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The CoRoT space telescope has made seven new discoveries during its observations from Earth orbit – six extrasolar planets and a brown dwarf. One of the new discoveries is the exoplanet CoRoT-13b. Dr Juan Cabrera, from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Planetary Research in Berlin, led a team that authored the publication announcing its discovery.
The radius of CoRoT-13b is 90 percent that of Jupiter, making it nearly as big as the largest planet in the Solar System. It is very dense, indicating that it has a solid core. The planet orbits a Sun-like star in the constellation of the Unicorn, roughly 4,300 light years distant from us. The rocky exoplanet CoRoT-7b was found in the same region in 2008, causing a stir, as it is very similar to Earth in diameter and mass.
The newly-discovered planets also have distinctive characteristics. CoRoT-10b is a gas planet on an extremely eccentric orbit, so that as it orbits its parent star, it comes very close to the star and also moves very far away. Consequently, during a 13-day orbit, its temperature fluctuates between about 250 degrees and 600 degrees Celsius.
"The density of CoRoT-13b is very high for its mass –2.37 grams per cubic centimetre – nearly double that of Jupiter," says Dr Cabrera. "This suggests that CoRoT-13b has a solid core."
CoRoT-15b, on the other hand, is not a planet but a brown dwarf – the second to have been discovered by CoRoT. Brown dwarfs fill the gap between planets and stars. Because they are much more rare than planets, this finding represents something of a sensation.
Finding planets as they move in front of their stars
Whenever the orbital path of a planet causes it to traverse the line of sight between the CoRoT telescope and its star, it darkens the image of that star slightly for several hours. CoRoT measures this reduction in brightness. This technique, known as the planetary transit method, allows astronomers to determine the orbital period of the planet, its distance from the star and its radius. The planet's mass can then be determined in combination with subsequent measurements taken by ground-based telescopes. Transiting exoplanets being tracked by CoRoT are of great interest, since this is the only way of determining the planet's density. From these measurements, it can be inferred whether the planets are rocky exoplanets such as Venus, Earth and Mars, or gaseous planets like Jupiter and Saturn.
Transiting exoplanets are the extrasolar planets about which the most accurate data has been obtained. Of the roughly 450 extrasolar planets that have been discovered in the last 15 years, 82 have been observed as transiting exoplanets. Of these 82, CoRoT has detected fifteen.
"We look forward to every new member of the CoRoT family. This shows how successful the mission is," said Prof. Heike Rauer of the DLR Institute of Planetary Research, who directs the German contribution to the CoRoT mission and whose department is involved in scientific analysis. "Every new discovery contributes to a deeper understanding of the formation and evolution of planetary systems. In this way, we can answer the question whether our Solar System is an exceptional case, or whether other, similar planetary systems exist."
CoRoT was launched at the end of 2006, and now orbits Earth every two hours in a polar orbit at an altitude of 900 kilometres. The mission is led by the French space agency CNES. DLR has also made substantial contributions to the mission from the outset. The CoRoT mission has now been extended until March 2013.


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WARWICK, R.I. (AP) — JetBlue Airways is kicking off service at Rhode Island's T.F. Green Airport.
Gov. Lincoln Chafee plans to welcome the airline to the state Thursday, when it begins nonstop service between the airport and Orlando and Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Chafee had pushed to bring JetBlue to Rhode Island, saying the move will give travelers more options and improve the state's business climate.
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It's hard to see where China's love affair with cars will lead
SHANGHAI -- If you hang around anyone connected with the Chinese auto industry for any length of time, you'll hear mind-boggling numbers about the industry's rosy future.
Dave Schoch, the no-nonsense president of Ford's Asia-Pacific region, told journalists this week that analysts say by 2020 the China market could surpass 30 million to 32 million, more than the United States and all of Europe combined. The Chinese have taken to the automobile like fish to water, and that love could transform the global industry -- and the entire planet for that matter.
But looking out my hotel room window here, I have to wonder just where China's love affair with the automobile and industrial progress will take us. There's a yellowish pall in the air making the spectacular skyscrapers of Shanghai's Pudong financial district mere shadowy silhouettes. Often they're not visible at all. New cars don't stay shiny for long. They're quickly covered in a grimy film.
The Shanghai air quality index as I write this is 121, according to a Web site that constantly monitors air quality in China's cities. A reading of 121 means the air is "unhealthy for sensitive groups," the Web site helpfully explains. I also can see that since I arrived here last Sunday, the air quality index in Shanghai maxed out at 212. That translates to "health warnings of emergency conditions. Everyone is likely to be affected."
So it's more than just jet lag that has had me feeling a little bleary-eyed and scratchy in the throat. But there's worse. If the air quality index goes above 300, the Web site says: "Health alert. Everyone may experience serious side effects." In 2010, the air quality index in Beijing soared past 500 -- meaning the air was virtually unbreathable.
The automobile is obviously not the main reason China's air is so bad. Hundreds of coal-fired powerplants belch smoke and particulates into the atmosphere daily. But 30 million cars, no matter how clean they run, will contribute to air pollution.
And air isn't the only pollution problem here. The water isn't so great either. Shortly before my trip, about 10,000 dead pigs turned up in the Huangpu River, something you think about when you see pork on the menu here, which is often.
When Ford CEO Alan Mulally visited China in March, he participated in the China Development Forum, a gathering of business and government leaders geared to discussing the country's numerous challenges.
Schoch accompanied his boss and was encouraged by what he heard.
"There was a lot of focus on the environment, which is music to our ears," says Schoch. "We want to be part of the solution."
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CHICAGO, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The lights are out in the U.S. House and the members are tucked into their homes for Christmas.
A year's work well-done behind them? Not hardly.
As they headed home at the end of last week having refused Speaker John Boehner's last-ditch plan to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" and give them cover for tax increases -- a plan that had been pronounced dead on arrival in the Senate and also rejected by President Obama -- the nation remained in limbo.
At the stroke of midnight New Year's Eve, the tax cuts enacted during the administration of George W. Bush are set to vanish. Massive across-the-board spending cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act kick in, threatening to gut national security and rend the social safety net. Taken together they represent a $500 billion shock to the economy that economists say could push the nation back into recession, increasing the unemployment rate, currently at 7.7 percent, back up to more than 9 percent.
Boehner, R-Ohio, has had trouble controlling his caucus from the get-go. Conservatives are loathe to raise taxes on anyone, hence the demise of Boehner's so-called Plan B, which proposed keeping tax rates the same for the first $1 million of income but then allowing taxes on amounts of more than that to revert to the levels in effect during the administration of President Bill Clinton. Obama wants the tax rates to revert for those making more than $250,000.
A companion bill to Boehner's tax plan, the Spending Reduction Act of 2012, cuts funding for such programs as Meals on Wheels, dismantles aid for homeowners and eliminates the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
"This bill is a step backwards and it's nothing more than a dangerous diversion," Amy Brundage, deputy White House press secretary for the economy, said in a blog post.
After Boehner canceled a vote on his plan late Thursday, he washed his hands of the issue, saying it was up to Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to come up with a solution, an indication his days as speaker may be numbered. The White House issued a statement saying Obama will continue to "work with Congress to get this done." That would mean to move a plan out of the House Boehner would have to rely largely on Democratic votes since he won't be able to count on Tea Party or other conservatives.
During the presidential campaign, GOP challenger Mitt Romney advocated slashing tax rates to help the economy and allowing increased employment and sales to increase the federal revenue stream.
Robert Genetski, The Heartland Institute's policy adviser for budget and tax policy, said Obama never had any intention of reaching a deal with Boehner, despite his pronouncement during the campaign he wanted to achieve a "grand bargain."
"The president's 'compromise' proposal indicates he is following the advice of his advisers to let the upcoming tax increases go into effect," Genetski said. "This has been their plan all along. The advisers believe the president can convince the public that Republicans are responsible for the tax increases. Once he does, the president will not only be able to dictate who receives breaks from the new higher tax rates, but he will also be able to keep much of the new revenue to fund additional government programs."
Clifford Thies, professor of economics and finance at Shenandoah University, said on the Heartland site barring an agreement that reflects the beliefs of both Republicans and Democrats "going off the cliff is not a bad idea."
"The new economics of the fiscal underpinning ... suggests that, by slashing the deficit, going off the cliff would restore investor confidence, so that cash that has been sitting on the sideline would be invested. If the new economics is correct, the growth of the economy sparked by investor confidence could soon eliminate the remaining deficit," Thies said.
By Friday, however, a Plan C was emerging on the left that would sock it to big corporations, whose share of federal tax payments had fallen to less than 8 percent in 2011 from a high of 32 percent in 1952, said the Institute for Public Accuracy, which says it enables progressive and grassroots organizations to get their views before the media.
The institute said more than 600 business owners and executives have signed a letter to Obama and Congress, urging a tax system "that is fair and provides sufficient revenue for the public services and infrastructure that underpin our economy. When powerful, large U.S. corporations avoid their fair share of taxes, they undermine U.S. competitiveness, contribute to the national debt and shift more of the tax burden to domestic businesses, especially small businesses that create most of the new jobs."
"Now is not the time to lock in low corporate taxes," Joseph Magid, president of Gryphon Systems, a Wynnewood, Pa., management consulting firm, told Business for Shared Prosperity, which describes itself as a national network of forward-thinking business owners and executives. "Our country can not afford to keep giving tax breaks and loopholes to giant corporations at the expense of smaller businesses."
"The corporate tax code should not give incentives to U.S. multinational corporations to hide their revenues offshore and avoid paying their fair share," Eric Henry, president of TS Designs, a T-shirt manufacturer in Burlington, N.C., told Business for Shared Prosperity.
"Small businesses like mine put our money back into our operations, which keeps jobs, investment and tax dollars right here in our own communities."
Lew Prince, managing partner of Vintage Vinyl in St. Louis, said revenue-neutral corporate "tax reform" is not an option.
"There's nothing neutral about big business tax dodging -- it's unpatriotic, plain and simple," Prince said.
Reshonda Young, operations manager of a small Waterloo, Iowa, delivery service, told the Main Street Alliance network of small-business coalitions small businesses are not afraid to compete with the big boys but they need "a fair fight, not one in which big corporations use loopholes to avoid their taxes, stick our business with the tab, and rob our nation of the resources we need for a healthy economy."


