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Britain should investigate the manipulation of currency rates, European Union officials said after Bloomberg News revealed that traders have been rigging foreign-exchange benchmarks for more than a decade.
"They need to get to the bottom of it," Sharon Bowles, 60, chairwoman of the European Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee and a member of the U.K. Liberal Democrat party, said in an interview. "It's quite upsetting we have got another bad-news story. It's time we managed to restore the reputation of our banks."
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority, created in April to oversee markets and prosecute financial crime, is looking into potential manipulation in the $4.7 trillion-a-day foreign- exchange market, a person briefed on the matter said. Bloomberg News reported yesterday that traders at some of the world's biggest banks rigged benchmark WM/Reuters rates, according to five current and former dealers with knowledge of the practice.
Tensions between Britain and its EU partners about oversight of the financial industry have intensified after three banks were fined about $2.5 billion for rigging the benchmark London interbank offered rate, or Libor. The European Commission is considering whether to move oversight of Libor away from the U.K. to a Paris-based watchdog.
Benchmark Framework
EU regulators will be making a proposal this summer on the "framework for benchmarks" such as the WM/Reuters rates and Libor, according to Chantal Hughes, a spokeswoman for Michel Barnier, the EU's financial-services chief. The EU last year proposed making manipulation of financial benchmarks a crime.
The WM/Reuters rate manipulation, "following on from the other recent allegations and investigations into the manipulation of oil, biofuel, gas as well as interest-rate benchmarks, once again highlight the need for a broad-based regulatory regime," Hughes wrote in an e-mail. "Benchmarks share similar vulnerabilities."
In the U.S., Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat who heads the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on investigations, said in a June 12 e-mailed statement that the U.S. Treasury Department should "reconsider its ill-advised exemption" of foreign-exchange swaps and forward contracts from the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act.
Regulators should stop "price-rigging abuses" by "finalizing the long-overdue Merkley-Levin provisions on proprietary trading and conflicts of interest," Levin said, referring to provisions he sponsored with fellow Senate Democrat Jeff Merkley of Oregon.
'Banking Scandal'
U.S. Representative Maxine Waters, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, called the news "another major banking scandal" and said in a statement it warrants collaboration between regulators and the Justice Department to determine whether criminal charges are warranted.
"Federal regulators should further assess potential reference-rate reforms," the California lawmaker said. "As we've seen with the Libor cases, it is clear that these systems remain vulnerable to fraud and abuse."
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which regulates U.S. national banks, supervises foreign-currency trading within the firms and takes the allegations "very seriously," said Bryan Hubbard, an OCC spokesman. The agency is "working with other regulators, domestically and internationally, to look into these concerns," he said.
'Maintaining Confidence'
Britain's FCA, which took on some of the duties of the disbanded Financial Services Authority, is already working with global regulators to examine the integrity of benchmarks, including those used in valuing derivatives and commodities after traders at Barclays Plc, UBS AG and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc were found to have colluded to rig benchmark interest rates for profit. Regulators also are investigating benchmark rates for the crude-oil and swaps markets.
"Regulators have an important role maintaining confidence and integrity in markets, and should rapidly act on any suggestion that untoward things are happening," said Paul Myners, a Labour Party member of Parliament's House of Lords and financial-services minister from 2008 to 2010. "It is vital that the FCA show that it's willing to be much more aggressive than their predecessor. This will be their first test."
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne moved to replace the FSA after the financial crisis. Lawmakers criticized the regulator for failing to prevent the rescues of Northern Rock Plc, RBS and Lloyds Banking Group Plc. The FSA was created in 1997 by then-Chancellor Gordon Brown.
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• do advanced work and receive college credit at OU
• investigate new areas of academic interest
• explore professional and career possibilities
What is it?
The Concurrent Enrollment Program at the University of Oklahoma is a program designed to allow high school juniors and seniors with exceptional abilities to enroll in college courses on a limited basis.
What are the benefits?
The Concurrent Enrollment Program permits you to accumu-late college credits prior to completing high school. It may allow you to pursue interests that you have developed in high school in a more concentrated or advanced manner, or to pursue new interests not available at your high school.
What kinds of courses can I take?
If you are admitted to the University of Oklahoma as part of the Concurrent Enrollment Program, you will be advised and permitted to enroll in regularly offered courses, as long as you meet the prerequisites, if any, and have satisfied the high school curricular requirements in the subject areas.
You may wish to take advanced coursework in areas you have already begun to study, such as mathematics, science, etc. Or, you may choose to examine entirely new fields to which you are attracted, such as art history, engineering or Asian studies, at the introductory level. Most importantly, the program can help you in planning a future career or profession by allowing you to explore alternatives early in your academic life.
Regardless of the area you choose, or the reasons which motivate you, the resources of the University of Oklahoma are available to you in pursuing this new and exciting educational opportunity.
Is there any limit to the enrollment?
The combined total of your enrollment at your high school and at the University of Oklahoma may not exceed 19 semester hours without special permission. For this purpose, the University will assume that any high school course enrollment is the equivalent of 3 semester hours. As an example, if you will be enrolled in two high school courses in your last high school semester, you could enroll in up to 13 semester hours of coursework at the University. You may enroll in a maximum of 9 semester hours during a summer session without being concurrently enrolled in high school classes during the summer term. If you wish to exceed the enrollment maximums, contact the Dean of University College at (405) 325-3521.
How do these credits count?
OU courses completed under the Concurrent Enrollment
Program will count as regular college credits earned at the
University of Oklahoma.
Do I get a grade in these courses?
Yes. You will be enrolled, examined, and evaluated in the
same manner as any other student in the course.
Who is eligible for this program?
To be eligible for the Concurrent Enrollment Program, you must satisfy these criteria:
1.) You must have achieved junior or senior standing and be eligible to complete requirements for graduation from high school no later than the spring of your senior year, as attested by your high school principal.
2.) Seniors must have achieved an ACT composite score of 24 or an SAT composite score of 1090 and at least a 3.0 grade point average (on an unweighted 4.0 scale) or rank in the top 50% of your graduating class; or a high school grade point average of at least a 3.0 (on an unweighted 4.0 scale) and rank in the top 30% of your graduating class.
Juniors must achieve an ACT composite score of 25, or an SAT composite score of 1130, or a high school grade point average of 3.5 (on an unweighted 4.0 scale). ACT or SAT must be from a national test.
How much does it cost?
You will be charged the regular tuition rates established by the University.* The exact cost will depend upon the number of credit hours in which you enroll and the level of the courses. Students enrolled through the Concurrent Enrollment Program are not eligible for financial aid. Information on tuition rates can be found at http://www.ou.edu/bursar/.
*High school seniors who attend OU as Concurrent
Enrollment students are eligible for a tuition waiver for up to six credit hours per semester or summer session (excluding
Intersession courses and courses offered through the College of Continuing Education). A high school senior is defined as a student who has completed his or her junior year, but has not yet graduated from high school. There are no family income levels to qualify for this waiver. The waiver does not cover other mandatory fees (activity fees, facility fees, library fees, technology fees, etc.) or the cost of books.
What do I have to do if I am interested?
Discuss the Concurrent Enrollment Program with your high school principal. He or she must recommend you for enrollment. Then, submit to the Office of Admissions: 1) a completed Concurrent Enrollment Program Recommendation
Form signed by your principal, high school counselor and one of your parents; 2) a completed application for admission to the University; 3) a high school transcript; 4) your ACT or SAT scores; and 5) a non-refundable application processing fee. Applications must be received in the Office of Admissions no later than April 1 for a fall semester or a summer session; and November 1 for a spring semester.
If you have any questions the University can answer, call the OU Office of Prospective Student Services, (405) 325-2151. We will try to provide any additional information you need. We look forward to your inquiries and hope that you will decide that the Concurrent Enrollment Program is an opportunity you want to pursue.
The University of Oklahoma, with the approval of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, may alter admissions requirements at any time, when it is in the best interest of the University and its students to do so.
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After your initial enrollment, this form must be submitted to your academic advisor in University College prior to each term that you intend to enroll through the Concurrent Enrollment Program, and should contain information only for that term.
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NAPLES, Italy – Diego Maradona returned to Italy on Monday in a bid to clear his name in a tax evasion case.
The 1986 World Cup winner with Argentina landed in Rome dressed in black and wearing dark glasses before heading straight to Naples, where he will hold a news conference Tuesday morning.
Maradona's Italian debts of nearly €40 million (more than $50 million) stem from alleged unpaid taxes during the time he played for Napoli from 1984-91, a period in which he helped the club win its only two Serie A titles.
His lawyer, Angelo Pisani, recently said his client won the dispute. But the collection agency issued a statement earlier this month saying it had not "annulled, declared extinct, nor modified" Maradona's debts.
Fellow passengers scrambled to get near the star when they recognized him as they disembarked the plane. One particular fan caught Maradona's eye as he took a photo of him on a camera phone with a Juventus cover.
"When Juventus played against us they were always scared," Maradona joked.
Dozens of supporters wearing Napoli colours turned up to greet their hero with songs about him from his playing days. Amid the frenzy, Maradona and Pisani — who met his client at the airport — were ushered by police into an awaiting car and drove off to Naples' Hotel Royal.
Maradona came out onto the balcony to wave to about 300 chanting fans. When they started singing "who doesn't jump is a Juventus fan," the 52-year-old Argentine immediately started jumping.
Maradona will reportedly fly to Dubai late Tuesday but will return to Naples for Friday's match against title rival Juventus.


