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Carlos Bazan-Canabal may seem like a lucky guy.
The cofounder of Worldwide Directories, got a $2.7 billion judgment in his favor in a lawsuit with Yahoo in Mexico.
But the money isn't his yet. Yahoo is appealing the case. And in the meantime, he's been labeled as the "$2.7 billion guy"—the kind of headline that attracts unwanted attention. Kidnapping by criminal gangs has soared in Mexico in recent years.
As a result, he fears for his safety, he told El Economista, a Mexican newspaper.
He recently told Business Insider he's been splitting his time between California and undisclosed locations in Mexico.
Bazan-Canabal also thinks that "political interests" might pose a threat to him.
His lawyers are looking into the possibility of what Bazan-Canabal characterizes as "corruption" by Yahoo, noting that the judge in the case was removed from office shortly before the judgment against Yahoo was announced.
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Judge resigns in New Jersey after losing ruling to moonlight as comedian
NEWARK, N.J. – A New Jersey municipal judge who has been told by the state Supreme Court he can't also be a stand-up comedian in his off hours has resigned from the bench.
Vince Sicari tells The Associated Press he tendered his resignation Thursday.
Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court ruled Sicari acting and comedy career "is incompatible" with judicial conduct codes. Appearing as Vince August, the 44-year-old has appeared on network television shows and New York City comedy clubs.
The court noted in its opinion that Sicari's comedy act demeans some people based on religion or national origin and that that could cause some to question his impartiality as a judge.

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WILLIAMSPORT, PA – The York College wrestling squad dropped a 24-13 decision to Lycoming College to open the 2013-14 season on Tuesday night in Williamsport, PA.
The Spartans fall to 0-1 while the Warriors are now 1-0 in dual meets this season.
The match was the debut of new head coach Duane Bastress, the former two-time Spartan national champion and longtime assistant coach who assumed the reigns of the program last spring.
The Spartans started off with an early lead as freshman Tom Gattinella (Sewell, N.J./Saint Augustine Prep) opened his collegiate career with a 6-2 victory over Cody Barbiche at 125 pounds. Fellow freshman Ryan Flynn (Newtown Square, Pa./Marple Newtown) followed that up with a 9-4 win over Andrew Gipe at 133 pounds as the Spartans led 6-0 after two weight classes.
Lycoming got even with a pair of decisions at 141 and 149, knotting the match score at six.
Sophomore Adam Kritzer (Herndon, Pa./Line Mountain) gave the lead back to York with a solid 7-5 win at 157 pounds. However, just as the pattern had been in the earlier matches, Lycoming's Matthew Neff won the 165-pound bout to tie the match for a second time.
Freshman Tyler Rhoads (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin East) came up big with an impressive 12-0 major decision win over Johnathan Secor at 174 pounds as York took a four point lead, 13-9. Lycoming pulled to within a point with a narrow come-from-behind 3-1 win at 184 pounds, setting the stage for a comeback for the Warriors.
Lycoming seized a lead they would not lose at 197 as Nikolas Christine turned a 5-3 deficit into a pin fall win as Lycoming took an 18-13 lead. Lycoming closed out the match with a pinfall win in the heavyweight match.
The Spartans return to action on Saturday when they travel to Waynesburg College to face the host Yellow Jackets and Mercyhurst in a tri-match. The action is slated for an 11:00 am start.


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Defense a Ray of light early for Tampa Bay
ARLINGTON -- Like most Rays offseasons, the team experienced its usual share of turnover in the ranks this past winter.
Now, with a slightly more than a week's worth of games in the books, players and management have been asked what they think of the new group at this early juncture.
ARLINGTON -- Like most Rays offseasons, the team experienced its usual share of turnover in the ranks this past winter.
Now, with a slightly more than a week's worth of games in the books, players and management have been asked what they think of the new group at this early juncture.
"There have been a lot of positives, and a few things that haven't been as positive," said executive vice president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman. "But we try not to get too high or too low, especially after one week. I think our thoughts coming into the season still hold."
In particular, the defense appears to be much improved. Wednesday afternoon's game featured a Ben Zobrist throw to the plate in the eighth inning to complete an inning-ending double play in the Rays' 2-0 win over the Rangers. And it seems like solid defense has been present in every game thus far.
"The one thing that hurt us last year was defense," Joel Peralta said. "And so far, it's been great. As soon as a couple of guys start getting hits, we're definitely going to win a lot of games."
Using fielding percentage as the measure, Tampa Bay's defense went from the best in the American League in 2011 (.988) to the worst last season (.981). Key acquisitions included infielder Kelly Johnson, shortstop Yunel Escobar and first baseman James Loney, each of whom is a good glove man.
"The thing that's been fun to watch is our defense," Friedman said. "Seeing a lot of the ordinary plays converted into outs, and the exceptional plays certainly helped us win the games that we did."
Manager Joe Maddon cited the improved play of the defense as well. The Rays went 55 innings before making their first error of the season.
"Defense has been really good throughout," Maddon said. "We've had a couple of rundowns we completed successfully. We've been making routine plays routinely. … It's even happening in the outfield. Sam [Fuld made] some good plays, Desmond at the wall. So there's been some good outfield stuff also. It's been good."
Escobar appears to have been a particularly solid move. His addition has solidified the shortstop position in the same fashion that bringing in Jason Bartlett did in 2008. Maddon praised Escobar's adaptability to all the shifting Tampa Bay does every game.
"Yunel's been able to grasp on to that and move along," Maddon said. "And I think he's kind of liking it, because he's ended up in the right spot a lot of times. Ground balls to the middle, he's been there. Ground balls in the hole, he's been able [get to]. He's been able to come in on the ball and make an easy throw to first base. A lot of subtle positioning has helped also."
Another major improvement on defense came through having a healthy Evan Longoria return to third base.
"Those first two games were probably as impressive of a defensive display as you'll see," Friedman said. "Oftentimes that comes with opportunity, and he got a lot of opportunity and made exceptional plays -- to his backhand, to his glove hand, coming in. Basically anything and everything you'd want to see, we had an opportunity to see. And it was great in that it's what we expected. We felt like he was in a really good place, health-wise. But it's always a little bit reassuring once you see it play out in the field."
Longoria noted that he's been impressed with the way this year's team has "handled a lot of things."
"We've put together some great late-game rallies," Longoria said. "We've shown a lot of fight -- a lot of heart. And those things are going to be things we need down the road. I think the one thing that stands out in my mind right now is that our starting pitching hasn't been very good, and we know they're going to be good. And that's the scary thing. And that's the thing that excites me and continues to make me believe every day that this team is a playoff and championship team. So, that being said, I'm excited to see how the rest of the year plays out."
Despite having a losing record to this point, the feeling inside the Rays' clubhouse is one of cohesiveness.
"The atmosphere here is really good," Peralta said. "We have confidence we're going to do better. We're just waiting to take off -- pitching, hitting and defense at the same time."
Reigning AL Cy Young Award winner David Price added: "We look good. I like this team. I like it a lot."
While Price likes the unit, he is not satisfied with the starting pitching to this point.
"Us as a group of starting pitchers, especially me, we can definitely throw better," Price said. "We've done fine, for the most part giving ourselves a chance to win. But we hold the bar extremely high here. We're not pitching the way we want to as a group. … We always want to get better, and that's something we're striving to do as a staff -- limit more runs."
Tampa Bay's offense has not begun to click just yet. The Rays finished the three-game series against the Rangers going just 3-for-25 with runners in scoring position. Maddon sees better things for this year's offense.
"I really believe that this group can turn into more of a swarming-type offense reminiscent of my time with the Angels in 2002 winning the World Series," Maddon said. "That group did not strike out often either. Once that group got going, man, it would be a swarming-type offense, which I see this group becoming also as we get it in gear. So for right now, the contact hasn't been hard enough to be that group, but it will be."
Clearly, with 153 games remaining on the schedule and many of the good things the team has shown to date, there is a lot for Rays fans to like about this year's team.
"I think the vibe among the group is extremely positive," Friedman said. "The new guys fit in extremely well. And we're looking forward to the next six months."
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com.


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Eve Arnold, one of the first woman photojournalists to join the prestigious Magnum Photography Agency in the 1950s and traveled the world for her work but was best known for her candid shots of Hollywood celebrities, has died. She was 99.
