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OCEAN CITY – As completion of the newly renovated
Tarry-A-While house on Dorchester Street finishes up this month, plans for the
Ocean City Development Corporation (OCDC) to move in to its new home are
already underway.
At the Mayor and City Council meeting Monday night,
council members voted unanimously to approve the leasing of the building to
OCDC for a total of five years with an automatic option to renew. According to
OCDC officials, the group plans to use the first floor of the building to house
its offices while the nine bedrooms on the second floor will be leased out over
the summer season to members of the Ocean City Beach Patrol.
The lease begins on May 1 when OCDC plans to move in and
conditions of the lease require it to set a housing rate and payment schedule
for the nine rooms as well as putting the revenue earned from those rooms back
into the building for future improvements, maintenance, furniture for the
upstairs and insurance policies. Both the inside and the outside of the
building must be maintained by the OCDC as well.
The project has taken over two years and involved the
moving of the entire structure from its ocean block property to its new home on
the model block of Dorchester Street back in 2004.
The model block is an area located between Somerset and
Dorchester streets on the north and south and Philadelphia Avenue and Baltimore
Avenue to the east and west. The goal of the model block, according to city
officials, is for the city to eventually own all the property on that block
hoping to send out a request for proposals to major developers to renovate the
entire block.
The city itself already owns half the block and future
initiatives by the OCDC may include the purchasing of more property with its
own funds to combine with the city's, pushing the model block concept one step
Funding for the project has come from various sources over
the years but mainly from the town and grants applied for by the OCDC.
In its early stages of renovation, OCDC applied for the
state's Community Legacy Program, a grant awarded to projects aimed at
revitalizing a city, but without hearing anything from the state after some
time, city officials worried the project wouldn't be able to stay on track
without enough funding.
It was then that the council unanimously approved the
forwarding of $150,000 from the Inlet Parking Fund to keep the project moving
In June of 2005, OCDC was given the $200,000 from the state through its Community
Legacy Program, half of which went straight toward much needed renovations on
the Tarry-A-While structure.
According to OCDC Executive Director Glenn Irwin in a
recent update to the Mayor and City Council on all of OCDC's projects, another
grant just recently awarded for the amount of $75,000 from BusinessWorks has
assisted OCDC in finishing up work on the project.


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By Allan Muir
You know someone was trying waaaay too hard when they saddled Toronto Maple Leafs goalie James Reimer with the unfortunate nickname "Optimus Reim." It's so forced it makes you wish everyone had just given in and settled for "Reimsy."
But the one guy that matters, Reimer himself, seems to dig the awkward sobriquet. And so, after two seasons wearing a mask generically adorned with Leafs logos on the side panels and his number 34 on the chin, he's transforming his look.
These images, posted this afternoon on Twitter by David Alter from the Fan 590 in Toronto, show Optimus Prime (the leader of the good Transformers, for the uninitiated) against a background of devastation on the left panel, with a Autobot logo on the chin. You don't need to be a fan of metal-on-metal violence to agree that it's a huge upgrade.
Reimer is slated to debut the mask tonight against the New York Rangers on Hockey Night In Canada.
James Reimer's new paint job. twitter.com/DavidAlter590/…
— David Alter (@DavidAlter590) January 26, 2013
Side view of Reimer's new mask. twitter.com/DavidAlter590/… — David Alter (@DavidAlter590) January 26, 2013

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Strong Suit black tuxedo from Quantico seen with Ryan Booth (Jake McLaughlin)
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LadyViolet wrote:not to burst your bubble or anything tribbadawn but Midnight Sun will not be coming out any time soon due to the jerk who leaked an early draft on the Net so there may be a long wait until SM feels like she wants to continue with it. I know how you feel with the addiction - i have difficulty concentrating on anything else once i start reading the books but im pretty peeved that we will have to wait for potentially the best book in the series cos some idiot decided to spoil it for everyone.
I have a very high level of hatred for that person who leaked the copy.. grrr! lol I know she said it was permanently on hold but i hope she can change her mind.. i think she could make a whole new series out of edward's POV. that would be awesome.


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Oh my To the Moon was a much anticipated collection for me to obtain and man I tell ya its making me feel like aliens have done something to my brain!
I love this collection but the kit only comes with one of each, ludicrous!!!! Every time I found something to make a layout with I was backed against the wall with a decision to make. I love all the tiny bubbles on solar but the Tron look on the other side is so cute. So as you can see all of my reviews of this you will probably need two of everything unless you do smaller things than 12x12 layouts with this!
Used in this layout: That's My Boy A Little Man with Big Plans #25
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Funeral service will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday at Cornwell Chapel in Dardanelle. Burial will be in Graves Cemetery in Delaware. Visitation will be from 2-4 p.m. Sunday at the chapel.
A complete obituary will be published in Sunday's edition of The Courier.
Arrangements by Cornwell Funeral Home, Dardanelle.
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Siobhan/Lucius reading list:
The Magnificent Malfoy by Fantasium
/ an Alternate Universe based on The Great Gatsby
Long Lost Lucille by Fantasium
/ a companion-shot to The Magnificent Malfoy:
Sinful Reunion by callmehermione
/ a companion shot to an earlier chapter of Sins.
For other more, try my LJ fic community, secretsofluna; you'll find the link just below. :)


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First festival celebrates Townshend store revival
TOWNSHEND -- Not so long ago, the West Townshend Country Store building was well on its way toward becoming an empty shell at the corner of Route 30 and Windham Hill Road.
But after a community-coordinated renovation project, the public is invited to the first Autumn Festival from noon to 6:30 p.m. Saturday.
It's a chance for members of the non-profit West River Community Project to show off a cafe, an outdoor cob oven, a fresh paint job and other improvements.
"It's a celebration," said Robert DuGrenier, the community project's vice president. "Come out to see what we've done so far."
The nonprofit grew out of a community discussion aimed at saving the store. Already devoid of any retail operation, the building's closure would have meant the relocation or elimination of West Townshend's post office.
As it turned out, the post office has moved -- to the rear of the building. That has made room to expand a new cafe that opened several months ago at the front of the structure.
The 164-year-old structure also has received a fresh coat of paint.
"The painting of the building just unified people," DuGrenier said.
Joining the first-floor cafe and a well-established upstairs thrift store is an outdoor cob oven where, last week, an inaugural Friday Night Pizza event was held.
"It was phenomenal," DuGrenier said. "We did 46 pies in two hours."
The oven will be a centerpiece of Saturday's festival, which includes activities such as building scarecrows from recycled materials and building a community compost as well as a pumpkin carving competition, live music and a bonfire.
Pizza making "will be part of the festival," DuGrenier said. "We'll have pizza, and hopefully we'll be making bread around midday."
Vendors from the just-concluded Townshend Farmers Market and from an online farmers market established by West River Community Project also have been invited, he said.
While community project organizers have made big strides in 2012, the store is a work in progress. Fundraising continues, and Friday Night Pizza events -- which generate money for the project -- will continue as weather permits, DuGrenier said.
As the project's first phase winds down, pending improvements include installation of a commercial kitchen that will be available for rent in the store's basement.
"That has not started yet," DuGrenier said. "We have established a kitchen-planning committee."
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How far can a person reasonably apparate?
How much do they have to know about the location ahead of time? ... that question makes less and less sense the more I look at it. If a person put a tracking device on someone or something, could they Apparate to that person or thing?
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By Hayden Wright
Britney Spears' Glory sold 110,000 units in America in its first week and enraptured fans around the globe. Bona fide Britney fanatics may think they've heard every track from this chapter of her career, but there's more.
Related: Britney Spears Experiments on 'Glory,' 'I'm Going to Dare to Suck'
DJ Mustard helped Spears record a song called "Mood Ring" which didn't make the cut of Glory's U.S. version, but appears as part of the album's Japanese package. At last, we can listen to the material DJ Mustard bragged about last year, and it's pretty great.
The atmospheric track blends Spears' voice with a moody electro-pop arrangement. Intrepid Britney fans collected snippets of leaked audio and created this compilation of "Mood Ring" for all to enjoy:


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where the grass and the gravel tic-tic-tic
on the pavement, the morning
sprinters, or on the mountain
where there are no trees, or just one,
grown light and thinned out of the rock:
there might as well be music.
There might as well be a certain resting
sky, and a picnic to which we are invited.
There is plenty of room.
The flowerboxes are full of ice. At home,
where the loss has always already happened,
and the birds have only just come back,
the trouble and clench of your fingers
are irretrievable in the room's
studio-bright light. There are onlookers:
white dress left over a door. Day-moon,
hole in the sky's blue body-armor.
How small the road seems
in comparison, the lean starts
of redbuds spiked up the drive.
Brittany Perham's recent work may be found in TriQuarterly, Lo-Ball, Linebreak, and Drunken Boat. Her first collection of poems, The Curiosities, will be available from Parlor Press in November 2011. She is a Jones Lecturer in poetry at Stanford University, where she held the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from 2009-2011, and she lives in San Francisco. You can visit her website at www.brittanyperham.com.


