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We Chat with Sarah Simmons of City Grit
"I really think what we're doing is having a large impact on the food community and is giving an opportunity for chefs...It's really been awesome."
Sarah Simmons has an awesome concept running down at City Grit Culinary Salon. Depending on the night, you might sit for a four-course menu of Sarah's "Southern Comfort." Or possibly a collection of chefs working with John Currence before they all smoke and grill their best for the crowds at the upcoming Big Apple Barbeque Block Party. Or you may meet "the next best thing," where the most skilled hands behind some major chefs take the spotlight with carefully crafted menus of their own.
No matter the night, Simmons' sense of homey hospitality will permeate the expertly prepared menu. Hers is a story many drool over making their own—after six years of hosting bi-monthly supper clubs in her home, she won Food and Wine's "Home Cook Superstar," which brought her the notoriety she needed to transfer to food full-time. Now she's always in motion, with the full gamut of restaurateur responsibilities on her back. Oh, and she does it in a space that is an antique store by day in a building that was once a public school. So there's quite a bit of extra responsibility tucked in.
We caught up with Simmons on what it really takes to jump from one successful career into one that is highly volatile, extremely physical and (often) poorly paid, and how she gets inspiration from bringing outsiders in.
You've had a good amount of success transferring careers into the food world. What skill set do you feel you had that increased your chances? I think that having a solid business background is critical, and it's why I'm still open. People often fail because they follow their passion—which is awesome—but everyone has to pay their bills, so you have to have some form of income or sustenance to make that passion-following viable. And you have to be really scrappy; you have to take jobs that you wouldn't normally take and do things that you wouldn't normally do.
Did your work as a consultant specifically help? Consulting gives you the ability to come into an existing business and look at it with different eyes. My goal was always the same—to open this culinary salon would provide a platform for younger chefs. But I realized at the beginning that no one knew who I was and no one really understood the concept, so I couldn't, out of the gate, start introducing chefs that no one really knew. A lot of people would have said, "Oh, no one's coming to these dinners, so it's not a good idea." Being able to look at it with consulting eyes enabled me to kind of take a step backwards and take the emotional attachment out to see what was working and what was not—I had to quickly change the immediate goal to build the brand. I believed in what we were and what we wanted to do, but in the beginning I could just see that it wasn't going to work quite that way.
Was there a hurdle that you had to overcome that particularly surprised even you? I had this Pollyanna vision in the beginning that we wouldn't charge chefs a fee; it would be a total partnership and collaboration and a total win for them. And then I realized that we're all really busy people, and chefs aren't the most organized of folks. And quite frankly, a lot of them aren't budget-conscious. So this guest-chef fee that we created isn't a money-maker for us, it's just a way to hold chefs accountable. Because it's not a Pollyanna world. People behave differently—I behave differently—if there's a financial skin in the game. So just sharing that risk with chefs wasn't something I hadn't considered when I opened. And it's not a negative or positive thing; it's just a reality.
Are the chefs that you're bringing in more green in experience or notoriety? Some of them are both. Some of them have been working for 15 years in other people's kitchens but are the "man behind the curtain." There's no way for the executive chef to make every morsel that comes out of that kitchen, so there have to be people that are excellent chefs in their own right. And that's what I just discovered. Sometimes the support team that would come in here for these better-known chefs could cook everyone under the table. And I really wanted to give those guys the opportunity to shine.
What is the greatest motivator for the chefs coming in here? Has anything moved you personally? Everyone is so excited—it's humbling and adorable. All of us are in the kitchen for a reason, but some of us just don't like to be the center of attention. And sometimes the most anti-social and shy chefs are the ones who are the most excited about coming. They aren't even honest with me about how much time they spend on their menus, but I find out through one of the other cooks or their publicist: "Oh, he's so proud of this dish because he's been working on it for six weeks." I'm just thrilled that they're working that hard in advance of coming here because they want to shine, and it's great to give them that opportunity.
You're known for your southern sense of hospitality, but what makes New York the right city for this concept? I think the bottom line is the number of food writers that are based in New York— I feel like it's the food media capital of the world. It's hard to get your name out there and it's hard to get recognition—you can't fly ten of these people to where you are and have them eat your food—so I think that's what makes it exciting in addition to the sparkle of cooking in New York City. Here there's a good chance that you're going to have four to six food writers that are highly influential and have the ability to bring recognition to your name in the dining room eating your food.
Have you noticed any difference between some of the cooks that come in here with their chefs versus young cooks here? The talent that comes with every chef in here are... if I were unethical I would poach them all and have this army of cooks. Because they're phenomenal. And they seem to be working for those chefs because they believe in what that chef is doing and are excited about what they can teach them. And I have seen cooks run personal errands for these chefs, and take care of details that I would never ask of someone, and their chefs aren't even asking. These cooks are traveling with these chefs to make sure that all these details are being taken care of for them—everything. And I do think that that does happen in New York, but I think it takes a long time; you have to have a really solid reputation as a leader and a teacher and a mentor to have that following because of the constant churn that we see.
City Grit is your first restaurant, and despite your years with your supper club you didn't exactly have restaurant experience of your own. Did that make it hard for you when staffing? I had a cook that was working with me and I couldn't have done it without her. I fell in love with her for her knife skills. We had a hard time finding people that stayed regularly, and between the two of us we worked like a team of four or five people. I may cry... I never could have gotten this business of the ground without her. The intention had never been that she was going to be with me for more than a couple of months—she was at that age where it's hard to break in in a fine dining kitchen, and she just needed to do that. So when she left there was a gap, but at least it wasn't a gap where I had a kitchen full of ding dongs. It was a gap with a kitchen full of people we had trained together. But it was hard.
My team now is perfect... knock on wood so that no one quits today. But until six weeks ago I was making almost every morsel of food and every idea from a culinary standpoint was mine, and the testing of everything was all on me while my cooks were executing other things. So bringing in the right people has enabled me to grow the business. It's super hard.
I read somewhere that you equated running a restaurant and being a chef to running several marathons weekly. What keeps you going when maybe you want to just live in an Epsom salt bath for a while? It's hard to say this about your own idea and your own business, but I really think what we're doing is having a large impact on the food community and is giving an opportunity for chefs. And aside from that, the guests hug me every night. Someone told me on Sunday night it was the best chicken he'd ever had in his entire life. And those are the things that get you out of bed in the morning when you just want to sleep, or stop you from drowning yourself in the Epsom salt bath. The amount of love and support from the community doesn't hurt either. It's really been awesome.
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Operation Fortified Response
NEW HOPE � The New Hope Watch & Neighborhood Emergency
Preparedness Program Director, Michelle Hill, will participate in the
Solar Storm Exercise "Operation Fortified Response" at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, March 4. This is a computer generated exercise that allows the community to see there roll, in the
event of a disaster.
Everyone is welcome to watch and provide input or you can participate by registering at www.drc-group.com/project/ofr.html.
Wausau Ball Sign-Ups
WAUSAU � The Town of Wausau will be conducting sign-ups for the 2013 ball season thru mid March for all ages. For more information please contact the Town
Hall at 850-638-1781.
Supper with �Deputy Enos�
BONIFAY � There will be a General Lee Reunion at the Down Home Car Show with �Deputy Enos,� Sonny Shroyer, from the Dukes of Hazard at the Bonifay Down Home Street Festival on March 16 at Veterans Park in Bonifay.
Purchase a $5 ticket for a chance for you and two guests to enjoy �Supper with Enos� on March15.
Tickets may be purchased from the Bonifay Fire Department, Festival Members, City Hall, Bank of Bonifay, West Florida Electric, Cloud Auto Parts and Community South Credit Union.
For more information call 258-9569 or 373-7747.
Shaddai Shriners Low Country Boil
PANAMA CITY � The Shaddai Shriners will be having an all you can eat low country boil starting at 5 p.m. on March 16. Dinner will consist of shrimp, corn on the cob, sausage, potatoes and what ever we can throw in the pot. Here will be music, fun and fellowship come party with the Shriners. This is a BYOB event or you can enjoy the Shriners Oasis. The boil will be held at 1101 West 19th Street in Panama City.
Tours for Seniors
Tours for Seniors will be taking a trip to Key West for a Circle Tour on March 10 -16. For more information call Merita Stanley at 594-9980.
26th Annual French Reunion
BONIFAY � The 26th Annual French Family Reunion will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on March 17. Come be apart of your family heritage. The reunion will be held at the Bonifay Ag Center located on Highway 90 one mile east of Bonifay. Many local families come from this family tree line. Welcome to friends, family and all relatives to attend and be part of your history. For more information contact committee members, Sidney J. Johnson at 547-1048, Kathy (Barnes) Kersey at 547-3393 or Marcy (French) Smith at 547-2157.
Woman�s Club plans Game Night
BONIFAY � The Bonifay Woman�s Club will hold their annual Game Night fundraiser from 6 to 8 p.m. on March 21 at the Holmes County High School Library.
Games will include Bridge, Bunco, hand and foot, Canasta, Mexican train dominoes and others. Door prizes will be given and refreshments served. Tickets are S10 and can be purchased from club members.
Advance ticket purchases by March 18 are recommended. For additional information or tickets, call Jane Segrest at 547-3741 or Doris Spears at 547-2080.
Two-Toe Tom Festival Beauty Pageant
ESTO � The Two-Toe Tom Festival Beauty Pageant will be held on April 5 and 6, at the Graceville Civic Center. The entry fee is $50 with all proceeds going to the Two-Toe Tom Festival celebration. Contestants may participate in photogenic for an additional $10. This is an open pageant. Application deadlines for the pageant are March 22. Participants must be between the ages of Zero and 20. For more information call Teresa Bush at 263-4744 or Darlene Madden at 263-3201.
Child Find Pre-K Screening offered
CHIPLEY � Washington County School District and FDLRS/PAEC co-sponsor Child Find Pre-K screenings to identify children with disabilities and/or special needs. Eligible children must be: ages 3 to 4 years old, suspected of having a disability, and not enrolled in public school.
Each child is screened in the areas of vision, hearing, speech, language, and overall development. Screening appointments are scheduled every month in each county.
The parent or legal guardian must provide permission for the child to participate in the screening.
Screenings are scheduled by appointment only by calling the Child Find office at 638-6131 ext. 2310 or toll free 1-873-877-7232 ext. 2310. This office serves Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Liberty, Walton, and Washington Counties.


