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New data from the venture capital industry put some cold, hard numbers on how tight belts have gotten in startup land.
The new MoneyTree report from the National Venture Capital Association and PricewaterhouseCoopers shows that VCs invested less money in private companies last year than in 2011 — the first such annual decline in three years.
And venture investors became increasingly cautious as the year went on: In the year's second quarter, with enthusiasm soaring for the initial public offerings of Facebook and LinkedIn, venture funding followed suit.
But Facebook's underwhelming Wall Street debut, combined with ongoing volatility in the broader economy, left 2012 trailing 2011 in the number of tech IPOs and mergers — the lifeblood of venture investment returns.
Venture funding, not surprisingly, dropped in both the third and fourth quarters, to $6.4 billion in the three-month period that ended in December. That was a 3 percent decline in dollars compared to the third quarter, though deal volume rose 5 percent, with 968 companies funded.
For the year as a whole, venture funds invested $26.5 billion in 3,698 deals. That was a decrease of 10 percent in dollars and a 6 percent drop in deals over 2011.
Still, the president of the venture capital association said he sees reason for optimism in the numbers.
"Most people would say, 'Oh my gosh, the sky is falling,' " said Mark Heesen. Instead, he believes the tightfisted funding mood — and an ongoing shrinkage in the number of venture funds — will lead to "a more disciplined environment. The companies that are going to be funded are going to be really good, and a lot of the 'duplicative' companies aren't going to be funded."
Tracy Lefteroff, who heads the global venture capital practice at PWC, largely agreed. His firm and the venture capital group prepare the MoneyTree report using data from Thomson Reuters.
Lefteroff argues that the hefty venture investing of early last year reflected irrational exuberance over the promise of social media. "If you remember, there were a slew of companies lined up to go public, and that went away very quickly," he said.
Concerns about looming budget battles in Washington, D.C., he noted, also are helping tamp down investor enthusiasm, both among venture capitalists and big Wall Street investors.
Matt Hendrickson, CEO of a San Francisco startup called Ascendify, said the shrinking venture capital pie means more competition among tech fledglings.
"We just have to be that much better in 2013 to secure our next round of funding," said Hendrickson, whose year-old company makes talent-recruitment software for enterprise clients. He's currently raising a seed funding round from angel investors and early stage venture firms, but he's already looking ahead to a larger Series A round a year from now.
Lefteroff said software companies, in fact, are still enjoying favor from venture investors. In 2012, VCs invested more in software deals than at any point since 2001, according to the MoneyTree data.
Capital-intensive biotech and cleantech, on the other hand, were particularly hard hit last year, part of an ongoing trend.
Clean technology saw a 28 percent decrease in dollars and a nearly equal decline in deal volume compared to 2011, the MoneyTree report found. Things were even gloomier in the fourth quarter, when venture capitalists put $535 million into 67 cleantech deals — a 36 percent drop in dollars from the third quarter.
Venture investments in the life sciences — including biotechnology and medical devices — fell 15 percent in 2012, to $4.1 billion. On the bright side, that still represented the year's second largest investment sector in terms of dollars and deals. And life sciences saw an uptick in the fourth quarter.
Lefteroff remains fairly bullish on the life sciences, noting there's still "huge unmet needs" for new therapies. But given the long and often obtuse process for new drugs and devices to receive federal regulatory clearance, pharmaceutical companies and other investors remain conservative, he said.
Cleantech, Lefteroff said, may face an even steeper challenge, given that such companies require vast amounts of cash to grow and that there have been relatively few IPOs or big acquisitions to enable venture investors to reap returns.
"How long can the venture guys continue to fund these companies," he asked, "and who's going to be there to pick up the pieces?"
Heesen agreed that the plunge in cleantech and life-sciences funding is a concern.
"I think you are seeing a change in the market," he said. "You're going to see more deals that sort of work around the edges, as opposed to trying to create a new car company or a new type of energy."
Contact Peter Delevett at 408-271-3638. Follow him at Twitter.com/mercwiretap.


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NEW YORK (AP) - Bruce Springsteen auctioned off the guitar around his shoulder for $250,000 to benefit wounded servicemen and women, the climax of Wednesday's seventh annual "Stand Up for Heroes" benefit run by ABC newsman Bob Woodruff's foundation.
NEW YORK (AP) � Bruce Springsteen auctioned off the guitar around his shoulder for $250,000 to benefit wounded servicemen and women, the climax of Wednesday's seventh annual "Stand Up for Heroes" benefit run by ABC newsman Bob Woodruff's foundation.
A murderer's row of comics � Jon Stewart, Bill Cosby, Jim Gaffigan and Jerry Seinfeld � preceded former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters, who played with a band featuring wounded vets, and local hero Springsteen. The show at the Madison Square Garden Theater was beamed online through Google Plus and YouTube.
Woodruff, the newsman nearly killed eight years ago by an improvised explosive device in Iran, and his wife Lee spend much of their time now helping vets who need care for catastrophic injuries. This year's benefit, from which the Woodruffs hoped to raise $20 million, had a special emphasis on family caregivers who nurse veterans back to health.
Rachel and Larkin O'Hern, from Belton, Texas, brought the audience to its feet by telling their love story and Larkin's arduous road to recovery after losing both legs and his right hand.
The process, Larkin O'Hern said, is "the triumph of slim hope over crushing despair."
Waters, whose father was killed in World War II and his grandfather in World War I, brought nearly two dozen veterans onstage with him to sing and play guitar, some of them missing limbs. He often turned the lead microphone over to other singers during performances of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," John Lennon's "Imagine," Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come" and Waters' own "Comfortably Numb."
Springsteen said he was surprised that with four comics on the bill and an audience stocked with servicemen, there weren't any dirty jokes. So he offered three of his own.
"I went into the wrong profession," he said before proving otherwise in a three-song set synced to the evening's theme. With an acoustic guitar, he sang "Dancing in the Dark" and was joined by his wife, Patti Scialfa, for a duet on "If I Should Fall Behind."
Accompanying himself on a pump organ with a synthesizer backup, Springsteen also played an arresting cover of a 1979 Suicide song, "Dream Baby Dream." Springsteen has performed at each of Woodruff's seven benefits.
Joined by NBC's Brian Williams, he helped auction the guitar, juicing the price with sweeteners that included his own free one-hour guitar lesson and entry to a recording session at his New Jersey home.
The comics performed one after the other with themes that fit their personas. Stewart offered political satire, the veteran Cosby joked about families, Gaffigan riffed on junk food and Seinfeld talked about the foibles of married life.
"Being married is like being on a game show," Seinfeld said, "and you're always in the lightning round."
Stewart bemoaned Democrats blowing the moment when Republicans were in disarray with the problem-plagued rollout of President Barack Obama's new health care law.
"They were on the two-yard line, first and goal and they ate the football," the "Daily Show" host said.
Cosby, at 76, reached back to his childhood for the family stories that have always been a staple of his comedy. He had a quick retort, though, when some veterans seated by the stage interrupted him with some noise. He reminded them that he had served in the U.S. Navy himself.
"I was there when there were no guns," he said. "You dug a hole and you yelled at each other."
