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I just bought a muffin tin which is too large and certainly won't rotate on the turntable. My microwave doesn't have a "stop turntable" button. So is it okay if I remove it altogether and use just an oven rack to place my muffin tin on? Will it result in uneven baking?
I'm specifically answering your question "Is it okay to use a microwave in convection mode without the turntable?" -- Yes.
Your own answer points out the reality that if a pan is too large then the turn table will simply hit the sides of the microwave oven and then stop turning. There is nothing wrong with this. There is nothing wrong or damaging to have a metal tin touch the metal sides of your oven.
How was your baked items bottom? If you can sit your tin up so there is air flow under your tin, then you will improve the baking efficiency and it will bake more evenly.
CAUTION: If anyone else is reading this question and wondering about their own machine, then you really need to take caution about the "convention only" mode. You have to make sure there are NO microwaves in this mode or else your metal will conduct and you could have a serious explosion or break your microwave oven.
If the problem is that the tin is too large for your microwave to rotate, then you can put your tin on the turntable anyway (or on an oven rack placed on the turntable). The turntable rotates and the tin tries to rotate but will not after a point. I have tried this, and it was perfectly okay to bake muffins like this. They were evenly cooked too. But you might want to flip the position of the tin midway just in case.


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TEMPLE (Decemeber 26, 2012)- It's been nearly 3 days since an ex-con shot two firemen to death, after setting a car and his home on fire in Webster, NY. The gunman fired at the firefighters when they arrived shortly after 5:30 a.m.
Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering said 62-year-old William Spengler, who served 17 years in prison for the 1980 hammer slaying of his grandmother, armed himself with a revolver, a shotgun and a military-style rifle before he set his house afire to lure first responders into a death trap before dawn on Christmas Eve.
Spengler killed himself as his home and seven others burned around him. A three-page typewritten note left by Spengler didn't give a motive for the shootings, Chief Pickering said. A line from the letter read, "I still have to get ready to see how much of the neighborhood I can burn down, and do what I like doing best, killing people."
The killings are leaving many with questions, including local fire crews in Central Texas.
"It's a shock, I mean, you very rarely see someone target firefighters like that," Temple Fire Department Captain Todd Bachmeyer said.
Others in the department had a similar response.
"You just don't think about it at the time, but when something like that happens, I just wonder what this world is coming to," Temple Firefighter Brandon Fulcher said.
For Temple FD, the shootings add just another weight of uncertainty when responding to a fire.
"It makes it a little harder for us to deal with things because it gives us one more thing to worry about when we're going out everyday," Captain Bachmeyer said,
"We could very easily go into a house, and a guy with a gun could be around the corner. It's just the way society is now," Temple Firefighter Ronnie Salter said.
A motto entitled, "Everyone Goes Home," can be seen throughout the Temple Firehouse. During times like these, it's a phrase cherished by many in the department and will continue to be for days to come.
"When I see that, I think of my family," Temple Firefighter Fulcher said.
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LONDON - A Tuesday report by the Financial Times said that Andy Bond, former CEO of Asda, has left his post of part-time chairman of the United Kingdom's second biggest supermarket by market share, a position that he has held for less than a year.
The report also said that Bond will leave Walmart as well, which owns Asda, once its $2.4 billion deal to acquire a majority stake in South Africa's Massmart is complete around the end of March.
Bond announced last April that he was leaving Asda but would stay on as part-time chairman for at least six months. He was succeeded as CEO in May 2010 by Andy Clarke.


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Lebanon's 15-year civil war, which ended in 1990, forced hundreds of thousands of Lebanese to flee to other countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, and Brazil. Although this summer's fighting between Hezbollah forces in Lebanon and Israel lasted just over a month (July 12 to August 14), the conflict essentially wiped out 15 years of postwar reconstruction and development and displaced an estimated one million Lebanese, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) and Europe appear to be an ideal demographic match: the former has a large supply of young, active workers, and the latter has a shortage of the youthful, skilled or unskilled labor it needs to sustain its economic competitiveness. MENA is the source of 20 million first-generation migrants, half of them now living in another MENA country and most of the rest in Europe. The region also hosts around the same number within its borders. In addition, the size of MENA's working-age population will continue to rise sharply in the next two decades while the corresponding segment of the population in Europe will soon start to decline.
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Winter Haven High School seniors Alec Doherty and Tyler Moedrm are only about a year away from heading off to college.
It's a time when their parents ought to be celebrating their new-found freedom, but instead they could be writing some big and very painful checks.
"Everyone deserves a good chance at education, and I don't think raising the prices is going to help everyone get that equal opportunity," Doherty said.
Monday a Blue-Ribbon panel appointed by Governor Scott began looking at a controversial plan to let Florida universities hike tuition by as much as they want.
The very campus Doherty and Moedrm are touring - Florida State - was in line, along with the University of Florida, to get that unlimited tuition hike authority. That is, until Governor Scott vetoed the plan back in April.
"Think about the cost of higher ed - it's skyrocketed."
Coming as it does on the heels of his tuition bill veto, the governor's appointment of the task force is a clear sign he views tuition as a politically-sensitive topic, and he may well be in search of political cover, not to mention answers about where exactly all the extra tuition would go.
Campus leaders complain classes are overcrowded, meaning many students can't graduate on time, and when they do they walk away with a less-valuable degree.
University System Chancellor Frank Brogan says big tuition increases may be inevitable, but only if they have a good purpose.
"There's a change in the wind out there, and I think people are beginning to look at this issue of tuition, regardless of where they fall on that issue, and recognize it should be more than just asking people for more of their money to do good things, but it has to go to fund a strict business plan."
A plan aimed at giving Doherty and Moedrm what they need to succeed, but they still worry at what cost?
"What's the education if people can't afford to even go?" Doherty said.
Next week the state university system's board of governors will meet to decide whether to sign off on tuition increases for the coming year. The governor's blue ribbon panel plans to release its final report on whether to allow unlimited tuition hikes in October.


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The Irish Learn the Hard Way: Bama Is No. 1
Alabama Rolls to Its Third National Championship in Four Years; Is There Any End to Saban's Domination?
Miami Gardens, Fla.
It is difficult to say what was most terrifying about Alabama's 42-14 rout of Notre Dame in Monday night's national-championship game, the Crimson Tide's third title in four years.
It might have been that Alabama's opponent was undefeated, higher-ranked (No. 1 to Alabama's No. 2) and, it seemed, favorably equipped to stop the Tide.
Maybe it was that Alabama's victory marked the seventh consecutive national title for the Southeastern Conference. In that span, three other so-called power conferences—the Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12—have tried to knock off the SEC. Now Notre Dame, the sport's greatest brand name, has failed as well.
Or perhaps what was most frightening was simply this: There appears to be no end in sight to the Tide's domination. "We're just a team hungry for dominance," Tide offensive guard Chance Warmack said.
Alabama became the first repeat champion in the 15-year history of the Bowl Championship Series, confirming that the Tide is, yes, on a roll. Alabama (13-1) ruined a chance at a perfect season for the Fighting Irish (12-1), who entered the game as 10-point underdogs despite their undefeated record and No. 1 national ranking. Notre Dame's last undefeated season was also the last time they won the national title—in 1988.
The game was never, ever in doubt. The Tide outgained Notre Dame on the ground 265 yards to 32. Alabama running back Eddie Lacy had 140 yards and a touchdown, and T.J. Yeldon had 108 yards and a touchdown of his own. Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron, the offensive MVP of last season's BCS championship game, was 20 for 28 with 264 yards and four touchdowns—two to freshman Amari Cooper.
