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Vance H. Ballard, 71
HENDERSONVILLE — Vance Harvey Ballard, 71, of Hendersonville, N.C., passed away Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, at the Elizabeth House.
He was a native and lifelong resident of Henderson County. He was preceded in death by his parents, Ivory and Nettie Gilbert Ballard, and two brothers, Arthur and David Ballard.
He served in the U.S. Army, worked at Dupont and Cranston Print Works before starting his own business, Ballard's Nursery.
Vance loved to fish.
He is survived by his loving wife of 48 years, Patricia Sentell Ballard; a daughter, Angela Ballard LaBerge, of Sevierville, Tenn.; a sister-in-law, Ruth Ballard, of Hendersonville; two grandsons, Michael and David LaBerge, of Hendersonville, and several nieces and nephews.
A visitation will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, at Vance and Patricia's home.
In lieu of flowers, please donate to you favorite charity in Vance's memory.
Jackson Funeral Service and Crematory is assisting the family.
Condolence cards may be sent to the family at www.jacksonfuneralservice.com or P.O. Box 95, Hendersonville, NC 28793.
Gertrude C. Carter, 89
HENDERSONVILLE — Gertrude Cunningham Carter, 89, of 806 S. Whitted St., Hendersonville, N.C., departed this life on Jan. 15, 2013.
She was the daughter of the late Ulysses Cunningham and Merzia King.
She is survived by three daughters, Cora J.-Daniels Nixon, Margaret Carter, of Flushing, N.Y., and Carolyn Turner, of Brooklyn, N.Y.; special friend, Roland Dodd, of Hendersonville; a stepson, Gary Turner, of Brooklyn, N.Y.; a nephew, Anthony Cunningham; a sister-in-law, Marion Cunningham, of Washington, DC; five nieces, Patricia Manuel, Gail Tordon (Fred), Luretta Briggs, Madeline (Roy) Royes, and Mary Cunningham; 17 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held at 12 (noon) Saturday, at Contemporary First Baptist Church with the Rev. Dr. L.C. Ray officiating. The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. to 12 (noon) at the church.
Burial will follow at St. Mark United Methodist Church Cemetery in Taylors, S.C.
Wilson Funeral Directors, Hendersonville, N.C., is in charge of the arrangements.
Floyd Billy Jones
August 11, 1937 – January 16, 2013
FLAT ROCK — Floyd Billy Jones, beloved husband, father, grandfather, and friend to many, died on Jan. 16, 2013, at The Elizabeth House. He was born in Rosman, North Carolina, the son of Johnny and Dixie Jones. He is a retired U.S. Army MSgt, and a veteran of the Vietnam War.
He is survived by his wife, Mary; son, David Jones; daughter, Marilyn Lauffer and husband Tim; daughter, Debra Davis and husband Shane; daughter, Nancy Lauffer and husband Jeff; grandchildren, Erica Lauffer, Kaley Jones, Telecia Hopkins, Morgan Monts, Megan Monts, Chelsea Jones, Abbey Lauffer, Garrett Lauffer, Kaylynn Jones; his brother-in-law, Tracy Rice; his sister, Hazel Tucker and husband Bob; his brother, Ray Jones and wife Marilyn; his sister, Sheila Tinsley and husband Mike, and devoted nieces and nephews.
He is preceded in death by parents, Johnny and Dixie Jones, and his sisters, Christine Rice and Marilyn Jones.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, at Mills River United Methodist Church.
In lieu of flowers, consider honoring him with a donation to the Alzheimer's Association This living memorial will support research, education, support services, and take us one step closer to a world without Alzheimer's. Please direct your donation to the Alzheimer's Association 3800 Shamrock Drive, Charlotte, N.C. 28215 in the name of Floyd Jones.
On line condolences may be left at www.moodyconnollyfuneralhome.com.
Moody-Connolly Funeral Home and Crematory is caring for the family.
Lewis E. Lyda, 67
FLAT ROCK — Lewis E. Lyda, 67, of Flat Rock, N.C., passed away Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, at his home.
He was a native and lifelong resident of Henderson County.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Otis Lyda and Frances Norris Lyda and his first wife, Betty Edney Lyda.
He graduated from Edneyville High School in 1964, Furman University in 1989, and Southern Wesleyan University in 1991. He served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War, retired from General Electric in 1994, owned and operated Source 1 Filtration and was a member of Bethel Wesleyan Church.
He recently enjoyed teaching Karate and had earned his Black Belt.
He is survived by his loving wife of 14 months, Joan McMinn; a daughter, Angela Craft and husband James, of Hendersonville; a son, Barry Lyda and wife Melissa, of Williamston, S.C.; a step-son, Steven McMinn, of Flat Rock; five grandchildren, Brandon Baker, Ben Ward, Austin, MaryEdith and Luke Lyda; three step-grandchildren, Luke, Will and Molly McMinn, several nieces and nephews; his poodle, Teddy and his guinea, Sprint.
A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, at Bethel Wesleyan Church with the Rev. Tim Clark, the Rev. Bob Allred and the Rev. Carroll Moffitt officiating. Burial will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Park with Military Rites provided by the Henderson County Honor Guard. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service in the church and at other times will be at the home.
In lieu of flowers, donation may be made to the Bethel Wesleyan Church Building Fund, P.O. Box 268, Dana, N.C. 28724 or to Four Seasons Compassion for Life, 571 S. Allen Road, Flat Rock, NC 28731.
Condolence cards may be sent to the family at www.jacksonfuneralservice.com or P.O. Box 945, Hendersonville, NC 28793.
Joe J. Major, 83
ASHEVILLE — Joe James Major, 83, of Asheville, died on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, at the Memorial Campus of Mission Hospitals.
Mr. Major was a son of the late Ira Earl and Isabel Lunsford Major. He was also preceded in death by his wife, Mary J. Bass Major, who died in 1994, and by a sister, Mary Pepita Major Robertson.
Mr. Major had attended the Unitarian Universalist Church and was a veteran of the U.S. Army.
Mr. Major is survived by his sister, Teresa Major White; his daughters, Cecelia Pace and husband Dewey, and Gloria Hembree and husband, Ivan; grandchildren, Mitchel Pace, Shelbi Pace and Avery Pace, and Roxanna Hembree, Nicholas Hembree and fianc�e, Christion Belger, and Ivan Hembree, II; great-grandchildren, Ivory and Chloe; a number of special nieces and nephews, and his dear friend, Ellen Wells.
A memorial service for Mr. Major will be held at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Groce Funeral Home Chapel on Patton Ave. His family will receive friends following the service.
The online register may be signed at www.grocefuneralhome.com.
Donald Moock, 82
HENDERSONVILLE — Donald Moock, 82, of Hendersonville, died Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, at Pardee Hospital.
A native of Pennsylvania, he had lived in St. Petersburg, Fla., before moving to Hendersonville in 2000. He had owned and operated restaurants in St. Petersburg and Hernando, Fla., and had cooked for a number of local restaurants in Henderson County. He was retired from the U.S. Army and was a member of the VFW in Florida.
He was preceded in death by two brothers; a sister, and by a step-daughter, Denise Royal.
Mr. Moock is survived by his wife of 32 years, Janet Moock; five children, Donald Moock, Jr., Deb Moock, James Moock, Denise Stenwall and Robert Moock; two step-children, Cindy Marvicsin and Terry Royal, Jr.; four grandchildren, Daphne Crocker, Jennifer Vaughan, Meagan Vaughan and Alyssa Marvicsin; nine great-grandchildren, and his beloved dog, Buddy Boy.
A memorial service will be held at a later date.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Caring Connection, c/o Kim Hinkleman, Pardee Hospital Foundation, 800 N. Justice St., Hendersonville, N.C. 28791.
To send a sympathy card or to sign the online guestbook, visit www.shulerfuneralhome.com.
Shuler Funeral Home is assisting the family.
Frances M. Hunnicutt, 87
BREVARD — Frances (Pat) McCall Hunnicutt, 87, of Brevard, N.C., died Jan. 16, 2013.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, at Glady Branch Baptist Church with the Rev. Lee Ray Greene, the Rev. Alan Thompson and the Rev. Fred Gregs officiating. The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. until 12:45 p.m. Saturday prior to the service. Burial will follow at Blue Ridge Gardens of Memory.
To leave a condolence for the Hunnicutt family, please visit "obituaries" at www.moore-fh.com.
Elizabeth A. Koppel
HENDERSONVILLE — Elizabeth Adams Koppel, of Hendersonville, died Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, at Beystone Health and Rehabilitation.
A Memorial Service will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, at the Fletcher Park Inn.
Thos. Shepherd & Son Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements.
