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As quickly as Havelock gained the momentum in its soccer match against White Oak, the Vikings took it back.
As quickly as Havelock gained the momentum in its soccer match against White Oak Tuesday night, the Vikings took it back.
White Oak scored three goals in overtime to beat the Rams 4-1 in a Coastal 3A Conference match at Havelock High.
�I think what turned it around was that they realized they had squandered numerous opportunities throughout the game to let them (Havelock) back in the game,� White Oak coach Buddy Carroll said. �I had to jump on them a bit. They started playing like they could play. The attitude change made a difference.�
The Vikings led 1-0 until Havelock�s Noah Kemble scored off a rebound from Nick Seegel with under five minutes to play, tying the match at 1-1 and forcing two 10-minute overtime periods.
�We got that goal, and when we got that goal, I really felt like going into overtime that we had the momentum,� Havelock coach Jeff Harris said. �But that first goal they got in overtime just changed all of the momentum. That was tough.�
Victor Bernard scored six minutes into the first overtime, and Troy Jurney added a goal off Alec Gustafson�s free kick two minutes later, putting the Vikings clearly in control of the match.
White Oak (14-1, 7-1) added a goal on Gabe Krueger�s pass to Jurney in the second over time, capping the victory.
Jurney had three goals on the night for the Vikings, who had 16 shots on goal to Havelock�s seven in the match. White Oak managed to limit the offensive opportunities of Havelock�s top two players, Kemble and Peter Brown.
�Noah and Peter, those boys can play. I�d take them on my team any day,� Carroll said. �We made sure we kept Noah in front of us. Those two guys are pretty much their entire offense. They create for everyone else, so we just had to limit those guys from getting touches, and we were successful.�
White Oak had its first shot on goal in the first 30 seconds of what was a feisty match. Jurney�s header off a pass from Kevin Gonzalez put the Vikings in front at the 22-minute mark of the first half.
�We�re doing well, but I just don�t want us to get to a point where we�re satisfied, and I think everybody felt satisfied just being up one goal,� Carroll said.
Havelock�s defense, especially early in the second half, helped slow White Oak�s offensive attack until late in the match.
�We lost focus in overtime,� Harris said. �We were trying to push to get us a goal and I think we just kind of lost focus a bit. Once they got the first one in overtime, we started pushing harder, and the harder you push, the easier it is for them to exploit a mistake, and that�s what they did. White Oak did a good job of taking advantage of our mistakes in the overtime.�
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Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita shares Vote Centers pilot successes with Florida election administrators
May 20, 2010
Secretary Rokita overviews Indiana's history with Vote Centers; shares results from the cost savings study by the Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute
(Indianapolis) – Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita delivered a general session address on Indiana's Vote Centers pilot program at the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections conference in Fort Myers on May 19. Secretary Rokita was invited to share results from Indiana's pilot program as well as the Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute's study on Vote Centers with nearly 400 Florida election administrators.
"Government should be all about driving efficiencies while doing things on a smaller scale," said Secretary Rokita. "As local and state leaders nationwide continue to turn over every stone in government in search of ways to streamline operations and tighten budgets, Vote Centers should be front-and-center among the sensible reforms considered."
Secretary Rokita shared the results of Indiana's pilot program for Vote Centers, which includes Cass, Tippecanoe and Wayne counties. Cass County experienced a 51.5 percent cost savings and Tippecanoe County experienced a 24.5 percent savings in their 2008 General Election through the use of Vote Centers. In the 2007 Richmond Municipal Election, Wayne County election officials reduced the number of polling places from 30 traditional precinct polls to four Vote Centers.
Secretary Rokita also shared the results of the Vote Centers study released by the Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute (IFPI) earlier this year. According to the IFPI study, Vote Centers will produce significant savings for all counties that implement them. Secretary Rokita encouraged the nearly 400 Florida election administrators to replicate the IFPI study for their own use. Secretary Rokita's office will provide any methodology and data needed to perform additional studies. The IFPI study is available online at www.in.gov/sos/elections.
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The Art Deco Capital
Located on the east coast of the North Island, Napier is a popular tourist town, and together with inland Hastings, are known as "the Bay Cities of New Zealand". After Napier was destroyed by a devastating earthquake in 1931, the city rebuilt in spectacular Art Deco style that Mr. Gatsby himself would approve of. Take a stroll through the streets and you'd swear you can hear the clink of glasses and the faint notes of jazz music in the air.
But even though the past is still very much present in Napier, there are plenty of contemporary delights, too. Make a pilgrimage to Pania of the Reef, a statue of a figure of Māori mythology, and one of the most photographed tourist attractions in the country. Take a guided walk around the city, or visit the gannet colony at Cape Kidnappers. Spend a day testing out the local vineyards, or stop by the Napier farmers' market for fresh artisan products.
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Dig into a captivating tale of love and loss from Māori mythology by making a pilgrimage to visit the statue of Pania. Situated in Napier's Marine Parade Gardens, the bronze statue depicting the beautiful Māori woman is one of the most photographed attractions in the city.
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January 19, 1923 - June 25, 2013
Greenville Twp., NY
Mrs. Helen P. Garreau of Greenville Twp., NY, passed away Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at Casa De La Luz Hospice in Tuscon, AZ. She was 90.
She was born January 19, 1923 in Albany, NY, the daughter of the late Stephen and the late Helen M. Breslin Mushaw. She grew up in Teaneck, NJ.
Helen married her late husband, Claude Garreau, Jr., on January 6, 1945 at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Hackensack, NJ.
She retired as a Registered Nurse from Holy Name Hospital.
She was a member of the American Nursing Association. She was a past member of Our Lady of Scapular Church in Unionville and a current member of Holy Cross R.C. Church in South Centerville, NY.
A family statement read: "Our mother was a faithful child of God whose passion of prayer made her the apple of God's eye and blessed all those around her. We will miss her smiling eyes."
Surviving are four sons: Robert Garreau of Greenville Township, NY, James Garreau of Tuscon, AZ, Kenneth Garreau of East Hartford, CT, Gordon Garreau and his wife, Lorraine of Tuscon, AZ; three daughters: Diane L'Haridon and her husband, Alan of Mt. Airy, MD, Janice Torregrossa and her husband, Peter of Greenville Township, NY, Beverly Garreau of Franklin, NJ; 15 grandchildren: Claudine Malone, Stephanie L'Haridon, Karen Lacenere, John Torregrossa, Joseph and his wife, Jana Torregrossa, Sophia Garreau, Steven Garreau, Gordon Garreau, Amanda Garreau, Kenneth Garreau, Gina Newhart, Sheri Bull, James Garreau and Robert Garreau; 16 great-grandchildren; also nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her late husband, Claude; sister, Evelyn Craven; brother, Stephen Mushaw; her nephew, Jeff Garreau; her brother-in-law, Edward Garraeu and her loving grandson, Todd Garreau on May 19, 1999.
Friends may call at the Gray-Parker Funeral Home, Inc., 100 E. Main St., Port Jervis, NY on Monday, July 1st, from 3 to 6 p.m. Funeral Services will be held on Tuesday, July 2nd, with a 10 a.m. prayer at the funeral home, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 11 a.m. at the Holy Cross R.C. Church, 626 County Route 22, Middletown, NY 10940. Burial will be at St. Mary's Cemetery, Port Jervis, NY.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Casa De La Luz Hospice, 7740 North Oracle Road, Tuscon, AZ 85704. We would like to thank the entire facility for their compassionate care they gave our mother.