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The Huron Building was built in 1976 and originally housed the Continental Cablevision offices. When the college purchased the building, it was refurbished for use by the Business and Community Institute. Today, the Work First offices are located here.
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MOSCOW, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Actor Gerard Depardieu has registered as a resident of the provincial Russian city of Saransk, where he plans to open a restaurant far from the high taxes of his French homeland, Russian media said on Saturday.
The 64-year-old star of "Cyrano de Bergerac" and "Green Card" was in Saransk on Saturday to receive a residency stamp in his newly-issued Russian passport, at a lavish ceremony attended by local officials and singers in traditional folk costumes.
Depardieu first moved to Belgium last year to avoid a planned 75-percent tax on millionaires and has since continued east to Russia, where President Vladimir Putin granted him citizenship in January.
Depardieu has said he did not leave France for tax reasons. Russia, where the actor has appeared in advertising campaigns for ketchup and a film about the monk Grigory Rasputin, has a flat tax of 13 percent on income.
"For me registration here isn't a formality. I intend to come here often," Depardieu said after the ceremony, adding he planned to open "an eatery, where working people will go to snack".
Saransk, which largely consists of run-down Soviet apartment blocks, is an industrial centre noted for its machine building and chemical industries. Depardieu used to live in a mansion on the Left Bank of the Seine in Paris.
Russian media cited the region's press minister as saying Depardieu also planned to build a small house in the countryside. For now, Depardieu is registered to reside in an apartment in the city owned by relatives of a friend.
Located on the river Volga some 620 km (390 miles) east of Moscow, Saransk is the capital of Mordovia, a republic in central Russia that was quick to try and persuade Depardieu to set up residence. In January, Depardieu turned down an offer to become the region's Minister of Culture.
France's Constitutional Council last month blocked the planned 75 percent tax rate on income over 1 million euros ($1.32 million) in December, but the government has said it will press ahead with a redrafted tax on the wealthy.
($1 = 0.76 euros)
(Reporting by Jason Bush; Editing by Jason Webb)


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How you relate to the place where you get your HIV meds can have a huge impact on adherence to those meds. How do you find a pharmacy where HIV is a specialty? Read on and find out.
Your Pharmacist Is Key
Whether you have just found out that you are HIV positive or you've been living with HIV for years, whether you are not on any HIV medications or you have been on HIV meds for years, this information is essential to helping you along in your journey with HIV.
Your Pharmacist is KEY, and selecting the right pharmacist and pharmacy is as important as choosing an HIV specialist physician. HIV medications are at the bull's eye of treatment strategies for HIV. The goal of starting or staying on HIV medications is to lower your HIV viral load, hopefully to undetectable, and to give your immune system (T cells, or CD4 cells) a chance to rebuild itself. Your pharmacist and pharmacy play a critical role in keeping you adherent with your meds, guarding against drug-drug interactions and advocating on your behalf.
Your relationship with your pharmacist and pharmacy is just as important as your relationship with your physician. When choosing your pharmacy, it is important to select a pharmacy that is an HIV specialty pharmacy. An HIV specialty pharmacy is a pharmacy where their main focus is on HIV disease. The staff has been trained in HIV and HIV-related issues and the pharmacists that work there are HIV Specialist pharmacists. At a traditional pharmacy, the staff and pharmacists are not HIV experts and very often they do not know anything about HIV, they do not keep the HIV medications in stock, and they are not sensitive to HIV-related issues.
Have you or someone you know ever been into a pharmacy where the staff was afraid to get close to you or touch you because they knew you had HIV? It sounds crazy and far-fetched, but it happens all the time. It is so IMPORTANT to shop around and find an HIV specialty pharmacy. A good HIV specialty pharmacy has compassionate, caring staff who are HIV sensitive and ALWAYS make you feel welcome and comfortable. They are also experts in dealing with HIV medicines.
The good news is that there are great HIV specialty pharmacies all over the U.S., and there may be one right in your neighborhood or local area -- you just need to pick the one that's right for you. Most HIV specialty pharmacies deliver or mail prescriptions to their clients, so if you can't find an HIV specialty pharmacy in your own neighborhood where you can just walk in and pick up your prescription, then you can use a pharmacy that delivers or sends your medications in the mail.
How to Find a Good HIV Specialty Pharmacy
a. Referrals From Friends, Physicians, Health Care Providers and AIDS Service Organizations
Friends and family members are sometimes the best source of information. They can provide information from personal experiences and are therefore quite reliable. HIV is an extremely sensitive issue, but if possible, it is always recommended to ask family and friends for information or referral.
Physicians will most likely have access to information on HIV specialty pharmacies; if not, they can always steer you to the right direction. Some physicians work closely with an HIV specialty pharmacy in managing their patients. Therefore, it is always recommended that patients ask their physicians for referral.
Another great source of referral are the local AIDS service organizations in your area.
b. Google
You can always find local HIV specialty pharmacies by using Google. Go to Google.com and then type the following into the search tab: HIV Pharmacy [name of your city or county].
Here is an example: "HIV Pharmacy, Los Angeles." Once you then click on the search tab, it will bring up the HIV specialty pharmacies in Los Angeles. Those pharmacies with the highest rankings in Google will show up on the first page.
c. Check Out Company Website -- Look Online
After you have done your Google search and found some HIV specialty pharmacies in your local area, check out their websites.
Read through the website and find out who they are, what is their philosophy. Also read through and find out what services they offer.
d. Reviews
Once you have found some of the HIV specialty pharmacies in your local area, you can go onto some review sites such as Yelp.com, and see if there are any reviews for the HIV specialty pharmacies you are looking at.
Michelle J. Sherman, R.Ph., A.A.H.I.V.P., is a nationally recognized HIV specialist pharmacist practicing in Orange County, Calif.
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Marion Nestle thinks that consumers don't need food coloring in their food. In an email exchange with Adam Ozimek, she explains:
MN: Since they are unnecessary and deceptive, I can't see any reason to do anything to protect their use.
AO: You say that food coloring is "unnecessary and deceptive". But couldn't you say the same thing of essentially any garnish or cooking technique designed to make food appear more appealing without physically modifying the flavor?
MN: The issue is artificial. Food garnishes and cooking techniques are usually not.
Megan McArdle argues that the natural versus artificial dichotomy presents a false choice.
Actually "natural" foods would also come with things like toxic fungus and horrible parasites which–I guarantee–are much worse for children and other living things than artificial food coloring. "Natural" is not synonymous with "better for you". It's absolutely true that you're probably less likely to get fat if you eschew highly processed foods in the snack and cereal aisles. But oversimplifying this message to "natural good, artificial bad" quickly turns ridiculous.