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Betsy McCaughey: When government bullies childrenBY BETSY McCAUGHEY
March 23. 2014 3:46PM
Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana recently told a Nashua, N.H., audience about his experience with a school bully. Bullying is a nationwide problem, but the bully Jindal was describing was U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who recently tried to crush school choice in Louisiana.
Last Monday, March 17, parents in New York City who send their children to Success Academy, a Harlem charter school, filed suit in federal court to stop another school bully, Mayor Bill de Blasio, from denying them previously arranged space in a public school building. Without space, their children and 173 others will not be able to continue at Success Academy this fall.
Across the nation, teachers unions' and civil rights opportunists are standing on the school house steps, trying to stop the rapid growth of school choice and the emergence of charter schools that serve kids rather than union bosses.
De Blasio and his pals, state NAACP President Hazel Dukes and the teachers unions, are targeting middle school kids at Success Academy, where 97 percent of students are minority and 80 percent are eligible for lunch assistance.
Overcoming disadvantages, these middle schoolers have soared to the top 1 percent city wide in overall student achievement. The fifth graders rank first in New York State in math — surpassing students in wealthy suburban towns where resources are available at school and at home.
So why try to force the closing of this successful school? De Blasio, who sounds like a Communist, is outraged that charter schools received donations from "very wealthy Wall Street folks." The parents' legal complaint documents how de Blasio targeted their school during his mayoral campaign last fall, vowing to make the school pay rent, something other public schools don't have to do.
De Blasio's fellow bully, Hazel Dukes, blasted the lawsuit as "an outrageous and insulting attempt by Wall Street hedge fund managers to hijack the language of civil rights in their shameless political attack on Bill de Blasio."
Sadly, it is Duke who is playing the race card for political gain, and sacrificing minority children.
Consider what another Success Academy in New York City called Bronx 2 is doing to educate minority students. In that charter school, 97 percent of the students passed state exams in mathematics and 77 percent passed in English. Bronx 2 shares space with a district public school, but the kids stuck there under the thumb of the union and city bureaucrats are losing out. Only 3 percent passed the state English test. Same building, but a world of difference. There is no question which school is giving kids their civil rights.
Despite opposition, charter schools are growing rapidly nationwide. In the 2013-2014 school year, 600 more schools opened, and total enrollment increased 13 percent. Still, enrollment is only about 2.5 million students. But in certain cities, charter schools are expanding rapidly and provoking opposition.
Not from parents, but from socialist ideologies and union bosses behaving like bullies. In New Orleans, where the district school system was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, school choice has sprung up to replace it. That's the story Jindal related to the Nashua audience.
Roughly 90 percent of public school students in New Orleans attend charters. And that's only part of the story. Nearly 1/3 of the city's students attend private schools their parents choose for them, many using vouchers to pay. Early results indicate students are doing better, and more are graduating.
Get ready for the bullies. Holder sued to stop school choice in New Orleans, arguing that it was getting in the way of the federal government's 1975 court-ordered desegregation plan. When parents protested that they wanted to be the ones choosing their kids' school, not the federal Department of Justice, Holder's lawyers told the court that parents shouldn't have standing to make their views known.
If anyone has standing in their child's education, it's parents. New Orleans parents said that racial balance was less important to them than being able to choose a school that educates their child. Ultimately, Holder had to give up.
Bullies often do, when you stand up to them. That's what parents are doing, all over the nation.
Betsy McCaughey is a former lt. governor of New York State and author of "Beating Obamacare 2014."


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The Congo's killing fields
Families separated. Millions left for dead. Do we share some of the blame?
Patrick Mwnyamahord knows where his father is buried because a neighbor showed him that small place. What he doesn't know is how his father got there, and there was no one he could safely ask, not then. Twelve years ago he and his family made one of a series of sudden escapes from the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) into nearby Burundi. On this particular exodus his father was too ill to travel and the family had to leave him.
"When we got back, he was dead," Patrick says, "and I don't know if he was killed by the enemy or by his illness. I don't know what happened to him." The "enemy" who may or may not have killed his father is a little hard to determine as well.
It could have been a gang of run-of-the-mill bandits taking advantage of the DRC's general craziness, or it could have been a group of Hutu irregulars fighting Tutsi rebels or government troops or both. It may even have been a neighbor of a different tribe who took offense at his father's ethnicity and advantage of his weakness. Members of Patrick's tribe are often set upon by larger groups in the chaotic killing field that has been the Congo's lot off and on-mostly on of late-since its 1960 independence.
The Democratic Republic of Congo, previously Zaire (its moniker under the despotic reign of Mobutu Sese Seko), straddles the equator in Central Africa. It is Africa's third largest country, the size of the entire United States east of the Mississippi. The country's 60 million people represent more than 250 distinct ethnic groups, and about half of the population is Catholic.
The thousands of refugees and mutilated survivors are testimony to the mindless brutality that has consumed this nation since a series of destabilizing conflicts began in 1996, when Tutsi pursuit of the Hutu perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide across the Congo's borders began a series of clashes that can be described as ethnic and political. But they also have roots in competition over the Congo's bountiful resources, particularly the precious metals that are currently helping to power the industrialized world's high-tech lifestyle even as their extraction delivers low-tech misery to the DRC.
According to the International Rescue Committee as many as 5.4 million people have died in this African holocaust since 1998, making it the world's deadliest documented conflict since World War II.
The suffering has gone largely unnoticed in the West. The United Nations has only recently achieved a fragile success in curtailing it. In January the Congolese government and 22 armed groups signed a cease-fire and peace agreement in the DRC city of Goma. The Congolese government set up a peace program for eastern Congo called the Amani Program and appointed Abbé Apollinaire Malu Malu, a Catholic priest, to organize the efforts.
All signatories to the Goma accord committed to stop any human rights abuses, but since the peace negotiations at least 86 civilians have disappeared or been executed, including some children, and at least 500 women and girls have been raped. Tutsi, Mai-Mai, and Hutu militias remain armed and ready to fight; child soldiers continue to be "recruited" in village conscription raids.
How often did Patrick and his family flee such "problems," his word for the violence that has assailed his community? Hands wave away the futility of trying to determine a specific figure. "Many, many times," say Francine and Serieux, Patrick's sister and brother, now sharing a couch in a Chicago apartment. "Many, many times," Patrick agrees.
Throughout their childhood, Patrick and his siblings were forced to fend for themselves as communal violence erupted, sometimes while they were at school.
"We would get a message: 'It is not safe to go home,' " remembers Francine, and so the children would depart on foot for Burundi alone for a later rendezvous with their parents and other family members in a refugee camp.
Along the way, if they were lucky, they would be harassed by members of other tribes or robbed of what little they carried by armed men or soldiers at improvised checkpoints. If they were unlucky, they would not make it to the border alive.
Have they lost family members during such flights? It is a silly question. "Oh, many, many," the young refugees say, before leafing through a family photo album, emotionlessly pointing out the survivors, the wounded, and the dead.
Bordering nations that have been involved in the Congo's civil clashes have joined in on the plunder of the DRC's resources and, according to many, prolonged the conflict as a cover for the economic windfall. Primitive gold, copper, and coltan mining operations established and battled over by regional proxies or local warlords are often staffed by child soldiers or enslaved civilians.
Rudimentary operations connect to sophisticated global commercial networks that acquire the extracted metals for jewelry or computer or cell phone components.
While many U.S. consumers may have become aware of the phenomenon of blood diamonds, few are as familiar with these other conflict resources and hardly think of the technological marvels in their hands as "blood gadgets." But the explosion in cell phone use over the last decade and a half has fueled and intensified the violence in the Congo.
Anneke Van Woudenberg, senior researcher for New York-based Human Rights Watch, has tracked the interaction of Western commercial interests with the mayhem in the Congo.
"We live in a globalized world," Van Woudenberg says, "and we need to ask questions about the products we buy, such as gold, diamonds, or mobile phones. Where did the goods come from? Were they ethically sourced?" While a U.S. or European consumer can feel far removed from the Congo's turmoil, they are really only a cell phone keypad away. "It is our responsibility to ensure that we do not indirectly contribute to human rights abuses in far away places like the Congo."
After another outbreak of violence a few years ago, during which his family farm was looted and their many cattle, goats, and sheep stolen or slaughtered, Patrick and his family went on the road to Burundi and never looked back.
They endured a few years waiting in an increasingly insecure camp in Burundi (where a cousin was killed during a mortar attack) until they found sponsorship through Catholic Charities in the United States.
They finally landed in Chicago, on their feet for the most part, gainfully employed and trying to build a future. His younger siblings are in school; Patrick, now 26, plans to resume an education that had been frequently interrupted by violence. He hopes to become a biologist.
Would he return to the Congo someday? He shrugs, nods. "Yes, maybe. I would like to go back," he says.
"I would like to go back to our home," he says. "When there is peace."
Does he think that peace will come? Patrick shrugs.
"No," he says after a moment.


