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LYTHAM, England – Facts and figures for the British Open golf championship:
Event: 141st British Open
Dates: July 19-22
Site: Royal Lytham & St. Annes
Length: 7,086 yards
Par: 34-36_70
Field: 156 (154 professionals, 2 amateurs).
Prize money: 5 million pounds (about $7.75 million).
Winner's share: 900,000 pounds (about $1.4 million).
Defending champion: Darren Clarke.
Last year: Darren Clarke, who had not even contended at a major in 10 years, withstood a pair of American challenges and finally captured a major championship. He closed with an even-par 70 at Royal St. George's to win by three shots over Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson. Johnson's charge was stopped when he hit out-of-bounds with his second shot to the par-5 14th. Mickelson's undoing was missing a 3-foot par putt on the 11th. At 42, Clarke became the third-oldest player to win his first major.
Last time at Lytham: David Duval started in a four-way tie for the lead and closed with a 4-under 67 to capture his first — and only — major championship. He finished on 10-under 274 for a three-shot win over Niclas Fasth. Ian Woosnam made birdie on the par-3 opening hole, only to discover he had an extra driver for 15 clubs in his bag, which cost him two shots. He wound up four shots behind.
Open champions at Royal Lytham & St. Annes: David Duval (2001), Tom Lehman (1996), Seve Ballesteros (1979, 1988), Gary Player (1974), Tony Jacklin (1969), Bob Charles (1963), Peter Thomson (1958), Bobby Locke (1952), Bobby Jones (1926).
The course: Royal Lytham & St. Annes is filled with distinctions. It is the only links on the Open rotation that begins with a par 3 and ends with six successive par 4s. It is the only links with no open views of the sea, protected on three sides by houses. It is the smallest property among links courses on the rotation, and it has more bunkers — 206 — that any of the other courses. The club opened in 1866 and hosted its first Open in 1926, won by Bobby Jones. This year, the sixth hole will be played as a par 4, meaning par for the course will be 70 for the first time.
Key statistic: The last 15 majors have been won by 15 players, the second-longest streak since the Masters began in 1934.
Tailing Tiger: Tiger Woods has not had a top 10 in the British Open since winning at Royal Liverpool in 2006. He did not play in 2008 and 2011.
Noteworthy: Americans have a chance to hold all four straight majors for the first time since Phil Mickelson won the 2004 Masters.
Quoteworthy: "There's no experience like walking down the 18th hole at The Open Championship when the grandstands are full." — Two-time British Open champion Padraig Harrington.
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It's official, Rob Ryan is heading to New Orleans. Fox Sports insider and NFL Network contributor Jay Glazer reported the Saints have hired Ryan to fill their defensive coordinator opening.
The team officially announced the move later on Saturday.
"In regards to Rob, we have experience in preparing and playing against his defenses and they've always been challenging in terms of the different looks and pressures that they feature," Saints coach Sean Payton said in a press release.
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Ryan was the favorite after things didn't work out with the St. Louis Rams. University of Georgia defensive coordinator Todd Grantham interviewed Thursday, but withdrew his name from consideration.
It's been an odd offseason for the former Dallas Cowboys coordinator. He was unceremoniously fired in Dallas, then hired/not hired in St. Louis. Now he lands in New Orleans, which might be the best spot of the three. Ryan won't have to win games with his defense, since Drew Brees runs one of the most dangerous offenses in the NFL. The 2012 season for the Saints broke a three-year run of playoff berths, and was more of a fluke as a result of of the bounty suspensions.
"I have had the opportunity to get to know Sean Payton and his staff a bit better recently and I am excited about joining the team," Ryan said. "I have a ton of respect for (owner Tom) Benson, (general manager) Mikey (Loomis) and the organization and I'm ready to get to work on all facets of the game. This is a great opportunity and we're getting started right away."
Payton is back and wants Ryan to install his 3-4 scheme. The changeover shouldn't be that difficult, considering they didn't play the 4-3 all that well. The defense only has to be average for the Saints to become one of the league's top teams again. They won seven games with the worst total defense in 2012.
The fired Steve Spagnuolo ran some 3-4 looks, but Ryan will need a few new bodies to fit the system full-time -- a pass rusher, cornerback and safety are first on the list.
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University of Maryland research that started with bacteria from the Chesapeake Bay has led to the development of a bacterium, called Saccharophagus degradans which can break down almost any source of biomass, or plant life, into sugars, which can then be converted into ethanol and other biofuels.
That process, developed by University of Maryland professors Steve Hutcheson and Ron Weiner, professors of cell biology and molecular genetics, is the foundation of their incubator company Zymetis.
They discovered how to produce the enzyme in their own laboratories. The result was Ethazyme, a bacterium that creates a mixture of enzymes—through a patent-pending system which degrades the tough cell walls of cellulosic materials into bio-fuel ready sugars in one step, which are then converted into ethanol and other biofuels at a significantly lower cost and with fewer caustic chemicals than current methods.
"We believe we have the most economical way to produce biofuels from cellulosic material"
-- Steve Hutcheson, CEO of Zymetis Inc.
The company's process is less expensive than alternative methods of ethanol production, including other cellulosic ethanol production processes. According to Zymetis, their enzymes have the potential to decrease the cost of cellulosic ethanol production by as much as 33%, making it competitive with gasoline.
Zymetis has also developed enzyme technologies that can be sold to existing corn-based ethanol plant operators today to improve both their profitability and yield by more efficiently using the feedstock.
Zymetis is also working with a waste paper processing facility to turn scrap fiber into ethanol. This work could result in a full-scale production facility by the end of the year—a drastic difference from the projected five-year development time for other enzyme-based cellulosic ethanol facilities.
There seems to be nearly as many cellulosic ethanol processes as there are hydrogen storage materials - too many to keep track of. This one seems to have promise by reducing the number of steps in the process and apparently having found a low cost enzyme. If they can produce the waste paper processing plant by the end of the year, they will have found something of great value.