Nola M. Owen, 80
Nola Mae Owen, 80, died Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013 at Moody-Connolly Funeral home Chapel. Interment will follow at Mack McCall Cemetery.
On line condolences may be left at www.moodyconnollyfuneralhome.com.
Moody-Connolly Funeral Home and Crematory is in charge of arrangements.
Kimberly D. Manning, 54
FLETCHER — Kimberly Denise Thompson, 54, of Fletcher, passed away Friday, Jan. 4, 2013.
A memorial service will be held Jan. 27, at Grace Community Church.
Jackson Funeral Service and Crematory is assisting the family.
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Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt—Child
A ventriculoperitoneal shunt operation is surgery to insert a drainage tube (catheter) into the brain. The tube runs into the abdominal cavity. This tube is used to move extra fluid in the brain to the abdomen where it can be absorbed. The entire tube is under the skin and not visible.
Reasons for Procedure
This type of shunt is used to treat hydrocephalus , an condition that results in excess fluid in the brain. Excess fluid can cause increased pressure. This pressure can damage sensitive brain tissues. The shunt drains the excess fluid and reduces pressure on the brain.
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Possible Complications
Problems from the procedure are rare, but all procedures have some risk. Your child's doctor will review potential problems, like:
- Shunt failure
- Brain swelling
- Blood clot or bleeding in the brain
- Infection in the shunt or brain
- Damage to brain tissue
- Reaction to the anesthesia
What to Expect
Prior to Procedure
At your child's doctor appointment before the surgery, the doctor may:
- Do a neurological exam—This is to find out how your child's nerves work. It involves evaluating mental status, as well as motor and sensory abilities.
- Order MRI or CT scans of the brain—Images of your child's body will help the doctor plan the surgery.
- Answer any question that you have
- Talk to your doctor about your child's medications. Your child may be asked to stop taking some medications up to 2 weeks before the procedure.
- Instruct your child to not eat or drink before the surgery—Your child's doctor will give you instructions about fasting based on your child's age. Fasting may range from 6-12 hours before surgery.
General anesthesia will be used. It will block any pain and keep your child asleep during the surgery. It is given through an IV in the hand or arm.
Description of the Procedure
A breathing tube will be placed to help your child breathe during surgery. The scalp and abdomen are cleaned with antiseptic. Small incisions will be made in the scalp and abdomen. A small hole is made in the skull. A catheter is passed through the hole into your child's brain. Then, the catheter is tunneled under the skin down to the abdomen. This end of the catheter is put into the abdominal cavity. The incisions are closed and a dressing is applied to each area.
Immediately After Procedure
After the surgery, your child will be taken to the recovery room for observation.
How Long Will It Take?
1-1½ hours
How Much Will It Hurt?
Anesthesia prevents pain during surgery. Your child will be given medication to manage pain after the procedure.
Average Hospital Stay
Your child may be in the hospital for 3-7 days. Your child may stay longer if complications arise.
Post-procedure Care
At the Hospital
- Your child may need to lay flat for up to 24 hours after surgery.
- Your child's heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, and brain status will be monitored closely.
- Your child will receive nutrition through an IV until he or she is ready to eat and drink.
- The shunt will be checked to make sure it is working.
- Antibiotics may be given. Pain medication will be given as needed.
Preventing Infection
During your child's stay, the hospital staff will also take steps to reduce the chance of infection, such as:
- Washing their hands
- Wearing gloves or masks
- Keeping your child's incisions covered
There are also steps you can take to reduce your child's chance of infection, such as:
- Washing both you and your child's hands often, and reminding visitors and healthcare providers to do the same
- Reminding your child's healthcare providers to wear gloves or masks
- Not allowing others to touch your child's incision
At Home
When your child is at home, do the following for a smooth recovery:
- Go to physical therapy appointments as directed.
- Keep track of your child's growth. Longer shunts may be needed as your child develops.
- Be sure to follow your child's doctor's instructions.
Call Your Child's Doctor
After your child leaves the hospital, contact the doctor if any of the following occurs:
- Symptoms that went away return
- Stiff neck
- Headache
- Irritability
- Signs of infection, including fever and chills
- Redness, swelling, increasing pain, a lot of bleeding, or any discharge from the incision site
- Vomiting—may be a sign of the shunt not working
- Pain that is not controlled with the medications your child has been given
- Vision problems
- Being very sleepy
- Confusion
- Developmental delays
- Not eating or drinking enough
Call for emergency medical services right away for:
- Fast breathing or trouble breathing
- Blue or gray skin color
- Not waking up or not interacting
- Not wanting to be held
- Seizures
If you think your child has an emergency, call for emergency medical services right away.
Hydrocephalus Association
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Canadian Paediatric Society
Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Canada
About normal pressure hydrocephalus. National Hydrocephalus Association website. Available at: http://www.hydroassoc.org/docs/AboutNormalPressureHydrocephalus-A%5FBook%5Ffor%5FAdults%5Fand%5FTheir%5FFamilies.pdf. Accessed December 9, 2014.
NINDS Hydrocephalus information page. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke website. Available at: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/hydrocephalus/hydrocephalus.htm. Updated April 16, 2014. Accessed December 9, 2014.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: Kari Kassir, MD
- Review Date: 12/2015
- Update Date: 12/20/2014

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The expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts on Dec. 31, 2012, would increase tax rates on most ranges of ordinary income including long-term capital gains along with qualified dividends.
But higher taxes won't just affect wealthy taxpayers like some people think.
A recent report by the Tax Policy Center notes: "Every income group would see taxes rise by more than 3.5% of pretax income. Upper income taxpayers would experience the largest tax increases, both in absolute terms and as a percentage of income. The top quintile would see its tax burden rise by slightly over $14,000 per tax return, almost 6% of pre-tax income. Taxpayers in the top 1% of the distribution would experience an average tax increase of over $120,000, slightly over 7% of their pretax income."
Dividends paid to stockholders will be hit hard. Instead of owing just 15% as they do today, investors who receive dividends will be taxed at according to their ordinary income tax rates.
Table 1 (below) shows the damage.
For example, individuals in the 25% bracket will get snagged for 31% versus 15% tax on dividends in 2013. Although certain tax brackets will completely disappear next year, what doesn't go away are higher tax rates across the board on all remaining brackets.
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What kind of impact will this have on dividend investors? Let's look at the numbers.
Table 2 (below) illustrates an investor in the 35% tax bracket with $100,000 invested in a group of dividend stocks yielding 4%.
Our investor pays just $600 annually in taxes on those dividends in 2012, whereas they would pay $1,736 – or almost triple under new tax laws affecting dividends in 2013. Our illustration also includes the 3.8% surtax which begins next year on high-income investors.
The after-tax flogging is tremendous. Instead of yielding 3.4% after taxes, our investor reaps just 2.2%.
The anti-income investment climate has officially arrived.
Right now, the Federal Reserve is slaughtering income investors with artificially low rates – and if that's not bad enough, taxes on dividend income will jump from 15% this year to a top rate of 39.6% next year.
This "dividend cliff" is a double whammy for income investors. For advisors, this represents a fine opportunity to help income-challenged clients with thoughtful solutions. Chasing high-yielding sectors is for amateurs; clearly, a more sophisticated approach is required.
One immediate strategy is to start stashing dividend-paying stocks and ETFs in tax-deferred accounts, especially for clients in upper income tax brackets. Asset allocation is still important, but smarter asset location will play an important role in helping investors to keep more of their money.


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Reviewed by Guy Dayen
The Atlas by Collins is the latest attempt at bringing an atlas to the iPad, and by and large, it is a very successful one. The conceit here is that the information is presented thematically, using a series of three-dimensional globes to portrait relevant data. The graphics are crisp and incredibly detailed. In fact, my only quibble with the graphic aspect of The Atlas is that the satellite views are not up to retina quality when zoomed in, but I hope that this will be refined in further updates of the book.
So far, there are three main sections in The Atlas, with the promise of more to come in the future. The most common data, the kind found in most paper atlases, is contained in the section entitled: "Atlas Essentials". Here can be found physical maps, political maps and a satellite view of the earth. The maps are searchable, and over 200,000 place names are included in the database. The physical maps show the typical stuff: oceans, lakes, rivers, mountains, etc. An interesting way to organize the data is to classify bodies of water, mountains, cities, and other features by size, making it easy to compare different landmarks that might be of particular interest to the reader. For students in geography or earth sciences, this can be a gold mine of easily available information.
The second section is called "People and Power". This part of The Atlas focuses on energy, population and communications. You can find out, for example, where different types of energy are produced, see which parts of the world are most or least densely populated, examine life expectancy data, discover the biggest cities on Earth, or find out where mobile phones and Internet access are most prevalent (not necessarily where you might think).