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Increased police presence meets students at local schools
At Deans Mill School in Stonington Monday morning, a police cruiser parked conspicuously at the entrance to the school. Inside, Officer Edward Cullen patrolled the corridors.
Similar scenes could be found at schools across the region, but officials said that Monday — the first day of school since Friday's shootings in Newtown — was business as usual.
A discussion of school safety is ongoing in many communities, including at meetings tonight in Norwich and Wednesday in Old Lyme, East Lyme and Griswold.
East Lyme
Superintendent of Schools James Lombardo said in a Sunday letter to parents that the school district will continue to provide a safe environment for students. Counselors are available in every school, he said.
Discussing safety procedures now under review, he said all school entrances will be locked beginning this week. Visitors to the elementary and middle schools will need to use a security buzzer before entering. Personnel will allow entry to the high school only after a "visual identification," he said. Police also will be present in the schools this week.
The schools will begin collecting donations today for Newtown's schools. Parents, students and staff members can contribute to the fund drive at the main office of each public school, according to Lombardo.
An unsubstantiated but persistent rumor about a student bringing a gun to school has prompted the use of metal detectors at Fitch High School, Interim Superintendent John Ramos said.
"The rumor got a life of its own over the weekend through social media," Ramos said. "In the context of what's going on in Newtown, we've taken a couple of extra steps to be extra vigilant."
Police and school officials plan to use hand-held wands to check random students starting today and continuing through the week. Ramos said the threat was investigated by police before the Newtown shooting Friday and was related to Dec. 21 and the prophesy that the world would end that day.
Police from the town and city departments were stationed at each school in Groton on Monday morning and will be there again Tuesday. Two officers will be stationed at Fitch for the rest of the week.
"Everyone is working hard to be extra diligent and aware during this time … when we're grieving," Ramos said.
He said he met with school officials Friday to review and reinforce security protocols, and made the school community aware of crisis team availability for students and staff. Ramos met again with police and school officials Monday afternoon.
New London
Teachers and staff were prepared Monday morning to answer questions about the Newtown shootings, and were ready with help for anyone who needed it.
"What we emphasized today is maintaining a routine,'' Superintendent Nicholas Fischer said Monday afternoon.
He sent emails to school principals over the weekend and the heads of each school met with their staffs Monday morning to discuss what they should and should not say and how to deal with a crisis. Psychologists and social workers were standing by if needed, Fischer said.
"As I was walking around the schools today, my sense was is all went smoothly,'' he said.
Officials will have a public meeting today to discuss school safety.
Superintendent Abby I. Dolliver said the meeting would give parents a chance to share concerns. She said police and fire officials would be on hand to discuss the school's safety procedures.
Dolliver said central office staff went to the schools Monday morning and found it was " business as usual." Staff also held an early morning meeting to discuss the tragedy.
She said she plans to meet with school principals today to see whether any issues arose.
Norwich Free Academy Head of School David Klein recorded a morning television message reminding students of the support and assistance available to them on campus. The NFA Crisis Response Team met, and the school has communicated with parents and teachers via phone and email.
Police Chief Louis J. Fusaro said that in addition to the two school resource officers and three DARE officers normally assigned to the middle and elementary schools, officers on patrol have been instructed to stop in and out of the schools throughout the day for the immediate future. He said he also will be meeting this week with Dolliver to review security procedures.
Montville Police Lt. Leonard Bunnell said the department posted officers outside all of the town's schools Monday during the arrival and dismissal of students. The effort included two private school, St. Bernard and St. Thomas More. He said the department plans to continue the extra patrols today.
"In an effort to put people at ease, we're trying to provide a little more visibility," Bunnell said. "We want to reassure not only the administration but the children that we're close by."
Superintendent of Schools Joseph Onofrio II said faculty at Salem School began Monday with a staff meeting to formulate a plan on how to help the elementary and middle school students.
Onofrio said a handful of parents kept students at home Monday because of the Newtown incident. Otherwise, the school tried to allow children to have their normal routines and activities.
"I think that's what we all hope for — that our children can be insulated from the horror," Onofrio said.
Police were at each of the six public schools as well as Pine Point School and St. Michael School in Stonington on Monday, and that will continue for the foreseeable future, according to Police Chief J. Darren Stewart.
At the police station Monday morning, Stewart, Capt. Jerry Desmond, First Selectmen Ed Haberek, Superintendent of Schools Van Riley, Pine Point Head of School Stephen Bennhoff and St. Michael Principal Doris Messina met for more than an hour to review school security.
They also agreed to set up a task force that will look at issues such as the physical characteristics of the buildings, assets and potential use of new technology.
The schools also made sure police have updated information on details such as school layouts and class schedules.
"We have to make sure these children are safe and we'll do that," Riley said.
They said it was business as usual at their schools Monday morning with no formal program to discuss what happened with children.
However teachers and counselors were available to talk with any students or staff members who wanted to talk with someone about what happened. They said those discussions would be done in an age appropriate way.
Police on Friday reviewed safety measures at each school and information for parents about how to talk to their children about the tragedy was posted on the school website.
On Monday, police officers were stationed at each of the district's six schools, including the Friendship School.
"We wanted to assure the kids that the schools are safe,'' Superintendent Jerome R. Belair said. "All in all, we had a good day. We did our very best to return to normalcy, but as adults in the education community, our hearts were aching."
The middle school had an extended homeroom so students could talk with their teachers. The shooting was discussed in some high school classes. At the elementary level, teachers and staff took their cues from the students.
"It was not us initiating the conversation,'' he said.
Jeffrey A. Johnson and Izaskun Larraneta also contributed to this report.
Focusing on school safety
Norwich: School officials will have a public meeting 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Kelly Middle School to discuss school safety procedures.
Lyme/Old Lyme: A meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Lyme-Old Lyme High School to discuss the impact the tragedy has had on the school system. Town leaders, resident troopers and school board members will be present.
East Lyme: A community forum will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday at East Lyme High School to discuss school security. School administrators, safety officers and board members, as well as town police and First Selectman Paul Formica, will be present.
Griswold: A vigil will be held on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Griswold Veteran's Memorial Park located at the intersection of Ashland and Hill streets in the Jewett City section of town. Those who attend are asked to provide their own cellphones, candles or flashlight.
What would it cost?
With many local communities posting police officers at all their schools Monday, some residents may be wondering what it would cost to do this permanently.
In Stonington for example, Police Chief J. Darren Stewart said Monday that the town likely would need to hire six new officers to cover its six schools at a cost of about $450,000 to $500,000 a year.
If the total cost were passed on to the taxpayers, a 0.16-mill increase in the tax rate would result. With that tax increase, a person with a home assessed at $250,000 would pay an additional $40 a year in taxes, according to Director of Finance Maryanna Stevens.
Currently, police Youth Officer Tim Marley spends time in all the schools each week.
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Barclays Plc must disclose the identities of Libor traders and employees that made submissions to set interest rates, after a ruling in the first U.K. lawsuit related to manipulation of the London interbank offered rate.
Judge Julian Flaux in London said the bank must give the information on the workers to affiliates of Guardian Care Homes Ltd., which sued the bank over a loss-making interest-rate swap tied to Libor. London-based Barclays must also provide Guardian the e-mail communications of 42 employees, transcripts of phone conversations that refer to Libor, board minutes and documents from the bank's treasury committee, Flaux ruled today.
Flaux hasn't yet ruled on whether the bank must disclose the information only to Guardian or if it should be made public.
Guardian sued over the swap that cost it about 12 million pounds ($19 million), saying Libor -- the baseline for about $300 trillion of contracts worldwide -- can't be trusted. In June, the lender was fined a record 290 million pounds after regulators found its investment bankers tried to manipulate the interest rate.
Guardian's lawyers declined to comment after the hearing. Barclays spokesman Jon Laycock wasn't immediately available.
Barclays failed to have the Libor-fixing part of the suit thrown out on Oct. 29 when a judge ruled it would have to answer accusations it profited from rigging Libor submissions.
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Guardian, based in Wolverhampton, England, claims the Libor-based interest-rate swap it bought from Barclays isn't valid because the bank knew, or should have known, the rate wasn't accurate.
Barclays was previously denied permission to have the swap claim decided by British financial regulators instead of a judge.
Regulators worldwide are investigating allegations banks altered submissions used to set Libor in an effort to benefit traders, or to appear financially healthier than they were.
Libor is calculated by a poll carried out daily on behalf of the British Bankers' Association that asks firms to estimate
how much it would cost to borrow from each other for different periods and in different currencies. The BBA signaled in September it will give up oversight of the rate. submissions.
Dan Doctoroff, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bloomberg LP, has offered a measure dubbed the Bloomberg Interbank Offered Rate, or Blibor. It would use data from a variety of financial transactions in an effort to better reflect participating banks' real cost of credit. Bloomberg LP is the parent of Bloomberg News.
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All nations have a central theatre where the best actors of the country play the audience's favourite roles. Budapest's favourite theatre was forced to move houses quite a few times during its history.
The first National Theatre in Budapest was built on one of the parcels near Kerepesi út, and was open to the public since 1837. The theatre moved to Blaha Lujza tér in 1908, but was demolished in 1965, claiming that this was necessary because of the new Metro line # 2. After this, the National Theatre's performances were held in the Thália Theatre in Nagymező utca for two years. In 1967, they moved to the Magyar Színház on Hevesi Sándor tér for nearly 34 years.
The new National Theatre, which was designed by Mária Siklós architect, was inaugurated on the 15th of December 2001, thus the theatre finally has its own building again after nearly 40 years. It is a central architectural element of the new Millennium City district in southern downtown Pest, along with the new Palace of Arts. The bold design includes an open-air stage, encompassed by a theme park with strong references to the world of theatre and movies.
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By the sheer number of print and commercials, there is a formula for CHANGE that drives consumers to the shelf (ultimately selling product based on aspiration to be like that celebrity or wanting to be your friend). So how does the Indy company get attention?
CHANGE by challenges and innovation by looking outside current distribution challenges. There are golden nuggets of consumer ideas that live in industries that have nothing to do with health and beauty (as of today). dot429 is a perfect example of reaching out to industry innovators outside their industry to see what is innovating in their categories or business. Internet test concepts, duel path production with vendors and rush to market after you have proven results.
CHANGE your price point and identify category-transcending innovation where you can be competitive with large corporate leaders with their high volumes. You will have a higher propensity for trial and long-term continuity. Make your margin in the near future when you can produce larger quantities when distribution expands. You'll be know as the "Original" and market leader (and the big guys with soon follow – validation feels so good!)
CHANGE your Marketing strategy. Hire a PR agency that will allow you to get in front of the beauty editors to bring the product to life, verses just the corporate mailings. Synergize PR with online and in-store communication and visuals (include broadcast if you have the opportunity). Shock the consumer with your visuals in a way that doesn't alienate, but emotionally arrests you and the consumer (and you both need to be linked).
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Knowing you have GI Bill benefits to cover the cost of tuition for school should make the decision to attend college easier. But at a time when the government is cracking down on some for-profit schools that put marketing ahead of education, many veterans fail to note what they'll get in return from the college they choose.
Those marketing strategies of certain schools are worrisome enough. An even bigger issue is their ability to hold proper accreditation — which could make or break your chances of getting hired down the road with a degree in hand from such a school.
Accreditation in this context aims to ensure colleges and universities meet acceptable levels of quality. There are several accrediting agencies that devise standards and review schools to check that they meet the standards.
Accreditation is something many of us don't think to ask about when we talk to an admissions counselor. But imagine earning a degree in the medical field, then applying for jobs only to be told that your degree is not recognized because the school is not properly accredited.
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It pays to do some research. Two great resources are the Department of Education's accreditation database at http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/ and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation at www.chea.org/search/default.asp.
In July, Student Veterans of America came out with a "Not Recommended List" to make veterans aware of the education institutions with unclear futures. Schools that are currently on this list were owned by Corinthian Colleges Inc., which has agreed to sell off 85 of its 97 U.S. schools after the Education Department restricted the company's access to federal student aid, according to an Aug. 4 Military Times story.
I hope in the near future SVA also will add education institutions that have questionable accreditation to the list, as this could help save veterans from making a big mistake working toward a degree that won't have much value. To read more on the SVA Not Recommended List, check out www.militarytimes.com/svalist.
I can't say that graduates of schools with questionable accreditation never get hired, but you need to think about this before you risk wasting your valuable GI Bill benefits.
You wouldn't buy a car or a big-screen TV without checking them out first. The same holds true when shopping for colleges. Earning a degree from a school with appropriate accreditation is an easy and beneficial step on the path to finding a good job.
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The father of a man shot and killed by police on a violent block of West Humboldt Park says he has no idea why officers gunned down his son, whom he described as just a "dorky kid."
"There's witnesses out there that say he didn't have no gun, so I don't know what the hell is going on," Pedro Gonzalez said as he stood in a gangway near his home Wednesday evening, not far from where police shot his 21-year-old son, Pedro Gonzalez III.
Gonzalez was the third person shot on the block in as many days. On Monday, his friend Jovany Diaz was killed as he celebrated his 15th birthday. The next day, a 25-year-old man was wounded in the legs near a street memorial for Diaz.
"This neighborhood is bad," Gonzalez said. "We need more police. . .That's what the mayor says. Let's see what happens."
Officials say three officers in a squad car saw Gonzalez standing near Jovany's memorial near Hirsch and Kolin with what appeared to be a bulge in his waistband. "They can clearly see a weapon stuck into his waistband," said an official with the Fraternal Order of Police.
The officers got out of their car and started chasing the Gonzalez, according to a spokesman for the FOP, Pat Camden. In the 1400 block of North Kolin Avenue, Gonzalez pulled out a gun and was shot by the officers, he said.
Gonzalez was taken in serious to critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:21 p.m.
Gonzalez's father said he was very protective of his son and didn't want him to leave their home because of all the violence in the neighborhood. His son was a graduate of Roberto Clemente High School; he had been having trouble finding work, and at one point tried to enlist in the Army.
The elder Gonzalez said his son and Jovany were best friends -- like cousins --- and were fans of the Miami Heat and LeBron James.
"He was a good kid," Gonzalez said. He always stayed at home," he said. "I was strict with him."
Tribune reporter Liam Ford contributed.