"If there's one word to describe this team," Cooper said just before a shower of postgame confetti, "it would be relentless."
Trophy-starved Irish fans turned out in the tens of thousands to cheer on the Irish's return to glory, encapsulated in the team's rise from being unranked in the preseason to the top spot in January. Notre Dame gained inspiration from the story told by Manti Te'o, which was later found to be false, that his girlfriend and grandmother died in the same September week.
A fan's sign outside the stadium before kickoff trumpeted many fans' belief that success this season was preordained: "Mantifest Destiny."
Seeing the Tide pound the program that counts 11 national titles and seven Heisman Trophy winners was like glimpsing the Notre Dame mystique in a pawnshop window. The Irish never had a chance. Everett Golson, Notre Dame's redshirt freshman quarterback, struggled to find open receivers. Meanwhile, Alabama's top-ranked defense suffocated the Fighting Irish's running backs.
"Their program is where we want to be, where every program in college football wants to be," Notre Dame offensive tackle Zack Martin said of Alabama.
Here's another troubling thought for non-Alabama fans: The Tide wasn't seen as a lock to repeat as champion this season. It began the season ranked No. 2. But despite losing six defensive players to the NFL draft last spring, the team still wound up with the nation's top-ranked defense.
More bad news for challengers: When major-college football's first postseason playoff starts in 2014, SEC dominance could take even deeper root. The current system caps the number of teams from the same conference in the five BCS bowl games at two. No such limit has been adopted for the playoff, which means fans could see two or even three teams from the SEC in the semifinals. Four SEC teams would seem unlikely, since some will be forced to lose to one another in the regular season.
After the game, Alabama coach Nick Saban reminded observers that the Tide came within five yards of losing to Georgia in last month's SEC title game. "It's a pretty tough league we play in," he said.
Still, Saban's dominance has grown to the point where it is seen as folly to bet against him, particularly when he has weeks to prepare for a game. The sixth-season Alabama coach's single-mindedness and control are so legendary—his assistant coaches are barred from doing interviews during the regular season—that a story traveling on Twitter on Monday afternoon seemed entirely plausible. It turns out, an Alabama spokesman confirmed, that Saban did not have officials at the team hotel disable the ESPN feed to players' televisions this week.
The untrue tidbit might have traveled so fast because people are fascinated by the secrets of this Alabama team, which seems to have a formula that is unique in the world. In recent years there is no antidote. To the rest of college football, that is scary.
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The University of Notre Dame football team gained inspiration in the 2012-13 season from the story told by player Manti Te'o of the deaths of his girlfriend and grandmother in the same September week. However, a report by sports website Deadspin, which was confirmed on Jan. 16 by Notre Dame and Mr. Te'o, revealed that the girlfriend never existed. An earlier version of this article about Notre Dame's defeat in the national championship game mentioned the false anecdote.


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FORT RILEY, Kan. – Private John Hughes has been charged with the murder of his fellow Fort Riley soldier, Private Thomas Lavrey.
The 1st Infantry Division's Public Affairs Office released the information Thursday, June 14th, a month after the homicide on post which has been under investigation by the Army Criminal Investigation Command.
Lavrey, 21, was pronounced dead at Irwin Army Community Hospital at Fort Riley after being found unresponsive inside his barracks on Monday, May 14. Officials say the cause of death has been ruled a stabbing.
Lavrey was a utilities equipment repairer assigned to the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Special Troops Battalion, 1st Sustainment Brigade, 1st Infantry Division.
Lavrey, a West Seneca, N.Y. native, joined the Army in March 2010. He was assigned to Fort Riley in September 2010. A representative with the 1st Infantry Division's Public Affairs Office says he had not yet been deployed.
Lavrey was assigned to the same unit as John Hughes.
Hughes, 25, is a wheeled vehicle mechanic with Special Troops Battalion, 1st Sustainment Brigade, 1st Infantry Division.
Hughes is also being charged with resisting arrest and larceny.
The fatal stabbing is still under investigation, according to Fort Riley.
Dale and Barbara Lavrey the victim's parents, spoke to WIVB, the CBS affiliate in Buffalo, NY this week.
Dale Lavrey told the station, "We didn't ever think he was going to be killed in his own room. You worry about him going to battle."
"[It was] an anonymous phone call from a soldier that said it was making him sick that his own parents weren't notified and it was inhumane," Barbara told WIVB of how they found out about their son's death last month.
She told the Buffalo station that the family suspects some kind of cover up because that phone call was more than a day before they received official notice from the Army. The Lavrey family still has not been informed of the circumstances, but Thomas' friends at Fort Riley have filled his parents in on what happened.
"Basically he was stabbed in the back of his neck so that an individual could steal his car and make his getaway to get away from the base," Dale said to WIVB.
WIVB says they received a call from the suspect's father, Brian Hughes, who told the Buffalo station that his son, John, has been trying to get help for mental problems. He added: "The fact that they know they should have had him out of circulation when he informed them, the psychiatrist, that he was feeling homicidal."
Lavrey's parents told several Buffalo news outlets that during a memorial service for their son at Fort Riley on May 24, they were advised by Army investigators that a suspect was in custody. Fort Riley released the information three weeks later.
Details on the motive or circumstances surrounding the homicide has not been released by the Army Criminal Investigation Command or Fort Riley.
Private John Hughes in custody at the military prison in Leavenworth, Kansas.


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Wikipedia claims, "It is possible that the kenosis passage in Philippians 2:5-11 may have been a Christian hymn that Paul quoted." If Paul is possibly not the author of this hymn, is there any evidence of the original author? All I've been able to find so far is that Stephen is a possible candidate; but I'm not sure what arguments are made for that position.
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The passage in question is Philippians 2:5-11 (NET Bible):
The NET Bible note on the typesetting reads:
To me, the section looks very much like poetry and, if so, a song (or hymn). It's a compact and rhythmic summary of a complex idea. It's a passage to be memorized both because of the theological import and the flow of the words. (For instance, the repeated use of the word "name" in verses 9 and 10.)
Music has been a part of Christianity from the beginning Mark 14:26 (ESV):
Presumably hymns at that stage were composed much like modern song: a literarily-gifted person wrote the words and a musically-gifted person (perhaps the same person) wrote the music. With use, the words were likely to have changed to smooth out rough edges and fit more appropriately with the music. Hymns were certainly an oral tradition and rarely written down.
If it is a hymn, Paul probably would have expected the Philippians to be familiar with it or he would certainly have used his own words.
I haven't found a source that quotes the hymn separately from Paul. Origen directly attributed the passage to Paul:
It's interesting that he pulls out the passage in its entirety to make his point, but he doesn't call the section a hymn or suggest that it has a history before Paul.
Since Paul doesn't identify his source (or even designate the section as a hymn), anything we might say about the passage's author would be speculative at best. If Stephen has been identified as the author, it's likely to be wishful thinking more than any solid history. The only reliable source of the hymn is Paul and we can't trace it further back.
