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West Brunswick High School senior Shanae Frink will soon graduate with a high school diploma—and 21 credit hours from University of North Carolina Greensboro.
Through the UNCG iSchool, high school juniors and seniors can take online courses from UNCG, interact with college professors and other students and earn transferable college credits at no cost.
The Aggressive Criminal Enforcement (ACE) Team is a support unit, whose primary functions are traffic enforcement and assisting in the apprehension of drug traffickers in the county. The ACE team conducts driving while impaired and driver's license checkpoints, as well as street-level investigations on controlled substances.
The ACE team works with the sheriff's office K-9 Enforcement Team and Drug Enforcement Unit to apprehend narcotics suspects as well as saturating hot spots where criminal activity is reported.
LELAND—A Leland man was arrested last week after allegedly stabbing his girlfriend with a pair of scissors.
According to an arrest report, Kevin Phillip Schumacher, 45, of 8760 Body Shop Drive, Leland, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and assault on a female on May 29.
Brunswick County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Sgt. April Stanley said Schumacher was taken to the Brunswick County Detention Center, where he remains under no bond.
Detectives with the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office are searching for a man missing from Supply.
Tracy Paul Whalen, 49, was reported missing Sunday, May 30, and has been missing for about a week, Sgt. April Stanley, sheriff's office spokesperson, said.
Stanley said it was unusual for Whalen to be away from his home for such a long time. No foul play is suspected in the case.
Whalen is a white male. He is 5-feet-6-inches tall and weighs 205 pounds. He has blue eyes and blond hair, and has a tattoo of a wolf on his left arm.
There will be a memorial service at 3 p.m. Sunday at Holden Beach for the victim of Thursday's fatal wreck on N.C. 211.
The memorial service will be at the corner of Ferry Street and Ocean Boulevard East.
Stephanie Heath, a 23-year-old Brunswick Community College student was killed Thursday afternoon after another car crossed the centerline and struck her vehicle head-on, according to the N.C. Highway Patrol. The driver of the other vehicle is suspected to have been using drugs.
The West Brunswick Junior American Legion baseball team split a home doubleheader Friday with South Columbus, winning the first five-inning game 3-1 but losing the second 6-5.
In the first game, West scored all its runs in the first inning. Markel Jones led off with a single and advanced to second on a wild pitch and stole third. Timmy Powell singled him home. He stole second and Ryan Sykes followed with a single. With one out. Bruce Clewis singled to right field, driving in a run. With two outs, Andrew Pait singled to right field, driving in a run for a 3-0 lead.
West Brunswick High School athletics director John Floyd used one word to describe the accomplishments of Trojan athletes this season: "Outstanding."
He was referring specifically to the offers colleges made to Trojan athletes.
A 23-year-old Brunswick Community College student died in a car crash on N.C. 211 Thursday afternoon after another car crossed the centerline and struck her vehicle head-on, according to the N.C. Highway Patrol.
Possible drug charges are pending against the driver of the car that struck her vehicle.
Stephanie Fay Heath, 23, of Supply, died at the scene, according to N.C. State Highway Patrol First Sgt. A.E. Morris.
BOLIVIA—The Brunswick County Early High School class of 2010 has left its legacy.
Members of the school's first graduating class, known as the "legacy class," accepted their diplomas during a commencement ceremony Thursday night at Odell Williamson Auditorium.
Of the 21 graduates, nine graduated with associate degrees from Brunswick Community College. Kiley Brandt, Heather Carlyle and Adela Hernandez each graduated with two associate degrees.
The West Brunswick Junior American Legion baseball team opened its season by beating the Hoggard-Wilmington Vikings 11-2 Thursday.
Starter Landon Tilley pitched three shutout innings, giving up one hit. He walked none and struck out two.
Ryan Sykes pitched two innings, giving up a two-run home run.
Bruce Clewis pitched the final two innings, striking out five.
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Wilderness Adventurer
The Wilderness Adventurer's interior complements the wild places it sails through and both public and private spaces are amenity-full. The main lounge evokes the feel of a wilderness lodge or neighborhood pub, with a long bar made from reclaimed Alaskan yellow cedar. Three accessible decks are ideal for keeping watch for wildlife and taking in the outdoors. The sun deck features roomy space for lounging and the observation deck offers over-the-top viewing from the bow.
The vessel is outfitted with adventure gear including kayaks, paddle boards, skiffs, hiking poles, wet suits and snorkel equipment, and yoga mats. The EZ Dock launch platform on the main deck makes getting into the water a cinch. A hydrophone and a bow-mounted underwater camera share the sounds and sights below the surface. The onboard wellness program includes a hot tub and fitness equipment.
There are three cabin categories aboard the Wilderness Adventurer: Navigator; Trailblazer; and Pathfinder. Pathfinder cabins accommodate singles and doubles.
Common to all cabins are: Flat-screen TV/DVD; iPod docking station; private bath with shower; a view window (no portholes).
Destination: Alaska
- 60 guests
- 30 cabins
- 25 crew members
- 160 feet in length
- 39 feet wide
- Cruising speed of 9.5 knots
- Built in 1984 by Blount Boats; renovated in 2011
- Registered in United States
- 3:1 Guest-to-crew ratio
Queen or twin beds; view window; private bath with shower
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CHESTER – Recreation department officials are concerned about the new roof of the town's Multipurpose Room (MPR).
Recreation's Corinna Reishus and Michelle Trask met with the selectmen on Thursday, Oct. 24, in see what could be done. The roof was installed over the summer following authorization from voters at Town Meeting. A new kind of roofing material was used for the project, one that did not require ballast, as the original roof had, and the new material and its installation process left rows upon rows of long screws sticking out, pointing toward the gym floor.
Reishus said the program had already lost a few balls to the screws by the time a sheared screw was found on the floor one morning, prompting a bigger concern. Reishus brought the screw to show the selectmen – it was several inches long, and she noted that with the basketball season quickly approaching, she needed to know that no more such hardware would be raining down.
According to selectman Rich LeBlanc, the extended screws are part of that new roofing system.
While selectmen Steph Landau and Jack Cannon took the situation seriously from the start and began pondering what moves could be made, LeBlanc at first was skeptical and questioned the recreation department about its part in the problem.
"They wouldn't be falling off if you weren't hitting them with a basketball or softball or whatever," said LeBlanc. "How are balls getting that high up?"
Cannon said something would have to be done to the ceiling because it was not feasible to prevent balls from getting away from players. Cannon noted real concern about what might happen if a nail were to fall on someone.
Though eventually it was conceded that the balls hitting the screws may be unrelated to the broken one found on the floor, at first Landau questioned what the town would do, should it find out that something as unsuspecting as a rubber ball was breaking the screws on the new roof.
Landau said the screws are extra long in part because they need to work in and out of the roof as the temperature changes within the building. Otherwise, he said, they might break.
Landau suggested installing insulation tiles under the rafters, a move that would both prevent the screws from causing any damage and potentially save on heating costs.
LeBlanc said he would take the broken screw and get in contact with the company that installed the roof to find out what might be happening. He suggested that some may have been over torqued when being installed.
The board left the matter in LeBlanc's hands, to be discussed further at a later date.
Multi-Purpose Room's New Roof Poses Problem
CHESTER – Recreation department officials are concerned about the new roof of the town's Multipurpose Room (MPR).


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Learning to Sew — The Magic Onions
I think this whole blog is pretty much amazing and had to immediately add it to my Google Reader. This particular post had a great idea about helping children learn to sew.
Living Math with Positive and Negative Numbers — Jimmie's Collage
Introducing negative numbers can be such a difficult concept for kids. Jimmie shows us an amazingly simple, yet brilliant, way to make this more understandable for kids.
How to Choose Creative Toys — Simple Homeschool
Great points when considering which toys to have in your home for your children.
Simple Animal Poetry — Early Bird Homeschool
Loved how this made poetry accessible for even very young children!
Step By Step, Piece by Piece: Notebooking — Heart of the Matter Online
This is a great guide for those wanting to start notebooking with their children.
Angie is the founder of The Homeschool Classroom. She also writes about faith, family, and household management at Many Little Blessings.


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BRIEF-Honda says no final agreement with Takata over inflator recall responsibilities
* Honda Motor Co says no final agreement reached with Takata Corp over inflator recall responsibilities
May 3 Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp
* Great Lakes reports first quarter results
* Q1 revenue $170.6 million
* Qtrly loss per share $0.27
* Qtrly loss per share from continuing operations $0.06 Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
* Honda Motor Co says no final agreement reached with Takata Corp over inflator recall responsibilities
TOKYO, June 26 Asian shares edged up on Monday on optimism about global growth while the dollar was on the defensive as a subdued U.S. inflation outlook capped U.S. bond yields.
BENGALURU, June 26 Gold prices were little changed on Monday as the market waited for a flurry of key U.S. economic data this week, with a weaker dollar offering some support. FUNDAMENTALS * Spot gold was nearly flat at $1,256.06 per ounce at 0050 GMT, staying near a one-week low hit on Friday. * U.S. gold futures for August delivery rose 0.04 percent to $1,256.80 per ounce. * The dollar sagged against its major peers on Monday, los


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Taking Q10 for a Test Drive – Is Ubiquinol Better?
Byron J. Richards, Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist
Recently consumers have been greatly confused over the type of Q10 that is best to take. A new form of Q10 called ubiquinol has entered the marketplace, a form that may offer some advantages for some people. However, several companies have been making unsubstantiated claims of superiority that appear driven more by sales than science, making consumers wonder if the Q10 they are taking is any good.
