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When it comes to anti-copying technology, there are two possible outcomes: either you have a popular single-vendor system that's bad for the industry and general public, or you have a multivendor system that's bad for the industry and general public.
Apple Computer's iTunes is hailed as the first really "balanced" copy-restriction system. Unlike the copy restrictions built into failed systems from the likes of Sony, Toshiba, and Microsoft, the anti-copying/anti-use stuff in iTunes doesn't seem to have deterred the public from buying iTunes music and the iPods that play it. Indeed, more than a billion iTunes have been sold around the world. That only amounts to a couple CDs' worth of tracks on every iPod, but still, that's not bad, especially in a field where the big success stories to date have been digital music stores that managed to go out of business without costing their backers too much.
Steve Jobs and Apple managed to lure the music industry into licensing the copyrights for the iTunes Music Store even though the Store's use-restrictions are comparatively mild. There's a bit of region-coding--you pay a per-download charge based on the country your credit-card is billed to. There's a bit of multiuse restriction -- only five CPUs can be registered to a given iTunes account at a time. There are some miscellaneous restrictions, including ones that are genuinely bizarre, like limiting the number of times you can burn a given playlist.
Removing iTunes' DRM is pretty straightforward. It's time-consuming, but it's not too difficult. You just have to burn a CD with the tracks, re-rip the CD tracks as MP3s, and re-enter the metadata, like title and artist. This doesn't work as well for the expensive audiobooks Apple sells, which generally come in chunks too large to fit on a CD.
So far, so good. The iPod is the number one music player in the world. iTunes is the No. 1 digital music store in the world. Customers don't seem to care if there are restrictions on the media Steve Jobs sells them -- though you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who values those restrictions. No Apple customer woke up this morning wishing for a way to do less with her music.
But there's one restriction that's so obvious it never gets mentioned. This restriction does a lot of harm to Apple's suppliers in the music industry.
That obvious restriction: No one but Apple is allowed to make players for iTunes Music Store songs, and no one but Apple can sell you proprietary file-format music that will play on the iPod.
In some respects, that's not too different from other proprietary platforms, of course. No one but Microsoft makes Word. But there's a huge difference between Word and iTunes: Word is protected only by market forces, while iTunes enjoys the protection of a corrupt law that gives Apple the right to exclude competitors from the market.
iTunes is protected by the anti-circumvention provisions in the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), itself a law passed to comply with the 1996 UN World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) "Internet Treaties." The DMCA makes it a crime to circumvent "effective means of access control." That means that breaking the locks off a digital work is illegal, even if you're breaking the lock to accomplish a legal end.
It's otherwise legal to back up a DVD, or put a song on a home media-server, or quote an ebook in a college essay. But if you have to break through some copy-restriction technology to do this, you're breaking the law.
It doesn't even matter if you're the creator of the work the lock controls! You can't even access your own work on your own terms if you need to break a lock to do it.
The DMCA makes the kind of reverse-engineering that's commonplace in most industries illegal in copyright works. For example, in the software industry, it's legal to reverse-engineer a file-format in order to make a competing product. The reason: The government and the courts created copyright to provide an incentive to creativity, not to create opportunities to exclude competitors from the marketplace.
Reverse engineering is a common practice in most industries. You can reverse-engineer a blender and make your own blades, you can reverse-engineer a car and make your own muffler, and you can reverse-engineer a document and make a compatible reader. Apple loves to reverse-engineer -- from Keynote to TextEdit to Mail.app, Apple loves reverse-engineering its competitors' products and making its own competing products.
But the iTunes/iPod product line is off-limits to this kind of reverse-engineering. No one but Apple can authorize an iTunes/iPod competitor, and Apple's not exactly enthusiastic about such authorization --the one major effort to date was the stillborn Motorola ROKR phone, which was so crippled by ridiculous Apple-driven restrictions that it barely made a ripple as it sank to the bottom of the cesspool of failed electronics.


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Frandsen's tough day ends with ejection
By Andrew Simon / MLB.com
WASHINGTON -- It was a short but painful game for the Phillies' Kevin Frandsen on Sunday. The veteran infielder started at first base but was hit by a pitch in his first plate appearance and ejected after his second.
In the second inning, Frandsen squared to bunt against the Nationals' Stephen Strasburg, then couldn't escape a 95-mph fastball that hit him on the right hand. Frandsen looked to be in serious pain but managed to stay in the game and said afterward that he is fine.
But his stay wasn't long. In the fourth, he tried to check his swing on an 0-2 breaking ball in the dirt and was called out by home-plate umpire Mike Winters. Frandsen slammed his bat to the ground -- although he said that he didn't respond verbally -- and Winters quickly tossed him from the game.
"I made a mistake, obviously, and I got a ticket," Frandsen said. "There was no other way you can say it. He threw me out.
"I was upset. I play with emotion, and I guess it got the best of me on that."
Andrew Simon is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @HitTheCutoff. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings:
An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
|Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962
|E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings Art Collection 1888-1962, undated (bulk 1905-1962)
|1888-1962, undated (bulk 1905-1962)
|2 boxes, 1 oversize folder, 10 framed paintings, 2 sculptures (97 items)
|The collection consists of eighty-five original works by E. E. Cummings, including oil paintings, watercolor paintings, drawings, and sketchbooks. Among the original works are self-portraits, as well as portraits of Marion Morehouse, Anne Barton, and his sister, Elizabeth Cummings; paintings of New Hampshire landscapes, and many anatomical studies of humans and animals.
|Open for research. A minimum of twenty-four hours is required to pull art materials to the Reading Room.
|Purchases (R264, R3819, R4114, R4188, R4289, R4488, R4497, R4720, R4731, R4815, R7995, R14887)
|Processed by:
|Alice Egan, 1997, and Helen Young, 2001
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
|Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962) was brought up in a conservative Cambridge, Massachusetts home. His father, with degrees in both philosophy and divinity, taught at Harvard University until 1900 when he received ordination by the Unitarian Church and became a pastor at the South Congregational Church of Boston.
|According to family diaries, Cummings wanted to be a poet from an early age. He was supported in this ambition by his mother who made up word games and other activities to encourage his creativity. Cummings also drew prolifically, and his childhood drawings were often inspired by literature; his drawings included storyboards. Cummings attended public schools, including the Cambridge High and Latin School, prior to entering Harvard in 1911. While there, he concentrated in the classics, including Latin, Greek, and literature, and he mastered the various forms of poetry, gaining the foundation he needed in order to begin the experimentation with poetic form and shape that became his trademark.
|While at Harvard, Cummings published poetry in the Harvard Monthly and the Harvard Advocate. Through these organizations he became acquainted with S. Foster Damon, Stewart Mitchell, John Dos Passos, Scofield Thayer, and J. Sibley Watson. These friends would encourage and support Cummings through much of his artistic career; many of them also shared his interest in the visual arts as well as poetry and literature. Damon, a music student, introduced Cummings to the works of El Greco, William Blake, Paul Cézanne, James McNeill Whistler, the French Impressionists, and the Fauves. He took Cummings to the Armory Show of 1913 when it was in Boston, and there Cummings became excited by the Brancusi sculptures. Through Thayer, Cummings became acquainted with the works of Picasso, Toulouse Lautrec, Beardsley, the Post Impressionists, and the Cubists. While still in school, Thayer gave Cummings a copy of Willard Huntington Wright's Modern Painting, which Cummings annotated extensively. John Dos Passos also painted and drew. Cummings never had formal art lessons, but he learned new oil painting techniques from his Harvard group of friends.
