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My Dad and I got together and found a few steelhead before we got hit with the blizzard that is currently flushing out the rivers. We have not fished out here much, one rainy day about 8 years ago is it in fact, so it was a nice chance for him to see some different stuff. Our first day was succesful, and Dad got his first winter steelhead which was a hoot, but it was certainly not the rocket that these rivers are known for.


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Kate T. Parker's photo series started out as just Kate being a mom, taking pictures to capture moments in her daughters' lives as they grew up.
But when she stepped back and looked at the photos all together, it struck her that she had a full series.
In an interview, she told TODAY, "I suddenly realized, wow, all of my strongest images are of my girls just being themselves — their freckled, emotional, sometimes dirty, messy selves."
She called the series "Strong is the New Pretty." It shows her daughters, Ella, 9 and Alice, 6, as fiercely independent and strong young women.
Kate was a photographer and mother, but she'd also been athletic her whole life. Her daughters also showed a tendency toward sports, staying active and exploring the outdoors.
"I grew up playing sports, and the girls I emulated were the girls that were really strong and confident," she says. "They didn't have the time to worry about how they looked, and so I came to understand that their worth was determined by something different, something stronger."
"This kind of girl — who has dirt on her shoes and doesn't want to put a bow in her hair — she's beautiful, too," she says.
It's not that Kate has any problems with girls who are more traditionally feminine. She explains, "There's been a misconception with the images, sometimes, especially when people don't read the accompanying text."
"My kids are this, you know? Athletic and strong and dirty and loud and crazy," she adds. "That's what I'm trying to celebrate. But I encourage everyone to document their own kids the way they see them."
Kate hopes that as her daughters grow up and start to feel the pressures of being a woman in our society, these photos will help them to remember their own fearlessness.
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British supermarket chain Morrisons operates the only British supermarket in Gibraltar, situated at Europort.
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The Heritage Museum of Layton is filled with priceless antiques--each artifact having its own unique and fascinating history.
For example, there's the 1903 horseless carriage.
The horseless carriage on display at the museum was built by the Olds Motor Vehicle Company in Lansing, Michigan in 1903. It was called a Northern (its brand name) and was designed by Ransom E. Olds, the founder of the motor vehicle company. Mr. Olds first started to build cars in 1897 and by 1903 his company was producing about 425 cars per year. For many years, the vehicles produced by Mr. Olds were called horseless carriasges, and then they became "Olds Automobiles" and eventually "Oldsmobiles."
The car that is on loan to the museum was owned by Layton resident James Morgan. Many years ago, Mr. Morgan restored the car to its current condition. An automobile restoration specialist in Wendover, Nevada helped Mr. Morgan redo the car and for a few years Mr. Morgan drove the car throughout Layton and Davis County.
Mr. Morgan was especially proud of his car and he often drove it in Layton 4th of July parades. For many years the car could keep up with marching bands and other parade entries, but often it would overheat and stall so it has not appeared in a 4th of July patrade for many years.
The 1903 Northern horseless carriage has been a prominent feature of the Heritage Museum of Layton for over 25 years, and the museum staff and Board of Directors are grateful to the Morgan family for allowing the museum to continue to share this priceless gem with the general public.


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Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time
with Menucha Meinstein, author of My Eyes Looking Back at Me: Insight Into a Survivor's Soul
Quartet for the End of Time is a piece of chamber music by the French composer Olivier Messiaen. It was premiered in 1941. The piece is scored for B-flat clarinet, violin, cello, and piano; the complete work lasts about 50 minutes. Messiaen wrote the piece while a prisoner of war in German captivity, and it was first premiered by his fellow prisoners. It has come to be recognized as one of his most important works. International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is observed on January 27, 2018, is an international memorial day for the victims of the Holocaust. Holocaust is the genocide that resulted in the annihilation of six million European Jews as well as millions of others by the Nazi regime. The day was designated by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution on November 1, 2005.


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Sixteen chapters are organized into four sections. Advanced topics build upon the topics learned in previous chapters.
Section 1, "Information Storage and Management for Today's World": Four chapters cover information growth and challenges, define a storage system and its environment, review the evolution of storage technology, and introduce intelligent storage systems.
Section 2, "Storage Options and Protocols": Six chapters cover the SCSI and Fibre channel architecture, direct-attached storage (DAS), storage area networks (SANs), network-attached storage (NAS), Internet Protocol SAN (IP-SAN), content-addressed storage (CAS), and storage virtualization.
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The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was the most influential occult group to emerge from the end of the nineteenth century occult revival. The main achievement of the group, and of its more influential individuals, was to create a working system of magic, bonded from the various separate strands of tradition in existence at the time. Read More »


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Student guide to the city of Newcastle
Newcastle's nightlife is famous. It's a massive draw for the city and if you're planning on going to Newcastle University, it's well worth checking out the many bars, gigs and clubs. Aside from the social scene, it's a stunning, historic city that's steeped in culture. It also offers some of the best retail therapy in the country, so there's always something to do and somewhere to go.
Where's the best nightlife?
If you're looking for a lively night, there are plenty of "trebles" bars, serving three shots of vodka with mixer. A lot of students then go to Flares, a retro music bar with funky wall designs and a dance floor, playing old skool tunes from the '90s.
If you're looking for live music, the O2 Academy and the Metro Arena are the places to go. The O2 has bands playing nearly every night. For local music, try The Cluny, which has home-grown talent nearly every night.
Where to dine out
During the day, a student favourite is Quilliam Brothers tea shop, in Eldon Square, which serves around 200 different kinds of tea and luscious cakes. You can get a table with normal chairs, or one with bean bags for more relaxed seating. It has a cinema downstairs, which often hosts free film nights. Opposite the tea shop is the Hancock pub, which serves cheap food and is another student favourite.
Where to shop in Newcastle
There are plenty of good shops in the town centre which will serve all your needs, especially around Northumberland Street and Eldon Square. A short metro ride away, you'll find the Metro Centre, the UK's largest shopping centre. It's actually in Gateshead, but it's not too far away.
Sporting events
Newcastle United FC's famous home ground, St James' Park, is on Barrack Road. The 52,000-seater football stadium dominates the skyline. It's an ideal point to look out for and get your bearings if ever you're lost. When there's a home match, you can hear the roar of the crowd right across the city.
Where's the best student accommodation?
Most students live in four main areas of accommodation, housing students from both Newcastle and Northumbria universities. Newcastle University accommodation is mainly in Jesmond or Heaton, while it's mostly Northumbria students in Sandyford and Quayside.