Funeral arrangements are by the Gray-Parker Funeral Home; for additional information, directions, or to send a condolence note to the family, please visit www.grayparkerfuneralhome.com


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Simple Shoulder Solutions
I am just starting a website dedicated to helping shoulder pain sufferers with practical solutions to their problem. Many people suffer from shoulder pain and don't know where to turn or who to contact. This website will discuss potential problems and where to turn.
This site is targeted to shoulder pain sufferers. Could be for everyday living or sports enthusiasts.
I have a few images I like that I will upload. I like the colors blue, red, yellow and white. I tend to like a light background for readability.
Here are a few topics I would like on the home page.
-Top 10 Shoulder Injuries
Shoulder Arthritis
Shoulder Bursitis
Frozen Shoulder
Rotator Cuff Tear
Rotator Cuff Tendinitis
Shoulder Impingement
Shoulder Inflammation
Biceps Tendonitis
Shoulder Separation
Biceps Tendon Tear
-Sign Up box in a prminent place to capture e-mail addresses
-Feature Story
-Current Research on Shoulder Pain
(then have 4 or 5 live links to internal pages)
*Thought I cold upload colors. Here is a photo I like off of istockphoto.com for shoulder colors and scheme.


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Mobile & Wireless Slideshow: BYOD Finds Fans in IT
By Don Reisinger | Posted 06-05-2012
The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend is something that just about every CIO in the world is contending with right now. You're probably cringing at the very thought of the growing number of personal smartphones and tablets you have accessing the corporate network right now. But a recent study from Cisco shows that IT resistance to BYOD is beginning to weaken. In fact, IT departments are increasingly viewing BYOD in a positive light, according to Cisco's survey of 600 U.S. IT and business leaders. Believe it or not, the once-closed-off enterprise is more open than ever to consumer products. And the chances of that changing are exactly zero. Here are 10 reasons why.
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I gave the keynote address at the last meeting of the Ephemera Society.
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The previous conjoint Queenstown meeting in 2014 was a huge success and enjoyed by all. This time we are in Wellington which is a magnificent setting for such a meeting.
We have a very exciting social and scientific programme planned which includes opportunities to enjoy the best of the capital. There will be separate, focused Upper GI and HPB sessions and a combined day discussing areas of shared interest. The content will be relevant to specialists in these areas and General Surgeons with an interest.
Save the date and we look forward to seeing you in Wellington.
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Did you know that more than 80% of small business owners underprice their products or services? How do you know if your pricing is too high or too low? Is it possible to raise prices and sell more?
In this webinar, Dawn Fotopulos, the Hidden Profit Prophet, will cover common pricing traps and how to avoid them.
We'll cover:
- The 3 primary benchmarks of pricing, as determined by Harvard Business School
- The top do's and don'ts of discounting strategy
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Mar 14, 2013
Non-conf. foe Lincoln Memorial sweeps the King Tornado softball team 6-4 and 3-1. King falls to 9-16 overall and will travel to play Conference Carolinas opponents Mt. Olive (Saturday) and Barton (Sunday) this weekend.
Hannah Light had 11 strikeouts in game one giving up 6 runs with the help of 4 King errors. Fallon Thomas led all King batters with 3 hits on the day.


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ICUF will host its annual silent auction on Thursday, September 20 during the 2012 Convention in Coralville in an effort to raise funds for ICUF programs and services that benefit your credit union, staff and members.
If you would like to make a donation to the 2012 Silent Auction, bring your item to Convention. This year the Silent Auction will be in the trade show area.


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The first time I used a Nexus 7, I was blown away. It was the perfect form factor for Android, and probably the best Android device I had ever used at the time. All for just $200. You simply couldn't ask for more in a device. One year later, I'm changing my tune. My Nexus 7 is just a shell of its former self, and an embarrassment to Google.
I don't remember when it first started happening, but most say it was when Android 4.2 began hitting devices. The new features and changes in Jelly Bean, 4.2, were certainly welcome additions, but my Nexus' new found love of life in the slow-lane was not. I have not spent a full year using the Nexus 7 as a daily driver, only the last six months. So at first, I didn't notice just how bad things had gotten. I thought maybe it was an illusion from using so many high-end Android phones. Until I started asking around.
I can't find one person who has been using the Nexus 7 for an extended period of time, and hasn't seen a massive downgrade in performance. Just what kind of downgrade are we talking here? I cannot pick up my Nexus 7 without experiencing problems like a lag of ten seconds, or more, just to rotate the display; touches refusing to acknowledged; stuttering notification panel actions; and unresponsive apps.
I tried the basics at first, like a factory reset. I then moved onto drastic measures, like rooting and installing CyanogenMod 10.1 (which I thought would surely fix everything, since I've used faster devices with lesser hardware, and performance problems were merely a lack of software optimization). And nothing seems to work. Using CyanogenMod worked at first, but things have slowed down dramatically again. I've tried uninstalling most of my apps. Using replacement launchers. No widgets. Nothing works. And even if any of those things did work, it would still be terrible looking for Google.
Other companies, take Amazon for example, have seemingly mastered the budget to performance ratio in affordable tablets in no time. It may have taken a couple generations, which is why I still have hope for the successor to the Nexus 7, but even the first generation Kindle Fire stands up better against the Nexus 7. I can only imagine how the latest Galaxy Tab, Kindle Fire HD, or dare I say the more expensive iPad Mini, would completely knock it out of the park.
I used to love my Nexus 7. I want to love it again. Have you experienced any similar problems with a Nexus 7, or has your experience been the exact opposite?


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With Dudley Benson's recent Forest existing between a cappella choral singing and waiata, and classical composer John Psathas using loops, sequencing and having pieces played by jazz musicians, interesting niches are being prised open in local music.
Classically trained violinist and singer-songwriter Keoghan's debut finds another, somewhere between brightly memorable pop and cleverly arranged, folk-influenced art music. Ca Va Bien Merci (in English) rides a soft electro-pulse; the title track lives somewhere in the early experimental 80s (a less menacing Cure-meets-Roxy Music); the beautiful I Only Have Eyes for You opens with a faux-choral part and tinkling piano; elsewhere he plucks his violin or strums it like a ukulele (the delightful Clean Sheets and a Fishbowl); while Dr Seuss Sounds woos with French horn.
However it's Keoghan's clear, strong voice and elliptical lyrics which command attention, delivered up-close and central with gorgeously melodic swoops and soars (often multi-tracked as backing vocals).
Keoghan's path has been prepared by Rufus Wainwright, Fleet Foxes, Benson and others, but he's his own man and - with subtle assistance from Flip Grater, Victoria Girling-Butcher, Ben King, drummer/producer Wayne Bell and more - delivers an impressive debut about gentle, often confusing love.
Stars: 4.5/5
Verdict: From between pop and art song comes something special
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- The 2005 International Symposium on Wikis brings together wiki researchers, implementers, and users for the first time. The goal of the symposium is to find a voice for the community. The symposium has a rigorously reviewed research paper track as well as plenty of space for practitioner reports, demonstrations, and discussions. We are honored to announce that Ward Cunningham, the inventor and host of the original WikiWikiWeb, will present the opening keynote talk at WikiSym 2005. Anyone who is involved in using, researching, or developing wikis is invited to WikiSym 2005! -- www.wikisym.org
Does anybody live near San Diego and want to go as our representative?
