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COGECO Privacy Policy
COGECO is a diversified holding corporation with operations in cable television, telecommunications and radio broadcasting, through which it provides leading edge communications services.
Cogeco Cable Inc., the cable subsidiary, provides a range of broadcasting and telecommunications services to residential and commercial customers in Québec and Ontario, over state-of-the-art broadband network facilities. Through its subsidiary, Cogeco Media Acquisitions inc., COGECO wholly-owns and operates thirteen (13) radio stations across most of Québec with complementary radio formats serving a wide range of audiences, as well as Cogeco News, its news agency broadcast in close to 30 independent radio stations across Québec.
At COGECO, we know that the protection of your privacy is important to you. For this reason, we have taken steps to ensure that any personal information that you provide to COGECO is protected by a range of robust business procedures and rigorous security safeguards to ensure that your information is kept confidential and used only for the purposes for which it was collected.
COGECO is also committed to providing transparency to its customers with respect to the company's practices in handling your personal information. To that end, the COGECO Privacy Policy (the Policy) is a formal statement of rights and obligations concerning the minimum requirements for the protection of personal information provided to COGECO. It is intended to establish responsible and transparent practices for the management of personal information and to satisfy the requirements of both rules established by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), and explicitly follows the general format and principles set out in Schedule 1 to that legislation.
The Company has also produced the COGECO Privacy Commitment, as a shorter summary of the essential points of this Privacy Policy, and a series of answers to questions about privacy that are frequently asked by our customers.
COGECO will review and update its privacy documents as required to keep current with rules and regulations, new technologies, standards and customer concerns.
This Policy applies to the COGECO family of companies in Canada, including the Canadian operations of COGECO Inc. and its subsidiaries, including COGECO Cable Inc., COGECO Media Acquisitions Inc. and COGECO Data Services Inc., as well as their affiliates and direct and indirect operating subsidiaries (collectively, "COGECO").
This Policy generally applies to any personal information (as defined hereafter) collected or generated by COGECO, in any form; however, the Policy does not impose any limits on the collection, use or disclosure of:
The application of this Policy is also subject to the requirements of any applicable legislation, regulations, or agreements (such as collective agreements) or the orders of any court or public authority.
At any time that you do business with, or participate in a contest or promotion run by one of the COGECO companies, or with anyone acting as an agent on our behalf, you are protected by the rights and safeguards contained in these documents and you explicitly agree to their terms.
When used in this Policy, and consistent with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, personal information means any information about an identifiable individual. This would include information respecting your account with us, including your identity and the services you use and subscribe to, as well as credit information, billing records and any complaints documented in a file. Personal information that is aggregated and cannot be associated with an identifiable individual is not considered to be personal information.
COGECO is responsible for personal information under its control and has designated this person accountable for compliance with this Policy:
Marie-Claude Laroche
COGECO is responsible for personal information in its possession or control, including information that has been transferred to a third party for processing. COGECO uses contractual and other means to provide a comparable level of protection while the information is being processed by a third party.
COGECO has implemented policies and procedures to give effect to this Policy, including:
COGECO identifies the purposes for which personal information is collected at or before the time the information is collected.
COGECO collects personal information only for the following purposes:
When asked to do so, COGECO employees or agents who are collecting personal information shall explain the purposes for doing so or transfer the customer to, or provide contact information for, another employee or agent who can provide further information.
Unless required by law, COGECO will not use or disclose personal information for any new purpose without obtaining further consent.
The knowledge and prior consent of a customer is required for the collection, use or disclosure of personal information, except where inappropriate.
In certain circumstances, personal information may be collected, used or disclosed without consent. These exceptional circumstances include:
COGECO obtains consent of the individuals concerned for the collection, use or disclosure of personal information through various means, orally, or through written documents, including individual or collective agreements, forms, welcome kits or printed or electronic communications.
The form of consent sought by COGECO will vary according to the sensitivity of the personal information, the reasonable expectations of the individual and any requirements or standards established by law. In general, the use of COGECO products and services constitutes implied consent to the collection, use and disclosure of personal information as set out in this Policy and in the COGECO Terms and Conditions.
We will not require a customer to consent to the collection, use and disclosure of personal information as a condition of the supply of a product or service, unless such collection, use or disclosure is required to meet the purposes stated in this Policy. Consent may be withdrawn at any time, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice; however, without such consent, COGECO may no longer be able to provide the customer with all products and services. Customers may contact COGECO for information on the implications of withdrawing consent.
COGECO must obtain consent with respect to the collection, use or disclosure of personal information of an individual for any purpose other than the purposes identified in this Policy.
COGECO will limit the collection of personal information to that which is necessary to fulfill the purposes identified.
Personal information shall at all times be collected by fair and lawful means, and will generally be collected directly from the individual concerned. COGECO may also obtain credit information on a confidential basis from credit evaluation organizations; however, prior consent will be obtained from customers before performing a credit evaluation.
COGECO will not use or disclose personal information for purposes other than those for which it was collected, except with the consent of the individual or as required by law. As noted in Principle 3, in certain circumstances, personal information may be collected, used or disclosed without the knowledge or consent of the individual concerned. In addition, COGECO may disclose a customer's information to:
Any such disclosures are made on a confidential basis, with the information to be used only for the intended purpose. Only those employees of COGECO or trusted third party contractors, who need access for business reasons, or whose duties reasonably so require, will be granted access to personal information about customers.
In some cases, personal information may be stored or processed outside Canada, where it will be subject to the legal jurisdiction of those countries.
No other disclosures will be made without customer consent, except in emergency circumstances or as required by law. Personal information will be retained only as long as necessary for the fulfilment of the purposes for which it was collected and for which consent was received, unless otherwise required by law.
Personal information that has been used to make a decision about an individual will be retained long enough to allow that individual to have reasonable access to the information after the decision has been made.
Personal information that is no longer required to fulfil the identified purposes will be destroyed, erased or made anonymous. COGECO has developed and implemented detailed and systemic retention guidelines and destruction procedures for this purpose.
Personal information shall be as accurate, complete and up-to-date as is necessary for the purposes for which it is to be used. Personal information shall be sufficiently accurate, complete and up-to-date to minimize the possibility that inappropriate information may be used to make a decision about an individual.
COGECO will update personal information as and when necessary to fulfil the identified purposes, or when requested by the individual in question.
Personal information held or retained by COGECO will be protected by security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information.
COGECO will protect personal information against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification, regardless of the format in which it is held. Methods of protection include physical, operational and technical measures, as required and appropriate. All employees of COGECO with access to personal information are trained with respect to the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of personal information, and adherence to the company's privacy principles and security standards is required.
COGECO will protect personal information disclosed to third parties by contractual agreements requiring that those third parties adhere to confidentiality and security procedures and protections that are, at a minimum, equivalent to those employed by COGECO itself.
COGECO makes available to customers specific information about its policies relating to the management of personal information.
Information is made available through this Policy, the COGECO Privacy Commitment, the Cogeco Privacy FAQs and other sources, including directly from the person accountable for compliance with this Policy and other COGECO personnel.
COGECO will inform a customer of the existence, use and disclosure of his or her personal information and shall generally give them access to that information upon request, except as proscribed by law.
In exceptional and limited circumstances, such as where information contains references to other individuals or cannot be disclosed for legal, security or commercial proprietary reasons, customers may not be provided with full access to their personal information.
Personal information shall be provided in understandable form, conveniently and within a reasonable time and at little or no cost to the customer. Upon request, COGECO will provide an account of the use that has been made or is being made of this information. A customer may challenge the accuracy and completeness of the information and have it amended, as and where appropriate.
A customer may obtain access to his or her personal information by contacting the person accountable for compliance with this Policy using the contact information provided in this Policy.
A customer is able to address a challenge concerning compliance with the above principles to the designated individual or individuals accountable for COGECO's compliance with this Policy.
COGECO has procedures in place to receive and respond to complaints or inquiries about our policies and practices relating to the handling of personal information, and will inform individuals who make inquiries or complaints about the relevant complaint procedures.
The company shall investigate all complaints. If a complaint is found to be justified, COGECO will take appropriate measures, including, if necessary, amending its policies and practices.
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Revised March, 2015 by CDI