Jesmond is a 25-minute walk from Newcastle University, but only five minutes on the metro. The area is a mixture of students and families. It's fairly near the town centre, especially if you travel by the metro. The district has its own bars and shops too. However, Jesmond is more expensive than Heaton and Sandyford. There are still affordable flats there and it's cheap compared to many parts of the UK, especially if you're sharing.
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I'm not a student but as my neice is looking at university options thus is great for her
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Our Mission: Helping Scientists Reach the General Public
For scientists and physicians working today, the ability to communicate is not an important skill; it is an essential skill. They must be able to communicate their research clearly, concisely and accurately not just to funders and peer reviewers, but to colleagues, patients, and the public at large. They must not only explain the latest findings from the laboratory or clinic, but convey the underlying passion, excitement, and resourcefulness that produced those discoveries. And they must do all this while also learning how to achieve critical distance from their own field in order to become reliable, trustworthy commentators.
With that in mind, the Carter Institute of Journalism in 2009 began offering basic and advanced communication workshops, taught by nationally prominent science journalists, to Ph.D. students and post-doctoral fellows in the sciences at NYU. In 2013, the Science Communication Workshops expanded to include the NYU School of Medicine, and in the fall of 2016, they expanded again to include full-time NYU faculty in the sciences and medicine, thanks to a grant from the Simons Foundation.
To date, more than 700 early-career researchers have participated. Each workshop consists of four weekly sessions of three hours each. There are typically ten students per workshop. There is no charge to students, and no university credit is given. In the 2017-18 academic year, NYU will offer 15 four-week workshops: 10 basic, two advanced (for students who performed exceptionally well in a basic workshop) and three for faculty.
Workshop graduates have published in dozens of prominent outlets, including Scientific American, Slate, Science and Nature. They have also written books, recorded podcasts, blogged, and participated in live storytelling events such as The Moth and Story Collider. Please see the Alumni Story Gallery to read some of their published work.
The latest project of the Science Communication Workshops is the Cooper Square Review, a new publication devoted to book reviews, essays, and musings from and about the world of science. Take a look!
Our Faculty
Stephen S. Hall developed the curriculum and has been teaching the workshops since 2009. He was joined in 2015 by Virginia Hughes and in 2016 by Brooke Borel. The program's founder and director is Dan Fagin, who is also a professor of journalism at NYU's Carter Institute of Journalism and the director of the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting M.A. program, in which Hall also teaches.
Our Curriculum
The goal of the NYU Science Communication Workshops is to improve the communication skills of all participants, regardless of previous training in writing and speaking. Students learn to describe complicated, technical research in clear, jargon-free language; they learn to write persuasive opinion pieces about matters of broad societal concern emanating from the scientific and medical arenas; and they learn storytelling skills to convey the real feel of science and medicine on the move. They also learn how to communicate with scientific colleagues outside their immediate field, how to identify the audiences with whom they wish to communicate, and how to write for general interest publications. All writing assignments are workshopped in class and also critiqued in detail by the instructor.
While the workshops are focused on helping researchers communicate to the general public, workshop alumni often report that the training has also improved their grant writing, fellowship applications, institutional progress reports, and even preparation of scientific papers.
Workshop students and alumni also participate in the Kavli Conversations on Science Communication at NYU, which are public dialogues between journalists and scientists focused on improving science communication, as well as in other events organized specifically for them. There were two of these special events in 2017. "Lab Lit: Writing, Publishing and Reviewing Books About Science", featured a New York Times book reviewer, a prominent publisher, and a Nobel Prize-winning author. The other, "Science + Opinion = Op-Ed", featured editors from the Times, Slate and The Conversation as well as a physician/essayist. Watch it here:
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Because the workshops are free and funding is limited, the NYU Science Communication Workshops are currently open only to NYU Ph.D., M.D., or post-doctoral students in the following eligible subjects: Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Science, Chemistry, Computer Sciences, Dentistry, Mathematics, Medicine, Neural Science, Nursing, Physical Anthropology, Physics and Psychology. All other Ph.D. students, post-docs and engineering students, as well as master's students, undergraduates and non-NYU students, are not eligible. We hope to be able to open the workshops to these groups in the future.
Eligible NYU students who wish to sign up should keep an eye out for the enrollment notice that goes out via email to administrators and directors of graduate study in the relevant departments and schools during the first week of the fall and spring semesters. Those administrators then distribute the notice to eligible students. The notice will include a date and time at which enrollment will open, as well as instructions for how to sign up. All workshop slots are typically filled within a few hours, and there is always a long waiting list, so it's important to get your request in promptly once open enrollment begins. The workshops are filled on a first-come-first-served basis, though we also take steps to ensure that each cohort reflects a diverse array of scientific interests.
Our Supporters
Free to students, the Science Communication Workshops could not exist without the generosity of our funders, most of whom have been supporters for years.
Current funders include the Simons Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the New York Cardiac Center, the National Institutes of Health via the NYU Science Training Enhancement Program (Prof. Carol Shoshkes Reiss), Director of Postdoctoral Affairs Christine Ponder and NYU Medical School Postdoctoral Program Director Keith Micoli), the National Science Foundation (Prof. Sergei Dubovsky) and the offices of NYU Senior Vice Provost for Research Paul Horn, Dean for Science Michael Purugganan, NYU Langone Medical Center Senior Vice President and Vice Dean for Science Dafna Bar-Sagi, Associate Dean for Medical Education Melvin Rosenfeld, Associate Dean for Student Affairs Linda Tewksbury, and Professor of Nursing Christine Kovner.
The workshops would never have gotten off the drawing board in 2009 without the ideas, enthusiasm and financial support of Pierre S. Hohenberg, Paul Horn's predecessor as senior vice provost for research, and Daniel Stein, Michael Purugganan's predecessor as dean for science. We're also very grateful to the Arnold P. Gold Foundation and NYU Executive Vice President for Health Robert Berne, whose support made it possible to expand the workshops to the NYU School of Medicine.
At the Carter Institute of Journalism, the workshops rely on the skilled support of Administrative Aide Donald Starr and Director of Administration Rose Sculley. If you'd like to support our work, please email Rose Sculley.
Alumni Story Gallery
A selection of articles published by workshop graduates, including some originally prepared as workshop assignments.


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First, allow me to give you some context:
1. I'm a huge advocate of digital marketing, having created one of the nation's first digital marketing agencies in 1999, Fingerprint Interactive (since merged into Brownstein Group).