|Cummings earned his B.A. from Harvard in 1915, magna cum laude, like his father before him, and was invited to speak at the commencement ceremony. He presented a term paper on "The New Art." This paper demonstrated Cummings' affinity with the modern artistic sensibility, especially his interest in the overlap between the visual arts and literature, a keystone in his distinctive typographical style.
|After finishing his Master's degree in 1916, also from Harvard, Cummings moved to New York City in January of 1917. He worked at P. F. Collier for a few weeks, but became bored and quit, deciding instead to pursue the freedom of life as a full-time artist and poet. At this time he was painting in a cubist style. In April, he volunteered for the Norton-Hajes Ambulance Service and shipped out for France. On the trip he met William Slater Brown and their friendship was cemented by an unexpected five weeks of free time in Paris awaiting the rest of their ambulance unit.
|Several months later, events took a defining turn for Cummings when he and Brown were detained by the French military on suspicion of espionage and undesirable activities. As a result of censor-provoking letters home by Brown and a preference for the company of French soldiers over their fellow American ambulance drivers, the two young men were held for three months in a concentration camp at La Ferté Mace. They were kept, along with their fellow detainees, in a large room which was represented in the title of Cummings' book about this experience, The Enormous Room (1922). Cummings' father worked through diplomatic channels and finally wrote a letter to President Wilson to obtain Cummings' release in December 1917. Brown was released two months later. Cummings returned to the United States, first to his parents' home in Massachusetts and then to New York, where he was joined by Brown.
|For the next several years, Cummings painted and wrote. His paintings were now inspired by what he had seen in Paris, and a futurist influence started to appear. In 1919, he entered two paintings in the spring show of the New York Society of Independent Artists, and Gaston Lachaise (whom Cummings had met through Lachaise's stepson, Edward Pierce Nagle) reported to Cummings that Albert Gleizes had expressed enthusiasm about Cummings' paintings. In 1920, he again entered two large paintings in the society of Independent Artists exhibition, which were mentioned favorably by S. Jay Kaufman in the New York Globe and Advertiser. In 1921, he entered his painting Noise Number 10 in the Independent exhibition, but this painting was attacked in a New York newspaper review of the show.
|In 1924, he married Elaine Orr Thayer, the mother of his daughter Nancy. They divorced after two months and in 1929, Cummings married Anne Minnerly Barton. They spent much of the next two years living and traveling in Europe.
|In May 1931, Cummings left Barton and traveled to the Soviet Union. Pre-disposed to enjoy the trip, Cummings found his personal sense of individualism disturbed by the lack of intellectual and artistic freedom that he found. He published his diary from the trip under the Greek title Eimi (1933), which translates to "I am."
|In August 1931, Cummings exhibited 162 works at a show arranged by Philip Kaplan at the Kokoon Arts Club in Cleveland, Ohio. His book CIOPW, a collection of works in charcoal, ink, oil, pastel, and watercolors, was published in 1931.
|In 1932, while his divorce from Barton was being settled, Cummings met Marion Morehouse, who was to be his companion and common-law wife for the rest of his life. In 1933, Cummings received the Guggenheim Fellowship for the purpose of writing a "book of poems." In 1935, unable to find a publisher for his book, he published No Thanks (1935) with the help of his mother. It was dedicated to the fourteen publishing houses that had turned him down.
|E. E. Cummings continued to produce a steady stream of poems and publications throughout the forties and fifties. In 1952, Harvard offered him the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship for the 1952-53 school year. Also during the fifties, Cummings began to tour, reading his poetry across America. In 1958, he won the Bollingen Prize for Poetry from Yale University and published his final volume of new poems, 95 Poems.
|He died at his family farm on September 3, 1962.
|Critics have generally divided Cummings' career as a painter into two stylistic phases. The first phase, about 1915-1928, was represented by his experimental large-scale abstracts and his drawings and caricatures published in The Dial. During the 1920s, Cummings started to drop out of the gallery scene, and he came to view the art establishment as anti-intellectual. The second phase of his art was from about 1928 until his death; this phase was characterized by representational works: still lifes, landscapes, nudes, and portraits.
|Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 48: American Poets, 1880-1945, Second Series, edited by Peter Quartermain. Detroit: Gale Research, 1986.
|Kennedy, Richard S. Dreams in the Mirror: A Biography of E. E. Cummings. New York: Liveright Publishers, 1980.
|The Paintings of E. E. Cummings, http://www.eecummingsart.com/cummings.html (accessed online 18 April 2002).
|The E. E. Cummings Art Collection is comprised of eighty-seven original works by E. E. Cummings, as well as a few other works and items that belonged to the artist. It is organized into two Series: I. Works by E. E. Cummings, and II. Works by Others. Titles are transcribed from the items; titles of published works are from the publications. Cataloger's titles appear in brackets.
|Series I., Works by E. E. Cummings, is subdivided into four subseries: A. Oil Paintings, B. Watercolor Paintings, C. Drawings, and D. Sketchbooks and Miscellaneous. Within each subseries, works are organized by accession number. Subseries C., Drawings, is further divided into Portraits and Self-Portraits, Landscapes, Nature Studies, Drawings of People, Animal Drawings, Anatomical Studies of Humans, and Illustrations. Among the original works are: eleven self-portraits, as well as portraits of Marion Morehouse, Anne Barton, and his sister, Elizabeth Cummings; paintings of New Hampshire landscapes, and numerous anatomical studies of humans and various animals; five of the illustrations for By E. E. Cummings (1930); three works that were published in Cummings' CIOPW (1931); and designs for illustrations for a children's story (apparently unpublished) by Elizabeth Nagle. There are also three sheets with labeled color swatches in oil and watercolor, as well as two small cement and brick sculptures by Cummings.
|The Ransom Center's Art Collection also has a portrait drawing of E. E. Cummings by Robert Sheriffs in its Robert Sheriffs Collection. The Ransom Center also has extensive E. E. Cummings materials in its Manuscripts Collection, its Library, and its Photography Collection. Among Cummings' manuscripts is "Edward E. Cummings Grand Zoological Congress and Trained Wild Animal Arena," produced in 1902 when he was seven, which contains some of Cummings' earliest drawings.


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Haren, Nationals can't overcome rocky first inning
By Jenifer Langosch / MLB.com
JUPITER, Fla. -- On the day he was officially announced as the Cardinals' Opening Day starter, Adam Wainwright tossed six strong innings in the Cardinals' 5-1 victory over the Nationals at Roger Dean Stadium on Friday.
Wainwright was efficient as he cruised through six innings, his longest start of the spring. He limited Washington to three hits and one run, which scored on a groundout in Wainwright's final inning on the mound. That is the only run that has scored off Wainwright in his last two outings -- a combined 10 2/3 innings.
Nationals starter Dan Haren wasn't as sharp, and the Cardinals jumped on him for four first-inning runs. Jon Jay, who was celebrating his birthday on Friday, led off the inning with a homer over the right-field wall. After singles by Daniel Descalso and Matt Carpenter, Matt Adams delivered a three-run shot, also to right.
