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2013: Richard "Dick" Trickle, who parlayed a legendary reputation as a short-track driver into a full-time career on stock car racing's biggest stages in the 1990s, dies at age 71 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Boger City, North Carolina. Though Trickle never managed a victory in NASCAR's premier Sprint Cup series, he did have 15 top-five finishes and won two Nationwide Series races before his retirement in 2002. He's seen here (left) being being interviewed as the grand marshall for the 2012 Slinger Nationals race. [ + - ]
2011: The space shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-134, its 25th and final mission into space. The flight, which delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier to the international space station, was the penultimate mission of NASA's shuttle program. [ + - ]
2010: Rock and heavy metal singer-songwriter Ronnie James Dio, best known for his work with Black Sabbath and his own band Dio, dies of stomach cancer at the age of 67 in Los Angeles. Dio was also known for his powerful singing voice and for popularizing the "metal horns" hand gesture in heavy metal. [ + - ]
2002: The remains of kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl are unearthed in Pakistan. Pearl, who had gone to Karachi, Pakistan, as part of an investigation into the alleged links between "Shoe Bomber" Richard Reid and Al-Qaeda, was kidnapped on Jan. 23, 2002, and beheaded by his captors nine days later. In March 2007, at a closed military hearing in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said that he had personally beheaded Pearl. [ + - ]
2002: "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones," the second of George Lucas' prequels to the original "Star Wars" trilogy, premieres in theaters. The film, starring Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen, received mixed reviews but was a box office success, earning nearly $650 million worldwide. [ + - ]
2000: Britney Spears releases her second album, "Oops!..I Did It Again." The album debuted on top of the U.S. Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 1.3 million copies, breaking the previous SoundScan record for the highest debut-week album sales by a solo artist. [ + - ]
1991: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress, becoming the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress. [ + - ]
1990: Singer, dancer and actor Sammy Davis Jr., known for his performances on Broadway and in Las Vegas and for being a member of Frank Sinatra's "Rat Pack," dies of throat cancer at the age of 64 in Beverly Hills, California. [ + - ]
1990: Jim Henson, the puppeteer and director best known as the creator of The Muppets, dies of organ failure resulting from a severe streptococcal infection at the age of 53 in New York City. As a puppeteer, Henson performed in various television programs, such as "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," films such as "The Muppet Movie" and "The Great Muppet Caper," and created advanced puppets for projects like "Fraggle Rock," "The Dark Crystal" and "Labyrinth." [ + - ]
1988: A report by United States Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine. [ + - ]
1986: The action film "Top Gun," starring Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards and Tom Skerritt, and directed by Tony Scott, premieres in theaters. The movie would prove to be an instant success, earning $177 million in the United States and more than $353 million worldwide to become the highest grossing film of 1986. [ + - ]
1986: Actress Megan Fox, best known for the first two "Transformers" live action movies and other movies such as "Jennifer's Body" and "Jonah Hex," is born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. [ + - ]
1985: Actress Margaret Hamilton, best known for playing the malevolent Miss Almira Gulch and the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 musical "The Wizard of Oz," dies in her sleep following a heart attack at the age of 82 in Salisbury, Connecticut. In later years, Hamilton made frequent cameo appearances on television sitcoms and commercials. She also gained recognition for her work as an advocate of causes designed to benefit children and animals, and, as a former schoolteacher, retained a lifelong commitment to public education. [ + - ]
1984: Performance artist and actor Andy Kaufman, known for his elaborate hoaxes and pranks, dies from kidney failure brought on by lung cancer at the age of 35 in West Hollywood, California. He found mainstream success thanks to his role of Latka on the sitcom "Taxi," as seen here in this promotional photo with co-star Carol Kane. [ + - ]
1984: Prince's song "When Doves Cry" is released. The lead single from his 1984 album "Purple Rain," the song became a worldwide hit and his first American No. 1 single, topping the charts for five weeks. [ + - ]
1975: Japanese mountain-climber Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. She's seen here in 1985 climbing Ismoil Somoni Peak. [ + - ]
1973: Actress Tori Spelling, best known for the television drama "Beverly Hills, 90210," is born in Los Angeles, California. [ + - ]
1970: Tennis Hall of Famer Gabriela Sabatini, one of the leading players on the women's circuit in the late-1980s and early-1990s, is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sabatini won the women's singles title at the U.S. Open in 1990, the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1988, two WTA Tour Championships in 1988 and 1994, and a silver medal at the 1988 Olympic Games. She won 27 titles in her career, compiled a record of 632-189 and peaked at a No. 3 ranking in early 1989. [ + - ]
1969: Actor David Boreanaz, best known for the TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Angel," "Bones" and "SEAL Team," is born in Buffalo, New York. [ + - ]
1969: Actress Tracey Gold, best known for playing Carol Seaver on the 1980s sitcom "Growing Pains," is born Tracey Claire Fisher in New York City. [ + - ]
1966: Bob Dylan releases "Blonde on Blonde," one of the first double album in rock music. The album, which features songs such as "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35," "I Want You," "Just Like a Woman" and "Visions of Johanna," would peak at No. 9 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and reach No. 3 in the United Kingdom. [ + - ]
1966: The Beach Boys album "Pet Sounds" is released. The album, which included songs like "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and "God Only Knows," has since been recognized as one of the most influential records in the history of popular music and one of the best albums of the 1960s. It would reach No. 10 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. [ + - ]
1966: Singer-songwriter, dancer and actress Janet Jackson, one of the best-selling artists in the history of contemporary music, is born in Gary, Indiana. Jackson, the youngest child of the Jackson family, began her career performing on the the TV variety show "The Jacksons" and went on to act on the TV series "Good Times," "Diff'rent Strokes" and "Fame" in the '70s and '80s. She released her first album in the early 1980s and is known for hit songs such as "Nasty," "When I Think Of You," "Miss You Much," "Rhythm Nation," "Escapade," "Love Will Never Do (Without You)," "That's the Way Love Goes," "Together Again" and "All for You." She's also continued to occasionally act, appearing in movies such as "Poetic Justice," "Nutty Professor II: The Klumps" and "Why Did I Get Married?" [ + - ]
1965: SpaghettiOs are introduced by Franco-American food company. [ + - ]
1965: Rock musician and songwriter Krist Novoselic, best known for being the bassist and co-founder of the grunge band Nirvana, is born in Compton, California. [ + - ]
1963: After 22 Earth orbits, L. Gordon Cooper returns to Earth by splashing down in the Mercury-Atlas 9 capsule, ending Project Mercury. Having spent more than 30 hours in space, Cooper became the first American to spend more than a day in space. [ + - ]
1960: Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. [ + - ]
1959: Actress Mare Winningham, best known for movies such as "St. Elmo's Fire," "Turner & Hooch" and "Georgia," is born Mary Megan Winningham in Phoenix, Arizona. Winningham earned an Oscar nomination for "Georgia" and has won two Emmy Awards out of eight nominations. [ + - ]
1957: Eliot Ness, the American federal agent famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago as the leader of a team of law enforcement agents nicknamed The Untouchables, dies of a heart attack at the age of 54 in Coudersport, Pennsylvania. [ + - ]
1956: H. B. Reese, the candymaker who created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, dies of a heart attack in West Palm Beach, Florida, eight days before his 77th birthday. [ + - ]