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Hydrocam hydraulic bolt tensioners
Bolted assemblies are the most commonly used connecting systems in mechanics.
Today it is known that of all the various causes of failure (overloading, design flaws, manufacturing defects, and others), the most frequent is improper assembly.To ensure the optimum reliability of your bolted assemblies, it is essential to obtain the right level of tightening preload as well as the precise mean to achieve it. The right solution is to perform the bolt tightening with a hydraulic bolt tensioner On the strength of its experience in the area of hydraulic tightening, SKF has developed a broad range of hydraulic bolt tensioners, both standard and customized :
- Standard Bolt Tensioners
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- Load sensor washers
A standard Hydrocam tensioner has a hydraulic body which, using a hydraulic fluid, exerts a strong tension load on the bolt through the brace screwed on that bolt. The body also rests on the skirt in order to apply the reaction force on the assembly to be tightened.
Main advantages of SKF Hydrocam Bolt Tensioners:
- No torsion stress in the bolt
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Fun in the Snow
Katie, Greg, Dan, and Bill
view of one of Lehmann's trails
Katie in the "ice cave"
Dan "I Lick Icicles" Lehmann
A collection of personal thoughts and experiences - mostly centered around running.
Fun in the Snow
Katie, Greg, Dan, and Bill
view of one of Lehmann's trails
Katie in the "ice cave"
Dan "I Lick Icicles" Lehmann
Trail? What trail? That's some snowfall there. Sorry I missed the weekend!ReplyDelete
You were definitely missed. Hope to see you soon
nice!!! awesome pictures/video! FUN!! and I thought my footing was a little sketchy today!! we were just ankle deep in snow in Damascus, va! You guys have WAY more snow. :o) have a great week!!
That was a blizzard compared to the amount of snow we had. Glad you all had a great time. Thanks for the video and I just love Dan's new nickname. I wonder if he gives a tutorial on the art of licking icicles?ReplyDelete
Yes, lots of snow! I'll be happy when it melts off....probably not until March though.
Rick, you'll have to ask Lehmann for the tutorial. I'm sure he'd be happy to help out a good friend like you.
I personally think Dan needs to give me his tutorial publicly so that everyone can benefit from his expertise!ReplyDelete
Your photos and video footage are always motivators for me! I'm glad I found your blog~ReplyDelete


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Welcome to Cardz Tv Say I Do challenge #9
"Say I DO" Create a card, favor or craft project for an engagement or wedding shower or wedding . CTV will be giving away 1 set of CTV Stamps - winners choice. For my project I created a tag, I used Cardz TV Stamps Hugs and Kisses for the sentiment You and Me! I used a pretty wedding cake and some clear jems and added some sheer black and white ribbon:) Head on over to CARDZ TV! and see what the amazing DT members have created for your inspiration!
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Cardz Tv I DO Challenge
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
May Day Cricut Cardz Challenge #108
Welcome to another Cricut Cardz Challenge! Head on over to Cardz Tv for the challenge. This week it is called "May Day" Make a card for any occasion using flowers from any cartridge(s) and using any colors you'd like. I am loving flowers lately:) I used Cardz Tv Stamps Mother's Day for the sentiment:) Love Mary's Stamps!!! All my papers are from a 6x6 my minds eye paper pad, and my ribbon is from Papertrey ink. Super simple card! Head on over to Cardz Tv and take the challenge and see what the amazing DT has made! Have a great day!!!
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Friday, May 4, 2012
CTV "MOM's the Word" Blog Hop: May 5th & 6th !
CTV "MOM's the Word" Blog Hop: May 5th & 6th
Create a card, craft or gift for Mother's Day. If you came from Susan's Blog you are in the right place:) If not head over to CARDZ TV and start from the beginning of the hop:) Mary at Cardz Tv will be giving away 2 sets of CTV Stamps winners choice!!! How exciting:) For my card I used CTV Stamp Mothers Day. They have some great sentiments on this set:) I used Art Philosphy Cricut Cartridge for my card for the shape and flowers. I used a K @ Company die cut for the butterfly and inked up everything with Tim Holtz vintage photo and added some ribbon from Papertrey Ink.
Have a great weekend my crafty friends
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Considering the overall economic recessions in the country, more families and individuals are on the lookout for rental apartments, instead of buying one. Renting Apartments provides tenants with the much-needed freedom of moving if they have to relocate for their work or some other purposes. That's where your role starts. Whether you're looking to find some new tenant for taking over the current apartment lease or you own an apartment that has to be rented out, several techniques are there that would prove to be helpful for you in smoothening up the process of getting your property occupied as quickly as possible.
Start with the internet. The internet can turn out to be the most valued source for you to find out the new renters. Potential tenants are out there in great numbers, and they keep looking for the homes at different websites which offer online classifieds for free. So, advertise there and take advantage of this option.
Another option for you is to call some estate agent. These are the people who have sufficient experience, resources and knowledge in this field and will prove to be helpful in getting your apartments in Richardson Tx occupied as quickly as possible.
The apartment should be cleaned altogether. It should need to appear immaculate – no matter if some cleaning company has to be hired for getting this job done. Tenants do not want to move into some dirty place that may be a potential home to pests and rodents.
It is better to have an open apartment. This will allow the potential renters to view your apartment – and there won't be any pressure that comes with having to meet face-to-face. The open apartment should be advertised in your local classifieds. Ask your Realtor to advertise for your apartments for rent on their company websites.
Offer the utilities that are the part of the rent and the tenant won't have to bother about them. As the prices for home heating are reaching the sky, it will turn out to be a major selling point that will certainly attract the potential renters who're looking for some areas with cooler climate to rent an apartment.
It is also advisable to consider your options and include gas, electricity, high-speed internet, cable, parking and trash removal with monthly rent. When you offer these amenities to the renters, it makes the apartment look stand out, and you are more likely to get it occupied before long.
Tell your friends, co-workers, and family members that your rental apartment is available for rent and you want it occupied as soon as possible. It is likely for them to think about your Richardson apartments when somebody mentions that they need a new apartment for rent.
A good marketing strategy would be to offer free one-month rent. People who are involved in the moving process often have low cash. When you charge them the security deposit and the rent of last month only, it will be likely for them to get your apartment on rent instead of some other more expensive unit.


