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A lot of the low performance fee funds tend to have higher liquidity risks and this liquidity risk will translate into problems for investors when they attempt to pull money out of their fund. This is what Melvyn Teo, associate professor of finance at Singapore Management University (SMU) shared with Opalesques founder Matthias Knab in a recent video interview (here).
Teo is involved in extensive research in finance and hedge funds, and also manages the BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre at the SMU. This centre runs seminar, conferences, and educational programs on hedge funds, and also conducts fund research.
In one of his recent research work, Teo looked into the veracity of the liquidity claim of hedge funds, especially those that raise gates and prevent investors from withdrawing money. He found that lots of the investments are fairly illiquid, and that there are huge deviations in the funds liquidity profile. He believes this liquidity exposure is related to agency problems, which arises when management and stockholders have conflicting ideas on how the company should be run.
Higher liquidity risk related to lower performance fees
When investors pull money out from hedge funds that charge low performance fees, return of those funds tends to drop in the next month by 2% to 3%. This trend is stronger when stock market liquidit......................
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I used the canned peaches in this recipe. I found that it lacked a lot of flavor. Unless I change the recipe, I wouldn't try it again. Sorry David.


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A List of Values (LOV) within a form can be modified using Forms Personalization. By LOV we mean that LOV that is embedded within the form. This LOV was created within the development phase.
Let us first look at the Invoice form.
Navigate to the Payables Invoice form in an AP responsibility
Click on the Supplier field and the LOV opens. Search for all suppliers by searching for %.
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We would like to make a modification to this list. The idea is to modify the list based on the responsibility so that different responsibilities get access to different suppliers. So we have decided to show all suppliers whose names start with A if the Oracle user has logged into the responsibility that starts with EY
Personalization Steps
On the AP Invoice form click on Help > Diagnostics > Custom Code > Personalize
Enter a new personalization as shown below
Condition tab
The triggering condition is when the user clicks on the Supplier Name field on the form. Hence the Trigger Event is WHEN-NEW-ITEM-INSTANCE and the Trigger Object is INV_SUM_FOLDER.VENDOR_NAME. The condition of personalization checks whether in the logged in responsibility starts with EY or not.
Actions tab
Action 1: Create a new data set for the LOV
The query used is,
SELECT vendor_name, vendor_number, vendor_id, vendor_type_lookup_code, num_1099, type_1099, vat_registration_num, employee_id, awt_group_id, allow_awt_flag, hold_all_payments_flag, num_active_pay_sites FROM po_vendors_ap_v WHERE active_flag = 'Y' AND enabled_flag = 'Y' AND num_active_pay_sites > 0 AND vendor_name LIKE 'A%' ORDER BY UPPER (vendor_name)
Action 2: Set the new data set to the LOV
The previously created data set is now attached to the LOV which is called from the Supplier Name field.
How do we know the query of the record group that needs to be changed? The structure of the query has to be perfect else the form will throw an error each time we try to access the LOV.
To find the original structure of the query we need to open the form in Forms builder. We have come to know the name of the form from Personalization form itself. It is APXINWKB.fmb. You will find the form under $AU_TOP/forms/US folder on the server.
We need to know the name of the original record group being used on the form. On Action 2 of the personalization step above we shall remove the Value as shown below,
Save the data on the form. Close the form and reopen it and come to this step. Now click on Get Value button.
You will get the name of the record group, i.e. ACTIVE_VENDORS, used in the form. This value is overwritten to suit the requirement. Now the value can be changed to XX_VENDORS_NAME so that the personalization remains intact. We shall extract the query of this record group from the form and then modify the query as per the SQL structure.
Now download and open the form, APXINWKB.fmb, in Forms Builder
Open the record group
The query of the record group is,
SELECT vendor_name, vendor_number, vendor_id, vendor_type_lookup_code, num_1099, type_1099, vat_registration_num, employee_id, awt_group_id, allow_awt_flag, hold_all_payments_flag, num_active_pay_sites FROM po_vendors_ap_v WHERE active_flag = 'Y' AND enabled_flag = 'Y' AND num_active_pay_sites > 0 ORDER BY UPPER (vendor_name)
This query has been modified and saved in personaliztion in Action 1 above.
Test the form
Reopen the Payables Invoice form.
Open the Supplier LOV and search for all suppliers by typing % in the search field. The LOV automatically changes the condition to A% and displays the list of all suppliers whose names start with A.
Now you have overwritten the seeded LOV using personalization.
