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WAYNE -- A 300-pound black bear spent part of the day in a residential area, where authorities said the bruin was treed before being taken away.
As Allen Drive residents watched late this afternoon, some taking pictures on their cell phones, Wayne police and the Passaic County Sheriff's Department called in the state Division of Fish and Wildlife. Bill Maer, a sheriff's department spokesman, said the state authorities got the bear into a tree, tranquilized it and then removed it from the area.
Before being removed, the year-old bear napped in a few trees, Wayne Lt. Laurence Martin said.
The bruin apparently was unconcerned by the gathering crowd.
State animal-control officers arrived around 7 p.m. and shot the bear with a pair of tranquilizer darts, Martin said. The bear stumbled out of the tree and ran about 20 feet to a nearby fence, Martin said, before it went back to sleep next to a fence.
Officials could not confirm that the bear would be released back into the wild.
Martin said black bears occasionally make their way into Wayne during the summer months.
"Historically, during this time of the year, the larger bears scoot the juvenile male bears out of their den and we find them. Usually there are young male bears foraging around," Martin said. "Normally we don't ever have problems. They come, they do their own thing and then they leave."
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FAIRMONT - It's called "pent-up demand," when consumers postpone purchases and make due with what they've got until the economy improves and they can upgrade.
Based on U.S. car sales, consumer confidence is rebounding.
"Nationally, [sales are] good, and they're probably better here than nationally," said Dave Kloeckner at Fairmont Ford. "The reason for that is our strong ag economy. Last year, our sales were absolutely outstanding, and the first two months of this year already. Sometimes you're a little quiet in January and February, but we haven't been quieter at all. We've been just rock solid."
"Where we are lucky enough to live," he added, "we don't peak or valley. We kind of float along, but we're floating pretty tall right now."
Generally speaking, Kloeckner and his brother, James, say business is as good as it has ever been. The F150 pickup is their bestseller - after all, this is truck country - but people are shopping for fuel-efficient models too.
There are challenges accompanying the increased demand, however.
"Ford's producing all the vehicles it can produce, and we're still not getting enough vehicles," said James Kloeckner.
Across town at Militello Motors, Jeff Militello said he is having a similar experience with a special make and model: People are calling from all over the country to ask about the Cherokees he has on hand.
"Grand Cherokee has turned out to be quite the hit. We can't get enough of them," he said. "... But the right stuff is harder to get because there's not as much out there."
When the U.S. auto industry fell apart in 2008, the comeback plan included cutting production. That means these days there are fewer new cars are on the market. It also means there aren't as many newer used cars.
Before 2008, manufacturers were making more than they could sell, and they sent the extras to lease and rental companies. Once the vehicles had reached a mileage limit, the "product cars" were available at low prices for dealers to purchase.
But it wasn't a sustainable system, and so the price of a newer used car has gone up. Meanwhile, dealerships' profits on used cars have shrunk.
At Hawkins Chevrolet in Fairmont, some of the company's best sales months in history have been tempered by tight margins.
"In February, we broke our all-time record for sales," said Tom Hawkins, "but even with that ... the margins aren't as good as they were."
While used car sales aren't as profitable as they were, their less-competitive pricing is pushing some consumers to consider brand new models. Militello said where he used to sell 4:1 used to new cars, that ratio is shifting.
At Ford, the Kloeckners also say they're seeing traditional used-car customers looking at new cars for the first time.
"Wholesale prices of used are relatively high, which brings the transaction prices of new and used closer together," said James Kloeckner.
As Militello prepares for interior modeling that coincides with his business' 35th anniversary, he is starting to change his strategy. The competition at trade shows for late-model, low-mile vehicles is so tight, he is starting to invest elsewhere.
"A car today is worth more than that same car was a year ago - it's unheard of," he said.
That makes a good trade-in more valuable than ever, and typically worth the time and money - easily $1,000 - he invests in them.
"We are also keeping more of the high-mileage stuff and fixing it up to our standards - there's a big demand for them," he said.

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AUBURN, Alabama -- While the rest of the college basketball world turns its eyes to Selection Sunday and tonight's reveal of the NCAA Tournament bracket, Auburn is four days into its search for a basketball coach to replace Tony Barbee.
Auburn athletics director Jay Jacobs, who is heading the search alone, has kept the process largely under-the-radar so far.
Former Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl, who is still under a three-year show cause from the NCAA that expires on Aug. 23, is a target after his candidacy was approved by Auburn assistant athletic director Dave Didion, who was the lead NCAA investigator on Pearl's investigation in Knoxville, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.
Pearl, the hottest name floating in coaching circles and around the Auburn fan base, has said he'd be willing to listen to Auburn and dodged a question on WJOX Friday about whether he's been contacted by the school.
Another name in the mix is Marquette's Buzz Williams, who has been mentioned as a potential target for the job in coaching circles, according to a source. Williams, whose streak of five NCAA Tournament appearances will end this year as the 17-15 Golden Eagles hope for an NIT berth, could be expensive after he made $1,888,891, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, and another $1 million payable to Team Buzz Williams LP, of which Williams is a partner, in 2012, the last year for which tax records have been released.
Beyond those two names, the Tigers' search for a new coach has remained relatively quiet. Former Auburn star Chuck Person, a long-time NBA assistant who is now coaching in South Korea and interviewed for the job four years ago, has been reported to be a possible interview by Inside the Auburn Tigers and AuburnUndercover.com.
Former Mississippi State coach Rick Stansbury is interested in the job, but he does not appear to be a candidate for the position.
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The Colorado River and its tributaries provide municipal and industrial water for more than 23 million people in the seven Basin States and irrigation water to nearly 4 million acres of land. The threat of salinity is a major concern in both the United States and the Republic of Mexico. Salinity affects agricultural, municipal, and industrial users. Damages in Mexico are unquantified, but damages in the United States typically range between $500 million and $750 million per year.
Reclamation is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Land Management in the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program to build many salinity control projects on the Colorado River. The program's overall goal is to cost-effectively reduce the amount of salinity in the river water.
High salinity levels make it difficult to grow winter vegetables and popular fruits. Salt in water systems plugs and destroys municipal and household pipes and fixtures. Studies show that salinity damages in the United States` portion of the Colorado River Basin range between $500 million and $750 million per year and could exceed $1.5 billion per year if future increases are not controlled. Damages in the Republic of Mexico have not been quantified, but may be expected to exceed $100 million per year.
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The 1974 Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act, Public Law 93-320, authorized the construction, operation, and maintenance of works in the Colorado River Basin to control the salinity of water delivered to Mexico.
Title I of the Act provided the means to comply with the obligations made by the United States to Mexico in Minute No. 242 of the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico. This minute, formally approved by the United States and Mexico on August 30, 1973, is an agreement by the two governments. It provides that the United States shall adopt measures to ensure that 1.36 million acre-feet of water delivered annually to Mexico upstream of Morelos Dam shall have an average salinity of no more than 115 +30 parts per million over the annual average salinity of Colorado River water arriving at Imperial Dam. The agreement further provides for the United States to deliver to Mexico, across the land boundary at San Luis, Arizona., and in the Limitrophe Section of the Colorado River downstream from Morelos Dam, approximately 140,000 acre-feet of water annually, with salinity substantially the same as that of water customarily delivered there. The minute also provided that the concrete-lined Main Outlet Drain Extension (MODE) be extended from Morelos Dam to the Cienaga de Santa Clara in Mexico at United States expense. Features authorized under Title I of the 1974 Salinity Control Act are:
The desalting plant is located on a 60- acre tract of land located approximately 6 miles west of Yuma, Arizona is designed to improved the quality of irrigation drainage water from the Wellton Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District (WMIDD) so that it can be returned to the Colorado River and delivered to Mexico in partial satisfaction of the Mexican water Treaty of 1944. The Yuma Desalting Plant is a membrane-process desalting plant, a pretreatment plant, and the necessary appurtenant works to treat drainage water from the Wellton Mohawk Division, Gila Project .