"That was just one of those days, man. I felt like I was throwing a weighted ball out there," Haren said. "It was just bad, all the way around. As I went along it was a little bit better, but my first couple starts were far and away better than this. I just, I don't know if it's dead arm, or I don't even know what that is, I just didn't feel great."
The home run was the third of the spring for Adams, who is battling for a bench spot.
Haren settled down from there, allowing only two other hits over his final four innings. The five-inning appearance was Haren's longest of the spring.
Edward Mujica, who had been charged with 10 runs in his previous four innings, struck out the side in a scoreless seventh for St. Louis. The Nationals received a scoreless relief appearance from Yunesky Maya.
Up next for the Nationals: Washington's Opening Day starter Stephen Strasburg will take the mound under the lights for the Nats on Saturday (6:05 p.m. ET) against the visiting Astros, who are expected to send top prospects Carlos Correa and Jonathan Singleton on the trip. Ryan Zimmerman, who has been appearing as a designated hitter this spring, could be making his first start of the year at third base for Washington, while Strasburg may be the first pitcher to hit for himself.
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled that the lawsuit, which was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas and the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of two Little Rock abortion providers, made a strong enough case to warrant allowing it to go forward.
"The court finds at this pleading stage, plaintiffs have demonstrated a realistic danger of sustaining a direct injury as a result of Act 301's operation or enforcement, and they have presented a justiciable controversy that is ripe for review," Wright wrote in her nine-page ruling.
A hearing is scheduled Friday on the groups' request for a preliminary injunction against the ban. The lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of Dr. Louis Jerry Edwards and Dr. Tom Tvedten, names members of the State Medical Board as defendants because the board is responsible for licensing medical professionals.
The state has argued that the groups don't have standing to challenge the ban since it won't take effect until in August. Wright rejected that argument, saying the threat of enforcement was enough to challenge the law. Doctors who violate the law face having their medical license revoked by the state.
Wright also rejected the state's argument that the 12-week restriction was not subject to constitutional challenge since it argued the law only limits some abortions before a fetus is considered viable. The ban includes exemptions for rape, incest, the life of the mother and highly lethal fetal disorders.
Wright noted that opponents have argued that 12 weeks is months before a fetus is considered viable, and that 20 percent of abortions in the state occur at or after 12 weeks.
"Accepting these allegations as true, as the court must do at this juncture, the court finds that plaintiffs have alleged facts sufficient to state a claim that the provision of Act 301 that prohibits abortions at 12 weeks gestation when a fetal heartbeat is detected impermissibly infringes a woman's Fourteenth Amendment right to choose to terminate a pregnancy before viability," she wrote.
Arkansas' Republican-led Legislature enacted the ban in March when it overrode Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe's veto of the measure. Beebe and other opponents of the ban say it violates the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion until a fetus could viably survive outside the womb, which is generally considered to be at 22 to 24 weeks.


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We have plenty of work to do to get there. Supporting the President's initiatives to secure health care for all Americans, to create green jobs, and build a stronger economy is why we are all Democrats. Without vigorous state and local parties, our ability to assist President Obama as he changes the face of America is severely hampered. The Association of State Democratic Chairs is committed to providing the training and resources necessary to build a robust party infrastructure in every precinct, town, county and state.
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A You Problem: 9 Beautiful Women Who Can't Seem To Keep A Man
Women Who Can't Keep A Man
Good men are hard to find. Even if you're drop-dead gorgeous. Sometimes, especially if you're drop-dead gorgeous. Maybe it's because men generally suck. Maybe something is just chemically wrong with these ladies. But for some reason, they can't settle down and get men to stick with them.
Well, at least they're nice to look at.
Rocsi – She looks really good but she's had like five men in the last year. Why don't they let her stick around?
Stacey Dash – She's one of the most gorgeous women ever. But she's been engaged a million times and divorced. Poor baby.
Jennifer Lopez – J. Lo has been divorced thrice and Casper won't be around long either. That rump should be too good to leave.
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Halle Berry – She's been bouncing around from marriage to marriage since the 90s and no man has been able to hold her down for long.
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Monday May 17, 2010
Kim Kardashian has been showing off the new man in her life - her four-month-old nephew Mason.
"Good morning kisses w the luv of my life Mason!" the US socilaite posted on her Twitter page with this adorable picture.
The reality TV star added she had the full approval from her sister Kourtney, for sharing the photo.
Also on her Twitter page, Kim has revealed her plans for the week have been altered by a new cloud of volcanic ash in Europe.
"Flight cancelled to Monaco due to the volcano erupting again.... I guess no Monaco :-(," she wrote.
"Better safe than sorry! Just glad the airlines are being extra careful, hope everyone is safe traveling!"


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Braves To Sign B.J. Upton
By Ben Nicholson-Smith [November 28 at 4:49pm CST]
4:49pm: It's a five-year, $75.25MM contract, Rosenthal reports (on Twitter).
Upton declined a qualifying offer from the Rays, which means the Rays are now eligible to obtain a top pick in the 2013 draft. The Braves will surrender their first round draft pick to sign Upton, though that selection won't go directly to Tampa Bay.


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I've decided to try and build all this into as compact an enclosure as possible, mostly because I like the idea, but also so it's relatively easily transportable in the future, especially if the business expands and I end up building more than one.
I thought I'd put it up here as a bit of a sanity check, and to make sure I haven't missed any crucial details that could screw up the build after I lay down the cash.
Here goes, the planned spec list reads thusly:
- Silverstone GD08B Case
- Intel S2600COE Motherboard - 2x Socket 2011
- 2x Intel Xeon E5-2687W - 8 Core, 3.1GHz, 3.8GHz Max Turbo
- 2x Silverstone NT01-Pro heatsinks
- 8x 8GB Hynix DDR3 PC3-12800 ECC Registered
- 8x Seagate 3TB Constellation CS ST3000NC002
- Seasonic X-750 Power Supply
- Edit: Samsung 830 SSD as a system drive... of course
Now, when I first looked at the GD08 case, I wrote it off, assuming the EATX specification was just a misprint, or a silly claim that wasn't actually any use, because obviously, the drive cage completely covers the whole back end of an EATX board, and that's where one of the CPU coolers would have to be.
When I looked more closely into it though, I started to realise that they'd considered it quite well. The bottoms of the bay areas are cut out, to allow upward airflow from the bottom-mounted fans at the front.
That doesn't help much though, as the divider wall of the 5.25" bay sits directly above where the 2nd CPU socket would be.
My solution is, using the NT01-PRO coolers, which are Socket 2011 compatible, are rated for the full 150W the CPUs require, are short enough to fit the height of the case, and most importantly, are L-shaped, so I can aim them off towards the side of the case, right in the path of the two 120mm fan side-mounts, and crucially rising up right inside the cutout area of the optical drive bays. I'm pretty sure they'll give just enough clearance to avoid touching the RAM too... just.
