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Middlebury will make its 16th trip to the NCAA semifinals after earning a 10-8 win against Rensselaer in the quarterfinals on Kohn Field. The Panthers (18-2) will face Salisbury on Saturday.
Middlebury jumped out with two goals in the first 4:55 before Rensselaer ran off three consecutive to take a 3-2 advantage with 16:55 left in the first half. After more than 10 minutes without a goal between the two teams, Middlebury answered when Katie Ritter drove through traffic and scored with a high shot to make it a 3-3 game at the 5:49 mark. The Engineers won the ensuing draw and raced down the field where Rachel Scofield scored after a feed from Alissa Peterson just 27 seconds later.
Shannon Maguire won her second draw control in a row, as Rensselaer came right down the field and scored again. Jamie Wakefield made a quick pass on a free position to Marissa Page, who found the back of the net to give her team a 5-3 lead at the 4:58 mark. Middlebury answered with a goal from Ritter after her defender had fallen. Ritter scored the 100th goal of her career off a pass from Ellen Halle on a free position. Wakefield scored with a player advantage with just two seconds remaining to give Rensselaer a 6-5 lead at the intermission.
After nearly nine minutes without a goal to start the second half, Maguire scored, cutting to the goal on a nice pass from Scofield to put the Engineers up by two. Minutes later, Middlebury's Michaela Colbert was stopped on a save from Allie Arnal. As the Engineer goalkeeper tried to pass the ball, Panther Lauren Pascal intercepted the pass right out of Arnal's stick and found the open net to cut the lead to 7-6.
Alice Pfeifer tied the game at the 16:15 mark, scoring in transition with a feed from Ritter. Rensselaer came right back and regained the lead (8-7) on a free-position goal to the top corner from Peterson with 13:14 remaining. The Panthers followed with two goals in 55 seconds to take a 9-8 lead. Ritter scored on a feed from Halle, before Kramer scored on her own to put her team up with 11:42 left to play.
The Panthers were able to win the ensuring draw control, as Hannah Deoul picked up the ball and Middlebury worked the clock. Following a turnover, Rensselaer regained possession and then ended up with a two-player advantage for nearly two minutes after two Panther yellow cards. The Engineers were unable to take advantage, while Scofield's attempt at making it a one-goal game with a free position shot with less a minute remaining was saved by Kate Mandigo.
Middlebury ended the game with a 23-12 shots advantage, going a perfect 13-13 in clearing attempts. Ritter and Kramer led all scorers with three goals apiece, while Pascal added two and Ritter had a pair of assists. Margaret Souther picked up four ground balls in the game and caused a pair of turnovers. Alyssa Palomba played the first half in goal, earning no saves. Mandigo earned her first career win in goal with 30 minutes of action in the second half, earning two saves with one goals allowed.
Wakefield paced Rensselaer with two goals and two assists, Peterson added a goal and two helpers, while Schofield had a goal and an assist to tie the school's single-season point mark with 65. Maguire earned a game-high six draw controls, while Arnal finished the game with a dozen saves in goal.


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Joselito Vega, 42, of Easton, Pa., was indicted Monday on money laundering, identity theft and other charges linked to the alleged thefts, according to a joint press release from Charles Hynes and Kathleen Rice, district attorneys in Brooklyn and Nassau County, respectively.
Prosecutors said Vega was hired in March 2011 to work as a house painter at the Schulhof Estate in Kings Point, N.Y., just east of New York City. The estate features 300 works of art, featuring post-war and contemporary European and American artists.
About a year after Vega began working there, an inventory check found that three paintings were missing.
Investigators later determined one of the missing paintings - "Le Fauteuil II," by French artist Jean Dubuffet and estimated to be worth $50,000 - was sold for $8,500 by an art gallery in Oakland, Calif., prosecutors said. They then uncovered evidence that Vega allegedly had his ex-sister-in-law set up a bank account in Brooklyn to cash the check from that sale.
Last month, detectives set up a sting at the estate and allegedly captured Vega on video stealing three other works, including the Picasso etching "Three Graces II."
In all, prosecutors said the six works were valued at $100,000. Two from the initial theft have yet to be recovered, prosecutors said.
"The Schulhof Estate spent decades gathering and protecting hundreds of pieces of artwork, yet where others saw incredible beauty in these paintings, Joselito Vega only saw the opportunity to make a quick buck," Rice said.
Authorities said the Brooklyn charges relate to the cashed check. Vega is facing grand larceny charges in Nassau County, where the alleged theft occurred.
Vega could face 11 years if convicted on the Brooklyn charges and 5-to-15 in Nassau County; the sentences also could run consecutively. A listing for Vega's attorney was not immediately available.

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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stock futures fell on Thursday, with sentiment hurt by data showing a contraction in the euro-zone economy as well as continued worries over a so-called global currency war.
Gross domestic product in the 17-nation region contracted by 0.6% compared with the third quarter and fell 0.9% from the fourth quarter of 2011, the European Union statistics agency, Eurostat, reported Thursday. Read: Europe stocks hit by weak euro-zone GDP.
The European news weighed on stock futures, though they slightly pared their losses after the Labor Department reported that U.S. jobless claims dropped by 27,000 to 341,000 in the week ended Feb. 9. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch expected a much smaller drop to 360,000. Read more on jobless claims.
Down 47 points before the jobs data, futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average US:DJH3 were lately down 36 points, or 0.3%, to 13,922.
S&P 500 futures US:SPH3 fell 2.80 points, or 0.2%, to 1,514.4 and Nasdaq 100 futures US:NDH3 fell 6.50 points, or 0.2%, to 2,763.2.
Deal news stole the spotlight. H.J. Heinz Co. US:HNZ the food company known for its ketchup, said Thursday it has agreed to be acquired by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A, +0.28% and 3G Capital in a deal valued at $28 billion, including debt.
Heinz shareholders will receive $72.50 per share in cash, which is a 20% premium to Heinz's closing price of $60.48 on Feb. 13. Shares of Heinz soared 20% in premarket trade.
In the airline sector, the parent of American Airlines, AMR Corp. US:AAMRQ and US Airways Group Inc. US:LCC on Thursday announced formal plans to merge and create the world's biggest air carrier. US Airways shares rose 3% in premarket trading. Read: AMR Corp. US Airways unveil merger plan.