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Is anyone interested in attending an informal dual sport clinic? There is a potential site at this location. GPS N40 44.811 W84 11.025, just west of Lima.
It's an old quarry that is now managed by a local dive shop, admission is $10 and they are supposed to have dirt, gravel, some hills and swimming.
I would envision an inpromptu clinic with experienced riders sharing some secrets with us nOObs, an afternoon of blasting around on some trails. Please let me know if anyone has any interest since this rally does not have an organized DS ride planned.


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Chapter 12 - Development and Training
Chapter 12 - Development and Training
4.1201 Purpose.
The ASG has an obligation to the citizens of the territory to utilize and develop the talents and abilities of each employee to the maximum extent. It is therefore necessary to establish and operate programs in order to:
(1) improve public service;
(2) increase efficiency and economy;
(3) build and retain a work force of skilled and efficient employees;
(4) install and use the best modern practices and techniques in the conduct of government business.
4.1202 Manpower resources responsibility - Individual responsibility.
(a) Director, office of manpower resources:
(1) is responsible for administering the ASG, personnel program and for providing full support for and maintenance of the ASG employee development and training activities;
(2) will provide technical advice and assistance in the development of the departmental annual employee development and training plans. These annual departmental plans will be reviewed and used as a basis for developing the government-wide employee development and training program;
(3) will review departmental plans prior to the presentation of the annual budget and develop his recommendation of training programs for inclusion in the development and training plan. Upon the Governor's approval of the ASG training plan, the departmental training program shall be incorporated into the department's annual budget.
(b) Individual's responsibility: Because training and development is an individual matter, one that must be accepted and recognized by the person concerned in order to be of any benefit, each employee is, therefore, responsible both to himself and the government service for his personal development and growth.
4.1203 Governor's committee- Departmental committees.
(a) The Governor's employee development and training advisory committee will consist of representatives from each governmental agency and top state officials appointed by the Governor. The director, office of manpower resources will be the Governor's representative and preside as chairperson. The committee will advise in the development of policies, procedures, and training programs and will provide a direct communication channel for departments to the office of manpower resources.
(b) The departmental employee development and training committees will consist of appropriate representation within a department and would operate in a similar manner to the Governor's employee development and training advisory committee except at the departmental level.
4.1204 Scope of activities.
Agencies, in establishing their employee development and training. plans, are to include but not be limited to the following:
(a) Induction Training. Induction training consists of two phases:
(1) Orientation training: Orientation training will be given each new employee upon entry to give him an understanding of the department, its policies, objectives, programs, functions, and organizational structure, basic laws affecting departmental operations, and the relationship of his job to the overall organization.
(2) Basic job training: The immediate supervisor is responsible for providing to a new employee or an employee transferred into -another job the basic knowledge of his job, including work standards, and to assist him in acquiring the skills, techniques, work habits, and attitudes essential for satisfactory work performance.
(b) Refresher J ob Training. This training is provided to bring employees up to date on information in an occupation in which they had been previously trained and to brush up on skills that have become "rusty" through disuse or improper use.
(c) New Activities, Procedures, Laws, Policies.
(1) Whenever new activities or procedures in work methods are instituted, agencies will provide orientation to the activity or procedure and adequate instructions to employees in performing the new activity before effecting the changeover. Such orientation and instructions will be given to all employees involved, to effect the change with a minimum of work disruptions and to facilitate transition to the new setup from both the standpoint of management and the employees.
(2) Whenever changes to existing laws or whenever new laws, policies, and rules are made, agencies will provide the means for informing all management personnel, including supervisors and such other persons as are affected, of these changes.
(d) Management Development Activities (Supervisors).
(1) Basic supervisory training: Departments shall enroll all supervisors in the office of manpower resources basic supervisory training program within 6 months of their appointment. This program will cover the basic skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary for the efficient performance of their managerial and operational responsibilities. Each newly appointed supervisor shall be enrolled in this basic supervisory program within 6 months of his appointment.
(2) Advanced supervisory training: A supervisory development activity of an advanced and continuing nature shall be established to further assist administrative and supervisory personnel in keeping up with new developments in management, supervisory, and human relations techniques.
(e) Methods Improvement Activity (Work Simplification). This training is provided to assure a systematic plan for developing better operating methods through the cooperative efforts of management and employees in recognizing, stimulating, and using the common sense and imagination of all employees and supervisors to produce valuable ideas for effecting economy and developing better methods for getting work done in the easiest, simplest, and fastest way possible.
(f) Self-Development Activities. This training provides employees with the means for self- improvement in developing essential knowledge, skills, and attitudes, and individual potential for career service through voluntary participation in government-sponsored and agency- sponsored activities both within and without the government service.
(g) Special Purpose Activities. This training provides for meeting the needs imposed by technological improvements or employment displacement, changes in public service requirements, civil defense matters, legislation, or conditions, usually of a nonrecurring nature. Included in this category are:
(1) internship training activity, a formalized activity of related academic study and on-the- job instruction designed to develop outstanding individuals to meet the employment needs of the government and to upgrade the quality of public service through improved personnel effectiveness;
(2) training agreements, which provide agencies with the means for obtaining qualified personnel to carry out the agency's mission when there are no other available resources through which these qualified personnel could be obtained. They are formal agreements between the office of manpower resources and a government agency whereby the OMR will accept certain agency-sponsored training as a means of supplementing the employee's present qualifications.
(h) Out-service Training. This provision permits agencies to send their employees to non- government facilities for needed training which is not available within the government's jurisdiction and to pay all or any part of the expenses of such training. The training may be full time, part time, on duty or off duty, day or evening, or any necessary combination of these, provided the training is of primary benefit to the government service.
4.1205 Records-Reports-Expenditures.
(a) Records.
(1) Basic records: Agencies will establish necessary records for employee development and training.
(2) Letters of completion: Departments will prepare, for documentation in official personnel jackets, letters of completion for individuals completing satisfactorily any approved employee development and training activity. The letter will include the following information:
(A) Title of course;
(B) Hours of training received;
(C) A brief outline of subject matter covered;
(D) Dates of attendance;
(E) Where and by whom sponsored if other than home department.
(3) Training certificate: The office of manpower resources will issue training certificates to employees completing satisfactorily any endorsed employee development and training activity with 20 or more hours of instruction time. In order for the OMR to endorse such activities, agencies must advise the department of their employee development and training activities through submission of their employee development and training plans and of any additions or amendments to them.
(b) Reporting Requirements. A system of reporting is necessary to give meaningful information which will assist management in assessing the past and in planning the future activities and to funnel in the necessary data from departmental units to the OMR, which is responsible for preparing a master employee development and training report for the Governor. Departments will submit consolidated semi-annual reports to the OMR by the tenth working day following the end of each semi-annual period. The OMR will submit the government-wide semiannual employee development and training report to the Governor by the fifteenth working day following the end of each period.
(c) Expenditures.
(1) For items in the annual departmental employee development and training plan requiring expenditure of funds for which appropriations have been included in the department's opera ting budget:
(A) In-service training: An invoice for expenditure of funds will be completed and processed according to the ASG standard operating procedure.
(B) Out-service training: An invoice for expenditure of funds will be completed and processed according to the ASG standard operating procedure.
(2) For items requiring departmental expenditure of funds above and beyond those covered in the operating budget:
(a) In-service Training: Training using resources and facilities outside the agency but within the jurisdiction of the ASG and involving expenses for which funds have not been included in the departmental annual training budget will be submitted for prior approval to
the director.
(b) Out-service Training: Training using resources and facilities outside of the jurisdiction of the ASG will be submitted for prior approval to the director.
(3) Blanket approval for statewide expenditure of funds: In situations relating to specific employee development and training activities where the office of manpower resources has received blanket approval or authority from the Governor for the expenditure of funds, it will coordinate attendance at these activities.