2. 78% of our work is digital, and nearly 100% of our campaigns have a digital component.
3. Our agency does not buy media; we work with partners who do.
With that out of the way, I must say that I was floored when a client revealed to me last week that his brand manager, who oversees several leading national CPG brands, had shifted all their advertising dollars online. "All?" I blurted. "So you're assuming that all of those who buy your product in the supermarket get all of their consumer information online? They no longer read magazines, watch television or listen to the radio?" C'mon.
More and more ad dollars are moving from traditional media to digital, and that makes perfect sense. But there is an irrational shift to go all-digital. Just because it's the trendy thing to do, does it necessarily work?
According to Felix Salmon of Reuters, "It's a known fact in advertising circles that only idiots click on ads -- and yet advertisers still think that click-through rates mean something, and that a higher click-through rate means a better ad. It's the measurement fallacy: People tend to think that what they can measure is what they want, just because they can measure it. And it's endemic in the online advertising industry."
All I have to do is look around me to see people's media-consuming habits. My wife and kids watch TV every night -- often with a mobile or tablet device on their laps. My employees, their families and my friends consume media in similar ways. I've spoken to many others in various age categories about their routines and hear similar answers. My study may not be highly scientific, but it does confirm that people of all ages and income brackets still watch, read and listen to a variety of media.
A senior-level marketing executive at Microsoft commented to me, "There's no magic formula that you move your marketing dollars from one bucket to another [online] and suddenly it will work. In fact, pre-roll video is now the most effective form of digital advertising, which is essentially TV -- just without the high viewership."
Why would a marketing manager risk missing so many consumers by going exclusively online? It is the result of a few factors: pressure to be modern in the media plan/buy; wrong assumptions that people have stopped watching TV, reading magazines, looking at outdoor ads and listening to radio, and the belief (wrong, in my opinion), that brand awareness can be achieved with equal effectiveness online.
While there are a few hundred TV channels, most people only watch a handful. Conversely, there are millions of Internet sites to visit. Most people visit dozens and don't stay very long. I have yet to see a more effective medium than TV for telling a story and introducing a new product or brand.
I'm advocating for a more rational media mix. Online ads, SEO and SEM, should absolutely play a key role in many brands' media plans. But not exclusively.


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Popularity Of Team Building Events On The Increase
Signs of economic recovery have been spotted in an unexpected place: team building events!
Though some may rely on statistics or politicians to judge the state of the economy, there is a more unusual gauge for Britain's economic health: the popularity of the team building event. This is logical if you consider it for a moment. When the economy is strong, companies look to the future in order to expand, develop and best meet demand. What better way to bring a team together than through a tailored team building event? The Scottish boss of one team building company has reported a 25 percent increase in bookings over the last four years, suggesting that the economy is indeed growing and businesses are increasingly confident about the future.
If you are considering organising a team building event for your company, then Zing offer a wide range of options that promise focus, efficiency and fun. Here are just four possible options you could consider.
The Crystal Maze
Many will remember popular TV show The Crystal Maze, with its cryptic puzzles, crystal dome and golden tickets. Almost everyone who watched wished to have a go themselves – well now's your chance! This team building event reconstructs the iconic game show for teams of any size, promising fun and excitement as teams work against the clock to gather as many prize crystals as possible. At the end comes the final challenge in an inflatable crystal dome. Teams will come together, thinking tactically to solve problems – and having a lot of fun in the process!
Boomwhackers is a great choice for a corporate ice-breaker, or if you want a fun activity to break up a conference or long dinner. But just what are they? Boomwhackers are zany tubes that make music when played with others. Your teams will be directed in an 'orchestra' of boomwhackers and challenged to co-ordinate themselves in order to make music. Various rounds of the game incorporate video and audio challenges, making this a fun and interactive game that will get people working and laughing together.
Choc Box Challenge
Lovers of The Apprentice will appreciate this one! In this challenge, teams are asked to create a new brand of chocolates, deciding on flavours using ingredients from a special chocolate shop. They'll have to think about everything from a business plan to branding and marketing – even making a TV commercial! At the end of the challenge they will have to pitch their proposal to a 'business tycoon', and only one team will be declared winner. This is a fun (and tasty!) way to get teams thinking strategically about marketing.
Factor X
One of the most popular team building events! Based on a certain popular TV show, this challenge involves teams perfecting a musical routine to perform for judges. They'll have to learn their words, chose their costumes and perfect their moves (with a choreographer from the actual show!) 'Dermott' will be on hand when it's show time, and only one team can be crowned winners! This is a fun way to get your team working together and losing their inhibitions.
Charlie Berry is the Event Director for London based Zing Events, a corporate event company that delivers innovative and creative team building activities.


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High Definition technology has forever changed the way we see motion graphics. In the world of minimal invasive medical treatment, high definition applications take on a much more vital and indispensible role. High definition means seeing what was not visible before… and seeing it clearly. It means greater communication between surgeon and patient, for a more effective treatment.
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Investigation: City paid for worker's prison time
Posted by Todd Lighty at 5 p.m.
Prompted by findings that a city worker collected a paycheck while sitting in prison, Chicago's inspector general is urging Mayor Richard Daley to require workers to disclose any criminal arrests and convictions.
Inspector General Joseph Ferguson's recommendation follows a recently completed investigation into how a laborer in the city's then-bureau of electricity continued to receive a paycheck and medical coverage for two months while he was incarcerated in Stateville Correctional Center, according to sources familiar with the report.
Ferguson is recommending the city fire longtime laborer John LaGiglio, who was in the state prison from April 1 to June 2, 2005, after pleading guilty to aggravated driving under the influence, a felony. LaGiglio makes $35.20 an hour as a laborer.
LaGiglio's case is not unique, according to sources. The inspector general has investigated a handful of other cases in which city employees' legal troubles were concealed through alleged time-keeping fraud.
LaGiglio, who has worked for the city since 1997, said he did nothing improper. He referred further questions to his lawyer, Marvin Gittler.
Gittler said he was unaware of the inspector general's findings and added that LaGiglio was a good employee who violated no policies. "Maybe the inspector general has nothing more to do than to hassle hard-working people for something that happened years ago," he said.
The investigation, which began with a tip in 2007, was completed in May, and the findings were forwarded to the Daley administration.
During the 44 city work days LaGiglio was imprisoned, the inspector general found he was improperly marked down for 27 sick days with no pay and given 17 days of pay for personal days and vacation time, sources said. The inspector general found that meant about $4,000 in wages to LaGiglio and medical coverage worth at least $1,500, according to the sources.