This unit is involved in replacing the first 49 miles of the existing unlined Coachella Canal with a new concrete-lined canal. This action will save most of the water that is being lost through seepage in the unlined reach of the canal.
This unit will provide for construction of a well field located on a 5-mile-wide strip of land along the Southerly International Boundary between Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. Minute No. 242 limits the quantity of water pumped from the combination of private wells and the unit well field to 160,000 acre-feet annually. A significant amount of the water pumped by the unit will be delivered the Southerly International Boundary near San Luis, Ariz. This water , when combined with the drainage and regulatory waste flows from the Valley Division of the Yuma Project, will make up the 140,000 acre-feet per year of water delivered to Mexico at the Southerly International Boundary. This 140,000 acre-feet of water, with 1,360,000 acre-feet of water delivered and the Northerly International Boundary, will make up the 1,500,000 acre-feet of Mexican Treaty entitlement to Colorado River water.
In connection with the desalting plant, but to be investigated independently, Section 101 c of the act authorized the Reject Stream Replacement Study to identify feasible measure which could adequately replace the water lost through reject from the Yuma Desalting Plant and any Wellton Mohawk drainage water bypassed to the Santa Clara Slough. The source of any such replacement water was limited by the act to the States of Arizona, Colorado, California, New Mexico, and those portion of Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming which are within the natural drainage basin of the Colorado River. The investigation on replacing the reject stream from the Yuma Desalting Plant is continuing. Studies are presently on going with the focus on two primary alternatives. (a) off stream banking of surplus Colorado River water to be used later to offset the reject stream, and (b) increasing return flow credits in the Yuma area and using part of that credit to offset the reject stream.
Title II of the Salinity Control Act authorized several specific salinity control units upstream from Imperial Dam to meet the objectives and standards set by the Clean Water Act. The cost effective portions of these units have all been completed. Title II projects that were implemented:
Title II Projects to be implemented after new/revised investigations:
Title II projects investigated but determined not to be cost-effective:
In 1994, Public Law 98-569 amended the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act and directed the Secretary to develop a comprehensive program for minimizing salt contributions from lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and to provide a report on this program to the Congress and the Advisory Council. BLM's program is designed to provide the best management of the basic resource base. Successes with the resource base will translate to improved vegetation cover, better use of onsite precipitation, and stronger plant root systems. In turn, a more stable runoff regime and reduced soil loss should result; thus, benefitting water quality of the Colorado River.
The1987 Report, Salinity Control on BLM-Administered Public Lands in the Colorado River Basin outlines BLM`s implementation actions; and quantifies, classifies, and maps the saline soils on lands administered by BLM.
Public Law 98569 provides a separate authority for implementing U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Colorado River Salinity Control projects. The initial funds for implementation were appropriated in 1987. Public Law 98569 authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to
1. Identify salt source areas and develop project plans for salinity control
2. Provide financial and technical assistance to land users to plan, install, and maintain salinity reduction practices including voluntary replacement of incidental fish and wildlife values foregone
3. Conduct research, demonstration, and education activities
4. Monitor and evaluate program effectiveness
In 1995, Public Law 104-20 authorized an entirely new way of implementing salinity control. Reclamation`s Basinwide Salinity Control Program opens the program to competition through a `Request for Proposal` process which has greatly reduced the cost of salinity control. The average cost of salinity control measures has dropped from about $70 per ton to $30 per ton. P.L.104-20 directed Reclamation to conduct a $75 million test of a pilot program to award grants on a competitive-bid basis for salinity control projects. This program has helped 24 projects totaling $109 million?yet the same projects under the old program would have cost over $300 million. New salinity control projects are funded by a one-time grant that is limited to the sponsor`s competitive bid. Once constructed, the facilities are owned, operated, maintained, and replaced by the sponsors at their own expense.
Increases in the salinity levels of western rivers is not a new or unique situation. Water quality problems in the Colorado River were recognized as early as 1903. The Colorado River salinity problem has been the object of several studies and investigations, and numerous surveys of salinity sources and control measures have been pursued over the years by Reclamation, U.S. Geological Survey, Environmental Protection Agency, Water Resources Council, Colorado River Board of California, Basin States, and several universities.
In the 1960`s and early 1970`s, the seven Colorado River Basin states and federal representatives discussed the problem of increasing salinity levels in the lower reaches of the Colorado River. In 1972, Congress enacted the Clean Water Act, which mandated efforts to maintain water quality standards in the United States. At the same time, Mexico and the United States were discussing the increasing salinity of Colorado River water being delivered to Mexico.
In 1972, a joint Federal-State enforcement conference on the subject of pollution of interstate waters of the Colorado River and its tributaries initiated formal efforts to establish an overall salinity control policy. Conferees concluded that such a policy would have as its objective, `the maintenance of salinity concentrations at or below levels found in the lower main stem of the Colorado River in 1972.` It also was recognized that States had rights to continue development of their compact-apportioned waters and that temporary rises in salinity might occur until the salinity control program became effective.
In 1973, the Basin states established the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Forum for interstate cooperation and to provide the information needed to comply with Section 303(a) and (b) of the Clean Water Act. Governors from each of the seven Basin states appoint representatives to the Forum.
The EPA's December 1974 regulations set forth a basinwide salinity control policy for the Colorado River Basin. The Basin states, acting through the Forum, initially responded to this regulation by developing and submitting to the EPA a June 1975 report, Water Quality Standards for Salinity Including Numeric Criteria and Plan of Implementation for Salinity Control - Colorado River System.
Since the states` initial adoption, the water quality standards have been reviewed every three years (1978, 1981, 1984, 1987, 1990, 1993, 1996, and 1999) as required by Section 303(c)(1) of the Clean Water Act.
The standards require that a plan be developed which will maintain the flow-weighted average annual salinity at or below the 1972 levels while the Basin states continue to develop their compact-apportioned water supply. The Forum selected three stations on the mainstem of the lower Colorado River to measure the salinity of the Colorado River:
1. Below Hoover Dam
2. Below Parker Dam
3. At Imperial Dam
Numeric criteria were established for these points as required by the 1974 regulation. The Forum and participating federal agencies developed an implementation plan as part of the standards. It was designed to ensure compliance with the numeric criteria for salinity. Every three years, the numeric criteria are reviewed and the implementation plan is updated to ensure continuing ompliance with the standards.
Congress enacted the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act (P.L. 93-320) in June of 1974 with the Forum`s support. Title I of the Act addresses the United States` commitment to Mexico and provided the means for the United States to comply with the provisions of Minute No. 242. Title II of the Act created a water quality program for salinity control in the United States. The Secretary of the Interior was primarily responsibile for the federal program. Reclamation was instructed to investigate and build several salinity control units. The Secretary of Agriculture was instructed to support the effort within existing authorities.
The Public Works Appropriation Act of 1975 provided funding for the start of advance planning activities on the four authorized units. Title II provided for feasibility investigations and planning and implementing the other units.
The Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act was amended in 1984 by P.L. 98-569 to authorize two additional units for construction by Reclamation. The amendments directed the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to give preference to the salinity control units with the least cost per unit of salinity reduction. The Act was also amended to establish a voluntary on-farm salinity control program to be implemented by the Department of Agriculture and provided for voluntary replacement of incidental fish and wildlife values foregone on account of the on-farm measures. Many cost-effective salt-load reducing activities were accomplished in the decade following that authorization. P.L. 98-569 also directed the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to implement salinity controls.
Reclamation and the Forum in 1994 concluded that the existing Act, as amended, with its unit-specific approach and authorization ceiling, was limiting salinity control opportunities. In 1995, the Act was amended by P.L. 104-20 to authorize an entirely new way of implementing salinity control. Reclamation`s new Basinwide Salinity Control Program opens the program to competition through a public process and has greatly reduced the cost of salinity control. An additional $75 million of expenditures by Reclamation were authorized by P.L. 104-20.
The Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act (FAIRA) of 1996 (P.L. 104-127) further amended the U.S. Department of Agriculture`s (USDA) role in salinity control by creating a new conservation program known as the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) which combined four conservation programs including USDA`s Colorado River Salinity Control Program. FAIRA, provided authority for funding the nationwide EQIP through the year 2002. USDA has created rules and regulations concerning how EQIP funds are to be allocated. The past authority for the states to cost-share from the Basin funds was retained in the new EQIP program with links to Reclamation`s authority to distribute Basin funds for cost-sharing.
The Paradox Valley, Grand Valley, and Las Vegas Wash Units were authorized for construction by Title II of Public Law 93-320. Major structural features of these units, with the exception of Crystal Geyser, involve construction of facilities such as wells, dikes, pipelines, pumps, desalters, and evaporation ponds to collect and dispose of saline water.
The beneficial impacts of salinity reduction will be reflected in all the Basin States in improved water quality deliveries to over 23 million people and nearly 4 million acres of irrigated farmland. Using a relatively conservative analysis, the benefit of salinity control was estimated to be $340 per ton (1994 dollar values). In comparison, the cost of salinity control generally ranges from $20 to $100 per ton.
Figure 1-1 displays a cumulative estimation of the amount of salt the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program has removed.
In 1997, the salinity at Imperial Dam was 713 mg/L. At this level of salinity, damages exceed $500 million per year. As salinity approaches the salinity standards levels (879 mg/L at Imperial Dam), damages are projected to increase to about $1 billion per year. Without further salinity controls to offset development, damages will increase another quarter of a billion dollars per year.


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Really? Wow, I haven't been able to find anything on the release date besides 2007. Are you serious?
So I dont know if there is already a thread about this, i searched and didnt find one. So according to futureshop.ca website both metroid and supersmash bros is available to preorder. The expect supersmash bros to come out november 30 and metroid dec 31. I cant wait
Really? Wow, I haven't been able to find anything on the release date besides 2007. Are you serious?
Video games: My anti-drug
KIS, Keep It Simple
lolz well it would make sense because of the GMA thing
Spoiler Alert!Metric: Tiger, you're posts always make me laugh. Then they make me feel a bit sorry for you. =\
The_Next_Tiger: Thanks man I love to make people laughSpoiler Alert!SAVE A COW EAT A VEGETARIANSpoiler Alert!Blackjack: video games come out on tuesdays, Though they do make exceptions.
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YES! Yea ah-hu yes ahhhh ................................. Gma? sry if I just said somthing realy stupid.
They're both coming out towards the end of the year, these are just guesses. No big deal realy, even if they are accepting pre-orders.Originally Posted by Valley
its good they finally have a date but im now in a great depression because ive always loved his game and prety much the whole reason i bought a wii is to play these to games. Oh well now i cant wait for the releases thx for the info dude.
I bought the Nintendo Wii on the first day that it came out
Games Currently Owned For Wii:Zelda: Twilight Princess (beat it), Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz (Best Game Eva), Madden 07 (OK game), Tiger Woods 07 (Ridonculous), Ultimate Alliance (sweet game), Wii Sports (of course)
Games looking to get in he future:
Final Fantasy, Fire Emblem, Super Smash Bros., Spidey 3 and finally Mario Cart
OH YA, i got 2 nunchucks and 4 wiimotes
i find that bad news if anything. we knew they were coming out in 2007, so basically they're releasing them as late as possible....Originally Posted by hound9812
Yea i guess it is a bad thikng its coming out so late but at least its better than coming out in 2008 like some people were saying
I just see it as they are putting all they can into making the game so it will be the best it can be...so I don't mind waiting
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VC: Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: LTTP, Paper Mario, Star Fox 64, Bubble Bobble
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I think that Nintendo knows that SSBB and Metriod are going to be the Wii's super-duper selling games.
So I bet they're buffing up online play, as to not rely on friend codes.
Oh if SSBB's and Metriod's online play succeed...
I think I'll need to buy some Wiis before SSBB comes out
'Cause you know prices are going to skyrocket if SSBB is good.
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The Blue Eagles won their first Lehigh Valley Conference and District 11 Class AAAA titles, so there's no better way to kickoff the third season of The Michael LoRe Show than by visiting the defending champions.
Head coach Rob Melosky and senior two-way lineman Aaron Bradley discuss what it will take to repeat as champs and the pressures of currently wearing the crown as the Blue Eagles get set to open the 2012 campaign with an independent contest at Pleasant Valley on Friday evening.
Other interesting games of note for Week 1 are: Pennsbury at Easton, Southern Lehigh at Northern Lehigh and Southern Columbia at Pius X.


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Training and God helped the crew of the Lady JLN escape the sinking scallop dragger, says one of the crewmembers.
"Three of us had the training and it definitely helped," said Shawn Randell, two days after he and the four other members of the crew arrived safely in Digby. "We knew how to put on the suits, we knew how to get in the raft, but I believe God also helped us.
"None of us panicked, he gave us that calm attitude and he made sure we all got in the life raft."
The crew abandoned the Lady JLN about 8 p.m. Friday night, Jan. 17 in Chignecto Bay near Parrsboro.
"We hit a big piece of ice and that put a big hole in the bow," said Randell. "We tried pumping her out but that wasn't helping."
"Luckily it was a nice night," he said. "That's not how it usually happens."
Dave Campbell of New Germany was the captain. The rest of the crew were all from Bridgewater or New Germany way.
The men jumped into the life raft and were picked up by the crew of the Soldier's Boy, also a scallop dragger from Digby, about 10 or 15 minutes later.
The crew returned to Digby aboard a third scalloper, the Brittany & Madison 3, skippered by the owner of the Lady JLN.
Randell says they didn't see the Lady JLN go down but heard others saying on the radio that it was gone.
"We didn't stick around," said Randell.
He says he is a little shook up and is going to take a week to clear his head before heading back out scalloping.


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*China factory surveys show country's economy gaining traction. U.S. shares followed China's stock markets higher after official and private China manufacturing surveys for October suggested China's economy is finally regaining traction.
SEATTLE, Nov 1- Days after launching Windows 8, Microsoft Corp is mounting a strong campaign to win over the software developers it needs to kick-start its new operating system. A lack of apps is Microsoft's Achilles heel as it attempts to catch Apple Inc and Google Inc in the rush toward mobile computing.