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In anticipation of its October meeting in Toronto, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been engaged in a flurry of activity related to its New Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Program. This includes announcing a new proposal for batching applications, a proposed two-month extension of the deadline for filing formal objections, and publishing several draft documents further delineating the rights-protection mechanisms for trademarks in the new gTLD system. ICANN has requested public comments on these proposals, opening the door for a robust dialogue among applicants and interested parties over the course of the next month.
Applicants to Participate In Draw For Priority
On Oct. 10, ICANN posted for public comment its proposal for a new batching process that will "meet root zone scaling requirements and enable timely processing of applications through contract execution and pre-delegation testing." In contrast to ICANN's previous and very technical "digital archery" batching process, which drew much criticism from gTLD applicants as well as the broader community, the Prioritization Draw is a manual draw through which each participating application receives a "draw number" that determines the order of priority of release of initial evaluation results, which will begin in late March 2013 in weekly batches of approximately 150. All IDN applications will receive first priority in the release of initial evaluation results, in accordance with GAC advice and the "global public interest to provide a broader choice to users in countries that do not use the Latin script." Applicants will not be permitted to exchange draw numbers, and those that decline to participate will be assigned a randomly generated number at the end of the draw process.
To participate, applicants must purchase a paper ticket in person in Los Angeles on a date (yet to be determined) between Dec. 4 and Dec. 15. ICANN currently estimates the cost of the ticket to be $100. If applicants cannot travel to Los Angeles, they may appoint a representative (or request ICANN appoint one at no cost) to purchase the ticket and participate in the draw. An independent third party (yet to be identified) will conduct the draw.
ICANN has published a more detailed description of the proposed draw, and comments can be submitted. The comment period closes Nov. 9.
Formal Objection Period Extended
In response to numerous public comments, ICANN has proposed to extend the deadline for filing formal objections until March 13, 2013.
The June 4 version of the Applicant Guidebook provides that the formal objections period opens upon the release of the application results and lasts for approximately seven months (Section 126.96.36.199), and also that it closes after the end of the initial evaluation period, within two weeks following the posting of the initial evaluation results (Section 126.96.36.199). Based upon Section 126.96.36.199, and given the various scheduling hurdles in the application process to date, the formal objection period would close sometime in June or July of 2013. Relying on Section 188.8.131.52, however, ICANN announced during an August 9 gTLD applicant webinar that the formal objections period would close January 12, 2013.
Acknowledging that the timing contemplated by the Applicant Guidebook does not account for batching, ICANN now proposes to extend the formal objection deadline an additional two months. This new deadline is included in the Prioritization Draw proposal, which is open for public comment until Nov. 9, 2012. As of October 8, 2012, when ICANN published a program status update in anticipation of its Toronto meeting later this month, no objections had been filed.
Trademark Clearinghouse
ICANN also published for public comment Sept. 25, two explanatory memoranda related to the Trademark Clearinghouse.
The clearinghouse functions as a centralized database of authenticated trademarks to support trademark claims and sunrise services in connection with all new gTLDs. All new gTLD operators will be required to use the clearinghouse to support these rights-protection mechanisms. The clearinghouse must be operated separately, by independent providers. In June, ICANN announced that it had selected Deloitte and IBM from among nine total applicants to be Clearinghouse providers.
The Clearinghouse will not be limited to registered trademarks, but also will include: nationally or regionally registered word marks from all jurisdictions; any word mark validated through a court of law or other judicial proceeding; any word mark protected by a statute or treaty in effect at the time the mark is submitted for inclusion in the clearinghouse; and other marks that constitute intellectual property. The evidence required for inclusion of a trademark in the clearinghouse differs depending upon the category under which the mark is submitted. The clearinghouse will not protect trademark applications, marks still within an opposition period, or registered marks that have been invalidated or cancelled.
During the first 60 days that a new registry is open for general registration (and longer if requested), the clearinghouse will issue two types of notifications if a new domain name registration matches a trademark in the clearinghouse. First, under the trademark claims process, the trademark owner and the registry operator will be alerted to the new filing; and second, the domain name applicant will receive a notification of potential infringement. If the applicant proceeds with registration notwithstanding the notification, the trademark owner may opt to contest the registration through the familiar Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy or the new Uniform Rapid Suspension procedure.
The memoranda posted for public comment describe the procedures to be used by Trademark Clearinghouse providers to verify proof of use associated with a trademark in connection with the sunrise process, and the procedures for determining how a "match" between a trademark record and a domain name will be determined for purposes of both the sunrise and claims processes. The memoranda and link for submission of comments are open until Nov. 7.
Although not for public comment, ICANN also published the current draft of the Trademark Clearinghouse Requirements for review. This 75-page document details the responsibilities of the Trademark Clearinghouse providers.


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General Electric is considering a sale of its appliances unit, the conglomerate's oldest business, according to several news reports.
First reported on Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal, the company is said to be contemplating a sale of the unit that produces refrigerators, microwaves, washers, dryers and numerous other household appliances. According to unnamed sources cited by the newspaper, the unit could sell for as much as $8 billion and at least $5 billion.
The company reportedly has hired Goldman Sachs to explore options that include a spinoff or auction. Potential buyers are rumored to include Asian manufacturers, such as LG or Haier. Bosch & Siemens Hausgerate of Germany, parent of BSH Home Appliances, is also said to be a potential buyer.
Kim Freeman, a spokesperson for GE consumer and industrial, told HCN the company has made no announcements and is not commenting on the speculation.
The 120-year-old company only received a fraction of its total $173 billion in sales last year from the appliances unit, which accounted for $7 billion in sales. Most recently, the company reported earnings that did not meet projections from analysts, and the company cut its projected earnings growth for 2008 in half to 5 percent.
The company has considered the spinoff of other units as well, and last year GE sold its plastics division to Saudi Arabia-based Sabic for $11.6 billion.


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This floor meeting will be an opportunity for you to meet other new first-year students living on your floor. Your Resident Assistant(s) (RA) will share information about expectations regarding living on campus, upcoming plans for the year, and how you can be a part of your new community at Carleton.
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CMA's goal is to foster a community that is geared towards learning, scholarship, tolerance, and culture. CMA seeks to not only create an environment where Muslims can meet, interact, and practice Islam, but also where non-Muslims can learn about Islam.
CMA Officers
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avg is already getting dangerously close to statistical functionality. Not that this would be fundemantally wrong in a list-module, but then people might come and ask for functions to calculate the quadratic mean or geometric mean as well.
uniq and
uniq_ordered, the first is no more computational work than the second from an XS point of view (as there are no hash-slices in C so one needs to loop anyway).
uniq I could add.
stats is so terribly useful.
max and
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Taxi driver bashed at service station
A taxi driver has been left with serious injuries after he was bashed at a service station in Melbourne's west overnight.
The 35-year-old victim was filling up his car on Melbourne Road, Spotswood, about 1.20am on Sunday, when a man started hitting the taxi with a window-washing squeegee.
The offender then smashed the cab's side mirror before kicking the taxi driver to the head, knocking him to the ground.
He continued to assault the victim on the ground, beating him unconscious.
The offender then returned to damaging the taxi before fleeing the scene.
Ambulance Victoria spokesman Ray Rowe said paramedics arrived at the service station just before 2am and found the taxi driver suffering abrasions and bruising to the upper body.
The victim was taken to the Western Hospital in Footscray in a stable condition.
Police have described the offender as a bald man aged in his 30s or 40s. He was wearing an Essendon Football Club jumper with the number 27 on the back, dark pants and white runners.
Anyone with information about the attack is asked to phone Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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A plot of weedy, arid land southwest of the Salt Lake International Airport is turning into a cash-farm of sorts for Salt Lake County taxpayers.
The land is owned by Salt Lake City and will one day be the site of a sewage treatment plant. Until then, it would be sitting fallow but Salt Lake County officials came to the city with a proposal. Teaming up with experts from Utah State University, the county proposed growing safflower to create biofuel.
Under the right conditions, the woody-looking plants thrive in dry environments. When the safflower blossoms, it is harvested and squeezed to produce oil and glycerin. The glycerin is used to make soap. The oil is used in biofuel.
While walking across the site near the airport, Dallas Hanks, Utah State University's director for the Center of Agronomic and Woody Biofuels, said, "This site cannot be used to grow food because there isn't any water here and the soil is in marginal shape, but it's a real good dry land opportunity for us." He calls it Shangri-La in terms of its potential to produce biofuel.
The idea to utilize city- or county-owned land sitting fallow for urban gardens is taking off in Utah. Salt Lake County councilman Jim Bradley explained, "This really is going to work and I think it has a lot of public benefit. We're taking a public asset and turning it to some type of beneficial use for the community."
The safflower field has been in production for three years. The biofuel powers the county fleet. Just one acre of safflower can produce 25 to 30 gallons of biofuel. A 150-acre farm could potentially produce four or five thousand gallons of fuel.
Julie Peck-Dabling, Salt Lake County Open Space and Urban Farming coordinator, also checked in on a field in the Murray-Holladay area. The field was once covered with thistle and dry brush.
"We'd get complaints from neighbors and now as you can see it's a beautiful field of tomatoes and melons," she said.
Through the urban gardens program, farmer Thayne Tagge rents the lot from the county for a minimal price and grows produce. The fruits and vegetables are sold at neighborhood fruit stands. Peck-Dabling explained that local produce like Tagge's "taste so much better. It's also more nutritionally beneficial for people. There are benefits as well for our pollution control issues."
The tomatoes for sale in your grocery store may have traveled 1,400 miles before they arrived at market, according to Peck-Dabling. With the urban garden program, fruit and vegetables are plucked from the field and are sold nearby. The product is fresh, often comparable in price and less fuel is burned in its transportation to market.
Peck-Dabling explained, "I just think our program is a great model for other cities and counties throughout the nation." In fact, the program is attracting national attention from other cities, states corporations and even the military. The U.S. Army hired USU to inventory six military bases east of the Mississippi to see if there are resources to grow biofuel.
Summarizing the success of the project, Peck-Dabling said, "People long for something home grown, something that reminds them of the past or whatever it may be. There's no bigger kick in the world than planting a seed and seeing it produce something. So it's been a hit and I'm glad to see that it's going to continue on."
ULCT is a nonpartisan, interlocal, government cooperative, working to strengthen the quality of municipal government and administration. The League serves as a voice for Utah's 245 cities and towns at the county, state and federal level.