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Walter Daniel Olmstead, 39, Tracy, California, a real estate investor, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Sacramento to conspiring to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions held in San Joaquin County, California.
The defendant pleaded guilty to conspiring with a group of real estate speculators who agreed not to bid against each other at certain public real estate foreclosure auctions in San Joaquin County. According to court documents, the primary purpose of the conspiracy was to suppress and restrain competition and to obtain selected real estate offered at San Joaquin County public foreclosure auctions at noncompetitive prices.
According to the court documents, after the conspirators' designated bidder bought a property at a public auction, they would hold a second, private auction, at which each participating conspirator would bid the amount above the public auction price he or she was willing to pay. The conspirator who bid the highest amount at the end of the private auction won the property. The difference between the price at the public auction and that at the second auction was the group's illicit profit, and it was divided among the conspirators in payoffs. According to his plea agreement, Olmstead participated in the scheme beginning in or about November 2008 until in or about July 2009.
To date, seven individuals, including Olmstead, have pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California in connection with this investigation the others being Anthony B. Ghio, John R. Vanzetti, Theodore B. Hutz, Richard W. Northcutt, Yama Marifat and Gregory L. Jackson.
Olmstead pleaded guilty to bid rigging, a violation of the Sherman Act, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine. The maximum fine may be increased to twice the gain derived from the crime or twice the loss suffered by the victims of the crime, if either of those amounts is greater than the statutory maximum fine. Olmstead also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine.
These charges arose from an ongoing federal antitrust investigation of fraud and bidding irregularities in certain real estate auctions in San Joaquin County. The investigation is being conducted by the Antitrust Division's San Francisco Office, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California, the FBI's Sacramento Division and the San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office. Trial attorneys Anna Pletcher, Richard Cohen and Tai Milder from the Antitrust Division's San Francisco Office and Assistant U.S. Attorney Russell L. Carlberg are prosecuting the case.
The charges are part of efforts underway by President Barack Obama's Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. President Obama established the interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force to wage an aggressive, coordinated and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. The task force includes representatives from a broad range of federal agencies, regulatory authorities, inspectors general and state and local law enforcement who, working together, bring to bear a powerful array of criminal and civil enforcement resources. The task force is working to improve efforts across the federal executive branch, and with state and local partners, to investigate and prosecute significant financial crimes, ensure just and effective punishment for those who perpetrate financial crimes, combat discrimination in the lending and financial markets, and recover proceeds for victims of financial crimes. One component of the task force is the national Mortgage Fraud Working Group, co-chaired by U.S. Attorney Wagner. For more information on the task force, visit www.StopFraud.gov.
Anyone with information concerning bid rigging or fraud related to real estate foreclosure auctions should contact the Antitrust Division's San Francisco Office at 415-436-6660 or visit www.justice.gov/atr/contact/newcase.htm, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California at 916-554-2700, or the FBI's Sacramento Division at 916-481-9110.
Sharis A. Pozen, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, and Benjamin B. Wagner, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California, announced the guilty plea.
"The Antitrust Division continues to vigorously pursue bid rigging conspiracies at real estate foreclosure auctions that eliminate competition in the marketplace and harm consumers," said Sharis A. Pozen, Acting Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division. "The division will work with its law enforcement partners to ensure that the real estate foreclosure auction process is fair and open so that consumers will benefit from competition."
U.S. Attorney Wagner said: "By rigging public auctions of foreclosed properties, the defendants who have pleaded guilty as a result of this investigation illegally manipulated the market for residential real estate. The Department of Justice is committed to improving the transparency and integrity of that market, and we will continue to investigate and prosecute those who would seek to undermine the market through such illegal activities."


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|16th April 2018, 04:06 PM
|#425950 / #1
redolent needling balm
Read my posts with the following stupid accent: Appalachia, CSA
Cat Mafia - Day 5
Ahhhh, OK, Day 5, as the MR Cat Town poop has really piled up. One of your number, a particularly astute denizen of investigatory elegance and birthing skill, while wading through it last night was unfortunately struck by oncoming traffic sliding through the dung of it. It's the saddest thing really. If only that pesky direwolf hadn't godkilled our doc. Nonetheless, Paddles has been hospitalised and there's every hope she will recover from such blatant MR Cat Town defecation.
MR Cats have pitched in for a lovely poop-free get-well statuary.
Mantisdreamz was Paddles, First Cat of New Zealand, the real-life now demised cat of New Zealand's Prime Minister, the Honourable Jacinda Ardern.
She was a Town Cop. A very Sane Town Cop.
Live Players:
Zeluvia is your Mayor.
This day is scheduled to end in 24 hours. Once again, FINAL voting is allowed, but there's no rush.
"She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside 'er." - MSG (of diva)
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I smell the STANK OF DEF!
|16th April 2018, 04:19 PM
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Read my posts with the following stupid accent: Canada
He's not just the last man. He's the last scum.
He even implied he already knew nostrum was Naïve in one of his last posts. How would Town know that for sure?
TBF I don't know how scum would know either, but town definitely had no certainty.
|16th April 2018, 04:21 PM
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Read my posts with the following stupid accent: Canada
You've played a good and careful game, hardly a slip. Well done.
|Yay from
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|16th April 2018, 04:38 PM
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rose tints my world and keeps me safe
The only way to know which cop was the real cop was to kill one of them. The scum kill answered that question.
It is possible that Zeluvia has fooled me, and if this is the way we end, I congratulate her on a perfect game.
Nostrum was very convincing too.
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|16th April 2018, 05:12 PM
|#425966 / #14
rose tints my world and keeps me safe
There is an alternative solution that nostrum is the last scum standing and has been faking her claim all along. This would provide a way for borealis to be Town, but it is pretty far fetched
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|16th April 2018, 06:16 PM
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Send Cash or Drugs
Read my posts with the following stupid accent: Evil Duckess
I lost a game cause I felt sorry for Aden and voted praying.
Nostrum has been convinced bor is town all game.
Sisters, there is a man in the room
##vote Longhair##
I am tired, I have been up all night with nightmares of Jiffy winning.
I know nostrum is tired.
No matter the outcome, this will make me happy.
|16th April 2018, 07:18 PM
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Send Cash or Drugs
Read my posts with the following stupid accent: Evil Duckess
##unvote Longhair##
OTOH, bor was very helpful yesterday. Helpful with Mantis's vote decision. Helpful with my guilt over LH. Honestly, I have no idea how anyone can read LH.
But he is sounding like paranoid town, and he was willing to die yesterday.
I am going to defer to Nostrum, she knows LH and Bor best : )
|16th April 2018, 07:32 PM
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too boring to be considered weird
1. jfc I hate mafia
2. Zel
spruce I was sure you'd have a sane cop in the game
wth LH? all of a sudden you come out with reams of analysis at the end of yesterday... including saying I was, at best, naive cop. At best? How would you know that, based on the info at hand? Plus, the added shade thrown was OTT
##vote LH##
my town read of bor stands because I know she'd never trick me amirite Fran
also jiffy would never hold a grudge amirite, girly ankles
I thought I was in a bad mood but it's been a few years so I think this is who I am now
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Shady Camera Widget
A full camera right on your homescreen!
This has never been done before!
Absolutely no root needed!
So, your on the subway, or walking and want to take a photo but don't want to open the camera app because everyone will see. What do you do? Shady Camera Widget is the ultimate solution to situations like this, your entire camera is now a widget on your homescreen. Shady camera widget takes full high definition photos, and gives you a preview directly on your homescreen filling the space of about an icon. The size is adjustable, so you can have it as small as 2x1 or as large as you'd like. Your photography can be concealed, your pics can be captured privately, and all from the super powerful and incredibly unique Shady Camera Widget.
This application is a widget, there is no icon, or application to open. Please refer to your devices instruction manual for more information about adding widgets to your homescreen.
Sprint phones WILL make a shutter sound, they have a privacy policy forcing manufacturers to uphold the shutter sound no matter what. ALL other carriers, and likely all other Android phones, there will be NO shutter sound.
Shady Camera Widget goes nicely with Shady Photo & Video Safe 4.0+ :-) Take your photos, and store them secretly. Take a peek at all the Shady brand products available on the Play Store today.
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|Lake Forest, Calif.
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|Santa Margarita Catholic HS
UC Santa Barbara
Placed third at the USC Trojan Invitational and fifth on the UCSB all-time list with a 400m hurdles time of 52.36...Part of the 4x400m relay squad that ran 3:11.95 to take second at the Cal/Nevada Meet and setting a new personal best...Ran 48.31 to take fourth in the 400m at the UCSD Triton Invitational...Placed 46th overall at the NCAA Preliminaries with a time of 54.90 in the 400m hurdles.
High School
Competed in the Trinity League of the CIF-Southern Section...Was the Trinity League Champion in the 110m hurdles and the 300m hurdles in 2009, and went on to capture the CIF Championship in the 300m hurdles...Was named the Trinity League Runner of the Year upon the season's conclusion...Also won the 300m hurdles at the Orange County Championships Invitational...Holds the Santa Margarita HS and Trinity League record in the 300m hurdles at 38.44...Also holds the Santa Margarita record in the 110 hurdles at 14.46.
The brother of teammate Ryan Martin (Gaucho class of '11)...Enjoys playing the piano.
Collegiate Career Bests 400m H - 52.36 - (USC Trojan Invitational, 3/20/2010) 4x400m relay - 3:11.95 (Cal/Nevada Meet, 3/28/2010) 400m - 48.31 (UCSD Triton Invitational, 4/24/2010)


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That pool of juice simmering around your turkey makes delicious gravy, but when cooled, congealed and poured down a drain, it can become a nasty, costly clog.
That pool of juice simmering around your turkey makes delicious gravy, but when cooled, congealed and poured down a drain, it can become a nasty, costly clog.
The Columbus Department of Public Utilities cautions that fats, oils and grease clog pipes in your house and create subterranean headaches citywide.
�It could end up congealing and coagulating and catch on something like a tree root and become a real problem,� said George Zonders, utilities spokesman. �It can cause backups into basements that will create a huge mess.�
Last year, utility crews responded to 12 significant snarls related to improper disposal, more than double the fixes in 2011.
Plumbing clogs made headlines in August when sewer workers in London, England, spent 10 days removing a so-called �fatberg� � a 15-ton lump of fat and residue found underground.
While Columbus hasn�t experienced elephant-size globs yet, each clog the city fixes costs about $1,500.
Three of last year�s clogs were found in residential neighborhoods. The city responded with thousands of door-hangers suggesting proper disposal methods, including waiting for the liquid to gel.
�Let it congeal, wipe it out with paper towels and throw it out,� Zonders said.
Adding cat litter or wood shavings to the container also helps absorb the mess and minimize the risk of leaks from your garbage.
If the clog stays in your pipes, the cost can be high as well, according to Water Works plumbing.
Food, in addition to grease, is the season�s main culprit.
�It�s the overload of food waste,� said David Specht, the company�s president.
Costs range from $150 to snake a drain to as much as $10,000 to reline a collapsed 6-inch drain that runs from your house to the sewer system.