1955: Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Jack Morris, who pitched for four World Series champions during his 18-year major-league career, is born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Morris (seen here in 2012) won titles with the Detroit Tigers in 1984, with the Minnesota Twins in 1991, and with the Toronto Blue Jays in 1992 and 1993. A five-time MLB All-Star, he also pitched a no-hitter in 1984, won 254 games in his career, struck out 2,478 batters and was named the World Series MVP in 1991. [ + - ]
1955: Actress Debra Winger, known for her Oscar-nominated performances in "An Officer and a Gentleman," "Terms of Endearment" and "Shadowlands," and for other roles in movies such as "Urban Cowboy" and "Legal Eagles," is born Mary Debra Winger in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. [ + - ]
1953: Actor Pierce Brosnan, best known for portraying British super spy James Bond in four movies between 1995 and 2002, is born in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland. Brosnan, who played Bond in "GoldenEye," "Tomorrow Never Dies," "The World is Not Enough" and "Die Another Day," is also known for starring in the 1980s TV series "Remington Steele" and has also appeared in movies like "Mrs. Doubtfire," "Mars Attacks!," "The Tailor of Panama" and "The Matador." [ + - ]
1944: Actor Danny Trejo, best known for his roles in movies like "Heat," "Con Air," "Desperado" and "Machete," is born in Los Angeles. [ + - ]
1943: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising comes to an end with the Nazis officially finishing their operation to liquidate the ghetto in German-occupied Poland. The uprising, the largest single revolt by the Jews during World War II, began on April 19, 1943, with a resistance rising up against Nazi efforts to transport the ghetto's remaining Jewish population to Treblinka extermination camp. [ + - ]
1937: Actress Yvonne Craig, best known for her role as Batgirl from the 1960s TV series "Batman," is born in Taylorville, Illinois. She died of breast cancer at age 78 on Aug. 17, 2015. [ + - ]
1929: During a private banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, the first Academy Awards are handed out. Statuettes were handed out in 12 categories during the 15-minute ceremony, honoring artists, directors and others in the filmmaking industry for their works during the 1927–1928 period. "Wings," a 1927 silent film about two World War I fighter pilot friends, won for "Outstanding Picture," which would later be renamed Best Picture. [ + - ]
1920: Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as a saint in Rome, Italy. [ + - ]
1919: Pianist and singer Liberace, at one time the highest-paid entertainer in the world, is born W?adziu Valentino Liberace in West Allis, Wisconsin. The musician, who died of pneumonia caused by AIDS on Feb. 4, 1987, was as famous for his flamboyant costumes and stage manner as he was for his music. [ + - ]
1918: The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It would be repealed less than two years later. [ + - ]
1912: Author, historian, actor, and broadcaster Louis "Studs" Terkel is born in New York City. Terkel won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for "The Good War" and is also known for his oral histories of common Americans and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago. He died at age 96 on Oct. 31, 2008. [ + - ]
1909: Actress Margaret Sullavan, best known for her roles in movies such as "Three Comrades," "The Shopworn Angel" and "The Shop Around the Corner" (pictured with James Stewart and Frank Morgan), is born in Norfolk, Virginia. Sullavan, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Three Comrades," died of an overdose of barbiturates at the age of 50 on Jan. 1, 1960. [ + - ]
1905: Actor Henry Fonda, the Hollywood legend who starred in such movies as "The Grapes of Wrath," "The Ox-Bow Incident," "Mister Roberts," "12 Angry Men" and "On Golden Pond," is born in Grand Island, Nebraska. Fonda, who won a Best Actor Oscar for "On Golden Pond" and was also nominated for "The Grapes of Wrath," was also the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daughter Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda and granddaughter Bridget Fonda. He died of heart disease at age 77 on Aug. 12, 1982. [ + - ]
1868: The U.S. Senate acquits President Andrew Johnson of one of the articles of impeachment against him. In the first impeachment in history of a sitting United States president, the U.S. House of Representatives had impeached Johnson on Feb. 28, primarily charging him with violation of the Tenure of Office Act by removing Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton from office and replacing him with Maj. Gen. Lorenzo Thomas. The Senate vote on that charge was 35-19, one vote less than the required two-thirds tally to remove Johnson from office. Two more articles of impeachment would go down by the same margin 10 days later before Johnson's opponents gave up and dismissed the proceedings. [ + - ]
1801: Politician and diplomat William H. Seward, who served as the governor of New York, a U.S. senator, and the U.S. secretary of state for Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, is born in Florida, New York. As Johnson's secretary of state, he engineered the 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia in move that was ridiculed at the time as "Seward's Folly." [ + - ]
Joan of Arc is sainted, the first Academy Awards are handed out, SpaghettiOs debut, and Sammy Davis Jr. and Jim Henson pass away, all on this day.


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A former treasurer with the Madison County Little League was arrested Tuesday, Jan. 29, on theft charges following an investigation that began last fall into missing funds from the non-profit organization during 2012.
Deborah Renee Seagraves, 47, 215 Winter Circle, Winterville, was charged with one count of theft by taking.
The amount allegedly stolen is $6,625 and included checks written to "cash," according to sheriff's investigator Doug Martin.
Seagraves was released on a $2,300 bond. During the time Seagraves served as treasurer she lived at a Danielsville address, Martin said.
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The strong partnership between Waipahu High School and Leeward Community College was recognized by U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan during his March 31 visit to Hawai'i. A highlight of the partnership is rapid growth and success of the Early College initiative. On Friday, April 11, Leeward Chancellor Manny Cabral was invited to take a photo with nearly 300 Early College students at Waipahu HS, double the number of participants at this time last year.
WHS and Leeward CC Early College partnership is generating greater numbers of low income, first generation college-goers choosing Leeward Community College.
The Early College High School initiative differentiates itself from Running Start in that Early College courses are offered for free to students in more than 28 states and 240 high schools throughout the nation. The WHS students who test into college-level courses take dual credit classes.
"The program is now testing as early as freshmen level, so there is a real probablity that in four years, Waipahu's Early College participants may be graduating with both a HS diploma and an AA degree from Leeward," states Cabral.
Under the leadership of WHS principal, Keith Hayashi, the program is coordinated by Waipahu's Early College program director Dr. Mark Silliman and funded through a grant from McInerny Foundation. Waipahu's Early College Program is the only such program available in Hawaii. It provides college-class experiences by allowing Waipahu students to earn college credits, on the high school campus, while still in high school. In the past two years, Waipahu students have taken college courses such English 100, Psychology 100, Speech 151, Sociology 100, Calculus 205, and Astronomy 110.


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Belgium is a country in northwest Europe. Founding member of the European Union, it covers an area of 30,528 square kilometres and has a population of about 10.7 million. From the end of the Middle Ages until the 17th century, it was a prosperous centre of commerce and culture. Upon its independence, Belgium eagerly participated in the Industrial Revolution and, at the end of the nineteenth century, possessed several colonies in Africa. Today, Belgium's strongly globalized economy and its transportation infrastructure are integrated with the rest of Europe. Its location at the heart of a highly industrialized region helps made it 2007 the world's 15th largest trading nation. Cultural life is nowadays concentrated within each language community and a variety of barriers have made a shared cultural sphere less pronounced. Anyway, the region corresponding to today's Belgium has seen the flourishing of major artistic movements that have had tremendous influence on European art and culture. Text extracted from wikipedia.


