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Two Fort Myers Beach area candidates for Lee County Commission seat #3 offered personal viewpoints to county-related issues during a forum featuring audience-submitted questions at Shell Point Retirement Community Thursday evening.
Larry Kiker and Charlie Whitehead, vying for a position on the Lee Board of County Commissioners at the General Election on Nov. 6, answered several questions by Shell Point residents and visitors by following guidelines set by The League of Women Voters of Lee County.
Both candidates began with three-minute opening presentation and ended with three-minute closing arguments regarding their platforms.
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Lee County Commission candidate Charlie Whitehead (r) answers a question at a forum at Shell Point Retirement Community Thursday evening. Opponent Larry Kiker listens in.
During the opening statements, Kiker, the Beach mayor for the past six years until Friday's resignation, focused on overspending and unemployment, while Whitehead, a newspaper reporter covering Lee County government for 25 years, called himself a consensus builder and a hard worker before attacking Kiker's voting history and record as Mayor.
Here is a capsule look at those presentations and answers to a few of the questions posed:
Kiker opening "I continue to be amazed and impressed with the people who live in this community, and I believe that is our greatest resource. I have worried about our county in the fact that we have been overspending; even this year the county has budgeted for $30 million to spend more than we have budgeted to come in. I worry that we have 47,000 people who are not working right now and small businesses that are hurting. We need to invest in our existing local businesses and get tourism back to basics."
Whitehead opening "There will likely be no issue coming before the board of county commissioners that I have not studied, researched, questioned and written about. I will no doubt not raise and spend the money that Mayor Kiker will. I have received the ringing endorsement of the Fort Myers Beach Civic Association, whose members are in the best position as anyone to critique the mayor's record, and I have the endorsement of four of the six living ex-mayors of Fort Myers Beach. I merely ask everyone to learn everything about me and Mayor Kiker, and I believe if you do that you will vote for Charlie Whitehead on Nov. 6."
Question: What is your opinion of the fertilizer ordinance?
Kiker answer "It is something that I did vote for and our council voted for. It is absolutely relevant and essential. It is just one of the components for clean water. It is things that we can do as citizens and businesses locally to make a difference."
Whitehead answer "It is a necessary thing, but we have to watch the state carefully to make sure they do not usurp from us the right to restrict the certain fertilizers and certain concentrations. They do contribute to the pollution in our waterways which contributes to the algae blooms we suffer through."
Question: What are your goals for making this County senior friendly?
Kiker answer "Facilities like this are probably one of the best investments that we can make. We really have to look at our medical facilities and have equal investments there as well. I think that would make a great marriage for this community."
Whitehead answer "I think you do for seniors what you do for kids. Provide them outlets. You give them things to do to keep them entertained. You need to provide a good government and give them stability in your decision-making."
Question: What is your position on changing county commission from at-large elections to single member or hybrid?
Whitehead answer - "I am in favor of placing a hybrid approach on the ballot. Every time the charter review committee met, the first thing they wanted to discuss was single-member districts, but county commissioners told them to not bother with it because we are not putting it on the ballot. That is not the right way to do things."
Kiker answer "I am in favor of a hybrid. I believe we need to take care of both districts and at-large. With a correct combination, I believe we can still have some combination where you still have chance to vote and decide on a majority. I am in favor of putting it on a referendum."
Question: What is the biggest problem facing Lee County?
Whitehead answer "Money. We have spent $30 million more than we have coming in, I believe, three years in a row now. Whoever sits in those chairs has some really hard decisions to make. We are going to have to truly prioritize our spending by standing projects up near one another and decide what we can and cannot afford. We've had it pretty easy around here in part because of all the reserves that were built up. They are basically gone."
Kiker answer "Frankly, we do need a prioritized budget system. We need to be able to reach out to our communities and find out what it is they want. I had the privilege to work with other mayors in Lee County. We actually put our highest project issues together and prioritized them. The next day I took that priority list to Lee County and they were only working on one of our projects. Who is making choices and spending our money? We need to get a handle on it."
Whitehead closing "I am a little disappointed because no one has asked questions about mayoral records or voting histories. I have decided if anyone is going to truly vet the candidates, it's going to have to be the candidates. I do believe I am the right man for this job. I believe that working together we can make things better for the people of Lee County. Please educate yourself. If you do that, I believe you will decide I am the more qualified candidate."
Kiker closing "I have been the mayor of a great community and have been in local government for six years now. I love my working record, and I think other people share that. I have 35 years experience in the business. If you want to compare records, compare who has business and government experience. People should learn how the process works and decide for themselves if they want to get involved and make a huge commitment to be on a council. You are looking to hire one of us. It's a $2 billion business. It's not an entry-level job. We need to change the way we do our government."
Shell Point's voting precinct #83 has been known for possessing one of the largest voter turnouts in Lee County in every election. Get out and vote on Nov. 6.


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Why is this modded troll? Electronics are very harmful to the environment. They're full of heavy metals and toxic chemicals, and there are toxic chemicals used in their production that aren't always disposed of properly. I guess pointing out uncomfortable truths is something most
Tech companies and communities are starting to catch on, however. Several manufacturers will take your old computer when you buy a new one, and my county (Lancaster, PA) offers free electronics and househol
I'm about 20 minutes from the border with Lancaster County, mind if I drop my old electronics at your place and you take care of them for me?
I'm only a couple minutes from Lancaster county and I wasn't aware of this. In fact I know quite a few people who live in Lancaster County who also aren't aware of this.
Even funnier still, I live in Lebanon county where recycling is 'mandatory', yet I have to pay for the privilege of doing something mandatory. Waste Management hasn't said anything so far, and for the most part I just end up bringing recyclables to work but I'll be damned if I'm paying an extra $40 a quarter for them to pick up my mand
Depends on how you define transplant. I'm born and raised in PA, but I've lived in Williamsport, Clearfield, Harrisburg, State College, Wilkes-Barre, Harrisburg again, and now Lancaster. (Near F&M)
And of all these places, Lancaster is the best by far.
They've never checked my ID when I've gone there, and I've dropped off a ton of stuff. As long as it's not a huge truckload, I'd say just bring it yourself. It's on Harrisburg Pike, right about halfway between the Park City Mall and F&M.
They also take old paint, motor oil, and batteries.
"...called on the government to spur IT adoption in several industries, including health care, banking and transportation."
By using OpenOffice?
Why does it take a check 7-10 days to be cleared? Is that the ping time between Bank of America and the issuing bank? No, but this system still works largely the same way it has for 1000 years. People, actual humans with eyes, check the numbers. I doubt this will change for a long time. Bank brass doesn't like the idea of removing that human "safeguard".
Not at all. People don't check the numbers, scanning equipment does that. Checks take 3-5 days to clear because your bank makes money off the float (the
Now they use an electronic process, but I'm certain that many small banks have not fully updated their systems yet.
Under Check 21, banks (or intermediate handlers) truncate a check into an electronic image. Banks without the capability to handle checks fully electronically print an IRD (Image Replacement Document), a subsititute check, that they handle like the original check. This can then be truncated again by the next handler. What this means is that even though a small bank on the issuing side or the
Which is extremely fast since Check 21 passed and was implemented -- did you miss the comments about electronic processing of checks? Check validation typically now takes less than an hour.Actually, it takes time because after the check is given to the bank, it has to clear the bank that the check is written against
The single biggest evidence is how popular culture perceives hospitals. Very, very rarely are they sleek places full of computers. Mostly, it's a place with mounds and mounds of paperwork and reams of filing cabinets and an old green-on-black terminal at the receptionist's desk.
What software that's out there is pretty dammned bad. I'm not sure why, but for smaller hospitals, we seem to be stuck in the late 1990's (And I'm looking at Y
Health care is actually an interesting case. I've been on a couple of projects at health care firms. And, in both cases, the firms were heavily into technology. Many hospitals make large amounts of money in profit (even the 'non-profit' hospitals). So, they spend their money on technology. (At one of my projects, every single
I think the greater crime is that this person spent four years in college and four years in medical school, plus a lot of residency time, and they're spending all that time doing what is essentially clerical work. How many more people could afford medical care, or could be seen by a doctor, if they weren't spending their time tracking down billing information.
There's still too much paper in health care and banking.
When I go to the doctor, I've got to fill out forms containing information that I've already filled out for that doctor or information that should be available to my doctor from other places I've filled it out. And I've got to fill out those forms on paper, which are then entered by someone else, increasing the rate of error.
My wife works as a TSS and she still has about an hour of paperwork to fill out every week. To fulfill HIPA requirements, it ha
The problem is that too many executives don't care about the obvious, or even what their own good people tell them. Instead, they believe what they're told by expensive consultants and the studies those consultants produce.
This isn't to say that consultants can't be valuable. Some consultants really do bring broad experience of things that work, deep thinking about what else could help, and an aptitude for identifying how to match those things up with the company hiring them. Such experience is hard to fi
That book was almost entirely fiction. It's highly likely that comment and retort never even took place.
Not to mention, the contents of the book are almost entirely complete and utter nonsense....
So, the quote holds true whether it really happened or not. His book may have been terrible literature, the grammar was atrocious, and he tended to be redundant, but the important thing to remember is that it SOLD well! Very well.
I'm sure it did. "There's a sucker born every minute."
So, to summarize, when starting your business use freeware, cheap hardware, develop or retail important skills, concentrate on what your market is/wants/expects, satisfy that, and ignore the naysayers and critics.
Please know that I'm not criticizing your suggestions for starting a small business. I'm just criticizing "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". Nobody should waste their money on that nonsense.
The article also quotes an economist who is skeptical that this report's outsized claims for productivity gains have been proven.
I only glanced at the report, but there's good reason to be skeptical. It cites a lot of literature but does scant empirical work - if you look at the graphs they basically just take a bunch of time series datasets and line them up with each other. There's no good reason to believe that they show a causal relationship between the IT figures and the economic figures. Although they pose many plausible qualitative explanations, I don't really see any original research that tests
Isnt it fairly obvious that technology is primarily responsible for our increase in productivity?
An MBA might think more about things like how industries are structured and how people are managed. An economist might think about fiscal policy, demographics, and the increasing numbers of women in the workplace over the last 50 years. A politician would probably think about unemployment numbers and maintaining consumer confidence so people will continue to spend (and keep pumping up the GDP on the treadmill
Why wouldn't we want to take European length vacations? I'd gladly take a month off every year and only have to work 35 hours a week.
Not only did the productivity grow, the jobs are easier to do. Even a slacker armed with computer is more productive, than his/her hardworking predecessor with only a desk (and, perhaps, a typewriter).
We can visit
...the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a pro-technology think tank...
Air is water with holes in it.

