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The winner is…
Congratulations Cristian Scalco!!! Please contact me asap to get the details about attending HCSC's Photo Workshop at email@example.com
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by Sue Ann Rybak
Mt. Airy USA is one step closer to receiving a grant from ArtPlace, a nationwide initiative to stimulate community revitalization through the arts, to revitalize Lovett Park, adjacent to Lovett Memorial Library on Germantown Avenue.
ArtPlace, a collaboration of 13 foundations and six banks that work to advance creative placemaking in the United States, announced that Mt. Airy USA was one of 105 finalists.
"In this third ArtPlace funding cycle, the proposals just keep getting stronger," said Carol Coletta, director of ArtPlace in a statement. "It is testimony to the growing interest in creative placemaking across the country as well as the capability of artists and their community partners to do this work."
"We are positively thrilled to be a finalist for ArtPlace," said Elizabeth Moselle, director of both the Commercial Corridor Revitalization and the Business Association of Mt. Airy (BAM). "The fact that Lovett Park made it to this stage of the process, and that we were included in the 8 percent of applicants nationwide who were selected to move forward, is a real endorsement of the project."
The proposed plan includes a story ring, an amphitheater, a nature play area, a plaza that will include cafe tables and chairs, an outdoor reading garden and a redesigned main entrance to the library.
Mt. Airy USA, in collaboration with Karen Singer, a local mosaic artist and the Mt. Airy Art Garage (MAAG) applied for the grant in November. Moselle said Mt. Airy USA hopes to make the park "more unique and beautiful by adding more art elements."
While the size of the award is not yet known, Moselle said "it is a significant amount." She added that the grant will be used for a combination of programming and capital funding and will include "an enhanced artistic presence in the park."
Moselle said if Mt. Airy USA is selected, Singer will design and install a ceramic mosaic. Mt. Airy USA also will partner with MAAG, which will announce a call-for-artists and oversee an outreach project to design a logo for the park.
"This [the logo] is envisioned as an identifiable, graphic element that can become part of the park's identity," Moselle said.
"This park is really intended to be a transformative community space ,and artists constitute a very important part of the social fabric in Mt. Airy and the Northwest," said Anuj Gupta, executive director of Mt. Airy USA. "We also believe the arts play a critical role in fostering economic development – our primary mission – so to the extent we can leverage the skills and talents of local artists in the development of this park, we will achieve MAUSA's goals as well as the goals of our partner organizations."
Mt. Airy USA will submit a final proposal to ArtPlace at the end of February. This year's grant recipients will be announced in May.

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Winter Weather Advisory In Effect Until Friday Morning – Southern Gallatin County
The advisory is for areas above 6,000 feet and for areas south of Bozeman but the Winter Weather Advisory continues. Details here:
The National Weather Service in Great Falls has issued a Winter
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border for snow... which is in effect until 5 am MST Friday.
Timing and main impact: snow will develop over portions of
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Snow accumulations: 4 to 6 inches of snowfall is primarily
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In the 21st Century, democracy demands an innovative approach to policymaking - an approach built on transparency, participation, and collaboration. These foundational qualities are the keys to creating a more effective government that taps the creativity and diversity of an entire nation to generate solutions to the challenges we face.
–Implementing the President's Memorandum on Open Government
The Department of Justice is committed to achieving the President's goal of making this the most transparent Administration in history. In the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government, issued on January 21, 2009, the President instructed the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to issue an Open Government Directive. The Open Government Directive directs executive departments and agencies to take specific actions to implement the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration set forth in the President's Memorandum.
As a result, the Associate Attorney General convened a working group of senior Justice Department staff to oversee the development of the Justice Department's Open Government Plans. We have worked with every component within the Department to fulfill the Open Government Directive and increase openness and transparency. We have also sought ideas from the public and from stakeholders, including civil society organizations, whose contributions have been valuable.
In the past four years, the Department has launched FOIA.gov, a comprehensive website designed to educate the public about how the Freedom of Information Act works and to display agency data about FOIA performance in an interactive and easy-to-understand format. We also launched FARA.gov to provide the public with key information related to the Foreign Agents Registration Act in order to increase understanding and promote accountability. Additionally, we have collaborated with outside partners and engaged the public as we carry out our work in enforcing the law. In our most recent Open Government Plan we committed to modernizing FOIA.gov by drafting a common regulation, developing a consolidated portal, and improving both internal agencies' processes and employees' training. We also committed to supporting free legal assistance to low-and middle-income citizens with non-criminal legal issues, through our Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable. We have increased the volume and variety of data posted online, and have met initial milestones of the administration's Digital Government Strategy by launching two new Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs.
Although, by necessity, the Department must balance a host of competing interests, some of which may prevent the disclosure of information, we continue to embrace the commitment to openness wherever possible. This, as Attorney General Holder has stated, "underscores the sacred bond of trust that must always exist between the government and all those we are privileged to serve."
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 154 diseños de 43 diseñadores freelance.
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Logo must work well with a light colored background for business card print / letterhead. Website's logo is open for color theme, thus your logo can be other color themes, just please keep in mind you will need to make one that works for light background such as a business card or letterhead.
Red Zone PC
Red Zone PC will be a computer services company offering very similar services that of GeekSquad's services (repair, virus protection, router install, backup, etc).
Initially the company will service residential customers. When the time is right, small business' will be targeted as well in addition for it's customer base.
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- Unprofessional / unfriendly colors anywhere.
- Even though Red Zone is a football term, no association with football is wanted.
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A Phase II Study of Increased-Dose Abiraterone Acetate in Patients With Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer
a study on Prostate Cancer
- Eligibility
- for males ages 18 years and up (full criteria)
- Location
- at San Francisco, California and other locations
- Dates
- study startedestimated completion
- Principal Investigator
- Terence Friedlander
The purpose of this study is to find out what effects, good and/or bad,an increased dose of Abiraterone Acetate in combination with prednisone has on patients and their prostate cancer. This study will investigate whether an increased-dose (2,000mg daily) is safe and potentially effective when given to patients whose cancer has grown while taking the standard dose.
Official Title
A Phase II Study of Increased-Dose Abiraterone Acetate in Patients With Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC)
This is a phase II multicenter trial of Abiraterone Acetate in patients with progressive prostate cancer despite androgen deprivation with a particular focus on the pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic, and pharmacogenomic events occurring at the time of apparent drug resistance. All eligible patients will have baseline (prior to taking the first dose of Abiraterone Acetate 1000mg/daily) measures of routine clinical variables along with measurements of baseline and treatment related changes in testosterone, androgen, and endocrine levels, genotyping of SNPs in the selected enzymes known to be directly inhibited by Abiraterone Acetate, and collection of circulating tumor cells. All patients will be requested to consent for biopsies which will be performed prior to treatment and at the time of disease progression on standard dose Abiraterone Acetate therapy. These biopsies will be analyzed for expression of an AR-signature as well as for microarray analysis to explore changes in methylation, and expression of CYP17A1 and other androgen synthesis genes.