I want to fill up every available 3.5" bay with 3TB drives, and run a Raid 10 array, for maximum performance. To that end, I've picked out a super-short-ass midrange GeForce card that barely overhangs the end of the PCI-E slot, so it doesn't get in the way of the hard drives. Also, with an EATX motherboard installed, the front fan-space is limited to a row of 6x60mm fans, instead of the 120mm it comes with... so I've settled on the Sunon HA60251V4 60mm Maglev fan, which seems like it should be pretty quiet while still shifting plenty of fresh air directly up into the hard drive array.
I'm wondering about the PSU... All told I've got 2x150W-TDP CPUs, a 64W TDP graphics card, 8x~11W hard drives, various fans, 8 sticks of ram... I guess it could hit about 500-550W peak... so a 750W Seasonic Gold-efficiency PSU seems reasonable enough, right?
Phew... so, any glaring pitfalls I haven't spotted?


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Sept. 22
Dock disappearance
3:23 p.m. — Jewfish Key. Lost or Missing Property. A woman reported that her three-seat red kayak was missing from her dock.
Sept. 24
Police monitor move
6:37 p.m. — 7100 block of Longboat Drive East. Disturbance. A woman asked for police assistance to get her belongings from her house. She was concerned that her husband, who had become increasingly more violent and broken one of her fingers recently, would give her problems. The husband did not object to her moving out.
Getting trashed
9:29 p.m. — 500 block of Bay Isles Parkway. Suspicious Circumstance. Police watched a man who parked his car in the fire lane outside a drug store nervously get outside of the car and throw some items in a trashcan. After police realized that two empty vodka bottles and some rolling papers were sitting on top of the trash, they asked for permission to search the vehicle. No other contraband was found and the man was sent on his way with a warning after confirming he had not been drinking today.
Sept. 25
Too much off the top
10:24 a.m. — 3700 block of GMD. Property Damage. Someone reported that a man driving a tree-trimming truck trimmed the southeast corner off of a condominium clubhouse building, causing $500 worth of damage to the gutter and wood on that side of the building.
Check it out
11:01 a.m. — 1900 block of Harbourside Drive. Fraud. A man called to report that his wife received a letter from "I-Spy Mystery Shoppers" for $3,970. He wanted to know "if the check was any good." Police told him it was a scam.
Sept. 28
Boat runs aground
10:15 a.m. — 3000 block of Fair Oaks Lane. Rescue. Police helped a man receive medical assistance after he cut his hand while trying to move his stranded boat off some grass flats. The boat was left disabled until the owner could remove it.
Sept. 29
Potential robbery thwarted
1:44 a.m. — 500 block of Chipping Lane. Suspicious Incident. Police watched a car without lights turn into a driveway in Country Club Shores and sit stationary for several minutes. When police approached the two men in the car, they acted nervous and could not explain why they were parked in a neighborhood in which they did not live. Both subjects were interviewed separately, and both were arrested for loitering and prowling. A butter knife was found under one of the car seats, and one of the subjects was listed as a violent felony offender who was on probation for aggravated battery.
Tennis Center work halted
5:38 p.m. — 500 block of Bay Isles Road. Code Enforcement. Construction workers at the Longboat Key Public Tennis Center were told they couldn't work past 5 p.m., even if they were preparing for the next day's construction activities.
Furniture fee
11:18 p.m. — Off the Key. Suspicious Circumstance. Police pulled over a man for an equipment violation and discovered a complete set of pool furniture in the bed of the truck. The driver said a friend had given him the furniture in exchange for doing some painting work at Twin Shores mobile-home park.
Disgruntled former employee causes a scene
3:17 p.m. — 1600 block of GMD. Civil Disturbance. Resort employees called to report a former employee causing a scene on resort property once he found out the person issuing final paychecks had already left for the day. When he was told his check would be mailed to him, he left without turning in his keys. Police talked to the man by phone and he explained that he "gave back all the property they deserve," including the keys, T-shirts and a chainsaw.
No fires allowed
4:49 p.m. — 600 block of St. Judes Drive. Fire. Police responded to a report of an open fire, which had already been extinguished by residents before police arrived Residents were warned of the town's ban on open burning.


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Last week saw a handful of Hong Kong and Chinese companies move forward with their initial public offering plans. There is more action this week as at least three firms launch roadshows and start taking orders, with much bigger deal sizes too.
On Monday, Dow Jones Newswires reports that Future Land Development Holdings Ltd, a Shanghai-based property developer, started taking orders for its up to $328 million IPO, securing $80 million of cornerstone investment from Hong Kong and Chinese funds.
Shanghai-listed Zhengzhou Coal Mining Machinery Group Co. is likely to kick off its roadshow on Wednesday for its $500 million IPO. It started premarketing for that deal back in September.


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Vietnam: Implementation of Sustainable Development: National Report at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20)
Vietnam, 2012by: Vietnam
Vietnam has taken part in the Earth Summit on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992, the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2002, signed the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, the Global Agenda 21, etc. and committed to implementing sustainable development.
During the 20 years' implementation of national sustainable development, particularly since the adoption of the Strategic Orientation for Sustainable Development (Vietnam Agenda 21) on 17 August 2004, Vietnam has made remarkable achievements in the economic, social and environmental fields. The causes requiring sustainable development implementation in Vietnam, however, maintain numerous shortcomings and challenges.
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MONTREAL – Marco Di Vaio's first MLS goals since July 3 were the difference on Saturday night as the Montreal Impact beat D.C. United 2-1 at Stade Saputo. The victory was the Impact's seventh in eight games when the Italian striker has scored at home; they tied the other.
United striker Conor Doyle thought he'd salvaged a point for United in the 81st minute, but Di Vaio completed his brace minutes later to lift Montreal to 38 points. They will at the very least remain fourth in the Eastern Conference until next weekend's slate of games. United stay bottom of the East with 13 points.
Montreal went all out with quick attacks in the early stages. They created chances in the first, third and fifth minute, widening the play well on the first two buildups and then forcing Daniel Woolard to make a headed clearance on the line.
But D.C. settled into the game well, often pushing the ball in Montreal's territory through fullback Chris Korb. Dwayne De Rosario was a constant threat midway through the half with four attempts in a 15-minute span, coming closest to giving his side the lead in the 37th minute as he chipped a chance created by Kyle Porter over Troy Perkins' net.
But Montreal took the lead six minutes later. Their wingers once again took the ball wide, with Justin Mapp on the right beating James Riley and crossing low to the penalty spot. Felipe's dummy fooled United's center backs and Di Vaio took advantage, curling a right-footed strike into the top corner of Bill Hamid's net.
United picked up where they left off after the break, with Korb feeding Luis Silva directly into the box for a first-time strike saved by Perkins. The Impact goalkeeper once again frustrated Silva in the 64th minute, but could do nothing as Conor Doyle pounced on a Silva through ball on the outside left and beat Perkins at the far post.
But Di Vaio was not to be denied a chance to give his side the three points. Patrice Bernier fed the striker on the right of United's penalty area, and Di Vaio beat Dejan Jakovic before, once again, curling a beauty past a powerless Hamid on 83 minutes.
Tensions rose in the 75th minute when James Riley seemed to push Justin Mapp into a TV camera as the duo leaped to meet a Montreal goal kick. Impact head coach Marco Schällibaum took exception and had a heated exchange with his opposite number Ben Olsen. Referee Ismail Elfath sent both off, after Riley was duly booked.
