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TSX.V Symbol: "WND"
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VANCOUVER, Dec. 3, 2012 /CNW/ - Western Wind Energy Corp. - (Toronto Venture Exchange - "WND") (OTCQX - "WNDEF") is pleased to announce its wholly owned subsidiary Windstar Energy, LLC, has been awarded a supplemental tax free payment in the amount of $4,132,980 under U.S. Internal Revenue Code Section 1603 in connection with Western Wind's 120 MW Windstar Project in Tehachapi, California. The U.S. Treasury Department has notified Western Wind that the payment will likely be made during the week of December 10, 2012.
With this supplemental payment, the total Section 1603 payment is consistent with a qualified basis that includes a development fee of 10% of Windstar's claimed pre-development-fee qualified basis. This supplemental payment only partially offsets Treasury's original reduction of $12.2 million. Treasury has offered to meet with Western Wind's management and advisors to further discuss and explain this supplemental payment.
Western Wind Energy is a vertically integrated renewable energy production company that currently owns wind and solar generation facilities with 165MW of rated capacity in production, in the States of California and Arizona. Western Wind further owns substantial development assets for both solar and wind energy in the U.S. and Canada. The Company is headquartered in Vancouver, BC and has branch offices in Scottsdale, Arizona and Tehachapi, California. Western Wind trades on the Toronto Venture Exchange under the symbol "WND", and in the United States on the OTCQX under the symbol "WNDEF".
The Company owns and operates three wind energy generation facilities in California, and one fully integrated combined wind and solar energy generation facility in Arizona. The three operating wind generation facilities in California are comprised of the 120MW Windstar, 4.5MW Windridge facilities in Tehachapi, and the 30MW Mesa wind generation facility near Palm Springs. The facility in Arizona is the Company's 10.5MW Kingman integrated solar and wind facility. The Company is further developing wind and solar energy projects in California, Arizona, and Puerto Rico.
Jeffrey J. Ciachurski
President & Chief Executive Officer
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The Urban Suites is located in Sants, a privileged location to go to any event held in Barcelona. Sants-Montjuic is the largest district in Barcelona and occupies more than 1/5 of the surface of the city.
The most important places are Spain Square (Plaça d´Espanya) and Montjuic Mountain, and right there at the bottom is one the two main places where big events take place in the city, Fira Barcelona with the Congress Palace and going up is the Montjuic Palace from where visitors can enjoy a breathtaking view of the city.
The mountain has many cultural and sports facilities, all of them can be visited on foot from the apartments.
Some of the museums that can be visited are: Miro Foundation, the MNAC Museum (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya) with a lovely balcony that can be reached via mechanic escalators, Poble Espanyol and Caixa Forum that has many temporary exhibitions.
Montjuic also hosts the Olympic Ring (Anilla Olimpica) built for the 1992 Olympics, which includes the Olympic Stadium and Palau Sant Jordi. The two facilities are now used to organize many concerts, along with the Sant Jordi Club which hosts more intimate events type.
Close to Sants neighbourhood sits the Camp Nou where FC Barcelona team plays their games and Palau BlauGrana where main basket, handball, roller hockey, and indoor soccer Futbol Club Barcelona teams dispute their games.
For futbol fans who come to Barcelona to see the other main team in the city, the RCD Espanyol, their new stadium Cornellá-El Prat (opened 2009) is the same metro line the apartments are (L5, Cornellá stop)
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Just got an e-mail from Brad Hales in Ghana. He seems to be doing well, glad to be alive, especially since he just finished a bout of Malaria. What a gruesome sickness. I hope he continues to improve and do well.
Stopped to visit a long lost cousin on Wednesday. Lori Kaye is her name. She was not raised knowing of the family, and for family history at least, I paid her a visit. We have been corresponding for a little over a year through e-mail. Well, it has been her husband who has been doing the corresponding. I stopped by their home a few months back but she was ill and I only met Larry. He was a nice man and they have a nice home. I left them a book on the Andra family for their perusal, and I needed to pick it up again. So I e-mailed, and they agreed to meet. They invited me over, and we ended up visiting about family for a couple of hours. It was really good. They are very cautious as none of their extended family know the circumstances. Plus to save turmoil, feelings, and any other problems that could be raised, there is not going to be any interaction any time to come. Perhaps someday when the applicable parties are gone, I will explain the details of the story for family history purposes. But for now, it will remain vouchsafed with those who are participants and knowledgeable of events. The 'skeleton' in the closet will have to be told for later generations. I am happy to report I do know the names of the two children. It was great to visit with a long lost cousin, one who is content with her current family makeup and not willing to rock the boat. Hopefully someday all parties involved can overcome their concerns and some reconciliation will occur.
The next night, Amanda and I, upon invitation of her parents went to the Desert Star for a play, Pirates 2. Quite honestly it was not worth the time. I enjoyed visiting and seeing the family, the meal (which Bryan graciously paid for), and some time to visit with Amanda. However, I think I much rather would have just met at an exit off the freeway. Some of the singing was even painful it was that bad. Such is life. The Potter Spoof was far better.
Anyhow, things are going well. We are headed to Idaho this weekend for Father's Day. Could be a few years before we make it back. Who knows what will be in Idaho or happening next time we venture back. We will remember to turn the light out when we leave.