Arnold died Wednesday at a London nursing home, Magnum announced. The cause was not specified.
Starting in 1951, when career women were a rarity, Arnold navigated distant countries and cultures, photographing horse trainers in Mongolia, factory workers in China and harem women in Dubai. Her photo essays appeared in feature news magazines and in the many books she compiled.
"Eve was a very good photographer," said Stephen White, who owned the Stephen White photography gallery in Los Angeles from 1975 to 1990. "She was socially significant, as one of a group of women photographers who emerged after World War II."
Arnold began working for Magnum on a freelance basis in 1951 and became a full member of the group in 1957.
The agency's founders included Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, considered the greatest reportage photographers of the time. Most members of the cooperative were men. Arnold's only female colleague at the agency was Inge Morath, who joined Magnum as a full member in 1955.
"I began to haunt the files at Magnum," Arnold recalled in her memoir, "Eve Arnold: In Retrospect" (1995). Studying contact sheets she found there, she learned how each of Magnum's photographers approached an assignment. Cartier-Bresson's photographs, in particular, taught her to tell an entire story in a single image, she wrote.
Arnold made Hollywood a specialty starting in the mid-1950s. Her attraction to the backstage of life gave her a particular angle on the movie business. "Eve used a photojournalistic approach," White said of Arnold's photos of actors and actresses. "Hers was the naturalistic form as opposed to the posed studio photography more often associated with Hollywood at that time."
In several books, including, "Eve Arnold: Film Journal" (2001), she wrote about her experiences in Hollywood. Some of her best known images are candid shots of Marilyn Monroe. On the movie set of "The Misfits," Arnold captured the tension between Monroe and playwright Arthur Miller, her husband at the time and the screenwriter on the 1960 film. One photograph shows them together on a veranda, looking as if they have just cut short an argument. Others show glimpses of Monroe's legendary insecurity. In one photograph she sits at a table with a script in front of her, hands covering her eyes.
"She liked my photographs and was canny enough to realize that they were a fresh approach for presenting her — a looser, more intimate look than the posed studio portraits she was used to in Hollywood," Arnold wrote of Monroe in "Film Journal."
It was a mutually beneficial arrangement. Arnold published several more books, "Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation" and "Marilyn for Ever," both in 1987. She exhibited and sold the images repeatedly, for decades.
Her photographs of Joan Crawford show the actress in her 50s, near the end of her reign as Hollywood royalty. None is flattering. There are close-ups of Crawford applying makeup to her wrinkled eyelids and evaluating her aged face in a hand mirror.
"The first time I met Joan Crawford she took off all her clothes, stood in front of me nude and insisted I photograph her," Arnold wrote in "Film Journal." They met in a dressing room when Arnold was on assignment for Women's Home Companion magazine. "Sadly," she wrote of Crawford, "something happens to flesh after 50."
After the photo session Crawford demanded that Arnold give her the film of the nudes and Arnold agreed.
Images of Crawford are among the more brutal included in "Film Journal." The book was praised for its "poignant [images], all capturing an off-guard moment full of character" in a 2002 review in the Canadian Review of Books.
One of her most challenging assignments was a photo essay about the Nation of Islam and its leader, Malcolm X, in the early 1960s. In an essay accompanying the photographs, published in Life magazine in 1962, Arnold wrote that she was spat on at one rally and after another she found the back of her sweater covered with burn holes from cigarette butts.
She did her best to avoid "women's pages" assignments but still had to photograph her share of women and children. Whenever possible she worked from a global perspective.
In Zululand, South Africa, 1973, Arnold photographed expectant mothers waiting in line to see a doctor. Each woman is beautifully poised and appears to be lost in daydreams.
On a trip through China in 1979 Arnold took pictures of toddlers in the nursery at a cotton mill, sitting together on a long bench, plump and pink cheeked. They are included in Arnold's 1980 book "In China," which won the National Book Award.
The book's cover shows an old woman's face, an arrangement of soft creases and a pair of gentle eyes.
The same physical description suited Arnold as an older woman. "Eve was diminutive, quiet, an elegant dresser, an ageless woman of 80 when I first met her," Mary Panzer, former curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., told The Times in 2006.
She was born Eve Cohen to Russian immigrant parents in Philadelphia in 1912 and went to work at a young age after receiving a basic education.
"I came to photography by accident," Arnold wrote in her book "In Retrospect." A friend gave her a Rolleicord portable box camera. That got her interested in taking pictures.
In one of her first jobs she worked at a photo-finishing plant in New Jersey where she learned the technical side of her craft. The artistry came to her during a six-week course at the New School for Social Research in New York City in 1948. Her instructor was Alexey Brodovitch, the art director for Harper's Bazaar magazine. He taught his students the basics about composition and style.
For one class assignment Arnold followed the action backstage at a fashion show in Harlem. A British magazine, Picture Post, published the photographs, Arnold's debut in print.
From there she built a portfolio of freelance work and parlayed it into her first assignment from Magnum.
Later in her life she complained that she was given second rate assignments at Magnum. Her admirers argue that she did very well.
"Magnum was a macho culture when Eve started there," said Panzer of the National Portrait Gallery. "She had the determination to stay."
In 1961, Arnold became a contract photographer for the London Sunday Times' Colour Magazine. After years of shooting in black and white, she had to learn how to work in color to keep up with changing times, she wrote in her memoir.
One of her best known stories for Colour offered a rare look inside harems in Dubai and the Arab Emirates, in the early 1970s. The photo essay led her to a television documentary, "Behind the Veil," for the BBC.
She had her first major solo exhibit in 1980 at the Brooklyn Museum. Others followed at the National Portrait Gallery and elsewhere.
Still working in her 70s, Arnold completed "In America" (1983), a book with images of prison workers cleaning up litter near train tracks in Texas and chess players at an outdoor pavilion in Chicago, among other sights.
"What drove me and kept me going over the decades?" Arnold wrote in her memoir. "If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.' "
Her marriage to Arnold Arnold ended in divorce.
Survivors include her son Francis and three grandchildren.
Rourke is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer.
Eve Arnold, one of the first woman photojournalists to join the prestigious Magnum Photography Agency in the 1950s and traveled the world for her work but was best known for her candid shots of Hollywood celebrities, has died. She was 99.


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Every parent hopes for their student to excel in school, but sometimes parents just don't know what to do with a child who is especially exceptional. Keeping him or her challenged, interested, and engaged can be tough. Parents of gifted children should know that they're not alone. We are here to help and there are also hundreds of resources on the Web that can help every step of the way. Here are some we think stand out from the crowd, offering advice, information, support, and educational resources to help you support and encourage your child's special abilities.
National Association for Gifted Children: The National Association for Gifted Children is one of the best places for parents of gifted children to find resources, reading, help, and advice on raising an exceptional child.
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The Broadway is a residential tower built, appropriately enough, on the corner of Broadway and Hildebrand. It sits on the former site of Earl Abel's Restaurant. The restaurant, under new ownership, really only moved down the road a ways, but that hasn't stopped many locals from complaining that the Broadway has displaced a beloved San Antonio landmark. The Broadway is one of a half-dozen or so highrise residential towers built in San Antonio in the last five years or so. I think it's an indicator that some San Antonians are finally moving back into town from the suburban wastelands of the surrounding hill country.


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Last month we left off describing video cabling and installation. This month we will continue covering installation, going a little deeper into cabling design. We will then examine the design characteristics of the installed CCTV system.
While not required by the National Electrical Code, surge suppressors are a practical necessity for virtually all outdoor runs of coaxial cable. Since the pieces of equipment connected to these cables are very sensitive, they are easily damaged by voltage spikes. The most commonly used type of surge suppressors for communications circuits is metal oxide varistors (MOVs). Typically called protectors, MOVs are made of zincoxide particles pressed into a wafer and equipped with connecting leads or terminals. This device has a more gradual clamping action than either spark-gap arrestors or gas tubes. As the surge voltages increase, MOVs conduct more heavily and provide clamping action. And unlike spark-gap arrestors and gas tubes, they absorb energy during surges. They also tend to wear out over time.