U.S. stock markets have been trading largely sideways since a gain of nearly 6% for January. Read: The 10 most overbought S&P 500 stocks
Nick Beecroft, senior market analyst at Saxo Capital Markets, said weak European growth was contributing to weaker sentiment Thursday for futures. He said the market was also a little unnerved by "brewing discontent about currency wars." See: Euro-zone GDP plunge stokes rate-cut hopes.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that George Soros and other hedge fund-managers are making huge profits by betting on a weaker yen. The Tell :Soros, other hedge funds score billions betting on falling yen.
Traders are looking ahead to the weekend meeting of Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers in Moscow for signals of any official discomfort over moves by the Japan to weaken the yen.
"It's not an exact parallel at all, but I'm reminded of the dispute in 1987 between the U.S. and the Bundesbank about interest rates, which was what caused the '87 crash," said Beecroft. "Markets don't like it when you have possibilities of large geopolitical disconnects or clashes."
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On the corporate front, shares of Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO, +0.97% reported fiscal-second-quarter adjusted earnings ahead of expectations. Cisco said it expected sales in the current period to grow between 4% and 6% from the year-earlier period. Analysts were expecting growth of 5.3% for the fiscal third quarter. Read: Cisco earnings beat targets on small sales gain.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Contracts to buy previously owned U.S. homes fell in February, held back by a shortage of properties, but there is little to suggest that the housing market's recovery is stalling.
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) on Wednesday said its Pending Home Sales Index, based on contracts signed last month, slipped 0.4 percent to 104.8. Still, contracts last month remained at the second-highest level in nearly three years.
The Realtors group and private economists blamed the pullback in signed contracts, which typically become sales after a month or two, on the lack of homes available for sale.
"Rapidly shrinking inventories have held back home sales," said Celia Chen, a senior economist at Moody's Analytics in West Chester, Pennsylvania. "All regions are tightening."
There were 1.94 million previously owned homes on the market in February, representing a 4.7 months' supply. The inventory of new single-family homes available for sale during the same period was 150,000, or 4.4 months' worth.
A six months' supply is normally considered as a healthy balance between supply and demand.
While the supply squeeze could dampen the spring selling season a bit, the housing market recovery appears intact. Pending home sales were up 8.4 percent from February last year.
"The spring selling season should still be good enough, but it is going to be very difficult for homebuilders to generate the same or near the same year-on-year sales growth as they did a year ago," said Steve Blitz, chief economist at ITG Investment Research in New York.
A very accommodative monetary policy by the Federal Reserve, which has held mortgage rates near record lows, is helping to lift the housing market off the floor and lending the economy much needed support. The U.S. central bank last week said it would maintain its monthly $85 billion purchases of mortgage and Treasury bonds.
The flow of foreclosed homes coming on to the market, which had been both a source of supply and a key obstacle to the sector's recovery, has dropped significantly in recent months, confounding both real estate professionals and economists.
CoreLogic on Tuesday said so-called shadow inventory - homes either in foreclosure or being held from the market - dropped 15.4 percent to 2.2 million in January from a year ago. That was well below the cycle peak of 3 million units in January 2010.
"We expect some of the positive momentum in housing activity to be surrendered in the near term," said Millan Mulraine, a senior economist at TD Securities in New York, citing the likelihood inventory will remain constrained.
But the supply squeeze is also helping to push up home prices, putting a solid foundation under the recovery.
Data on Tuesday showed home prices in 20 metropolitan areas tracked by S&P/Case Shiller soared 8.1 percent in January from a year ago, the biggest 12-month rise since June 2006.
In a positive sign for sales, demand for loans to buy a home rose last week after two straight weeks of declines, a separate report showed. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its gauge of loan requests for home purchases, a leading indicator of home sales, increased 6.7 percent.
The rise in loan applications, which came as mortgage rates fell for the first time in three weeks, unwound the prior two weeks' declines. But with roughly a third of home resales being cash purchases and investors making up a fifth of all buyers, mortgage applications may not be a good predictor of home sales.
According to Moody's Analytics' Chen, supplies were the most tight in the West, while abundant in the Midwest.
That was reflected in the NAR report, which showed pending sales barely rising in the West and rising 0.4 percent in the Midwest last month. Signed contracts fell in the Northeast and South.
"Industry capacity constraints, however, will keep residential construction from ramping up as quickly as required to meet demand," said Chen. "Concurrently, homeowners will release existing homes on the market at a slow pace."
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Coker cross-country teams will be competing in the Royal Cross Country Challenge on Friday (Oct. 12).
With nearly 30 teams already confirmed for the meet, the Cobras will be relying on strong performances from sophomores Stephanie Shaw and Josh Peterson.
Shaw is coming off her best race of the year after she set a new Coker women's cross country record by finishing 18th overall in the 4k race with a time of 17:50.88 at the Pre-Conference Meet. Peterson led the men's team by finishing first for Coker and completing the 5k race in a time of 17:03.37.
The race is scheduled to take place at McAlpine Creek Park, which is known for very firm, flat and fast courses. The women will run the 5k race starting at 3:30 p.m., followed by the men's 8k race at 4:15 p.m.


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Sprint Series rookie Danica Patrick cautiously optimisticBy GAVIN FARETRA
New Hampshire Motor Speedway
January 21. 2013 5:45PM
Crew chief Tony Gibson owner/teammate Tony Stewart spoke highly of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series rookie Danica Patrick during the Stewart-Haas Racing press conference on Monday.
But in commenting about her own expectations for this season, the driver of the No. 10 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet for Stewart-Haas Racing took a decidedly more reserved tone.
"We are going to be 'intelligently patient,' " said Patrick during Day 1 of the Sprint Media Tour, hosted by Charlotte Motor Speedway. "With GoDaddy.com on board, we've been able to take it nice and slow, and have been able to learn and take our time before jumping into the deep end."
Patrick will officially make the plunge after a modest first full season in the Nationwide Series, which saw her net four top-10s and a pole. But it was a tremendous learning experience for Patrick, who has the unwavering support of her boss behind her.
"It's not only IndyCar drivers, but drivers in general … there's a day where the light switch clicked on and you get that feel you were looking for," said Stewart, when asked about his confidence level in Patrick. "I think Danica has done a lot in a very short amount of time."
The coming season offers a clean slate not only for Patrick but for all three Stewart-Haas Racing drivers. Patrick will race her first full season in the Cup Series; Stewart – the 2011 Cup champion – is eyeing a rebound after a sub-par 2012; and Ryan Newman is hoping a reunion with longtime crew chief Matt Borland will be the answer to missing the Chase for the championship in two of the last three seasons.
