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Abend Haus is a newly remodeled two story 1920's home located just two blocks from downtown Fredericksburg. This immaculate property features a large shaded back yard with patio. A large living room includes a stylish sofa, Comfy Leather Chair and hand-made armoire. The kitchen has an antique breakfast table and brand new kitchen appliances. This unique property is highlighted with Faux Finish interior walls throughout. Abend Haus is a perfect Romantic retreat for a loving couple or a great retreat for several couples. A convenient location and upscale décor make Abend Haus a perfect palace for a relaxing Fredericksburg getaway.
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Just thought I'd mention this Saturday we are headed to see those 4 zany Aussies... (The Wiggles)
I have to post this, because I'm extremely excited.I just booked a trip to California to take my two nephews and sister to their first Weird Al concert ever. It's next weekend, and I found a cheap flight.
He's at the Greek, right Josh? Cool deal! Are you staying down here for a night? If so, where? I'm like 15 minutes from the Greek Theater, so give me a shout as to your plans while you're in town, and maybe we can work something out (better than Comic Con ).Any word on that other little "plan"...?
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NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - October 27, 2014) - Anthony Cumia, popular talk radio personality, has announced the launch of his partnership with group video chat platform, Paltalk (www.paltalk.com). Subscribers to The Anthony Cumia Show will receive exclusive access to live chats on Paltalk in which Cumia will interact with fans in real-time, broadcast exclusive behind-the-scenes content and feature fans on-air during the show.
The partnership between Paltalk and Cumia not only conveys the outspoken host's extremely loyal following but also the great benefit of having a platform like Paltalk for his and other celebrities' fan communities to interact directly with them and with each other. The new show is unique in its uncensored content and interactive format, in which subscribers can participate in video, voice and text chat with Anthony and one another in real-time on Paltalk.
The chat room is accessible 24/7 exclusively to subscribers and capable of hosting thousands of simultaneous group and individual conversations at any given moment. It serves as an exciting and new way to bring Cumia's listeners together in one place -- as early testing for the new show has recently begun on Paltalk, Cumia's fans have already begun aggregating and conversing in his designated chat room, even when Cumia is off the air and offline.
Paltalk will share revenue from subscriptions and virtual gift purchases generated through the show with Anthony Cumia.
"Many of our fans are already familiar with Paltalk, so it was an easy choice on where I'd host the show," said Cumia. "I love the real-time conversations that take place, and it's so much more interactive and intimate than social networks like Twitter -- and a hell of a lot more fun."
"We're excited to partner with Anthony Cumia on his new endeavor," said Jason Katz, Founder and CEO of Paltalk. "Paltalk provides a medium for broadcasters to interact in real-time with their fans and to monetize their engagement -- it's social TV epitomized. This is the future of entertainment."
Paltalk's unique, patented technology allows an unlimited number of individuals to group video chat with one another from any computer or mobile device. Over 2.2 million active users spend approximately 53 million minutes per day and 22 hours per month on Paltalk. Paltalk's international community self-organizes to discuss topics and shared experiences in a secure environment where personally identifiable information is never shared and anonymity is available.
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"MTV Movie Awards" (MTV 10 p.m.) Jessica Alba hosts. Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger are up for Best Kiss. What more do you want?
"Windfall" (NBC 9 p.m.) Luke Perry, Sarah Wynter and D.J. Cotrona headline this ensemble cast drama about 20 young people who win a share in a $386 million lottery jackpot.
"Hex" (BBC America 8 p.m.) A teenage misfit discovers she is heir to a centuries-old tradition of witchcraft in the pilot for the new BBC series. (Think "Charmed" with more accents and less Shannon Doherty.)
"Where My Dogs At?' (MTV2 11 p.m.) This new animated series follows the adventures of two stray dogs living in Hollywood.
"The Chico & Guapo Show" (MTV2 11:30 p.m.) This new animated series follows the adventures of two janitors working at a New York music studio.
