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The Man of Steel had gotten rusty. While his DC Comics counterpart Batman was conquering the world via the Dark Knight trilogy, and the rivals over at Marvel Comics were raking in the cash with "The Avengers" and all its spinoff films, Superman had been put into mothballs.
His last cinematic outing, 2006's costly "Superman Returns," was director Bryan Singer's affectionate tribute to the 1978 Richard Donner original starring Christopher Reeve. But the movie, which grossed $390 million, felt too familiar and reverent to justify its budget of $270 million. Although Superman comics continued to sell well, and the TV series "Smallville" ran for 10 seasons depicting the adventures of a teenage Clark Kent, Hollywood had temporarily forgotten about the invulnerable do-gooder.
But with the "Batman" finale rapidly approaching, and comic-book movies showing no sign of slowing down, executives at Warner Bros. knew they needed to figure out a way to revive their most iconic – and potentially lucrative – hero.
The question was: How do you make a 75-year-old character cool and hip to modern audiences?
"It was really a case of the good Superman movies having run their course," says Zack Snyder ("Watchmen," "300"), who directed "Man of Steel," which opens Friday. "They had used up all the character's battery life, and we needed to juice him up. I have great respect for all those films, and they endure in pop culture for a reason. But when we started thinking about this one, we couldn't think of it as any movie that had ever been made before. We couldn't cherry-pick the stuff we liked, such as that famous John Williams score. We had to make everything new. We haven't seen a Superman origin story since 1978. My kids have no idea where he comes from."
The screenwriter tasked with reviving Superman was David S. Goyer, writer of the "Dark Knight" trilogy for filmmaker Christopher Nolan, who produced "Man of Steel."
The job was one Goyer originally didn't want.
"During the junket for 'Batman Begins,' someone asked me if I would ever take a crack at Superman and I said no, because I didn't have an affinity for the character," Goyer says. "I loved the Donner films as a kid, but I didn't read the comics growing up. I gravitated more toward Batman. And I liked Singer's film, but I felt it was an homage to the Donner films and the depiction of the characters felt a little anachronistic.
"There was this sense that the public's perception of Superman hadn't really changed very much," Goyer says. "Even though he has been reinvented several times in the comics, he never really evolved beyond those first movies. Trying to reimagine Superman for film is a much steeper hill to climb than Batman. And consequently, the script was a lot more difficult to write."
Unlike Batman's brooding sense of vigilante-style justice or Spider-Man's adolescent angst, Superman – an alien sent to Earth by his father just before their home planet Krypton blew up – was a fantastical creation, bordering more on sci-fi and less on relatable human emotions. The light from our sun gives him extraordinary abilities: flying; invulnerability; immeasurable strength and speed. The guy can even shoot laser beams from his eyes – practically a Swiss Army knife of superhero powers.
"It's hard to identify with a god," Goyer says. "It's also hard to feel empathy for a character who is invulnerable. (Chris Nolan) and I decided from the beginning that in this first film, we were not going to rely on the crutch of kryptonite, which is the only thing that can hurt him. That was the bar we set for ourselves. Can we get the audience to sympathize with this character without relying on kryptonite?"
A critical part of making Superman relatable was casting. The actor who would portray Kal-El, son of Jor-El (played by Russell Crowe), needed to be a relatively fresh face with little baggage from other films, but charismatic and sympathetic enough to make the audience care about the woes of a being who can do practically anything.
The U.K.-born Henry Cavill, who had acted in a few movies ("Immortals," "Whatever Works") but was best known for his recurring role on the cable-TV drama "The Tudors," landed the part.
"I made a point not to think of any of the other movies when it came to my performance," Cavill says. "I wanted to feel like were telling this story for the first time. And I could relate to the loneliness and estrangement of the character. That was something quite personal to me. When I was at boarding school, I didn't have many buddies, and when I've traveled, I've often been in strange cities by myself. I've spent a lot of time sitting down just watching people behave the way they behave. That's what I think Kal-El does – he's watching the world and trying to make sense of it. That gives him a sense of an outsider."
Although Snyder is known primarily for visually stunning movies – and "Man of Steel" has more building-flattening action than the rest of the Superman movies combined – he says that wasn't the aspect of the project that lured him in.
"I'm a huge comic-book fan, but I had already made a comic-book movie ("Watchmen")," he says. "I wanted the opportunity to make a superhero movie in a way that people could appreciate the way I appreciated the comics as a kid. For me, it was about figuring out the character. If I were Superman, how would I feel? He's like a god up on a hill. I wanted to really get inside him and figure out what makes him tick."
But tinkering with such a renowned figure is not without peril. Choose a creative path the audience rejects and the entire movie collapses.
"You can't ask for a more commercial character than Superman," says Larry Tye, author of "Superman: The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero." "Everyone knows who he is. And yet everyone also has expectations we're going in with, and it's really tough to meet all of those. It's a huge challenge when you're dealing with a character who is this much of an icon. You mess with him too much and you're going to anger people who have known him for a lifetime. One of the assets – and one of the liabilities – of Superman is that he hasn't changed that much in 75 years. You need to be able to bring your kids and your grandparents to the movie, and everyone recognizes him the way they know him."
"Man of Steel," which also co-stars Kevin Costner and Diane Lane as Kal-El's adoptive parents, strikes all the requisite notes while adding some fresh wrinkles. And the movie has a super-charged villain in Michael Shannon as the maniacal General Zod, who shares all of Superman's powers but not his sense of duty and honor.
Still, despite all its 3-D visuals and cutting-edge special effects, there's something refreshingly old-fashioned about "Man of Steel".
"Superman has been relevant to a lot of generations, but the core of the character is still there," Goyer says. "He's a savior figure, a stepping stone between humans and the gods, so he's like Hercules in that regard. He also comes from a long line of stories where a stranger shows us our own humanity."
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MF contracted disease in Burkina Faso, but worst is behind him
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – New England Revolution midfielder Sainey Nyassi can pinpoint exactly when his battle with malaria started.
Nyassi traveled to Burkina Faso to feature for Gambia in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Ouagadougou on Oct. 9. As he and his teammates prepared for the match against Burkina Faso -- a 3-1 defeat -- Nyassi said he likely contracted malaria while passing the time before the match.
"I still remember that there was a time that we were sitting outside by the pool and I got bit by a mosquito," Nyassi told MLSsoccer.com on Tuesday. "At that time, we decided to go in, but I came back and got sick."
Malaria doesn't ravage the body instantaneously with symptoms such as headache, fever, nausea, sweats and the chills. It usually takes between seven and 30 days for the disease to incubate within an infected person's blood stream, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
In Nyassi's case, he started to cope with the onset of those symptoms around the time he and his teammates traveled to New Jersey for the season-ending 2-0 defeat to the New York Red Bulls on Oct. 21. Nyassi played the full match before returning back to the Boston area to encounter a series of troubling symptoms.
"I remember our game against New York, that's when it started," Nyassi said. "I started to feel cold when I got back home. I turned my heat on and I felt myself getting cold. I started having headaches and body aches. At that time, I decided to go to the hospital."
Nyassi spent approximately one week in Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston as he received the necessary treatment. As he wrestled with the symptoms, he leaned on his family and his friends for support. The guidance of his twin brother and Seattle midfielder Sanna, a two-time survivor of malaria, aided Sainey as he waded through the harrowing times.
"He helped me through it," Nyassi said. "He told me that he survived it in Africa, so now that I'm in America, I didn't have anything to worry about."
A strict regimen of medicine and rest facilitated Nyassi's steady recovery, though he is not quite back to full fitness. He has not participated in training sessions over the past two weeks and he said he is waiting for doctor's clearance before returning to extensive physical activity.
