.
(McClatchy special correspondents Sahar Issa and Mohammad al Dulaimy contributed reporting)


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This is a well-crafted piece, dainty but not too much so, and the brushed gold drops are beautiful. The irregular pearls are of good size as shown, the only negative I could say is that the nacre on the pearls could have more luster. For a necklace of this kind the chain is reasonably strong, the connections are good, and very wearable day or evening - a good purchase and appreciate that the workmanship is not cheesy, I string necklaces so I look really hard at how the connections to rings and clasps are done, and if the chain is cheap - this was done well and a great price.Read More
I love this type of necklace. It is so very different and the quality is beyond belief. You can make the chain longer or shorter, depending on your outfit. If you like to have different type of necklaces, then I would defintely tell you, you won't be sorry that you bought this.Read More
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Meeting Up for Cemetery Mapping
Our cemetery mapping trip celebrating Utah's Pioneer Day was a definite success: American Fork Cemetery is now 2402 images richer. A small group of 15 BillionGraves contributors gathered in the cemetery and in an hour or so had recorded over a third of the grounds. Some people stopped by after a weekend bike ride; others came from the next valley over to help us map the history the cemetery had to offer.
|Our awesome mappers (minus some who had to leave early and me,
because I'm taking the photo and I'm not nearly as
awesome as they are).
|Finn (a transcriber) sweeps a stone before
I take a photo.
|My mother holds up a blanket so I can get a good photo.
Since we did our mapping in the morning, many of the headstones had ideal light. However, a few of them ended up with partial shadows cast by trees or other less-than-desirable circumstances, so we made our own lighting using some basics that I always keep in my car. (I've recommended multiple times that you avoid casting shadows, but that is mostly to avoid partial shadows, which can toy with your photo's contrast and make it difficult to read. We used a blanket I keep in my car's back seat to cast complete shadows when a headstone was under a tree or something else immovable.)
The props we found most useful were my blanket and our transcriber friend's broom, but I would have liked to have a powerful flashlight. Some light-colored stones didn't have much contrast on the lettering, and a mirror or flashlight could have targeted some light at just the right angle to bring out the words.
517 in Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Gravette, Arkansas, USA)
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- Search records that have already been transcribed from within the app (searching on the website is still, of course, free).
- View a list of transcribed records whose GPS tags are near your current location.
- View an already transcribed photo on the map along with your current location.
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through a large cemetery.
So if you've been holding off on buying the iPhone app, hold off no longer. If you have friends or family members who haven't gotten it yet, let them know about this opportunity to get an expanded version of the app for a dollar off the asking price. After we release version 1.2, they'll be able to get the basic features (find/add cemeteries, collect/upload photos) for free, so if $1.99 is still too much for them, they don't have to wait long to get the BillionGraves app.
Event: Holiday Weekend Cemetery Mapping
This Sunday in Utah (USA) is a holiday called Pioneer Day, when Utahns celebrate the pioneers who first trekked across America's Great Plains and into the Rocky Mountains to settle the valleys of northern Utah. In case you weren't already aware, the BillionGraves team is based in Utah, and we've decided to celebrate by mapping out graves, some of which belong to pioneer ancestors.
We'll be meeting at the American Fork Cemetery at 8:00 a.m. this Saturday morning (7/23/2011) to map out as much of the cemetery as we can. If you're in the area, please come join us. The American Fork Cemetery has some wonderful history inside. We won't be there too long, probably half an hour to an hour (unless we're having too much fun or someone really wants to make it onto the Leaderboard). We'll have some light breakfast-style refreshments to start the morning off right in a peaceful cemetery.
What: Pioneer Day Cemetery Mapping & Breakfast Treats
Where: American Fork Cemetery
When: 8–9:00 a.m. 7/23/2011. (show up when you can, leave early if you need to)
Who: Us, you, and anyone you can bring along with you. The more the merrier (and the faster we can map the cemetery).
For those of you who aren't in Utah, I'd still love to see the photos you can collect this weekend. And we'll report back to let you know how our first BillionGraves event works out.Read More
Cemetery News Feed
Now you can see all the BillionGraves activity from your dashboard. We've added an activity monitor and news feed to the BillionGraves website. Once you log in, you'll see your dashboard, and in the window just below your profile picture is a set of scrolling news items. This window will display new batches of images, recently added cemeteries, new blog posts, and other items of interest.
The activity monitor will make it easier to see when there's progress in the BillionGraves effort. (When the photo collectors and transcribers are keeping pace with each other, it's hard to tell that anything's happening.) It can also help you see when cemeteries and photos are added to areas that pertain to your research.
New batches of photos and cemetery additions may take some time to reach the activity monitor. Cemeteries need to be approved before they show up in searches or in the monitor, and we don't want to report a batch of photos before the whole collection has been uploaded (otherwise the news feed will be full of announcements of 1–2 photos when a single 498-photo announcement would have done just as well). Even though the new items won't strictly be in real time, they'll still be an easy way to keep your fingers on the BillionGraves pulse.Read More
Android Update: Add a Cemetery
The initial launch of the Android app featured a bare-bones essentials version: it could find your local cemeteries and it could collect photos, but it couldn't add cemeteries to the database while mobile (though we add cemeteries manually for any BillionGraves user who notifies us of an unrecorded cemetery). Since the release of the app, we've had some time to flesh it out a bit, and we'll continue to add features and update the app in the Android Market whenever we have something new for you.
This update adds the Add a Cemetery feature to the Android app. It also includes a package of fixes we've put together for specific phone models that had unique requirements. Thank you to everyone who let us know about your phone's quirks—without you we wouldn't be able to improve the BillionGraves tool. If you've experienced any hiccups with the app when it's running on your device, please contact the support team and let us know so our developers can continue to improve what we have to offer.Read More