"I'm really looking forward to working with him again," said Borland, who guided Newman to 12 victories in four seasons (2002-05) with Penske, including a career-high eight wins in 2003. "We've got a whole new group of guys and we're looking forward to that gelling and coming together."
"From the ownership side, looking out the window it's been very busy downstairs. Our guys have done a great job and as a car owner I'm really proud of what I see," Stewart said. "And if these new (Gen-6) cars race as good as they drive, it's going to be an awesome year."
Stewart, in his capacity as owner of Eldora Speedway, deferred questions about the Camping World Truck Series race at the half-mile dirt track on July 24 to Roger Slack, the track's general manager and promoter. Despite very sloppy conditions, Slack was satisfied with the ultra-secretive testing that was held there back at the end of November.
"That's about the worst-case scenario we could have and I thought it went really well," Slack said. "I think it's going to be a great race."
Slack expects a deep field from many different series, everywhere from late model to Cup.
"The fans will be excited," said Slack, who noted that while he doesn't believe it to be necessary, they could still add one or two supporting races to the weekend docket. "This will be a race that can stand on its own."
"My mom and I had a huge fight because she wanted me to go to college – now she works for me." -- Stewart, when asked what his mother said to him to inspire him as a kid to become who he is today.
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There are three Saturdays left in the regular season and there are only three undefeated teams at the top of the BCS standings. An unexpected turn for the Tide left No. 1 Alabama with badly bruised national championship hopes. There is a new No. 1 in town and they are not from the big bad SEC.
The legend of Jonny "Football" grows. Any hopes the No. 1 Crimson Tide had of repeating as National Champions were ruined by Manziel and No. 15 Texas A&M. The 19-year old redshirt freshman put on a sensational performance passing for 253 yards and accounting for 345 yards of total offense to lead the Aggies to a 29-24 upset of top-ranked Alabama. It was only the second time that Texas A&M defeated a No. 1 team (Oklahoma in 2002, 30-26), making it arguable the biggest victory in program history. Despite the loss, the Crimson Tide remains in the driver's seat for an SEC West Division title.
Tenth ranked Florida State was forced to hold its ACC title plans together against conference-rival Virginia Tech. E.J. Manuel and the FSU needed a last minute to drive to escape Blacksburg with a win. Manuel hit WR Rashad Green for a 39-yard TD pass with 40 seconds remaining to give the Seminoles a 28-22 victory. With the win, the Seminoles move to 9-1 for the first time since 2000 and ended a 0-2 streak under Jimbo Fisher after a bye week. It also set up the opportunity for FSU to officially clinch a trip to the Dr Pepper ACC Championship Game in Charlotte if the Seminoles can beat Maryland this coming Saturday.
Stanford started strong, closed fast and kept its Rose Bowl hopes alive after rallying from a 23-14 deficit to defeat Oregon State. The 14th-ranked Cardinal scored the game's first 14 points in a dominating first quarter performance before the 11th-ranked Beavers came back to score 23 unanswered points. Oregon State forced four turnovers but only converted three points out of them, and the only Beaver turnover proved to be a costly one. After a Kevin Hogan interception, Oregon State's Cody Vaz fumbled and Stanford surged back to squeak out with a win. Hogan threw for 254 yards and three touchdowns in his first collegiate start.
Michigan strung together a brilliant second-half comeback and some last-minute heroics to keep its Rose Bowl hopes alive with a 38-31 overtime victory over Northwestern. With Denard Robinson out with an elbow injury, back-up quarterback Devin Gardner stepped up scoring on a one-yard bootleg run in overtime. The Wolverine defense followed with a crucial four-down stand to end the game.
At the end of the day Missouri quarterback James Franklin could not be stopped. He sparked an amazing comeback, throwing four touchdown passes, all of which came in the final minute of regulation or overtime. Looking at a fourth-and-12, Franklin found Dorial Green-Beckham in the left corner of the endzone for the game-tying TD pass with 47 seconds left in regulation. Andrew Baggett kicked the game-winning 35-yard field goal in the fourth overtime as Missouri rallied from 14 to beat Tennessee 51-48. The Volunteers have now lost 13 of its past 14 SEC games over the last two seasons.
Georgia Tech and North Carolina lit up the scoreboard on Saturday in the highest-scoring game in ACC history. Tech's Robert Godhigh rushed for two touchdowns and caught a third while Jamal Golden returned a kickoff 100 yards for a score. Backup quarterback Vad Lee found his way rushing for 112 yards and two TDs while throwing a third. The Yellow Jackets continue to push toward bowl eligibility and remain alive in the ACC Costal Division race.
Alabama's loss to Texas A&M caused a drastic swing in the national championship race. The Tide dropped to No. 4 in the latest BCS, behind No. 1 Kansas State, No. 2 Oregon and No. 3 Notre Dame. The spot light that was once on the SEC was shifted to these new Big Three.
Oregon may have the toughest road of the three. The Ducks will host No. 13 Stanford this week. Oregon ruined the Stanford's perfect season a year ago, but David Shaw and company are looking to return the favor. If Oregon can get past Stanford, it will head to in-state rival No. 16 Oregon State before the Pac-12 title game against USC or UCLA.
Kansas State's path is a little smoother. The Wildcats travel to Baylor who ranks second nationally in both pass offense and total offense, and seventh in scoring. KSU will conclude its season against No. 15 Texas, who is currently on a four-game winning streak.
Notre Dame must take care of business at home against Wake Forest before heading across the country for the showdown with USC. The Irish won its last game at the Coliseum, but dropped the previous six of the seven meetings with the Trojans.
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Kurdish rebels will start withdrawing thousands of guerrilla fighters from Turkey on May 8 and retreat across the border to northern Iraq, a rebel commander said Thursday, in an important milestone toward ending a nearly three-decade old insurgency that has cost tens of thousands of lives.
In a news conference held in northern Iraq's Qandil mountains, rebel commander Murat Karayilan said the extraction would be gradual, but warned it would come to an immediate stop should the rebels be attacked as they leave Turkey.
He also outlined for the first time "obligations" the Turkish government needs to fulfill for peace, including enacting a new constitution, dismantling special security units established to fight the rebels and declaring an amnesty for all imprisoned guerrillas. A video of the news conference was aired by Turkey's private Dogan news agency.
The decision to leave Turkey and retreat to bases in northern Iraq comes a month after the rebels declared a cease-fire, heeding a call by jailed rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is engaged in talks with Turkish officials to end the fighting. Ocalan also had asked his group, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, to leave Turkey as part of the peace efforts.