Despite those continued complications, Nyassi has come through the worst of the malady and should be fine by the start of preseason.
"It shook him up a little bit," Revolution vice president of player personnel Michael Burns said. "He was explaining to me how he felt. Obviously, it's not uncommon there, but he's on the mend. He has plenty of time to recover and he's doing a lot better."
The episode serves as a cautionary tale for Nyassi and for any other American-based players who travel to Africa. Malaria isn't native to the United States, but it is commonly found in tropical and subtropical areas. Approximately 1,500 travelers return to the United States with the disease each year.
Most travelers do their best to avoid contracting the illness by taking preventative drugs before visiting a malaria-ravaged area. Nyassi didn't adhere to the prescribed regimen before traveling to Burkina Faso and subsequently contracted malaria on his travels, but he did receive the proper care to combat the problem upon returning to the United States.
Now that the worst of his illness is behind him, Nyassi said he is thankful that he overcame his bout with malaria.
"Malaria is something that is very serious," Nyassi said. "It is no joke. It can kill people. I was lucky to survive. It was almost a terrible situation."

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Ever since the 9th century when the ancient kingdom of Srivijaya became a thriving trading power and an epicenter for Buddhist learnings, Chinese merchants came to trade in Palembang and monks stayed here to study Sanskrit before proceeding to India, or on their journey home from India. Many settled in the city so that through the centuries the growing Chinese population, its culture and history became an inseparable part of the city of Palembang.
Later, in the 17th century Chinese communities were also involved in the construction of the Kuto Besak Fortress when it was first built as the Sultan's new palace.
With time, Chinese celebrations and religious commemorations were introduced and accepted as part of local culture. Today the annual highlight in the Chinese calendar is the Cap Go Meh Celebrations, held 15 days after Chinese New Year, – here called Sin Cia,- centering on the Island of Kamaro, or sometimes spelled Kamaru, located midstream in the wide Musi River delta where there are pagodas and Chinese temples.
On this day, thousands of ethnic Chinese from Palembang and around Indonesia, as well as from neighbouring Singapore, Malaysia to Hong Kong and Taiwan gather on the island, arriving here by boat from Palembang city.
There is a legend about Kamaro, which has a number of versions. According to one version, the island is evidence and symbol of the love and loyalty of Princess Siti Fatimah, daughter of the King of Srivijaya, towards a Chinese prince called Tan Bun An.
In the 14th century, so the legend goes, Prince Tan Bun An arrived in Palembang to study. After living here for some time, he fell in love with princess Siti Fatimah. He came to the palace to ask the king for her hand in marriage. The king and queen gave their approval on one condition, that Tan Bun An must present a gift.
Tan Bun An then sent a messenger back to China to ask his father for such a gift to be presented to the King of Srivijaya. When the messenger returned with pots of preserved vegetables and fruits, Tan Bun An was surprised and enraged because he had asked his father to send Chinese jars, ceramics and gold.
In his anger he threw the ships cargo into the Musi River, unaware that his father had placed gold bars inside the fruits and vegetables. Ashamed after finding out his mistake, he tried to recover what he had thrown into the river. Tan Bun An, however, never returned as he drowned with the precious cargo.
When Siti Fatimah heard about the tragedy, the Princess ran to the river and drowned herself to follow her lover, but not before leaving a message saying; "If you see a tree grow on a piece of land where I drown, it will be the tree of our true love ".
At the place where the princess drowned, a piece of land appeared on the surface of the river. The locals believe that this new island is the couple's tomb and therefore, they call it "Kamarau Island" which means that despite high tides in the Musi River, this island will always remain dry.
The local ethnic Chinese believe that their ancestor, Tan Bun An, lives on this island. As a result, the island is always crowded during Chinese New Year.
Today, a magnificent Chinese temple, the Hok Cing Bio, stands here. Built in 1962, it attracts many devotees. On special occasions, especially on what the Hokkien call the 'Cap Go Meh' Celebrations, the island is packed with locals and visitors coming from Palembang and overseas. There is something magical about Kamaro island. Witnessing the crowds on this particular occasion is an attraction by itself.
To reach the island , cross the river for free as everything will have been arranged by the Chinese community here. There are tongkangs, small boats called ketek, speedboats, and dragon boats. Find your own spot in a crowded tongkang then walk along the walkways to locate the graves of the legendary Tan Bun An and Siti Fatimah, or watch Chinese opera on the island. There is also a show of Barongsai, and local Chinese bands. The event starts in the morning and lasts until midnight. Naturally, with the flood of visitor to the island, food vendors, and those selling drinks, souvenirs, religious accessories, and even clothes, secure their own spaces too to do what they do best: selling.
The vivid red and golden colors, the burning incense, and the excitement around will make this a day of utter excitement. Wealth is in abundance during the event. To see it, just come here a couple of days before the actual activities begin. Cap Go Meh is an event both for the Chinese and everyone else who wishes to participate in these celebrations.


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LINCOLN-Under the careful eyes of its captors, one of the two limestone frogs whose dream it is to live in Lincoln's Sunken Gardens will make an appearance at the Folsom Children's Zoo, 1222 S. 27th Street, on Opening Day, Tuesday, April 15, between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., according to John Chapo, Zoo Director.
"This is a chance for everyone to see how beautiful these frogs are, and to realize how wonderful it would be if they could actually make their home at the Sunken Gardens," Chapo said. Mayor Don Wesely is scheduled to make an appearance to proclaim April as "Free the Frogs" Month for the City of Lincoln. To celebrate the opening day festivities, visitors can enjoy pop and pizza for just a buck.
Originally from Manchester, England, the two 500-pound limestone frogs were tired of being cooped up there all of their lives. They recently decided that they wanted to see the rest of the world, so they hitch-hopped to the coast and swam across the ocean, ending up on the east coast of the United States. But they were found and captured in Chicago and will not be set free until the $5,000 ransom is paid.
This fictional story is the basis for the "Free the Frogs" campaign, a joint effort between the Lincoln Public School Focus Science Program "Zoo School" and the Lincoln Parks and Recreation Foundation. Beth Briney's Oral Communications Class designed the activity, which invites LPS elementary and middle school students to raise $5,000 to "Free the Frogs" and place the sculptures as public art in the Sunken Gardens.
The following schools are participating: Lefler, Rousseau, Sheridan, Clinton, Fredstrom, Kahoa, Norwood Park, and the Yankee Hill Behavioral Skills Program. All LPS middle school and elementary teachers and/or schools may still join the effort. Name the Frogs and Penny Challenge contests hope to encourage teachers and schools to participate.
The campaign runs from March 31-May 10. If all goes well, the frogs will be "released" in the Sunken Gardens in mid-May at a news conference.
"Free the Frogs" is a Ventures in Partnership activity between the LPS Science Focus Program "Zoo School" and the Lincoln Parks and Recreation Foundation, Lincoln Journal-Star and Froggy 98. Ventures in Partnerships is cooperatively sponsored by the Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln Education Association and the Lincoln business community.
For more information about the "Free the Frogs" effort, contact: Beth Briney (English teacher for the LPS Science Focus "Zoo School") at 436-1780 or email@example.com, Susan Larson Rodenburg at 421-1401, 440-3227 or firstname.lastname@example.com or Mary Kay Roth at 436-1609 or firstname.lastname@example.com
For more information about the Opening Day at the Folsom Children's Zoo, contact: John Chapo, 475-1631 (Zoo), 416-4261 (cell) and 435-3718 (home) or firstname.lastname@example.com
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SumAll Offers Its Data Analytics Capabilities To Help Shed More Light on Human Trafficking
Business Intelligence Company Seeks to Partner with Non-Profits Through Its SumAll Foundation; Goal is to Uncover and Highlight Key Aspects of Global Problem
Feb 12, 2013, 06:43 ET
NEW YORK, Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SumAll, the leading source of Big Data business intelligence for fast-growing businesses, announced an initiative through its SumAll Foundation (www.sumall.org) to help better present and advocate data surrounding global issues, the first being focused on human trafficking. SumAll.org was formed through the unanimous decision of SumAll.com employees who each set aside 10% of their equity to the non-profit organization.