It all started with an article "Has Your CoQ10 Become Obsolete?" The article relies on unpublished studies conducted by the only maker of this form of Q10 (Kaneka Corporation) and one animal study funded by Kaneka to construct an exaggerated theory of superiority for a little-tested nutrient – clearly for the purpose of seeking to sell that form of Q10.
The myth has been carried further by another supplement company selling this product that is claiming that anyone over the age of 25 should only be taking ubiquinol. The owner of this company states that yellow Q10 is oxidized – implying inferior. He then goes on to claim that 95% of the studies in the scientific literature were done with ubiquinol – which is not true.
The message from both companies is the same. In essence, you are a fool if you don't buy the much more expensive ubiquinol form of Q10. Is this correct? Is ubiquinol worth the extra price?
A Brief History of Q10
Coenzyme Q10 has been around as a dietary supplement for 35 years and has amassed an impressive array of science. It has been shown to offset factors relating to aging, support cardiovascular health in multiple ways, enhance immune function, boost energy, act as an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory, help nerve function, improve muscle function, and assist metabolism of fat. Almost all of these studies were conducted with the "older" form of Q10, showing significant improvement on doses ranging from 100 mg – 300 mg per day, even in very difficult metabolic situations.
I have reviewed this body of science in two other Q10 articles that you may read if you would like more information:
When I started taking, as well as selling Q10 twenty years ago, we had 30 mg doses, because it was so expensive. Today, you can get 100 mg capsules for less than the 30 mg products of years gone by.
There are a handful of companies that make pharmaceutical grade Q10, as the nutrient was a prescription in Japan until a few years ago (Kaneka is one of these companies). When Japan decided a few years back to make Q10 available over the counter the price of Q10 skyrocketed, as there was not enough supply to meet demand. Enter the Chinese, who began making Q10, in turn breaking the stranglehold a few companies held on Q10 prices.
I have always purchased my Q10 from the Japanese high quality companies, not really trusting the Chinese to make the nutrient to the same standards of a prescription compound. However, the Chinese sure did everyone a favor by driving the price down.
In response to this, Kaneka came out with the ubiquinol form of Q10, in an effort to regain control of their lost Q10 market and have a product that would be unique compared to other high-quality producers of Q10.
Understanding Q10
There are indeed two forms of Q10. Ubiquinone is the form of Q10 that has been around a long time as a dietary supplement. It is true that it is an oxidized form of Q10, but that description used in a way to give an inferior connotation is technically untrue. From this point on I will refer to it as energy-Q10. Ubiquinol is the reduced form of Q10, which means it is able to deactivate free radicals1 whereas energy-Q10 does not. From this point on I will refer to ubiquinol as antioxidant-Q10.
The first thing to understand about these two forms of Q10 is that they are kept in a state of balance with each other. This means that if you take either form of Q10, some of it is readily converted to the other form to maintain this condition of equilibrium.
The next thing to understand is that it is incredibly easy for your body to convert energy-Q102 into antioxidant-Q10, which happens within a few hours of consuming it. Within six hours 100 mg of energy-Q10 raises the level of antioxidant-Q10 by 80%, 200 mg raises it 150%, and 100 mg three times a day raises it 400%. This study also proved that the balance between the two forms of Q10 taken maintained its equilibrium.
The reason I call the older form of this nutrient energy-Q10 is because it is the form of Q10 that is used in your mitochondria3 to make energy. Not surprisingly, this rather simple and important fact is omitted by those trying to push the more expensive version. Furthermore, this energy-Q10 is turning out to be a major cell communication regulation molecule, as it has been shown to significantly activate over 694 different genes4! This includes the reduction of the primary inflammatory gene signal, NF-kappaB5. The energy-Q10 form also enables you to activate uncoupling proteins6 when you exercise, increasing the amount of fat you can burn off. Hardly an inferior substance.
The truth of the matter is that your body needs both of these forms of Q10 for different purposes. They even occupy different places in your cell membranes7. When energy-Q10 is not in use within cells to make energy, it can be found in the middle of the lipid bilayer of the cell membrane. Antioxidant Q10 permeates through the entire lipid bilayer, so it can protect the cell and cell membrane from free radical damage, while also helping to recycle vitamin E and C to keep them active as antioxidants. Antioxidant-Q10 protects your energy-producing mitochondria from free radical damage, thus indirectly supporting energy production.
What is interesting about the new antioxidant-Q10 is that it may have advantages in metabolic situations of significant free radical distress – after all it is the form of Q10 that is the antioxidant. One small study of six patients with advanced congestive heart failure8 showed that antioxidant-Q10 was much more effective than energy-Q10. A new study also shows that the antioxidant-Q10, like energy-Q10, has anti-inflammatory properties9.
Thus, patients with high levels of circulatory-related free radical problems or who are at high risk for LDL oxidizing and forming plaque may find that antioxidant-Q10 works best for them. This would include type II diabetics or others with significant health problems. However, there are no clear cut studies on this at this time, just a reasonable theory.
Taking Q10 for a Test Drive
I have been watching this Q10 issue for the past several years, trying to understand if the antioxidant-Q10 had any advantages – and enough advantages to warrant the cost. Over the past four months I've been conducting an anecdotal experiment on myself to see which form of Q10 I like the best.
My test method was to take Q10 before I exercise, paying attention to energy, oxygenation, and fat burning. I used three different types of Q10. One is a plain powder of energy-Q10. Another is an energy-Q10 suspended in limonene oil that makes it completely soluble and crystal free. Fat-soluble Q10 molecules are known to clump together during production and their high molecular weight can make plain powder harder to absorb, especially in higher doses. And the third was an antioxidant-Q10, also using the same advanced crystal-free technology.
I generally run six miles, three to four times a week (I'm 54, healthy). I found a dose of antioxidant-Q10 that I could tell a dramatic difference in energy, oxygenation during running, and metabolic response. That dose turned out to be 500 mg – higher than most people would take (Q10 is typically taken at the dose of 100 mg – 300 mg per day).
To make a long story short, I found that a dose of 800 mg of energy-Q10 with the crystal-free technology produced a very similar energy, oxygen, and metabolic response to the 500 mg of antioxidant-Q10.
I found a dose of 1000 mg of plain powder energy-Q10 was very good, but could never re-create the feeling I get from either of the products using the crystal-free technology, even when taken up to 1500 mg. This is most likely due to a reduced ability to absorb the higher molecular weights of this basic form of Q10 in such a large single dose.
These amounts of Q10 were taken all at one time, 10 minutes before running.
I must say I got in much better shape as the months went by!
My conclusion is that I like both forms of Q10. If all the Q10 products were exactly the same price per mg, I would take the antioxidant-Q10. I think it does work a little bit better, but in the comparison of identical absorption-enhancing crystal-free products, the antioxidant-Q10 seemed to subjectively work about 60% better, and costs about 75% more. The antioxidant-Q10 product I used was more than twice as helpful to me as plain powder energy-Q10, and costs three times as much.
The older and less expensive Q10 is going to be just fine for a lot of people – and because of the competition it is at the best price it has ever been – which is a real deal. Remember, a majority of studies showing Q10 benefit were done with this type of Q10 in doses ranging from 100 mg – 300 mg. There is no question that the absorption of any form of Q10 can be enhanced by a system that makes the Q10 more soluble, and these more expensive forms of Q10 are nice to use.
I've made the decision to offer all three products to my customers. I've even reduced the price of antioxidant-Q10 using the crystal-free technology to make it more affordable for you to try. Time will tell which Q10 product is preferred. The bottom line – Q10 in any form is a great dietary supplement for your health.
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So, when we put these two challenges together, we find that many outside groups may be happy to treat an agile team like any other team and anticipate for a linear product delivery according to a traditional delivery schedule of six to eighteen months. This blends with the ability of modern software development teams to develop and run their own instances of a system, and, in some ways, we are not far from the prototypes of an earlier generation of software development. Customers can see the features, but they can't really experience them, yet. What they are seeing is a simplified implementation or something that has not yet been proven through an organization's delivery process. This results in a hidden reserve of undone work that will be a business liability when the organization finally gives the green light to launch. The organization may find an array of unexpected issues, which never showed up during conference room demonstrations throughout the project.
If Something Hurts, Do It Often
Agile projects are fundamentally learning endeavors based on the concept that a team can receive the necessary feedback and insight to build the right product in the right way if it expands its own boundaries of understanding. Following that convention, there is a truism within the field that projects should confront their big issues early and often or, as some would say: "If something hurts, do it often."
If staging a release through our deployment process is painful and lengthy, we should keep doing it. We should do it more often so that we get good at it and it is no longer an impediment. We should do this to prevent the situations described earlier. Avoiding pain not only harms our project outcomes but it also creates a false sense of confidence. Avoidance lulls people into a sense that everything is going well when, in fact, there is massive unexposed risk buried in the project. It not only denies the organization a real opportunity to improve its operations but it is also a reckless way to deal with our customer's money.
So, what exactly are we putting off in those situations described above? We are not moving entirely through the value stream. Value stream analysis is a lean concept used for measuring and illuminating all of the steps required to take an idea and turn it into a valuable product or service. Failing to understand the full process and optimizing on a smaller part of that stream can undermine delivery. This is similar to when I worked with the agile team that was able to rapidly turn out functionality in a controlled environment, but became bogged down when going through an integration and release process.