Black Hole (Sci-Fi 7 p.m.) Sadly, not a remake of the Disney space saga. We do, however, get an '80s flashback courtesy of stars Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club) and Kristy Swanson (Flowers in the Attic) playing a pair of scientists who accidentally unleash an energy-sucking monster.
"The 60th Annual Tony Awards" (KRQE-13 7 p.m.) I know you ignore the Tony Awards every year. But this time around it's hosted by 60 (count 'em, 60) stars. Hank Azaria, Glenn Close, Ralph Fiennes, Anna Paquin, Oprah Winfrey and Julia Roberts will be there. Now are you excited about who wins Best Lighting Design of a Musical?
"The 4,400" (USA 7 p.m.) When we last left the 4,400 they were dying off, thanks to the government's "cure." What's in store this season for our superevolved humans?
"Deadwood" (HBO 7 p.m.) It's about f*&#ing time this show came back!
"Lucky Louie" (HBO 11:30 p.m.) Louis C.K. stars in this working-class sitcom recorded live in front of a studio audience. (Think "The Honeymooners," but with more toilet humor.)
"The Closer" (TNT 7 p.m.) The return of Kyra Sedgwick's sharp crime drama gives us another ray of hope in the summer TV season.
"Hell's Kitchen" (KASA-2 8 p.m.) Because there's just something compelling about watching British people yelling and throwing pots.
"How to Get the Guy" (ABC 9 p.m.) This new "docu-soap" (their word, not mine) follows four single women through the dating scene of San Francisco.
"Tuesday Night Book Club" (KRQE-13 9 p.m.) This one-hour series follows the lives of a group of real women in a middle-class suburb as they deal with the day-to-day pressures of raising kids, maintaining households and satisfying their husbands. Given that a vast number of TV viewers are, in fact, women in a middle class suburb dealing with the day-to-day pressures of raising kids, maintaining households and satisfying their husbands, what exactly is the point of this show?
"Stanley Cup Finals" (KOB-4 7 p.m.) Well, look who's come crawling back. You Molson-swilling lockout lovers!


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Palo Alto became the latest California city on Monday to officially come out in favor of reforming Proposition 13, though some on the City Council argued that the resolution currently on the table isn't going far enough.
Members offered a variety of reasons for their respective positions prior to voting to endorse reforms to the 1978 state law, which caps property taxes at 1 percent of the property's assessed value and also ties taxes to a property's 1975 assessed value unless it has changed ownership.
Everyone agreed that commercial properties aren't paying their share of property taxes, a dynamic that places a greater burden on owners of residences. The reforms, while non-specific at this point, would proposeregularly occurring reassessments of non-residential properties.
A staff report from City Manager James Keene noted that before Proposition 13, 40 percent of local property tax revenues came from non-residential properties. Today, that figure stands at 28 percent, with residents and apartment owners paying the balance.
"I think the issue we're trying to deal with is just fairness that inexorably, the share of property taxes being passed by commercial property owners is declining every year, in Palo Alto, in Santa Clara (County) and in California," Councilman Greg Schmid said on Monday.
Councilman Greg Scharff said the resolution should go further and include multi-family developments.
"It's a business. I don't see it as any different from other types of commercial," Scharff said.
He cited Equity Residential, the Chicago-based property owner that is now East Palo Alto's largest landowner.
"Are we going to give them a break?" Scharff said.
Councilman Larry Klein, a staunch and frequent critic of the law, agreed Proposition 13 was "manifestly unfair" and proposed it should be "blown up" in a Constitutional convention, rather than gradually reformed.
It's not fair, he said, that a young family who may wish to buy a house next to his would have to pay triple (if not more) the amount of property taxes that he pays. The proposition discourages young families from coming to Palo Alto, Klein said.
"It creates a lack of diversity in our community," Klein said.
