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Stanley A. Schroer, 81
Stanley A. Schroer, 81, of New Bremen, died at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 18, 2013, at the Joint Township District Memorial Hospital in St. Marys.
He was born on Aug. 6, 1931, in New Bremen.
He was the son of Harry V. and Esther (Brackman) Schroer.
On Oct. 27, 1951, he married Jean Dammeyer, who survives in New Bremen.
Also surviving are his son and daughter-in-law, Steven and Joyce Schroer of Louisville; his grandchildren, Alan (Katie) Schroer, Annette Schroer and Ryan (Raquel) Schroer; two great-grandchildren; and his brother, Bernard (Marilyn) Schroer of St. Marys. Preceding him in death were his parents and his brother, Garry Schroer.
Mr. Schroer was a member of the St. Paul United Church of Christ in New Bremen. He was a 1949 graduate of New Bremen High School. He was a retired/honorary member of the New Bremen/German Township Fire Department, he was a member of the New Bremen Rod and Gun Club and the American Legion Post 241 of New Bremen. He served in a field artillery unit with the U.S. Army during the Korean War.
He retired in 1994 from Crown Equipment Corp. of New Bremen, where he was a tool and die maker. He enjoyed playing cards, fishing and traveling on family vacations all across the United States.
Funeral services will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at the St. Paul United Church of Christ in New Bremen, the Rev. Becky Erb Strang, officiating.
The family will receive friends from 4 p.m. until the time of the services on Thursday at the church.
Burial will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in the German Protestant Cemetery, New Bremen.
Memorial contributions may be made to the church memorial fund or to the New Bremen Fire Foundation.
Gilberg-Hartwig Funeral Home of New Bremen is handling the arrangements.
Condolences to the family may be left at GilbergHartwigFh.com.


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CHICAGO – At one point during the Bears' 26-18 loss to the New Orleans Saints on Sunday, David Bass and Landon Cohen both were on the defensive line. Bass never had played in an NFL regular-season game before Sunday, and Cohen was signed nine days earlier.
We might be seeing a lot more of that, as a unit that has struggled to be productive suffered yet another injury.
Nate Collins, who has been starting for Henry Melton, left the game with a knee injury in the third quarter. His left knee buckled awkwardly on a play. He didn't need to be carted off like Melton, who tore his ACL in Pittsburgh, but his prognosis is unknown.
Stephen Paea didn't practice all week with a toe injury and was a game-time scratch, thrusting Cohen into the spotlight at the nose. With Corey Wootton helping fill in at the three-technique, that put Bass on the field at the end spot, rotating with Shea McClellin.
Not an ideal scenario for the defensive line.
Bass was claimed off waivers from the Oakland Raiders before the start of the regular season and did show some flashes pressuring Saints quarterback Drew Brees.
"Everybody's just got to be ready when their number's called because you really can't control injuries," Bass said.
He might continue to see more time if Wootton is needed inside, a position Wootton got his most time at in the loss.
"It's a different game [at three-technique] because everything's closer, everything's tighter and you're getting a lot more double-teams," he said. "The biggest thing I was trying to do was get penetration in there."
The pass rush still isn't getting the job done, and losing Melton cost the Bears an interior rusher. Collins got a sack before his injury, but Wootton might be the next option there to try to push the pocket against opposing quarterbacks. Bass, Cohen and Zach Minter – who dressed but did not play – also will factor in a defensive line that is starting to look very different than what we saw in Week 1.
"We've just got have guys get in there and get some experience," Julius Peppers said. "[They're] going to learn on the run. Good thing is that it's still early in the season and we've got a lot of time left and a lot of games to play. We're going to get it fixed."
Saints blitz Cutler: Three times in the game, the Saints sacked Jay Cutler on blitzes, in which a rusher went seemingly untouched to bring down the Bears' signal-caller.
"I think they were problematic. We hadn't really seen them," Bears coach Marc Trestman said after the game. "… They got to us early, but I was pleased we were able to make adjustments. I would have liked to make them sooner."
One sack led to a fumble, and the other two came on second downs, forcing the Bears into third-and-long situations, which led to punts.
Quick hits: Tim Jennings went down after making a tackle of Marques Colston in the third quarter. He only missed one play, though. … The Bears' defense did not force a turnover for the first time since their loss in San Francisco last season, ending a streak of 10 consecutive games. … Tight end Martellus Bennett returned in the same series after getting injured on his awkward flip and fall after a catch. … The Bears recorded eight tackles for loss, led by Lance Briggs' three.


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Turn on any movie or television show and you'll quickly be inundated with the idea that if you don't have a romantic relationship, there's clearly something wrong with you and you're going to end up sitting alone at weddings without a Plus One for the rest of your life.
It's not true.
And it's also not a good idea to jump into a relationship if you're simply not ready for one. So how do you know if you should take the leap? Let's find out some signs that you're NOT ready for a relationship yet.
1) You're miserable, unhappy with your situation in life. If you try to jump into a relationship while you're depressed, chances are you're going to attract the wrong type of partner. Happiness comes from within.
2) Like it or not, you're still in love with your ex.
3) You're too busy working on your own life to devote any time to anyone else.
4) You find yourself attracted over and over to the wrong guys, in a subconscious way to sabotage the relationship before it begins.
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5) You believe that a partner will be the one thing that brings you happiness in life.
6) He's a lost puppy and you want to save him, fix him up, and make him whole again. The dysfunction that creates in your life leads to the drama fixing him creates.
7) You believe that white knight is going to swoop in and "save" you.
8) You're more concerned with finding a partner than with anything else in your life.
9) You're more concerned with changing yourself to fit a potential partner than you are with being your true self.
10) You're still healing from past failed romantic relationships.
11) You haven't begun to take responsibility for your role in the demise of previous relationships. We must LEARN from our past, not be mired in it.
12) You're desperately insecure and convinced that a relationship will help you feel less so.
