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New and refreshed subscription plans
[UPDATE: 9 Dec 2013 – the new subscriptions plans will take effect Monday morning, local time]
Today we're announcing new and refreshed subscription plans globally to replace our Small, Medium and Large plans. We need to make these changes as we add other products, such as payroll in the US, and increase the storage limits for our game-changing Files storage feature.
[Updated] We're also giving clearer guidance as to the size of business Xero is designed for. The 1000 invoices and 1000 bank reconciliation lines we're listing are soft limits that have always been in place (was previously worded as "hundreds") and we'd only get in touch for example if your use is using too many resources and affecting our service to other customers.
[Updated] We've listened to comments made below and directly and made an adjustment to the Australian plans, detailed in a new post.
The new plans are Starter, Standard and Premium. Small is now Starter and pricing is reduced in NZ, UK, Australia and the USA. Medium is now Standard. Large becomes Premium and in Australia and the US there are variations of the Premium plans with allowances for different numbers of payroll employees and storage. You will be automatically moved to the equivalent plan or most cost effective according to your feature use.
As always our prices are what you see is what you pay – no hidden fees per pay slip, no pay-per-use for certain features. Our core principles remain – unlimited users, free mobile app and bundled support.
We're being very careful to align price to value, and believe Xero is highly competitive. Around 90% of our customers will pay less or $1 more. Any discounts, for example for non-profits, remain the same. The new plans and pricing come into effect with our release due December 9. All subscribers are being sent a notification within the next 24 hours.
The Xero product has evolved dramatically and with each release we try to deliver more value. This is the first time we've significantly tuned our plans since Xero began in 2006. In that time we've added many features – see the timeline. Our new Files service lets you attach source documents to your financial data, saving our customers costs on 3rd party storage as well as the hard to quantify costs of managing paper documents.
Subscriptions include any bank feed charges or direct deposit fees that we incur in the United States and automatic superannuation fees in Australia. Our 24/7 support continues to be free to all subscribers and we continue to invest heavily in our support teams, recently opening our newest center in Denver.
We are also very pleased to announce larger Files storage limits for all plans beyond Starter. The Standard plan will have 5GB and Premium plans will have at least 10GB.
For accounting and bookkeeping partners, now is the time to consider what's best for your clients, perhaps adjust your bundled pricing as appropriate, and communicate with them as needed.
Check out the detail for your region.
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In your email you have stated the justification for increasing the cost to our business is centred around an increase in feature-set. I am not happy to pay more for the imposition of a feature set our business does not need or want.
I have previously contacted you regarding changes to the system which were unwelcome, oversimplified the accounting process and made training staff harder. The response I received to this communication was that there was no intention to change and that the reasoning for this change would become apparent in the future. My dissatisfaction with these changes has not altered.
Despite the package become harder to use, and complicated by a collection of features we do not need, we are being told we will have to pay more to continue using it. I can understand a small increase in charges over time, however we will now be charged double (we will be paying 6 employees – 2 for a handful of hours per week). I am not willing to accept the increase in fees for a what is now a lesser package which is not nearly as valuable to our business than it was when we trialled and selected it two and a half years ago.
I also note that the only additional feature we have been able to take advantage of is payroll, and that we were happy users of the old payroll system. At the time you made a significat deal of the fact that this was a free addition to all users, and so we switched. Now we have a significant amount of data in this module, this is being used as a justification for increasing price – surely you can understand this is not appropriate?
Please understand that I have been, for a significant length of time. a happy Xero user. The product has unfortunately and inexplicably become an over simplified quasi-accounting package which now requires us to train staff in not only fundamental bookkeeping practices, but then also in how this relates to dumbed down Xero terminology.
Given the lack of reasonable justification, I do not expect our monthly charge to change.
Extremely disappointed with this change! I note that some people have commented on the price increase not being huge in terms of $ Guys it is the percentage increase that is meaningful For my (small) client base that I am trying to build it will result in a price increase of 23% for the smaller and 42% for the larger; in my case the client split is 50/50.
Can I ask Xero how they feel this can be justified. I, as do many others who have commented have put in place fixed price contracts, and only recently (last 6 months) I will now look like a total idiot going back to them and saying I quoted you $49 because you have 12 employees, but this is now going to be $70. They will want me to take them back to MYOB (it's cheaper with no payroll limit rubbish) . Poor Form Xero
The starter plan by any measure is a total rip off and is all but unusable any any real business. Why do you guys even bother with it? 5 invoices and bills, it is almost insulting!