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Mary Baker added a long and informative comment to my original post, Building Excitement, which talked about how blogging the inventory levels of her various fast-selling/limited-production wines increases sales velocity by building excitement.
As I said in an e-mail reply to Mary, another answer is just an RSS feed for "things we're running out of". For example, the feed would be updated anytime a vintage got down to 10% remaining (or some other arbitrary level).
The best thing about doing this blog is that it puts me in touch with all the smart winery people out there who are willing to share their knowledge and experience. Mary is smart. Go read her comment. And feel free to add some of your own.

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JACKSONVILLE, Ala. – The Lipscomb Bisons golf team is back in competition Monday and Tuesday after two weeks off from tournament play.
Lipscomb is one of nine teams participating in the 21st annual Grub Mart Golf Intercollegiate hosted by Jacksonville State at the Silver Lakes Golf Course. Teams will play 36 holes Monday and 18 on Tuesday.
"The team is excited," said Will Brewer, Lipscomb's Director of Golf. "We seem to be gelling and coming together for our final two events prior to the Atlantic Sun Conference championship."
Blanton Farmer is averaging 73.35 for eight tournaments, a total of 23 rounds. Alex Cox is averaging 76.68 in seven tournaments over 19 rounds.
"As seniors Blanton and Alex are motivated to compete," Brewer said. "They are nearing the end of their collegiate careers."
Junior Dustin Wilder has an average of 76.09 in 23 rounds in eight tournaments. Junior Alex Cox is averaging 74.26 over 23 rounds in eight tournaments.
Joining Lipscomb and Jacksonville State in the tournament are Morehead State, Eastern Kentucky, Northern Kentucky, North Alabama, Columbus State, Armstrong Atlantic State and George Washington.
After a practice round Sunday afternoon Brewer is confident his team is up to the challenge of the course.
"It is strong," Brewer said. "Typically it should favor players who strike the ball well.
"The greens are very undulating. We will need to be very sharp on and around the greens. The course will favor those who hit their approach shots well and are able to negotiate the greens and surroundings."


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ASID will once again host the Design Viewpoints Series (DVS), a forum for design industry leaders to present leading-edge ideas through CEU-accredited seminars, at High Point Market, October 14-18. Engaging discussions with Paula Wallace, founder and president of SCAD; Adriana Hoyos, principal at Adriana Design Studio; Christine Abbate of Novita PR; Jason Oliver Nixon and John Loecke of Madcap Cottage; and a panel discussion on the hospitality sector will be highlights of the Market experience.


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IDSA is committed to facilitating the professional development and supporting the interests of all our members. To forward this goal IDSA is developing "Interest Groups" (IGs) – forums for members with similar interests to:
An IG can be formed around virtually any type of interest, as long as it represents a significant area of interest in terms of number of members involved or relevance to the field of infectious diseases. Current IGs are:
Gay and Lesbian Infections in CancerInfections in Older AdultsInternational IDMinorities in IDTransplant Infectious Disease and Compromised HostTuberculosis
Each IG has a discussion list to facilitate communication between members. By subscribing to one or more of these discussion lists you are also signing up as a member of the IG(s) you have selected.
Already a list member? Access IDSA forums here. (Log-in required)
The Gay and Lesbian Interest Group is committed to representing and supporting the needs of gay and lesbian IDSA members. IDSA wishes to foster a professional climate in which all of our diverse members can achieve their full potential and where our gay and lesbian members may serve openly without fear of discrimination or hostility. The IG will serve as a venue for networking as well as a forum to discuss unique challenges our gay and lesbian colleagues face in today's society. The IG will explore how best to combat homophobia within the field of infectious diseases and how IDSA may support members challenged by discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The IG will recommend solutions/actions to IDSA's leadership as needed and appropriate.To join the Gay and Lesbian Interest Group and subscribe to the discussion list. (Log-in required)
The Infections in Cancer Interest Group is a forum for infectious disease clinicians and investigators working in major cancer centers. Topics of discussion may include ways to enhance educational opportunities related to the prevention/management of infections in oncology patients; collaboration on clinical studies/trials; and ways to work with CDC to establish evidenced based surveillance programs. The IG will suggest ways for IDSA to help support educational activities, including possible symposia at the annual meeting.To join the Infections in Cancer Interest Group and subscribe to the discussion list. (Log-in required)
The Infections in Older Adults Interest Group is a very active cohort of ID physicians and researchers with a focused interest in aging and ID care of older adults. We keep in touch through list-serve and email alerts, and have held a dinner meeting annually concurrent with the IDSA Annual Meeting since 2001. Our group has sponsored multiple symposia, meet-the-professor sessions, and other activities at IDSA with the goal of acting as a network facilitating junior faculty development (e.g. T. Franklin Williams Research Scholars Award), clinical care (see IDSA clinical guidelines on evaluation of fever and infection in long-term care facilities: https://doi.org/10.1086/595683, and research, including multi-site research in ID issues in older adults such as: vaccine responses in seniors, infections in long-term care, functional status and risk of infection/antibiotic resistance, and common clinical syndromes in older adults (e.g. prosthetic device infection, viral pneumonia). In the coming years, we plan to expand our activities to include mentoring and leadership opportunities, and developing guidelines and position papers on contemporary research and clinical and career development topics in aging and infection. To join the Infections in Older Adults Interest Group and subscribe to the discussion list. To join the Infection in Older Adults Group and subscribe to the discussion list (Log-in required) or Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
The charge of the International ID Interest Group is to stimulate international activities for the Society. Topics of discussion may include the global importance of infectious diseases, cultivation of international participation and membership, collaboration and exchanges via the development of international centers and training activities and by providing information on network regarding U.S. and non-U.S. programs with specific interest in receiving international fellows. The International ID Interest Group may suggest activities, Annual Meeting session and policy positions to forward the goals of the Interest Group.To join the International ID Interest Group and subscribe to the discussion list. (Log-in required)
The Minorities in ID Interest Group is committed to representing and supporting minority members. Topics for discussion may include ways to further the goals of the IG, challenges that minorities face in medicine or the subspecialty of infectious diseases, and public policy aimed at supporting medical education for minorities. The interest group may suggest ways that the Society can better serve its diverse membership, ways to recruit minority infectious diseases physicians to IDSA, sessions or networking events to be held at the Annual Meetings, public policy positions that the Society should take, and ways to ensure that the IDSA leadership reflects the diversity of the membership.To join the Minorities in ID Interest Group and subscribe to the discussion list. (Log-in required)
The Transplant Infectious Disease and Compromised Host Interest Group identifies and makes recommendations on issues relevant to education, clinical care, and research in the field and has a central role in the promotion of these topics within IDSA. This group has organized workshops on related topics, cosponsored symposia at the annual meeting, and has developed a curriculum for the training of clinical fellows in the care of immunocompromised hosts. The interest group has held a networking reception at the IDSA annual meeting open to trainees as well as established clinicians and investigators. This group also coordinates with other committees of IDSA and other societies to coordinate joint activities (guideline development, courses) as appropriate to advance this growing specialty area within Infectious Diseases. This group will also serve to identify and suggest clinicians to serve on other committees, task forces, and working groups at IDSA. To join the Transplant Infectious Disease and Compromised Host Interest Group and subscribe to the discussion list. (Log-in required)
The Tuberculosis Interest Group is concerned with reducing the morbidity and mortality caused by tuberculosis. Topics of discussion may include treatment, research, prevention, and public policy. The Tuberculosis IG may suggest activities that group members have discussed, including: disseminating new information about the treatment or prevention to the full IDSA membership; developing Tuberculosis-related sessions for the Annual Meeting; official policy positions that the Society should take; and collaboration with other professional societies and governmental organizations in actions to control tuberculosis.To join the Tuberculosis Interest Group and subscribe to the discussion list. (Log-in required)
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The Avatar wrote:Nice! The new icons look really nice! Now the final really big graphical thing that needs an improvement is the map.
And the god panels. And the score screen. And the login screen. And the loading screens. And the kingdom story popups...
The Avatar wrote:The story popups? Those come as toasties, and those are awesome! The god panels you already redid once (making them look like paper--similar to other panels). The score and login screens I suppose, but that's a whole lot less than it was a few weeks ago.
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August 14, 2006: The Audacity Store Is Open
You are invited to try out the new Audacity Store, which features Audacity-logo items (T-shirts, embroidered polo shirts, embroidered messenger bags), and consumer electronics.
Learn more about how Audacity raises money...
New Releases on the Way
Also, we will soon release updates to both the stable 1.2.x and development 1.3.x lines. The new 1.3.x version will be 1.3.2 -- no official 1.3.1 because there are lots of changes and several unofficial 1.3.1 builds have already been posted. Major changes in the 1.3.2 release include:
- Preliminary Intel Mac Support
- pre-release builds at http://audacityteam.org/mac
- Dependencies dialog
- lets user see dependencies of project on other files, and copy audio data directly into the project
- Crash Recovery
- automatically saved data makes recovery fast and easy
- New Repair Effect
- smooths corrupted waveforms
- UI Changes
- themes (custom user interfaces), new toolbar docking features, new time-specification controls, increased accessibility support, history window changes, lots more
- Selection Bar Improvements
- increased control and bug fixes
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February 8, 2003
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - After spending many arduous hours training to compete, the rowers from Santa Clara were ready to finally get a chance to race, even if it was only on the rowing machines. The twenty-nine Bronco athletes who competed in the 17th Annual Golden State Indoor Rowing Championships in Sacramento, seized the opportunity and made a strong early season statement.
This was the second year that Juan Perez, a Junior, competed at this event. "The hard thing about Indoors is that you have all those people around you and so the adrenaline is really high" Perez commented. "At the start you have to force yourself to slow down and stick to your race plan or else you'll be dead by the halfway mark."
Displaying his maturity as a rower, Juan turned out consistent splits and convincingly defeated the rest of the field in the Men's Lightweight event, with a time of 6:36.5. "When I finished I just saw black spots so I didn't know what my time was. I knew I had met my goal of sub 6:40, but I never expected it would be a 6:36!"
Overall, he was very surprised with his time, and confident about where the Men's Varsity team is at this point in the season.
Another standout performance was turned in by Sophomore Laura Hellenthal who finished 3rd in the open women's event, with a time of 7:31 over the 2,000 meter distance. Her performance, along with Juan's were two of the twenty-one personal records set by the Broncos at the event.
Both the men and women's squads will return to Sacramento in March to compete against Sacramento State in a dual match scheduled for the morning of the 8th. The event will take place at Lake Natoma near Sacramento.