Councilman Marc Berman had no problem with the council's resolution, which is general and doesn't back any particular reform proposal. While Klein argued that the resolution doesn't go far enough and offered only lukewarm support, Berman called the vote a "good first step."
Even Karen Holman, the lone dissenter in the 8-1 vote, said she is very much in favor of reforming Proposition 13. Her concern with the resolution on the table was based on possible "unintended consequences" for small businesses, which would see their property taxes shoot up under new reassessments.
"We've seen up and down the state and all over the country how downtowns have died, for lots of reasons," Holman said.
The resolution was drafted by the citizens group Evolve, which looks to direct more revenues toward education. It states that Proposition 13 allows commercial property owners "to avoid paying their fair share and has shifted the tax burden to residential property and away from business, including everyday homeowners and working families."
The resolution notes that reassessing non-residential property would generate at least $6 billion in additional revenue for California, according to data from the California Board of Education. Ian Fregosi, an organizer with Evolve, said the group feels it's unfair that "corporations are getting huge million dollar or billion dollar tax breaks, while our schools are 49th in the country in per pupil funding."
"We believe that our state should address the drastic budget cuts that local governments have endured by raising revenue, not making further cuts or by increasing the already high burden on individuals," Fregosi said. "We know the fairest way to provide desperately needed revenues is by reforming Proposition 13."
Other cities that have voiced support for reform of Proposition 13 include Berkeley, Brisbane, Burlingame, Oakland, Richmond and Santa Monica.


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In Atlanta and Baltimore, many tens of millions of dollars worth of deals happened Friday that had nothing to do with Matt Ryan.
And everything at the same time.
The Falcons quarterback benefitted directly from the $120.6 million deal agreed to by Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco, a deal which he's in better position to get after a series of moves by his own team.
According to D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Falcons cleared nearly $16 million worth of salary cap room with the releases of John Abraham, Dunta Robinson and Michael Turner.
While part of the proceeds will go to keeping their own core (players such as safety William Moore and others), and part will go into bringing in replacements (potentially a pass-rusher such as Dwight Freeney or Osi Umenyiora, or a running back like Steven Jackson), they're going to be tucking away part for a rainy day as well.
Ryan's entering the final year of his rookie contract, and while he doesn't have a Super Bowl win or MVP trophy on his resume, he does have a enough to make a strong case to be paid just like Flacco — beginning with the fact no quarterback in the league has more regular season wins since 2008.
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At the turn of the 21st century, the Community of True Inspiration is approaching its 300th year of existence although the Amana of today differs from that of a century before. By the 1930s, the communal system in Amana had generated stresses which it could not resolve. Many community members found the rules associated with communal living to be petty and overly restrictive. Regulations governed most aspects of daily life including dining, dress and leisure activities. Many young people wanted to be free to play baseball, to own musical instruments or to bob their hair in the new style. Families wanted to eat together at home rather than in the communal kitchen dining rooms. Although members received an annual spending allowance, many people felt theirs was inadequate and were frustrated by their inability to enjoy more material goods. Increasingly the elders were unable to enforce the rules.
The Elders presented the membership of the community with a choice: either they could return to a more austere and disciplined life or they could abandon the communal system. Significantly, dissolution of the church was not considered as an alternative. But most members also recognized that their community had changed and that they were probably incapable of returning to the strict life of early communalism. Many people no longer equated their faith with the social mores dictated by the Community. Furthermore, many members felt that communalism itself was no longer a
Today, the Amana Society, Inc., corporate heir to the land and economic assets of communal Amana, continues to own and manage some 26,000 acres of farm, pasture and forest land. Agriculture remains an important economic base today just as it was in communal times. Because the land was not divided up with the end of communalism the landscape of Amana still reflects its communal heritage. In addition, over 450 communal-era buildings stand in the seven villages--vivid reminders of the past.