April 3-4: "Symposium on the Passion of Christ" with Bishop Kallistos (Ware)
St Vladimir's Seminary will host a "Symposium on the Passion of Christ," to be held April 3-4, 2005. His Grace, Bishop Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia will be among the speakers at this event. The seminary encourages all to join us for this special symposium in which Bishop Kallistos will deliver the keynote address on Sunday evening at 7:30 pm. A full day of lectures will follow on Monday, given by members of the seminary faculty, including Visiting Professor in Liturgical Art Richard Schneider. "The Passion of Christ, his crucifixion and resurrection," says Fr. John Behr, professor of patristics, who will also speak at the symposium, "is both the starting point and the central axis of the Christian faith and liturgical year: taking up the Cross defines us as Christians, members of the body of Christ." The symposium will begin on the third Sunday of Great Lent—the Veneration of the Cross. Pre-registration is $25; $35 upon arrival at the symposium. For more information, call (914) 961-8313, ext. 323 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
June 25–July 5: CrossRoad
CrossRoad is a 10–day summer program for Orthodox Christian high school seniors of all jurisdictions to help them discern their life callings, matching personal gifts with the needs of the world. The staff of CrossRoad believes that in just about any direction you choose for your life, it can be of service of God and of neighbor, which is Christ's call to us all. This event will take place on the campus of Hellenic College/Holy Cross in Brookline, Massachusetts.
July 17-22: 14th All-American Council of the Orthodox Church in America
The AAC will convene in Toronto, ON, Canada July 17-22, 2005. Delegates and observers from throughout the OCA will be given the opportunity to participate in the AAC's four key components – worship, fellowship, learning, and decision making – focusing on the theme, "Our Church and the Future." Parishes are asked to begin the delegate selection process in a timely manner so that their elected delegates may prepare themselves for significant and meaningful participation in the Council. While the Council's first session will open on Monday, July 18, delegates and observers are encouraged to arrive in Toronto earlier to participate in various pre-AAC workshops on Saturday, July 16 and the Divine Liturgy on Sunday, July 17, at which members of the Holy Synod of Bishops will concelebrate.
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Sometimes I wish I never married. Don't get me wrong...I love my kids...more than anything in the whole world. I just wish I had them without the marriage part. Seriously, there are days like today that I just think marriage is just too much work. Too much work without enough happiness to balance it out. Of course, I am a wife of a cheater. So yeah, that has a ton to do with the happiness factor. I've worked so hard for 7 years to make my husband happy and what do I receive in return...a big affair. WHOOHOO!!!! I feel so lucky...
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I feel just like you. Today is our 6th anniversary and i really don't feel like celebration at all. There's no respect towards me, no conversation just yells, plus I found out he has been cheatting on me with pornography! disgusting for me as a christian. We have been trough a lot on this marriage and his "addictions" but i am not happy and believe i will be happier without him..ReplyDelete
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By Zac Anderson
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Robin Westcott, Director of Property and Casualty Financial Oversight, Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, right, and Belinda Miller, Deputy Insurance Commissioner, speak during the Cabinet meeting Tuesday at the Capitol in Tallahassee. COLIN HACKLEY
Florida's largest property insurance company plans to increase rates for the fifth straight year, a move that would cost customers $178 million.
With a proposed 6.9 percent statewide average increase for all policy types in 2014, state-run Citizens Property Insurance is continuing an aggressive campaign to boost rates and drive more customers into the private market.
A standard "multi-peril" homeowner's policy would, on average, cost an extra $150 annually in Sarasota and Manatee counties, an increase of 7.7 percent. The company has 80,000 policies of all types in Sarasota and Manatee, and 1.26 million statewide.
If next year's increase is approved, Citizens will have boosted rates for the standard homeowner's policy by an average of 43 percent statewide since 2010. The average policy would cost $2,380 in 2014.
Citizens' board is scheduled to vote on the rate proposal today. A subcommittee unanimously approved the increase on Tuesday.
Citizens leaders say higher rates are needed to cover losses after a major hurricane and ensure that the government insurer — designed to be an "insurer of last resort" — does not compete with the private market.
But those arguments are hard to justify anymore, some consumer advocates say.
Citizens ended 2012 with $6.3 billion in reserves and has enough resources to pay claims after all but the most catastrophic hurricane.
The company's board even voted recently to give $52 million of its surplus to a private start-up insurer.
Many Citizens policies are now more expensive than policies on the private market, said Robin Westcott, the state's insurance consumer advocate.
Westcott said "all this hoopla, the 'Oh my God, the sky's falling and we need adequate rates in Citizens' " mentality, no longer stands up to scrutiny.
The Legislature froze rates at Citizens for three years to help put the brakes on soaring insurance costs following the destructive 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons.
Florida's private insurers have long complained that the rate freeze made the state-run company too attractive.
But starting in 2009, lawmakers allowed Citizens rates to increase up to 10 percent annually. State leaders this year considered increasing the rate cap, but ultimately decided on less-aggressive reforms to push more Citizens policies toward private insurers.
Under the new law, insurance agents will have to shop policies around more extensively in the private market; Citizens' coverage limit will drop from $1 million to $700,000 over three years.
But rates are still an issue, said Citizens spokesman Michael Peltier.
"We're still trying to catch up from rates that have been significantly inadequate," Peltier said.
Westcott said four years of rate increases that starting in 2010 more than made up for any lost ground.
"We're there — we're at the top of where the price should be," Westcott said.
Premiums for a multi-peril homeowner's policy increased by 10.8 percent statewide this year, on average; 6.2 percent in 2012; 10.3 percent in 2011; and 5.4 percent in 2010.
Citizens is proposing another 4.8 percent average increase in 2014 for multi-peril coverage, which accounts for risks including fires and leaky pipes along with hurricane damage.
Other policy types, like "wind-only" hurricane coverage, would increase by an even greater amount.
Most of the policies still considered underpriced by Citizens are connected to hard-to-insure properties that the private market has all but abandoned: typically older homes near the coast.
Westcott said Citizens could increase rates on these homeowners for years and still not reach a price that would be attractive to the private market.
"These aren't rich people," and the problem "can't be cured with repetitive rate increases because those people won't be able to afford it," Westcott said.
Westcott's solution: Offer incentives for Citizens customers in the riskiest areas to install storm shutters and other hurricane protections.
Spending and scrutiny
Citizens recently came under fire for giving $52 million from its reserves to St. Petersburg-based start-up Heritage Insurance as an incentive to take policies from the state-run company.
Westcott believes the money would have been better spent hardening homes against hurricanes.
Peltier said that among Citizens officials, "there's a feeling that the reduction in risk more than offsets" any concerns about giving Citizens' funds to a private company. Shedding the policies reduces Citizens' potential hurricane losses.
"Citizens' establishing a mitigation program with surplus funds makes a whole lot more sense than loaning out money to insurance companies," Westcott said.
Venice resident Jerry Mitchell said he was astounded when Citizens sent him a letter stating that his premium is more than doubling this year, going up from $1,081 to $2,271 for a two-bedroom house worth $80,000.
Citizens revoked a number of discounts Mitchell had been receiving, after an inspector ruled that his home was not as hurricane- resistant as previously believed.