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Reading 3: Log Cabin Politics
For a time, being born in a log cabin was almost essential for presidential candidates. It all began with the campaign of 1839, which pitted the incumbent Democrat, Martin Van Buren, against the Whig candidate, retired General William Henry Harrison. It was one of those campaigns in which the incumbent could do no right. The Panic of 1837 had caused widespread unemployment; banks had closed their doors or had refused to pay out gold and silver. Van Buren believed it was unconstitutional for the government to intervene.
Nearly any half-way respectable Whig could have been elected and General Harrison was. Harrison had appeal as a folksy midwesterner who had 30 years before led a troop of 1,000 soldiers against an uprising of Indians near the Tippecanoe River in Indiana Territory. His running mate was John Tyler, former governor of Virginia.
There were many who opposed Harrison, finding him too old at 67 and less than a great thinker. Newspaperman John de Ziska ridiculed Harrison in an article in a Baltimore newspaper, writing, "Give him a barrel of hard cider, and settle a pension on him and...he will sit the remainder of his days in his log cabin by the side of the fire and study moral philosophy!"
Harrison had lived in a log cabin--of sorts. When he was first married he bought a farm along the Ohio River that had a four-room frame house built around a log cabin. Harrison and his wife lived in the house a short time before he began his long career as army officer, congressman, senator, governor of Indiana, and minister to Colombia. Upon retirement, Harrison returned to the farm and enlarged the house by adding 12 rooms and completely refurbishing the original structure with clapboard to match the additional two wings. As for drinking hard cider, Harrison, like most Ohioans, probably did enjoy cider made from apples in his own orchard.
Intended as a slur, Ziska's article simply enhanced Harrison's reputation. Astute Whigs reshaped the unkind words into a winning campaign song and slogan.
They say he lived in a log cabin
People liked "Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too!" and they connected log-cabin life with virtue. Most westerners of the time had been born in a log cabin or were still living in one. Even people in the eastern cities had ancestors who lived in log cabins. These people believed that the log cabin stood for something. It represented self-sufficient, hard-working pioneer families who could overcome adversity and improve their lot and that of their children. So deeply did the log cabin as symbol of virtue become embedded in the national folklore that, for the next half century, it was believed that youth spent in a log cabin produced clear-headed, independent thinkers who were beholden to no one. "Honest Abe" Lincoln is a prime example.
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1. What is the origin of the log cabin as a symbol?
2. Does General Harrison deserve to be associated with the self-sufficient, hard-working pioneer families that lived in log cabins? Why or why not?
3. How do various commonplace items, such as log cabins, come to represent larger ideas?
4. What other objects (or people or animals) besides log cabins have been used for political symbols? (Consider national symbols or symbols adopted by specific candidates, campaigns, or causes.) What qualities, character traits, or ideas are these symbols intended to represent? Do these symbols help or hinder understanding of the issues involved? Research the origin of a symbol besides the log cabin.
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Chestnut Hill resident Steve Parks, 48, had wanted to do a book about the Philadelphia sports community for years, but could never figure out what to focus on. It was his son, Eliot Shorr-Parks, 24, who suggested looking at the relationships and community that are built out of sports. The result is their new book, "More Than a Game: Life Lessons from Philadelphia's Sports Communities."
Written over two and a half years, the book collects 30 stories from former professional athletes, community league coaches and participants, and even politicians, about the impact and meaning of sports on their lives.
"At first we looked at how sports generate relationships between parents and kids. That moved into looking at coaches, and that led us to looking at community leagues like the Mt. Airy Baseball League and the Sonny Hill League. We looked at a league out in Kensington started by Danny Diaz, built specifically to combat the drug culture. The book looks at relationships between individuals, parents, and communities," Parks said.
Stories about sports have a way of bringing people together, and that's what the two authors were aiming at with the book. "People tell stories about when they went to their first game with their dad. Sports becomes a way to build relationships.
"Sheil Kapidia [sports journalist] said that no matter what was going on in his life with his dad, he could always watch the game. That can't be discounted. As the economy has declined and the city has suffered, sports have become a way to keep community. There are hundreds of sports leagues and thousands of coaches, putting in hundreds of thousands of hours, and I think it's because they see what it can do for their community."
While many fans' first thoughts of sports turn to the professional leagues, researching the book uncovered the importance of community leagues in the city's life. "In Chestnut Hill you have a relatively economically stable situation. Sports are this nice addition to the community. I think if you look at Danny Diaz, who is looking at kids under much different stresses and issues to face, for him sports becomes the way of reclaiming childhood, community, a sense of possibility that the kids may not witness on a daily basis.
"So when Danny drives around and pulls kids off the drug corners to come play football, he's really saying here's an alternative. Here is what community and support and friendship could look like," Parks said.
"When I interviewed Sonny Hill, it struck me that he's spent 40 years sitting in a gym essentially just giving little bits of advice all the time to kids. I think what you see in community leagues is this deep, sustained commitment to youth and the neighborhood. And it's quiet. Sonny Hill's on the radio, but most of his time is spent in a gym, talking to kids. A lot of these fathers work full-time, yet they put an equal amount into coaching and being there on Saturday."
Stories about community is how Parks, a writing professor at Syracuse University, founded New City Community Press, which published "More Than a Game." "When I was at Temple University, I started to work with public schools who were being ripped at that time for low performance, but if you went to the schools you saw that kids could actually write quite well. But there wasn't a venue to show the writing.
"So I started New City Community Press as a way to showcase student writing. That led to community groups wanting us to publish their stories, so we did a book on Chinatown, on Mexican immigrants in Kennett Square. For years I wanted to do a book on the sports community in Philadelphia because it has such character but also has this 'reputation.' The classic example used to be throwing snowballs at Santa, although recently the young guy throwing up on that girl at Citizens Bank Park has overtaken it. So there's this horrible image, but if you go to the community leagues, you see this great family community generated …
"You can go to any league and find that coaches use sports as a way to encourage school participation. But also, you develop real strong character traits. You know what hard works looks like. You know what excellence looks like."
It's not just the kids who get something out of sports; it's everyone in the city. "When I interviewed Leonard Weaver [former Eagle], he had just signed a deal and was a real fan favorite," said Shorr-Parks. "I asked him what the relationship was like with the fans. He said, 'I think the reason people relate to us is because everyone in their life has a 4th and 1. They know that struggle. My struggle is to get that first down. They want to see that effort. In their life it's paying that bill. They want to see me make that same effort.'
"That analogy really summed it up for me. They want to see results, but if you're giving that effort, they'll respect that. After I interviewed him, he carried the ball one time and tore his knee up; and he's still a fan favorite."
Working on this book also helped the father and son recall some of their sports-related memories, and make some new ones as well. "We went to a lot of games together, but the memories I have are of him as my coach in intramural sports," said Shorr-Parks. "The book is about learning things from sports, and our relationship is the same; he coached me in soccer, and now doing this with him I learned a lot."