text: Than Enterprise? As much as I liked enterprise, it didn't resonate with the casual audience as much as the other Treks seemed to. We hadn't had a "traditional" trek show set in the alpha quadrant since TNG ended in 1994. With DS9 being set on a space station, and more concerned with War, politics and religion than exploration and discovery, and Voyager being well... voyager. What I think they should have done, is gone back to what worked best, have a ship of exploration, and it could have dealt with the aftermath of the dominion war, as well as using new technology that voyager had discovered. you could have brought back classic trek villains like the tholians and the gorn, maybe pushed out into the beta quadrent. I would have moved with the times too, cast an attractive younger actor as the captain, someone in the vein of a michael fassbender.


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Arctic Sea Ice Continues its Summer Retreat
A rapid decline for Arctic sea ice extent briefly hit daily record lows in June, led by extensive ice loss in the Bering, Kara, and Beaufort Seas, as well as Hudson and Baffin Bay. Snow extent was unusually low for both May and June, reinforcing the continuing pattern of rapid spring snow melt of the past six years.
Average Arctic sea ice extent for June was 4.24 million square miles (10.97 million square kilometers), 456,000 square miles below the 1970-2000 average sea ice extent. Sea ice extent for June 2010, 2011, and 2012 has been the lowest in the satellite record.
Ice loss was particularly extensive in the Kara and Beaufort Sea, with ice loss in the Hudson and Baffin Bays also contributing to a retreating June ice extent not typically expected until July 21 based on 1970-2000 averages. Total ice loss for June was 1.10 million square miles, the largest June ice loss in the satellite record, continuing the particularly rapid ice loss in May.
Sea ice extent for June 2012 was second lowest on record, behind June 2010. The linear rate of decline of sea ice extent for the month of June measured in the satellite record through 2012 stand at 3.7 percent per decade.
Read more at ENN Affiliate Global Warming is Real.


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Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, 2013, at Cornwell Chapel in Dardanelle. Burial will be private. Visitation will be open Tuesday from noon to 7 p.m. at the funeral home. A complete obituary will be published in Wednesday's edition of The Courier.
Arrangements are by Cornwell Funeral Home in Dardanelle. Online guest book and condolences at www.cornwellfuneralhomes.com.


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Pirates get creative to bring Liriano to Pittsburgh
By Tom Singer / MLB.com
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The Pirates' long-running and long-distance courtship of Francisco Liriano came to a delayed merger on Friday night, when the team officially announced the signing of the free-agent left-hander to a dramatically revised contract.
Liriano had originally agreed to a two-year, $12.75 million deal on Dec. 21, shortly before fracturing his non-pitching arm during a fall at his home. According to Major League sources, the reworked deal is for one year, plus an option for 2014, and is guaranteed for $1 million, but Liriano can still earn the full $12.75 million through incentives.
Liriano's pact became official when he passed the requisite physical earlier Friday.
To accommodate Liriano on their 40-man roster, the Pirates outrighted right-hander Vin Mazzaro to Triple-A Indianapolis, while concurrently extending to him an invitation to big league Spring Training.
Pittsburgh general manager Neal Huntington and Greg Genske, Liriano's agent, worked long and hard to come to an agreement after the pitcher's injury clouded the original accord.
"We are excited to add Francisco Liriano to our roster," Huntington said. "Francisco is recovering from his right arm injury and we look forward to him joining our rotation once he is ready to go."
The terms of the contract offer the club protection in the event the fracture, of the southpaw's right humerus, renders him unavailable for an extended period. Conversely, Liriano has protection if he is fit to pitch through the injury. All of the incentives are based on time spent on the active roster.
In addition to his $1 million guarantee, Liriano can earn an additional $3.75 million in 2013 based on the number of days he is not on the disabled list due to the right arm injury.
The 2014 club option is for $8 million, but it becomes a vested option at any of three levels -- $5 million, $6 million or $8 million -- based on the number of days he is not DL-ed in 2013 due to the right arm injury.
If the 2014 option does vest at $5 million or $6 million, however, Liriano would still be able to reach the $8 million with bonuses based on games started in 2014.
The Pirates see a considerable upside in Liriano, who went 6-12 with a 5.34 ERA while splitting last season between the Twins and the White Sox. He is only 29, and over the last three seasons ranked fifth among American League southpaws with 480 strikeouts. Even in 2012, his 9.59 strikeouts per nine innings was the third-best rate among AL pitchers who worked at least 100 innings.
Liriano already has one Comeback Player of the Year Award in his collection, earning that honor in 2010, when he went 14-10 in Minnesota following a 5-13 slide the season before.
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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TIP 1: Create a 3D LookDo you ever want to give a photo or layer a 3D look, like it has some sort of perspective? Try Tip 1:
Select a layer, then use Ctrl+T (Cmd+T on the Mac) to get into "free transform" mode, then simply hold down your Ctrl key (Cmd on the Mac) while selecting any node.
By doing this and moving the node (try dragging the upper-left corner toward the center of your photo), you're actually engaging the "warp" tool found under Edit > Transform > Warp. This is just a lot faster.
TIP 2: Merge Visible Layers NondestructivelyHere's Tip 2, a nice undocumented feature (as I've been told) in Photoshop to merge all visible layers into a single layer (without affecting the existing layers):
Create a new blank layer by clicking the new layer icon on the bottom of your Layer palette. Then hold down Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E (Cmd+Shift+Option+E on the Mac).
All visible layers will now be merged into what was a previously blank layer. I'll often use this if I want to quickly merge multiple layers together. It's also super-handy if you want a graphic with a transparent background. Just turn off the background layer and run this technique, then slide it into a new document with all layers merged and no background. Sweet, eh?TIP 3: Duplicate a Layer More QuicklyAre there times when you don't want to use Ctrl+J for duplicating a layer? Try this even faster move, Tip 3:
Select a layer then hold down your Alt key (Option on the Mac) and drag your mouse.
A copy of the layer is created instantly. Do it again and again (quickly releasing your mouse after each drag) and you'll see how fast you can make 20 copies. It takes me about 3 seconds!
TIP 4: Resize Your Brush FasterIs it taking you too long to size your brushes up and down by always selecting in the brushes window? If so, try Tip 4:
Use your brackets keys [ ] to quickly resize your brush.
By holding down your bracket keys, you can ramp up to a massively large brush in about 1 second!
TIP 5: Sample New Fonts Without the 'Inverted' LookDoes it drive you crazy when you select text because you want to see what it will look like using a different font, but it's shown only in the "inverted" look of selected text? You can get rid of the inverted selection box using Tip 5: Type out your text, and then select it by either dragging your mouse across your text or double-clicking the T icon on your layers palette. Next, click in the font name box at the top of your screen (the little window that displays the font's actual name). Press Ctrl+H (Cmd+H on the Mac) and the highlighted box on your font will disappear.
Now you can use your up and down arrow keys to quickly view different versions of your text in different fonts without the annoying highlighted area on your text.
So there you have it—my top 10 favorite "moves" and techniques I use when I'm working in Photoshop. Honestly, I could have made it my top 20 or 50, but 10 is good for now. I'm sure there are more to come—especially with the recent release of Photoshop CS4. Enjoy, and I hope you're off to an awesome 2009!Lance Gray (lance at pixelpops.com) is the chief creative pixelmonkey at PixelPops Design, LLC. For questions, thoughts, or ideas simply email him.