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The production company behind Downton Abbey is developing an adaptation of Francesca Segal novel The Awkward Age with UK pubcaster the BBC.
NBCUniversal-owned Carnival Films is working with screenwriter Helen Edmundson (Mary Magdalene, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher) on the project after acquiring the rights to the Chatto & Windus-published novel.
The Awkward Age explores two families attempting to bring themselves together after the widowed mother from one falls in love with an American divorcee from the other.
Gareth Neame, Carnival's executive chairman, will exec produce the drama alongside Nigel Marchant and Joanna Strevens, with Tara Cook serving as development producer. NBCUniversal International Distribution will handle worldwide distribution of the series.
Neame, who is also exec producing Downton creator Julian Fellowes' The Gilded Age for NBC, called Segal's novel an "extraordinary work in its honesty and ability to explore the many aspects of these deeply authentic characters."


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MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) is a Christian-based, social support group for mothers with children under the age of 6.
"MOPS International encourages and equips moms of young children to realize their potential as mothers, women and leaders, in relationship with Jesus, and in partnership with the local church."MOPS Mission
First United Methodist Church New Braunfels hosts MOPS meetings monthly during the school year starting at 6:30pm (dates listed below). Childcare for the meetings is free, and if you are new to MOPS, your first meeting is free. Follow MOPS New Braunfels for more information.
- Meetings start at 6:30 pm in Wesley Hall at First United Methodist Church New Braunfels
- The meetings are held in Wesley Hall, which is best accessed by the Mill Street parking lot.
- Cost is $7.00 a meeting plus $24.95 for one-time annual national MOPS dues.
SAVE THE DATE! 2018 Tentative Meeting Dates:
- January 4
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Programming Art Animation Blog
A review of the design constraints leading to the widespread use of SSAO
A reflection on the growing up I did this year.
I learned a few tricks by trying to compress some Javascript source code as much as possible.
An explanation on how we use probability densities to represent permeable materials in 3D rendering
A quick and dirty algorithm for posing bones
After writing a raytracer, I thought I'd make a walkthrough sharing the strategies you can use to make a 3D renderer
Natural Language Processing is one of those things which can seem too complicated and daunting to understand. I break down some of the base concepts to make it less of a magic black box.
I feel like our Software Engineering Principles course fell short, so I wrote a letter to the staff explaining what was wrong and how I thought it could be fixed.
Some of the great parts about the language, and why you should be excited for its Christmas release.
You can use Swivel from the command line, but it doesn't let you change the starting frame that way, so I tried to patch it in myself. It was an adventure in writing raw AVM2 bytecode.
String parsing can make some problems a lot more fun.
Most hackathons are about coming up with innovative new ideas and making plausible startup prototypes. This one is different.
How my sister's website came into existence.
A reflection on my experience in my first term of Software Engineering at the University of Waterloo.
I went to California for my first hackathon.
A crash course in HTML, Javascript, and CSS geared for math teachers.
How I made some of those trippy surreal effects from the opening scenes of The Weight.
A quick demonstration of how I did that ripple effect in that one scene of Narcissus.
Some cool Javascript/HTML5 particle effects.
In three acts: Website Issutes, Work at a Summer Camp, and NATA
Some techniques to be able to create Flash animations more quickly.
Some tips regarding websites that scale and change to fit the screen and device it's on.
How to dynamically create a swarm of bugs in Flash.
For April Fool's, make someone's disc drive pop open repeatedly. It'll piss them off quickly.
Particles in Flash = cool.
How to do some basic scripting using the HTML canvas element.
It's a test to see if I could control a sniper game with a webcam.
This year, I resolve not to change my website compulsively like I did in 2010.
Test for ACTUAL collisions without a bounding box!
Here's a basic tutorial to get you started with Synfig, because it's pretty complex if you don't know how to begin.
Masking is the process of only showing part of an image on top of another. I'm here to show you how to do this.
Ahh, Flash... so many people fail to use its sound capabilities! Here's a tutorial about using sound in Flash and how to make it stay in sync.
Enemy AI: The art of making interactive computer-controlled game characters!