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Watch Jimmy Kimmel's 'Movie: The Movie' Trailer Starring Every Celebrity in Hollywood
It's only fitting that after the 2012 Oscars, Jimmy Kimmel would debut a trailer for the most epic, star-studded movie of all-time. It's over eight minutes long, stars 2012 Oscar nominees George Clooney, Gary Oldman, and Meryl Streep plus Matt Damon, Jessica Alba, Samuel L. Jackson, Charlize Theron, Tom Hanks, Cameron Diaz and Gabourey Sidibe as Black Hitler (who threatens Earth while riding on a meteor). It is, as Kimmel himself put it, the "greatest movie ever made."
Except, of course, it wasn't ever made. But luckily we have this trailer, which promises to give you everything you've ever wanted from a movie. And that includes a judge (Charlize Theron) firing a shotgun at Robo-Lawyer (Tom Hanks) who's firing a laser cannon back at her. And it all takes place on a boat. On a plane. A soul plane. With snakes on it. OK, enough teasing, just watch the hilarious 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' video below and hope that the Academy just hires Kimmel to host next year's show.


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March 16, 2008
The Bisons could not close out the sweep of Jacksonville on Sunday, as they were defeated 5-3 by the Dolphins in the series finale.
Left-hander, Mike Dunn, received the start for the Bisons. After allowing three runs in the first inning, Dunn settled in, throwing up zeroes in each of his next six innings of work.
The Bisons finally broke through against Dolphins' left-hander, Matt Dobbins in the sixth. With the bases loaded, Ryan Wilkins came through for Lipscomb with a single through the left side. The next batter, Justin Sanders, brought home the Bisons second run of the game on a fielder's choice. The Bisons had a chance to tie the score with the bases loaded and only one out, but after the Dolphins got Channing Brown to strike out, Branden Cadavid flied out to center to end the inning.
The Dolphins got two of their runs back in the top of the eighth to widen their lead to 5-2. However, Caleb Joseph pulled the Bisons a little closer in the bottom of the inning, drilling a solo homer to center field to bring Lipscomb to within two, but that is as close as they would get.
The Bisons were limited to only six hits in the game, with no player recording more than one.
Dunn received the loss to drop his record to 1-1. In 7.1 innings he gave up five runs on nine hits while striking out six. He was relieved by Kyle Tognazzini in the eighth. Tognazzini finished out the game for the Bisons, giving up just 2 hits in 1.1 innings.
With the loss, the Bisons dropped their record to 7-8, 5-4 in the conference. They will be back in action on Tuesday, March 18, when they take on the University of Tennessee at Ken Dugan Field.


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|ISI Books
|What They're Saying...
"Less than twenty pages of text is enough to deprive Deconstruction of the complex scientific arguments that offer its exponents scientific authority and social approval. It is astonishing that while architecture abandons the principles that made civilizations reach the highest building achievements, at the same time scientific knowledge that results from a drastically improved understanding of Nature rediscovers the quality of those traditional principles. Whereas the most celebrated architects abuse the latest technological gadgets in order to produce caricatures of science, mathematicians such as Nikos Salingaros and Christopher Alexander use science to reveal the ability of traditional architectural principles to innovate by creating humane urban environments. The clarity of vision that characterizes books such as Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction shows that such a future may not be so far away after all."
"Salingaros focuses on the question of why, even in societies that often embrace the silly and the stupid, the public still mostly prefers traditional architechture."
"In his forward to this book, James Stevens Curl writes: 'This book
should be required reading in every institution concerned with the
teaching of architecture, planning, and all other aspects of the built
environment'. I will extend that recommendation to every institution of
higher learning concerned with effective education in all subject
matters, because this book is also about the world we live in. Though
it is focused on the practice of Deconstructivist architecture, in fact
this book is also, by inference and extension, a description of the end
of urbanism when living, work, social life, and a sense of community
connected to a place were displaced by national corporations, the
separation of work from residence, the growth of suburban sprawl
enabled by the car, shopping centers, and grid-locked roads. [It] is
the clearest description of the state of architecture and the
destructiveness of the Decon movement. We ourselves, and our
understanding of basic human needs for peace and comfort, have been
stolen by a non-culture."
"Deconstruction is an architectural style that in recent years has
gained ever-increasing influence among architects and educators, as
well as decision and policy makers and developers of prestige projects.
... Characterized by lack of human-scale details, jagged and
convoluted figures, disjointed masses and planes, glittering glass and
polished metal surfaces, these buildings stem primarily from a branch
of philosophy whose main representative was the late French philosopher
Jacques Derrida. Step by step, the reader is taken through Derrida's
description of deconstruction as a virus intended to attack and destroy
structures, a definition and purpose shared by his architect disciples."
"Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction should ruffle
lots of feathers in the building and design world. But I suspect it'll
also fascinate many who aren't generally architecture and urbanism fanatics... This is a stunning and deep book, as
interesting for its analyses of psychology and politics as it is for
its discussions of architecture. It's guaranteed to get the brain
buzzing; what a treat too that it's a real reading pleasure, written in
a voice that's both urbane and forceful."
"Undoubtedly, this manuscript is a voice of logic and reason against
anti-architecture norms, and the destructive attitudes of their
followers. I would add my voice to other reviewers of this manuscript:
that it must be a mandatory reading in schools of architecture
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Special Services Special services will be held at My Father's House Ministries September 27-29. Alan Ross from Scotland will be the guest speaker. Services will be Friday, September 27, at 7 p.m., and Saturday, September 28, at 7 p.m., plus Sunday morning, September 29, at 10 a.m. Everyone is welcome to celebrate the 14th anniversary. The church is located on old Route 30 just east of McConnellsburg. More information may be obtained by calling 717-485-4680.
Special Singing Masters Four will be singing at Laurel Ridge Christian Church, September 29, at 10:30 a.m. All are welcome.
Tonoloway Service Tonoloway Primitive Baptist Church, the first organized church in Fulton County, will hold its annual service at 2 p.m., Sunday October 6. The church is located on Thompson Road, two miles north of Hancock. The Sharon Mennonite Bible School Choir will provide the a cappella music. The newly released Volume II of the Fulton County Veterans of the Civil War will be available at that time.
Special Services Pleasant Ridge Church of the Nazarene will host special services with Rev. Rick and Sharon Riley from October 6-9. Sunday services will be at 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Weekday services will be held at 7 p.m. There will be a carryin fellowship meal directly following the Sunday morning service. The church is located at 5806 Pleasant Ridge Rd., Harrisonville. All are welcome.
Social Night Another Western night will be held September 27, at Warfordsburg Senior Center's social night for folks over 60. Come dressed in Western attire and enjoy the food, dancing or just listening to the music furnished by Barb and Forrest. Bring a covered dish; meat is furnished by the Warfordsburg senior citizen club. Meal is at 6 p.m. For more information call 717-294-6020.
Library Teen Board Bike Ride Fulton County Library Teen Advisory Board will meet at the Pump Station Road entrance to the old Pennsylvania Turnpike for a bike ride Sunday, September 29, at 3 p.m. Please bring a bicycle as well as a flashlight or headlamp to help navigate the tunnels. Registration/ liability forms will be available and will require parental signature for events held during the 2013-14 school year. All teens between ages 13 and 19 are welcome to attend.
Mic Night Open mic night will be held at Needmore Firehall September 28, October 26 and November 23. Doors open at 4 p.m. and open mic is from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Game/Movie Night Game/movie night will be held at Warfordsburg Senior Center October 4, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Seniors 60 and older are welcome to come and join in the games. There are card games, dominos, Scrabble or play the shuffleboard. All are welcome to bring a game. Light refreshments are welcomed such as chips, dip, cookies, cheese, crackers, etc. A movie will be shown for those who like to just sit and watch a movie and eat popcorn. Call 717-294-6020 for more information.