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A walk around the Palencia Golf Course in St Augustine, Florida. It is early Monday morning, May the 3-rd, the sun is rising slowly over an empty golf course. All quiet on this front. The presence of nature and Man made nature is overwhelming.
The 18-hole "Palencia" course at the The Palencia Club facility in Saint Augustine, Florida features 7,071 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72 . The course rating is 72.1 and it has a slope rating of 132 on Bermuda grass. Designed by Arthur Hills, ASGCA, the Palencia golf course opened in 2002. Jackie Wilson manages the course as the General Manager.
The United States is one of the most diverse countries on earth, jam packed full of amazing sights from St. Patrick's cathedral in New York to Mount Hollywood California.The Northeast region is where it all started. Thirteen British colonies fought the American Revolution from here and won their independence in the first successful colonial rebellion in history. Take a look at these rolling hills carpeted with foliage along the Hudson river here, north of New York City.The American south is known for its polite people and slow pace of life. Probably they move slowly because it's so hot. Southerners tend not to trust people from "up north" because they talk too fast. Here's a cemetery in Georgia where you can find graves of soldiers from the Civil War.The West Coast is sort of like another country that exists to make the east coast jealous. California is full of nothing but grizzly old miners digging for gold, a few gangster rappers, and then actors. That is to say, the West Coast functions as the imagination of the US, like a weird little brother who teases everybody then gets famous for making freaky art.The central part of the country is flat farmland all the way over to the Rocky Mountains. Up in the northwest corner you can find creative people in places like Portland and Seattle, along with awesome snowboarding and good beer. Text by Steve Smith.