As SumAll's Series A round in November 2012 was oversubscribed, SumAll.org sold $500k worth of shares to get operations for SumAll.org up and running. "Coming to work everyday and knowing that a part of what I'm working for is creating value for good is an awesome feeling," Saskia Ketz stated, an early employee of SumAll.com and design lead on the committee of SumAll.org. By donating its considerable analytical and technological resources to global agencies involved in the fight, the foundation hopes to expose new aspects of the problem as well as new strategies for ending the practice wherever it exists worldwide.
"It's amazingly tragic that almost 150 years after the 13th Amendment was passed, that the world must still combat the buying and selling of humans," said Dane Atkinson, Chief Executive Officer of SumAll. "We now live in an information society where the economics and commerce that drive human trafficking can be measured and analyzed." Although slavery is illegal internationally, slavery still persists as a tragic problem today - there are now 27 million individuals worldwide, including children, held against their will primarily for labor or sex. The global median cost per slave has not changed much from $134 (inflation adjusted USD) in President Lincoln's day to $140 today*. While the majority of slaves can be found in India, Asia and Africa, there are still thousands of individuals held against their will for sex and labor in the U.S.
SumAll.org provides a way for its employees to apply their skills and technological knowhow to address pressing global issues. "Every non-profit we have spoken to struggles with organizing, visualizing, and making their data useful," said Korey Lee, VP of Analytics at SumAll. "SumAll's expertise is in the area of Big Data analysis, which is where we saw an opportunity to use our knowledge and collective expertise to provide these organizations with better analytics, to uncover new ways of attacking this problem."
SumAll has learned from speaking with several anti slavery organizations that it's vital to look at why people are still enslaved in modern times. If we only focus on rescue, we may save some, but traffickers will simply enslave others in their place. Growing economic globalization, massive rates of migration, extreme poverty, overpopulation, corruption, racism and sexism -- are all correlated to trafficking and slavery. We must transform the social, political and economic systems that allow slavery to persist.
Part of SumAll.org's first initiative was creating an infographic detailing the extent to which slavery is still prevalent today. The infographic was presented as a satirical fashion ad to show that not only are people being bought and sold as commodities, but some of the products we use everyday are tied to slavery.
Thorn's Director of Programs Claire Schmidt detailed one of their current initiatives, "Analytics and technology can be purposed to combat child sex trafficking - utilizing existing data to determine indicators of trafficking victims within online environments and helping route that information to authorities and organizations who are best able to intervene and assist."
The SumAll Foundation has already received data from several anti-trafficking organizations and is seeking other like-minded non-profit and governmental partners. SumAll.org has reached out to both of these organizations to better understand the role technology can play in bringing an end to these horrific crimes. To learn more, further the cause, or donate go to:
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SumAll, now deployed in 30 countries, is a forward thinking, socially conscious company focused on harnessing the full power of real-time business intelligence for growing businesses. Users can integrate multiple data sources including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google Analytics, Google AdWords, eBay, PayPal, Shopify and Big Commerce into one intuitive, interactive chart. Leading VC investors, Battery Ventures, General Catalyst, Matrix Partners and Wellington Partners, back the company. For more information, visit https://sumall.com/.
About The SumAll Foundation (SumAll.org):
The mission of SumAll.org is to leverage technology to help organizations and individuals optimize decisions. Through better understanding their internal data and market trends, charitable organizations and individuals can be more effective at fundraising, educating, and scaling their resources to create a better and more data driven world. Data is meant to be universally shared and used by all to improve quality of life, operational efficiency, optimize income, and minimize costs. Our goal is for charitable organizations to use their data to make more effective and efficient decisions so they can impact the bottom line - impacting lives for the better.
Kara, Siddharth. Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
Kara, Siddharth. Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.
Souza, Pete. "Change.gov – The Official Web Site of the The U.S. Presidential Transition." New Official Portrait Released. Accessed January 29, 2013. http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/new_official_portrait_released.
U.S. Department of Labor, "Notice of Procedural Guidelines for the Development and Maintenance of the List of Goods From Countries Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor," 72, Fed. Reg. 73374 (December 27, 2007); available from http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/programs/ocft/tvpra.htm.
The Historical encyclopedia of world slavery, Volume 1 By Junius P. Rodriguez
The data from this article and infographic was compiled by a team of analysts and designers from SumAll.com. They volunteered their time above and beyond their full time jobs and pulled data from dozens of data stores, interviews, and primary source reports. Our research reflects an effort to aggregate, visualize, and communicate the most credible and relevant data available.
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I was there, but they did some resurfacing
You was there on the motocycle?
i can play today or tomorrow
riggt now is raining, but it may be good at 6:30
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Hi Vin
I went the other day we supposed to play, but i went to payne park insted...lol
I dont know why, but i thought that that was where you wanted meet...and assumed u didnt showed up...
Sorry for that, my mistake..
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You can already pay with Square when you buy a Pumpkin Spice Latte™. Great. And now you can buy a Square card reader with your Starbucks order. What?
Yup, next time you're grabbing a grande coffee, you can also buy one of these little readers for $10 (with a $10 rebate if you're a new user). That seems odd, but the explanation is that Starbucks is a big Square investor. Last year, Starbucks invested $25 million in Square as part of a deal that put the payment processors behind its counters. I don't know why you'd buy a reader at a coffee shop when you can go to you know, Best Buy or Apple or the internet. But I suppose the answer is synergy. [TheNextWeb]


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On Friday, after popular demand, we had the supreme pleasure of hosting another edition of WTFunk?! This time, being St. Patrick's…eve…we decided to take advantage of the holiday and theme everything around it…green light bulbs, green and irish beers, and of course the Photo Booth.
I've never had so much fun running a photo booth at any event as I did on Friday, and the photos turned out great! I've included a bunch below, and the rest can be found on the Facebook Page, go check them out! If you are in them or know who is, tag them!
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Dow Industrials Top 17000 for the First Time
The Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 17000 for the first time after a rosy report on U.S. job creation helped reassure investors that economic growth can support stock benchmarks at all-time highs. Scott Wren of Wells Fargo Advisers and WSJ's Larry Edelman join the News Hub with Sara Murray. Photo: Getty Images.