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Wrapped in repetition with flights of beauty in the notes straining to break free, the title track and opening composition "Move" showcases the eclectic and highly-skilled intensity of Hiromi's piano and keyboards. Joining Hiromi for this "Trio project" is the sleek contrabass guitar playing of Anthony Jackson while drummer Simon Philips marks and smoothes the tempos with a brush and beat.
These new and original compositions are structured around a "soundtrack for a day"... just twenty-four little hours, yet listening to "Move" there is an abundance of magnificent and emotive qualities in the experience. From the routine of daily life on to the dreams imagined and the flights of fancy in those unexpected moments, Hiromi has conjured up a loose yet concentrated passion in her playing for each of the nine selections.
The album's centerpiece is the three-part "Suite Escapism" consisting of "Reality," "Fantasy," and "In Between." It is here that the beat of a clock and the beat of a heart blur and combine as one. The power of this piece is felt in not only capturing what "reality" would musically feel like, but also her magnificent way of capturing "fantasy" as an integral part to the importance of the structure in the suite. "Fantasy" begins with a slow grace of Anthony Jackson's guitar and creates a mood of time standing still while it lingers on the power of dreams. Finishing "Suite Escapism" with "In Between," Hiromi's musical gift is showcased and there is the realization that both qualities are crucial elements to discover.
Now, Hiromi is definitely not only a "long-haired" visionary of jazz structure. She also lets her hair down and speaks to that "5 o' clock whistle" in all of us with just the right kick in "Margarita!" Shot for shot and note for note, she plays brilliantly around all the musical action. "Move" proves once more that Hiromi adds magic, creative ingenuity, and passion to a brilliant fusion of styles.
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New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today filed a Martin Act complaint against Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and its affiliates for making fraudulent misrepresentations and omissions to promote the sale of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) to investors. According to Attorney General Schneiderman's lawsuit, Credit Suisse deceived investors as to the care with which they evaluated the quality of mortgage loans packaged into residential mortgage-backed securities prior to 2008. RMBS sponsored and underwritten by Credit Suisse in 2006 and 2007 have suffered losses of approximately $11.2 billion.
Attorney General Schneiderman's complaint is the most recent enforcement action by the Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group, a state-federal task force created by President Obama earlier this year to investigate those responsible for misconduct contributing to the financial crisis through the pooling and sale of residential mortgage-backed securities. In October, Attorney General Schneiderman filed a Martin Act lawsuit against J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (formerly known as Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.), JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., and EMC Mortgage LLC (formerly known as EMC Mortgage Corporation) for making fraudulent misrepresentations and omissions to promote the sale of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) to investors.
"This lawsuit against Credit Suisse marks another significant step in our efforts to hold financial institutions accountable for the misconduct that led to the worst financial crisis in nearly a century," said Attorney General Schneiderman. "Our investigations and legal actions demonstrate that there must be one set of rules for all – no matter how big or powerful the institution may be – and that those rules will be enforced vigorously. We need real accountability for the illegal and deceptive conduct in the creation of the housing bubble in order to bring justice for New York's homeowners and investors."
According to Attorney General Schneiderman's complaint, Credit Suisse led its investors to believe that the quality of the loans in its mortgage-backed securities had been carefully evaluated and would be continuously monitored. In fact, as in the case of other RMBS market participants, Credit Suisse did neither. Instead, it systematically failed to adequately evaluate the loans, ignored defects that its limited review did uncover, and kept its investors in the dark about the inadequacy of its review procedures and defects in the loans. The loans in Credit Suisse's mortgage-backed securities included many that had been made to borrowers who were unable to repay the loans, were very likely to default, and ultimately did default in large numbers.
As explained in the Attorney General's complaint, filed today in New York State Supreme Court, RMBS were pools of mortgages deposited into trusts. Shares of the RMBS trusts were sold as securities to investors, who were to receive a stream of income from the mortgages packaged in the RMBS.
In offering documents and marketing materials, Defendants led investors to believe that they had carefully evaluated—and would continue to monitor—the quality of the loans in the RMBS. The Attorney General's lawsuit charges that Credit Suisse failed to abide by its representations that the loans underlying their RMBS were originated in accordance with the applicable underwriting guidelines, i.e., the standards in place to ensure, among other things, that loans were extended to borrowers who demonstrated the willingness and ability to repay. Further, while Defendants claimed that they undertook "due diligence" to ensure that the loans they purchased from originators complied with the relevant guidelines, in reality, the due diligence review process was compromised by, among other things, Defendants' desire to maintain good relationships with loan originators.