"I wanted a book that showed the value and importance of sports beyond the media stereotypes. I hope people come away realizing what a great thing Philadelphia has in its sports," added Parks.
The book is available now. You can get it at stores, online and for your iPad. To learn about the other books the press has published, visit http://www.newcitypress.org.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Netflix Inc. was downgraded to a below average, or sell, rating on Thursday morning by Caris & Co. In a note to clients, analyst David Miller said he was "re-downgrading" the online movie firm, having removed his buy rating from the stock in mid-September. He cited the run-up on Netflix shares following the announcement of a deal with the Walt Disney Co. DIS, +1.34% on Tuesday. "The deal is a fantastic one for Disney, as Disney may now offset some of the costs associated with buying Lucasfilm, but we have a number of issues with this deal as it applies to Netflix," he wrote, citing that the agreement does not kick in until 2016, as well as his belief that the deal is worth about $300 million a year to Disney. He wrote that "the price paid for this content loudly underscores what we've been saying about the pickle in which Netflix finds itself - if all deals end up non-exclusive, Netflix opens itself up to a price war. If all deals end of exclusive, Netflix will remain a net cash user." Netflix shares rose fractionally in early trades on Thursday.
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May I present you an other speed mapped map. This is a mirrored map with jump pads, including a big wall which stands in the middle of the map. The map runs on all gametypes except LMS and JUMP
You can find pictures here: http://imgur.com/a/sm5j7/embed
The map had some problems with converting to BSP and mirroring/copying. But of course that is fixed now (@JohnnyEnglish : Thanks again!). Beside the problems I had there still is a bug, it's about the 80% chance of fall damage on brushes of the big stair. The shader on those brushes is the same as on the other fully non-fall damageable brushes spread over the whole map.
Anyway, the map is good to go. Check it out and have fun!!
Download it here: https://www.mediafire.com/?l80kltp0jv3l54e


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HONG KONG — The Indian conglomerate behind digital pioneer UFO Moviez has acquired Movie Beam, the video-on-demand service that was founded by Walt Disney Co.
The Valuable Group, headed by Sanjay Gaikwad, announced Thursday that it had acquired all the assets, trademarks, IPR and alliances of the 'push VoD' service that was first launched in 2003. Price of the transaction was not disclosed.
Disney and other backers spent over $100 million developing the service, but sold it at a fire-sale price of $10 million in March 2007 to rentailer Movie Gallery. The service was closed down in Dec last year after Movie Gallery filed for bankruptcy and went into Chapter 11 administration.
"This acquisition (will allow) us to deliver ethnic and Hollywood content to homes and the hospitality industry worldwide," Gaikwad said in a statement. "Films will be delivered in High Definition and viewers will get access to library films as well as the latest releases on a first day first show basis. We have earmarked an investment of $100 million over the next two years for the re-launch of this service in North America, UK and other overseas markets."
Service was developed by Disney, Intel and Cisco with coin from private equity backers. It worked by piggybacking on PBS digital broadcast signals to offer movie downloads to dedicated set-top boxes. Disney was not able to roll it out beyond three test cities and took a write down of $56 million after shuttering it for the first time in summer 2005.
"We will be rolling out the service by the end of 2008 in 3 markets," Ameya Hete, Executive Director, Valuable Group and CEO MovieBeam, said. "We have added some cutting edge features to the MovieBeam service that will bring additional and currently unrealized revenues back to the entertainment industry and the deserving constituents."
Valuable Group operates in three business sectors media, technology and infrastructure. UFO has installed digital film projectors in some 1,200 movie theaters in India and parts of South Asia having developed a simple to use business model that provides exhibitors with current technology, delivers movies by satellite and does away with virtual print fees.


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[P]eople ultimately only want to read about themselves. I'm taking this out of context from Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, but not injudiciously, I don't think. I read it as his thesis statement, not just for this novel, but for his whole project with fiction. People want to read about themselves. If you accept that, and want to be read, then what you write about, in a way that makes them feel not just real, but hyper-real, are normal, everyday people. You just do that American Beauty thing with them, and 'look closer.'
Freedom looks very, very close.
But first, as for why I'm reading Freedom slightly after it hit instead of right when it did, that's just my own ridiculous prejudices. Give me a choice, and I'll go horror, fantasy, science fiction, thriller, police procedural, western, noir, anything but the 'literary' shelves, please. If it's got a superstructure, a prebuilt scaffolding, a set of conventions to adhere to or stray from, then I'm there. Or, to say it different: I resisted The Corrections for a good year, maybe more, just assumed it was another oversubtle White Teeth clone, but without White Teeth's, I don't know, rollickingness. But I did finally buy one at a garage sale in Little Rock for a dollar, with the idea that maybe a nuclear winter was going to hit sometime soon and I was going to regret not having bought up all the doorstop books I'd ever tripped over.
I would say fast-forward here to months of that book stopping some actual door before I started reading it, and meanwhile let its accolades and controversy snowball behind me, forcing my face into those pages, but, I can't lie: at the stoplight just feet from that garage sale, I cracked the cover, found the spine wonderfully unbroken, and fell into this boring, boring, boring story. And never wanted to leave. Until that very stoplight, I'd been preaching that Neal Stephenson was our best contemporary scene writer (I still will), that David Foster Wallace was something else, I forget just what (my memories would be all nostalgic and untrustable), and that Michael Chabon was far and away the strongest writer of prose on the current scene, maybe the best since Nabokov, or John Barth when he was really flying. And, to take nothing away from Chabon here—I still probably prefer his brand of storytelling—but Franzen, the strength of the writing he was pulling off in The Corrections, it made me feel like I was both treading water and trying to drink that water at the same time. Reading Chabon, I'm floating the whole time, yeah, my head well above water, a big smile on my face, but the buoyancy in his language, it's from playfulness. He has such a light touch, such a grace with his sentences, all these little jokes, these tensions between the said and the unsaid. Where to stop, where to give the rhythm a couple more beats. I'm jealous. Franzen, though, his prose, it's probably the most unforgivingly precise, in word choice, order, and punctuation, that I've seen, at least without feeling forced, without being polished until there's no meaning left. No clue how he does that, either. Obviously.
All the same, though, after The Corrections, I guess I felt like people are always saying they feel after Dan Brown or Stephenie Meyer: guilty, like they can't rationally explain away the last three days, and kind of want to pretend they didn't even happen. It's an impulse I completely didn't understand until The Corrections. I mean, I read Dan Brown's recent one the night it was released, couldn't stop talking about it. I burned through Meyer's vampire fun in a weekend I'm completely proud of. But then I'm embarrassed to have fallen under the spell of a book everybody else is in love with as well? It's not quite an inversion of the old everybody-loves-my-favorite-garage-band-so-I-can't-anymore thing either, I don't think. It's more that, after insisting for so long and in so many forums that the magic of Philip K. Dick is that you lose nothing when translating his prose out of English—that's it's the story that matters, the writing's just a lens to focus on that story—I was now having to admit that the strength of the writing alone can be enough as well. Because the story in The Corrections, it's completely throwaway, to me at least. I prefer a dark elf fighting in some darker cave, trying to save a world that's always hated him. Or an errant spaceship five hundred years in the past, careening into this solar system to make repairs. Or fanged things slobbering in the darkness. Or a gun in my protagonist's face, making him think fast. Not a bloated-out story of some people I don't care about getting old in America.