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... the the ... I got does and does the average closing above the one thousand for the first time ever ... that like the Bakken cliff to kick off your holiday weekend ... it is you're there is a acting in news have I'm Sara Mary ... in the early days for the fourth of July holiday it lets the streets the markets just to see where things and have ... a stronger than expected jobs report today eagerly sending the Dow above that seventeen thousand mark this morning ... I mean the day at seventeen zero six eight ... nine two points for the day on the Nasdaq also ending the day up twenty eight points about six tenths of a percent ... on the Essen P and the revamp is well that eleven points at half a percentage point there ... for unleaded these gains are really sustainable were joined by Scott Wren senior equity strategist at Wells Fargo Advisors entity is to get the finance editor Larry ... Lee ... Larry thinks they much for being here Scott thanks for joining us ... Larry I wanna start with you a strong thousand were today clearly driven who joined the market's up twenty three ... are investors should still confident enough that the health of the U S economy can keep supporting teams like this going forward here I think is just enough this is ... sure not a breakout number by it by any means but I'm not here ... in the news to give people confidence against the market still got room to go ... Scott Kelly you right now the Fed is looking every increases ... the twenty fifth goal with ... a piece of economic improvement ekes out t think they can shift that may be looking earlier timetable ... well sir I'm not sure this could be the pace of we're going to see to me I would I would call the report ... of good not agree report and the thing that made it not great ... is that you know wages ... barely ahead of inflation I hours worked ... you know to stagnant wages are doing much for saying more people hired ... aam but but we have a long way to go this labor market we have a lot of long-term unemployed people so the Fed's concern with wages ... long-term unemployment ... but those kinds of things to really what Janet Yellen ... talked about ... um a week or two ago after the last FOMC meeting ... um that was that you know Kate were really not ... probably going to raise interest rates anytime soon ... I'm completely with that I mean certainly economic gross going to be better ... over the Elsevier than a was in the first quarter where we had contraction ... aam but but you know will get out of this year with two two-and-a-half percent growth ... when I only have two two-and-a-half percent next year something that's can it be any in any big hurry ... to raise interest rates and still if they do in the middle of next year I'd be a little surprising thing to be further out than that now Larry Scott makes it just apply to the SEC is uh hundred and fifty to fifty three days to get to the seventeen thousand mark from sixteen thousand ... second fastest thousand point ... in history but I think they're a lot of folks sitting at home sale seemed like everybody getting reached except for me ... what ... it takes to cover the ... spread of the economic wealth and make more people feel better about the economy are not fully invested in them and I think the two things that make people feel ... cough and one is jobs and so into you see a really robust job market ... I think in the sea muted ... due to gains and two as the housing market and there been some signs the housing market slowing down after a run-up last year ... I got you or not totally impressive is seventeen thousand racketeering people not to get caught up in the eye and this big number what if the ACU and clients in terms of what they should be doing with their money right now ... Pulsar one things one thing's for sure or at least in our opinion based on our analysis is the really I think the market's going against unreasonable gains over the next couple of years so ... we want our clients in those sectors like industrials like technology they're going to take advantage of the continued growth ... in the U S economy mended in the global economy so ... I'll we don't want them focused on seventeen thousand we want them focused on fundamentals in the fundamentals as I see it ... are were in a modest growth modest inflation Fairman stocks can be if I in in that ... um but but you have to realize that scene fireman it's not bad he dont wanna hide you don't wanna be hiding in ... utilities and health care they've done well ... um utilities particular year to date basis but when you look for over the next year ... I don't think that's going to happen so we want our clients to be optimistic ... and we want them not to be wildly optimistic but we want them in those sectors are going to benefit from a continuation of this modest growth ... I got Larry thinks they much for joining us


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The euro touched the lowest level against the dollar in more than a month after the European Central Bank said financial institutions will repay less of its three-year loans next week than economists forecast.
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Vernon Carl Snyder, 67
Vernon Carl Snyder, 67, of Winder, Georgia, died Friday, Sept. 21, 2012, in Winder.
He was born Aug. 15, 1945, in Punxsutawney, a son of the late Carl Albert and Edna Florence (Brocious) Snyder.
He was a U.S. Army veteran, having served during the Korean Conflict.
In April 2000, he married Dolly Burkett-Lingenfelter, who survives.
Vern was a member of the Winder First United Methodist Church in Winder.
His hobby was operating the Ham Radio.
He enjoyed his cats, especially his cat O'Malley.
In addition to his wife, surviving relatives include four step-children, Ruth Shaffer and husband Bob of Coolspring, Joyce Stephens and husband Steve of Coolspring, Michael Lingenfelter of DuBois and Robert Lingenfelter and wife Karen of Lawrenceville, Ga.; numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren; two sisters, Leila Smith of Punxsutawney and Susan Bole and husband Ron of McKean; three sisters-in-law, Geneva Snyder of Fairborn, Ohio, Louise Snyder of Edinboro and Donna Snyder of Clarion; and a brother-in-law, Robert Sherry of Florida.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by three brothers, Bill, Ezra and Don Snyder; three sisters, Bernice Doverspike, Ann Sherry and Judy Kanis; and three brothers-in-law, Tom Kanis, Paul Doverspike and George Smith.
Friends will be received from 2 to 7 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, at Shumaker Funeral Home, Inc., 115 East Union St., Punxsutawney.
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Military honors will be accorded by the Jefferson County Veterans Honor Guard.
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Current IR
Letter of Findings: 03-20120124P
Withholding Tax
For the Tax Period Ending October 31, 2011
Under IC § 4-22-7-7, this document is required to be published in the Indiana Register and is effective on its date of publication. It shall remain in effect until the date it is superseded or deleted by the publication of a new document in the Indiana Register. The publication of the document will provide the general public with information about the Department's official position concerning a specific issue.
I. Withholding Tax – Negligence Penalty.
Taxpayer seeks abatement of the penalty for late payment of employee withholding tax.
Taxpayer is a company doing business in Indiana. For the period ending October 31, 2011, Taxpayer was required to file a return and remit Indiana employee withholding taxes by the November 21, 2011, due date. However, Taxpayer's payroll service provider remitted Indiana employee withholding tax on November 22, 2011, one day after the deadline, and filed the returns on November 29, 2011, eight days after the deadline. The Indiana Department of Revenue ("Department") assessed a ten-percent negligence penalty. Taxpayer's payroll service submitted a protest letter on Taxpayer's behalf. The Department conducted the administrative hearing by telephone, and this Letter of Findings results. Further facts will be provided as required.
I. Withholding Tax – Negligence Penalty.
Taxpayer argues that it is entitled to abatement of the negligence penalty for late payment of employee withholding tax.
IC § 6-3-4-8(a) provides:
(a) Except as provided in subsection (d),
every employer making payments of wages subject to tax under this article
, regardless of the place where such payment is made,
who is required under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code to withhold, collect, and pay over income tax on wages paid by such employer to such employee, shall, at the time of payment of such wages, deduct and retain therefrom the amount prescribed in withholding instructions issued by the department
. The department shall base its withholding instructions on the adjusted gross income tax rate for persons, on the total rates of any income taxes that the taxpayer is subject to under
, and on the total amount of exclusions the taxpayer is entitled to under
(a)(3) and
(a)(4). However, the withholding instructions on the adjusted gross income of a nonresident alien (as defined in Section 7701 of the Internal Revenue Code) are to be based on applying not more than one (1) withholding exclusion, regardless of the total number of exclusions that
(a)(3) and
(a)(4) permit the taxpayer to apply on the taxpayer's final return for the taxable year.
Such employer making payments of any wages
(1) shall be liable to the state of Indiana for the payment of the tax required to be deducted and withheld under this section and shall not be liable to any individual for the amount deducted from the individual's wages and paid over in compliance or intended compliance with this section; and
shall make return of and payment to the department monthly
of the amount of tax which under this article and
the employer is required to withhold. (
Emphasis added
IC § 6-3-4-8(g) also provides:
The provisions of
relating to additions to tax in case of delinquency and penalties
shall apply to employers subject to the provisions of this section, and for these purposes any amount deducted or required to be deducted and remitted to the department under this section shall be considered to be the tax of the employer, and with respect to such amount the employer shall be considered the taxpayer. In the case of a corporate or partnership employer, every officer, employee, or member of such employer, who, as such officer, employee, or member is under a duty to deduct and remit such taxes shall be personally liable for such taxes, penalties, and interest. (
Emphasis added
IC § 6-8.1-10-2.1 provides, in relevant part:
(a) If a person:
(1) fails to file a return for any of the listed taxes;
(2) fails to pay the full amount of tax shown on the person's return on or before the due date for the return or payment;
(3) incurs, upon examination by the department, a deficiency that is due to negligence;
(4) fails to timely remit any tax held in trust for the state; or
(5) is required to make a payment by electronic funds transfer (as defined in
), overnight courier, or personal delivery and the payment is not received by the department by the due date in funds acceptable to the department;
the person is subject to a penalty.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (g), the penalty described in subsection (a) is ten percent (10 [percent]) of:
(1) the full amount of the tax due if the person failed to file the return;
(2) the amount of the tax not paid, if the person filed the return but failed to pay the full amount of the tax shown on the return;
(3) the amount of the tax held in trust that is not timely remitted;
(4) the amount of deficiency as finally determined by the department; or
(5) the amount of tax due if a person failed to make payment by electronic funds transfer, overnight courier, or personal delivery by the due date.