The last section, at the moment, is "Living Earth". Those readers concerned about the environment can track how this is changing through time, and where the most urgent threats to the planet are located. Deforestation, growing deserts, melting ice caps, it can all be found here, in very plain detail.
On every globe, the reader can spin the Earth and find the exact spot he or she is interested in. In most cases, when you click on a spot, the globe key will give the relevant information on a pop-up tab. There were a few instances where the tab didn't pop up automatically, and I had to refer to the key manually, but in most cases, the process worked flawlessly. Again, I hope this little flaw will be fixed soon, as the bugs are ironed out of the app.
The organization of data is perhaps the most salient feature of The Atlas. We get numbers thrown at us constantly in the media, and it is often difficult to make sense of it all. Being able to visualize the data on a 3D globe is most helpful in understanding the world around us. The fact that The Atlas is an electronic book means that this data can be updated as new facts are developed. In fact, I'm downloading an update to the Environment section as I'm writing this review. The unfortunate thing about paper atlases is that they are always out of date sooner or later, especially when it comes to political considerations. Having an atlas that can grow and change as time goes by is a great solution for those who want to keep up with a changing world.
I did find some spelling and grammatical errors in The Atlas, and a few sentences that didn't make much sense. But this is an editorial problem, not one which affects the app's performance. I've looked at the Collins support site, and they are already working on updating and correcting the errors that might have been made in the initial release. HarperCollins is a very reputable company, and I have full confidence that the book will only get better in subsequent updates. There is also talk of adding more globes to the book, as more themes are developed. It would be great if these were included as free updates, but as much as I don't like IAPs (in-app purchases), they wouldn't bother me too much in this instance, since the app is fully functioning without having to buy more globes, and you would only buy more data if it was something of particular interest.
All in all, I'm very impressed with The Atlas. Anyone who is a geography buff, or who is simply curious about our world, will find a wealth of information here. Sure, you could find it elsewhere if you search around, but the way the data is presented makes it really enjoyable and convenient to use and to discover the information the reader might seek. Geography, earth science or political science students in middle school, high school or college will find The Atlas a truly useful tool to add to their arsenal. It's graphically impressive, and it is very well organized. Speaking personally, I had fun going through the different parts of the app and finding out all kinds of things about our world that I didn't know before. This is a book that you can return to again and again, and be able to ferret out interesting facts every time. By the way, it this makes it a great app for trivia buffs. There are all kinds of neat factoids to spring on your friends and colleagues. This is the atlas that I will be keeping on my iPad from now on.
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The Divine Comedy is a narrative poem describing Dante's imaginary journey. Midway on his journey through life Dante realizes he has taken the wrong path. The Roman poet Virgil searches for the lost Dante at the request of Beatrice; he finds Dante in the woods on the evening of Good Friday in the year 1300 and serves as a guide as Dante begins his religious pilgrimage to find God. To reach his goal, Dante passes through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.
The Divine Comedy was not titled as such by Dante; his title for the work was simply Commedia or Comedy. Dante's use of the word "comedy" is medieval by definition. To Dante and his contemporaries, the term "comedy" meant a tale with a happy ending, not a funny story as the word has since come to mean.
The Divine Comedy is made up of three parts, corresponding with Dante's three journeys: Inferno, or "Hell"; Purgatorio, or "Purgatory"; and Paradiso, or "Paradise." Each part consists of a prologue and approximately 33 cantos. Since the narrative poem is in an exalted form with a hero as its subject, it is an epic poem.
Dante and Virgil enter the wide gates of Hell and descend through the nine circles of Hell. In each circle they see sinners being punished for their sins on earth; Dante sees the torture as Divine justice. The sinners in the circles include:
Circle One - Those in limbo
Circle Two - The lustful
Circle Three - The gluttonous
Circle Four - The hoarders
Circle Five - The wrathful
Circle Six - The heretics
Circle Seven - The violent
Ring 1. Murderers, robbers, and plunderers
Ring 2. Suicides and those harmful to the world
Ring 3. Those harmful against God, nature, and art, as well as usurers
Circle Eight - The Fraudulent
Bowge (Trench) I. Panderers and Seducers
Bowge II. Flatterers
Bowge III. Simoniacs
Bowge IV. Sorcerers
Bowge V. Barrators
Bowge VI. Hypocrites
Bowge VII. Thieves
Bowge VIII. Counselors
Bowge IX. Sowers of Discord
Bowge X. Falsifiers
Circle Nine - Traitors
Region i: Traitors to their kindred
Region ii: Traitors to their country
Region iii: Traitors to their guests
Region iv: Traitors to their lords
On Easter Sunday, Dante emerges from Hell. Through his travels, he has found his way to God and is able, once more, to look upon the stars.
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The average silent reading rate for a secondary student is 250 to 300 words per minute. Since each page contains approximately 11 stanzas of 27 words, the average number of words per page is 300 words. The words in Dante's Inferno include many which most students have never heard or seen; since these words relate to the geography of a foreign country, people who are not well-known, and lesser mythological characters, students should adjust their reading rate accordingly. Since it is important that students consult the endnotes, glossary, and/or a dictionary, the reading rate will be slowed further.
Each page takes readers 2-3 minutes if they read carefully, consult the notes in the edition they are reading, use the dictionary or glossary regularly, and take notes for study purposes. Since there are 291 pages in the Penguin Classics edition, this means that the student will need 291 times 3 minutes, or 873 minutes (about 15 hours). It is evident, then, that the estimated reading time for this book is longer than for a typical narrative. Reading The Inferno according to the natural canto breaks is the best approach.


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'The Mower', the lead single from the forthcoming new full-length, Halford IV – Made Of Metal, is now available for download at HalfordMusic.com.
A pre-sale for Halford IV – Made Of Metal will begin in August. The album will be released in October.
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EVERETT — A jury was deadlocked Tuesday in the case of a Marysville police officer charged with manslaughter in the accidental shooting death of his young daughter.
A mistrial was declared after jurors were unable to decide whether Derek Carlile was criminally negligent for leaving a loaded handgun in the family van within reach of his son in March. The boy, 3, fired the off-duty weapon once. His sister Jenna Carlile, 7, was struck in the abdomen and later died.
The jury deliberated for a few hours on Friday and again all day Tuesday without success. Seven jurors were convinced that Carlile was not guilty of second-degree manslaughter. Four believed he was guilty of the crime. One juror remained undecided.
Late Tuesday, after the presiding juror said that it was unlikely that the jury would reach a verdict within a reasonable amount of time, Judge Thomas Wynne declared a mistrial.
A new trial date was scheduled for Jan. 29.
Carlile's family and friends who were gathered in the courtroom Tuesday could be heard crying when the judge set the new trial date.
Defense attorney David Allen later told reporters that he hopes prosecutors will drop the charge. He said that prosecutors can try the case 10 more times and best they'll ever get is an undecided jury.
"I think this is a very strong verdict in our favor," Allen said.
Carlile and his family would like to get on with their lives, the attorney said. They are mourning and the trial has taken an emotional toll on all of them.
It would be "cruel" for prosecutors to put the family through another trial, Allen said.
Carlile and his wife clung to each other after Tuesday's development, breaking down in tears as Allen spoke to reporters.
Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Lisa Paul said no decision has been made about whether to retry the case. She expects a decision in about a week.
"We'll give it all the care and consideration we did when we charged it," Paul said.
She and other senior prosecutors will discuss what she heard from the jury, as well as review the evidence and investigation again. Paul declined to share any details about the discussion she and Allen had with jurors behind closed doors.
"We're of the firm belief that this was the kind of case that needed to be decided by a jury," she said.
Paul had argued that Carlile had engaged in a series of bad decisions, ignoring the risks of leaving a loaded firearm within reach of his young children. No person in his right mind would find his actions reasonable, she said.
Investigators believe that Carlile's son, who was known to be fascinated with guns, grabbed a .38-caliber revolver from a cup holder next to the driver's seat in the family van. Carlile usually kept the gun in a holster on his ankle.
Carlile and his wife had exited the vehicle to speak with a family friend. They were nearby when the fatal shot was fired.
Carlile attempted life-saving efforts until paramedics arrived. Jenna died at the hospital despite emergency surgery.
Paul acknowledged that Carlile is punishing himself, but she also had urged the jury to hold him responsible for his daughter's death.
Allen told jurors that Carlile made a tragic mistake, but did not commit a crime. The shooting was an accident, not negligence, Allen said.
Carlile did not testify during the short trial. Jurors heard the recorded statement he provided to police the day his daughter was shot.
The Camano Island father has been on paid administrative leave from the Marysville Police Department since the shooting. Marysville police have said an internal investigation will wait until the criminal case is resolved.