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What are the three most common childproofing mistakes?
Expert: David Cooperberg, President of Childproof-America – Interview by James Brady Ryan
Choosing pretty over practical
Most things, anyone who's handy can do. The issue is, do they know what to do? Take the example of gates. There are basically two different types of gates: one is called the pressure gate and one is called the safety gate. A pressure gate, as the name implies, works just by having it in a pressure situation against two walls. So there are screws at either end with discs on them and you just screw it until it's tight. That will work in some situations, but the one place that you do not want to install a pressure gate is at the top of the stairs. Your kid goes running down the hallway, trips right before the stairs, goes flying into that gate, and I don't care how secure you think it is, it's going to go flying down the stairs with the kid. And it's desirable but not critical to have a gate at the bottom of the stairs. At the bottom of the stairs, what's going to happen? A kid may walk up one or two stairs and fall back and bump their head, but it's not like falling down a flight of stairs.
So you really need to use the safety gate, and the safety gate is one that is hardware installed. You have to, at least on one side, screw it into the wall. Some people say, "Gee, I don't want holes in my wall." What we typically say is, "Well, you hang paintings and if you ever want to move them there are going to be holes in the wall. You just patch them, touch it up and when you repaint the wall you'll never see it again." It's the same thing here. There's a trade-off between aesthetics and safety, and you've got to make those decisions.
Stocking up on cheap plastic outlet plugs
Probably the product that people are most familiar with is the little plastic plug that goes into electrical outlets. We don't recommend those. We will use them in certain circumstances, but the reason that we don't recommend them is that we differentiate between what we refer to as 'active' and 'passive' devices. Passive devices are basically devices that are childproof unless you do something to it. An active one is something that you have to do something to in order to make it childproof. So let's say you're vacuuming the living room and you unplug that plastic thing and you put it on the shelf. You finish vacuuming, the phone rings, you answer it. You never remember to put the plastic plug back in and it's no longer childproofed. Not to mention that if the child can remove it, it's small enough that they can actually put it in their mouth and swallow it.
What we recommend, wherever it can be installed, is something called a retractable plate. We take the existing plate off and we replace it with one that has a spring loaded guard behind it. So in all circumstances the plug is covered, and you can't put anything into the outlet. And when you want to plug something in, you can actually just use the prongs of the plug, push the guard into the sides, and it's plugged in. As soon as you unplug it, it's childproofed again. Those types of products are not made for all configurations of outlets – typically they're double outlets. So for a single outlet, or a double outlet with a cable outlet on the other side, that doesn't work. Then we can use those plastic types, but the ones we use always have a loop on them. You take the screw out of the plate and you screw this loop in. So even there, when you unplug it, at least the guard is still attached to the outlet.
Mistaking your childproof gate for a full-time nanny
What we always say, every time, is that childproofing is not a substitute for adult supervision. In fact, we have turned down jobs where we really got the sense that that's what the parents were aiming for, and we said, "We don't want to get involved with that."' The parents or the adult in charge still have to exercise care for the kids.
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As legend has it, Jeremy Schaap caused his father, legendary sports journalist Dick Schaap, to miss two of the three home runs hit by Reggie Jackson during Game 6 of the 1977 World Series. Why? Apparently, Jeremy had sent his dad on successive trips to get him a hot dog and a soda. Luckily, his dad refused to get him a beer.
We assume it's all water under the bridge now that Jeremy Schaap has become a bonafide sports journalist himself. When ESPN needed a play-by-play announcer for a nail-biting, pulse-pumping chess tournament, they turned to him. As host of ESPN Radio's The Sporting Life, he is now known for his hard-hitting reports that run the gamut from college basketball scandals to the centuries-old practice of cheese chasing. Schaap joins Ask Me Another host Ophira Eisenberg to explain exactly what England's annual Cooper Hill cheese roll is all about, before diving into fierce competition with another contestant in an Ask Me Another Challenge that'll have you cheering from the stands. Only one contestant can emerge victorious, and that person will win — what else? Cheese.
Watch a video of England's annual cheese rolling event below.
About Jeremy Schaap
Jeremy Schaap has been an ESPN reporter since 1996. He functions in a variety of roles at the network: as correspondent for E:60, host of ESPN Radio's The Sporting Life, and frequent contributor to SportsCenter, Outside the Lines, NFL Countdown and College Gameday. He is also a commentator for ESPN.com.
A native of New York City, and graduate of Cornell University, Schaap has won six national Sports Emmy Awards and many other honors for his work. He's the author of Cinderella Man, a New York Times bestseller, and Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics. In addition to his contributions for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com, Schaap's work has appeared in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Time, Parade and The Wall Street Journal.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is THE SPORTING LIFE on ESPN Radio and espnradio.com. Now here's Jeremy Schaap.
JEREMY SCHAAP: Yeah, very funny, very funny.
This is not THE SPORTING LIFE, this is ASK ME ANOTHER, NPR's hour of trivia, tongue twisters and mayhem. I'm your host Ophira Eisenberg and joining me is this week's mystery guest, ESPN's Jeremy Schaap.
SCHAAP: Thank you. Thank you.
EISENBERG: Jeremy Schaap is a journalist and correspondent for the TV news magazine E:60 and host of the weekly radio show THE SPORTING LIFE. Jeremy, you are known for your hard-hitting reports. His stories run the gambit from college basketball scandals to the centuries old practice of cheese chasing. So when ESPN needed a play by play announcer for a nail-biting, pulse-pounding, chess tournament, they turned to the one and only Jeremy Schaap.
Jeremy, welcome to ASK ME ANOTHER.
SCHAAP: Thank you.
EISENBERG: You're welcome.
EISENBERG: So you've covered some sports that are very odd, I would even say downright questionable. Knife throwing, as I mentioned, cheese chasing, competitive eating, that is the sign of the apocalypse right there. What is the difference between an activity or stunt and a sport? Like when does it turn? 'Cause I want to know when I can start referring to Art and John as athletes.
ART CHUNG: Are we a sport yet? Is it a sport?
SCHAAP: It's a fine line. Cheese rolling qualifies as a sport because if your audience is unfamiliar with cheese rolling it is, as you suggest, an ancient art form. And there's a hill in England, in Gloucestershire, specifically where they've been rolling a huge wheel of cheese for hundreds of years. And over time the hill has become progressively steeper and so more...
EISENBERG: From the rolling.
MATT CHRISMAN: From the rolling. The cheese is very heavy. And it's quite treacherous. So anything that involves true danger, I consider a sport. Like being on this show, this is good.
EISENBERG: Good, the pulse is pumping. OK, so actually now that we're just mentioning the cheese, so it is dangerous, right? People get injured running down chasing this piece of cheese?
SCHAAP: Severely. Yes.
EISENBERG: Why? Why would anyone do that?
SCHAAP: That is a good question.
EISENBERG: Yeah.
SCHAAP: No one will tell us why.
EISENBERG: No?
SCHAAP: You know, there's a peculiar breed of human, particularly in the United Kingdom, who revels in this kind of pointlessness. I mean it's like the old George Mallory line, you know, "because it's there." This is, I think, the best modern example of it.
EISENBERG: I love that you're like basically the British have nothing going on.
EISENBERG: But someone wins the cheese, is that part of it? Is the ch...
SCHAAP: Someone wins a beautiful Double Gloucester, made by...
EISENBERG: Woo!
SCHAAP: ...an octogenarian. She's a lovely woman. She showed me her cheese shop, and her cheese farm.
CHUNG: Well.
SCHAAP: Come on, come on.
EISENBERG: That did sound a little racy. You're a good looking man, Jeremy, I get it.
SCHAAP: And she's actually more proud of her Single Gloucester, but the Double Gloucester is more popular.
EISENBERG: You grew up in a sport-centric household, obviously. Your father was a renowned sports journalist, Dick Schaap. Many kids go through a phase, when they're kids, that they want to be a professional athlete. Did you want to be?