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Man dies after northeast Nebraska collision
BUTTE, Neb. —
A 40-year-old Butte man has died after his vehicle ran into a semitrailer on a highway in northeast Nebraska.
The Nebraska State Patrol says the accident occurred around 9:30 p.m. Monday on Nebraska Highway 11, just west of Butte.
The patrol says the vehicle driven by Daniel Kocian didn't halt at a stop sign and ran onto the highway, striking the big rig.
Authorities say Kocian was pronounced dead at a hospital in O'Neill. It's unclear whether the semitrailer driver was injured.
The Boyd County Sheriff's Office is investigating the collision.


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Event: Premiere of Sohail Khan Productions & UTV Motion Pictures KISSAN held at FUN Cinemas, Mumbai.
Guest List: Arbaaz Khan, Dia Mirza, Malaika Arora Khan, Sohail Khan, Ashish Chaudhary, Arpita Khan, Sajid, David Dhawan, Daboo Malik, Samita Bangargi, Vatsal Seth, Shweta Salve, Anupama Verma, Kishan Kumar
Venue: FUN Cinemas, Mumbai.
Date: 26-Aug-2009
Bollywood celeb Aamir Khan along with wife Kiran Rao were spotted at PVR.
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker women's volleyball team lost 3-1 (25-21, 18-25, 25-21, 25-22) on Saturday (Nov. 16) night against UNC Pembroke at the Timberlake-Lawton Gymnasium.
It was a hard fought battle from the Cobras, but in the end the Braves proved to be too much. Coker fell in the first set 25-21, but then rallied back to take command of the second set 25-18. Pembroke however, would go on to win sets three and four to take the game.
Taylor Willis led the offensive attack for the Cobras with a game high 21 kills on the night. Cassandra Nagel and Hannah Vadakin were next in line for the Cobras with nine kills each.
Mindy Morris guided the defense with 20 digs, while Willis contributed 11 followed by Nagel with 10. Willis was also the match leader in blocks with five on the night.
This was Coker's final game of the 2013-14 season. Coker will lose five seniors: Samantha Celek, Kelly Stine, Katie McElveen, Morris and Willis.
McDonalds Player of the Game: Taylor Willis.


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AMM - October Gallery 15.12.91 Set 2
EDDIE PREVOST, percussion
LOU GARE, violin, tenor sax
KEITH ROWE, guitar, electronics
JOHN TILBURY, piano
Second set 45:09
October Gallery, London. 15 December 1991
Lou Gare on YouTube
Six encouragments, it's a must. Do not impressive with. Glad to listen this kind of music; thanks a lot.
Beautiful, thanks.
I married the girl who wanted to borrow my Coltrane albums, because I hated lending out records after they always came back scratched up...Ironically her brother, my future bro-in-law, scratched up all HER vinyl![Of course, no-one called it that 40 years ago!
Thanks, Andy. I'm enjoying your choice of image as much as the music.
Thanks Andy,
The Pictures, The Stories and the Music are very much appreciated.
Hello Andy!
Many thanks!
Love the story about John Tilbury having to leave to catch his train
And do you have the contact details of the girl who used to drive to all the gigs? I've been looking for a woman like that for years :-)
Many thanks for both these sets.
Thanks for the emphasis a bit on Lou Gare, one of those unsung cats...
Thank you, Andy.
Thank you Andy. Your recordings are always a pleasure to listen to.
Thanks, great stuff. Also I concur that Lou Gare's 'No Strings Attached' is an outstanding album.
Thanks so much for SET 2 and thanks for the words about Lou Gare. What I meant to say about Gare was that since AMMMusic so quickly jettisoned any jazz roots at the turn of the 60s, I was often unable to square Gare's contributions when he sat in with the group in later years. Unlike the others, he continued to play his a recognizably 'jass' instrument in an idiomatic fashion. I often feel similarly about Tilbury in the trio years: occasionally I feel as if his (always beautiful) post-Webernian/Feldmanesque figurating is taking place off in a world of its own.
But the actual point I was trying to make was that I recently had been listening a lot to 'The Nameless Uncarved Block' and your earlier post with Gare (and Ian Mitchell) and had experienced an epiphany of sorts --- I'm now thinking that the AMM music made in the late 80s - mid 90s is particularly interesting when it is made by a quartet, with either Gare or Rohan de Saram as a kind of 'productive foreign element' in the way their recognizably soloistic and expressive musical contributions duck and wriggle and weave through the somewhat monolithic ('laminal') textures of Rowe/Prevost/Tilbury, sometimes showing up as a figure on an abstract ground; sometimes appearing in the distance somewhere 'behind' that ground (interesting your mention of Gare's actual physical position at the rear of the stage!)
Since the Rowe and the de Saram quartet AMMs are only represented by one Matchless CD release a piece, I'm very grateful to you for the live performances and the context they provide. (For these and all the earlier --- Maida Vale, Bielfeld, 'Unknown Venue' etc.)
Beautiful and appropriate pictures too!
Thanks again. As many I don;t always say it each post but this is rather a monumental documentation you've made and have been kindly sharing here. A lot of this music is totally new to me and just a few names I may recognize and have heard a few things from somewhere or other and many I may not have heard at all. To discover this whole scene and get a sense of how it came together and to hear a number of permutations of it in development and bloom is really quite remarkable. Thank you kindly.
I get to do a little of that these days where I am but frankly am not able to get out to much. There's really a lot of great music still being made somewhat off the radar. To me these cultures are of a place and time and having seem a few of them (in significantly different genres) flower then fade I think it is truly a gift that anyone documents whatever parts of them they are able to. It is rare the musicians are able to get much of it down on releases and sometimes those don't really capture the spirit of what was happening in the day to day encounters that really form the glue that brings together and realizes a particular aesthetic.