Coaxial cables indoors are subject to the following requirements:
They must be kept away from power or Class 1 circuits, unless the circuits are in a raceway, metal sheathed cables or UF (underground feeder) cables.
They can be run in the same raceway (or enclosure) with Class 2 or 3 circuits, power-limited fire protective signaling circuits, communications circuits or optical cables.
They may not be run in the same raceway or enclosure with Class 1 or power conductors. Exceptions are made if there are permanent dividers in the raceway or enclosure, or in junction boxes used solely as power feeds to the cables.
They are allowed to be run in the same shaft as power and Class 1 conductors, but in these cases, they must remain at least 2 in. away. (But, as noted above, this applies to open conductors, not to conductors in raceways, metal sheathed cables or UF cables.)
The NEC goes into great detail on designated cable types. Many of these requirements apply more to the cable manufacturer than to the installer. Nonetheless, the proper cable type must be installed. The NEC designations and their uses are as follows:
Type CATVP
CATVP is plenum cable (hence the "P" designation), and may be used in plenums, ducts or other spaces for environmental air.
Type CATVR
CATVR is riser cable, and is made suitable (extremely fire resistant) for installation in shafts or from floor to floor in buildings.
Type CATV
CATV is general use cable. It can be used in almost any location, except for risers and plenums.
Type CATVX
CATVX is a limited use cable, and is allowed only in dwellings and in raceways.
You will find in practice, that many coax cables are multiple-rated. In other words, their jacket is tested and suitable for several different applications. In such cases, they will be stamped with all of the applicable markings, such as CATV and CATVR.
You may also notice from this list that all the cable types start with "CATV." Although you may think that the term refers to Cable Television, it instead refers to Community Antenna Television.
Trade designations generally refer to the cable's electrical characteristics; specifically, the impedance of the cable. This is why different cable types (RG59U, RG58U, etc.) should not be mixed, even though they appear to be virtually identical — they have differing levels of impedance, and mixing them may degrade system performance.
The Code defines a clear hierarchy for cable substitutions. The highest of the cable types is plenum cable — CATVP; it can be used anywhere at all. The next highest is riser cable — CATVR; it can be used anywhere, except in plenums. Third on the list is CATV, which can be used anywhere except in plenums or risers. Last is CATVX, which can be used only in dwellings and in raceways.
The NEC also permits multipurpose cables to be used for CATV work. But, as always, only plenum types of cables can be used in plenums, riser types in risers and so on. The formal listing is shown in Table 820-53.
Sending television signals requires much more bandwidth than telephones do. When the technology was first developed, the only cable capable of carrying these high-speed signals with adequately low loss was coaxial cable, also called coax. Coax uses a central conductor surrounded by an insulator, then an outer conductive webbing called the shield, and finally a plastic jacket.
Video transmissions require the high-bandwidth capability of coaxial cable. It is the design of the cable, with the central conductor widely and evenly separated from the outer conductor that gives it the high bandwidth capability. In addition, the outer conductor acts to contain the signal inside the cable, reducing the emissions from the cable that cause interference in other electronics and the interference of other outside sources on the signal in the cable itself.
The signal in coax cable is a simple voltage. It can be introduced into the cable at either end or even in the middle, where it will be carried to both ends. In any application, it is important that the transmitters be selected to be appropriate to the characteristics of the coax cable and both ends must be terminated to prevent reflections that can cause interference.
Coax cable must be installed with care. It should not be stretched or kinked. Doing so will reduce the level of bandwidth it will transmit. Connectors should be carefully installed to prevent signal leakage (the TV term analogous for signal loss) and unused ends must be properly terminated to prevent reflections.
Of all types of security equipment, closed circuit television surveillance is currently the most often purchased, and it is the most often "planned purchase" in the next year.
The technologies that drive the demand for CCTV are:
Greater light-sensitivity for low-light surveillance at less cost
Improved picture performance
Better camera resolution
Better signal transmission, with lower costs, closer refresh/update rates and emergence of networked video and easier installation.
Median purchase retail price expected over the next year is $45,000; the average system planned in the next year is $215,000. Most likely because they specify systems for multiple clients, security consulting and architect/engineering firms, have the highest average CCTV sale: $533,000.
CCTV monitors will be the second largest planned purchase overall, 57% — and it's the number one choice of educators. Time-lapse video recorders are the third most purchased CCTV — top among financial service firms. In terms of CCTV transmission and signaling — 43% plan a purchase in the next year and the gap between fiber-optic and coaxial cable is closing: 25% and 30% respectively.
From a technical standpoint, video monitoring offers great benefits, which is used for so many security applications. But there's a downside: invading human privacy.
Imagine working at your desk with an intimidating, intrusive video camera pointing at you all day. The camera makes many people feel vulnerable and mistrusted; it increases people's anxiety, reducing their happiness and their efficiency. Conceivably, being under constant surveillance could drive a marginal person over the edge — and into the very kind of actions we are trying to avoid in the first place. Finally, the camera subtly informs people that their individual virtues will not differentiate them from anyone else. After all, you are spying on them based upon the action of the potentially worst people.
You can do several things to minimize the human costs of surveillance. Among them are the following:
Look for alternative methods of accomplishing the same functions. For example, monitoring doorways only might accomplish your goal, without making people feel that they are always being watched.
Make sure to explain your decision to use video surveillance to every person that will be affected.
Explain to all personnel how the new security measures are designed for their safety. Give them details as to how the system was designed, how it operates, and how it will keep them much safer. In a short time most of your community will know that your facility is very well protected.
Develop a very explicit policy on how the videotapes will be used. For example, they should be seen only by one or two security people; they should be reviewed for security purposes only (no spying to see who takes an overly-long coffee break); and they will be destroyed after 30 days, unless there is a security-based reason to preserve them.
Keep your policy to the letter. No cheating. If you break policy and use the tapes for other than the stated reasons, people will find out.
Keep track of how your people feel about the video monitoring. Do they feel like it is keeping them safer? Or do they feel like slaves under the watchful eye of big brother?
Remember that you have a lot to lose from video monitoring. Happy people make money for the company; unhappy people will lose money and will ultimately drive a company out of business. And who wants to work in unhappy place anyway?


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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Corn Syrup? Check. Red food coloring? Check
I have come up with a non-violent, yet effective method of retribution for these ass-clowns that is also in line with celebrating All Hallow's Eve. This method will identify these traitors for the weekend and provide a level of satisfaction to the true Packer fans in Green Bay for the game. I ask that you hose these people with fake blood, and not just a speck, I'm talking Carrie-style, a head-to-toe staining of their traitorous clothing.
Here's a great recipe that I plan on using (but it needs to be multiplied by 30 if you want to have enough):
2/3 c. Corn Syrup
1/3 c. Warm Water
5 Tbsp Corn Starch
4 tsp red food coloring
1 Tbsp Powdered Cocoa
2 drops of green or yellow food coloring
Mix the corn starch with the water in a large mixing bowl. Stir in the corn syrup. Add the food coloring slowly, checking for color.
I recommend filling a few water balloons if you need to spray a bunch of these individuals and then just having a large squirt gun on hand to douse solitary individuals. A bucket is also a fine choice, simple, yet incredibly effective.
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- pashawwOctober 27, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Your recipie sounds like one the great Sam Raimi once used at a wilderness cabin deep in the woods near Morristown, Tennessee.ReplyDelete
corn syrup, food coloring, and non-dairy coffee creamer. Add one Necronomicon Ex-Mortis and enjoy!
Are you familiar with the term, "boomstick"?ReplyDelete
This here is my boom stick!!!ReplyDelete
Also I'm going to the game and want to actually stay and watch the game not get arrested. So the bloody douse I think is out of my equation. BOO the hell out of Favre where ever you go!!
It's going to be a great victory for the packers 35-10 peterson gets 105 yards and favre tossed the ball 35 times 3 of which are picked off!!!