The figure above illustrates the challenge that faces many teams. In our hypothetical example, there are six distinct steps that must occur for the team to deliver value, beginning with a customer explaining the requirements and ending with the configuration of the application after its release into a production environment. The team committed to two week iterations and demonstrated functionality to its customer after completing testing, calling that "potentially shippable" product. However, the work must go through two more steps in order for the organization to realize value. If the team is communicating its velocity based on its ability to move functionality through the first few steps, then we have no insight into how long it takes to do the actual release or the post-configuration launch. These steps may not require much work, but until we move through them, we won't actually know. Of course, many teams will face a technical or business limitation preventing them from frequently implementing their code to production. So, teams may need to incorporate release-like activities into their iteration.
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Brian, great article! I recently wrote about very similar problems with "done-done" in another AgileConnections article: http://www.agileconnection.com/article/fix-your-agile-project-taking-systems-view .
Your three-part "something akin to a Kanban board" is a great example of a Visual Planning Board which shows the queues. This technique is often used in Lean project management, as shown here: http://www.kiberle.com/2013KB/PlanningBoardStates.pdf
Kathy Iberle
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WCM: The Real Differentiator
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I recently attended Vignette's annual analyst day, which turned out to be pretty enlightening, although perhaps not for the reasons I would have originally thought. For those of you who are unfamiliar with analyst days: vendors regularly hold what - to put it inelegantly - are essentially dog-and-pony shows that give their executives the opportunity to communicate their vision, their strategy, and their roadmaps to the analyst community. The buzzword du jour for WCM vendors is "customer experience," and Vignette's management team dutifully spoke about how their products can help companies create rich, contextual online experiences using Vignette's new recommendation engine, video offering, and community products. Vignette also included as part of its analyst day schedule two customer panels, where customers spoke about their experiences with Vignette and participated in Q&A with the audience. In analyst-speak, these customer panels were the real differentiators for Vignette's analyst day.
While WCM vendors are busy announcing all kinds of bells and whistles, the fact is that the true functionality differentiators among the top WCM vendors are few and far between. These days, most of the WCM vendors are hopping on the customer experience bandwagon, and they are adjusting functionality and messaging accordingly. And they truly need to.
But functionality aside, what is really compelling is when a high-visibility, high-volume content provider like Fox News participates in a customer panel, and stands up and praises a vendor (Vignette, in this case), talking about how valuable their products are in creating those customer experiences and how those products have helped them become more competitive in the marketplace. Others on the panel had similar success stories. Another customer, when asked about what made his company stay with Vignette, didn't answer functionality, but simply stated, "It's the people." Vignette has had its well-publicized share of issues with customers who moved from V6 to V7, but I recently spoke with another customer who went through that upgrade, and she stated that she never considered bringing in another vendor, because she was happy with the customer service and support people she had regular contact with.
There is no subsistute for positive word-of-mouth generated by customers speaking publicly about their success stories and about their satisfaction with the vendor's employees; that's more effective than anything marketing can come up with. It seems like Vignette may be starting to make some progress in this area. It's certainly worth keeping your ear to the ground for stories like this about the WCM vendors you may be considering.
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May 22, 2014 - Autism News/
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PHOENIX -- After looking at data over the last few years, researchers at the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center (SARRC) noticed that Spanish-speaking families weren't doing as well.
"They were performing significantly worse than our English speaking parents, and also their children weren't showing as much in responsivity to the treatments," said SARRC's Dr. Nicole Matthews.
As part of their Hispanic Outreach Program, SARRC started hiring more bilingual clinicians so they could offer a Spanish program that more closely approximates the English program, Matthews said.
"Now in our second Jump Start Program for Spanish speaking families, with these improvements we've made, they [Spanish language parents] are no longer performing significantly different from our English parents," she said.
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They detach with a hook the agglomerated masses of young mussels, which they gather in baskets, and carry them to their bouchots.
It is they who have agglomerated the chaos that is in this hour threshing about in dust and blood.
With them, union was not strength, but weakness: the more they were agglomerated the less were they to be feared.
At sixteen I was secretary to the agglomerated association for vindicating the rights of man.
The problem to be solved was to market an agglomerated material so as to avoid the drawbacks of fine ore.
Here, too, we find different degrees of solidity or density in the agglomerated matter.
The refining is thus completely finished, and all the particles are agglomerated.
The spores in Sporidesmium appear to consist of irregular masses of cells, agglomerated into a kind of compound spore.
The best lignite is that which, after combustion, leaves a fine ash and no agglomerated clinker.
The agglomerated product must be porous so as to afford access of the furnace-reducing gases to the ore.
1680s, from Latin agglomeratus, past participle of agglomerare "to wind or add onto a ball," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + glomerare "wind up in a ball," from glomus (genitive glomeris) "ball of yarn," from PIE root *glem-. Related: Agglomerated; agglomerating.


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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, 5/15/12
Chinese semiconductor foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) (NYSE: SMI, 0981.HK) has announced that Beijing Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology (BJEIT), Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area Management Committee (BDAC) and SMIC Beijing, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SMIC, will enter into a non-legally binding cooperation framework agreement today to establish a joint venture in the PRC to build up new and more advanced production facilities on SMIC Beijing's existing 12-inch wafer fab facilities.
The proposed joint venture will be developed in two phases. It is intended that the joint venture will carry on the development and operation of the project, which will focus on the production of 45-20 nanometer integrated circuits with a goal of achieving eventual production capacity of about 70,000 12-inch wafers per month.
Editor's Note: To see SMIC's full announcement, please click here.
Keywords: hardware semiconductor production capacity 12-inch SMI SMIC Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area JV 0981.HK Beijing Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology production facility


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Has Westinghouse Credit Become A Debit?Michael Schroeder
Westinghouse Electric Corp., whose massive power plants and electronic systems define a cyclical business, has for some time counted on a trump card. The Pittsburgh-based conglomerate's finance arm, Westinghouse Credit Corp., would help it ride out economic downturns.
But Westinghouse Credit is now producing some very unpleasant surprises--a nightmarish list of bad real estate and corporate loans that forced its parent to take a $975 million pretax write-off for 1990's last quarter. That slashed by 73% the record $1 billion profits for the year that the conglomerate would have booked. On Feb. 27, Westinghouse Electric Chief Executive Paul E. Lego promptly put $3.2 billion of Westinghouse Credit's problem loans and properties on the block and froze most new lending (table).
SOFT MARKET. The bad news from Westinghouse Credit, though, may not be over. Lego, in fact, has told subordinates that if the finance subsidiary isn't back on track in about three years, he will get out of that business. "That's crystal clear," says one of the executives.
Among analysts' biggest worries about Westinghouse Credit's future is a group of loan commitments it can't control: $3.1 billion in credit to companies, most with less-than-sterling ratings. Borrowers can tap these at any time. If the recession persists, weaker borrowers may make heavy use of these lines. Westinghouse argues that the borrowers are sound.
Westinghouse Credit's liquidation plan--for almost one-third of its $10 billion in assets--may also be problematic. The company will be selling into a recession and a soft real estate market, which surely means steep discounts. "There will be more write-offs," says Chester V. A. Murray, deputy research director at Moody's Investors Service Inc. Westinghouse Electric, which said it would inject $525 million in capital into its wayward subsidiary, concedes in recent Securities & Exchange Commission documents that more may be needed.
The problems couldn't have come at a worse time. Most of Westinghouse Electric's businesses--including nuclear plants, refrigeration units, and broadcasting--are losing steam for the first time in five years. Analysts estimate Westinghouse's 1991 earnings will be 20% below last year's results before the write-offs. That stands in vivid contrast to its larger rival, GE Capital Corp., the finance arm of General Electric Co. Despite similar loan troubles, GE Capital is racking up solid gains.
Elevated to the top spot just nine months ago, Lego, who declined to be interviewed, hopes to turn around Westinghouse Credit. According to company executives, it now will only make loans that are secured by borrowers' assets. But whether these loans will reinvigorate the finance unit is an open question. They are low-margin and face stiff competition from banks. Westinghouse Credit also aims to boost leasing out airplanes, railcars, and ships--its one healthy segment--by 42%, to $2 billion in leases by 1994. Yet leasing's prospects are limited, given the slow growth expected in the transportation industry.
'TOO AGGRESSIVE.' The finance unit, say company sources, also plans to reemphasize two markets in which it drastically scaled back operations a few years ago. One is lending to midsize companies to finance equipment purchases, which Westinghouse figures to build into a $1.5 billion portfolio in three years. The other is inventory loans, with a portfolio goal of $1 billion. These businesses, however, are highly competitive and cyclical.
The decline of Westinghouse Credit is a personal embarrassment for Lego, who as late as October was reassuring jittery Wall Street analysts that the unit could cruise through the gathering recession without taking a hit. Wrong. Bad credits cascaded in, capped by Hills Department Stores Inc., which filed for Chapter 11 on Feb. 4, leaving Westinghouse holding $61 million in unsecured loans. Moving swiftly to contain the reverses, a chastened Lego announced the dismal financial results and the asset sales after a special board meeting in New York. Says Noel Delaney, an analyst at Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co.: "Lego grabbed a wild raging bull by the horns."
Huge losses were the last thing Westinghouse executives expected of the finance unit. Formed in 1961 to finance the sales of stoves and refrigerators, Westinghouse Credit was treated as a stepchild by the parent's engineer-dominated management until 1986. Then the parent decided to remake Westinghouse Credit into a reliable cash producer to offset the cyclicality of the company's other operations. It pulled Westinghouse Credit out of thin-margin consumer lending and focused on risky, high-return real estate and investment banking.