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It's pretty clear to your Eagletarian, after the latest round of analysis of what Donovan McNabb and the Eagles would or would not have done in the Steelers' shoes in Super Bowl XLIII, that nobody out there is really listening anymore.
By this, I don't mean nobody cares. Everybody cares; I have the e-mail to prove it. But just about every response I've gotten either ignores the relevant facts to excuse McNabb and the Eagles of not being able to beat the Cards, and not being able to fashion late-game comebacks in general, OR it goes way off in the other direction, cherry picking stats that "prove" McNabb is the worst postseason quarterback ever, and stating that the Eagles delude themselves by keeping him employed.
Here's what's true, from where I sit:
1. Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers did, indeed accomplish pretty much exactly what the Eagles couldn't accomplish in the NFC Championship Game. After their defense gave away a lead, they took the ball down and re-won the game. Maybe it was coaching, maybe it was quarterbacking, maybe it was Santonio Holmes, most likely it was some combination of the the three. Steelers had it, Eagles didn't.
2. The Eagles' defense still lost the NFC Championship Game, not so much the offense. You don't give up 32 points in a title game. (Edit: changed from 30, thanks to Venkman, below in the comments, who pointed out that I originally was subtracting a safety that actually occurred in the Giants game. It really was a long year.) You might have noticed, if the Steelers had given up 32 points Sunday, they would not have won. Just as McNabb's performance wasn't as clutch as Roethlisberger's, the Eagles had no James Harrison in their game with Arizona. Nothing even close.
I'm not sure Super Bowl XLIII "proves" anything about what is or isn't possible with McNabb. Remember, before Roethlisberger came up big Sunday, he authored what might have been the worst quarterbacking performance in the history of the game three years earlier in Detroit, and his team still won. A lot depends on the matchup, and your defense, and getting a lead, and so on.
Amid the din of people trotting out their hardened attitudes pro and con this week, I got a couple of pretty interesting e-mails. One, from a "basher," analyzes Donovan in late-game situations. The other notes that Roethlisberger, on the day, didn't really outperform McNabb statistically, and brings up some other salient points.
Here are the highlights.
First, from Mark Goetz: "Parameters: From 2005 season to present, with < 9 mins left in the 4th quarter where McNabb has an opportunity to tie or take the lead with either a TD or a FG of less than 54 yards (Akers range: season long in all but one year of his career is 53 yds). I gave McNabb credit in 2 games where he got the lead or tied, and the defense gave up the winning points as time expired (eg, 62 yd FG at Tampa that I still have nightmares about). Results: McNabb is 5 for 18 (27%) during the regular season in those situations since the 2005 season, including 0/5 this year. This is generous since I used < 9 mins instead of the crucial last 2-3 mins ... In his playoff career, he is 2 for 6, 0 for 1 since 2005."
To Mark, this data spurs the following conclusion about McNabb winning a Lombardi: "Maybe early in his career, but the failures since the Super Bowl have truly affected him. People talk about him being a Hall of Famer, that is a joke. Hall of Famers live for those moments, not choke."
David Mullin has a very different perspective:
"Les, I think you are being unfair here. I am as ticked off about the loss to the Cardinals as anyone on the planet, but when you campare McNabb to Big Ben in these two games, I don't see how you say Big Ben played better than McNabb. Big Ben brought the Steelers back from a four-point deficit to take the lead late in the game. McNabb brought the Eagles back from an 18-point deficit to take the lead midway through the fourth quarter—the largest catch-up in NFC title game history. Big Ben and his offense put 20 on the board against the Cards at a neutral site. McNabb and his offense put 25 on the board against the Cards in their dome. Big Ben's offense failed to get in and had to settle for field goals twice from the one. McNabb and his offense scored when they got inside the ten.
"If the Eagles' defense had done to the Cards what the Steelers' defense did to the Cards—get a pick 6 and stop them on the final drive—the Eagles would have been in the Super Bowl against a Steelers team they already had beaten. Charge Quintin Demps with 3 points and Akers with 4, and that is the margin of victory. They can't be the goats because they are not larger than life like McNabb ... no team has given up more than 28 (points) and won the NFC championship game, ever."


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It's my first post here and it'll be short since I should be revising for tomorrow vocab test :P
Hmm... I live in Poland and here I study English language. We have lectures twice a week and on Wednesday he had quite a break for some lunch or - how we call it here - second breakfast. I used to eat french fries with my friend + some juice. But the prices in our canteen are higher and higher and it was not so healthy so I decided to start making obentos - I'm anime lovers, that's how I learned about them.
While searching for some recipes and general clues I found this blog :P And I liked it.
Last Wednesday I made my first bento. Well, not really well-planned (some rice + 1 egg tamagoyaki + a tomato) but it was a nice start. And people from my group were looking like "WTF these are chopsticks? And rice? How the hell you can eat rice with chopsticks?" :D
And just a moment ago I prepared my first onigiri ever :)
Yoshi, now it's really time for me to do some revise. See you :)
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WESTLAND, Mich. (AP) — Here's mud in your eye. And your hair, back and legs.
It was a mother's nightmare and a kid's fantasy come true. Hundreds of children on Tuesday jumped into a 75-by-150-foot mud pit as part of the 26th annual Mud Day at a park in the Detroit suburb of Westland.
Events included wheelbarrow races and a game of limbo.
A panel of judges selected a king and queen, based on their creative uses of mud.
Emily Cunningham of Riverview was chosen Queen of Mud.
A crown was placed atop the 8-year-old's head, which was caked in mud and adorned with leaves and a stick. She says, "It's fun getting mud all over you."
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UH Manoa Professor W. Dennis Carroll wins 2009 Robert W. Clopton Award for Distinguished Community ServiceUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Office of the Chancellor
"Professor Carroll has contributed so much to our academic programs and the lives of so many people in our UH Mānoa ʻohana," said UH Mānoa Chancellor Virginia S. Hinshaw. "He is a treasure, and we are grateful for his presence. This recognition for his service is highly deservedhe makes all of us better through his example."
Dr. Carroll has devoted 40 years to the support of theater for and about the people of Hawaiʻi. As a new faculty member, he immediately encouraged students to write plays, and then worked in a collaborative manner to mount productions. These efforts coalesced into Kumu Kahua Theatre, a 100-seat playhouse in downtown Honolulu. The name means "original stage," and the mission was clear from the start: to stage new and innovative dramas, create a Hawaiʻi theater by nurturing plays written about Hawaiʻi by its residents, and provide an opportunity for local actors.
He was also instrumental in two important moments in the theater's 38-year history: the establishment of the Kumu Kahua as a non-profit, self-sustaining community theatre, and its eventual move in 1993 to its permanent home on Merchant Street. As a founder, artistic director, board member, playwright and director, Dr. Carroll's contributions in creating and sustaining this important cultural institution have made a significant impact in the community and on the artistic life of Hawaiʻi.
Dr. Carroll will be recognized for his achievements along with other UH award recipients at the annual Convocation ceremony in the fall at the UH Mānoa campus. The ceremony is open to the public at no charge, and no reservations are needed. For more information on the awards ceremony, visit http://www.hawaii.edu/about/awards.