And what is with multi-currency be such an expensive add on? It makes no sense in this day and age.. Talk about last century thinking guys! A global company that only offers local pricing options for its users! It is a bad joke!
Sorry Rod, this it not a great move. The starter option is next to useless,1 employee and 5 invoice/bills per month – for any business that just will not work and then a big jump to the standard plan. So in summery pretty much everyone will get hit with a price hill. Not happy and seems very ill-conceived. You need a starter plan that is realistic in features and cheaper than the current basic plan and a standard plan that is priced the same as the basic plan is now. I have two accounts so am up for a $22 p/m price hike. Not happy at all so I will be searching for alternatives – very unhappy at the way this has been roled out.
@Rod, @Chris.
Well done for listening to feedback and fixing the package you offer in Australia..
Now please can you do the same for the UK and comment on the following points:
1) Why charge the small business extra to pay for the big business / partners new features, while they get a price freeze and pay the same as previously?
2) Why not make files a bolt on for only those that want it (as it just not that important to most people)
3) Why not offer a true small business plan which supports 15 invoices and 15 purchases per month? Starter is pointless and Standard is overkill
4) Why not fix the existing big / value features in the UK like bank feeds which are notoriously unreliable and seem to break virtually every month
5) Why not include direct RTI submission to HMRC in payroll so we dont need to use / pay for a third party add on.
6) Why not support your loyal customers of 4 years+ by freezing thier prices too (not just partners) and only applying the new prices to new sign ups (like other cloud companies do)
I have to say when i read the blog comment above about "what this space, we will sort it next week", i thought great, Xero get it! Sadly by only addressing your home market (Aus), i guess you dont get it. Still feeling very let down and disappointed with Xero in the UK as its NOT great value for money over here.
Look forward to your comments Chris and would love to to get Rod's comment as well to this post (he seems to have gone awefully quiet since the bad press started)
Come on guys turn this into a positive and move forwards…
What a blow this is for my small business. We employ 12 casual staff and no full time staff – the total hours our staff work in a week is always under 100 hours – so the 12 casual staff are equivalent to 2 or 3 full time staff. I was so happy with xero but now our fees have gone up a whopping 43% from $49 to $70 per month. This is highway robbery. I know our small business is insignificant to xero whose capitalisation has just sky rocketed to $5billion. I get the feeling that xero has to increase it fees to justify the massive increase in share price its directors are now enjoying. Good luck to you – I hope you make lots of money from your sneaky and dishonest fee hike. You definitely have us over a barrel. You have only given us a couple of weeks warning so even if we wanted to change to reckon or myob online you know it would be very hard for us. Hope xero shareholders and staff have a very happy christmas. By the way, I phoned reckon online today and they told me that we can have unlimited transactions and unlimited number of employees for under $500 per year (about $40 per month) and their new package will be available in the early part of the new year – so please listen to us and make it easier for us to stay with you. There will be many small businesses suffering from this insensitive price hike in xero fees. Please don't be a greedy organisation and listen to your small customers.
Further to my comments above – and Carmens above!
However the option that better suits my client base is http://www.humanservices.gov.au/business/services/medicare/small-business-superannuation-clearing-house/
which accomplishes what you have suggested (in my opinion) and, as far as I can ascertain at no cost. I believe there may be a limit of between 20 and 25 employees that can be on the system for each firm. Again this perfectly suits my demographic.
The following extract from the super web site suggests as below:
From July 2014 all large and medium employers will be required to send contributions in the new format, and all super funds, including self-managed super funds, will be required to receive contributions in the new standard.
All small employers with less than 20 employees must use the data standard for sending contributions from 1 July 2015 (subject to further consultation).
I would suggest that the 1/7/2015 deadline and charging effectively 18 months in advance for a feature that is not required is a somewhat strange course of action – more than 20 employees – yes large company, and start the transition from April 1, 2014 3 months prior to the July 1 deadline; but why penalise our small businesses?
However I still hold to the 23% and 43% increase that I mentioned as being a significant hurdle we need to jump over with our clients; small business clients tend to not consider any savings aspect (which IMO are not significant for my client base) but they do consider the price increase percentages. In today's economy getting any price increase larger than CPI is difficult…if not impossible and to justify a 43% increase for a feature that is not required per se is foolish to say the least.