LaGiglio should not have been paid, and he should have paid from his own pocket to maintain medical coverage for his family, sources said.
Ferguson recommended that the mayor require that workers reveal within 24 hours their arrest or conviction, and that they report all significant developments in their criminal cases to their bosses and to the personnel department. Ferguson further recommended that an employee be suspended if their arrest interferes with their ability to work.
Melissa Stratton, spokeswoman for the Law Department, said the city was reviewing Ferguson's recommendations calling for policy changes.
Two employees who allegedly falsified LaGiglio's time records and his supervisor, who allegedly failed to account for his absence, have all since retired.
The former Bureau of Electricity was renamed and moved to the Department of Transportation. Spokesman Brian Steele said the department "will make a recommendation for discipline shortly."


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This class combines the IAW and SWDI classes into a single 5-day class. Students registering for this class should be prepared for an accelerated format of the IAW and SWDI classes. A prerequisite understanding of wireless fundamentals is mandatory, as well as VLAN fundamentals, data flow and control in a network, and basic routing principles.
The lab-intensive course is designed to provide students the knowledge, skills and practical experience required to set up and configure the Aruba WLAN in a variety of network scenarios. Successful conclusion of the course prepares the participant for the Aruba Certified Mobility Professional Exam (ACMP) offered through PearsonVue test centers.
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Wired Fundamentals
gives a brief overview of the wired networking principles used in Aruba products.
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Experience in designing networks is strongly recommended.
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Aruba Architecture and Feature Overview of Aruba OS
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Pep Guardiola gave his men Sunday off, but the stars were back at HQ for training on Monday morning, with the squad's attention fully focused on Wednesday's DFB Cup last sixteen meeting with Eintracht Braunschweig. With the exception of long-term absentees Philipp Lahm, Thiago, Mehdi Benatia and Thiago, all the players took part in the closed session. Following the 90-minute workout, Thomas Müller and Holger Badstuber reported elsewhere for an extra shift as they took to the microphones for the daily press conference.
Müller insisted that FCB will not take the knockout meeting with the side lying sixth in the second division lightly. "We always prepare superbly for every opponent," said the Germany international, "we'll never go into a match with the wrong attitude. I'm expecting us to get at them right from the off."
Müller believes he and his team-mates are "very grounded. We've been through so much, and we know what it's all about. We're not floating round in seventh heaven. We remain very self-critical." Neither winning the World Cup nor FC Bayern's big wins of recent weeks have changed that in the slightest. "We set out to win our matches, and if we can, we obviously try to win them the way we've been doing recently."
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Braunschweig have yet to beat Bayern in Munich in any competition, but Badstuber still called for full concentration prior to the cup clash. "It won't be easy. We have to go out there and do a professional job," said the 25-year-old. FCB are naturally overwhelming favourites to win the clash at the Allianz Arena, "but in the first instance we have to make sure we live up to our billing. We want to put our hearts into it."
The Reds are determined not to stumble against Braunschweig, "because the cup final in Berlin is one of our big targets. We're aiming very high this season. We'll be very well prepared, just as we are for every game we play," commented Badstuber, "I know it's going to be a tough one." Müller is thinking along the same lines: "You have no room for manoeuvre in a knockout tie!"


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The City of Newport Oregon is seeking a reliable and professional Assistant City Engineer. This is an exempt, full-time/regular position. The position has a salary range of $5664 - $7424 /month, plus excellent benefits. Placement in the salary range will be based on the knowledge, skills, experience, training, and education of the person hired.
This position will assist the City Engineer/Public Works Director and other various Public Works staff by providing engineering calculations, direction and support. Assist with assessing and managing Public Works assets. Project management for small-to-medium size capital projects, and construction of Public Works infrastructure associated with private development. Provide information to the general public and private consultants regarding the City's standards, procedures, specifications, and history pertaining to streets and utilities.
Any equivalent combination of education and experience, which provides the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the duties as, described. A typical way to obtain the knowledge, skills and abilities would be:
KNOWLEDGE: Knowledge of general civil engineering principles, city construction projects, and design of civil engineering projects. Knowledge of occupational hazard and effective/proper safety standards, practices and procedures related to equipment operation, and the use of hand and power tools and equipment. Familiarity with the operations, materials, methods, techniques, and the Federal and State guidelines used in civil engineering.
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As Mayor, Dawn Zimmer's sound fiscal management enabled Hoboken to go from a city under state fiscal supervision with near junk bond status to a thriving, financially strong urban center with a AA+ bond rating – the second highest rating.
Zimmer reduced taxes and has maintained a stable municipal tax rate. She established and has maintained a responsible cash surplus for the first time in many years. Following audits of the police and fire departments, restructuring and redeployment allowed the city to save millions of dollars per year while enhancing community safety by putting more police on the street.
Through a successful effort to recruit a private owner, Zimmer saved the City's cash-strapped hospital from closing, preserving more than 1,200 jobs, and relieving taxpayers of a $52 million bond guarantee.


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Hunters from Wainwright first started noticing the stuff sometime probably early last week. It's thick and dark and "gooey" and is drifting for miles in the cold Arctic waters, according to Gordon Brower with the North Slope Borough's Planning and Community Services Department.
Brower and other borough officials, joined by the U.S. Coast Guard, flew out to Wainwright to investigate. The agencies found "globs" of the stuff floating miles offshore Friday and collected samples for testing.
It's certainly biological," Hasenauer said. "It's definitely not an oil product of any kind. It has no characteristics of an oil, or a hazardous substance, for that matter."It's definitely, by the smell and the makeup of it, it's some sort of naturally occurring organic or otherwise marine organism."
"It's pitch black when it hits ice and it kind of discolors the ice and hangs off of it," Brower said. He saw some jellyfish tangled up in the stuff, and someone turned in what was left of a dead goose -- just bones and feathers -- to the borough's wildlife department.Read more...
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Studio Rejects Nick Cave's Awesome-Sounding Gladiator 2 Screenplay
It's true, we guess!
The Playlist uncovered this delightful story on Monday, though we (and the Guardian) are just getting to it: Were you aware that Bad Seeds leader Nick Cave was once asked by friend Russell Crowe to write a sequel to 2000 gladiator drama Gladiator? It's true, we guess!
This blog (in a post from last year) gives a detailed, predictably hilarious synopsis of the script, which elegantly solves the problem of Crowe's character's death at the end of the original film by reincarnating him and making him unkillable (he lives to fight in the Crusades, World War II, and Vietnam), and ends with Maximus washing his hands in a Pentagon bathroom before walking into a war room.