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Carlisle gets 'best game of year' from Mavericks' Beaubois in 96-86 win
DALLAS — Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle was looking for any solution he could find to turn around his team's sputtering offense.
Then seldom-used guard Rodrigue Beaubois gave Dallas the scoring punch it needed to turn away the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Beaubois scored 18 points off the bench and keyed a fourth-quarter run to lead the Mavericks past the Cavaliers, 96-86 on Friday night.
Beaubois scored nine points and added three assists in the fourth quarter. The French guard had played just 33 minutes since Feb. 22 and totaled nine points in the team's previous five games.
"We have to make sure that everybody's ready," Beaubois said. "Even if you don't play, the next game maybe you're going to get in. So you have to be ready to contribute and to help the team win."
Dallas had a sluggish start after losing 92-91 Thursday night in San Antonio. The Mavericks hit only 7 of 21 shots in the first quarter and trailed by 11 early in the second.
Carlisle then turned to Beaubois and his mates off the bench. The Mavericks reserves outscored their Cavaliers counterparts 60-19.
It was Beaubois, though, who provided most of the offensive output for the bench with his most productive game since scoring 19 against the Spurs on Jan. 25. He scored seven points in a 17-4 run that gave Dallas the lead for good in the fourth quarter.
"(Beaubois) had his best game of the year and it was certainly his most timely," Carlisle said. "We knew we were going to have to go deep to be able to win."
Cleveland's Dion Waiters had 21 points and Shaun Livingston chipped in with 13. The Cavaliers, who were playing their second game without All-Star Kyrie Irving, were outscored 29-18 in the fourth quarter.
The Cavaliers went nearly five minutes without a field goal at one point in the fourth. They also turned the ball over six times in the final quarter.
"I thought we got a little upset at ourselves at the way we were defending," Cleveland coach Byron Scott said. "We kind of let that affect us on the other end."
Beaubois scored to put the Mavericks up 71-70 early in the fourth. He found Brandan Wright for a layup and then drained a 3-pointer to extend Dallas' advantage to 80-72.
Darren Collison and Wright had baskets to finish off the 17-4 run, putting the Mavericks up 84-72 with 6:17 left.
The 6-foot-2 Beaubois punctuated his game later in the fourth with an emphatic dunk on a baseline drive.
Collison and Wright each scored 13 off the bench for the Mavericks, who are three games behind the Los Angeles Lakers for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference. Dallas opened a stretch where it plays eight of nine at home.
The Cavaliers dropped to 5-11 without Irving in the lineup. The reigning Rookie of the Year is expected to miss three to four weeks — and possibly the rest of the season — with a left shoulder strain.
Dallas guard Chris Wright, who is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and returned to basketball last July, came into the game with 41 seconds left and scored the Mavericks' final basket. The Mavericks signed Wright to a 10-day contract on Wednesday.
"I just wanted to go in there and contribute something positive, Wright said. "That was pretty cool."
The Mavericks didn't lead until the third quarter.
O.J. Mayo found Collison for a layup and Jae Crowder connected on a 17-footer to finish off the surge and give Dallas a 57-54 lead with 5:06 left in the third.
Collison banked in a 20-footer with 1.3 seconds left in the third. Livingston caught a long pass and hit a turnaround jumper at the buzzer to give the Cavaliers a 68-67 lead.
Crowder had a season-high 14 rebounds and Dirk Nowitzki scored 13 points on 6-of-17 shooting for the Mavericks.
The Cavaliers jumped out to a 13-4 lead six minutes into the game. Dallas missed nine straight shots at one point as Cleveland built its early advantage.
After Cleveland stretched its lead to 11 early in the second quarter, Dallas went on a 16-6 run to get within a point. Beaubois scored six straight for the Mavericks, including a 3-pointer that trimmed the Cavaliers' lead to 33-32.
NOTES: Dallas F Shawn Marion, who missed his fifth straight game Friday night, was diagnosed with a strained left calf after he had an MRI on Friday. Carlisle said the injury was improving, but he did not give a timetable for Marion's return. . Cavaliers G Wayne Ellington didn't play because of a sprained left ankle. … Cleveland's C.J. Miles is a Dallas native and attended Skyline High School, which is a few miles east of the American Airlines Center. The guard scored eight points and grabbed five rebounds.


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An injury has forced Louis Gaudinot to withdraw from UFC on FX 5, officials on Wednesday announced.
In the flyweight's place steps octagon newcomer Phil Harris (21-9-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC), who will fight Darren Uyenoyama (7-3 MMA, 1-0 UFC).
Several previously reported fights also were made official for the event, which takes place Oct. 5 at Target Center in Minneapolis and airs live on FX and FUEL TV.
A welterweight fight between Mike Pierce (14-5 MMA, 6-3 UFC) and Aaron Simpson (12-3 MMA, 7-3 UFC) also is set for the event's preliminary-card, as well as a lightweight meeting between Yves Edwards (41-18-1 MMA, 9-6 UFC) and Jeremy Stephens (20-8 MMA, 7-6 UFC).
Harris, who earlier this month signed with the UFC, comes into the octagon on the strength of a five-fight win streak, including back-to-back wins in the Cage Warriors Fighting Championship promotion.
The 28-year-old fighter trains out of GYM 01 in Portsmouth, England, and most recently outpointed "The Ultimate Fighter 14" contestant Casey Dyer under the Cage Warriors banner.
Uyenoyama makes his debut at 125 pounds after a successful octagon debut at bantamweight against Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto at UFC on FOX 1.
Pierce returns to the cage after an unspectacular decision over Carlos Rocha at UFC on FX 3, which put him back on the right track following a contentious split-decision loss to Josh Koscheck at UFC 143.
Standing opposite him is Simpson, who impressed in his debut as a welterweight by outpointing Kenny Robertson at UFC on FUEL TV 4. The win reversed a heartbreaking setback at middleweight in which he was smothered and outpointed by Ronny Markes.
Edwards, meanwhile, hopes to rebound following a split-decision loss to "The Ultimate Fighter 12" winner Tony Ferguson at The Ultimate Fighter 14 Finale. The veteran's third UFC stint has been almost evenly successful at 3-2, and a win over Stephens would undoubtedly boost his stock.
Before he was scheduled to fight Edwards, Stephens stood in for the "Thugjitsu" master in a fight against Donald Cerrone at UFC on FUEL TV 3, which Stephens lost via unanimous decision. It was the second straight setback for "Lil Heathen," who dropped a decision to former WEC champ Anthony Pettis in his previous outing.
For more on UFC on FX 5, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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Taylor Swift and B.o.B. teamed up recently to film the music video for "Both of Us," a collaboration between the two found on B.o.B.'s latest, Strange Clouds. Filmed in Nashville, the song is a universal track that B.o.B. hopes everyone can relate to.
"It's not a song, it's a project. This is bigger than B.o.B. and Taylor Swift," B.o.B. said. "This is about all walks of life, all classes of society, it's about everybody really."
Swift acts as guest vocalist throughout the song as B.o.B. takes on the rap features. Meanwhile, director Jake Nava explained his thought process on the video.
"My vision for the video is a collage of different aspects of humanity in the Southern states, particularly around Nashville," he said.
The video was filmed in various locations around Nashville and the crew had one major annoyance not showcased in the video: bugs.
"We're in the luxurious jungles of Nashville, crawling with wildlife trying to stay bug free and tick free," B.o.B. joked in a behind-the-scenes video.
"There are bugs on people, there are bugs crawling on people, there are bugs trying to bite people," Taylor said. "[At] one point I looked over and on B.o.B's shoulder is this giant spider. It looked like a bird, it was that big! It was just hanging out there just ready to kill him. I saved his life by pointing it out."
Despite the bug attack, the duo got the job done.
– Annie Reuter CBS Local


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My husband's childhood friend, Troy, was passing through town with his family and crashed at our house for the night.
A few days later, I noticed something in our basement.
It was a little ratty. Possibly a treasured baby blanket, but they didn't call looking for it. Maybe it wasn't even theirs. I was lazy. I just didn't feel like mailing that blanket. So, I didn't.
A couple weeks later we got something in the mail. A small package from Troy's wife. Inside was the tiniest barbie doll shirt. They had accidentally taken it and wanted to return it. Are you kidding me!?! Who takes the time to mail a barbie shirt?
We surely wouldn't have missed that barbie shirt, but I guess that's what good people do. Return things.
You'd think I would have finally mailed that blanket, right? Only I didn't. I intended to, but I kept procrastinating. Then, I was sure they'd be coming back through town…anytime.
It's been about three years now. We never used the blanket–too much guilt.
FINALLY, my husband and his friend were both visiting Boise at the same time this past weekend. I wrote myself about five notes so I wouldn't forget it. Sure, Troy's kids are practically grown and probably don't want the blanket anymore, but I was ready to be rid of my guilt.
I approached the wife with the blanket. And a bonus, one of my children had smeared chocolate on it in the car.
She was gracious and laughed about it. Yes, they're good people. Though I'm not so sure they'll be visiting again.
My husband accidentally took it home from a Christmas church potluck in 2009. It's a great spoon, but I don't use it either. I just keep forgetting to take it to church. I mean there have only been about 79 Sundays.
So, if you ever stop by and visit me, I'm warning you now. Please don't leave anything! Though, we may still snatch it from you at a potluck, while you're not watching.