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GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- Mexican troops have made a historic seizure of 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in the western state of Jalisco, an amount equivalent to half of all meth seizures worldwide in 2009.
The sheer scale of the bust announced late Wednesday in the western state of Jalisco drew expressions of amazement from meth experts. The haul could have supplied 13 million doses worth over $4 billion on U.S. streets.
"This could potentially put a huge dent in the supply chain in the U.S," said U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman Rusty Payne. "When we're taking this much out of the supply chain, it's a huge deal."
Reporters were shown barrels of white and yellow powder that were found in a laboratory on a small ranch outside of Guadalajara, Mexico's second-largest city.
The Mexican army said troops received several anonymous tips and found the massive drug stash in the township of Tlajomulco de Zuniga, near the Jalisco state capital of Guadalajara. The army statement called the seizure "historic," implying it was the largest on record for the armed forces.
There were no people found on the ranch or arrests made, although it appeared 12 to 15 people worked there.
"Seizures of this size ... could mean one of two things," said Antonio Mazzitelli, the regional representative of the U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime. "On one hand, it may be a product that hasn't been able to be sold, and like any business, when the market is depressed, stockpiles build up."
Or, he noted, "such large-scale production could suggest an expansion, an attempt by some Mexican groups, the most business-oriented I would say, to move into Latin American and Asian markets.
The previous biggest bust announced by the army came in June 2010, when soldiers found 3.1 metric tons (3.4 tons) of pure meth in three interconnected warehouses in the central state of Queretaro, along with hundreds of tons of precursor chemicals used to make meth. A giant underground lab was also found in Sinaloa state.
Those other seizures were believed to be linked to the powerful Sinaloa cartel's massive move into meth production. A senior U.S. law enforcement official in Mexico said Thursday this week's bust in Jalisco was "probably Sinaloa."
The official, who could not be named for security reasons, said Sinaloa may be moving into meth "to reduce its reliance on Colombian cocaine by flooding the market with meth."
The size of the Jalisco bust stunned Steve Preisler, an industrial chemist who wrote the book "Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture" and is sometimes called the father of modern meth-making.
"I have never seen quantity in that range," Preisler wrote. He also noted: "The amounts of precursors they were importing would produce multi-tons of product."
There has also been a dramatic increase in seizures of meth-making chemicals imported to Mexico from countries such as China. Such seizures indicate that Mexico may become a world production platform for methamphetamines, and that Mexican cartels may be dominating the trade.
In December alone, Mexican authorities seized 675 tons of a key precursor chemical, methylamine, that can yield its weight in uncut meth. All of the shipments were headed for Guatemala, where the Sinaloa cartel is also active. Officials in Guatemala, meanwhile, seized 7,847 barrels of precursors in 2011, equivalent to about 1,600 tons.
Few people use pure meth, and street cuts can be three or even five parts filler. A pound of meth can sell for about $15,000.
After a dip in 2007, the supply of methamphetamine in the United States has been growing, mainly due to its manufacture in Mexico, according to U.S. drug intelligence sources.
Between 2007 and 2009, seizures of methamphetamine by U.S. authorities along the Mexican border increased by 87 percent, according to the 2011 U.N. World Drug Report, the most recent statistics the U.N. has available.
Eighty percent of the meth coming into the U.S. is seized at the Mexican border, according to the National Drug Intelligence Center.


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SINGAPORE and RENTON, WA – September 23, 2011 – Parallels, (www.parallels.com) the hosting and Cloud services enablement leader, announced on Friday that it is partnering with KT, the largest telecommunication service provider in Korea, to help expand the company's Cloud service offerings across the country. KT is deploying the Parallels Automation Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) module, enabling KT to rapidly deliver Cloud services to small to medium businesses (SMB) efficiently and cost-effectively.
One of the key services KT is bringing to market is Microsoft® Office 365. By using Parallels solutions, KT will speed its deployment of Office 365 with automation and reliability, dramatically reducing its time to market for this and other in-demand Cloud-based, hosted services.
"There are a number of SMB customers in Korea who have been waiting for critical business applications that are easy to subscribe to with no upfront costs. And being small and nimble, they do not want to worry about updates and software maintenance," said Jung Min Woo, Vice President at KT. "Parallels Automation has the ability to address this critical business need, yet takes it a step further by enabling our reseller partners to quickly offer on-demand software that SMBs need to be successful in today's competitive environment."
The deployment of the Parallels Automation solution is part of KT's strategy to enhance the company's Cloud delivery leadership and business expansion within both the SaaS and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market space in Korea. KT also plans to future-proof its IT infrastructure to cater to the escalating Cloud demand from its customers. Parallels software will now become a key component for KT's Internet Data Center business, which has provided hardware-based Cloud services including collocation, server hosting and SaaS, to its customers since 2010.
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"We are very pleased to partner with KT to address the IT needs of over three million SMBs in Korea," said Jack Zubarev, President of Marketing and Alliances, Parallels. "With Parallels Automation's capability to deliver hundreds of various hosting and Cloud Services and Applications, KT is very well positioned to help those SMBs gain low-price access to the IT applications and capabilities that were previously available only to the large enterprises."
"Our customers are also looking forward to leveraging products in the Cloud such as Microsoft Office 365. And, our partnership with Parallels enables us to quickly implement a solution that delivers swift provisioning and billing of the Office 365 platform. Parallels Automation ensures that we can not only bring Office 365 to our customers quickly, but also bundle it with the additional Cloud services we offer," said Woo.
"The partnership with KT and Microsoft is an example of the close collaboration we have developed to enable service providers and customers to profit from the Cloud," added Zubarev. The deployment of Parallels Automation by KT is expected to be completed by the end of this year.
Service Providers can learn more about Parallels Automation by visiting the Parallels Cloud Services website at http://www.parallels.com/cloudservices/.
About KT
Established in 1981 by Ministry of Communications, KT is the largest telecommunication service provider in Korea, providing services as wells as cloud and its platform service for consumers and enterprises including SMB. It recorded its revenue and total market value of list shares of about 20 trillion in each in 2010. For further information about KT and its cloud service named 'U Cloud', go to http://www.kt.com and www.ucloud.com.
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Parallels is a worldwide leader in hosting and Cloud service enablement and desktop virtualization. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with more than 800 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, please visit www.parallels.com, follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ParallelsCloud and Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ParallelsCloud.