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2012 has undoubtedly been Jack Beats most prolific and prominent year to date. Their Beyoncé remix is still turning heads, they've just released the first mini LP 'Careless' and the dust hasn't yet settled on their headline UK tour. Never ones to rest on their laurels, they've lined up something rather special ahead of the release of mini LP no.2 – 'Somebody To Love'.
Progressions sums up the combined parts of both mini albums, resulting in 35 minutes of un-interrupted Jack Beats heat; "The aim of this mix was to produce something a little more special than your average mixtape. It's a full album length body of original work, summing the best of our last 2 years in the studio".
Featuring every track off both Careless and Somebody To Love, this is the only place you can hear tracks likeAbout To Get Fresh (Ft Chiddy Bang and OV) and Storm (feat Kid Harpoon) ahead of the release of the mini LP Somebody To Love on 9th December.
As if that wasn't enough 'Jack Beats Presents' returns to FABRIC London on Friday 7th December, and they've bought someone rather special along for the ride. Fatboy Slim will be stepping up to the turntables, for his first London DJ set since he rocked up to Stratford straddling a giant purple octopus. This is a rare chance to see him in a club setting, and with the likes of Redlight, Doorly & Shadow Child also on the bill, this night is not to be missed.
If you're stateside don't fear, you can check Jack Beats on their mammoth US Tour including Owsla dates and a main slot at Hard 'Day Of The Dead' Festival! Check out the dates HERE
Progressions Track listing:
'Knock You Down'
'Careless' feat Takura
'End Of Love' (Re-Edit)
'War' Feat Diplo & Example
'Just A Beat'
'Fast Girls'
'About To Get Fresh' (feat Chiddy Bang & OV)
'Epidemic' feat Dillon Francis
'Somebody To Love' feat Jess Mills
'Storm' feat Kid Harpoon


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Webgame Wednesday: Road of the Dead
Let's not beat around the bush here, shall we? Halloween is coming fast. And in addition to watching endless horror movies and scarfing bags of candy, you should be playing videogames in which you are required to kill zombies. Zombie Games has pretty much got you covered on that front. There are dozens of living-dead-based games from which to choose. Might I suggest Road of the Dead, which has you piloting a hot rod down a highway filled with burning cars, innocent citizens and flesh-crazed zombies. If you think shooting a zombie in the head with a shotgun is satisfying, wait until you run one over at 120 mph. Now that's good gore!


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Indian Premier League (IPL), Indian professional Twenty20 (T20) cricket league established in 2008. The league, which is based on a round-robin group and knockout format, has teams in major Indian cities.
The brainchild of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the IPL has developed into the most lucrative and most popular outlet for the game of cricket. Matches generally begin in late afternoon or evening so that at least a portion of them are played under floodlights at night to maximize the television audience for worldwide broadcasts. Initially, league matches were played on a home-and-away basis between all teams, but, with the planned expansion to 10 clubs (divided into two groups of five) in 2011, that format changed so that matches between some teams would be limited to a single encounter. The top four teams contest three play-off matches, with one losing team being given a second chance to reach the final, a wrinkle aimed at maximizing potential television revenue. The play-off portion of the tournament involves the four teams that finished at the top of the tables in a series of knockout games that allows one team that lost its first-round game a second chance to advance to the final match.
With the advent of the IPL, almost overnight the world's best cricketers—who had seldom made the kind of money earned by their counterparts in other professional sports—became millionaires. The owners of the IPL franchises, who included major companies, Bollywood film stars, and media moguls, bid for the best players in auctions organized by the league. At the outset of the IPL, the well-financed Mumbai Indians had the league's biggest payroll, more than $100 million. It cost the Chennai Super Kings $1.5 million to secure the services of Mahendra Dhoni in the initial auction for the 2008 season and the Kolkata Knight Riders $2.4 million to sign Gautam Gambhir, the opening batsman for the Indian national team, in the bidding for the 2011 season.
The eight founding franchises were the Mumbai Indians, the Chennai Super Kings, the Royal Challengers Bangalore, the Deccan Chargers (based in Hyderabad), the Delhi Daredevils, the Punjab XI Kings (Mohali), the Kolkata Knight Riders, and the Rajasthan Royals (Jaipur). In late 2010 two franchises, Rajasthan and Punjab, were expelled from the league by the BCCI for breeches of ownership policy, but they were later reinstated in time for the 2011 tournament. Two new franchises, the Pune Warriors India and the Kochi Tuskers Kerala, joined the IPL for the 2011 tournament. The Kochi club played just one year before the BCCI terminated its contract. In 2013 the Deccan Chargers were replaced in the IPL by the Sunrisers Hyderabad.
The first tournament, held over 44 days in 2008, was won by the Rajasthan Royals, one of the smaller-market franchises, captained by Shane Warne, the great Australian bowler. In the wake of the IPL's success, other cricketing countries scrambled to grab some of the riches by forming their own domestic T20 leagues.
Indian Premier League championship results
Results of the Indian Premier League championship are provided in the table.
|Rajasthan Royals
|Chennai Super Kings
|Rajasthan won by 3 wickets
|Deccan Chargers
|Royal Challengers Bangalore
|Deccan won by 6 runs
|Chennai Super Kings
|Mumbai Indians
|Chennai won by 22 runs
|Chennai Super Kings
|Royal Challengers Bangalore
|Chennai won by 58 runs
|Kolkata Knight Riders
|Chennai Super Kings
|Kolkata won by 5 wickets
|Mumbai Indians
|Chennai Super Kings
|Mumbai won by 23 runs
|Kolkata Knight Riders
|Kings XI Punjab
|Kolkata won by 3 wickets
|Mumbai Indians
|Chennai Super Kings
|Mumbai won by 41 runs
|Sunrisers Hyderabad
|Royal Challengers Bangalore
|Hyderabad won by 8 runs
|Mumbai Indians
|Rising Pune Supergiant
|Mumbai won by 1 run