Subjects will then begin daily oral therapy with Abiraterone Acetate 1000mg po daily with physiologic prednisone 5mg BID replacement. No food should be consumed for at least 2 hours before the dose of Abiraterone Acetate and for at least 1 hour after the dose of Abiraterone Acetate is taken. PSA will be followed monthly. Abiraterone Acetate will be supplied by Janssen Services. At the end of the first month, the third month, and then every three months thereafter, Abiraterone Acetate, testosterone, and androgen levels will be followed. Subjects not achieving a greater than or equal to 30% PSA decline at 12 weeks will be taken off study. At the time of progression (defined by RECIST criteria OR by the Prostate Cancer Working Group 2 (PCWG) criteria as a 25% increase in PSA above the nadir and an increase in the absolute value PSA of at least 2ng/dl or back to baseline confirmed at least 2 weeks afterward) for subjects who achieved an initial greater than or equal to 30% PSA decline (referred to as Progressive Disease (PD) #1), subjects will begin taking Abiraterone Acetate 1000 mg po BID. Patients will continue to take prednisone 5mg BID and will continue this therapy until a second progression at which point they will be withdrawn from the study. While 1000 mg po BID is not the FDA recommended dose, it is the dose to be investigated in this study.
Castration Resistant Prostate CancerCRPCprostatecancerProstatic NeoplasmsPrednisoneAbiraterone Acetate
You can join if…
Open to males ages 18 years and up
- Have signed an informed consent document indicating that the subjects understands the purpose of and procedures required for the study and are willing to participate in the study
- Be willing/able to adhere to the prohibitions and restrictions specified in this protocol
- Written Authorization for Use and Release of Health and Research Study Information has been obtained
- Male aged 18 years and above
- Able to swallow the study drug whole as a tablet
- Willing to take abiraterone acetate on an empty stomach; no food should be consumed at least two hours before and for at least one hour after the dose of abiraterone acetate is taken
- Patients who have partners of childbearing potential must be willing to use a method of birth control with adequate barrier protection as determined to be acceptable by the principal investigator and sponsor during the study and for 1 week after last study drug administration.
- Have a baseline serum potassium of ≥ 3.5 mEq/L
- Have aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), and bilirubin levels < 1.5 x ULN
- Have a serum albumin of ≥ 3.0 g/dL
- Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x ULN (In patients with known Gilbert Syndrome, a total bilirubin ≤ 3.0 x ULN, with direct bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x ULN is acceptable)
- Have a platelet count of ≥ 100,000/μL
- Have an absolute neutrophil count of > 1500 cell/mm3
- Have a calculated creatinine clearance ≥ 60 mL/min
- Have a hemoglobin of ≥ 9.0 g/dL
- Have histologically confirmed adenocarcinoma of the prostate.
- No prior therapy with chemotherapy for metastatic prostate cancer.
- Have metastatic disease based on a positive bone scan or objective imaging on CT scan.
- Have ongoing gonadal androgen deprivation therapy with LHRH analogues or orchiectomy. Patients who have not had an orchiectomy must be maintained on effective LHRH analogue therapy for the duration of the trial.
- Testosterone < 50 ng/dL.
- Progressive disease after androgen deprivation: PSA evidence for progressive prostate cancer consists of a PSA level of at least 2 ng/ml which has risen on at least 2 successive occasions, at least 2 weeks apart. If the confirmatory PSA value is less than the screening PSA value, then an additional test for rising PSA will be required to document progression.
- Antiandrogen Withdrawal Patients who are receiving an antiandrogen as part of primary androgen ablation must demonstrate disease progression following discontinuation of antiandrogen.
- Disease progression after antiandrogen withdrawal is defined as 2 consecutive rising PSA values, obtained at least 2 weeks apart, or documented osseous or soft tissue progression.
- For patients receiving flutamide, at least one of the PSA values must be obtained 4 weeks or more after flutamide discontinuation.
- For patients receiving bicalutamide or nilutamide, at least one of the PSA values must be obtained 6 weeks or more after antiandrogen discontinuation.
- No antiandrogen withdrawal response is expected in patients in whom antiandrogen therapy did NOT result in a decline in PSA or in those patients in whom the response to antiandrogens was < 3 months. Therefore, it is not necessary to wait for AAWD in pts without PSA decline on an anti-androgen or in those in whom a PSA response lasted < 3 months.
- ECOG Performance Status 0-1
- Life expectancy of ≥ 12 weeks.
You CAN'T join if...
- Active infection or other medical condition that would make prednisone/prednisolone (corticosteroid) use contraindicated
- Known brain metastasis
- Uncontrolled hypertension (systolic BP ≥ 160 mmHg or diastolic BP ≥ 95 mmHg) Patients with a history of hypertension are allowed provided blood pressure is controlled by anti-hypertensive treatment
- Active or symptomatic viral hepatitis or chronic liver disease
- History of pituitary or adrenal dysfunction
- Clinically significant heart disease as evidenced by myocardial infarction, or arterial thrombotic events in the past 6 months, severe or unstable angina, or New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class II-IV heart disease or cardiac ejection fraction measurement of < 50 % at baseline
- Atrial Fibrillation, or other cardiac arrhythmia requiring medical therapy
- Administration of an investigational therapeutic within 30 days of screening
- Have poorly controlled diabetes
- Have a history of gastrointestinal disorders (medical disorders or extensive surgery) that may interfere with the absorption of the study agents
- Have a pre-existing condition that warrants long-term corticosteroid use in excess of study dose
- Have known allergies, hypersensitivity, or intolerance to abiraterone acetate or prednisone or their excipients
- Any condition which, in the opinion of the investigator, would preclude participation in this trial.
- Pure small cell carcinoma of the prostate or any mixed histology cancer of the prostate (eg: neuroendocrine) which contains < 50% adenocarcinoma.
- Therapy with other hormonal therapy, including any dose of megestrol acetate (Megace), finasteride (Proscar), dutasteride (Avodart) any herbal product known to decrease PSA levels (e.g., Saw Palmetto and PC-SPES), or any systemic corticosteroid within 4 weeks prior to first dose of study drug.
- Prior therapy with Abiraterone Acetate or other CYP17 inhibitor(s) including TAK-700 or TOK-001, or investigational agent(s) targeting the androgen receptor for metastatic prostate cancer.
- Prior therapy with ketoconazole for > 2 weeks for prostate cancer.
- Therapy with supplements or complementary medicines/botanicals within 4 weeks of first dose of study drug, except for any combination of the following:
- Conventional multivitamin supplements
- Selenium
- Lycopene
- Soy supplements
- Prior radiation therapy completed < 4 weeks prior to enrollment
- Prior chemotherapy for castration resistant prostate cancer. Patients who have received chemotherapy for early stage prostate cancer (e.g. as part of a neoadjuvant or adjuvant trial) or for other malignancies are eligible provided that >1 year has passed since the administration of the last chemotherapy dose.
- Any "currently active" second malignancy, other than non-melanoma skin cancer. Patients are not considered to have a "currently active" malignancy, if they have completed therapy and are considered by their physician to be at least less than 30% risk of relapse over next year.
- Active psychiatric illnesses/social situations that would limit compliance with protocol requirements.
- Patients in whom urgent chemotherapy, in the opinion of the treating physician, is indicated should not be enrolled in this study.
- UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
San FranciscoCalifornia94115United States
- Oregon Health and Science University
PortlandOregon79239United States
Lead Scientist at UCSF
- Terence Friedlander
I am a clinical and translational oncologist specializing in cancers of the genitourinary tract, specifically bladder and prostate cancers. My research is focused on understanding the basic biology these malignancies and in developing novel therapeutic ways to treat disease.