"The withdrawal will be gradual, in groups," Karayilan, who took over the PKK's leadership after Ocalan's capture and imprisonment in 1999, said. "It will be completed in the shortest time possible."
"Withdrawal will stop immediately if there is any attack, operation or bombing of our guerrilla forces and our forces will use their right to reciprocate," Karayilan warned.
He said the rebels would pull out of Turkey through usual routes they use to slip into the country from Iraq.
There was no immediate statement from Turkish officials on the announcement. A vague statement released at the end of a national security meeting said Turkey's leaders had "assessed" steps needed to ensure that "efforts being taken for the peace and security of the people yield lasting results."
The rebels' retreat is seen as a major step toward a political settlement of a conflict with roots dating to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the redrawing of boundaries in the Middle East, which left Kurds scattered in Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran.
Kurds in Turkey were long denied a separate identity and basic cultural and linguistic rights. In 1984, Ocalan's PKK launched a campaign, first for independence, and then for autonomy and greater rights for Kurds — who make up around 20 percent of Turkey's 75 million people.
"The withdrawal is a very positive step," said Mesut Yegen, an expert on the conflict at Istanbul's Sehir University. "It is vital for the continuation of the political dialogue."
The PKK, which frequently launched attacks on Turkey from bases in northern Iraq, is designated a terrorist organization by Turkey and its Western allies. The Turkish government estimates that between 1,500 to 2,000 of the rebels operate from inside Turkey, mostly from caves and other hideouts in the country's rugged southeast.
Speaking in front of a flag emblazoned with Ocalan's portrait, Karayilan made clear his fighters wouldn't withdraw unarmed despite a Turkish government demand that the rebels lay down their weapons before retreating. The PKK commander said the group would disarm only after Ocalan and other Kurdish militants are released from prison.
The rebels were hesitant about an unarmed withdrawal without legal assurances from Turkey that the guerrillas wouldn't be attacked as they leave. Turkish forces reportedly attacked PKK guerrillas as they retreated in 1999 while obeying orders from Ocalan, who had appealed for peace soon after his capture.
"We understand that disarmament will take place at quite a late phase of the process," Yegen, the Kurdish expert, said. "The group wants to be on the safe side."
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government has said that the ultimate goal of the talks between Ocalan and Turkey's intelligence agency, launched late last year, is the PKK's disarmament. Government officials, however, have not given details of the talks and insist Turkey is not engaged in any horse-trading with the PKK.
Karayilan said it would be Turkey's turn to take steps expected by Kurds once the rebels leave the Turkish territory.
Kurds are demanding that a new constitution currently being drafted by parties represented in Turkey's parliament safeguards the rights of the minority group and increases the powers of local authorities, giving them more leverage in governing Turkey's mostly Kurdish southeast regions. Kurds also are seeking the release of hundreds of Kurdish activists jailed for alleged links to the PKK as well as improved jail conditions for Ocalan, who is serving a life term on a prison island near Istanbul.
Karayilan, however, went a step further, saying Ocalan — once Turkey's most-wanted man — should also be freed as part of the peace deal. Despite his 14-year incarceration, Ocalan still wields great power over his rebel group and is adored by Kurds.
"The total dismantling of weapons and the disarmament of the guerrillas will come to the agenda when everyone, including our leader Apo, reaches their freedom," Karayilan said. Apo, short for Abdullah, is Ocalan's nickname.
"Apo has fulfilled all of his responsibilities," Karayilan said. "Now it is the Turkish government and our turn."
While a majority of Turks support the end of hostilities, the peace efforts remain a highly emotional issue and some are concerned about too many concessions to the PKK, which is blamed for thousands of deaths, including civilians.
A nationalist party is strongly opposed to the peace efforts and objects to freedom for Ocalan, whom it calls the "monster of Imrali," in reference to the prison island where he is held.
"The only thing the PKK must do is to lay down its arms and give itself up to justice," Oktay Vural, a legislator from the Nationalist Action Party, told reporters. "There isn't a single concession the Turkish people can give the PKK terrorist organization."
Turkey's peace efforts with Ocalan follow a surge in violence last summer that killed hundreds of people. It also comes as a Syrian Kurdish group linked to the PKK has gained control in several areas of northern Syria amid the civil war in the country, adding to Turkey's worries. Many believe Turkey's conflict with the PKK hurts its ambitions to become a more powerful regional leader.
The PKK has declared cease-fires before and the government has acknowledged holding failed secret peace talks with the rebels in 2011. But many believe that the latest effort has a chance of success because of Ocalan's direct involvement.
Associated Press writer Ezgi Akin contributed to the report.


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The Daily Word in sick pilots, LiLo arrested again, zoo prices
I learned that trick in the 4th grade: American Airlines has been forced to cancel 250 flights this week as unhappy pilots "call in sick."
The Chicago teachers' strike has come to an end.
Mayor Berry didn't talk with the City Council before raising zoo prices.
Space shuttle Endeavor becomes the last to take flight from now until forever.
The 2010 death of a high-profile lawyer that was ruled a suicide is now looking more like a murder.
Lindsay Lohan has been arrested (again). This time she's been charged with leaving the scene of a crime after it was reported she clipped a pedestrian with her car.
The wolves, they are safe.
Meet vegetable woman! She is my best friend.
Why flying used to be so much more awesome.
Life is hard when you're addicted to money.
Man arrested for stealing his own impounded car.
R.I.P Steve Sabol.


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Damming the flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the politics of containment
Verso, 2007 - Political Science - 442 pages
Once the most lucrative European colony in the Caribbean, Haiti has longbeen one of the most divided and impoverished countries in the world. In thelate 1980s a remarkable popular mobilization known as Lavalas, or 'the flood,'sought to liberate the island from decades of US-backed dictatorial rule. Afterwinning a landslide election victory, in 1991 the Lavalas government led byPresident Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown by a bloody military coup. Dammingthe Flood analyzes how and why Aristide's enemies in Haiti, the US andFrance made sure that his second government, elected with another overwhelmingmajority in 2000, was toppled by a further coup in 2004.The elaborate international campaign to contain, discredit and thenoverthrow Lavalas at the start of the twenty-first century was perhaps the mostsuccessful act of imperial sabotage since the end of the Cold War. Itsexecution and its impact have much to teach anyone interested in thedevelopment of today's political struggles in Latin America and the rest of thepost-colonial world.