According to Gladiator director Ridley Scott, "We tried [to go with Cave's script]. Russell didn't want to let it go, obviously, because it worked very well. When I say 'worked very well', I don't refer to success. I mean, as a piece it works very well. Storytelling, [it] works brilliantly." But someone at DreamWorks got cold feet, evidently, and it was never produced. If Russell Crowe wants to call us, though, we'll totally give him $100 million to make this thing.
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Season the pork with fennel, salt, and pepper, and dredge in flour. Heat a few tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, a couple turns of the pan, in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add the pork and brown the meat. Do this in 2 batches if your pot size demands it. Use a little extra oil if necessary for a second batch. Remove the browned meat to a plate and add the butter to the pan. Reduce the heat a bit and add the onions, apples, bay leaves, and sage. Season with salt and pepper and cover the pan to sweat the onions for 12 to 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Uncover the pot and raise the heat a bit. When the onions start to brown, add the calvados to the pot. Add the stock, slide the pork back in, and simmer to cook through a few minutes more. Serve from the hot pot.
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JoJo Fletcher's defending The Bachelorette's new villain Chad, so maybe we should too
So far on The Bachelorette, one contestant is sticking out more than others, for all the wrong reasons. Chad seems angry and violent, he's called JoJo Fletcher a nag for having an opinion on her own show, and he's used his mother's untimely death as an excuse for all his bad behavior. Fletcher must have known it's time to kick him to the curb, so she spent much of this week's Bachelorette diary on People explaining her reasons for keeping Chad on the show.
More: Is The Bachelorette's Chad a jerk or the most real guy the show's ever seen?
First, she explains away Chad's behavior by saying it's actually a good thing that he could be open enough to insult her. "I have to admit that being called a nag by Chad was definitely a bit surprising," she writes. "It felt undeserved and hurtful. I was definitely taken aback, especially because I have all kinds of faults, but I don't think I'm especially 'naggy.' And while I was hurt, I do respect someone who is honest and able to speak their mind."
More: Why JoJo Fletcher wasn't my choice for The Bachelorette
She continues, "I had no idea there was this much tension between Chad and the other guys. I knew there was some tension, of course, but I didn't know there were threats of violence. I don't feel great now seeing this. It's all just so complicated. Chad is a complex guy with complex emotions. And I know he means well. But he really shouldn't be threatening other guys. That's not cool. What's going to happen next with Chad and the guys? Well, I can tell you now that what's coming up is — to go to the Bachelor lingo — quite possibly 'the most dramatic episode in Bachelor history.'"
Does "complex" sound like code for "huge red flag" to anyone else? JoJo, girl, all you have to do to get rid of this man is refuse to hand him a rose. What are you waiting for?
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Cell phone contracts enable anyone to purchase a new handset at a price much lower than full retail, which is great for anyone that can't (or just don't want to) fork over hundreds for a device without a commitment. However, contracts also come with an early termination fees that make it expensive to switch carriers or devices before your agreement ends, especially if your contract is tied to a smartphone. According to a new survey from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, though, that apparently hasn't stopped several folks from breaking their contract for a new iPhone. The CIRP survey shows that of all the iPhone buyers interviewed between October 31st and November 10th, a full 45 percent had broken a commitment with a different carrer to make the purchase. Of that total, 70 percent paid an ETF of $100 or more to make the switch.
Besides those bits of information, the CIRP survey revealed some other interesting facts about the iPhone buyers involved in the study, including the fact that that 71 percent of new iPhone owners upgraded from a previous iPhone model, 30 percent of which came from the iPhone 4. As far as which carrier customers are choosing to buy an iPhone from, 49 percent of respondents selected an iPhone from AT&T, 34 percent went with a Verizon iPhone, and 17 percent opted for a Sprint iPhone.
The fact that nearly half of the iPhone buyers in CIRP's survey were willing to pay an ETF in order to pick up Apple's latest and greatest is kind of surprising. This is especially so when you consider that a new iPhone 4S can cost anywhere between $199 and $399 with a new contract, and then customers switching to a new carrier must also spend time selecting a new carrier and a new plan on that carrier. Certainly the cost of a new handset can be offset at least a bit by selling off an old one, but doing so also adds the trouble of finding and dealing with buyer through Craigslist or eBay. Overall, the CIRP survey seems to show that the iPhone has caught quite more than a few consumers in its spell, even though the 4S launch was described by many as a disappointment. Have any of you ever broken a contract and paid an ETF for a new device? If so, which product was it?
Initial Analysis of Apple iPhone 4S by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners Finds Strong High-End Model Sales, Emerging Apple Ecosystem
Carrier Shifting, Online Sales Significant, Women Buy White iPhones
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CHICAGO, Nov. 29, 2011
CHICAGO, Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, LLC (CIRP), which provides securities research to the investment community using advanced market research strategies, methods, and analysis today released its report, " Apple's iPhone Launch – October 2011 ," with the first detailed analysis of consumer trends for Apple Inc.'s new iPhone 4S and related models.
The report reveals a number of important findings since the October 14, 2011 launch:
* High-end iPhone models selling well
* Mobile phone carrier (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint) shares shifting
* Significant online sales
* iPhone is the "gateway" to Apple product ecosystem
* Women buy the white iPhone more.
CIRP surveyed customers that purchased an iPhone since October 14, 2011, the launch date for sale of the new Apple iPhone 4S and for new aggressive pricing for the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS models. From an initial response of 4,632 subjects, CIRP surveyed 504 qualified subjects for the analysis. "This report represents the first analysis of the Apple iPhone 4S results since the October launch date," noted CIRP Partner and Co-Founder Josh Lowitz.
Said CIRP Partner and Co-Founder Mike Levin, "The most expensive and presumably highest margin iPhone 4S - 64 GB model accounts for 23% of all iPhone 4S sales. A surprising 30% of iPhone 4S buyers upgraded from the iPhone 4, which is just over a year old. And, in the first three weeks since the launch, 43% of the customers bought their new phones online, at the Apple website, the carrier websites, or other retailer websites such as Best Buy Online. Only 25% of iPhones were sold through Apple owned channels – the approximately 245 Apple Stores and the Apple website – and 75% sold through the carrier stores and websites, and multi-line retailers such as Best Buy. "
Adds Josh Lowitz, "We have used advanced methods of market research to develop these findings. We put together a rigorous and credible analysis in a fraction of the time needed for conventional market research, and have done it far in advance of Apple's own release of much less detailed data. Our results add significant insight into how Apple investors should view this important new product."