- Status
- in progress, not accepting new patients
- Start Date
- Completion Date
- (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Terence Friedlander, MD
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Last Updated


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It seems the other shoe has dropped, and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will step down after a stormy tenure overseeing the bumpy rollout of Obamacare, the largest health-care initiative undertaken in nearly a half century.
Reports said late Thursday that Sebelius's resignation will be announced Friday, and President Barack Obama will nominate Sylvia Mathews Burwell to succeed Sebelius, the former governor of Kansas. Burwell currently is director of the White House's Office of Management and Budget.
The New York Times reported that Sebelius, 65, decided to resign on her own and was not forced out. But Sebelius will likely be remembered for presiding over the difficult birth of the Affordable Care Act, in which prospective enrollees couldn't sign up for health coverage for several weeks due to problems with the main web site, HealthCare.gov.
Ultimately, the administration met its enrollment goal of 7 million; earlier in the day Sebelius told the Senate Finance Committee that signups totaled 7.5 million at last count and were still rising. But much of the blame for Obamacare's false start fell on the shoulders of Sebelius, who was summoned several times before Congress to explain the program's woes.
The Times quoted Denis McDonough, White House chief of staff, as saying Sebelius came to Obama last month to discuss her future and decided that the March 31 enrollment deadline provided an opportune time to make a transition.
"What was clear is that she thought that it was time to transition the leadership to somebody else," McDonough is quoted as saying.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the Virginia Republican, who like others in his party has been intensely critical of Obamacare, offered an olive branch to Sebelius in a tweet.
"She had an impossible task: nobody can make Obamacare work," he said.
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PORTLAND — Runners participating in a 22-year-old Maine tradition will have a new path to follow this year.
The Maine Marathon and Half Marathon will take a temporary, westerly course to avoid construction at the Martin's Point bridge, which connects Veranda Street with U.S. Route 1 in Falmouth over the Presumpscot River.
This year, runners will follow Route 9 north and eventually connect with Route 88 in Falmouth via Lunt and Depot roads.
The race begins at 7:45 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 6. Several roads will be closed at various times:
• Baxter Boulevard between Forest Avenue and Preble Street, 5 a.m.-2 p.m.
• Local traffic only on Route 9, Falmouth, from Ledgewood to Lunt Road, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Lunt and Depot roads, Falmouth, from Route 9 to Route 88, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Local traffic only on Route 88, Falmouth, from Depot Road to the Cumberland town line, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Mussle Cove Lane, Falmouth, 8-10 a.m.
• Local traffic only on Johnson Road, Falmouth, from U.S. Route 1 to Route 88, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Local traffic only on Gilman Road, Yarmouth, from Route 88 to Drinkwater Road, 9-11 a.m.
• Parking is not allowed on Route 88 or Lunt and Depot roads in Falmouth during the race.
The event begins near Pedro Field on Baxter Boulevard, travels through Falmouth, Cumberland and Yarmouth, and features 3,500 runners in three simultaneous competitions: a marathon, half marathon and relay race. Each competition ends where it began.
The change in course will make the race somewhat tougher, co-director Bob Aube said.
"There are definitely more hills," he said.
The new course will also affect the turn-arounds. Runners in the half marathon will turn around at 127 Foreside Road, Falmouth, about a quarter mile before the traditional turn. Half-marathoners will also take a right turn onto Mussel Cove Lane before rejoining Route 88 for the return trip to Portland, according to the race website.
Marathoners this year will travel straight on Gilman Road instead of turning right onto Prince's Point Road. Next, they will turn left onto Royall Point Road, then turn around after 0.4 miles and head back to Gilman Road. The course then takes an immediate right onto Larrabee Landing Road, before rejoining Gilman Road once again for the return trip to Portland.
Each year the race organizers donate most of the proceeds to Maine charities that benefit children, and local police departments. This year, the organizers will donate $50,000 to Strive, a South Portland-based program that assists young adults with disabilities.
Registration for the Maine Marathon and Half Marathon is closed. For the third consecutive year, the event has sold out, Aube said.
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I sort of wanted one that was really big but they are pretty expensive so I brought a cheap one, as you can see.
The woman in the shop said it would survive everything. I planted it in April 2011.
Still plodding along. The woman in the plant shop said it would grow quickly. Just goes to show that they can lie if they want as it takes years to figure it out.
Slow progress but it has apparently sprouted about a meter away. I dont recall planting the new sprout there, also it has the remains of another sprout close too it. But what amazes me is whether it did sprout over 1 meter away as you might see from the photo? If it did that means it spent a lot of energy getting over there which might explain its lack luster growth otherwise.
Doesnt seem to be getting any bigger at all.
Still there. It has a little pal now to the side although im not sure its much bigger, nothing dramatic anyhow.
This little guy is really holding his own, im sure hes put out another shoot over the Xmas period.
Wow, I didnt realise how fast this would grow. I was a bit reluctant to pay the high price tag but this thing has not only NOT DIED but its growing beyond my expectations. I dont know what I was expecting but each time I visit it has visibly more fronds, and this time I noted that it has sprouted a new pal, so obviously im onto a winner here. 3 new photos. When I planted it it had 5 fronds, then in August it had 7 and now it has 9 and a new pal. There is an extra photo here that shows its general location. I was unsure that it was good to plant it there as it was in the middle of nowhere but I figured that in 5 years time it would be a landmark feature and I think I was right. I actually thought being so small that it would get crowded out by weeds etc. Also I added an additional photo that shows that the new shoot actually has another little one right inside it so thats the newxt one already on the way.
Its still there and it looks like its doing ok. Its the hottest part of the garden and the soil is generally heavily bleached and dry.


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What Are They Feeding The Kids At School?
The always feisty Center For Science In The Public Interest has released a school lunch report card and while no state received an "A", only Kentucky and Oregon are close to the CSPI's standards. Oregon went from an F to an A-, but it wasn't easy:
"You would think that with all the concern about childhood obesity that getting junk food and soda out of schools would be easy. But, it took us six years of hard work to pass our school nutrition legislation," said Mary Lou Hennrich, executive director of the Community Health Partnership: Oregon's Public Health Institute, who led Oregon's effort to improve school foods. "We welcome national action to build on what we and other states have done and ensure that all children go to school in junk-food-free environments."
Here's the report card:
A- Kentucky (1), Oregon (2)
B+ Nevada (3), Alabama (4), Arkansas (5), California (6),Washington (6), New Mexico (7)
B New Jersey (8), Arizona (9), Tennessee (9)
B- Louisiana (10), Texas (11),,West Virginia (12), Connecticut (13), Rhode Island (14), Florida (15)
C+ Hawaii (16)
C Maine (17), Mississippi (18), Illinois (19), District of Columbia (20)
C- Colorado (21), South Carolina (22)
D+ New York (23), Maryland (24), North Carolina (25)
D Oklahoma (26), Virginia (27)
D- Indiana (28), Georgia (29)
F Alaska, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, Wyoming (All ranked 30)
The states which received an F have only the standard USDA guidelines, which the CSPI argues are "woefully out of date" because the USDA doesn't have the power to regulate foods that are sold outside of meal times (there is a national regulation that requires all schools to turn off their soft drink machines during lunch periods.)