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Inside linebacker Ramik Wilson was the only Georgia defensive player named first-team All-SEC, but he was edged out for team MVP honors on that side of the ball.
Fellow junior inside linebacker Amarlo Herrera got the nod from the Georgia coaches.
"Ramik obviously had more tackles and Ramik statistically had a better year, not by a lot," Georgia coach Mark Richt said Monday. "That's part of the reason Ramik was first-team SEC, but Amarlo is the signal caller, Amarlo has a lot of responsibility to get guys lined up and communicate a lot of things and led well. That's part of it, too. Because of Amarlo's extra responsibilities and the way he played and the way he led in the summer was a big part of it as well."
Wilson leads the SEC with 128 tackles. Herrea is second with 107.
Herrera doesn't take issue with Wilson getting a spot on the All-SEC first-team.
"It didn't surprise me, because I knew what he had been doing all year and how hard he worked this offseason," Herrera said. "I was happy to see him get it. When you lead the SEC in tackles, they have to give you that title."
Tailback Todd Gurley said defensive lineman Garrison Smith and Herrera should have also made All-SEC. He wouldn't have removed Wilson for Herrera either.
"I would put both of them on there," Gurley said,
Wilson practiced at outside linebacker before last spring and didn't get much playing time before this season.
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LANSING (WKZO) -- The State of Michigan is going to give Xerox a taste of their own medicine.
State officials will trim 15% of the payment to the Electronic Bank Transfer firm that failed to perform for the state's poor on Saturday, cutting off access to Bridge and WIC cards for hours. Apparently it's permitted in their contract.
Xerox says the glitch occurred while they were testing a back up system and it cut off service to 17 states.
Kalamazoo County Commissioner Michael Seals says he was at Meijer when the system went down Saturday. He says it was heart breaking sight to see families forced to leave without any food because their bridge card wasn't working.
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I've tried this mentioned lib on my old duemilanove and it works like a charm!
I'm using the duemilanove's FT232 directly as a DMX interface, so no excursions over RS485. The PWM works perfectly according to the DMX value.
Now I uploaded this sketch to the Mega2560 and nothing happens! The pwm output is stuck to something like a 80% and it's not responding to any DMX which comes directly from the RX input from the duemilanove.
I've changed the UART in the lib from 0 to 1, but neither is working.
The names of the USART registers are the same, so there can't be the problem.
Any clues why the Duemilanove receives the DMX and the Mega2560 won't?
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And if a company uses legal means to behave unethically, what does that say about the entire organisation?If service isn't restored, I'll have to reconsider doing business with your company. Losing service like this due to blatant INCOMPETENCE is simply unacceptable.Or maybe MALICIOUS INTENT. "Breaking" a customer's existing connection while working on another customer's connection would be a neat little way for a subcontracted technician to get repeated service calls (and service call payments) to the same building address.
An incompetent Bell technician....
How do you know it's merely incompetence and not malicious?
There's supposed to be dial tone on a dry line?
There's supposed to be dial tone on a dry line?
There's dialtone on most.. but you can't dial out anywhere..
There's dialtone on most.. but you can't dial out anywhere..
actually from experience.. 611 does not work... nor does any other... It's just dialtone. 911 does not work either.. This is false info being passed around. There is no legal responsibility for bell to provide any 911 on a non-active voice line. DRY DSL is not a voice line.
Didn't say "WOULD" - I said should...Depends on the OE what options for provisioning are available. Typically, 611, 911, and ANI are available - if your experience has been different, well, what can I say?
I've had 4 different dry lines, at 3 different locations/cities that I've had direct management of and they all have been the same with all numbers blocked and dial tone on the line. I've tested touch tone phones which won't register, and pulse just says the line is not equipped for out going calls.
Not to get into a pissing match - I started in I&R 15 years ago, and have installed/tested 100's, if not 1000's of DSL and dry loop lines... Some do respond to the #'s I posted, some have unbreakable dial tone; some have no tone at all... Depends on the OE and provisioning...Anyways, we're getting off the OP's topic... LOL
We can safely assume that you have a 100% perfect work record with a single mistake ever since the first day you started working?--I do not, have not, and will not work for AT&T/Comcast/Verizon/Charter or similar sized company.
Not to get into a pissing match - I started in I&R 15 years ago, and have installed/tested 100's, if not 1000's of DSL and dry loop lines... Some do respond to the #'s I posted, some have unbreakable dial tone; some have no tone at all... Depends on the OE and provisioning...Anyways, we're getting off the OP's topic... LOL
"you're really starting to sound like the kind of customer company's don't mind losing."I am so glad I do not have to deal with residential users anymore....--I do not, have not, and will not work for AT&T/Comcast/Verizon/Charter or similar sized company.