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New Partnerships Expand Generics Portfolio
Pfizer is a growing force in the rapidly expanding but highly contested generics marketplace. While we have a huge generics catalog of our own, we recently entered into major licensing agreements with three India-based pharmaceutical companies, Claris Lifesciences, Aurobindo Pharma and Strides Arcolab. These agreements will bring hundreds of high-quality generic medicines to underserved populations around the world and add numerous products to Pfizer's portfolio of established brands in key markets. In addition, we launched Pfizer Injectables, a U.S.-based business offering off-patent injectables and hospital products, including Pfizer brands and generic medicines.
First Canine Cancer Therapy
In 2009, Palladia, a prescription-only oral therapy, became the first FDA-approved canine cancer therapy in the U.S. It has also received marketing authorization approval in the European Union. Palladia treats mast cell tumors, the second most common type of tumor in dogs. These tumors often appear as lumps in the skin and may spread to the pet's internal organs, requiring extensive surgery, chemotherapy or radiation treatment. A tyrosine kinase inhibitor, Palladia works by blocking key receptors important for the development of blood vessels that supply tumors, as well as receptors critical for tumor survival. Palladia is now being marketed through Pfizer Animal Health.
Smoking Cessation Around the World
One of Pfizer's key investments in health, the Global Health Partnerships program, has supported 32 grantees in 46 countries across five continents, funding innovative solutions to challenges in cancer and tobacco control. A partnership between the Pfizer Foundation and Pfizer's business groups across country offices, it addresses one of the world's most urgent public health problems—the ravages of smoking. Our tobacco control grantees are helping to build networks and alliances for tobacco control in nine countries, training thousands of physicians, encouraging thousands of smokers to quit, and working to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke. For example, the Smoke-free Hospital Program—jointly sponsored by the Pfizer Foundation, Pfizer China, the Chinese Association of Tobacco Control and the China Hospitals Association—aims to ban smoking in all public areas of participating hospitals. The program also seeks to identify and implement best practices in smoke-free regulation, as well as provide smoking cessation awareness training for health care professionals. Having reached its first-year goal of establishing smoke-free public spaces at all 40 of its participating hospitals, the program's results have supported a wider smoking ban passed by the Chinese Ministry of Health that will be adopted by all hospitals in China in 2011.For more information visit www.pfizer.com/globalhealth
Collaborating to Expand Research Into Neglected Diseases
At Pfizer, we recognize our responsibility to help combat diseases that affect people in the developing world. In alliance with global health organizations, public-private partnerships and companies that share our commitment, Pfizer is conducting research programs for "neglected diseases" such as malaria, tuberculosis and river blindness.
Working with the World Health Organization's Special Programme for Research in Tropical Diseases, we have opened access to Pfizer's library of medicinal compounds and trained scientists from developing countries. To expand screening efforts for tropical diseases such as African sleeping sickness, Pfizer is collaborating with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative while pursuing a molecular approach for this group of diseases with several U.K. universities.
Malaria afflicts up to 250 million people annually, killing close to 1 million people a year, mostly children in Africa. We are providing the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) access to Pfizer's library of chemical entities to screen approximately 200,000 compounds that have the potential to be developed into new treatments against P. falciparum, the parasite that causes acute malaria, including multidrug-resistant strains. In consultation with MMV and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine we are in Phase III development of the combination of azithromycin and chloroquine as a potential treatment of malaria. In addition, Pfizer and the Italian firm Sigma-Tau entered into a license-and-supply agreement to market Eurartesim, a novel, fixed-dose, once-daily, artemisinin-based combination therapy, in Africa. This product, which is currently under review by the European Medicines Agency, aims to treat uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria in adults and children, while reducing the potential for re-infection. If these products are approved by regulatory authorities, the partnerships will expand access for underserved populations while allowing Pfizer to realize a commercial return, an approach we believe will prove sustainable for our business and for society.For more information visit www.pfizer.com/crresearch
Partnering With the Clinton Foundation to Fight HIV/AIDS
Pfizer has entered into a partnership with the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative that will reduce the cost and expand the availability of rifabutin, an antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis in HIV/AIDS patients taking second-line antiretroviral therapy. Tuberculosis is a leading killer of those who succumb to HIV/AIDS. For five years, rifabutin prices will be capped in emerging markets at $1 per 150 mg dose, or $90 for the six-month full course of treatment—a reduction of 60 percent. This will foster greater access to rifabutin, which was recently added to the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines.
Toviaz Launches in U.S.
Overactive bladder (OAB) affects more than 33 million Americans—men and women—and can affect anyone at any time. Yet awareness of OAB's symptoms and treatments has been quite low, primarily because of reluctance by patients to talk to doctors about their condition. With the launch of Toviaz, Pfizer's latest prescription treatment for OAB, the company not only introduced the brand to patients and physicians, but also developed a support plan, called YourWay, to help OAB patients manage the condition. The YourWay support plan is available at no charge. Information can be delivered by e-mail, telephone or Web site.
Consumer Products Maintain Momentum
As people worldwide become increasingly aware of issues surrounding health and wellness, they're taking more proactive roles to maintain their personal well-being and treat minor illnesses through self-care solutions. Pfizer's solutions range from Advil pain relievers to ThermaCare heatwraps.
Pfizer Consumer Healthcare—already one of the world's leaders in the development, manufacturing and marketing of nonprescription medicines, vitamins and nutritional products—is continually bringing to market new products and line extensions that meet evolving needs for self-care solutions.
For example, early in 2009, we introduced the Centrum Ultra line of products in the U.S. Centrum Ultra is a scientifically advanced line of gender- and age-specific multivitamins specially formulated to help meet the nutritional needs of men and women. The success of Centrum Ultra in its first year represents Pfizer Consumer Healthcare's largest new product launch in the U.S. since Advil.
Also, in the fourth quarter of 2009 we introduced advanced new formulas of Centrum and Centrum Silver/Select 50+ in 14 European markets. This patent-pending formula upgrade is a major milestone that represents a significant opportunity to grow the Centrum business throughout Europe. Advanced Centrum and Centrum Silver/Select 50+ contain specially adjusted levels of key vitamins and minerals to help fill nutritional gaps and deliver multiple health benefits such as energy, immunity, healthy appearance, eye health, bone health and environmental stress protection.


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Because individual plaintiffs often have little electronic data of their own to preserve and produce, they are often able to use e-discovery requests as a weapon to make life miserable for the corporate defendant, who must search, gather, process, review and produce potentially onerous volumes of data. Some plaintiffs successfully count on the corporate defendant to settle these cases, regardless of the merits, because a cost-benefits analysis frequently yields the conclusion that settlement will be cheaper than the costs of responding to e-discovery requests alone.
To be sure, there are cases that should be settled based on this calculus. But there are others that should not and would not be settled if the corporate defendant was armed with the ability to turn the e-discovery tables on the plaintiff. Unfortunately, companies often overlook electronic data that the plaintiff may possess and may not wish to produce, and, in the process, the company foregoes leverage it could have brought to bear on the plaintiff. Although not every case is right for it, counsel should always consider what, if any, electronic information the individual plaintiff may possess, as most plaintiffs do not consider what skeletons they have in their own closets when they go hunting for them in the corporation's closets. A real case example makes the point.
A corporation discovers what it believes is an employee using his work computer to access pornography during work hours. The employee's supervisor and HR director confront him about his conduct, search and quarantine his computer, advise him that his access to pornographic websites has left cookies on his hard drive and, when he denies it, fire him for violating the company's web-surfing policy. The employee then sues the corporation for defamation (as he is at-will and has no direct employment claim), alleging that the supervisor defamed him by asserting in the presence of the director that he surfed porn and the statement was therefore "published" to a third party, the HR director. The employee asks for seven-figure compensatory and punitive damages awards and demands broad-ranging discovery from the corporation, including all other employees who have been accused of violating the web-surfing policy and how the company has treated them (a not-so-subtle threat of a potential class action). He also accuses the corporation of spoliation of evidence for conducting searches on his computer without first imaging the hard drive, suggesting that the corporation may have planted evidence on the hard drive. The employee then demands a seven-figure settlement. What does the company do?
Many companies and their counsel begin and end their analysis by quantifying the cost of responding to the plaintiff's e-discovery requests and then deciding that even a mid to high six-figure settlement is cost justified. And while that conclusion may be appropriate, consider the following alternative.
First, image the hard drive using appropriate protocols with the plaintiff's agreement. Given the plaintiff's spoliation allegations, he will be hard-pressed not to agree to a protocol-protected image of the hard drive. While the "damage", if any, has been done by the employer's pre-imaging searches, the company can show its good faith by immediately imaging the hard drive, making a copy available to the plaintiff and showing it has nothing to hide, thus likely preserving its ability to rebut the spoliation claim.
Second, ask yourself what e-discovery can the company request that the plaintiff produce that is relevant and will make the plaintiff think twice about his case? How about a protocol-restricted search of the plaintiff's home computer or other electronic devices? If the plaintiff can be shown to surf porn outside of the office, does that not make it more likely than not that the cookies left on his work computer showing multiple examples of access to porn sites were left there by him? Isn't that especially true if the employee's work computer was password-protected, and he claims he never violated the company's password policy. While not every judge will order the production of the employee's home computer or other nonwork devices, in this case, there was more than a good-faith basis for the motion, and the court ordered its production subject to an appropriate protocol.
The result? The plaintiff violated the order by failing to produce his computer and missed the next several court appearances. Eventually, the court dismissed the case with prejudice for want of prosecution.