Through the strength of Franzen's writing, that economical way he can render characters, the surprising ways he can undercut the expectations he's just spend forty pages building—I did care. At least for the duration of the read. And what more can any writer ask for, right? No, the world wasn't saved by these characters' decisions or actions, and it's finally kind of a bummer of a story, all told, but still, these people were drawn so well in words that they were absolutely real to me.
So, coming off that, I dove right into Franzen's The Twenty-Seventh City, not at all heeding the warnings of friends, telling me The Corrections was the breakout, that I could go without what came before. Or, no, first I looked up some interviews with Franzen (especially his interchange with the FC2 crowd), tried to trace through the whole Oprah thing, and—especially recently, while touring for Freedom—Franzen, in spite of whatever real or staged abrasiveness is going on, seems genuinely committed to fiction. To writing, not just to being a writer. Such an important distinction. Granted, he chooses to occupy a kind of Cheever-Updike social strata in his fiction, but that was what was always fun with David Foster Wallace's stuff, too, and what is fun with Brett Easton Ellis': the vicarious thrill of identifying with these rich kids with their rich kid problems, which, it turns out, are no less vital than everybody else's problems. To look at it through a lens I'm more familiar with: the reason we read about vampires so much? Because they're elite, another class. That's the attraction of Franzen's stuff for me as well: I feel like I'm at that most-excellent party. I suspect that Tolstoy pulled a lot of readers in the same way, whether he was meaning to or not. You write what you know, I guess, and, if you're lucky, it synchs up with people's dissatisfaction with themselves. But that's a lot more cynical than I'm intending.
All I mean to say is that the money, the privilege, the lack of real repercussions, all that—wow. Cool.
Moving on.
My friends were all right about Twenty-Seventh City, it turned out. It was beautifully written, exquisite, even, but also seemed to exist at a slight remove from the characters, just enough to dissociate me from becoming viscerally involved in the tensions, kind of like Stephen Wright's Going Native, but without Going Native's magic. So I ducked out. And, only right now, searching Amazon, do I see Franzen has a "Strong Motion," too. Maybe someday.
Anyway, I said it was prejudice against 'literary' efforts that kept me from Freedom, but it was also the suspicion that Franzen had kind of blown his wad with The Corrections, that it was the Catch-22 he was going to be trying to outrun for the rest of his career. And, to be honest, the title didn't help at all. Why not "Innocence," or "Youth," right? And, I mean, I was just coming off Handling the Undead, a pretty cool title for a really excellent zombie novel, so my standards were understandably high. However, I'm always telling people who look down their nose at the best seller lists that if you don't read the books on the other side of the fence, then you're not really in the game. And, for me, Freedom, with its vague, apply-anywhere title and its cover with a bird that doesn't even look like it's about to eat anything, and it already being an Oprah pick, it wasn't just on the other side of the fence from me, it was glaring at me from over there.
So I Kindled it, thought I could just own it that way, not have to actually delve inside, but, man: just like last time, Franzen hooked me immediately. It's a very Marquez opening, all epic and sweeping, and that first part, "Good Neighbors," it's seriously maybe the best opening I've seen since Portrait of the Artist as Young Man, or Tripmaster Monkey. However, each of those books finally couldn't live up to their flashy start, couldn't maintain integrity, started to crack up pretty soon. Not Freedom. And not just because it's got all the show-off words that even Cormac McCarthy wouldn't touch—furzed, propinquity, effectuate, sedulously, marmoreally, arrant (Franzen's proud of 'arrant'), each of them only used when they're the absolute perfect word—and definitely not because it uses the text-messagy "OK" for "okay" (I have to suspect FSG house-styled this, as Franzen has to have too much prose integrity to allow this otherwise.[1]
How else could you write at this caliber?), but because he's having fun himself in there: "21ness," "milfy," "urbangentry," "subtextless," "smallening." And that's . . . I was going to say that's just scratching the surface of this novel, but, really, what Franzen's done with Freedom here, it's somehow rig it such that the surface and the depths are all the same. That's where his strength lies. Not in character insight or plot upheavals or dramatic tensions. He's able to wed the craft with the art in a way that a lot of people never cue into, so that the resulting piece is organic, whole, uniform. I mean, I was considering excising some of his stronger sentences here, to highlight what he's doing—and there's some really good stuff[2]—but as I dug and pored, I realized that culling a sentence to present here, it doesn't do the novel justice, would be like bringing somebody a shard of a singing bowl, and saying doesn't it sound cool?
All of which is vague for people looking for actual 'review' here, I know. But I'm not a reviewer. Certain books engage me more than others, and this is how I respond, I guess. To try a synopsis, man, you don't need me at all. Just turn on the radio. Depeche Mode's "People are People," Charlie McClain's "Who's Cheatin[g] Who." Or, Hank Jr's Major Moves album's a really good counterpoint to listen to, while reading this novel. Worked for me, anyway. And, yeah, it probably gets mired down in politics more than some will like, is more topical than others will go for, and it definitely runs down a few too many rabbit holes in its effort to satisfy the completists (or: the completist writing it), and when it finally comes home to clean up the Shire, you're definitely wondering is this going to end or not. But the writing. The writing keeps you going, and, like it or not, forty or fifty pages in, you've identified with these 'urbangentry' characters and their various, self-imposed dilemmas. More than that, you're kind of addicted to them in a Jersey Shore kind of way: you tell yourself you want to watch the trainwreck, pretending all the while it's not you driving that train.
As for what I finally take from Freedom, though? I'm back to the river, or fence, whatever it was dividing the commercial from the literary, and I'm coming to terms with the fact that some readers had their breath permanently taken away by The Virgin Suicides, say, while other readers are forever with Bilbo when the dwarves hoisted him up above the canopy of the dark forest, and it was a sea of butterflies. We're all looking for different things when we go into a story, I mean. But certain books, if they're written well enough, they can maybe bridge across to the other side. And, if Freedom's the literary side's offering, trying to woo us across with the undeniable strength of its writing, with the power of its storytelling, then, I don't know, maybe The Passage is the commercial side's attempt, trying to do away with all the prejudices allying vampires with writing that doesn't care about itself. But how to ever get either side to see these offerings as anything but wooden horses, right? As Philip K. Dick might have said, therein lies the wub.


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Off-tanks are a lot like the unsung heroes in our raids aren't they?
The main tank is the hero, for sure, hanging onto the biggest, scariest mob while the rest of the raid does their thing and where's the off-tank in this whole thing?
He's up there if you actually take the time to look for him. He's up there standing right next to the main tank, not really taking much of the hits, largely feeling pretty useless unless the main tank happens to bite the bullet and then he's got his five minutes in the sun to shine.
That's the way that it used to be.
The role that the off-tank used to have in our raids were largely very small ones. The off-tank is the one that grabbed a lesser add or two when the fight started and then their job was done inside thirty seconds, leaving nothing for them to do until the boss died.
This mentality, while it was no longer true, has been held as truth by popular perception.