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Acuity Brands, provider of lighting fixtures under several brands including Peerless and Holophane, reported a record third quarter, with net income up 34.7 percent to $38.7 million from $28.7 million in last year's third quarter.
Net sales rose 7.4 percent to $647.8 million from $603.3 million last year.
Vernon Nagel, Acuity's chairman, president and CEO, attributed the gains to higher selling prices and new products in the lighting category. Growth in non-residential markets, such as commercial and industrial sectors, also boosted sales, he said.
"Overall, we remain optimistic about our performance for the remainder of 2007 in spite of continued cost pressures and the potential impact of declining demand in the residential housing market," Nagel said.
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The Center Helping Obesity In Children End Successfully, Inc., (C.H.O.I.C.E.S.) will celebrate their 10-year anniversary at their fundraiser, Twilight on Childhood Obesity, an evening of humor featuring a performance by Atlanta native and Las Vegas comedian George Wallace. It takes place Friday, October 19 at 7p.m. at the Buckhead Theater, 3110 Roswell Road NW, Atlanta, GA 30305.
Wallace, who has headlined a nightly stand-up comedy show for the past nine years at the famous Flamingo Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, will be coming home to support C.H.O.I.C.E.S., a nonprofit organization formed in 2002 to fight the epidemic of childhood obesity. There are an estimated ten million obese and overweight American kids. Georgia is ranked third in the nation for childhood obesity.
Dubbed "Mr. Las Vegas" by The Las Vegas Review-Journal, Wallace has appeared on "House of Payne," "Seinfield" and "The Parkers" television shows, and is now a stand-up comedian that entertains for audiences from all over the world. Wallace routinely performs before packed audiences as the headliner at the Flamingo, and considers doing a show in Atlanta an honor as this is where it all began for him.
"Atlanta is my home," he said. "As a youngster I sold papers on the corner there. I came here (to Las Vegas) for 30 days, 60 days, 90 days and now I'm in my 9th year," said Wallace who noted he produces, promotes and directs his show as well as writes his jokes and selects the music.
Tickets are $75 for general admission and $150 for VIP and can be purchased online at http://www.choicesforkids.org . In addition to the performance there will be a VIP Reception, After-Party and silent auction. Funds raised will help C.H.O.I.C.E.S. offer after-school programs and open a programming facility in the City of Atlanta.
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We can only pray the lakers get blown out as well tonight.
At least the Blue Jays won't suck this season
Completely and utterly speechless after that game. While its no excuse, the ease with which Utah was getting foul calls was frustrating the hell out of me. But regardless, we deserved to lose by giving up that many wide open 3s.
We have too many players that dont comit to Defence which is what Casey is about a lot of little things matter and only Ed, Lowry and Val seem to get that, even though he isnt a god defender Demar tries and at least goes for boards now too. When the shortest guy on the starting line up is the only one boxing out and getting more boards a game than your starting 7 footer you got a major problem.
Well lakers made a game of it. So this night is totally pointless.
After all the shots they took at Triano on his way out, well, I suspect he's having a good laugh somewhere tonight.
Just got home and took a quick look at the box score. I don't even care to know what happened, cause it looks terrible all around though. Gotta give it to Bargnani though, ALLSTAR line... :-| we suck
Just one year away... Bruno is almost here!
Well I've had enough for a night. I'm going to go to bed watching YouTube clips of Derrick Williams. Dream of BC actually making this trade happen cause that's the only way this it will happen. Night folks.
Worst loss of the season IMO. Team gave up as did the coach.
I had to bail on this team last night as well, I just did not see the same hope I saw in the Denver game.
In Denver you could actually see their potential to make a come back, against Utah it looked hopeless, they weren't having any of our runs.
We gotta move Calderon and Bargnani then the Raps will truly be free.
That was a disgusting showing by this team. I don't even know where to start.
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A 53-year-old Weld County man accused of bar hopping in Garden City on a lawnmower is facing a DUI charge and is accused of being a habitual traffic offender. In fact, records show that in addition to driving drunk between bars on his lawnmower, witnesses reported Kenneth Welton was driving the wrong way.
Welton, who turned 53 earlier this month, was pulled over by a Sheriff's Deputy around 10 p.m. Tuesday night in the area of 2750 8th Ave. in Garden City. The deputy was sent to the area after receiving reports of a lawnmower being driven southbound on the northbound side of 8th Ave.
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The Seattle Seahawks have named Travis Jones defensive line coach and Nick Sorensen coaching assistant and special teams coach. Dave Canales will now assume the role of assistant quarterbacks coach and offensive quality control coach with Nate Carroll named offensive assistant. Marquand Manuel was also named a defensive assistant Wednesday, Feb. 13.
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Pujols prime example of late Draft value
Cards nabbed star in 13th, others after first few rounds
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That's because the best player in baseball is not only a Cardinal, but a late-round Draft pick. Albert Pujols was selected in the 13th round of the 1999 Draft. He spent the 2000 campaign terrorizing pitchers at three Minor League levels, and in 2001, he emerged as a fully-fledged Major League star. The National League hasn't been the same since, and neither have St. Louisans' perceptions of the Draft.
It's not always that simple, but it's clear that the relevant part of the Draft didn't end on Tuesday night. Things start back up on Wednesday with pick No. 112. And just from the Cards' current active 25-man roster, 14 different players were drafted later than 112th overall. Pujols is the model, but he's just one of an army of later picks who are currently Cardinals.
After 111 picks on Day 1 -- including Round One, Compensation Round A, Round Two, Round Three and Compensation Round B -- the Draft will resume with exclusive coverage on MLB.com with the Fourth Round at 11 a.m. CT on Wednesday and will be tentatively scheduled to go through the 30th round. The Draft will conclude on Thursday with the 31st through 50th rounds, beginning at 10:30 a.m.
MLB.com's coverage will include a live pick-by-pick audio stream, expert commentary and the exclusive Draft Tracker, a searchable database of every Draft-eligible player, featuring statistics, scouting reports and video highlights.
Fans will not only be able to follow along every minute of the way online, but they'll be able to interact directly with Draft-eligible players and MLB.com Draft experts, among others.
The Draft Tracker will also feature the addition of Twitter, and the participation of "tweeters" such as MLB.com Draft expert @JonathanMayoB3, who will also be serving as on-air talent for all three days of the Draft; and reporter @LisaWinstonMLB, who will be writing the up-to-the-minute coverage for MLB.com.
In addition, MLB.com has created a Twitter account devoted to the Draft, where you can stay updated on every piece of info as it becomes available (@MLBDraft).
Here's a look at the full list of current Cardinals selected 112th or later:
Brian Barden: A sixth-round pick of the D-backs in 2002, Barden made his way through the Arizona system for five seasons before cracking the Opening Day roster in 2007. He still stuck around in the Minors for a while longer, but this year he's gotten his longest continuous taste of the Majors.
Ryan Franklin: The Cardinals' closer was a "draft-and-follow" player more than 15 years ago. The draft-and-follow system no longer exists, as teams must sign their players by Aug. 17. But Franklin was selected in the 23rd round in 1992, signed in May 1993 and made it to the Majors on May 15, 1999.
Blake Hawksworth: Another draft-and-follow player, Hawksworth signed to much fanfare in May 2002 after the Cardinals drafted him in the 28th round in 2001. After battling injuries for many years, he finally made his Major League debut on Saturday.