The policy the CSPI rated #1 came from Kentucky and contains some fairly strict rules. No foods or beverages can be sold outside of the school lunch program until 1/2 hour after lunch periods end. No whole milk is allowed, only fat free or 1%. Water is allowed if it is noncaloric and un-carbonated. Only 100% juices are allowed. No sweetened beverages with more than 10 grams of sugar. No portion sizes over 17 oz for elementary schools, 20 oz for junior and senior high, and so on. There are portion controls on the menu items and sodium limits galore. Schools must limit sale of outside fast food (McDonald's, Taco Bell, etc.) to no more than once a week.
We think the "no whole milk" rule is a bit draconian. Then again, when we were in high school they served Pizza Hut every other day, so perhaps our idea of what is normal is irrevocably skewed.
School Foods Report Card 2007 (PDF) [Center For Science In The Public Interest]
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ATLANTA – Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded Horry County with the regional 2014 EPA Rain Catcher Award in the Neighborhood/Community Category for the Crabtree Swamp Restoration Project in Conway, South Carolina. The award was given at an award ceremony during the Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4/International Erosion Control Association Municipal Wet Weather Stormwater Conference, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Crabtree restoration effort consisted of two projects focusing on a strategy of controlling sediment transport to address fecal bacteria, dissolved oxygen, and to reduce turbidity. The effects of urbanization had greatly altered the Crabtree canal, leading to increased runoff volumes, peak flow rates, flooding, and water quality impairments. The projects utilized a two-stage design to reconnect the canal with the remnant hardwood floodplain via a gently sloping riparian bench. The new channel configuration provides for flood storage and bank stabilization, and increased biological habitat. Monitoring efforts have demonstrated water quality improvements as result of the project.
The EPA Region 4 Rain Catcher Award recognizes excellence in the implementation of stormwater green infrastructure practices. Green infrastructure uses natural systems and/or engineered systems designed to mimic natural processes to more effectively manage urban stormwater and reduce receiving water impacts. EPA and its partner organizations have promoted the use of green infrastructure for many years as part of a comprehensive approach to achieving healthier waters. Green infrastructure reduces the volume of stormwater discharges by managing rainwater close to where it falls and removes many of the pollutants present in runoff, making it an effective strategy for addressing wet weather pollution and improving water quality.
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President Obama has taken a step in the right direction with his speech and jobs plan. It was a small step – but it has to be to present Republicans with the choice to cooperate or get pushed out of the way. If this passes it is a win for jobs and the economy — and therefore the President's re-election. If Republicans block it, the President wins because voters will push Republicans out and the country will be able to get moving again. But it all depends on follow-through. The President has to keep out there, pounding on this and only this every single day until there is a vote. Every. Single. Day. That is the key.
The Plan – Barely Enough
The American Jobs Act is a mix of extensions of current efforts and new tax cuts and infrastructure spending. Extend and add to the Social Security tax cut. Cut various taxes for hiring new workers and returning veterans. Money to states to prevent laying off even more teachers. Modernize schools to hire construction workers. The total including tax cuts is around $450 billion.
If passed this will help and people will be able to feel the difference. It isn't enough, but there is a reason for that. It is small in order to keep Republicans from having any excuse to block it.
The Republican Choice
It has become pretty clear that Republicans are blocking … everything … in order to keep the economy from getting better, because doing this hurts the President's re-election chances. So the President is giving them a package they have to vote for, or explain why not. This is a win-win because passing this helps the country and the economy and the unemployed. And not passing this helps the country and the economy and the unemployed because it exposes exactly who is behind the lack of progress in Washington that everyone is so upset about.
Full Engagement
The President has to be fully engaged on this one. A few words are not going to win it. The only thing that will win this is for the President to use the "bully pulpit" and be speaking about it every single day until there is a vote. Nothing else will do. This is all up to him now. He has taken the first small step toward pulling us all out of the mess we have been in. He has to recognize that it was only a small step and there is a big, big fight in front of him, and that he has to be fully engaged on this every single day until there is a vote.
Every. Single. Day. Until. There. Is. A. Vote. Nothing else will do. If the President does this we win and that means he wins.


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Joe Flacco's agent said last offseason that his client deserved top-five quarterback money. Most of us scoffed. Now Flacco's camp is aiming even higher.
|The Ravens returned to a hero's welcome following their Super Bowl XLVII victory. Take a look at some of the best photos from their victory parade.
CNBC asked Flacco's agent Joe Linta on Tuesday if Flacco should be the highest-paid quarterback in the NFL. The answer was simple: "Yes."
"When you do a contract of this magnitude, you look at what is the player's body of work presently, and what are the expectations going forward over the next four, five or six years," Linta said. "Joe wins on both accounts."
(Commence "sticking it" to Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti.)
This won't be an easy negotiation for the Ravens, but these are good problems to have. Flacco simply hasn't performed over a 16-game regular season like Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees, Tom Brady or Peyton Manning. Flacco has the skill set to make any throw, and he played like a quarterback worthy of such a contract during the playoffs this year. But he just hasn't been that guy consistently enough.
A lot will be written about Flacco's contract this offseason, but the end result is preordained. He's not going anywhere. A deal eventually will be done. Linta is just setting the highest bar possible before negotiating begins in earnest.Follow Gregg Rosenthal on Twitter @greggrosenthal.


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Hedge funds cut wagers on a gold rally for the first time in three weeks on mounting speculation central banks will curb record stimulus and as this year's slump in bullion spurred losses for billionaire John Paulson.
The funds and other large speculators lowered their net- long position by 4.1% to 54,779 futures and options by June 11, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show. Net-bullish wagers across 18 U.S.-traded commodities rose 0.1%. Bearish copper bets more than doubled as the metal had its longest slump since November. Cocoa holdings advanced to the highest since 2008 before the biggest weekly slide since January.
The Bank of Japan left a lending program unchanged on June 11 and refrained from expanding its toolkit for tackling volatility in bonds. Federal Reserve policy makers meeting this week may discuss slowing $85 billion of monthly debt purchases amid signs of a sustained economic recovery. Gold surged 70% as the Fed bought $2.3 trillion of debt from December 2008 through June 2011. Paulson's Gold Fund tumbled 13% in May, extending this year's loss to 54%.
"There's definitely a concern that if the Fed starts to remove the monthly purchases, that's certainly signaling a strengthening in conditions, and that puts a bid into the dollar and certainly at the margin hurts gold," said Ted Harper, a fund manager at Frost Investment Advisors LLC in Houston, who helps manage more than $9 billion of assets. Paulson's "returns are emblematic of the difficult environment that gold investors have been facing," he said.
Bear Market
Gold futures tumbled into a bear market in April and are now down 17% since the start of the year at $1,384.70 an ounce, heading for the first annual decline since 2000. Bullish bets slumped 78% from a record in August 2011 and the metal is 28% below its all-time high of $1,923.70 reached in September 2011. Prices advanced 0.3% last week.
The Standard & Poor's GSCI Spot Index of 24 commodities rose less than 0.1% last week, while the UBS Bloomberg CMCI gauge of 27 raw materials lost 0.8%. The MSCI All- Country World Index of equities fell 0.7% and the dollar was down 1.2% against six major trading partners. A Bank of America Corp. index shows Treasuries returned 0.3%.