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This expedition starts in the wonderful, colourful and poetic city of Valparaíso. One of the best ways of seeing this scenic town is through its funiculars. These constructions, which are scattered around the entire natural amphitheatre surrounding the city, allow sweeping views of the bay, and highlight the multi hued houses, creating a rainbow of colour and light. Stroll Valparaiso´s narrow streets, climb its endless staircases and discover something new at every turn: a beautiful building, a remarkable art gallery or some little gastronomic 'find'.
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It doesn't help that Zhou Yongkang, China's ex-security czar, looks like an archetypal movie villain, with his slicked-back hair and steely-set jaw. For months, untoward rumors have swirled around the nation's former supreme policeman, especially after Zhou's associate, former Politburo member Bo Xilai, was purged last year. On Aug. 30 the Hong Kong–based South China Morning Post, expanding on claims made earlier by Chinese exile websites, reported that China's current leadership has signed off on investigating Zhou for alleged corruption.
If a probe into Zhou's controversial career does go forward, it would be the first such action against a member of China's ruling inner circle in more than three decades. Until late last year, Zhou was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the nation's leadership clique.
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The current Standing Committee, which was unveiled last November, is now commanded by General Secretary Xi Jinping. China's new leader has made tackling official corruption one of his signature campaigns. Even as skepticism mounts over whether the Communist Party is truly committed to weeding out endemic graft, Xi has vowed to capture everyone from humble "flies," or low-ranking officials, to "tigers," or top leaders. Zhou, who helped construct the nation's security state through a $110 billion budget that officially surpasses that of the Chinese military, would be a mighty tiger indeed.
In recent weeks, the Chinese Communist Party's judicial arm has circled ever closer to Zhou. On Aug. 26, the trial of Bo, the former Chongqing party chief, concluded; a guilty verdict on charges of bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power is expected soon. A number of former officials in Sichuan province, which Zhou once helmed, have also been locked up. This week, the Chinese government announced that high-ranking executives from China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), the nation's biggest state-owned energy company, were being investigated, including one for "gross violation of party discipline," often a code word for corruption. Guess whose former job included helping oversee CNPC? That would be Comrade Zhou.
Now 70, Zhou retired from the Standing Committee last year because of an age limit. At first, it seemed a convenient way to allow an unpopular party elder to exit the inner sanctum. But if Zhou is being pursued by the party because of the fortune his family has allegedly accrued through illegal means, according to the South China Morning Post, then his gray hair — albeit still dyed a shiny black, as is customary for Chinese senior leaders — may not save him. Chalk one up for Hollywood casting.
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Here are a few reasons, in no particular order, why I think The Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web.
Staying power
People talk about timeless design all the time. But most things people point to that are timeless end up being time stamped. The Drudge Report, on the other hand, has proven timeless. It's generic list of links, black and white monospaced font, and ALL CAPS headlines have survived every trend, every fad, every movement, every era, every design do or don't. It doesn't look old and it doesn't look new — it looks Drudge. It hasn't changed since at least 1997, and I believe the design goes back even further. How many sites can survive — and thrive — unchanged for a decade? That's special.
It's straightforward
There are no tricks, no sections, no deep linking, no special technology required. It's all right there on one page. "But it's a mess!" you could say. I'd say "it's straightforward mess." I wouldn't underestimate the merit in that.
It's unique
When you're on the Drudge Report you're on the Drudge Report. There's no question where you are. The design has become iconic. How many other news sites can claim that? If you pull the logo off some of the other major news sites/networks (CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, ABC News, CBS News, etc.) you may have a hard time distinguishing them from one another. They all sorta blend into the same standard news-site look and feel. There are a few standouts, but even the NYT and the WSJ aren't that unique. Drudge's design stands alone.
This is important
Many news sites have lost their guts. They're afraid to really call out one big story. They may have a leading headline, but it's not all that obvious or different from the others. It may be a font size or two bigger, but it's not confident. They hedge. Drudge, on the other hand, says "this is the story of the moment" with a huge headline. This is what's important in the news right now and nothing else even comes close. Drudge isn't afraid to be an opinionated editor and his site design perfectly emphasizes that. It's bold, it's risky, and it's pure Drudge design.
It's good cluttered
The Drudge Report usually leads with a "font size=+7" ALL CAPS headline in Arial. Sometimes it's italicized. Sometimes, for something big big, he'll cap it off with the infamous siren.
After that you have three columns. Some headlines are sentence case, some are ALL CAPS. Some have photos, some are just a plain text headline. Sometimes more controversial or sensational headlines are colored red. There's usually a big ad at the top and a few other ads sprinkled among the columns.
Stories aren't grouped or organized except probably more interesting ones up top. And that's it. Your eye darts all over the place looking around for something that looks interesting. The design encourages wandering and random discovery.
The site feels like a chaotic newsroom with the cutting room floor exposed. I think that's part of the excitement — and good design.
Breaking news is breaking news
Have you seen "breaking news" on MSNBC or CNN lately? Almost anything can pass for breaking news now. "So and so speaks to the press about this or that" is now breaking news. Breaking news used to mean something seriously big and important or spectacular just happened. But the major news sites have watered it way down. When I hit MSNBC or CNN, and they have a "breaking news" bar (red/yellow usually), it's easy to ignore because they've cried wolf one too many times. But when you see a big honking red ALL CAPS headline with the flashing siren on Drudge, you know it's newsworthy.
One guy can run it
The site is run by Matt Drudge full time with help from an occasional part-time contributor. If the site was 5 pages or 10 pages or 30 pages, he'd likely need additional people and technology to manage it all.
No news is the news
The Drudge Report is a headline site. There's no "content" on the site. Yet, that's news. The headlines themselves can be news. Drudge breaks stories without writing stories. In fact, The Drudge Report may be one of the only sites on the web that can break a story with just a headline or a photo. That's baked right into the design.
It sends people away to keep them coming back
There's actually no content on the Drudge Report. Well, sometimes he will post an email or a memo on his site, but it's 99% links out to other news sources. His site is designed to send you away to bring you back. The more often you hit his site to go somewhere else the more often you'll return to go somewhere else again. You visit the Drudge Report more because you leave the Drudge Report more. This is one of the secrets to building traffic: The more you send people away the more they'll come back.
It's fast
When you visit The Drudge Report, you get the Drudge report. There are no interstitial ads. There's no load time. There's no buffering. There's nothing but instant content. The Drudge Report is Google-fast and Craigslist fast — quite a feat for a site that does 3,000,000 uniques a month run by one guy.BTW: Those 3,000,000 uniques a month translate into hundreds of millions of visits a month (source: CNN).
It's cheap to maintain
The design of the Drudge Report doesn't require a fancy CMS or, in fact, anyCMS at all. It's edited by hand. His overhead is probably a couple grand a month max. A few thousand bucks a year in overhead that generates a few million a year in revenue. That's good design.
It's one page
The Drudge Report is one page. Every visit and every visitor is focused on that one page with a headline and three columns. He knows exactly what people are going to see, he knows exactly how people are going to see it. There's no mystery page here that hasn't been redesigned or mystery page there that's throwing an error. It's one page to look at at one page to work on. It is what it is. It doesn't try too hard to be something it's not.
It makes him a great living
Based on published ad rates and traffic numbers, it's estimated that Matt Drudge makes "over a million a year." Not bad for a single black and white page on the internet.
So these are some of the reasons why I think The Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web. Swing away.


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Bradford manager Phil Parkinson could not be happier with his latest two teenage loan signings Blair Turgott and Curtis Good.
West Ham winger Turgott and Newcastle's Australian defender Good, both 19, made their debuts for Bradford in the home FA Cup draw with Brentford, and Parkinson is grateful to their respective managers Sam Allardyce and Alan Pardew.
"We've been very pleased with them," Parkinson said. "They're two players I'd obviously seen playing for their teams at West Ham and Newcastle, but the step up to first-team football is a large leap from where they were in terms of intensity of game.
"But I thought they both handled it really well and it's a bonus to all the staff and the team that we've seen two players there that looked like they'll be able to cope with first-team football and make contributions for the next month while they're here."
Parkinson has recently lost both central defenders Luke Oliver (Achilles) and Andrew Davies (knee) to season-ending injuries. Replacement loanee John Egan returned to parent club Sunderland after breaking his leg in his fourth game for the club, and wingers Kyle Reid (groin) and Zavon Hines (ankle) have been sidelined long term.
Parkinson added: "It's great experience for them and it's great for the clubs to help us out with players because both managers were great about it.
"Both Alan Pardew and Sam Allardyce want their younger players to get experience and they have helped us financially with the deals because they realise it benefits their players. They're great deals for us."