A retired air-conditioning repairman, Mitchell lives mostly off his Social Security.
Every additional rate increase means he will "have to stop doing some of the stuff I do, maybe drop my insurance altogether or sell the house," Mitchell said.
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Update to NC. Met with DME and physical therapist . Was very pleased. I think it is true what has been said. Nu Motion is huge company. People are good. Company being so big makes it hard. Scott totally rocked it. Between the both I feel much more at ease and understand better. Yay. And I think he is bringing me a loaner cushion. I am very thankful. C
Non-traumatic SCI. Art, Poetry, and the Great Outdoors; these are my passions. My motto: Paint much love, always ~ Connie
49Bespoke and Soul Wheelchair Studio service Toronto and the GTA up here in Ontario, Canada. I've used Reg at 49Bespoke for my chair and Batac. David at Soul is great for seating among other things. I think he's in Whitby.
NuMotion Colorado is a disaster, both organizationally and operationally. Not only are they really difficult to deal with and incredibly disorganized, once you get a chair from them no-one else will work on it. They recommended changes to my power chair (bc it was never fitted), I said okay, they started those changes (repositioned seating), and before they had even ordered the parts to finish the changes (6 weeks later) the chair tipped me out and broke both my legs. Turns out the "loaner" joystick they put on is defective, and there are problems with the main controller board. Three months later, they have gotten a quite for the necessary replacements and stalled out there. It's shocking. Local OTs and PTs are telling me that in the last 5 years NuMotion has become so non-responsive that they work with literally any other DME they can find.
been trying to get a few things from these people they used be united seating now its called numotion well its the same koke as it ever was anyone else have problems with them
to alcohol the cause of-and solution to-all of lifes problems [homer simpson]
They have a local shop here and I avoid them like the plague. Slow, unresponse, lacking basic product knowledge, act like used car salesmen. They tried to balance bill me once, without first making me sign an ABN, then the tried to retroactively get me to sign. Never again.
"If you only know your side of an issue, you know nothing." -John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions..." -Heraclitus, Fragments
I would like to amend a bit. NuMotion here in NC Asheville area I live in mountains not certain where my team is based.
They really have taken good care of me.
Now, no sooner I received my tilite in October, I had another large attack.
My team is already on researching for the power chair.
Non-traumatic SCI. Art, Poetry, and the Great Outdoors; these are my passions. My motto: Paint much love, always ~ Connie


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Funeral Rites
Funeral rites have always been a part of our civilization. All successful cultures have believed that the dead needed attended to in a proper manner. Burial grounds dating back to 60,000 BC show that gifts were left next to the body and rituals were performed - by Neanderthal man.
There are three conditions that are always found when dealing of the dead:
1) Funeral rites, ceremonies or rituals are held
2) The dead are taken to a sacred place to be left
3) The dead are memorialized in some manner
Many death rites and ceremonies were based in fear. They were used to protect the living from evil spirits that were associated with being in or near the dead body.
Sacrifices were offered after a death to appease these evil spirits, or to assist the deceased into another world.
Today, many of our funeral customs are still based in pagan rituals.
For example:
Lighting candles was originally a way to keep evil spirits at bay while dealing with the dead.
Covering the deceased's face with a cloth was actually done to stop their spirit from escape through the mouth, possibly stopping death from taking them.
Mourning clothes came about in order to fool returning spirits who might want to take others with them.
Gathering after the funeral for food and fellowship began as a way to offer food to the gods or deceased for special favors.
Why Embalm?
In ancient times, embalming was done so that the soul would not leave the body. It was believed that the soul would stay as long as the body was intact. Embalming was also done for sanitary reasons.
|Dr Thomas Holmes
In America, embalming became accepted during the Civil War. President Lincoln was interested in a way to send soldiers home for interment. Dr. Thomas Holmes embalmed over 4,000 soldiers and officers so that they could be returned to their families for a proper burial. Once Holmes understood the potential of embalming, he resigned his commission and offered embalming to the public for $100.
In our modern world, embalming is used to disinfect the body. It is also a sanitary way to preserve the body for the visitation and funeral service. Embalming can also lend a life-like appearance to the deceased and improve the appearance of someone who had a traumatic death.
The Funeral Service
Ceremonies and rites were originally held to placate the spirits. But for hundreds of years, funeral services have been held to assist the living in expressing their grief, find support through friends and family, and celebrate the deceased's life.
Each step of the service is a part of the grieving process. Having the body present during a visitation assists the bereaved in recognizing the reality of death. According to Dr. Erich Lindemann, American author and psychiatrist, specializing in bereavement, "The moment of truth comes when living persons confront the fact of death by looking at the body. Grief is a feeling. If you deny it, you have difficulty coping with it, but if you face it, you start the process of healthful mourning!"
The visitation and funeral service also allows visitors an opportunity to remember the deceased and share those memories with others. It is a way to honor and celebrate the deceased's accomplishments and life.
The final step, the committal of the remains, helps the survivors acknowledge that they must now break with the past and move on into the future without their loved one.
The Grief Cycle
A description of the cycle of grief was first introduced in 1969 by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, after studying more than 500 dying people. It consists of five stages that a person goes through when dealing with death or tragedy.
2) Anger – A person realizes that they cannot continue with the denial and moves into this phase where blaming and rage occur.
3) Bargaining – Trying to negotiate for more time.
4) Grieving/Depression – This is the stage where the certainity of death is understood.
5) Acceptance – The last stage where a person comes to terms with death or tragedy.
These stages are not necessarily felt in this order but everyone goes through at least two of them. Women are more likely to experience all five. Results from the study indicated that those who felt they had found their purpose in life faced death with less fear than those who had not.
Sir William Gladstone summed it up best, "
Show me the manner in which a nation cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender mercies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land, and their loyalty to high ideals."
~ Joy


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BRISTOL, Tenn. – Along with her conference accolades, King University softball pitcher Hannah Light earned All-Southeast Region recognition this week. Light was named to the Daktronics All-Southeast Region second team after leading Conference Carolinas in wins and strikeouts.
As of May 12, Light ranked 16th in the country with 236 strikeouts and 27th with her conference-leading 23 wins. The Coeburn, Va., native also ranked third in the conference with a 1.95 earned run average. She tossed a conference-high 32 complete games, including five shutouts. Light held opponents to a .237 batting average, which ranked third in the league. The junior was also named Conference Carolinas Pitcher of the Year, and garnered first team all-conference honors.
The Tornado captured their first Conference Carolinas regular season title with a conference mark of 17-3. King closed the 2013 campaign with a 31-26 overall record.