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CME Group Inc., owner of the world's largest futures market, was sued by users who allege the company sold order information to high-frequency traders ahead of other market participants.
The Chicago-based company, owner of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade, offers futures based on interest rates, equity indexes, currencies, energy products and agricultural commodities. The plaintiffs, in their complaint against CME and CBOT, allege "a fraud on the marketplace" and seek class-action status on behalf of exchange users. CME denied their accusations in a statement.
Sometime after the start of 2007, the CBOT and CME began letting HFTs peek "at all orders to buy and sell futures contracts before they were reflected" to the rest of the market, according to the complaint filed April 11 in federal court in Chicago. That glimpse occurred "before the person or entity entering the buy or sell order received confirmation that their order was received -- in other words before anyone other than the HFTs were privy to this information."
The debate over whether lightning-fast trading gives some investors an unfair advantage reignited this year amid government probes and the March 31 publication of "Flash Boys" by Michael Lewis. While those examinations have focused mostly on U.S. equity markets -- such as dark pools run by banks and exchanges owned by companies including Nasdaq OMX Group Inc., IntercontinentalExchange Group Inc., and Bats Global Markets Inc. -- high-frequency traders also are active in futures markets.
'Fundamental Misunderstanding'
"The suit is devoid of any facts supporting the allegations and, even worse, demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of how our markets operate," CME Group said in an e-mailed statement. "It is sad when plaintiffs' lawyers bring a suit based on a desire for publicity, and in the rush to file a suit fail to undertake even the most basic effort to determine if there is any basis for their allegations. The case is without merit, and we intend to defend ourselves vigorously."
The lawsuit alleges CME Group gave high-frequency traders early access and that trades from that exclusive advance notice changed prices for everyone else. The plaintiffs had paid for real-time data, according to the complaint.
CME Group "invited HFTs to make trades ahead of all other market participants and because the HFTs' generally entered very large orders, they had the ability through their de facto inside trading to influence the price of financial futures artificially," according to the complaint.
Anita Liskey, a CME Group spokeswoman, said that wasn't true and that the exchange only offers one data feed with its prices that all investors get at the exact same time.
"We have only one data feed, no one can buy it to be faster than anyone else," she said. "No trader can see any other person's order until it hits the order book, when it is made public."
Lead plaintiff William Charles Braman and two other people are suing on behalf of all users of real-time futures market data and futures contracts listed on the CBOT and CME from 2007 to now, according to their complaint.
The case is Braman v. CME Group Inc., 14-cv-2646, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois (Chicago).
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Open Virtual Platforms are an idea whose time has arrived. That is, if you understand what they are. Certainly, if you're reading this blog, you know what a virtual platform is.
"Platform virtual machines are software packages that emulate the whole physical computer machine, often giving multiple virtual machines on one physical platform."
For additional clarity, check it out on Wikipedia, paying particular attention to the incredibly dense/complex table found there that attempts to catalog various virtual platforms, their origins, supporting organizations, and features.
Imperas & Open Virtual Platforms
So, if that's what virtual platforms are, then what are Open Virtual Platforms, OVPs?
Imperas – an enterprise founded in Silicon Valley in 2008 – would like you to understand and use OVPs. To do that, they are sponsoring a portal-based community called Open Virtual Platforms – a resource designed to help chip developers have access to various open source virtual platforms, or models, of various commonly used hardware platforms endemic to the embedded systems world.


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Carlos Pineda | Staff Writer
Notre Dame will be playing for the national championship for the first time since 1988.
The last unbeaten team in the country, the Fighting Irish has all but secured a berth in the 2013 Discover BCS National Championship Game by virtue of a 22-13 win over rival USC on Saturday night in their final game of the season.
Notre Dame (12-0) currently sits atop the latest BCS Standings, ahead of Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Oregon.
The winner of Saturday's SEC title game between the Crimson Tide and the Bulldogs will likely face Notre Dame in South Florida on Jan. 7.
It's been a long climb for the Irish, who started the season unranked in the AP Top 25 and 24th in the USA Today Coaches' Poll.
With a 4-0 record against Top 25 opponents, Notre Dame's relentless defense has unquestionably been the heart and soul of the team this season. The defense is led by linebacker and Heisman hopeful Manti Te'o, who has a team-high 103 tackles and seven interceptions. Ranked sixth in total defense, the Irish have allowed only 10.33 points per game, with only Alabama ranking higher.
Despite its unblemished record, it hasn't come without some drama. Notre Dame escaped defeat several times this season, including wins against Purdue, Stanford (overtime) and Pittsburgh (triple overtime).
"We had a dream," Te'o said after Saturday's win, "and we put in the work to make sure that dream comes true."
Holding a nine-point lead against the Trojans late in the fourth quarter, the defense held off a five-play, goal-line stand to help secure its perfect regular season.
Offensively, quarterback Everett Golson has passed for 2,135 yards and 11 touchdowns, while rushing for 305 yards and five touchdowns. Running backs Theo Riddick, Cierre Wood and George Atkinson III have combined to rush for 1,981 yards and 14 touchdowns.
Two weeks ago, Notre Dame stood behind Kansas State and Oregon in the BCS Standings, but losses by the Wildcats and the Ducks coupled with a win by the Irish catapulted them to the top of the BCS Standings for the time in program history.
This marks the Irish's first BCS Bowl game since the 2006 season — a loss to LSU in the Sugar Bowl. It is also the team's first bowl appearance in Miami since the 1996 Orange Bowl.
The likely opponent for the Irish will come from the SEC. Notre Dame will try to end the SEC's six-game winning streak in the BCS National Championship Game.
"The way it's set up, only two teams can play for a national championship." coach Brian Kelly said. "It feels great that you have that opportunity."
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GOMA, Congo (AP) — A new U.N. intervention brigade has fired on M23 rebels for the first time in eastern Congo since being given a much stronger mandate to protect civilians earlier this year, U.N. and Congolese army officials said Friday.
Thursday's attack with field artillery occurred the same day mortar shells rained on homes in several residential neighborhoods of Goma. At least four civilians were killed in the violence and a dozen others wounded.
Congolese army spokesman Col. Olivier Hamuli said Friday the U.N. "brigade is on our side. They're supporting us with artillery."
A U.N. official said it was a defensive operation to protect civilians and U.N. bases — not an offensive operation. All elements of the U.N. peacekeeping mission known as MONUSCO were involved, including the intervention brigade. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the U.N. operation have not been made public.
New mission chief Martin Kobler, the U.N. secretary-general's special representative in Congo, told journalists Friday that his brigade will protect Goma, a city of nearly a million people on the Congo-Rwanda border that was briefly overtaken by rebels in November. He said the U.N.'s objective in recent heavy fighting outside Goma was "to defend the town but also to eliminate the M23's positions."
The Intervention Brigade, consisting of Tanzanian, South African and Malawian soldiers, was created by the U.N. Security Council in March and has deployed to Congo over the past few months, reinforcing 17,000 U.N. blue helmets already with the mission. The brigade has a stronger mandate than past U.N. peacekeeping missions and is authorized to battle the rebel forces operating in eastern Congo.
Government spokesman Lambert Mende welcomed the mission's more aggressive stance, and implied Friday it was overdue. "I think we can simply welcome the fact that the brigade has gone into action since yesterday. It's a good thing, better late than never," he said.
There is widespread skepticism in Congo that the intervention brigade will be a game-changing addition to the existing U.N. force, which stood by when M23 fighters briefly captured Goma late last year before withdrawing following heavy international pressure on Rwanda, their alleged backer.
The Rwandan government has consistently denied allegations that it has been supporting M23, whose leaders are veterans of previous rebellions that were backed by Rwanda.
Fighting between Congolese government forces and the M23 broke out again Wednesday, some 15 kilometers (nine miles) north of Goma, after a three-week lull.
Kobler called the targeting of civilians inexcusable and said that was why he had given the order to the U.N. mission to react. "Our principal task is to protect civilians but also to neutralize armed groups," he said.
Congolese army officials said that so far only the Tanzanians in the U.N. brigade had taken action against the M23. A U.N. official told the AP that this was because the brigade's artillery unit is Tanzanian and did not reflect any reluctance by South African troops.
Mineral-rich eastern Congo has been bloodied by fighting by a wide array of rebel groups and the Congolese military since the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda.
Mwanamilongo reported from Kinshasa, Congo. Associated Press writers Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations; Christopher Torchia in Johannesburg and Raphael Tenthani in Blantyre, Malawi contributed to this report.