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Famke Janssen
Celebrities Home / Entertainment HomeBeing recognized on screen as the sexy femme fatale who could crush a victim to death with her thighs may not sound ideal for any struggling actress, but the towering Dutch beauty has become the object of every man's fantasy ever since. Famke Janssen was born in Holland and lived with her parents and two sisters until she went off to New York in 1984 in search of a modeling career. After signing with the Elite modeling agency, Famke enrolled at Columbia University in writing and literature. After graduating from Columbia, Famke decided to pursue a career in acting and shortly left for Los Angeles where she took up acting lessons and landed a role in the film, "Fathers and Sons." Once Famke realized that Hollywood wouldn't be calling her for my gigs anytime soon, she accepted a number of TV offers for guest roles on popular series like "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "Melrose Place."
Famke finally returned to the big screen in her first successful film role in 1995 as the Soviet mafia assassin in "GoldenEye," also receiving an MTV award for "Best Fight" that same year. Famke's typecast role as a Hollywood femme fatale worried the actress so much that she decided to pull out of mainstream filmmaking for a few years, relishing in the production of smaller, independent features while still building credibility with her new adoring fans and the critics. Famke's recent popularity first knocked on her door in 2000, when kid director Bryan Singer offered her the role of Jean Grey in "X-Men," the first major comic book adaptation in over ten years. While Famke is currently still a relative unknown, her mark has a cult star has made it possible for her to jump from independent features to big budget action-vehicles with the freedom that most actresses would die for.
Famke Janssen on the Web
Famke Janssen at Maxim
Famke knows the score when it comes to superheroes. "...women want to be them and men want to do them. Or at least admire them from a distance." Got that right. Head over to Maxim to show Famke some admiration.
A database of Famke's film and TV appearances as well as a sidebar of interesting goodies.
TV Guide: Famke Janssen
Famke Janssen Videos, Interviews and More on TV Guide's Online Video Guide
The Famke Janssen Picture Site
This small website features three photo galleries and a mailing address to contact the actress.
Famke Janssen's Hut
A decent fan site with a handful of pictures, quotes and film reviews.
Slice of the Day
More hot pictures of the Dutch sex goddess.
Yahoo! Movies
Witness the staple Yahoo! biography in all its glory.
Cult Sirens
A very interesting site that traces Famke's acting roots through her status as a cult actress.
Forever Famke
The best fan site available with a biography, news and a database of interviews and articles.
Famke Janssen on the Screen
Famke's big screen success began with her turn as the villainous Bond girl in "GoldenEye," the first Bond film starring current spy-stud Pierce Brosnan, and the alien horror flick, "The Faculty." She later went on to star in large-scale independents like the Matt Damon/Ed Norton poker drama "Rounders" and the mobster comedy "Made," written, directed and starring the "Swingers" team of Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn, before making her way back to mainstream films. Famke's latest endeavors included the TV-to-film adaptation dud "I Spy" and the immensely popular "X-Men" franchise as the redheaded mutant Jean Grey. Famke's been around a lot in the movies lately, but there has yet to be a real breakout role for the thirty-something actress.
Famke Says
On her role in "X-Men":
"We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them."
On growing up in Holland:
"I felt different being born into a family with two sisters who are blonde and blue-eyed, with me being the only brunette, and then I started growing and growing and growing. I never seemed to stop. When I was 12, all my girlfriends seemed to come up to my waist."
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TIAX LLC Chosen by Argonne as Affiliate Member of Battery Hub
Jan 02, 2013, 12:51 EST
LEXINGTON, Mass., Jan. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TIAX LLC has been chosen by Argonne National Laboratory as an affiliate member company of the energy storage Hub to be known as the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), which combines the R&D capabilities of five U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories with selected companies and research universities.
"This is a partnership between world-leading scientists and world-leading companies, committed to ensuring that the advanced battery technologies the world needs will be invented and built right here in America," said Secretary of Energy Chu.
"The JCESR batteries and energy storage Hub gives us a new collaborative, inter-institutional R&D paradigm in which to develop the energy storage technologies that transform both the electricity grid and transportation," said Dr. Eric Isaacs, Director of Argonne.
The Hub award, funded for up to $120 million over five years, was selected through an open national competition with a rigorous merit review process that relied on outside expert reviewers. TIAX was part of the consortium formed for the grant application.
"We're very pleased to have TIAX as an affiliate member of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research," said Jeff Chamberlain, JCESR's Deputy Director of Development and Demonstration. "TIAX is the kind of affiliate company we are seeking because TIAX brings to the table a firm understanding of the challenges involved in developing high-impact advanced battery materials coupled with the equally important task of moving these types of innovations into the marketplace in a time-efficient way."
"TIAX is very pleased to have been selected for this impressive consortium and looks to the Argonne-led Hub to truly transform a nationally and globally critical technology. We applaud the pioneering work being done by Argonne and its leadership that will now guide a dense network of scientists, engineers, technologists and executives in the transition of technologies from labs and minds to products at hand. It is fitting that the press is likening this effort to the Manhattan project, which focused on energy release, with the Hub now focusing on energy storage," said Dr. Kenan Sahin, President and Founder of TIAX.
"Energy storage in advanced cost-effective batteries will enable the smart grid, solar, wind and other green energy sources. It will also shift emissions from the tailpipe to the smokestack where their harmful effects can be managed more effectively," added Dr. Sahin. "TIAX has been dedicated to evolving advanced battery materials and designs since its beginnings in 2002, focusing on taking early stage technologies to scaled-up and de-risked production and commercial readiness. TIAX sees such activities greatly expanded and amplified with the vast collaboration the Hub will enable."
About TIAX
Headquartered in Lexington, MA, TIAX LLC (www.TIAXLLC.com) develops and sells scalable, de-risked, prototyped, IP-protected technologies in clean-energy, energy storage, energy efficiency and advanced sensors with applications in vehicles, buildings and security.
TIAX lithium-ion battery-related technologies under development include a high performance electrolyte that functions at high-voltages and high-temperatures, a patented breakthrough silicon anode that lengthens battery run time, a novel active cell balancing system that improves battery life and safety, and an advanced sensor that detects electrical shorts inside cells to prevent safety-related events.
TIAX's CAM-7™ a leading cathode material for lithium-ion batteries, after 10 years of development, has been introduced to the market for portable electronics and transportation applications. Batteries using CAM-7 last longer, cost less and deliver more power. TIAX has built a plant in Massachusetts with a capacity up to 300 ton per year to produce CAM-7. The plant is operated by CAMX Power, a TIAX subsidiary.
About Argonne and JCESR
U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory (www.anl.gov), the nation's first national lab, conducts leading edge basic and applied scientific research in virtually every scientific discipline to advance America's scientific leadership and prepare the nation for a better future. The JCESR, which will be led by Argonne, is a major public-private partnership that integrates U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, major research universities and leading industrial companies to help advance cutting-edge energy storage and battery technologies.
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We won significant pay raises for state employees in recent legislative sessions. With Montana's current state revenue crisis, MEA-MFT has its work cut out to make sure decision-makers do the right thing for public employees.
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Better public support: Montana's nationally acclaimed Work That Matters campaign shows how public employees contribute to Montana's economy and communities. It's part of our effort to build public support for our members and the valuable work you do.
Professional development: MEA-MFT offers conferences and workshops especially for public employees on topics such as communication skills, workplace conflict, interview skills, time and stress management, workplace safety, and more. We also offer leadership training, labor-management relations, grievance processing, and contract negotiation.
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- Schutz multicolored Zendy sandals
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Designer InformationBold and edgy designs define the Schutz brand. With silhouettes ranging from daring stilettos to natty flats, the Brazilian-based label has shoes for any occasion, making it the go-to for fashion insiders. Even style heroine Olivia Palermo has been spotted in the 'Irma' pumps more than once.
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Delaware is currently launching a statewide teacher recruitment effort, Join Delaware Schools.
Delaware is currently launching a statewide teacher recruitment effort, Join Delaware Schools.
The campaign aims to attract the caliber of teachers necessary to realize the state's vision of a world-class education system for all students. The campaign is also launching an online teacher recruitment portal, joindelawareschools.org, which gives applicants a one-stop site to look and learn about education jobs in the state.
Governor Jack Markell met with education students at the University of Delaware Wednesday to encourage them in their studies and stress the importance of retaining top teachers in Delaware schools. Over the next several months, the state will launch a promotional campaign and host recruitment events in partnership with the state's colleges and universities and districts and charter schools. The site will be updated with other information, such as professional development opportunities, state- and district-wide news and events, survey results and blogs.
The University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration will also release its Delaware Teacher and Administrator Supply and Demand Survey Analysis Report. The report charts the trends of teacher and administrator hiring, difficult-to-fill positions, late hiring and other factors important to the success of the state's public schools. The report highlights an increase in earlier hiring for the 2012-13 school year, with 52.9 percent of hires in July or earlier, as compared to 51.4 percent in 2011 and 35.7 percent in 2010. Through the new portal, the hopes to improve upon its recruitment efforts and continue the trend of earlier hiring in the coming years.
For more information: joindelawareschools.org or to view the report, visit ipa.udel.edu/publications/teacher_supply13.pdf.