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A curmudgeonly man, bespectacled in a plain black suit and bare feet like Yves St. Laurent at the beach, thumbs through a dictionary in the dark, telling stories that go nowhere. He's a contrarian, obviously the survivor of a troubled past, but not really equipped to explain it. This is us, he tells the audience directly, interacting "face to face with the modern mind." God, I hope not.
The absurdism that is Thom Pain (Based on Nothing) is smart (almost too smart), and it challenges you in assaultive but funny ways, with lots of word play amid the fatalistic rants. I'm not sure where it's headed — absurdist plays are often unfathomable that way — but I do know that Steven Walters is the actor to lead us there.
His modulation of energy as he relates stories — about a dead dog, about anger and fear and relationships — it what can sustain you for 70 minutes of one voice talking to you on a mostly black stage. This show marks Second Thought Theatre's artistic reboot; it's a good way to begin.
— Arnold Wayne Jones
Through Jan. 29 at Addison Theatre Centre. SecondThoughtTheatre.org.


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ArtsWatch: Super Bowl's Pre-Game Antipiracy Action
The Recording Academy actively represents the music community on such issues as intellectual property rights, music piracy, archiving and preservation, and censorship concerns. In pursuing its commitment to addressing these and other issues, The Recording Academy undertakes a variety of national initiatives. ArtsWatch is a key part of an agenda aimed at raising public awareness of and support for the rights of artists. To become more involved, visit Advocacy Action @ GRAMMY.com and sign up for Advocacy Action E-lerts.
On Feb. 1 officials from the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized 10 websites that routinely linked to illegal Web videos of copyright-protected sporting events. U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara said, "With the Super Bowl just days away, the seizures of these infringing websites reaffirm our commitment to working with our law enforcement partners to protect copyrighted material and put the people who steal it out of business." Visitors to the infringing sites are now redirected to a graphic notice informing them that the domains have been seized by ICE in accordance with a U.S. District Court order. This is the third set of domains shut down as part of the Operation In Our Sites investigation — nine were seized last June and 82 last December.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced on Jan. 27 that it executed more than 40 search warrants related to denial of service cyber attacks by an ongoing group known as "Anonymous" directed against major companies and organizations. In a related enforcement action the same day, London's Metropolitan Police Service arrested five suspects. Other international efforts include investigations in France, Germany and the Netherlands. The Anonymous group of hacker activists under investigation made news with September attacks on the MPAA and RIAA websites, and Cnet News reported in November that the FBI had opened an investigation against them. The hackers began targeting MasterCard, PayPal and Visa in December after these services stopped processing donations for WikiLeaks.
Details are limited regarding a high-level intellectual property enforcement meeting hosted by Vice President Joe Biden on Jan. 28. Administration officials, including Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel, Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, were reportedly in attendance, as well as Fox Filmed Entertainment co-chairman Thomas Rothman, Verizon Chairman/CEO Ivan G. Seidenberg, and Public Knowledge President and Co-Founder Gigi B. Sohn. While Broadcasting & Cable described the meeting as "an update on administration efforts," the Copyright Alliance blog implied that payment processors and Internet service providers in attendance were encouraged to collaborate with other attendees on finding IP enforcement solutions for the future.
Chaired by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the Sixth Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy convened Feb. 2–3 in Paris with more than 800 delegates in attendance. WIPO Director General Francis Gurry said, "The Sixth Global Congress represents an outstanding opportunity for the public and private sector to come together and to provide international leadership on the challenges of combating counterfeiting and piracy. Under the theme of 'building respect for intellectual property,' this Congress addresses the overlapping social, economic and political dimensions of counterfeiting and piracy, and the need for targeted, integrated responses from a variety of actors." U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was prominently represented on the program by its Director John Morton, as well as Assistant Deputy Director Erik Barnett and Richard Halverson, unit chief for IPR/outreach and training at ICE's National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center.
The International Chamber of Commerce released research at the WIPO's Sixth Global Congress estimating that the annual international cost of counterfeiting and piracy will grow from $775 billion to $1.7 trillion in 2015, based on 2008 data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. ICC projected the cost of digital piracy of movies, music and software would be $240 billion in 2015. The research was conducted by Frontier Economics for the ICC's Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy initiative and incorporates such additional economic impacts as lost tax revenue and increased law enforcement and health care costs.
On Feb. 3 the OECD estimated that the Egyptian government's five-day shutdown of the country's Internet connection to the outside world caused $90 million in economic losses. Cnet News provides a roundup of coverage detailing this unprecedented event in Internet history.
On Jan. 31 at a panel hosted by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, Envisional Head of Piracy Intelligence David Price presented an estimate of how much activity on the Internet infringes on copyrighted material. Sponsored by NBC Universal and based on figures from 2009, Price added it up to 23.8 percent. BitTorrent file-sharing accounted for 11.4 percent. In moderately good news, only 17 percent of U.S. Internet traffic is infringing — a large total but at least better than the average worldwide. MPAA President/Interim CEO Bob Pisano said, "Bottom line, according to this new study, nearly one-quarter of the traffic on the Internet involves the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material such as movies, TV shows, music, and video games...," and added, "we cannot tolerate the vast explosion of digital theft on the Internet. With download speeds and server capacity increasing every day, the problem will only get worse if we don't do something about it. The time for governments and industries to act is now."
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced on Feb. 3 that the 4 billion numerical addresses that made the Internet work until recently have all been allocated. Plans are moving ahead to more extensively deploy the upgraded version-six standard — IPv6 — that permits 340 undecillion (340 trillion trillion trillion) numerical Internet addresses to be assigned.


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This Tacoma trio plays great happy pop songs with the standard guitar/bass/drums format, with nice keyboard work on a few. I really dig the playful female vocals, kinda remeniscent of Blonde Redhead. self-release here, don't know about availability. check out www.mostlysongs.com 4/7/2004 - Abe Beeson