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BATON ROUGE — Out-of-state retailers that sell online goods and services to consumers in Houma, Thibodaux and all other Louisiana communities would have to start collecting and then paying sales taxes to local governments and the state under legislation pending before Congress.
BATON ROUGE — Out-of-state retailers that sell online goods and services to consumers in Houma, Thibodaux and all other Louisiana communities would have to start collecting and then paying sales taxes to local governments and the state under legislation pending before Congress.
Companies that retail digitally and have a presence in Louisiana, like a storefront or shipping facility, already remit local and state sales taxes.
But those that operate remotely get off the hook.
The proposed Marketplace Fairness Act, however, has a catch: the states would have a choice whether to force out-of-state retailers to comply; it is not a mandate.
The act would also exempt small businesses that do less than $1 million in annual domestic sales.
In addition to targeting e-commence, the bill would apply to catalog sales as well.
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and a Democrat from New Orleans, joined 53 other members of Congress in introducing the act last week.
She is the only lawmaker from Louisiana on the co-sponsor list.
Landrieu said the bill would help level the playing field between brick-and-mortar retailers and online businesses.
"Small retailers in Louisiana and across the nation are being put at a disadvantage against large, online businesses because of the nature of our tax code," Landrieu said. "This legislation is simply about fairness and leveling the playing field for all our businesses."
Officials with Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration said they would track the federal legislation; the governor proposes eliminating individual and corporate state sales taxes in exchange for an increase in the state sales tax, now at 4 percent.
Should Congress pass some version of the Marketplace Fairness Act, it could help Jindal keep his plan revenue neutral, meaning for every tax dollar eliminated another is revealed.
The National Conference of State Legislatures estimates $800 million of sales tax money is lost via Internet sales.
Another study by the University of Tennessee found that Louisiana probably lost out on closer to $440 million in online sales taxes in 2012
The National Taxpayers Union, which is based in Washington D.C., and claims 362,000 members nationwide, is opposed to the Marketplace Fairness Act. The union advocates for less government and smaller taxes.
NTU Executive Vice President Pete Sepp said the proposed legislation reads like a "love letter to overzealous state revenue collectors" and does nothing to address tax fairness.
Sepp said its passage would "tilt the commercial playing field in favor of big-box stores, and upend the constitutionally based doctrine of physical presence that has shielded sellers and buyers from out-of-state tax collectors reaching into their pockets."
Others argue that the legislation would complicate an already complex task, since there are nearly 10,000 different taxing jurisdictions nationwide.
The bill would overturn a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court decision that found states cannot reach beyond their borders and require out-of-state internet vendors to collect the sales tax owed by state residents and businesses.
Sepp said even if a state decides not to opt in, he is concerned that tax administrators might still end up with increased powers and new taxing abilities.
"Lawmakers who want to be true to their taxpaying constituents should avoid rushing into this legislation and instead call for hearings that can finally explore more rational alternatives," he added.
The Marketplace Fairness Act has a long list of supporters, some local, like the Louisiana Retailers Association and Louisiana Veterinary Medical Association.
There are more than 200 corporate backers of the plan, too, including Amazon.com, Petco Animal Supplies and Wendy's.
In the Senate, Sens. Mike Enzi, a Wyoming Republican, and Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, are chief sponsors.
On the House side, the chief sponsors are Reps. Steve Womack, an Arkansas Republican, and Jackie Speier, a California Democrat.
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Checking in on the… Summit LeaguePosted by nvr1983 on February 15th, 2009
Ryan Pravato of College Fast Break is the RTC correspondent for the Summit League.
North Dakota State Bison 19-5 (13-1)
11 games and counting since this squad last lost a game (Jan. 2 @ Oakland). Three out of their last four wins have been by at least 20. In a 38-point murder of UMKC on Thursday, 11 different players scored for NDSU and their 4th leading scorer Michael Tviedt was not one of them.
Ben Woodside (left), Senior, 5'11": Leads the conference is scoring, 2nd in assists, and totally needs to acquire a license for his guns. Balances the duties of point guard and go-to scorer perfectly.
Brett Winkleman (middle), Senior, 6'6″: 3rd in the conference in scoring, tied for 3rd in rebounding, and his last name is Winkleman.
Mike Nelson (right), Senior, 6'4″: NDSU's 3rd leading scorer, 3rd in minutes/game, and 1st in headshot creepiness.
Oral Roberts Golden Eagles 12-13 (10-3)
Extended their 33-game conference home winning streak by squeaking past Western Illinois on Thursday, an important win considering the two game slide they were on coming into the game. Home date February 24th vs. NDSU.
Robert Jarvis (left) Senior, 5'11: 5th in the conference in scoring, probably has bigger guns than Woodside, and shoots a lackluster 38.5% from the field. Guy thinks his fecal matter and jump shot don't smell.
Marcus Lewis (right), Senior, 6'8″: Oral's 2nd leading scorer, team leader in FG% by a mile, and is tied for the team lead in assists (averages more feeds than Jarvis).
Oakland Grizzlies 15-11 (8-5)
Two straight victories after two straight losses have the Grizz still in the hunt for the #2 seed. Celebs were in full force when Centenary traveled to Rochester for a date on the 7th. Didn't actually see Joe Cribbs Car Wash mastermind Jerry with my own two eyes (almost sold out), but he was there.
Erik Kangas (left), Senior, 6'3″: The best shooter in the nation (inside joke, actually, wait a second) is 3rd in the country in total threes made, 2nd in the conference in scoring, and 2nd on the team in minutes/game (36.3).
Jonathon Jones (middle), Junior, 5'11": J.J. currently has the most total assists in the nation, leads the team in minutes/game (38), and is only shooting 39.5% from the field (it's unhealthy to be too much of a homer, got to keep it real).
Keith Benson (right), Redshirt Sophomore, 6'11": Had to throw the big guy in here because he's blocking over 2 shots/game (best in the conference.), 2nd on the team in scoring with 13.7, and the only guy I know who can effectively smile while swatting a shot, "running" back on defense, and getting cussed at by Coach Kampe. I'm telling you, the Only Guy.
The Others…
- Southern Utah had a golden opportunity to draw within one game of Oakland for 3rd place with a win @ SDSU on Thursday, but couldn't get it done.
- After a 5-4 beginning in conference play, Centenary has lost four straight games by double figures.
- IUPUI is quietly lurking at 7-7 thanks to a 5-1 record since Jan. 24th.
- I think it's safe to assume 2-10 UMKC won't qualify for the Summit league tourney at this rate.