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Principles of Biblical Ministry
We believe that God has ordained the preaching of His Word, prayer, and the sacraments as the means by which He sanctifies people's lives. There is no substitute for the Scriptures if we want to know and please God, and this is especially true in our worship. Unfortunately, the church today is dethroning God and the power of His Gospel for alternatives and counterfeits.
The result of using man-pleasing tactics rather than simply focusing on the preaching, reading, singing, and praying of God's Word is that the knowledge of God's glory is diminished, His people become spiritually malnourished, and the church becomes weak and susceptible to false teachers and their doctrines.
In Ligonier Ministries' 2008 Pastors Conference, R.C. Sproul, Sinclair Ferguson, and Steven Lawson discuss principles of biblical ministry, focusing on the need to be God-centered in our preaching, worship, prayer, education, as well as other aspects of church life.


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DETROIT - Big discounts helped U.S. auto sales sizzle in July.
Toyota, Ford, Nissan and Chrysler all saw double-digit sales gains. General Motors' sales were up 9 percent compared with last July, while Hyundai's rose 1.5 percent. Of major automakers, only Honda and Volkswagen saw declines.
It was the best July for the industry since 2006. New vehicle sales rose 9 percent to 1.4 million, according to Autodata Corp.
Automakers typically offer deals in the summer to clear out inventory before cars from the new model year arrive in the fall. But July's discounts were unusually high.
Incentives rose 8 percent - or $216 per vehicle - over last July, according to Jesse Toprak, chief analyst for the car shopping site Cars.com. Incentives averaged $2,774 per vehicle, their highest level since August 2010. Toprak said Ford, Toyota, Volkswagen and Hyundai were the most generous; GM and Honda spent less.
Toyota was offering zero-percent financing on a five-year loan and $1,000 cash back on the Camry sedan. Ford offered $6,000 cash back on a new Expedition SUV.
Edmunds.com said 13.5 percent of new car loans in July had zero-percent financing, the highest level since December 2010.
John Felice, Ford's U.S. sales chief, says a slowing rate of sales growth will force automakers to get even more aggressive to steal sales away from competitors. That's already happening with small and midsize cars. For instance, buyers are paying an average of $1,000 less for a Ford Fusion sedan than they did a year ago, Felice said.
But demand for SUVs and trucks remains strong, and so does pricing. Overall, Felice said, buyers are still paying $800 more per vehicle than they did last year. That's because even with discounting, more people are choosing pricier SUVs and loading them up with features.
Michelle Krebs, a senior analyst at AutoTrader.com, isn't alarmed about growing incentives. Things have changed from a decade ago, when automakers were making too many vehicles and had to use across-the-board incentives to sell them. Companies have cut back on production, she said, and they use incentives in a much more strategic way. They're also profitable, so they can afford to give a little on price.
Based on July's sales, J.D. Power and Associates raised its forecast for full-year U.S. sales to 16.3 million vehicles. That's approaching the peak of 17 million set in 2005. Auto sales have led the uneven U.S. economic recovery, with sales increases of 1 million or more vehicles in each of the last four years. But that pace is slowing. U.S. sales totaled 15.6 million in 2013.
Nissan sales rose 11 percent to 121,452. Sales of the electric Leaf increased 62 percent to 3,019, a record July for the car, which went on sale in 2010.
Toyota said its U.S. sales gained 12 percent to 215,802 on double-digit gains for the Camry and Corolla sedans and a 37 percent increase in sales of the newly redesigned RAV4.
Toyota edged out Ford, whose sales increased 10 percent to 204,373. The country's best-selling vehicle, the Ford F-Series pickup, was up 5 percent to 63,240, while Ford's new Transit Connect van was up 41 percent.
GM's sales rose 9 percent to 256,160 as strong demand for its new large SUVs outweighed lingering concerns about the automaker's recent string of recalls. Chevrolet Tahoe sales were up 51.5 percent.
Other automakers said:
- Honda's sales fell 4 percent to 135,908. Accord sedan sales rose 11 percent. Sales in the Acura luxury division fell 18 percent, however. Acura sold out of TL and TSX sedans as it launches their replacement, the new TLX. Honda also spent less on incentives than its rivals, according to Cars.com.
- Hyundai sales rose 1.5 percent to 67,011. Sonata sedan sales were up 19 percent, while the Santa Fe SUV jumped 26 percent.
- Kia sales rose 7 percent to 52,309. Sales of the Sorento SUV increased 75 percent.
- Subaru sales jumped 27 percent to 45,714 on the strength of the new Forester SUV.