Worth noting that in Acts 16, when Paul and Silas are in PHILIPPI (the place this letter is addressed to), he and Silas, though Roman citizens (= "in the form of God") are flogged and then put in prison ("emptied themselves"). They spend the evening in prison "singing HYMNS to God." Having taken this humility upon themselves in submission to God, they are then "Exalted" (their fetters fall off), and they are released! Sounds a bit like the Christ Hymn, and well, it was in Phillipi that this happens. Seems like Paul or Silas might be a good candidate for the composer of the hymn, which they then taught to the Phillipians, and the later quoted to them as something they would recognize in this letter. The pattern "imitate me as I imitate Christ" and "I imitate Christ in his suffering, so that I can like him be resurrected" is ALL OVER the place in Paul, but particularly in Philippians (1:29-30; 3:17;4:9 etc.). In other words, it is not at all out of the picture that Paul, in his humiliating imprisonment and later release for Christ, saw his own life as being patterned on the suffering and exaltation of Christ.


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Suppose we have extended $ZF$ by adding to $ZF$ an unary function symbol $arb$ (an arbitrary element of a set) and a corresponding axiom "For every non-empty set $S$, $arb(S)$ is in $S$". Will be the resulting theory a conservative extension of $ZF$?
It depends how the remaining axioms of ZF are altered (or not). For example, do we broaden the scheme of replacement to apply to formulas of set theory which contain the symbol "$arb$"? If so, then as Zhen Lin says the resulting theory proves the axiom of choice: given a collection of sets $\mathcal{A}=\lbrace A_i: i\in I\rbrace$, applying replacement to the formula "$x=arb(S)$" as $S$ ranges over the elements of $\mathcal{A}$ yields a choice function. If we don't do this - that is, if we have replacement and separation only for sentences of the language of set theory without "$arb$" - then we do in fact get a conservative extension: given any model $\mathcal{M}$ of ZF, let $arb$ pick any element from each element of $\mathcal{M}$ (I guess I'm using Choice in the ambient universe to do this, but if all we care about is not proving any new theorems, then this can be gotten rid of by Shoenfield absoluteness); the resulting extension is a model of ZF with $arb$.


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The Blue Sword (Hardcover)
When Harry Crewe's father dies, she leaves her Homeland to travel east, to Istan, the last outpost of the Homelander empire, where her elder brother is stationed.
Harry is drawn to the bleak landscape of the northeast frontier, so unlike the green hills of her Homeland. The desert she stares across was once a part of the great kingdom of Damar, before the Homelanders came from over the seas. Harry wishes she might cross the sands and climb the dark mountains where no Homelander has ever set foot, where the last of the old Damarians, the Free Hillfolk, still live. She hears stories that the Free Hillfolk possess strange powers -- that they work magic -- that it is because of this that they remain free of the Homelander sway.
When the king of the Free Hillfolk comes to Istan to ask that the Homelanders and the Hillfolk set their enmity aside to fight a common foe, the Homelanders are reluctant to trust his word, and even more reluctant to believe his tales of the Northerners: that they are demonkind, not human.
Harry's destiny lies in the far mountains that she once wished to climb, and she will ride to the battle with the North in the Hill-king's army, bearing the Blue Sword, Gonturan, the chiefest treasure of the Hill-king's house and the subject of many legends of magic and mystery.
About the Author
Robin McKinley's other books include the Newbery Award-winning The Hero and the Crown; Newbery Honor Book The Blue Sword; Sunshine; Spindle's End; Rose Daughter; Deerskin; The Outlaws of Sherwood; and the short story collections The Door in the Hedge; A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories; and, with her husband, the author Peter Dickinson, Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits. She lives in England with her husband, three whippets, and over five hundred rosebushes.


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Tax Credit & 1098-T FAQs
Tax Credit & 1098-T FAQs
Information for Tax Year 2015
The Tax Payer Relief Act of 1997 includes provisions for the American Opportunity Credit and the Lifetime Learning Credit. Both credits allow certain taxpayers who have incurred qualified expenses for higher education to take a credit against their federal income tax liability. Educational institutions are required by law to provide information to students who qualify for the education credits. Schools, colleges and universities report this information to the IRS and to students on Form 1098-T. The 1098-T form should not be attached to your federal income tax return when you claim the education credits (as W-2 forms are); however, you must have received this form in order to claim either the American Opportunity Credit or the Lifetime Learning Credit on your federal tax return. For more information, visit the IRS's Tax Benefits for Education: Information Center to determine eligibility for tax credits, deductions, and savings plans for taxpayers with expenses for higher education. If you need assistance with filing your return, visit the IRS's Tax Information for Students.
The following is an explanation of what each box on the 1098-T form contains:
Box 1 - Payments received for qualified tuition and related expenses: This box will be left blank. Universities may choose whether to report payments received or amounts billed on student accounts; they need not report both amounts. Saint Louis University has chosen NOT to report qualified tuition and related expense amounts paid.
Box 2 - Amounts billed for qualified tuition and related expenses: In general, this box will contain the sum of all tuition, registration and required registration fees billed to a student's account during a calendar year, less any amounts by which tuition was reduced due to a reduction in course load or withdrawal. The amount reported is not reduced by the scholarships and grants reported in box 5.
Amounts billed to a student account for housing, fines, insurance or non-required fees will not be included in the Box 2 amount.
Please note that when the American Opportunity Credit or Lifetime Learning Credit is taken on the federal income tax return, the calculation of the credit is based on the amount of qualified educational expenses actually paid by the taxpayer during the calendar year. The University reports amounts billed to a student's account. Therefore, the amount you use to calculate your education credit will not necessarily be the same as the amount that appears in Box 2. You should use the information on the 1098-T form in conjunction with your own payment records to determine eligibility for the credits.
If you have questions about how to compute your education tax credit, you should consult your tax professional or refer to IRS Publication 970.
Box 3 - This box will be left blank, since Saint Louis University has not changed its current method of reporting from the previous year (2014).
Box 4 - Adjustments made for a prior year: The amount in this box should be the sum of all reductions in tuition (refunded or not) related to amounts billed in a prior year. This amount is reported as a positive number per IRS requirements. However, it is actually a decrease to the amount that was reported on a prior year 1098-T. See "recapture" in the index to Pub. 970 to report a reduction in your credit or deduction.
Box 5 - Scholarships or grants: This box contains the sum of all scholarships and grants Saint Louis University administered and processed for the student's account during the calendar year. Awards included in this amount may pay qualified tuition expenses as well as housing, books, and other non-qualified expenses.
Box 6 - Adjustments to scholarships or grants for a prior year: Decreases or refunds of scholarship amounts related to scholarships reported in a previous year are included in this box. This amount is reported as a positive number per IRS requirements. However, it is actually a decrease to the amount that was reported on a prior year 1098-T. You may have to file an amended income tax return for the prior year.
Box 7 - This box will be checked if the amount reported in Box 2 includes tuition or registration fees billed to a student account in the current year that pay for a semester beginning in the next calendar year. For example, tuition billed in December 2015 for Spring semester 2016 will be reported on your 2015 1098-T. Box 7 will be checked to indicate that this is the case.
Box 8 - A check in this box indicates that you are or have been enrolled at Saint Louis University at least half-time for at least one semester during the calendar year.
Box 9 - This box will be checked if you are a student enrolled in a program leading to a graduate-level degree.
Box 10 - This box is not used by Saint Louis University, so it will be blank.
Account-Related Questions
1. Why is box 1 marked as "INTENTIONALLY BLANK?"
Box 1 is marked as INTENTIONALLY BLANK for all SLU students. Schools are directed by IRS to choose a method of reporting, either by reporting the payments received for qualified tuition in box 1 or by reporting the amounts billed for qualified tuition in box 2. SLU has chosen the latter method.