- pashawwOctober 28, 2009 at 11:21 AM
'96 Packers badmouth todays Vikes and Brett's comments. Very Nice . .ReplyDelete


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The Hundredorum Rolls of 1273 list Gilbert le Fuller in Hertfordshire and Ambrose le Fullur in Shropshire. [3]CITATION[CLOSE]
Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
Years later and much further to the north in Scotland, Andrew Fullo was a tenant in Mikilbrekauch, and John Fullo was a tenant in Balgirdane, 1376. Thomas Fullo was burgees of Edinburgh in 1386. [4]CITATION[CLOSE]
Black, George F., The Surnames of Scotland Their Origin, Meaning and History. New York: New York Public Library, 1946. Print. (ISBN 0-87104-172-3)
The famed Alfred Carl Fuller (1885-1973), the original "Fuller Brush Man," was born in Welsford, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada and moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1903 at the age of 18. Three years later he started the Fuller Brush Company in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Cultivation is a game about a community of gardeners growing food for themselves in a shared space.
Cultivation is quite different from most other games. It is a social simulation, and the primary form of conflict is over land and plant resources---there is no shooting, but there are plenty of angry looks. It is also an evolution simulation. Within the world of Cultivation, you can explore a virtually infinite spectrum of different plant and gardener varieties.


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You might notice something new on your next trip to Apple's iBookstore: You! Independently-published books will be prominently featured as part of Apple's new "Breakout Books" section. Featuring titles from independent authors, the section will work to highlight books that have been highly rated, regardless of how they have been promoted or who published them. In short,
The books that will be featured will be broken down into four categories: Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mysteries & Thrillers, and More to Explore (we're guessing that encompasses everything that can't be easily put into a genre). This kind of attention, putting a book front-and-center in front of millions of prospective readers is a huge opportunity for independent authors. In the past, publishers would fight over this "front-of-the-store" space, usually reserved for books with huge initial print orders and authors with highly established reputations. Now, just by writing a quality book, authors can find their book with the type of promotion that usually comes with a high sticker price.
According to the New York Times, one of the main motives for getting behind independent publishers was their pricing: independent authors sell their books at significantly lower costs than major titles (those produced by major publishers). This pricing model encourages readers to buy more independently published books than they would more expensive ones, further democratizing the marketplace.
While "Breakout Books" will not always be the center of attention on the iBookstore, it marks a major change in how digital booksellers are respecting independent authors and how quickly the marketplace is changing. In what was once a field dominated by six major publishers, there are now thousands of people each acting on their own, letting the quality of their work act as their best publicity.
As readers, would you buy a book that has been highly rated by other readers? As writers, how do you think this will change independent publishing?
Do you know of any other digital bookstores that have this type of promotion? Let us know!
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Commentary on the Protocol additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem (Protocol III)
31-03-2007 Article, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 865, by Jean-François Quéguiner
The emblems of the red cross and red crescent on a white ground have been used since the nineteenth century as universal symbols of assistance to victims of armed conflicts and natural disasters. While a detailed account of their long history is beyond the scope of this commentary, it is useful to recall some significant moments in an effort to understand the reasons behind the adoption on 8 December 2005 of an additional emblem – the red crystal.
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Lee Does It All
Cliff turned in another brilliant pitching performance on Thursday afternoon as the Phillies finished a four-game sweep of the Marlins. As everyone knows, he threw a 2-hit, 3-0 shutout and drove in the first run with a booming double.
But, one has to wonder if any pitcher was more dominating in the history of homestands. The Phillies seventh straight win capped a 9-2, 10-day funstand at Citizens Bank Park. Cliff won three of those games and posted a 0.38 ERA. Repeat, a 0.38 ERA. Heck he drove in as many runs in Thursday's game as he allowed in his three wins, one.
This from Elias Sports Bureau: Lee was the first Phillies pitcher to allow two or fewer hits in a shutout performance while stroking a pair of hits with the bat since Steve Carlton did it against the Cubs at Veterans Stadium on October 1, 1980.
The long ball returned to the offense in the 11 games. J-Roll hit three homers and drove in 10; Ryan, three homers and 11 RBI; Chase, two homers, nine RBI. Shane had the most hits (15) and highest average (.349). That's balance, folks.
Thursdays win boosted the team's record when they score three runs or less to 14-23. When they score more than three, a frightening 30-3. In eight of their nine wins, they topped three runs. When the offense matches the starting pitching, it is scary.
Thursday's game is over, followed by a five and one-half hour flight to Seattle and a three-game weekend series against the Mariners and then three games starting Tuesday in St. Louis.
In interleague play this year, the Phillies are 2-1 (Rangers). In interleague play against the Mariners, the Phillies are 1-5, 1-2 in Seattle. So, put away the joy stick. There's work to be done.
Seas of Red
When the Phillies play on the road, enemy ballparks often resemble a sea of red. Phillies fans flock to see their team.
It will be interesting to see how many fans the Phillies have in the great northwest. We know there is a group of 75 on the first Phillies Road Trip for this weekend. Co-hosts are Greg Luzinski and Scott Palmer.
The trip is sold out as are the three others coming up, Toronto, Washington, DC and Chicago.
Down On The Farm
Lehigh Valley hit three home runs but lost, 6-5, in 10 innings at Pawtucket . . . Reading also hit three home runs in a one-run loss, 8-7, at Bowie . . . Clearwater ended the first half with a 5-3 defeat at Dunedin . . . RF Anthony Hewitt had 3 hits, 2 steals but Lakewood dropped a 4-3 decision at West Virginia.
Weekend Baseball
Fans living in the Philadelphia area wanting to see some Phillies baseball can visit Reading where the those Phillies are home to New Britain. Or, you can drive to Williamsport for manager Mickey Morandini's debut as the Crosscutters start their season with home games Friday night and Saturday night against State College.
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Hopland is in Southern Mendocino County, about 15 miles north of the Sonoma-Mendocino County line. It is an agricultural area with wine grapes the main crop. The town has a number of antique shops, restaurants, tasting rooms and one historic hotel. Hopland is about a 45 minute drive from Santa Rosa, CA on Highway 101, making it ideal for weekend getaways.
The Zmarzly Family Vineyards are in the hills 4 miles west of the town of Hopland, on a small county road. The high elevation (1250 to 1600 feet) offers a chance to see 25 mile views of the hills, valleys and nearby mountain ranges. The views are thrilling, especially the one from the knoll, a tree-studded hill within the vineyard.
Mendocino County is rural, sparsely populated, with spectacular views and very little traffic. Most of the wineries in Mendocino County are located along one of two corridors. Route 128 goes through Yorkville and Anderson Valley on its way to the Pacific Coast. Highway 101 traces north-to-south, with many wineries located from Hopland to Redwood Valley, just north of Ukiah.


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Sean Bell: Venue Switch Next?
There must be no change of venue in this case, which continues to be reported on over the Internet and on the front page of every mainstream media. After all, where in the world would defense attorneys propose to go to find a jury that has not heard anything about this case? People in France, England, South Africa, Upstate New York, have read or heard about an unarmed Sean Bell being pronounced, "dead on arrival� at 4:56 A.M. at Jamaica Medical Center on his wedding day.
So we have no murder indictments in the brutal killing of Sean Bell by New York police--just manslaughter and reckless endangerment. Now, we must brace for that inevitable attempt to move the case away from New York City.
One bullet fired from a weapon is clearly intended to kill. When 50-plus bullets are fired at someone who is unarmed – that's clearly murder. The Queens District Attorney's Office, headed by Richard Brown, adjudicated the Queens shooting under a secret Grand Jury and failed to indict each cop who discharged their weapon. Did this secret Grand Jury get to choose from the murder or attempted murder charge? Only three of the five undercover cops who discharged their weapons were indicted and are now awaiting their day in court.
In the early morning of November 25, 2006, nine members of the New York Police Department's (NYPD) elite unit, known as the Club Enforcement Division, arrived at the "Kalua Cabaret,� in South Queens, which was on their, "Problem list,� for drugs and prostitution. A problem that workers at the club deny and the area Community Board knew nothing about.
According to a NYPD confidential report of the shooting, a copy of which was obtained by The Black Star News, Detective Gescard Isnora, 28, and uncover UC#3900 (name not known) allegedly overheard Guzman say, "Yo, get my gun, get my gun.� It's unclear who he (Guzman) was talking to or if any crime had been committed. However, via a phone call, Isnora informed supervisor – Lieutenant Gary Napoli, "It is getting hot on Liverpool, for real. I think there's a gun.� It appears shortly after that information was given all hell broke loose on Liverpool Street as the shooting commenced. Isnora allegedly discharged his weapon a total of 11-times and was the undercover who took the first shot around 4:14 A.M., approximately a whole city block away and around the corner from the "Kalua Cabaret.� Any reports referring otherwise should be viewed as totally misleading and a disservice to the public—yet several news accounts in white media still refer to "outside the club� to make it appear as if it was instantaneous and not premeditated.