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Escape into Romance Luxury Ocean Front Cliff Villas Imagine private villa living with a backdrop exposed to the element of the ocean
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Luxury Ocean Front Cliff Villas
Imagine private villa living with a backdrop exposed to the element of the ocean. Intimate dining moments against the orange tinged Balinese Sunset, or simply taking time out to marvel at the evening sky studded with a thousand dancing stars.
Blue Point Bay Villas & Spa has designed to harmonize with the surrounding environment and reflect the true elegance of Balinese artistry. Consist of 31 Villas and 52 Deluxe building rooms. The romantic idea resolved in a concept, combining state of the art comfort with the genuine Indian Ocean view. Probably there is no comparison to this area in Bali, possibly in the world.
Blue Point Bay Villas & Spa is luxury ocean front villas located on the top of cliff, the southern shore of Bali, right on the pristine Uluwatu ~ Pecatu Village offering it's incredible location with serenity, tranquility and unobstructed view of Indian Ocean for nature lover.
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Dean's Welcome
Welcome to the Michigan State University College of Engineering, where we are engineering a healthier, safer, and more sustainable world.
The college has recently embarked on a number of initiatives designed to ensure our leadership in many new and exciting areas of research and education as we address the National Academy of Engineers "Grand Challenges for the 21st Century."
We have several federally funded research centers in addition to research centers that are sponsored by industry and other funding agencies - BEACON, an NSF Science and Technology Center for the Study of Evolution in Action; the Energy Frontier Research Center; the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center; and the Composite Vehicle Research Center. We have established the Center for Engineering Education Research (CEER) @ MSU, with the goal of becoming an internationally recognized resource for STEM research.
Our Engineering Residential Experience and Cornerstone Engineering programs immerse undergraduate students in a living-learning community, where they are encouraged to participate in "theme" communities brought together around important issues. The themed areas of the residence hall engage students around a different problem or theme, in areas like transportation, sustainability, or energy. For example, the Energy Theme would bring together freshmen interested in energy-related issues confronting society. These students would brainstorm technical solutions and societal transformations necessary for growth and well-being in the future. Consumers Energy and GE Transportation are our first two corporate sponsors in this program. This innovative approach has the potential to connect students with their passion early on and, incidentally, serves as a vehicle to connect students with issues that the National Academy of Engineering has outlined as "The Grand Challenges of the 21st Century."
Below is an overview of some of our top research centers, projects, programs, and accomplishments.
I invite you to browse our web pages to read more about our groundbreaking research, our award-winning faculty, and our superb students and their many accomplishments. For additional facts about the college, please go to http://www.egr.msu.edu/about.
We further invite you to call us for more information, or to set up a time to come and visit our beautiful campus.
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About This Life-Size Figure
From the sci-fi classic 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day', Sideshow Collectibles is proud to bring Terminator collectors the T-800 Endoskeleton - Version 2.0, standing atop an impressive display base littered with human skulls and debris and is weathered to be more film accurate. Standing over 6 feet tall, the T-800 Endoskeleton is high quality polystone, fiberglass, metals and other materials, complete with light-up eye features (power cord/plug-in). The T-800 Endoskeleton - Version 2.0 is a stunning and imposing piece, sure to become the centerpiece to any collection or display.
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- Terminator
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- Sideshow Collectibles
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- 77" H (1955.8mm) x 38" W (965.2mm) x 53" D (1346.2mm)
6" H (152.4mm) x 38" W (965.2mm) x 38" D (965.2mm)*
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- 42.00" H (1066.8mm) x 47.00" W (1193.8mm) x 47.00" L (1193.8mm)*
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T-800 Endoskeleton Version 2.0 Life-Size Figure
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Wikinvest Brings $16 Billion in Portfolio-Tracking to Android and Blackberry, 11/18/2010
"Charles Schwab doesn't have an Android app, a Blackberry app, or even an iPhone app. Many brokerages are in the same boat, or if they do have a mobile app it is only on the iPhone. Starting later today, brokerage customers of Schwab, Fidelity, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and more than 60 other brokerages will be able to track their portfolios on new mobile Android and Blackberry apps from Wikinvest. "
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Wikinvest Launches on the iPhone, 8/25/2010
"Wikinvest today launches its mobile initiative with its iPhone app, now live in the Apple store. As brokerages and the finance industry in general are usually late to the mobile and Internet game, the Wikinvest app is one of the first that allows iPhone users mobile access to their personal portfolios as well as the latest investment news."
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Wikinvest offers a new portfolio tracking tool, 7/26/2010
"Wikinvest is a free website that allows users to post, read and discuss financial information. The site recently launched a portfolio tracking tool that can download your financial information from brokers and banks. The creators' goal was to develop a tool that would eliminate manually entering portfolio data and combine multiple accounts into one location."
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Wikinvest Already Tracking $1 Billion in Portfolio Assets, 6/21/2010
"Sometimes a startup rolls out a new feature, and it just hits the sweet spot of what consumers are craving. It looks like Wikinvest has a hit on its hands with its new realtime portfolio tracker. Less than three weeks after its launch, Wikinvest is tracking $1 billion worth of real investments tied to the real brokerage accounts of about 10,000 members."
Read the full article on techcrunch.com
Wikinvest Launches Online Equity Portfolio Manager, 6/19/2010
"THERE'S A LOT OF FREE portfolio management systems on the Internet—just not a lot of good ones. Nearly every financial Website has something it calls a "portfolio," but most are little more than stock-watch lists.
That's why Wikinvest's (www.wikinvest.com) new portfolio-management tool is so welcome. The free tool from the company co-founded by Parker Conrad and Mike Sha, is barely out of beta testing, yet it's already the most advanced portfolio manager online. Intuit's Quicken software tops it, but its Internet money site Mint. com doesn't. Wikinvest's portfolio manager is attractive, easily grasped and makes sense of the firm's other free services."
Read the full article on Barron's
Wikinvest Adds Real-Time Portfolio Tracking, 6/4/2010
"The world of portfolio tracking got much simpler on Wednesday with the introduction of a new investment tracking tool from Wikinvest. The free service allows users to import information directly from existing brokerage and investment accounts, synchronizes the data, and then presents real-time information about the combined portfolio's performance."
Read the full article on PC World
Wikinvest Introduces Tool to Track Investments, 6/3/2010
"Mint.com helps Web users who are willing to enter their bank and credit card account information track their spending and savings. Now another start-up called Wikinvest wants to do the same thing for investments."
Read the full article in the New York Times
At Long Last: Real-Time Portfolio Tracking, Courtesy of Wikinvest, 6/2/2010
"It's the moment all you finance and stock market junkies have all been waiting for: real-time, streaming, all-inclusive tracking of your portfolio drawn from whichever combination of popular brokerages you use.
Wikinvest, the startup perhaps best known for its customizable, embeddable, annotatable stock charts, is spreading its wings in the personal finance space with a new portfolio tracking program released Wednesday.
Read the full article in Wired
Wikinvest tracks your stock portfolio in real time, 6/2/2010
"A startup called Wikinvest has been trying to challenge established financial sites like Yahoo Finance by offering interactive, data-rich features. And it's showing even more ambition today with a new tool that allows users to import and track their stock portfolios.
If you're an active investor, the odds are you can already track your stocks by logging onto the websites of your various brokerages. But Wikinvest does for your investments what Mint.com does for bank accounts — it makes them easier to manage by showing you the data from all of those accounts in on place. Users can group their investments by market capitalization or industry, customize the data they see by designing their own dashboards, and view real returns that factor in things like interest and fees. The service currently supports 25 major brokerages."
Read the full article on VentureBeat
Online Investing Tools Refine the Personal Touch, 5/28/2010
"What's cool: The ability to mouse over a company's metrics and see them instantly represented visually in a graph showing change over time and in a chart that rates the company against industry peers."
Where to Get Your Perspective, 3/8/2010
"IS WIKINVEST (www.wikinvest.com) just another Web hangout where the investing crowd tries to wise up? Maybe. But Wikinvest does it differently than most bottom-up social media and blogging communities. The differences are subtle, so you really have to check it out to appreciate them fully."
Wikinvest Hopes Redesign Will Attract The Yahoo Finance Crowd, 6/24/2009
"Finance sites like Yahoo Finance and Google Finance haven't changed much in the past ten years. The fonts are different. Maybe there's some more real-time quotes and fancier, interactive charts. But at their core they all follow pretty much the same formula: dump as much data on the individual investor as they can and let them figure it out. Wikinvest, which started out as a crowd-sourced investing site, is trying to change all of that with a complete redesign that is being turned on tonight for members who log in."Read more
Wikinvest Aims for Yahoo Finance in Redesign, 6/24/2009
"Wikinvest is launching new, data-rich features on its user-contributed finance site Thursday that it hopes will challenge the big players in the online financial space. Its changes include embeddable charts and far more information on companies' operating metrics. A page on Southwest Airlines, for example, provides its fuel cost per gallon, fleet size and average fare, while Apple's includes data on iPhone, iPod and Mac sales as well as research and development costs per quarter."
Read the full article in the Wall Street Journal
Wikinvest Aims to Make Financial Data Searches More Efficient, 6/24/2009
"It can be difficult to find all of a company's financial data in one place on the web. Sites such as Google Finance and Yahoo! Finance are good in a pinch, but can take awhile to sift through. San Francisco, Calif.-based Wikinvest is introducing a series of new features to its site today aimed at making searching for financial information more efficient."
Read the full article on GigaOM
Offering Free Investment Advice by Anonymous Volunteers, 2/8/2009
"Wikinvest, which recently licensed some content to the Web sites of USA Today and Forbes, seeks to be an alternative to Web portals that are little more than "a data dump" of income statements and government filings...Users annotate stock charts with notes explaining peaks and valleys, edit company profiles and opine about whether to buy or sell. The site is creating a wire service with articles from finance blogs and building a cheat sheet to guide readers through financial filings by defining terms and comparing a company's performance to competitors'."
Read the full article in the New York Times
Wikinvest Stock Charts Find Their Way Onto USAToday.com and Forbes.com, 12/31/2008
"San Francisco startup Wikinvest is making inroads as a stock data provider for media Websites. Its embeddable, annotatable charts now grace the stock pages of USAToday. Beginning next week, they will also power the stock charts on Forbes.com, replacing its current stock data provider, INVESTools. (On USAToday, the Wikinvest charts are supplementing the main charts)." Read more
Add Stock Quotes To Every Post With Upcoming Wikinvest Plugin, 12/22/2008
"Financial bloggers are going to like this one. Wikinvest is getting ready to release a Livequotes plugin that automatically adds a stock quote every time a publicly traded company is mentioned in a post. It auto-detects company names and adds the ticker symbol, price, and the percent change in parentheses after the name, with links to the Wikinvest page for that stock. It also can add links for financial terms and definitions such as "PEG ratio" or "price to book." Read more
As the Markets Melt, Wikinvest Wire Launches To Offer Advice From Financial Blogs, 10/9/2008
"The current market gyrations have investors running everywhere seeking advice. What better time to launch a newswire culled from the latest posts of financial bloggers? That's the idea behind Wikinvest Wire, which has just been launched by the user-edited investment site Wikinvest. Except that it is not really a newswire in the traditional sense. It is more like a contextual recommendation system for the blogs invited to participate." Read more
Wikinvest Gives the World Embeddable, Interactive Stock Charts, 7/31/2008
"But starting today you can get interactive, embeddable WikiCharts like the one below from Wikinvest. Hold the mouse down over the chart and you can pan it from left to right. Hover over the line and you will get date, price, and volume, information." Read more
Wikinvest Launches Wiki for Financial Data, 4/15/2008
"Wikinvest, the stock research wiki, today announced the launch of Wikidata, bringing a new depth of investing insight, for free, to the general public. Wikidata applies the same principles behind Wikinvest -- making quality investment information available to everyone -- to financial data previously available only through expensive subscriptions or in dense regulatory filings. "
Read the full article on Marketwire
Better Ways to Build Wealth on the Web, 4/7/2008
"Wikinvest is a classic example. Like other Wiki sites, this one, launched last October by two former Harvard roommates, is set up to allow users to create content and edit existing entries. The sense of an enduring single document, as opposed to the posts on sites such as Yahoo Finance that disappear off the page as more recent posts accumulate, encourages contributors to put more thought and care into the content they post, say founders Parker Conrad and Mike Sha."
Read the full article in BusinessWeek
Filtering the noise and creating the signal, 2/8/2008
"The design is excellent, as is the ease of use. There are already quite comprehensive entries on a number of topics, including subprime lending and Rock Bank vs. Guitar Hero. This latter entry provides a compelling example of the attractiveness of alternative research sites like Wikinvest - FT Alphaville hasn't seen any broker notes recently that highlight the companies benefiting from the success of these titles..."
Wikinvest to Add Unique Comp Data For Stock Research, 2/6/2008
"By the end of next week, Wikinvest is planning on introducing a new feature to help investors dig deeper...Each industry has its own unique set of comparable metrics by which analysts and professional investors gauge the health and productivity of the companies in that industry. For airlines, it might be fuel costs, revenue per available seat-mile, cost per available seat-mile, and load factors (what percentage of seats are sold per flight)." Read more
Read the full article in the Financial Times
Investors get some free tips, 12/9/2007
"Wikinvest adds information you need to understand a company's business and future prospects."
Read the full article in The San Francisco Chronicle
Latest Research Class: Social Studies, 11/5/2007
"OR YOU CAN JOIN San Francisco's Wikinvest (www.wikinvest.com), founded in 2006 by a couple of (what else?) Harvard roommates with the goal of creating the world's largest investment research wiki. A wiki is a repository of community-generated information; the best-known example, of course, is the online encyclopedia Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.com), which has spawned its own language and social mores."
Wikinvest Closes $2.5 Million for Investing Wiki, 10/1/2007
"Wikinvest does a good job of providing business focused company profiles, which include market information and product histories...They also have a very novel feature, WikiCharts, which let users explain trends across real-time share price graphs through embedded comments." Read more
Wikinvest Brings Web 2.0 to Investing Research, 10/1/2007
"Wikinvest, the wiki for investors, today announced the availability of its free, collaborative resource for investment research. Wikinvest brings a broad spectrum of practical information about companies, trends, and issues to a Web 2.0 world. Unlike conventional finance portals that display the same financial statistics, Wikinvest explains the deeper story behind an investment, giving investors the context needed to understand what they are betting on when purchasing a particular stock, or investing in a specific sector."
Read the full article on Marketwire
Wikinvest: Social Stock Picking And Analysis, 8/9/2007
"The site is constantly updated with new user information and new stock quotes, so it should prove an incredibly useful tool for those of us not strong enough to weather a Jim Cramer rant daily. My favorite part of the site is a section called Concepts, where users can list a company or product (for example, the iPhone) that may affect the future of other companies."
Read the full article in Wired
"...promising to be a constantly updated resource that reflects more than just a single expert's opinion of a certain company..."