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Sigur Rós - Tíu Lifandi 'A Celebration of 10 Years of Live Music With Much Gratitude From The Fans'
The tracks on this triple 'CD' are taken from a selection of concerts I have mastered and posted on this blog over this last year. I made this for a number of reasons.
To celebrate the completion of this year long project (to master the entire collection of live recordings from Sigur Rós) to celebrate 100,000 hits on the blog and as a way to commemorate 10 years of the most sublime live music.
The tracks I selected where chosen for the quality of the sound and performance and as a companion of sorts to the Heima OST. The tracks have been mixed in such a way that they blend into each other making a sort of 'fantasy concert' They are also tagged in such a way that CD's should flow into each other without interruption.
Thanks to everyone who has helped with this blog including many who have left kind comments, suggestions, and corrections. Thanks also to all the other artists who have given permission for me to share their music with you, and thank you for visiting and I hope enjoying some of the music presented here. I hope it moves you as it has moved me.
NB: All the links are being updated. Having considered the many comments received I decided to add a third CD (now 4!) to this collection which in hindsight Im very happy to have done so !
(if you have already download the original CD 1 & 2 please download this revised Tr 09 All Alright, to ensure continuity when played with the new CD 3)
(On the original 2CD version of this project, CD 2 contained a hidden last track - the 'Vaka' performance from Last Call, one of the finest ever performances of this song. If you want to download that CD the link is here )
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It's time to reflect on the past year in local history. Here are my top five events of 2012 (I'd love to hear about your favorites, too):
5. Birger Sandzen exhibit
I actually began the local history year by traveling outside Boulder County. The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center featured a stunning exhibition, "Sandzen in Colorado." Swedish artist Birger Sandzen (1871-1954) spent time painting in Boulder and exhibited his work at Chautauqua in 1939. Boulder's Arapaho Glacier was the subject of his 60- x 80-inch oil on canvas, "Snow and Mountain," from 1920. Seeing this huge piece, painted thick with liberal use of pinks and purples, was worth the trip.
4. Square Nail Awards
Formally known as the Archaeology & Historic Preservation Month Awards Ceremony, the Square Nail Awards are presented each spring by the Boulder Heritage Roundtable. It's the place to be to hear about everything that's happened in local history and preservation during the previous year.
Projects that were recognized ran the gamut of Cub Scouts helping out Larry Dorsey and the Superior Historical Commission, to Lori Hunter's fascinating Boulder Walking Tours, to every structure in the county that's been preserved or restored. The Boulder Heritage Roundtable, a group without bylaws, fees or other requirements for membership, is a monthly gathering for the sole purpose of sharing local history and preservation information. It's an annual treat to discover all that's being accomplished to preserve our heritage.
3. Local history
Boulder County is bursting with local history program offerings. Erie Community Library is in the fourth year of well-attended programs co-sponsored by the Erie Historical Society. At the Left Hand Grange, nearly every seat is taken when the Niwot Historical Society offers its series of lectures exploring Niwot history and beyond.
Other Boulder County communities are also reporting standing-room-only local history crowds. Many evenings, Boulder County history enthusiasts must choose between several equally compelling programs.
2. Colorado Music
Hall of Fame
The third Colorado Music Hall of Fame induction was a lesson in Boulder's history for some, a trip down memory lane for others. The sold-out Boulder Theater show featured The Astronauts, Boulder's "surf band" from the early 1960s.
They reunited for the festivities and played their hit instrumental "Baja" -- twice. In their prime, The Astronauts, were reportedly more popular in Japan than The Beach Boys.
Also inducted was the band Sugarloaf. I was astounded to learn that the hits "Green Eyed Lady" and "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" were created in Boulder.
Oldies favorites Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids were the third Boulder band honored that night. Many a tale has been told about their on-stage antics ("Skin to Win," anyone?). Flash Cadillac's music was featured in the movie "American Graffiti" and the television show "Happy Days."
1. Chief Niwot
My view of Boulder history is forever changed since reading the tragic biography of Chief Niwot (also known as Left Hand). This year, thanks to playwright Kirsten Wilson, everyone in Boulder had the chance to learn the life story of the peace-seeking southern Arapaho.
The educational opportunities included an award-winning exhibit at the Boulder History Museum, the Boulder Public Library's One Book, One Boulder reading program, Motus Theater's production of "Rocks Karma Arrows," a bus trip to the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site and speakers at the Native American Rights Fund.
May we all follow Niwot's arrow on the trajectory toward peace.
Don't forget to purchase the 2013 local history calendar created by Historic Boulder featuring early Boulder County schools. The calendars are on sale at the Boulder History Museum and other locations available at historicboulder.org.
Carol Taylor and Silvia Pettem write on history for the Daily Camera, alternating weeks. Email Carol at firstname.lastname@example.com, Silvia at firstname.lastname@example.com, or write to the Daily Camera, 5450 Western Ave., Boulder 80301-2709.


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Monday, July 1, 2013
4 Kid-Friendly Outdoor Activities for the 4th of July!
Here are 4 quick and easy (F-U-N) ideas to entertain your kids outside this 4th of July.
I bet you already have everything you need in your house!
Making 4th of July Flour-Sifted Stars for your lawn, driveway, or sidewalk
are a fun and easy 4th of July craft that is fun for kids and adults alike!
All you need is some cardboard (a box works best) to make a stencil,
a spray bottle of water, and a flour sifter with white flour.
We use dollar store shaving cream then run through the sprinkler after!
Line up some TP tubes in the backyard for water gun or super soaker target practice.
Kids can decorate them with sharpies, markers, or colored tape.
Make some Pipe Cleaner Bubble Wands (click HERE for the post)
and see who can blow the most bubbles!
Wishing you and your family a fun-filled 4th of July!
If you are looking for even more ways to have fun with kids in your own backyard this summer,
check out my "Backyard Fun" ebook!
(With 13 Arts and Crafts Lessons to make cool stuff for your own yard!)
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- Properties that influence how basic input is processed: IsHitTestVisible, AllowDrop
Gestures and manipulations
Gestures and manipulations are also a way to handle input and user interaction. The API are listed out separately here because these events represent how the system interacts with device-level input actions and interprets them as a user interaction. Manipulations are a way to handle dynamic multi-touch interactions such as pinching and stretching. Together, the gestures and manipulations provide the touch patterns for touch interaction with UWP app. For more info, see Custom user interactions and Touch interaction design.
Prominent API of UIElement that support gestures and manipulations:
- Gesture events: DoubleTapped, Holding, RightTapped, Tapped
- Manipulation events: ManipulationCompleted, ManipulationDelta, ManipulationInertiaStarting, ManipulationStarted, ManipulationStarting
- Properties that influence how gestures and manipulations are processed: IsHoldingEnabled and other Is*Enabled, ManipulationMode
Basic appearance
The Visibility and Opacity properties are frequently used to adjust the appearance of an element in your UI, especially within styles, templates, and visual states. The Clip, RenderTransform, and Transitions properties are each useful for producing interactions and different looks for your UI elements.
Basic layout
The UIElement class provides a starting point for layout characteristics with properties such as DesiredSize and the Arrange and Measure methods. FrameworkElement adds more layout capabilities. For more info, see Define layouts with XAML and FrameworkElement.
Routed events
Most of the input events of UIElement are routed events. A routed event enables a built-in event handling notification system, so that a parent object can handle input events from child objects in the object tree if the event remains unhandled. This input event behavior is useful for input area grouping, and for control compositing. For more info, see Events and routed events overview.