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Game 4 revelry 22 years in the making
Fans jubilant over first World Series appearance since '84
By Ian Browne / MLB.com
Fittingly, this delirium-filled scene took place on the 22-year anniversary of the day the Tigers downed the Padres at old Tiger Stadium for their last World Series championship.
Now, the new yard has some memories that will last forever. Detroiters of all ages roared, shrieked, jumped, danced, hugged and high-fived for minutes on end after Ordonez's blast landed over the wall and put the Tigers in the World Series for the first time since 1984.
"I saw them [clinch the pennant] on Sept. 17, 1968, and this is just as good being here with my boys," said Howard Iwrey of West Bloomfield, Mich. "You've got to stick with them. This is a good baseball town. We've supported them the whole way. This is a fitting ending. Almost a fitting ending. We're almost there."
Iwrey's 10-year-old son Jack couldn't seem to erase the look of amazement from his face.
"This is the greatest day of my life," said Jack. "This will always stay with me. Not only did we win it, we won it on the last out with a walk-off home run. This is the first time in my whole entire life we've had a winning season."
The joy was mixed equally between the new generation of Tigers fans who had only known losing until this year, and the old-timers who patiently waited for another winning team.
"I spent $175 to be here tonight, it's well worth it," said Andy Willis, 23, of Flushing, Mich. "The fans are awesome, they've always been here. To see Detroit like this, it brings everyone together. I've never seen Detroit all together like this, I love it."
As ecstatic as the Tigers were with their achievement, they made sure to share it with the fans.
Shortly after the winning shot by Ordonez, a sea of Tigers players, decked out in navy blue hooded sweatshirts, raced down the first-base line and waved to the crowd, gesturing to them. The fans nodded in approval and roared back.
Owner Mike Ilitch, general manager Dave Dombrowski and manager Jim Leyland also expressed gratitude to the fans during their live postgame interviews, which were shown on the scoreboard amid the roar of the crowd.
"Unbelievable, just unbelievable," said Russ Rickard, 52, of Deerfield, Mich. "I'm here with my 30-year-old son, he barely remembers '84. It was amazing and a great thrill to just be here."
The Tigers don't know yet if they'll play the Mets or Cardinals in the World Series, but they do know that it will all start at Comerica Park in exactly one week.
"They're gonna win the World Series," said 48-year-old Rick Jackson of Plymouth, Mich. "I've been a fan since '68 when I was 10 years old. I saw them in '84, but it ain't the same because I'm more mature. I love it. I'm older, wiser and more intelligent."
Decked out in a Tigers jacket, Jackson was asked if he stuck with the team, even through the endless losing that preceded this magical season.
"I bought this jacket three years ago," said Jackson. "Come on, what do you think?"
This was a day that a baseball town celebrated its long-awaited re-emergence.
Every fan seemed to have a different story.
"It's really crazy for me. My dad died a couple of months ago," said Matthew Kosmal, a Detroit native who now lives in Chicago. "He was a huge Tigers fan. Today was actually his birthday. For me to be here is a big deal. It's very emotional. I just flew in for the game. I really wanted to be here to be a part of it."
Though Kosmal couldn't share the moment with his late father Nestor, it brought back old and cherished memories.
"I remember watching the '84 World Series with my dad. They won the World Series on my dad's birthday, it was October 14 in '84," said Kosmal. "I knew this would mean a lot to him. It means a lot to me, too. I think he's got a little hand in this. We suffered for about 20 years. I've got to think with the way this season was so magical ... it's a little disheartening that he missed it but I know he's enjoying it right now."
There seemed to be no cap on the enjoyment level, as the stands were still packed for nearly a half-hour after the game.
Teri Lewis, a 32-year-old fan from Birch Run, Mich., excitedly exited the park wearing her authentic Tigers game jersey.
"Unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable," said Lewis. "Actually, not unbelievable. I kind of knew they could pull it out."
Somewhere between believable and unbelievable was the best baseball day the city of Detroit had in 22 years -- exactly 22 years.
Ian Browne 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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On Thursday, the small sleeping piglets – piled on top of each other – were a big attraction at Centennial Farms at the OC Fair.
It took visitors only a moment after admiring the newborns to realize something was missing.
"Where's the mom?" said Billie Neidig, who walked to the fair from a Costa Mesa home.
Daisy, a 3-year-old sow, died from a seizure a day after giving birth to a healthy litter of 11 piglets, fair officials said.
Daisy gave birth at Centennial Farms on Tuesday night and died Wednesday morning after the seizure, said Robin Wachner, spokeswoman for the fair. Wachner said Daisy had a clean bill of health before the incident.
"Here at the farm, things do happen," she said. "We don't really know what caused the seizure but her piglets are being well taken care of around the clock."
The piglets that Wachner said are "very frisky and playful" are being bottle-fed and cared for by farm staffers.
The sows and their piglets are always a big draw for families at the OC Fair. When a litter is born, there is often a long line of fairgoers waiting to catch a glimpse of the newest additions to the Centennial Farms.
When Ellie Longoria, of Downey, learned of the mother's death Thursday, she asked a Centennial Farm staffer how they were being fed.
Mostly through a bottle, the staffer told her.
"That's so sad," Longoria said.
Neidig said her family will keep tabs on the piglets.
"We're going to check on them in a couple of weeks," she said
The next sow expected to give birth is Honeydew. She is 1 1/2 and her due date is July 26, Wachner said.
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I have been watching Melo alot now and i have to say there is 1 weakness in his offensive game. He is in love with that Right Corner 3 a lot. If you notice a lot of times when they get him the ball there, he does a step back, 3 point shotfrom the right corner and he consistently misses that. In fact i don't even know why he stands there, that's bad coaching by Woodson.
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Nice Circuit, Ugly Schematic
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The wiring schematic is a standard part of a design's "reveal." When it is done with the right engineering esthetic, it reflects well on the design and the designer.
Jim Williams, the late and sorely missed analog-circuit expert, used to say that a good schematic diagram was itself a work of art, which in turn captured and revealed the intricacies and subtleties of a circuit design.
He was right, of course, and I realized this the other day when I was looking at the schematic of a basic alarm controller from about 30 years ago (no need to explain here why I was doing this). Due to the application, this design was largely analog and basic digital ICs, with lots of I/O points and just a small microcontroller function.
What struck me about this schematic was how poorly drawn it was: Signal lines and power rails crossed themselves and each other like a bowl of spaghetti. As far as I could tell, it was technically correct, but both visually confusing and hard to use for any sort of troubleshooting.
Why was it so poorly done? I have no idea: Perhaps someone with no EE background drew it; perhaps the engineer who did it was in a rush and didnt care; or perhaps it was adapted from a crude hand-drawn sketch. (I wont blame this on a CAD/EDA program, since it did not at all have the look of being computer-sourced.)
One of the reasons I prefer to look at older schematics is that they are mostly analog and so have little or no processing core. Thus, single-handedly or in conjunction with a block diagram, they can reveal most the circuits functions and operation. In these schematics, the signal flows like a stream from left to right beginning at the input(s), then gets caught in various eddies and pools of sub-circuits for filtering, calibration, compensation, thresholds, oscillation, mixing, modulation/demodulation, and other functions before it emerges at the right side, going into the open world as an output signal.
Look at the schematic of an early six-transistor AM radio, which supplanted the classic 5-tube AM radio; or check out the much more complex AN/ASQ-1A tube-based magnetometer (pages numbered 9 and 13), and youll see what I mean.
In contrast, in designs that are heavily centered on their processor/software, its hard to establish any signal-processing flow. Much of the real action (functionality) takes place in the mysterious CPU section -- which is largely a magical black box, unless you study the code.
A well-drawn schematic not only gives you the facts of the circuit, it also tells the story of the circuit. The same guideline applies to software documentation, too, of course: A good code listing not only gives you the instructions to be executed, but tells what the intention of the code is at various blocks and junctions.
Hardware and software engineers who dont provide meaningful, well-done documentation are not only hurting themselves and the "next guy" who has to deal with the design -- and there usually is a next guy -- but they are also making themselves look bad. After all, you wouldnt be impressed by an article or technical paper that was full of misspellings, fractured sentences, and semi-coherent ramblings.


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The printing press is one of the most important inventions
of our age. Although many are moving closer toward digital rather than printed
medium, some researchers are finding
ways to carry the printing concept to a new level.
Researchers from IBM and ETH Zurich have demonstrated a new technique
to "print" at the nanoscale, yielding the world's current smallest piece of
art. Rather than just lending the technology to legal departments to write even
smaller tinyprint, the more important application of this invention could apply
to nanoscale production.
"In traditional gravure printing, a doctor blade is used to
fill the recessed features of a printing plate with ink, in which pigment
particles are randomly dispersed," explains Tobias Kraus, of the nanopatterning
team in Zurich. "In our high-resolution printing, a directed self-assembly
process controls the arrangement of nanoparticles on the printing plate or
template. The entire assembly is then printed onto a target surface, whereby
the particle positions are precisely retained at a resolution that is three
orders of magnitude higher than in conventional printing."
Current, standard methods of top-down micro-fabrication
involve carving particles out of a larger material. The new printing process
differs by adding ready-made nanoparticles onto a surface and allows for
different types of materials such as metals, polymers, semiconductors, and
oxides to be combined in one process.
Using the printing process, researchers were able to
demonstrate particles as tiny as 60nm, reaching a translated resolution of
100,000 dpi.
The new method by IBM and ETH Zurich could be applied to printing
of large arrays of biofunctional beads that can detect and identify certain
cells or markers in the body, such as cancer cells or heart attack markers.
The printed nanoparticles can also interact with light,
creating a use in optoelectronic devices like optical chips. For future semiconductor
use, the printing process could aid placement of catalytic seed particles for
growing semiconducting nanowires.
"This method opens up new ways to precisely and efficiently
position various kinds of nanoparticles on different surfaces, a prerequisite
for exploiting the unique properties of such nanoparticles and for making their
use economically feasible," explains Heiko Wolf, researcher in nanopatterning
at IBM's Zurich Research lab.