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About ghost
Yes, I live in a real haunted house, but I realized there was something else to it. What was haunting me was the notion I was capable of doing more with my life. I have unfinished songs. Hundreds of them. It's haunted me for years, on an hourly basis.
I'm doing something similar, but it's a better deal.
it's a commissioned painting on their album cover
+ a custom audio track


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Litoria aurea
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Litoria aurea (Lesson, 1830)
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|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Frost, D.R. 2014. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6 (27 January 2014). New York, USA. Available at: http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.html. (Accessed: 27 January 2014).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Vulnerable A2ace ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
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|Jean-Marc Hero, Graeme Gillespie, Harold Cogger, Frank Lemckert, Peter Robertson
|Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson and Neil Cox)
Listed as Vulnerable because of a population decline, estimated to be more than 30% over the last ten years, based on an observed reduction in the number of mature individuals, Area of Occupamcy, number of locations, the extent and quality of its habitats, and the effects of chytridiomycosis and introduced predators.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This Australian species has been recorded along the south-east coast from East Gippsland in Victoria, north to approximately Byron Bay in north-east New South Wales (Gillespie 1996; White and Pyke 1996). Most records are from elevations below 100m asl. North of Sydney, there were a few high-elevation records of the species and almost all records were east of the Great Divide (the only discrepant records are from Armidale and Ebor) (White and Pyke 1996). On the Southern Tablelands, the species does not appear to occur above 800m asl (Osborne, Littlejohn and Thomson 1996) and in Victoria the species does not appear to occur above about 670m asl (Gillespie 1996). Populations occur on two offshore islands in New South Wales, Bowen Island in Jervis Bay (Osborne and McElhinney 1996) and Broughton Island north of Port Stephens (New South Wales NPWS Atlas 1998). It remains unknown whether or not these populations are relictual or the result of assisted translocation (Mahony 1999). It has been introduced to New Zealand and is widespread across northern North Island, and pet traders have moved it between the North and South Islands. It is also introduced to New Caledonia and New Hebrides (Tyler 1979).
|Countries occurrence:
Introduced:New Caledonia; New Zealand
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
|Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.
|This species was formerly considered to be common throughout its range (Tyler 1992). Since about 1960, declines in the distribution and abundance of the species have been observed to the extent that it may now be regarded as rare (White and Pyke 1996). In New South Wales, the species has disappeared completely from all highland areas above 250m asl and coastal populations have been reduced in number and are more isolated from other populations (White and Pyke 1996). Osborne, Littlejohn and Thomson (1996) observed that the species had declined in the Australian Capital Territory and had not been recorded from the Southern Tablelands since 1980. Declines in abundance have been observed in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory (White and Pyke 1996; Osborne, Littlejohn and Thomson 1996; Lewis and Goldingay 1999; Goldingay and Lewis 1999), although no similar decline in distribution and abundance in Victoria is so far apparent (Gillespie 1996). Recent censuses of populations throughout the distribution of the species indicate that many are small, with most estimates being less than 20 adults (White and Pyke 1996). In New Zealand, where the species has been introduced, there are many thousands of individuals, but local declines have been observed with chytridiomycosis and introduced Gambusia fish being implicated.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|The natural habitat requirements of the species have proved difficult to define because it has been associated with almost every type of water body except fast-flowing streams (Pyke and White 1996). There also appears to be some confusion over whether or not forested habitats are utilized by the species (Lemckert 1996; Gillespie 1996). Pyke and White (1996) examined sites where L. aurea is known to have been present, and compared the habitat at sites where breeding was identified with that at locations where breeding was not identified, in New South Wales. Sites which supported breeding populations were found to contain waterbodies which are still, shallow, ephemeral, unpolluted, unshaded, with aquatic plants and generally free of Gambusia and other predatory fish (but not always); adjacent terrestrial habitats consisted of grassy areas and vegetation no higher than woodlands, and a range of diurnal shelter sites. Breeding occurred in a significantly higher proportion of sites with ephemeral ponds rather than sites with fluctuating or permanent ponds, and where predatory fish were absent. Mahony (1999) commented on the limitations of the study and suggested that the results do not necessarily identify the requirements of the species prior to declines. It is worthy to note that the use of ephemeral breeding sites was not a feature associated with members of the bell frog group in earlier habitat descriptions (Mahony 1999). Pyke and White (1996) suggest that the habitat requirements of L. aurea in New South Wales and Victoria differ. In New South Wales the species occupies disturbed habitats and breeding largely occurs in ephemeral ponds (Pyke and White 1996). However, in Victoria it occupies habitats with little human disturbance and commonly breeds in permanent ponds as well as ephemeral ponds (Pyke and White 1996). Goldingay (1996) argued that this is because most natural habitats are degraded or lost in New South Wales. In Victoria the species is predominantly found on the coastal plains and low foothills of the hinterland where it has been recorded in a range of lentic and terrestrial habitats (Gillespie 1996). Breeding has been documented from dams in both forested and cleared areas, swamps in farmland, gravel pits, billabongs, marshes, coastal lagoon wetlands, wet swale herb lands and isolated stream-side pools (Gillespie 1996). These habitats are mostly permanent, but include some ephemeral waterbodies (Gillespie 1996). All habitats are characterized by stationary water (Gillespie 1996). Virtually all isolated waterbodies are free of native fish species and typically have dense emergent vegetation (Gillespie 1996). It can be found in a variety of terrestrial habitats including lowland forest, banksia woodland, wet heath land, riparian scrub complex, riparian shrubland, riparian forest, damp forest, shrubby dry forest and cleared pastoral lands (Gillespie 1996). It is seasonally active and has been observed from September to early May (Daly 1995). Males call between September and March. Spawn is laid amongst aquatic vegetation and has been observed in December, January and February (Daly 1995). Counts of eight egg masses ranged from 2,463-11,682 eggs (van de Mortel and Goldingay 1998). Eggs hatch within three days and metamorphosis can take from 2-11 months (Daly 1995); however, six weeks appears to be an average duration for the field (R. Goldingay pers. comm.).
|Terrestrial; Freshwater
|Use and Trade:
|This species is mainly collected as a byproduct of another farming industry.
|Major Threat(s):
|The cause(s) of the apparent declines observed in populations of all taxa within the L. aurea complex are unclear (Gillespie, Osborne and McElhinney 1995). Investigations of disappearances among the group have primarily focused on L. aurea and L. castanea and two major directions in research have been pursued: the role of increased ultraviolet radiation; and the impact of the introduced fish, Gambusia (Mahony 1999). It is also possible that disease, such as a viral infection or chytrid fungus, might have contributed to the decline of this species (W. Osborne pers. comm.). Chytrid fungus was detected in this species in Hoskinstown and Homebush Bay in Sydney, New South Wales.
|Conservation Actions:
|There has been a lot of research into threats to the species and movement towards a conservation strategy. Its range includes several protected areas. As an introduced species in New Zealand it has the potential to spread chytridiomycosis to areas inhabited by native frogs. There is a cooperative program between Taronga Zoo and a range of NSW agencies and NGO's, involving breeding and release at a number of sites close to Sydney. This program is currently under review.
|Jean-Marc Hero, Graeme Gillespie, Harold Cogger, Frank Lemckert, Peter Robertson. 2004. Litoria aurea. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T12143A3325402. . Downloaded on 23 September 2018.
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Media Campaign Against Craigslist Continues, As WaPo Writes Article About Its Own Anti-Craigslist Advertiser
from the conflict? dept
The story, of course, is the same one that a bunch of politicians have been grandstanding over. There is prostitution on Craigslist. No doubt about it. Craigslist has set up a few different systems over the past couple of years to try to stop it, but of course, people always figure out ways to get around such blocks. The problem, now, is that all these politicians and media types seem to want to blame Craigslist, rather than blame the people actually involved in the prostitution rings. As we've noted time and time again, law enforcement agencies that work with Craigslist have found that it's a great tool for fighting illegal prostitution and breaking up prostitution rings. Craigslist actually has set up a special interface for law enforcement to use for this purpose.
The Washington Post notes exactly none of this. Instead, it asks why Craig Newmark hasn't responded to the "open letter" from a girl who was sold as an underage prostitute via the site a few years back (well before Craigslist set up these new restrictions). Separately, CNN ran a similar anti-Craigslist opinion piece written by the same group who bought the newspaper ads. At least CNN allowed Craigslist's Jim Buckmaster an opening to reply.
Obviously, this is a topic that creates an emotional response in many -- as it should. Underage girls forced into prostitution is a horrifying problem, and I'm all for doing anything possible to bring those actually responsible to justice. The problem is that putting the blame on Craigslist doesn't do anything to help solve the problem. If anything, it will make it much worse. It certainly won't stop those involved in forcing girls into prostitution rings. It certainly won't stop those rings from operating. It certainly won't stop the ability of individuals to find these rings via the internet. The only thing it will do is push that information further underground, to platforms and services that aren't willing to work with law enforcement and don't actually help efforts to stop such things. Blaming Craigslist is exactly the wrong approach and makes the problem worse. I read the open letter to Craig, and for very good reasons, it breaks your heart to hear about the horrible things that happened to these girls. But, in reading it, I can't help but wonder why their anger and questions are directed at Craig, rather than those who sold them as prostitutes.