Golf Tournament A 4-man golf tournament will be held at Great Cove Golf Club September 28 at 8 a.m. Proceeds benefit Fulton County Pony/Colt Baseball Programs. Deadline to register is September 25. Contact Garry Miller at 717-987-3904 or 717-552-1222; Mary Huston at 717-485-5488 or 717-860- 3784; Steve Truax at 717-404-0054; Kenny Welsh at 717-987- 4262 or 717-860-0866; or Russ Miller at 717-485-5502 or 240-675- 1610.
X Card Shoots Fulton County Pistol & Rifle Club X card shoots will run every Friday night until November 22. Kitchen will be open.
Wounded Warrior X Shoot Wounded Warrior X-card shoot will be held at Fulton County Pistol & Rifle Club Sunday, September 29, at 2 p.m. Kitchen will be open.
Fight Like A Girl Benefit The fifth annual Fight Like a Girl cancer benefit luncheon will be October 5, 2013, at Calvary Baptist Church Life Center. Doors open at 10:30 a.m. and program starts at 11 a.m. A catered lunch will be served. Silent auction items and raffles will be available to raise funds for three local persons with their struggles. This year's recipients are Mary Barnhart, Kathy Hendershot and Johnathan Farling. Tickets are $15 each or $75 for a table of 6 seats. Door tickets will be limited so reserve now. To donate a silent auction item, be a sponsor for this event, or to purchase tickets contact Deb Toothman at 717-485-3718 or Jill Stains at 372- 3764 or pick up tickets during working hours at Schall and Bard law office.
Line Dance Fulton County Line Dance Club will hold line dance sessions every Wednesday (except the first Wednesday of the month) beginning at 7 p.m. at VFW Post 655, Poplar Street, McConnellsburg. All are welcome. Come and learn some new steps. A $2 donation is appreciated.
Open Stage Hustontown Area Volunteer Fire Co. will sponsor an open stage Saturday, September 28, at 6 p.m. Kitchen opens at 5 p.m. Free admission.
Casino/Outlets Trip A Sands Casino and Outlets trip is planned to Bethlehem, Pa., Saturday, November 2. The bus will leave the VFW at 6 a.m. Cost is $40, which includes $30 free slot voucher plus $5 food voucher. There are 16 restaurants and 24 outlets (Coach, Under Armor, Tommy Hilfiger, Guess, Corningware, Dress Barn, Van Huesen, Izod, etc.) Make reservations with Linda Lynch at 717-552-5422 or bring money to VFW. No refunds. First ones to pay get seats.
Chili Cook-off Contestants Wanted Contestants are wanted for Warfordsburg Presbyterian Church's second annual chili cook-off October 5. Contestants must sign up to compete by September 28. For information e- mail email@example.com or call 717-294-3028 (leave message if no answer).
Parenting Courses McConnellsburg United Presbyterian Church and Fulton County Family Partnership are offering a series of free parenting groups open to the community September 26, October 10 and 24, November 7 and 21 and December 5, at McConnellsburg United Presbyterian Church, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Childcare provided. Additional information may be obtained by calling Kenny Walker at 717-485- 5038, Ext. 215. Love's Closet Moving Love's Closet is moving to the lower level of the H&R Block building, rear of 416 Lincoln Way East, McConnellsburg. Some items will be available outside the new location Saturday, October 5. Love's Closet will officially open on November 2.
SF Clothing Sale Southern Fulton School District is having its fall school spirit and clothing sale. Items for sale include, but are not limited to, sweatshirts, hoodies, sweatpants, teddy bears, car flags and license plates. Orders are due by October 17, 2013. To place an order or for additional information, please contact Angela Adams at 814-735-4029.
CROP Walk Help fight hunger and poverty all over the world by joining the 29th annual Fulton County CROP Walk. This year's event will be held at Cowans Gap State Park Sunday, October 6, at 2 p.m. Contact Patty Hall at 814-599- 7756 for more information.
Free New Coats Fulton County Catholic Mission will have free new children's and gently used children's and adult coats available Tuesday, October 8, beginning at 9 a.m., at Saint Stephen Catholic Church. Further information may be obtained by calling 485-5917.
Volunteer Day At Cowans Gap Cowans Gap State Park will host a volunteer event September 28 to celebrate National Public Lands Day. Join park staff and other volunteers for a rewarding day of volunteering at Cowans Gap State Park. Volunteers are needed to assist with trail and day-use area maintenance, litter cleanup, table assembly, gardening, nature center chores and campground cleanup. This event is being held from 9 a.m. to noon with sign-in held at Pavilion #1. Preregistration for this event is required in order to prepare tools and work assignments. Please register by contacting the park office at 717-485-3948.
Zumba Fitness Reaching Wellness Zumba fitness class will be held for all ages every Friday at 6 p.m., at McConnellsburg Alumni & Friends building. More information may be obtained by calling 717-253-7599 or at email@example.com.
Zumba Classes Zumba classes will be offered at Mc- Connellsburg Firehall Wednesday evenings at 7:15 p.m. More information may be obtained by contacting Sarah at 814-259- 3667.
Yoga Classes Reaching Wellness yoga classes will be held for all ages every Wednesday, 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., at Community State Bank. Call for cost and to register at 717-485- 4492.
Alzheimer's/Dementia Support Group Alzheimer's/ dementia support group meets the third Tuesday monthly at 6:30 p.m. in Fulton County Medical Center, Pearl Room. More information may be obtained by calling 717-485-6108.
P.O.W.E.R. Meetings P.O.W.E.R. (Parents Offering Wisdom, Education and Release) will meet on the following dates: September 30, October 14 and 28, November 11, December 9, January 13 and 27 and February 20 and 24. The goal of the group is to support and educate the community, the addict and the families of addicts to the issues and problems that can occur when dealing with addicts and their recovery programs. Emotional and possible financial support are also offered to any individual who might need it to successfully overcome an addiction. The meeting is held at 292 Buchanan Trail. For more information, contact Susanne Reed at 717-414- 9695.
Community Wellness/Silver Sneakers/Prime Community Wellness/Silver Sneakers/Prime will be held Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., and Wednesday and Friday, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at Fulton County Medical Center cardiopulmonary rehab gym. The cost is based on insurance. Call Kim or Patti at 717-485- 6149 to see if insurance provider is accepted. Community Wellness is $40/month/person or $70/month/couple.
Nutrition Class Fulton County nutrition awareness classes are held at Warfordsburg Senior Center on the third Monday of every month. When the third Monday is a holiday, it is held the fourth Monday from 10 a.m. to noon. To register or sign up for lunch call 717-294-6020.
Free Blood Pressure Screenings Free blood pressure screenings will be given at the following locations: Mc- Connellsburg Senior Center the first Thursday of every month from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; Hann's Apartments the second Monday of every month from 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.; Warfordsburg Senior Center the third Wednesday of every month from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; and Hustontown Senior Center the third Thursday of every month from 11:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Zumba Fitness Reaching Wellness Zumba fitness class will be held for all ages every Friday at 6 p.m., at McConnellsburg Alumni & Friends building. More information may be obtained by calling 717-253-7599 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.
McConnellsburg AA Meetings The McConnellsburg Chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous will meet on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. every week at the Alumni Building Basement, McConnellsburg.