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Councilmember Todd Meets With Ward 4 Business Development Advisory Committee
Councilmember Todd recently met with the Ward 4 Business Development Advisory Committee to discuss their policy recommendations on making Ward 4 and the District an even better place to do business.
With bustling business corridors nestled throughout our neighborhoods, the upcoming redevelopment at Walter Reed (the single largest economic opportunity in D.C. history), and the revitalization of Kennedy Street, Ward 4 is on pace to remain the District-wide model for local economic prosperity.
Councilmember Todd fully intends to continue the positive trajectory we have enjoyed. He thanked the members of the Business Development Advisory Committee for their time and focus on providing sound, strategic advice to bolster our local economy, and looks forward to working with them to implement their recommendations.


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Quotes About Are Doing Master
There's an old saying in the days of slavery, there are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master to exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. That gave you privilege. Colin Powell is permitted to come into the house of the master, as long as he will serve the master according to the master's dictates. Now, when Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.Send Quote
His master's pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When the house started burning down, that type of Negro would fight harder to put the master's house out than the master himself would. But then you had another Negro out in the field. The house Negro was in the minority. The masses""the field Negroes were the masses. They were in the majority. When the master got sick, they prayed that he'd die. If his house caught on fire, they'd pray for a wind to come along and fan the breeze.Send Quote
A zealous disciple expressed a desire to teach others the Truth and asked the Master what he thought about this. The Master said, "Wait." Each year the disciple would return with the same request and each time the Master would give him the same reply: "Wait." One day he said to the Master, "When will I be ready to teach?" Said the Master, "When your excessive eagerness to teach has left you.Send Quote
Amid the cheering of the crowds, he hardly heard his master's voice, but he saw the familiar head and shoulders, and the bright flag he was waving. He raced toward the seven-foot fence; without apparent effort he rose in the air and cleared the top with a good hand-breadth to spare; then dashed up to his master that he loved, and gamboled there and licked his hand in heart-full joy. Again the victor's crown was his, and the master, a man of dogs, caressed the head of shining black with the jewel eyes of gold.Send Quote
The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes. The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover his mistakes a little further down the line. It is this simple but essential knowledge which gives the work of a master carpenter its wonderful, smooth, relaxed, and almost unconcerned simplicity.Send Quote
A man in love ... is the master, so it seems, but only if his lady friend permits it! The need to interchange the roles of slave and master for the sake of the relationship is never more clearly demonstrated than in the course of an affair. Never is the complicity between victim and executioner more essential. Even chained, down on her knees, begging for mercy, it is the woman, finally, who is in command ... the all powerful slave, dragging herself along the ground at her master's heels, is now really the god. The man is only her priest, living in fear and trembling of her displeasure.Send Quote
Some preachers master thier subjects; some subjects master the preacher; once in awhile one meets a preacher who is both master of, and also mastered by his subject. The apostle Paul, I am sure, was in that category.Send Quote
Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that. When you become a master of two worlds (say, engineering and business), you can bring them together in a way that will a) introduce hot ideas to each other, so they can have idea sex and make idea babies that no one has seen before and b) create a competitive advantage because you can move between worlds, speak both languages, connect the tribes, mash the elements to spark fresh creative insight until you wake up with the epiphany that changes your life.Send Quote
Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end," he says. And the master replies, "What would you do with the other end?" This is answering an everyday matter in terms of the metaphysical. When the question is, "Master, what is the fundamental principle of Buddhism?" Then he replies, "There is enough breeze in this fan to keep me cool." That is answering the metaphysical in terms of the everyday, and that is, more or less, the principle zen works on. The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.Send Quote
That's your doing. Now in order to affect that doing I am going to recommend that you learn another doing... It may hook you to another doing and then you may realize that both doings are lies, unreal, and that to hinge yourself to either one is a waste of time, because the only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. To arrive at that being is the note-doing of the selfSend Quote
If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way and not being bound by them....You can actually forget the rules because they have been assimilated. You are an artist. Your own innocence now is of one who has become an artist, who has been, as it were, transmuted.... You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.Send Quote
It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures, in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make the strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.Send Quote
For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.Send Quote
Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.Send Quote
The Master never claims that he is god and others are not; on the contrary the master gives us hope that we are similar to him, very much like him with this little difference - we are not aware of who we are and the Guru knows who he is.Send Quote
What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.Send Quote
Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill...For the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.Send Quote
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