Until last year, the gamble seemed to be paying off: Westinghouse Credit showed an average annual net income growth of 16% and asset growth of 20%. Unfortunately, says Michael Bunyaner, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co., "they were too aggressive in the last few years."
PRESSURE COOKER. The biggest problems are in commercial real estate. Almost a third of that $3.4 billion portfolio, much of it in comatose Sunbelt markets, is being sold or refinanced. Westinghouse Credit had vainly hoped to steer clear of problems by directing much of its business to a trusted cadre of two dozen major developers. But they weren't immune from the devastation wrought by vast overbuilding and the recession. Westinghouse Credit is trying to sell or refinance its $290 million half-interest in nearly two dozen apartment projects built by Tonti Properties Inc. in New Orleans, which has been doing business with the finance arm since 1967. The projects account for nearly 6,000 units in the soft markets of Dallas, Denver, New Orleans, and Phoenix. To keep up occupancy rates, CEO Robert T. Tonti Sr. had to lower rents an average 10% below carrying costs.
When the building boom fizzled in early 1989, Westinghouse Credit thought it could find salvation in corporate buyout lending, targeting medium-size companies. These loans increased by an average of 60% in each of the past three years, to $4.2 billion.
"We were under tremendous pressure to grow," says a former Westinghouse Credit executive. Some 48% of its leveraged buyout portfolio is unsecured. Moody's calls this a much riskier mix than those of such peers as GATX Capital and Heller Financial.
The LBO portfolio is already starting to show some wear and tear. Lego told analysts on Feb. 27 that he was alarmed by a slew of defaulted loans. SEC documents show that companies owing Westinghouse Credit $122 million have filed for Chapter 11 this year through early March. That nearly matches the bankruptcy defaults of $132 million for all of 1990. Chillingly, the Hills Department Stores filing came within two weeks of bankruptcy petitions by two major Texas-based companies: Tracor Inc., a defense contractor that owed Westinghouse $32 million, and Insilco Corp., a diversified high-tech manufacturer owing $8 million.
Westinghouse Credit has come far, from financing appliances to underwriting LBOs. The question for Westinghouse Electric now is: Will Lego's shock treatment work on the finance unit, or will he have to pull the plug?
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE A third of the $3.4 billion portfolio put on the block. Half of $1 billion in bad assets are in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. No new loans being made
RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Half of $540 million in loans up for sale, most for housing developments that company financed. Selling completed developments in California, Florida, and Georgia. Making no new loans
CORPORATE FINANCE A quarter of the $4.2 billion portfolio put on the block. Junk-bond and equity portfolio of $653 million for sale. Bankruptcies expected to boost loan defaults further. Making no new loans unless secured
LEASING The only healthy Westinghouse Credit business. Portfolio of $1.4 billion includes leases for aircraft, railcars, ships, and electricity cogeneration plants. Plans to expand it 43% by 1994


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Five first-year eligible players – Jerome Bettis, Marshall Faulk, Curtis Martin, Deion Sanders, and Willie Roaf – are among the 15 modern-era finalists who will be considered for election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame when the Hall's Selection Committee meets in North Texas on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011.
Joining the five first-year eligible players, are nine other modern-era players and a contributor. The 15 modern-era finalists, along with the two senior nominees announced in August 2010 (former Washington Redskins linebacker Chris Hanburger and former Los Angeles Rams linebacker Les Richter) will be the only candidates considered for Hall of Fame election when the 44-member Selection Committee meets. To be elected, a finalist must receive a minimum positive vote of 80 percent.
Also, for the second consecutive year, the Pro Football Hall of Fame has teamed up with Van Heusen and JCPenney to ask fans to voice their choice for whom they think should be included in the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2011 at www.fanschoice.com.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame Selection Committee's 17 finalists (15 modern-era and two senior nominees*) with their positions, teams, and years active follow:
Jerome Bettis – Running Back – 1993-95 Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams, 1996-2005 Pittsburgh Steelers
Tim Brown – Wide Receiver/Kick Returner – 1988-2003 Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders, 2004 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Cris Carter – Wide Receiver – 1987-89 Philadelphia Eagles, 1990-2001 Minnesota Vikings, 2002 Miami Dolphins
Dermontti Dawson – Center – 1988-2000 Pittsburgh Steelers
Richard Dent – Defensive End – 1983-1993, 1995 Chicago Bears, 1994 San Francisco 49ers, 1996 Indianapolis Colts, 1997 Philadelphia Eagles
Chris Doleman – Defensive End/Linebacker – 1985-1993, 1999 Minnesota Vikings, 1994-95 Atlanta Falcons, 1996-98 San Francisco 49ers Marshall Faulk – Running Back – 1994-98 Indianapolis Colts, 1999-2005 St. Louis Rams
Charles Haley – Defensive End/Linebacker – 1986-1991, 1999 San Francisco 49ers, 1992-96 Dallas Cowboys
*Chris Hanburger – Linebacker – 1965-1978 Washington Redskins
Cortez Kennedy – Defensive Tackle – 1990-2000 Seattle Seahawks
Curtis Martin – Running Back – 1995-97 New England Patriots, 1998-2005 New York Jets
Andre Reed – Wide Receiver – 1985-1999 Buffalo Bills, 2000 Washington Redskins
*Les Richter – Linebacker – 1954-1962 Los Angeles Rams
Willie Roaf – Tackle – 1993-2001 New Orleans Saints, 2002-05 Kansas City Chiefs
Ed Sabol – Founder/President/Chairman – 1964-1995 NFL Films
Deion Sanders – Cornerback/Kick Returner/Punt Returner – 1989-1993 Atlanta Falcons, 1994 San Francisco 49ers, 1995-99 Dallas Cowboys, 2000 Washington Redskins, 2004-05 Baltimore Ravens
Shannon Sharpe – Tight End – 1990-99, 2002-03 Denver Broncos, 2000-01 Baltimore Ravens
Brown, Carter, Dawson, Dent, Haley, Kennedy, Reed, and Sharpe have all been finalists in previous years. Although they were eligible in previous years, this is the first time Doleman, Hanburger, Richter, and Sabol have been finalists.
From this year's list, four players – Dawson, Hanburger, Kennedy, and Richter – spent their entire NFL career with just one team.
Hanburger and Richter were selected as senior candidates by the Hall of Fame's Seniors Committee at their August 2010 meeting. The Seniors Committee reviews the qualifications of those players whose careers took place more than 25 years ago. The remaining 15 modern-era finalists were determined by a vote of the Hall's 44-member Selection Committee from a list of 114 preliminary nominees that earlier was reduced to a list of 26 semifinalists.
To be eligible for election, modern-era players and coaches must be retired at least five years. Contributors need not be retired.
Dent has been eligible for election for nine years, Doleman and Haley seven years. Dawson, Kennedy, and Reed have each been eligible for election for six years, Carter four years, Sharpe three years and Brown two years. Bettis, Faulk, Martin, Roaf, and Sanders are in their first year of eligibility. Since the retirement minimum for a player prior to 1968 was three years, senior nominee Richter has been eligible for 46 years. Hanburger has been eligible for 28 years.
The Selection Committee will meet in North Texas, on Saturday, February 5, 2011, to elect the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2011. The election results will be announced at 7 p.m. ET (6 p.m. CT) during a one-hour NFL Network special, live from the Super Bowl Media Center.
At the 2011 selection meeting, the selectors will thoroughly discuss the careers of each finalist. Although there is no set number for any class of enshrinees, the Pro Football Hall of Fame's current ground rules stipulate that between four and seven new members will be selected each year. No more than five modern-era nominees can be elected in a given year and a class of six or seven can only be achieved if one or both senior nominees are elected. Representatives of the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche will tabulate all votes during the meeting.
At the announcement, Pro Football Hall of Fame President/Executive Director Steve Perry will be presented with an envelope containing the names of the nominees elected. Each newly elected member will be contacted immediately by the Hall of Fame. Members of the Class of 2011 in North Texas for the Super Bowl will be asked to join the live announcement show. Those not able to attend will be asked to join via teleconference.
The Van Heusen Fan's Choice campaign which launched in September mirrors the Hall of Fame's selection process and will name the Fan's Choice for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2011 live on NFL Network just prior to the official announcement from the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
The Van Heusen Fan's Choice Top 15 list includes only five candidates who also appear on the official Pro Football Hall of Fame Selection Committee list including: Jerome Bettis, Tim Brown, Cris Carter, Marshall Faulk, and Andre Reed. Others who made the Van Heusen Fan's Choice Top 15 list who didn't make the official Hall of Fame Selection Committee list include coach, Tom Flores, as well as former players, Darryl Talley, Steve Tasker, Cornelius Bennett, Kent Hull, Fred Smerlas, Ray Guy, Jim Plunkett, Lester Hayes and Donnie Shell.
The Final Round of fan voting begins today and the top 15 Fan's choices will be combined with the official Hall of Fame Selection Committee choices for one powerhouse list of candidates looking for fans' votes to become a part of the Fan's Choice for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2011.
Fans are encouraged to visit www.fanschoice.com to vote for their favorites before the Fan's Choice for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2011 is revealed on February 5.
The Dallas Cowboys, Pittsburgh Steelers, Minnesota Vikings, and St. Louis/Los Angeles Rams each have two finalists who spent a significant part of their careers with the team. The Atlanta Falcons, Buffalo Bills, Chicago Bears, Denver Broncos, Indianapolis Colts, New Orleans Saints, New York Jets, Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, and the Washington Redskins each have one finalist who spent all or a significant part of their careers with that team.