13) You don't love and accept yourself as you really are. This makes it impossible for a partner to love and accept you as you are.
14) You've just bounced from one relationship and are already looking for the next. Give yourself time to heal, hard as it may be.
15) You want a relationship to distract you from your emotional pain and suffering. Instead, learn to sit with your pain and work through it before jumping into a new romance.
Any other signs you may not be ready for another romantic relationship?
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In my latest piece for Souciant, I look at what President Obama can do to create a more positive view of the United States in the Arab world, and how some steps that need to be taken in response to the Arab Spring can actually help move the politics around Israeli-Palestinian peace forward. In turn, that forward motion would also, obviously, help enhance the US' standing in the Arab world, a pleasant symbiosis that I highly doubt Obama will pursue.
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Last Chance for Peace
Posted in Arab Spring, Barack Obama, tagged Bahrain, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, democracy, Democrats, Iran, Islam, Israel, John Boehner, Middle east, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Qatar, Religion, Republicans, Secularism, Sheikh Khalifa, United States on November 9, 2012|


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Alarmed by the sense of mistrust of Muslims she felt after the 9/11 attacks 10 years ago, Pakistani-American Samina Sundas started American Muslim Voice.
The organization, which now has chapters across the United States, works to build bridges across religious and cultural divides, in meeting rooms and at dinner tables.
Breaking bread together
Sundas' Palo Alto, California, home is frequently filled with crowds of people from assorted backgrounds and ethnic groups. They mingle in a welcoming atmosphere Sundas learned from her parents in Lahore, Pakistan.
"They did not treat a rich person or a poor person differently. If somebody walked in our house, regardless of who they were, they were considered guests and they were respected equally," Sundas says. "That's where I learned my social justice. My parents did not preach a lot of Islam, but they practiced a lot of Islam every day. So all that made me who I am today."
College-educated in Pakistan, the young Muslim woman came to the United States in 1979 to join her husband, who was studying in California. After they divorced, Sundas supported herself by running a daycare center. However, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, demand for her services dried up.
Sundas felt parents were responding to anti-Muslim sentiment in the country. "There are always two ways you can look at it. You can get mad or you could just look at the problem and find another solution."
That's what Sundas chose to do.
First-hand contact
"I looked at the problem, I understood the magnitude of that and then I decided that, 'OK, my fellow Americans really don't know us. So the best way to deal with this problem is to just really focus on providing first-hand contact of Muslims to my fellow Americans.' And that's when I founded American Muslim Voice."
Her organization's goal is to build bridges across religious and cultural divides. It hasn't been easy.
"The Muslim community is afraid. They want to hide and American Muslim Voice is telling them to come out. Do just the opposite," she says. "And while they're afraid of just losing their identity, we're telling them just mix up with your fellow Americans and fellow Americans are very afraid of Muslims."
Sundas looks for opportunities to ease those fears. She works closely with other groups which advocate peace, justice, interfaith cooperation and nonviolence. She attends numerous meetings and has traveled to Washington to speak with members of Congress.
Building bridges
She often hosts large dinner parties at her home, believing that people who break bread together cannot be enemies. Those gatherings also provide a chance for inter-religious dialogue and education.
Neil Penn, one of Sundas' Jewish friends, says she's always looking for similarities between people, rather than differences.
"She communicates, in very concrete and tangible terms, a sense of valuing other people and creating an atmosphere of inclusion," Penn says. "By the way she treats others, her attitude and the projects she works on takes from the depths of her faith tradition that peace and reconciliation and human dignity are not just abstractions but something that she is trying to make real in day-to-day life."
For Sundas, her work is about moving communities from fear to friendship.
"I think the beauty of American Muslim Voice's work is that we have brought people together that otherwise would not have come together. Our organization is the only one that says, 'Don't remain separated. Don't just remain me, mine and I. It is us. It is we. It is ours.' So that is something that we have done."
Making progress
Sundas knows she's set a difficult task for herself. But after eight years, she is beginning to see some progress.
Members of her mainstream mosque have become more willing to support her work, putting aside the traditional resistance to female leadership. People now turn to her if they need a voice for understanding and reconciliation, and she is happy to provide one.
Sundas' latest campaign – as she told her guests at a recent Iftar meal – calls on all Americans to open their doors on the first Sunday of each October, starting this year on October 2, to share a meal with a neighbor or someone they want to know better.
"All the horrible things that are happening in this world today, they're happening because people don't know each other. That is the only reason," Sundas says. "Once you break bread together, once you will have my meatballs and eggplant and all that, you would never hate me. I can guarantee you that. That is very, very simple. Open your doors, open your minds, open your hearts, open your souls. Let each other in."


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Join the weekly Classic Castle set review discussion. Please post your opinions on the set play ability, piece selection, design, etc. Which sets stand up to our catapult of critique and which ones crumble in shame!
This week's set is 6018 Battle Dragon.
Battle Dragon, released in 1990, is a small boat with a dragon bow for the Black Monarchs. It has a rower, a crossbowman, and accessories.
This ship is the focus of controversy and speculation because the crossbowman has a yellow black falcon shield while the set name, color scheme, and figures are related to the Black Monarchs. The relationship between the Black Monarch and Black Falcon factions still is not clear.


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martychak needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
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Local restaurateurs and community members showcase their culinary creations to the public. It is an afternoon of entertainment and food and beverage tasting.
The downtown Business Community is an informal group of local retail, proffessional and retaurant merchants brought together to promote Downtown Wainwright. Our goal is to be seen as a unified group, encouraging our community members to behave in the same manner. If this project proves successful there are 50 local owners who would surely use 99designs again in the future. This is already the second time we have used this service in 2 months.
18 months to 80 yrs old, living in a rural community in Western Canada. They would be farmers, towns people, oil workers, military personnel, and members of the general public. They would be people with taste buds, and a desire to use them.