(e) If a person subject to the penalty imposed under this section can show that the failure to file a return, pay the full amount of tax shown on the person's return, timely remit tax held in trust, or pay the deficiency determined by the department was due to reasonable cause and not due to willful neglect, the department shall waive the penalty.
(f) A person who wishes to avoid the penalty imposed under this section must make an affirmative showing of all facts alleged as a reasonable cause for the person's failure to file the return, pay the amount of tax shown on the person's return, pay the deficiency, or timely remit tax held in trust, in a written statement containing a declaration that the statement is made under penalty of perjury. The statement must be filed with the return or payment within the time prescribed for protesting departmental assessments. A taxpayer may also avoid the penalty imposed under this section by obtaining a ruling from the department before the end of a particular tax period on the amount of tax due for that tax period.
Under IC § 6-8.1-5-1(c), "The burden of proving that the proposed assessment is wrong rests with the person against whom the proposed assessment is made." An assessment – including an assessment of a penalty – is presumptively valid.
Departmental regulation
(b) defines negligence as "the failure to use such reasonable care, caution, or diligence as would be expected of an ordinary reasonable taxpayer." Negligence is to "be determined on a case-by-case basis according to the facts and circumstances of each taxpayer." Id.
IC § 6-8.1-10-2.1(d) allows the Department to waive the penalty upon a showing that the failure to pay the deficiency was based on "reasonable cause and not due to willful neglect." Departmental regulation
(c) requires that in order to establish "reasonable cause," the taxpayer must demonstrate that it "exercised ordinary business care and prudence in carrying out or failing to carry out a duty giving rise to the penalty imposed...."
For the month ending September 30, 2011, Taxpayer's payroll service provider also remitted employee withholding taxes on behalf of Taxpayer one day after the statutory deadline. For that month, the Department abated Taxpayer's potential penalty prior to the Department issuing a proposed assessment.
Taxpayer's payroll service provider states it remitted Taxpayer's employee withholding taxes one day late because of the person operating the payroll service had a family emergency. Taxpayer's representative requests abatement of the "penalty and interest due to the family matter and the past history since 2004 of paying the taxes timely." However, Taxpayer has had multiple late tax payments and filing issues for previous periods. Based on its history of late payments and filing issues in conjunction with the current late payment, Taxpayer has not provided sufficient information to justify penalty waiver. Taxpayer also protests the imposition of interest, however the Department may not waive interest as provided by IC § 6-8.1-10-1(e).
Taxpayer's protest to the imposition of penalty and interest is denied.
Posted: 06/27/2012 by Legislative Services Agency
Composed: Feb 22,2019 5:59:45AM EST
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Capacity planning at a physical infrastructure level also enables a picture to be built of virtual capacity, for example in terms of number of virtual machines that can be supported. Creation of sufficient supply goes hand in hand with demand management. The first step is building an understanding of how logical workloads map onto physical assets.
For example, how many virtual machines, in what configuration, are required to support a messaging server or a database application? Do these need to run on the same or on different parts of the physical architecture for redundancy? How should such facilities scale in case of increased demand?
Such information can be incorporated into policies governing how to create logical workloads, then feed into the provisioning process, that is to create a specific instance of a logical workload to respond to a specific need.
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The business is less interested in how a service is provided than in making sure it will deliver on expectations, so this is also the level at which service level agreement criteria can be built in and coded into policy terms.
It is not hard to see how conflicts may arise. Even well-planned environments do not have unlimited resources, so trade-offs will have to be made – for example between completing that urgent analytics job or allocating resources for software testing.
Perhaps both needs can be met, but maybe not at the same time as the monthly reporting cycle… and so it goes on.
In response to this problem, the two weapons private cloud infrastructure managers have in their armoury are monitoring and automation.
- Monitoring because request fulfilment can only take place with a clear idea of what resources are available.
- Automation because it is impossible to allocate logical resources efficiently without scripted mechanisms to run up and configure virtual machines appropriately.
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text: « back to directory print I. Bennett Capers Stanley A. August Professor of Law 250 Joralemon Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 (718) 780-0685 | Email | CV Areas of Expertise Criminal Law, Criminal ProcedureEvidenceLaw and LiteratureRace and the Law Education B.A., Princeton UniversityJ.D., Columbia University School of Law Biography Courses Publications Noteworthy Professor Bennett Capers Discusses 'Rape, Truth, and Hearsay' on Excited Utterance Podcast 4/27/2017 Professor Bennett Capers recently appeared on Excited Utterance, a podcast focusing on scholarship on evidence law and proof, to discuss his forthcoming article "Rape, Truth, and Hearsay," which will appear in the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender. New York Law Journal: Process to Choose New Eastern District Prosecutor Lacks Clarity, Observers Say 3/3/2017 Professor Bennett Capers comments on a norm-breaking scenario in how prominent GOP politicians may be called upon to choose a replacement for Eastern District U.S. Attorney Robert Capers (no relation to Professor Capers). Buzzfeed: Billionaire Drug Lord El Chapo Gets To Keep His Public Defenders — For Now 2/6/2017 Professor Bennett Capers, speaking on the El Chapo case, says that the mandate to submit a sworn financial affidavit could be an advantage to prosecutors because "if he were to lie on that form, they could charge him with perjury." amNewYork: Fighting NYC subway crime: How NYPD officers keep the rails safe 11/4/2016 Professor Bennett Capers describes how police can often legally pick up someone for a minor offense, and then question them for intelligence on other crimes. New York Law Journal: New Bronx District Attorney Begins to Deliver on Promises 8/27/2016 Professor Bennett Capers believes a DA's conviction rate should not be the "end all, be all" of assessing their performance. Other factors, such as a DA's relationship with the community and building trust, should be considered when sizing up how well she is doing her job. Professor Bennett Capers Comments on Policing, Gun Violence in The Village Voice 8/25/2016 Professor Bennett Capers, a leading authority on policing and criminal justice, recently spoke with The Village Voice about a 2013 case in which an unarmed man with mental illness was fired on by police, then charged with assault for injuries sustained by two innocent bystanders from stray police bullets. Professor Bennett Capers on Diversity in American Cities, President Obama's Focus on Issues of Concern to African Americans 5/17/2016 Professor I. Bennett Capers was recently quoted in WalletHub, a personal finance website, discussing the pros and cons of living and working in a "diverse city" – provided the diversity is genuine and not simply diverse in terms of numbers but racially segregated. He also provided expert commentary to Long Island news outlet Newsday concerning President Obama's final year in office, and how he is using this time to focus more on issues of concern to African Americans. Professor Bennett Capers Discusses Police Technology on TalksOnLaw 2/4/2016 Professor Bennett Capers was recently a guest on TalksOnLaw, where he discussed how rapid technological advancement is changing the way the law enforcement operate and interact with the public. Professor Bennett Capers Comments on Law Enforcement Topics 1/13/2016 Professor Bennett Capers, a former federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, was