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Two men died Sunday night when a CSX train struck their SUV at a Lakeland rail crossing, troopers said, trapping the driver and his passenger inside the vehicle as it caught fire.
LAKELAND | Two men died Sunday night when a CSX train struck their SUV at a Lakeland rail crossing, troopers said, trapping the driver and his passenger inside the vehicle as it caught fire.
Florida Highway Patrol could not identify the men Monday. The Polk County Medical Examiner's Office must use dental records for identification because of the extent of their injuries.
The collision occurred about 11:40 p.m. as the train crossed tracks on Ewell Road immediately west of its intersection with State Road 37, troopers said. As the train approached, the crossing's lighted gates lowered and the train's horn sounded to alert drivers.
Despite the warnings, the driver, headed west on the inside lane of Ewell Road, apparently attempted to cross the tracks and moved his 1998 Nissan Pathfinder into the path of the train, troopers said.
The train, traveling about 35 mph, struck the SUV's left side, propelling it into a railroad junction control box near the road, troopers said. The SUV and the box caught fire.
The men died in the vehicle, troopers said.
Thomas R. Krutulis, 62, and Jason Vaughn, 27, train workers from Tampa, weren't injured.
The train was headed from Tampa and carried phosphate rock, troopers said. A CSX spokesman said the train is based at a Mulberry station. It measured as long as 3,500 feet with 75 cars and two engines.
Investigators are searching for witnesses who can describe the SUV's driving pattern before the collision, where the driver and passenger were headed from and other information.
"We're trying to get any concept of what led up to the car doing what it did," said Sgt. Steve Gaskins, an FHP spokesman.
Polk County had 60 rail-crossing crashes between 2002 and 2011, the last year for which information is available. The crashes resulted in 10 deaths and 34 injuries.
The Federal Railroad Administration credits safety campaigns, increased traffic law enforcement and improved rail crossing engineering with lowering the number of such crashes.
Collisions have dropped from a high of 13,557 in 1978 to about 2,000 in 2011, an 85 percent reduction, according to the FRA. Deaths at rail crossings have dropped from 1,115 in 1976 to about 250 in 2011.
Trains can do little to come to an abrupt stop when a vehicle crosses into its path, said Eric Eakin, a United Transportation Union spokesman. Depending on the train's size, weight and other factors, he said, it can take at least a half mile.
"Impatience will get you killed," he said. "There's never a reason to go across a closed crossing gate."
If you witnessed the crash, call FHP investigators at 863-413-3510.
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House Judiciary Committee (3 of 3)
Members of the Committee on the Judiciary, which will review Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's report and decide whether and how to proceed further: Rep. Martin Meehan (D-Mass.), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D.-N.Y.), Rep. Ed Pease (R-Ind.), Rep. James Rogan (R-Ca.), Rep. Steve Rothman (D-NJ), Rep. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Rep. Robert Scott (D.-Va.) , Rep. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., (R-Wis.) Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), Rep. Maxine Waters (D.-Calif.), Rep. Melvin Luther Watt (D.-N.C.) , and Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.). (AP Photo/File)
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Alfred Sauer, 78, died Dec. 1, 2012, at Mercy Hospital, Moundridge.
Alfred Sauer, 78, died Dec. 1, 2012, at Mercy Hospital, Moundridge. He was born Oct. 12, 1934, at Ellis, the son of Adam and Augusta Hoffmann Sauer. On Sept. 11, 1960, he married Anne Krehbiel of Moundridge, the daughter of Nelson W. and Gladys H. Krehbiel. Anne died on April 22, 2001. In his earlier years, Alfred was associated with Krehbiel Investments and the Clayton Vogt Lumber Company. In his later years he was active at the Moundridge Senior Center, where he served on the Senior Citizens Commission, for six years as chairman, and played on the pool team. He was also on the board of the McPherson County Council on Aging. He is survived by a full sister and brother: Anna Kingham of Norton, and Gus Sauer of Hays. Preceding him in death were his parents; wife, Anne; Anne's parents; two full brothers, Ludwig and Rudolph; two half brothers, Adam and Ernest; two full sisters, Minnie Kingham and Louise Powell; two half sisters, Martha Armbrister and Marie Armbrister. A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, at the West Zion Mennonite Church, Moundridge. A private family entombment will be in the Halstead Mausoleum, Halstead. Friends may call from 6 until 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, at the Moundridge Funeral Home. Memorials may be given to the Moundridge Senior Citizens Center, in care of the funeral home.


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Doxorubicin Hydrochloride Liposome and Rituximab With Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed Burkitt's Lymphoma or Burkitt-Like Lymphoma
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00392990
Recruitment Status : Active, not recruiting
First Posted : October 26, 2006
Last Update Posted : March 16, 2017
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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as doxorubicin hydrochloride liposome, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Monoclonal antibodies, such as rituximab, can block cancer growth in different ways. Some block the ability of cancer cells to grow and spread. Others find cancer cells and help kill them or carry cancer-killing substances to them. Giving rituximab together with combination chemotherapy may kill more cancer cells.
PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving doxorubicin hydrochloride liposome and rituximab together with combination chemotherapy works in treating patients with newly diagnosed Burkitt's lymphoma or Burkitt-like lymphoma.
|Condition or disease
|Drug: Regimen A Drug: Regimen B
|Phase 2
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|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|25 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Multicenter Phase II Study Incorporating DOXIL® and Rituximab Into the Magrath Regimen for HIV-Negative and HIV-Positive Patients With Newly Diagnosed Burkitt's and Burkitt-like Lymphoma
|Study Start Date :
|October 2006
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|October 2018
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|October 2019
Experimental: Alternating doxil/Magrath regimen & rituximab/Magrath regimen
Patients are stratified between high risk and low risk disease status. Low risk patients receive 3 cycles of rituximab (500 mg/m2) R-CODOX-M chemotherapy IV over 2-4 hours with intrathecal chemotherapy (Regimen A). High risk patients receive 1 cycle of R-CODOX-M chemotherapy IV followed by R-IVAC chemotherapy over 30 minutes(Regimen B); regimens A and B are then repeated.
Drug: Regimen A
Cyclophosphamide (800 mg/m2 IV over 1 hour)+ vincristine (1.5 mg/m2 IV PUSH)+ doxorubicin (40 mg/m2 IV)+ high-dose methotrexate (2,700 mg/m2 IV over 23 hours)+ rituximab (500 mg/m2 IV)(R-CODOX-M) regimen
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Drug: Regimen B
Rituximab (500 mg/m2 IV once)+ Ifosfamide (1500 mg/m2 IV daily over 3 hours)+ Etoposide (60 mg/m2 IV daily over 1 hour), and Cytarabine (2 grams/m2 IV over 3 hours for 4 doses)
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- Response rate: complete remission rate [ Time Frame: every 6 months up to two years after treatment completion ]Response rate will be accessed by CT scans every six months up to two years following completion of treatment
- Overall response rate: disease free and overall survival [ Time Frame: every six months up to two years following treatment completion ]Overall response rate (including disease free and overall survival)will be assessed by CT scans every six months up to two years following treatment completion
- Safety of Rituximab plus Magrath regimen in HIV negative and HIV positive subjects [ Time Frame: Regimen A prior to cycles 1 and 3; Regimen B prior to cycles 2 and 4; 30 days after completion of treatment ]adverse events will be assessed as follows: Regimen A prior to cycles 1 and 3; Regimen B prior to cycles 2 and 4; 30 days after completion of treatment
- Safety of using doxil in place of adriamycin [ Time Frame: Regimen A prior to cycles 1 and 3 and 30 days after completion of treatment ]Adverse events will be assessed as follows: Regimen A prior to cycles 1 and 3 and 30 days after completion of treatment
- Safety of using lower intravenous methotrexate dosing [ Time Frame: Regimen A prior to cycles 1 and 3 and 30 days after completion of treatment ]Adverse events will be assessed as follows: Regimen A prior to cycles 1 and 3 and 30 days after completion of treatment
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Histologically confirmed Burkitt's or Burkitt-like non-Hodgkin's lymphoma meeting 1 of the following risk criteria:
Low-risk disease meeting all of the following criteria:
- Normal lactate dehydrogenase level
- ECOG performance status 0-1
- Ann Arbor stage I or II
- No tumor mass over 10 cm in greatest diameter
- High-risk disease, defined as disease not meeting low-risk criteria
- Newly diagnosed disease
- ECOG performance status 0-2
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
- Hemoglobin ≥ 8.0 g/dL
- Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 500/mm³
- Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm³ (50,000/mm³ if bone marrow involvement is documented)
- AST and ALT ≤ 3 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Alkaline phosphatase ≤ 3 times ULN
- Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times ULN (3 times ULN if liver metastases are present)
- Creatinine clearance > 50 mL/min
- Creatinine ≤ 2.0 mg/dL
- LVEF ≥ 45% by MUGA scan or echocardiogram
- No New York Heart Association class II-IV heart failure
- No clinically significant pericardial disease
- No myocardial infarction within the past 6 months
- No uncontrolled angina
- No severe uncontrolled ventricular arrhythmias
No ECG evidence of acute ischemia or active conduction system abnormalities
- Investigator must document any baseline ECG abnormality as not medically relevant
- No other malignancy within the past year except for basal cell carcinoma of the skin or in situ carcinoma of the cervix
- No other serious medical or psychiatric illness that would preclude study compliance
Prior treatment with 1 course of any combination of rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin hydrochloride, vincristine, and/or prednisone* (CHOP)-like therapy allowed, provided the following doses are not exceeded:
- Rituximab 750 mg/m²
- Cyclophosphamide 1,000 mg/m²
- Doxorubicin hydrochloride 50 mg/m²
- Vincristine 2 mg/m²
- No other investigational drugs within the past 14 days
- No other concurrent systemic, cytotoxic, investigational, or chemotherapy agents NOTE: *No maximum dose restriction on steroids
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00392990
|United States, Illinois
|Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611-3013
|John H. Stroger Cook County Hospital
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
|Rush University Medical Center
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
|Loyola University Medical Center
|Maywood, Illinois, United States, 60153
|Advocate Lutheran General Cancer Care Center
|Park Ridge, Illinois, United States, 60068-1174
|United States, Missouri
|Washington University
|St. Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
|United States, New Jersey
|The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
|New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, 08901
|United States, Ohio
|University Hospitals Case Medical Center
|Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44106
|Principal Investigator:
|Leo Gordon, MD
|Northwestern University
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Northwestern University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00392990 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
P30CA060553 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
NU 06H2 ( Other Identifier: Northwestern University )
CDR0000509706 ( Registry Identifier: PDQ )
STU00004480 ( Other Identifier: Northwestern University IRB )
|First Posted:
|October 26, 2006 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|March 16, 2017
|Last Verified:
|March 2017
Keywords provided by Northwestern University:
stage I adult Burkitt lymphoma
stage III adult Burkitt lymphoma
stage IV adult Burkitt lymphoma
contiguous stage II adult Burkitt lymphoma
noncontiguous stage II adult Burkitt lymphoma
AIDS-related peripheral/systemic lymphoma
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Burkitt Lymphoma
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Epstein-Barr Virus Infections
Herpesviridae Infections
DNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Tumor Virus Infections
Lymphoma, B-Cell
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin
Liposomal doxorubicin
Immunosuppressive Agents
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antirheumatic Agents
Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating