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Preferred Method of Moving Users To New Machine (zmmailboxmove - Network Edition Only)
Preferred method of Moving Users to New Machine (zmmailboxmove - Network Edition Only)
The preferred method of transferring users from one ZCS machine to another ZCS machine is the "mailbox move" method. There are two main advantages of this method:
- User data (e.g. mail, contacts, and calendar) is maintained.
- Accounts are moved one at a time while both servers are active, so that only the account currently being moved will be inaccessible.
This method typically involves three main stages:
- Making the new server an LDAP replica of the original server.
- Moving all the accounts to the new server.
- Promoting the new server to be the master.
You have an old server called mail1, and you have a new server called mail2. You wish to transfer users from mail1 to mail2. You are installing ZCS on mail2 and configuring it as an LDAP-replica.
Configuring the New Server
First, enable LDAP replication on the old server (mail1).
[root@mail1]# su - zimbra [zimbra@mail1]$ ~/libexec/zmldapenablereplica
Then check the current version and LDAP passwords on mail1.
[zimbra@mail1 ~]$ zmcontrol -v
Release 5.0.9_GA_2534.RHEL4_20080814054137 RHEL4 NETWORK edition
[zimbra@mail1 ~]$ zmlocalconfig -s |grep ldap |grep password
ldap_amavis_password = zmamavis
ldap_nginx_password = zmnginx
ldap_postfix_password = zmpostfix
ldap_replication_password = zmreplica
ldap_root_password = A1eRG0zP
zimbra_ldap_password = A1eRG0zP
Install ZCS on mail2.
Important: Make sure to install the same ZCS version as mail1.
1. During the configuration stage of the installation, you will be presented will the configuration main menu.
Main menu
1) Common Configuration:
2) zimbra-ldap: Enabled
3) zimbra-store: Enabled
+Create Admin User: yes
+Admin user to create: email@example.com
******* +Admin Password UNSET
- Choose the first item, Common Configuration, so that you can designate mail1 as the existing LDAP master.
2. You should see something like this:
Common configuration
1) Hostname: mail2.domain.com
2) Ldap master host: mail2.domain.com
3) Ldap port: 389
4) Ldap Admin password: set
5) Require secure interprocess communications: yes
6) TimeZone: (GMT-08.00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
- Choose item 2, Ldap master host, and enter mail1 as the LDAP master.
- Choose item 4, Ldap Admin password, to enter the LDAP password observed on mail1 (see above or zmlocalconfig -s zimbra_ldap_password).
3. Return to the main menu and choose item 2 for the LDAP Configuration.
Ldap configuration
1) Status: Enabled
2) Create Domain: yes
3) Domain to create: mail2.domain.com
4) Ldap Root password: set
5) Ldap Replication password: set
6) Ldap Postfix password: set
7) Ldap Amavis password: set
- You can choose item 2 to elect not to create a new domain (presumably you already have domains provisioned on mail1).
- Choose each password item to set these to the corresponding values from mail1.
4. Return to the main menu and choose zimbra-store. Since admin and spam training accounts already exist on mail1, you can choose the Create Admin User and Enable automated spam training items to not create new accounts. If you do this, don't forget to also move the mailboxes for these accounts.
Store configuration
1) Status: Enabled
2) Create Admin User: no
3) Enable automated spam training: no
4) Global Documents Account: email@example.com
5) SMTP host: mail2.mydomain.com
As of ZCS 5.0.9, even if you choose to not create a new domain, you can't disable the Global Documents Account in the store configuration menu. You will see a harmless failed to initialize documents warning during configuration. You should already have a global documents account on mail1, which you can mailbox move to mail2.
Moving users to the new server
You can move mailboxes on the server command-line with zmmailboxmove, or through the Administrator Web Console (by logging in to https://mail1.domain.com:7071/)
Promoting the LDAP Replica to be the LDAP Master
If you want the new machine to be the LDAP master, follow the guide for Promoting Replica to LDAP Master, which also explains how to demote the LDAP master to be a replica.
Additional Considerations
Be sure to edit your DNS records to include the new server.
Before the migration:
$ host -t mx domain.com domain.com mail is handled by 10 mail1.domain.com.
After the migration:
$ host -t mx domain.com domain.com mail is handled by 10 mail2.domain.com.
If you wish to maintain the same exact zmhostname as the old server, use zmsetservername to change the hostname.
Commercial SSL Certificates
If the hostname stays the same (e.g. the old server was mail1.domain.com and the new server gets renamed mail1.domain.com), copy the certificate files over from the old server and restart services.
/opt/zimbra/mailboxd/etc/keystore /opt/zimbra/conf/*{key,crt}
If the hostname has changed, generate a new certificate signing request (CSR), submit the CSR to a Commercial Certificate vendor (e.g. GoDaddy), and import the new certificate using the SSL Certificates Wizard in the Admin Console.
If you have changed what Zimlets are available or if you have custom skins or branding, don't forget to re-deploy these customizations.
The Old Server
If you are decommissioning the old server, verify that no accounts remain there, and then delete the server entry from LDAP.
On the new server, check for any accounts that LDAP shows as still on the old server.
zmprov searchAccounts "(zimbraMailHost=mail1.domain.com)"
On the old server, check for any accounts that remain there. If any accounts have moved but not purged from the old server, they will still show up.
mysql zimbra -e "select * from mailbox"
Remove the old server from the host pool for all classes of service in the COS section of the admin console. Once you are satisfied that the old server is no longer active, you can delete the server entry.
zmprov deleteServer mail1.domain.com
Note: Moving accounts with zmmailboxmove is a staged process. You can leave the old server up as an LDAP master, MTA, etc., after the accounts are migrated in order to minimize the number of changes happening at one time.
- If you are only moving some users to the new server, and the old server will remain active (for example, if you are just adding a new mailstore to the installation), it is not necessary to configure the new server as an LDAP replica and even if you do, it is not necessary to promote it to be the master.
- This method is only available for the Network Edition of ZCS.
- You can use your existing license from the master for this multi-node setup.
- If you encounter a zmmailboxmove: authtoken expired error, verify that the date/time for each server is accurate.
- For multi-node installations, run zmupdateauthkeys to update the SSH keys.


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VICTORIA – The treaty with the Yale First Nation in the Fraser Canyon was hastily approved as the B.C. legislature adjourned for the summer last week.
This treaty was by far the most significant work of the legislature session, and it may make or break the hugely expensive B.C. treaty effort. Yet it received all of four hours of debate during the abbreviated spring legislature session and will probably get little attention when it reaches the House of Commons for final approval.
A few eyebrows were raised when Chief Justice Lance Finch of the B.C. Court of Appeal entered the legislature to give royal assent to the treaty and a handful of other bills. This would normally be the duty of Lt.-Gov. Steven Point, but he was on a four-day visit to promote literacy at reserves in the Quesnel and Williams Lake area.
I'm advised by the lieutenant-governor's staff that this trip had been scheduled for some time, and his absence had nothing to do with the treaty awaiting his signature. It is purely a coincidence that Point is a former tribal chair of the Sto:lo Nation, which sent a delegation to the legislature to protest the Yale treaty just before it was tabled.
The only substantive scrutiny of the treaty, and the only vote against it, came from independent Cariboo North MLA Bob Simpson. He stressed that he supports the Yale's right to a treaty, but detailed the Sto:lo's objections.
Their central objection is that the 150-member Yale band is an arbitrary creation of the Indian Act, a splinter group of the larger Sto:lo Nation. The treaty formalizes the Yale's control over key canyon fishing and rack drying sites that were vital to survival for thousands of years.
Ottawa outlawed transfer of native hereditary property rights in its notorious potlatch law of 1884, and native fish sales in 1888. This disrupted whatever order had been imposed by Sto:lo clans on the fishing sites. Some Sto:lo people were moved south to reserves in the Fraser Valley, where they were expected to abandon their traditional ways and become farmers.
Sto:lo Nation president Joe Hall put it to me this way: "I don't want to be like Donald Trump and look at people's birth certificates, but the Yale are a Sto:lo band. They would have been chased out of there a long time ago if they weren't."
In the treaty debate, Simpson put it to Aboriginal Relations Minister Mary Polak that the federal and provincial governments have resorted to a "first-past-the-post" system to force progress on treaties. He said the tiny Yale community gets a huge advantage by completing a treaty, while some Sto:lo bands remain at an early stage of negotiations and still others aren't in treaty talks.
Polak cited a section that is now standard in modern treaties. It protects the constitutional rights of other aboriginals where a court upholds a claim to Yale territory, which they will soon own as fee-simple property.
Polak insisted the Yale treaty will ease tensions in the disputed fishing sites, where violent incidents have taken place. She argued that exclusive access to the main areas of dispute was long ago included in the Yale's original reserves. The treaty will provide a process for temporary access by other people, native and non-native.
We will see if she is right, perhaps as early as this summer.
There are two regions of B.C. where the encroachment of European settlers led to shooting wars with aboriginal people. One was the Cariboo-Chilcotin and the other was the Fraser Canyon.
Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com