The Amana Church continues to be a vital part of the Amana community. A visitor to Amana today would do well to visit an Inspirationist cemetery. Surrounded by pine trees to symbolize eternal life, the cemeteries continue to express the Inspirationist ethos of equality, humility and simplicity. As they have been for over 140 years, members are buried in order of death with plain, uniform headstones. Like the cemeteries, the Amana churches are much as they were when built 125 years ago. The building exteriors are unpretentious; no steeple or
Today, heritage tourism has become important to the economy of the Amana area. Historic preservation efforts by several local nonprofit organizations, as well as the Amana Society, Inc. in conjunction with land-use and historic preservation ordinances attempt to preserve the natural and built environment of Amana.
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IRVINE, Calif.—February 20, 2013—The fate of Sanctuary will soon rest in the hands of PlayStation gamers around the world. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that it is developing Diablo® III, the latest entry in its award-winning action–role-playing-game series, for the Sony PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. The company also today confirmed plans to adapt the game for Sony's newly announced PlayStation®4, its next-generation computer entertainment system.
The PS3™/PS4™ version of Diablo III will be based on the critically acclaimed core experience of the PC version, including all of the latest upgrades, such as the Paragon leveling system, customizable Monster Power, Brawling, and epic Legendary items. In addition, Blizzard is designing an all-new user interface, including an intuitive control scheme and a new dynamic camera perspective, that will make questing and combat in the world of Sanctuary feel like second nature on PlayStation platforms. Players will be able to battle their way through the story in single-player mode and also experience the hack-and-slash joy of destroying demons and collecting loot together with their friends via seamless four-player online and local co-op modes.
Blizzard also announced today that the PS3 version of Diablo III will be shown live at PAX East, taking place at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center from March 22–24. Attendees there will be the first in the world to pick up a controller and experience the fast-paced action and visceral gameplay of Diablo III via the new custom-designed interface.
"Diablo III looks and plays great on the PlayStation," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "We put a lot of care and thought into the PlayStation version to make sure it would deliver an authentic Diablo gaming experience, and we're really pleased with the results. We can't wait for players to try it out at PAX East."
Diablo III continues the epic Diablo storyline, with players taking on the role of one of five heroic characters—barbarian, witch doctor, wizard, monk, or demon hunter—and embarking on a perilous quest to save the world of Sanctuary from the corrupting forces of the Burning Hells. As players adventure through rich and varied settings, they'll engage in pulse-pounding combat with hordes of monsters and challenging bosses, grow in experience and ability, acquire artifacts of incredible power, and meet key characters who'll join them in battle or aid them along the way. Diablo III was originally released for Windows® and Macintosh® PC on May 15, 2012 and within 24 hours became the fastest-selling PC game of all time. As of December 31, 2012, Diablo III had sold through more than 12 million copies worldwide.*
To learn more about Diablo III, please visit the official website at http://www.diablo3.com. Further details about Blizzard's plans for the PlayStation versions of the game will be announced on the site as development progresses. With multiple games in development, Blizzard Entertainment has numerous positions currently available—visit http://jobs.blizzard.com for more information and to learn how to apply.
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Two of the Eastern Conference's top teams will meet Tuesday night as the Indiana Pacers visit the Philadelphia 76ers for a matchup that has playoff seeding implications.
Indiana (39-28) moved a half-game ahead of the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday for the third spot in the East with 15 games to go. The 76ers (36-29) are currently sixth in the standings, but just two games behind the Pacers as they welcome Indiana for the rubber match of the season series.
The Pacers enter the game on an impressive defensive streak. They have won five of six, holding each of the losing opponents below 100 points, including Boston, the No. 2 seed in the East, which Indiana defeated 99-97 on Sunday.
"I thought we did a good job of executing," Indiana coach Nate MacMillan said after the game. "We got the matchups we wanted and we were able to score the ball. They did a good job of moving their bigs around in different combinations and we were just able to find some matchups that worked for us and were able to capitalize, which was really big for us."