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Lifebox is a fast, lightweight, social photo and video gallery application that is designed to organize large amounts of media. It is able to differentiate between original and modified photos so you can upload your entire library to your server and highlight your favorite photos and videos into albums to share with friends. Lifebox also makes a distinction between albums and rolls, so a single photo or video can be part of multiple albums but only one roll. It extracts data from EXIF tags and XMP sidecars, making it compatible with the data from programs like Adobe Lightroom, Picassa, and iPhoto. Lifebox is social in that people and objects can be tagged, and they will receive an email when this happens. It supports authentication, so you can control who has access to what photo.
Amun is a content management framework based on the PSX framework. The goal is to build a more federated and programmable Web. This is achieved by providing a RESTful API for managing and distributing the content in standard formats like JSON, XML, Atom, and RSS. It tries to support open standards like OAuth, OpenID, etc., and gives you the freedom to access the data of a Website in the way you like. It tries to enable easy communication from server to server, browser to server, and application to server.
Mettā is an OS for mobile, multimedia, and social applications. Mettā's purpose is to be easily deployable over a range of mobile and home devices, without tedious setup procedures, while allowing people to communicate easily in a very ambient way and express themselves freely by creating, modifying, and publishing text, audio, and video information in a simple way. Mettā's flexibility comes from transparent resource manipulation and transparently distributing computing tasks between nodes on the network, while maintaining data integrity and privacy.
Trek is both a Web browser and a new kind of social network. It allows its users to meet and interact by overlaying the Web with graphical avatars. Said avatars represent each user on a given page and can be moved freely about the content. Users can form parties or "browsing treks" and move about the Web in a group.
Modelbook is a social networking platform that features most mainstream social networking features: Paypal subscriptions, friends request/approval, shout-outs, wall castings/events, a forum, profile approval/private profiles, image galleries, MP3 upload, Zip code radius search, Facebook-style chat, and more.
PHP On Pie is a PHP framework that combines the best ideas from PHP projects like Drupal, CodeIgniter, Kohana, and ZendFramework. It has very few core concepts: classes, models, events, slots, and tools. It lets you repackage completed apps into plugins that you or others can use later. Its smart database classes allow you to implement vertical and horizontal partitioning (sharding) easily to handle millions of users.
Event is a simple PHP-based software package for creating a simple Web page for upcoming events. Event supports an unlimited number of events, each with its own mini-site, each of which is configured by a single text file. Event is designed to run in constrained environments, and without needing write permissions from the Web user or database access. Event supports localization into additional languages.
Salut à Toi (or SàT: "Hi to You") is an XMPP/Jabber client with multi-frontends. You can use it on a desktop (Wix), with a console interface (Primitivus), as a command-line tool (jp), or on the Web (Libervia). A plugin architecture is used to make it modular. With SàT, you can perform all the expected XMPP functions (instant messaging, multi-user chat, file transfert, etc.), but you can also use your email client (MUA) to read and send your XMPP messages, play games, do microblogging, pipe Unix command results, make scripts, etc.


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The hedge fund industry will set a record for assets this year despite the sector's lackluster investment performance over the past two years, according to predictions by Agecroft Partners, a global consulting and third-party marketing firm for hedge funds.
Agecroft based this conclusion on several dominant and emerging trends it identified through its contact with more than 2,000 institutional investors and 300 hedge fund organizations during 2012.
1. Pension funds will drive growth in the hedge fund industry in 2013
As many pension funds face massive unfunded liabilities, they will continue to increase their allocation to hedge funds in order to enhance returns and reduce downside liabilities, Agecroft predicts. Forward-looking return assumptions are currently around 3% for fixed-income portfolios managed against the Barclays Aggregate Bond Index, which currently represents approximately 30% of pension funds' total assets. With current actuarial return assumptions averaging approximately 7.5%, pension funds will shift more assets from fixed income into hedge funds as long as interest rates stay low.
2. Pension funds' hedge fund investment process will evolve more rapidly
Actuarial pressures are forcing some bigger pension funds to accelerate their hedge fund investment process. Pensions used to tiptoe into hedge funds, taking a decade or longer. They would start with an investment in a fund of funds, followed by hiring a consultant and investing in brand name managers. As their experience increased, the process would move in house, with internal teams making independent decisions and focusing on "alpha generators." Finally, the process would evolve into a best-in-breed strategy of investing, with hedge funds no longer considered a separate assets class, but incorporated throughout the portfolio.
Time is now a luxury, and some bigger pensions are skipping the fund-of-funds roundabout and investing directly in individual managers. This, in turn, has long-term implications for funds of funds. 3. Funds-of-hedge-funds industry continues to evolve
The FoHF marketplace is approximately 25% smaller than at its peak in the third quarter of 2008, and fee income has declined by more than 50%, owing to downward pressure from large institutional investors. Agecroft predicts that in 2013, FoHFs will experience slight net redemptions as withdrawals by the largest pension funds choosing to invest directly in hedge funds will be partially offset by smaller institutional investors increasing their allocations to funds of funds and new high-net-worth individuals entering the space.
Agecroft also looks for further bifurcation in the FoHF sector, with a few firms growing their asset base and others experiencing large net redemptions. The successful organizations will include large multistrategy funds of funds with strong performance that can justify their fees by clearly articulating their competitive advantage over hedge fund consulting firms, and niche FoHFs that differentiate themselves by focusing on a specific strategy, region, fund structure or investor type.
4. Passage of JOBS Act will change hedge fund marketing strategies
The JOBS Act will help level the playing field within the hedge fund industry by giving investors greater transparency, according to Agecroft. Many hedge fund websites will provide detailed information on their organization, investment team, investment process, risk controls, performance and service providers. More managers will participate in industry databases, making it easier for investors to identify and compare managers within a strategy. Investors will also benefit from more hedge fund managers being interviewed in the media about their hedge fund strategies and investment ideas.
Agecroft predicts that the increased transparency will benefit the hedge fund industry by broadening the investor base and increasing net asset inflows.
5. Rise of long/short equity
Agecroft expects to see more assets allocated to long/short equity in 2013. At the turn of this century, l/s equity managers claimed more than 40% of hedge fund industry assets. Since 2008, a significant amount of those assets have been reallocated to other hedge fund strategies, causing total assets in the strategy to decline to approximately 25% of the industry. This decline has been driven by a combination of poor performance and of investors increasing allocations to strategies uncorrelated with long-only equity and fixed income benchmarks and to strategies with better perceived relative valuations of their underlying securities.
Agecroft says these last two trends should begin to reverse because relative valuations of equities based on price/earnings ratios look very attractive compared with fixed income. In addition, at some point fundamentals will drive stock valuations, which should significantly benefit l/s equity managers.
6. Lines between hedge funds and private equity funds blur
In 2008, the main difference between hedge funds and private equity funds was the structure of the fund and often not the liquidity of the underlining investments. Many hedge funds that focused on illiquid fixed income instruments offered their investors monthly liquidity. As the financial crisis erupted, this created significant liquidity mismatches for many hedge funds, prompting them to impose gates, suspend redemptions or liquidate. Today many sophisticated investors understand the benefits of illiquid investments, but are demanding fund liquidity provisions that match the underlying liquidity of the portfolio. Agecroft expects longer lockups, longer redemption notice periods, gates and private equity structures for illiquid strategies. 7. Continued concentration of hedge fund flows
The hedge fund industry is highly competitive, with some estimates as high as 10,000 funds in the marketplace. Agecroft predicts that in 2013, 5% of hedge funds will attract 80%–90% of net assets within the industry. The largest hedge funds, as well as some small and midsize ones, will rise above their peers by effectively raising significant assets. To do this they will need to excel in three areas:
- Offering a high-quality product
- Creating a marketing message that clearly and concisely articulates their differential advantage across all the evaluation factors investors use to select hedge funds
- Developing a best-in-breed sales strategy by either building out an internal sales team or leveraging a leading third-party marketing firm, or a combination of both.
Firms that do not excel in each of these three areas will have a difficult time raising assets, Agecroft says.
8. More hedge funds focused on the retail market
As asset raising becomes increasingly difficult, more hedge funds will target the retail markets that are less competitive and easier to attract, Agecroft predicts. In Europe, assets in UCITS funds have expanded significantly with more growth expected in 2013, according to Agecroft. In the US, 40 Act hedge funds and FoHFs are experiencing fast growth, with many more expected to launch this year. As well, hedge fund replication strategies are using ETFs. Agecroft says all of these vehicles have both strengths and weaknesses and could create more regulatory scrutiny.
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Peyronie's disease is characterized by a plaque, or hard lump, that forms on the erection tissue of the penis. The plaque often begins as an inflammation that may develop into a fibrous tissue.