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Council Erred On Election
Here we go again. Six out of seven council members voted to maintain separate elections.
Congratulations to Joe Hall, the only member with enough sense to hold the elections on the same dates.
One council member wants to have fun, food and music. Oh well, whats 10,000-plus dollars? Just a drop in the bucket for the way the council spends the taxpayers money.
Stu Shinnick
Ocean City
Let Aid Help Americans
(The following letter was addressed to Senator Barbara Mikulski and a copy was sent to this publication.)
This email concerns the amount of money the federal government is gifting to foreign countries and the need for that money not only on the Eastern Shore but in America, in general.
Unfortunately, with expenditures like the gift to Taiwan recently, the American people will never be able to get back to normal. A couple of nights ago I attended a business meeting and during the discussion it was suggested that an idea we came up with should be forwarded to your office. A discussion about rising debt and what could be done, raised the idea of a "debt bond" similar to the War Bonds. I am sure you remember the war bonds of World War II that our parents bought. Another effort that was very successful was the March of Dimes. As business owners, we thought a "Debt Bond" was a good idea. Let the American people get behind this.
Just this past week an article appeared in my local newspaper about giving Taiwan $10 million! How are we to pay off our National debt if the federal government continues giving away money? How can the American people expect to get caught up when you have gifts of millions to foreign countries? The aid is needed right here, right now.
Eugene R. Parker
Ocean City
Support Appreciated
I would like to commend those members of the Worcester County Bar Association who generously donated to the bar's annual Thanksgiving Fund.
With the help of Dave Smith and crew from the Ocean Plaza Mall Superfresh, we were able to provide a Thanksgiving turkey, potatoes, stuffing, vegetables and cranberry sauce to 325 less fortunate families here in Worcester County.
It is truly an honor and a blessing that our members stand ready to step up and help those in need and for that we should all be proud and thankful.
I am particularly thankful to the law firms of Ayres, Jenkins, Gordy & Almand, PA and Williams, Moore, Shockley & Harrison, LLP as well as the Ocean City Lions Club for carrying the ball across the goal line when it appeared that we would not meeting our anticipated funding commitment.
I wish everyone a happy and safe Thanksgiving.
David C. Gaskill
Ocean City
(The writer serves on the Worcester County Bar Association's Committee on Charitable Endeavors.)
A Hope For Unity
Recently Quakers (the Religious Society of Friends) in Salisbury approved the following minute: "Wicomico River Friends Meeting unites with the intentions of the Occupy Movement to bring attention to the inequalities in our society and urge economic justice through nonviolent means."
The Occupy Movement calls attention to the failures of our government. Unceasing electioneering and an often corrupting influence of special interests are preventing our officials from doing the jobs we have hired them to do. This has led to ineffective regulations and poor enforcement that allowed a near collapse of our economy which we have not fully recovered from.
It seems appropriate to make this statement during this season of Thanksgiving. Despite a poor economy, we are very grateful for the freedoms and bounty which we enjoy. Even those among us who have the least have it better than many other places in the world.
That does not mean some of our neighbors here are not suffering. A new shelter for the homeless has just opened in Salisbury. It is a blessing which will ease some of the need but not all of it. We pray for a time when shelters are closing from a lack of people needing them.
Social movements begin when society has reached a breaking point forcing people into the streets with their anger and pain. The Occupy Movement is very young. It will take time for its leadership to evolve and coherent solutions to emerge to compete in the market place of ideas. During this process, we will be with them, praying for the success of the underlying goal which unites us: a more just and responsive government that better serves everyone.
We wish for all of our neighbors: peace, prosperity, and a happy Thanksgiving.
Dana Kester-McCabe
(The writer is the clerk of the Wicomico River Friends Meeting.)
Donation Recognized
The Ocean City/Worcester County Humane Society would like to thank the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #10 for the generous contribution of $4,150 collected as a result of their recent golf tournament. This monetary gift will be used to help with the care of our many shelter animals waiting for their forever homes. We appreciate your continued support.
Kenille Davies
Ocean City
(The writer is the director of the Ocean City/Worcester County Humane Society.)
Contradictory Politics
Romney may become the Republican nominee because he's the only wannabe who's not a clown. But Mitt's contradictions make him look goofy, and goofiness is next to clowniness.
He wants us to think he's moderate because he was Republican governor of a Democratic state. He hopes we'll forget that while running, he committed to clean energy, gay rights and choice. Yet, having been elected, he reneged on them all. The original Mr. Flip-Flop.
He now says, "'Obamacare (though based on Romneycare in Massachusetts) is wrong. I'll repeal it."
But what he's really like us to forget is that later he became one of the fat cat Wall St. manipulators who caused Great Depression II and should now be in jail. Working for Bain Capital, he bought companies, stripped their assets and sent their jobs to India.
He is now wooing the Tea Party. His big promise is to cut a half-trillion in his first term by despoiling Social Security and Medicare. The Pentagon will get more; Amtrack, less. If Big 3 Auto weaken, he'll let them fail. Yet he swears he'll create 11 million jobs.
He helped Ohio's Kasich try (in vain) to defeat repeal of a law disabling public employees' unions. He praised pro-law campaigners, but refused to take a stand on the repeal. He is taking campaign help from New Jersey's Christie who has been brutal to teachers.
If Romney wins, TP-ers will bully him into giving their extremism full force. They will vet his Supreme Court choices and curb any flip-flopping on Citizens United, a decision that lets corporations buy our elections. When a vote asked, "are you for people or for corportations?", he summarized the decision in four words — "Corporations are people, too."
Again, what about jobs? His real answer may be another four words — "Get yourself to India."
James A. Hoage
Severna Park