If I had my choice, I would have gone with Cogent. Three years at my datacenter, only two interruptions, you pay by speed only (no caps), and surprisingly less expensive than residential DSL.Heck, their monitoring systems managed to detect the times when MY system went down! --Watch my future television channel's public test broadcast!»thecanadianpublic.com/live
had that happen to my toronto home... too , debating upgrading speeds... vdsl is very tempting now lol
As a result of this, I have no other choice but to seek financial compensation above the current monthly Internet costs. Starting tomorrow, both TekSavvy and Bell Canada will be fined $100 EACH per FULL day that I'm without Internet service, up to a maximum of $7,000, the maximum amount that can be claimed in Quebec Small Claims Court.It is time to make corporations financially responsible for their blatant incompetence.
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I feel for the OP here, since i caught the Bell guy f'ing up my line twice and both times i was told 'oh i didn't touch the main box' although he was standing beside it and the doors were open - i guess it was always just pure coincidence that my line would die when Bell guys showed upand both times i was told to 'open a ticket' instead of just fixing what they broke while they were thereit's incompetence, i've seen them install lines in my building and to get at the line they're looking for they tug and pull at the main bundle, dislodging loose connections and crappy scotch loksall it would take to not screw things up is to be careful and gentle - never happens.also imo because they're sub-contracted, there's no consequences if they 'by mistake' kill a few other lines everytime they do an installit just means more tickets for their company and more money
Don't get me wrong, I feel for the OP... but that doesn't make the reaction realistic.
Listen, unless you can prove GROSS NEGLIGENCE on the part of Bell/Tech its a moot point, it was a simple accident, these things happen...
Happened to me several times when I had Dry loop DSL & lived in a condo.I had two lines so I was never hard down but it was still ridiculous. My suggestion is that if you are working from home and rely on the connection then you should be diversifying to cover your ass. It sucks but it's necessary.
Luckily, I won't have to deal with this for too long. I'll eventually be moving back to my home town of Ottawa. Hopefully, I'll find better options there, or I just might create my own mini ISP.--Watch my future television channel's public test broadcast!»thecanadianpublic.com/live
Ottawa... better options?!?!? Most of the city can't handle more than a few Mbps on DSL and Rogers is not what I call an alternative... Your only other alternative would be a different third party cable provider.
Heading into day 3, and still without sync!Apparently Bell decided not to do any work today and cancelled my dispatch (what a surprise!). Had to call back TSI and conference in with a Bell tech to set up another dispatch date. Not exactly a fun time, spent over an hour waiting to get through to someone at TSI. No comment about the bizarre looping hold "music", which is unfortunately now stuck in my head.So now I have to wait for Bell again, with a dispatch not set until late evening (up to 9 PM). Will they show up? Will they actually resolve this whole mess and reconnect me?It'll be interesting to see if they did pull out my line card in error...
Also, for small claims court, you don't need a lawyer, and the fees are low. That was done intentionally so that people could demand fair compensation over issues in which the amounts involved don't justify a full court case.
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Beardlike, whitish mass; grows on trunks of living deciduous trees and on fallen trees and logs. August–November. Fruiting body a round, unbranched mass of long, hanging, toothlike spines, each ½–2 inches long; spines hanging evenly from a central base; white, becoming yellowish; texture smooth. Stalk not present. Spore print white. Spores magnified are almost round, smooth to roughened with dots, colorless.
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Human connections:When you are eating a wild mushroom for the first time, even one that is considered a "choice edible," it is a good idea to sample only a small amount at first, since some people are simply allergic to certain chemicals in certain fungi. Make sure they are cooked, too.
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The morning after, and Gerard gets a call.
"Every fucking day," said a groggy voice. "Shut up, you glorified toaster! You're going to wake up Frank!"
Frank's eyes popped open. He was lying naked in Gerard's bed, and somewhere next to him Gerard was trying to disable his alarm clock.
The nineteen-year-old felt sticky from last night, but other than that he felt great. Frank reached out blindly with one hand, looking for his boyfriend.
Boyfriend! The word sent a thrill up Frank's spine. Gerard was his boyfriend!
Eventually his long fingers found Gerard trying to pull on a pair of jeans. Gerard jumped when Frank touched him, and Frank had to stop himself from giggling at the girly shriek that came from his mouth. A hand covered his own on Gerard's thigh.
"Jesus, Frank. Are you trying to kill me?" Gee's voice was tired, but it held a touch of humor.