This does not mean your "payments received for qualified tuition and related expenses" are zero. Please review all payments and other credits applied to your account during the year via your MYSLU account
2. I attended SLU during Spring Semester 2015, but some or all of those amounts are missing from my Form 1098-T. Why?
Form 1098-T reports only those transactions that posted to your student account during calendar year 2015. Spring Semester begins in January. Most students registered for Spring Semester 2015 during the previous November or December. Some students also paid for Spring Semester in December 2014. Any charges that were billed to your account before January 1, 2015, were reported on your 2014 Form 1098-T.
3. I am attending SLU during Spring Semester 2015, but some or all of those amounts are missing from my Form 1098-T. Why?
Form 1098-T reports only those transactions that posted to your student account during calendar year 2015. Spring Semester begins in January. If you registered, dropped or added classes, for Spring Semester 2016 after December 31, 2015, those amounts will be reported on your 2016 Form 1098-T, which will be available in January 2017.
4. Does my Form 1098-T tell me everything I need to know for tax purposes?
Probably not. Your Form 1098-T reports all transactions that flowed through your student account during the calendar year. However, students typically incur other expenses that may also qualify for tax credits or deductions. The most common example is textbooks. Other examples of qualified and nonqualified expenses not reported on your Form 1098-T may include class fees for study-abroad classes, off-campus housing expenses, and other fees you paid directly to your academic department or college instead of to SLU You should rely on your own financial records and receipts to document those expenses. For further information on "qualified" education expenses, please review IRS Publication 970, Tax Benefits for Education. You may wish to consult with a tax professional.
5. I receive stipends from SLU. Are they included on my Form 1098-T?
That depends on how SLU classified your "stipends" for tax purposes. If your stipends represent wages you have earned, then you have probably been receiving them in the form of a regular paycheck and may have had taxes and/or other amounts withheld from them. In that case, your wages will be reported fully on Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement. Those wages are not included anywhere on your Form 1098-T.
If your stipends represent a scholarship or fellowship awarded to you on the basis of academic merit and/or financial need, and not as wages you have earned, then you have probably received them as credits flowing through your SLU student account. In that case, your scholarships and fellowships are reported in box 5 (Scholarships or grants) of your Form 1098-T.
6. Do I need to report my scholarships as taxable income?
Scholarships that pay for qualified tuition and related expenses are not taxable to the student. However, if any portion of your scholarships paid for Nonqualified expenses, then you may be responsible for reporting such portion as taxable income on your tax return. For further guidance, please review IRS Publication 970, Tax Benefits for Education. Foreign students who are nonresident aliens for tax purposes should also review IRS Publication 519, US Tax Guide for Aliens.
7. How is tuition remission reported on my Form 1098-T?
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DICKSON, OK - A Dickson family said a 5-year-long battle with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation finally came to an end Thursday when the state agency caved.
Carl and Mary Cravens' have lived at their home along
State Highway 199 for twenty years, and when they learned the Oklahoma Department of Transportations plans to widen the stretch of highway that runs in front of their home, they agreed Dickson needed the improvement.
"My husband was on the city council so it was no surprise the highway was coming through," Mary Cravens said. "They sent a negotiating firm called out to make an offer to us and to sign a contract."
Cravens said ODOT offered them $21,000 for .69 acres of their land.
But she said after expressing concerns about some of the construction plans, she received this.
"ODOT responded with a letter saying they would be seizing our property and they would be taking us to court."
Craven's says after a long legal battle, a jury agreed the Cravens property was worth over $31,000, however ODOT didn't see it that way.
"ODOT then using more tax payer dollars, chose to appeal our case in an attempt to side step the jury's decision."
Thursday the family's 5-year-old nightmare finally came to a close.
A spokesperson at ODOT confirmed to First News the case has been dropped.
"The more we looked at it the only people that were gonna benefit from appealing that case to a higher court was gonna be the attorneys, we decided that we needed to end that," A spokesperson for ODOT said.
The Cravens' said they are happy receiving what has been deemed as a fair price for their property, but their is no dollar amount on time.
"This has been 5 years of the state versus Carl and Mary Cravens," Cravens said. "Stripping away our peace of daily living."


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What the next five years have in store
In 2007, if you had told us we would be right here right now, we would be so enthusiastic about this success, and maybe a little skeptical that we could turn a one-man blog into a vital news organization. This week, we are making several major announcements that will give you clues as to what is in store for the next five years, but we have lofty goals and a lot of coffee for late nights to reach those goals, because ultimately, we want to do the best job possible for you.
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Gorgeous greens mesmerize on this enchanting bangle bracelet! Crafted in platinum over sterling silver, this shimmering bracelet features a hinged design for easy wear with 14 oval full cut 5 x 3mm tsavorites in prong settings at the top.
From the NYC II® Collection. Made in China. Gemstones will vary in color or patterns. Please allow for these natural variations. All weights pertaining to gemstones, including diamonds, are minimum weights. Additionally, please note that many gemstones are treated to enhance their beauty. Click here for important information about gemstone enhancements and special care requirements.
Necklace & Bracelet Clasp Types
Lobster Claw Clasp: As a traditional clasp style found in bracelets and necklaces, the lobster claw is generally reserved for heavier styles that may need added strength. The closure's shape is more oblong, similar to a teardrop shape, and is controlled by a tip that opens and closes the spring in the clasp. This type is also considered a more expensive finding that can add to the overall value of the jewelry piece.
Magnetic Clasp: The popularity of the magnetic clasp has greatly increased in recent years. It is a quick and easy way to secure jewelry while not having to fuss with a tiny clasp, which can be difficult if you have long fingernails, arthritic hands or other mobility challenges. A magnetic clasp relies on a strong internal magnet that works to pull both ends of the clasp together. In most cases, a magnetic clasp is used for light to medium weight jewelry pieces that do not put excessive stress on the magnet.
Slide Insert Clasp: This type of clasp is exactly as it sounds. With a box-like shape that is hollow on the inside, the wearer will slide the nearly-flat tab into the box until it clicks, indicating a secure closure. On some jewelry, a slide insert clasp will be accompanied by a side safety catch, which adds strength and security to the clasp. Although this type of clasp is found on both bracelets and necklaces, it is particularly popular on bracelet styles. These types of clasps are often reserved for more expensive jewelry.
Spring Ring Clasp: One of the most common closure types, the spring ring clasp is typically used for light to medium weight bracelets or necklaces. It is round in its design and features a small tip which controls the opening and closing of the spring. The circle then closes around another smaller loop or link at the other end of the strand.
Toggle Clasp: A toggle clasp is a narrow piece of metal, usually designed in the shape of a bar, which is then pushed through a circular ring to act as a fastener. Unlike the lobster claw or spring ring clasps, a toggle clasp is not controlled by a spring. The pretty design is less secure than other closure types, but is usually meant to be a big part of the design and is meant to "show". The clasp is an attractive way to secure a chunkier link bracelet or necklace.
Platinum Plating:
Platinum can be used as a finish coating over sterling silver or copper alloys. Its bright, pure luster enhances the brilliance of gemstones and does not discolor or oxidize. Platinum plating is also characterized by its good resistance to surface abrasion, making jewelry pieces more durable against everyday and long-term wear. Over time, platinum plating will wear off and therefore will require re-plating.
To care for your plated jewelry items:
Pronounced SAV-OH-RITE, the tsavorite gemstone features an intense green color that ranges from a vivid light hue to a deep, velvety forest shade. It is a member of the garnet family and is often referred to as a green grossularite. Like other garnets, tsavorite is naturally pristine with no treatments and features a strikingly high brilliance.