Philadelphia comes in hoping to stabilize things after a recent up-and-down stretch. The 76ers are 4-4 in their last eight games after winning seven straight, but they are coming off a 120-97 win at Brooklyn on Sunday.
Joel Embiid scored 21 points to lead eight Philadelphia players in double figures against the Nets, and the 76ers shot 53 percent from the field and 35 percent from 3-point range.
"Lately, we have been kind of up and down, but I am glad we got a win tonight," Embiid told reporters after the game. "We are trying to go to the playoffs, and you have to be able to go on the road and win games."
Embiid was most impressed by his team's defense against the Nets, particularly in the second half, when they held Brooklyn to 37 points, including 14 in the fourth quarter.
"Energy, we were on lockdown," Embiid said. "We can't move, you don't want to go up and exchange baskets with the other teams. We locked in and we did a better job. We were aggressive rebounding the ball. We gave up less offensive rebounds."
The last time Philadelphia and Indiana met this season, the 76ers similarly played lockdown defense late against the Pacers, holding them to 38 second-half points. Indiana did just enough in the first half, though, to eke out a 100-92 win on Feb. 3.
In the teams' first matchup, a 121-110 Philadelphia win on Nov. 3, J.J. Redick had 31 points, including eight 3-pointers, and Ben Simmons added a triple-double with 14 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists.
After hosting the Pacers on Tuesday, the 76ers head to Madison Square Garden to face the Knicks on Thursday before returning home for three straight games.
Indiana next hosts Eastern Conference-leading Toronto before returning to the road for another matchup with a playoff-bound team on Saturday at Washington.
"All we talk about is the next game," McMillan told The Indianapolis Star.
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On Thursday, ice fisherman, also known as ice anglers, dotted Oneida Lake.
They were armed with tents and buckets to sit on, and were fishing for perch and walleye.
The ice was 5 to 8 inches thick in some spots and ice had spread a few hundred feet out from shore.
The Erie Canal leading into the lake was frozen on the surface, but starting to break up as temperatures climbed into to the upper 30s.
Many outdoor enthusiasts have been happier this year than last with a return to more normal winter weather. Despite the recent warming trend, cold weather will smack the area again.
Accuweather.com meteorologists report that rain will enter the region Friday night with temperatures reaching their warmest levels of the month. However, next week, cooler air will filter into the eastern United States, and by the end of next week, arctic air will return. Over the next few weeks, traditional Upstate winter weather will return.
This will help with ice formation.
According to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, a minimum of three to four inches of solid ice is usually safe for anglers on foot.
Oneida Dispatch outdoors columnist Leo Maloney agrees and adds that good ice, also known as "clear blue" should be sought before venturing onto any body of water. "Clear blue" refers to the color ice takes on when it is sturdy, solid and has not been thawed and then refrozen.
It is "safe ice," said Maloney. Unsafe ice is often called "gray" or "slush ice," and it is just that- gray in color and sometimes slushy on the top. It has partially melted and refrozen, is not solid and is somewhat bendable under weight.
When setting out onto the ice on foot, Maloney added that it is a good idea to be mindful of the color of the ice, and to use an ice pick or walking stick to occasionally prod questionable ice to determine if it is safe. He also advises staying away from inlets or mouths of streams because there tends to be warmer water under the ice in those situations that can cause melting to the underside of the ice.
The DEC cautions that the presence of snowmobile tracks or footprints on the ice should not be taken as evidence of safe ice conditions. They urge individuals to check ice conditions for themselves and avoid situations present even a remote risk.
"During warm winters such as the one we are currently experiencing, some anglers take risks that they would otherwise not take," said DEC Commissioner Joe Martens. "Last year safe ice did not form on many larger waters, but smaller lakes and ponds eventually provided sufficient ice for safe angling. Although the wait can be frustrating, falling through the ice is not a risk anyone should take."