Try thinking back to Naxxramas, Ulduar and ToC. How many fights can you remember had the off-tank play a minor role in the fight and then do absolutely nothing for the majority of the fight? There were a lot of them and it completely cemented the concept that the off-tank was exactly that, the OFF-tank. As in, the tank that you turn to when your Main Tank (notice the capitals?) is out of commission or busy.
It also becomes apparent once you really stop to consider the matter that this lamentable situation that I've outlined for you as to the inferiority of the off-tank simply doesn't apply anymore. A lot of the fights in ICC require the two tanks to taunt off of each other or even fulfill roles that are as important or more than simply hanging onto the boss.
A fight like Rotface comes to mind where the main tank just has to stand in one spot pretty much and hold threat while the "off-tank" has to kite around a big, dangerous, potentially raid wiping mob and where one slip up on his part will kill the attempt.
To be sure, there are a decent number of fights where the role of the off-tank is as small as it used to be. Something like Marrowgar or Lady Deathwhisper where the only job that the off-tank has it to stand next to the main tank for the duration of the fight.
It's all really just a matter of perspective. While there are occasions where the off-tank fills a smaller role than the main tank, it's balanced well with occasions in ICC where the they share roles, where they share the same hits from the boss, where they both hold potential raid wipes in the reach of their keyboards and share the responsibility of not dropping the ball.
We've come a long way from the days where the off-tank was the worse of the two so if you're stuck in the off-tank's role now, bear the title with pride and know that you're just as important as the main…even if nobody in your raid chooses to acknowledge that salient fact.


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Robin Roberts found a match, but others likely won't be as lucky
Robin Roberts' battle against myelodysplastic syndrome, or MDS, is just beginning. The "Good Morning America" anchor will undergo chemotherapy before having a bone marrow transplant later this year.
"Bone marrow donors are scarce and particularly for African-American women," Roberts wrote Monday. "I am very fortunate to have a sister who is an excellent match, and this greatly improves my chances for a cure."More than 10,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with blood-related disorders every year, according to the National Marrow Donor Program. Often the best treatment is a bone marrow transplant. During the procedure, a donor's stem cells are directly transfused into the sick patient's bloodstream. The patient's new cells multiply over time to create healthy bone marrow.Unfortunately, the chance of finding a match on the national registry is as low as 66% for African-Americans and other minorities, compared with 93% for Caucasians.Sister: Robin Roberts 'is strong'
Robin Roberts has MDS. What is that?Be the Match, the national registry, has 10 million potential donors, but only 7% are African-American. While the percentage is comparable to the overall African-American population in the United States (which is 12%), the registry is meeting only about a third of the needs for African-American transplants, said Dr. Jeffrey Chell, CEO of the National Marrow Donor Program.
Tuskegee's ghosts: Fear hinders black marrow donation
It's a disparity that's come up time and again. Last year, the death of Shannon Tavarez attracted attention because doctors were unable to find a bone marrow match for the young Broadway star, who had acute myeloid leukemia."It's absolutely critical to have more people on the registry," Chell said. "You're more likely to find a match with someone who shares your common ancestry or ethnicity."
African-Americans and bone marrow donations.Be the Match tests the immune system's genetic coding to determine bone marrow compatibility. The human immune system has evolved over thousands of years, which is why racial and ethic background is so important. For instance, European-Americans' ancestors may have survived the medieval plague, while African-Americans could have a natural immunity to malaria because of their ancestors' environmental pressures.If a good match isn't found, the donor's immune system will attack the sick patient's "foreign" cells in a condition called graft-versus-host disease.
As Roberts' situation shows, a sibling is often the best genetic match. But 70% of transplant patients will end up using a complete stranger's bone marrow, according to Katharina Harf, chief inspiration officer of DKMS, the world's largest donation center."My mother (who had blood cancer) had six siblings and none of them matched," Harf wrote in a statement. "That's why we started DKMS, to help other patients in need -- so no family would have to go through what we did."DKMS recently teamed up with Help Remedies to create a first aid kit that includes bandages and a bone marrow testing kit. Now when you get a paper cut, you can possibly save a life.Chell said Be the Match wants to encourage people to sign up for the registry by dispelling the myth that the donation process is complicated or painful. The registry is launching a national campaign in July for African-American Bone Marrow Awareness Month.But "nothing works as well as someone who has the courage like Robin Roberts to step forward and let people know what she's going through," Chell said, adding the registry has received an influx of potential donors to its site since Roberts' announcement.To sign up to be a donor, you must be between 18 and 60 years old and be in good health. Visit BeTheMatch.org for information.


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An individual in search of employment may find it isn't always as easy as it sounds. Locally there are those in need of assistance with re-entry into the work force based on criminal record, military service, juvenile record, or loss of employment. They now have someone to help them.
After three years of planning and discussions, Community Enhancement Group Secretary Norma Hooton, President Emma Marquis, and Vice-President Ron Gillette are ready to make things happen.
"We are not taking jobs, we are making jobs," Marquis says. This endeavor is made possible through grants and donations.
The newly formed Community Enhancement Group has been created to assist individuals with job skills, and to further assist these individuals with permanent employment and relocation, if necessary. A dual purpose of the group is to make improvements to the community, and to promote growth of small businesses.
How does the program work?
An application from a potential candidate that needs assistance is taken. Based on the qualifications and needs of the applicant, an individual program is designed especially for that individual. They may be temporarily placed in a small local business for training with constant supervision, at no cost to the company. Once a supervisor feels they are able to perform specific job skills, assistance is given in seeking permanent employment and relocation, if necessary. Other individuals may be placed on a supervised crew doing community projects, and projects for local businesses.
Individuals must complete the required amount of work and have a positive review from their supervisor to receive their stipend every two weeks. Program participants will also be assisted with establishing credit, debt consolidation, money management and social expectations through classes.
How the program becomes self-sufficient?
Participants are placed in work crews and then placed with companies who are willing to help train. The crews will work on community projects, jobs for local businesses and individuals that can not afford to pay for the needed repairs such as energy efficiency, cleaning, minor repairs, landscaping, etc., to generate perpetual income. The program will also take dilapidated and condemned properties and either refurbish them for resale, or demolition them and then sell the vacant lots. Multiple businesses are already on board and wiling to participate in this program.
Benefits of the program are varied. As a community with a prison, the program will help to re-enter individuals back into a community as they are released.
Much needed improvements to the community will be made, increasing property values.
Money will be brought into the community, which will in turn be spent in the community.
There will be immediate jobs created within the community. Courts will have a place to send those needing to do community service.
The list of benefits goes on. For more information call Norma Hooton at 660-651-7933, or Emma Marquis at 660-651-1673.
Community Enhancement Group making jobs
An individual in search of employment may find it isn't always as easy as it sounds. Locally there are those in need of assistance with re-entry into the work force based on criminal record, military service, juvenile record, or loss of employment. They now have someone to help them.


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Looking for manicure ideas? Fashion Week provides a flurry of manicure ideas to wear for seasons to come. We have the full specs on 30 of the most sought-after manicures from the runways, with full details on everything from the nail polishes at Marc Jacobs, L.A.M.B., and BCBG to the techniques for wild glitter nails at Jeremy Scott and seed bead manicures at Cushnie et Ochs. Look through to find your new favorite nail polish ideas and how you can re-create them.