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More than 300 area youth from Texas and Louisiana recently gathered in Beaumont to compete at the Inaugural "Texas Super Showcase" Basketball Tournament, benefitting IEA – Inspire, Encourage, Achieve/Ben's Kids.
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The Kinsey Scale was not the first time a continuum theory of sexuality was proposed. Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs, Magnus Hirschfeld, Sigmund Freud, and Havelock Ellis each proposed a theory of bisexuality as the core state of human sexuality, which to some extent or another brought them toward a continuum theory. As the field of endocrinology developed, biological research confirmed the variability of sexuality in humans and other animals, while at the same time anthropological work by people such as Franz Boas and Margaret Mead revealed varying attitudes toward sexuality and gender in different cultural contexts. Mead developed a continuum model of masculinity and femininity, as did the psychologists and intelligence researchers Lewis Terman and Catherine Cox Miles.
Much of the above information comes from Jennifer Terry's An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society. Terry says of these theories and studies:
As in the earlier inversion model, homosexuals were imagined as intermediate creatures situated between normal males and normal females. But the crucial difference in models generated by research from the 1930s was that even normal men and women were discovered to have qualities and characteristics previously associated only with the "opposite" sex. By signifying a middle position between the poles of masculinity and femininity, homosexuals were situated conceptually in greater proximity to the norm than earlier models of inversion had permitted. For if the difference between the sexes was a matter of degree and not kind, then the homosexual could be conceptualized as sharing many qualities with the rest of the population. But ... such news did not alter the popular perception that homosexuals belonged to a distinguishable and pathological group, set apart from the normal healthy population. A case can be made ... that conceiving of homosexuals as similar to heterosexuals worried many people. This worry led to renewed efforts to determine and police the differences between, on the one hand, heterosexuals who were deemed to express normal gender characteristics and sexual desire and, on the other hand, those who were assessed as abnormal because they showed "sex variant" tendencies. (176)Then came World War II, which had all sorts of effects on conceptions of gender and sexuality (as had World War I in similar ways) -- as the military's need for more and more soldiers increased, people who had previously been banned from service, including homosexuals, were allowed in. Meanwhile, on the home front, women participated in work previously reserved for men. Kinsey worked on his research throughout this time, and in 1948 published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, which showed that homosexual behavior was far more common than generally acknowledged. Kinsey noted that "there is only about half of the male population whose sexual behavior is exclusively heterosexual, and there are only a few percent who are exclusively homosexual." Just as noticeable as the statistics were Kinsey's attitudes -- he did not condemn the behaviors he reported as degenerate, pathological, or perverse.
Of course, Kinsey came in for plenty of criticism, both of his statistics and of his attitudes. As the Cold War and McCarthyism filled the public consciousness, "perversion" became linked with Communism. Terry notes that
Cold War homophobic purges were as much about gender transgression as about homosexuality per se. Arthur Schlesinger's The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom (1949) warned against effeminacy in all areas of government policy-making, which he believed was increasing with the breakdown of clear distinctions between masculinity and femininity. The "vital center" was characterized by a "new virility," a crucial change from the "emasculated" ruling class of Henry Wallace's Progressive ranks. In Schlesinger's words, communism was "something secret, sweaty, and furtive like nothing so much, in the phrase of one wise observer of modern Russia, as homosexuals in a boys' school." (336)And then there was Theodore Sturgeon, who, just as Kinsey's work was being released and gaining notoriety, published one story after another that portrayed love as a many-varied thing, and offered compassionate (if sometimes simplistic or condescending) portrayals of characters who did not fit into rigid stereotypes of sexuality or gender.
There are a number of Sturgeon stories I could discuss here -- "Bianca's Hands" and "The World Well Lost" would also be appropriate -- but I want to offer a few thoughts on his story "The Sex Opposite", originally published in the Fall 1952 issue of Fantastic and available in E Pluribus Unicorn and Selected Stories. It's not one of Sturgeon's best stories -- the plot is awkward, the writing is comically hardboiled, the characters are simplistic. But the ideas it expresses, and the time of its publication, make it work well for this discussion.
"The Sex Opposite" was one of Sturgeon's earliest stories specifically about sex and sexuality. Its basic structure is that of a mystery story: Two people have been killed in Central Park, and a medical examiner named Muhlenberg and a (female) newspaper reporter named Budgie try to piece together what happened. At first, Muhlenberg doesn't want to reveal any information to Budgie, but as she continues to press, he lets her know that the couple was not a romantic couple, but rather conjoined twins. A fire breaks out in the morgue, and Muhlenberg discovers that the corpses have been destroyed before an autopsy could be performed. On his way home that night, he stops at a bar for a drink and meets a woman with whom he feels a profound connection. They return to his apartment, read poetry to each other, listen to records, and then she tells him to meet her the next day at a seedy bar "down in the warehouse district", and she leaves. The next night, when he goes to the bar, Budgie is there, and tells him about having spent the day with a man who made her feel tremendously happy and fulfilled, but whom she never touched. Moments later, the man appears. Except when Muhlenberg sees him, he sees the woman he met the night before. The rest of the story is an explanation of the nature of the twin who was killed in Central Park: it was, as originally thought, two beings, but they had been in the midst of reproductive syzygy -- "A non-sexual interflow between the nuclei of two animals" -- when they were pulled apart and killed by muggers. The creature arranges for the muggers to be killed in a fight outside the bar while Muhlenberg and Budgie watch, then wipes their memories clean and disappears, leaving them with a profound love for each other.
Thus, the creature embodies what humans would consider two separate genders at once. It tells Muhlenberg and Budgie that its species has been responsible for creating the feelings that produced most of human culture. Budgie asks the creature why they have stayed hidden for so long.
"'We have to hide,' the other said gently. 'You still kill anything that's . . . different.'"A species that had brought so much creative force to humans -- creatures of tremendous power and beauty -- must hide away because of the murderous human fear of anything "abnormal". The abnormality here, though, is one that is presented as being entirely natural -- it is contextualized with a story of paramecia, which reminds readers that nature provides various models of sex, gender, and sexuality. At the same time, there are some hints that nature may not have to be the only limit to pleasure, because both Muhlenberg and Budgie experienced a kind of joy with the creature that they had never experienced with a human before. In the end, what matters for everyone in the story is that joy, a kind of love that is ideal and magnificent, a love that transcends culture, morality, and even species.
Kinsey would have found much to agree with in that attitude.