SCHAAP: I have a distinct memory when I was about eight years old of wanting to be Reggie Jackson. Yeah, and I would try to affect Reggie's batting stance, his afro, somewhat less successfully, sunglasses. I even - you know I did things like Reggie would do them; I wouldn't talk to the media after games.
SCHAAP: I was generally rude and inconsiderate to my fellow human beings.
EISENBERG: [UNINTELLIGIBLE] here from the middle school bugle.
SCHAAP: But, yes, but I blamed Reggie. Yes, Reggie was my hero.
EISENBERG: And so - and then you just got fascinated with sports journalism and now...
SCHAAP: No, it wasn't really that.
SCHAAP: It - there was just nothing else.
SCHAAP: I figured if my father could do it, I could do it.
EISENBERG: Awesome.
So it's good to know that your amazing career, that I'm in awe of, is Plan B. I hear that you are well known among your colleagues for not only your command of sports but politics, military history, culture. Yeah. You're the kind of person in my circle of friends we go, hey, guess what? You're paying for dinner.
EISENBERG: But today - Here's what we're going to do today. We are going to drag you through the mire of pop culture with a sporting flavor. Yes, what do you say, Jeremy, you got game?
SCHAAP: Great.
EISENBERG: Yes. I'm going to take that as a yes.
EISENBERG: So Jeremy, since you cover so many competitions, we figured we'd pit you against a member of our studio audience in a no holds barred trivia death match.
SCHAAP: Yes.
EISENBERG: Let's welcome our contestant, Scott Castle.
EISENBERG: Now Scott, I have a little note here from my producer that you're originally from Seattle, is that correct?
SCOTT CASTLE: That's correct,
EISENBERG: All right, so that's one point against you. No.
EISENBERG: Seattle's a lovely place. But you and your wife have an online t-shirt company, where you put pop culture phrases on t-shirts?
CASTLE: Not exactly. We actually design our own original art based on pop culture. My wife is a very talented artist who went to school and I am not.
EISENBERG: Yeah.
CASTLE: But I have a head full of pop culture, so I come with ideas and then she actually does the actual talent part of the...
EISENBERG: Fantastic. Nice. This quiz is about athletes who have lit up our television and movie screens often with less than brilliant results. Yeah, very dimly lit. So let's get started. Are you guys ready?
SCHAAP: Sure.
EISENBERG: Yes. That's the competitive spirit right there. All right.
EISENBERG: This former heavyweight champion of the world has a lifetime record of 50 wins, 44 by knockout, including Trevor Berbick, Larry Holmes and Zach Galifianakis in the 2009 comedy "The Hangover." (bell ringing)
Oh, oh.
CHUNG: Scott.
EISENBERG: Scott.
CASTLE: Mike Tyson?
EISENBERG: Correct.
EISENBERG: There is something about this retired quarterback that corporate America loves. He's been in commercials for Sears, Prilosec, Wrangler jeans, Rayovac batteries and Edge shaving gel. (bell ringing)
I have to finish with the clue, Jeremy.
SCHAAP: My fault. My fault.
EISENBERG: But in the end, he couldn't win the love of Cameron Diaz in the comedy "There's Something About Mary." Jeremy Schaap. (bell ringing)
SCHAAP: That would be Brett Favre.
EISENBERG: Brett Favre is correct.
EISENBERG: At 7 feet 2 inches tall, weighing 225 pounds, this legendary center definitely held his own against Bruce Lee in "Game of Death." (bell ringing) Scott.
CASTLE: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?
EISENBERG: You are correct.
EISENBERG: Wow! This is good. It's tight. This Mets first baseman appeared as himself in a two part episode of "Seinfeld," in which Kramer and Newman claimed that he had spit on them for heckling him after a Mets/Phillies game. (bell ringing) Who was this player? (bell ringing)
CHUNG: It's Jeremy.
EISENBERG: Jeremy.
SCHAAP: That would be Keith Hernandez.
EISENBERG: Keith Hernandez.
EISENBERG: A defensive tackle for the Detroit Lions who was named to the NFL's All-Decade team for the 1960s, but more importantly, he punched a horse in Mel Brooks film "Blazing Saddles." (bell ringing) Jeremy Schaap.
SCHAAP: Alex Karras.
EISENBERG: Correct.
EISENBERG: All right, we're getting down there. In the 2010 comedy "The Other Guys," Mark Wahlberg lives out every Red Sox fan's dream when his character accidentally shoots what Yankee star in the leg? (bell ringing) Scott Castle.
CASTLE: Derek Jeter.
EISENBERG: Correct.
EISENBERG: Derek Jeter. Olympic gymnast, Kurt Thomas, appeared in a 1985 film named one of the worst movies of all time by Maxim magazine. That is bad, but does not get worse.
CHUNG: They don't like it, chances are it's not really very good at all.
EISENBERG: It's not a movie. I'm not even sure it's a movie. Thomas plays a secret agent sent to the fictional country of Parmistan to win a deadly contest using his special fighting skills, which is a combination of gymnastics and karate. Name that film. (bell ringing) Scott Castle.
CASTLE: "Gymkata."
CHUNG: "Gymkata," yes. All right.
EISENBERG: Correct.
CHUNG: Scott sticks the landing.
EISENBERG: And there is a bonus question for that, Scott. Why do you know that?
CASTLE: Video stores.
EISENBERG: Video stores, good cover. The final score is we have Scott with five points and Jeremy with three points.
CHUNG: Close game.
EISENBERG: Scott, you are our winner and you get a very special prize given to us by the one and only Jeremy Schaap. This is a copy of his book, and by that I mean his copy of his book.
SCHAAP: It's a little torn there, yes.
EISENBERG: This is his book, "Triumph: The Untold Story Of Jesse Owens" because Jeremy Schaap, in addition to all of these things, is also a best-selling author.
EISENBERG: Yes. His non-fiction books are set against the backdrop of the rise of the Nazis, the Great Depression and America's struggle for civil rights. And this one is the "Untold Story Of Jesse Owens And Hitler's Olympics."
EISENBERG: For you.
SCHAAP: Pristine.
EISENBERG: Pristine. It's got pages torn out, I think, some highlighted pages. And Jeremy Schaap, we have something fabulous for you too. Well, look at this.
EISENBERG: Look, there's something you can put all over those books you write in.
SCHAAP: Thank you.
EISENBERG: An NPR MUSIC tote.
SCHAAP: I'll trade you, Scott.
EISENBERG: Thank you so much. What a pleasure. Thank you.
SCHAAP: Thank you very much. Thank you so much.
EISENBERG: Thank you, Scott.
JONATHAN COULTON: (Singing) Start the story when mum met dad and they danced all night and he took her home. It might have been all the wine they had, but they rolled the dice and won your genome. And you grew and you grew, and one day you were you, and you looked like your father and mother. If you're looking for someone convenient to blame, you can take your pick it's one or the other.
(Singing) DNA, you're in my heart. DNA, in fact you're in every part of my body. Each cell has a nucleus, each nucleus has chromosomes and DNA, baby, that spells DNA.
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So Ive been considering different majors, and doing a lot of research to try to make sure I choose something profitable that I will also enjoy enough to make a career out of. So I am starting with trying to decide on an industry I find interesting and promising.
So while researching I found this page projecting IT industry trends. Looking at this page just confirms my suspicion that information technology is still a rapidly growing field. Furthermore I think that if I were to work as a web developer, I might eventually be able to work toward becoming a specialist. I know that this might be a long path, but I think it might be the best one for me. Does anyone have any thoughts they want to share? What do you enjoy about working as an IT industry employee?
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AMHERST, Mass. – The Dartmouth women's track & field team continued their weekend of competition with the UMass Invitational on Saturday.
Although, posting an impressive 121.50 team points, the Big Green finished third in the standings behind the hosts from UMass (164.50) and Vermont (127.50).
The highlight of the meet for the Green on this day was the 4x100-meter relay team breaking the school record, crossing in 47.28 to earn first place. The four freshmen of Toni Aguiar, Sara Kikut, Anna Kikut and Jennifer Meech made up the quartet that broke the previous record of 47.42 that has stood since the 1987 season.
Sarah Kikut and Anna Kikut also took the top two spots in the 100 meters with Sarah earning the win with a wind-legal 12.41. Her sister was second in the same heat and overall with a 12.53. Aguiar was fourth overall in 12.70.
The sisters also went 1-2 in the 200m race with Sarah once again edging out Anna for the top spot. Sarah ran a 25.00 to claim first, while Anna ran a 25.51 for second. Like the 100m, this race also saw Aguiar finish fourth, doing so in 25.90.
Also earning a first-place showing was junior Megan Krumpoch in the 400m. Krumpoch ran a 54.92, the second-fastest time in program history.
Junior Corinne Kominkiewski was the top performer in the discus with a 135-4.0/41.26m. Freshman Kaitlin Whitehorn posted a second-place showing in the high jump as she cleared 5-7.25/1.71m.
In the 1500m, senior Arianna Vailas was also second in 4:34.70. Sophomore Erica Hendershot took third overall and six points for her team in the 100-meter hurdles as she ran a 15:33, while the 800m saw fellow sophomore Meggie Donovan claim fifth in 2:14.65.
The Big Green will return to the track next weekend at the 2013 Ivy League Heptagonal Championship at Princeton.