There must be no change of venue in this case, which continues to be reported on over the Internet and on the front page of every mainstream media. After all, where in the world would defense attorneys propose to go to find a jury that has not heard anything about this case? People in France, England, South Africa, Upstate New York, have read or heard about an unarmed Sean Bell being pronounced, "dead on arrival� at 4:56 A.M. at Jamaica Medical Center on his wedding day. "I must say, however, that the question of a venue change is not only in my judgment and the judgment of those of us that discussed this when we heard this last night – not only in our opinion wrong, it is insulting to the intelligence of the public and it is insulting to the courts,� Rev. Al Sharpton, an advisor to the Bell family has stated.
"If there were any such application made, I would vigorously oppose it. Motions for change of venue, as you probably know, are made directly to the appellate division, a court on which I sat for 10 years. They're generally considered only after it's been shown it's impossible to pick a fair and impartial jury,â€? stated Queens County D.A. Richard Brown, who failed to get a murder indictment; at least in the Amadou Diallo 41 bullet assassination, Bronx County D.A. Robert Johnson had obtained a murder indictment before the powers that be yanked the case to Lily white Albany.Â
In the Diallo case four white undercover NYPD members of the then Street Crimes Unit gunned down the unarmed Diallo, hitting him with at least 19 bullets. After the case was moved to the Bronx, the officers got a Christmas present and eventually walked—getting away with murder.
In the Sean Bell, his friends who were in the car early that morning, Joseph Guzman, and Trent Bennifield, whom were both seriously wounded, survived. Bell like Diallo will not be able to tell his story. Guzman who was hit 17 times by police bullets and Trent Bennifield who was hit 3 times, both also unarmed, tell a totally different story from the undercover cops' accounts.
There's a thin line between being a law enforcer and being a perpetrator. Too often bad policing gets tossed in with good policing and this is where the problems arise. There is no way a wrong can be made right. There is no way when you take a life, you can get that life back.Â
Every civil servant working in law enforcement in New York City receives firearm training at Rodman's Neck Firearm range in the Bronx. Each member is trained to shoot center mask. There is no shoot to wound. You are trained to shoot to kill. In so many cases this training has come to pass – however, can it always be justified?Â
This shooting has exposed the dark side of NYC's police. Members of the NYPD have too much contact with ordinary citizens and everyone is being treated like a criminal. The elderly, women and children are becoming victims of members of the NYPD, an unprofessional culture left over from former mayor Rudolph Giuliani and enhanced by Mayor Michael Bloomberg; he plays a kinder, gentler Giuliani well.
Marc Claxton and Noel Leader, who head the 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, appeared on different Black radio programs informing the listening public about police undercover work and what policies were broken in the Bell case. They continue, correctly, to call for a special prosecutor in the Sean Bell case and have no faith in the Queens District Attorney's Office. The calls for the firing of Commissioner Raymond Kelly and training instructor Anthony Isszo have fallen on deaf ears.Â
Attorneys Neville Mitchell and Peter St. George Davis who represent Bell's parents have leveled the same sentiments. After the Grand Jury was charged by the judge, D.A. Brown allowed a bogus "witness� to testify before the Grand Jury, which clearly showed why a special prosecutor should have been put on this case from the start. This "witness,� who first testified and stated he did not see anything, came back a second time saying a fourth Black man at the crime scene fired his gun at the police and ran into a building. None of the five cops who discharged their weapons reported anyone firing at them after the November 25 killing of Bell. "There's one word to describe a person who tells two different stories about the same incident, and it's called – a liar,� stated Attorney Davis, of this "witness.�
There are a lot of lies that have been told in the place of the truth. According to the NYPD's own report, Lt. Napoli, "—thought that the occupants of the Altima were firing shots at him and his team and he took cover.� After being labeled a coward, Napoli defended his actions saying he followed his NYPD's training and did nothing wrong. How does one "think� he or she is being fired on if he or she is not being fired on?
More to come.
Columnist's note: If you tuned in to Black talk radio WLIB 1190 AM with Imhotep Gary Byrd's, "Mind flight,� which once aired Monday thru Thursday mornings from 12:00 A.M. to 5:00 A.M., and are like most of us – 'tired of being dumbed-down because of a lack of news and information in your community and around the city.' Tell WLIB management, "I want to listen to the old Black talk radio program listed above. One day is a disservice to our communities,� contact: Deon Levingston, Vice President and General Manager, WLIB Radio, 3 Park Avenue, New York New York 10016; telephone – 212-592-0426. Send me your response and any reply and I will print it in this column. Let's stay informed.
Watch Manhattan cable channel 34 or www.mnn.org channel 34 every Sunday at 7:30 P.M. for news updates and other articles. You have any comments contact Winkfield for his consideration regarding covering your own story. Email him: firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com; call (212) 481-7745. Write to: On The Spot, Post Office Box 230149, Queens County 11423. Together we can get the justice everyone just talks about.
To subscribe to New York's favorite Pan-African weekly investigative newspaper or to send us news tips please call (212) 481-7745 or contact email@example.com
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FLOWERY BRANCH - Atlanta Falcons defensive coordinator Mike Nolan is still trying to gauge what his team will look like this season.
That's not easy to do during offseason training activities with some players unable to participate and others inexperienced.
But entering his 27th season as a coach in the NFL and 15th as a coordinator, Nolan said it's far too early to be concerned.
"I would say the biggest objective is that we continue to play as one (unit) because it's not going to be the same group as a year ago," Nolan said on Wednesday. "As opposed to saying we did 'that' poorly last year and we've got to 'that' better this year or continue what it was, with every group it's like starting over in my opinion."
Starting linebackers Sean Weatherspoon and Stephen Nicholas, last year's leading tacklers, are sidelined recovering from offseason surgeries, and prized rookie cornerback Desmond Trufant is back in school completing his degree at Washington.
OTAs are voluntary for players, and the Falcons aren't sure when Weatherspoon, Nicholas and Trufant will return, but coach Mike Smith indicates they'll be back for a mandatory mini-camp June 18-20.
Until then, Nolan will look at other players on the depth chart.
He has plenty of roles to fill for a defense that last year ranked 24th in total yards, 25th in third-down efficiency and 27th in sacks per passing attempt.
In their first season under Nolan, the Falcons were fourth in scoring and tied for fifth in takeaways, but the NFC South champions had a difficult time containing running quarterbacks.
They went 1-1 against Carolina's Cam Newton and 1-0 against Washington's Robert Griffith III before struggling in the playoffs against Seattle's Russell Wilson and San Francisco's Colin Kaepernick.
Kicker Matt Bryant and the Atlanta offense bailed out the defense in a last-second win over Seattle, but the entire team fell short in the second half of the NFC championship loss to San Francisco.
"We kept the points down, we were good in the red zone, we turned the ball over a lot and quarterbacks against us weren't very successful other than the running guys," Nolan said. "We won three of the five, but I wouldn't say we played as well as we can in some of them."
General manager Thomas Dimitroff didn't wait long to make significant changes.
John Abraham, the NFL's active leader in sacks, and starting right cornerback Dunta Robinson were released in moves to create salary cap space.
Cornerback Brent Grimes, who started just one game before a torn Achilles ended his 2012 season, left as a free agent, as did key reserve cornerback Christopher Owens.
In the draft, Dimitroff used six of the team's eight picks on defense.
Second-rounder Robert Alford of Southeast Louisiana is working behind Asante Samuel, the starter at left cornerback.
Defensive ends Malliciah Goodman of Clemson and Stansly Maponga of TCU were chosen in the fourth and fifth rounds and are challenging Jonathan Massaquoi and Cliff Matthews for snaps behind starters Osi Umenyiora and Kroy Biermann.
Compensatory picks in the seventh round landed safeties Kemal Ishmael of Central Florida and Zeke Motta of Notre Dame.
Both are working at third-string.