Jason LaRue: A fifth-rounder in 1995, LaRue moved fairly quickly through the Minors. He debuted with the Reds on June 15, 1999.
Kyle McClellan: The hometown boy was a 25th-round pick of the Cardinals in 2002. Another player sidelined by injuries in the Minors, he jumped from Double-A to the Major Leagues when he broke camp with the big league team at the start of 2008.
Yadier Molina: The Cardinals knew what they had in Molina very soon after drafting him in the fourth round (No. 113 overall) in 2000. He debuted with the Cardinals on June 3, 2004, after Mike Matheny suffered an injury, and the next year he was handed the starting catching job for the reigning National League champions.
Jason Motte: Few players had a more fascinating path to the Majors than Motte, who was a 19th-round pick as a catcher in 2003. After he struggled to hit in pro ball, the Cardinals moved him to the mound, where he rocketed to the Majors and debuted on Sept. 3, 2008.
Joel Pineiro: A 12th-rounder in 1997, Pineiro quickly established himself as one of Seattle's top pitching prospects. He made his first appearance as a Mariner barely three years later, on Aug. 8, 2000.
Pujols: This one you know about. It was less than two years from Draft to debut, and four years later Pujols won the first of his two MVP awards.
Brendan Ryan: A seventh-rounder in 2003, Ryan advanced quickly before an injury short-circuited his 2006 season. He nonetheless made the big leagues less than four years after he was drafted, debuting on June 2, 2007.
Skip Schumaker: It was once a little-known fact that Schumaker played infield in college before he was drafted. Since his conversion from the outfield to second base, that fact is well known once again. Schumaker was a fifth-rounder in 2001, and he cracked the Major Leagues on June 8, 2005.
Nick Stavinoha: Drafted in the seventh round out of LSU in 2005, Stavinoha hit at just about every level until he forced his way to the Majors. He debuted last June and has impressed this year in limited duty.
Brad Thompson: Thompson was a 16th-rounder in 2002, but a record scoreless streak at Double-A put him on the radar. He first appeared as a Cardinal on May 8, 2005.
Joe Thurston: Taken in the fourth round (134th overall) in 1999, Thurston was a top prospect in the Dodgers' organization and made his debut quickly, on Sept. 2, 2002. However, he never did stick for an extended period of time until this year with the Cardinals.
Matthew Leach is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Thompson Square recently added a puppy, Etta, to their family which led them to team up with Purina Dog Chow to help promote the 'Dog Families Know' campaign. The pair recorded an acoustic performance of "A Dog's Life" as part of the partnership. It's a song Keifer Thompson wrote 10 years about about life through a dog's eye. The video features Etta as she strolls with her owners through New York City.
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Through August 31, dog owners are invited to visit the Dog Chow Families Know Facebook Tab and share stories of how their dog has affected their lives. For every unique story, photo or video posted, Purina Dog Chow will donate $1 to the military service dog organization, Patriot Rovers, up to $25,000.
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If you would've told Donna Cutler 12 years ago that she would be asked by the governor to serve on a state board, she said she would've laughed.
In November 1993, just more than a year after moving to Russellville, Cutler was in a life-changing car accident that caused her lower body to be paralyzed, constraining her to a wheelchair.
Although, looking back now, her friends and family find it hard to believe Cutler would ever let anything get her down, Cutler said for seven months, she hardly said a word. But just recently, it was her unique, outgoing personality that convinced Gov. Mike Huckabee that she should serve on one of his boards.
Cutler was sworn in to the board, the Governor's Commission on People with Disabilities, Friday by Pope County Judge Jim Ed Gibson in front of about 20 of her friends and family members. Cutler's pharmacist, preacher, neighbors, Russellville Mayor Raye Turner and many others came to the courthouse to share in the event, and she thanked them all for their support during the last 12 years.
"Anything good I do, I give the credit to my family, my friends, my church and this wonderful community," she told them. "I accomplish nothing on my own."
Kechia Bentley, Russellville Skateboard Park fund coordinator, and her family were also in attendance. It was at a recent fund-raiser for the skatepark where Cutler met Huckabee for the first time.
"I thought, 'I'm not going to be in the same room with the governor and not at least say hi,'" Cutler said of the night of the fund-raiser.
A few days after the event, a letter came from the governor's office with a questionnaire about becoming a state board member. She said after discussing the letter with her husband, she decided she wanted to take on the challenge.
"I was honored and humbled at the same time," Cutler said. "The director (of the board) told me that it means a lot to people when they call if they get someone on the other end of the line that lives with a disability. ... And I totally understood that, because when I first started reaching out to people (after the accident), I was encouraged more by the ones that live the life I live."
Although Cutler said she doesn't know all the details of her responsibilities as a board member, she knows she is required to meet once a month in Little Rock. But she has already figured out what she wants to get out of being on the board.
"One thing I hope to gain by being on this board is learning more about other disabilities," she said. "Right now, I try really hard when I find out somebody is in a wheelchair to reach out to them and offer what I can. But this will give me an opportunity learn not only about those disabilities, but how to help those people as well."
Cutler said the timing of her appointment to the board was ironic because it was around this time last year that she began working with her other volunteer cause, Wheels for the World. The outreach ministry is part of the "Joni and Friends" organization.
"They go all over the United States and have people like me go talk to churches and organizations about used wheelchairs, canes, crutches, just any kind of miscellaneous handicap equipment," she explained, adding that she is one of only two representatives for the ministry in the state.
Another project her friends and family want her to get involved with, she said, is the Miss Wheelchair Arkansas pageant. Although she said she's not sure if she'll compete, she thinks the pageant is a good idea.
Not based on any kind of talent or anything," she explained. "It's based on your ability to express yourself and it gives you another opportunity to share with more people about what's involved in living with a disability."
Cutler said she has been blessed by all of the support she receives from people in her family and in the community. She said she invited those friends because, "were it not for them back then, I would not be where I am now."


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Bangalore-based journalist Sufia Tippu reports on India's off-again, on-again aspiration to build the nation's own foundry. The Cabinet missed the deadline for giving approvals to fabs -- once again.
BANGALORE, India— A fab amidst chaos... that's what India is planning, and delaying as usual. The deadline given by the Empowered Committee to give an answer was June 30, but a deafening silence continues to come from the red-carpeted corridors of power.
There have been rumors and reports that Tower Semiconductor Ltd. of Migdal Haemek, Israel, has won a long-term contract to run a wafer fab under a protracted two-year selection process, but no confirmation as yet. And without governmental approval, nothing will move. India has been here before and failed to execute.
Just to step back a little; India has no clean power.
Almost every middle-class house installs something called an uninterrupted power supply (UPS) unit to seamlessly cross over to private power when the electricity goes off without any warning.
Almost every house installs something called a water purifier to ensure that we get safe drinking water -- forget about those cities and towns like Vellore (a town in south India) were you get water once a week, or another town in Bhilwara (a town in north India) where you have to trudge miles to draw water.
Almost every commuter on Indian roads has to visit an orthopedist sometime in life to get some relief for spine or other extremity ailments since our roads are filled with potholes. In other words, the infrastructure is the pits.