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President Obama is putting out a message of economic revitalization, starting with the middle class. Cecilia Munoz, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, explains why the executive branch is pushing the message now. She speaks with guest host Celeste Headleee.
White House Economics: Growing 'From The Middle Class Out'
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Submission + - FLOSS For End Users May Be Facing Extinction (itworld.com)
itwbennett writes: "If you buy into the idea that tablets (and ultrabooks, and smartphones) in the enterprise are nothing more than glorified thin clients, then Microsoft's Surface presentation seemed more flashback than future. And if you're a fan of free software, the announcement might also have struck fear in your heart. While Microsoft has never locked out apps based on license, it's not impossible that they might chose a more locked-down Apple-esque approach for Surface, writes blogger Brian Proffitt. 'And that could put free software for end users very much at risk.'"


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It's a cold December evening. The sun slipped away long ago. Commuters — hurried, wrapped, gruff-looking — stream out of the turnstiles at the Green Street T stop. Then they hear the Christmas carols. "I didn't think anybody did this anymore!" says a woman in jeans and a tan jacket. She stops, puts her bags down on a bench, and joins the 10 or so people from Hope Central Church, just up the street in Jamaica Plain, who have caroled at local T stations during the holidays for several years. The motley chorus performs "Silent Night," "Away in a Manger," and other seasonal anthems just inside the doors, their voices competing with announcements over the loudspeaker and the trains' screeches and rumbles. Their cheerful presence proves infectious. Faces brighten. People linger to listen and sing. "And they shouted out with glee!" a father belts out as he stuffs his son's hands into gloves. A woman taps her black shoe on the brick floor. A young couple walks out onto Green Street. "What is the song?" the woman asks. "Hark! The herald angels sing," her companion croons in reply, his voice trailing off into the darkness.
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Out with the old and in with the fragile. The Patriots signed receiver Danny Amendola to a five-year $28-million dollar contract last week in the wake of Wes Welker signing on in Denver for a two-year deal worth $12 million a season.
That's all well and good, but the fact is Amendola has missed 22 games in his four seasons as a pro, all coming with the St. Louis Rams. Welker only missed three games in six seasons in New England
But Amendola can play. Take away the 2011 season where he only played one game and Amendola has averaged almost 64 grabs a season, playing on a bad team with not the greatest quarterback in Sam Bradford.
It seems plausible that Amendola will catch more than 64 passes with Tom Brady throwing the ball -- but he's still not likely to bring in over 100 with 1,000 yards like Welker did nearly every season.
On the plus side, Amendola has familiarity with Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, who was the offensive coordinator in St. Louis in 2011.
Amendola is going from being the only guy who can get open in an offense in St. Louis to a potential third or fourth option in New England.
Maybe the link to McDaniels is key, we will find out.
Of course Welker will be missed and hard to really replace but Amendola has tons of potential and should make an immediate impact if he can stay on the field.
Hopefully there are some big moves on the defensive side of the ball coming down the pipe to make this move look a little better.


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Per the taper plan, another easy five miles on tap for today. Decided to switch things up and hit the woods out back. The trails are still coated in 80-90% snow and ice. Bit more than I expected, but looking at the forecast, there should be substancial melting in the next week.
The icy sections were pebbled though so the traction was very good, especially with screw shoes. Easy mentally to keep the pace slow, as not to risk anything stupid. Was hoping to catch some early morning wildlife, but no luck. Just a few ravens and a guy walking his border collie (neat dog).
Ran 5.0 miles @ 9:45/mile pace.
Mostly flat.
Upper 20s to lower 30s, sunny.
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I am struggling to work out why URL rewriting is not functioning properly.
# .htaccess file for Smartest installations that use Apache
# Auto generated by Smartest on Dec 11th, 2011 at 08:04 am. No further automated modifications will take place on this file.
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off
php_flag register_globals off
php_flag session.auto_start off
php_value session.name "SMARTEST"
php_value display_errors 0
Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
# allow for files with any dot suffix or none at all to be processed by PHP
AddType application/x-httpd-php *
# Activate mod_rewrite
RewriteEngine On
# This line is important if you are running other apps in sub directories
RewriteBase //
# Forward anything that doesn't correspond to a real file to Smartest
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
# People trying to browse around the resources dir should be forwarded to Smartest
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/Resources/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
ErrorDocument 404 //Resources/System/Notices/NoApache404.html
I changed the RewriteBase // to RewriteBase /cms/ as suggested but that did not help one bit.
the /cms folder is off the site root, the /Public folder is off the /cms folder. Basically anyone attempting to access /cms/Resources should be pushed to the /cms/smartest folder.
Its not happening and the help I have had with this so far has not resolved the problem.
The above .htaccess is generated as part of the install. I didn't write it...
Any ideas?
What tool you used for it ??