Peyronie's disease was first described in 1743 by a French surgeon, François de la Peyronie. It was classified as a form of impotence. However, now impotence is recognized as one factor associated with Peyronie's disease, but it is not always present.
Some researchers believe Peyronie's disease develops following a trauma that causes bleeding inside the penis. This trauma may explain acute cases of Peyronie's disease, but does not explain why most cases develop slowly, or what causes the disease after no apparent traumatic event.
Generally, when the disease heals within a year or so, the plaque does not advance beyond an initial inflammatory phase. However, when the disease lasts for years, the plaque often becomes a tough, fibrous tissue, and calcium deposits may form.
The plaque in Peyronie's disease is benign, or noncancerous. The following are the most common symptoms of Peyronie's disease. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
The symptoms of Peyronie's disease may resemble other conditions or medical problems. Always consult your doctor for a diagnosis.
A diagnosis of Peyronie's disease is usually made when men seek medical attention for painful erections and difficulty with intercourse. In addition to a complete medical history and physical examination, diagnostic procedures for Peyronie's disease may include the following:
Specific treatment for Peyronie's disease will be determined by your doctor based on:
In general, the goal of treatment is to keep the patient with Peyronie's disease sexually active. Providing education about the disease and its course is often included in the treatment plan. In some cases, treatment is not necessary, as Peyronie's disease often occurs in a mild form that heals without treatment in six to 15 months. Treatment may include:
Please consult your doctor with any questions or concerns you may have regarding this condition.
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Space Exploration: Serpens Sector is a very long-running project to make a space exploration game in the vein of Strange Adventures, Star Control, and others. It's gone through a number of iterations and refinements over the years. In its current state, it is now gameplay-complete. The gameplay focuses on making interesting decisions balancing risk, reward, limited resources, the morale of your crew, and your reputation with the alien factions of the sector. The gameplay does not focus on combat.
Packrat is a media collection manager application for Android. You can use it to add books, CDs, games, movies, etc. to your collection by scanning their barcodes and organizing them onto shelves. You can let Packrat organize your items into smart shelves, or manually stack items onto shelves of your own creation. You can also track items you don't have yet on a "wishlist" shelf.


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If the NFL Draft is the "Super Bowl" of NFL Draft season, I believe next week's trip to Indianapolis, Indiana for the NFL Scouting Combine would qualify as the end of the regular season.
After next week, the Draft season "playoffs" begin as players hold Pro Timing Days on college campuses and private workouts at National Football League facilities.
Before I continue, I remind you of the East West Shrine Game players, the NFLPA Game players, the Senior Bowl prospects and the rest of the Draft prospects we have already profiled.
QB-Ricky Dobbs (Navy), Pat Devlin (Delaware), Colin Kaepernick (Nevada), Josh Portis (California-Pennsylvania), Taylor Potts (Texas Tech), Christian Ponder (Florida State)
FB-Anthony Sherman (UConn)
RB-Evan Royster (Penn State), Da'Rel Scott (Maryland), DeMarco Murray (Oklahoma), Damien Berry (Miami), Kendall Hunter (Oklahoma State), Roy Helu Jr. (Nebraska), Alex Green (Hawaii)
WR-Lester Jean (Florida Atlantic), Terrence Toliver (LSU), Leonard Hankerson (Miami), Austin Pettis (Boise State), Denarius Moore (Tennessee), Owen Spencer (North Carolina State), Jock Sanders (West Virginia), Titus Young (Boise State), Vincent Brown (San Diego State), Ryan Whalen (Stanford)
TE-Will Yeatman (Maryland)
OT-Matthew O'Donnell (Queens University Canada), Gabe Carimi (Wisconsin), Nate Solder (Colorado)
C–Zane Taylor (Utah)
DE-Justin Trattou (Florida), Allen Bailey (Miami), Eddie Jones (Texas), Ryan Kerrigan (Purdue)
LB-Mark Herzlich (Boston College), Casey Matthews (Oregon), Adrian Moten (Maryland)
S-Jermale Hines (Ohio State), Jaiquawn Jarrett (Temple), Maurice Rolle (Louisiana-Lafayette)
CB-Anthony Gaitor (Florida International)
The Baltimore Ravens made some personnel changes this week, adding CB Marcus Paschal and WR Brandon Jones. Both of those players are little more than guys who are getting Training Camp tryouts.
The team placed the franchise tag on DT Haloti Ngata ensuring his return for at least the 2011 season (if there is one). They also worked out free agent DC Reynaldo Hill.
Despite all of that, my team needs remain the same…
1. Defensive End
2. Offensive Tackle
3. Wide Receiver
4. Cornerback
5. Fullback
6. Inside Linebacker
7. Safety
8. Center
9. Running Back
10. Quarterback
Here are ten more prospects to keep an eye on as we move towards the Combine.
Thanks to CBSSports.com/NFLDraftScout.com, NFLDraftBible.com, WNST.net (The AP), ESPN.com, Wikipedia, YouTube and various official athletic websites for helping to put together the profiles.
CB Aaron Williams (Texas)
Our buddy Scott Wright from DraftCountdown.com had the Ravens selecting the 6'1″ junior Longhorns DB at 26th a week ago. (He's since switched to Colorado CB Jimmy Smith.)
I'm not sure I agreed with the mock, but I definitely wouldn't be up in arms if Williams was the pick.
Williams has one unique advantage as a 6'1″ corner-the advantage of being two or three inches taller than any corner on the Ravens' roster (not named Cary Williams).
Williams is best known for the sack that ended the career of then Oklahoma (and now St. Louis Rams) QB Sam Bradford. Unfortunately his senior season might have been most remembered for a TD he gave up to Oklahoma State WR Justin Blackmon. Blackmon burned a few folks during the 2010 season to be fair.
But Williams was very good for the better part of his three seasons in Austin. He finished his career with 89 tackles, five forced fumbles and four interceptions-including one he returned for a TD.
There's a good chance he's on the board at 26. He definitely won't reach to the team's pick in the second round. They could possibly trade back and get him-but with question marks surrounding CB's Chris Carr, Josh Wilson and Fabian Washington in free agency-GM Ozzie Newsome and company might not be able to take that chance.
WR Torrey Smith (Maryland)
I know what you're thinking.
"How could I possibly not know everything there is to know about Torrey Smith? I listen to him every Tuesday at 12:30 with Thyrl Nelson on "The Mobtown Sports Beat" on AM1570 WNST!"
While I INDEED suggest checking out the BuyAToyota.com Audio Vault at WNST.net to hear more from the former Terrapins star, I figured I might pass along a little more information as well.
Smith may ultimately go down as a player who would have been better off sticking around for one more year to make himself a first round pick, but there's also a chance he'll be a player whose Draft season alone makes him a first round pick.
Smith will run one of the more important 40 yard dashes at LucasOil Stadium next week, where is expected to post a sub-4.40 time. The only thing working against him will be the fact that fellow former Terps WR Darrius Heyward-Bey lit the Combine on fire two years ago but has disappointed since being selected in the Top 10 by the Oakland Raiders.
Smith wouldn't address a size need for the Ravens (he's 6'1″), but he would certainly address a speed need-which Donte' Stallworth was unable to do during his season in Charm City.
Smith saved his best for last in College Park, grabbing 67 catches for 1,055 yards and 12 TD's. The only disappointment for Smith in 2010 was his return game, as he tallied just 585 return yards after combining for 2,498 yards and 3 return TD's between his freshman and sophomore seasons.
While Lardarius Webb and David Reed each came on at the end of the season in their respective return roles, it's safe to say neither have particularly locked their roles down.
Smith could offer a lot to the Ravens. 26th might be a stretch as of now, but as he rises in Draft season it could very well be the exact spot where he ends up. Before they pull the plug, they'll probably want to encourage Smith to improve some of the company he keeps…
OT Anthony Costanzo (Boston College)
At this point, it seems unlikely that the Eagles' 6'7″, 308 pound monster will be around when the Ravens are on the clock at 26.
But with the Jared Gaither situation still very much up in the air and question marks surrounding Michael Oher's long-term stability at LT; it might be a good decision for Director of College Scouting Joe Hortiz and company to make a move for a player of Costanzo's stature.
Costanzo had a remarkable career in Chestnut Hill, having been a starter for four seasons. He was the first true freshman to start on the O-Line for BC in ten years during the 2007 season-which we remember as the year Matt Ryan was a legitimate Heisman Trophy candidate.
Costanzo had a big week in Mobile, showing off his quick feet and long arms. More impressive (according to Rob Rang of CBSSports.com) was his frame, as he displayed a muscular torso despite his mammoth size.