Date of event: Thursday July 29th, 2010 from 4:00 pm to 8:00pm
Location: Downtown Wainwright: 2nd Ave, West of the Clock Tower
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Needed in the ad: Taste of Wainwright (Logo Attached)
Local restaurateurs and community members showcase their ethnic foods (modify any phrasing if desired). Nationalities include Canadian, American, British, French, German, South African, East Indian, Asian. Beer samples will also be featured.
Proceeds go to the Wainwright Food Bank.
Live entertainment.
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Our freeways are jammed, cars are crawling on so-called expressways and backups make traveling city streets torture.
It reminds you of the dot-com boom of 12 years ago, when a roaring economy meant gridlock on the roads. Bay Area drivers today are yelping about congestion on roads where just a year ago zipping along at the speed limit was a given.
Traffic is grinding to a halt on southbound Interstate 280 from Los Altos to San Jose, along north Highway 101 through Gilroy and Morgan Hill and at the Wilder Road ramp off Highway 24.
"Traffic has been noticeably bad the last year and a half or so during peak commute hours, coinciding exactly with the comeback of the Bay Area economy," said KQED traffic reporter Joe McConnell. "I remember that traffic actually lightened up twice in the last 10 or 11 years — after the Internet bubble crash and after the real estate/subprime crash — for around two years and then came roaring back."
Welcome to Roadshow's annual Dirty Dozen list of the most complained-about freeways, expressways and local streets over the past 12 months. These are not necessarily the most congested roads, but the areas that most tick us off, judging by the hundreds of complaints that Roadshow receives each week.
"Do you have any idea what has happened to the morning commute in recent months on 85? It has become a monster," said Robin Gunn, who says her nine-mile route from the San Jose 101-85 junction to Highway 17 "has doubled in time, sometimes tripled."
The Bay Bridge approach at the toll plaza grabs top ranking. But after that, the Dirty Dozen has more new roads than it has had since it debuted in 2001.
The sea of red brake lights seems to be everywhere.
"The one highway that sticks out the most is southbound 280 in the afternoon from Los Altos to 101," said KLIV traffic director John McLeod. "After 4 p.m. that seems to be more congested than I remember from previous years."
All this gridlock comes with a cost.
The Texas Transportation Institute predicts that the growing economy means the average commuter is estimated to see an additional three hours of delay a year by 2015 and seven hours by 2020. That may not seem like a lot, but multiply it by thousands of motorists and it's huge.
By 2015, the cost of gridlock nationally will rise from $101 billion to $133 billion — more than $900 for every commuter, and the amount of wasted fuel will jump from 1.9 billion gallons to 2.5 billion gallons — enough to fill more than 275,000 fuel tanker trucks.
To combat more traffic, express or toll lanes will spread across the Bay Area by 2015 and double carpool lanes are planned for Highways 85 and 101 and Interstate 580.
What rankles motorists most is the feeling that some of this could be eased by minor road work and better driving habits.
Want to ease the southbound I-280 trip? Just add an extra lane near Magdalena Avenue, where the freeway dwindles from four to three lanes for a short stretch.
Or turn on the metering lights on 101 around Morgan Hill, where platoons of cars flow unimpeded onto the freeway.
Or at Wilder Road before the Caldecott Tunnel, ban cars from taking that exit and then jumping back onto Highway 24.
How drivers behave also deserves blame. More people talking on cellphones and texting adds to congestion, say safety officials and the Highway Patrol.
Bad driving habits are evident every day on the Bay Bridge, where one of the most persistent complaints involves motorists before the toll plaza who steer into the cash-only lanes, then at the last moment veer into a FasTrak lane to gain a few seconds — while others jump from FasTrak into the cash lanes.
"Can you plead with Caltrans to put up those hard barriers bolted to the ground, just like the ones by the carpool lanes, to prevent inconsiderate jerks from causing more backups?" asked Dang Duong, of Oakland.
Another troubling sign is on I-580, where CHP officers say the morning commute can come to a stop as early as 4:45 a.m. around Tracy.
The pain is being felt across the region. Pick a highway, any highway, and the wailing is widespread.
"I just hate it," said Nancy Riley, of Brentwood, a Highway 4 commuter. "It seems like it will never be fixed, and I just want to pull all of my hair out."
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Patrons and dance aficionados came together Saturday night for the Laguna Dance Festival's 7th annual "Stars of Dance" gala performance at the Laguna Playhouse.
Special guests Tiler Peck and Joaquin DeLuz of the New York City Ballet paved the way for a string of transfixing performances by the likes of Colorado Ballet, Ballet X, Smuin Ballet, and students from UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts.
Despite valiant efforts from the Colorado Ballet and Smuin Ballet duos to measure up, Peck and DeLuz stole the show. Peck and DeLuz's opening pas de deux was, without question, a tough act to follow, spoiling the audience with George Balanchine's legendary choreography.
"Tchaikovsky Pas De Deux," set to an excerpt from Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" ballet, showcased the pair's captivating personalities and credibility as enchanting, young lovers.
A charismatic Peck floated in the air as she basked in a sea of orange flourishes. Her effortless agility and control made for an intriguing sight of tight, defined footwork transitioning into a glorious release of extension.
DeLuz, a Spaniard, supported Peck every step of the way. But he earned his share of the spotlight in mid-solo moments, which garnered continual applause for his eternal sequence of turns in second.
In Act Two, the pair took the stage once again in "Rubies Pas De Deux," another Balanchine work set to Stravinsky's dynamic, and even eccentric, "Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra." Once again, the pair was right on pointe, but now embodied a new set of vainly regal characters.
However, the primary feature of the Peck-DeLuz duo lay not in their superior technical precision and seamless flow, but in their mastery of storytelling.
Ballet X's inseparable duo, Cloe Horn and William Cannon, pirouetted into a close second with the Act One showstopper "It's Not A Cry," set to Leonard Cohen's tender cover of "Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley.