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/26/gartner_q2_2010_server_nums/
Server biz recovery lags in Europe
But up is still up
Posted in The Channel, 26th August 2010 20:18 GMT
The server racket has been recovering in the second quarter, but in Western Europe, spending was affected by faltering economic conditions in some countries and ongoing concern about how all members of the euro zone will be affected.
According to the latest statistics from Gartner, worldwide server spending was up 14.3 per cent, to just a hair over $11bn, with shipments up 27.1 per cent, to 2.15 million units, in the second quarter of 2010. And despite impressive growth in Eastern Europe - shipments up 46.9 per cent and revenues rising 26.2 per cent - Europe as a whole has not yet climbed out of the server spending hole that the economic meltdown eroded in late 2008 and in the first half of 2009.
By Gartner's reckoning, sales of servers across the entire EMEA region were up only 3.7 per cent, to $3.2bn, against shipment growth of 18.4 per cent, to 583,533 units out the door, in the second quarter.
On a worldwide basis, Gartner said that Hewlett-Packard was both the revenue and shipment king of the server hill, with $3.54bn in sales and 644,172 boxes shipped, up 26.7 and 23.3 per cent, respectively. HP is benefiting from a resurgence in x64-based server sales, but as El Reg explained yesterday in its coverage of rival IDC's casing of the server racket, HP's high-end server business is suffering like Big Blue's from product transitions and possibly from some downshifting of server platforms by customers in a tight economy.
While many customers are holding their purchases on mainframes and Unix boxes to await the shipment of new machines, it is likely that at least some of the hesitant shops are holding off moving applications or adding new ones to x64 boxes instead of mainframes or Unix machines. We'll see how it all works out in a few quarters, when we can look back on the data.
Gartner figures IBM is the number two server maker in the world ranked by revenues (for the second quarter in a row), with only $3.06bn in revenues (down 2.7 per cent). But Blue is the number three server shipper, with 267,614 boxes sold in Q2, up 18.1 per cent. While this is good, it brought down the class average among server makers.
Dell ranked second in terms of shippers, with 542,799 shipments in Q2 on a global basis (up 35 per cent), but was the number three player ranked by revenue, far behind IBM with $1.8bn in sales (shooting up 39.5 per cent compared to a pretty awful quarter in the year-ago period). Dell was hit by the economic meltdown a bit harder than others, and mainly because its server product line is a monoculture of x64 machines.
When the housing market and financial services industry tossed the economy into the meat grinder in early 2008, companies were already lining up upgrades for mainframes and big Unix boxes for later in the year and in early 2009, and once those freight train deals get moving, it is hard to stop them. Once they stop, it takes them a while to get moving again, too, which is why it will take IBM and HP some time to get momentum on their biggest boxes.
Oracle was the number three player in Gartner's rankings for the second quarter, with $928.5m in server revenues (down 10.9 per cent), but was fifth by shipments, with only 47,968 machines sold (down 26 per cent). Fujitsu was the fifth-ranked server maker by sales, with $353.6m (up 9.9 per cent), and managed to push out 60,974 boxes (up 24.9 per cent). Other server makers - yeah, there still are a few more left out there - accounted for $1.36bn in sales (up 27.1 per cent, and twice as fast as the market grew overall) and shipments of 581,512 machines (rising faster than the market overall at 37.7 per cent compared to Q2 2009).
The Unix server space, which includes RISC and Itanium servers, continued to slide in Q2, according to Gartner, with revenues down 8.8 per cent worldwide to $2.51bn. All of the Unix vendors - OK, there really are only five to worry about any more - posted revenue declines. IBM was the Unix leader, with $985m in sales (off 8.4 per cent), followed by Oracle with $787.2m (down 12.1 per cent), and HP with $688.5m (down 3.5 per cent). If you are thinking that Fujitsu's numbers are up because it is stealing Sparc/Solaris market share from Oracle, that's not it. Fujitsu's Unix revenues fell 23.2 per cent, to $46.6m. Bull, which resells IBM Power Systems under its own brand, had $31.6m in sales, off 21.6 per cent.
The x64-based portion of the server racket comprised the vast majority of shipments - 2.09 million units - in the second quarter of 2010, which works out to 97.6 per cent. But the x64 platform only accounted for $7.36bn in revenues by Gartner's math, which works out to an even two-thirds of the dough. That last third of the revenue pie really annoys Intel a great deal.
Other server platforms - meaning not x64 boxes and not RISC/Itanium Unix machines - accounted for $1.18bn, down 22.8 per cent.
In the EMEA region, growth was stunted and the transition issues with mainframe and Unix machines seemed to be worse. Unix server sales fell 22.4 percent in EMEA. Gartner did not give out a revenue figure for x64 server sales, but said that shipments were up 19.6 per cent and that revenues were being held up by virtualization and the need for richer configurations to support it.
HP had $1.2bn in server sales in EMEA in the second quarter, rising 21.4 per cent, compared to an 11.8 per cent dive for IBM, to $823.8m. Dell's EMEA server revenues mirrored those in the world at large, rising 34.4 per cent to $402.3m. Oracle's EMEA server biz took it on the chin, dropping 33.9 per cent to $283.2m, and Fujitsu had a slight 8.8 per cent uptick, to $183.5m. All other vendors peddling gear in EMEA added up to $307.2m, up 15.2 per cent and rising four times faster than the market at large. ®


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Jack-o'-Lantern Cupcakes Recipe
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Carve out a little time to decorate these Halloween pumpkins with Jack-'o-lantern faces. They're a fun treat to make and share!—Taste of Home Test Kitchen
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- 1 can (16 ounces) vanilla frosting
- Orange food coloring
- 12 cupcakes of your choice
- Assorted toppings: pretzel rods, green licorice, candy corn, miniature Oreos, M&M's and Reese's peanut butter cups.
- Tint frosting orange. Cut a small hole in the tip of a pastry bag or in a corner of a food-safe plastic bag; insert #12 round pastry tip. Fill bag with frosting. Pipe frosting on cupcakes to resemble pumpkins. Decorate faces as desired with assorted toppings. Yield: 1 dozen.
Originally published as Jack-o'-Lantern Cupcakes in Country Woman October/November 2010, p15
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I not only get your joke, but I've adjusted the spring-and-weights thingy that controls it. I can't remember its name, mind.
Shit, I'm getting old.
spring-and-weights thingy
I think you mean a governor, guv'ner. The origin of the Motor-Operated Pushover is aptly described here, "To think, all I had to do was put the balls on the other side! Aren't they beautiful?" [youtube.com]
I like the Future, I'm in it.
Solr claims to be yet strictly fails to be a drop-in search engine for your website.
A former employer of mine, who didn't have a clue about Linux, Java or Open Source, bet the farm on Solr speeding up the report generation for his online service.
I don't want to tell you who this employer is because they provide a valuable service to the business community. But the owner of the company is a raging alcoholic, who devoted at least an hour at the end of each day for not having gotten Solr up and running yet, d
the target market for Solr is the "enterprise". big corporations who have developers and operations people on staff with heavy duty skills.
don't cry because because you can't handle it
So do you judge every Apache project this way? Are Apache, Tomcat, Commons, Batik, CouchDB, etc etc etc all crap until proven otherwise because of Solr? Apache is a collection of projects, maintained by different people.
And not to trash your friend's company, but he picked a technology without trying it out yet? Then that company had bigger problems that Solr. Nor would I judge Solr by that story (I have never used Solr, nor am I involved with it in any way).
Spark runs programs 100x faster than Apache Hadoop MapReduce in memory
And Tachyon, another component of Matei's Berkeley Data Analytics Stack, boosts [datascienceassn.org] Spark another factor of 2-8x by sidestepping JVM garbage collection issues.
On one carefully selected benchmark, discounting a lot of things that matter (like data movement) spark performs better than Hadoop. Tech reports generated by the authors suggest that this is a corner case and that the variance in spark performance is wildly variable. Don't believe the hype.
Marvelous! The super-user's going to boot me! What a finely tuned response to the situation!


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Nava Feasting on IL Pitching
What's gotten into Daniel Nava?
(Photos courtesy of Kelly O'Connor)
In his last 14 games, the 28-year-old outfielder has blasted 7 home runs in 68 at-bats (after hitting 3 HR in his first 348 AB). Since Nava always pays close attention to nutrition, his power surge cannot be attributed to suddenly increasing the spinach or salmon in his diet. In fact, Michael Bowden is the only player on the team that rivals Nava for the title of "healthiest eater."
"I smoke Bowden – he's got nothing on my healthy eating habits – I would like that to be on the record," Nava said with a laugh. "All joking aside, Bowden is actually a very healthy eater. Nothing has really changed for me. I don't try to hit home runs so when they do go out it's a nice surprise. Sometimes you just go through streaks and I'm just trying to be as relaxed as possible. That's one thing this year has really taught me because I was pressing a lot in the beginning. It's been a good thing to learn that that's what I need to do to put myself in a good position to hit."
After batting .326/.416/.504 at the minor league level in his first 3 years in the Red Sox organization, Nava opened this season by batting .159 with 0 HR in April. His batting average didn't climb above The Mendoza Line for good until May 27th. While Nava's overall stats are still not what he's accustomed to, Daniel has lifted his average to .264 (.367 OBP) with 24 doubles, 1 triple, and 10 home runs.
"The challenging part was trying so hard to put things together and getting the exact opposite result," Nava said. "I felt some expectations and I just pressed. Struggles definitely have a benefit to them and I'm glad that this season has happened. I've learned a lot about just getting back to who I am."
One of Nava's recent home runs came at Fenway Park in the "Futures at Fenway" event on August 20th. Daniel launched a shot to deep right-center in his first at-bat – much like the grand slam he hit in his big league debut last season.
"It was kind of funny," Nava said. "When I got back to the dugout, guys had some things to say about that.
"(Hearing about the grand slam) brings back good memories and reminds me of the road that I've taken to get to this point. At the same time, if you ask anybody, if you get a shot up there and you make a good impression or even a bad impression, you want to get up there again and contribute in some way. So I'm happy and grateful that it happened, but I'd love to get back up there and not have that be the only thing. But at the same time, if that is the only thing, it's not something that I'm going to complain about."
While Nava has not received a big league call-up so far this season, it has been a great year in other respects. Daniel got engaged during the all-star break, and is looking forward to doing some wedding planning when the season is finished.
"I'm driving back home to California and I'm going to enjoy my drive and then I'm going to spend as much time as I can with my fiancé and work on the wedding," Nava said. "I'm going to spend about a month relaxing and then I'm going to get back into it and start getting ready again."
Something tells me that they'll have a fat-free wedding cake.
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Thank heavens that the PawSox stay at a nice hotel in Scranton.
Due to Hurricane Irene, the PawSox and Scranton/WB Yankees were unable to play on Saturday and Sunday meaning that the team is basically marooned at its hotel before returning to action in a doubleheader on Monday at 5:35.
Lehigh Valley won at Louisville on Saturday night, meaning that the PawSox have a 1-game lead in the IL North with 8 games to go.
Ryan Lavarnway is expected to be back in the lineup on Monday after being optioned from Boston over the weekend, and the PawSox are also expected to have Kevin Youkilis and J.D. Drew join the team for brief rehab stints on Tuesday and Wednesday in Rochester.
The PawSox return home for their final 4-game homestand of the regular season on Friday.
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Jared Remy Next Court Date..
A trial date of next October has been set for a Red Sox broadcaster's son charged with killing his girlfriend. Jared Remy's trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 7 in Middlesex Superior Court. Remy is charged with murder in the Aug. 15 stabbing death of Jennifer Martel. Prosecutors say Remy stabbed Martel to death at their Waltham apartment. Remy, the son of Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy, has pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail. The trial date was set by a magistrate today.