Prominent API of UIElement that support routed events: AddHandler, RemoveHandler, *Event properties.
Other platform support
- OnCreateAutomationPeer enables a class to use a custom AutomationPeer for its Microsoft UI Automation support.
- RenderTransform, TransformToVisual, Projection, CompositeMode, CacheMode and FindSubElementsForTouchTargeting are useful for advanced UI layout scenarios.
UIElement dependency properties
Many of the read-write properties of the UIElement base element class are dependency properties. Dependency properties support some of the basic programming model features for a UWP app using C++, C#, or Visual Basic, such as styles and templates, data binding, XAML resource references, and property-changed logic. For more info on dependency properties and the features they support, see Dependency properties overview.
UIElement derived classes
The only Windows Runtime class that derives directly from UIElement is FrameworkElement. For a list of the classes that derive from FrameworkElement, see the "FrameworkElement derived classes" section of the FrameworkElement reference topic.
|AccessKeyDisplayDismissed AccessKeyDisplayDismissed AccessKeyDisplayDismissed AccessKeyDisplayDismissed
Occurs when access keys should no longer be displayed.
|AccessKeyDisplayRequested AccessKeyDisplayRequested AccessKeyDisplayRequested AccessKeyDisplayRequested
Occurs when the user requests that access keys be displayed.
|AccessKeyInvoked AccessKeyInvoked AccessKeyInvoked AccessKeyInvoked
Occurs when a user completes an access key sequence.
|BringIntoViewRequested BringIntoViewRequested BringIntoViewRequested BringIntoViewRequested
Occurs when StartBringIntoView is called on this element or one of its descendants.
|CharacterReceived CharacterReceived CharacterReceived CharacterReceived
Occurs when a single, composed character is received by the input queue.
|ContextCanceled ContextCanceled ContextCanceled ContextCanceled
Occurs when a context input gesture continues into a manipulation gesture, to notify the element that the context flyout should not be opened.
|ContextRequested ContextRequested ContextRequested ContextRequested
Occurs when the user has completed a context input gesture, such as a right-click.
|DoubleTapped DoubleTapped DoubleTapped DoubleTapped
Occurs when an otherwise unhandled DoubleTap interaction occurs over the hit test area of this element.
|DragEnter DragEnter DragEnter DragEnter
Occurs when the input system reports an underlying drag event with this element as the target.
|DragLeave DragLeave DragLeave DragLeave
Occurs when the input system reports an underlying drag event with this element as the origin.
|DragOver DragOver DragOver DragOver
Occurs when the input system reports an underlying drag event with this element as the potential drop target.
|DragStarting DragStarting DragStarting DragStarting
Occurs when a drag operation is initiated.
|Drop Drop Drop Drop
Occurs when the input system reports an underlying drop event with this element as the drop target.
|DropCompleted DropCompleted DropCompleted DropCompleted
Occurs when a drag-and-drop operation is ended.
|GettingFocus GettingFocus GettingFocus GettingFocus
Occurs before a UIElement receives focus. This event is raised synchronously to ensure focus isn't moved while the event is bubbling.
|GotFocus GotFocus GotFocus GotFocus
Occurs when a UIElement receives focus. This event is raised asynchronously, so focus can move again before bubbling is complete.
|Holding Holding Holding Holding
Occurs when an otherwise unhandled Hold interaction occurs over the hit test area of this element.
|KeyDown KeyDown KeyDown KeyDown
Occurs when a keyboard key is pressed while the UIElement has focus.
|KeyUp KeyUp KeyUp KeyUp
Occurs when a keyboard key is released while the UIElement has focus.
|LosingFocus LosingFocus LosingFocus LosingFocus
Occurs before a UIElement loses focus. This event is raised synchronously to ensure focus isn't moved while the event is bubbling.
|LostFocus LostFocus LostFocus LostFocus
Occurs when a UIElement loses focus. This event is raised asynchronously, so focus can move again before bubbling is complete.
|ManipulationCompleted ManipulationCompleted ManipulationCompleted ManipulationCompleted
Occurs when a manipulation on the UIElement is complete.
|ManipulationDelta ManipulationDelta ManipulationDelta ManipulationDelta
Occurs when the input device changes position during a manipulation.
|ManipulationInertiaStarting ManipulationInertiaStarting ManipulationInertiaStarting ManipulationInertiaStarting
Occurs when the input device loses contact with the UIElement object during a manipulation and inertia begins.
|ManipulationStarted ManipulationStarted ManipulationStarted ManipulationStarted
Occurs when an input device begins a manipulation on the UIElement.
|ManipulationStarting ManipulationStarting ManipulationStarting ManipulationStarting
Occurs when the manipulation processor is first created.
|NoFocusCandidateFound NoFocusCandidateFound NoFocusCandidateFound NoFocusCandidateFound
Occurs when a user attempts to move focus (via tab or directional arrows), but focus doesn't move because no focus candidate is found in the direction of movement.
|PointerCanceled PointerCanceled PointerCanceled PointerCanceled
Occurs when a pointer that made contact abnormally loses contact.
|PointerCaptureLost PointerCaptureLost PointerCaptureLost PointerCaptureLost
Occurs when pointer capture previously held by this element moves to another element or elsewhere.
|PointerEntered PointerEntered PointerEntered PointerEntered
Occurs when a pointer enters the hit test area of this element.
|PointerExited PointerExited PointerExited PointerExited
Occurs when a pointer leaves the hit test area of this element.
|PointerMoved PointerMoved PointerMoved PointerMoved
Occurs when a pointer moves while the pointer remains within the hit test area of this element.
|PointerPressed PointerPressed PointerPressed PointerPressed
Occurs when the pointer device initiates a Press action within this element.
|PointerReleased PointerReleased PointerReleased PointerReleased
Occurs when the pointer device that previously initiated a Press action is released, while within this element. Note that the end of a Press action is not guaranteed to fire a PointerReleased event; other events may fire instead. For more info, see Remarks.
|PointerWheelChanged PointerWheelChanged PointerWheelChanged PointerWheelChanged
Occurs when the delta value of a pointer wheel changes.
|PreviewKeyDown PreviewKeyDown PreviewKeyDown PreviewKeyDown
Occurs when a keyboard key is pressed while the UIElement has focus.
|PreviewKeyUp PreviewKeyUp PreviewKeyUp PreviewKeyUp
Occurs when a keyboard key is released while the UIElement has focus.
|ProcessKeyboardAccelerators ProcessKeyboardAccelerators ProcessKeyboardAccelerators ProcessKeyboardAccelerators
Occurs when a keyboard shortcut (or accelerator) is pressed.
|RightTapped RightTapped RightTapped RightTapped
Occurs when a right-tap input stimulus happens while the pointer is over the element.
|Tapped Tapped Tapped Tapped
Occurs when an otherwise unhandled Tap interaction occurs over the hit test area of this element.
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Citigroup (NYSE:C) slashed its fourth-quarter and full-year profits by $235 million on Friday after the banking giant discovered fraud in a Mexican subsidiary.
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The New York-based financial conglomerate said it believes the "misappropriated funds" are limited to the lone client, Mexican oil services company Oceanografia, which had been a key supplier to state-owned oil company Pemex.