"This is going to be the most competitive offseason that we've had since our first season," Smith said. "Defensive back is one of the areas where it's going to be competitive. Not only at the corner position, but at the safety position in the backup roles because of the way we addressed it in the draft."
One major bright spot is Umenyiora, who signed as a free agent to replace Abraham as the team's leading pass rusher.
Nolan said Umenyiora has stepped into an immediate leadership role by reporting early to work each day and by working with younger players in the film room and on the field.
Umenyiora, who spent the last 10 years in New York and helped the Giants win two Super Bowls, downplayed his impact, but Nolan disagreed.
"Everybody knows what he can do on the field, and I'm aware of that, too," Nolan said. "But off the field, those little things are appreciated. I'll think they'll help us."


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Only the photos, colors, logo (at the top) and content of the "boxes" can be changed.
We want to project a warm, cozy, inviting, pet/rural lifestyle image.
- A new logo design for our website name "totalpetcomfort.com" that will appear in the upper left of the home page
- A homepage design using the "magento classic" theme (link above)
- Color scheme should be warm and inviting
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- check out fetchdog.com and cozywinters.com for image that we are trying to project
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Wall Street isn't feeling much love from Washington these days.
With the lame-duck Congress and the Bush administration unable to agree on any action to boost the economy or ease the financial crisis, the markets have nosedived. The Dow Jones Industrial Average alone has plunged 2,000 points since Election Day.
"It can't get much worse," says Christopher Rupkey, chief financial economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. "We're discounting they're going to rise to the rescue."
Analysts say the problem goes well beyond the normal lame-duck government issues.
"They are working against confidence building,' says David Resler, chief economist at Nomura International. "We're in a world where we need to deliver."
The examples of paralysis are everywhere—from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's frequent policy surprises to Congress' inability to forge an auto bailout or second stimulus package to President-elect Barack Obama's delay in naming a Treasury Secretary.
For Investors
- S&P 500 Falling to 660 'Within Days'
- A Few Investors 'Sniff' Capitulation
- Four Stocks That Are 'Relatively Safe'
- Peter Schiff: Dollar Will 'Fall Like a Stone'
- Credit Spreads and Libor
"Right now, it's almost too big for people to comprehend," says Donald W. Riegle Jr., who chaired the Senate Banking Committee during the savings and loan crisis nearly 20 years ago. "You have divided government and a form of paralysis. And the main leadership force—the President—is sort of missing in action."
Paulson In Focus
The stock of the administration's man of action—Paulson—seems to have fallen as sharply as the market lately. Critics cite his stunning reversal on how the Wall Street bailout fund should be used, as well as signs this week that he's becoming disengaged from the whole crisis.
"I'm really at a loss to understand what he is doing," says Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "He's made a lot of big mistakes."
Paulson's announcement a week ago to abandon using the TARP fund to buy troubled mortgage assets in favor of injecting capital directly into banks is still reverberating in financial circles—as well as Washington.
"The abrupt change caught us by shock because that was not part of the debate," Sen. Charles Grassley (R.-Iowa), told CNBC.
"Secretary Paulson is not getting the phone calls we're getting," adds Sen. Claire McCaskill (D.-Missouri), who—along with Grassley—is cosponsoring legislation to strengthen the oversight board of the TARP. "It is uncomfortable to rationalize that what we voted for is not what they're going to do. He has to understand in this climate, it's very frustrating for the average American to understand what we're doing."
Days after that policy move, Paulson surprised many again in saying he would not seek authorization for the second $350 billion of the TRAP program, leaving that to the Obama administration.
That raised questions about how Paulson viewed the urgency of the current situation, given that he had rushed to Capital Hill in late September and urged swift passage of the $700 billion package. It also emboldened Congressional Democrats to consider using the rescue fund for non-depository institutions.
"It's not big enough and it's not going in the right direction," Christian Thwaites, CEO of Sentinel Asset Management, told CNBC, echoing a common criticism. "It's a disaster from a PR point of view and a confidence point of view. He keeps making these opaque speeches. He's completely lost the thread of his communication."
Thwaites thinks the market can fall another 5-10 percent before the Jan. 20 inauguration, in what appears to be a new stage of the financial crisis, which has been particularly brutal on bank stocks, such as Citigroup (NYSE: C).
Even more surprising, Paulson made public comments twice this week that the government's efforts had succeeded in stabilizing the financial system.
On Thursday, he made that point in a major speech at the very moment Congressional leaders were holding a news conference to say there was no compromise agreement to bail out the nation's automakers.
"It's not clear to me that we've stabilized the financial system—the markets don't think that," says Lawrence White, a former white house economist and regulator, now with NYU's Stern School of Business. "I'm really surprised that Paulson has thrown in the towel."
TARP Politics
Supporters and critics say Paulson's lame-duck status may be more worrisome and unsettling than President Bush's, because the bailout legislation gives vast and unprecedented authority to the Treasury Secretary.
At one point Paulson seemed "almost presidential," says Bon Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, which preaches fiscal responsibility. "If you start changing your mind about what the $700 billion is for, it detracts from your credibility."
"There was an atmosphere here in Congress, 'Oh my god, we need somebody smarter than ourselves, give him the money," says Rep Brad Sherman (D. Calif.), who voted against the legislation.
Paulson's missteps and step-back have both emboldened members of Congress, some of whom clearly regret voting for the TARP, say observers, and is now rethinking its use.
"Congress wants influence over it," says the Cato Institute's Dan Mitchell, who served as an economist to Sen. Bob Packwood.
"They don't have much incentive to compromise with Paulson at this point," says Baker.
Congress Adrift
That, too, has had negative repercussions for the markets.
"The kind of spread-it-around mentality shows a lack of understanding of the issue that's out there," says Brian Bethune, chief US economist at Global Insight.
That was aptly illustrated by the desire of some Democrats to use the TARP to bail out the auto industry. Former ten-term Republican congressman Bill Frenzel, now with the Brookings Institution, calls it "a new-use mandate."
What's worse, ideological differences and partisan politics boiled over during the auto bailout debate.
"It's very hard for the Congress to do itself," says Riegle, who represented Michigan and spearheaded the Chrysler bailout three decades ago. "You have a vacuum. "If the president had a plan to direct some of that money, then you could get the votes in the Congress."
Instead, the Congress spent about as much time on a $25 billion package as it did on the $700 billion TARP, failing to produce any legislation but creating more uncertainty.
"Congress is going back to a business-as-usual approach," says Frenzel.
In doing so, the lame-duck Congress probably gave up any chance of creating a second stimulus package, whose broad support includes Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, business leaders, supply-side economic maestros such as Martin Feldstein of Stanford University and, of course, President-elect Obama.
Obama's Role
Even Obama, who quickly convened a group of economic advisors for a one-day summit the same week he was elected, has not done all he can to help build confidence and lessen uncertainty, analysts say.
He has yet to say who'll replace Paulson at Treasury, even though the leading candidates have already served in government and are virtually assured to win Senate approval.
"He's soon going to squander his honeymoon period if he doesn't soon nominate a secretary," says Resler. "He needs to pick one and start working with Paulson immediately to help Paulson decide what to do," he adds, reflecting a common view.
Such a move would be in keeping with the political protocol that there can only be one president at any given time—which Obama has emphasized.
For former senator Riegle, now at APCO Worldwide, that puts the responsibility on the President Bush.
"The President should assemble a task force and working group, meeting seven days a week to come up with a plan to get us thru November, December and January," says Riegle.
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UPPER MERION - The annual Irish Thunder Pipes and Drums concert in front of the Washington Memorial Chapel on Route 23 in Valley Forge National Historical Park will take place on Wednesday, Aug. 13, starting at 7:30 p.m.
The concert is part of the Frank P. Law Concert Series, which features free entertainment every Wednesday in July and August. On Aug. 13 the theme of the concert will be Music of the British Isles. Doug Gefvert, the Washington Memorial Chapel carillonneur, will begin the concert with a collection of tunes from Britain, Scotland and Wales from the bell towers of the chapel .
At dusk, the Irish Thunder Pipes and Drums will enter the grounds in front of the chapel playing an assortment of Irish and American patriotic tunes. The Irish Thunder is part of the Ancient Order of Hibernians Notre Dame Division, which is located in Swedesburg, Upper Merion Township. The band has had a busy schedule this year and just completed a tour in Ireland, taking part in the Galway Sessions in concert and in parade. Then they traveled and promoted their music in Derry, Kilmacrennan and Dublin.