2013 Daktronics Softball All-Southeast Region
DISTRICT 3 - Southeast Region
Pitcher of the Year: Carley Tysinger, Catawba
Player of the Year: Brittany Hefner, Carson-Newman
First Team
C – Kim McMillan, North Georgia
1B – Danielle Swygert, Anderson
2B – Jessica Neidigh, Anderson
3B – Kacie Patterson, Armstrong
SS – Brittany Hefner, Carson-Newman
OF – Taylor Merritt, North Georgia
OF – Kori Waugh, Columbus State
OF – Whitney Britt, Queens
P – Megan Barnwell, Armstrong
P – Carley Tysinger, Catawba
P – Mollie Russell, Columbus State
DP – Taylor Cloninger, UNC Pembroke
UT [non pitcher] – Brea Hartley, UNC Pembroke
UT [pitcher] – Shelby Duff, Armstrong
Second Team
C – Bri Shoemake, Carson-Newman
1B – Kaytlin Stroinski, Tusculum
1B – Beth Overman, Mount Olive
1B – Hannah Reppert, Armstrong
2B – Lauren Bessent, Flagler
3B – Haily Jarman, Lenoir-Rhyne
3B – Tristan Faile, Francis Marion
SS – Alexis Mercer, Armstrong
OF – Kelli Hensley, Carson-Newman
OF – Brianna Mulkey, Lincoln Memorial
OF – Kelsey Maffucci, Wingate,
OF – Whitney Little, Flagler
P – Hannah Light, King
P – Dani Gallucci, Georgia College
P – India Kornegay, USC Aiken
DP – Maloree Escue, Flagler
UT [non pitcher] – Molly Whittington, Flagler
UT [non pitcher] – Elayna Siebert, Carson-Newman
UT [pitcher] – Kristen Carr, Columbus State


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Semantic Web Services
Bijan Parsia, a Semantic Web researcher in the MIND Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park, can be reached by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com
The World Wide Web allows people to follow bewildering paths through hundreds of documents on a variety of topics without losing equilibrium. People shop, plan and book travel, check accounts and pay bills, publish articles and artwork, share photos with family and friends and total strangers, build complex information systems and manage a variety of business interactions. Web programmers have done very well in building programs that help people write Web pages, build and maintain Web sites and develop sophisticated Web stores. It is much more challenging to develop programs that can use the Web with more human-like flexibility without a human being constantly in the loop. The Semantic Web and Web Services are two visions of how to make the Web more amenable to automated use.
The Semantic Web
The Semantic Web is the web of connections between different forms of data that allow a machine to do something it wasn't able to do directly. (Weaving the Web, p. 185)
Programs can do a lot with the current Web, much of it critical to successful and pleasant human interaction with it. Web crawlers and spiders make link checking and site archiving easy and are absolutely essential for search engines. What makes Google the search engine for the Web is its scope (achieved by crawling the Web), the goodness of its results (achieved, in part, by automated reasoning about the links between pages) and the fact that it doesn't require massive, disciplined human intervention by the search engine operators or by Web authors. The last point needs a bit of explication. Google does require a staff of brilliant people who constantly enhance and tune the crawling, indexing, ranking, storage and retrieval programs. This is a significant amount of human effort, but it is dwarfed by the alternative: a team of catalogers to categorize three billion Web pages by hand. Google also doesn't require that page authors supply correct metadata for their pages above what they do naturally in writing link-rich hypertext pages. There's no need for an explicit cataloging step, either by page authors or by Google operators. Moreover, it's not clear that adding that step would produce better results (or even results as good).
A striking feature of this sort of automation is that it depends on the interconnectedness of the Web its link structure. Web links are what make the Web work for human browsers, authors and, it turns out, for some content-sensitive programs. This suggests that a richer link structure could support not just better search, but other activities. Hyperlinking Web pages together for the convenience of human browsers turns out to be useful for building search engines that cater to the needs of those human browsers. What can we build if we have different kinds of links supporting activities besides human browsing? The best way to find out what we can do is to do it. The Semantic Web is driven by a specific vision: to explore what sorts of links between which kinds of representations supply the greatest achievable potential for the Web.
The Semantic Web is rooted in Tim Berners-Lee's original conception of the Web. Web links were seen not just as providing a navigatory connection for the reader, but also as (partially) constituting the meaning of the linked representations. On this view, the Web is a kind of semantic net with Web pages as nodes and hyperlinks as arcs. The machine processable meanings of the nodes are constituted by the patterns of arcs between them. The original Web was a hypertext system instead of a pure semantic net. The nodes were bits of text with quite a bit of meaning all on their own meaning that is largely inaccessible to current programs, though quite handy for literate people. So, the extra meaning of the Web based on knowledge representation (KR) tends to take a back seat to that based on natural language. Web links only give us a little semantics, but it turns out that a little semantics goes a long way.
Still, it would be nice to have a little more semantics. If the original Web is a hypermedia system with aspirations toward KR, the Semantic Web seeks to be a KR system deeply integrated with global, distributed hypermedia. More precisely, the Semantic Web is a Web-like global, distributed, universal, loosely coupled KR extension of the human/hypermedia Web. There are no content-directed constraints on putting up a Web page or with making a Web link to anything else on the Web. These design desiderata are commonly expressed with the slogan, Anyone can say anything about anything. It's not enough, therefore, to have a KR system with the same scope of subject matter as the Web (that is, any topic you care to write about), but that system must also accept input from practically anyone. This vision is as much a departure from traditional KR as the Web is from traditional hypertext. The Semantic Web requires a blending of KR and Web architecture. The difference between the current Web and the Semantic Web is that the Semantic Web asks people to say their anythings about anything in a way that's more amenable to significant, content-sensitive machine processing.
If the Semantic Web requires more effort from the vast Web-authoring masses only to make it easier for some programmers to do useful and intelligent things with Web content, it's not going to fly. Arguably, there's a fairly firm limit to how much effort can sanely and fruitfully be required of Web authors. If you have to be a knowledge engineer to slap up a Semantic Web page, then most people, even smart, interested people, aren't going to do it. On the other hand, a lot of websites already require a bit of reasonably heavy modeling, typically in the form of relational databases. Homebrew content management systems are everywhere, and many go beyond modeling the generic aspects of a website (authors, articles, pages, ads, bookmarks, etc.) and add support for various sorts of classification and content modeling.
The Semantic Web offers common languages and techniques to share and use such models in a naturally Web-like way. Just as HTML expanded from a drop-dead-simple, static hypertext format to a very rich, complex language capable of expressing very dynamic, media rich pages and websites, the Resource Description Framework (RDF) is being enriched and extended into more generally powerful modeling languages such as the forthcoming Web Ontology Language (OWL). OWL is an expressive, declarative language for describing sophisticated terminologies, classification schemes, taxonomies and ontologies in a way that allows machine-based reasoners to derive significant, and often surprising, results. OWL reasoners can check the consistency of a model or classify resources with greater specificity as you add information or derive new classifications from your data (among other things). OWL also has constructs to express mappings between ontologies, and a hot area of research and tentative deployment is automating these mappings.
Web Services and The Problem of Discovery
As described, the Semantic Web emphasizes making Web-based information more friendly for programs (especially reasoning programs). Web Services, by contrast, are rooted in making it more straightforward for programs to do things on the Web. The early conception of Web Services was primarily of remote procedure calls over the Web with both the invocations (the request) and the returned value (the response) encoded in XML (Extensible Markup Language). This makes it easier to write programs that use other programs across the Web by making the remote programs (i.e., the services) feel very similar to code libraries locally provided by the operating system and programming environment.
There are two strong motivations for using Web technologies for services. The first is to reuse existing deployment of and expertise with those technologies. Web servers are everywhere, Web client libraries are even more prevalent and one can scarcely turn around without tripping over an XML parser. This motivation holds even if the services in question are to be used solely on private intranets or, for that matter, for inter-process communication on a single machine.