Soon after "The Sex Opposite" appeared, Kinsey published his second study, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. Meanwhile, a young ex-G.I. named George Jorgensen was in the midst of the surgeries that would allow him to become Christine Jorgensen, who would be, for a brief time, among the most famous women in the world. In How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States, Joanne Meyerowitz writes that
Jorgensen eventually moved from current event to yesterday's news, but as other stories of sex change appeared and reappeared, the media reminded the public that manhood, womanhood, and the boundaries between them were neither as obvious nor as impermeable as they once had seemed.Kinsey and Sturgeon both contributed to this reminding, one through science and one through fiction.


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I recently ran a one-shot Traveller merc adventure with a similiar set-up. Basically the team was inserted just over the FLOB (forward line of battle) and had to hoof it to thier target. Luckily for them there was transportation there for their return.
I've experienced the whole, get inserted and hoof it to your objective myself as a Cav Scout, not a SF-type, so I know it can be done.
Almost forgot, the team had to manuver to thier objective, avoiding known enemy locations and avoiding patrols.


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Fine. Tell people that the maids are getting so many 'goods' that they can't use them all. Tell people that their donations are better served at charitable organisations. But telling people that service staff mock them behind their backs when they give them gifts doesn't encourage them to give CUCs instead. It encourages them to give nothing. The type of person who responds to the kindness of strangers with derision, regardless of how misguided that kindness is, frankly doesn't deserve anything.
Anyway, we typically give our 'gifts' to local hospitals and schools. We also tend to ask hotel staff that we talk to on a regular basis (the woman who serves me breakfast every morning) what they would like us to bring them the next time we visit.


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spiphany wrote:...... There are advantages to knowing Latin ...... experience with another inflected language is a big help for a native English speaker, where such concepts are pretty foreign.
This argument of course works the other way as well. Being familiar with the inflections of Greek will be a help in learning Latin.


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That stands in contrast to statements made by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney's staff, who repeatedly said the network "did not know" the participants were merely stand-ins. The network had said its viewers were "deceived" by a bureaucrat.Six bureaucrats, three of them wearing departmental t-shirts, reaffirmed their oath of citizenship alongside three or four bona fide new Canadians during a televised ceremony last October.
The Sun TV hosts referred to the group throughout the broadcast as new citizens, even as the judge himself specified they were only reaffirming their citizenship.
THE CEREMONY, IN PHOTOS (story continues under slideshow)
An email that circulated among officials laid out what happened.
"Just to clarify, (name or names withheld) Sun TV did know about CIC employees filling in because some of the citizens who said they would come to reaffirm did not show up," says a bureaucrat, his or her name withheld because the message was sent by BlackBerry PIN.
"It was a last-minute decision that was made just before air time by Comms (communications) and (Sun News name withheld) to roll with when the citizens didn't show.
"Also it seemed that the hosts of the show were not well briefed because they kept saying these were new citizens taking the oath that day."
An hour earlier, under the subject line "What we will say," a political staffer in Kenney's office wrote: "We didn't know about this. Sun TV didn't know about this."
The response given to The Canadian Press that afternoon followed that line.
"The civil servants made some decisions without informing us or Sun News Network," said Kenney spokeswoman Candice Malcolm.
"Their decisions were well intentioned, however, we wish they had made different ones. We will make sure this does not happen again."
The following morning, after the story was published, Kenney's office continued to tell the media and post on Twitter that the Sun did not know about the presence of bureaucrats in the ceremony.
"CIC servants did not tell Sun that some of the people at ceremony were CIC staff. They did not tell us either. We wish they had," tweeted Kasra Nejatian, Kenney's director of strategic planning.
Malcolm went on the Sun News Network that morning to apologize to the network.
"The civil servants in our office were organizing this event, and I guess the morning of, they ran into a little bit of a problem, and instead of telling our office and telling Sun, they decided to send their own civil servants to fill in on the ceremony...," Malcolm responded.
Kenney also placed the blame squarely on the shoulders of bureaucrats during question period the day the story came out.
Inside the department, a formal media response to the story was being constructed throughout the day — ultimately receiving the sanction of the deputy minister.
One of the approved points underlined that not only was the network aware of the presence of the civil servants, but they were given the choice to use them.
"Sun Media was informed that only three new citizens showed up for the reaffirmation ceremony. As anyone can reaffirm their citizenship, Sun Media was given the choice of also having CIC staff in the shot to reaffirm their citizenship," said the statement.
"They chose to have more people in the shot than less. It was our honest understanding that Sun TV recognized that these additional people were CIC employees."
But by the end of the day, departmental officials were informed that their media responses would not be used publicly.
"Nevermind — thought we had greenlight but MO (minister's office) has indicated they will be the only ones speaking on this issue," wrote Bridget Nardi, a senior communications adviser.
"We tried. I'm sorry. This is very disappointing."
Alexis Pavlich, Kenney's new spokeswoman, said the minister's office was made aware of the department's position sometime after the morning apology on the Sun network the day the story came out.
"Since we had no proof that Sun had been told, and since our political office had been kept in the dark about the whole matter, we did not feel we could say at the time that Sun was aware of the arrangement," Pavlich said in an email Monday.
"Like most journalists, we try to have more than one source for any fact we rely on."
The day the original Canadian Press story was published, the QMI news service — sister organization to Sun TV — reported that producer Dayna Gourley had been the department's contact for the ceremony. There was no reference to her knowledge of the presence of the bureaucrats at the ceremony.
Gourley, who left the Sun three weeks after the ceremony to work at the CBC, has not responded to repeated requests for comment.
Luc Lavoie, a spokesman for Sun News, told QMI in February, "It looks like Minister Kenney and our viewers were deceived by a well-meaning bureaucrat who made a poor decision."
When asked Monday about whether anyone at the Sun was told beforehand about the use of bureaucrats, Lavoie said in an email to The Canadian Press: "Sun News has reviewed this incident thoroughly. We consider this matter closed and have no further comments."
Alex Pierson, one of the co-hosts of the ceremony, has said in February that she and colleague Pat Bolland were completely unaware of the presence of bureaucrats.
Pavlich from Kenney's office said, "we had and still have every reason to believe that the Sun TV hosts did not know about this arrangement.
"Our apology was to them. Our apology stands," she said.
The documents released to The Canadian Press make clear that the way the minister's office handled the fallout from the story was distressing to civil servants.
Kenney's office had ordered the department to organize the ceremony at the Sun with a few week's notice, after noting that the CBC was televising a full-fledged ceremony during citizenship week — one that had been planned months in advance.