*Lumber futures rise the $10 daily limit. *Home Depot shares rise on expected rebuilding. Trade sources said the home-rebuilding process in the northeastern United States, which bore the brunt of Sandy, could stretch well into 2013, keeping demand for lumber robust.
*Lumber futures rise the $10 daily limit. Trade sources said the home-rebuilding process in the northeastern United States, which bore the brunt of Sandy, could stretch well into 2013, keeping demand for lumber robust.
*Lumber futures rise the $10 daily limit. *Hope for repair demand also boosts Home Depot shares. Chicago Mercantile Exchange November, January and March lumber futures rose by the daily trading limit of $10 per thousand board feet and were locked at those levels to effectively shut down trading.
CHICAGO, Oct 31- U.S. lumber futures soared on Wednesday on expectations for demand to increase in the aftermath of monster storm Sandy that caused massive flooding in the northeastern United States, damaging numerous homes that would need rebuilding.
*Brazil's top bookseller may sell online business-sources. *Deal could boost retailer Amazon on arrival in Brazil. SAO PAULO, Oct 30- Brazil's biggest bookstore chain, Saraiva, is trying to sell its online business, a move that could pave the way for Amazon's debut in Latin America's fastest growing e-commerce market, industry sources said.
Oct 26- Individual donors to U.S. presidential candidates can contribute up to $2,500 for the state-by-state party nominating contests and another $2,500 for the general election.
NEW YORK/ SEATTLE, Oct 25- Microsoft Corp put its Surface tablet center stage at its Windows 8 launch event, hoping the sleek new device will spark a fightback against Apple Inc and Google Inc in the exploding mobile computing market.
SEATTLE-- An 87- year-old Seattle real-estate developer and his wife now face dozens of charges, one day after they were arrested in the French Alps. The U.S. attorney's office in Seattle said Thursday that a 43- count grand jury indictment accuses Michael Mastro and his wife, Linda, of concealing a bank account of more than $760,000 from his creditors.
The latest numbers show that young adults 25-29 are the primary out-of-state movers; they had the biggest gain in 13 years as they struck out on their own to test the job market in urban, high-tech meccas such as Washington, D.C.; Denver; Portland, Ore.; Seattle; and Austin, Texas.
NEW YORK-- Analysts expect Amazon.com Inc. to report another quarter of double-digit revenue growth Thursday after the market closes. Susquehanna analyst Herman Leung expects Amazon to meet Wall Street's expectations and give "conservative" guidance for the holiday shopping season. Amazon's stock rose $1.70 to $230.19 in premarket trading Thursday.
SEATTLE-- Alaska Airlines' parent company more than doubled third-quarter profit as traffic grew and its planes were fuller. Alaska Air Group Inc. said Thursday that net income rose to $163.4 million, or $2.27 per share, compared with $77.5 million, or $1.06 per share, a year ago. The figures include Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air.
SEATTLE, Oct 24- Firm sales numbers for Microsoft Corp's Windows 8 and its new Surface tablet will not be available for three months, but it may be clear long before then if it has a hit on its hands.
SEATTLE-- A Seattle real-estate developer who vanished with his wife after a judge demanded they hand over two huge diamonds was arrested Wednesday in a lake town in the French Alps. Police arrested Michael Mastro, 87, and his wife, Linda, at the request of American authorities, said Kayla Celaya, a supervisory deputy with the U.S.
SEATTLE-- An elderly, bankrupt Seattle real-estate developer who vanished with his wife after a judge demanded they hand over two huge diamonds was arrested Wednesday in a lake town in the French Alps. Police arrested Michael Mastro, 87, and his wife, Linda, at the request of American authorities, said Kayla Celaya, a supervisory deputy with the U.S.
LONDON, Oct 24- Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday he was unhappy with the level of tax avoidance by big corporations working in Britain and urged authorities to make sure all companies paid their fair share of tax.
SEATTLE-- About a thousand more international students are enrolled at the University of Washington's Seattle campus this fall, but school officials say that doesn't mean they have cut back on the number of in-state students at the state's most selective public university.
NEW YORK-- Amazon.com is expected to post yet another double-digit revenue increase when it reports its third-quarter results Thursday. WHAT TO WATCH FOR: Amazon's forecast for the current quarter will be important.


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Two training programs are coming up for farmers in Northern New York.
A six-session course through the new Northern New York Crops Management School will be offered from noon to 3 p.m. in late January and early February through March in Chazy, Malone, Canton and Burrville.
The deadline to register is Jan. 20. Farmers should call their local Cornell Cooperative Extension office.
The course will provide farm owners and employees with critical information on the production of corn, soybeans and forage crops. Farmers can pay $100 for all six weeks of the course or $30 for the two weeks of pest management training (weeks five and six).
The Northern NY Dairy Institute also is offering a Transition Cow Management training starting Jan. 17. The program will include four workshops and farmers can register for one or for all.
Each session will also be offered in St. Lawrence County (contact Brent Buchanan at this email address) and in the Franklin/Clinton region (contact Rick Levitre at this email address).


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Nuance unveils technology that will let you interact with ads by speaking with them. Nuance Technologies
Summly deal picked apart to reveal an artificial brain
MIT research is a buzzkill for Ray Kurzweil's artificial intelligence ambitions
Thanks to artificial intelligence, talking to your phone may soon help companies turn a new kind of profit. Nuance Communications today unveiled Voice Ads, a new mobile advertising format that lets people have a two-way conversation with brands.
"Voice Ads redefines the relationship between consumers and mobile advertising, giving them an opportunity to engage with brands in a more meaningful way," said Michael Thompson, executive vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile (NASDAQ: NUAN), in a statement released today.
"Voice has already changed the mobile interface, making it faster and easier for consumers to discover and access information, and find people and content. Mobile advertising shouldn't be any different, and should be designed specifically around the unique capabilities of the mobile device."
An ad appears and prompts the consumer to participate by speaking to it. From there, the conversation drives the experience, which is tailored to meet both the needs of the brand and the consumer.
By integrating the Burlington, Massachusetts-based company's voice technology, Nuance Voice Ads will likely give entrepreneurs using traditional mobile advertising a more engaging and organic experience, more closely resembling a conversation.
Initial partners include Digitas, OMD, and Leo Burnett, with distribution to approximately 100,000 app publishers and what Nuance says is hundreds of millions of consumers globally provided by Millennial Media, Jumptap and Opera Mediaworks.
According to eMarketer, mobile ad spending around the world more than doubled in 2012 from $4 billion in 2011 to $8.41 billion, and anticipates that spending will approach $37 billion by 2016.
Michael del Castillo is the technology and innovation reporter at Upstart Business Journal, a member of American City Business Journals. A graduate of Columbia University, his work has appeared in the New Yorker. He is also the cofounder of Literary Manhattan, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting Manhattan's literary community and creating new ways to appreciate literature.
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The Phillipsburg Urban Enterprise Zone authorized $20,000 in August 2007 for advertisements highlighting local businesses that have been deemed inappropriate by Service Electric.
The ads ran on Service Electric Channel 262 until last year, when the town was made aware of the violation by the service provider.
Lehigh Valley Service Electric General Manager Jack Capparell said common uses of the public access channel include high school sporting events, plays, educational programs, garbage collection schedules and school closings. But the Phillipsburg ads were business profiles.
The state UEZ program encourages growth in designated areas through tax breaks, incentives and grants. The effectiveness of the UEZ has been questioned by officials, including Gov. Chris Christie, but the program remains intact for the time being.