The second motivation is to deploy the service on the Web. A Web Service is much like a Web page or site: You've put it up now you want people to use it. Often, you want a lot of people to use it. If your service is primarily intended for human beings who have already found your associated website, then the problem of how to get people using your Web Service reduces to getting them to your website and, once they are there, giving them enough information so that they can figure out how to use the associated service. Getting people to come to your website has known solutions, and a programmer can simply read your service's documentation to learn how to invoke it. Notice that both steps rely heavily on human intervention: A human programmer has to find the service and then figure out how and when to use it. If there are only 10 Web Services, finding the right one isn't hard. If there are a few hundred, its tedious, but feasible. Even these simple cases, however, can defeat automated discovery.
Furthermore, while useful Web Services may be scarce, they aren't that scarce. The hope of a lot of players, big and small, is that we'll have problems of Web Service superabundance rather than scarcity. On the Web perhaps most searches aren't critical, or, at least, aren't time critical. After all, if you're simply looking for a recipe for honey-almond nougat, spending a bit of time using search engines or browsing various recipe sites is quite reasonable. In fact, like wandering the stacks in a library, this sort of surfing has pleasures and rewards. Casual consumer shopping also works well with a leisurely air. However, these examples have a critical feature: low cost of failure. If you pay a dollar more for the book or never find an appealing recipe, the loss of money or opportunity is not very significant. However, if you are trying to secure fairly large supplies of a part (and only if you can get enough of another part), or make reservations for an emergency trip as quickly and cheaply as possible, failure can be a serious and costly problem.
Solving the Problem with Semantics
The big Web Services hopefuls recognize the importance of the problem of discovery and have moved to address it with Universal Description, Discovery and Integration of Web Services (UDDI). The UDDI Executive White Paper argues fervently that the current crop of search engines isnt up to the task in fact, that a service-oriented Web requires, according to the UDDI 3.0 specification, a 'meta service' for locating Web services by enabling robust queries against rich metadata.
Enabling robust queries against rich metadata sounds like a pitch for the Semantic Web. But the UDDI has two additional components: UDDI is a meta-service, and it specifically focuses on locating Web Services. These constrain the task of UDDI considerably, especially in contrast with the Semantic Web's goal of helping machines deal with anyone saying anything about anything. Indeed, making UDDI a Web Service seems to have introduced a very peculiar, centralized and anti-Web attitude into the effort. For example, the UDDI Executive White Paper claims [u]ntil now, there has been no central way to easily get information about what standards different services support and no single point of access to all markets of opportunity, allowing them to easily connect with all potential service consumers. (p. 1)
To Web people, the lack of a central way and a single point of access are good things, indeed critical features of the Web. The White Paper goes on to claim
Of course, being the one who publishes is what you are for your own website, which is a perfectly sane place to put your business and service and service address information. Being the publisher is also exactly what you are not when you put that information into public UDDI repositories, at least in any normal sense of being the publisher. The companies running the repositories, the UDDI Operators, are the publishers. You give your data to them, and they publish it. Is it surprising that the examples of UDDI Operators are huge corporations like Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Microsoft?
The restriction of the subject matter of searches to Web Services seems to have encouraged the development of less sophisticated metadata techniques perhaps the constrained domain suggests that you can get away with (much) less. The metadata representation system at the core of UDDI looks especially impoverished next to OWL. Version 3.0 of the UDDI specification has begun to take taxonomies seriously, but its way of associating properties with services, combining them, deriving sets of them from each other is horribly kludgy. It is a warning sign when a large number of your search techniques involve prefix, suffix, substring, approximate or "fuzzy" matching on strings you are going to need a person driving that search. The lack of a logic for UDDI tModels (the key metadata construct) makes it practically impossible to write a system that does anything more than heuristic reasoning with them, and even that is fairly difficult and often highly application or domain specific.
Furthermore, the ontologies are coming. OWL's predecessor language, DAML+OIL, already enjoys wide interest and use (see the ontology library at www.daml.org for a sampling). As the Web Ontology Working Group heads toward completion, it's clear that OWL the language and associated documents defining it are very solid. The two years experience with DAML+OIL has produced a mature user base that is not only comfortable with its understanding of the language and how to use it, but of its ability to motivate and explain it to the wider world. It would be silly if the UDDI community didn't exploit this expertise.
But if they don't, others will. The DAML Web Services (DAML-S) joint committee is an initiative to develop Semantic Web Services to deal with the challenges of Web Services in the context of the Semantic Web. DAML-S goes far beyond discovery to provide ontologies for the composition, execution and monitoring of Web Services. One key goal is to support rich enough descriptions of how a service works that we can derive facts about what it does, how much it would cost and other features of the service. Thus, the service provider (or broker) can concentrate on describing the service from a fairly narrow, functional perspective and let AI planners figure out if their service can be fruitfully combined with others at a reasonable price and in a timely manner to produce the desired result. In other words, the DAML-S committee is developing a language for describing Web-based services to support programs that can write other programs with little or no human intervention.
Staying on the Web
When caught up with enthusiasm for a technique or technology that seems to promise a significant new bit of coolness for the Web, it's easy to confuse coolness inherent in the new toy with coolness derived from enhancing (or being enhanced by) the Web. Expert systems are neat, but wrapping one in an HTML user interface doesn't really change it in any interesting way. Distributed computing is sexy, but using Web servers just because they're there doesn't just miss one opportunity, but many.
The Semantic Web and Web Services turn out not to be quite the rivals that they sometimes seem to be. DAML-S makes good use of many Web Service technologies SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and WSDL (Web Service Definition Language), for example and UDDI already reflects the need for rich metadata descriptions. So it seems that more Web Semantics are in the cards, assuming that either camp is basically right about the future of the Web. One thing that the history of the Web should teach us is that the unexpected is the norm.
This research comes out of work of members of MIND's Semantic Web Agents Project, especially the work of the director, James Hendler, in collaboration with Fujitsu Laboratories of America, College Park, and also from the DAML-S coalition.
References and Further Reading
Theory of the Web
Weaving The Web: The original design and the ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee (with Mark Fischetti), HarperBusiness, 2000.
"Information management: A Proposal", Tim Berners-Lee, www.funet.fi/index/FUNET/history/internet/w3c/proposal.html, (also in Weaving the Web).
Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures, Roy T. Fielding, www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm.
Architecture of the World Wide Web, W3C Working Draft (work in progress) of the Technical Architecture Group, www.w3.org/TR/Webarch/.
Semantic Networks, John F. Sowa, www.jfsowa.com/pubs/semnet.htm
Web Ontology Working Group website, www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/
DAML website, www.daml.org
DAML Web Services (DAML-S), www.daml.org/services/
The True Meaning of Service, Kendall Grant Clark, www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/07/17/daml-s.html?page=1
UDDI 3.0 specification, http://uddi.org/pubs/uddi_v3.htm
UDDI Technical White Paper, http://uddi.org/pubs/UDDI_Executive_White_Paper.pdf
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One of the United States' most visible Muslim-Americans has taken sides in the debate on whether to build a 13-story community center and mosque near the site of the former World Trade Center in New York City. Lebanese-born, New York-raised Miss USA Rima Fakih said she is against the plan.
Following President Obama's comment in favor of the proposed mosque project last week, Fakih was asked her thoughts on the hot national debate by a reporter for "Inside Edition."
"I totally agree with President Obama with the statement on constitutional rights of freedom of religion," Fakih, 24, said from Las Vegas, where she represented the USA at the Miss Universe pageant Monday night. But she added: "I also agree that it shouldn't be so close to the World Trade Center. We should be more concerned with the tragedy than religion."