On a side note what Xero is doing is what has happened in real estate for years, the agents sell the advertising to the end user (we sell the Xero to the end user); the media groups (print photography internet) put up the prices significantly (like Xero) and say to the agents along the lines of 'well you don't pay for it the client does' , and the changes that they use to justify the increase are not significant to the overall users. This allows them o absolve themselves of all accountability and responsibility because they know that the cost of not using the service will not wash. BTW I am also a Licensed Real Estate Agent and ran my own Agency so I speak from experience with this type of model.
Xero badly needs per employee and per transaction pricing. It is ridiculous to bundle payroll with accounting, so many must take what they do not want to get what they need. This can mean effectively paying $51 to $90 for one extra employee, $40 for e-services for one employee or $21 for one extra bill, invoice or bank entry. PLEASE VOTE for this at http://bit.ly/1evmS4u (after you log in to Xero)


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Welcome to the NAEOP Middle School/Jr. High Council webpage! If you work in an office in any middle school or junior high school in the country, you are automatically a member of this council when you join and/or renew your NAEOP membership. As a member, you have access to a nationwide network of those who are on the journey to professional excellence with you.
If this is your first time visiting the NAEOP website, I encourage you to take a few minutes and check out several of the links listed on the homepage. Whether you are a NAEOP member or not, take the time to get to know more about our association and all we have to offer. If you are a NAEOP member, thank you! I recommend you review the information located in our "Members Only" link. It's a great way to keep in touch with what's happening in our association. If you are not yet a member, what's stopping you? Contact me and I'd be happy to explain the details of the benefits of becoming a NAEOP member.
Many of the state associations across our country have fall conferences planned and/or are in the process of finalizing spring conferences. I hope you have the opportunity to participate in some professional development opportunities in your area.
This year, NAEOP President Patricia Stelmach, CEOE, has chosen as her theme, "Putting Your Best Foot Forward With NAEOP." As educational office professionals in middle school and/or junior high school offices, I encourage you to put your best foot forward each and every day. If you find some tips or ideas that work, please share them with me and I will include them in an upcoming newsletter to all our council members. Put your best foot forward. Reach out to others in your office and encourage them to look into the Professional Standards Program (PSP) NAEOP offers. If you have questions about any other member benefits, or your membership in the Middle School/Jr. High Council, please let me know. I'm here to help you in any way I can.
I look forward to working with President Stelmach and the rest of the NAEOP Governing Board as we each put our best foot forward for you, the NAEOP members.
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Alex Ovechkin has played the point on the power play for most of his entire seven-year NHL career. During that time, using his heavy rocket of a shot, the Capitals prized left-winger has tallied 111 goals with the extra man – for an average of 16 per season.
Unfortunately, Ovechkin has also found himself on the wrong side of a lot of shorthanded opportunities over the years as well. Using a forward at the point can be risky, and the statistics tell the tale: the Caps have given up nine shorthanded goals this season, fourth most in the NHL.
During a power play in the second period of Sunday's 3-0 win over the Wild, Dennis Wideman turned the puck over at the blue line. A shorthanded chance seemed imminent, but the Russian Machine hustled back, dropped to one knee, and blocked Mikko Koivu's pass across the ice to a streaking Wild player.
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It may be the best defensive play of Ovechkin's career — and timely, given the Caps' tenuous grip on a playoff spot.
It doesn't end there though. On the same shift, Ovechkin brought the puck into the offensive zone and found Troy Brouwer open on the wing. Brouwer then hit Mathieu Perreault with a cross-ice pass, which he deposited into the net, for the Capitals second goal of the game.
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People have been asking "What's wrong with Ovechkin?" all year. Proven by this shift, the answer right now is: Nothing. At all.


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PREMONT, Texas — Eliminating high school athletics during a school year is unusual, especially in a sports-loving state such as Texas.
But that's exactly what's happening in this small ranching community where the school district is taking desperate measures to prevent a state-mandated closure due to poor academics. The Premont Independent School District is even deploying its superintendent, a constable and high school principal to the homes of truant students in an effort to improve dismal attendance.
The actions announced this week are not only part of a last-ditch effort to save the school district, but perhaps the entire community — which some parents already plan to leave because of the uncertainty surrounding the schools' future.
"The school shuts down in this town, the town dies," said Frank Davila, a Jim Wells County constable who also works as the school security officer and grew up here. "This is all we have."