The report highlights a number of other findings, including how AT&T, Verizon, and now Sprint have used the iPhone launch to build market share at the expense of other carriers, how Apple product ownership begins with an entry-level product such as the iPhone and builds to Mac ownership, and even how women prefer white iPhones.
For a copy of the research report, please email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 312.344.3664. Further information on CIRP, which provides securities research to the investment community using advanced consumer market research strategies, methods, and analysis is at www.cirpllc.com .
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Hi everyone!!! First of all, have you read the guest post by Ansh? I want to thank her for the wonderful post and taking out time from her schedule to devote to writing it. Also, in exchange, Ansh asked me for a guest post so head on to her blog and check it out.
Also, one more thing in case you are wondering why I did not announce the winners of the Yardley Giveaway. Well, I decided to extend it by one day so that the new readers from Ansh's blog may be able to participate and I shall announce the winners tomorrow, 2nd October.


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I was wondering if you possibly had gathered any information on an Amelia W. (Gill) Greenfield that was born in 1821, Cayuga County NY. Her death record says that her parents were Samuel Gill and Edith ____. She was married in 1848 to Luther Greenfield in Tompkins County, NY. I did find a Samuel Gill in Ledyard, Cayuga County, NY 1840 Census that has females in the household that would be of the correct age to be Amelia W. Gill. Do you have any information on this Samuel? Any information, clues, guesses, ideas or anything you might be able to provide would be greatly appreciated.
I do have some of her childrens information, marriage place, last will and testement, burial place, numerous census records and the like on her if you'd like it for your site. They are all Greenfield's as all I have are her parents names from her death record.
Another thing on your site that peaked my interest was the surname Chase being tied to Gill. Amelia's sister in law is Esther Chase (Greenfield) Willey.
Darla Stimbert 2004
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All eyes were on Bollywood bombshell Mallika Sherawat, who had a front seat to New York Fashion Week's hottest shows and parties. Sherawat shared the spotlight with other celebrity guests at the BCBG Max Azria Spring 2010 show, and hit up Swagg Media's Persona Magazine launch with hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons. The two hit the dance floor, where Sherawat's hip-hop dance skills (something she's been working on for her next movie, whose soundtrack combines hip-hop with Indian influences) impressed him along with several others. It wasn't all partying, though. Sherawat and Simmons talked about bringing his Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, which takes the cultural relevance of hip-hop and uses it to drive movements in education and other concerns of the youth, to India. Simmons later said, on a social networking site, 'Met the most famous sex symbol/actress in India, Mallika.'
CHECK OUT : Mallika Sherawat 'Wows' for charity Craig Nobles, head of Swagg Media, is the music director for Sherawat's latest venture, in which she plays a character inspired in part by San Francisco Attorney General Kamala Harris, called 'The female Barack Obama' by David Letterman. Fans can also find Sherawat in her upcoming release, HISSS, co-starring Irrfan Khan of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE. Directed by American filmmaker Jennifer Lynch, the project is the first from Bollywood to be represented by a major Hollywood agency (William Morris Endeavor). She is currently residing in Los Angeles, wrapping up post-production on HISSS and preparing for her upcoming American film production.


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This article will explain the different ways in which Irish television viewers can watch their favorite television shows. We have endeavored to give a broad range in terms of price (free versus monthly subscription) as well as some ideas for those who don't even own a television!
- Terrestrial
Analogue television has gone the way of the dinosaur, which means that analogue satellites are no longer operational. However, there are still terrestrial television-watching options. For instance, the majority of televisions in Ireland (98%) can receive a terrestrial digital signal. For the majority of viewers, this will provide a basic amount of popular channels with a wide variety of shows.
- Sky Satellite
Sky Satellite is the powerhouse amongst non-terrestrial satellite providers. Sky is owned by News Corp, which is responsible for Sky in the UK, as well as the Fox Network in America. In Ireland, you can expect a huge number of channels across a wide range of subjects (Sky Sports, Sky Movies, etc.) which are broadcast to you via your Sky Satellite Dish.
- Cable (E.g. Virgin)
UPC has recently announced its intention to rebrand as "Virgin Media" in Ireland. They are an example of a cable TV providing service. This is an option for viewers in Ireland. Cable TV is aptly named – it involves running a fiber-optic cable into your house, by which you'll have access to a wide variety of television services.
Cable television has the obvious advantage over satellite in that it's not interrupted by poor weather, which viewers in Ireland who rely on satellite transmissions will know all about!
- Online Streaming Sites (Like YouTube)
To watch most television shows, you no longer need a TV at all. There are hundreds of sites where you can watch millions of television shows. This doesn't even need to be illegal broadcasts of the show – most television channels have their own sites where you can watch their shows and catch up with their shows. Some require you to be a subscription customer, but others don't.
Even YouTube, which isn't designed for television shows, has a wide range of documentaries – both professional and amateur – that you can watch at your leisure.
- Video On Demand Services (Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu)
Like the option above, in the 21st Century, you don't require a television to watch television broadcasts anymore. However, if you stream using sites like YouTube above, you are seriously compromising on the quality of your viewing experience.
It's a good job there's another answer: You can use Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu or a whole host of alternative Video on Demand sites. These are monthly subscription sites – so like cable, but with one huge benefit – you can watch what you want whenever you want. Provided the show is in the service's library, you can access every episode at any time; so no more waiting for the show to air in its weekly slot like you would have to wait with terrestrial television.


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Olivia Munn: Made in Manhattan
Olivia Munn bundles up as she leaves a hotel in Manhattan on Tuesday (March 15).
The 30-year-old Daily Show correspondent was recently spotted with Glee star Matthew Morrison at a Philadelphia Flyers hockey game last month. The two were apparently seen kissing, but recently spoke to E! News denying that they were dating. He even told E! that the supposed kissing picture just caught them in a weird angle!
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Restaurant Managers all over the UK are invited to compete in this prestigious competition to become the UK Restaurant Manager of the Year.
The competition has been run by the Academy of Food & Wine Service for seven years and aims to acknowledge and reward the best in the industry – whether small individual boutique establishments, popular fine-dining sites or those part of a larger food and beverage operation.
Anyone who fulfils the role of a Restaurant Manager is welcome to enter. Your job title doesn't have to be "Restaurant Manager" but you should be undertaking the typical work and activities associated with the role: responsibility for the business performance and coordinating the entire operation of the restaurant.