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Rhett Lashlee, who served as offensive coordinator at Arkansas State this past season, has been named offensive coordinator at Auburn, head coach Gus Malzahn announced Friday. Lashlee has spent six of the last nine seasons working closely with Malzahn and his offense in a variety of capacities, including the 2009 and 2010 seasons as an offensive graduate assistant at Auburn.
"Rhett is one of the best young offensive minds in college football," said Malzahn. "I've been with Rhett a long time and he's been an incredibly valuable right-hand man. He has a great knowledge and understanding of Auburn and will be a tremendous asset for this program both on and off the field."
This season at Arkansas State, Lashlee, who was a Broyles Award nominee as the nation's top assistant coach, helped guide Arkansas State to a Sun Belt Championship, while ranking 17th nationally in total offense (481.8 ypg), 21st in scoring offense (36.4 ppg) and rushing offense (217.4 ypg).
Under Lashlee, school and conference record-setting quarterback Ryan Aplin, was named the Sun Belt Player of the Year after leading the league in passing yards, passing efficiency, and total offense. Aplin was 18th nationally in passing efficiency, throwing for 23 touchdowns and four interceptions in 2012 after throwing 19 TDs and 16 interceptions the season before Lashlee's arrival.
"We're very excited to be back in Auburn to rejoin this program and the Auburn family, which has the best fans in the country" Lashlee said. "I'm looking forward to working with Coach Malzahn and help get this team headed in the right direction and return to winning football. Auburn holds a special place in my family's heart, as this is where our twin boys were born, so we are blessed to be back. I'm excited to get to work."
Prior to his tenure at Arkansas State, Lashlee served as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Samford in 2011.
At Samford, Lashlee spent installed a high-tempo offense that improved the Bulldogs national ranking in total offense from No. 57 in the nation to No. 36 over the course of just one year, while helping the Bulldogs average 28 points per game compared to 17 a game the previous year.
He helped Samford post a 6-5 record, including a 4-4 Southern Conference mark in 2011, matching their best ever as a member of the league. Samford broke the school record for points scored in a league game with 52 against Western Carolina as Lashlee helped the school jump from No. 100 in the nation in scoring offense to No. 43.
Lashlee, 29, coached Samford wide receiver Kelsey Pope, who broke the school record for receptions in a game, while quarterback Dustin Taliaferro broke Samford's career record for completions during the 2011 campaign as well.
While at Auburn, Lashlee assisted Malzahn with all aspects of the offense and coached the slot receivers in 2010. In 2009, the Tigers finished 8-5 winning the Outback Bowl. During the 2010 season he helped the Tigers finish 14-0, winning the Southeastern Conference championship and the BCS National Championship behind Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Cam Newton.
Prior to working at Auburn, Lashlee's college coaching career began in 2006 at Arkansas, where he served as offensive student graduate assistant while working with Malzahn. He helped lead the Razorbacks to a 10-4 record and an SEC Western Division championship behind Heisman Trophy runner-up Darren McFadden and fellow All-American Felix Jones. Lashlee worked with Malzahn at Springdale High School in Arkansas in 2004 and 2005, working with the quarterbacks and 2005 Gatorade, Parade Magazine and Rivals.com National Player of the Year Mitch Mustain.
Lashlee was a backup quarterback at the University of Arkansas from 2002-04, when his career was cut short due to a shoulder injury.
Prior to attending Arkansas, Lashlee graduated from Shiloh Christian High School in Springdale, Ark. in 2002. He played quarterback for Malzahn at Shiloh Christian High School from 1999-2001, posting a state-record 40 career wins (40-3-2 as a starter) while leading his team to three straight state championship game appearances that included two state titles. He was also named the 2001 AP Arkansas Player of the Year.
Lashlee owns virtually every state passing record and when his career had finished he had broken the national record for career touchdown passes (171), career touchdowns (200), most passing yards in a game (672) and was second with 13,201 passing yards.
Lashlee graduated from the University of Arkansas in 2006 with a degree in Marketing and Business Administration. He received his master's degree in Higher Education from Auburn in 2009.
Lashlee is married to the former Lauren Lee of Rogers, Ark., and they have two-year old twin boys, Thomas Price and Hudson Rhett.
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Kenneth Jeffery Blanding, 36, was pronounced dead shortly after 9 p.m. Outside a home in the 400 block of Miller Street, said Lancaster County Deputy Coroner Tony Broome late Monday afternoon.
Broome said Blanding's cause of death was a gunshot wound to the chest.
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SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) is the world's leading provider in business software and is the top provider in 20 of the 25 industries that it serves. SAP makes software programs that increases or examines the productivity in specific parts of a company, such as customer relations, enterprise resource planning, accounting, human resources, and others. SAP's main revenue streams come from the licensing of business software, providing maintenance services, and consulting. Over 75% of revenues come from SAP's 32,000 enterprise customers.[1] SAP focuses on vertical industries, such as media, which helps provide growth as these industries expand. A potentially large area of growth could come in the relatively new services-oriented architecture (SOA), which enables the customers to link and connect its various applications. SAP expects its SOA, called NetWeaver, to be well received by its large installed customer base. Many of the industries SAP operates in are fragmented in terms of the software brands used. At the same time, there has been a trend towards consolidating software providers and that is expected to help SAP and Oracle as they are the two largest software companies.
As of December 31, 2009, the Company had more than 95,000 customers in over 120 countries.[2] As of December 31, 2009, SAP AG was the parent of 163 subsidiaries.[2] In July 2010, SAP AG completed the acquisition of Sybase, Inc., whereby Sheffield Acquisition Corp., a subsidiary of SAP AG was merged with and into Sybase, Inc., with Sybase, Inc. surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of SAP America, Inc.[2] In September 2009, the Company acquired a 63.12% majority shareholding in SAF Simulation, Analysis and Forecasting AG (SAF), a global forecasting and replenishment software company operating in the retail and wholesale industries. In October 2009, the Company acquired 70.67% stake in SAF AG.[2]
SAP develops and sells business application software and offers services related to the products. SAP is listed on the German DAX index and at the New York Stock Exchange.
The companies fiscal year starts January 1 and ends December 31. SAP is reporting according to the US GAAP standard. Reporting currency is EUR.[3]
Second Quarter 2010 Results[4]
SAP reported revenue of €2,894 during the second quarter of 2010, an increase of 12% compared to revenue of €2,576 in the second quarter of 2009. Operating profit totaled €774 compared to to €641 in the year-ago period. SAP's operating margin increased from 24.9% in Q2 2009 to 26.7% in Q2 2010. Basic earnings per share for the quarter was €0.41 compared to €0.36 in the year-ago period.
SAP Business All-in-One solutions helps companies manage everything from financials, human resources, procurement, inventory, manufacturing, logistics, product development, and corporate services, to customer service, sales, and marketing. SAP Business All-in-One solutions are available from a network of qualified partners that deliver more than 700 industry-specific solutions in more than 50 countries.
The SAP Business One application provides a single, integrated solution for managing the entire business, including support for financials, sales, customer relationships, inventory, and operations. With its published software development kit and over 550 industry-specific solutions and functional add-ons, SAP Business One can be extended to meet specific business processes and changing needs.
SAP Business ByDesign is a single on-demand solution that comprises functions of SAP Business Suite and therefore delivers best practices for financial management, customer relationship management (CRM), human resources (HR), project management, procurement, and supply chain management. SAP Business ByDesign can unify multiple business operations. It can enable companies to implement preconfigured business processes to solve immediate problems. The SAP BusinessObjects portfolio also includes solutions specially designed for small businesses and midsize companies, which include SAP BusinessObjects Edge solutions; Xcelsius; Crystal Reports software; Crystal Reports Server; SAP BusinessObjects Interactive Analysis software; The SAP BusinessObjects Access Control application, and The SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services application.
The SAP BusinessObjects Sustainability Performance Management application helps enterprises focus on strategic execution of their sustainability initiatives- balancing social, environmental, and economic performance. It provides a comprehensive sustainability reporting process, from reporting framework definition to data collection workflow and reporting.
SAP Carbon Impact is an on-demand solution to assist enterprises in implementing strategies for reporting and profitably reducing their carbon and environmental footprint. The solution helps companies measure, mitigate, and monetize carbon emissions and other environmental impacts across business operations.
The SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management (SAP EHS Management) application addresses industry needs for product safety, hazardous substances, and dangerous goods handling of products across a wide range of industries, including chemicals, consumer products and high tech. The SAP Recycling Administration application can help ensure compliance with worldwide recycling legislation for packaging, batteries, and waste electrical and electronic equipment.
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The SAP Custom Development organization develops individualized, customer-specific solutions and business functions on the SAP platform covering the life cycle of services to develop and support custom solutions at every stage. SAP's support units offer a range of services to support its customers before, during, and after implementation of its software solutions.
SAP Consulting offers planning, implementation, and optimization services for business solutions. The SAP Services portfolio includes business transformation services, such as Executive Advisory Services and Business Process and Platform Services.
The offerings of SAP Education assist SAP customers and partners with knowledge transfer, maximizing the value they can create with their SAP solutions. SAP Education offerings include training needs analysis, certification assessments, learning software, and tools.
The SAP Managed Services organization provides application management services and hosting services, running and managing SAP solutions on behalf of customers. Its members are a host of software partners, system integrators and resellers, technology partners, developers, industry specialists and SAP software users.
There are many new small companies that have based their business on offering support and maintenance services specifically for SAP software. These companies offer their services at sometimes up to a 50% price discount.[5] This increased competition from these specialized companies will likely thin out SAP's margins for its support and maintenance segment in the next several years. However, a growing number of acquisitions in the software industry is beginning to lower the supply of software and ease the price pressure for SAP.
Software applications are becoming more numerous, complex, and integrated in the workplace. This has led many organizations to start consolidating software providers. This is expected to benefit SAP and Oracle most as they are the two largest software providers.
SOA helps organizations link their applications to help easily transfer, compare, and relate different data and systems. Instead of having specific software programs existing and functioning independently, SOA allows the commonly used functions in the different programs to be accessed and used from any of the different departments and also externally from the company so partners can access it as well. This is an emerging industry that is expected to be very beneficial for customers. SAP's SOA product is called NetWeaver. SAP has a large installed base of customers, over 32,000, and these existing customers should help boost the growth of NetWeaver sales.
Oracle (ORCL): Oracle is the largest data storage software provider in the world and the second largest business software provider behind SAP.
Salesforce.com (CRM): Salesforce.com is a hosted software application provider that offers its services through the web.
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$1 million Powerball ticket sold in Nashua
March 15. 2013 8:33AM
Someone is holding a $1 million Powerball ticket purchased in New Hampshire.
The ticket was bought at Hannaford, 17 Coliseum Ave., in Nashua, according to Laura McCann of the NH Lottery.
She said the winning ticket has five of the numbers, but not the Powerball, that were drawn Wednesday. The winning numbers are 5 9 28 32 38 and the Powerball 29.
No one redeemed the ticket as of Thursday morning.
The next Powerball drawing is Saturday with an estimated jackpot of $216 million.