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UBS Consumption Indicator: A stable October
UBS Consumption Indicator signals strong consumption growth
Following a sharp decline in September, the UBS Consumption Indicator rose by 0.02 points, to 1.72 in October. The increase can be attributed primarily to an improvement in business activity in the retail sector as well as growing new car registrations, up 5.7% year-on-year. But weaker consumer sentiment, a factor that accounts for a fifth of the Indicator, as well as stagnant hotel overnights by Swiss residents, weighed on it as a whole in October.
The UBS Consumption Indicator enables direct comparisons with the year-on-year growth rate of private consumption. October's reading closely matched our expectations for this year's inflation-adjusted private consumption growth of 1.8%. UBS anticipates a robust, consumer-driven domestic economy in coming quarters as well. Continuing immigration inflows, low interest rates and declining unemployment should further support solid private consumption.
The Indicator is calculated from five sub-indicators: new car registrations, business activity in the retail sector, the number of domestic overnight stays in hotels by Swiss residents, the consumer sentiment index, and credit card transactions via UBS at points of sale in Switzerland.
UBS Consumption Indicator and private consumption in Switzerland
(Private consumption: year-on-year change, in %; UBS Consumption Indicator: index level)
Caesar Lack, Swiss Economic Research
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ACI Worldwide, Inc. (ACIW) is one of the world's leaders in the electronic payments software industry. The company has a broad line of products and services, which help facilitate global funds transfers and electronic commerce. The company has operations across the globe, with customers in over 104 countries, and receives revenues from multiple streams.
ACI Worldwide was founded in 1993 as Transaction Systems Architects, in an effort to provide technology for the nascent trend of payments being made electronically. It went public in 1995 and was brought into The Value Line Investment Survey in early 1998. By then, 100 of the world's largest 500 banks were using some form of the company's electronic payment systems. Although the company had some accounting problems, it emerged as one of the top players in the largely diverse electronic payments industry. Thanks to smart acquisitions and a global reach, this entity appears to be on the right track.
The revenue streams at ACI worldwide continue to be diverse. It receives initial license fees, monthly license fees, maintenance fees, software hosting fees, and services fees, and none of these categories accounted for more than 30% of sales in 2012. Looking forward, no individual contract loss would be likely to cause major damage due to the diversity of the top-line sources. ACI Worldwide's customer base is so varied that it must divide its sales by locale into three reported segments: the Americas, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), and Asia. The company has also historically done some health claims transaction processing.
The IT Services company partners with many global firms in its payment processing. Its BASE24-eps is an integrated payments processing product that allows electronic payments in the retail banking and retail industries. This offering runs on IBM's (IBM – Free IBM Stock Report) System Z or System P, and can also run on Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ) NonStop, and Oracle's (ORCL) Solaris servers. Historically, its deal with Deutsche Bank (DB) helped it enter the corporate banking market.
ACI Worldwide dealt with some issues in the past, including changes in top management and some accounting irregularities, but is much more stable now. Early in 2001, the Chairman and CEO somewhat unexpectedly stepped down, and another high-level executive followed suit. It then took another four years, and a few CEOs, to find some stability at the position. The company found some accounting issues and decided to re-audit the 1999-2001 period, causing a large selloff in the stock. The re-audit caused the company to be out of compliance with the SEC and it was threatened with delistment by the NASDAQ (NDAQ). The company regained compliance, but then had an accounting issue in 2007 regarding its past issuances of stock options. It fixed the problem and replaced its auditor. Though these problems have since been resolved, we note them for historical perspective.
The company has averaged several acquisitions a year, furthering the product offerings. The ACI Brand outgrew the rest of the business and the company accordingly renamed itself. More recently, larger acquisitions have been a major reason for growth of the company. The ISD corporation, a payment management software provider for retail, was purchased in 2011. The 2012 acquisition of S1 Corp., and the 2013 purchase of Online Resources broadened the product lineup and have helped push total sales even higher.
Now the company's newest product seems like it will be the one to beef up returns. With so many separate software offerings, ACI Worldwide created the Universal Payments Platform. This software will connect the many products and services that the company offers into a single cohesive unit. The rollout of this product, which is currently in progress, should allow for higher cross-selling of features. Feedback thus far has been good, and management expects this to be a driver of future growth. Enabling more customers to seamlessly use multiple features should lead to much-improved earnings. As its problems appear to be behind it, we expect the latest offering to facilitate the long-term strategy for ACI's growth.
At the time of this article's writing the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


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SAN DIEGO -- This year promises to be filled with water aerobics, boxing clubs and spicy Latin dancing.
That's according to an annual survey by the American Council on Exercise (ACE) of its worldwide network of personal trainers, group fitness experts, advanced health and fitness specialists, and lifestyle and weight management consultants. Some trends continue from 2007, including functional fitness, balance training and increased access to personal training for all segments of society.
The following represents ACE's listing of the top 10 fitness trends for 2008:
1. Out-of-the-Box Workouts. The popularity of TV shows like ABC's "Dancing with Stars" has dance studios popping up around the country. Hip hop, ballroom, Latin and country-line dancing combine high energy and motivating music with unique moves. Outdoor boot camps are gaining in popularity, and local boxing clubs have crowded rings and classes filled with people of all ages.
2. Body-Weight and Equipment-Free Workouts. Equipment can intimidate some, and others want to add options and flexibility to their existing workout regimens. These full-body workouts focus on movement patterns, repetitions and plyometric work to target multiple muscle groups. These types of workouts are perfect for those traveling because they require no equipment.
3. Event or Sports-Specific Programming. The millions of Americans who participate each year in charity runs and walks often do so after training for up to a year. Clubs are offering training for surfboarding, golf, football and more.
4. Boomer Fitness Focus. For the aging population, regular exercise is critical in keeping the body limber, injury free and more youthful. The American Association for Retired People, which is an organization for individuals older than 50, launched a major fitness initiative in September 2007 aimed at providing a wide range of affordable fitness services to its 39 million members.
5. Focused Express Workouts. Also growing in popularity are group classes lasting 30 minutes or less that focus on one component of fitness or training a specific part of the body (e.g., core stabilization, upper-body strength, balance and agility, aerobic training/fat burning). Participants enjoy targeting a specific goal within a short-time commitment. Many clubs piggy-back these classes in their schedules in order for members to attend two classes in a row.
6. Total Wellness Programming. More people will focus on injury and disease prevention and understand how food, exercise, weight and a healthier mindset must interact for the body to achieve balance and total wellness. It is a focus on what the body and mind need and how to encourage them to work in harmony.
7. Hybrid Programming. Fusion of mind-body techniques like breath work and meditation into traditional modalities continues to be popular. Workouts like Spin-Yoga and Pilates Fusion combine strength, flexibility and endurance, and offer the equivalent of an all-in-one exercise experience.
8. Personal Training. Ninety-three percent of ACE fitness professionals surveyed say personal training will be more accessible in 2008. Personal trainers offer clients guidance, motivation and positive accountability.
9. Technology-Based Workouts. Consumers are using downloadable programs on their iPods and PDAs that offer fitness programming with illustrations and/or streaming video. New technology also allows more precise measurements of a variety of physiological responses and documentation of training-program results.