The town of 2,700 people in South Texas has been on edge since the Texas Education Agency placed it on probation nearly a year ago and then last fall ordered that the school district close by July 1. The order has since been put on hold as the district gets one last chance to meet the state's criteria. Failure would force Premont ISD to be annexed into another district 35 miles away and eliminate one of the town's largest employers — costing Premont 90 jobs.
With so much on the line, Superintendent Ernest Singleton decided drastic action was needed to show the state immediate improvement at Premont High School. The school failed to meet certain adequate yearly progress requirements since 2007 under the federal No Child Left Behind program.
To make time for extra tutoring and test preparation — and to save some money — Singleton decided sports at the school will have to wait at least until the next basketball season. That means no baseball, track, tennis or football.
"Sports is sacred ground in the state of Texas," said Singleton, who has been on the job barely seven months.
"But because we're so far behind with student performance I wanted an environment that was academic only."
The problems at Premont are numerous. The buildings are outdated and in need of repairs. The enrollment is dwindling — 570 students this year compared to about 800 students from five years ago — and a startling percentage of those who are enrolled regularly miss classes. The district decided to combine its three schools into two last year and only recently broke a five-year string of operating with a deficit.
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Mom's know that colds are no fun, and they can last FOREVER! Seems like there is nothing slower than the pace of a runny nose. And if you are pregnant, ugh! Most of the OTC medications that you may have used in the past are off limits, check with your medical provider before using any medication when pregnant. For babies and toddlers, even children, same thing, before you buy any cold medicine from the drug store, talk to your pediatrician. Dr. Greene has blogged about concerns that some OTC decongestants might not work that well on babies and children, and can pose a potential overdose risk. Read more about that here.
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- Vitamin C (check doses for children with your doctor), you can take an Emergen-C pack to boost, and you mix it with water so you hydrate and add C simultaneously – Woot! Oh, and they make versions for children – Double Woot!
- Probiotics have been shown to reduce the length of a cold, and even to prevent one. Say wa?! Another blog post from our P.A.M. Advisor, Dr. Greene on the evidence supporting using probiotics to fight a cold.
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- Blow you nose – tissue, nasal nettie, and the nasal aspirator for babies: get the mucus OUT before it thickens, settles in and creates an infection.
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- Hand washing – with real soap and water, if all else fails waterless soap will do
- Probiotics – daily during Flu & Cold Season (October thru March) – Check out Dr. Greene's blog on the topic, also hyperlinked above.
- Rest – remember, it's restorative (this includes making sure babies and toddlers get their naps and a full night's sleep)
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The Norwegian concrete poet Ottar Ormstad and Russian composer Taras Mashtalir form the duo OTTARAS, currently looking for live performance venues. This video was produced in collaboration with Russian video artist Alexander Vojjov, and "exists in different versions made for screening and live performance," according the Vimeo description.
Projected on a grid of particles that at times seem ordered, while sometimes chaotic and always in flux, Ormstad's constructed language poetry is exposed and read by the author while performing to Mashtalirs pulsating music. Is everything connected to one another in the sphere that is shaping before the viewer's eyes? How does language relate to the atmospheric scapes Vojjov creates of numbers, geometric forms and abstract shapes? LONG RONG SONG (2015) conveys Ormstad's language research project that is based on AUDITION FOR FENOMENER UTEN BETEGNELSE (Audition for Phenomena without a Name), his second book of concrete poetry (2004). In the video, Ormstad reads through a cycle of 5 poems that present combinations of four letters made of an artifical language system that he has created and which may, or may not result in words commonly used in latin languages. […] Raising awareness of electronic poetry and sonic ecology, attracting new audience to a potent yet to come genre is the inspiration for this collaboration.
The video is produced in HD 16:9 in color, stereo, duration 05:26
Animation: Alexander Vojjov
Music: Taras Mashtalir
Concrete poetry, voice & production: Ottar Ormstad
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I find it a mesmerizing hybrid of concrete and sound poetry—a great example of how an effective video can make avant-garde poetry approachable.
Experimental poetry can sometimes seem excessively cerebral and lacking in emotion, but Norwegian visual poet Ottar Ormstad escapes that trap here with the help of terrific still images and a compelling score. The description from Ormstad's upload to Vimeo is worth quoting at length:
In the film "when" Ottar Ormstad is transferring his practice as concrete poet to the realm of a programmable networked space, blending his poetry with specially composed modern music and electronic elements. His photographs are presented in combination with words in different languages, most of them presented as "letter-carpets". Some sentences are from well known songs or films, other letter-combinations are invented by the author.