Frank lifted his face up from the pillow. Gerard was perched on the side of the bed, his pants on but the button and zipper undone. His dark-hazel eyes were half-closed, but Frank could see that they were sparkling mischievously.
"If I wanted to kill you, I would've done it long ago," Frank said, smiling. "You're much too fun to kill."
Gerard blushed faintly and Frank laughed, pulling him down for a kiss. There wasn't any tongue involved, just a quick press of lips.
Reluctantly, Gerard pulled away.
"As much as I love you when you're naked, I have to get ready," he said.
"Screw education," Frank growled, but he released his grip on Gerard's hair.
Gerard laughed and went to his dresser to find a shirt. When he came back, Frank was wrapped up in the blanket and heading out the bedroom door. "Shower," he explained seeing Gerard's questioning glance.
He was about to take another step when he felt a dull pain in his lower abdomen; one of his bigger bruises had brushed against the wall. Frank swore and looked back to see Gerard staring at him with a look of utter horror.
"Oh, God. I hurt you, didn't I?" said Gerard, jumping to conclusions. "I'm so sorry Frankie! I tried to be gentle, because I know how sore you are, but I just- Why are you laughing?"
Frank was doubled over with laughter, clutching his stomach as he fought for breath. "I'm, ha-ha, sorry Gee!" he said between fits of giggles. "You're just too, ha-ha, too cute!" His eyes were streaming as the laughter finally subsided.
Gerard was not amused. "What's so cute about it?" he demanded. "You're in pain, and it's my fault!"
Frank shook his head, smiling. "It's just a bruise from yesterday," he assured him. "I promise you didn't hurt me."
Gerard nodded, looking strange. Frank made his way to the bathroom and turned on the shower. He was about to get in when he remembered that he needed a towel. Hitching up his comforter, Frank went back to the bathroom. "Hey, Gee, where do you-" He stopped.
Gerard looked up at him with glassy eyes; the older man had clearly been crying. Confused and a little scared, Frank sat down beside him and rested a hand on his boyfriend's shoulder.
Gerard stared at his hands. "I thought you were dead," he said softly, hiding his eyes with his hair.
Frank's eyes widened. "What? No! I just went to get in the shower!"
Gerard laughed without humor. "I mean when that motel burned down. I saw you go in. I thought you died." His gaze left his hands and went to Frank's face. "I spent a week crying, and then I found you again. So when I saw you wince, I thought I hurt you." Gerard's eyes were bright with grief, and Frank wondered if he was going to cry again.
"But I'd never hurt you, Frankie!" Gerard continued, the grief being replaced with fierce honesty. "Yesterday, before I found you, I thought about how many people must have hurt you and that made me angry. I was so furious with people I've never met, it scared me. But I'll never let them hurt you, I promise," Gerard said firmly.
Silence settled between them, broken only by the occasional sniffle from Gerard. Frank was stunned; no one had shown that much love for him since his parents moved. He stood up to stand in front of Gerard, who had buried his face in his hands like a child. Frank put a finger under Gee's chin and lifted his face to meet his in a kiss.
Frank sucked on Gerard's lower lip and tilted his head to the side to get better access. Gee's lips parted and their tongues met in a battle for dominance, which Gerard won.
A second alarm went off, and Gerard broke the kiss with a small 'pop' as their lips parted.
"I have to go," he said regretfully. He tried to avoid noticing his comforter pooling around Frank's ankles.
Frank looked like an abandoned puppy as Gerard pulled his sweater over his head and left the bedroom. Gerard ruffled his hair and went into the kitchen to hunt down some poptarts. He put four in the toaster- two for him, two for Frank- and turned to see his boyfriend leaning against the doorframe in a pair of sweatpants and nothing else.
"Shouldn't you be in the shower?" he asked.
Frank waved his hand dismissively. "I turned it off. What am I supposed to do while you're gone?" said Frank, pouting.
Gerard reached out with one hand and pulled Frank to him. He wrapped his arms around Frank and leaned his cheek on the top of his head. "Well," Gee said, anticipating Frank's reaction. "I suppose that if you really wanted to, you could start bringing your stuff here."
Frank stiffened and Gerard began to panic. What if he said no? It was sudden, but they had been waiting for eachother for a month, hadn't they? 'I can't let him stay in that motel all his life,' Gerard thought.
Still no answer from Frank. And then-
Gerard blinked, coming out of his thoughts at the sound of Frank's voice.