Cannon is a rare treasure and was clearly the strongest male dancer coming out of Ballet X on Saturday evening. His strong, zealous movements combined with a tireless commitment to the music, choreography and emotional nuisances made him unmistakable as he lived in the moment.
Amy Seiwert's contemporary ballet choreography was poignant and inventive, especially when Chloe Horn used a black jacket to bind her lover's feet in an absorbing optical illusion.
Like an artist with her brush, Seiwart cordially painted this couple's rocky relationship through the eyes of human experience.
Smuin Ballet dancers Robin Cornwell and Jonathan Dummar had a lackluster opening in "The Man I Love," from Dancin' With Gershwin. But the pair made leaps and bounds in Act Two with "El Pollito," from Tango Palace.
Michael Smuin's tango-infused choreography pulsated with the music in a vivid flair of visually appealing movement, accented by Ann Beck's sensual, flowing costumes. Despite the Cornwell-Dummar duo's suave corporal execution, their chemistry was superficial, resembling a strictly physical relationship that lacked genuine emotion.
Maria Mosina and Alexei Tyukov of the Colorado Ballet made a brief, illustrious entrance as Greek gods in Asaf Messerer's "Spring Waters".
Later, audiences took a more in-depth look at the duo in "Esmeralda," which originally made its world premiere in 1844 at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. Colorado Ballet's modern rendition, still set to Cesare Pugni's playful musical themes, featured choreography by Nicholas Beriosoff based on the original work of Jules Perrot.
Although Mosina appeared flustered during the piece, she was still managed to balance on pointe as her leg skyrocketed into the air, kicking a miniature tambourine she raised overhead. Also, Tyukov, a veteran of the stage, exuded command and authority during his own solo moments.
Throughout the evening, the abundant duets were broken up with medium to large group performances by students from the Claire Trevor School of the Arts dance department and Ballet X.
The UCI students performed a longer excerpt of Jodie Gates' "Mein Zimmer," which made up for a dissatisfying performance given during the Festival's Art Walk preview at the Laguna Art Museum earlier this month.
Ballet X ultimately redeemed itself in Michael Keenan's "The Last Glass," after a satisfactory performance of "Delicate Balance."
Although Jodie Gates' novel choreography and staggering construction of organized chaos proved eye-catching, there lacked a resonance with the audience. The innovative movement was all show and no story, which separated this piece from others like the Act One closer, "It's Not A Cry," which brought the audience to their feet.
That said, the Laguna Playhouse has earned the right to be called a theatrical gem of Laguna Beach, and the same can be said of Jodie Gates, the dance festival's professed brains, beauty, visionary founder and artistic director.
A 30-year veteran of the professional dance field and proponent of dance education at UCI, Gates is the quintessential face of her organization's mission: to propel accessibility to dance, while creating the next generation of dancers alongside top professional companies.


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The Markets Now: JC Penney Feels the Pain From Huge Loss
Royal Bank of Scotland is also down on a disappointing earnings report.
Stocks edged up after the release of a positive jobless claims report and a slightly disappointing gross domestic product report.
GDP advanced at a 0.1% annualized rate between October and December. Economists had forecast a more hopeful 0.5% growth rate, but growth may have been damaged due to agencies cutting back ahead of the sequester. Lawmakers and the president will let the sequester pass; they are meeting to discuss the budget Friday after cuts will have already taken effect.
Jobless claims have fallen for past four weeks, with claims falling to 344,000 from 366,000. The four-week moving average was 355,000, an almost 7,000 claim fall from the week before.
The Dow (INDEXDJX:.DJI) rose 0.08% to 14086.29 and the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) inched up 0.16% to 1518.39. The Nasdaq (INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC) moved up 0.28% to 3171.25.
JC Penney (NYSE:JCP) posted a fourth-quarter loss of $552 million or $2.51 per share, compared to analyst estimates of a $0.18 per share loss. The full fiscal year loss was $985 million, sending shares down 17.67% to $17.42. This quarter marked the sixth consecutive quarter of losses for the retailer.
Sears' (NASDAQ:SHLD) fourth-quarter loss was $489 million or $4.61 per share. It was a big improvement from last year's fourth-quarter loss of $2.4 billion or $22.63 per share. Revenue fell 2% from a year ago. The stock fell 4.93% to $45.13.
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More customers have been frequenting Dollar Tree (NASDAQ:DLTR) stores as its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings rose 22% to $1.01 per share compared to $0.80 per share a year ago. The stock inched up 0.23% to $45.49.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Federal Bureau of Investigation continue to investigate a $90,000 purchase of Heinz (NYSE:HNZ) stock options before the buyout news that sent shares sharply up. Shares are down 0.03% at $72.49.
Royal Bank of Scotland (NYSE:RBS) posted a $9 billion fourth-quarter loss. The bank is mostly owned by British taxpayers, causing the bank to announce plans to sell assets and cut back its business, in order to put regulators at ease. RBS said it plans to sell a stake in its Citizens Financial Group. Its shares are down 7.47% to $320.90.
Mylan (NASDAQ:MYL) announced that it is acquiring Agila Specialties Private Limited, a manufacturer of generic injectable products. Shares ascended 3.84% to $29.67.
Investors are wondering whether Coach (NYSE:COH) will be acquired after DealReporter said the company is considering a sale. The handbag company moved up 0.15% to $47.89.
Groupon's (NASDAQ:GRPN) stock continued to plummet after investors were disappointed by a downbeat forecast and revenue that rose 30% but missed analyst expectations. Shares fell 21.77% to $4.68.
Pandora (NYSE:P) is limiting the number of hours listeners can use the free service on their phones to 40 hours per month. Pandora stock fell 4.63% to $12.15.
(See also: Blow to BlackBerry as Pentagon Opens Up Network for Apple and Google.)
Yahoo's (NASDAQ:YHOO) Marissa Myers recently issued a controversial new directive that would end telecommuting at the company. The human resources document about this matter was leaked. Shares are up 1.11% at $21.40.