During the concerts the chapel cabin shop will be open for refreshments. It is recommended that anyone attending the concert brings a blanket or chair. Last year 700 people attended this event, which turned out to be the biggest night the summer series ever had.


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Tom Lamb is a new board member of the Washtenaw Community College Foundation, starting his first term last August, but he is already a huge proponent of WCC.
June and July classes available
Keep your momentum going this summer! Although Spring Semester started May 11, WCC offers a wide variety of classes that start later in June and July. Whether you're already a WCC student or you're home for summer from another college or university, we have classes that can help you keep moving toward your degree.
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Laurie Wadhams and her husband Tim are leading the Washtenaw Community College Foundation's Campaign for Success. To date, the Campaign has garnered over $8 million in contributions and pledges, far and away the most successful fund raising effort in the college's 50-year history. The contributions will support faculty innovation and student scholarships and success. Wadhams, who is also the Foundation Board Secretary and serves on the Women's Council, credits the success to a number of factors: "We have a fabulous, very active and engaged leadership committee. We have benefitted from WCC's outstanding reputation and from the leadership and support of President Dr. Rose Bellanca, former Vice President of Advancement Wendy Lawson and current Executive Director Julaine LeDuc," she said. "Donors have stepped up and are very generous. We anticipate the community will continue to support WCC, and the numbers should continue to grow."
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The inaugural Faculty, Alumni and Student Gala at Washtenaw Community College featured talent from across WCC's campus and the surrounding community. Performances ranged from dance and vocals to poetry and instrumentals.
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Before the first game of this year's
White Sox
I asked a question that I'd like to revisit now that we have a result.
Who would go crazier: Cubs runners on Gavin Floyd or the flash mob in Carlos Zambrano's head?
Answer:Ozzie Guillen.
At least Zambrano
got through the first inning without going nuts in the dugout.
And Floyd only had
one runner steal second on a pitchout.
Of course, you don't have to steal on Floyd
when he moves up two runners with a wild pitch and then inexplicably gives Starlin Castro a pitch to hit for a two-out, two-run single with first base open.
Or when Castro opens the sixth
by taking Floyd deep to erase the entire 3-0 lead.
Or when
Carlos Pena
continues the assault
with a three-run bomb that made it 6-3. What part of "get the ball, throw the ball'' doesn't Floyd understand?
Biggest part of the Cubs' sixth-inning explosion?
Zambrano's striking out Konerko to end the fifth with two on and two out to keep it 3-2.
Next biggest part might've been
Zambrano's shut-down sixth when Guillen was ejected, which proved to be the Sox' lone highlight after Konerko's homer.
Guillen saw
Geovany Soto
's mask and imagined he was kicking Floyd, right?
And Soto's going to ask Guillen
to autograph the mask, right?
Zambrano threw 21 pitches in that three-run first inning,
then threw only 94 over the next seven innings of poised, four-hit, shutout ball. He shouldn't need a two-run homer to realize he's in a game, but still, it looks like he found something better than launching on teammates.
Although I wouldn't be surprised
if Zambrano was clearing his throat in the ninth.
Interesting series when Guillen seems less likely
to be with the Sox next year than Jim Hendry does with the Cubs.
Sox general manager
Kenny Williams
would rather talk about his team's shortcomings than Guillen's chances of going to the Marlins. But it sounds like if Guillen were to leave, then Williams would bring up Dayan Viciedo and dump Juan Pierre before Guillen got through airport security.
And that was before
Pierre's at-bat in the ninth.
How many more seats
do they have to remove before they can get a sellout for Sox-Cubs at the Cell?
But hey, at least
there were enough fans to boo Adam Dunn's three strikeouts.


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The world of gemstones is a fascinating one. For example, did you know that sapphire and ruby are the same mineral, just different colors, or that peridot is formed during volcanic eruptions?.
No? Well, read on for more fascinating gemstone facts.
Gemstones by Color
Color is hands down the most important thing to consider when purchasing a gemstone. The color saturation, depth of tone, and hue are the factors that determine the gemstone's value.
While the range of gemstone types and colors is vast, there are three key components to keep in mind when considering a jewelry purchase: hue, tone, and saturation.
Hue Are You?
A gemstone's hue is another way of describing its color. Some hues are more valued than others. For example, the ideal sapphire is in the velvety-blue to violet-blue range. A sapphire that is lighter or darker in color is considered less valuable. GIA has developed a color grading system that includes 31 different hues ranging from red to brown, with gradations such as slightly yellowish green and very strongly greenish blue, in the mix.
What about Tone?
A gemstone's depth of tone is an important factor that influences a gemstones hue. Tone refers to the lightness or darkness of a gemstone, so following our example of a sapphire above, one that has a medium to medium-dark tone is more highly prized than one with an extremely light or extremely dark tone.
A Note on Saturation
Getting Clarity
Almost all gemstones, even highly prized ones, contain inclusions. Flawless gemstones are very rare and very expensive. Most industry experts agree that inclusions are what give colored gemstones their unique personality. Some gems, like emeralds, are typically treated with colorless oil, wax or resin to minimize inclusions that reach the surface of the gemstone.
What is the Mohs Scale?
The relative hardness of all gemstones is gauged using the Mohs scale. Created in 1812 by a German mineralogist, the scale helps determines what a mineral is by testing its scratch resistance. A diamond, which is extremely hard, is a 10 on the Mohs scale, while talc, which is extremely soft, is a 1. However, keep in mind that Mohs is an ordinal scale, which means that while diamond is a 10 and corundum (sapphire and ruby) is a 9, diamonds are actually 4 times as hard as corundum.
The Importance of Cut
Unlike diamonds, there is no ideal cut for colored gemstones to maximum brilliance. However, a well-cut gemstone is one that produces the most even color, exposes the fewest inclusions, and enhances the gem's color.
When a gemstone is cut correctly, the color is rich and saturated because the light is properly reflected. When cut too shallow, the stone looks lighter in color because the light escapes, rather than reflects off the facets. A stone that has been cut too deep appears dark because the light is lost within the stone, rather than returned to the eye.
Does Size Matter?
Because all gemstones have different densities, two gems that are the same size may have different weights. For example, rubies are denser than diamonds, so a 1-carat ruby looks smaller than a 1-carat diamond. So, the carat weight of a gemstone is not really an accurate way to gauge the size of a gemstone. Instead, look for the diameter of the gemstone when viewed from above—a measurement we include in all the gemstone jewelry we sell.
Understanding Enhancements
Nearly all gemstones today, including the ones we sell, have been treated to enhance their color and/or clarity. The most common methods of treatment are heating (aquamarine, citrine, amethyst, sapphire, ruby, and tanzanite), bleaching (pearls), and irradiation (blue topaz).
Gemstones that have gorgeous color and clarity but have not been treated command extravagant prices. Most enhancement treatments are permanent, but some require special care.


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Hi there..I have been in scouting since I was a Bear but ended up being a Life for life. Got involved again when my son joined Cub Scouts back in 2000. He is now 14, a Life scout, and has his sights set on getting Eagle! I am really proud he has the strong desire to earn his Eagle!
My current positons are as an ASM for Troop 254, a unit Commissioner, the 2007/08 Activities & Civic Service Chairman and the District Webmaster. Yep, gonna cut back after this year as once people find out you can't say no they keep it coming! Oh well, I love scouting and don't really mind a bit.


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Hurricanes hope All Blacks will commit
ESPNscrum Staff
June 21, 2011
Jane has been linked with the Western Force to replace James O'Connor © Getty Images
The Hurricanes are hoping to give their fans reason to cheer after a disappointing Super Rugby season by re-signing four of their out-of-contract All Blacks.
Hurricanes' CEO James Te Puni is confident that New Zealand international's Hosea Gear, Piri Weepu, Cory Jane and Aaron Cruden will all put pen to paper at the end of a troubled campaign for the franchise that saw them finish 9th in the overall standings.
"We're keen to retain all four of them," Tu Puni told the Dominion Post. "I'm happy that Mark (Hammett) and the other coaching staff have progressed things pretty positively with these guys."