The film is telling a story about life and death, basically from the standpoint of cars, rotten in a field in Sweden. The narrative is open, and each viewer may experience the film very differently. It is also dependent upon the viewer's language background, any translation is – intentionally – not given.
This experimental film cannot be translated in a traditional way. The words in different languages are integrated in the poetic expression. Subtitles are irrelevant.
The music and the animation was created in close cooperation with the author.
Music: Hagen & Nilsen from Xploding Plastix
Animation: Ina Pillat
Script, photographs, visual poetry by director & producer: Ottar Ormstad
A concrete videopoem by the UK-based Polish video artist Maciej Piatek that alludes to a text by Paul Eluard and an historic, public use of that text, as the write-up on Vimeo explains:
The film was screened at Liberté during the ArtsBridge Festival 2014. Liberté was a multi-discipline performance featuring collaborations in poetry, music, film, dance, prose, performance and visual arts, that used Paul Éluard's "Liberté" poem as a starting point. The poem was famously dropped from aeroplanes during WWII by the British Air force over occupied France.
2014 was a year of the centenary of the start of WWI and the 75th Anniversary of the start of WWII, and in an age where we see almost perpetual war, we are told that it is all necessary "for our freedom". The performance attempted to analyse what liberty/freedom meant to each contributor.
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In celebration of World Poetry Day, here's a video which may not fit some people's idea of a poem at all — but which, to my way of thinking, represents the purest form of videopoetry. In fact, it was brought to my attention by videopoetry pioneer Tom Konyves (more about that in a minute). It's the work of the Madrid-based filmmaker and graffiti artist Dier, and incorporates two kinds of found text: in the soundtrack, a monologue from the movie Blade Runner, and as images on the screen, the erased words of painted-over graffiti. The former is (eventually) translated into Spanish-language graffiti, but it's the "lost" words that are uniquely able to communicate — or fail to communicate — in all languages, due to the universality of silence. This struck me as especially suggestive today, given the emphasis of World Poetry Day on endangered languages and censored or silenced poets, as well as on dialogue between poetry and the other arts. To quote from the UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova's message,
Today, contemporary forms of poetry, from graffiti to slam, enable young people to become engaged in the practice and renew it by opening the door to a new space for creation. The forms evolve, but the poetic impulse remains intact. […] As a deep expression of the human mind and as a universal art, poetry is a tool for dialogue and rapprochement.
In videopoetry as Konyves conceives of it, the meshing of different media goes well beyond mere dialogue, however. In a review of this video, "Loss, Memory, Spectacle, Redemption: A Hermeneutic Approach to Dier's Videopoem Todos esos momentos se perderan (All Those Moments Will Be Lost In Time)," he reminds us that, in his view, "the 'poetry' in a videopoem is not the privileged 'text' — it is the moment of intersection between the text, image and sound."
In "Todos esos momentos se perderan", Dier succeeded in discovering the collaborative properties of the elements of text, image and sound. (Not all texts, images and soundtracks can be said to have 'collaborative properties'; a previous!y published poem, for example, may arrive complete-in-itself.) The text is appropriated and bifurcated so that its relationship to the images (supported by a soundtrack that is itself an appropriation) presents to the viewer a metaphor extended and redrawn through key 'moments' in the unfolding of the work. The words of the spoken text are translated to Spanish before they are "enacted", emphasizing their adaptation and service to the real world.
Due to the difficulty of copying and pasting from the online document, I'll leave my quoting at that, but do click through and read the rest — an illuminating analysis which, unlike a lot of theorizing, should also be of practical value to any poets or filmmakers working in the field. For credits and Dier's found-poem text translated from Blade Runner, see the description on Vimeo.
A compelling animation of a visual poem, one of John Cages's mesostics, by Federica Cristiani. She writes:
In this video I try to create a perfect balance between music and video. The letters appear following the beat of the music. My purpose is to create a perfect synesthesia within sound and typography.
This particular text was also included in a musical composition for solo voice, Sixty-Two Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham.
This kintetic text animation by VIV G (Vivian Giourousis) definitely qualifies as a concrete poem.