But this doesn't deter the government from wanting to encourage the building of one or two billion-dollar fabs.
The original goal was two fabs and after the latest chip initiative was formed two years ago, it managed to finally shortlist two consortia to set up chip fabrication units in the country. The first consortium is led by the Jaypee Group, supported by Tower Semiconductor and IBM, while the other is led by an entity called Hindustan Semiconductor Manufacturing (HSMC), supported by STMicroelectronics and Siltera.
Interestingly, there was yet another consortium a long time ago, in 2006, which was led by Vinod Agarwal, an Indian-American businessman, who headed the SemIndia fab initiative. But that project died a slow death.
Now, there is renewed interest in the idea of a wafer fab -- and that ubiquitous delay again.
But with a veteran like M.J. Zarabi heading the Empowered Committee responsible for the feasibility study for the setting up of a fab, things might just go right this time. But his hands, too, are tied -- he cannot do a thing about the delay coming from the government side.
I spoke to Zarabi recently, and, like everyone else, he is waiting for the Cabinet to give their approval for the fabs though the deadline of June 30, which has been overshot as usual.


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Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, December 7, 2012, 12:00 AM
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A sweet way to get together
Original post made on Dec 8, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, December 7, 2012, 12:00 AM
a resident of another community
on Dec 8, 2012 at 2:46 am
It is JUST like it was when I grew up in Copenhagen. The smells of Christmas never leave one. The getting together as a family (and friends) is SO much part of Christmas.I had to smile over the Fattigmads bakkelse. Could not have been too bad being poor in those days. The ingredients are amazing!!!
Tradition is wonderful, keep it up!!!
Annette Nicholls (Australia)
a resident of Palo Verde
on Dec 8, 2012 at 8:18 am
It is mince pies for me. Bite sized pastries with deliciousness filling the insides. Warm with a glass of port left for Father Christmas is the tradition, but in every get together throughout the month of December they would appear. I do make my own and I can't make enough to satisfy my family's cravings, I give them as gifts and take them to events. But I miss being offered them everywhere I go. Sighhhhhhhhhh. Getting the mincemeat is part of the problem, the black Crosse & Blackwell mainly apple and raisin with too much cinnamon and not enough other spices is just not the same.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Dec 9, 2012 at 7:07 pm
We spent one Christmas in Scotland eight years ago, and since then, it is mince pies and mince tarts for us, too. Nothing like a mince tarte while sitting 'round the .
My husband, though, is half Swiss, so for him it is Linzer Torte, that thin raspberry pie with the shortbread crust. Wonderful with some hot mulled wine.


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Headlining a pre-election rally in downtown Little Rock, Huckabee joked that the state GOP should give the president an award for "the most effort at recruiting Republicans in this state." Republicans believe they're on the verge of taking control of the Democrat-controlled House and Senate and sweeping the state's four congressional seats in the Nov. 6 election.
"Folks, there is one thing he has done right," Huckabee said. "We should say, 'Barack Obama, you may have messed up being president, but thank you for what you have done to help Arkansas finally become a Republican state.' "
Huckabee, who served as the state's governor for 10 ½ years and now lives in Florida,! told reporters earlier that Republicans have made inroads in Arkansas because of what he called leftward drift of the national Democratic Party on issues such as abortion. Huckabee ran unsuccessfully for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008 and now hosts a show on Fox News.
"I think the parties are so different now," Huckabee said. "What you see at the national level is a party that has systematically changed itself from a party that was pretty mainstream to one that's become very extreme."
Arkansas is the only part of the old Confederacy where Democrats control the Legislature and governor's mansion. With polls showing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney easily winning the state's six electoral votes and the GOP ahead in congressional races, both parties have been focused primarily on the fight for the state Legislature.
The state Democratic Party accused Huckabee of focusing more on national politics than on what party officials say are the! successes the state has made under Gov. Mike Beebe, a two-term Democr at who succeeded Huckabee.
"While (Huckabee is) focused on national partisan politics, our No. 1 goal has been continuing the agenda that is working well for our state, and that's creating jobs, continuing to balance the budget and cutting taxes to put money back in the hands of Arkansans," spokeswoman Candace Martin said Saturday.
Republican Party Chairman Doyle Webb said the state GOP expected to raise about $10,000 from Saturday's rally.
The Republican push has stumbled in recent weeks after racially charged writings by three GOP state House candidates have come under fire.
Rep. Jon Hubbard wrote in a self-published book that slavery was a "blessing in disguise" for African-Americans and later compared Beebe and other top Democrats to Nazis for criticizing his writings. Rep. Loy Mauch, in letters to newspapers, defended the Confederacy and declared his belief that President Abraham Lincoln was a war criminal. Former Rep. Charlie Fuqua, who is chall! enging an incumbent Democrat in east Arkansas, wrote in a self-published book that he believes all Muslims should be deported.
The GOP has said it won't contribute any more money to the three, but has not called on them to end their bids. Huckabee told reporters he wasn't familiar with their writings, but said that he had tried to promote the party as one open to African-Americans.
"We're not open to racism," Huckabee said. "We're open to a lot of things. We're not open to any idea or any semblance of racism, and whether a person is a candidate or whoever, it's just an unacceptable position to take.
"Whether they've taken positions that are clearly racist, I don't know enough to say. I do know there is simply no place in our culture for us to think that anybody is better than another person."
Huckabee and other elected Republicans at Saturday's rally tried to tie the state's Democrats to Obama, who hasn't visited Arkansas as president and remains dee! ply unpopular in the state.
Freshman Republican Congressman Tim Griffin, who represents central Arkansas, dismissed state Democrats' efforts to distance themselves from Obama and other national party figures.
"They may say they don't support the president, but silence is support, folks," Griffin said. "If you stand idly by without objecting, you are at a minimum enabling and I believe you are supporting."


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Hi mods. My beta's just recommended that I move a section of one as of yet unposted chapter into the previous, posted one. The section is *checks* 250 words. Would it be okay to add it onto the end of the chapter, or would I have to re-submit it?
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Final Liquidity Rule on NCUA Board Agenda
The NCUA's final liquidity rule is on the agenda of its upcoming Oct. 24 monthly board meeting.
Under the proposed "Maintaining Access to Emergency Liquidity" rule, federally insured credit unions with $10 million or more in assets must develop "a contingency funding plan that clearly sets out strategies for addressing liquidity shortfalls in emergency situations."
"The NPRM requires FICUs with less than $10 million in assets to maintain a basic written policy that provides a board-approved framework for managing liquidity and a list of contingent liquidity sources that can be employed under adverse circumstances," the proposed rule said.
Credit unions with more than $100 million in assets would also be required to establish the ability to borrow from the CLF or Federal Reserve in case of a liquidity emergency. Credit union trade associations have pushed for the Federal Home Loan Banks to be included on the list of acceptable emergency liquidity choices.
The agenda also includes a proposed rule described as "Credit Union Capital Planning and Stress Testing." The NCUA clarified the rule will not be one that requires risk-based capital for credit unions.


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In ADO mode, this adapter will ONLY work on Windows systems, since it relies on Win32OLE, which, to my knowledge, is only available on Windows.