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oakenspirit wrote:anything for a pine marten! ;)
Ohhh!!! OOhh! I've never been so happy to be a pine marten. This is awesome!!
Re: Rex the Riveter
YES! This one, please! Lookit those rockin arms. :D
Re: United for Science
Love the shirt fishbiscuit5. My only issue is what you pointed out.. Tesla and Edison would have to do more than kiss and make up. They were mortal enemies... Maybe better would be Mark Twain? They were close friends! Imagine that pairing. I'd vote for it, but without Edison... Edison is a slimy thief
Re: GM Uh-Oh
Must be a process similar to how they make Clamato juice.
mightyrain wrote:Like the robot, not sure about the yellow shirt.
have to agree with this!!!
maybe asphalt?? or even blue??
how do i vote this is mad
Re: Brave New World
Love the colors and design; hate the black shirt color.
zsc0pe wrote:how do i vote this is mad
You need to have made at least one purchase here.
Re: Mad Science
My second entry for this derby. Hope you all enjoy.
Re: Science Ticks
This is a great design for this derby!
Re: Nuked love
My love for science gives me a warm, glowy, feeling.
Re: USF Poster
I'd so buy this!
Re: Support Moonscience
I really like this design, but I feel it would have worked better with "it' before "makes".
Re: Build a Better You
Who says genetics has to be limited to things like helping the sick or curing disease? NO! The future of genetics is much more selfish! Build a better you - stronger, faster, BETTER.
orabbit wrote:This is wild! But what does it mean?
thanks it's a word play on rad for radium or radness
and MC for Marie Curie or Master of Ceremony.
I tried to be funny ;-(((((((
bluetuba wrote:No clue what Rad M.C is but that guy is killer awesome. I think the version on creme looks alot clearer but it might be doomed because of the creme.
Either way, this rocks.
Thanks a lot bluetuba,it is a word play on Marie Curie
mercat wrote:I think it's supposed to play on radiation/Marie Curie, but I could be wrong.
you are perfectly right ;-)))
Re: who is sciencing the scientists?
2 colors on black for this one ;-))
Lol nicely phrased!
Re: Feed the scientist
So cool dude!
Re: Believe 2
Awesome work!
excellent, nice perspective, works good on the shirt
Re: Evolution
Back to nature.
Wizrd23 wrote:Love the shirt fishbiscuit5. My only issue is what you pointed out.. Tesla and Edison would have to do more than kiss and make up. They were mortal enemies... Maybe better would be Mark Twain? They were close friends! Imagine that pairing. I'd vote for it, but without Edison... Edison is a slimy thief
Oh, I know. I was dreaming of a perfect world where enemies could actually become friends and work together for the good of the order. Like real politics! ;)
I like a clock that keeps good space-time. ;) This is fantastic! Great use of texture and shape.
tjschaeffer wrote:Tesla and Edison had a very notorious feud. Tesla was the developer of alternating current (AC) as the means of transferring electricity, whereas Edison proposed using the much lamer direct current (DC). Tesla also was Edison's assistant for awhile, and essentially was treated like dirt even though he was much smarter than Edison and actually IMPROVED much of Edison's work.
So Edison decided to run a smear campaign against Tesla and AC, even going so far as to electrocute an elephant to prove that AC was dangerous. Electrocute. To death!
Edison was a royal jerk, and would do things like send hired goons to rough people up and buy out patents and then take all the credit.
There's even the story of how his rival in the creation of the motion picture, Louis LePrince, magically disappeared from a train after traveling to the US from France to show off his new camera. Unsurprisingly, LePrince's disappearance allowed Edison to push his technology without competition and become known as the "Father of Cinematography."
So the long and short of it is that Tesla was an undervalued mad genius who is not well remembered outside of the scientific community, whereas Edison is a talentless hack whose worth is overinflated.
Tesla also come up with an early version of the florescent light bulb that was better than edison's incandescent bulb, a method of providing free electric energy through the air and ground, and a prototype for a "Death Ray"!
Tesla / Marconi would work on a shirt too, though I thing a Twain / Tesla presidency would be a lot more interesting.
As much as I love the idea I'd only wear this shirt after a president shot his vice president. Or perhaps fatally electrocuted him.
Some rifts can never be breached.
razorlust wrote:Tesla / Marconi would work on a shirt too, though I thing a Twain / Tesla presidency would be a lot more interesting.
As much as I love the idea I'd only wear this shirt after a president shot his vice president. Or perhaps fatally electrocuted him.
Some rifts can never be breached.
Honestly, I knew while I was making this design it would spark discussion so I'm happy to hear thoughts and ideas!
The Oatmeal is rallying for Tesla, in case anyone is looking for an interesting read:
I think this shirt would have been better without the "twilight" reference... even if it just said "Team Tesla" in some manner. Nevertheless, great image.
When I saw the thumbnail, I was hoping it was going to be a much smaller icon, placed over the heart - like where the alligator is on an Izod shirt.
I keep expecting the text on the notes to all be related, and not flow from the notes to the area outside them. It's pretty confusing for me. Also, the theme is propaganda, so that's kind of a big deal...
Re: Join the evolution
I really like the idea, but I do not like the art. It looks very much like the figure on the left is a chimp, and I have no idea what the middle one is supposed to be.
blk909 wrote:Love the colors and design; hate the black shirt color.
They are in space! Black is rarely so appropriate!
awesome work bro!:D
kaseyfleming wrote:cool
charlottesumxs wrote:I really like this design, but I feel it would have worked better with "it' before "makes".
Or "make" instead of "makes"....
Re: Support science
Miniature dinosaurs! The perfect apartment pet.
citizencoyote wrote:Hearty thumbs up. Reminds me of WSMR.
*Googles images* Wow! You are right!
My inspiration was mostly the covers from all the 1950s and 1960s pulp SF I read. If they show landed rockets, they are typically sitting on their tail-fins, on an empty plain. The mountains were a way of addressing the horizon-line without leaving it a boring line.
Together, it looks like I did manage to create a highly stylized image of WSMR. Thank you for mentioning it, I just learned something nifty today!
Quasiskunk wrote:I've been an aerospace geek forever! I'd buy it in a heartbeat!
Thank you! As I mentioned in an earlier reply, my love comes from all the old SF I grew up reading. But being a child of the 60's & 70's the space race, and especially the shuttle program, was a big deal in my life.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Dig out those leg warmers and headbands — "Flashdance" is coming to Broadway.
Producers said Tuesday that the stage adaptation of the 1983 hit movie about a working-class Pittsburgh girl with dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer hopes to boogie into New York in August 2013.
Sergio Trujillo, the choreographer of "Jersey Boys," ''The Addams Family" and "Memphis," will direct and choreograph "Flashdance — The Musical."
It features a book by Robert Cary and original screenplay co-writer Tom Hedley, music by Robbie Roth and lyrics by Cary and Roth. The film starred Jennifer Beals.
Producers say it has been "substantially rewritten and completely restaged" following its short-lived debut in London in 2010. A separate company will begin a national tour in January 2013 in Pittsburgh.
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Guy Pearce in talks for "Black Mass"
Guy Pearce is in talks to star alongside Johnny Depp in 'Black Mass'.
The 'Iron Man 3' actor is negotiating the role of Whitey Bulger's brother in the forthcoming drama, while 'The Lone Ranger' actor is tipped to star as the Boston crime kingpin-turned-fugitive who the film is based on, according to Variety.com.
'The Great Gatsby' actor Joel Edgerton had been slated to star as a crooked FBI agent, John Connolly, who was tasked with bringing down Bulger but aided him in his disappearance.
'Out of the Furnace' director Scott Cooper will helm the project, replacing Barry Levinson, who had previously believed to be in line to direct.
Besides being a crime boss, Bulger was also an FBI informant who used this status as a way to eliminate criminal competition.
After being tipped off by a childhood friend who worked for the FBI in the early 2000s about the feds being on to him, Bulger went on the run, living with his girlfriend in a Santa Monica apartment building, and was not caught until 2011.