Phillipsburg Mayor Harry Wyant Jr., who sits on the town's UEZ board and voted in favor of the authorization of the advertising funds, disagrees that the 4-minute ads, called business profiles, were unsuitable.
"I think if we were paid by an advertiser and solicited for payment to put their ad on that channel, I think that would be inappropriate," Wyant said last week. "We tried to promote Phillipsburg and the businesses within the town and paid someone to go out and do a profile. In my eyes, that was appropriate."
The UEZ board unanimously awarded producer Art Kardos the contract during an August 2007 meeting. Phillipsburg Town Council voted to authorize the contract in September 2007, and Wyant said the state UEZ approved the measure.
"I'm sure there would have been some type of red flag that was raised," Wyant said.
He said the town did not contact Service Electric to see if the business profiles fit within the guidelines provided by the franchise agreement.
"Service Electric left it up to the town of Phillipsburg to put on that channel pretty much whatever we saw fit," Wyant said.
Capparell declined comment when asked if the town should have contacted Service Electric about the ads.
Public access committee not in place
At the time the business profiles were placed on the local channel, the town was operating without a public access committee.
"A public access committee needs to be in place and they didn't have one," Capparell said. "Somebody should have some say over what's going on and there should be a consensus of opinion among a group as to what they want to air."
Wyant said he was unaware a committee was needed.
"Maybe it was done without that because I think that for years nobody had a public access committee and nobody really looked into it," he said.
The town's public access committee was formed in May 2011, but still hasn't completed its goal of broadcasting Phillipsburg Council meetings.
Wyant said the business profiles were used exclusively to highlight UEZ businesses.
Kardos, owner of Emmaus-based TV Marketing and Promotions, has produced business profiles for 20 years. He gave the town a discounted rate to produce the videos because he is a Phillipsburg native.
"We couldn't deviate from a business that was not UEZ certified or we couldn't get reimbursed by the State of New Jersey for those profiles," Wyant said.
Poor recording or invalid vote?
The August 2007 UEZ meeting minutes provided by the town show the vote authorizing the business profiles occurred behind closed doors.
"We don't vote in executive session," Wyant said. "I think there might have been a consensus, but I don't think we voted. It was a poor choice of words."
Formal action cannot be taken in executive session.
Helene Meissner, chairwoman of the UEZ board, was the secretary who recorded the minutes at the August 2007 meeting.
The Express-Times faxed Meissner copies of the minutes Thursday. She said she would review them and respond on Friday.
She did not return a call for comment.
"They may have been wrong," Wyant said of the minutes.
No working channel
The town's broadcast equipment stored at the Phillipsburg School District offices broke early last month when the public access committee was trying to upload a test video on the channel.
Capparell said the town is not required to provide programming on the channel and there is a default TV Guide channel in its place.
Service Electric is not responsible for operation, repair or maintenance.
Town officials said the repair to the equipment could cost roughly $6,000, but council has taken no action.
Phillipsburg received approximately $47,000 from Service Electric from an annual fee from the service agreement.
When asked if broadcasting business profiles was more important than broadcasting town council meetings, Wyant said, "I think they're all important."
"I think we need to promote our town in whatever positive way we can," he said.
Producer: Ads worked before they were stopped
The producer business-profile advertisements that Service Electric stopped running last year says the ads worked but that some businesses were never profiled because they went out of business too fast.
"What happened as a result was the businesses on the Memorial Parkway side got to know there were businesses on the South Main Street side," said Art Kardos, the producer the town paid to do the television ads for the town's Urban Enterprise Zone.
"They told me they were actually working together now and patronizing each other," he said.
Kardos said he was unaware of the terms of a franchise agreement with
Service Electric and said he tried to create the profiles for all the
business that became a UEZ member. But some didn't last long, he said.
"What happened with some of them, they were only there for a month," Kardos said of the UEZ businesses. "They were gone already and sometimes you never got to do them."
Phillipsburg Mayor Harry Wyant wouldn't confirm Kardos' remarks that some UEZ businesses closed within a month.
"I don't know whether that's true or false," Wyant said. "I think that's just maybe his assumption."
Kardos also said he would contact the town over businesses that closed their doors.
Kardos said he also produced videos for town events that broadcast on the channel. Most of the work on business profiles was completed in two years and he hasn't done any in more than a year, he said.
"If a business went out of business, I would call them and say you need to take it off," Kardos said of removing the profiles on the public access channel.


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The Opening Exhibition and winner's awards reception for the FOCUS 2013 photography competition will be held from 6-8 p.m. April 12 at the Solon Community Center, 35000 Portz Parkway.
FOCUS 2013 will feature 170 photos by amateur and seasoned/professional photographers. Awards will be presented that evening and refreshments will be provided. The Opening Exhibition is free and open to the public.
Winners for FOCUS 2013 will be named in two divisions: Amateur and Seasoned/Professional. Categories of photography include People/Portraits, Architecture/Cityscape, Nature/Landscape, Animals, and Botanical. In addition, five photographs will be chosen as Community Choice Award Winners.
The winner of each category as well as the Community Choice Award Winners will receive a $50 prize. The Best of Show in each division will be awarded a $150 prize.
Following the Opening Exhibition, select photos will be exhibited at the host galleries. Closing receptions will take place at The Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewood May 23 and at Solon Center for the Arts May 24. Both closing receptions will be held from 6-7:30 p.m.
For more information about FOCUS 2013 or classes in music, theater, dance or art, call Solon Center for the Arts at 440-337-1400.


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The Northridge Lady Jags (13-8) gets the win over Brookwood last night in non-area play. Caemin Acker (6-4) led the lady jags on the mound and at bat going 4-for-4 with 2 doubles, 4 RBI's and 3 runs in. Acker on the mound gave up 4 hits, 1 walk, 1 run and struckout 4 in her five innings pitched.
Lady Jag's Sami Story went 2-for-3 with 4 runs scored. Tori Morgan batting 2-for-4 with 2 doubles, 4 RBI's and one run scored. Sarah Dubay went 2-for-3 with a double and RBI, and Sarah Stuart went 1-for-2 with a run scored and 2 RBI's.
For Brookwood (12-9-1) Amanda Medders was the losing pitcher. Medders gave up 11 runs on 13 hits , 2 walks and 2 strikeouts. At bat Medders was 1-for-3 with a single. Jami Huggins went 1-for-2 with a single scoring Brookwoods only run.
The Norhtridge Lady Jags will Northside (13-9) at home tonight.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The addition of the shot clock to the high school game is a topic Columbus Dispatch high school sports reporter Steve Blackledge has been talking about for years.
Probably every single one of the last 28 years in which he's covered high school athletics in the Columbus area.
This week he joined Northeast Ohio Media Group high school sports reporter Stephanie Kuzydym to talk about his knowledge of shot clocks as well as his award-winning investigative article on the topic.
Shot Clocks Podcast
Every day this week, NEOMG has covered a different area of the National Federation of State High School Association's upcoming basketball rules committee meeting. Ohio High School Athletic Association Dan Ross is in his first year on the committee.
Here is the landscape of the week thus far:
Monday: Eight-minute quarters vs. 18-minute halves
Tuesday: Time to add a shot clock to the high school game?
Wednesday: If you could change anything about the high school game, what would you alter?
How are basketball changes proposed and who can propose them?
Thursday: This podcast
Friday: Check out a survey on how officials at local schools feel about shot clocks and halves vs. quarters.