In 1967, British geologist Campbell R. Brides discovered tsavorite in Tanzania. He found strange, potato-shaped rocks that had breathtakingly beautiful green grains and crystals inside them. In 1971, he discovered the same gemstone vein extended into Kenya, where he could officially start exploiting the occurrence.
Henry Platt, the former president of Tiffany & Co in New York, named the stone after its occurrence near the famous game frontier, Tsavo-National Park. In 1974, Tiffany's started a special promotion campaign to make tsavorite well known throughout the United States. Campaigns in other countries followed, and tsavorite soon became sought-after everywhere.
Tsavorite is quite rare and can cost several thousand dollars per carat depending on size and quality. Larger stones are exceedingly scarce. Only occasionally is a rough crystal more than 5.00ct found, making tsavorites weighing 2.00ct or more quite valuable. Fortunately, the brilliance and luminosity of these gems are displayed even in smaller sizes. They rank a hardness of 7.5 on the Mohs Scale and enjoy an especially high light-refraction index.
Too new to have folklore of its own, tsavorite is believed to hold the mystical powers of garnet, including protection and healing. Garnets also symbolize loyalty and can be exchanged between friends to ensure they meet again.


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GENESEO, N.Y. - More than 800 parents are expected to descend on the Geneseo campus Oct. 22-23 for the college's Parents Weekend program.
The annual fall event provides parents the opportunity to see the college through their student's eyes and for students to share their campus experiences. Among other activities, parents will have the opportunity to attend Parents College, where they will hear Geneseo professors discuss such topics as the geology of climate change, the physics of baseball or the ongoing relevance of the Italian poet Dante. Geneseo President Christopher C. Dahl also will deliver his annual report to parents.
"The weekend is designed to help parents discover what Geneseo has to offer in and out of the classroom," said Tammy Ingram, director of parent relations. "It's a multi-faceted program with something for all parents and we are pleased about the tremendous response."
Several fall sporting events will also be available for parents to attend, and the School of the Arts will be performing its Kaleidoscope Concert Oct. 22 at 8 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium, featuring virtually all of Geneseo's performing artists and ensembles. The concert is free and open to the public.
To register for Parents Weekend, call 585-245-5519.
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December 19, 2012
New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute is accepting applications for "The Reporting Award," which supports a work of journalism in any medium on significant underreported subjects of public interest.
The Carter Institute initiated the award in 2009 to encourage enterprising journalism at a time when staff and budget cuts have diminished the capacity of the media to support such projects.
A committee of Carter Institute faculty will select one recipient based on an application due February 19, 2013. The recipient will be announced in March 2013, with the project completion deadline set for November 1, 2013. Details and the online application form are available here. For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 212.998.7887.
The award includes a stipend of $2,500 upon selection as the competition winner and an additional $10,000 upon timely completion and submission of the work, provided the Institute's awards committee judges the work acceptable. The winner will also have use of the Institute's facilities as well as NYU's libraries and other scholarly resources. In addition, the program will fund up to $6,000 of NYU journalism graduate student assistance. The Institute will publish the completed work either alone or in partnership with another media outlet.
The inaugural recipient of the award was Sarah Stillman, a freelance journalist who traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan to investigate the difficulties experienced by many civilian workers on U.S. military bases. Stillman's piece, "The Invisible Army," appeared in the June 6, 2011 issue of the New Yorker. It won the National Magazine Award in the category of "Public Interest" and the Overseas Press Club's Joe and Laurie Dine Award for International Human Rights Reporting, among other honors. The second recipient, Jina Moore, is investigating so-called "vulture funds," distressed debt investors who purchase delinquent debt of sovereign nations, many of them poor. The third recipient, Lisa Armstrong, an award-winning reporter who has written for the Washington Post, National Geographic, and O, the Oprah Magazine, is working on a story on sexual violence in Haiti, which has increased threefold since the January 2010 earthquake.
For more on the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, click here.
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by William F. Auther and Kelly McInroy
This week, the FDIC and SEC approved the Volcker Rule and released a draft for public comments. Bank regulators will have to solidify the Rule in the coming months, as the Rule is set to take effect in July, 2012 – although banks would have three years to comply with the Rule.
Categories: Antitrust | Business Litigation | Commercial Litigation | Federal Regulations | Financial System | Fraud | Mortgage Litigation | Securities Litigation
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The BankAtlantic subprime-related securities lawsuit by its shareholders and against its officers and directors is going to trial with jury selection starting this week in Miami. It is very rare that trials in securities class action cases proceed to trial.
Interestingly, the case is proceeding to trial after a partial granting of the shareholders' summary judgment motion, finding that the statements of the bank executives regarding certain loans were false. Plaintiffs allege that the bank executives made misleading statements about the credit quality of certain land loans in the bank's portfolio and failed to follow conservative lending practices, exposing it to higher level of risk than represented to investors, while telling investors that loss reserves were adequate. When the falsity of the statements was revealed between April and October 2007, the bank's stock price fell.
The plaintiffs will still have to prove that these false statements were materially misleading, were made with scienter, and that they caused damages.
As typical of similar claims, the D&O cases only go so far. After that, the bank executives (including the FDIC who has taken over many of the failing banks ad made similar claims) begin blaming the loan brokers (most of whom are out of business) for not following the bank's underwriting procedures, as well as the appraisers for over-valuing the secured properties. Yet, blaming the lenders is always a good defense for the loan brokers and appraisers, so it will be interesting to see how the jury penalizes the bank executives for not following their own practices and procedures.
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Credit Default Swaps. Collateralized Debt Obligations. Mortgage-Backed Securities. No television, radio, or Internet newscast is complete today without multiple mentions of these buzz words. And with good reason—these words reflect some of the key ingredients of the current economic crisis. The part played by credit default swaps, mortgage-backed securities, and the like played in the economic downturn is well-documented. So, too is the governmental bailout of our nation's leading financial institutions (although the implementation of that bailout changes on a daily basis).
In the context of these uncertain economic times, two things are certain. First, the tide of mortgage-related litigation has not fully crested. Recently, an FDIC official likened current mortgage litigation volume to the second inning of a nine inning baseball game. The second certainty is that the Presidential and Congressional election results signify the coming of change. One such change, if campaign promises are to be believed, will take the form of Barack Obama's proposed foreclosure moratorium. For the skeptics who doubt the viability of such a moratorium, there is historical precedent from another dark economic time in our nation's history. As further proof, a headline ripped from this very morning's headline finds Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae voluntarily halting foreclosures through early January 2009. But will President-Elect Obama's plans for solving our mortgage banking crisis impact on the volume of mortgage litigation? Read on.
A foreclosure moratorium. Really? Yes, Really.
With the unprecedented rise in numbers of foreclosures, some state legislatures are considering the possibility of enacting statutes that would halt foreclosures. Minnesota's plan is making headlines this week, and Fannie and Freddie announced voluntary, short-term moratoriums today. So far, however, none of the mandated "foreclosure moratoriums" have made it very far in the legislative process. It is important to remember, however, legal precedent for the enactment of such moratoriums exists.
During the height of the Great Depression, three-and-a-half years after the stock market crash of 1929, homeowners across the country were losing their residences because they could not stay current on their mortgage payments. In response, the Minnesota Legislature declared an "emergency" and enacted the Minnesota Mortgage Moratorium Law. The statute, enacted in 1933, allowed homeowners to petition state court judges to temporarily halt the foreclosures of their mortgages. The statute also extended the right of redemption for up to two years, provided that the homeowners made "reasonable" monthly payments that were to be applied to their mortgage payments, property taxes and insurance during the extended period of redemption.