Citi CEO Michael Corbat called the incident a "despicable crime" and said the bank will be "relentless" in pursuing the recovery of the funds.
"All will be held equally responsible and we will make sure that the punishment sends a crystal clear message about the consequences of such actions," Corbat said in a statement.
As of the end of 2013, Citi said it extended about $585 million of short-term credit to Oceanografia (OSA) through the U.S. bank's Banamex subsidiary, which is the No. 2 bank in Mexico. The credit was extended through an accounts receivable financing program.
However, Citi said it learned on February 11 that OSA had been suspended from being awarded new Mexican government contracts. Citi said it and Pemex launched a detailed review of their credit exposure to OSA and of the accounts receivable financing program over the past several years.
The investigation revealed that a "significant portion" of the accounts receivables recorded by Banamex in connection with the Pemex program were fraudulent and the valid receivables were "substantially" less than the $585 million Citi provided.
In a memo to employees, Corbat said it appears that invoices from OSA were "falsified" to make it appear that Pemex had approved them. A Banamex employee processed the invoices, causing as much as $400 million of funds to be misappropriated.
Corbat said it's not clear how many people were involved in the fraud.
Citi said it can only support the validity of about $185 million of the $585 million of the accounts receivables owed to Banamex by Pemex as of the end of 2013. Citi said the difference of about $400 million has been charged as an operating expense in transaction services in the fourth quarter of 2013, offset by $40 million tied to a compensation expense.
While the review of the situation is ongoing, Citi, which acquired Banamex in 2001 for about $12.5 billion, stressed that it believes the fraud is isolated to the OSA client.
Citi said it will determine whether all or any portion of the $33 million of direct loans made to OSA and the remaining $185 million of accounts receivables due from Pemex is impaired.
"I can assure you there will be accountability for those who perpetrated this despicable crime and any employee who enabled it, either through lax supervision, circumvention of our controls, or violating our Code of Conduct," Corbat said.
As a result of the fraud, Citi will take an after-tax hit of about $235 million, or $360 million before taxes. The bank subsequently lowered its 2012 net income to $13.7 billion from $13.9 billion.
Shares of Citi ticked up 0.06% to $48.73 Friday morning.


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This article describes how to play .rmvb video files.
The most simple way is to install VLC, which plays .rmvb now, as well as many other video format.
# pacman -S vlc
Or you can install realplayerAUR from the AUR.
Next, start it with:
$ realplay &
On the first run, a configuration wizard will set up the necessary options.
.ram files
To play .ram files, this script is intended to replace the use of realplayer by using vlc instead : http://www.sputnick-area.net/scripts/realplay.bash
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Conversion of RealMedia Files
As RealMedia files are not widely (nor well) supported, it may be useful to convert them to another format. FFmpeg can be used for this.
# pacman -S ffmpeg
For example, to convert the video foo.rm to an mp4 file:
ffmpeg -i foo.rm -vcodec mpeg4 -sameq -acodec libfaac -ab 94208 foo.mp4


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1. "Good luck getting a ticket."
More than 82,000 football fans are expected to pack into MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., to see the Seattle Seahawks battle the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII on Feb. 2. But as ticket prices have escalated over the years, watching the game from inside the stadium has become a fantastic notion for the typical fan. Tickets on the resale market were averaging $3,000 each a week before this year's game, almost 40% more than the average ticket sold in 2013, according to TiqIQ, a ticket aggregator. And prices can go as high as $700,000 for a suite.
Ticket prices start between $500 and $1,200, but are marked up when they are resold in the secondary market, where the unusually high number of buyers chasing tickets to the once-a-year extravaganza drives prices through the roof.
And believe it or not, things could have been even more expensive for fans this year. In an effort to make the game more affordable, the National Football League says it doubled the number of tickets being sold directly to fans via a lottery, to 1,000 this year. It also lowered the price of the cheapest ticket, from $650 to $500. And resale prices dropped steeply a week before the game, largely because of the cold weather, ticket brokers say.
Also see: Super Bowl ticket prices drop with the temperature
One reason landing that coveted ticket isn't as simple as first-come, first-served is that the National Football League doesn't distribute tickets evenly across the country: 35% of the tickets are split between the two participating teams; 6.2% are split between the host teams, the New York Giants and New York Jets; and 1.2% go to each of the remaining 28 teams. (The league retains the remaining 25.2% of the tickets to sell to the media, sponsors and partners.) And teams can hand out the tickets however they like, with some teams giving all tickets to sponsors, executives and players, says Matheson. Some teams hold raffles for season ticket holders, but with each team having roughly 70,000 season ticket holders and about 1,000 tickets, the odds are "not very good," says Victor Matheson, a professor of economics at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.
Then there are the last-minute travel costs, since fans don't know until two weeks before the game whether their team will play, making it harder for them to save by booking early. Hotel rates in host cities typically double during Super Bowl weekend, according to Matheson. "The Super Bowl has always been an event for the elite," says Matheson.
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Oilers 2, Coyotes 3 (SO) – Game 72 – 2012-03-18 @ 6:00 PM MST – SNETW
In the Battle of Alberta, we won the war, but we lost won of the battles big time. Taylor Hall was concussed on a pretty ugly looking play. He picked up the puck along the boards halfway up the defensive zone. With his head down, he turned to skate up ice, and lost his balance. As he was going down, Cory Sarich pinched in with a decent amount of speed and ran through and over top of him. Contact was made with Hall's head, but I wouldn't go saying that this one was a dirty hit, per se. Hall's head then seemed to hit the ice pretty hard. He lose consciousness briefly. After being checked over by the trainer on the ice, Hall skated off on his own power and left the game. Concussion. We're all hoping he'll be back soon, as I'm sure most Oilers fans have high hopes of another 30 goal scorer here this year. Of course, his health is far more important though.
Some good news is that Hall is not feeling any headache from after the hit, and plans to hit the stationary bike today. "I feel good, pretty much normal. I woke up yesterday and felt fine and today I feel even better. I'd never been knocked out before, so it was pretty scary for me. I don't remember the hit, but I feel fine," Hall said. "Who knows what would have happened if I would have stayed on my feet."
The Oilers have also been more diligent about keeping players out of the lineup long enough to prevent re-injury, since coming under the microscope from fans and media. "There are steps in place for us to follow. We'll listen to (medical staff). He could play this season," Renney assured when asked about Hall's return to the lineup. "I'm not going to guess my way through a young guy's career who means so much to our organization."
"I just talked to him and I think he's doing pretty good today. It was a tough situation on Friday," Shawn Horcoff commented on the Hall injury/hit.
On to the game tonight… we will have Dubnyk in net, again. He's played rather stellar since taking the net back from Khabibulin. Darcy Hordichuk also could draw back in. His family just had a son (Declan).
"The Nuge" now sits at 45 points in (51gp), 1 point behind Adam Henrique (64 games played) and 2 behind Gabriel Landeskog (74 games played). Don't forget to vote in the sidebar (or click multimedia, then polls archive up top) as to who the Calder winner should be.
Lastly, don't forget that Oil Change Season 2, Episode 4 re-airs tonight on Sportsnet, following the game.
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3 in 5 adults don't have a will
Most adults either don't have a will in place or have given no thought to writing one, according to a study.
YouGov polled 2,089 over-18s on behalf of insurance company Royal London, with 60% admitting they have no will and a third (33%) haven't considered writing one.