This is just about the most inventive typographic animation I've even seen — a gorgeous and moving tribute to the power of Polish poetry by American-Irish poet and artist Alice Lyons and Irish artist Orla Mc Hardy. The film has its own website at thepolishlanguage.com, whence the following description:
The Polish Language is an animated film-poem about the subversive force of art and the renewal of poetry in the whispery language of Polish.
Based on the poem of the same title, the film pays homage to the revitalization of poetry in the Polish language in the 20th century. Using hand-drawn, stop-motion and time-lapse animation techniques, the poem unfolds onscreen, with typography as a key visual element. It visual style is loosely based on underground publications in Poland in the 1970s and 1980s, known as Bibula. A chorus of voices sampling poems in Polish, woven together with original music by sound designer Justin Spooner, combine to create a powerful score in a film of 'emotional depth and technical sophistication' (Jury, Galway Film Fleadh 2009, award for Best Animation).
The Polish Language is at once a playful and solemn journey into the sensuality, beauty and power of language.
Lyons wrote the poem, while Mc Hardy took the lead on the animation. For full credits and a list of screenings, see the website's About page. The poets sampled in the soundtrack are Tadeusz Różewicz, Zbigniew Herbert and Wisława Szymborska.
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The Oakdale Irrigation District brought water into its canal system on Saturday, March 15 to prepare for the start of the irrigation season, as reported by OID General Manager Steve Knell at the March 18 regular meeting of the Board of Directors. The season was initially planned to start on March 3 but rains allowed for the delay. It was reported that there were no major issues and only one minor issue with tumbleweed when bringing water into the canals.
A report at the March 17 Oakdale City Council meeting by City Manager Bryan Whitemyer regarding the city budget, showed the city with only a $72,000 variance of its final budget proposed from October of last year.
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As Californians throughout the state plan to celebrate the St. Patrick's Day holiday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), and the California Highway Patrol (CHP) encourage motorists to plan ahead and designate a sober driver, or arrange for a safe and sober ride home.
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Finger pointing regarding bias, threats, mismanagement, and outright lies continue to fly in the latest drama involving the Oakdale Airport.
Oakdale City Manager Bryan Whitemyer painted a bleak picture of the city without the continuance of the city's half-cent sales tax assessment at the Measure O Committee meeting on Monday, March 10.
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I am embarrassed now to say that this has been my back yard for 3 years now and I have just visited! It is similar to my brief tenure in New York City and never visiting the Statue of Liberty. I see a part of this garden from one of my windows every morning as I greet the world for the start of my day. It is situated right behind Palazzo Corsini which is my view from another window. What a surprise as in store for me when a dear friend, Emilia, suggested we visit.
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Guess what -- the blog that had Arpaio's pink panties in a bunch has been removed from the Internet...and the First Amendment heroes at Google are the ones who removed it (Google owns blogspot, which hosted the offensive blog).
Click here to see where the link to the blog www.targetingcops.blogspot.com takes you now.
There are two ways a Google-hosted blog can be removed from the Internet -- the owner of the blog can remove it, or Google can determine the blog violates the company's policies and remove it itself.
Google won't say why this particular blog was removed -- when asked about its removal, company spokeswoman Christine Chen tells New Times that Google "doesn't comment on individual cases."
However, MCSO spokesman Jeff Sprong confirms to New Times that the search warrant was carried out -- but Google had already removed the blog after the sheriff issued a press release announcing his plan to investigate the company.
This is what the website www.targetingcops.blogspot.com looks like now that Google removed it from the Internet.
The blog in question is one of the more despicable pieces of trash we've seen on the Internet -- it praises people who kill cops, and mocks fallen officers.
For example, prior to the blog's removal, it features a photo of slain MCSO Deputy William Coleman with the words "officer down, LOL!!!"
The author of the blog even hails Coleman's killer, 30-year-old "U.F.O.-ologist" Drew Ryan Maras, as a "brave warrior," a "citizen martyr."
Below is how the author describes Coleman's shooting:
"2012 is getting off to a great start! Officer William Coleman, one of Pig Joe Arpaio's gestapo deputies, got his ass smoked - GOOD! Coleman, a top sheriff in Arpaio's racist AZ police regime, was supposedly answering a "burglarly call" in the early morning on Sunday January 8th 2012, in the north Phoenix community of Anthem (It must be noted that AZ sheriff's deps. have, in the past, routinely used "burglary calls" as a false pretext for conducting night-time terrorist raids on residential homes without a warrent, regardless of alleged criminal activity or lack there of). It was reported that pig Coleman took it right in the face, too."