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Students from Round Valley School of Clinton Township teamed up with the Sanofi US Patient Solutions Team to design a lunch bag and diabetes kit for patients with type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is when the pancreas is no longer capable of producing insulin. Insulin is a hormone that is needed to convert sugar, starches and other food into energy needed for daily life. Individuals with type 1 diabetes must manage their glucose level through testing and with multiple daily injections with insulin pens or syringes or an insulin pump. There are many pieces of equipment and medicine that needs to be readily available for type 1 patients.
This project began last year when Ms. Linda Szych from Sanofi US approached Mrs. Sielaff, the enrichment teacher at Round Valley School, about forming a focus group of students to provide input on the bags she was designing. The students met with Szych and asked them what they would like in a lunch bag and kit to hold everything they needed and be fashionable enough to carry. The focus group consisted of students with Type I diabetes and those that had expressed an interest in being a part of designing a bag to help others.
This group was instrumental in the final lunch bag design. Through various meetings, the students provided feedback such as sizes of pockets, zippers versus velcro, stretch fabric, colors and patterns, and so much more. Szych would bring a prototype and the students would analyze and take the bags home to test the models.
After several design meetings and many prototypes, the bags will be available for sale online in the next month or so. The students are so excited about these bags. They learned so much through this process and are proud that they have helped ease the lives of others through these lunch bags.


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Newtown Gun Backlash Hits Wall Street Via California Mega Funds
On Tuesday, gun makers Sturm, Ruger (RGR) and Smith & Wesson Ruger (SWHC) fell sharply in the wake of California's statements and Cerberus's decision. Dicks Sporting Goods (DKS) and Wal-Mart (WMT) halted their sale of rifles.
Tuesday's stand may be just the beginning in a purging of gun-related investments by Wall Street's largest investors, which could move faster than any prospective federal ban on assault weapons or prohibition on cartridge sizes. Already, a precedent exists.
CalPERS and CalSTRS were early movers in banning limited partner and stock investments in corporations that did business in South Africa during the apartheid era, and more recently, in tobacco related businesses, according to Bruce G. Willison, a Professor of Management and former Dean of the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
CalSTRS spokesperson Ricardo Duran said in a late Tuesday interview that the fund has weighed social-action based investments since the late 1970's. Economic pressures exerted by U.S. investors and corporations were one of the factors that precipitated the end of apartheid, noted former president F.W. de Klerk.
In the 2000s, the fund and CalPERS decided to divest of assets in the tobacco industry, according to its investment principles. Moves such as a divestiture of tobacco stocks or the prospective disposal of firearm assets -- CalSTRS board will meet in early January to vote on Treasurer Lockyer's recommendation -- don't come lightly, according to Duran.
"There was a great deal of discussion if this was the fiduciary thing do," said Duran, of the decision to divest tobacco assets. As part of that decision both California pension funds coined a "Double Bottom Line" investing style at the behest of Treasurer Phil Angelides, which weighed investment returns along with social policy.
In 2008, CalSTRS developed a set of 21 risk factors to consider in investments that included corruption, a country's adherence to human rights policies and human well being. It's now a "Triple Bottom Line," which includes human the well-being check Duran says would be the key to any firearm divestitures.
"We have been able to maintain that balancing act of fiduciary responsible to our members to what is socially responsible," says Duran, who adds, "I think it is a point of pride."
Still, any prospective retreat from investments in manufacturers of assault rifles won't come lightly. Treasurer Lockyer says he expects dissent among other board members of CalPERS and CalSTRS. As California Attorney General, Lockyer reinstituted an assault weapons ban, enforced NRA-supported gun confiscations from felons and fined Wal-Mart for violating the state's gun laws. Still, he says he'd likely support overall Second Amendment rights and any related investment policy.
Lockyer wasn't able to say how far the state may eventually go, when pressed on whether it could dispose of all firearm assets or national retailers of firearms - such as Cabela's(CAB) -- that don't only abide by California state law.


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MIDLAND, MI — Officials with The Dow Chemical Co. are gearing up for a visit by Austin Dillon and NASCAR's legendary No. 3 race car at company headquarters in Midland later this month.
Dillon and Richard Childress, owner of Richard Childress Racing, plan to visit Dow headquarters on Wednesday, June 11 — just a few days before the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series returns to Michigan International Speedway Sunday, June 15.
Dow is a sponsor of the Richard Childress Racing car once driven by the late Dale Earnhardt and today by Dillon.
Dow officials say Childress, Dillon and Dow business leadership will discuss their partnership and unveil a new paint scheme for the No. 3 Dow Chevy car to be featured at the Bristol race in August.
While in Midland, Dillon and Childress also will meet with members of the media.
What would you ask Dillon and Childress during their visit to Midland's Dow Chemical?
Share your questions in the comments section below and we'll try to get the answers for you.
Dow officials in February said the chemical giant's multiyear partnership with one of NASCAR's preeminent race teams is paying off.
"We've gotten a lot of press recently, very positive for Dow, around our technology and our participation in the sport, but our name is out there in a new way," said Steve Henderson, general manager for Dow Automotive Systems. "You can see that as a result of Daytona."
Related: Dow Chemical talks sponsorship of Richard Childress Racing, Austin Dillon in No. 3: 'Our name is out there in a new way'
Dow is a sponsor of the No. 3 car for 16 races this season.
"The media attention we've received, social media, has been off the charts," Henderson added.
— Heather Jordan covers business for MLive/The Saginaw News/The Bay City Times. She can be reached at 989-450-2652 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter and Facebook.


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|Welcome to Navjeevan Mumbai ( An ISO9001-2008 Certified NGO)
|The Navjeevan Centre (ISO 9001-2008 certified) is an N G O initiated in 1994 with the aim of reaching out to Commercially Sexually exploited women and their children, to motivate and support them to give up their demeaning occupation and work towards integrating them in society. Currently the Centre functions with five field offices and an administrative office at Kalyan. There are thirteen units all over Mumbai and Thane district which includes, three day and night care shelters at red light areas of Mumbai, an eco friendly residential home at Kapri Village in Tokowade, Murbad, an English medium primary and secondary school, a vocational training centre offering ten different technical trades, seven extension homes to facilitate higher education and a womens unit focusing at empowerment, rehabilitation and reintegration.
Navjeevan Centre is a registered body under Societies Act XXI of 1860 (Regn No MAH/593/98/Thane) and under Bombay Public Trust Act 1950 (Regn No M/7327/Thane) and has the approval from The Women and Child Welfare Department for the Bal Ashram.
|Our Mission
|Make a positive difference in the lives of these underprivileged women, the sex workers and their children, to motivate them to confront their situation through collective action and to assist them in achieving their highest potential as they grow to become confident, competent and self reliant as members within a family.


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"Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
We couldn't provide the excellent programs we do without our volunteers! We always have opportunities for new volunteers and will work with your interests and skills to find the best fit. These are just some of the areas in which you can help:
- Gift Shop
- Fundraising
- Clerical Assistance
- Historical Research
- Educational Programs
- Special Events
- Publicity/ Marketing
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- Tours
For more information, contact the Museum at 319-862-2101 or download the Volunteer Application 2013 and return it to the African American Museum at 55 12th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52401.
Part of our collaboration with local educational institutions is through resume-building internships and short-term projects. We have worked with students from dozens of colleges across the state of Iowa to give them a feel for what museum work is like.