Donald Trump, owner of both the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants, agreed. "It's very insensitive, and it shouldn't be there," he told TV series "Extra" on Monday from Las Vegas. "I'm a big believer in freedom of religion, but I think the mosque being in that location is absolutely wrong."
In New York City, sides have been divided — with tempers occasionally flaring — over the proposed mosque and community center, which would be located just two blocks north of the site of the worst domestic terror attack in the nation's history.
While New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and a variety of religious organizations have backed the mosque plan, President Obama weighing in on the issue has stirred the debate nationally.
A recent Time magazine poll showed 61 percent of those polled were against a mosque being erected near ground zero. The poll also famously had 24 percent of respondents believing the president himself is Muslim.
While Miss USA Fakih disagrees with the president on the issue, she's made it clear she is nonetheless a big Obama fan. She showed off a gold lame costume depicting the golden eagle on the presidential seal that she plans to wear at the Miss Universe competition tonight.
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Fakih has said in interviews she's proud of all parts of her identity.
"I'd like to say I'm American first, and I am an Arab-American, I am Lebanese-American, and I am Muslim-American."


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My RealPractice is a new marketing and practice management platform for small firms that provides an easy Web site builder, an intuitive practice dashboard, intelligent alerts and suggestions, matter and task management, professional invoice creation, marketing ROI tracking, social media linkage and search tools for premium research–all in one place and free to use for solo lawyers. The service was created to solve common small firm technology challenges via an easy, secure and flexible online platform. Among other features, users can quickly and easily access templates to create attractive Web sites that integrate with other parts of My RealPractice. They can view their practice dashboard, including task tracking, contacts, industry news, alerts and social media, and get intelligent alerts and suggestions. The platform enables lawyers to efficiently manage contacts, matters and tasks. Users can keep track of time and billing associated with matters and create and produce professional and flexible client invoices. In addition, RealPractice is offering a variety of marketing packages to help firms find prospective clients. My RealPractice provides an economical and flexible alternative to expensive, client-server practice management systems. Beyond just managing their practice, My RealPractice helps lawyers with marketing services, templates, tools and training.
Folder-Sharing Capability Added to WestlawNext
Thomson Reuters has added new folder-sharing capabilities to its legal research system WestlawNext. Managing the collective knowledge is at the core of the new folder-sharing feature. It gives lawyers and research teams a simple and intuitive way to contribute to, and draw from, the firm knowledge base and collaborate with team members across the office or across the country in real time. Folder sharing makes it easy for anyone in an organization to create, share and modify folders and it eliminates the need to redo research that's already been done. For example, researchers can start a new research project by reviewing folders created by internal experts. Librarians can develop folders and subfolders that focus on current awareness, topical knowledge or practice-area expertise and make those folders available to all lawyers in the firm. While it's easy to share folders, the owner of the original folder is in control by deciding who is allowed to review and contribute research to any particular folder. New research is clearly labeled, making it easy for team members to stay up-to-date as well. Team members can also store documents and selected text in folders that can be accessed by designated team members or made available to everyone in an organization.
Rocket Matter Integrates with Dropbox Online Document Service
Rocket Matter users can now easily associate Dropbox files with their client cases. Rocket Matter is a Web-based legal practice management and time and billing solution for small to midsize law firms and Dropbox is an Internet document backup service. With the new integration, Rocket Matter users can associate matters with Dropbox folders, allowing them to view documents associated with a given client case. Because Dropbox synchronizes with the user's local file system, no file uploading is necessary. Users can leverage the massive amounts of documents they currently maintain with Dropbox and easily access them through Rocket Matter's Web interface. In addition to Dropbox integration, Rocket Matter also added matter-level user permissions based on requests from some of its larger firm users. Now, each matter can be viewed by everyone in the firm, only the matter creator, or specified individuals.
Orion Now Syncs with Smartphones
Orion Law Management Systems, Inc. has announced its new Exchange
Sync Module to enable real-time synchronization of contacts, tasks and calendar items between Orion's Practice Management System and Microsoft Outlook via direct access to Microsoft Exchange. Orion users can now view and edit information directly from smartphones, which frees them to work whenever and from wherever it is convenient—the office, home or on the road. Exchange Sync facilitates mobile communication and streamlines data entry by sharing the information between the systems and smartphones. For example, Exchange Sync allows Orion contact and calendar event information to be populated to Outlook, which is then pushed to attorneys' smartphones. This functionality can help boost convenience, productivity and versatility for legal professionals.
Microsoft Announces New Unified Communications Software
Microsoft Lync, the next generation of Microsoft unified communications software, was launched in December. Lync is the new brand for Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS), Microsoft Office Communications Online and Microsoft Office Communicator. For law firms, Lync offers a superior method for tracking calls. Current users report reduced costs since replacing PBX systems with Web and teleconferencing, more flexible phone access, and easier internal collaboration and training with fewer calls to the help desk. Lync improves on OCS by providing a complete communication system, including features such as E-911 and seamless PBX integration. Lync's sleek new user interface has advanced features: skill expert search, document and application sharing and one-click meeting access from Outlook, SharePoint and Mobile phones. In addition to Lync 2010 and Lync Server, Microsoft Lync Online will be available as part of Office 365 with voice capabilities available in 2011.
New Screenshot Capturing Tool
Oasys Limited's new Mail Manager 5.2 features an expedient new screen grab tool, Snap 'n' Send, and compatibility for Windows Mobile. Snap 'n' Send lets users capture and combine on-screen images, add markups and text and send the new document directly from Microsoft Outlook. Snap 'n' Send eliminates the multiple steps typically required to save and send a screen grab. Users can capture a screenshot of only the images they need, which can then be copied to the clipboard or pasted directly into an MS Outlook e-mail. Users can also type text directly onto a screen grab; mark up images with text, arrows, circles and squares; copy screenshots directly to the clipboard or export to PDF; save images directly to their desktop; and paste images directly from e-mail.
Free SharePoint Search Tool
Metalogix Software Search First is a free tool developed in conjunction with Microsoft to help existing SharePoint 2007 users leverage new SharePoint 2010 search capabilities. With the tool, users can take advantage of more accurate and relevant search results and increased search flexibility and customization, all within an existing SharePoint 2007 environment. Search First enables SharePoint 2007 users to upgrade their search infrastructure to SharePoint 2010 while maintaining a user experience they are familiar with. The tool is designed to help 2007 users better manage their SharePoint data and ease into migration to SharePoint 2010.


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Events November 15-November 21, 2018
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Authorities have quietly filed a felony conspiracy complaint and issued an arrest warrant under seal against Michael Robertson, the former boss and lover of convicted murderer Kristin Rossum. Robertson, who has been living free and working as a forensic toxicology consultant in Australia since the murder of Rossum's husband in 2000, could be arrested and held on $100,000 bail if he ever returns to the United States.
In a case that continues to draw national attention, Rossum, a former toxicologist for the county Medical Examiner's Office, was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in February 2003 for stealing drugs from her lab, using them to poison Gregory de Villers, then staging a suicide scene in their University City apartment by sprinkling red rose petals over his body. The cause of death, ruled to be acute fentanyl intoxication, has been challenged by Rossum's appellate attorneys as recently as late August.