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Shorewood police arrest suspect in homicide case
Shorewood police arrest suspect in homicide case
SHOREWOOD, Wis. —
Shorewood police said Thursday that a person is in custody after a man was found dead in his apartment last week.
Police Chief David Banaczynski said officers responded to an apartment at 4460 N. Oakland Ave. around 8 p.m. July 15 after a man was reported missing.
When officers entered the apartment, they found Clarence Charles, 57, dead.
The medical examiner's office ruled Charles' death a homicide and police began searching for a person driving a silver 2002 Chevrolet Blazer.
Chief David Banaszynski said Thursday that a person is in custody and charges are pending in the case.


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Mar 28, 2007 at 6:30 pm
nice fox. its looks nice as hell
Dec 16, 2006 at 12:53 pm
Help me out vote for black haze
Help me out vote for black haze
Nov 10, 2006 at 5:43 pm
Thanks for the compliment on my Notch. For once, something looks better in pictures than it does in real life. Anyway, definitely keep the site up to date with your 331 build, and let me know how it turns out. Eventually, I'll be building a 347 for my Fox, so I'm interested to see how yours turns out. Later.


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'Lucky' Ipswich gets through storm without major damage
UPDATE 5.19PM: A BUREAU of Meteorology spokesperson has described Ipswich as 'lucky' after the region saw less severe weather than its western neighbours.
The storm that lashed south-east Queensland this afternoon has left thousands of homes without power, however thankfully only a few of those are in Ipswich.
Energex says about 2200 properties in Brisbane have lost power, along with 1600 in the Somerset Region and 64 in the Lockyer Valley.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Service warned residents to get prepared after Dalby recorded a 90km/h wind gust at 3pm.
A BoM spokesperson said Ipswich recorded wind gusts of 65km/h.
"The storm has passed and Ipswich should see the weather easing," he said.
"Ipswich may see a few showers but the brunt of the storm has passed."
EARLIER: SEVERE thunderstorms are likely to produce damaging winds in Ipswich and Boonah over the next few hours, the Bureau of Meteorology has warned.
The storm has passed through Boonah and is predicted to reach a peak in Ipswich, Beaudesert and Esk by 4:55pm.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services are asking residents to get prepared after Dalby recorded a 90km/h wind gust at 3pm.
Locations which may be affected include Warwick, Gold Coast, Toowoomba, Dalby, Ipswich, Kingaroy, Stanthorpe, Boonah, Oakey, Yarraman, Chinchilla and Mundubbera.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services also advised that people should move their cars undercover or away from large trees, secure loose outdoor items, seek shelter, avoid using the telephone and beware of fallen trees and powerlines during the storm.
Click here to see where the storm is in real time.
For emergency assistance contact the SES on 132 500.


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A videographer who allegedly scammed more than 90 couples out of payments for wedding videos he never delivered will remain locked up for the next two weeks as criminal and civil cases continue against him.
In Dudley District Court Friday Judge Timothy Bibaud ordered Jesse J. Clark, 29, of 203 N. Sturbridge Road, Charlton,held in the Worcester County House of Correction, where he has been since appearing in court on Monday for violation of probation and charges of assault and battery and violation of a restraining order stemming from an arrest Mar. 10. Mr. Clark will return to court Mar. 29 for a pretrial hearing.
Also in court Friday, Boston lawyer Nicholas Frye, who represents four couples who have won civil judgments against Mr. Clark, asked the judge to order payment upon his release of more than $19,000 to one of Mr. Clark's clients, Michael Smith.
Mr. Frye alleged that Mr. Clark is hiding assets in his father's name, Gary Clark, who lives at the same address. Mr. Frye alleged that as recently as January, after an injunction was served against Mr. Clark in Suffolk Superior Court preventing him from doing further business in Massachusetts, he continued to scam couples in Florida under the business name The Wedding Avenue, using an alias of Michael Collins.
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Once named both Dulcina - 'Sweet Island' - and Oualie - 'land of beautiful waters' - Nevis has always been a paradise to those who lived here, and is a pearl hidden in the Caribbean oyster for those who visit today. Christopher Columbus derived the present-day name of Nevis from his sighting of the island in 1493: the island's cloud-capped volcanic peak reminded him of snow, or 'nieves' in Spanish.
Small and round, Nevis is only about seven miles (11km) long and five miles (8km) wide, an unspoilt and serene island that is a delight for nature-lovers and for those seeking an escape from the stresses of the modern-day world. Its single volcanic peak rises 3,232ft (985m) above verdant rainforest filled with tropical flowers and animals, and the beaches and clear waters that surround the island provide the ideal holiday environment for swimming, sunbathing and underwater exploration.
During the 18th century Nevis gained undreamt-of wealth from its sugar industry and became known as the Queen of the Caribbean sugar islands, with a social life that became as decadent as it was extravagant. Today, grand estate houses and once lavish hotels lie in ruins, and sugar plantations remain untouched as they have been since the decline of the most coveted trade in the Caribbean towards the end of the 18th century.
A sad decline it might have been then, but the charm of its small towns, the genuine hospitality and friendliness of the people, and the laws controlling over-development and natural conservation, are attractions far more endearing to visitors today. Lavish manors have been preserved and rank among the best plantation inns in the Caribbean, and architectural gems and historical relics promise hours of exploration amid the natural splendour that covers the island.
Today, Nevis has a reputation for elegant living, with one of the world's most exlusive resorts and spas, golf courses, a variety of restaurants and bars, and beautiful gardens and beaches. A vacation in Nevis is sure to recharge any traveller's batteries.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The European Union's foreign policy chief said Sunday that there is "no guarantee" that Iran and world powers will reach a final deal over the country's nuclear program.
Catherine Ashton was in Tehran for meetings with Iranian officials on ongoing negotiations over the country's nuclear program, as well as the civil war in Syria and other issues. She spoke to reporters in a joint briefing with Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Separately, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani advocated pursuing "new relations" with European countries that for years have been at odds, alongside the United States, with Tehran over Iran's disputed nuclear program.
"Besides ongoing nuclear talks that should be driven ahead, there are other suitable fields in which both Iran and European Union can consider push relations and cooperation ahead," the president said in remarks quoted by his website. He suggested energy and transportation cooperation.
Under an interim deal in November, Iran agreed to limit a key nuclear activity, uranium enrichment, in return for easing sanctions by the West.
Negotiations for a final deal are ongoing. Ashton leads the six-nation group — the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany — in talks with Iran.
"I think this interim agreement is really important, but not as important as the comprehensive agreement that we are currently engaged in. Difficult, challenging, there's no guarantee we'll succeed," she said.
Zarif said Iran will only accept a deal that respects its "rights," a reference to uranium enrichment on its soil, while reiterating Iran's longstanding position that his country is not pursuing nuclear arms.
"Iran will only accept a solution that is respectful, that respects the rights of the Iranian people," he said.
"At the same time Iran finds it in its own interest to make sure that there are no ambiguities about Iran's intentions, because we have no intention to seek nuclear weapons."
The two said they had also discussed fighting terrorism, drug trafficking, and conflicts in Afghanistan and Syria. Iran is a key ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Under the historic deal, Iran agreed to halt its 20 percent enrichment program, but will continue enrichment up to 5 percent. It also will convert half of its stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium to oxide, and dilute the remaining half to 5 percent. Enrichment to 20 percent is a possible pathway to nuclear arms.
The West suspects Iran's nuclear program has a military dimension. Iran denies the charge, saying its nuclear activities are aimed at peaceful purposes like power generation and medical treatment.