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Cash Mobs Are Way Better At Helping Boost Local Businesses Than Flash Mobs
Who needs a crowd of people dancing to a pop song in an elaborately choregraphed public maneuver, designed only to get attention? Well, sure, flash mobs are fun to watch, sure, but cash mobs — large groups of people descending on local businesses to give sales a push — are a lot more productive in terms of helping a community.
CNBC says the trend started in Buffalo to help a wine retailer out in a tough spot, and now the phenomenon has spread across the country.
Cash mob organizers simply rally the troops via social media, or in some cases, get the word out to local news stations, and tell everyone which day and at what time to show up ready to spend some cash at a small business in the area. Then everyone goes shopping, the store gets a much-needed bit of retail oomph, and everyone wins. Of course, store owners are told ahead of time that they'll be mobbed, so as not to become overwhelmed.
One current example tipster Anne sent in to us features Brielle's Coffee and Tea Room in Independence, Ohio that has been in business for 18 years but has faced financial as well as personal setbacks for the owners recently.
In Brielle's case, FOX8 in Cleveland held a contest for local businesses to be the winners of a cash mob, and they lucked out. Shoppers will descend on the coffee shop Wednesday, Feb. 29 from 5 to 7:30 p.m., and hopefully, leave its registers ringing.
Want to start a cash mob in your area? Click here to check out these handy tips on how to do so or call your local news stations to suggest they start a campaign.
With a Tweet, Cash Mobs Rescue Local Businesses [CNBC.com]
Cash Mob Winner Announced [FOX8]
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Dave Hickey, one of the best-known American art and cultural critics working today, will present a lecture entitled Fort Worth: How Cowtown Became a Center for Art in the West at the Amon Carter Museum on Saturday, March 29, at 11 a.m. The lecture is in conjunction with the special exhibition Intimate Modernism: Fort Worth Circle Artists in the 1940s.
Admission to the lecture is free; visitors are asked to register by calling 817.989.5057.
Hickey is a native of Fort Worth. He has written for dozens of major American publications including Rolling Stone, Art News, Art in America, Artforum and Vanity Fair. His critical essays have been published in two volumes: The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (1993) and Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy (1997). He has been the subject of profiles in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, U.S. News and World Report and Texas Monthly, among others.
About the Fort Worth Circle, Hickey once wrote: "It is reassuring to me personally, and I would hope to others as well, just to know that for one swift decade in this part of the country a group of functioning, contemporary artists who believed in the seriousness of their endeavor, lived and flourished in a community which believed in them, attended their exhibitions, and purchased their work."
Hickey will share his insights on how the work of the Fort Worth Circle relates to other artistic and creative movements that were emerging during the same time period throughout the western United States. Intimate Modernism: Fort Worth Circle Artists in the 1940s will be on view through May 11.
At the Amon Carter Museum, visitors learn about this country's fascinating social and cultural history through great works of American art.


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GALVESTON � A Texas A&M University at Galveston professor is part of a diving team that descended 462 feet in a West Texas cave, believed to be the deepest underwater cave in the United States.
Tom Iliffe, professor of marine biology and one of the world�s most experienced cave diving scientists, led a diving team on a seven-day trip to explore, map and investigate the depths of Phantom Springs Cave, located near Balmorhea in West Texas. Team members went as deep as 462 feet and recorded the dive on cameras, but still did not find the end of the cave.
�There�s really no telling how deep it is or how far the cave goes,� Iliffe says of the Jan. 8 cave dive.
The team ended its dive in a tunnel 30-40 feet wide by 20 feet high that continued as far as their lights would penetrate. The only casualty of the dive was a $7,000 diving scooter that imploded due to the extreme pressure and sunk to the bottom in the deepest section of the cave where it still remains.
�This is also one of the longest underwater cave systems in the country,� Iliffe adds. �You have to swim horizontally for over a mile at an average depth of 30 feet before arriving at the spot where the cave passage begins to stairstep down, getting deeper and larger all the time. The cave water is significantly warmer than what would normally be expected for this area, thus suggesting this geothermally warmed water almost certainly originates from deep below the Earth�s surface.�
Iliffe�s team consisted of 10 expert divers coming from Texas, Tennessee and Florida. In addition to two deep divers, other team members specialized in cave mapping, video photography and lighting, and scientific investigations.
Phantom Springs Cave is located about 120 miles southwest of Midland. The nearest town is Balmorhea, population 435, and the cave is on land owned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
Few people have ever been in the waters of Phantom Springs Cave and a scientific permit to investigate its deep waters is not easy to obtain. The Bureau of Reclamation firmly restricts access to the cave for environmental reasons and to preserve the very sensitive ecosystem.
Iliffe and the team hope to return to Phantom Springs sometime later this year to continue mapping and exploring the cave and to identify various types of cave-adapted organisms.
�Divers have been exploring this cave for more than 30 years, but there are still parts of it that no one has entered,� he adds.
�It just goes on and on. No end has been found in either the deep sections of the upstream tunnel or, at the opposite end of the cave, far downstream where the passage size becomes much smaller and flow rates increase drastically. Both ends present different types of challenges � either diving to extreme depths upstream or fighting against strong currents to get back out of the downstream part of the cave.�
The project was supported by ADM Foundation, Karst Underwater Research of Florida and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
Iliffe has explored more than 1,500 underwater caves, more than anyone else in the world. During his 35-year career, he has discovered more than 300 species of marine life.
For more about the Phantom Cave expedition, go to www.admfoundation.org/projects/phantomcave2013/phantom2013.html
Information on Iliffe�s cave biology research can be found at www.cavebiology.com


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This certifies that Isaac Turner and S. S. Vance
were united by me in the
Holy Bonds of Matrimony ??? 29th day of ??? in the year of our Lord 1855
in presence of
Samuel Vance, J. B. Ellerge, S. A. Vance, M. A. Ellerge
Sadly, there are only four pages that remain of the Turner Family Bible. These page remnants were repaired by simple scotch tape and mounted on cardboard. Not the ideal manner of salvaging 160+ year-old documents. But it's done and this is all that's left.
By comparing the word "Turner" at the top of this page with Sarah Turner's signature on Isaac's Civil War pension documents, it appears that this Bible page was completed by Sarah herself. Most of the writing on the 3 other surviving pages also appears to be that of Sarah Turner.
Even though these documents are in poor condition, they do contain a wealth of information, most of it amassed "in the first person", as it were.
Thank you, Sarah!


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Name: Zinaida Minazuki
Age: 41
Hometown: Da Chao area
Current Residence: Seidou Leviathan shrine
Occupation: Shrine keeper
Birthdate: November 27th
Blood Type: AB
Zinaida is the keeper of one of the many small Leviathan shrines scattered around the base of Da Chao mountain, providing services such as divination, mediation of minor disputes, blessings and traditional medicine, as well as naming, marriage and funeral ceremonies for those too poor to afford them at one of the grander temples.
Like other Leviathan priests and priestesses she is trained in the use of materia, especially healing and protective forms but also summons. However, as is common in peacetime she has had no call to perform a summoning since her initiation many decades ago.