Power plant technology company Babcock & Wilcox (NYSE:BWC) earned a fourth-quarter profit of 39 million or $0.33 per share compared to a loss of $63 million or $0.53 per share in the fourth quarter last year. Shares moved up 1.59% to $26.85.
New Jersey and Nevada's approval of online gambling sent gaming company shares up, including Boyd Gaming (NYSE:BYD) and Caesars Entertainment (NASDAQ:CZR). Boyd Gaming is at $6.76, up 0.60%, and Caesar's Entertainment is up 1.07% at $12.31. Zynga (NASDAQ:ZNGA), which surged yesterday, fell 0.85% to $3.49.
Boeing (NYSE:BA) shares edged down 0.76% to $76.77 after the head of its commercial planes unit tried to ease the minds of Japanese regulators that its proposed fixes would adequately address the battery problems.
CommonWealth REIT (NYSE:CWH) is going ahead with its equity offering despite activist investor Keith Meister's discussion of increasing the buyout offer. The investors sued the company in an effort to stop the company's plan to issue new stock. Shares are down 3.73% at $21.67.
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The United States Civil War in an Atlantic Context
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America's Civil War became part of a much larger international crisis as European powers, happy to see the experiment in self-government fail in America's "Great Republic," took advantage of the situation to reclaim former colonies in the Caribbean and establish a European monarchy in Mexico. Overseas, in addition to their formal diplomatic appeals to European governments, both sides also experimented with public diplomacy campaigns to influence public opinion. Confederate foreign policy sought to win recognition and aid from Europe by offering free trade in cotton and aligning their cause with that of the aristocratic anti-democratic governing classes of Europe. The Union, instead, appealed to liberal, republican sentiment abroad by depicting the war as a trial of democratic government and embracing emancipation of the slaves. The Union victory led to the withdrawal of European empires from the New World: Spain from Santo Domingo, France from Mexico, Russia from Alaska, and Britain from Canada, and the destruction of slavery in the United States hastened its end in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Brazil.


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New London mayor vetoes City Council's police dog ordinance
New London — The mayor vetoed a City Council ordinance Thursday that would have required the police department to have four K-9 teams, but said he would work with the police union to create a two-dog K-9 unit.
Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio said the ordinance passed by the City Council Aug. 5 violates the City Charter and is an attempt to micromanage the police department. In a three-page explanation of the veto submitted to the City Clerk Thursday afternoon, Finizio also said the ordinance is an unfunded mandate that the city cannot afford, and it interferes with collective bargaining with the police union.
But in an effort to move forward, after speaking with police department administration, Finizio said, he felt there was enough money in the budget for two dogs.
"Although, I maintain the view that even these resources could be better used on other law enforcement needs, I believe that the views of the Council and the union should be respected in an attempt to reach a reasonable compromise to allow our city to move beyond this debate,'' Finizio said in the explanation.
"If the veto of this Ordinance is sustained, I certify I will seek language in the new contract that expands the minimum K-9 requirement from one to two active units,'' Finizio said in a prepared statement. "This will double the existing contractual mandate for a K-9 program."
Jane Glover, the city's chief administrative officer, and police Deputy Chief Peter Reichard, also objected to the ordinance. Glover echoed Finizio's reasons. Reichard added that the department cannot afford four K-9 units. The estimated cost to maintain three dogs is nearly $69,000 a year, he said.
"... based on the current financial state of the department and the level of crime observed ... increasing the size of the canine unit was not feasible and in its present state the current unit does not provide an adequate service to the City of New London,'' Reichard wrote in an Aug. 12 memo to the mayor.
The council fought against the reduction of the K-9 unit in last year's budget, only to see the unit reduced this year to one dog. The mayor has made no secret of his disapproval of the patrol dogs, citing past complaints from bite victims.
Earlier this year, Finizio retired Bessie, a bloodhound that had been used for tracking, after her handler took a job with the state police. He also retired Buck, a patrol dog cross-trained in narcotics detection, for medical reasons. Finizio has since agreed to bring back Bessie, who has been in a kennel in Norwich for the past two months. Bessie is trained to track trace scents for extended period of times.
The other K-9 in the department is Jasper, a German shepherd assigned to Officer Todd Lynch, who is certified as a police dog trainer and is head of the department's K-9 unit. Jasper is trained in tracking, handler protection, deterrence and evidence recovery.
In response to public pressure, after the mayor announced that the department was going to have only the one K-9 unit required by the police union contract, the council passed the ordinance requiring four dogs. It previously had passed a non-binding resolution recommending the police have four K-9 units.
The ordinance was approved unanimously at the council's Aug. 5 meeting, despite an opinion from the city attorney that it violated Sections 40 and 37 of the City Charter.
Attorney Jeffrey T. Londregan wrote that the proposed ordinance was an attempt to dictate how the police department operates and what assets it must maintain. Under the charter, the mayor, who is the chief executive of the city, controls the police department. The council cannot "dictate, or attempt to dictate" the way the mayor manages the city and its staff, Londregan wrote.
A motion to override the veto will be discussed at a City Council meeting Monday. The council needs six out of seven votes to override a veto.
While the vote on the ordinance was unanimous, two councilors, Wade A. Hyslop Jr. and Donald Macrino, said last week they would not support a veto override.
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Apple Trying to Sustain Tablet Supremacy in China
In China's fast-growing gadget market, Apple faces intensifying competition from South Korea's Samsung as well as Chinese players like Lenovo. Here's a quick look at how they're launching the new iPad there, via WSJ's Foreign Bureau.
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Sfrscg necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 224 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
RoyalStar Captial Group is our corporate name, but we will function with our DBA of RoyalStar Funding.
RoyalStar provides short-term temporary funds to financial bankers in order to allow them to fund mortgage loans to their clients. We are a small operation at the moment (only two people), but the plan is to grow our customer base very quickly over the next year, and thus our staff. We feel very strongly about having a quality corporate brand, so we would like you to come up with a fantastic logo that we would be proud of showing off!