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Let's see how people are handling this challenge.
All comments welcome on how you did it or plan to.
Well...lets see...I have designed and worked in so many diferent environments, I don't know where to start. I guess I will list a typical scenario from the Internet looking in:
*Cisco 7500 series routers running HSRP with basic ACL's
*Some type of content switches
*Redunt Checkpoint firewall pair
*Cisco 6506 or 6509 switches at layer 3 with VLAN's and ACL's
*Proxy servers (Cacheflow or Netscape)
*Network IDS sensors (usually Snort)
*Web and application servers w/HIDS agents
*Additional Checkpoint firewall failover pair
*Additional NIDS sensors
*HIDS agents on critical servers
*DB servers
I know this is very vague...but it would take me about 2 weeks to explain in detail. Not to mention about 100 pages that nobody would want to read....
No actually it's not vague - I'm with you on all of it.
On the dmz part how did you solve the session deaths? Local dirs, sticky, cluster?
Oh and did you use stonebeat or something like that for your ckp failover?
for active session failover, i have used Stonebeat..yes. I have also tried Nokia's VRRP, and now we are using Cisco Arrowpoint content switches to do the job.
Not used but seen the nokia at the vendor. Seems ok. That content switch sounds like it works on the same principle as local directors/mgmt switches. I haven't used content switches but it sounds good.
Sounds like you've got a lot to contribute to this forum iNViCTuS. Well done.
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Well, That's One Way to Avoid a Home Loss (bcc: Tom Crean)Posted by rtmsf on January 29th, 2009
RTC typically doesn't have a lot of SWAC coverage, other than our biweekly correspondent updates on the conference managed faithfully and superbly by HBCUSportsBlog's inimitable JC. But thanks to a loyal tipster (h/t Bluejay Basketball), we were alerted to a peculiar situation out of that bottom-dwelling league from a game earlier this week. Er, almost a game. From the Monroe (La) News-Star:
The Talladega College (NAIA) men's basketball team arrived at Grambling's Assembly Center on Tuesday expecting a game. There was no game to be played. Talladega coach Matt Cross said the team was initially told that the scheduled 7 p.m. game had been delayed because referees were late in arriving, and 20 minutes later, Grambling officials told him the game was canceled because the Southwestern Athletic Conference had forgotten to schedule the referees. "I said, 'Can we reschedule? We'll just stay another night,'" Cross said. "They said, 'No, we'll just cancel.'"
We've heard some harebrained excuses over the years ("sorry about that, but can you believe that I contracted malaria this weekend?"; "my ex called me out of the blue from Korea and said he wanted to get back together"; "I'm really just not into to guys anymore"), but this one certainly strains the seams of credulity. The SWAC forgot to schedule the refs? And no refs could be found within a day's drive? Hmmm….
Cross, to his credit, smells a dancing Tiger rat in Denmark.
Cross said he suspects there is more to the situation than a scheduling mix-up. He said Grambling just didn't want to play the game. The Tigers (5-13 overall, 3-4 SWAC) were blown out at home 83-58 by conference rival Jackson State on Saturday, and Talladega already has four wins over SWAC teams this season: Alabama State, Alabama A&M, Southern, and Mississippi Valley State. "They didn't want to play the game," said Cross, a Shreveport native. "They wanted to save the embarrassment."
So Talladega boarded onto its bus and took the 7-hour trek east back home. The school will still receive its $2500 guarantee for the game, but can you imagine if, say, Duke showed up at the Dean Dome next month and UNC said, "y'know, we couldn't find any refs, so you're just going to have to get on back to Derm. It's the ACC's fault. See ya!" Absurd.


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By Scott Malone and Timothy Gardner
BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former hedge fund manager turned environmental activist who opposes the Keystone XL pipeline has waded into the Massachusetts Senate race, threatening to undermine a pledge by the two Democratic candidates to reject outside money.
California billionaire Tom Steyer has called on Democratic Representative Stephen Lynch to abandon his support for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport crude from Canada's oil sands to refineries in Texas.
The Obama administration is expected to make a final decision on the TransCanada Corp pipeline late this summer. A permit has been pending for more than four years while environmental activists have staged protests against it. Pipeline supporters in Congress have introduced bills to push the project through more quickly.
Steyer, who stepped down last year from the hedge fund he founded to focus on encouraging alternative energy development, called on Lynch to reverse his stance on the pipeline by Friday. Otherwise, Steyer promised "an aggressive public education campaign" aimed at torpedoing Lynch's bid to win the Democratic Senate primary on April 30.
Lynch and other supporters say the $5.3 billion Keystone XL project - which would transport oil down the middle of the United States, nowhere near Massachusetts - would create jobs and unlock a valuable energy source.
Opponents blast the pipeline as a source of the greenhouse gases that are contributing to global climate change. Lynch's Democratic rival, Representative Edward Markey, the ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, is an outspoken opponent of the Keystone project.
But Markey has also urged candidates in the primary to reject money or support from interest groups outside the state. He has already drawn criticism for Steyer's pledge to go after Lynch, and has urged the billionaire to stay out of the race.
Markey, elected to the House of Representatives in 1976, is the longest-serving member of the New England Congressional delegation. Lynch, a former ironworker, has been in the House since 2001. The primary is a run up to the June 25 special election for the Senate seat left open when Senator John Kerry recently became Secretary of State.
"Climate change is on the ballot on April 30 as it never has been before," said the open letter signed this week by Steyer and four activists.
Steyer's letter urged Lynch to switch his position on Keystone or provide assurances from TransCanada and refiners that all oil shipped on the pipeline would stay in the United States. Environmentalists and some economists say much of the oil sent through the line could get exported because U.S. oil production has boomed while domestic demand has stagnated.
While Massachusetts is not an energy-producing state, environmental issues resonate with its liberal-leaning voters, especially those who vote in Democratic primaries.
Lynch's campaign dismissed Steyer's threat.
"This letter reads like something out of a James Bond film - a billionaire making threats and issuing ultimatums," said spokesman Conor Yunits. "Congressman Lynch supports an all-of-the-above energy strategy, and he is not going to respond to threats and ultimatums."
Last year, Steyer spent more than $30 million in his home state of California on Proposition 39, a measure to close a tax loophole and funnel money to projects that create clean energy jobs.
His involvement in the Massachusetts race could cause headaches for front-runner Markey, who early in the campaign called on all contenders to honor a "People's Pledge," intended to keep outside groups from funding attack ads.
That agreement was modeled on one that former Senator Scott Brown, a Republican, and his successor Elizabeth Warren agreed to in last year's Massachusetts' Senate race, which Warren won.
All three Republican contenders in the 2013 race -- former U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan, state Representative Daniel Winslow and former Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez -- rejected that proposal, noting that they not did have the established organizations and campaign war chests of their Democratic rivals.
Markey's political organization had $3 million in cash on hand as of December 31, while Lynch's group had $760,206, according to OpenSecrets.org, which tracks campaign finance disclosures. None of the Republican contenders have yet filed details of their campaign finances, according to the database.
If an outsider buys ads to attack Markey or Lynch, each candidate has pledged that his campaign will make a donation equal to half the value of the ads to a charity of his opponent's choice.
Steyer believes he can campaign against Lynch, without running afoul of the pledge, a spokesman said.
It "leaves plenty of room for field operations, for phones, for targeting voters for other types of non-conventional communications, for the release of reports, for activities on college campuses," said Chris Lehane, Steyer's spokesman.
Even that could look bad for Markey, who an early poll showed with a lead both in the primary and special election.
"I don't think that either Markey or Lynch want to be in the position of arguing technicalities," said Peter Ubertaccio, a professor of political science at Stonehill College, in Easton, Massachusetts. "If outside money is going to be spent against one of them then the other has to pay up."
Without specifically naming Steyer, Markey's campaign called on his supporters to honor the pledge.
"Ed Markey categorically rejects any third-party expenditure against Stephen Lynch that would violate the People's Pledge they both have signed, and urges groups and individuals on both sides to respect the pledge to keep outside advertisements off Massachusetts airwaves," said Campaign Manager Sarah Benzing.
Opposition by environmentalists like Steyer to the 800,000 barrel-per-day pipeline project have threatened further delays in the administration's decision on the pipeline. Bills in both the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and in the Democratic-led Senate would take the final decision on the project's future out of the administration's hands.
Previous efforts in the Senate to take control have fallen short, but sponsors say they have more votes now that TransCanada rerouted the line through sensitive ecological areas in Nebraska. Obama could veto any bill that passes, but he may find that difficult if senators add it to must-pass legislation.
Steyer's spokesman said his campaign planned to carry through with its threat regardless of the pledge.
"The campaign will focus on everything that is consistent within the parameters of the pledge, but I think you will see some innovative and creative activities taking place out there," said Lehane. "There are now a bunch of ways that you can get in front of a large number of eyeballs that will be completely consistent with the pledge."
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Milwaukee bar's license may be suspended for three months
Milwaukee bar's license may be suspended for three months
A Milwaukee bar connected to an officer-involved shooting will likely face a three-month suspension.
The Milwaukee Licenses Committee voted Tuesday to renew Glory Daze Bar and Grill's license but with a 90-day suspension.
Police argue the bar at 42nd and Burleigh streets is a dangerous environment.
The owner of five years said they're trying to reduce crime.
"We're heartbroken to hear when there's a shooting. We're frustrated. We see it on the news. You wonder why people do what they do. I mean, as an owner, we put in place to try to minimize this," bar owner Rick Jewell said.
The full Common Council will ultimately make the final decision on whether or not the bar will stay open.