While many hailed the moratorium as the type of essential measures needed to protect citizens from the economic crisis, lenders argued that the moratorium violated the contract clause of the U.S. Constitution: The statute retroactively altered the lenders' rights under the mortgage contract voluntarily entered into by the homeowners because the extension diluted the lenders' rights and increased the borrowers rights, contrary to the express terms of the mortgage. The constitutionality of the statute was challenged when one couple, the Blaisdells, sought protection under the law after their home was foreclosed upon because they were delinquent on their mortgage payments. The trial judge ruled in favor of the Blaisdells, extending their right of redemption for two years, and the Minnesota Supreme Court affirmed the ruling. On appeal to the United States Supreme Court, the statute was upheld by 5-4 vote. Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell, 290 U.S. 398 (1934).
The majority opinion, written by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, found that the law did not violate the contract clause and was thus constitutionally valid. The Supreme Court upheld the law on five grounds. First, the Court found that an emergency existed in Minnesota, one which gave rise to a "proper occasion" for the state to protect the vital interests of the community. Second, the Court found that the legislation had a legitimate purpose and was not enacted to protect certain individuals but for the protection of society as a whole. Third, the Court found that the relief provided to homeowners by the statute was only permitted in certain, limited conditions. Fourth, the Court found that contractual rights were reasonably protected: Homeowners were required to maintain payments during the postponement of the foreclosure, and the obligation under the mortgage was not extinguished. Fifth, the Court relied upon the fact that the legislation was temporary and set to expire in 1935 (although it was later extended until 1942).
Writing for the dissent, Justice George Sutherland viewed the moratorium as the precise type of government action that the contract clause meant to prevent, especially in view of the pre-constitutional practice of legislatures enacting measures to mitigate the sometimes harsh consequences that debtors suffered as a result of financial or economic troubles.
Today, with the number of foreclosures on the rise, some states are considering enacting similar measures, modeled after the moratorium upheld in the Blaisdell case. A similar bill is under consideration by the Michigan Legislature (S.B. 1306), and Minnesota is again considering a foreclosure moratorium (H.F. 3612). The Minnesota legislation, which would apply only to owner-occupied properties, would block foreclosures for a year, and is designed to force lenders to modify the terms of the loans rather than foreclosing. Mortgages eligible for the moratorium must be either sub-prime or negative-amortization loans for which the minimum monthly payments have increased. The borrowers would be required to maintain a reduced payment — the lower of 65 percent of the payment at the time of default or a payment calculated with the initial interest rate. If the borrowers failed to maintain the payments, the lender is permitted to proceed with the foreclosure process. During the deferment period, however, the lender cannot charge the borrower for any amount other than the reduced payment.
With the government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, there have been increasing calls for a federal foreclosure moratorium. Already, a bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives, H.R. 6076, that proposes to amend TILA to permit certain homeowners to take deferrals on their foreclosures. And, earlier this year, in response to a City Council measure that called for a foreclosure moratorium, the Philadelphia sheriff refused to hold court-ordered foreclosure auctions. However serious the current situation, it does not compare to the Great Depression, where the national unemployment rate reached more than 25 percent at its highest. While the Depression may have provided precedent for this type of legislation, these bills present several problems. To obtain a deferment on foreclosure, borrowers may be required to file a court action. Regardless of the court's ultimate ruling, the foreclosure process will have been delayed, the borrowers likely will have fallen further behind on their mortgage payments, and the lender or servicer will have incurred court costs and legal fees. These bills also raise several questions: What happens when the deferment period expires? Can the lender recover unpaid principal, interest and necessary advances that accrue during the deferment period? What happens to the unpaid amounts that pre-date the deferment period? Will the lenders be able to recover the costs that they incur as a result of borrowers filing court actions?
Since 1934, the Blaisdell decision has been widely criticized, and many view it as an unfaithful interpretation of the contract clause. Nevertheless, Blaisdell has never been explicitly overruled, and the decision has set the stage for future mortgage moratoriums.
President-Elect Obama's Proposals.
When presidential hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama hit the campaign trail almost two years ago, the economic plans proposed by both candidates took a backseat to the conflict in Iraq. Now that President-Elect Barack Obama prepares to take office, the focus has shifted to economic relief and reform. As homeowners across the nation face a steep and worsening decline in home values, many either cannot afford their mortgage payments, or stop making mortgage payments altogether, after losing hope that their home values will eventually recover.
When President-Elect Obama enters the White House on January 20, 2009, he has proposed a number of plans in hopes to revive the economy and address the mortgage situation. Passage of another economic stimulus package is high on President-Elect Obama's priority list, and likely will be his first major act as President. Additionally, he is expected to ask Congress for an additional economic stimulus. Part of this quick economic plan could include a cut in tax rates so that refund checks would be sent to individuals before tax returns are filed in April 2009.
Included among President-Elect Obama's proposed stimulus package are several items targeting the mortgage industry, such as the Stop Fraud Act, aimed at fighting mortgage fraud and protecting consumers against abusive lending practices. This Act, first introduced in 2007, would ensure accountability in the sub-prime mortgage industry by increasing funding for federal and state law enforcement programs, creating new criminal penalties for mortgage professionals found guilty of mortgage fraud, and imposing industry standards for insiders to report suspicious activity.
The President-Elect also suggests creating a Homeowner Obligation Made Explicit score, a measure designed to give individuals the ability to better compare mortgage products and further their understanding of what home loans entail. Specifically, the score would provide potential borrowers with simplified, standardized borrower metric for home mortgages.
In addition, Mr. Obama has proposed tightening the standards for mortgage companies seeking to file for bankruptcy protection. He plans to achieve this by permitting bankruptcy courts to modify both an individual's monthly mortgage payments and principal mortgage loan balance. This proposed change allowing mortgage "cram-downs" is controversial with many on Wall Street, who claim that the law would cause the mortgage market to seize up, as investors would stop buying mortgage-backed securities out of fear a judge could unilaterally change the terms of the loan. As a consequence, future borrowers might be required to pay higher rates or fees to offset the risk that a court could rework the loan and lower the value of the mortgage-backed security.
While tightening the standards for mortgage companies to file bankruptcy, President-Elect Obama has proposed other changes designed to make it easier for individuals to file bankruptcy under certain circumstances, increase the homestead exemption for seniors, streamline the bankruptcy process for families who are recovering from a natural disaster, and create a fast track process for military families. President-Elect Obama is also expected to create a universal mortgage credit of ten percent to homeowners who do not itemize their tax deductions. Obama's plan claims this credit will provide an average credit of $500 to 10 million homeowners, many of whom earn an annual income of less than $50,000.
At the center of the mortgage banking component of President-Elect Obama's economic plan, however, is his proposed foreclosure moratorium. Under this plan, foreclosures of delinquent mortgages will freeze for 90 days for borrowers making "good faith" efforts to pay their mortgage. This moratorium seeks to keep thousands of homeowners in their homes, presumably pursuant to modified loan terms. However, many in the mortgage servicing industry have warned that such a moratorium could have a reverse effect on the housing downturn by simply prolonging the situation. Mortgage servicing companies are generally required by contract to advance numerous payments and costs to their investors regardless of whether the debtor is paying the debt. The servicers are reimbursed, but generally after the property goes into foreclosure. Thus, repayment to the servicer for advanced sums already takes many months on average; a moratorium could extend that investment by the servicers for an additional three months. In the current economic climate, many in the mortgage banking industry may be hard-pressed to withstand such additional strain. On the other hand, advocates for the moratorium argue that a blanket moratorium is exactly what is needed right now, as it would provide immediate relief to American homeowners.