Logo should help convey these qualities that we represent: integrity, professionalism, trustworthy, competent, dependable, respectable, experienced, and a "rich feel".
There are two target audiences: our customers and our investors. We obviously want to create a positive feel for our customer base, but we also need to convey assurity with our investors (those that provide us the money to lend) that we can and will be successful. Our customers will be relatively small in size, but they will be already dealing with big-name financial institutions. We need to convey the same level of commitment as our competition, but they would have the flexibility of working with someone smaller who can respond quickly to their needs and doesn't have all the big corporate red-tape. Our investors will be putting up millions of dollars, and our customers will be borrowing millions, so we need something that represents the qualities needed to be successful.
The effects of the logo can include any of the following: sophisticated, unique, creative, corporate, high-tech, serious, clean, simple, exciting, forward-thinking.
Types of logos can include stylized type faces, abstract elements, initials. We are not sure about having symbolic or character elements, but we are certainly open to it if you have a good suggestion.
The logo artwork will be utilized for: electronic media (website, email signatures, marketing emails, etc.), print media (articles and advertisements in trade magazines, fliers, presentations, etc.), stationery (business cards, envelopes, letterhead, etc.), signage (office signage, tradeshow signage), appearance on clothing.
Design of stationery and website are future needs.
Colors are up to the designer, as we don't have a preference, just as long as it can represent the right mood.
We ideally would like the same logo for RoyalStar Capital Group and RoyalStar Funding (or with very slight variation), so the logo should function across any other business channels we create in the future.
Tag lines (if you are feeling creative enough!) are welcomed, but optional.
We do require a B&W and color version of the logo.
We do want low and high resolution logos to be used as mentioned above.
Overall, we are open to almost anything, and we want you to do what you do best... be creative!!
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Germantown Friends School celebrated its annual Classics Day on Feb. 28, an all-day event devoted to experiential learning about the Classical world through activities such as a debate in a Roman senate, a ceremonial Greek sacrifice and a Mediterranean feast.
Latin and Greek students in grades seven through twelve, dressed in Greek and Roman costumes, kicked off the festivities with a Triumph through campus, led by Apollo and his fellow Gods and Goddesses.
The morning culminated in the Aloysius B. McCabe '45 Classics Lecture given by C. Brian Rose, professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania and curator-in-charge of the Mediterranean section of the University Museum.
Rose presented archeological evidence for the Trojan War and shared his personal stories about excavations at the ancient ruins of Troy.
"I'm going to give you the greatest hits of my last 25 years of my excavations at Troy," he told the students. "At the forefront of everyone's mind when they excavate at Troy is whether or not what they're excavating has anything to do, either pro or con, with the theories of the Trojan War.
Head of the GFS Classics Department Julie Marren considers the event the best day of the year for her students.
"They benefit from reenacting events and rituals from Greek and Roman life, enriching their understanding of what they read in class," she explained. "The younger students see how accomplished the older students are – and see where their studies can take them."


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George Lakoff: How Right-Wingers Scam People Into Buying Their Toxi...
Lakoff says that liberals talk policy instead of moral narrative, and that's why the Right Wing has taken over.
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Upon further reflection, Lakoff's article is deeply disturbing. He's saying that public discourse has effectively been replaced by simplistic moralistic messaging, and progressives need to get with the program. If everyone blares their messages instead of having an actual public discourse we're already in 1984, aren't we?
New Speak... My all time favorite is the Patriot Act
Yeah its a shame nobody commented on this discussion Ruth. Your postscript is right on. The right has got the simplistic moral messaging down pat: "abortion is murder", "homosexuality is sin", "taxes are socialism". That last one should be amended to "taxes on the rich is socialism, taxes on the poor is justice", but of course they wouldn't grant us this. And the messaging on the left is just so long-winded. Obama falls into this trap just as quickly as the rest of them (and really I'm no fan of Obama these days). But imagine the left being honest about their beliefs like the right is. "Abortion is occasionally morally justified", "god really doesn't hate gays", "socialism is good". They don't sound right for a reason - the left's positions are generally more complex and nuanced and well-thought-out, and the right feels no shame in spouting "god hates gays" and other absurdities. My point is, its not a fair fight, because in a race to the bottom, the dirty fighter will win every time. This is why there is no third party to the left of the Democrats, because it is just too easy to turn politics in this country into a race to the bottom, and a party with any real principles would just get creamed. Imagine if Obama decided he didn't want to take corporate money, he wanted to play fair and win honestly and not be beholden to corporate interests like the rest of Washington! Romney would rake in the dough and obliterate him with messaging and ads and everything else money and power bring, and that would quickly bring an end to Obama's chances of getting reelected. Now, if Obama had gotten behind the Occupy movement and waged a full-on verbal assault on the immorality of a system dominated by moneyed interests, he could have led a real movement in this country (I think he could have started one himself if he had just done finance reform in 2008 when he had the chance instead of lousing up healthcare, but once he missed this boat he was already in the pocket of the corporations so no wonder he avoided getting into any real confrontation with Wall St.). So perhaps messaging could help swing the battle somewhat, but with a political system as corrupt as this one is, I'm not so sure that taking on a more moralizing narrative is really going to turn the trick.
Jedi Wanderer, you're so right, unfortunately.
My point is, its not a fair fight, because in a race to the bottom, the dirty fighter will win every time.
Does that mean that the new media environment of TV, twitter and the internet inherently favor the dirty fighter? They do away with the reason-promoting effects of print media. They favor simple minded appeals to emotion over long winded policy debate. Are we doomed?
Or is there a way to use them effectively to communi9cte our own powerful moral narrative?