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Why Is Katie Couric Promoting Vaccine Skeptics?
Why Is Katie Couric Promoting Vaccine Skeptics?
When a former hard-hitting news anchor's daytime talk show suffers dangerously slipping ratings, what's the next step? If it's Katie Couric, the answer is to trade a history of responsible reporting for irresponsible scaremongering. In her segment last week on the HPV vaccine, Couric delivered a blow to both public health and her image. The question now is what Couric – if she's willing – can do to repair the damage.
It's a sad turn of events for Couric, once known for drawing attention to public health issues such as colon cancer, which killed her husband. The former CBS anchor, soon headed for Yahoo! News, is now scaring the public away from a vaccine that actually prevents other kinds of cancer.
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Last Wednesday's segment focused on Gardasil, a vaccine licensed by the FDA to prevent human papillomavirus (HPV), the sexually transmitted infection responsible for 26,000 cases of cervical, oral, penile and anal cancers a year. Almost a decade of data, covering 50 million administrated doses, supports the vaccine's safety and effectiveness. The handful of reports of serious events happening after vaccination (including death and severe disability) have been investigated and determined to be unrelated to the vaccine. But you wouldn't think as much if you watched the show.
Couric unwittingly captured the core problem with her episode when she prefaced a question to a guest with this gem: "We've obviously heard two different sides about the HPV vaccine, and I think for parents watching, it's probably still rather confusing when you hear these heartbreaking stories that these families have endured." The irony lay in the fact that Couric herself exacerbated the confusion, abdicating her responsibility as a journalist to present the facts about the vaccine unambiguously to her audience.
On one hand, the episode may be precisely what " Katie insiders" had in mind when they complained in the Hollywood Reporter back in October that she had "refused to shape shows with softer features to appeal to daytime's key 25-to-54-year-old female demo, insisting instead on the kind of harder-edged interviews she enjoyed on Today and her stint as anchor of CBS Evening News." Indeed, the show boasted Oprah-worthy heartbreaking stories of girls who were supposedly killed or seriously injured by the vaccine. And Couric certainly went softer, leaving her guests' dubious claims unchallenged.
On the other hand, Couric may have irreparably damaged her image along with the harm she visited on public health. Time's Alexandra Sifferlin asked if Couric would become the next Jenny McCarthy, famous for promoting pseudoscientific anti-vaccine views. Multiple Forbes columnists, Slate writers, Salon and others slammed the episode, cataloguing its inaccuracies and correcting its misinformation.
Yet the show's response to the backlash–claiming to present "the facts supporting the potential of the vaccine" and a desire "to share multiple viewpoints"—offered no apologies. Now Couric confronts a crossroads of sorts: Does she take the path from respected journalist to sensationalistic tabloid star? Or does she step back and salvage her reputation?
It helps to understand what sins Couric committed in an episode offering an almost textbook example of false balance, the practice of presenting "both sides" of an issue as though they have equally valid evidence when, in fact, one has a clearly established evidence base that the other lacks. (Think of inviting 9/11 Truthers to join a show featuring 9/11 victims' family members.) Media coverage of vaccines has a particularly sordid history of false balance already, but Couric tipped the scale toward the "side" without evidence, letting emotion outweigh facts.
One guest tearfully told of her daughter's death, which the mother blamed on the vaccine. Then a mother-daughter couple (founders of an anti-vaccine website) told their harrowing journey supposedly caused by the vaccine. After assigning a "controversy" where none existed with the episode title, "The HPV Controversy," Couric drummed up more fear with the subtitles: "Was the HPV Vaccine Responsible for One Girl's Death?" and "Is the HPV Vaccine Safe?" As Michael Hiltzik noted at the LA Times, "Merely to ask the questions is to validate them."
In the segment, Couric did not demand evidence to show the vaccine actually caused the problems (and no evidence to date substantiates the possibility), and the mothers offered only vague assertions. Not that Couric seemed to mind: It's been long established that emotional anecdotes trump facts and figures in the human mind—a trick of our amygdalae that can skew the risk-benefit calculus we make about issues such as vaccines.


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Citigroup has dropped Vodafone from its list of top European stocks, due to uncertainty about the fallout from its multi-billion dollar deal with Verizon.
The bank's list of its top European stock picks, penned by equity analysts Elise Badoy and Jonathan Stubbs, came just days after the U.K. telecoms giant confirmed the $130 billion sale of its stake in Verizon Wireless.
"We see a risk that Vodafone shares could be held back near-term, as some investors are put off by having to manage their exit from the Verizon exposure," the analysts said.
However,they retained a buy rating on the stock, adding: "We see prospects for an improving business outlook for Vodafone in Europe."
(Read more: Why $130 billionVerizon-Vodafone deal makes sense)
Citigroup also removed Syngenta, BSkyB and Sanofi from its list of top picks, adding ING, Linde, Renault and Shire Pharmaceuticals instead.
The bank was bullish on Europe,saying the economic climate, while tepid, had improved considerably over the past 6-to-12 months, and that strong business activity data have confirmed a pick-up in activity across the continent.
(Read More: Don't be afraid, recovery takes time: Soc Gen CEO)
Given this environment, the analysts said that European equities were attractive relative to bonds, arguing that they were"no longer so cheap, but also not expensive".
Notably, Citigroup said this month's German elections were low down on its"worry list", with emerging market difficulties and U.S. tapering more of a concern. Emerging markets, in particular, remained a real worry: "While macro risks have been reducing and macro data improving in Europe, the opposite has been happening in emerging markets."
Citigroup said that it lowered its growth outlook for emerging markets (EM) progressively over the last 18 months. "Various EM countries remain vulnerable to the combined effects of China's slowdown, modest DM (developed market) growth and the probably scaling back of U.S. QE (quantitative easing)."
As such, Citigroup said it favored European stocks with less exposure to these countries.
(Read more: Vodafone's Verizon deal has left some shareholders with a big headache)


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Yan Cao , Associate Professor
of Mathematical Sciences
University of Texas at Dallas
P.O. Box 830688, EC 35
Richardson TX 75083-0688
Tel: (972)883-6458
Email: yan 'dot' cao 'at' utdallas 'dot' edu
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 2003. Advisor: Prof. David Mumford
M. Sc. in Mathematics, University of Iowa, 1997.
B. S. in Computational Mathematics, Peking University, 1996.
2006/08-present University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Mathematical Sciences
2003/07-2006/07 Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Center of Imaging Sciences
My research interests lie in the general areas of computer vision and pattern theory, especially biomedical applications. My current research is focused on shape analysis and shape models in two and three dimensions. People can recognize the same or similar shapes in any circumstance, and they have a good intuition on what is the main structure and what is the variation of a shape. We want the computer to do the same thing. There is a lot of mathematics to be done to achieve this goal. The theory in three dimensions is especially challenging. In two dimensions, the medial axis and the geometric heat equation are powerful tools, but both of these are less satisfactory in three dimensions. Understanding the geometry of three-dimensional shapes still presents many problems.
Medical image analysis, computational anatomy
Computer vision, pattern theory
Shape analysis and shape models
Geometric PDE
Selected Publications
Math 6390: Math Methods in Image Analysis (Fall 2006, 2009)