On the eastern end of the lake Sylvan Beach and Bridgeport fire departments have members trained in ice rescue and watercraft that can travel between water and ice. Oswego and Oneida County Sheriff's Departments also assist.
Ice thickness varies on every body of water or even within the same body of water and anglers should be particularly wary of areas of moving water and around boat docks and houses where bubblers may be installed to reduce ice :
The DEC also advises that while the use of fish for bait is popular when ice fishing, bait fish may be banned from some waters that are open to ice fishing. For a list of special regulations by county to find out where bait fish can and cannot be used, and for other regulations that apply to baitfish, visit:
Anglers are reminded to take these important steps when using baitfish while ice fishing:
o Follow the bait fish regulations to prevent the spread of harmful fish diseases and invasive species.
o Use only certified disease-free bait fish purchased at a local tackle store or use only personally collected bait fish for use in the same water body in which they were caught.
o Anglers looking for potential ice fishing locations should request a copy of the DEC "I FISH NY Guide to Freshwater Fishing." This map and brochure provides locations of good public fishing opportunities throughout New York State. Anglers can obtain a copy at any DEC regional office, or can request a copy on-line by e-mailing DEC at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Put NY FISHING MAP in the subject line. Additional information on ice fishing, ice safety, and regulations can be found on DEC's website at:
Maloney also recommends checking th website, "iceshanty.com" for reports posted by other fisherman on local fishing spots. Information found ranges from ice thickness to what kinds of fish are biting.


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Who wears Dr. Martens? Rebels. Punks. Goths. Industrial rockers. Artists. Anyone different. Whether or not you fit in, you'll feel comfortable taking on the world in "Doc" Martens boots.
The original tough loves, Dr. Martens 1460 boots broke the mold in manufacturing before they did with cultural conventions. Like so many garage bands form, it all started with a classified ad - a British shoemaker answered one from German doctors seeking footwear partners. The Griggs family brought a tradition of quality craftsmanship dating back to 1901, while Dr. Maertens and Dr. Funck offered game-changing innovation. Adopting a more English-friendly spelling for their new brand's name, they debuted Dr. Martens boots in 1960. With 8 eyelets (shoelace rings) embellishing each side, genuine leather in solid black or brown (to start), and a border of thick yellow stitches securing the upper to the outsoles, the original 1460 Dr. Martens were - and still are - unmistakable. These workhorses were a hit with blue-collar workers thanks to groundbreaking air-cushioned soles and rugged design with tremendous tread. But across Europe and America, the 60s brought youthful revolution with rock 'n roll, civil rights, tripping hippies, and war protests. Free-spirited teenagers quickly claimed 1460 Dr. Martens boots as their own, thanks in part to guitar gods other rebellious celebrities rocking them in solidarity with the disenchanted working classes. The trend grew stronger and more diverse in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Many saw these road warriors as blank canvases, painting, pinning, ripping, and otherwise customizing them as they would their clothing and skin. The fact that 1460s haven't really changed beyond color and pattern choices speaks to their timeless appeal.
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I also got 'Shy Girl' from the permanent collection.
'Shy Girl' is a creme sheen, and 'Peachstock' is a satin. I was worried that 'Peachstock' would be too similar to Body Shops #46 lipstick, it wasn't but 'surprisingly Shy Girl' is exactly the same. I'm running low on #46, so 'Shy girl' came at a great time.
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For millions of fans, though, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular's annual setpieces are as much a holiday tradition as leaving out cookies for Santa to eat. The dancers and producers give these evergreen classics a peppermint freshness with 21st-century stagecraft and surprising choreography, such as the endlessly inventive tap-dancing in the "12 Days of Christmas." 3D animated backdrops whisk the Rockettes from the North Pole to ice skating in Central Park to fireworks in Times Square. Along the way, a flurry of costume changes transforms the leggy dancers into reindeer, candy canes, an army of Santas—even avatars in a video game. And no Radio City Christmas is complete without the clockwork-precise Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, as the Rockettes cascade back and forth like human dominoes while wearing Vincente Minnelli's classic 1933 costume. The Radio City Christmas Spectacular always closes in epic fashion with the Living Nativity tableau, which fills the entire theater with a digitally mapped projection of Bethlehem beneath an ocean of stars.