Will a Moratorium Impact Litigation?
The short, truthful answer is time will tell. Mortgage litigation, notably sub-prime mortgage litigation, is clogging our courts and crippling our mortgage lenders and servicers. Moratoriums will do little to stem the tide of securities-related cases or class actions alleging predatory lending or servicing abuses. On the other hand, many of the cases involve the individual borrowers who hope to prevent a foreclosure. For those putative lawsuits, a moratorium may spell some interim relief for docketing clerks.
On the other hand, a moratorium will simultaneously save and cost money for mortgage servicers and investors. Foreclosure costs may decrease, but carry costs will increase. Moreover, the inability to foreclose on a non-performing loan necessarily means the corresponding inability to liquidate the asset securing the loan. Without this source of recovery, struggling financial institutions will face even more hardship. Certainly, if foreclosures occur after the effective date of a moratorium, you can bet that lawsuits will follow.
But ultimately, no President can halt foreclosures forever; they will resume. Most agree that our current economic crisis was caused in large part by perceived flaws in our mortgage banking system, and further that the crisis must run its course. Included along that course are foreclosures and lawsuits, and lots of both. Federal funds and laws designed to stimulate our economy, rebuild public trust, and shore up the foundation of the weakened credit markets may well reduce the volume of new lawsuits, at least temporarily. If, however, the bailout fails, then the fallout will almost certainly be a significant increase in an already staggering volume of mortgage litigation.
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SALT LAKE CITY — After rallying from a 7-0 deficit to tie the game at 7-7, the Utes fell in the late innings to close out the series with Arizona, 11-7.
Arizona scored two runs in the second inning and three runs in the third to take a 7-0 lead before the Utes started their comeback with a pair of runs in the bottom of the third. Tyler Relf started things off with a bunt single, and moved around to third after a bobbled catch on a ground ball from James Brooks. Relf scored when Connor Eppard grounded out, and Parker Morin singled in Brooks.
After stranding two on in the fourth inning, Utah had five-straight hits in the fifth inning en route to scoring five runs and tie the game at 7-7. Shaun Cooper had the big hit for Utah in the inning with a bases-loaded two-RBI double, which included hits from Brooks, Eppard, Trey Nielsen and Morin. Although Biss Larsen had a late double to the left field corner in the inning, he was one of two runners stranded on base.
Arizona pulled back ahead in the sixth off singles from Joey Rickard and Alex Mejia. The Wildcats added an insurance run in the eighth inning. Although they loaded the bases with just one out, pitcher Tony Vocca got out of the inning allowing just one run on a sacrifice fly.
Utah had its chances in the late innings, stranding two runners on base in both the sixth and eighth innings. In the eighth, the Utes had one-out back-to-back singles from Morin and Nielsen, but Arizona reliever Mathew Troupe struck out the next two batters to end the Utah rally.
Arizona scored two more runs in the top of the ninth after Ryan Moore had an RBI triple and scored on a wild pitch.
"I was proud of the way that we got back into the game today, but unfortunately we couldn't get the key hit in the late innings," Utah head coach Bill Kinneberg said.
Utah was led at the plate by Morin, who had a 4-for-5 day. Nielsen and Eppard each had two hits with Eppard also adding two RBIs. Cooper also drove in two runs.
Utah starter Kesley Kondo pitched 21/3 innings, allowing seven runs on eight hits. Tanner Tripp was strong over five innings, striking out four and allowing two runs on four hits. He earned the loss to fall to 0-2 on the season.
The Utes play their ninth home game in a row against Utah Valley on Tuesday at 6 p.m., before traveling to Washington State for a Pac-12 series beginning on Friday at 6:30 p.m.
BYU 8, LOYOLA MARYMOUNT 6: At Provo, Alex Wolfe's two-run double in the seventh inning gave BYU its only lead in the victory over the league-leader.
"It was a cheap double, but a double is a double," BYU coach Vance Law said of Wolfe's floater down the right field line. That double scored Jaycob Brugman and pinch-hitter Kelton Caldwell who singled to tie the game, 6-6, earlier that frame.
To the delight of most of the 1,931 fans in attendance, all four runs in that seventh came with two outs after LMU retired the first two batters of the inning.
"Wolfe battled and we can depend on him being ready to play," said Law of the senior co-captain who was two-and two in the seventh-inning count. "Every series is a big one. For us to take two of three against LMU was huge."
Those four runs weren't the only ones the Cougars scored with two outs. Down 5-0 in the fifth, BYU scored three of its four unearned runs with two out.
"We're a two-out team, we've been doing it all year," said BYU infielder Austin Hall. "Even though we are down, we find a way to score runs with two outs. I needed to get a big hit. I haven't played second this year, so it's nice Coach has confidence in me."
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The 7 Ballsiest Ways Anyone Ever Quit Their Job
If you're like most people, you treat quitting with the false solemnity of a funeral for an annoying family pet. You stifle any PEACE BEYOOOOTCHs that have been building up inside you for years, act a little sad and maybe say a few thoughtful parting words.
Other folks just can't resist expressing exactly how they feel with an ass-loaded roman candle. These people approach quitting a job like performance art, living the I'll show them dreams of frustrated employees everywhere, and occasionally showing us just how badly those dreams sometimes turn out ...
#7. With Computer Programming
If we knew how to program video games, we would totally quit every job this way. We're talking an interactive resignation letter where you have to shove various office supplies into your boss's ass to escape a cubicle dungeon full of cankle-shoed fat women and terrifyingly greasy IT guys. We almost want to learn how to program, get a job doing it and then quit that job, just so we can resign this way.
"And in the second level, I beat you both to death with the Pepsi machine."
A designer working at 2K Games said goodbye with a custom Mario game that you can actually play here, complete with the star power song and "I QUIT!" dancing on the screen whenever you grab a mushroom. Its quasi-respectful tone and brain-punching awesomeness aside, we can't help but suggest that he leave it off the next portfolio he turns in to a game developer, unless he's looking to capture the record for world's fastest job interview.
"Well, I can see from your portfolio that you're a bombastic asshole. Get the fuck out of my office."
A more low-key and slightly poignant example was created by an Ubisoft programmer, depicting the company in a film noir adventure setting, except instead of guns and gin joints it's full of a bunch of rail-thin geeks who can't decide what they want to do with their lives. Emo noir, we suppose.
But nothing quite tops the unnamed techie who decided to leave behind a Mac alert explaining just how he felt about his temporary employers:
The "I've Moved Back Into My Mom's House" button is noticeably missing.
What baffles us about this is how he seems to be trying to set an ultimatum for his employers to treat him better. He says himself that neither the company nor rest of the staff will be affected by his quitting, so his work couldn't have been that great to begin with. Then he accuses his boss of being a screw up, but takes the time to leave a little box in case they want to hire him back. No boss ever in the history of anything would consider clicking on that damn thing. Mainly because you'd have to assume all three buttons lead to old man porn.