Veterans Assistance Dan McIntyre, assistant state service office of Veterans of Foreign Wars, will be at McConnellsburg VFW to assist veterans with service-connected disability claims. Primary day is the second Wednesday of every month and the alternate day is the fourth Wednesday of the month. Also available by appointments. Contact 717-414- 0675 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Farm Bureau Banquet Fulton County Farm Bureau will hold its annual banquet meeting October 5, at 6:30 p.m., at Sideling Hill Christian Church fellowship hall. For reservations call 717-294-3414 or 717-816-9603 by September 28.
Democratic Dinner The Fulton County Democratic fall dinner will be held at Needmore Firehall Saturday, October 12, at 7 p.m. Tickets may be purchased at the door or from committee members.
Free Meal A free meal will be served the second Tuesday of each month at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 220 North Third Street. Please join in for good fellowship.
Everetts Reunion Descendants of Jack and and Alice St. Clair Everts will hold their annual reunion at the Two Top Ruritan Club, Rt. 75, south of Mercersburg, September 29, at 1 p.m. Please bring a covered dish and a wrapped gift for auction or bingo. More information may be obtained by calling 485-5908. Shoemaker/Weller Reunion The Shoemaker/Weller fam- ily will hold its ninth annual family reunion of the late Jacob Shoemaker and Goldie Weller Shoemaker family on Saturday, October 5, at Camp Harding, Pectonville, in Pavilion #2. Social hour will be held at noon with meal at 1 p.m. Bring a hot or cold dish or dessert.Chicken, table settings and drinks will be provided.
Hustontown/FR Alumni Banquet Hustontown/FR Alumni banquet will be held October 5, 2013, at Hustontown Firehall. All graduates of either high school are invited to attend. The door will open at 4 p.m. to visit with friends. The chicken and ham meal will be served at 6 p.m. A donation of $10 for each person attending is needed. Make check payable to Hustontown/Forbes Road Alumni Assoc. Please put year of graduation on check. Mail to Sarah Shaw, PO Box 446, Hustontown, PA 17229 by September 23. For more information call 717-987-3327.
PARSE Meeting Pennsylvania Association of Retired StateEmployees(PARSE)hasa9a.m.breakfastmeetingon the second Wednesday of every month at McConnellsburg FOVA (VFW). If roads are snow-covered, meeting will be cancelled. All retired state employees and spouses are invited to attend. For additional information, call 717-294-3861.
Open Forum Environmental Action Group will hold an open forum featuring John Hanger, former secretary of the PA Department of Environmental Protection, on "The Environment and Climate Change." The forum will be held in the community room, lower level entrance, Fulton County Library, at 6 p.m., Wednesday, October 2.
Democratic Meetings The Fulton County Democratic Club meets the second Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Democratic Headquarters building at 123 South Second Street in McConnellsburg. Meetings are open to the public, light refreshments are provided and all are welcome. More information may be obtained by calling 485 3386.
Bingo Shade Gap Fire Co. will hold bingo at the Shade Gap Ladies Auxiliary building every Thursday. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and games start at 6:30 p.m.
McCbg. Bingo McConnellsburg Fire Co. will hold bingo every Monday and Friday of each week. Bingo starts at 7 p.m. and doors open at 5:30 p.m.
Breakfast Buffet Cito United Methodist Church will serve a breakfast buffet Saturday, October 19, from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Cito Fellowship Hall located at 3746 Cito Road, McConnellsburg. The buffet-style breakfast will include pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, hash browns, chipped beef gravy, toast, orange juice and coffee. No charge. Donations accepted.
FFFF Parade Registration Parade registration forms for the Fulton Fall Folk Festival parade are due by September 30. Entrants must preregister. The chamber office will be closed that Saturday and no one will be available for assistance. Forms can be located at www.fultoncountypa.lcom. More information may be obtained by calling 717-485-4064.
Vendors Wanted Individuals or families wanted for yard sale setups at Pleasant Ridge Campground, Harrisonville, Thurs, Friday and Saturday of the Fulton Fall Folk Festival. Vendors also welcome. More information may be obtained by calling 485-3973, 573-4586 or 552-9160.
Vendors Needed Better Days Animal League Thrift Store is now accepting reservations for vendors during Fall Folk Festival. Spaces available Thursday through Sunday, October 17-20. Convenient location and plenty of parking. Please call 717-485-0064 for information.


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|Statement by Ambassador Liu Jieyi, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations at the 68th GA under Item 70: Strengthening of the Coordination of Humanitarian and Disaster Relief Assistance of the United Nations, Including Special Economic Assistance
Mr. President,
The Chinese delegation thanks the Secretary General for his reports submitted under this item and wishes to take this opportunity to express its sympathy and support for the governments and peoples of countries that suffered from humanitarian crises over the past year. We wish to register our appreciation to the countries, international, regional and sub-regional organizations and all other parties that actively participated in and supported humanitarian relief activities and express our admiration for the hard work and dedication of humanitarian workers. We also appreciate the work carried out by OCHA and CERF.
The year of 2013 witnessed continued high demand for humanitarian relief assistance throughout the world as a result of natural disasters, armed conflicts and protracted crises. Factors like climate change, population growth, after effects of the financial crisis and fluctuating food prices have worsened the environment for the development of developing countries and focused the attention of the world community on the international humanitarian situation and the prominent problems of inadequate disaster relief capacity and lack of resources facing the developing countries. It remains urgent for the UN system and the international community to find ways to further strengthen the cooperation and coordination among all humanitarian actors, ensure the sustained growth of humanitarian relief resources, improve aid effectiveness, increase the resilience of affected countries, and realize the smooth transition from disaster relief to development. Against this backdrop, the international humanitarian system should further increase efficiency and enhance coordination so that humanitarian response can be faster, more effective and more targeted. It should strengthen its analytical work and capacity building with a view to mitigating or totally eliminating the negative effects of humanitarian crises. In this connection, I would like to emphasize the follow points:
First, international humanitarian assistance must continue to follow the basic principles established by GA resolution 46/182. It should respect the sovereignty, territorial integrity and national unity of the recipient countries as required by the UN Charter, avoid the politicization of humanitarian issues and maintain the demilitarization of humanitarian assistance. Practice has shown that only when the above principles are observed and when an affected country plays the leading role in the humanitarian relief activities carried out within its territories can the resources and activities of the affected country, the UN system and other humanitarian actors be effectively coordinated and long-term mechanisms for and capacity building in disaster mitigation, preparedness and relief become component parts of the country's sustainable development efforts.
Secondly, capacity building for developing countries should be effectively enhanced by leveraging technological advances and partnership building. In recent years, technological innovation has promoted the innovation of the means of humanitarian relief and increased the speed and effectiveness of emergency responses, expanding space for the participation of more humanitarian actors and providing opportunities for improving the international humanitarian system. At the same time, many developing countries still face severe constraints in terms of finance, technology and development capacity. The international community should, on the basis of full respect for the national conditions and actual needs of the disaster stricken developing countries, increase financial and technical assistance to them, and share with them related expertise, technologies and products so as to really boost their disaster-risk management capacity, their all-round capacity in disaster prevention, preparedness, mitigation and resistance as well as their resilience.
Thirdly, the development efforts of developing countries should be strongly supported so as to resolve the root causes of humanitarian crises. Recent years have witnessed a large number of humanitarian crises caused by conflicts, and many internal and regional conflicts have grown out of acute economic, social and environmental problems caused by long term poverty and under-development. The international community should endeavor to tackle the root causes of humanitarian crises by fulfilling its commitments to the economic growth and sustainable development of the developing countries and help the affected countries realize the smooth transition from emergency relief to long term development.