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An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news ...
The New York Times Flips Windows Phone 7 the Bird
How do you extend a middle finger toward Redmond if you're a member of the mainstream press? I mean, Microsoft just released its innovative and exciting Windows Phone 7 smartphone OS. How could you possibly dump all over this thing? Well, if you're Wall Street Journal technology maven and Apple lover Walter Mossberg, you simply write an unfair review that ignores the product's best features and harps on obvious if little-needed functional miscues such as the lack of copy and paste. But at least Mossberg wrote a review. This week, New York Times technology reviewer (and, yes, Apple lover) David Pogue devoted his own column not to Windows Phone but—get this—earbud headphone accessories. This column could run anytime. It's not topical or timely. But he ran it the week Microsoft shipped its biggest and most important platform in a decade. If that's not a giant "[email protected]#$ YOU, Microsoft," I don't know what is.
Windows Phone 7 on a Tablet? Maybe.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Windows Phone makes far more sense as a tablet-type UI than Apple's iPhone-based iOS and HP's Palm webOS. And I've repeatedly asked Microsoft to consider porting it to such a form factor, if only to thwart the iPad silliness that's currently gripping the industry. To date, Microsoft has simply said, in effect, "No, the Windows Phone OS is for phones, not tablets." But at a Gartner conference this week, Ballmer hinted, finally, that it could happen. "This is Windows too," he said, holding up a Windows Phone. "I'm not making some grand technology statement. It could be this Windows, it could be the other Windows ... The technical details I'm not getting into today ... We get different UIs." OK, nothing definitive, and in truth he was being a bit dramatic because of the constant questions from the boobs from Gartner. But I do think this is something Microsoft is looking it. It had better be.
Windows 8 to Be Microsoft's "Riskiest" Product
Speaking of Ballmer and the Gartner show, Microsoft's CEO had an interesting response when asked what the company's "riskiest product bet" was. He replied, "The next version of Windows"—meaning Windows 8. And this of course touched off rampant rumors about the meaning of the statement, chief among them being that maybe, just maybe, Microsoft actually has big plans for Windows 8. I don' think that's it. See, Microsoft has a weird problem on its hands. Windows 7, its current Windows version, has been so successful—too successful, if you catch my meaning—that there's just no way the next one will ever live up to the hype. I mean, how do you follow up a smash hit? Even Apple coughed up a hairball when it followed Mac OS X Leopard with ... ugh... the buggy and uninteresting Snow Leopard. This, people, is the problem Microsoft faces. I mean, you don't want to pull an Apple.
Elop Already Cutting Costs, Deadwood, and Expectations at Nokia
Ex-Microsoftie Stephen Elop has wasted no time making his mark as the new CEO of Nokia, the struggling cell phone giant. This week, the company announced plans to shelve 1,800 jobs and completely change the way it delivers new products. So, instead of pre-announcing products and then disastrously delaying them again and again (as it did with this year's N8 smartphone), Nokia won't announce products until they're ready. And instead of licensing rival smartphone platforms such as Android and Windows Phone 7, as has been widely rumored, Nokia will ramp up development of the MeeGo OS, which is based on Linux. Elop says that adopting a rival OS would harm Nokia's ability to differentiate, which is exactly right. But then relying on yet another mobile OS at a time when we arguably already have too many mobile OSs is a gamble, too. Just ask Palm. Or HP. Or whoever owns them now.
The iPad Is the New Nintendo Wii ... and That's Not a Compliment
Remember the Nintendo Wii? Nintendo sold millions of them and dominated the video game market for almost four straight years before sales fell off a cliff. But the dark, dirty secret of the Wii is that those sales were pretty much the extent of the platform's success: Few Wii owners ever purchased more than a game or two, and most Wii consoles are sitting in a corner now, gathering dust—rarely if ever used. Well, it appears that the iPad is following the same trajectory, albeit in a tighter timeline. In the wake of Apple's quarterly results, in which far fewer iPads were sold than anyone expected, Nielsen reveals that a full third of iPad owners have never installed even a single app on the thing. Not even a free app. Which leads me to believe that the iPad is exactly what I pegged it to be in the beginning: nothing more than a gotta-have-it, trendy, techno-fashion statement, one that people bought to look like they were hip and savvy. And as for those people who actually do use the thing—after all, they did invest several hundred dollars in it, so it better be good for something—they are, as predicted, simply consuming content. There could literally be millions of first-generation iPads gathering dust in people's home offices already. This product is the tech industry's biggest MacGuffin yet.
Microsoft Opening an Online Store for Windows Games
Microsoft this week revealed that it will launch a web-based online store for Windows games called Games for Windows Marketplace, which will augment its pre-existing (though no one knew about it) Games on Demand service. which is part of Games for Windows - LIVE, Microsoft's horribly named version of Xbox LIVE for Windows. Whew! Just writing that was painful. Anyway, Games for Windows Marketplace will offer at least 100 titles at launch and, like so many other Microsoft products these days, requires a Windows Live ID. Will gamers rally around Microsoft's umpteenth attempt to resuscitate its PC-based gaming efforts? No. Of course not.
Apple Jumps the Shark with iOS Features on Mac OS X
Or as I like to call it, "the dumbening." Apple's OS X software has always been quixotic. It's billed as "easy to use" but is in fact Spartan and inscrutable. And anyone who watched this week's demo of the next version, called Lion, surely felt a sinking feeling that Apple just doesn't get it when it comes to interacting with a computer. First, we witnessed Craig Federighi, Apple's vice president of engineering for Mac OS X, repeatedly fumble around with bizarre and clearly hard-to-use and hard-to-remember multitouch gestures, using Apple's ergonomically dangerous Tragic Mouse. (Go watch the video and see it for yourself. If the guy in charge of OS X finds this difficult, something is wrong.) And then there was the real jump-the-shark moment, when the company revealed that it would bring the dated and horrible grid-of-icons UI to Mac OS X, just in case the system wasn't dumb enough as it is. Guys, we get it: It's hard to make something this mature look new and different. But complicated multitouch gestures and a dumb UI from iOS aren't the answer. Most of the Lion stuff was just embarrassing.
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