Cruden has been strongly linked with the Chiefs to replace outgoing Stephen Donald while Jane has been lined-up to replace the Western Force's departing superstar James O'Connor. Cruden's rumour holds special provenance as he is familiar to the Chiefs' new head coach Dave Rennie as the pair worked together at Manawatu and with the New Zealand U20s.
Fellow All Blacks Ma'a Nonu and Andrew Hore have already been shown the Wellington exit door, while Conrad Smith and Victor Vito have opted to re-sign with the franchise. They join lock James Broadhurst, prop Ben May and centre Charlie Ngatai in recommitting to the Hurricanes for the 2011-12 Super Rugby season.
After notching just five victories this season, Te Puni and the coaching staff will now conduct one-on-one interviews with the Hurricanes players. "Every single member of the Hurricanes squad has got a meeting with the coaches this week. It's happening at every franchise, the end-of-season reviews," Te Puni said. "The guys we are involved in conversations with about staying, they will be speaking with the coaches in the course of the next few days."
The Hurricanes will have to replace the outgoing players with new talent, but Te Puni is committed to looking closer to home rather than exploring overseas options. "We could easily tap offshore as a first port of call but we're not interested in doing that," he said. "This is where we want to see our Hurricanes coming from, the likes of Wellington, Taranaki, Manawatu, Hawke's Bay. The players we're putting offers in front of are drawn from those areas, first and foremost."
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Why not go pay your good friend Stubbs a visit? He's at the same ritzy location he was located at earlier, on the east side of Middle Park on Columbus Avenue. When you arrive, the door man and Johnny will have an interesting, humorous conversation with each other. Then, you will be escorted to the steam room, where the crooked politician awaits. Johnny listens to Stubbs' new instructions as he suffers the unbearable heat of the steam room in his leather riding jacket. Johnny has to "liberate" some prisoners from a bus. Easy enough, right?
From your location on the east side of Middle Park, you need to head northward and then westward to reach your destination in Alderney. Thankfully, since you're starting in the neatest borough streetwise (Algonquin), your trip will be a relatively painless one. Simply head north along Columbus, bear westward on Quartz Street (which splits Middle Park in half), and then take Frankfort Street northward to Topaz Street, which will lead you directly to Hickey Bridge. Once on the other side of the West River in Alderney, seek out the prison bus' location on Rand Avenue.
When you arrive, a brief cutscene will allow you to survey the terrain, so you can figure out your next move. You're going to have to move forward, over the railing, and down the sloping pathway. The bus is located to your right once you've gone down the slope. Of course, there are myriad cops in between you and that bus, and it's going to be up to you to figure out how to breach their location and live to tell the tale.
After the cutscene ensues, you can approach the entrance to the driveway. A cop will likely mutter something to you about not even trying to cross onto police property -- if you do, you'll be shot at. With this in mind, it's in your best interest to initiate hostilities. Take a shot at one of the officers guarding the entrance to get things going. Then, scamper down the sloping pathway towards one of the cop cars, extinguishing the lives of any other cops that get in your way. Break into a cop car and use it as a lethal battering ram to deal with any other cops in the area. Remember -- all you have to do is approach the bus nearby to get the next section of this mission going. So taking out all of the cops in the area, while possible, is hardly necessary. All that is necessary is to kill as many cops as you need to in order to get to the bus in one still-standing piece.
A quick cutscene will occur once you've gotten close enough to the bus to catalyze it. You never actually have to board the bus; rather, you just need to get close enough to set this scene in motion. You'll witness Niko sneaking on the bus behind a cop escorting the final prisoner. After killing the driver of the bus, one of the prisoners will brutalize the other cop on board. And just like that, you're in charge of a bus full of criminals.
All you have to do now is lose the cops, which is obviously a deed much easier said than done. Stealing the bus from the cop depot means you have a fairly significant three-star wanted level. What's more, you're driving an extremely slow, clumsy bus. So, getting away from the cops is going to be time-intensive and, frankly, obnoxious. Your best bet is to pause your game and figure out a good straight-away where you can pick up a lot of speed and lose the cops by going into another borough. Try to keep further crimes to a minimum so as to not escalate your wanted level, and steer carefully, since the bus can easily flip, ending your mission instantaneously.
Once you lose the cops, it's on to the drop point, where the prisoners can be dropped off so they can make the next leg of their escape. Naturally, the drop is on your home turf in Alderney, and you're going to be heading to the far southern end of the borough. There's a boat waiting to take the prisoners away docked off of the factories alongside Musketeer Avenue. Once you arrive (from wherever you lost the cops), the gratified and thankful prisoners will head on their way. Congratulations on yet another successful mission.
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The Hurlers is a group of stone circles on the eastern edge of Bodmin Moor, near the village of Minions. The name derives from the legend that men playing Cornish Hurling on a sunday were turned to stone for their sin. Two menhirs standing just outside the circles are known as the Pipers. The men playing the pipes seem to have suffered the same fate.
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Siemens helps Chicago pumping station save millions in energy costs with infrastructure upgrades
Siemens won a $10 million bid through the Chicago Department of Water Management to support upgrades to the Springfield Avenue Pumping Station, resulting in $7.5 million annually in energy and operating cost savings.
CHICAGO, IL, Nov. 20, 2012 -- Siemens won a $10 million bid through the Chicago Department of Water Management to support upgrades to the Springfield Avenue Pumping Station, which will result in approximately $7.5 million annually in energy and operating cost savings. The station will convert from traditional steam turbines and boilers, to drives connected to electric motors, as part of Chicago's 'Build a New Chicago' $7 billion, three-year infrastructure improvement program.
Siemens will provide five ROBICON Perfect Harmony Drives for the project, in addition to electrical distribution equipment such as panelboards, switchboards, safety switches, switchgear and busway systems.
Three buildings were demolished at the Springfield Avenue Pumping Station in April as electricity replaces steam power in the city's water distribution system. In a network of 12 pumping stations, the Springfield Station is one of four being converted to electricity.
"Siemens is proud to play a role in the 'Building a New Chicago' comprehensive infrastructure improvement program, which is one of the largest investments in infrastructure in the city's history," says Helmuth Ludwig, Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Industry, North America. "With more than 3,000 Siemens employees and 30 locations within Illinois, we too have a vested interest in helping the Chicago metropolitan area address its infrastructure needs through smart technologies," Ludwig added.
According to the Department of Water Management, the transformation at the Springfield Pumping Station will reduce carbon emissions by 17,380 tons each year, based on current water pumping rates. This is the equivalent of the annual greenhouse gas emissions of 2,888 automobiles, according to the USEPA.
The new LEED-certified electrical building, housing much of the Siemens equipment, will also include a green roof system for improved storm water management and solar collection panels. The Springfield project represents a $64.6M investment, and is expected to be completed in July 2015.
The Department of Water Management protects the public health in the most environmentally and fiscally responsible manner by delivering a sufficient supply of exceptional quality water and efficiently managing wastewater and stormwater.
The Department is responsible for delivering approximately one billion gallons of pure water to the residents of Chicago and 125 suburban communities everyday. It is also responsible for removing the wastewater and storm runoff from the streets of Chicago and delivering the effluent for treatment to the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.
Siemens has provided infrastructure, energy, industry and healthcare solutions to the Illinois International Port District, Chicago Public Schools, Soldier Field, the Chicago Park District, Chicago Housing Authority, Commonwealth Edison and St. Alexius Medical Center, among many other Illinois-based companies and organizations.
Siemens also supports a number of green/sustainability and learning initiatives through programs such as the Chicago Green Office Challenge, Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology, Siemens Science Day, Siemens/Chicago Housing Authority/Windows of Opportunity Summer Bridge, Chicago Cares, Siemens STEM Academy and Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge.
Siemens Industry Sector is the world's leading supplier of innovative and environmentally friendly products, solutions and services for industrial customers. With end-to-end automation technology and industrial software, solid vertical-market expertise, and technology-based services, the sector enhances its customers' productivity, efficiency and flexibility. With a global workforce of more than 100,000 employees, the Industry Sector comprises the Industry Automation, Drive Technologies and Customer Services Divisions as well as the Metals Technologies Business Unit. For more information, visit http://www.usa.siemens.com/industry.
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