How does the competition work?
First Round
The first round questions must be answered on the Entry Form by Friday 24th November 2017. The answers will be judged by the panel of judges made-up from representatives of the Academy of Food & Wine Service, sponsors and industry experts.
The best candidates will be selected and invited to compete in the Final in London on Monday 8th January 2018.
During the morning session candidates will be interviewed by industry professionals and tested on their Restaurant Management technical skills. The top four candidates will then be asked to participate in a Restaurant Management Skills scenario in front of a VIP audience. (All candidates will be involved to a degree in this even if they are not a finalist.)
Awards Ceremony
The winner will be announced and presented with their award at the UK Restaurant Manager of the Year Awards Ceremony on the evening of Monday 8th January 2018, in front of a highly influential and inspirational audience at a drinks and canape awards reception at The Royal Garden Hotel, London.
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All finalists will be given the opportunity to be mentored throughout the year post-event by leading industry figures.
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Yesterday the Writers Guild of America released a diversity report that sadly shows how little progress has been made for women and minority writers in film and TV.
The report, titled "Renaissance in Reverse?" examined data through the year 2014 and found that while female television writers have made slight advances, the same cannot be said for women writers in the film sector. Advancements for minority writers have also been stagnant.
Big takeaways from the report include the fact that the number of female writers employed in TV has increased slightly from the previous report, 27% to 29%, and they've made strides in closing the income gap, earning 93 cents on the dollar in relation to male counterparts, an increase of two cents. But that the gap in film earnings has widened yet again, going down by nine cents: Female screenwriters now make 68 cents on the dollar.
The report's conclusion offers a bleak summary: "Progress has been slow at best for women and minority writers in an era of television renaissance, while film sector stagnation has witnessed either anemic advances or actual reversals of fortune for groups of writers that remain woefully underrepresented in both sectors."
"The Guild has watched for years as the progress made by our industry has, in essence, flatlined. Today's report makes it emphatically clear that our Guild needs not just to mirror a broken system, but to work to change it," said WGAW president Howard A. Rodman.
This study comes not long after Dr. Martha Lauzen's annual Celluloid Ceiling Report revealed that, in 2015, women made up just 9% of directors of the top 250 grossing films. Lauzen's research into women's employment behind-the-scenes in the 2014-2015 television season seems to echo this study: Women are faring slightly better in the realm of television than film, but equality hasn't been reached in either medium.
Key findings for women and minority writers are listed below. You can read the entire report here.
Women Writers
The previous Hollywood Writers Report noted that women's shares of both television and film employment were on a downward trajectory, falling about a percentage point over the study period. This report, however, reveals a small rebound in employment for women in both sectors, if not in relative earnings:
— Since 2012, the last year covered in the previous report, women's share of television employment increased from 27 percent to about 29 percent — which is the highest share for the group on record.
— Women were underrepresented among television writers by a factor of a little less than 2 to 1 in 2014.
— Since the last report, women's share of film employment increased by 2 percentages points to about 17 percent — which equals the share the group posted four years earlier in 2010.
— Women were underrepresented among film writers by a factor of nearly 3 to 1 in 2014.
— Since the previous report, the gender earnings gap in television has continued to decline slowly.
— Women television writers earned 93 cents for every dollar earned by their white male counterparts in 2014, which represents a 2 cent increase in relative earnings since the previous report.
— The gender earnings gap in film continued to widen a bit after 2012, the last year covered in the previous report, despite a 5.5 percent increase in film earnings for women writers between 2008 and 2014.
— Women film writers earned 68 cents for every dollar earned by their white male counterparts in 2014, down 9 cents since the last report.
Minority Writers
Minorities are falling further behind in industry employment relative to their growing share of the U.S. population (i.e., the top line), particularly in the film sector (i.e., the bottom line). Since the last Hollywood Writers report, however, minority writers gained a little ground on their white male counterparts in film employment but treaded water in television. The earnings story for minorities largely parallels the employment one. That is, while the minority earnings gap in television remained unchanged since the last report, it shrank slightly in film. Some key findings:
— The number of employed minority television writers increased 82.7 percent between 2008 and 2014.
— Since the last report, the minority share of television employment has remained 24 flat at about 13 percent.
— Minorities remained underrepresented by a factor of nearly 3 to 1 among employed television writers.
— The minority share of film employment increased a percentage point to about 7 percent in 2014.
— Minorities were underrepresented by a factor of more than 5 to 1 among employed film writers.
— The television earnings gap for minorities was unchanged since the last report.
— Minority television writers earned 80 cents for every dollar earned by white male television writers in 2014, virtually identical to the 79 cents figure evident in 2012.
— The film earnings gap for minorities closed slightly again between 2012 and 2014.
— Minority film writers earned 61 cents for every dollar earned by white male film writers in 2014, up from 55 cents figure evident in 2012.
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Your experience at the relatively new Terrafin Station in Raleigh may well depend on which door you enter.
One funnels you into the restaurant side, which is quiet, with dark wood and imposing booths, yet unfussy enough to be family-friendly. The other entrance dumps you directly into Terrafin's bar area, a lively space with a dozen or so TVs observing the proceedings.
This is the second location for the family-owned business, and its menu is nearly identical to the original Terrafin Station, which has been in Garner on Old Drugstore Road for about three years. Both spots follow the typical American fare playbook—a dozen appetizers, a few soups and salads, a handful of burgers and sandwiches, plus a standard lineup of steak, fish and pasta dishes.
While the menu may lack imagination the kitchen compensates with execution. Served with mango chutney, the tangy, crunchy pimento cheese fritters are the one unexpected appetizer. The "fresh catch of the day," the flounder, was slightly blackened and flavored with a light lemon butter sauce. It has a clean, fresh taste and melts in your mouth.
The BBQ chicken consists of two grilled boneless pieces, smothered in barbecue sauce and a lava flow of provolone and cheddar cheese. A copious amount of bacon tops it off. Odds are you will clean your plate.
Most dishes are accompanied by one or two sides that include seasonal vegetables, fries, cole slaw, baked potato and broccoli. Among the best of the sides are the garlic mashed potatoes, an ideal combo of lumpiness and garlic; sweet potato wedges, artfully stacked on the plate; and the fruit salad, an uncomplicated mix of strawberries, cantaloupe, pineapple and grapes, crisp and refreshing).
Want to try the cheesecake? Good luck. It sells out quickly. Should you have to go with a Plan B, then opt for apple crisp with a dollop of ice cream and drizzled in caramel.