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You can get whiter teeth faster by using high quality products.and they don't cost an arm and a leg! Today's products all can give you a bright and white smile. Tooth whitening products are available from low cost white strips to expensive dental professional services and everything in between.
The key to whiter teeth thougyh is the delivery system. Whitening products are usually a gel or paint like product placed on your teeth. The tooth bleaching gel or teeth whitening gel is held in place by a delivery system.
The delivery system is how the teeth whitening product is held in place next to your teeth. Usually this is a tray or molded plastic impression of your teeth. The key to getting good results is that the gel or pain product with the tooth whitening agent must stay in contact with your teeth surface. Simply putting it on and having it wash away will not work. Some of the less effective delivery methods are the strip type.
Crest white strips are very popular. These are simply a tooth bleaching tape that's placed on the front teeth only. Crest whitestrips use a delivery system that's a lot like a piece of flexible tape. The tape is placed on the front teeth and contains tooth bleaching gel. It's easy and simple to use. Remember that although the whitening strips may only cover the front teeth, they're usually more comfortable.
The more complete and better delivery method is a tray similar to those teeth protectors used by athletes. In the cheaper teeth whitening kits, the trays provided are heated in hot water then placed in the mouth to form an adequate, if not perfect fit. The better the fit, the better the teeth whitener gel will stay in contact with your teeth.
What I consider to be the best long term value however is a custom tray made just for your teeth. Higher quality teeth whitening kits provide a material to take an impression of your teeth. Because the impression fits exactly to your teeth, it's more comfortable and allows the whitening product to cover all the teeth surfaces.
The one negative to using a custom tray is the short delay while the impression is sent to the dental lab to make the custom tray to fit your mouth. This just takes an extra couple of days but the results are very much worth it to say nothing of the much more comfortable tray.
The good news is that most custom tray teeth whitening kits provide everything needed for the best, most economical teeth whitening results. Custom trays last a long time and give great results at an affordable price.


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EA CEO Andrew Wilson Believes Current Title DLC Important To Future Game Sales
Speaking to an audience at the Credit Suisse 2013 Annual Technology Conference, EA CEO Andrew Wilson discussed the value of DLC. Additional content is used to enhance the bottom line, but it has another purpose.
"You would think if you play the game for five weeks and then put it away, by the time the next version come around, you would have an appetite that would have build up over the last 10, 11 months to play that game again," Wilson said. "And actually, the reverse is true. The closer we can get you in terms of engagement to the next launch, the greater propensity you have to purchase."
EA has been one of many publishers that has embraced the season pass model, which is designed to get money up front for content to be rolled out during the following six to twelve months. EA has also maneuvered on the financial side to change the way it recognizes those revenues, which is makes comparative analysis difficult during a period that has seen challenges on the bottom line.
[Source: Seeking Alpha]
Our Take
EA has come under fire for its DLC practices, most recently with the release of the China Rising map pack for Battlefield 4. SimCity saw its share of paid add-on content for exorbitant prices, and the company has suggested that microtransactions are another way to extract money (later clarifying that statement) following a $60 retail purchase. Now we know it's not just about the title you've already bought, but about getting you to do it all over again next year.


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Public notice is hereby given that the Board of Trustees of the Price River Water Improvement District will hold regular public meetings at the District's Service Center located at 265 South Fairgrounds Road, Utah, commencing at 7:00 P.M. on the following dates:
January 2, 16 July 2, 16
February 6, 20 August 6, 20
March 5, 19 September 3, 17
April 2, 16 October 1, 15
May 7, 21 November 5, 19
June 4, 18 December 3, 17
Unless otherwise published and noticed, the agenda of said meetings will consist of the following:
Approval of Previous Minutes
Public Comment Period
Petitions, Remonstrance's and Communications
Report of Officers, Boards and Committees
Unfinished Business
Approval of Warrant Registers New Business
Closed Meeting Session
All matters to be placed upon the agenda for action by the Board of Trustees must be received at the District's Service Center prior to 5:00 P.M. the Thursday before the designated meeting date.
In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Individuals requiring special accommodations (including auxiliary communicative aids and services) during these meetings should notify JEFFREY R. RICHENS, PRWID ADA Coordinator, at Price River Water Improvement District, 435-637-6350, at least three (3) working days prior to specific meeting.
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In November of last year, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) proposed a seemingly subtle change to its policy on marijuana. Citing recommendations from the assistant secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services, the agency outlined its plan to reschedule pills containing organic dronabinol from schedule I to schedule III.
Dronabinol is short for tetrahydrocannabinol and long for THC. It's more commonly known as the thing in marijuana that gets you high.
"This proposed action expands the schedule III listing to include formulations having naturally-derived dronabinol and products encapsulated in hard gelatin capsules," reads the DEA's proposed rule. "This would have the effect of transferring the FDA-approved versions of such generic Marinol [a synthetic THC drug] products from schedule I to schedule III."
Paul Armentano of the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws reads the proposal as a way of legalizing marijuana so just Big Pharma can make money from it.
"DEA is taking a shortcut by saying, well, we can reschedule organic THC because it mimics an existing drug on the market," Armentano said. "Which is ironic given that they are saying the organic substance is derivative of the synthetic substance that is actually based on the organic substance."
A spokesperson from the DEA told The Daily Caller that the rescheduling of pills containing organic dronabinol is not equivalent to legalizing THC. "Please note that DEA is not 'rescheduling … organic THC,'" wrote the DEA's Rusty Payne in an e-mail.
"THC, natural or synthetic, remains a schedule I controlled substance. Under the proposed rule, in those instances in the future where FDA might approve a generic version of Marinol, that version of the drug will be in the same schedule as the brand name version of the drug, regardless of whether the THC used in the generic version was synthesized by man or derived from the cannabis plant."
In other words, THC in plant form or as an extract, will still be illegal. What won't be illegal is if a pharmaceutical company buys THC from a government-licensed provider, puts it in a pill, receives the DEA's stamp of approval, and sells it a price that will likely be far higher than the price of marijuana.
Armentano said such circular reasoning is a product of decades of hostility towards marijuana research.
"This is the insane rationale necessary for banning medical marijuana," he said. "Take away the prohibition and the political elements, and you would never have the stretching of logic necessary to pass organic THC but only if it mimics Marinol."
Payne protested the comparison. "Marinol is not the same thing as marijuana; nor is any generic version of Marinol that might be approved by the FDA in the future. Marijuana (the cannabis plant) contains approximately 500 different chemicals; and dronabinol (the form of THC found in Marinol) is just one of those numerous chemicals in the plant."
The DEA's proposed rule says that the agency will only entertain abbreviated new drug applications, the process by which most generics are approved when the patent expires on a branded drug. That means requiring an organic dronabinol drug to mimic Marinol may actually help get an organic pill on the market in record time.
Payne declined to say when the rules would pass. "There is no timetable for the publication of the final rule. As with all proposed rules, DEA is required by law to give careful consideration to the public comments in deciding whether to finalize the rule."