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Jose Mourinho has quashed reports suggesting he could take over from Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson at the end of the season, claiming the Scot has the capacity to carry on for another ten years in charge at Old Trafford.
Ferguson himself sparked claims Mourinho could take over the Manchester United hot seat by saying the Real Madrid boss was more than capable of filling his shoes when he eventually steps down from the game.
Mourinho's former rival at Barcelona, Pep Guardiola, has also been linked with taking over from Ferguson when he decides to retire. Last month the Scot was honoured with a statue outside Old Trafford to commemorate his successful 26 years in charge and admitted he may only last one more year in management.
Reports in Spain today suggest Mourinho will leave the Bernabeu come the end of the season no matter what happens between now and May, with the Premier League and Old Trafford potentially his next destination.
Mourinho has been vocal in the past of his admiration for English football, and has previously insisted he would return to the Premier League once he was finished in Madrid.
Speaking ahead of Madrid's Champions League clash against Ajax this week, Mourinho refused to comment on speculation suggesting he would be leaving Spain at the end of the season, but insists that Ferguson is some way away from stepping down as Manchester United boss.
"Friends are like this," the 'Special One' said. "Friends always speak well of each other.
"His succession isn't near. It should be in 10 years or so. He is getting better and better. He is stronger all the time. Why should he retire?"
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MOSCOW (AP) — For a man with a bad back, Russian President Vladimir Putin sat up straight for more than four hours Thursday in his annual marathon news conference, brushing off claims that he's an authoritarian leader and lashing out at the U.S.
The annual news conferences have become a grueling and elaborate piece of theater, a show both of Putin's vigor and of his domination of Russian politics.
The top story on Russian news channels before the news conference itself was assiduously detailed reporting on preparations for the event, including speculation on whether he would set a new record for length.
He didn't. This year's clocked in at 4:33, seven minutes short of the record set in 2008. But at age 60, Putin is still vigorous and he showed no sign of the back injury that forced him to put off some foreign trips this fall.
During the news conference, Putin lashed out at the United States, complaining that a recent U.S. law that allows sanctions on Russians deemed to be human rights violators was arrogant.
"Why does one country consider itself entitled to spread its jurisdiction to the entire world?" he said in his characteristic rapid-fire delivery.
The U.S. law sparked a retaliatory measure now being considered by the lower house of parliament, which includes a ban on Americans adopting Russian children. Putin said the harsh proposal was an "appropriate" reaction to the U.S. law, but was noncommittal on whether he would sign it. Some top government officials have openly opposed the move.
Putin also rejected the frequent description of his rule as authoritarian, saying that he wouldn't have stepped down after two terms if that were the case.
"If I had thought that a totalitarian or an authoritarian system is the preferred one, I would have just changed the Constitution," he said. "It would have been easy to do. It does not even require a popular vote."
The Russian leader returned to the presidency in May after stepping aside due to term limits for a four-year hiatus as prime minister, during which he remained Russia's dominant figure and overshadowed placeholder President Dmitry Medvedev.
Notably, Putin used the news conference to assert that Russia recognizes change is needed in Syria. The admission does not appear to herald a change in Russia's stance — Putin reiterated Moscow's long-standing call for negotiations to end the fighting between Bashar Assad's regime and opposition forces — but may show a growing willingness to view its longtime ally as obsolete.


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The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) participates enthusiastically in the newly founded association N.ERGHY (New European Research Grouping on Fuel Cells and Hydrogen). N.ERGHY has recently been founded in Brussels, and together with the European Commission and an industry grouping forms part of the "Joint Technology Initiative for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells" (JTI), which has its aim the rapid development and deployment of hydrogen production and hydrogen application technologies.
For the next five years, the JTI has a budget of 940 million euro at its disposal, with the industry and the European Commission each providing half of the total sum. The establishment of the JTI entails that the research themes hydrogen and fuel cells within the EU's research framework programme are organised exclusively through the JTI. N.ERGHY's essential tasks include defining themes from the research and development areas to be elaborated and worked on. So far, 42 European research institutions and universities have joined N.ERGHY.
One of the main aims of hydrogen research is to develop, within the next ten years, the required technologies and to make them marketable, and then to gradually develop a viable hydrogen economy in Europe - the scenarios used have time horizons of up to 2050. DLR is already working intensively on research and development concerning fuel cells and hydrogen. In late March, a 100-kilowatt reactor for producing hydrogen through water splitting using solar energy was inaugurated at the Plataforma Solar de Almería (Spain) as part of the HYDROSOL project.
As N.ERGHY Executive Board member, Dr Christian Sattler of the DLR Institute of Technical Thermodynamics is responsible for the fields of hydrogen production and hydrogen storage. Moreover, the DLR's Programme Directorate Energy undertakes the N.ERGHY secretariat and makes additional staff resources available for this purpose.


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Mindy Kaling Will Be Back on The Office After All
For at least two episodes.
It turns out we haven't seen the last of Kelly Kapoor just yet. Yes, Mindy Kaling will be spending most of her time doing a full Dunham this fall by writing, starring in, and producing her Fox comedy The Mindy Project. But Vulture has learned that Kaling and the producers of The Office have worked out a deal for the actress to return to the NBC comedy for at least two episodes of the show's ninth season. What's not known — at least to us — is whether Office overlord Greg Daniels will use those episodes to write Kaling's character off the show, or to simply keep Kelly visible until the show's series finale (whenever that may come). Kaling will be meeting the press later today during Fox's portion of the TV Critics Association summer press tour, so perhaps she'll divulge more details. Whatever Daniels's plans for Kelly, we're just hoping they include one more reunion of Subtle Sexuality.


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BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Hours before police say he plowed his truck into four pedestrians in Bellingham, Dustin Frederick Brown sent text messages to friends saying he was too drunk to drive.
But in an interview with a detective afterward he insisted he only had one beer and that his truck was "possessed" as it took him on "an amusement ride from hell."
Those details emerged in investigative records released to The Bellingham Herald under a public records request (http://is.gd/Za5UZ8 ).
Brown's souped-up Ford F-350 fishtailed out of control as he gunned the engine early on May 26 as people were leaving bars downtown, police say. Four pedestrians were hit. One, Dragan Skrobonja, 37, was killed. The truck continued on, striking parked and moving cars, until it came to rest against a barrier fence that kept it from plunging over a 10-foot drop.
A crowd surrounded the truck and pulled the driver out, detaining him as officers arrived, police said. Many people had been out celebrating the city's annual Ski to Sea race, a seven-sport relay race that covers 93 miles from Mount Baker to Bellingham Bay.
Brown faces charges of vehicular homicide and vehicular assault. Police say a breath test showed his blood-alcohol content to be nearly three times the legal limit.
The records say Brown had been drinking at the Up & Up tavern that evening when he texted two friends searching for a place to stay.
"So I'm downtown and shouldnt drive," Brown wrote one at 9:36 p.m. "Wanna volunteer to house me?"
"Shoot can't help you senor," she answered.
He texted her again just after 10 p.m. "Im never lookin for help ... Except now... But ok."
Thirty seconds later Brown texted the second, saying he was intoxicated and "dont wanna drive home."
"I'm headed down to Bellevue now," she replied. "Otherwise I would invite you to crash at my place."
Instead, witnesses said, Brown continued drinking and buying pitchers of beer for others. One, Jeremy Evans, 25, said Brown seemed extremely intoxicated and spilled beer as he poured it into his glass.
In an interview at a hospital three hours after the crash, Detective Pauline Renick asked Brown if he had been drinking.
"I had a few drinks," he said, at first, according to a transcript.
But when pressed for details, Brown's recollection changed. He insisted he'd only had one pint. He explained how he bought a pitcher, poured one glass for himself and gave the rest to two girls he'd just met. Brown drank no other alcohol, he said, before getting into his truck at 1:30 a.m.
The detective said that didn't jibe with the results of his breath test, and that he still smelled of alcohol.
Brown insisted he was being honest, and told police he desperately wanted to stop but the throttle had stuck. The truck was "literally possessed," he said.
"I was along for the ride," Brown said to the detective. "I was bleeding everywhere, and my glasses — I couldn't really see, I was just on a terrible — an amusement ride from hell, pretty much."
A mechanic consulted by police reported that it wasn't possible for the throttle to stick the way Brown described and that the accelerator worked fine.
One witness, Tyler Dixon, told police that toward the end of the truck's rampage, it hit two more parked cars and went into reverse and then drive again. Dixon said he took advantage of the pause to jump onto the truck's step bar, grab the driver through the window and pummel him. The driver slumped to the side, and the truck stopped against the barrier. Dixon suffered a fractured knuckle.
Brown, 28, remains in Whatcom County Jail on $500,000 bail. Brown's next court hearing has been set for Sept. 10, with a tentative trial date of Sept. 22. His public defender, Darrin Hall, said Skrobonja's death has been difficult for everybody, including Brown.
"It haunts him every day," Hall said, "because people's lives are ruined when lives are lost."
Information from: The Bellingham Herald, http://www.bellinghamherald.com