recently quoted in Salon on how prosecutions of law enforcement for perjury are rare, despite the frequency of lying under oath. Professor I. Bennett Capers Awarded Stanley A. August Chair 7/1/2015 Professor Bennett Capers has been awarded the Stanley A. August Chair in recognition of his excellence in teaching and scholarship. This endowed professorship was made possible by Dr. Stanley August '83, who attended Brooklyn Law School while practicing medicine as a pediatrician. Associated Press: Missing boy, missing files: Problem paper trail in 1979 case 3/5/2015 Professor Bennett Capers draws upon his experience as a former prosecutor in discussing the Etan Patz case. The story was picked up by The new York Times, ABC News, and others. Professor Bennett Capers discusses New York chief judge's proposal for major grand jury reforms 2/26/2015 Professor Bennett Capers was quoted by the Associated Press in an article covering potential changes to grand jury procedure. "It's hard to picture downsides. The upside is it gives the public some kind of assurance the game is not rigged," Capers said. Politifact.com: Watch out, 70% of us have done something that could put us in jail 12/16/2014 Professor Bennett Capers comments on how often people break laws every day – without even realizing it. Professor Bennett Capers Comments to The Guardian on Attorney General Nominee Loretta Lynch 11/19/2014 Professor Bennett Capers, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney who is a renowned expert on criminal law, criminal procedure, and evidence law, was quoted in The Guardian giving his impressions of Loretta Lynch, President Obama's nominee to be the next U.S. Attorney General. Lynch is currently the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, which is headquartered nearby Brooklyn Law School, and has long had close ties with the Law School. There are two longstanding clinics with the office – one related to misdemeanor prosecution and the other in the area of immigration – and many Brooklyn Law School graduates now serve and have served as AUSAs. In addition, many AUSAs have been members of BLS's adjunct faculty. Professor Capers spoke of Lynch's style as "low-key, very measured," the type of leader in the Department of Justice who is "[n]ot pushing the envelope, not trying to overreach, but taking a level-headed approach on every case I can think of that the Eastern District has brought. Not taking cases because they will make a name for her, but because they make sense." Professor Bennett Capers Quoted in New York Times on Protecting a Valuable Witness 8/13/2014 Professor Bennett Capers, a criminal law and procedure expert who previously practiced as an Assistant U.S. Attorney General in the Southern District of New York, has commented to the New York Times on the pending deportation of Miguel Feliz, an officer-turned-criminal-turned-witness who faces certain death if returned to his home country. Professor Capers prosecuted multiple gang members on "rare inside information" from Feliz, without which the criminals might still be at large today. Professor Bennett Capers Quoted on Judge Rakoff's Push for Sentencing Reform 6/3/2014 Professor Bennett Capers, a sought-after expert on criminal law and procedure, was quoted by the New York Daily News in support of Judge Jed Rakoff's efforts to greater involve judges in the process of criminal plea bargains, which Judge Rakoff believes will reduce the ability of overzealous prosecutors to use harsh mandatory minimum sentences to take advantage of defendants. Professors Miriam Baer and Bennett Capers Featured in Yale Law Journal Symposium on Justice Sotomayor 4/7/2014 Professors Miriam Baer and Bennett Capers are among the select scholars featured in "The Early Jurisprudence of Justice Sotomayor," a Yale Law Journal Forum symposium published last week. Professor Capers's essay, titled "Reading Michigan v. Bryant, 'Reading' Justice Sotomayor," addresses a central question: What are we to make of Justice Sotomayor's criminal procedure jurisprudence? He offers three readings of her Confrontation Clause decision in Michigan v. Bryant, along with details from her memoir, as the basis for a "reading" of Justice Sotomayor. Media Seeks Out Professor Bennett Capers on Stop-and-Frisk Controversy 11/12/2013 Experts and political candidates are still trying to sort out the implications of a federal appellate court ruling in the landmark stop-and-frisk case, Floyd v. New York, which asserted that stop-and-frisk tactics of the New York Police Department violated the constitutional rights of minorities. In August, Professor Bennett Capers hailed Judge Scheindlin's ruling in a New York Times op-ed. According to Professor Capers, the NYPD has stopped more than four million individuals since 2004, approximately 84 percent of whom have been black or Hispanic. Professors Bennett Capers and William Hellerstein Appointed to 'Stop-and-Frisk' Advisory Council 9/26/2013 Professors Bennett Capers and William Hellerstein have been named to a new panel that will oversee changes to the New York City Police Department's stop-and-frisk policies. They join 11 other members of the academic advisory council appointed by U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin, who ruled last month that existing stop-and-frisk policies violated the constitutional rights of minorities. Professor Capers, whose recent New York Times op-ed shed light on the ruling, will serve as chair. Professor Bennett Capers Comments on Stop-and-Frisk Ruling in New York Times Op-Ed 8/20/2013 In a New York Times op-ed today, Professor Bennett Capers hailed the ruling in Floyd v. City of New York, which asserted that stop-and-frisk tactics of the New York Police Department violated the constitutional rights of minorities. Professor Bennett Capers Discusses "Cannibal Cop" Trial on WNYC 3/7/2013 On February 26, Professor Bennett Capers was featured on a WNYC radio broadcast discussing the trial of Gilberto Valle, the so-called "Cannibal Cop," a 28-year-old New York City police officer charged with conspiracy to kidnap, kill, and eat women. Death Penalty Abolishment Essay by Professor Bennett Capers Praised by the Open Society Institute - Baltimore 2/7/2013 Professor Bennett Capers' essay "Defending Life" was recently discussed by the open Society Institute - Baltimore. "Defending Life," which appears in Life Without Parole: America's New Death Penalty? (2012), challenges death penalty opponents to rethink all extreme punishments, including life sentences. Related Links: Faculty News Curriculum


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Nov 3
Aliens In The Attic
Disney starlet Ashley Tisdale's third-greatest moment (Sorry, Ashley, but The Suite Life of Zac and Cody is better than this) comes to home entertainment in time for the holidays, giving kids a new reason to be worried about what goes on upstairs.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Complete First Season Box Set
The name says it all: the entire first run of George Lucas' CGI take on what happened between Attack of The Clones and Revenge of The Sith gets a four-disc box set, complete with seven "director's cut" episodes, 22 behind-the-scenes featurettes (One for each episode), and a 64 page booklet explaining it all. If only they'd stuck the movie in there too.
Nov 10
Monsters, Inc. (BluRay Edition)
Pixar's 2001 take on the commodification of imagination - That is what it's really about, right? - gets an enormous 4-disc edition with its Blu Ray release. Expect many special features.
Talking of Pixar, the movie of the summer - Go on, you can admit it now - comes out with multiple editions. There's a single disc version, a double disc DVD with commentary, alternate ending featurette and digital copy of the movie, and a four-disc Blu Ray that includes DVD and digital copies of the movie and all manner of special features (More on the marriage between Carl and Ellie!) and Making Of documentaries.
Nov 17
Farscape: The Complete Series Box Set
Yes, that would be 25 discs collecting the entirety of Rockne S O'Bannon's space opera, along with original promos, documentaries, episode commentaries, and all the other special features you'd expect from something like this.
Star Trek
JJ Abrams' Past Is Prologue bravely faces the Home Theater Frontier in a variety of formats: Bare bones single disc DVD, double disc DVD with digital copy of the movie, behind the scenes documentaries and lots of deleted scenes (including Klingons, for those who wondered where they were in the movie), and three disc Blu Ray with all of the above, plus more docs, a BD-Live link to NASA, Enterprise simulator and outtakes.