Frank gazed up at him with very bright green eyes. "Yes, I'll move in with you," he clarified. "That is what you meant, right?" Frank's forehead wrinkled as his expression became worried.
Gerard barely heard the toaster go off; his mind was on the door that had just opened in his life. "You mean it?" he breathed. "No shit?"
Frank smiled. "No shi-"
A third alarm went off. Gerard swore colourfully.
"GODDAMMIT YOU ELECTRONIC SHIT-WEASEL I HEARD YOU THE FIRST TIME!" he roared. Snatching his poptarts from the toaster, he kissed Frank's hair and ran out the door.
He was halfway down the first flight of stairs when he remembered something. Dashing back to his apartment, Gerard threw open the door to see Frank standing there with a look of startled bewilderness.
"I love you," Gee said cheerily before running out again. He barely heard Frank's answering 'love you too', but his heart leapt as if Frank was standing right next to him.
When Gerard got into his Subaru, his phone rang. A quick glance at the caller ID told him it was Ray Toro; a fellow art student studying music at his college.
"Hello?" he said through a mouthfull of poptart.
"Gee! Why didn't you tell me you had a friend over? We could've had a party!" Ray said loudly. Gerard's cellphone wasn't that great, so everyone that knew him spoke loudly into the mouthpiece when calling him.
Gerard looked at his cellphone, alarmed. "How did you know I had someone over?!" he demanded.
Ray laughed. "Come on, dude! You know Mrs. Grenn and I are tight!"
Gerard slapped a hand against his forehead; he'd completely forgotten about Ray's strange fascination with the elderly woman that lived on the floor below him. "He's an old friend," Gee answered elusively. "I gave him a place to crash until he decides to leave."
Well, that was sort-of the truth.
"Bring him over sometime!" said Ray, sounding pleased to have the chance to meet new people. "It's good to see you living again."
"Excuse me?"
"Well," said Ray. "You've been kinda distant for the past month, and you were damn-near catatonic for the past week."
Gerard groped for an excuse. "I, uh, was thinking about that motel that burned down," he explained. "Happened right across the street, you know? Three people died. It stuck with me." That was complete honesty. The whole week that Gerard thought Frank was dead, he'd been writing poetry about the incident. It made him think about how fragile life was, and about how much he wanted to help people when they needed it.
"And the month before the fire?" asked Ray, sounding suspicious.
"I've been writing stuff," Gerard answered, trying to stick to whatever truth he could afford to share. He had the feeling that telling Ray that he'd fallen in love with a male prostitute wouldn't go down that well. "Poems. I was thinking about making them into songs someday."
A whistle from the other end of the line. "Songs, huh? Been busy, haven't we? Well, you talk to me if you need anything. See ya, Gee."
"Bye, Ray."
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AAA officials said more motorists are expected to hit the road this year, due to a drop in gasoline. They expect Wednesday and Sunday to have the highest traffic volume. State police plan to increase patrols. Trooper Stephen Hammons said they will be looking for impaired and aggressive drivers, as well as those who aren't wearing their seatbelts. Hammons said these situations helped lead to some of the fatal accidents over the course of three days.
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UPDATED: Manchester police officer charged with Bedford hit-and-run
UPDATE: Former Manchester Sgt. Stephen Coco, turned himself in on two felony warrants charging him with conduct after an accident and was arraigned early Tuesday morning in 9th Circuit Court District Division in Merrimack.
Hillsborough County Attorney Patricia LaFrance, at a press conference this morning at Bedford Police Department, said two teenage boys, ages 17 and 18, were struck from behind by an undercover police vehicle allegedly operated by Coco near 31 Harrod Lane. Coco was off duty at the time, LaFrance said.
LaFrance said a mugshot for Coco will not be released as doing so might post a risk to him as a former undercover officer assigned to the Special Investigations Unit.
Hillsborough County Attorney Patricia LaFrance, at a press conference this morning at Bedford Police Department, said two teenage boys, ages 17 and 18, were struck from behind by an undercover police vehicle allegedly operated by Coco near 31 Harrod Lane. Coco was off duty at the time, LaFrance said.
LaFrance said a mugshot for Coco will not be released as doing so might post a risk to him as a former undercover officer assigned to the Special Investigations Unit.
Coco, 41, of Bedford lives about a mile away from the accident scene, she said. Both teens were released from the hospital and are recovering from their injuries.
Coco was fired Monday after an internal investigation conducted by Manchester police revealed he had violated several of the department's standard operating procedures, according to Manchester Police Chief David Mara.