Yes, we did mention there is a bar, and Terrafin's is a comfortable place to grab a few drinks and hang out. If you're lucky, Anton will be working; he smoothly handles a busy evening while making customers feel like they're the most important person there.
Weekday drink specials include a solid contingent of North Carolina brews on draft, which are just 3 bucks on Monday: Aviator, Highland, Lonerider, Big Boss, Red Oak, Deep River, Foothills and Mother Earth. Thursday features $4 well drinks—and the house brands are all in the midrange, not lower-tier rotgut' plus a $3 bartender's choice draft, which recently was Oskar Blues Dale's Pale Ale.
For those of you who prefer the grape, the wine list includes such selections as Biltmore Reserve chardonnay, McWilliams shiraz, Ghost Pines merlot and Ecos de Rulo cabernet.
Whether you opt for door number one for a casual dinner or door number two for a bit of tippling and fun, you'll find Terrafin Station a welcome non-chain, non-gimmicky addition to an area in need of just that.
This article appeared in print with the headline "Arrival: Terrafin station."
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Dogfight battle time! Aaron brings the LG Optimus 4X HD and Samsung Galaxy S III together. The Optimus 4X HD can be had through specialty retailers like Negri Electronics and sports a 1.5 GHz quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, 4.7-inch IPS HD display, 8-megapixel camera with 1080p HD recording, 2,150 mAh battery, HSPA+ connectivity, and Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) with LG's new user interface. The Galaxy S III starts at $199.99 and has a 1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 CPU, 4.8-inch Super AMOLED HD display with PenTile, 8-megapixel camera with 1080p recording, a front-facing camera, HSPA+ 42 (on the T-Mobile version), 2,100 mAh battery, and Android 4.0 with TouchWiz.
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Mutual fund marketing and compliance executives seize on SEC regulators' every word, much as portfolio managers scrutinize even an offhand remark from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. So, a SEC compliance director's recent admonition about the allocation of initial public offering shares had mutual funds wondering if the SEC was planning to regulate this area.
The answer is no, at least for now. While the SEC is concerned that funds with a high concentration of IPO shares may have artificially skewed performance records that cannot be consistently maintained and are misleading to investors, the SEC is not planning to regulate IPO allocation, said Douglas Scheidt, chief counsel in the SEC's investment management division.
Lori Richards, director of the SEC's compliance office, had told a group of mutual fund executives last month that the SEC had received "complaints concerning the allocation of hot IPOs." Richards urged fund companies to review allocations of such shares to make sure they are consistent and fair.
However, the SEC is not planning to regulate this area of the mutual fund business, Scheidt said in an interview. The regulator said that the SEC's general guidelines on fund companies' fiduciary responsibilities already require fund companies to treat clients fairly. Further, he added, the allocation of IPO shares would be difficult to regulate because IPO allocations are largely determined by funds' various investment strategies and available cash.
"We have no current plans in the works to adopt a rule or issue more guidance," Scheidt said.
Henry Hopkins, managing director and chief legal counsel at T. Rowe Price Associates of Baltimore, also pointed to fund companies' fiduciary responsibilities as a warranty they will not unfairly assign hot IPO shares only to certain funds.
"First of all, all funds have access to IPOs," Hopkins said. However, he conceded that access might be limited or enhanced by a variety of factors, including "when they [the fund] express[es] interest in the IPO, the amount of business they do with the underwriting broker and their history with the broker."
Christine Benz, domestic equity fund editor at Morningstar of Chicago, said it was widely known that access to IPOs is not equitable for all funds. Access "depends on the clout of the fund family," Benz said.
Unequal access aside, once a fund company gets a hold of IPOs, it distributes such shares fairly among its funds depending on their investment strategy and cash reserve, according to Hopkins.
"We have a brokerage control committee, which establishes regulations for trade allocations. In some cases, it is based on the timing of the orders. In others, we may allocate an average price to all orders. And yet in other cases, we might [allocate prices based on] the size of the orders placed," Hopkins said.
Paul Haaga, executive vice president of Capital Research and Management Co. of Los Angeles, thought it was a good idea for the SEC to remind fund companies to be fair about allocating IPO shares, especially in light of "Internet IPOs that go to the moon." However, Haaga does not believe more regulation is necessary.
Geoff Bobroff, a mutual fund consultant with Bobroff Consulting in East Greenwich, R.I., said that "many firms have loose allocation guidelines, so fairness of allocation is a reasonable concern on the part of regulators." Bobroff added that because IPOs can have a tremendous impact on small funds, fund companies may be more inclined to assign them to smaller funds in their fund family in order to enjoy stellar performance figures.
But instead of regulating the allocation of IPO shares, Bobroff suggested the SEC might want to consider asking fund companies to disclose the percentage of their performance tied to IPOs.


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Making news headlines these days is James Cameron's successful solo dive to the deepest known region of the ocean – the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. The National Geographic-Rolex Deepsea Challenge chronicles this amazing feat of exploration which has only been done once before.
Three reflections on this journey to the depths:
(1) How vast and intricate the creation of God is and how little man knows and tentatively understands by comparison. God asks Job in Job 38 "Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?" We are only beginning in a small way to even see the depths of what God has made, let alone understand them.
(2) This is all God's handiwork, he made it, he owns it, he reigns over it. "The Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land." (Psalm 95:3-5)
(3) What is man, what are we, that God is mindful of us, that he has crowned us with glory and honor, and given us dominion over the works of his hands, putting all things under our feet? (Psalm 8) We should marvel at and give thanks to God for the gifts he has given to men like James Cameron. Yet at the same time we should reflect on why the sea is so dangerous and inhospitable to us. Why is it a graveyard of ships and men? Why are the oceans, so full of beauty and intricate complexity, so massive and vast in scale, also marked by violence and decay?
Romans 8 tells us the "whole creation groans", and is subjected to futility and decay, because of sin and the weight of God's just curse on it.
Scripture also declares the sure hope of the Christian. Psalm 8 gloriously declares the true Savior, the only one who can solve our and the world's problems, bringing all sin, danger and death to an end for everyone who by his grace is brought to faith, to new life through the person and work of "Jesus, crowned with glory and honor…" "It was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many things to glory, should make the founder their salvation perfect through suffering… he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people." (Hebrews 2:9-10, 17) He is the one who descended into the darkest depth of the full, crushing weight of God's wrath. The day is coming when he will set "the creation itself… free from its bondage to decay" bringing it "into the freedom of the glory of the children of God" (Romans 8:21) — the new heaven and earth in which only righteousness will dwell.