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French house, Garland, ca. 1920Item 8826 info
Garland Historical Society
The Eben French house, or Gene French house, later the Grover home in Garland.
Trout Brook Farm, Piscataquis County, 1915Item 8538 info
Patten Lumbermen's Museum
Trout Brook Farm Building in the winter in 1915. Trout Brook Farm was located in eastern Piscataquis County in an area that is now part of Baxter State Park.
Old Hamlen Estate, Gorham, ca. 1920Item 6829 info
Maine Historical Society
The back of this photograph reads "Now Johnson Rd. and made into apartments, called Holliday Farm."
The image is of the "Old Hamlen Estate" in Gorham.
Giddinge home, Danville, ca. 1895Item 6685 info
Androscoggin Historical Society
Mr. and Mrs. Hackett and Mrs. Tibbetts stand outside their farmhouse in Danville, near Auburn.
10 Bodwell Street, Sanford, ca 1900Item 9947 info
Sanford-Springvale Historical Society
10 Bodwell Street (formerly #6), Sanford. This was the home of Haven Roberts and his family for the first half of the 20th century. Haven was Sheriff of York County from 1917 to 1924.
The house was converted into two apartments in the 1930s and the barn became another housing unit in the 1950s. The porch was later stripped off and the house covered with vinyl siding.
Seboeis FarmItem 8269 info
Patten Lumbermen's Museum
Front view of extensive Seboeis Farm farmhouse and its surrounding yard and woods.


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Luten, Daniel B. (1869-1946) | Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
Daniel B. Luten, Designing and Consulting Engineer, Indianapolis, Indiana, was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1869. He was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1894 with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. He was then appointed Instructor in Civil Engineering at the University of Michigan, assistant to Professor Charles E. Greene, one of the foremost authorities on the elastic theory of arch analysis, and author of Greene's Graphic Method of Truss and Arch Analysis.
After one year he resigned this position to become Instructor in Architectural Engineering at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, including the courses in arch design and theory of hydraulics. In 1900 he resigned from the faculty of Purdue University to practice engineering, and after one year in general practice of roads and pavements, entered actively on the design and construction of reinforced concrete bridges. After 1901 he followed this specialty exclusively.
During the first five years he designed and contracted and erected approximately five hundred concrete bridges. After 1906 he limited his practice to design and supervision only and did not include contracting or construction. During the twenty-three years of experience in this specialty, he supervised the design of approximately 20,000 concrete bridges, of which over 13,000 have been erected of spans from five to 192 1/2 feet each.
He conducted numerous experiments on reinforced concrete and on arches and has published approximately one hundred articles in technical journals. Some of the more important are published in the following journals: Engineering News, February 15, 1900; June 13, 1901; May 8, 1902; March 5, 1905; May 11, 1905; March 29, 1906; May 3, 1906; May 10, 1906; May 24, 1906; June 28, 1906; July 19, 1906; September 27, 1906; February 27, 1908; June 19, 1913; Railroad Gazette, May 11, 18, 1900; September 12, 1902; October 3, 1902; April 20, 1906; Harper's Weekly, Sept. 22, 1900; Cement, July, 1905; August 15, 1908; Good Roads Magazine, November, 1906; October, 1908; January, 1909; Concrete, May, 1912; Journal of Western Society of Engineers, September, 1912.
He delivered numerous illustrated lectures on permanent bridges before engineering societies and was equipped with five hundred colored stereopticon views of bridges. He had an organized staff of twelve assistant engineers and thirty-five associate engineers located in all parts of the United States, Canada, and Australia. He made numerous improvements in design and erection of concrete bridges.
He was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Member of the American Federation of Arts, Member of the Western Society of Engineers, Member of the American Association of Engineers, Member of the American Society of Engineers, Member of the American Concrete Institute, Member of the American Roadbuilders Association, Member of the Indiana Engineering Society, Member of the Iowa Engineering Society, Member of Illinois Society of Engineers, Member Engineering Society of Wisconsin, Member of the Indiana Board for Registration of Professional Engineers, and registered as a Professional Engineer in all states requiring registration.