This mode also relies on the ADO support in the DBI module. If you are using the one-click installer of Ruby, then you already have DBI installed, but the ADO module is NOT installed. You will need to get the latest source distribution of Ruby-DBI from http://ruby-dbi.sourceforge.net/ unzip it, and copy the file src/lib/dbd_ado/ADO.rb to X:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/DBD/ADO/ADO.rb (you will more than likely need to create the ADO directory). Once you've installed that file, you are ready to go.
In ODBC mode, the adapter requires the ODBC support in the DBI module which requires the Ruby ODBC module. Ruby ODBC 0.996 was used in development and testing, and it is available at http://www.ch-werner.de/rubyodbc/
- :mode — ADO or ODBC. Defaults to ADO.
- :username — Defaults to sa.
- :password — Defaults to empty string.
ADO specific options:
- :host — Defaults to localhost.
- :database — The name of the database. No default, must be provided.
ODBC specific options:
- :dsn — Defaults to nothing.
ADO code tested on Windows 2000 and higher systems, running ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-mswin32], and SQL Server 2000 SP3.
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The $30 Plan
Who: Lisa Delvecchio, 28
Before weight: 157
After weight: 124
What She Bought
Two Ellen Barrett workout DVDs, $30
The Workout Routine
30-minute video, two to four days a week; 30-minute walks on the weekends
The Results
"I was a cheerleader and danced my teens away, so I never thought about working out. Then I got an office job where I sat and snacked all day long. I really packed on the pounds. The panic point came when my best friend got married in June 2006. I was over the moon to be her bridesmaid — until I had to order my dress in a size 16.
"That was it. I started doing some exercise DVDs before dinner two to four times a week. As for my dieting philosophy, it was simple: Eat real food. I steered clear of processed snacks and fast food.
"I hit my goal in February 2007 and have kept up with my healthy habits since then: I still exercise at home, eat right, and weigh myself often to make sure I'm on track. I'll never be the rock star in the front of the gym class, but at least I can wear my mismatched sweats to work out and nobody sees me!"
The $105 Plan
Who: Dulce Tanelli, 41
Before weight: 145
After weight: 105
What She Bought
A pair of sneakers, $80, and The Body Ecology Diet, by Donna Gates, $25
The Workout Routine
Walks or jogs with her dog four to six miles in the morning and two miles in the evening most days
The Results
"No wonder my name means 'sweet': Vending-machine treats used to be my best friends, and I would often eat an entire gallon — not a pint, a gallon — of ice cream at night.
"In November 2006, I visited my family in Portugal. They were pretty ruthless about my size. It was hard to hear, but when I got home, I bought a pair of sneakers and started walking.
"I felt good, but I was still eating candy and cookies all day. A friend recommended The Body Ecology Diet, which focuses on avoiding empty calories and adding in new vegetables such as fennel and bok choy.
"When I reached my goal in February 2007, I booked a trip back to Portugal. My family couldn't believe the difference. I love that I did this on the cheap. It's easy to make the 'I can't afford a trainer' excuse, but walking outside is free."
The $2,325 Plan
Who: Jayne Santoro, 46
Before weight: 305
After weight: 180
What She Bought
Gym membership fee, $1,000; annual gym fee, $125; and a home treadmill, $1,200
The Workout Routine
Cycles or jogs for 30 to 45 minutes five to seven days a week and strength-trains for 30 minutes three days a week
The Results
"I was a chunky kid, but I stayed active, so I never worried about my weight. Then my mom died of cancer when I was 19 years old. Food comforted me, and I gained 100 pounds. Mortified, I began my first of many lose-60-pounds-then-gain-70 cycles. In 2002, I went shopping and the size 28 jeans didn't fit. I thought, I can't keep doing this to myself.
"I was determined this time to make the weight loss stick. I tricked myself into feeling full by eating high-volume foods, like a huge veggie-filled salad with low-cal dressing. I started cycling and running on weekends with a childhood friend, just as we used to do when we were kids. During the week, I hit the gym or used my treadmill before work.
"It took a year to lose the weight, and I've kept it off for six years now. The treadmill has helped enormously. I have no excuse for not working out, even if it's storming outside. I've literally exercised my butt off!"
The $2,575 Plan
Who: Cynara Charles-Pierre, 35
Before weight: 173
After weight: 148
What She Bought
Power 90 workout DVD series, $75, and 60 days' worth of food from Zone Chefs (now called Chefs Diet), $2,500
The Workout Routine
Thirty to 60 minutes of Power 90 (a workout that alternates cardio and sculpting moves), five days a week
The Results
"I hate going to the gym, I'm a breadaholic, and I love Southern food. Add that together over time and you'll see how I gained weight. In January 2007, I experienced my second miscarriage. It forced me to ask myself: Am I the healthiest I can possibly be? There was a lot I couldn't control about pregnancy, but I could take charge of what I put into my body.
"The biggest problem was that my husband and I don't get home from work until 8 or 9, so we were living on takeout. I knew I would never have time to make fresh, healthy meals every night. I needed something that I could pop into the microwave. I found Zone Chefs online; they deliver three healthy, heat-and-eat meals and two snacks per day. It's pricey, but not so far off from what we were paying for takeout. And spending the money made me really committed to sticking with the program. My husband didn't eat them with me every night, but even he lost a few pounds.
"Once I started losing weight, I also began working out with the Power 90 DVD series, which I heard of through a friend who transformed her body. The workouts are super-challenging, so I never get bored. When I was younger, I had great arms and abs, and I'm so psyched that I'm getting them back! My husband and I are still trying to have a baby, but at least I know my health is where it needs to be."
The $4,600 Plan
Who: Susan Giacin, 30
Before weight: 146
After weight: 136
What She Bought
Initial consultation with a trainer, $100; gym and weekly personal training sessions, $4,400; and a heart-rate monitor, $100
The Workout Routine
Spinning classes or running four days a week; an hour of strength training three days a week (one with her trainer); Pilates once weekly
The Results
"I travel, work really long hours, and go out with friends all the time, so getting to the gym had become just one more thing on my to-do list. When I did manage to fit in a workout, I wasn't putting any energy into it and wasn't happy with my results. It was a lose-lose situation. At the beginning of 2007, I decided it was crazy to spend money on the gym if I wasn't getting anything out of it, so I scheduled a consultation with Lacey Stone, a personal trainer at Equinox Fitness Clubs in New York City. I thought, If I'm going to do this, let's do it right.
"We started by checking out my diet. First problem: With my crazy schedule, I was skipping meals. I got home so late, I just wouldn't bother to eat dinner. Not only was I hurting my metabolism, but I also wasn't getting enough fuel to really push myself at the gym. Lacey explained that I needed to eat every three to four hours and add more vegetables and healthy fats to my diet, such as a few almonds instead of chips for my mid-afternoon snack.
"Lacey also suggested that I use a heart-rate monitor while running or cycling, which was probably the best $100 I've ever spent. Now I know how hard I have to work to get my heart rate up, and my cardio is way more effective. She also gives me strength-training moves, which I write down, so I can mix and match them when I'm traveling.
"Within the first six weeks, I noticed my arms and legs getting more defined. By the eight-month mark, I was very happy with the results. My philosophy: We spend so much money on facials and clothes to make us look better, but if you exercise to be physically fit, you'll be happier on the inside and you'll look and feel better on the outside."