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The European Parliament may ease a planned ban on fund-manager bonuses that top fixed pay if investors get to vote on the larger awards, bringing the rules closer into line with ones approved today by national ambassadors on how much bankers can be compensated.
The parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee approved a ban last week on fund-manager bonuses higher than salaries as well as curbs on performance fees in a 22-16 vote. Legislators plan talks on the draft rules for managers of so- called UCITS funds ahead of a vote by the full assembly in May, said Sven Giegold, the lawmaker leading work on the standards.
If the fund industry came up with a clear solution to ensure investors got a vote on pay, "I would welcome that," Giegold said in an interview. "I would be very happy to include that in the legislation. It would be a boost for shareholder democracy."
The draft rules for fund managers go beyond planned EU curbs on banker pay that won approval from national representatives today despite U.K. opposition. Those measures allow bonuses of as much as twice a banker's fixed pay if shareholders agree. The financial industry has warned that both sets of plans could drive up fixed costs and harm European competitiveness.
"This move to limit the bonuses of fund managers is deeply damaging, as it will lead rewards to be less connected to performance," said Philip Booth, professor at London's Cass Business School. "EU lawmakers simply do not understand the financial and economic implications of the measures that they are proposing. It is difficult to predict the damage that this will cause as, no doubt, a lot of money will be spent on trying to ensure that these pay curbs are circumvented."
U.K. Dissent
Under the rules for bankers, bonuses higher than fixed pay would need approval by two-thirds of shareholders taking part in the vote, with this threshold rising to 75 percent if fewer than half of shareholders are present.
"We've made clear that we cannot support this agreement," a U.K. diplomat said in an e-mailed statement. The plans will lead to "increases in fixed pay for bankers, making it more difficult for banks to retain capital in a downturn." The U.K. lacks the power to block the measures, which are scheduled to apply to bonuses starting in 2015.
Giegold said he could support a similar two-to-one pay rule for UCITS if a practical solution could be found for how to organize a vote by fund owners on the awards.
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"Consolation Prize. Excited?"
There is this bizarre phenomenon in the PC gaming media regarding id Software.
To put it simply: Ignoring rhyme, reason, and standards, media arbiters of quality
tend to always gloss over the latest id release with claims such as "Best Game
Ever" "Ingenious Design" "Stunning Gameplay" "Totally Revolutionary" and several
other such lapses in judgment. Probably, it's just pandering to the masses. Millions
of people know about Doom and Quake, mostly because of the fact
that they are so easy to pick up and play that they are regarded as staples of
gaming. Not to mention the great amount of media coverage that those games receive.
Not wanting to go against the grain, the magazines and e-zines embellish id games
with their top honors, ignoring the sorts of problems for which they savagely
criticize other games. Game Revolution, however, doesn't sell out so easily. [For
$10,000 I'll turn this into a positive, glowing review. ~Ed] With that great
moral stand in mind, here is the first REAL review of id Software's latest child,
Quake III Arena.
The reality
is that every id game from Doom 2 onward, has been less interesting than
its predecessor. After Doom, id exhausted it's supply of creativity and
decided to put together a series of mundane technology demos that had good graphics,
but incredibly poor single player elements and reasonably straightforward, if
plain, multiplayer capabilities.
Let's look at them in order: Doom was atmospheric, new, and invigorating.
Doom 2 was a stale retread that lacked the sci-fi atmosphere of Doom
that helped make that game great. Quake was an unfocused mess of a game
that held together simply by the thin adhesive of its impressive technology and
fast netplay. Quake 2 was Quake with colored lighting and a single
player game that was just enough to fool a few people into thinking that it was
anything other than a patch up job to Quake. Quake III Arena, is
the logical conclusion of this trend.
All these games were, and are, dependent upon fan created modifications for
their survival, which is a cheap tactic for a gaming company to take.
However, ranting aside, we can ignore the past and take and honest look at
Quake 3. It's a game simply comprised of multiplayer and simulated multiplayer
gameplay, and very little of it at that. Quake 3 gives you four ways to
play multiplayer. Free For All (Deathmatch), Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag,
and Tournament.
Free For All is no-frills Deathmatch. You pick up a gun, a powerup, and then
you shoot other players. There is nothing more to it than that. Team Deathmatch
is the same thing except that now there are a few people whom you do not shoot.
Capture the Flag is a Team Deathmatch representation of the classic kids game
in which you have to infiltrate the enemy base, grab the flag, and bring it back
to your base to score points. Tournament has two people fighting while other players
watch, the victor fights the next opponent in line.
In that bunch there is not one original concept, which makes Quake 3
essentially a game you've already played. Beyond that, there are virtually no
gameplay tweaks available to add variety to the modes. Every match is very similar.
Eventually it all becomes very mundane.
The weapons don't really help. Again, you've seen each one before, and although
the balance is very adept so that no one of them will rule the Arena, none of
them are terribly impressive or subtle. Quake 3 is not a game of intellect,
merely of twitch skills.
For single
player, you can play on any of the levels in any mode with player selected computer
controlled opponents called bots ('botmatches') and a campaign that organizes
predefined botmatches into tiers. The AI aiming ability only seems to have two
settings: the complete lack thereof or extreme-CPU-cheating-godlike-ability.
The relatively small number of levels, along with the poorly programmed bots,
make for a poor single-player experience. It also doesn't help that the commands
for giving orders to the bots are not documented in the manual and must be assigned
to keys through the cryptic command prompt.
To id's credit, the lackluster gameplay is held afloat by the prettiest First
Person Shooter graphics engine in the history of gaming. Every effect in the book
from volumetric lighting to curved surfaces combine to allow the map designers
great freedom to create environments that go from hard edged industrial to squishy
organic, all with more geometry detail than any other game on the market.
The character designs are stunning as well, ranging from the Doom guy
to a giant eye that walks on its hands and holds a gun above the ball. Even the
texturing in Quake III, though mostly still drawn from the old blood-and-mud-in-hell
theme, is adeptly done. The map designs, which are all more effective at setting
up high intensity action than creating an immersive environment, are nonetheless
graphical marvels. In fact, in some places, the environmental detail is so good
that you wish that upcoming single player games based on the Quake III
engine, such as Star Trek Voyager Elite Force and Heavy Metal F.A.K.K.
2 would hurry up and arrive.
It is the graphics, combined with some great sounds that make Quake 3,
mundane as it is, a good deal of fun. Your eyes are enjoying themselves so much
that you forget all about the lapses in originality, provided that you don't play
for too long. In that respect, Quake 3 is the Windows solitaire of 3D shooters,
a game you play for 20 minutes when you need a break but nothing you can get into
for much longer.
There are a few other problems. Quake 3 has a mess of a internet game
finder that makes Gamespy still your best
bet for finding a good multiplayer game server. And naturally, the graphics require
a machine like a tiny god (bless you, Penny
Arcade) to run at a decent framerate with full detail. Lesser machines necessitate
lower detail levels so the eye-candy factor decreases and Quake 3 become
less fun.
Quake III Arena has the best technology, but just as with Quake
2, the best technology does not mean the best game. Other developers have
turned to making their gameplay distinct and varied, knowing that pretty graphics
could only carry a few titles, and that gamers, at heart, wanted something more.
They've taken those exact same gaming engines and created such stellar titles
as Half-Life and System
Shock 2.
Quake 3 is a great way to demo your new, ultra-powered gaming rig, and
a decent diversion if taken in small doses. However, overall it fails to impress,
invigorate, or even entertain. It does what it sets out to do extremely well,
creating a beautiful, high intensity deathmatch game, but it never tries to
do very much. Quake 3, for all the praise being lauded on it by the sellouts
in the gaming media, is a lightweight contender. It's decent enough, but for
everyone who sets his or her sights a little higher than the ground floor, it's
not worth the price of admission. Save the cash and pick up a copy of Unreal
Tournament instead, you'll be much happier.