If elected …
Jerome Bettis and/or Dermontti Dawson would be the 19th and/or 20th longtime Pittsburgh Steelers elected to the Hall of Fame. Other Steelers Hall of Fame members include Mel Blount, Terry Bradshaw, Bill Dudley, Joe Greene, Jack Ham, Franco Harris, John Henry Johnson, Walt Kiesling, Jack Lambert, Bobby Layne, Chuck Noll, Art Rooney, Dan Rooney, John Stallworth, Ernie Stautner, Lynn Swann, Mike Webster, and Rod Woodson.
Tim Brown would be the 14th Oakland/Los Angeles Raider elected to the Hall of Fame. He would join Marcus Allen, Fred Biletnikoff, George Blanda, Willie Brown, Dave Casper, Al Davis, Mike Haynes, Ted Hendricks, Howie Long, John Madden, Jim Otto, Art Shell, and Gene Upshaw. Cris Carter and/or Chris Doleman would be the 11th, and/or 12th Minnesota Vikings elected to the Hall of Fame. They would join Carl Eller, Jim Finks, Bud Grant, Paul Krause, Randall McDaniel, Alan Page, John Randle, Fran Tarkenton, Ron Yary, and Gary Zimmerman.
Richard Dent would be the 27th longtime Chicago Bear to be added to the Hall of Fame honor roll. Doug Atkins, George Blanda, Dick Butkus, George Connor, Mike Ditka, John "Paddy" Driscoll, Jim Finks, Dan Fortmann, Bill George, Harold "Red" Grange, George Halas, Dan Hampton, Ed Healey, Bill Hewitt, Stan Jones, Sid Luckman, Link Lyman, George McAfee, George Musso, Bronko Nagurski, Walter Payton, Gale Sayers, Mike Singletary, Joe Stydahar, George Trafton, and Clyde "Bulldog" Turner are the others.
Marshall Faulk and/or Les Richter would become the 14th and/or 15th longtime St. Louis/Los Angeles Rams elected to the Hall of Fame. They would join 13 previously elected Rams Hall of Famers including George Allen, Eric Dickerson, Tom Fears, Elroy Hirsch, Deacon Jones, Tom Mack, Ollie Matson, Merlin Olsen, Dan Reeves, Jackie Slater, Norm Van Brocklin, Bob Waterfield, and Jack Youngblood.
Marshall Faulk would be the 11th longtime Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts member elected to the Hall of Fame. He would join Raymond Berry, Eric Dickerson, Art Donovan, Week Ewbank, Ted Hendricks, John Mackey, Gino Marchetti, Lenny Moore, Jim Parker and Johnny Unitas.
Charles Haley would be the 14th member of the San Francisco 49ers elected to the Hall of Fame. He would join 13 other 49ers Hall of Fame members including Fred Dean, Jimmy Johnson, Ronnie Lott, Hugh McElhenny, Joe Montana, Leo Nomellini, Joe Perry, Jerry Rice, Bob St. Clair, Y.A. Tittle, Bill Walsh, Dave Wilcox, and Steve Young.
Charles Haley and/or Deion Sanders would be the 13th and/or 14th Dallas Cowboys Hall of Fame members. Troy Aikman, Tony Dorsett, Bob Hayes, Michael Irvin, Tom Landry, Bob Lilly, Mel Renfro, Tex Schramm, Emmitt Smith, Roger Staubach, Randy White, and Rayfield Wright are the current Cowboys Hall of Fame members. Chris Hanburger would be the 19th Washington Redskins Hall of Fame member. He would join George Allen, Cliff Battles, Sammy Baugh, Bill Dudley, Albert Glen "Turk" Edwards, Ray Flaherty, Joe Gibbs, Darrell Green, Russ Grimm, Ken Houston, Sam Huff, Sonny Jurgensen, George Preston Marshall, Wayne Millner, Bobby Mitchell, Art Monk, John Riggins, and Charley Taylor.
Cortez Kennedy would join Steve Largent to become the second longtime Seattle Seahawk elected to the Hall of Fame.
Curtis Martin would be the fifth longtime New York Jet elected to the Hall of Fame, joining Weeb Ewbank, Don Maynard, Joe Namath, and John Riggins.
Andre Reed would be the ninth Buffalo Bills Hall of Fame member. He would join Joe DeLamielleure, Jim Kelly, Marv Levy, Billy Shaw, O.J. Simpson, Bruce Smith, Thurman Thomas, and Ralph Wilson, Jr.
Willie Roaf would join Jim Finks and Rickey Jackson as only the third longtime member of the New Orleans Saints elected to the Hall of Fame. Deion Sanders would become the first longtime member of the Atlanta Falcons to be enshrined in the Hall of Fame.
Shannon Sharpe would be the fourth Denver Bronco elected to the Hall of Fame, joining John Elway, Floyd Little and Gary Zimmerman.
THE MODERN-ERA POSITION ROSTER WILL CHANGE AFTER 2011 ELECTION (The Modern-Era is defined as a majority of an enshrinee's career occurred after 1946)
If elected …
Jerome Bettis and/or Marshall Faulk and/or Curtis Martin would be the 28th and/or 29th and/or 30th modern-era running back elected to the Hall of Fame. The other modern-era running backs in the Hall of Fame include Marcus Allen, Jim Brown, Earl Campbell, Larry Csonka, Eric Dickerson, Tony Dorsett, Frank Gifford, Franco Harris, Paul Hornung, John Henry Johnson, Leroy Kelly, Floyd Little, Ollie Matson, Hugh McElhenny, Lenny Moore, Marion Motley, Walter Payton, Joe Perry, John Riggins, Barry Sanders, Gale Sayers, O.J. Simpson, Emmitt Smith, Jim Taylor, Thurman Thomas, Charley Trippi, and Doak Walker.
Tim Brown, and/or Cris Carter, and/or Andre Reed would be the 22nd, 23rd and/or 24th modern-era receivers in the Hall of Fame. Other Hall of Fame modern-era receivers include Lance Alworth, Raymond Berry, Fred Biletnikoff, Tom Fears, Bob Hayes, Elroy Hirsch (also a halfback), Michael Irvin, Charlie Joiner, Steve Largent, Dante Lavelli, James Lofton, Don Maynard, Tommy McDonald, Bobby Mitchell (also a halfback), Art Monk, Pete Pihos, Jerry Rice, John Stallworth, Lynn Swann, Charley Taylor (also a halfback), and Paul Warfield.
Richard Dent, and/or Chris Doleman (also LB) and/or Charles Haley (also LB) would become the 16th, 17th and/or 18th modern-era defensive ends to be elected to the Hall of Fame. Other Hall of Fame defensive ends are Doug Atkins, Elvin Bethea, Willie Davis, Fred Dean, Carl Eller, Len Ford, Dan Hampton (DT-DE), Deacon Jones, Howie Long, Gino Marchetti, Andy Robustelli, Lee Roy Selmon, Bruce Smith, Reggie White, and Jack Youngblood.
Dermontti Dawson would become the ninth modern-era center to be elected to the Hall of Fame. Other Hall of Fame centers include Chuck Bednarik (also LB), Frank Gatski, Jim Langer, Bruce Matthews (G-T-C), Jim Otto, Jim Ringo, Dwight Stephenson, and Mike Webster.
Chris Hanburger, and/or Charles Haley (also DE), and/or Les Richter would be the 21st, and/or 22nd, and/or 23rd modern-era Hall of Fame linebackers joining Chuck Bednarik (also C) Bobby Bell (also DE), Nick Buoniconti, Dick Butkus, Harry Carson, George Connor (also DT-OT), Bill George, Jack Ham, Ted Hendricks, Sam Huff, Rickey Jackson (also DE), Jack Lambert, Willie Lanier, Ray Nitschke, Joe Schmidt, Mike Singletary, Lawrence Taylor, Derrick Thomas, Andre Tippett, and Dave Wilcox.
Cortez Kennedy would be the 14th defensive tackle elected to the Hall of Fame, joining Buck Buchanan, Art Donovan, Joe Greene, Dan Hampton (also DE), Henry Jordan, Bob Lilly, Leo Nomellini, Merlin Olsen, Alan Page, John Randle, Ernie Stautner, Arnie Weinmeister, and Randy White.
Willie Roaf would become the 19th tackle to earn election into the Hall of Fame. Other Hall of Fame tackles include Bob Brown, Roosevelt Brown, Lou Creekmur (also G), Dan Dierdorf, Forrest Gregg (also G), Lou Groza (also PK), Stan Jones (also G-DT), Bruce Matthews (also G-C), Mike McCormack, Ron Mix, Anthony Muñoz, Jim Parker (also G), Bob St. Clair, Art Shell, Jackie Slater, Rayfield Wright, Ron Yary, and Gary Zimmerman.
Ed Sabol would be the 19th contributor inducted into the Hall of Fame. He would join Bert Bell, Charles Bidwill, Joe Carr, Al Davis, Jim Finks, George Halas, Lamar Hunt, Earl "Curly" Lambeau, Tim Mara, Wellington Mara, George Preston Marshall, Hugh "Shorty" Ray, Dan Reeves, Art Rooney, Dan Rooney, Pete Rozelle, Tex Schramm, and Ralph Wilson, Jr.
Deion Sanders would become the 15th modern-era cornerback elected to the Hall of Fame. He would join Herb Adderley, Lem Barney, Mel Blount, Willie Brown, Darrell Green, Mike Haynes, Jimmy Johnson, Dick "Night Train" Lane, Dick LeBeau, Ronnie Lott (also S), Mel Renfro (also S), Emmitt Thomas, Roger Wehrli, and Rod Woodson (also S).