Fourthly, the unique central role of the UN in leading and coordinating humanitarian assistance should continue to be reinforced. Under the leadership of USG Amos, OCHA has played an irreplaceable role in appealing for donations and organizing and coordinating relief assistance. China appreciates OCHA's work and hopes that the UN humanitarian system continue to enhance efficiency and transparency, increase participation of member states, build and improve cooperation partnerships with member states at the lead, and take measures to strengthen the guarantee for the safety and security of humanitarian workers. China welcomes the proposal of the Secretary General based on his Five Year Action Agenda to convene a world humanitarian summit in 2016 to exchange relevant expertise and best practices. We look forward to more details on the preparations for the summit.
Mr. President,
China is among the countries hardest hit by natural disasters. In our efforts in disaster prevention, mitigation and relief, we have taken in advanced international ideas and practices and explored our own ways and accumulated our own lessons-learned. As a result, we have gradually built a relief and assistance system led by the government with the participation of all sectors of the society. As the same time, China is committed to sharing its experience and successful practice with other members of the international community. Over the past three years, China has held 30 training courses and symposia on disaster prevention and relief for participants from other developing countries. For the first time in June this year, China co-hosted with OCHA a workshop on "disaster management and humanitarian relief in developing countries". Last month, the third plenum of the central committee of the 18th session of the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party adopted the decision on several significant issues on comprehensive and deeper reform. The decision laid out the strategy for my country's comprehensive and deep going reform and it included further improvement of our system for disaster prevention, mitigation and relief. China will continue to increase input to steadily build up and optimize its system for disaster prevention, mitigation and relief and will take a more active and open approach to further expand international cooperation in this area.
Mr. President,
International humanitarian assistance has always been an important component part of China's foreign assistance. In recent years, China has provided humanitarian assistance via bilateral and multilateral channels to countries in emergency or long term humanitarian crises in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Carribeans. For example, after Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines, China provided various humanitarian assistance to the Philippines including providing cash remittance, supplies, medical teams, rescue teams and hospital boat. Through no-strings-attached foreign assistance provided within the framework of South-South cooperation, China has been helping other developing countries to establish and improve mechanisms for disaster prevention, mitigation and relief, strengthen capacity building and build necessary infrastructures. China will remain closely attentive to the international humanitarian situation, continue to make donations to CERF and OCHA, and contribute within its capabilities to the international humanitarian cause.
Thank you, Mr. President.


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Every neighborhood has one: The grouchy guy who doesn't like kids. He's the one who doesn't give out candy on Halloween, who grimaces at anyone younger than 18, and who claims (sometimes loudly) that he only wants peace and quiet. He's the Mr. Wilson to the little Dennises on your street.
Well, one Phoenixville, Pa., man took it a much further than Mr. Wilson ever would have.
Michael W. Buck blasted a pornographic movie over his stereo system while kids ages two-and-a-half to 14 years old were playing outside his house, said police. According to neighborhood parents, Buck does not like children playing and riding their bikes in the cul-de-sac in which he resides.
The 27-year-old's apparent goal of directing his porn-playing television speakers out his windows was fulfilled: The parents of the neighborhood gathered their children and hurried them indoors.
Get Off My Lawn: Scrooge Uses Porn Audio to Scare Children
Then they called the police.
Buck was arrested Saturday on multiple counts of corruption of minors, disseminating explicit sexual material to a minor, and one count of disorderly conduct, according to the Phoenixville News.
Police Cpl. Mike Barrett stated in court documents that he arrived to the 2000 block of Mallard Circle on May 31 to find seven parents standing in front to Buck's house, reports phoenixvillenews.com.
The parents told the police officer that they could hear "a woman vocalizing her pleasure during sexual intercourse" a little after 7 p.m.
"This was being played over a stereo system," said Barrett. "The parents stated that Buck had positioned his stereo speakers so that they were pointed out the front window of his house towards the street. One parent stated that they were one-and-a-half blocks away and could hear the woman having sex."
Police said that Buck played the pornographic movie for about 15 minutes. When all of the kids were inside their homes, he turned it off.
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The Paine Art Museum brings back Rooms of Blooms for the fifth year. Rooms of Blooms is the greater Fox Valley floral show. The lead presenters will be House of Flowers, Hrnaks and Fleur Couture here in Oshkosh and Buds 'n Bloom Design Studio from Green Bay.
If you have never been, March 6-9, talented designers and artists will showcase their talents in the interior of the Paine Art Museum. Interior rooms will be filled with fresh flowers in artistic arrangements from table settings, to large scale settings and entire room showcase filled with floral aromas. March 7th and 8th, educational programs will be held in the new carriage house.
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Antiphospholipid syndrome is a rare autoimmune disease that has been closely linked to some cases of recurrent miscarriage. This syndrome increases blood clotting. It can cause dangerous blood clots (thrombosis) and problems with blood flow. For some women, the only sign of this condition is an early miscarriage. Or, later in the pregnancy, the woman may lose the baby due to a poorly functioning placenta, or she may have preeclampsia.
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Rihanna shows off her hot body on the cover of GQ's December 2012 issue.
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Rihanna just announced the cities for her 777 Tour, which kicks of THIS Wednesday (November 14) and will send her to seven cities in seven days. The locations are: Mexico City, November 14; Toronto, November 15; Stockholm, November 16; Paris, November 17; Berlin, November 18; London, November 19; and New York City, November 20.
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Social Media Optimization: Just Another Slice of the Pie
Since 2008, this term has been all the buzz among search marketers: social media optimization. In 2009, it's spread like wildfire through the big corporate business community (you know who I'm talking about: Dell; the poster-child of Fortune 500 social media). And in 2010, it was a must have for every business (even if it may not be right for your business) thanks to mainstream press organizations and anyone with a blog. It seems that 2011 is picking up where 2010 left off: pushing social media profiles and optimization.
Another SMO Push Article
iMedia Connection had a post last week explaining why SMO (social media optimization) will be the new SEO. If you haven't read it, here are the major points that solidify SMO as the "new" SEO:
- Dennis Franczak and his colleagues get the majority of their news from Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, before resorting to Google/Bing/Yahoo search to find an answer. Hence viral communication is more important.
- That it is less about finding information (the search for information) by optimizing it, rather the lasting model is targeted-audience pull information.
- Because Bing now has "firehose" access to Facebook data, he argues that specific content is now available on personalized pages. Thus, making it a better experience, and more attractive, to audiences that don't want to deal with Google SERP information
Push-back on the "Push" Article
I don't completely disagree with that article; in fact, many of those points can have a case made for them. But not now. Not until average users raise the level of their understanding do any of those statements become realized. Just because social media usage has increased across the board at every major demographic, doesn't mean social media optimization is the new SEO.
More Social Media Indoctrination for Business Owners
This does not mean that all these existing and new users want to find information on these social platforms. I have no choice but to chalk up this article up to another indoctrination piece.That's the issue I have with the iMedia article; there is no consideration for the average user (this is not the "Reasonable Surfer") and how they use the web to find information.