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Latin American Studies - Links of Interest
Scholarships for study abroad in Latin America
SGA Study Abroad Scholarship application (Word document)
An SGA scholarship for students on study abroad programs. (See SGA website.)
WKU World Topper Scholarship application (PDF)
A need-based WKU scholarship for study abroad students.
Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship
A need-based award for undergraduate study abroad, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs for U.S. citizens studying outside of Western Europe or Australia. This scholarship is intended for study abroad in non-traditional destinations, students with no prior study abroad experience, or students who are in groups traditionally underrepresented in study abroad (e.g. students with disabilities, minority students, or community college students). Contact the Office of Scholar Development for more information.
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The Organization of American States offers a variety of scholarships both for study at institutions throughout the Americas (especially in Latin American and the Caribbean) and to assist students from Latin American and Caribbean.
A private fund offering $500 scholarships for anyone over 18 with plans to intern, study, or volunteer in Latin America.
General information on Latin America
LANIC - Latin American Network Information Center
A general source for information on all of Latin America.
Internet Resources for Latin America
An extensive list of online resources related to Latin American issues, maintained by Molly Molloy at New Mexico State University.
Andanzas al Web Latino (Adventures on the Latino Web)
Resources on Latinos in the U.S. and U.S.-Mexico Border Resources, also maintained by Molly Molloy at New Mexico State University.
Current events from Latin America; full access available through WKU's campus network.
American Mosaic: The Latino American Experience
ABC-CLIO's database of articles, images, essays and more exploring the experience of Latinos in the U.S.
Handbook of Latin American Studies Online
A searchable, annotated bibliography of scholarly works related to Latin American Studies, maintained by the Library of Congress.
Sources and General Resources on Latin America
Current news and historical information on Latin America from the pre-Columbian era to the modern day, compiled by Steven Volk at Oberlin College.
Latin American Studies
A variety of information on Latinos and Latin American countries, created by Dr. Antonio Rafael de la Cova.
Colonial Latin America
Useful resources on Colonial Latin American history, created by Peter Bakewell at Southern Methodist University.
Latin America Links
News and information on Latin America, mainly intended for travelers to the region.
Kentucky Ecuador Partners
Information on the Kentucky Ecuador Partnership, active since 1965.
National Geographic World Music
Information on music from around the globe, including some good descriptions of Latin American music.
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Now that's what I call serious security service!
It was like the opening sequence of West Side recently for one security industry exec–No, not singing and dancing… picture quick and dirty, blitzkrieg fisticuffs.
I Just got a shout out from my editor Sam. He picked up a tweet from from Iverify about their CEO Mike May (who is not pictured to the left in the cast of ruffians from Arlington Friends of the Drama's 2006 production of West Side Story… so don't waste too much time looking).
Apparently, May was shopping at a Detroit location of a large retail chain client when said locale ended up unwittingly hosting a knife fight between some agitated patrons (Sharks vs. Jets, I'm sure). May, having a law enforcement background (In Shrewsbury, Mass., which is kinda part of greater Worcester… for those of you who don't know, Worcester's a perfect fit for a knife fight (don't get me wrong, I love Worcester… I went to college there, my parents are from there…)), not only broke up the fight as the situation fell apart, but also administered first aid to a victim who had been stabbed. If only Baby John and A-Rab had been as quick thinking, Riff might still be among us…
I wonder if that's part of the Iverify premium protection package? Personal response from ex-cop and Iverify president and CEO Mike May? I'd sign up for that. The Iverify blog on the event has still caps of the action, captured by the Iverify system in place, monitoring the location. May's, like, tackling attackers and headlocking dudes… awesome. Now that's dedication!
I have emails out to the folks at Iverify and hopefully will have a full length story done soon.

June 2nd, 2010 at 10:45 pm

Oh my God, there IS a Detroit, Ala… That's too much.

une 2nd, 2010 at 2:04 pm

Hey Ari,

Yeah, I DO like to put a lot of links in there… And I figure Detroit can use all the extra traffic it can get right about now.