Fentanyl, a controlled narcotic and fast-acting painkiller that is 100 times stronger than morphine, is used to treat cancer patients and is also administered during short procedures such as colonoscopies. An overdose of fentanyl, which has become increasingly popular as a recreational drug, can cause respiratory failure.
I covered the case from arrest to sentencing for the San Diego Union-Tribune and went on to write the book Poisoned Love on the case. I'm often asked by readers, "What ever happened to Robertson? Did he get charged?" My answer has always been "no." But for nearly the past seven years, I — along with news reporters who published that same information — have been misinformed.
As it turns out, the single count of "conspiracy to commit an act injurious to public" filed against Robertson, who ran the Medical Examiner's toxicology lab at the time of de Villers's murder, has been kept on the QT since November 3, 2006. If found guilty, Robertson, now 43 and living with a new wife and family in Brisbane, could face three years in county jail or state prison.
Before this complaint was filed, prosecutors labeled Robertson as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the murder case, and the investigation into Robertson's potential involvement remains open today. Under the law, charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder are treated much the same.
"I assume that's why they did it. Just to keep a file open in case anything ever comes up in the future," said Chuck Goldberg, Robertson's local criminal defense attorney. "And I'm confident nothing ever will come up."
Goldberg said he assumed the charges were filed "to preserve jurisdiction so that the statute of limitations wouldn't run out." But, he added, "We believe the statute had already run before they filed this."
Goldberg sounded surprised when I called him about the charges in early September, because he said neither he nor Robertson was ever notified.
"I negotiated with the DA's office, and they knew I represented him," he said.
Steve Walker, communications director for the DA's office, said it's common when an arrest warrant is issued — even a murder warrant — not to notify the suspect, and when charges are filed, "We're not legally required to notify the defendant or his attorney."
Asked if the District Attorney's Office had kept the conspiracy charge under wraps so Robertson could be caught unawares and arrested if he decided to come back to the United States, Walker declined to comment.
"Because this is a pending case, we are unable to discuss it," he said.
He also said he couldn't confirm whether prosecutors filed the conspiracy charge as a "placeholder" or a stepping stone toward hopefully filing more serious charges later, or whether any move to extradite Robertson had been undertaken.
Even the de Villers family didn't know about the complaint.
"I knew it would be difficult for Michael Robertson to return to the U.S. but was unaware of the details regarding his arrest warrant," Greg de Villers's brother, Bertrand, wrote in an email.
According to the felony complaint, "On or about November 6, 2000, Michael David Robertson did unlawfully conspire together and with Kristin Rossum to pervert [and] obstruct justice and the due administration of the laws; to wit: by obstructing the investigation into the murder of Gregory de Villers."
The complaint lists 77 "overt acts" of how Robertson and Rossum worked together "to cover up the true circumstances surrounding the murder." The complaint was signed by detective Laurie Agnew of the San Diego Police Department, who has since retired. But it was not signed by any particular prosecutor. The warrant was issued by John M. Thompson, the trial judge in the Rossum case, who also approved the request to seal Robertson's warrant affidavit.
Goldberg said the DA has taken no steps to extradite Robertson from Australia, where he returned to tend to his mother, who was ill with cancer, a month before Rossum was arrested in late June 2001. Robertson has since gotten divorced and remarried.
I emailed Robertson personally for his reaction, but he did not want to comment. Robertson has always maintained his innocence in de Villers's murder, however, saying he doesn't want to elaborate for fear it will be "misinterpreted or misrepresented."
"I really would like to be able to say more, but it's just wise at this stage to get on with things, try and put this behind me as best I can, and move on," he told an Australian radio reporter in 2004. "And if my circumstance does change I may at some future stage be more than willing to comment on the turn of events that have unfolded over the last few years. But, at this stage, I'm just unwilling to take the risk of saying anything on the record that again may come back to haunt me, so to speak."
The felony complaint was filed more than three years after Detective Agnew and Dave Hendren, one of the trial prosecutors, traveled to Melbourne, Australia, in the summer of 2003, by which time Hendren's co-counsel, Dan Goldstein, had become a superior-court judge. Hendren is now the DA's North County branch office chief.


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When you own a new or near new Volvo, a broken headlamp or turn signal lens can ruin your day. It not only looks bad, but it's dangerous, too!
1994 850 models have 2 possible front turn signal assemblies as Volvo changed the lights used mid-year.
This assembly fits:
All 1993 850 models
1994 850 models WITHOUT sunroof and 6" tall headlights/turn signals.
To ensure correct ordering please inspect what is currently equipped on your car.
Adding items to your shopping cart and placing an order is only an intent to purchase. We will not charge you for anything until we can ship the products you ordered (if paying by credit card. PayPal is a prepayment method.) We will do everything we can to fill your order in a timely manner. You can cancel your order at any time prior to shipment.
This non-stocked product is available to order plus backorders are allowed.
Additional stock typically takes 3 days or less for it to arrive and get packed for shipping.


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by Michelle Blackley
The summer months in Niagara USA are peak season for anyone who works in the travel and tourism industry, and that's especially true for those in a marketing and communications role. Not only does a daily schedule consist of normal meetings, emails and phone calls, but it can also mean hosting out-of-town writers and traveling to trade shows throughout the U.S. and Canada to entice more writers to visit the following season, and cultivate relationships with them during the shoulder seasons.
During the past two years, the number of visiting travel writers to Niagara USA has doubled, which increases our exposure to the world in terms of "free" publicity. When the Singapore Daily News published an article about attractions in Niagara USA, the article equated to $20,000. There is currently a video of Niagara Falls on MikesRoadTrip.com that continues to garner attention and grow in monetary value (it was most recently reported as a $10,000 value).
Taking a writer throughout Niagara County can be a very rewarding, yet exhausting process. For usually two to three days, I and members of my staff are meeting writers for meals, going on attractions with them, scheduling and attending meetings with constituents, and sometimes even acting as a production assistant or filling in as a model or actor!
These familiarization or "FAM" tours are excellent ways for businesses to make themselves known to media from around the world. To learn about some of the trips I've taken media on, or to be part of one, contact me at [email protected].
Michelle Blackley is the communications manager/interim director of marketing at Niagara Tourism & Convention Corporation, and is an adjunct instructor of communications at Buffalo State College. Follow her@shellblackley.


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Armoured and Dangerous is a Strategy Game developed for the PC platform. Choose from a pool of 5 tanks to build your Tank unit and strategize to attack and destroy your opponent's tanks and structures. Each of the Tanks are designed for a unique set of offensive or defensive actions.
Also, choose from 24 different terrains to have your Tank battles on. The game contains three exciting game play modes:
1. Capture The Flag
2. Death Match
3. Search and Destroy


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Pachulia chooses season-ending Achilles surgery
Atlanta, GA – Atlanta Hawks center Zaza Pachulia has selected to undergo surgery on a sore right Achilles, effectively ending his season.
The club announced on Saturday that the procedure will be performed on Wednesday in Charlotte by Dr. Robert Anderson, with the recovery time tabbed at six months.
"After thoroughly reviewing the possible options with Zaza, we all felt this was the best decision to insure Zaza's complete recovery so that he can be at 100 percent going forward," said Hawks general manager Danny Ferry. Zaza is a professional with a strong work ethic. The Hawks will continue to be completely supportive as he tackles the return-to-play process."
Pachulia averaged 5.9 points, 6.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists over 52 games for Atlanta this season.