We don't have to look any farther than the author of the piece: he's a CEO of an agency that does a lot of traditional marketing work, but "is grounded in interactive". It's no secret that traditional agencies have been beating their clients over the head the last year and half with social media. It's the last ditch effort to get in on the "internet marketing rage" and put in a stop-loss measure to losing their clients to search marketing firm, keeping that revenue in-house.
Search Marketers Use Social Media Platforms for Information
Marketers use social media platforms to find information. Marketers want to encourage users to get to business pages, interact, and provide answers.
Average users do not use social sites (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc) to find information. They go to these sites to tell people about what they're doing personally or what's happening in their careers, and to interact with friends and family members (i.e. connect, re-connect, catch-up). Average users may see product or service comments in these spaces, but will go to a search engine to validate/investigate those claims.
In my opinion, that article doesn't take that into consideration. I don't know a single person (friend or family member) that begins their information hunt on Facebook or Twitter. They simply stumble into it and use search engines to find sites about that product/service/topic. And, I think Pew backs me up on this:
SMO is Just Another Slice of the Search Marketing Pie
No one is ever going to suggest that SEO is the end all, be all of search marketing (even though we'd like to think so 🙂 ). It just isn't so. There are plenty of other avenues a business must take into consideration to have real online success: paid search, email marketing, conversion rate optimization, social media, and traditional marketing pieces. Are all these slices created equal? Are all these slices of the same urgency? No.
SEO is not social media optimization; never has been, never will be. And, I would venture to say, that SEO should be largest piece of the pie with the most urgency attached to it. Social media can be an important piece, but it doesn't work for every business, can't be effectively implemented for every business (not without looking you just got off the bandwagon express), and still has yet to stand-up to the ROI question.
The Website and Search are Still King
As long as search is still the one of most popular activities among all major demographics (see Pew image above), there's no reason to feel rushed/bullied by traditional or hybrid agencies into starting a social media optimization campaign. While social media has increased usage across the board, it is still tangential/supplementary element to an online marketing effort.
The website is still king. Search is still a primary activity among all demographics; the idea that people are/will be using social platforms as primary source in lieu of search engines to find information is simply wishful thinking. That doesn't mean you shouldn't involve your company in social media; by all means protect your brand name on the web by owning profiles on major platforms.
But social is not a make-or-break solution. That is, if you don't have social media, your online efforts aren't dead. However, not having some modicum of SEO on your site (in the event you're not a huge brand name), could very well damage your ability to create a successful online marketing campaign. As far as I'm concerned, SMO is should be a very distant thought in your SEM arsenal.
Jan 10 2011
'Just because social media usage has increased across the board at every major demographic, doesn't mean social media optimization is the new SEO."
Thank you for saying it. It has been bugging me for awhile that people are saying they are "equal" or SEO is not necessary if you have social media. To me social media a supporting marketing technique that works for some, but not all. However, SEO can really work for everyone in my opinion.
Jan 11 2011
Here's my favorite part:
It's no secret that traditional agencies have been beating their clients over the head the last year and half with social media. It's the last ditch effort to get in on the "internet marketing rage" and put in a stop-loss measure to losing their clients to search marketing firm, keeping that revenue in-house."
I love the fact that you are "calling this out" so to speak. I don't feel that enough SEOs have stepped up and been honest about what they think in this regard. SM is the new "Web 2.0" the new and latest, hottest thing. It is a buzz word. It is and can be very powerful and effective but I feel that it is has been blown a bit out of proportion. And I believe that both digital and traditional agencies have blow it way out of proportion. I also blame the media for over hyping (jeezuz what a surprise, the media sensationalizing!) SM which has caused executives to flock to it in droves and also in turn makes agencies focus on it because of demand. As opposed to driving strategy I feel that most agencies today are driven by what they feel the client wants to hear.
I want to call out one last thing. And that is that in my experiences in measuring the impact of social media on rankings and traffic directly, the rankings and traffic from those rankings are short term and tend to fade away with time. Whereas good SEO can last a lifetime. But I do want to point out that SM leads to traffic and links and participation demonstrates to search engines that you are legitimate and therefore increases trust, all of which are great for SEO!
Jan 25 2011
Another great post Tony!
Being a Strategic Search Consultant about to be Head of Social Media I agree w/ you 1000%. Our digital agency competitors in the UK are scrambling to get SMM into their mix b/c it connects well to their marketing orientation. Yet, the connection to SEO is missed and you've nailed it when you point out that no one really searches for answers in Facebook & Twitter. As long as people have questions and queries they will go to Google first as it has proven itself over time to retrieve relevant results. This is why SEO is always going to be important – it connects people to information. Once they have that information/solution/desire fulfilled they'll be using Social Media to share about it.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - From his tattoos to his finely chiseled physique and Armani underwear ads, soccer icon David Beckham oozes Miami-style sex appeal.
Blending charisma with a smart business plan, Beckham intends to launch his own professional soccer team in Miami, a multicultural market that has defied major league owners twice before. But Beckham is known for making long shots.
Expectation is high that the former captain of the England team, who retired as a player in May, will exercise a $25 million option in his Major League Soccer (MLS) player contract to start a new team later this year and base it in Miami.
The league has confirmed it is in discussions with Beckham but is awaiting a formal bid, including details of the city, the ownership group, and a stadium plan, which is expected before the end of the year.
A source close to the negotiations described a financial plan that is well advanced if incomplete.
Beckham declined requests for an interview, but he has been touring Miami and recently said the city was ripe for a new soccer team.
Finding the right location for a stadium and financing is not easy in Miami. Taxpayers have soured on publicly financed stadium deals after a $500 million baseball stadium with a retractable roof for the Miami Marlins failed to draw fans.
The state legislature rebuffed the Miami Dolphins' request for public funding of a $350 million renovation of its privately owned American football stadium.
Instead, Beckham is assembling a group to invest $150-200 million in private financing for a new soccer stadium in Miami's urban core by 2018-19, according to the source, who divulged financial details that have been under wraps until now. The same person stressed that the plans are still in the early stages and the cost could vary according to the final site choice.
"He will not be asking for taxpayer money," the source added, noting that Beckham was well aware of local resistance to public financing.
"That is very encouraging, a big boost," said Chip Iglesias, Miami-Dade County Deputy Mayor who met with Beckham this week after a tour of possible stadium sites. He said the commitment to private financing was bound to create local goodwill.
Beckham envisions building the team with veteran players, international stars who, following his own lead when he moved from Real Madrid to Los Angeles, will hang up their cleats in other established markets to finish their careers in America, the frontier of soccer.
"David realizes he needs to create a club in the region that is going to become an international destination for the city that is going to attract the best players. It's going to be a bridge between Latin America and North America and Europe," the source close to Beckham's management said.
Beckham has said he has no interest in coaching but will run the team.
"He will be across all aspects, from the way it's run, to the stadium, to what the uniform looks like, to what players are brought in, to who the CEO is," the source said. "For him, this is a passion project."
This year, Beckham led Sports Illustrated's list of the 20 highest-earning international athletes with an estimated $48 million in earnings, most of it from endorsement deals. His estimated net worth is $250 million, according to Wealth-X, a global research firm.
His management company, 19 Entertainment, is run by British businessman and American Idol creator Simon Fuller. Beckham also has toured stadium sites with billionaire Marcelo Claure, founder of Miami-based Brightstar Corp, the world's largest wireless distributor and the provider of global services to Apple.