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Republican candidate Donald Trump won the presidency Tuesday night and pushed for unity during his victory speech. So, what exactly is he going to do to bring unity to the divided country he will be leading?
Trump's website has a "100-day action plan to Make America Great Again." The document says it is a contract between Trump and the American voter and will restore honesty, accountability and bring change to Washington.
It begins by listing six measures to clean up corruption in Washington, seven actions to protect American workers, and five actions to restore security and the constitutional rule of law.
Among these include a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of foreign government, removal of more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants, a renegotiation of NAFTA, withdrawal from Trans-Pacific Partnership, direction for the Secretary of Treasury to label China as a currency manipulator, cancel "unconstitutional" orders issued by President Obama, cancel federal funding to sanctuary cities, and more.
According to the document, Trump will introduce "broader legislative measures" within his first 100 days as the U.S. President. These include:
- Middle Class Tax Relief and Simplification Act
- End the Offshoring Act
- American Energy and Infrastructure Act
- School Choice and Education Opportunity Act
- Repeal and Replace Obamacare Act
- Affordable Childcare and Eldercare Act
- End Illegal Immigration Act
- Restoring Community Safety Act
- Restoring National Security Act
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"Iron Man 3," starring Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow, took in a whopping $175.3 million during the weekend.
"Pain and Gain," starring Mark Wahlberg and The Rock, was a very distant No. 2 with $7.6 million.
All studio estimates of gross box office receipts are via Box Office Mojo.
"42" was third with $6.21 million; "Oblivion" fourth with $5.797 million; "The Croods" fifth with $4.225 million; "The Big Wedding" sixth with $3.875 million; "Mud" seventh with $2.15 million; "Oz The Great and Powerful" eighth with $1.822 million; "Scary Movie 5" ninth with $1.435 million.
And "The Place Beyond the Pines" was 10th with $1.298 million.


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Screen Actors Guild today announced election results for the Georgia Branch elections.
Candidates elected from the Georgia Branch include:
|Jon Jayden
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|two-year term
|Doris Woodruff
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|one-year term
The candidates named today ran unopposed and were elected without the necessity of ballot vote pursuant to the Branch Rules of Procedure. The newly elected leaders will assume office on September 25, 2011.
Elections are being conducted in other SAG Branches and divisions across the country with all ballots tabulated no later than September 24th. The results of those elections will be reported when completed.


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Brussels, 23 January 2013
State aid: Commission approves compensation for La Banque Postale of France for ensuring banking accessibility
The European Commission has found that public financing granted by France to the French bank La Banque Postale from 2009 to 2014 in order to improve banking accessibility are in line with EU state aid rules. In particular the compensation granted to La Banque Postale does not exceed the net cost for discharging the public service obligations.
Commission Vice President in charge of competition policy Joaquín Almunia said: "The Livret A distributed by La Banque Postale improves banking accessibility for the economically disadvantaged part of the population. without stigmatising them, and without unduly distorting competition. The compensation that the French State grants to La Banque Postale to fulfil this mission is in line with our rules since it is limited to the cost for discharging the public service obligations."
The French State has entrusted La Banque Postale with a number of obligations which help improve banking accessibility, with a focus on the disadvantaged part of the population. For instance, La Banque Postale is obliged to open for free a Livret A for every client asking for it and to perform for free in all its branches a number of other banking services, such as free cash deposits and withdrawals, including for very low amounts. A significant number of economically disadvantaged people rely on the Livret A of La Banque Postale for access to basic banking payment services.
For discharging these public service obligations, la Banque postale receives compensation from the French State. Based on the 2009-2014 figures presented by France, the Commission concluded that those compensations do not exceed what is necessary to cover the net cost of discharging the public service obligations. Moreover, if overcompensation should occur, a procedure has been put in place obliging La Banque Postale to repay any excess compensation.
The Commission found that the bank's Livret A was unlikely to crowd out current accounts offered by the market, because it offers only limited payment possibilities. Customers are therefore unlikely to close a current account to manage their payments and transactions from a Livret A of La Banque Postale. The Commission therefore concluded that any distortions of competition triggered by the measure would be limited.
The Commission assessed the measure under the set of rules governing the provision of services of general economic interest (SGEI). Since the compensation for la Banque Postale has been granted before the adoption of the Commission's new SGEI package (see IP/11/1571), the transitional provisions of the new package apply in this case. For any possible compensation after 2014, the rules of the new package will apply in full.
On 10 May 2007, the Commission opened proceedings on the exclusive right of Crédit Mutuel, Caisses d'Epargne and La Banque Postale to distribute the savings books "Livret A" and "Livret Bleu" (see IP/07/641). On 1 January 2009, France decided to liberalise the distribution of the Livret A; as of that date, all banks are allowed to distribute it. The Commission therefore closed its investigation (see IP/09/1482).
From the same date, the French State also entrusted La Banque Postale with a SGEI mission to improve the banking accessibility in France via additional obligations on its Livret A compared to the Livret A distributed by other banks, for which La Banque Postale receives an additional compensation from the state. Today's decision finds that the compensation received for these special tasks, which other distributors do not have to satisfy, is in line with EU state aid rules.
The non-confidential version of the decision will be made available under the case number SA.29367 in the State Aid Register on the DG Competition website once any confidentiality issues have been resolved. New publications of state aid decisions on the internet and in the Official Journal are listed in the State Aid Weekly e-News
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Busily dissing his ex-lover Ann, Dave suggests to her new partner Patrick that she is terminally bland. "You'll find it gets pretty boring, I used to have to put a DVD on." When "Treats" was first performed in 1976, people didn't own videos, much less DVDs. Three decades on, playwright Christopher Hampton has updated peripheral details but the rest of his dangerous-liaison drama remains intact. Even more than before, however, despite the dialogue's alluring comic sheen, auds may feel uncomfortable with the physical violence of this literally punishing love-triangle.
The sound of breaking glass interrupts a peaceful day for Ann (Billie Piper) and her new partner Patrick (Laurence Fox), who's listening to Brahms on headphones. Moments later, Dave (Kris Marshall) bursts into the flat he used to live in, whips up the music level, punches Patrick on the nose, and blithely asks a shocked Ann, "Any messages?"
Supremely self-assured Dave would seem to be dominant in every sense. But in fact he has only won the first bout in what turns out to be a three-hander power struggle in the nine scenes of Hampton's most adroitly structured play.
The action progresses through Dave's subsequent apology, a tense dinner party, Ann's dismissal of Patrick, and beyond. Three scenes at the beginning, middle and end for all three characters are interspersed with a duologue for each pairing plus three solo scenes, thereby allowing every variant of the triangle to be examined.
The downside of this neat construction is a chilliness which Laurence Boswell's direction does little to disguise. His actors are all best-known for their TV work. As expected, their experience leads each of them to deliver consistent characterizations.
Fox plays Patrick as the ultimate victim, unremittingly neat and weak; Marshall's Dave is a lanky, manipulative bully; Piper's suffering Ann is brisk. None of them appear to have been encouraged to enrich their character with anything approaching an engaging contradiction. That leads to a faintly deadening air of predictability.
The men are polar opposites who spar their way through immensely witty lines. In a reference to the play's title, Hampton has Patrick suggest to Dave that "If you're frightened about what people are going to say about you, you should be careful how you treat them." Marshall zips back: "And, conversely, needlepoint mottoes can make your thumbs bleed."
Yet beneath the elegantly designed production's smart surface, connections between the characters remain under-explored. A female director might have found a way to make the men seem more attractive. In Boswell's hands it's extremely hard to see why Ann wants either of them.
Hampton consciously wrote "Treats" as the obverse of Ibsen's "A Doll's House," a play in which a woman triumphantly leaves the man who confines her. Yet even though Ann is the focus of both the men and the play, her character is the least well-written. In her stage debut, Piper reveals a nicely controlled but energized stage presence that goes part of the way to restoring the imbalance.
Yet even she cannot pull the role into three dimensions. Her solo scene consists solely of her crying. Piper pulls this off impressively, but it's dispiriting to realize this is the closest the text gets to revealing her thoughts.
Ann's choice between the men is certainly dramatic because, crucially, she endures a moment of sickeningly realistic violence. The play clearly doesn't condone such abuse, but it ends up presenting her position as a predicament, rather than fully dramatizing the dilemma of women who go back for more.