Shannon Sharpe would be the eighth tight end elected to the Hall of Fame. Other Hall of Fame tight ends include Dave Casper, Mike Ditka, John Mackey, Ozzie Newsome, Charlie Sanders, Jackie Smith, and Kellen Winslow.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival, a multi-day celebration of the enshrinement of the newest Hall of Fame Class, is held each year in Canton. The festival which culminates with the Enshrinement Ceremony and NFL Hall of Fame Game includes 18 special events over a 11-day period. Two major events are the Enshrinees Dinner (Friday, August 5), and the Enshrinees Game Day Roundtable (Sunday, August 7). It is at the Enshrinees Dinner where each member of the Class of 2011 will be presented his gold Pro Football Hall of Fame Jacket. At the Enshrinees GameDay Roundtable, the Class of 2011 will be featured center stage as they share memories of the game and their personal feelings about being inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Fan Packages for the 2011 Enshrinement Festival are on sale now. Individual Enshrinement tickets will go on sale to the public on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011 at 11 a.m. ET. More ticket information for the Enshrinement Ceremony, NFL Hall of Fame Game and the Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival events can be found on the Hall of Fame's website (Profootballhof.com).
Shannon Sharpe
Tight End … 6-2, 230 … Savannah State … 1990-99, 2002-03 Denver Broncos, 2000-01 Baltimore Ravens … 14 playing seasons, 204 games … Three-time All-America at Savannah State … Selected by Broncos in the seventh round (192nd player overall) of the 1990 NFL Draft … At time of retirement, his 815 career receptions and 10,060 yards and 62 TDs were all NFL career records for a tight end … His 214 receiving yards vs. Kansas City in 2002 is an NFL single-game record for a tight end … Tied NFL record with 13 receptions in single post-season game (vs. Raiders, 1993) … Three times during career amassed over 1,000 yards receiving … Earned first- or second-team All-Pro honors five times and first- or second-team All-AFC honors six times … Selected to play in eight Pro Bowls (1993-99, 2002) … In 1996 led all tight ends in receptions (80), receiving yards (1,062 yards), and receiving touchdowns (10) … Following season had career best 1,107 receiving yards for career best 15.4 yard average … An integral part of Broncos Super Bowl XXXII and XXXIII and Ravens Super Bowl XXXV championships … Born June 26, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Hunter's 5K Run/Walk
Barnard Park
Sat 07/20/2013
1 Mile, 5K
Hunters Army came together soon after Hunters death. Hunters Army is a group of family, long-time friends and new friends made. This large group formed to show Hunters family that they were not alone and they will forever have an ar-my of help, love and support.The Hunter Resch Foundation is here to support families in time of crisis and need. We have been through exactly what you have and are here to assist you in your time of grief. You don't have to be alone during this pro-cess. Help is available. All you have to do is reach out and ask. We are here for you. All pro-ceeds from the race will go to-wards the Hunter Resch foundation.Awards and PrizesPrizes and medals will be given to the top male and female finishers. Medals will also be awarded to the top three finishers 12 and under.Event schedule and timesThe Hunters 5K will be heldSaturday, July 20st at Barnard Park, 410Maiden Lane, Rochester , NY 146167:00 Registration Opens9:00 Registration Closes9:15 Race will begin for runners9:20 Walkers start10:30 Awards CeremonyThe CarnivalStick around after the race for the Hunter Resch Foundation Carnival whichbegins at 11:00 AM
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DS1 is 6 years old and the new babe is about 10 weeks. We were more than happy to have a large age gap, it's actually what we really wanted for many reasons. After an early miscarriage last year, we were blessed with this pregnancy in May and we were thrilled, as was DS1. The baby is wonderful, he's sweet, even-tempered, smiled early and seems to be a great sleeper and we are incredibly blessed to have this wonderful little guy. I give thanks every day for him and my older DS, how truly lucky I am to have 2 healthy, happy boys.
However I really REALLY REALLY hate the early baby stage. It sets off all kinds of anxiety for me, the uncertainty of each day and night, the unpredictable behavior, the lack of routine, plus that the baby is still essentially a helpless blob for lack of a better term, and can't do anything yet except cry, poop, etc. If I could give birth and then have it turn into a 6-month old I'd probably have 10 of them by now
The baby has developed this issue when going to sleep - for the past 2 weeks when we put him to bed (between 8 and 8:30 right now), he doesn't seem tired at all, will go to sleep initially, but then wakes up SCREAMING 40 To 60 minutes latern. After a brief pat and soothe, he goes back to sleep, only to repeat the behavior 5 minutes later, then 5 minutes after that. Last night was the worst night he's had – about an hour and 15 minutes after he went to bed he was up EIGHT times in a 45-minute period. This was a baby that as of 3 weeks ago could quietly coo himself to sleep without any issue.
So this has fueled kind of an anxious insanity for me to obsessively try to "fix" the behavior, try to figure out what in the world is going on in this baby's head, what are we doing wrong to make him do this?. Then because I have a 6-year old that is a piece of cake, I start thinking "Why did I want to do this again? I had it so easy and I wanted to go back to sleepless nights and a screaming baby again?" and blaming myself for wanting to delve back into this level of chaos, knowing full well how long it is before things are somewhat easy again. Then worrying that I'm not being the mom that my older child has been used to - how we could leave at the drop of a hat to go to lunch, a movie, etc and soon we'll be more at the mercy of a baby's routine and needs.
That anxious, panicky feeling swells back up in my chest and I want to cry,well actually I do cry sometimes I guess I just need to know about anyone that's gone through this, especially if you had an older child with a large age gap and had to start from scratch all over again, worrying that the older one is getting shorted of the attention they had all those years before baby intruded and everything erupted into chaos.
Thanks for reading, thinking, and hopefully not judging.
Yes. I think this is very normal, even though it feels totally crazy at the time. I *only* have one boy, but you describe what I went through with him, when he was a baby, to a T. (I am also a business owner). Having YOU time is pretty important, especially when things get overwhelming as they do. The lack of sleep is physically and mentally draining and crazy making; like some nights are never ending. And then you go to work the next day! With my boy, he had stomach issues and also wanted to be held and rocked. If you do not have one, I recommend a motorized swing that can gently rock him, and keep rocking him, all night long. It saved our marriage I think! I know other people have had success with other techniques. One frustration is that all kids are different so what works for one, won't work for another....or so I've heard.
But yes..this is "normal". Your OB may have suggestions too.
I don't have great suggestions, but I want you to know that I so relate to your pain. I have a 5year gap, and it does sometimes feel like starting over. But also, you are really in the thick of it right now, especially knowing how you feel about them little. It will pass. It will. You have done it successfully before and you will again.
Maybe take away the need to fix and just observe? Chart? somehow that sometimes makes it less personal for me and I might actually see a pattern that can lead to change, but if not, at least I don't get as emotionally overwhelmed. Also, you do need some YOU time.
Oh and for your 1st child, they have had a lot of time one on one with you, but don't forget that they will have this sibling for all their lives. That is a blessing for your 1st and your 2nd. I wouldn't worry too much about the older getting shorted, but I would acknowledge his feelings if he brings it up. My oldest was very nurturing to #2 and 3. My middle was not so happy about #3, but even he has times that he likes to play with her. And she adooooores him! I wrote in my journal for him about how his name was pretty much her first and only word for a while. he didn't care at the time, but I read it to him the other night, and you could see how proud he felt....sorry, off topic a bit!
Hope you are getting some support!
Mom to 11 y.o. lawyer, 9 y.o. actor, and 4 y.o. pilot. I believe 'em on those, too!
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Dog adoption saves lives. Adopt a dog and you'll have a friend for life! Contact us, or contact another local humane society, animal shelter or SPCA.
Most labs that come into Lucky Lab Rescue are from shelters here in the Midwest. Most are at risk of euthanasia, usually due to overcrowded shelters. Labs are one of the most popular breeds of dogs due to their loyal and family oriented personalities. Labs are also one of the most overbred breeds and are the number one breed to be found in shelters. They also have one of the highest euthanasia rates. Some find it difficult that rescues can be breed specific, however, Lucky Lab Rescue and other lab rescues make a huge impact on euthanasia rates just by rescuing labs and lab mixes alone.
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Dog adoption and cat adoption saves lives. Adopt a dog or adopt a cat and you'll have a friend for life! What is the difference between adopting a dog or puppy versus getting dogs for sale or puppies for sale from a dog breeder? When someone is breeding puppies, they are creating new dogs who need homes. Some people are interested in a very specific breed of dog or puppy and they think the only way to find that specific breed is to buy a dog for sale from a puppy breeder. Yet animal shelters are filled with dogs who must find homes. So rather than buying a dog or puppy for sale from a dog breeder, we encourage people to adopt a dog or adopt a puppy at their local animal shelter, SPCA, humane society or pet rescue group.


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Probation: Politics, Policy and Practice
This book is about change. It is about the effect of changes in the criminal justice system and society in general upon the organization and everyday work of the probation service in England and Wales. These changes include a collapse in confidence in the treatment or rehabilitation model of probation work, and the actions of a Conservative government determined to create a punitive correctional service in the community. The author traces paradigm, political and organizational changes; explores how they are interpreted and implemented in probation service policy; and analyzes the effects of policy shifts and how they are percieved by probation staff. The author moves from the general to the specific: from the nature of these changes to an examination of their consequences within one probation service which, for the purposes of anonymity, is called "Treen". The book also analyzes the work of probation personnel in different work settings; and considers the appropriateness of the recent administrative changes in mrelation to the everyday realities of probation work.