December 1
Terminator Salvation
Will it be the Director's Cut or the version released in theaters? Will that depend upon which version you pick up, DVD or Blu Ray? Will it actually be a good movie this time around? So much is still unknown about the home version of this summer's McG-director actioneer, but it's definitely coming out December 1st.
December 8
Family Guy: Something Something Dark Side
It's The Empire Strikes Back done-Family Guy style, which still freaks me out a little bit. Between this and the Robot Chicken episodes based on Star Wars, I wonder if George Lucas ever wonders whether he should be making even more royalties than he actually is?
Lost: The Complete 5th Season
A month before the show returns for its final season, I... Uh, I mean, you can start catching up and obsessively rewatching last season for clues as to where it's all going, and what Jacob was really up to all this time. A month should be long enough, right? Right?


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Cubs fans remember Kerry Wood's goatee just as much as they do his once blazing fastball. Wood's tufted chin beard was a staple throughout his 14-year career not long after the peach fuzz wore off from his rookie season in 1998.
However, when the Indians traded Wood to the Yankees in July of 2010 the goatee became a casualty of New York's clean shaven policy. Wood had to go slick, and it wasn't a site to behold.
The same can be said of Kevin Youkilis, who signed a 1-year, $12 million deal with the Yankees on Tuesday. So much for the manly, bushy goatee Youkilis displayed during his career in Boston and on the South Side of Chicago.
As if watching Woody, Johnny Damon (among other formerly bearded ballplayers) play in Yankee pinstripes wasn't bad enough. Seeing them void of their predominant whiskers was even worse. And now the 'Youker.'
Only in Gotham city would they pillage the game's best players and strip the league of its most recognizable chin chillers, too.
What's a major league cookie duster to do?


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Bryanna Clark Grogan's Vegan Feast Kitchen/ 21st Century Table: The kitchen journal of a vegan food writer.. I'm on Facebook and Twitter (see links in sidebar at right).
Saturday, June 2, 2007
The front door
In my last post I mentioned that we stayed at a lovely bed and breakfast inn in Fanny Bay, BC, on Vancouver Island, just south of where we live (Denman Island). We were gifted with a night at the Ship's Point Inn, so we decided to spend my birthday night there last weekend.
We had a great dinner at a new Indian restaurant in Parksville, which is a little further south, and then headed back north to the inn, which has been there for many years, but was recently taken over by a charming couple from Quebec via Calgary, Robert Mercier and Agathe Fillion. The historic inn is lovely and beautifully furnished, and you are treated as if in a first-class hotel. No detail is overlooked! We had the run of the house, and a fire was laid in the living room firepalce in case we should want to read by the fire. A tray of tea fixings and a plate of homemade chocolate chip cookies was left out for us, as well as a small refrigerator full of bottled water and other cold drinks. There are binoculars here and there for bird watching (we saw lots of herons and eagles!), or looking over at Denman Island.
We ventured out into a rather blustery night, wrapped in the fluffy white bathrobes provided for us, to soak in the covered outdoor hot tub. It was a novel experience soaking in the hot water up to our next, being massaged by jets of water, all the while hearing the wind whipping in the trees, and stirring up the perfume of the flowers from Agathe's lovely gardens.
This is a view from the back of the hot tub area, as you approach the front gate.
Our room, the Periwinkle Room, faced the sea, and there was a balcony attached, complete with deck chairs, as well as a private bathroom. The bed was comfy and we slept in until after 7 am-- late for us!
The Periwinkle Room
Breakfast is at 9 am, and many guests go for a stroll on the beach before breakfast. We chose to read in the living room in front of the window facing the sea while we had our tea and coffee.
Part of the living room, in front of the window overlooking the bay
Agathe and Robert are congenial hosts and made a lovely breakfast for us-- orange juice, grapefruit broiled with brown sugar and lemon and lime zest; dark banana bread and homemade jams; and a light creamy vegetable casserole. (They will do vegan breakfasts on request, and also tailor meals for guests who must eat gluten-free, or those with allergies.) After breakfast we went for a walk on the beach before heading home.
The Inn from the beach side.
It was lovely to have 24 hours without telephone, computer or TV, and to be pampered as well!
When we got home, I fixed a couple of simple meals:
Tomato sandwich with Roasted Red Pepper, White Bean and Corn Soup (a variation on the Easy, Savory White bean and Corn Soup in my book "20 Minutes to Dinner")
Vegan waffles topped with Soy Curls™, veggies, and gravy.
Finally, some warm weather is here, so enjoy!
6 comments:
- Muse said...
what a strong resemblance your daughter has to you!! logan is a cutie!
- Sat Jun 02, 02:38:00 PM PDT
- Spice Island Vegan said...
Wow, what a nice treat that is! I love this B&B.
Yes, Logan is so cute.
- Tue Jun 05, 03:31:00 PM PDT
- Dori said...
Happy belated birthday to you Bryanna! The bed and breakfast is very lovely. I agree about the strong resemblance of you daughter, you are both very beautiful!
- Wed Jun 06, 08:02:00 AM PDT
- KleoPatra said...
Happy belated birthday. Great photos, again, and love the last one. Happy, healthy, loving families make *me* feel happy inside, too...
- Sun Jun 10, 09:20:00 PM PDT
Happy belated birthday!
what a great photo! beautifull family.
- Wed Jun 13, 05:00:00 AM PDT
Thanks to you, my husband and I just spent two wonderful nights at the Ships Point Inn, and what a treat it was! Agathe and Robert are wonderful hosts, and they were delightfully accomodating to my being the only vegan from amoun 12 guests. Thank you for such a lovely tip! We hope to go again next year!
- Mon Jul 23, 10:25:00 PM PDT


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2008 Toe Jam: Rail Final
by David Hanson
What a day it has been… I arrived at the Toe Jam today, and despite missing the first couple of heats today in the Projects rail park competition, the rest of the day did not disappoint. The rail riding is always some of my favorite to watch, and it gives the ability for more trick variations than the boat riding. By the quarter finals, things were getting pretty heated, and the stand out riders of the day became apparent. Clint Tompkins was dialing in each rail more and more each round, until by the semis he was frontboarding and backlipping the entire a-frame. He was also dialed on his backlip 270 shoves off the incline rail, and was just inches from his kickflip off the launch box. Matt Hooker put up a good fight, ollieing onto some unthinkably high rails and sticking some tech tricks, but it wasn't quite enough. Nick Taylor was comfortable as ever out there, dialing in his frontbigs, not only on flat water, but off the rails as well. He pretty much had a solid kickflip in each round and even a varial flip sighting, along with lipsliding anything he chose (frontside and back). Reed Hansen was shredding indeed, always coming through with some solid footwork on his flip tricks and a back board front shove out ollieing down the incline rail. Andrew Pastura was one of the standouts all day, linking together switch and regular tricks all the way down the course and flowing beautifully. Switch 3's, kickflips, switch and regular frontbigs, toeside backbigs, and plenty of solid boardslide frontbigs and backlips, and even a few switch front boards. The road to the final four was as epic as ever at this year's Toe Jam!
When the dust had settled, the final four competitors for the day were Reed Hansen, Nick Taylor, Clint Tompkins, and Andrew Pastura. Reed and Nick were up first, and this is always a match up worth paying attention to. We saw these two duke it out in the boat finals the previous day, so who knew what mental games were being played by these two… it's all competitive strategy, people. I'm just kidding though, these two guys are great sports and amazing wakeskaters, but only one can win, and Nick Taylor came out on top, earning his spot in the final round. Clint put on quite a performance, making it clear he is one of the most proficient big rail riders out there. His frontboards up, across, and down the entire A-frame were sick as anything, and starting out your run each time with a backlip shove out on the incline rail is definitely saying something. It's sweet seeing riders stepping up their switch riding game, and Clint is on top of this with non-stop solid switch frontboards to regular on the flatrail. Andrew gave it his all and killed it as always, but had a few uncharacteristic falls and the golden ticket spot went to Clint.