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Chad and Jamie Bruggeman of New Albany announce the birth of their son, Miles Anthony Bruggeman, Monday, Oct. 1, 2012, at Floyd Memorial Hospital in New Albany.
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YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Heads of state and government leaders from 25 West and Central African countries along the Gulf of Guinea are meeting in Cameroon's capital Monday to address escalating piracy, trafficking and other illicit activities in the strategic region.
The United Nations Security Council and various United States think tanks have warned that left unchecked, the expanding insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea risks significantly endangering global trade, regional development and stability as the region becomes more sought after for oil and its strategic location.
Cameroon's Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary said that numerous attacks are perpetuated offshore and on land. "This alarming insecurity could ... become a source of instability and an obstacle to development," he said.
In recent years, pirates have successfully raided banks, killed government officials and soldiers in Cameroon, and hijacked oil vessels, sometimes killing crew members. Nigeria has reported an oil production slowdown, while Benin has declared a slump in ship anchorage revenue.
A report this month said that piracy affected more ships and sailors off West Africa than off Somalia's coast last year, and cost West Africa up to $950 million last year.
Nearly 1,000 seafarers and fishermen were attacked by pirates armed with guns or knives in the Gulf of Guinea. More than 200 people were taken hostage, said the report, drawing on data from the International Maritime Bureau.
Attacks on commercial ships in West Africa have become more frequent and are now occurring across a broader geographic area. Pirates in the region are aided by weak navies and coast guards, as well as a lack of awareness about the threats they pose.
West Africa has also become a passageway for illicit drugs from South America.
"Since the U.S. administration got tough on traffickers from Latin America, Africa is increasingly becoming a transit hub for Latin American drugs destined for Europe and the U.S. with the Gulf of Guinea playing a key role," said Tchrioma.
Eighteen tons of Latin American cocaine worth an estimated $1.25 billion transited through the Gulf of Guinea and South Africa in 2010 for Central Europe, according to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crimes. West African countries report rising numbers of seizures.
"Cameroon is increasingly becoming a transit for drugs because in reality our countries pay very little attention to the sea where the transactions are done," said one-time Cameroonian minister and economist, Patrick Mandeng Ambassa.
The insecurities grow as strategic interests increase in the Gulf of Guinea.
Michael Kounou, a Law and Political Science professor at the University of Yaounde II, said that Western industrial and commercial powers are interested in the Gulf of Guinea for two major reasons. "The U.S. is interested because it wants to curb its oil dependence in the Persian Gulf. Also for Europeans and Americans, the geographic location of the Gulf of Guinea provides a direct maritime route for the exploitation and exportation of its resources."
The region is said to hold oil reserves estimated at 24 billion barrels. "And then there's natural gas and vast mineral deposits which remain largely unexploited, to which should be added fisheries reserves estimated today at over 1 million tons with a yearly production of about 600,000 tons," Tchiroma said.
Gradually, the emerging Asian powers — China and India — are also showing heightened interest in the region's resources and securing oil and gas exploration deals. However the swelling presence of foreign powers may present another potential source of danger as locals may start to feel sidelined by their governments, Kounou said.
"There are also internal forces within the Gulf of Guinea countries, including pauperized groups of people and the possibility of their rising against their governments and finding funds for their opposition from illegal maritime activities as in Nigeria," he said.
The governments meeting June 24-25 are expected to adopt regulations on maritime safety and security against piracy, and drug, human and wildlife trafficking among others.


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40 NH students revel in academy nominationsBy BILL SMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 03. 2013 10:27PM
NH Service Academy appointmentsU.S. Military Academy
Katherine Callaghan, ?oncord, Bishop Brady ?High School
James Delahunty, Bedford, Bedford High School
Christopher Ferri, Windham, Windham High School
Tyler Griffin, Colebrook, Colebrook Academy
Hans Gui, Londonderry, ?Londonderry High School
Daniel Huot, Newport, ?Newport High School
Riley Keenan, Bow, ?Bow High School
William Kerin, Lyme, ?St. Johnsbury Academy
Ian Smith, Stratham, Exeter High School
James Solloway, Derry, Pinkerton Academy
U.S. Naval Academy
Ethan Doherty, Londonderry, Londonderry High School
Ariel Fleisher, Kensington, Exeter High School
Nathaniel Hunt, Hopkinton, Hopkinton High School
Joseph Lane, Durham, Oyster River High School
Allison Latham, Merrimack, Merrimack High School
Derek Lotito, Swanzey, Virtual Learning Academy Charter School
Zachary Scholz, Durham, Oyster River High School
Veronica Scott, Plymouth, Phillips Exeter Academy
Ryan Shows, Peterborough, Contoocook Valley Regional High School
Matthew Tremblay, Lempster, Newport High School
U.S. Air Force Academy
Michael Croatti, Pelham, Pelham High School
Ryan D'Auteuil, Amherst, Souhegan High School
Erika Donovan, Jaffrey, Conant High School
Brandon Dumais, Hudson, Alvirne High School
George Nifakos, Plaistow, Timberland High School
Leo Schuster, Hopkinton, Hopkinton High School
Colleen Slein, Salem, Central High School
Jonathan Stinson, Hudson, Alvirne High School
Ryan Sullivan, Nashua, Nashua High School South
Benjamin Yoshikawa, Hanover, Valley Forge Military Academy (Pa.)
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
Nathan Boilard, Hooksett, Manchester Central High School
Colin Bouchard, Bedford, Bedford High School
Alexander Coburn, Londonderry, Londonderry High School
Cory Downing, Strafford, Coe-Brown Northwood Academy
Anders Holt, Bedford, Bedford High School
Kenneth Jenkins, Newton, Sanborn Regional High School
Joseph McCullough, Rindge, Saint Bernard's Central Catholic High School
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CONCORD - Forty high school seniors were honored Thursday night as nominees for appointment to the country's service academies.
Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., hosted a reception for 40 students she nominated, some jointly with other lawmakers, for the highly sought-after places in the Class of 2017.
"It is absolutely one of the best parts of the job," Ayotte said. "It's very inspiring to see young people who want to serve our country and to get a fantastic education at one of our service academies."
Passing up the typical college experience for the grueling mental and physical life of a cadet may seem unfathomable to many 17-year-olds. But for those nominated, it is an opportunity they have worked toward. Most mention service before talking about career opportunities that a service academy education provides.
"It really comes from a willingness or desire to serve my country," said Ethan Doherty of Londonderry, who has already been offered an appointment to the Naval Academy and will begin his military career while contemporaries are still whooping it up after high school graduation. "I will be reporting on June 27 to start plebe summer."
A son of Chinese immigrants, Hans Gui, also a Londonderry High student, has already been accepted to Annapolis and is also applying to West Point.
"I've always wanted to serve my country. I've wanted that since I was a child," said Hans Gui.
The service academies are among the most tradition-laden of American institutions. In many cases, the students who want to attend come from families with a tradition of military service.
George Nifakos of Plaistow, a Timberlane Regional student, would follow the path of his father, Dean, who graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1986 and served seven years on active duty.
His father's experience means first-hand advice about the rigors and rewards of service academy life.
"It's definitely a hard route, it's definitely not easy, and that's why I want to do it. I want to push myself to do better in all aspects of my life," Nifakos said. "When you go into a service academy, it's nothing like a normal college."
Nifakos' desire blossomed when he accompanied his father to his 25th reunion in Colorado Springs.
"I took him out to the academy and said this is where I went, this is what I did and he took to it," Dean Nifakos said. "As parents we're very proud of him."
Erika Donovan of Jaffrey, a student at Conant High School, would join a small cadre of woman at the Air Force Academy, but doesn't see it as a disadvantage.
"If you're strong enough and have enough passion about what you want to do, it's not that hard," Donovan said. "You can get over the fact that you might be one of the minorities - it'll be worth it."
The ultimate choice will be made by the service academies. The students are glad to have made it to the final decision.
"It's been a dream since eighth grade, it's just a huge honor to be nominated," said James Delahunty, a Bedford High School student nominated to West Point.