He's not quite (Cleveland Browns Pro Bowl OT) Joe Thomas as a prospect-but he's really good. There's a chance he could become Joe Thomas at the next level.
DE Brooks Reed (Arizona)
There has been plenty of attention given during Draft season to Wildcats DE Ricky Elmore, but Reed is certainly deserving of note himself.
Reed boasts an impressive 6'3″, 262 pound frame and tallied 17 sacks during his career in Tucson. There has been discussion of whether or not he can be and end at the next level or if he's going to end up being a stand-up guy.
With the Ravens very obviously needing End help, he would have much more potential value to Chuck Pagano's defense as an end than an OLB. The question is whether or not he can provide a consistent rush from the end position, and we don't quite know the answer to that.
Reed has plenty of athleticism, having played RB as well as DE in high school. It doesn't guarantee he'll be a great athlete at the NFL level, but it certainly speaks to his versatility.
WR Randall Cobb (Kentucky)
It is REALLY hard to figure out how valuable the former Wildcats star will be at the next level.
During three seasons in Lexington, Cobb played quarterback, running back, receiver and returner. Between the four positions, he was responsible for 42 total touchdowns over those three seasons.
As a more natural receiver in 2010, Cobb was very impressive. He grabbed 84 catches for 1,017 yards and seven TD's. But it's hard to figure out if Cobb can make a seamless transition to being a natural receiver at the NFL level.
With a 5'11" frame, Cobb is going to have to be FAST to really be a dynamic threat in the NFL. At a Pro Timing Day last season, he ran just a 4.55 in the 40 yard dash. Scouts will need to see a time better than that in Indiana next week.
Cobb's 40 time could be the difference in going as high as the first round or as low as the fourth round. It seems as though 26th would be a stretch for a team like the Ravens, as Cobb probably has to be viewed as a "project" for folks like Director of Player Personnel Eric DeCosta.
But if Cobb ends up slipping, a project might not be a bad addition to the team's receiving corps; as long as they further address the need to compliment Anquan Boldin and Derrick Mason with a true top target.
OT Joseph Barksdale (LSU)
After moving from Right to Left Tackle between his junior and senior seasons, Barksdale has seen his draft stock continue to rise.
The 6'6″, 318 pound big man made the move to the left side for the 2010 season after Ciron Black graduated. The move appears to have paid off, as Barksdale is currently projected amongst the top 10 tackles available in the Draft. He's not in the Thursday or Friday night conversation as of right now, but he could be moving in that direction as Draft season continues.
Barksdale claimed second team All-SEC honors during his senior campaign in Baton Rouge, helping the Tigers finish 4th in the conference in rushing. He tallied 49 knockdowns at the most important position on the line.
Head Coach John Harbaugh has said he wants OL Marshal Yanda to return to RG (if he returns to the team as a free agent). To do that, the team has to get a player to complement Oher and solidify the tackle position. As the Draft progresses to Friday night/Saturday, Barksdale will be a more attractive option for new O-Line coach Andy Moeller.
RB Shane Vereen (California)
The Ravens will be looking for a back to compliment Ray Rice should Willis McGahee (as many of us are expecting) be let go. Vereen might very well be a solid option.
Vereen isn't a big back, but his 5'10" (205 pound) frame was big enough to allow him to carry the ball 15 or more times in nine of the Golden Bears' 12 games in 2010. Vereen finished the year with a 5.1 yard per carry average, adding 13 TD's.
Vereen finished his three year career in Berkeley having rushed 556 times for 2,834 yards and 29 TD's. He added 874 receiving yards and six receiving TD's over the three seasons. His numbers (and build) are similar to fellow former Bears back Marshawn Lynch.
Vereen could play his way up the board during Draft season, but without having participated in a College All-Star Game as an early entry his only Draft season statement thus far was an appearance on ESPN2's All-Star Football Challenge. He's probably a late Friday night pick right now, which could be the perfect spot for the Ravens to plug him into Cam Cameron's offense.
DE Cliff Matthews (South Carolina)
Much like Arizona's Reed, the Ravens are going to have to determine if Matthews can be a true rush end at the NFL level.
He certainly did a solid job in the role during his four years in Columbia, tallying 13 sacks between his junior and senior seasons. Matthews finished his Gamecocks career with 142 total tackles from the edge.
The Ravens haven't found a true rush end since the demise (and ultimate departure) of Trevor Pryce. They rotated Ngata, Paul Kruger and even Cory Redding on the edge last season, with none of them settling into the role.
Matthews would certainly bring an impressive frame (6'4″, 268 pounds) to anchor the line, as well as a fairly high motor (expected to run the 40 in the 4.7's range). He often went against premiere O-Linemen in the SEC (including Barksdale above) and had success.
Early in Draft season, Matthews is a Saturday pick-probably in the 4th-5th round range. It would make sense for the team to draft an end earlier in the weekend, but Matthews could certainly end up being an additional insurance policy.
CB Jalil Brown (Colorado)
While more attention is given to his Buffaloes teammate Smith, Brown certainly has the tools to play at the next level.
Brown (6'0″) isn't quite as tall as Smith (6'2″), but his size does separate him from other corners in the draft-as well as the corners on the Ravens' roster. Only Cary Williams (6'1″) from last year's roster is taller than Brown, although Paschal is also 6'0″. The Ravens' top corners under contract (Domonique Foxworth and Lardarius Webb) are 5'11" and 5'10" respectively.
Brown had a solid career in Boulder, finishing with six interceptions over his final three seasons. His performance was good enough to pick up All-Big 12 Honorable Mention honors. There may be some concern for NFL scouts due to a shoulder surgery between his junior and senior seasons-but it did not appear to affect him during his senior campaign.
Brown's 40 time in Indianapolis will go a long way in determining where he will be picked. If he stays in the range of 4.5, he'll probably be an early Saturday pick. If he cuts under 4.5, he'll have a chance to be picked Friday night. If he ends up posting a number over 4.5, he'll be in danger of sliding to late Saturday.
The former Buffs corner has a unique connection to the Ravens. He set an Arizona High School record by once running for 412 yards in a game at South Mountain High School. The player who previously held the record? Ravens LB Terrell Suggs.
S Rahim Moore (UCLA)
With Ed Reed's future almost always in jeopardy and Dawan Landry a free agent, the safety position will have to be addressed by the Ravens in the offseason.
Moore exploded on the Pac 10 scene in 2009, recording 10 interceptions for the Bruins. He tallied just one interception as a junior however before leaving Los Angeles early for the Draft.
While his interception numbers were down in 2010, his tackle numbers increased greatly. He tallied 77 tackles, up from 45 as a sophomore.
Moore has an impressive build (6'1″, 197 pounds) and can work his way up the Draft board by going under 4.5 when he runs the 40 yard dash at the Combine.
He looks like a Friday night pick as of right now. The Ravens could do well to pick him in the second round.
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Matt Harvey and Max Scherzer will start Tuesday night's All-Star game
NEW YORK — Matt Harvey of the New York Mets and Max Scherzer of the Detroit Tigers are first-time All-Stars this season.
They'll also be the first pitchers to take the mound for their respective squads when the All-Star Game begins Tuesday night at Citi Field. The announcement was made Monday afternoon and really came as no surprise given the way both men have pitched in the first half. It also didn't hurt that both men had a little extra boost over their competition given that Harvey will be starting in front of the home crowd and the American League team is being led by Scherzer's regular skipper, Jim Leyland.
Both men are the first pitchers to get a start in their All-Star debut since David Price and Ubaldo Jimenez got the nod for the 2010 game in Anaheim.
Harvey has given Mets fans some hope for the future in his first full season in the big leagues. The 24-year-old has a 7-2 record at the break, sporting a 2.35 ERA and a league-high 147 strikeouts. He's the first All-Star pitcher tabbed to start in his home ballpark since Roger Clemens started for the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park in 2004.
"It really wouldn't have mattered what city we were playing in," National League manager Bruce Bochy said. "With the year he's been having, he'd be our starting pitcher."
The Mets skipped Harvey's final scheduled start of the first half on Saturday and will skip his first scheduled start of the second half to help limit his innings count.
Scherzer leads all of baseball with a 13-1 record. The 28-year-old has posted a 3.19 ERA, a 0.979 WHIP and 152 strikeouts, which ranks just behind Yu Darvish's league-leading total of 157. He last pitched on Saturday when he suffered his first defeat of the season in a 13-1 loss to the Texas Rangers.
"It means so much," Scherzer said. "Especially with it being my first All-Star game."
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For better or worse, we're someone to everyone. Sometimes the title is friend and sometimes the title is enemy - unfortunately, we can't always dictate our role nor can we control our path through the world. The cast of The Second City Mainstage invites you to grab the people that mean the most to you and take a journey with them from the high seas of the Atlantic to the bohemian home of Panamanian poets. Let's leave the rest and let them eat chaos.