Claure, who owns one of the top soccer teams in his native Bolivia, last month sold a 57 percent stake in Brightstar to Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank Corp - owners of Sprint - for $1.26 billion. He and Beckham plan to work together on the Miami bid but have not signed an agreement, the person familiar with Beckham's initiative said. Beckham hopes for another couple of investors as well.
On October 30 Claure wrote on his Twitter feed: "We don't have a deal with Beckham now, and we are still discussing and progressing." He declined to comment for this story.
With a population of 5.5 million, the greater Miami Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach region of south Florida has long been seen as an attractive venue for a soccer franchise, but it hasn't worked out that way - twice.
About 70 percent of Miami-Dade's population speak a language other than English at home (mostly Spanish), and Miami area fans are typically wedded to high-profile foreign teams - Real Madrid, Barcelona and Manchester United (two of which Beckham played for) - not the less star-studded domestic league.
When Chelsea played Real Madrid in Miami in August, 67,000 fans turned out, while the Miami Fusion averaged only 11,000 fans in their last MLS season in 2001 before the franchise was shut down.
Finding a stadium location that fits the demographics of a sprawling urban area with poor public transportation and growing traffic congestion is a formidable challenge.
Beckham is focused on downtown Miami, with a potential sharing agreement at the new Miami Marlins baseball park while his stadium is being built, according to the source cited earlier.
Miami Beach has no room, though it might seem a natural location for "Becks" and his wife, pop star turned fashion designer Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham. The Beckhams live in London with their four children.
Drawing a critical mass of soccer fans in Miami is a quest that former major league player and manager Ray Hudson, 58, compares to Greek mythology. "It's like the Golden Fleece, and it wasn't too easy for Jason and the Argonauts to get," he said.
In the 1970s and '80s, Hudson played for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, a lovable squad of aging soccer heroes including partially sighted English goalkeeper Gordon Banks and Peru's greatest player, Teofilo Cubillas.
But major league soccer never took off, and it flopped again almost two decades later with the Miami Fusion.
Miami is different now. While baseball-loving Cubans still make up a little more than 50 percent of the Hispanic population in Miami-Dade, there are now 600,000 residents from soccer-crazy nations in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to census data.
In the western Miami suburb of Doral, South Americans flock to Revo Soccer, an indoor club with TVs constantly showing live soccer games from around the world.
"Bring a good Argentine, a good Brazilian and a good Colombian player, and the team will have an instant following," said Oscar Sanchez, who helps run Revo.
Weaned on watching world-class players in their home nations, Miami's soccer-savvy fans expect a high level of performance, stressed Hudson. "The first thing and the foremost thing isn't the stadium, it's not the ownership. What counts is the product on the field," he said. "If you don't produce quality football, they won't come."
Soccer advocates say the advancing popularity of the game nationally is changing the perception of Major League Soccer in Miami, attracting a new generation of non-Hispanic fans.
Weston, a prosperous Miami suburb to the northwest, is emblematic. Soccer is booming, said Mayor Daniel Stermer, a bankruptcy attorney and proud soccer dad. The half-Anglo, half-Hispanic city of 65,000 boasts a dozen publicly funded fields, with 3,600 children enrolled in a soccer program.
"Everyone is excited about Beckham's team - which players he's going to pick and where the stadium will be."
Editing by Peter Henderson and Prudence Crowther


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By Matthew Heimer
Journalists who follow the health of the 401(k) system (or as we like to call ourselves, the glitterati) tend to draw big red circles around the release dates for quarterly updates from Fidelity Investments. With 12 million 401(k) accounts under its management, "Fido" is one of the 800-pound gorillas in the retirement-savings industry, and its reports on its account-holders offer one of the bigger and more clearly representative windows on the health of the American nest egg.
MarketWatch's Andrea Coombes tackled this quarter's report, released this morning, and let's just say it includes fodder for optimists and pessimists alike. On the bright side, the average 401(k) balance at the end of the third quarter was up 18% from a year ago, suggesting that the average saver was successfully harnessing a rising market. But the overall size of those savings tends to be what Coombes describes as "starkly insufficient." Savers aged 55 to 59 who'd been contributing to a Fidelity account for at least 10 years had an average balance of $250,000, which sounds fairly impressive until you compare it to the target that Fidelity recommends — eight times your salary by the time you retire.
Lots of caveats apply here, of course, especially since many affluent consumers have retirement savings and other assets outside their 401(k)s. But Coombes says that, at the very least, those with 401(k)s could and should be saving more in them. The average contribution rates in Fidelity's accounts ranged from 3.7% of salary to 8.4%; as Coombes notes, "Ideally, workers should save at least 10% to 15%."


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In the heart of the US Capitol there's a small men's room with an uplifting Franklin Delano Roosevelt quotation above the door. Making use of the facilities there after lunch in the nearby House dining room about a year ago, I found myself standing next to Trent Lott. Once a mighty power in the building as Senate Republican leader, he had been forced to resign his post following some imprudently affectionate references to his fellow Republican senator, arch-segregationist Strom Thurmond. Now he was visiting the Capitol as a lucratively employed lobbyist.
The squatter camp outside Lawley township, in the southwest of Johannesburg, stretches for miles against a bare hillside, without electricity, water, or toilets. I visited on a blustery morning in October with a local journalist named Mophethe Thebe, who spent much of his childhood in the area. As we drove toward the settlement he pointed out land that had been abandoned by white Afrikaner farmers after the end of apartheid in 1994, and had since been taken over by impoverished black settlers who built over the former farms with half-paved roadways and tiny brick houses. You could still see stands of headstones inscribed in Afrikaans, all that remained visible of the former inhabitants.
The story begins, as so many do, with a journey. In this case, it's a seemingly simple one: a young girl, cloaked in red, must carry a basket of food through the woods to her bedridden grandmother. Along the way, she meets a duplicitous wolf who persuades her to dawdle: Notice the robins, he says; Laze in the sun, breathe in the hyacinth and bluebells; Wouldn't your grandmother like a fresh bouquet? Meanwhile, he hastens to her grandmother's cottage, where he swallows the old woman whole, slips into her bed, and waits for his final course.
They were released.
For the first time in seven years, they stood outside in the courtyard of the reeducation center. They looked across at the gate. They remembered none of this. The flagpole and the towers. The cameras. Prany counted the sentries in the towers. He heard the rattle of keys as the guard behind him, wearing a green uniform, undid his handcuffs. Then the guard undid Vang's. They rubbed their free wrists. Vang made fists with his hands.
Prany dug the soles of his new shoes into the dirt. He watched Vang's hands and then turned to see the building they had exited. It resembled a schoolhouse or a gymnasium. The flag flapped in the wind. The sun on him. The immense sky. His neck was stiff. He knew that if they were forced to run right now his legs might buckle. Not because he was weak, but because in this moment, in the new environment, out in the open, his entire body felt uncertain.
Ten years ago, a week after his sixtieth birthday, and six months after his first appointment with an oncologist, my father died. That afternoon, I went to my parents' bedroom to clear up the remains of the lunch my mother had brought him not long before he collapsed. A copy of Yiyun Li's novel The Vagrants, which he'd asked me for after I reviewed it in a newspaper, was open on his bedside table. He had gotten about halfway through it. The Vagrants isn't what you'd call a consoling book—it centers on a young woman's unjust execution in a provincial Chinese town in 1979—and I had mixed feelings about it being the last thing he'd read. Perhaps an adolescent part of me had been happy to let him have it out of a need to see him as a more fearless reader than he might have wanted to be just then. Still, my father had read Proust and Robert Musil while working as a real estate agent. There was comfort, of a sort, for me, and maybe him, in his refusal of comfort reading.