#6. In Front of Your Co-Workers, With Nudity
Sometimes the best way to say "I'm leaving" is by waving around a naked penis. Or by filming a video using the Star Wars crawl to describe how you would have sex with everyone in the office, and then waving around your naked penis obscured by a clown face. OK, that's never the best way to say anything, but don't tell that to this guy:
Our big question is, why bother covering up? He's gone this far to insult everyone, and yet chooses to censor his wang (in the creepiest way possible, we might add). Any of his intended targets still watching the video when Mr. Chuckles shows up had it coming--he flat-out announces he's going to be naked about a minute and a half beforehand.
Kevin Nalty, who used to be the consumer product director for Propecia at Merck Pharmaceuticals, used American Idol and his bare chest to leave his job in order to pursue an online video career. While Big Pharmaceutical to YouTube might sound like the worst career move ever, after viewing his resignation video, we have to think the US Health care system got the best of that transaction:
#5. With Food
Well-liked members of the workforce tend to get a nice cake when they leave a job. Or, if you're like W. Neil Barrett, you bring in your own cake with a letter of resignation written across the frosting.
Admittedly this is pretty clever, we're more on board with this cake, which sends a clear impossible to miss message:
Under no circumstances should you ever eat a cake that looks like this.
Well, not impossible to miss. Evidently, a guy known only as Patrick walked into a job he hated, dropped this bomb on his boss's desk, then took his paycheck and walked out. What's worse, his boss didn't understand what had happened, and had to have the whole exchange explained to him later by his remaining staff.
"I thought the cake was quitting!"
However, we feel that if you're going to quit your job, you might as well do it shitfaced with a bottle of Cheez Whiz, which is exactly what this guy thought. He showed up to work at a grocery store lit to the gills at 5AM, which many of you may recognize as being way before most people are even awake. After fighting with his coworkers and shouting some slurred expletives, he grabbed a bottle of the condiment and wrote "I Quit" on the storefront window, vanishing into the city like a drunken cheese-wielding Batman before the cops could show up and arrest him.
We can only imagine the awkward looks exchanged when he realized he still had to come back and pick up his last paycheck.
#4. In Song
Singing a toe-tapping resignation to your boss like Jonathon Schaech in That Thing You Do is the perfect mix of douche and awesome, sort of like Sean Connery slapping you in the face with his dong.
While singing.
Unsurprisingly, we tend to see this happening most often with musicians, who by trade have been known to sing on certain occasions. Take The Cure, who won a contest to have their music published by a German label called Hansa Records. Confronted with a bunch of dark, complex songs that would later be beloved by generations of social misfits, Hansa went into full-on marketing panic and made the logical decision to try and turn them into a boy band.
Clearly, they are nothing of the sort.
That didn't quite work out, and after recording a bunch of tracks that Hansa refuses to release to this day, The Cure decided that they actually had a sense of humor buried beneath their tear-streaked mascara and recorded "Do The Hansa," an upbeat pop song loaded with ridiculous German gibberish, on their way out the door to embrace worldwide fame.
That's fairly gentle compared to the send-off Queen gave their former manager, Norman Sheffield. In the wake of Queen's unquestionable talent and immense mainstream appeal, Sheffield decided that he was responsible for all the success and was therefore entitled to all the money they made.
Fed up with his antics, Queen decided to quit the shit out of him and wrote a little ditty called "Death on Two Legs," in which they compare Sheffield to a leech, gloat about how successful they are and invite Sheffield to kill himself for being so terrible, an offer which he sadly didn't take them up on. The song sounds kind of like a gangsta rap beef, only nobody got shot.


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by Tyler Evilsizer, Aug. 18, 2009
The $85 billion payday loan industry has traditionally fought in state legislatures for its right to do business. By the 2008 elections, 15 states had made payday lending illegal. In 2008, the payday lending industry tried a new tactic: the ballot box. In Arizona and Ohio, donors from the industry gave more than $35 million to support ballot measures that would allow them to continue operating. Despite the influx of cash, voters rejected the payday lenders' claims, and effectively banned short-term, high-interest lending.
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- The Arizona Community Financial Services Association, a trade association for payday lenders, gave 99 percent of the money in support of Arizona's Proposition 200 in 2008, which would have allowed the industry to operate indefinitely and set limits on the type and interest rates of payday loans.
- In 2008, despite massive spending by the payday lending industry, 64 percent of Ohio voters approved Issue 5, a ballot measure that severely limits payday lending practices. Payday lenders gave almost $21 million to defeat the measure, outraising the proponents by a 38-to-1 margin.
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Spinach Salad
Categories: No cook, St. Patrick's Day, Vegetarian
Type: Salads
Type: Salads
Bacon, spinach, egg and cheese make a delicious salad that could be your main dish.
Serves: Serves: 2.
- 1 pound fresh spinach
- Olive Oil and Lemon Dressing
- 1 hard-boiled egg, chopped
- 2 slices organic turkey bacon, cooked and chopped
- 2 tablespoons grated Romano cheese
- Salt and pepper to taste
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- Wash the spinach several times to clean it of dirt and grit and then dry. Place it in a large salad bowl.
- Heat the dressing and pour it over the spinach. Toss well to mix.
- If not wilted enough, then put spinach and dressing into a pan for 1 minute only.
- Top with chopped egg, turkey bacon, and Romano cheese. Add salt and pepper to taste.
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If I had surgery to remove my thyroid and cancer, can it come back? How will my doctor know if my thyroid cancer comes back after I finished all my treatments/procedures and things seem ok?
Rachel Kelz, MD, MSCE, at Penn Medicine responds,
Thyroid cancer recurs in 25% of people. The likelihood for recurrence depends of the specific characteristics of the tumor and the patient. There are several staging systems that can help predict the likelihood of recurrence. You should have regularly scheduled appointments with your endocrinologist. The exact testing required will be determined by your blood test results and usually a high resolution neck ultrasound.
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Usually, in cryptography, one is interested in debiasing a stream of independent (true) random bits, and several algorithms exist to do this. What about the converse? Let's assume I have a stream of independent and unbiased random bits at my disposal, and that I would like to generate a stream of statistically independent bits, but where $\Pr[B=0] = \frac{1}{5}$, say. How do I do this without sacrificing too much entropy from the initial source? A common algorithm for this precise case would consist in drawing $3$ bits, and interpret them as a number $0 \leq a \leq 7$. If $a=0$, then output $0$, else if $a < 5$, then output $1$, else output nothing. The problem is that I will sacrifice a lot of entropy: with probability $\frac{1}{4}$, I discard 3 bits, and with probability $\frac{3}{4}$, I transform 3 bits of entropy into a single one. Are you aware of a less entropy-hungry method?
If you want an answer that is maximally efficient in consuming a stream of random bits, then you need a decoder for arithmetic encoding. However if you're using a moderately fast CSPRNG, why would you sacrifice extra clock cycles to squeeze all the biased bits you can from each unbiased bit?
If you want a more efficient algorithm, how about:
Assuming that get_random_bit() returns uniformly distributed, independent random bits, and assuming that $0 \le bias \le 1$, then this returns a 1 with probability $bias$, and 0 with probability $1-bias$. This uses an expected 2 bits input per biased output bit (except for cases where the bias is $a/2^{b}$ for integer $a, b$; in that case, the expected number of bits used is less). In contrast, the technique you stated would take (for $bias = \frac{1}{5}$) an expected 4.8 bits input per biased output bit.
On the other hand, I would disagree with your original premise; you can get unbiased, independently distributed random bits cheaply using an efficient CSPRNG. Yes, a computationally unbounded adversary can distinguish them from random; unless your attacker falls in that category, you can ignore that distinction.


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