BEDFORD — The county's top prosecutor said she hopes an arrest warrant will be issued in the next two days in connection with a hit-and-run accident Friday night involving a Manchester police undercover vehicle.
Meanwhile, Manchester police announced that police Sgt. Stephen Coco, a 17 1/2-year veteran on the force, had been fired from his $84,000-a-year job Monday afternoon following an internal investigation into the accident. Police Chief David Mara said Coco, a member of a drug investigation unit, had been assigned the vehicle involved in the accident.
An internal affairs investigation found Coco had violated several police procedures, Mara said.
The hit-and-run accident took place about 9:20 p.m. Friday on Harrod Lane, a quiet residential street of about a dozen homes in south Bedford. Two pedestrians were injured, one with what Bedford police initially described as "serious head trauma."
Hillsborough County Attorney Patricia LaFrance said a 17- and 18-year-old male were both treated at a hospital, but have since been sent home.
"They're both very fortunate they did not sustain life-threatening injury," LaFrance said.
She said her office is consulting with Bedford police, which is investigating the accident. Information about the accident will be released once an arrest warrant is issued. LaFrance said she hopes an arrest will be made within a couple of days, but stressed it depends on the pace of the investigation.
"This case, obviously because it involves an off-duty Manchester police officer, we want to make sure people understand there's no favoritism. We're investigating this as we would any conduct-after-an-accident and we want the public aware of that," she said.
Once an arrest is made, LaFrance plans to refer the case to a prosecutor outside of Hillsborough County to avoid any perception of favoritism, she said.
State law makes it a felony not to report an accident that results in bodily injury.
LaFrance on Monday would not name the victims or discuss their injuries. She would not say whom authorities believe was driving the vehicle. Nor would she say how many people were in the vehicle.
She said the vehicle has been impounded by Bedford police. LaFrance said police are also investigating why the vehicle was in the neighborhood at the time.
This is not Coco's first involvement with Bedford police. In 2004, authorities investigated his shooting and killing of an unleashed Belgian shepherd-chow mix after he said it rushed at him and his two pre-school-age daughters in Pulpit Rock Park in Bedford.
Coco shot the dog three times with his service-issued, .40 caliber handgun. An investigation cleared him of any crime in the shooting.
Mara said an internal investigation was opened early Saturday morning.
The unmarked, undercover vehicle was assigned to Coco, Mara said. He said Manchester police are cooperating with Bedford police in their investigation into the accident.
Manchester police, he said, are "greatly saddened to learn of this terrible incident and our thoughts and prayers remain with the victims and their families."
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Even if ESPN analyst Mike Bellotti weren't working both the Poinsettia Bowl and the Fight Hunger Bowl, he'd be watching.
"I think they're interesting matchups," he said. "I'm fired up about both games."
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The former Oregon coach, who will do TV commentary for the Poinsettia Bowl (Thursday, 7:30 p.m., ESPN) and radio commentary for the Fight Hunger Bowl (Friday, 7:30 p.m., ESPN) said No. 24 Northern Illinois "has to be favored" over Utah State on Thursday. But he "wouldn't be surprised" if the Aggies can pull off an upset.
And not just because of the USU defense, which he praised, and the Huskies' weak pass defense. He questions NIU's state of mind after losing in the MAC championship game, dashing the team's chances of a second straight trip to a BCS bowl.
"I think Utah State is probably in a better mindset than Northern Illinois," Bellotti said. "They had a chance for BCS berth. They lost it in the last game of the season. How do they feel about this game? They could have been playing in the Orange Bowl, the Fiesta Bowl.
"I think that that certainly favors Utah State. A lot of times these games are determined by who's the most excited to be there and who really wants to win the most."
He knows a little something about that. He watched his Oregon team lose 44-20 to BYU in the 2009 Las Vegas Bowl — a game that wasn't as close as the final score.
Bellotti praised that BYU squad as a "very, very good football team," but added, "Our kids weren't as happy to be there, no question. And probably didn't respect BYU enough. Once it got going, it was just a snowball effect, and it was a rout."
Can the same thing happen for USU on Thursday?
"The question is — how does NIU recover from that disappointment?" Bellotti said.
There's a question of players' attitudes hanging over BYU's opponent in the Fight Hunger Bowl. Can Washington soldier through despite losing its coach, former BYU quarterback Steve Sarkisian, to Southern California?
"I think that does affect your preparation," Bellotti said. Not just because the Huskies are playing with an interim head coach, Marques Tuiasosopo, but because position coaches have taken on new assignments or are doubling up on assignments.
"Do Washington's players want to go out on top? Do they want to prove something?" Bellotti said. "Or are they caught in this transition?