Jeff Award-winning director Matt Hovde (Studs Terkel's Not Working, Sky's the Limit (Weather Permitting)) returns to The Second City's legendary Mainstage Theater to lead a veteran cast including Edgar Blackmon (Jeff Award-winner - Best Actor - Revue), Holly Laurent, Tawny Newsome, Katie Rich, Steve Waltien and new cast member Ross Bryant. Julie N. Nichols returns to the keys (and mandolin, gong and Wurlitzer) for Let Them Eat Chaos and Craig Taylor returns as Stage Manager. The producing team for Let Them Eat Chaos includes Chief Executive Officer & Executive Producer for The Second City, Andrew Alexander; Executive Vice President, Kelly Leonard; Producer, Alison Riley; and Associate Producer, Jeremy Smith.
Tickets for Let Them Eat Chaos are available by phone at 312-337-3992 or online at www.SecondCity.com. The show schedule and ticket prices are as follows:
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EDGAR BLACKMON (Ensemble) is from Richton Park, IL. This is his third revue for The Second City Mainstage. He was a member of The Second City's Outreach & Diversity Ensemble and later toured with The Second City Touring Company. He is also a part of the comedy duo "Mad Highentists." Follow Edgar on twitter at @edgarblackmon.
ROSS BRYANT (Ensemble) travelled the world with The Second City Touring Company, co-wrote and performed the revue One Nation Under 1% in UP Comedy Club, and appeared in The Second City's Guide to the Opera at Lyric Opera. He is an ensemble member of Baby Wants Candy and The Improvised Shakespeare Company, with whom he has performed all over the USA and Canada.
HOLLY LAURENT (Ensemble) is a member of the longstanding improv group The Reckoning and is a consulting writer for The Onion News Network. She trained at iO Chicago, the Annoyance Theater, 500 Clown, and toured with The Second City Touring Company. Holly holds an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College. She was a member of the Jeff–nominated Mainstage revues South Side of Heaven and Who Do We Think We Are. This is her third Mainstage revue. Follow Holly on Twitter @laurentholly.
TAWNY NEWSOME (Ensemble) was most recently in The Second City e.t.c.'s 36th revue We're All in This Room Together. A DePaul Theatre School graduate, Tawny has performed with several Chicago theatre companies including Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Writer's Theatre, and Porchlight Music Theater. Tawny can also be seen with her band Jon Langford and Skull Orchard, and she's just finished her first solo album and would love to talk to you for way too long about it. You can learn more about Tawny at tawnynewsome.com.
KATIE RICH (Ensemble) studied at Northwestern University before traveling with The Second City Touring Company and performing in the 99th Mainstage revue, South Side of Heaven. Katie improvises at iO Chicago, and her solo work has been seen at iO West, TBS' Just for Laughs Festival, and the Paper Machete. Commercial credits include: Walmart, Sonic Drive-in, Lexus, Radio Shack and more. Movie credits include: Martin Short's Let Freedom Hum and with Abigail Breslin in Janie Jones. Follow her @katiemaryrich. Go Bears!
STEVE WALTIEN (Ensemble) is thrilled to be part of his second revue on The Second City Mainstage. Steve has performed regularly at the iO Theatre for years and toured the world with numerous improv shows including The Improvised Shakespeare Company and Whirled News Tonight. Favorite scripted shows include Jordan and Steve are Steve and Jordan, Respectively; The Late Night Late Show; and his solo show Scenes With Ghosts.
MATT HOVDE (Director) Directing credits include Sky's The Limit (Weather Permitting), Studs Terkel's Not Working (Jeff Award Winner – Best Director); Chicago Live!; America: All Better!; Rod Blagojevich Superstar!; Campaign Supernova; Between Barack and a Hard Place; How I Lost My Denverginity; and The Best of The Second City. He is the Artistic Director of The Second City Training Center, and is a founder of the Galileo Players sketch group. Matt was born in Chicago, grew up in Omaha, and graduated from TCU.
JULIE B. NICHOLS (Music Direction, Original Incidental Music, Sound Design) is thrilled to be part of the Second City Mainstage. This is her third Mainstage revue. Previous credits include Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies and the Jeff-nominated South Side of Heaven. Prior to life on the Mainstage, Julie was the associate musical director for Boom Chicago in Amsterdam. Prior to that, Julie toured with The Second City Touring Company and was lucky enough to perform and compose for The Annoyance Theater. Julie serves as the musical director for The New Colony and her pet project is the hit NPR parody podcast, The Fraudkast (fraudkast.org), for which she serves as producer, composer, and editor.
|CRAIG TAYLOR (Stage Manager) has stage managed more than 35 revues for The Second City and has been asked to provide the impossible for numerous Second City directors.


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Talking to Your Doctor About Chromosomal Abnormalities
You have a unique medical history. Therefore, it is essential to talk with your doctor about your personal risk factors and/or experience with chromosomal abnormalities. By talking openly and regularly with your doctor, you can make the best decisions for you and your family.
General Tips for Gathering Information
Here are some tips that will make it easier for you to talk to your doctor:
- Bring someone else with you. It helps to have another person hear what is said and think of questions to ask.
- Write out your question ahead of time so you don't forget them.
- Write down the answers you get and make sure you understand what you are hearing. Ask for clarification, if necessary.
- Don't be afraid to ask your questions or ask where you can find more information about specific topics. You have a right to know.
Genetic Counseling
You or your partner's family history may lead you to meeting with a genetic counselor. Genetic counselors have specialized training and experience within the area of genetics. Additionally, they are qualified in counseling people who are dealing with highly sensitive and emotional issues.
As counselors, their job is to inform you about possible birth defects or genetic disorders that may affect your child. Training in genetics allows these specialists to help you make sense of detailed medical jargon. They will identify any risk factors you or your partner may have and the likelihood of a birth defect or genetic disorder occurring. The counselors will present you with possible outcome scenarios that can help you understand and better decide for yourself what you should do.
At your first visit, you will be asked about your medical history as well as the medical background of your family. The more information that you can provide, the better your counselor will be able to identify inheritance patterns and assess your risk factors for certain genetic problems.
Sometimes further testing may be necessary. Your genetic counselor will arrange for this. When your chances of having a child with a possible genetic disorder have been properly assessed, your counselor will provide you with the resources you need to decide what you should do next. If you have a very high risk, your options include choosing to adopt or conceiving a child through in vitro fertilization and implanting an embryo that has been determined to be free of genetic problems through preimplantation genetic diagnosis.
Don't hesitate to ask your genetic counselor any questions you might have. You will be presented with a lot of information, so be sure to ask for brochures or even a written summary of the meeting to use as a resource.
Before Your Appointment
It is important to gather as much information on your family's medical history as you can.
- Talk to your parents and siblings about any medical problems they have had.
- Extend your information gathering to grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Pay particular attention to the following:
- Known genetic conditions
- Autism
- Seizures
- Metabolic or mitochondrial disorders
- Recurrent miscarriages or death in infancy
- Heart defects
- Intellectual disability
- Cancer
- Asthma, allergies, or atopic dermatitis
- Diabetes
- Heart disease, including heart disease that is present at birth
- High blood pressure
- Alcoholism
- Stroke
- Kidney disease
- Loss of hearing or vision at a young age
- Mental illness, such as depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia
- Learning problems
- Birth defects, such as spina bifida
Chromosome abnormalities. National Human Genome Research Institute website. Available at: http://www.genome.gov/11508982 . Updated January 6, 2016. Accessed June 3, 2016.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: Kari Kassir, MD
- Review Date: 06/2016
- Update Date: 05/20/2015


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Here you'll find user submitted macro modules which showcase the features and possibilities of K-Meleon with the Macro Extension Plugin. To get a better understanding of the macro language, check out the Macro Language page or kko's Macro Reference. Macros for versions of K-Meleon prior to 1.1 can be found in the old Macro Library.
In order to install a macro module, open Edit > Configuration > User-Defined Macros and create a new text file for the module you want to install. Copy the macro's code from the Wiki and paste it into this file. Save your changes, close your editor and rename the file according to the provided information (the file extension must be 'kmm'). The new module will be loaded when you've restarted K-Meleon. Installed macro modules can be enabled and disabled individually in Edit > Preferences > Macro Extension.*. More macros and extensions can be found at Extensions & Add-ons resources.
To submit your own module, click EditThisPage and add the link to your page to the list below. Please use a valid WikiWord for the name of your page with 'Kmm' as a prefix. For your convenience, you can use the Macro Submission Template as a guide to create your macro page by copy & pasting its contents into yours and then filling it out with your macro information.