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The annual Cyclorama visit by Bread and Puppet Theater seems like the love child of Revels and Occupy Boston.
The Vermont troupe's sixth residency at the Boston Center for the Arts, through Sunday, is a multi-generational gathering for music and dance and theater, like Revels. It is also an occasion for decrying greed and oppression in politically charged terms, like Occupy.
Thursday night's program featured striking theatrical rituals of hallucinatory beauty and earnest exhortations for humanity to battle the darkness in the world. There were segments that skated past the avant-garde into inscrutability. There was a rollicking brass band. And a giant, ugly, papier-mâché Uncle Sam got booted in its bared keister.
If all that sounds a lot like Sixties street theater, well, bingo.
The striking beauty comes from the giant puppets, masks and other visuals created under the direction of Peter Schumann, who founded Bread and Puppet on New York City's Lower East Side in 1963. With his gray beard, long gray hair and striking, deeply lined faced, Schumann embodied the troupe's history, looking on from a folding chair at the edge of the performance space and occasionally picking up his violin.
He noted that the evening's first play, "Dead Man Rises," was performed as part of the student occupation at Columbia University in 1968. The story was a sort of fable with roots in Noh drama, performed here with life-size puppets — cast members in oversize robes with papier-mâché faces — and both puppets and backdrops were in black and white. Dialogue was provided in creepy and sometimes inaudible whispers by other performers just outside the lights. It was simple, striking, weird . . . and low in intelligible meaning.
The second play, "The Possibilitarians," began with brilliantly simple stagecraft, as the Sky, a huge blue puppet of papier-mâché and fabric, rose to loom over the audience. The Bread and Puppet crew and a cast of local volunteers cavorted about in an array of hilarious and/or frightening masks, and then there was a sweetly funny lesson on the key uses of hands and feet, from caressing and embracing to kicking the government's behind.
At the end, Schumann walked onto a stage littered with the bodies from a battle of good and evil. He fiddled a scorching solo and exhorted them — or maybe us — to rise up and continue the struggle. It was a potent close to an idiosyncratic show that was absolutely worth seeing, even when mildly baffling.Joel Brown can be reached at


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Harvest Moon [1]
One of the most popular astronomical events of the year is coming up the next couple of nights: the Harvest Moon — the full Moon that's closest to the autumnal equinox, which is coming up on September 23rd. The time of the full Moon is 4:27 a.m. Central Time tomorrow, so you can look at both tonight and tomorrow night as Harvest Moon nights.
One reason for the "Harvest Moon" moniker is that this full Moon occurs around the end of the growing season for much of the northern hemisphere, so it's time to harvest the crops. But another reason is that the light of the full Moon actually helps farmers bring in summer's bounty.
At this time of year, the full Moon rises only a few minutes later each night for those at mid to high northern latitudes — northward of about 40 degrees. In fact, from some locations, the Moon can actually rise a tad earlier each night for several nights in a row. This gives farmers extra light, extending the harvest time well into the night.
Over the course of a year, though, the Moon rises an average of about three-quarters of an hour later each day. So if it's rising only a few minutes later right now, it has to make up for that time somewhere else — in this case, around the time of new Moon toward the end of the month. Then, the Moon rises well over an hour later each day as seen from those same high latitudes. It's a delay that balances the celestial books on the Harvest Moon.
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2013 Outstanding Achievement Award, Society of Photopolymer Science & Technology Dr. Murrae Bowden
Murrae Bowden receives Award
Murrae J. Bowden, Distinguished Service Professor and Program Director Howe School of Technology Management, Stevens Institute of Technology, has been named the winner of Photopolymer Science and Technology Award – 2013 Outstanding Achievement Award sponsored by the Japan Society of Photopolymer Science and Technology. He was cited for his outstanding achievements in photopolymer science and technology, involving the "development of new advanced resist materials for microelectronics." He received the award at the International Conference of Photopolymer Science and Technology (ICPST 30), Chiba, Japan June 25-28, 2013.
Dr. Bowden is being recognized for his pioneering work in the area of resist materials for microlithography conducted at AT&T Bell Laboratories (1971-1983) and Bell Communications Research (1984-1997), and later at Arch Chemicals (1997 – 2003) where he was Director of R&D. Over this period he was associated with the discovery and development of a number of electron-beam resists that have had major impact on the lithographic industry.
PBS electron beam resist with whose development he was most closely associated, and for which he received an IR-100 Award in 1977 was used by the photolithographic mask-making industry for over 30 years to make the photomasks used worldwide in integrated circuit manufacture. He is recognized as one of the leading practitioners of the art, and has been honored with numerous awards including 1988 Outstanding American Inventor and Finalist in the Inventor-of-the-Year Competition sponsored by the Intellectual Property Owners Association for his work on resist materials for production of advanced integrated circuits. He was a co-recipient of the 1992 Carothers Award by the Delaware Section of the American Chemical Society, and was selected in 1992 as a New Jersey Inventor-of-the-Year by the New Jersey Inventors Congress and Hall of Fame for contributions to science and industry.