77% of cohabiting couples have not written a will, despite the surviving partner having no legal entitlement to inherit an estate if their partner was to die.
A valid and up-to-date will ensures an estate is distributed according to the deceased's wishes, while also potentially reducing the inheritance tax liability for the beneficiaries.
Mona Patel, consumer spokesperson at Royal London, said:
"Writing a will may seem daunting and with everything else we should be thinking about, it becomes another chore on the to-do list.
"It's especially important for cohabiting couples to have a will as the surviving partner does not automatically inherit any estate or possessions left behind.
"By having a will in place, your loved ones will be able to easily locate all your assets and carry out your wishes when you have gone."
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In eager anticipation of the 2013 NFL season, Baltimore Sun blogger and reporter Matt Vensel will take a daily look at one of the 13 opponents on the Ravens' regular-season schedule. Today is the Cincinnati Bengals.
The Ravens are the back-to-back AFC North champions, but this year, the Cincinnati Bengals are the team many NFL talking heads believe will challenge the Ravens' reign. The Bengals have drafted well, especially on offense, where Andy Dalton and A.J. Green are one of the NFL's top quarterback-receiver tandems. They added more weapons for Dalton in April's draft, and the defense should be formidable again. The Ravens host the Bengals at M&T; Bank Stadium in Week 10, ending a three-game stretch where they play all three division rivals. They head to Cincinnati in Week 17, the fourth straight year they play the Bengals in their season finale.
Recapping 2012: The Bengals finished 10-6 last season. It was their first back-to-back winning seasons in 30 years. They made it to the playoffs for the second straight year, too. They won seven of their final eight games to get in, but lost to the Houston Texans for the second straight postseason. Still, the Bengals, who ranked 12th in scoring offense and eighth in scoring defense, took another step forward. Dalton had 27 touchdown passes, 11 of them to Green, and defensive linemen Geno Atkins and Michael Johnson combined for 24 sacks.
Cha-cha-changes: The Bengals were able to keep most of their roster intact from last season, starting with the use of the franchise tag on Johnson. They signed former Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker James Harrison, a longtime Ravens nemesis, to improve their already-potent pass rush. The Bengals added 10 players in the draft, starting with tight end Tyler Eifert, running back Giovanni Bernard and defensive end Margus Hunt, who were all chosen in the draft's first 53 picks.
The skinny: The Ravens are the AFC North favorites, but I definitely see the Bengals putting up a fight this season. Dalton may never become a great quarterback, but he is solid, and the Bengals adding Eifert and Bernard in the draft should aid his development. Green is one of the NFL's top young receivers, a player who should give the Ravens problems. Ditto for Atkins, a disruptive 25-year-old defensive tackle who is already one of the NFL's best players at his position, too. It's possible the Bengals could have both a top-10 offense and top-10 defense in 2013.
Recent history: The Ravens are 6-4 against the Bengals in the Harbaugh era and had won four straight games before the Bengals won last year's season finale, a meaningless game in which starters from both teams were yanked from the game. The two teams opened the season against each other, too, and the Ravens whipped the Bengals, 44-13, at M&T; Bank Stadium.
Degree of difficulty: The Bengals believe they are ready to overtake the Ravens and win their first AFC North title since 2009. On paper, this might be their best team since that season, when Carson Palmer was still flinging passes to Chad Ochocinco. The Week 10 matchup at home will have a degree of difficulty of seven. The season finale, which could be played with the division on the line, will be a little tougher. Let's say 7.5 out of 10.


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If there is one thing sports fans understand, it's the value of data. No statistic is too obscure for your diehard Fantasy Football junkie and, as a result, there is no more fitting technology for the professional sports industry than the Internet of Things (IoT) – whether they know it or not.
The applications for IoT in stadiums range from the seemingly mundane (Internet-connected concession stands) to the truly sci-fi (Internet-connected players). However, in order for the technology to take home a Super Bowl ring of its own one day, the industry needs to embrace the technologies' glamorous applications, along with the applications currently only making engineers drool.
The following slideshow, provided by wot.io, a data service exchange for connected device platforms, lays out the best of both worlds, the sexy and the practical, in order to make the case that the smart stadium of tomorrow has benefits for fans, teams and maintenance staff alike. With Gartner predicting that there will be 26 billion connected devices by 2020, it's a safe bet that some of these will be landing in your local sports stadium, so it's about time we start figuring out what that will look like.
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i was having a bit of trouble using a wireless USB device with red hat linux 9 on my machine, i haven't tried a lot of things yet but i was hoping someone may have had experience on this and could help me. so anyway i have a linksys wireless router and a linksys wireless USB device that will allow me to connect to a network and thus allow me to connect to the internet on that machine, so i guess the first relavent question i should ask is, does red hat linux support USB? i was assuming it did, so i pluged it in, nothing happened, so i went online to the linksys website, and they apparently dont' have any linux drivers for that device, so im at a loss, should i just give up on the idea? or is there some generic driver that might work, or do i need to get a specific patch for linux? any help is appreciated as usual..
its a linksys 802.11b wireless device
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From a protect-your-home standpoint, there are two ways to thumb your nose at Hurricane Irene and other natural disasters like her.
Option One: Have an insurance policy that covers windstorm damage and flooding (or whatever natural disasters are typical in your area). Two, fortify your house so that should a disaster strike, the building has a better chance of making it through undamaged — which keeps you safe if you're weathering in place better phrase? confusing, and gives you a home to come back to, if you've evacuated.
Option Two comes with some financial incentives. As we reported earlier this year, more insurers are offering policy discounts:
"In addition to saving lives or keeping a home standing, the insurance savings can be substantial, advocates say. Depending on the state and extent of the modifications, discounts can run as high as 35% of the policy, insurers say. An Alabama resident on the Gulf Coast, for example, might save up to 10% for installing wind-resistant windows and doors. This is especially important for homeowners in high-risk areas that have already seen their insurance rates rise. State Farm, for example, offers policy discounts of up to 27% in Texas for impact-resistant roofing to limit hail damage. In Wyoming and New Mexico, it offers as much as 30% off."
Talk to your insurer to find out what discounts are available in your area. Not every modification qualifies — fortified safe rooms, which FEMA recommends in tornado-prone areas, are a notable exception. Those projects that do must be built to specific standards to be eligible for the deal.
Even if there's no insurance benefit, state deals can help subsidize the cost of your project: According to our article:
"Beyond the new insurance rules, many states are also offering ways to cut the costs of disaster-proofing improvements. Virginia and Louisiana have both hosted annual hurricane-preparedness sales-tax holidays during May since 2008, covering purchases such as back-up generators and storm shutters. (Earlier this year, the American Legislative Exchange Council, a membership group of state legislators, passed a measure encouraging other states to do the same.) Homeowners building a safe room may be eligible for federal or state grants; Mississippi, for example, reimburses 75% of the cost, up to $4,000, for a single-family shelter. And those impact-resistant windows and doors may qualify buyers for an energy-efficiency tax credit for 10% of the cost, up to $200 for windows and up to $500 total."
Just don't cancel Option One, that solid insurance policy. As Julie Rochman, the chief executive of the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety, told us in May: "There's no such thing as a guarantee. If you're talking about an F4 or F5 tornado bearing down on you, at some point Mother Nature is going to overpower any engineering."