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Telltale Games' latest title, The Walking Dead, has garnered a lot of attention in the past year, and for good reason. The game offers an unflinchingly brutal take on the point-and-click adventure genre while capitalizing on a well-established intellectual property with poise and respect. For those unaware, The Walking Dead is a a downloadable (and, recently, disc-based) title that follows the story of Lee Everett, a history teacher from Atlanta charged with murdering a state senator who was having an affair with Lee's wife. Lucky(?) for Lee, the zombie apocalypse strikes, and the Macon native is thrust into a full-blown quest for survival. Lee encounters other survivors on his journey over the course of five separate episodes, and finds himself making a number of difficult decisions that influence the game in meaningful (if not fundamentally different) ways.
Let me first preface this article by stating that I absolutely love The Walking Dead as a franchise, and I believe that Telltale Games nailed the atmosphere. The first season of TWD is an engaging, immersive, and incredibly gripping tale that is written so masterfully that it's hard to find fault with it at all. The game wields choice like a weapon against your emotions, and forces the player to decide between options whose outcomes often yield traumatizing and painful outcomes.
Yes, The Walking Dead emphasizes the notion that games that typically feature choice often settle for black-and-white options that fail to provide any truly difficult decision-making. Far too often are choice-driven titles polarizing players into clean-cut categories with good and evil choices that essentially boil down to role-playing as a saint or a monster, with tangible incentives usually offered for the latter in the hopes of generating a clash between players' ethics and pragmatics.
Suffice it to say, such an approach fails to inspire any sort of real agency when it comes to choice. Mass Effect, Fable, and Fallout all market choice as a gameplay mechanic, when it reality, each franchise merely utilizes it as a cheap gimmick to push for "immersion". Choice can take an amazing experience to an all-new level of engagement, or cheapen it through meaningless, shallow decisions that ultimately feel like wasted development time.
Choice needs to be permanent, meaningful, and ambiguous. It needs to be a case of lose-lose or win-win in any given scenario. You shouldn't be able to immediately discern the consequences of your actions after pressing A or B. The Walking Dead understands this, and that is why it succeeds. Some of your choices have obvious, apparent ramifications with long-lasting and unknown effects, while others influence your interactions with group members and their perception of you.
The latter concept only works because of the subtle and understated characterization in The Walking Dead. Archetypes are nonexistent, and every character you come into contact with has a personality all their own. It's an approach that works marvelously well, and makes the unpredictability of each dialogue choice carry substantial weight. You don't have to try to like any of the characters: you either do, or you don't, and the way you speak to people reflects how you, as a player, feel about them to everyone around you. This has been done in other games, but stereotypical characters and archetypes make it easy for players to predict potential outcomes of their actions. In The Walking Dead, every new face you meet is a new mystery to unravel and discover, and the choices you make help you uncover more about them if you care to do so.
Of course, The Walking Dead is limited in its ability to allow for truly branching paths, but the illusion of choice that it creates is more compelling than any other game on the market. Maybe it's the established fiction of the franchise, or maybe it's just the way Telltale Games does things, but The Walking Dead is an experience that proves how important choice can be in video games, and just how expertly it can be done.


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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Terry Burlington
The Burlington from Terry Bicycles made its debut recently at the 2011 Interbike. Want to have a better look? Velouria of Lovely Bicycle has a nice photo of the Interbike display bike here. The Burlington is expected to be available in stores in late December and the MSRP is $749.
The Burlington (Terry is based in Burlington, Vermont) looks like a class act... it comes with fenders and a rear rack, both painted to match the frame. It also includes a kickstand, matching 26 x 1.5 tires, and a bell. Terry opted to go with a Shimano Altus 8-speed rear derailer rather than an internal gear hub. Here are the specs (click on the photo to make it big):
Essentially, The Burlington looks to be an upright, comfy, steel city ride. Terry's slogan for The Burlington is "Ditch the car and go green on our new commuting bike." The bike itself is green, deep evergreen, but it will also be available in pearl.
Georgena Terry founded Terry Bicycles as a brand of bikes that fit women. Women, on average, are smaller than men, and Terry typically offers smaller sizes. The Burlington will be available as small as 41 cm. Nevertheless, men can ride this bike, too, although they may want to swap the Terry Liberator saddle for something else (Terry is famous for its saddles that accommodate women's anatomy, but they sell men's saddles as well).
Still, it's great to see commuter bikes marketed specifically to women. There really aren't that many (Metaefficient had a nice roundup in 2010). Just as there is a gender gap in the sport of cycling, and there's a gender gap when it comes to riding bicycles for transportation. Elly Blue has an interesting commentary on the subject. With The Burlington, Terry is offering an answer of its own.
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OAKHURST >> Authorities say a wildfire north of Bakersfield burning in steep terrain has destroyed eight homes and is threatening more than a thousand others.
Kern County Fire Capt. Derek Tisinger says the blaze near Lake Isabella is 15 percent contained Wednesday after scorching some 5 square miles, or roughly 3,400 acres. Firefighters stopped the spread of the flames on Tuesday and continued building lines Wednesday.
Tisinger says eight single-family homes have been destroyed since the fire broke out on Monday.
Some 1,500 homes in the Wofford Heights and Kernville areas remain threatened. Residents of about 200 of those homes are under evacuation orders.
The cause of the fire about 50 miles north of Bakersfield is under investigation.