The blog also featured a photo of Arpaio with the words "You're Next, Joe -- watch your back, bitch!" written directly above it.
The sheriff apparently considered the message to be a credible death threat, which is why he (very publicly) threatened to serve Google with a search warrant.
It's been argued that the websites involved in Wednesday's protest are more concerned about protecting their bottom-lines than they are with protecting free speech -- if SOPA becomes law, many of the sites could be forced to shut down, or lose a ton of cash. Google's completely removing a blog from the Internet seems to lend some credibility to that theory.
Just to be clear, we don't agree with anything posted on the shameless blog, but we respect the author's right to say it.
That said, the fact remains: on the same day Google protested censoring the Internet, Google censored the Internet.
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There was an earlier thread about how the Lookouts owner needed persuading by Castellini to extend Lookouts affiliation for 07-08. That article was written by a newspaper guy.
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Johnny Almarez was a main point person in that negotiation...
Since then the Reds did not schedule an 07 exhibition, the Reds fired their manager, parted ways with Almarez and have now fired the Chattanooga manager. In an article by a different media outlet (TV), the Lookouts owner sure seems to be indicating he's moving on to another team....
"Lookouts Arrangement With Reds Isn't Long For This World.
by Randy Smith
On Wednesday of this week, it was announced that the Cincinnati Reds were dismissing Lookouts manager JayHawk Owens after four seasons. In addition to me and several others, Lookouts owner and President Frank Burke is still wondering, Why? JayHawk, a former stand out at MTSU was 288-268, that's a winning record. In addition, Owens guided the Lookouts to the Southern League Playoffs twice in four years. So what really happened? The Reds have undergone many changes in administration and with this many newcomers, friends must be taken care of. That's at least what Owens thinks. But we really don't need to be worried about JayHawk. He will get a job in a good organization and it will be a lot sooner than later. Oh by the way, you can also count on Frank Burke to take a really close look at other Major League organizations in the next few months. After all, and I hope the Reds understand this, you have to take care of your friends. "


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This was Steve's (NC_Ziggy) first live game and Patty (Hexepatty) was an out and out baseball virgin but by the end she was winging out terms like bottom of the ninth and sacrifice fly like she was a pro!
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Ellen arranged a little surprise for us at the bottom of the 2nd, our name on the scoreboard!
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dlfltxb – Macros related to "Introdktion til LaTeX"
The bundle contains various macros either used for creating the author's book "Introduktion til LaTeX" (in Danish), or presented in the book as code tips.
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- dlfltxbcodetips: various macros helpful in typesetting mathematics;
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More patients with ED SCLC have greatly impaired performance status at the time of diagnosis than patients with LD. Such patients have a poor prognosis and tolerate aggressive chemotherapy or combined-modality therapy poorly. Single-agent intravenous, oral, and low-dose biweekly regimens have been developed for these patients.[30,35,36,37,38,39,40,41]
Prospective, randomized studies have shown that patients with a poor prognosis who are treated with conventional regimens live longer than those treated with the single-agent, low-dose regimens or abbreviated courses of therapy. A study comparing chemotherapy every 3 weeks with treatment given as required for symptom control showed an improvement in QOL in those patients receiving regular treatment.[38][Level of evidence: 1iiDii]
Other studies have tested intensive one-drug or two-drug regimens. A study conducted by the Medical Research Council demonstrated similar efficacy for an etoposide plus vincristine regimen and a four-drug regimen.[39] The latter regimen was associated with a greater risk of toxic effects and early death but was superior with respect to palliation of symptoms and psychological distress.[39][Level of evidence: 1iiC] Studies comparing a convenient oral treatment with single-agent oral etoposide versus combination therapy showed that the overall response rate and OS were significantly worse in the oral etoposide arm.[35,40][Level of evidence: 1iiA]
Subgroup analyses of phase II and phase III trials of SCLC patients by age showed that myelosuppression and doxorubicin-induced cardiac toxic effects were more severe in older patients than in younger patients and that the incidence of treatment-related death tended to be higher in older patients.[41] About 80% of older patients, however, received optimal treatment, and their survival was comparable to that of younger patients. The standard chemotherapy regimens for the general population could be applied to older patients in good general condition (i.e., performance status of 0-1, normal organ function, and no comorbidity). There is no evidence of a difference in response rate, disease-free survival (DFS), or OS in older patients compared with younger patients.