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He sees the two offenses as similar, which should make for "a great game. A little different style as to the way they run, but similar. They want to run the ball with tempo and then play great defense."
So it may come down to defenses.
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Why I'm wary of KONY2012
Yesterday was one of those days when the internet exploded.
From the moment I switched on my laptop till the point when I closed it and went to bed, Facebook and Twitter were awash with Uganda, with Invisible Children's KONY2012 campaign going the most viral I've ever watched a viral get; 28 millions views and YouTube and another 12 on Vimeo by the end of yesterday, and those aren't the latest figures.
Yesterday morning this seemed pretty damned exciting. As a South African living in the UK, I'm forever listening to people go on about 'Africa' as though it's some indefinable, amorphous Gondwonaland of a continent, and it was heartening to see this sudden rush of interest in a decidedly non-sexy, non-white, non-holiday-worthy part of the world. Until, that is, I remembered Ethiopia. What do you think of when you think of Ethiopia? Five to one, unless you've been to the area, have personal links to Africa or are adventurous in your culinary choices, you think of famine. Because that, more than anything else, has been the legacy of Live Aid; creating a permanent and insoluble link in the western consciousness between Ethiopia and starving babies who don't know it's Christmas. What do you think of when you think of Sudan? Darfur? Somalia? Yesterday, when I posted this fantastically scathing article about the campaign on Facebook, a friend replied, 'But at least they're raising awareness, that's better than nothing.' Perhaps, but the question is what kind of awareness they're raising.
But to return to Invisible Children. My discomfort with this sudden social media outburst increased when I watched the video (patronising much?), and then increased even more when I read this thoughtful post about why the IC campaign won't work, and why it isn't a justified use of resources.
But that's not all. To break it down, then, let's have a look at how the promo works, and the myths it perpetuates.
Myth 1: The power of celebrity. There's something very about peculiar about IC's desire to make Kony 'famous', as though turning the benevolent eye of the Twitter-using world on him will make him easier to find and easier to catch. The eyes of the world were very clearly on Osama bin Laden and it took a long time to find and kill him (if it happened! We all know the CIA probably faked it. In fact they probably faked him), and even then it was probably only because some faithless woman betrayed him. IC's invocation of the magic nature of fame suggests a bizarre naivety; if Kim Kardashian can't get away from us, then neither will Joseph Kony. I'm being, admittedly, facetious, but nonetheless these privileged Americans are invoking the highest church of privileged America as an answer to an incredibly complex situation that I suspect they don't really understand. Kony was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court in 2005; he's hardly unknown by influential policymakers. (The very fact that, when you Google 'Kony war criminal' the second link that comes up is Miranda Kerr supports KONY2012, should give you a good idea of the self-referential flavour of this campaign.)
Myth 2: Good guys and bad guys. IC are good guys! Look at how they swoop in on their metaphorical white horses to save the troubled folk of northern Uganda, just like John Wayne and every other white saviour in the history of US cultural and political mythology. Joseph Kony is a bad guy! Catch him and you will solve this problem. Now I do not disagree that Kony is a very very very bad man. He kidnaps kids. He hurts them in ways I can hardly handle thinking about. I would like to see him strung up by his teeth. But Yoweri Museveni's Ugandan government is no cup of tea either. According to Human Rights Watch, 'US reliance on the Ugandan army has to some extent shielded Uganda from meaningful criticism of its poor domestic human rights record.' KONY2012 is an advocacy campaign aimed at pressuring the US government into working with Museveni's Ugandan army and finding Kony. But the situation in northern Uganda isn't as simple as finding and killing one bad man, and further international support for a dangerous and corrupt regime probably isn't going to help things on the ground. According to one seasoned Uganda watcher, Museveni is the reason that Kony's Lord's Resistance Army has survived for this long. Add to this the fact that the LRA, which is unquestionably dangerous and fucked up, is latterly understood to A. not be in Uganda anymore and B. have shrunk down to very few fighters, meaning it's not the threat it was, and you might wonder if, possibly, the people who live in this place might benefit from a different approach to this binaristic old story of good and evil. Which brings me to…
Myth 3: Africans need saving. This one goes way back to the misty days before Bono, but it's been a belter of late. Remember Live 8? When the only African person who appeared on stage was Birhan Woldu, that girl who'd nearly died in the famine, who was embraced by Madonna (Madonna!) and then sent on her way with much warm-heartedness about how lovely she looked and didn't we all do well? Yep, it's that old chestnut again. Now I realise this is an ideological argument that might not convince people – so what if the advocacy doesn't come directly from the people who're concerned, as long as it happens? – but it does have real consequences. As was revealed in full glory online yesterday, IC spends only about a third of its budget on the ground in Uganda. The rest goes on staff salaries, or on making these slick, professional films that travel so well by broadband. If a tiny proportion of the tens of millions of people who watched this film decided to donate some money to them, we could be talking hefty sums. Those hefty sums will, largely, not be spent rehabilitating child soldiers or rebuilding communities in northern Uganda, but on 'educating' and 'informing' Americans about the Lord's Resistance Army. Which do you think would be more valuable? And how many people, having given their guilty dollar to IC, are likely to seek out one of the on-the-ground aid organisations run by Ugandans, who may have a clearer idea about what local people want and need, and give them a dollar? Nope, IC's campaign makes very sure that any public awareness of the area is filtered through, you guessed it, IC. And that's not even considering the very potent arguments that have emerged in recent years about the development industry itself, which some suggest has more valuable effects on the consciences of wealthy westerners than on the lives of the people it claims to help.