Civil servants tried to persuade Kenney's people that the Sun should simply send a camera to one of the many citizenship ceremonies taking place around Toronto, but they were told to proceed by organizing the less onerous reaffirmation ceremony.
Others complained at the time about the vast amount of departmental resources that were being expended calling people who had recently become Canadians, asking them if they'd attend another ceremony.
"We went back number of time (sic) this was going to be very difficult. (Minister's office) kept saying it had to happen," wrote one bureaucrat in an email after the story had come out.
Another wrote to the minister's office and others in the department that it was not fair to accuse a Toronto-area colleague of deceiving the public.
"For the (employee) at the centre of this, our raising deception will be devastating, given her track record of pulling out all stops to make (ministerial) events the best possible," the bureaucrat wrote.
"If we need to approach and tell her judgment should have been different, that is fine, but not deception when she told her Sun contact that (employees) were there with clients."


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Vintage Shirt Dress
Added Sep 17, 2013
by annie-s-1
Falkirk, United ...
Shirt dress with concealed button placket, soft pleated skirt, pockets and self fabric belt .
For this project I used an original vintage pattern purchased on Ebay. I had no idea of fit as it was an US sized pattern. However I was really lucky and the dress came up a perfect fit, with a little extra allowance at the waist only. Ladies had such tiny waists in those days.
I have a box of vintage buckles and buttons inherited from my Gran and the little vintage plastic buckle was a perfect shade of blue for the self fabric belt. I went all out with the finish on this project with french seams throughout and bound seams for those where french seaming was not possible.
Material Notes
French navy cotton poplin from Ditto Fabrics in
Brighton, lined with royal blue habutai silk from Ebay.
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Sep 18, 2013, 05.29 AMby bethmaryharley
Very pretty dress! This is such a classic design and it looks great on you!
Sep 17, 2013, 09.47 PMby Mary Athey
Gorgeous dress, its as pretty inside as out and i do love your vintage pattern x
Sep 17, 2013, 08.59 PMby Phronimos
So stylish, love the pairing of fabric and pattern!
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Sep 17, 2013, 09.24 PMby annie-s-1
Thank you so much!
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This past weekend, alumnus Hon. Gerald Zore '63 received the 2013 Man for All Seasons Award from the St. Thomas More Society in Indianapolis, Indiana. This award is presented annually to a person whose life and work exemplifies the ideals of St. Thomas More. A year ago, Daniel J. Elsener, president of Marian University, was honored with the award.
Hon. Zore became a judge in 1974 and has served in the Civil Division for 36 years, moving to Probate Court in 2011. He is a member of the Indiana Supreme Court's Commission on Race and Gender Fairness, the Board of Directors of Cathedral High School and Indiana University, and the Board of Trustees for Cathedral High School and Marian University.
The IndyBar Professionalism Committee also named Hon. Zore the 2013 recipient of the Silver Gavel Award, an award given to a judicial officer whose contributions have demonstrated the highest commitment to genuine professionalism and the highest standards of legal ethics.
On Wednesday. October 9, the St. Thomas More Society of Indianapolis and the Archdiocese of Indianapolis co-hosted the Red Mass and dinner that honored Zore. Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin spoke at the event and the Indiana Lawyer reported on the evening.
The following article (by Marilyn Odendahl) is featured on The Indiana Lawyer website.
Speaking to members of the legal community, Indianapolis Archbishop Joseph William Tobin pointed to the growing polarization among people, and he called for everyone to take a more gentle tone, respect the beliefs of others and work to build a "culture of encounter."
Tobin spoke at a dinner following the annual Red Mass Oct. 9. The audience included judges and attorneys from central Indiana.
"If dialogue means anything," the archbishop said, "it means not only that we take another seriously but it means that we revere the other as a fellow human being with gifts and talents from God. … When we respect difference of opinion and dialogue, we respect and revere the differences that provide variety and give texture to this great country of our made so by others having welcomed our forefathers and foremothers."
The St. Thomas More Society of Indianapolis and the Archdiocese of Indianapolis co-hosted the Red Mass and dinner.
Marion Superior Judge Gerald Zore was presented with the 2013 Man for All Seasons Award. U.S. Trustee Nancy Gargula presented the award, telling Zore he was an inspiration and thanking him for sharing his "faith, time and talent in our community everyday."
Held at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in downtown Indianapolis, the Mass included the traditional processional of the judiciary. Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller led the line of judges from the Indiana Supreme Court, the Indiana Court of Appeals, the Marion County courts and other central Indiana jurisdictions.
Priests, dressed in red vestments as a symbol of St. Thomas More's martyrdom, concelebrated the Mass with Tobin.
Giving the homily, deacon and Greenwood attorney David Henn reminded the assembled attorneys and judges they should work for peace and justice.
Clients will come before the bench and bar, he said, seeking to resolve whatever obstacle is hindering their own pursuit of happiness. Sometimes in their pursuit, the clients will become angry and see only their own self-interests. Attorneys and judges must guide them to a better path, he said.
"We are charged as ministers of the law to lead those who come before the bench and bar to seek peace and justice," Henn said.
Tobin addressed the legal community, most of them members of the St. Thomas More Society, on the same day he celebrated the third anniversary of his ordination as a bishop.
He pointed to Pope Francis' call for a "culture of encounter" where people recognize everyone is redeemed by the Blood of Christ and they fulfill their duty of doing good.
"I am grateful to have the image of our Holy Father, Pope Francis, as a model of his simplicity, of his transparency but also his work to bridge the forces that can divide us," Tobin said. "I hope to be able to promote, here in Indianapolis, a culture of encounter and I am counting on the members of the St. Thomas More Society to help me. When necessary, tell me when I'm wrong and to help us work together to carry forward this great city in this great state."
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Storage hardware crawls out from under melted economy
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You take the good IT news where you can find it during this economic recession. The relative good news coming out of IDC is that storage hardware sales are starting to show sequential growth at some vendors and that the more profitable storage software biz is starting to recover even if sales are still down dramatically year-on-year.
IDC reckons that the total amount of disk capacity shipped on disk array systems rose by an encouraging 15.2 percent in the second quarter, to 2,345 petabytes. That may be well below the normal growth rates for storage, but that's 2009 for you. Global disk array revenues in Q2 fell by 18.7 per cent, to $5.7bn.