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According to Tommy Dee the Knicks will be working out the following players on Tuesday June 7.
Norris Cole, G, 6-2, 170, Cleveland State, senior
Gary Flowers, F, 6-8, 214, Southern Mississippi, senior
Josh Harrellson, F, 6-10, 275, Kentucky, senior
Demetri McCamey, G, 6-3, 205, Illinois, senior
Malcolm Thomas, F, 6-9, 220, San Diego State, senior
Nikola Vucevic, F, 6-10, 240, Southern California, junior
Cole is a point guard from Cleveland State that quietly averaged 21 points a game last season. I like this guy in that he's not overly athletic but he's got a good basketball IQ and he's a good shooter. I think he could be a steal in the early 2nd round. I don't like Gary Flowers. He's a tweener, he has to add size and he's had off court issues. I don't think he'll be drafted but you never know. I really like Josh Harrellson, he reminds me of Josh McRoberts from Indiana. I would definitely condone the Knicks purchasing his rights in the 2nd round. He's a good rebounder and a great energy guy. He's the kind of Nick Collison type player that I think every team needs. It'll be interesting to see where he goes. Demetri McCamey is a big point guard that is somewhat raw but he's got the frame to at least be an excellent defender if not a good point guard in the NBA. He has a lot of range on his jump shot but he's not a great athlete. He'll probably be a 2nd round pick, I assume around the 45-50th selection. I like Malcolm Thomas a lot. While he's undersized at 6-9, he's got a 7'1 wingspan and a really good motor. He's almost tailor made for what the Knicks need. He's a great defender, a great athlete, and a very solid rebounder. His scoring is decent although he has a weak jump shot. He'd be another great player for the Knicks to acquire in the 2nd round if the price is right.
If I was picking for New York with the 17th selection, I would take a long hard look at Nikola Vucevic from USC. ESPN has him listed as a 7 footer with a 7'5 wingspan. He reminds me a lot of Andrea Bargnani except that he's also a good rebounder and defender as well. He really came into his own last season averaging 17 ppg and 10 boards. I think he'd be a real nice fit either coming off the bench or next to Stoudemire in the starting lineup. At 260 pounds, I believe he has the size to play center and his toughness in the post will come with time.
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Has DRM ever prevented you from doing what you wanted with a piece of digital media you own? | Opensource.com
Has DRM ever prevented you from doing what you wanted with a piece of digital media you own?
Colin Dodd (Red Hat) 08 Nov 2011
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89 votes tallied
Yes. I'll tell you all about it in the comments.
68 votes
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Digital rights management has a long history of not quite working, failing to stop piracy, and sometimes punishing legitimate users (and owners) of digital media.
But has it ever stopped you from
doing anything you wanted to do with a song, an e-book, a video? Does DRM really infringe on the average person's right to fair use of copyrighted material?
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Tikirocks on 08 Nov 2011 Permalink
Because I have a computer that only runs Ubuntu. I am restricted by the view of content that I can see. DRM requires code that is not given to open source programs and therefore does not run it. I bought series and movies on Amazon only available by DRM that I can't download, I that is money that I lost because they can return that content. I have a Kobo ereader that can't use DRM content and again restricting the content that I either want to pay or paided already.
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Spayder25 on 08 Nov 2011 Permalink
Some years ago, I've been forced to be hackish to watch a DVD on my PC, and from time to time to use my old Samsung PMP (YP-T9).
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Nushio-too-lazy-to-login on 08 Nov 2011 Permalink
I can't watch Netflix on Linux because although Silverlight / Moonlight is available, the stupid Microsoft DRM thing isn't. Oh, then there's the Nintendo Wii. I bought a bunch of Virtual Console games, my Wii kinda died, and I can't transfer / re-download the games I legally purchased.
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Yes, yes, and yes. Music downloads that didn't transfer from one machine to another, book downloads that got locked up when I switched devices, and a massive harddrive wipeout that toasted a TON of stuff--having to find and re-acquire everything is pain enough, without having to go several rounds with whatever service it is to convince them that, yes, you have rights to that content. And most places--well, let's just say there's a reason I quickly stopped using the iTunes store...
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Travis Kepley on 08 Nov 2011 Permalink
Yes, absolutely. When Star Wars was first released on DVD, it would not play in region free players. I see this as a form of DRM, though not like other schemes. So therefore I was unable to play the movie in Linux, which was my only DVD player at the time (poor college student!). Netflix in Linux... Several videogames have refused to play without an internet connection. Dumb stuff. Saddest part is that each of these can be circumvented by illegally obtaining the content. Why should the barrier for purchasing be so significantly higher than the barrier for pirating?
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Rui Seabra on 08 Nov 2011 Permalink
I'm a Radiohead fan. Guess which album I don't have? (Hail to the Thief was released in drm disc ; those are not CDs).
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Anthony Papillion on 08 Nov 2011 Permalink
I voted 'no' in this poll even though I have run into a few DRM headaches in the past. The reason I voted no is because I look at DRM a little differently than some people. When I come across a content provider that protects their content via DRM, I automatically view that provider as someone who 1) is an adversary and 2) who doesn't value my business very much. So, instead of going through hoops to use the content (some people even specifically have virtual environment set up JUST to use protected content!), I simply choose not to do business with that provider. If they don't value my business, then they don't deserve it in the first place.
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mths on 08 Nov 2011 Permalink
Running linux I cannot watch all media online. I has also stopped me from buying music or video at some occasions. Does the 'this content is not available in your region' that some websites sometimes display count? That has bothered me sometimes.
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John Brier on 08 Nov 2011 Permalink
I'd be more surprised if people said DRM had *never* prevented them from doing something they wanted. My sister had all her music in iTunes on a Mac. This was before they started selling non-DRM music. She wanted to move that music from one system to another but had already exhausted the number of machines that could be authenticated to her iTunes account. I forget the details, but she ended up burning it all to mp3 CDs and reimporting it. This is transcoding and reduces the quality, and also is obviously a pain in the butt.
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Ruth on 16 Nov 2011 Permalink
I assume that people who say they've never had a DRM problem don't know what it is.
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Jozen on 11 Nov 2011 Permalink
I agree w "Anthony", I also avoid DRM like the plague, out of principle... Its often easy to get around, but thats not the point. If it doesnt survive in a FOSS environment, I dont need it.
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Stephan Sokolow on 16 Nov 2011 Permalink
I voted "no" for partly the same reason as Anthony Papillion. DRM has never gotten in my way because my tastes are such that I've almost never encountered DRM and, in the few cases I have, I've just not given that company my business.
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Mikelo on 17 Nov 2011 Permalink
My dad's whole music library on his computer was bought before non-DRM music was offered. He got a new computer and transferred his music and was never able to listen to it again. I have a few songs like that, too. After they stopped working, I just stopped anything having to do with legal music downloads and went exclusively to open licensed music.
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What would YOU use a henge for?
I have ~45 apps I downloaded onto my Motorola Droid.
About half of those see constant use, the rest are occasional use or apps that only have use in uncommon circumstances.
I don't understand why people would even have these phones if they weren't using them to they extent they could be, such as I do.
I've had the phone since it's release and I still check the Market for new useful apps.
Don't tend to find as many these days, but I still look.
Hey, we're not all rednecks. Just everybody outside of Manchester and north.
I mean, come on, we gave the world the..uh...Segway...
Also, WMUR sucks.
One would note that Youtube has all sorts of videos with all kinds of interviews, angles and diagrams of the 9/11 attacks.
Coincidence? I think not!
One would note that Youtube has all sorts of videos with all kinds of interviews, angles and diagrams of the 9/11 attacks.
Coincidence? I think not!
Whats the likelihood of an "edit" function appearing on this blog? My comment there needs it badly... :P
Just the excerpt you have there reads to me as him addressing the fact that the more a magazine or newspaper relies on advertising, the more it's content is going to be controlled by the advertisers.
If the magazine has a great story it knows would cause major advertisers to pull from it's magazine in protest and they are the magazines only income, it's probably not going to publish the story.
However, the more a magazine or newspaper relies on pay directly from readers, the bigger the risks it can on it's advertisers. If its story is really good and results in more readership and thus more income the readers regularly it can take bigger risks on stories for the benefit of the readers.
It leaves the magazine more in control of the moral compass of it's own content as well as better able to react to what the reader's want. Thus, a better paper all around.
It seems to me you're both right, in that advertising can/does control too much of the content of most of our media, to it's detriment and that magazines/newspapers/etc could try to stick their necks out and come up with new ways of getting revenue that don't involve just the two options he spoke of.
You're exactly right! That's not what they were meant for, but that's what major companies do. It's just good business.
"In this instance, the rule about "no cameras or recording devices in locker rooms" is to maintain privacy. Even though the rule was violated in this circumstance, the end result was the protection of personal privacy for the students, as well as the protection of their personal items.
Punishing the students in any way, even if it's a simple "don't take pictures", does not further the goal, it only protects the rule."
Exactly, because, as you said, everything in the world is not simple as "don't do bad things". Enforcing the rule predictably and continuously sets the standard that there's no wiggle room to avoid the rule. THAT protects privacy, by protecting the rule protecting privacy. When the ends justify the means and individual moral compasses outweigh the agreed upon rules, then you don't have "rules" anymore, you have "guidelines" and good luck with that.
You mean the rules set down by the society this takes place in, right?
Try as you might, AC, you cannot develop rules that will consistently line up with everyone's individual concepts of "good", or any other moral and entirely subjective constructs.
If the rules aren't enforced consistently and equally they lose their value. As a potential example; if these kids were not punished, a potential and likely lesson to them would be that it's possible to avoid the consequences of the rules if they can merely come up with a good enough excuse when caught. On the other hand, if the kids know the rules will be enforced even if they DID have a "moral reason" then they will be more likely to save such exploits for those occasions exclusively.
And that gets to what the rules are really about, not morality, but order. They are, in their ever evolving (and sometimes questionable) state, the best middle-ground we have for a system to try to allow our infinite number of perspectives to attempt to live and cooperate together.
The different levels of consequences that can be applied for breaking the rules is the design where we get to recognize and react to the difference between these kids looking for a thief and if someone set up a camera specifically to invade student's privacy.
I'm really starting to ramble, I could go on and on about this. Suffices to say you're an idiot.
Possibility? The rule is no recording in the locker room. It's not "no recording in the locker room - sometimes" or "recording allowed so far as you don't think your spoiling anyone's privacy". It's no recording in the locker room, ever.
What the kid's are learning is consistency and equal treatment of the rules and accepting the consequences of their actions. They should be seeing it in two ways; they get punished and the teacher gets let go.
They should also be learning that sometimes doing the right thing doesn't mean getting a reward.
I was one time actually stopped by a couple of guys who had themselves made up to try to seem like cops. This allowed them to get up close to me where they interrogated me at gun point for all my personal information and tried to take my bike. Some people showed up and the guys abandoned their cause, but not without taking some pot shots at me. They had "official sounding" speak, walkie-talkies, guns but no believable badges, even from a distance.
Nobody, especially an officer, should expect anyone to realize you're an officer simply because you have a weapon and told someone to stop. They should be identifying themselves and presenting a badge first, until then you're just an aggressive stranger with a fatal weapon.
I probably would've bailed on this officer soon as I saw he was getting out with a gun.
I always knew GameSpy was rotten to the core.
Ooooo, maybe someone could patent the method for maintaining a system of patents.
Or if hes read it.
"(Although come to think of it, neither side would let me on the jury once they found out what I've published.)"
Exactly. Jurors are tested by both sides for the knowledge they bring in.
I don't think jurors should be allowed to search the internet about the case they are on for, I think they risk a higher chance of being contaminated either by unfairly biased opinion presented as fact or by outright lies.
I don't support active ISP censorship though...sets a bad precedent for the role of an ISP.
No, you shouldn't be allowed to check the net if that is correct. That's the oppositions job to find a professional to verify/disprove that.
It is not the point of the jury to play police investigator, it is their role to make a judgment on the presented evidence only.
This prevents all kinds of problems, such as jurors being swayed by baseless rumors among the public, by evidence the public knows about that won't make it into court because it was, for example, illegally obtained, etc., etc..
Furthermore, I think its really naive for anyone to assume these jurors would be going to the net and always finding clearly credible evidence/facts they could use in their decision.
My penmanship sucks.
I can't do more than two short sentences without getting some extreme wrist cramps.
The only writing I've done by hand in over ten years (except in a few short extenuating circumstances) is my signature.
I even use Notepad instead of an actual notepad.
So...they're telling people they're going to live (excuse me, eat) like most their national kinsmen do until they are given lots of money. And they're going to be angry about it.
That's a well thought out plan.