I don't doubt for a moment that IC means well, and that they genuinely want to make a difference, and that Kony should be brought to trial and hopefully eviscerated. But the group was started by filmmakers, and that shows; their production values are impeccable and the whole experience is Hollywoodised, repeating familiar narratives about what 'we' can do to rescue 'them', with a convenient villain who abuses children (everybody loves children) and the benevolent, heroic presence of the American rescuer. Indiana Jones, anyone?
Addendum: the other thing that yesterday's flurry of activity brought home to me was the dangerous shallowness of social media. Remember that furore about Emma West, the racist woman on a tram in England? She said some horrible things, became the object of an immense global outpouring of righteous vitriolic rage and was charged with Racially Aggravated Assault. Now I'm not excusing West's tirade, but watching the video made it fairly clear that something was up with her. No one who clicked forward had any idea about the context or about her situation or about why she was being so hateful and paranoid. But we all clicked forward anyway, because everyone hates a racist, and why not show how right on you are when it takes so little effort? Emma West became, briefly, a byword for racism, a global hate figure, a marker for everything that's wrong with them – you know, the bad people – and right with us – the morally superior clickers. Yesterday millions of people watched the IC video, went oh that's awful and clicked forward. And you know, you just know, that posts like this one, or those linked to above, will be read by a fraction of those people, and that Uganda will forever mean Kony in their minds, assuming they ever think about it again, and that the difficult, complex realities of the situation in that part of the world have now been comfortably papered over. Oh Twitter, did no one ever tell you that with great power comes great responsibility?
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Good article. There is the unpleasant reek of the circle jerk (sorry) about advocacy groups. They're the ones who often get the presidential facetime but don't take much responsibility for actually doing anything. Beyond yakking. And your mention of Birhan Woldu reminded me what a revolting lie that Live 8 promo video, er I mean concert, was. Her life was not affected by Live Aid at all. The Canadian journalist whose crew shot the original film of her paid for her education.


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Ricky Martin has said he wishes he could come out again so he could help people struggling with their identities.
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The 40-year-old told the gathering in New York about his own experience of realising he was gay.
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"They, too, are born free and equal. I stand shoulder-to-shoulder with them in their struggle for human rights," said Mr Ban.
The Secretary General said he was "pained" by the fact that in more than 75 countries homosexuality remains a criminal offence.
He pointed out that the past decade has seen far-reaching reforms in Europe, the Americas and a number of African and Asian countries.
But in other countries, such as Ukraine, draft laws have been proposed that would criminalise any public discussion of homosexuality.
South African singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka, a goodwill ambassador for the UN children's fund who is married with four children, also addressed the conference.
She said: "I think straight people should respect other people because, for me, I don't think there's anything crooked about LGBT."
Their only "crime", she said, is loving people of the same gender.


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Lamborghini celebrates assembly of 1,000th Aventador
by John Neff (RSS feed) on Jul 19th, 2012 at 4:30PM
They're lifting glasses of bubbly in Bologna today as Lamborghini celebrates the Aventador reaching a significant milestone in its young history: 1,000 units produced. The 1,000th Aventador is painted Argos Orange and destined for Germany, where it will share space in Bavarian architect Hans Scheldecker's garage with a Diablo. What's most impressive is that Lamborghini's latest supercar has reached that milestone after only 15 months of production. It took the Aventador's predecessor, the Murciélago, nearly three years to convince 1,000 customers to buy into the Lamborghini... Read More