10. Functional Strength Training. Incorporating functional training into an existing exercise program enhances strength, endurance, balance and coordination in everyday activities. Individuals will increasingly search for workout programs that will help them more safely and effectively perform their activities of daily living, work-related tasks and recreational or sports-specific activities.


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by Rob Cox, October 18, 2009
Money is tight all around the country, and around the world for that matter. Time for a little belt-cinching perhaps? There are several things you can do in your daily, weekly and monthly pool chores to reduce the cost of pool ownership. And, because all of these methods reduce demand on the energy grid, or on production or transportation of goods to market ~ you can feel good about helping the environment, and your pocketbook at the same time.
One of the easiest ways to reduce the cost of pool operation is to run your pump less. Safer to use a timer clock to automatically start and stop your pump, many times per day if desired. Timers range from simple plug-in devices, to elaborate controller systems with remote control. With the use of a time clock, you can experiment with reducing the filtration time per day. Cut back 2 hours, and watch the pool for changes in water clarity and overall cleanliness. If it still looks OK, cut back two more hours. Continue in this way until you do notice hazy water, or small algae blooms. Balance the water and shock the pool, and increase the clock by 2-4 hours per day.
Most in ground pool filter systems are designed with a turnover capacity of 8 hours. The pump are filter and piping is designed for a flow rate that will pump all of the water in the pool through the filter, in an 8 hour timespan. Generally speaking, it is a good idea to "turn over" all of your pool water everyday. Assuming that your pool pump does turn over all of your pool water in an 8 hour period, this would be the lowest level that you may want to filter your pool per day. 8 hours. However, during the colder parts of winter, when the water temperature is in the 40's, you may be able to filter the pool, (run the pump) as little as 4 hours per day, and still maintain water clarity.
Operating your pump during the "non-peak" hours can help you save money while reducing demand on the grid. Go to your local utility company's website and do a site search for "Peak hours". Also search for "pool pump rebates" and "swimming pools". Electric companies are offering pool owners great incentives in some areas, to reduce the demand on the grid. California utilities are soon required to supply 20% of their energy from renewable resources, such as solar power. Other states or areas of large demand will soon follow, by looking for ways to provide energy more efficiently to their customers. So, check out your local Utility company website!
If you want to save money, but also like the idea of constant movement of the water - you may consider a two speed or variable speed pump. The two speed pump was invented for those pools that don't winterize, but it does get cold in the winter. Sometime around Halloween, the pump can be set on low speed much of the time, or even all of the time. Those with two speed pumps see an average savings of 50% on their pump electric bill. Variable speed pool pumps can save even more. Replacing your existing motor with a two speed motor and a two speed timeclock can be done, saving the cost of replacing the entire pump. For aboveground single speed pumps, you can replace with a handy two speed end cap switch that converts above ground pumps into a two speed pool pump. Payback on an upgrade can be as rapid as 1-2 years.
If you see steam rising off of your pool this time of year, imagine it as small winged dollar bills rising up in the air! Reducing your thermostat just 1 degree Fahrenheit can save 10% on your gas bill. Covering your pool when not in use, manually or automatically, will save over 80% of heat lost. Wind is the largest heat thief around a pool, and hedges, fences and other wind blocks helps conserve. Solar blankets and Liquid Solar Blankets are a cheap way to reduce heat loss and evaporation.
Solar heat can be added to a gas heated pool, or can replace the need for fossil fuel pool heating. Because solar heat is a renewable resource, many local utilities are offering rebates or other incentives to encourage solar pool heating. Another payback item, initial cost can be deterrent, but if you enjoy a heated pool, your payback on a solar system can be very rapid. Another great thing about solar pool heating is the lack of repairs. Simple systems, solar pool heaters are much less trouble than fossil fuel heaters.
Reducing your chemical purchasing will obviously save money. But at what expense? If you are already reducing your pumping time, you may actually need more sanitizer to compensate. Chlorine is arguably the largest chemical expense around a pool. Salt systems can save you money. With a salt system, you no longer have to buy chorine, only salt - and salt is quite a bit cheaper than chlorine. Salt Chlorine Generator Systems have come down a lot in price lately, with many more options available, but they still cost several hundred dollars to purchase and replace. You are reducing chlorine production and transport, however. Which some point to as the largest benefit.
Nature2 purifiers are a great method to reduce chlorine demand. With a $100 Nature2 Express system, (up to 25,000 gals) you will cut your chlorine use in half. The water also takes on a sparkling quality. Nature2 uses copper and silver ions to purify and sanitize. You still need to use some chlorine, but only .5ppm or less. This is about 2 chlorine tablets per week, in a 25,000 gal pool. Not a huge savings here, because you will need to replace the Nature2 cartridge every 6 months of use, at $89. But again, the production and transport of chlorine products is reduced.
I always told my customers to buy the cheapest chlorine they could find, as they are chemically identical. There are some high priced chemical lines available, but I have always had great success with the cheaper brands. As you shop, compare the Active Ingredients and the % Available Chlorine. This works for other chemicals as well, such as Algaecides and Enzymes. Speaking of these, do you need to use Algaecide and Enzymes, and all of those other specialty chemicals? Well, you should keep your pH, Alkalinity and Calcium levels balanced. So, you'll need these Balance Chemicals. If you don't have a recurring algae problem, you may not need to use algaecide on a regular basis. Chlorine, after all, is a great algae-cide. If you do have a recurring algae problem, look to a Phosphate Remover chemical. Enzymes are great for heavily used pools, or pools with smaller filters, or for closing a pool with a mesh cover. But they aren't necessarily needed for every pool.
DE filters require recharging the DE filter powder after backwashing. Here's a trick from the field - If you are out of stock on your DE powder, or just want to extend the life of the cake,you can "Bump" the filter. Bumping the filter is simply backwashing for only 10-15 seconds. When you begin to see white in the backwash sightglass, shut off the pump, and put the valve back to the filter position. I once knew a pool service guy who bragged about never backwashing the DE filters on his service routes. He bumped them once per week, and added 1 small cup of DE powder per month. He probably saved several hundred dollars per year on DE filter powder. But eventually, you will need to do a full backwash.
If you have looked at your water bill lately, you usually will see a portion of the bill for your Sewer usage, and a portion for your Water usage. If you drain and refill your pool, or top off your pool with several thousand gallons, you can sometimes get billed for only the Water portion (since it is not returning to the Sewer system) - if you let your water authority know. Check the website of your water authority or company, and do a site search for "swimming pool". You will likely find information regarding pool water use and billing. They may have a form to fill out, and you may have to check the house water meter before and after filling. Some water authorities may install a separate water meter on fill spouts dedicated to filling the pool.
Reducing waste water from the pool from backwashing and splashout will save you money while reducing the treatment of the water. Reducing evaporation, however, is the largest single thing you can do to save water around the pool. On a hot day, evaporation of 1/4" is not uncommon. Using a pool cover, wind blocks and heat reduction in the pool will go a long way to reducing your pool evaporation - saving you money. For more information on reducing evaporation in swimming pools.


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Any way you can lower the gearing for that chassis. Some of those 80:1 Grandtline ones would crawl, and they are not too expensive. The ones with those ho diesels have the whole kit at $30-40. NOt dirt cheap but can go as low as 160:1 gearing and including the motor. Ebay has them fairly cheap.
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