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The wee ones sitting on low benches are a captive audience despite all the distracting rows of shelves full of toys and books around them.
The wee ones sitting on low benches are a captive audience despite all the distracting rows of shelves full of toys and books around them.
They are singing the nursery rhyme "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed."
You know how it goes - one fell off and bumped his head.
"Do you jump on the bed?" asks Dorothy Maas, the storyteller at Barnes & Noble bookstore at Weberstown Mall on Pacific Avenue in Stockton. "No, you could get hurt."
One little boy can totally relate.
"I did that once," he yells.
The bookstore offers story hour at 11 a.m. Thursdays and Saturdays in its kids' department.
Maas, who retired as children's librarian from the Lodi Public Library in 2000, reads several stories to the dozens of tots gathered on a recent Thursday.
One she will read from the Nook tablet and others from hardcover storybooks.
Then she does a short little puppet show.
"We want to encourage a love of reading," Maas said. "It's also a way to bring people into the store and introduce them to what we have here."
Maas tells the parents and grandparents about the store's Kids Club, which offers discounts, rewards and a birthday treat.
Around holidays, story hour features a fun activity.
"We are doing a Valentine's Day celebration a little early," Margaret Sacchet, community relations manager at the book store, said of today's activity at Barnes & Noble. "We will have our 11 a.m. story hour and then from noon to 7 p.m., anyone who purchases a cupcake in our cafe can decorate it with sprinkles and frosting we provide."
For families with toddlers, local story hours - many are held at public libraries - are a fun and educational way to pass some time.
"I used to come with my granddaughter years ago and now my grandson is old enough to come," Linda McAllister said as she watched Spencer McAllister, 5, tell his grandfather that he'd like to go to the Children's Museum next. "It's so good for them to learn to sit and listen to a story and then to get to socialize with the others."
Contact reporter Jo Ann Kirby at (209) 546-8256 or email@example.com.


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Broward's justice system is apparently doing their part to keep old people off of the roads in South Florida. Only next time, they might want to get their facts straight.
Police arrested 78-year-old Gabrielle Shaink Trudeau in November for driving with a suspended license and the grandmother was jailed for more than two weeks before someone figured out her license wasn't suspended after all, according to the BrowardBulldog.org.
Trudeau was released at the behest of a Broward County judge who didn't mince words about who really deserved to be shackled.
"I want her released. I think she's suffered enough at our system's mistakes," Circuit Judge Lee Seidman wrote in his court order.
The problem for poor Trudeau was, well, she's poor. She had no one to represent her in court and the Public Defender's Office failed to appear at her arraignment, which may have solved the problem immediately.
"We fell down and we fell down badly," Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein told BrowardBulldog.
Trudeau's problems with the law started after she was pulled over a few months earlier by police for driving her car too slowly. That caused the DMV to question her ability to drive. The grandma's license was revoked pending a review of her skills.
Then, after receiving a notice in the mail saying that her driving privileges had been restored, Broward Sheriff's Office showed up at her door with a warrant for Trudeau's arrest. Apparently they didn't get the memo.
"They came on real strong, like I had killed somebody or something," Trudeau said. "There were neighbors all around. They put handcuffs on me. It was very embarrassing."
Trudeau had to spend Thanksgiving in jail instead of with her family.
Prosecutors have dropped the charges against her and offered an apology.


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Britney Spears Brings The Circus To The Capitol
Britney Spears performs a 90-minute set on her comeback Circus tour and reveals some new outfits on Tuesday (March 23) at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC.
Sources close to the 27-year-old singer has been receiving messages over phone and mail, threatening her life and to kidnap her sons during her Circus tour.
It was also recently reported that Britney's estate that holds most of her assets paid at least $2.7 million in lawyers' fees and costs during the initial 11 months of the court-ordered conservatorship.
Britney will likely be traveling to to Australia later this year, in her first tour of the country.
10+ pictures inside of Britney Spears bringing the Circus to the capitol…


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(RNN) - Clear and Present Danger and Against all Enemies author Tom Clancy died Tuesday Oct. 1. He was 66.
The best-selling author was best known for his for techno thrillers and espionage.
Click here to see more notable deaths of 2013: http://www.nbc12.com/link/642359/slideshow-notable-deaths-of-2013
In 1984, he wrote his first novel The Hunt for Red October, since then over 50 million copies of his books have been printed, 10 books have been No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list and three books have become movies.
The Hunt for Red October was the first novel of Clancy's Hollywood made into a movie. Released in 1990, the film boasted A-list stars like Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin.
According to the Associated Press, President Reagan got The Hunt for Red October as a Christmas gift and he lost sleep because he couldn't put the book down. Clancy later said that helped put him on the New York Times best-seller list.
Clancy's books include: The Hunt for Red October, The Sum of All Fears, Rainbow Six, Cardinal of the Kremlin, Debt of Honor, Red Storm Rising, Without Remorse, Clear and Present Danger, Executive Orders and Patriot Games.
Some books written by Clancy are required readings at some U.S. military schools.
According to the Associated Press, Clancy graduated from Loyola College in Baltimore in 1969 and married his wife Wanda. He joined her family's insurance business, all the while scribbling down ideas for a novel.
After the Sept. 11 attacks, Clancy said on Fox News that liberal politicians were partly responsible because of the cuts made to the CIA.
Clancy never served in the armed forces, but has had an interest in naval history since he was child.
The cause of death wasn't immediately known, but The New York Times reports that he died in Baltimore, his hometown.
According to CNN, his new novel Command Authority is scheduled for publication in December.
Copyright 2013 Raycom News Network. All rights reserved.


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Radiocarbon and Deepwater Mass Changes in the Western North Atlantic During the Past 2000 Years: A Late Holocene Deepwater Study
OCCI Funded Project: 2005
Proposed ResearchThis project aims to characterize Holocene* climate variability in the western North Atlantic through radiocarbon dating of sediments taken from critical areas in the North Atlantic. Strong ocean-atmosphere interactions make the western North Atlantic a climatic "center of action" - Subtropical surface waves feed the Gulf stream, southwestward flowing surface waters reflect the local subpolar climate as well as conditions in the Labrador and Greenland Seas. Deeper waters from these regions sculpt the continental margin and focus sediments in drift deposits containing high-resolution records of deep circulation and other paleoclimate signals. In these sediment drift deposits paleoceanographers have identified large changes in the Atlantic Ocean's "conveyor" circulation during glacial times. Prior to the Holocene, suppression or reduction of the conveyor has resulted in rapid and sustained episodes of cold climate.
Evidence of Holocene climate change is known from many locations around the globe, but the cause is unknown. One hypothesis is that cold events of recent millennia, such as the Little Ice Age, reflect the same processes as during glaciation. The problem in testing this idea is that the Holocene climate signals are much smaller, and the data are noisier and sometimes ambiguous. Recently, we have used radiocarbon (14C) in benthic forams as a tracer for the strength of the conveyor in sediments from the Bermuda Rise in the Sargasso Sea. This region is known to be an area of high sediment accumulation rates, which preserve the history of millennial- and centennial-scale variability in climate extending through today.The preliminary 14C results from the Bermuda Rise show that, during the Little Ice Age of a few hundred years ago, there was increased production of North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW). This 14C method has never before been used for events such as the Little Ice Age, and the first results suggest that, in the recent past, there was actually more NADW than today. Importantly, this result is the opposite of what one would expect for a cool event, based on the conveyor's behavior during glacial times. If supported by further data, this result suggests that the climate system operates differently in the Holocene than during glaciation. To confirm this important result we propose three tasks: (1) to complete the data series for the last 1000 years on the Bermuda Rise, (2) to extend the series to earlier cold events in the Holocene, and (3) to develop similar data series from two other locations in the western North Atlantic. Altogether, we plan on obtaining 30 Accelerated Mass Spectrometer (AMS) 14C dates from the Bermuda Rise samples and 50 AMS 14C dates from other locations.
*Holocene: The geologic period since the end of the
retreat of the glaciers about 11,000 years ago to the present time;
also known as the present interglacial epoch.