The final round: Clint Tompkins versus Nick Taylor. Will the past champion Clint take back his crown? How hungry is Nick for his first Toe Jam win? Apparently hungry enough, because after all was said and done, Nick Taylor was crowned YOUR Toe Jam Stop 1 champion! Nick and Andrew would go on to be the recipients of the two available Toe Jam Finale qualification spots (for the final stop in September…Reed and Clint were already qualified as past champions). A big congratulations go out to Nick for his win and also props go out to ALL the riders that stepped up their game at this year's Toe Jam, there were so many of them! Also thanks to anyone that came out and supported wakeskating… see ya' in Texas!


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Increased production of new Arleigh Burke-class destroyers is a key feature of the U.S. Navy's new 30-year shipbuilding plan. Flight IIA versions of the ships are to serve for 40 years. (MC3 Benjamin Crossley / U.S. Navy).
The U.S. Navy's new 30-year shipbuilding plan for 2013 shows few unexpected changes, projecting a slightly smaller average fleet size and slightly reduced shipbuilding rate.The plan, sent this week to Congress, projects an average fleet size through 2042 of 298 ships, a drop of seven ships from last year's 306-ship standard. The force is projected to rise from today's 282-ship level to 300 ships by 2019.
Ten fewer ships are scheduled to be bought over the three-decade time span, reducing last year's 276-ship 30-year total to 268, a drop from 9.2 ships per year to 8.9.
Many of the force reductions already have been announced, particularly new orders to decommission seven Aegis cruisers more than a decade before previously scheduled, a slowing in the rate of ballistic missile defense destroyer conversions and cancellation of plans to buy more than 10 small and cheap Joint High Speed Vessels. The amphibious fleet also is being reduced by one ship.
Other changes already announced were shifts in the aircraft carrier and littoral combat ship construction rates, and a decision to push back new ballistic missile submarine construction by two years.
The new plan covers the years 2013 to 2042, while last year's documents covered 2012 to 2041.The 30-year plan is broken roughly into three major sections. Near term reflects the coming decade, defined by the Future Years Defense Plan (FYDP) of 2013-2017 and a second FYDP from 2018 to 2022.
The mid-term planning period covers 2023 to 2032, while far-term planning begins in 2033.For the near term, the service projects an annual shipbuilding budget of $15.1 billion in 2012 constant dollars, a baseline used throughout the plan.
The rate of spending rises to $19.5 billion a year in the mid-term, due largely to the SSBN(X) Ohio Replacement Program, the effort to replace existing Trident ballistic missile submarines.Average yearly expenditures fall to $15.9 billion per year for the far-term period.
Over the entire 30-year plan, the annual ship construction budget is projected at $16.8 billion per year, including Navy and National Defense Sealift Fund ships.For the most part, the annual shipbuilding rate drops across the plan, but a number of ships are simply delayed, or shifted to the right, rather than eliminated. Construction rates tend to pick up in the 2020s, then again fall below last year's projections in the 2030s.Destroyer construction shows a jump, and from 2023 on out two or three ships a year are procured. Last year's plan showed one or two ships a year, with three ships only in 2036.Construction of attack submarines jumps to three in 2020, falling to one per year in 2026, whereas last year the plan showed one per year for every year beginning in 2023.
Force level projections reflect the Navy's decision to stretch the build time of new aircraft carriers from five to seven years, avoiding situations where the force, set by law at 11 ships, would temporarily rise to 12 flattops. Now, the John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), funded in 2013, will be delivered in 2022 rather than 2020, and the yet-to-be-named CVN 80, funded in 2018, will deliver in 2027.Overall, the carrier force drops to 10 ships beginning in 2040, where last year's plan showed 11 into that decade.
The attack submarine force, projected last year to reach a low of 39 boats in 2030, now bottoms out at 43 subs in 2028. The level begins to rise again in 2032 and reaches 50 hulls in 2037. Last year's plan projected only 45 submarines in service for most of the late 2030s.
The number of SSBN ballistic missile submarines drops from 14 boats to 13 boats in 2027. But whereas last year's plan never fell below 12 ships for any given year, the new plan shows a force of 11 ships in 2029 and 10 in 2032, holding there until the number starts to rise in the early 2040s.
The plan for SSGN guided-missile submarines remains the same. Two ships are decommissioned in 2026, and the last two are gone by 2028. The Navy plans to replace the ships with a stretched version of SSN 774 Virginia-class attack submarines.
The number of large surface combatants — cruisers and destroyers — drops in the near term but surpasses earlier projections starting in the late 2020s. The force drops in 2014 to 78 ships, down from last year's 85. The revised numbers remain from two to 10 ships below the old numbers until 2027, when the new plan begins to show more ships in service than under the old plan. The growth in the number of destroyers in service is sustained through the remainder of the plan, with an increase of as many as 11 ships a year.
The small surface combatant category, including littoral combat ships (LCS), frigates and minesweepers, now shows an all-LCS force in 2029, six years sooner than previously forecast.The annual amphibious ship force level is one or two ships below last year's, returning to parity in the 2030s.
The plan provides few, if any, new details on construction plans in the current FYDP, as those are included in the Navy's 2013 budget request submitted in February.
But the second FYDP, for the years 2018 to 2022, includes the most ambitious, complex and expensive new start of the plan, the SSBN(X) submarine. The Navy plans for 12 new ships to replace 14 existing submarines, with detail design to begin in 2017 and the lead ship to be funded in 2021 — a change already announced and two years later than last year's schedule. The price tag for the first SSBNX is projected at $11.7 billion, including $4.5 billion in non-recurring engineering costs and $7.2 billion for the ship's construction.
The second FYDP also will feature the start of the LSD(X) dock landing ship replacement program. The new ships will be delivered sooner than when the older LSDs are to be retired, a move the Navy says is "ahead of need," but necessary to preserve the shipbuilding industrial base and reduce the risk associated with the decision to operate an amphibious force of only 32 ships, rather than the 38-ship force the Marines say they need.
At the lower end of the scale, the first two of five planned T-AGOS(X) ocean surveillance ship replacements and the first two of four planned T-ARS(X) salvage ship replacements also are to be purchased in the second FYDP.
Other details listed in the new plan include:
• Up to 33 Flight III DDG-51-class destroyers will be bought featuring the new Air Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), a replacement for the Aegis system's SPY-1 series of phased-array sensors. Twenty of the ships will come in during the mid-term planning period, the last in 2030. Procurement of an "affordable follow-on, multi-mission" destroyer is to begin in 2031.
• Both versions of the littoral combat ship (LCS) will continue to be purchased through 2026, completing the initial, 55-ship inventory. The first follow-on LCS(X) replacement is to be bought beginning in 2030.
• Procurement of a Virginia-class replacement submarine design, tentatively designated SSN 774(X), is aiming for a 2033 start.
• Construction of Flight I LHA(R) amphibious assault ship replacements is to continue, with one ship being built every four years starting in 2024.
• The LSD(X) dock landing ship replacement program remains at a total of 10 ships, the last coming in 2032.
• Plans remain to build two replacement submarine tenders, with one each in 2023 and 2025.
• The two long-serving LCC command ships, in service since 1970 and 1971, will be replaced with new construction starting in 2032.
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