Established in 1994, the African American Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa is a dynamic, cutting-edge non-profit institution whose mission is to seek out and preserve the rich African American heritage of Iowa.
Because the Museum has a small staff and is growing rapidly, interns have the opportunity for invaluable hands-on professional experience tailored to fit their individual talents and interests. Internships are offered year-round. While internships are unpaid, they offer invaluable professional experience.
Majors/Minors who might be interested:
History, American History, Museum/Archival Studies, Education, Marketing/Tourism, Journalism, Non-Profit Management, African American Studies, Women's Studies, Graphic Design, Communications.
Interns may gain professional experience in the following:
Curatorial & Collections:
Interns in the Curatorial Department will have the opportunity to conduct historical research for upcoming exhibits; assist the Curator in managing the museum's collection, archives, and library; and assist in the design, fabrication, and installation of temporary exhibits.
Marketing/Public Relations:
Marketing/Public Relations interns will write articles for the Museum's quarterly newsletter, The Iowa Griot. They will assist the staff in all aspects of marketing and promotion for Museum special events, fund-raisers and educational programs. There will also be opportunities for interns to meet and network with local marketing/tourism groups such as the Cedar Rapids Area Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance.
Education interns will have an opportunity to help plan annual events such as the Martin Luther King Day Service Project, Black History Month programs, Juneteenth and Kwanzaa. Interns in the education department will also be required to attend docent training and give at least one tour during their internship.
Fundraising interns will assist staff in planning fundraising events such as the Annual Celebration of Education and Achievement. Interns in this department will also write grants and identify funding sources.
Non-Profit Management:
Management interns will gain some experience in all of the categories listed above as well as handling personnel; working with boards and committees; facility design and management; legal aspects and other unique aspects of running a non-profit organization.
To apply for an internship, fill out and return the Volunteer Application 2013 to the Museum Educator at email@example.com.
Here's what our past interns have said about their experience:
"Interning at the African American Museum of Iowa provided me with first hand experience in the field of museum curating by putting together an exhibit. I worked as part of a team of equals with other interns and the museum staff. Not only did I gain valuable experience in the field but I was able to research some interesting and unique historical perspectives that were outside of my usual coursework." – Nathan Shepard, Intern 2008.
"A great opportunity to work with a wonderful and knowledgeable staff. I really enjoyed working directly with the curator Susan and members of the Cedar Rapids community. The experience was certainly a testament to the value of field study." – Joshua Terronez, Intern 2008.
"Working here for the past 5 months provided me with numerous valuable skills and a wide range of knowledge, as well as great friendships and many laughs, which I look forward to using in my future career." – Nick Ellsworth, Intern 2013-2014
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Eastman Kodak, an Olympics sponsor since the modern Games began in 1896, is no longer in the picture.
The Rochester, N.Y.-based company ended its International Olympic Committee sponsorship with the 2008 Beijing Games, as did fellow global partners Johnson & Johnson, Manulife Financial and Lenovo Group.
As the Winter Games get started in Vancouver, corporations that long clamored to link their brands with the Olympic rings are looking elsewhere amid a battered economy and emerging marketing alternatives. The IOC, which tripled revenue from global sponsorships to $866 million from 1993 to 2008, hasn't been able to replace three of the four lost sponsors.
"I don't think the Olympics have lost their appeal at all, but the digital revolution, the economic recession and the saturation of major sports events around the world have made Olympic sponsorships a tougher sell," said Rick Burton, former U.S. Olympic Committee marketing chief and now the David Falk professor of sports management at Syracuse University.
The USOC failed last year to re-sign Bank of America, General Motors and Home Depot, which collectively were sponsors for 56 years and paid the USOC an estimated total of $45 million from 2005 to 2008. Their spots haven't been filled.
The IOC's sponsorship problems have contributed to the financial challenges faced by the Vancouver Winter Games. Host cities get half the revenue from the program known as TOP, for the Olympic Partnership.
The USOC has succeeded in attracting sponsors to newly created categories, such as Big Four accounting firm Deloitte and consumer-products giant Procter & Gamble.
"The Olympics brings families together in front of the TV," said Marc Pritchard, PSE&G's chief marketing officer.
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C.E. Groppi (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
The sub-mm wave portion of the electromagnetic spectrum is on the frontier of both scientific and technical research in astrophysics. Being a relatively young field, scientific advancement is driven by advancements in detector technology. In this talk, I discuss two observational projects based around heterodyne spectroscopy, and the design and construction of two sub-mm wave array receivers.
We have used multiple telescopes to observe several mm, submm transitions and continuum emission towards the R CrA molecular cloud core. Originally thought to be associated with high mass star formation, we find that the driving source behind the mm-wave emission is most likely a Class 0 protostar not yet identified in IR surveys. The close proximity of R CrA allows us to achieve high spatial resolution even with single dish mm-wave and sub-mm wave telescopes. With this resolution, we are able to disentangle the effects of infall, rotation and outflow. We also use vibrationally excited HCN emission to probe the protostellar accretion disk in a sample of nearby high and low mass protostars of varying ages. While these observations are difficult with single dish telescopes, we show the promise of the technique, and report results on 4 sources.
PoleStar is a 4 pixel heterodyne array built for operation in the 350\micron\ atmospheric window. It is in operation at the AST/RO telescope at the South Pole. This receiver has increased imaging speed in this band at AST/RO by a factor of ~20 compared to previous receiver systems. DesertStar is a 7 pixel, hexagonally close packed heterodyne array receiver built to operate in the 870\micron\ atmospheric window at the Heinrich Hertz Telescope in Arizona. This system should increase mapping speed in this wavelength regime by a factor of ~16. Both these receiver systems enable scientific projects requiring large area imaging that were previously impossible.
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New Jersey is not only the most densely populated state, but probably the most diverse, as well — demographically, politically, socially and economically. But what many don't realize, even longtime New Jerseyans, is how diverse the state's natural resources are: from its beaches to its farmland, to its mountains and many lakes and streams, to its forests. Forty-two percent, in fact, of New Jersey is forested — a reality that surprises many people.
Legislation (S1954) affecting the management of state-owned forests is due for a vote in the state Senate tomorrow. Environmental bills such as this often stir passionate support and opposition. The focus, however, should be on the importance of our forests.
What do New Jersey's forests mean to you? A leisurely spring canoe trip through the Pinelands on one of South Jersey's rivers? Or a weekend drive in North Jersey, enjoying the vibrant fall foliage?
Our forests are important for all of these things and more, including clean air and water, wildlife habitat and unique ecosystems.
What is particularly special about New Jersey's forests is that they are resilient, renewable and sustainable. Whether privately or publicly owned, appropriately applied concepts of forest science and ecology can ensure our forests stay viable and healthy for future generations.
Sterling examples of these applied concepts abound around the state. Is clean water important to you? Then you might be interested in the Pinchot Institute's Common Waters Fund (commonwatersfund.org), a partnership of public and nonprofit organizations and agencies promoting "clean water, healthy forests, sustainable communities" in the Delaware River watershed north of the Delaware Water Gap. One of its objectives is encouraging forest landowners in the watershed in Sussex and Warren counties to develop stewardship plans for their forests.
Is wildlife and wildlife habitat important to you? Did you know that 29 species listed as threatened and endangered by the state Division of Fish and Wildlife are forest dependent? Habitat for specific wildlife species can be created or enhanced through careful planning and thinning or removal of trees and other vegetation, sometimes followed by planting and restoration of alternative plant species.