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Recent uncertainty over elections in Greece heightened the perceived probability of a breakup of the euro in the short term, which would likely have dramatic, disruptive effects on Greece, as well as the rest of the euro zone. In our opinion, a euro zone breakup would likely entail an effective devaluation across peripheral regions with a corresponding revaluation in whatever currency survived in the core and northern region, whether a newly constituted euro or reinstituted Deutsche mark. We believe the adverse currency swing for core Europe under such a scenario would significantly degrade the competitiveness of exporters domiciled there, due to higher relative costs, pricing pressure, or both.
By reducing the immediate likelihood of a breakup, the Greek elections have clearly forestalled, if not avoided, a highly disruptive outcome for that country. In maintaining the viability of the euro zone itself, however, the election's most important impact may have been in supporting the vastly larger economy in Germany.
Although the Greek elections have provided short-term relief to investors, it is clear that the euro zone has bigger problems than Greece. Shortly after the resolution of the Greek elections, markets quickly shifted their attention to Spain, where borrowing costs are now at record highs, with 10-year bonds yielding more than 7% (source: Bloomberg). It is still unknown if the 100-billion-euro bailout in June for Spain's banks will be enough.
The peripheral countries of the euro zone have been experiencing weak growth and austerity coupled with credit market stress for the better part of a year. We believe the euro zone will continue to operate at a structural disadvantage by having monetary union without fiscal union.
The Delaware Investments Global and International Value Equity team currently has no portfolio holdings in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, or Greece. The team continues to attempt to capitalize on opportunities where companies are being punished for being domiciled in the euro zone, even though their core business operations are located in what the team believes are stronger, more resilient regions.
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(Updated) AG: Head of Downtown Crossing crime ring arrested
The alleged leader of an "extensive criminal enterprise" in Downtown Crossing was arrested, authorities announced Thursday afternoon.
The alleged leader of an "extensive criminal enterprise" in Downtown Crossing was arrested Thursday in an undercover operation by local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, authorities said.
During a news conference Thursday afternoon, Attorney General Martha Coakley said that the scheme involves stolen and fraudulent identities, phony credit cards and the reselling of smartphones.
Shahab "David" Yousheei, 36, of Brighton, faces multiple charges including identity theft, illegal possession of a credit card encoder and making purchases with a false credit card. He was arrested after buying counterfeit money, authorities said.
Coakely said Yousheei, who operated a kiosk at 449 Washington St.,used stolen identities to open mobile phone accounts and pay runners to buy discounted smartphones who then returned them to him so he could sell them at a higher price from his Downtown Crossing shop. He also allegedly created phony credit cards using real numbers and stolen or made up names. He would then allegedly use an encoder that would allow the cards to appear legitimate when making a purchase.
"In many ways this case illustrates the new face of crime, one that uses computers as weapon of choice and one that robs people of their identities instead of their possessions," Coakley said, adding that the investigation included "extensive" undercover work and started in August.
Coakley urged anyone who made a purchase from the shop to immediately check their credit report. Because of the way the alleged scheme worked, a fraudulent purchase may not show up on a credit card statement, but would on a credit report.
Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said that local officers were also investigating allegations that Yousheeiwas buying stolen jewelry at his store, melting it down and selling it.
"Today is a good day," Davis said.
Coakley estimated that the operation netted tens of thousands of dollars, but that the total was likely higher.
More arrests and charges are expected, authorities said.
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Take your horse to the edges of Plainview; survey the heat haze shimmering off the burnt yellow lands of Nuevo Paraiso, watch as a crow cuts through the blue skies above New Austin and look to the horizon for the snow-dipped forests of West Elizabeth. All this is yours in what's easily Rockstar's most generous open world game yet.