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Cancer Types – Testicular Cancer
Testicular Cancer: Overview
Testicular cancer begins when normal cells in a testicle change and grow uncontrollably, forming a mass called a tumor. A tumor can be cancerous or benign. A cancerous tumor is malignant, meaning it can spread to other parts of the body. A benign tumor means the tumor will not spread. Testicular cancer is almost always curable if found early, and it is usually curable even when at a later stage. Another name for testicular cancer is testis cancer.
About the testicles
The testicles are part of a man's reproductive system. Each man has two testicles, and they are located under the penis in a sac-like pouch called the scrotum. They can also be called testes or gonads. The testicles produce sperm and testosterone, a hormone which plays a role in the development of a man's reproductive organs and characteristics specific to men.
Types of testicular cancer
Most types of testicular cancer develop in the sperm-producing cells known as germ cells, and are referred to as germ cell tumors. Germ cell tumors in men most commonly start in the testicles but can also develop in other parts of the body, such as the back of the abdomen near the spine, called the retroperitoneum; the central portion of the chest between the lungs, called the mediastinum; the lower spine; and, very rarely, a small gland in the brain called the pineal gland.
There are two different categories of germ cell tumors that start in the testicles: seminomas and non-seminomas. Generally, non-seminomas tend to grow and spread more quickly than seminomas, but prompt diagnosis and treatment are important for both types of tumors.
Teratoma is a unique type of non-seminoma germ cell tumor. Unlike the other types of germ cell tumors, chemotherapy is not very effective for a teratoma (see Treatment Options). The primary treatment for teratoma is to remove it with surgery. Although a teratoma is less likely to spread, it needs to be removed because it can turn into a much more dangerous cancer if it is not removed.
This article provides information only on seminomas and non-seminomas of the testicles in men who have reached puberty. Other, less common types of testicular tumors include Leydig cell tumor, Sertoli cell tumor, and carcinomas of the rete testis, which is a part of the testicles. These can often be successfully treated by surgically removing the testicle; however, if they spread to other areas of the body, they are more difficult to treat. Testicular cancer is uncommon in boys who have not yet reached puberty; childhood testicular cancer is approached differently than cancer in teenagers who have been through puberty and adult men. Other types of cancer, such as lymphoma and leukemia, occasionally spread to the testicles. To find out more about cancer that started in another part of the body and spread to the testicles, read about that specific type of cancer.
Read more about testicular cancer here.


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Thomas E. "Tom" Donilon (born May 14, 1955) is the National Security Advisor in the Obama Administration, and has had a career as a U.S. political advisor, government official and lawyer. Previously, he served together with diplomat Wendy Sherman as Agency Review Team Lead for the State Department in the Obama transition, and as Deputy to National Security Advisor James Jones early in the Obama administration. Donilon replaced Jones as National Security Advisor on October 8, 2010.
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Donilon attended La Salle Academy, earned a B.A. at The Catholic University of America in 1977 and a J.D. at the University of Virginia in 1985. He served on the Editorial Board of the Virginia Law Review.
He worked as Executive Vice President for Law and Policy at Fannie Mae, the federally-chartered mortgage finance company, as a registered lobbyist from 1999 through 2005. This line on his resume raised eyebrows when his appointment to the Obama transition team was announced, given that the company had been seized by federal regulators.


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Mercedes-Benz SL PD Widebody Styling Kit by Prior-Design
German tuner Prior-Design recently released their PD Widebody Styling Kit for the Mercedes-Benz SL-Class (R230)
by John Clark | 01 June 2010
German tuner Prior-Design recently released their PD Widebody Styling Kit for the Mercedes-Benz SL-Class (R230). The inspiration behind their latest creation was the superlative Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG Black Series, with main changes serving to add a widened, more aggressive stance to the model.
As described by Prior-Design, the new widebody kit includes new overwhelming fenders, futuristic facelift headlights, front spoiler with large air inlets, and a perfectly round rear bumper with integrated diffuser to top it off. The PD Widebody kit is available either inslight carbon or full carbon.
Complimenting Pior-Design's SL styling kit, a wide wheel and tire combination is available as a complete set in the following sizes: PD1 wheels (three-piece stainless steel outer bed, black finish) in 10×20 inch with 265/30R20 (front axle) and 12×20 inch with 305/25R20 (rear axle).
And if that wasn't enough, the German tuner made it possible to lower the car either mechanically or electronically (with integrated Airmatic). You can see more of the Mercedes-Benz SL PD Widebody Styling Kit by Prior-Design as well as view its complete press release immediately below. Thanks to Topspeed for the photos.
Mercedes SL 2009 PD-Widebody Styling-Kit
Germany, May 10, 2010
SL maximum - the PD-SERIES
Right in time for the industry trade fair Tuning World Bodensee, PRIOR design presented their latest creation - the PD-SERIES based on the Mercedes-Benz SL R230.
The self-set target of the Kamp-Lintfort company was making the "large" Mercedes-Benz roadster even more perfect. The PD-SERIES inspiration very clearly was the super sports car Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG Black Series. The result will excite every car enthusiast: Flowing lines, expressive curves, massive air inlets and muscular sides summarize the perfect PD-SERIES view.
Let us look at it in detail, starting with the front. This is where the superior width of the PD-SERIES hardly makes it possible for the viewer to avert his eyes from the overwhelming fenders. Still getting over the endorphin-filled moment surprise, the eye takes I the harmonious line flowing from the fender to the front area. Only few centimetres below the futuristic Facelift headlights, there is a front spoiler with large, greedy air inlets. The cowl with its many air inlets reaches up to the windshield supplying even high-performance motors with sufficient air.
The side area with its wide wheels is reminiscent of a muscular monster waiting to jump its prey. The side dills harmoniously connect the masculine sides to make the car look as if made from a single cast.
Going father around the vehicle, we can then see the rear, dominant due to the imposing wheel arches that make the SL seem impossibly wide. The large track of the PD-SERIES is connected by a perfectly rounded rear bumper from one wheel arch to the other, which in turn is equipped with a diffuser based on racing technology. It is available either as sight carbon or full carbon.
A specially developed wheel/tyre combination is available as a complete set in the following sizes:
Wheel rim PD1 (three-piece stainless steel outer bed, black finish), front axle 10x20 inch with 265/30R20, rear axle 12x20 inch with 305/25R20
Finally, Prior-Design makes it possible to lower the car mechanically as well as electronically (with integrated Airmatic). Using the above wheel/tyre combination, Prior-Design also recommends optimising the suspension tuning.
For further information, price and delivery information, contact: www.prior-design.de
READ MORE: Autos, Mercedes-Benz, SL-Class


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University of Vermont
2011-12 Online Catalogue
Japanese (Undergraduate Minor)
Specific Requirements
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|College of Arts and Sciences
|Asian Languages and Literatures
|Fifteen credits of Japanese with at least nine of those credits at 100-level, including JAPN 102 or its equivalent. Three credits at or above 100-level in Japanese linguistics or literature may be substituted for three credits of language study beyond JAPN 102 or its equivalent.
|Other Information
|A Major in Asian Studies and a Minor in Japanese may be possible if additional courses in Japanese are taken to reduce overlap to one course.
- Colleges and Schools: College of Arts and Sciences.
- Departments and Programs: Asian Languages and Literatures.


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Justin Verlander spent all sorts of time over the last couple months trying to figure out what was wrong and why he was no longer dominating hitters with his terrific fastball.
Tigers look for second-half surge
Noah Trister
The Associated Press
DETROIT — Justin Verlander spent all sorts of time over the last couple months trying to figure out what was wrong and why he was no longer dominating hitters with his terrific fastball.
Then he reached the All-Star break — with 10 wins and a 3.50 ERA.
"I wasn't where I'd like to be pretty much the whole half, but I was able to battle and end up with some pretty decent numbers," Verlander said.
Verlander could have been speaking for his entire team.
The Detroit Tigers entered the season amid sky-high expectations after winning the American League pennant in 2012.
They've endured drama in their bullpen and a frustrating record in close games, but with the break about to end, Detroit is performing pretty close to expectations.
The Tigers lead the AL Central by 1 1/2 games over the Cleveland Indians. They'll begin a three-game series in Kansas City Friday (8:10 p.m., FSN).
The outlook is probably better than it was a year ago at the break, when the Tigers were in third place, 3 1/2 games off the pace. Detroit trailed the Chicago White Sox well into September before finally winning the division with an 88-74 record.
This year, the Tigers (52-42) are on pace for about 90 wins, and Cleveland is the team mounting a serious challenge so far.
"I think we've hung in there," Detroit manager Jim Leyland said. "I truly think that's what's going to decide who wins — the team that's the toughest the second half, can grind it out on a daily basis, stay tough day in and day out, I think that's the team that's going to win."
Miguel Cabrera is following up his Triple Crown season with a run at a second straight AL MVP award. He's hitting .365 with 30 home runs and 95 RBIs, and Prince Fielder is providing plenty of power with 16 homers.
Throw in Max Scherzer's 13-1 record — he was the AL's starting pitcher in the All-Star game — and there have been plenty of story lines at Comerica Park.
But it's been hard for Tigers fans to feel comfortable. Their team is 3-9 in extra-inning games, and the bullpen remains unsettled.
Detroit entered the year with uncertainty at the closer spot. Rookie Bruce Rondon hasn't been able to take over that role, and although the Tigers brought veteran Jose Valverde back for a bit, he eventually faltered.
Joaquin Benoit has converted all eight of his save chances and has a 1.64 ERA, but relievers Al Alburquerque and Phil Coke have had their problems.
And then there's Verlander, who is still averaging about a strikeout an inning but has been hit harder this year.
He's been trying his best to improve his fastball control, and a big second half from the right-hander would go a long way toward helping the Tigers shake the Indians.
"I don't think we've shown our potential yet. I think we've been a little bit inconsistent, but hey, you can't be too upset," Verlander said. "We're in first place, so that's where we want to be."
Detroit began this season with an eye on its first World Series title since 1984 — and yes, expectations of an easy road to the post-season may have been unrealistic.
"I think we've done pretty good," Leyland said. "I think some people think you're supposed to walk away with the Central and be in the playoffs and go to the World Series. It just doesn't work like that."
The race in the division is close enough that one extended slump could jeopardize Detroit's post-season hopes.
But the reverse is true, too.
All season long, these Tigers have looked like they could pull away from the AL Central at any point.
"I think everybody in this locker-room knows how to prepare themselves for a 162-game season, not just to get off to a sprint start. It's a marathon," Verlander said. "I like this team a lot. I think we're really going to show what we can do this second half."