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So what do New Jersey's forests mean to you? New Jersey's forests mean many things to many different people. That is precisely why our forests are so important — now and for future generations. And why, whether they are public or private, we need to focus on "keeping our forests in forests."
The only way to ensure that our forests remain viable for future generations is through planning and implementation of forest science and ecology.
Mark Vodak is an associate professor/extension specialist in forestry at Rutgers University.
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7 hours into custody, the people break. A shout for water breaks into a little riot, all cells yelling water, shaking the cages, and kicking at the doors. People with cracked lips and cracking voices — I've been awake for 22 hours now. Luckily a guy in our cell kept a watch. The place is going insane, we are told by guards "We're working on it!", some are apologizing, some are obviously lost and confused, others are laughing.
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Reigning Mid-Penn champion Jordan Shuey of Cumberland Valley is the clubhouse leader after Day 1 at the District 3 Golf Championships.
Shuey torched Briarwood Golf Club in York for six birdies in his first 10 holes, eventually settling for a splendid 4-under par 68 and two stroke lead over Chambersburg ace Calvin Mentzer. Only an errant tee shot at the par-4 18th undercut Shuey's near-perfect waltz around the 6,608-yard venue.
Shuey was just one of a dozen Mid-Penn Conference heavyweights to make a first-round splash. Mentzer's 2-under 70 was one better than Waynesboro's Alec Kessler, while Lower Dauphin's Griff Basehore and Bobby Proietto are currently tied for fourth after each carded 72.
Central Dauphin's Chad Dechowitz and Matt Hardman of Gettysburg are just five strokes off the pace.
All, including Rams' ace Josh McNulty (74), Waynesboro's Derek Baker (74) and Sasha Neufeld-Kreider (74) of Cedar Crest are hoping to land one of 20 invites to next week's PIAA East Regional in Fleetwood. Tee times for Saturday's final round begin at 10 a.m.
Waynesboro's Liz Breed, the defending District 3 girls champion, didnt fare as well at Briarwood-West.
Following an unfavorable ruling that led to a triple-bogey at the par-5 3rd, Breed posted 44 on her first nine holes and finished tied with Northern's Madison Houseal at 82. The duo is seven strokes behind first-round leader Kacy Straub of Chambersburg.
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A spokeswoman for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Monday that the state has seen one case associated with the outbreak, which involved ricotta salata cheese.
The woman was in her late 80s and lived in west-central Nebraska. She died in July. State health officials say they were unable to confirm whether she had eaten the cheese.
Listeria is a bacterial infection usually spread through food. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have identified 20 cases in 13 states as of last week. Four people have died, and 19 have been hospitalized.
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The Calgary Herald have an interview they did with Rachelle Lefevre which makes quite interesting reading. Rachelle, who plays Victoria in the saga, is quite an intelligent lady by the looks of things. Good job too, as Victoria is one of the more complex characters over the course of the next two installments. Here is an extract from the interview -
"I wanted Victoria to be playful and powerful, but not a sociopath. There's no pathology to her evil. I think she's just an example of what happens when you have absolute power: It corrupts absolutely," she says.
"And let's face it: If you were more powerful than every other person on the planet, you'd start looking at everyone else as inferior beings. Victoria also sees humans as food, too, which doesn't help with the empathy."
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MARQUETTE -"Back in '69, gold was $41 an ounce," recalls Neil Jandron of Jandrons Fine Jewelry in the Westwood Mall in Marquette Township. He also recalls when wedding bands were selling for $4 or $5 a piece.
"Of course, that's back when gas was only 18 cents a gallon," said Jandron.
As times are changing and he price of gold and silver is rising. While there are many factors in the rising prices, Jandron has an idea why.
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"It's a safe haven," he said, "There's not a lot of confidence in the U.S. dollar right now."
With gold prices rising to more than $1,800 per ounce, people are swarming local jewelry stores to sell unused and broken jewelry for cash.
"We open at 10," said Jandron's manager, Jon Arntsen. "Sometimes there's already people waiting in the hall."
Jessica Peters of Champion brought in some old jewelry to sell recently.
"They're just things I'm not wearing anymore," said Peters.
Many people are selling their gold back locally, getting a better price than if they sent it away to Cash4Gold or similar places.
"People have to trust and know who they're selling to," said Jandron.
Arntsen sent out a gold sample a couple years ago to an online gold buyer just to see what they would pay. They offered him $25 for a piece that Jandrons would have paid out $125.
"We play fair," added Jandron.
Depending on the karat weight of the gold, a jewelry store will test and weigh the gold and give customers a buying price based on the current price of gold that day. This can include white gold as well as yellow gold, whether it be 10-karat gold, which is 41 percent pure gold, 14-karat gold which is 58 percent or 18-karat gold which is 75 percent. At Jandrons, all sellers must be 18 years of age and scrap gold purchases are reported to the Marquette County Sheriff Department to ensure that it is not stolen.
While some people prefer cash or store credit for their gold, others get it melted down to make an entirely new custom piece of jewelry, said Chris Wattsson, co-owner of Wattsson and Wattsson Jewelers in downtown Marquette.
"A lot of people get rings and pendants made," said Kristina Plattenberg, sales manager at Wattsson and Wattsson.
"Someone could bring in a gold coin, old rings and broken jewelry, for example, and we can melt it down and make whatever the customer wants," added Plattenberg.
"All you really pay for is labor," said Wattsson.
Jandron has seen his share of interesting gold and silver items people are willing to sell. Customers have brought in things from dental gold to entire estates.
"Someone brought in a silver flute the other day," said Jandron.
As know one really knows what the future holds for gold prices, Jandron advises people to be careful when investing in gold.
"There are scammers out there that will drill holes out of a gold bar and fill it with lead and then gold plate it," he added.
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BOISE, ID – January 8, 2014 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service has extended the deadline for new enrollments in the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) for fiscal year 2014. Producers interested in participating in the program can submit applications to NRCS through Feb. 7, 2014 for fiscal year 2014 funding.
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Tom Davis, who was one of the first writers hired for "Saturday Night Live" alongside Al Franken, died on Thursday of throat and neck cancer.
Davis and Franken developed some notable sketches, including the Coneheads, Nick the Lounge Singer and more.
NJ.com user broadwaybill had some significant memories attached to "SNL":
"The day they knocked down the palais, part of my childhood died, just died!" - Ray Davies
Once upon a time, there was this little underground television show called "Saturday Night" (The "Live" was added a year later!). I was 12 and it would be 2 years before anybody in my class ever heard of it. I was young and impressionable and, in the days before the internet, this is where I learned about sex, drugs, rock n roll, and current events. It was my own private, personal window on the world and I became obsessed with this little show that could.
When it did eventually become popular among my peers, it exploded like Hiroshima and everybody associated with it became rock stars! There was no such thing as anything going "viral" and this was before "SNL" became this predictable, comedy institution. It was aggressive...it was subversive...and it was in your face!
I was shocked when John Belushi died...I was saddened when Gilda Radner died...and now we've lost another integral part of that brilliant, dysfunctional family. I like to think of myself as relatively young, but it's getting difficult to go on when another one of your childhood idols dies - especially when you look at the current state of entertainment and what passes for comedy today.
RIP Tom Davis....
I have already ordered your book and will be proud to display it next to my "Saturday Night Live Scrapbook" and my biography of Michael "Mr. Mike" O'Donoghue.
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