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In Fast and Furious 6, out Friday (5/24), Dominic Torreto and his crew are drafted into a fight against a highly-trained former-military unit of thieves. Among the new faces that show up to give Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel a hand is MMA superstar Gina Carano. Carano made her acting debut in Steven Soderbergh's excellent sleeper hit Haywire, but we're not above confessing our first exposure to the actress was on the retooled American Gladiators, where she took the name Crush. (We see what you did there.) We caught up with Gina before the premiere of Fast and Furious 6 and talked about everything from how she adapted her fighting style to where she goes from here.
Nerdist: You got paired off with Dwayne Johnson for the majority of this film. What was your working relationship like, and how did you approach going into the pairing?
Gina: It was awesome. I've watched Dwayne professionally and I just completely respect what he's done. You can't drive around now without seeing a billboard or seeing him on tv every other commercial. He's just done such a great job for himself. He's so professional and he's such a hard worker; it was good for me to be around someone like that and learn from him. It was awesome, man, just being next to him. I'm really not used to that kind of thing. He made me look smaller. I was kind of disappointed, because originally I wanted to go up against him in some way or have a fight with this monstrous man, but they really wanted to build up the fight between these strong female-type women. Michelle was just awesome to work with, and I really, really enjoyed it.
Nerdist: Speaking of your fight scene with Michelle, with your training and career, how easy is it to adapt your fighting style into choreographed fights for film?
Gina: It's incredibly easy, actually. It's something I'm good at. I used to dance when I was little; I would do choreography, and then for some reason I got into Mixed Martial Arts. I understand and I speak that language. So, when we go into choreography, it's very challenging in the most beautiful way. I get to learn more. Doing mixed martial arts as a cop character is much different than being a cage fighter. What Olivier did, the stunt coordinator, he just helped me get into my character and learn all sorts of new stuff that I ordinarily wouldn't use in a regular fight, a street fight, or a cage fight. It's such a never-ending thing, you can never learn enough. When you have such good stunt coordinators, it's a beautiful thing. It becomes art.
Nerdist: The film has its own sense of reality (and physics). When you're acting in a movie like that, do you have to convince yourself to let go a little bit and buy in?
Gina: I think that's the reason Fast and Furious is so popular. It is not a superhero movie, but it's not a regular action movie either. It's somewhere in between, so you have that relatability, and at the same time you get the feeling of watching a superhero movie. I think that it's got real relationships and character building, but then it has that edge of letting people escape when they go see it. That's one of the fascinating things about Fast and Furious, that it combines both of those elements so well.
Nerdist: How much training do you have to put in when preparing for a movie versus preparing for a fight?
Gina: Training to be in a movie and then training during the filming takes so much energy, by the end of the day you can't get to your bed soon enough. It's a different kind of energy and mentality. I love both of them, but I like the idea of a character and building yourself around that character. That's completely fascinating to me. But just like a fight, you just train, train, train, and practice. On the day of filming, it should be a good day. It's just as much training, but it requires a different mentality.
Nerdist: We really liked Haywire, but you got to be a couple shades lighter with your personality in this film. How do you feel you're growing as an actress?
Gina: I actually did a movie, In the Blood, right after Fast and Furious 6. I went straight from London to Puerto Rico and was shooting two days later. It was kind of a guerrilla shoot, and because of that, I was able to tap that much more into my emotions and character building. That movie, on top of doing Fast and Furious 6, has me going through scripts that I really want to play and put myself 100% into. I want to find something that shows that, yes, I have a physical side I feel I can push to another limit and another limit, but I have an emotional side too that I can't wait for people to see. It's just getting better and better with each experience, and with the right role, it's going to be really nice to tell a good story. When you get it right on set and you know you got it right, there's not a better feeling in the world. On the flip side, when you get it wrong, you think, "Oh my gosh, what did I just do?" It's a really humbling experience, but you just feel on top of the world.
Nerdist: You were an excellent straight-man for some of the Rock's one liners. Are you looking to explore comedy more?
Gina: I am a bit of a goofball, and at this point I'm not opposed to anything. I feel like as soon as I read a script, it's going to pop out at me. It's more about the character that I find in whatever script that I'm reading and if I relate to that. For me, it is really nice to smile and laugh and be very awkward. I'm really good at that. I should find a character like that for sure, hopefully. But, I love drama and I'm a very emotional creature. I'm just looking for the next step right now.
Nerdist: There have been rumblings about you leading a female version of The Expendables. Is that something you're interested in?
Gina: There have been talks of that, and as soon as I get a script, I'll be able to answer that question more clearly. I am a huge fan of Sucker Punch. I absolutely love that movie. So, I can see the potential of getting a bunch of us together. It just depends on the script and if you get a visionary director in there. It could get cheesy really easily, so you have to have somebody that wants to take it and make it special, instead of what we've seen before. That's the project I want to be a part of. I am totally open to being a part of something that is an all-female action based film, as long as it has a good vision.
Fast and Furious 6 is in theaters tomorrow. Who do you think should be in an all-female Expendables? Sound off in the comments below….


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President, Music, Warner Bros. Pictures
Paul Broucek serves as President, Music, Warner Bros. Pictures, responsible for the overall creative direction of Warner Bros. Pictures' music operations. He is charged with overseeing the department's administrative, production and day-to-day business functions as well as the strategic development and deployment of music-related initiatives to meet the needs of Warner Bros. Pictures' producers and directors. In addition, he has oversight of WaterTower Music.
Prior to taking his current role at Warner Bros. Pictures in 2009, Broucek launched Common Market, a music consulting, production and publishing company specializing in productions for film, television, records, online, commercials, games and new media. Previously, he served as President, Music at New Line Cinema from 2004 to 2008, culminating 12 years at the company during which he also served as Executive Music Producer for the Academy Award-winning The Lord of the Rings film trilogy among a number of other notable titles.
Broucek formerly headed up Fairlight Instruments of Australia's U.S. operations before moving into the music supervision field to oversee a mix of television and feature films. Prior to that, he was on the recording staff at The Record Plant in Los Angeles, where he was a key member of the team that began the company's film scoring division and implemented the modernization and re-opening of Paramount Studios' famed Stage M. He also served as President/General Manager of The Plant Studios in Sausalito, California.
Broucek began his film music career working on the landmark film Apocalypse Now as an assistant engineer to Academy Award-winning sound designer and picture editor Walter Murch.


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The building of the long-awaited Gungahlin Mosque was plagued by years of delays after a group fought its development approval through the courts.
The mosque officially opened on Sunday and will service North Canberra's growing Muslim population, which is estimated to be 5000 to 6000 strong.
The community had been using a demountable shed on The Valley Avenue site as a temporary mosque.
Canberra Muslim Community president Mainul Haque said the $2 million mosque came after years of hard work.
"There was just a sense of absolute sheer joy and elation when it finally opened," he said.
The only other mosque for Canberra's estimated 10,000 Muslims is in Yarralumla and was built in 1962 and only has a capacity of 300 people.
Planning for the Gungahlin mosque began in 2001 and building approval was granted by the ACT planning authority in 2012.
But that same year Concerned Citizens of Canberra Inc appealed the mosque's building approval. It lost the fight in 2015 and earlier this year was ordered to pay the ACT government's legal fees.
Mr Haque said while there had been some opposition to the mosque, the greater Gungahlin community and both sides of government had been largely supportive.
He said the nearby Uniting Church had been instrumental in its support for the mosque in the face of opposition.
"We just have to realize that you cannot please everybody in life," Mr Haque said.
He said the mosque had been built entirely on community donations and would serve not only as a place of worship but an important community space.
"If anyone has questions please come and visit us we are open, our mosque is open to anybody," Mr Haque said.
"You will see we're just mums and dads and neighbors like everyone else."
The mosque held a community open day to celebrate the opening and encourage the community to come and visit.
"Nothing in Australia happens without a backyard BBQ where you invite friends to spend time," Mr Haque said.
"This is what we wanted to do, to share our mosque with our friends and neighbors and community."
Hajira Mohamev, of Belconnen, said it was special for all of Canberra's Islamic community.
"We've been waiting a long time for this and people have been through a lot to get it," she said.
"It's a great way to get different people coming together and chatting and promote Islam in a positive way."
Source: The Canberra Times