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Tycker den här, a Teacher's Oath, är bra att läsa och påminna sig om. Citerar den i sin helhet här för att läsa den så ofta jag kommer åt. 🙂
A Teacher's Oath
I swear to teach to the best of my ability. I swear to do everything I can to develop my students' intellects; to teach them some of the best of that which has been thought and known. I want my students to partake in the full fruits of their civilisation and will not willingly leave anybody ignorant or convinced of a falsehood.
I promise never to waste my students' time with activities that serve no educational purpose. I promise never to seek to entertain rather than to educate. I will choose my teaching methods on the basis of how they will aid learning. I will be blind to educational fashions, uninfluenced by incoherent ideologies and sceptical of unproven theories. I will strive to improve my knowledge and my teaching. I will make decisions in the interests of my students and their learning, not on the basis of what they want, what I believe they should want or what I would enjoy. I will not seek comfort rather than challenge, consensus rather than truth, or socialisation rather than learning. I will be unashamed to teach.
I will also be unashamed to be a teacher. In my lessons I will not be a friend, priest or substitute parent to my students. I will not be a motivational speaker, entertainer or agony aunt. I will seek to be a teacher that you would choose to be taught by only if you wanted to learn. I will not seek personal validation, praise or gifts from my students. I will not sacrifice their interests to the pursuit of my career, a need for attention or for personal amusement. I will consider myself to be there for the benefit of my students, not the other way around.
I will carry out my professional duties, but will never let managers obstruct learning where this can be avoided. The learning of my students will always be a priority over approval from managers or inspectors. I will seek to maintain my autonomy and respect the autonomy of my colleagues. I will seek advice from those who teach well and avoid advice from those who don't. I will make decisions in my students' interests even when those with power, including the power of patronage, would disagree with me.
I will maintain order in my classroom so that my students can learn safely and without obstruction. I will treat them with consideration and encourage them to treat each other the same way. I will not hesitate to challenge any threat to learning. I will defend my authority and that of my colleagues. I will not hesitate to express support for the value of learning and the virtues of the intellect. I will never write off a student, nor seek to inhibit ambition. I will never pretend the mediocre is excellent, or that the unacceptable is acceptable.
I promise that should I find myself unable to keep to this oath, then I will leave the teaching profession.


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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Food maker General Mills Inc. said Tuesday it will cut about 850 jobs as part of a plan to lower costs and boost efficiency.
The Minneapolis-based maker of Cheerios cereal, Nature Valley granola bars and Hamburger Helper said the moves will make it more effective and allow it to focus on key growth strategies.
General Mills said it expects the plan to result in total pretax charges of about $109 million, which will cover costs related to workers whose jobs are terminated and equipment.
The company said about $94 million of those charges will come in the fiscal fourth quarter, which ends Sunday. The rest will be recorded in fiscal 2013. It plans to use the savings from the cuts on future growth strategies and to speed up global development.
General Mills said it still hopes to post an adjusted fiscal 2012 profit of $2.53 to $2.55 per share. Analysts expect a profit of $2.54 per share.
The company employed about 35,000 people across the world in fiscal 2011, according to its annual report. In March, it said its fiscal third-quarter profit fell slightly as a result of higher costs.
General Mills' brands remain some of the most popular. But like most of its peers, the company has struggled with higher costs for everything from ingredients to labor and been forced to raise prices to offset them.
General Mills shares fell 8 cents to $38.47 in morning trading.


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Circulating in the busiest areas of major metropolitan cities, bus advertising offers exposure to local commuters, drivers and pedestrians. These 'moving billboards' are typically displayed on the bus exterior and come in a variety of sizes and high-impact formats to reach your audience.
Wrap the entire Bus with your ad to make a dramatic impact in major metropolitan areas.
Bus ads move throughout residential and core business areas, delivering your message throughout the marketplace all day, every day. This continuity builds familiarity with your brand, so customers will think of you when making purchasing decisions. Bus ads are great for branding campaigns, which typically run for at least one year.
Use a high quantity of smaller Bus ads to saturate the market in a short amount of time.
Bus ads are highly effective for announcing new products, seasonal specials or the 'call to action' that consumers should take advantage of within a set period of time (typically 3 to 6 months). Bus ads capture consumers' attention so they act upon a particular promotion immediately. Smaller formats are less expensive to produce, so you can flood the market with your ads.
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"In 2 ½ months, I had over 500 customers mention they had seen the Coolatta bus ad. The bus ads have been the most successful form of advertising for me. Because they're always moving around, they get the Dunkin' Donuts name out and remind people that I'm here. "
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Automated Petroleum & Energy Company
"I put an ad on six buses, and over the next three months, every single person I knew said they saw the ad. Never before have I had this happen with any kind of advertising. The price is reasonable, the results were great, and the service was fantastic! Well done, Lamar!"
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CEO, Aloyd Fitness Equipment Ltd.
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Dutch ban voting computers over eavesdropping fear
Back to basics
The risk of eavesdropping has driven the Dutch government to ban electronic voting computers from future elections.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs says that the development of safer voting computers has "insufficient added value over voting by paper and pencil". Dutch election officials will return to using paper ballots instead.
The decision is a victory for the obliquely-named Dutch We Don't Trust Voting Computers Foundation, which in the past demonstrated that many Dutch e-voting machines could be easily intercepted from 20 to 30 metres away.
Dutch intelligence service AIVD tested over 1200 Sdu e-voting machines in October, and deemed them totally unreliable. The radio signals used by the computers to record votes could be intercepted without difficulty. Minister for Administrative Reform Atzo Nicolai immediately withdrew the permit for the use of the computers in the provincial elections in March 2008.
The Dutch government had decided last year to pull the plug on its e-voting venture, citing the lack of a paper trail as its biggest shortcoming. With no automated paper counting solution deployed, the Dutch will have to revert back to the humble pencil.
A group of experts headed by professor Bart Jacobs told Dutch site Webwereld that "even with meticulous testing it would have been almost impossible to safeguard printers against eavesdropping".
Voting machine manufacturer Nedap says it is disappointed by the decision. "It would have been technically possible to prevent eavesdropping altogether," the company says. "And now that we return to paper voting, isn't there a risk voters can be filmed with webcams?" ®


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Zebrahead was formed in La Habra, California in 1996 by drummer Ed Udhus and guitarist Greg Bergdorf, bassist Ben Osmundson and singer/rhythm guitarist Justin Mauriello (formerly of Once There). All four musicians, whose bands at the time shared the same practice space, found themselves experimenting with different sounds together and soon became friends. After deciding that they wanted to explore their musical options further, the foursome left their bands all together and formed Zebrahead.
The group, who were inspired by acts including Fugazi and Descendents, found themselves uninspired by the local musical trends of ska-punk and instead began incorporating elements of hip-hop into their sound, eventually recruiting rapper Ali Tabatabaee to join them as a co-vocalist. In late 2004, shortly after Zebrahead's tour through Japan, co-lead singer/rhythm guitarist Justin Mauriello left the band due to creative differences. Later that month, Matty Lewis was named the new co-lead singer of the band.
Ed is also owner of "Get Off My Case", an international renowned custom case and road case company, based in Anaheim, CA.