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Myrtle Beach Pelicans Baseball
Don't strike out this vacation! Go see Myrtle Beach's minor league baseball team for a fun-filled night. The stadium is located on 21st Avenue N, right across from Broadway at the Beach.
There are plenty of promotions throughout the week:
• Kids Eat Free Mondays: fans 12 and under receive a voucher for a free hotdog, chips, and drink.
• Wiener Wednesdays: $1 Hebrew National hotdogs all night long!
• Thirsty Thurdays: Enjoy $1 Drafts of Bud and Bud Light from 6-8.
They offer 17 different fireworks night throughout the summer season, check out the website for dates.
The Myrtle Beach Pelicans play April-September and tickets start at just $8; purchase them at the box office, on their website, or call (843) 918-6000.


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Military Base Security Once Again Under Scrutiny
Questions are once again being asked about security at military bases, after a second deadly shooting at Fort Hood in Texas.
Authorities say Iraq War veteran Ivan Lopez killed three people and injured or wounded 16 before killing himself yesterday.
Soldiers at Fort Hood were required to register their guns after the 2009 shooting by Maj. Nidal Hasan. The suspect in yesterday's shooting had not done that.
Sig Christenson, a longtime military reporter for the San Antonio Express News, joins Here & Now's Robin Young from Ford Hood with details.
- Sig Christenson, military reporter for the San Antonio Express News. He tweets @saddamscribe.
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text: Was a great closing day for us, even with the weather as nice as it was we managed a few birds. Total was 11 for the party, these are the ones me and my son got. The other birds shot by friend and his son not in picture was 1 Greenhead, 1 Bufflehead, 1 Pintail, and 4 Ringnecks. Until next season!!


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Google today announced that the company is working on YouTube Gaming app and dedicated website for on-demand and live-streaming of gaming videos. Broadcasting live gameplay videos, posting videos of high-scores, strategy or just narrating while playing games has increasingly become very popular in the gaming community. Twitch is the leading platform when it comes to gaming videos. The service boasts … Read More
Ahead of iOS 6 Release Date Google Launches YouTube app for iPhone
Earlier last month, following the release of iOS 6 beta 4, it was revealed that Apple had removed support for a native YouTube application in iOS. The YouTube application was introduced in 2007 alongside the iPod touch, several months after the introduction of the iPhone. On Tuesday, Google released a native YouTube app for the iPhone and released it onto … Read More
iOS 6 Beta 4 Available for Download, Removes Native YouTube App
Apple recently released iOS 6 Beta 4 to developers, adding several new features in settings and to existing apps. Following the release, the developer community began to notice a major change in the update, noting that the dedicated YouTube app on iOS was no longer included. The YouTube app has been a part of iOS since 2007 and was introduced … Read More
Apple Releases new "Do It All" iPad 3 Television Ad
Apple recently introduced a new television ad for the new iPad 3, called "Do It All". The ad, which focused specifically on the retina display, also highlighted a number of features and apps available on the iPad, including Mail, using iBooks, and a number of other features. The television ad is very simple and begins with a person using the … Read More
Apple Airs iPhone 4S TV Ads Starring Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel
Apple is not known for use of celebrities to endorse their products. Of course, there were a few promotions a number years back, with The Black Eyed Peas and popular band U2 promoting iTunes and the iPod. However, Apple has never done a celebrity advertisement that showed faces and instead focused mostly on silhouettes. Apple recently released two advertisements with … Read More
iOS 5 To Bring High Quality YouTube Video Playback
We're still seeing some of the 200 new features of iOS 5 being discovered now the first beta is in the hands of developers, and one such feature could be improved video quality from YouTube videos, according to iDB. Discovered by iDevice hackers @Chronic and @Sonny Dickson via internal iOS 5 settings, the new setting will enable high quality video playback through the … Read More
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Eco Paper Products from Amy ButlerJuly 31, 2008
I know, I know enough Amy Butler already. But I really do fancy her work and now that she's released eco paper products including gorgeous gift wraps I thought it couldn't hurt to at least tell you about it… :)
I really like this simple, fresh office set up.
I know… How pretty. Wrapping paper can be used for so many DIY projects it's simply the best for adding pattern to almost anything on a budget. I like an idea I saw recently in Country Living Home magazine where art director Matthew Mead used wrapping paper to create a mat for a framed picture of a family member. It looked great and what an inexpensive and easy project. You can knock something like that out in under 15 minutes.
(images from amy butler design)
Are Celeb Designers Sharing Enough?July 31, 2008
It's fun to get inside the mind of a creative type! We're curious to learn about the lives of strangers but learning more about those we feel we already know through the media … Well that's totally exciting, right? We love learning about their favorite artist, who inspires them, where they shop, even what they eat and where they like to go on vacation. But how much is enough?
Part of me wishes that more decorators and designers would author blogs revealing such things, at least here in America where it still seems that blogs for the most part are divided into two main groups. In my opinion the groups are a.) the unknowns who are out there making a name for themselves and due to their taste level and uncensored opinions, are drawing in a crowd of fans going from unknowns to better knowns and b) the shining stars in the design industry who are household names (at least to design enthusiasts) and then decide at some point to blog or shall I say, sorta blog. They delegate the task to their staff or secretary or who blog but they aren't really all that engaged or uncensored — you can tell every word is guarded and there is a strong leaning on pushing and promoting themselves and their product (if they happen to have products). Where are their inspirations? Can't they share? Why don't they tell us how they really feel about design instead of feeding us what they know we want to hear or what their publicist told them to write? Is there a danger for them if they cross that line?
I still see the guard up amongst stylists, decorators and designers, at least in America. I wonder if this will ever change and the guards will come down, or at least, lower a bit. Not just through blogs, but in everyday conversation. Try asking a peer where they found something for a client that you admire and most of the time they'll reply, "My secret source". So many avoid sharing their insider sources, favorite shops, and how they work. Not because they are just being modest, it's mostly about fear and protecting what one feels they found that should be kept secret. In design school I attended a workshop given by a NH Designer. Instead of having it in a classroom, she invited us to her home just outside of Concord. She revealed to us all of her tricks and tips when it came to how she pulled together her gorgeous farmhouse and then she told us to grab our pens and take notes because she was going to reveal her local favorites, even the 'secret' ones. I was completely in awe of this woman and today I still think of her as a confident leader, a woman secure and willing to share. She had no fear when it came to revealing her sources. Years later, she is still in business and doing well. Revealing her sources didn't ruin her career.
But that's an isolated case and not everyone is willing to open up so freely.
Just when you think all you need to know is already out there you realize it's really not, the images you see in magazines are merely the results of all of the scouting, styling, photographing… The end result. What about sharing the process involved in all of that. Would it be so wrong? I'm still waiting to see more. The end result isn't enough for me and I think that most of you will agree. We want details, step-by-step instructions, we want to truly tap in. Will enough ever be enough though?
That's why I think that Shannon's blog, the Aussie celeb-decorator I wrote about earlier, is a good example of what I'd like to see more of in America. We aren't there yet. Will we ever be? That is the question I ask myself most. Shannon is a lady who has books, appears on television, and has her work in magazines and yet her blog is so natural. She muses about this or that visit to an event, who she met there, what she learned, it's all very unfiltered and authentic. I wish more 'celeb' designers in America would go for it and do the same. I understand time is an issue but reaching out to their fans in this way would be such a refreshing change. Why hide what you love and have passion for? Ah yes, the fear of others stealing your ideas, tapping into your sources. Well honestly if you are secure and have built a name for yourself I doubt there is much to fear. Anyone who owns a shop with a regular celeb designer visiting has already told all of their friends anyway and it will eventually end up on some blog so nothing is really all that secret.
I wonder if the design world will always remain somewhat untouchable? Are celeb designers sharing enough? Who would you love to find out authored a blog? Are there dangers in sharing too much? Feel free to relate this to art and crafts as well.
Your thoughts?
(images from the fully saturated abode of talented Danish illustrator Lisa Grues of Underwerket via Bolig magazine)
Decorator Shannon FrickeJuly 31, 2008
Shannon Fricke wrote to me about her beautiful blog and as I scrolled down the page I found myself seeing many new things, then realizing why – Shannon is lives and works in Australia. Shannon is a decorator and I fully embrace her design philosophy, "I believe that the way you decorate your home can influence the way that you feel about your life and so I love to inspire people to create a home that suits their individuality". Right on, Shannon!
I cannot figure out if these are windows to another room or mirrors.Then I thought if they are mirrors then this look is easy to duplicate with full length mirrors sold at any big box store. I don't think I would have thought to arrange so many together on a single wall like this…
In addition to her blog, she has a lovely website containing a plethora of images that surely will inspire you this morning. Seems she makes regular television appearances, conducts decorating workshops, and has a series of books (that I want just when I thought I was all set with book purchases for the next few months). Here are some images from her blog so you are able to get a sense of the style Shannon gravitates towards, much like that of my own – laid back, natural meets bohemian with lots of natural elements in the mix. There is a cottage meets the sea feel with a dash of urban through in to make things feel a bit edgy.
Kids art offers an affordable (and cherished!) option for adorning the walls. A cute, perfectly placed, pastel yellow bike never hurts along with polished cement floors!
I'm so attracted to the look of a tiled back splash. Subway tiles, hand painted ethnic patterns from faraway lands, it's all good.