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AC Milan midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng has declared he is staying put in Italy after rumours linked him with a move to Liverpool and Manchester United.
Sky Sports reports how the 25-year-old still has two years to run on his existing contract at the San Siro, but that hasn't prevented a raft of speculation about his future.
"I am not the source regarding this gossip, but I definitely have been made aware of these rumours," Boateng told German sports magazine Sports-BILD.
"I am able to say I am very happy at Milan and am clearly not packing my bags."
German newspaper TZ claimed earlier this week that Red Devils boss Sir Alex Ferguson was considering a bid to bring the Ghanaian international to Old Trafford, as the club continues its search for a long-term replacement for veteran Paul Scholes.
However, Liverpool also have a potential vacancy in the attacking midfielder position, with Turkish international Nuri Sahin only on loan at Anfield.
Boateng would add more depth to Brendan Rodgers' squad on Merseyside, particularly in light of their recent injury problems, as the Reds look to challenge for a place in Europe once again next year.
But, any hopes either Liverpool, Manchester United, or fellow suitors Bayern Munich - where the Milan star's brother Jerome plays - might have had of luring Boateng, have effectively been dashed, after he reiterated his commitment to the Serie A giants.
"Milan is a club I owe a lot to," he added. "I am clearly not intended to think about Bayern Munich or what other club ever."
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October has come to be the deadline for every LSx racer in the country, and even some in Canada, to get their combination together and (hopefully) tested in anticipation of the GM Performance Parts LSX Shootout. This year was no exception; Tom Kempf was among many who thrashed right up until the last minute to get their car in racing shape and down to Gateway International Raceway, October 7-10. One Real Street competitor, Adam Preston (remember this name), actually had to drive all the way back (through the night) to Kentucky to grab a class legal front end for his Camaro in time for qualifying the next morning. Similarly, East Coast Supercharging was welding up one of (customer) Jay McCardle's cylinder heads just in time for the True Street cruise Saturday morning. All the effort, though, was certainly worth it to be a part of one of the best LSx races of all time at one of the best facilities in the country. As you'll read later in this story, records were broken and history was made.
TREMEC LSX True Street
With Doug Ring's C5 convertible back at the East Coast Supercharging shop awaiting its new bullet, there would be no repeat from last year. This instantly put David Childress, aka Mighty Mouse, and his turbo Trans Am as the favorite in True Street. However, ECS didn't show up to the party empty handed, as Jay McCardle would be defending their honor with a similar Paxton-blown combo. Any frequenters of LS1Tech will also know that this wasn't the whole story. Ray Litz, aka KoolRayz, has been running on all cylinders with his Ron Shearer-built turbo system as well. With all three cars capable of mid to low 8s, it was definitely a three-horse race, but keep in mind that it is True Street - with a 30-mile cruise and three back-to-back runs to make with a strict closed-hood policy - anything can happen.
GMHTP Fastest Fifth-Gen
The big boys certainly came to play for GMHTP's Fastest Fifth-Gen title, every one running in the 9-second zone. The four-car field included Late Model Racecraft's F-1R blown 427 LSX, now equipped with a Turbo 400 to hopefully reclaim their record, not to mention two stellar Lingenfelter cars, including the LS9 shop car that recently eclipsed LMR's time and was looking to do it again-live and in person. Not to be forgotten, ARD's silver nitrous car was into the single digits as well. Owen Priest still had a bitter taste from last year's unfortunate axle explosion, which took him out of the running. His big cube nitrous combo should have enough snot to get the heavy pig off the line quicker than his competitors, but it was really anyone's game in this tight field.
LSX Real Street
The LSX Shootout welcomed a brand new class this year, known officially as Real Street. Unofficially, Real Street might as well be called "the ultimate single power adder small tire wheelie shootout" as it brought out some of the quickest, fastest and wildest GM cars running on true 10.5-inch tires or 275 drag radials. Initially billed as a "nitrous friendly" class, with no jet restrictions and weights as low as 3000-lbs, many competitors showed up with other combinations, including several turbo powered entries (limited to 76 mm) and even a couple of supercharged cars.
With seven cars making the initial field, the racing was tight in every round; including the spot for number 1 qualifier, which was decided by just .002-seconds. The crowd in St. Louis also got to see some of the best LSX wheel stands in years, with a couple of racers letting it all hang out, including one Trans Am that needed a new oil pan, transmission pan, exhaust and K-member after a wild bumper stand that won't soon be forgotten. So, if you enjoy heads up small tire racing with wild wheelstands and unpredictable wins, this is the class for you.
ERL Performance lsx All Motor
While car counts are typically low in All Motor, the 2010 event had a record seven entrants with varying body styles. Before the race, the rumor mill was abuzz with several new combinations, a few of which never made it, but we hope to see in 2011. One of which, that did, was David Lazear's 468cid LSX powerplant, topped by Mozez canted valve heads, Beck sheetmetal intake and a dual throttle body setup. His silver '98 Camaro ("The Silver Bullet," September '10) was outfitted with a fresh bullet at the eleventh hour, enlisting the help of Late Model Racecraft. If he could get the new setup dialed-in, there very well could have been a rematch of last year's race versus his former teacher, Judson Massingill of the School of Automotive Machinists. Chris Fowler, another SAM grad, was also looking for a rematch from two years ago with his 440-powered '90 Camaro. And of course Canadian John Ventresca was back again with his flamed '99 Camaro, this time with a fresh set of heads that would put him in the running.
JE Pistons LSX Drag Radial
If there is one class that never disappoints, it's LSX Drag Radial. With combinations pushing over 2000 hp on traditional drag radial tires, the racing is always unpredictable and insane. This year, we saw several brand new entries into the field, including Tom Kempf's new racecar, "The Money Shot," which put up a couple of 7-second passes fresh out of the Stenod Performance garage. Fans in St. Louis were also on hand to witness Mark Carlyle's C6 Z06 go rounds in Drag Radial, setting the new C5/C6 record for low e.t and Top Speed (and GMPP's Fastest LSX Corvette title in the process). Of course, Drag Radial also brought out several familiar faces, including Mike Brown and Mark Koehler from the Ohio Boys camp, both of whom, unfortunately, struggled all weekend, with problems ranging from torque converters to pistons. Nevertheless, every round in drag radial was one to remember and with every year, the field creeps closer to that infamous 6-second mark.


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It may be 2013, but students at a Georgia high school made national headlines Saturday night by holding their first-ever integrated prom. However, a CBS Atlanta News investigation, revealed segregation is still very much alive in the school system, despite the new developments.
Wilcox County High School is located three hours south of Atlanta. For decades, parents have funded and organized prom, not the school system. They've hosted a "white" prom and a prom for everybody else. Because it's a private event, no laws are broken.
However, this year, a group of students, two white girls and two black girls, became frustrated with the tradition and worked together to organize an integrated prom.
They faced a lot of opposition. "I put up posters for the integrated prom, and we've had people ripping them down at school," one student told a Macon-based T.V. station.
Despite the students holding a prom designed to include everybody, CBS Atlanta News discovered the "white" prom still took place. It was held in Fitzgerald, Georgia, on April 20. No one confirmed it was a "white-only" event, but dozens of Caucasian kids, dressed in prom gowns and tuxes, attended. CBS Atlanta News never saw anyone of color the entire night.
Most of the attendees refused to talk to CBS Atlanta News. They, instead, ignored our questions or spoke angrily. "Lady, get out of my face," snapped one father when asked why he was there.
Another father threatened to sue CBS Atlanta News, and yet another ordered us to turn-off our cameras. At one point, the police were even called even though we were breaking no laws by remaining outside of the event on a public sidewalk.
The Reverend Raphael Warnock, Ph.D., said he was surprised to learn the segregated proms were still taking place. He's the Senior Pastor at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once preached. "The State of Georgia has a sad and painful history in this regard," he said when asked about segregation.
However, Warnock said the students' efforts to organize an integrated prom give him hope. He added he'd like to see Georgia Governor Nathan Deal (R-GA) take a stand.
CBS Atlanta News asked Deal about the segregated proms, he said, "I believe anything associated with a school should not have the distinction based on race or gender or any other separation. However, when pressed, he said, "Some of these are just local issues and private issues and not something state government needs to have its finger involved in."
That did not sit well with Warnock. "The idea that these are private issues is really problematic… When the Montgomery bus boycott got started in 1955, that boycott was against a private bus company, and Rosa Parks stood up by not sitting down and said we won't accept segregation, not even on a private bus company, and the rest is history."
Wilcox County school administrators said they plan to discuss the possibility of hosting a school-sponsored prom in 2014, which would be integrated.
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Podcast newcomers Matt Miller and Joe Juba join in to talk about WoW's new Cataclysm content, Bungie's rumored MMO, and more.
We cover the ups and downs of our first month with the latest World of Warcraft expansion and share our grades.
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Hear impressions of LEGO Universe and the DCUO beta as well as more talk on APB and Final Fantasy XIV.
We lay out our problems with World of Warcraft's patch 4.0 and tackle Blizzcon news, including WOW's fourth expansion.
The Cataclysm release date, the DC Universe delay, FF XIV's ups and downs, Brewfest, and more.
Lots of MMO talk and a StarCraft II special edition giveaway contest!
Plus thoughts on Cryptic's Neverwinter announcement, the Final Fantasy XIV beta, and more MMO talk.
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Tottenham Hotspur striker Emmanuel Adebayor scored but was then sent off as his former club Arsenal stormed back from behind to win 5-2 in Saturday's north London derby at the Emirates Stadium.
The Togolese forward tapped in a 10th-minute opener after Wojciech Szczesny saved from Jermain Defoe but was sent off eight minutes later for an uncontrolled lunge at Santi Cazorla.
Per Mertesacker's 24th-minute header drew Arsenal level and quick-fire goals from Lukas Podolski and Olivier Giroud put the hosts 3-1 up at half-time.
Cazorla converted Podolski's fine cross on the hour to increase Arsenal's lead, before Gareth Bale drove home a low shot to reduce the arrears in the 71st minute.
Arsenal had the final say though, Theo Walcott converting from substitute Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's pass in injury time to produce a repeat of the scoreline from last season's equivalent fixture in February.
It was Arsenal's first win in four matches in all competitions and took them up to sixth place in the Premier League table, with Spurs two points further back in eighth after a third successive league defeat.