I see a lot of dangerous trends, but I also see some good ones. The new media environment favors everyone being able to find the answers they are looking for, so everything depends on human nature. If there are too many people looking for the easy, short-sighted, self-centered answers, then these perspectives will overpower the harder, more reasonable and moral perspectives. I was recently (relatively speaking) very encouraged, when I discovered the Dylan Ratigan show on MSNBC and heard him speaking about the real issues our country is facing, how the wealthy have turned our democracy into a sham; how they can't even help themselves from acting against their long-term interests even when they are aware that their short-term profits will turn into long-term losses, and continue to push for legislation that undermines not even just the whole rest of the country but themselves as well; how skewed our legislation has become on taxes, trade, banking, and all the rest towards the wealthy; how "the poor and middle classes have next to zero influence over their elected officials" (Larry Bartels); and just on and on. I had finally found someone who was on a major network who was finally giving me the answers to questions that nobody else was talking about but which I had long been searching for answers to, and it was encouraging that such a voice out of the mainstream could be heard. Then the Occupy movement began, and here was a guy with a message that was right in line with the movement, and I thought change might be in the air. Well, Occupy fizzled out, Obama upholds the status quo, Romney looks like he might even win, and DR decided to leave his show to find out what he could do to really help change the country, but even he doesn't know what that might be. So, it is possible to effectively communicate "our own powerful moral narrative", but the real issues are so far beyond most people's understanding (even Occupy didn't have a coherent understanding of what could be done, or even what the real problems are) that too few people ever get the message.
I am largely pessimistic about our chances, as a country or a species. But there are still some possible avenues we could take to make some real changes. I've actually been working on a website idea which could bring people together from all over the world in a rational and organized way. The few people I've told of the idea had a generally positive response, but with little time and even less money of my own, I'm struggling to get anything done by myself. If you'd like, I can send you an email with my idea outlined, and you can tell me what you think of its chances for stirring up change, and if you are willing and able to help my idea along.
I wasted three months of my life creating a website. In the end, it was like posting a billboard in the middle of the desert.
Because I agree that "the real issues are so far beyond most people's understanding", I see Democracy as an extinct political form. At least the terrible form of so called democracy we have in the US.
It came to me that the moral narrative communication style chosen by the Republican Party represents a new scale of hypocrisy. I believe it was Newt Gingrich who several years ago instituted the policy by which every party position carried a fundraising requirement. It was called Pay to Play in the article I read (which I've since been unable to locate). So Republicans have institutionalized money as their foundational value. This is structural hypocrisy, institutionalized hypocrisy, for an organization which communicates to its members through moral narrative. As such it deserves a new name. This practice is to hypocrisy as acceleration is to speed.
Here's an example of how the right wing has taken over moral messaging on Climate Change. Explaining why Democrats aren't even discussing Climate Change,
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse faults his own party, saying Democrats have allowed the GOP to intimidate them from talking up the issue.
"I think the Republicans do a very good propaganda job of poisoning certain phrases. And then, rather than fight, we walk a step back, and we use a different phrase," said the Rhode Island Democrat, who didn't address questions about Gore specifically. "Once they poison that phrase, we'll walk back again. So, we say: 'We won't talk about climate change anymore. Now we're going to talk about clean energy.'" [emphasis mine]
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SAN LEANDRO – A Livermore woman was arrested for possession of a stolen vehicle, stolen credit cards and methamphetamine in San Leandro on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
At about 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, a San Leandro police officer ran a routine records check on a vehicle traveling on San Leandro Boulevard near Davis Street, police said.
The records check revealed that the vehicle was reported stolen out of Hayward on June 5, according to police.
The officer pulled the vehicle over and arrested the driver, identified as 30-year-old Stephanie Lamb, police said.
Lamb was arrested and booked into jail for possession of the stolen vehicle, as well as possession of stolen credit cards and possession of methamphetamine, police said.


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Looking back to when Pro Stock Racing was more than just a sport
When looking back at photos from the good old days, most magazines have a select group of photographers that they choose from. That's fine until the group runs out of new images. When that happens, how do you get to take a look back at the history of racing without repeating yourself? One way is to find people who attended racing events back then. But how many people were actually taking pictures instead of watching the races? And if they were taking pictures, how many kept them after all these years? With the advent of social media, finding never-before-seen images is just a couple of typed words away. Take, for instance, this gathering of fine snapshots that we're certain have never been printed before. How can we be so sure? Because the photographer is not what many would consider a famous photographer. At the time, he was just a guy who went to the track and enjoyed the races. Lucky for us, he took pictures. Even luckier is the fact that he kept them after all these years.
But finding images like this isn't accomplished by making phone calls to people that might have been there. Were it not for the advent of social media, we would have likely never found out about the ones we have here. Again, luck was in our favor, and we stumbled across a Nostalgia Pro Stock Facebook page that gathers everyone with any interest in vintage Pro Stock racing. Now, this page is not limited to just the Mopar contingent; anything related to early Pro Stock racing can be found there, and all it took was for us to ask the guys and gals if they had any images they would like to share. Within minutes, we started getting images that we felt were cool, historically significant, and to top it all off, never before printed.
While racing in the Pro Stock ranks in today's world takes more money than is required to purchase a small village, the guys like Don Carlton, Roy Hill, and the team of Sox & Martin did it during a time when the money was good (if you won), and it was considered simply a way to earn a living.


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Consider alternative and renewable energy sources
Solar and wind power, biogas and biodiesel may solve your companys energy problems as well as its green initiatives.
With global energy markets in turmoil, food manufacturers have experienced as much as a 50 percent rise in energy costs — significantly impacting the total cost to produce their final product.
- The "Guide to Purchasing Green Power" is a 50-page document from the EPA, its Green Power Partnership, the World Resources Institute and the Center for Resource Solutions
- "Energy Trends in Selected Manufacturing Sectors," another EPA publication, is better explained by its subtitle: "Opportunities and challenges for environmentally preferable energy outcomes." There's a section devoted to food manufacturing.
- The "Green Pricing Resource Guide" is a 140-page booklet from the American Wind Energy Assn.