Note: I don't believe that these are rooms that Shannon has styled or anything but are sources of her own inspiration taken from various places that I found on her blog.
Thank you Shannon for sharing a glimpse of your world, I'll be turning into your blog regularly now that is for sure!
(images from the blog of shannon fricke)
Pretty Office AccessoriesJuly 30, 2008
I'd like to share a few products today to pretty up the office that, to borrow the expression from my pal Steven, make my heart go boom, boom, boom! And this isn't just for the work-at-home crowd… Even when I worked in corporate I decorated my offices and cubicles over the years. Of course, I had to maintain a professional workspace and exercise more restraint, but I still had things around that made the space fit my personality. Like you, I'm a very visual person so I require color and pattern to get through the day. It's perfectly fine to carve out a little spot that has your style written all over it, even in a sea of cubicles you don't have to conform to their vanilla little world… Throw in a little YOU! (What is UP with most American office design anyway? Ugh. Yuck.)
I love seeing all of the Fall stuff slowly making its way into stores and Kate Spade already has her 09 desk calendars available (thanks Jon for the tip). I've always wanted one so just maybe I will order it for next year.
So! On with pretty things… Looking to make your office a nicer spot to hang out in? Here are some of my favorite things…
Cheri memo cube, White Cherish Labels for labeling jars, file folders, etc., report covers, Shemergency Survival Kit (not shown), and SusyJack anything… That girl is on fire, did you see her weekly paper clips and pencil cup holders?
The 2009 Kate Spade desk calendar, TokyoMilk perfumes (smelling pretty is always nice), Nacre Butterfly Knobs (Square is a good change to dress up the drawers), a girly Garden Glimpse Vases for your desk, graphic decorative file folders, and piles of paper organizing clips (love these things!).
And if you're pulling together a home office remember to build on the basics. I like to keep all of my office furniture the same color, my home office is white. This makes it easy for me to add or subtract color. Colors are layered in through fabrics, wallpaper, lighting, desk accessories, a throw rug, and art on the wall along with an inspiration board. My favorite affordable chair out there is the CB2 Surf chair and the parsons desk from Overstock looks just like the West Elm one but is a lot more affordable. If you want something different for the walls try sticking on these 3-d floral wall decals. Not pictured, but a nice find worthy of a mention is the new anglepoise-ish floor lamp in orange or white for $68 at Anthros. If you are looking to make your own curtains or cover a bench or chair, try the Inger fabric (new).
What is your favorite thing in your office? What product out there are you loving right now for the office? Comment with a link so we can all see! :)
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You will see a strong presence of Aston Martin at this year's Henley Royal Regatta. It will be held from June 28 to July 2.
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I'm a recent high school graduate and just moved to Las Vegas. I'm really interested in becoming a 3D/Texture Artist and wondering what would be the best route for me to take.
I didn't realize that most schools don't offer degrees related to digital art. I also didn't realize that there aren't very many schools here in Las Vegas to choose from.
The only schools that do anything 3d related here is a community college and an Art Institute. Both offer Animation courses, but no straight-up 3d program. The AI isn't really an option for me because it's too expensive and far away.
Would the best option be to:
Take the two year course for Animation at the community college.
Get a bachelors in Art, and get my 3D education through online courses.
Take a Game Design course at an IT Tech school.
Or is there another option I'm not thinking about?
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BAFTA's Awards Season Tea Party Draws Hollywood's Finest
Toasting this year's crop of awards season participants, the BAFTA Los Angeles 18th annual Awards Season Tea Party was held in Beverly Hills, California on Saturday (January 14).
Among the star power taking part in the Four Seasons Hotel fete were "J. Edgar" star Leonardo DiCaprio and top-billed actresses including Michelle Williams, Charlize Theron, Chloe Moretz and Evan Rachel Wood.
Also turning up for the swanky afternoon affair were actors such as Sir Ben Kingsley, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet and Chris Hemsworth, as well as ladies like Meryl Streep, Viola Davis, Shailene Woodley, Felicity Jones, Octavia Spencer, Stana Katic, Jane Seymour, Lena Headey, Ariel Winter and Ahna O'Reilly.
Along with honoring the year's nominees and winners, the Tea Party also featured a charitable silent auction filled with prized items in which the stars could place bids.
All money raised was directed towards Community Outreach and Philanthropic programs including Heritage Archive and Inner City Cinema.
Enjoy the pictures from the BAFTA Los Angeles 18th Annual Awards Season Tea Party (January 14).
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A twisted young man has been found guilty of murdering a chef with a spear gun and a carving knife because the victim's sister dumped him.
Andrew Morris, 30, was a brilliant Cambridge trained mathematician who went on to be a £120,000 a year actuary with a golden future. But he looked down on those he thought less intelligent - and had a desperate need to hurt anyone who crossed him.
When Michelle Stangroom broke up with him, he blamed her brother Henry, 21, from Odiham, a talented chef working at the Criterion restaurant who also had a bright career ahead of him.
Psychiatrists who examined Morris believe he was arrogant and selfish and may have wanted to hurt his former partner by murdering the young cook. On October 18 last year before he killed Mr Stangroom, he squeezed Michelle's pet hamster to death - and even filmed himself doing it.
Morris then fired a diver's harpoon at Mr Stangroom as he slept, but the dart only caused a glancing blow to the victim's head. Mr Stangroom awoke up in terror and Morris repeatedly stabbed him in the chest with a kitchen knife before turning the speargun on himself.
Police found Morris lying in the bath 18 hours later and he had apparently attempted to slash his wrists and the harpoon was sticking from his neck. Prosecutors claimed he did not intend to kill himself and knew he would be found by an estate agent who was due to call at the flat.
Morris claimed he acted in self-defence and that he was attacked by Mr Stangroom who had accused him of stalking his sister. He also said he was mentally ill at the time, but the Old Bailey jury found him guilty of murder on Friday May 23.
Before he killed Mr Strangroom, Morris researched 'horror speargun accident', 'speargun in heart' and 'how to kill someone in their sleep,' on the internet. He also searched 'murder mental illness,' 'sentence for murder in UK' and 'murder and mental illness sentencing'.
Morris looked stunned when the verdict was delivered, and slumped back into his chair letting out short sharp breaths as he was told he will be jailed for life.
Henry's parents broke down in tears when the jury of six women and five men delivered the verdict. Judge Wendy Joseph told the jury 'emotions in the courtroom have run high' during the trial.
Morris had been violent towards previous lovers and became a father when he got another girlfriend Laura Teague pregnant, but abandoned her and his son and began his affair with Michelle, who he met when he was working for a company called Pensions First.
They moved into the flat in Lavender Sweep, Battersea in September 2012 and her brother moved in with them three months later. All three were drug users and took cocaine and nitrous oxide.
Morris was also suffering from depression and panic attacks and began taking more and more time off sick. By May of 2012 he was spending most of his time lying around the flat watching daytime TV, snorting cocaine and eating food from the saucepan.
After attacking Michelle she moved out and told him she would not see him again unless he dealt with his problems. She also insisted he should delete the dozens of sex tapes he had made of her. Morris was so obsessed with taking pictures of Michelle he would even film her getting dressed in the morning.
Top psychiatrist Dr Philip Joseph said: "When he feels rejected or jealous or his emotional needs are not met, he can respond with petulant, immature or aggressive behaviour."
He said Morris was sane, but displayed 'arrogance and narcissism and believes himself to be superior to others.'
The judge adjourned sentencing until May 30.


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B2 the act of admitting that you have done something wrong or illegal:
› an occasion when a Christian tells God or, especially in the Roman Catholic Church, tells a priest formally and privately, what they have done wrong so that they can be forgiven:
Have you been to confession recently?
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- Her confession was no surprise to him, as he had long suspected that she had a secret lover.
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text: Flea Control Made easy with ePestSolutions When you are dealing with a Flea problem, it is important to determine the source of infestation or the (host). Common sources of infestation in a home include: • House pets that become infested outdoors. • Pest animals (squirrels, raccoons, mice, etc) living in the home. • Feral cats or dogs that drop fleas in areas where they are picked up by humans. • Former occupants with a flea infested pet (fleas can remain in the vacant home). Each of these situations will have a different implication for flea control and how you will address the primary host. The first requires treating the house pet for fleas, the second and third require controlling or removing the pest animals. And the last doesn't require any animal-related actions. Vacuuming areas will plays a very important role in the flea control process. Not only will thorough vacuuming remove many of the eggs, larvae and adults, but the suction and the vibrations from the beater-bar help trigger adult emergence from cocoons, where they otherwise would be protected from insecticide. It will also remove flea feces and bring up the pile of the carpet, which helps insecticides reach deep down inside the carpet where the larvae are found. Vacuuming should include all floor surfaces, resting areas—including furniture, pet bedding and any other host—and associated articles that are not going to be laundered or discarded. Removing as many objects from the floor as possible before vacuuming and treatment will help you get the best results on your flea control program. Concrete floors in basements or garages where pets spend time should be vacuumed too. These areas are often overlooked. Pay special attention to the joints, and cracks in pet areas. Seal contents of the vacuuming and dispose of items on the outside in a closed receptacle. Wash or dispose of all animal bedding and pay special attention to hot spots where animals frequently hang out. Clean outside areas where dog houses and kennel are located. Cut lawn before application of a pesticide. Follow all instructions located in the products label, using a good permethrin for outside application and an aerosol with a insect growth regulator and adulticide included. Checkout our Flea Control Solutions for flea control kits and products for your home, yard and pets.


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