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Yes, you read that right: Apps will be implemented within the WLAN. I know, I know. This is reminiscent of that "network is the computer" slogan of a decade ago from a certain now-defunct computer company. But such is pretty much what is happening here regardless. We're going from access to the apps themselves. Such a development is actually easy to predict. It's perfectly natural for such functional consolidations to take place.
What, after all, is IT really about? Collecting, managing, transforming, and disseminating information. And how is all this done? Over a network, increasingly wireless both indoors and out, with the back end consisting of routers, switches, servers, storage and assorted appliances. So it makes a lot of sense for the network to have knowledge of apps, and, increasingly, to be the vehicle that not only distributes but also hosts and manages these apps.
[ Read Wireless LAN's New Standard, 802.11ac: Prep Time. ]
When you consider that today's enterprise-class WLANs include all manner of management services across Layers 1-3, extending these facilities all the way to Layer 7 isn't really that big of a deal. We're already seeing advances in identity management and other applications driven by -- and, again resident in – wireless LANs. I've gone so far as to predict that the unified wired/wireless network strategy I've long advocated -- and implemented largely in, yes, applications -- will be extended to the domain of application management directly. The primary driver here? Ease of use. Overburdened and underfunded IT and network operations staffs will look upon this consolidation of function as a godsend.
Still skeptical? Here are a couple of examples. Let's start with Aruba's just-announced 7200 series of controllers, featuring what the company calls AppRF, a facility that enhances application delivery via deep packet inspection, airtime fairness, enhanced QoS, and controller-optimized traffic delivery. Knowledge of applications needs isn't quite the same as provisioning those applications, but it's easy to see where this facility might go over time. Xirrus also just added deep packet inspection to its Wi-Fi arrays, and such might become quite common over the next few years.
Even closer to my thesis is Cisco's Mobility Services Engine (MSE), a wireless/mobility-centric application platform that recently received a slew of enhancements that were mostly lost in the news of the Meraki acquisition. (That itself is an application play as well, by the way; cloud-based network management is in fact an application.) Cisco recently showcased a number of novel location-based apps and enhancements to the MSE's SDK and analytics capabilities. Analytics is still picking up steam but is also a clear trend going forward.
Then, of course, there is the holy grail of LAN traffic: video. It's abundantly clear that caching this bandwidth hog as close as possible to the ultimate consumer is an excellent way to optimize network capacity and throughput. Big disks are cheap, and locating them inside a WLAN controller is also, I believe, going to become common. We're already really close to it, what with the virtualization of WLAN controllers already here.
I find it encouraging that apps and networks are finally coming together. We've reached a certain sufficiency in wireless today, meaning that we can address essentially any WLAN performance requirement. With radio-related innovation consequently slowing a bit -- 2013 won't be the year of 802.11ac, and I'm not expecting any big developments in PHYs beyond this anyway -- the focus shifts quite naturally to applications, again, the raison d'etre for IT in the first place. Even if radio performance were peaking, WLANs remain key to overall IT success. It's a place that, after 20 years of evolution, the WLAN most certainly deserves.
On a different note, this will be my final column for InformationWeek. I've truly enjoyed the privilege of being here for the past four years, but it's time to move on. I wish everyone all the best with their wireless and mobile endeavors, and, of course, a pleasant holiday season and a productive new year.


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Any new place can seem intimidating at first, but we have outlined a few places to help you navigate easily around Ball State. Even if you find yourself looking for the David Letterman Communication and Media building—or Letterman Building as we call it—while standing in front of the Scramble Light, there is a handy campus map just a few steps away to help you.
To get from one end of campus to another, you can hop on one of the free shuttle buses. The shuttle buses run every five to 10 minutes from 7:15 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 7:15 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Fridays. If it's a nice day, take your own walking tour around campus. Getting from the north end of campus to the south end is about a 15 minute walk.


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As a parent, I shook (not figuratively but literally, I shook) watching news reports today.
Twenty children started their morning as they always do -- maybe they said goodbye to their parent with a loving hug, or maybe they yelled and screamed at mom and dad, or got yelled and screamed at (as is wont to happen from time to time in even the families with the perfect holiday postcards pictures).
By lunch today however, 20 elementary school children were dead.
I'll let Bob Costas do his thing on Monday night Football and denounce our gun culture, because this piece is not about that. However, as a side note if you want to bring any arguments about a well-regulated militia and are not prepared to talk about the needed reforms to our gun laws, I'd advise you to re-think your argument, because guns do kill people.
You can argue cars kill people (so why don't we eliminate cars?) all you want, but the key difference, as I have explained elsewhere, is that cars are designed to get you from point A to point B. Guns are designed to do exactly what they did today in Newtown, CT.
Most gun owners are responsible and will never end the life of another human being with their weapon. There will be speculation that the shooter was crazy. Insane. Or even, perhaps, a sociopath; a criminal who lacked a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
And that is what this piece is about. This piece is about crazy. America has gone crazy.
As a parent, my natural empathy goes out to the parents who rushed to the school today and found out that their child was murdered.
And then I thought of children -- innocent children all over the world who die senselessly. A half-million children in Iraq died as a result of sanctions the United States put in place before we shocked and awed the country back to the stone ages, killing untold numbers more children in the process. When Secretary of State Madeline Albright was asked if it was worth it she replied that while it was a hard choice, yes it was worth it.
In Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen, under Obama's direction, too many children have started their days as they always do children started their morning as they always do. Perhaps they said goodbye to their parents with a loving hug, or maybe they yelled and screamed at mom and dad (or got yelled and screamed at, as is wont to happen from time to time in even the families who live in countries far from America's shores) and they were killed by drone strikes. Their parents rushing to the scene just as parents did in Connecticut last week.
If the shooter or shooters in Connecticut, and in the mall in Oregon or the movie theater in Colorado were crazy, what word do we have for the men and women in suits who execute U.S. foreign policy, waging wars based on lies for profit?


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NEW YORK (AP) — GAMING DEAL: Scientific Games Corp., an instant-win lottery ticket company, is buying gaming equipment company WMS Industries Inc. for approximately $1.42 billion. Scientific Games, which also makes video slot machines and other gaming systems, said the deal will expand its product offerings.
THE DETAILS: Scientific Games will pay $26 per WMS share. The companies put the deal's total value at approximately $1.5 billion, including $85 million in debt.
CLOSING: The acquisition is expected to close by year's end. It still needs approval from WMS shareholders.


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By Dan Levine
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California appeals court on Thursday rejected an attempt by Oracle Corp to quickly end a bitter lawsuit brought by Hewlett-Packard Corp over Oracle's decision in 2011 to end support for HP's Itanium based servers.
HP accused Oracle of violating a contract when it decided it would no longer make new versions of its database software, which was compatible with HP's high-end servers based on Intel Corp's Itanium chips. Oracle maintained it had no such contract with HP.
The servers tend to be used by large corporations with rigorous computing needs.
After a trial last year, a state judge in San Jose, California ruled that a contract existed between HP and Oracle, and that Oracle was required to continue to offer its product suite on HP's Itanium server platform. Oracle was required to port its products to HP's Itanium-based servers without charge to HP, the judge ruled.
Damages will be decided at a subsequent phase of trial.
In 2012, Oracle asked a California appeals court to reverse the contract ruling, which could have ended the case. However, California's 6th District Court of Appeal rejected the request late on Thursday, without further explanation.
Oracle must now wait until the trial is over to appeal all of the issues at once.
Representatives for both companies declined to comment.
The case in the 6th Appellate District is Oracle Corporation vs. Superior Court (Hewlett-Packard Company), number H038880.
(Editing by Bernadette Baum)