The magnitude of that figure explains why vendors still want to sell servers, which accounted for $9.8bn in the same three-month term. A year ago, over $14bn in servers were sold in Q2, compared to $7bn for storage arrays. The gap is closing, which just goes to show you where virtualization is taking off more and where customers can't wait to get new gear as they most certainly want to do in this economy.
By IDC's math and magic, external disk arrays - meaning sales that exclude the substantial amount of storage sold along with servers, well, at least in a normal quarter - accounted for $4.1bn in sales in the second quarter, down 18.3 percent.
"The enterprise storage systems market continued to feel the impact of current economic conditions, posting its third straight year-over-year decline," explained Liz Conner, research analyst for storage systems at IDC in a statement accompanying the figures.
"However, certain sweet spots in the market continue to thrive. iSCSI SAN and FC SAN both showed strong year-over-year growth of 57.2 and 66.8 per cent, respectively, in the entry level price bands ($0K-$14.99K) as customers continue to demand enterprise level network storage at a more economically friendly price point. Similarly, midrange NAS (price band $15K-$49.99K) enjoyed solid year-over-year growth of 20.7 per cent as file-level data generation continues to be a hot topic for many customers."
IDC said that network disk storage, by which is means NAS devices plus open or iSCSI SANs, fell by 15.3 per cent to $3.2bn.
In overall storage system sales (including external and internal arrays), IBM took the top position just a smidgen ahead of Hewlett-Packard, with $981m in sales compared to HP's $980m. IBM fell 12.6 per cent, while HP, which sells a lot of internal arrays, fell by 28.4 per cent in sympathy with server sales, which declined by 30.4 per cent in Q2 to $2.8bn. EMC ranked third in global storage sales, with $887m in sales and a decline of 19.5 per cent compared to the year-ago period.
Dell did fabulously, with only a 3.6 per cent decline to $769m in revenues, and Network Appliance, with an 8.1 per cent slide to $368m, also did better than the class average. Sun Microsystems did not make the cut as a top five storage vendor and was chucked into the Others category - and there are lots of other storage vendors, despite mergers and acquisitions. The Others accounted for $1.68bn in sales, but as a group, they took a 22.7 per cent hit in Q2.
It is much better to be in the storage software racket, that's for damned sure. Selling file systems, data archiving, storage replication, and various other storage management tools took much less of a hit in the second quarter than storage hardware did. And that stands to reason since companies that already have sophisticated disk arrays want to get more value out of them, even if they have to shell out more dough to do so.
According to IDC's calculations, worldwide storage software sales fell by 9.8 per cent, to $2.8bn, in the second quarter, but they were up sequentially in some product categories, just like storage hardware had some bright spots. IDC says that replication software sales grew by 5 percent from Q1 to Q2, driven by a refocused NetApp, which had 20 per cent growth sequentially for replication products. Data protection and recover software sales for disk arrays saw 3 per cent growth sequentially, with IBM, EMC, and Symantec all moving into positive territory on a sequential basis.
While NetApp ranked only fourth in global storage software sales, with $241m in revenues in Q2, it deserves a prize of some sort for showing positive growth on an annual basis, growing eight-tenths of a percent. (And that growth in Q2 of this year came after a pretty good second quarter 2008 too). EMC took the top spot in storage software sales, with $638m on the books in Q2, but its numbers declined 14.4 per cent, faster than the market at large.
Symantec held the number two position, with $524m in sales, down 11.2 per cent, and IBM was slammed down to $328m in sales in Q2 after an 18.5 per cent revenue decline. (Looks like somebody isn't getting that big bonus now that Big Blue has lost storage software market share). CA rounded out the top five storage software makers, with $116m in sales, down 14.2 per cent. Other vendors, being clever, nearly held their ground on an annual basis, falling only nine-tenths of a per cent, to $886m in sales. ®


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Models 304 and 303 were the export versions of the Concord III and Celeste III, the only difference being the use of the SP1074 T33 tweeter in place of SP1068.
The 303 and 304 were distinctive for their industrial design, the all-round black grille cloth and matching ULS 1 and 2 single pedestal stands allowing them to stand out from the conventional square wooden boxes of the time.
304 was one of the first 'two and a half way' designs – two 8" bass drivers being operated vertically in line at low frequencies. This arrangement improves power handling and reduces distortion at low frequencies. The response of the lower unit is progressively reduced as the frequency rises so that only the upper unit is radiating in the crossover region. By this means it is possible to retain the advantage of twin drivers at the low end of the range without the phase interference effects usually associated with multiple drive units.
303 was an 8" two way closed box design with newly developed drivers and a sophisticated crossover network. Both models were designed for use with music centres and amplifiers with as little power as 10 watts per channel and benefited from KEF's total design concept and digital evaluation techniques.
The B200 bass drivers for the 303 and 304 featured a new three-sided chassis specifically designed to be mechanically isolated from the cabinet. They were also the first KEF bass drivers to use a paper diaphragm – which by this time were being manufactured with good consistency - and the lower moving mass contributed to the high sensitivity target for these systems.
Specification: 304
System type: 2½-way, stand-mount
Enclosure type: Closed box
Size: 680 x 280 x 315cm (26.75x 11 x 12.4 inches)
Weight: 14kg (31 lb)
Input Impedance: 8 ohms
Rated maximum power: 100W programme
Amplifier Requirements: 10-100 watts per channel into 8 ohms
System resonance: 68Hz, Q=0.8
Frequency response: 60-20,000Hz +/-3dB
Sensitivity: 87dB spl at 1m for pink noise input of 1W
Maximum output: 107dB spl on programme peaks under typical listening conditions
Finishes: Satin black plinth
Grille: Black fabric
System: SP1127
Drive units: 2 x B200 bass unit (SP1069), T33 tweeter (SP1074)
Crossover: SP1137
Specification: 303
System type: Two way, stand-mount
Enclosure type: Closed box
Size: 508 x 265 x 230 mm (20x 10.5 x 9 inches)
Weight: 8.1kg (18 lb)
Input Impedance: 8 ohms
Rated maximum power: 50W programme
Amplifier Requirements: 10-50 watts per channel into 8 ohms
System resonance: 68Hz, Q=0.7
Frequency response: 70-20,000Hz +/-3dB
Sensitivity: 86dB spl at 1m for pink noise input of 1W
Maximum output: 103dB spl on programme peaks under typical listening conditions
Finishes: Black plinth
Grille: Black cloth
System: SP1126
Drive units: B200 bass unit (SP1070), T33 tweeter (SP1074)
Crossover: SP1136
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