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Children who bite others cause a great deal of concern for the parents. The parents of the child who has been bitten are also usually very concerned about infection. Biting is an unacceptable behavior that needs to be stopped at an early age to prevent further occurrences.
Although biting is fairly common in young children, it is often worrisome to adults. A family member, playmate, or classmate at daycare or preschool may be the one bitten. Biting can be painful and frightening when it occurs. It upsets other children and often angers teachers and other adults.
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Sets of integers like 3, 4, 5 are called Pythagorean Triples, because they could be the lengths of the sides of a right-angled triangle. Can you find any more?
This is the second article on right-angled triangles whose edge lengths are whole numbers.
The first of two articles on Pythagorean Triples which asks how many right angled triangles can you find with the lengths of each side exactly a whole number measurement. Try it!
This article discusses how every Pythagorean triple (a, b, c) can be illustrated by a square and an L shape within another square. You are invited to find some triples for yourself.
Can you find some Pythagorean Triples where the two smaller numbers differ by 1?
The diagram shows a very heavy kitchen cabinet. It cannot be lifted but it can be pivoted around a corner. The task is to move it, without sliding, in a series of turns about the corners so that it. . . .
A man paved a square courtyard and then decided that it was too small. He took up the tiles, bought 100 more and used them to pave another square courtyard. How many tiles did he use altogether?
A square patio was tiled with square tiles all the same size. Some of the tiles were removed from the middle of the patio in order to make a square flower bed, but the number of the remaining tiles. . . .
A woman was born in a year that was a square number, lived a square number of years and died in a year that was also a square number. When was she born?
Find the smallest integer solution to the equation 1/x^2 + 1/y^2 = 1/z^2
Liethagoras, Pythagoras' cousin (!), was jealous of Pythagoras and came up with his own theorem. Read this article to find out why other mathematicians laughed at him.
Prove that a triangle with sides of length 5, 5 and 6 has the same area as a triangle with sides of length 5, 5 and 8. Find other pairs of non-congruent isosceles triangles which have equal areas.
If the altitude of an isosceles triangle is 8 units and the perimeter of the triangle is 32 units.... What is the area of the triangle?
Show that 8778, 10296 and 13530 are three triangular numbers and that they form a Pythagorean triple.
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SymmetricDS provides file and database synchronization with support for multi-master replication, filtered synchronization, and transformation across the network in a heterogeneous environment. It supports multiple subscribers with one-direction or bi-directional, asynchronous data replication. It uses Web and database technologies to replicate data as a scheduled or near-realtime operation. The software has been designed to scale for a large number of nodes, work across low-bandwidth connections, and withstand periods of network outage. It works with most operating systems, file systems, and databases, including Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server (including Azure), IBM DB2, H2, HSQLDB, Derby, Firebird, Interbase, Informix, Greenplum, SQLite (including Android), Sybase ASE, and Sybase ASA (SQL Anywhere) databases.
The 5DT Data Glove driver provides access to the 5DT range of data gloves at an intermediate level. Features include multiple instances, easy initialization and shutdown, raw or scaled (auto-calibrated) sensor values, calibration functions, basic gesture recognition, and a cross-platform application programming interface.
Wt is a C++ library for developing Web applications with an API that is widget-centric and inspired by existing C++ graphical user interface APIs. To the developer, it offers abstraction of Web-specific implementation details, increasing the accessibility and portability. Under the hood, the library uses the latest techniques (HTML5, Ajax, WebSockets) to handle user events and update the Web page.
libconfig is a compact, portable library for reading, manipulating, and writing structured configuration files. The library includes bindings for both the C and C++ languages, and works on Linux, Mac OS X, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems, as well as Windows. A complete manual with API documentation is included.
CUPS is a standards-based printing system for Mac OS X and other Unix-like operating systems. It provides the System V and Berkeley command line interfaces, and uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") as the basis for managing print jobs and queues. The Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Server Message Block (SMB), and AppSocket (a.k.a. JetDirect) protocols are also supported with reduced functionality. CUPS adds network printer browsing and PostScript Printer Description ("PPD") based printing options to support real world printing.
GRASS (the Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a software raster- and vector-based GIS (Geographic Information System), image processing system, graphics production system, and spatial modeling system. It contains many modules for raster data manipulation, vector data manipulation, rendering images on the monitor or paper, multispectral image geocoding and processing, point data management and general data management. It also has tools for interfacing with digitizers, scanners, and the PostgreSQL, DBF, and ODBC connected databases. GRASS operates on all common operating systems.
A flexible cellular automaton editor.
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Despite assurances of continued development just last month, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 has been officially canceled. The silver lining to this cloud is that the team is pouring many ideas from the now-canned project into Survarium, a free-to-play MMO that the team calls "more ambitious."
Developer GSC Game World made the announcement through a series of tweets on its Twitter account. It has also already set up an official site and Facebook account for Survarium. The first tweet read, "despite no official continuation of Stalker 2. it looks like the ideas and spirit will live on in the team's new game - 'Survarium'."
Since then, other tweets have revealed a new studio (Vostok Games), which contains the entire team from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, to work on Survarium. The studio calls it "more than just an MMO," with the option of player versus the game world as in S2. The company promises a developer diary for Survarium later tonight, and a Q&A tomorrow to shed more light on the project.
So why is the project being dropped? "All those asking about funding etc. That is not the issue," a tweet reads. "We were unable to secure the IP rights to continue with the Stalker franchise."
More details are forthcoming, but in the meantime the newly formed Vostok Games has released a short video explaining the changes. At least, as much as possible in such a cheeky way.


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Webfwlog is a Web-based firewall log reporting and analysis tool. It allows users to design reports to use on logged firewall data in whatever configuration they desire. Included are sample reports as a starting point. Reports can be sorted with a single click, or "drilled-down" all the way to the packet level, and saved for later use. Supported log formats are netfilter, ipfilter, ipfw, ipchains, Cisco routers, Snort, and Windows XP. Netfilter support includes ulogd MySQL or PostgreSQL database logs using the iptables ULOG or NFLOG target.
DeleGate is a multi-purpose application level gateway or proxy server that mediates communication of various protocols, applying cache and conversion for mediated data, controlling access from clients, and routing toward servers. It translates protocols between clients and servers, converting between IPv4 and IPv6, applying SSL (TLS) to arbitrary protocols, merging several servers into a single server view with aliasing and filtering. It can be used as a simple origin server for some protocols (HTTP, FTP, and NNTP).
fwknop implements an authorization scheme called Single Packet Authorization that requires only a single encrypted packet to communicate various pieces of information, including desired access through an iptables, ipfw, or pf firewall policy and/or specific commands to execute on the target system. The main application of this program is to protect services such as SSH with an additional layer of security in order to make the exploitation of vulnerabilities much more difficult. The authorization server works by passively monitoring authorization packets via libpcap. Also supported is a robust port knocking implementation based around iptables log messages.
ips-qos is a flexible firewall and traffic shaping tool. It was formerly offered as installers for the popular Linux distributions. The current version is available under Debian GNU/Linux. It was intended to give administrators more control over a shared Internet connection. It includes ips, a flexible and easy-to-use configurable firewall with the ability to control access to the Internet (or selected services) from a LAN. It also includes qos, a traffic shaping tool that measures and controls the traffic load for every computer in a LAN.
sshdfilter automatically blocks ssh brute force attacks by reading sshd log output in real time and adding iptables rules based on authentication failures. Block rules are created by logging on with an invalid user name, or wrongly guessing the password for an existing account. Block rules are removed after a week to maintain a small list of blocks. It also comes with a LogWatch filter.
Arno's IPTABLES Firewall Script is a secure stateful firewall for both single and multi-homed machines. It supports NAT and SNAT, port forwarding, ADSL ethernet modems with both static and dynamically assigned IPs, MAC address filtering, stealth port scan detection, DMZ support, protection against SYN/ICMP flooding, experimental IPv6 support, multi-interface/aliased-IP support, and extensive user definable logging with rate limiting to prevent log flooding. It has plugin support to add extra features (like SSH Brute Force protection and (Racoon) IPSEC support). It is easy to configure and highly customizable. A filter script that makes your firewall log more readable is also included.
nftables aims to replace the existing {ip,ip6,arp,eb}tables framework. It provides a new packet filtering framework, a new userspace utility, and a compatibility layer for {ip,ip6}tables. nftables is built upon the building blocks of the Netfilter infrastructure such as the existing hooks, the connection tracking system, the userspace queueing component, and the logging subsystem.
A mixed-signal, mixed-language multi-level simulator.
An easy to use, but still quite capable firewall for Netfilter/iptables.