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"Nowadays, most states let just about anybody who wants a concealed-handgun permit have one; in seventeen states, you don't even have to be a resident. Nobody knows exactly how many Americans carry guns, because not all states release their numbers, and even if they did, not all permit holders carry all the time. But it's safe to assume that as many as 6 million Americans are walking around with firearms under their clothes."


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Mayor Coleen Seng announced today that she has appointed a Multi-Modal Transportation Task Force to study alternative modes of travel in the Lincoln area. The Lincoln-Lancaster County Comprehensive Plan calls for the development of a Multi-Modal Transportation Plan to ease projected traffic growth and to serve those citizens with limited or no access to automobiles.
"There is a great deal of interest in creating opportunities for travel other than the use of the automobile," said Mayor Coleen Seng. "With our extensive trails network and the StarTran public bus system, we already have a good start. The task force will seek public input, and I encourage citizens to become involved in this study."
Citizens are welcome to attend the task force meetings, and the next one is scheduled for 4 p.m., Tuesday August 12 in room 113 on the first floor of the County-City Building, 555 South 10th Street. The task force will meet at least monthly. Citizens also may submit comments in writing to the City-County Planning Department, 555 South 10th, Lincoln, NE 68508.
This 16-member task force includes City Council members Patte Newman and Terry Werner as well as broad public representation. Other members are Kit Boesch, Nye Bond, Susan Dunn, Duane Eitel, Margaret Hall, Elaine Hammer, Rick Krueger, Marion Malone, Bill McCoy, Tad McDowell, Greg MacLean, Eric Miller, Oscar Rios Pohirieth and Gordon Scholz. The study process is being led by the City-County Planning Department, with support from the City Public Works and Utilities Department and City Parks and Recreation Department. The firm of SRF Consulting Group has been retained to assist in the process.
The study is expected to take about one year. It will result in a series of recommendations for improving the potential use of alternative modes of travel such as traditional and new forms of transit, trails, sidewalks and inter-city commuter rail. The study will also look at ways to enhance land use and development patterns to support a variety of travel modes.
To get input from citizens, the study will use a telephone interview survey, public open houses, personal one-on-one interviews and focus groups. A special study web site also has/will be established. To use the web site, go to the Planning Department site.
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jdmicro needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 33 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
Travelling Hitmen
We are a start up t-shirt company that will expand into other clothing items in the future (hoodies, etc.).
Our audience is young adults. Our main audience is males aged 16 - 32. They are UFC (MMA) fans and like that genre of clothing style.
We may expand into female designs later.
The t-shirt logo must be in the genre similar to the UFC (MMA) style of clothing and design. We are aiming for t-shirt styles similar to Silver Star and Affliction (you might want to search those companies to see their style of t-shirts). It will portray a hard core, powerful, fighting type of image.
The design must contain our name: "Travelling Hitmen." Looking for a unique font style, like celtic, old school type of font. I love this type of font:
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Want to see a skull in the design and a gun (possibly integrated into the text - upside down glock, etc. - like in Sopranos). Black and white will be suitable for printing on t-shirts. Will consider elements of colour (max 3 colour). Will be printed on black and white t-shirts only.
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For years, the Honda Civic has been the import tuner's car of choice. You name it and there is a highly modified part. It runs to the point where there is a modification for just about every meaningful component along with myriad performance add-ons. Not to be left out of this highly lucrative market, Honda has added the Honda Factory Performance (HFP) package to the Civic Coupe. In all, there will be 400 units offered.
The starting point is the Civic Si. The HFP package, which is offered in either black or white livery, then adds deeper front and rear air dams, bolder side sills and a tasteful deck lid spoiler. It also brings attractive 18-inch wheels wearing P215/40 Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires. That's pretty much the extent of the exterior changes, badging aside.
Beneath the sheetmetal, however, the HFP's suspension has been heavily massaged. The new springs, which drop the ride height by 10 millimetres, complement the new high-performance dampers. These mods and the better tires bring a car that really does hunker down and eat fast on-ramps. The Si is no slouch in this department. The HFP is so much more focused — the poise and pointability as the ragged edge nears is appreciably sharper. The unspoken benefit is it accomplishes this without trashing the ride quality.
The HFP arrives with the same 2.4-litre four-cylinder engine that powers the Si. This means 201 horsepower and 170 pound-feet of torque. This engine pulls strongly at first, then gives the driver a swift kick in the pants at 5,000 rpm when the i-VTEC (intelligent Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control) system begins to do its thing. When this happens, the engine seems to take a deep breath and sprint toward redline with ever growing purpose. This is an engine that must be revved to get the very best out of it. When pushed toward its 7,000-rpm redline, it really does sing a sweet siren. There is none of the grating thrashiness that defines so many high-revving engines — this one produces a deep bassy note whenever i-VTEC begins to weave its magic.
The power is put down through a six-speed manual gearbox, a helical limited-slip differential and the front wheels. The transmission is the model of civility, pun intended. The short throws, defined gate and progressive clutch mean it's a cinch to run through the gears at the speed required. As the ratio spacing from first to fourth gear is tight and the engine revs so freely, the shifter has to be worked with alacrity to keep things at a roaring boil. The Si HFP snicks through its gears so seamlessly it is a very easy drive regardless of whether inching along in stop and go traffic or wailing around a race track.
The helical limited-slip differential makes a big difference, especially when the speeds are low and the engine's output is nearing its peak. First, it eliminates the unbridled wheelspin that is the norm with an open-centre differential. Here, the instant one wheel begins to spin, all the power is directed to that wheel, which forces the traction control system to kick in and kill the launch performance. The limited-slip differential helps to keep both front wheels engaged in the business of providing traction, which cuts said wheelspin, minimizes traction control intervention and, as a bonus, helps to control torque steer. As a result, launching the Si HFP is both fast and entertaining. It also helps through a fast corner — typically, the inside wheel tends to spin because of its unloaded condition. The Si HFP keeps both wheels in the game.
All of this gives the Si HFP the ability to scamper to 100 kilometres an hour in 6.6 seconds and, more importantly, it accomplishes the 80-to-120-km/h passing move in 4.4 seconds. Remarkably, it does this in third gear, and it does so just before hitting redline.
The HFP also managed to return surprising fuel economy. Even though the car was driven with enthusiasm during the test, it still attained an average of 8.9 litres per 100 kilometres.
Inside, the HFP's only outward signs are the brilliant red floor mats and red ambient interior lighting. The rest of the Si HFP will be familiar to any Civic Si coupe owner — delightfully bolstered front bucket seats and tight access to the rear seat. The materials are very good, the fit and finish is exemplary and, in spite of the two-tier dashboard, the information is relayed to the driver in a clean and uncluttered fashion. True, I don't care for the digital speedometer, but the rest of it comes together nicely with the exception of the Sequential Rev-Limit indicator. As the revs rise and i-VTEC kicks in, a number of amber dots illuminate until the last red dot comes on and tells the driver the engine is producing maximum output and about to crash into the rev limiter. Given the exaggerated tachometer in the lower tier, it is fairly described as overkill.
While the outward changes to the Civic Si HFP are fairly subtle in nature, the improvements in the handling characteristics are anything but. The Si is sharp; the HFP is significantly more so. As such, it is that much more fun to drive, and without costing an arm and a leg in the process.


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