Prices for traditional energy sources such as natural gas have skyrocketed in recent years, with additional increases expected. The rising prices will in turn increase production costs related to many processes, particularly those using ovens. Steam and compressed air costs are impacted by higher electricity and natural gas prices.
To combat rising energy expenses — and as an act of good corporate citizenship — food manufacturers are taking unprecedented steps to use renewable and alternative energy sources in their operations. Not only does this provide them with some control over expenses, it also gives them a measure of credibility with environmental movements, a critical advantage in the highly competitive food business.
"Energy is a top priority in food processing because of the cost, but also due to the green movement, begun in the U.S. and Europe, which is sweeping the food industry like a tsunami," says Sylva Cuperlier, a vice president and director of worldwide corporate social responsibility at Dole Food Co. (www.dole.com), Westlake Village, Calif.
According to Cuperlier, there are numerous reasons why companies such as Dole have turned their focus toward the use of alternative and renewable energy sources. "Being a green company is part of our core values," says Cuperlier, "but there are also new regulations that require us to implement measures to be more environmentally friendly. Another component is the demand from customers who expect us to be responsible in the use of energy in our operations."
Frito-Lay, Kettle chip in
Kettle Foods (www.kettlefoods.com) has made a name for itself by committing to a comprehensive, company-wide sustainable energy program. Kettle Foods headquarters in Salem, Ore., is home to one of the largest commercial solar power arrays in the Pacific Northwest. Its 616 solar panels generate 120,000 kWh of electricity — enough to make 250,000 bags of potato chips, according to Jim Green, Kettle Food's ambassador.
Installed in 2003 with the help of Energy Trust of Oregon and Portland General Electric, the solar arrays reduce Kettle Foods' annual CO2 emissions by 60 tons. The remaining power consumed by Kettle but not produced by solar power is 100 percent wind power. Renewable Energy Credits are purchased through Renewable Energy Choices of Boulder, Colo., to offset 100 percent of electricity in all Kettle Foods locations in the U.S.
"Kettle was founded on the principles of supporting such things as organic agriculture, so really the company has been thinking outside the box from the beginning on how we manufacture and distribute food," says Green. "The use of alternative energy is something we think about. In Oregon, there is a great deal of incentive — tax incentives and so forth, both at the federal and state levels — to convert to and use alternative energy. We took advantage of those incentives in 2003 by putting together the large photovoltaic solar cell at our headquarters. This type of practice is in the DNA of our company."
Solar power also is being used by Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo, which recently installed a solar electric power system on the roof of its Arizona Service Center, the company's largest U.S. distribution center. The 201-kilowatt system consists of more than 1,000 Kyocera high-output 200-watt photovoltaic (PV) modules, making it the largest business-owned PV system in Arizona. PV is a solar power technology that uses solar cells or solar photovoltaic arrays to convert light from the sun directly into electricity.
"As different types of renewable energy become available to us — both from a technical point of view and a business point of view — we implement them," says Dave Haft, group vice president of sustainability and productivity at Frito-Lay (www.fritolay.com). "The photovoltaic system in Arizona, which by the way is the largest privately owned system in the state of Arizona, is the seventh Frito-Lay distribution center to have a photovoltaic electrical generating system."
Frito-Lay's use of solar power will produce roughly 350,000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually and will supply power directly to Frito-Lay's electrical loads to meet a portion of the facility's daytime energy needs.
The installation was facilitated in part by the Arizona utility APS and its Solar Partners Incentive Program, which provides financial incentives to customers who add PV solar systems or solar water heaters to their homes or businesses.
The system was designed and installed by American Solar Electric, a Scottsdale, Ariz., firm specializing in photovoltaic power systems. The PV system was engineered to produce year-round energy production through elevated, angled panels above the rooftop deck.
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Debian is an operating system which includes software packages released as open source software for free, mainly under the GNU General Public License but also with other free software licenses. It runs a popular Linux distribution having access to repositories including software packages which are ready for use. In this article you will learn how to process texts using Debian. We assume that you already know how to create simple text documents using an editor, such as v1, for example. Let's go, then.
What does text processing means?
It allows you to write the content of a file as an ASCII text using some additional commands in order to describe better your document structure. By starting the text processor you will be able to convert the source text to a file with a layout. This file can include some tables, formulas or figures, for example. At this moment some of the most used and known text processors for Debian are LaTeX and TeX.
LaTeX is a strong macro package used for TeX typesetting system. There are some text processing tools used by most users which make this by piping text through chains. When no regular expression is used you can concatenate files and output the resulted content using the cat(1) command or, in the other direction you can use tac(1) to output a reversed content. Use cut(1) to select parts of lines, sort(1) in order to sort lines from content or tr(1) if you want to delete characters or translate content.
On the other hand you are able, using some basic regular expressions (BRE), to match some text with some patterns – using grep(1) – or to power a screen editor using the command vim(1). Other extended regular expressions (ERE) will make possible for you to do simple text processing by using egrep(1).
If you are not familiar with these commands you can figure this out very easily using the command 'man command'. Below you can find a list with useful commands for standard text processing on Debian:
- When no regular expression is used: cat(1), tac(1), diff(1), tr(1), cut(1), head(1), uniq(1), tail(1), sort(1)
- When basic regular expressions are used: grep(1), emacs(1), ed(1), vim(1), sed(1)
- When extended regular expressions are used: egrep(1), python(1), awk(1), pcregrep(1), tcl(3tcl), perl(1)
You can use regular expressions for many tools for text processing. Think about them as shell globs but obviously more complex and powerful. These expressions are formed by meta characters and text characters and they describe usually matching patterns. The meta characters are just simple characters having special meanings. Replacement expressions are some characters having also special meanings.
This was only an introduction article in this area, this overview being only the beginning for what is about to come. We hope that these tips regarding text processing in Debian operating system will help you make an idea about how this works and future documentation will be always available on debian.org in order to help you move on with your needs. Continue Reading…