Red Dead Redemption's scale is beyond epic, and just as Liberty City emerged as the true star of Grand Theft Auto IV it's the expanse of the Wild West that shines brightest here. There's a richness to the vistas that's frequently breathtaking and a diversity to them that's equally impressive. From the oppressive marshland that surrounds the lawless outpost Thieves' Landing to the homely beauty of McFarlane's Ranch, the story of how the West was won is told just as much through the locales as it is the characters.
A conflict between the Old West and the burgeoning New America of the early 20th Century underpins Red Dead Redemption's story, and it's best embodied in the contrast between two of the game's key settings. Armadillo, an early home for the player, is a town that's typical of the great untamed – its saloon sees fights breaking out spontaneously while drunks waltz hazily through the streets and prostitutes prop up the alleyways. On the flip side there's Blackwater, where one of the very first automobiles in the West drives around its paved streets, and where sinister government agency The Bureau holds its base. It's also here that lead John Marston first departs, finding himself at the forefront of the struggle to bring order to the lawless lands.
Working against his will for The Bureau, he must track down old acquaintances and settle scores in a story that stretches beyond 20 hours for a single playthrough. He's an artefact of the Old West, as the scars on his face testify, and he's backed up by a supporting cast that's easily one of Rockstar's finest. There's the familiar ensemble of villains, allies and oddballs, fuelled by some wonderfully sparky writing – although one of the game's few disappointments is that the facial animation never does justice to the dialogue. It's forgiveable, though, as in the Wild West Rockstar seems to have found a perfect partner for its unique brand of comic and satirical drama.
Indeed, the setting is brilliantly suited to the cultural savvy that's long defined the GTA series and it's brave enough to be much more than a pastiche of Westerns past. By straddling itself between the traditional Western timeline and the start of the 20th Century proper, Redemption does much more than merely string together a list of genre cliches – the story's rich with the tension of the inevitability of Marston's violent past catching up with him, and more broadly with a considered foreshadowing of the America that's to come.


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For most of the last 25 years or so, the experience of pregnancy, labor and delivery has changed little for most women. But change is coming to the most traditional setting, the hospital.
And it's being spurred by midwives, labor coaches called doulas, forward-thinking physicians and women who don't want "medical" births but don't necessarily want to have their babies at home either.
"We are mammals, and we birth like mammals," says Ana Paula Markel, a certified doula and founder of Bini Birth, a childbirth education and doula-training center in Sherman Oaks. "Women need very simple things during labor: We need to feel safe and warm, we need quiet and darkness, we need to feel like we aren't being observed and we need to be able to move around."
In a hospital, she says, women haven't typically been free to try those simple things. Until now.
Her last point, about being free to move, is one that Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is embracing with its new "Rock-and-Roll" program. Often, when a woman is in labor and has been admitted to a hospital, she is also in bed. But staying in bed slows labor and, some experts believe, increases the need for medication and the risk of a caesarean section delivery. At Cedars-Sinai, women are encouraged to change position every 20 minutes or so, even if they've had an epidural for pain relief.
"The program has reduced the number of C-sections at Cedars by 8% and reduced the length of time that women labor by 20%," says Nicole White, a hospital spokeswoman.
Cedars-Sinai, along with St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, offers delivery privileges to midwives. "One of our jobs is promote a sense of normalcy about labor and birth, and less fear," says Deborah Frank, a certified nurse midwife and the first CNM to be granted privileges at Cedars-Sinai. Frank says that most midwives aren't "anti-technology or even anti-medication," but neither do they believe that every birth calls for medical intervention.
Frank encourages laboring women to walk and to have her partner, a midwife or a doula at her side. Having a midwife in attendance is still relatively rare: According to a 2012 report in the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, 11.4% of vaginal births were attended by midwives in 2009 (the most recent statistics available).
As for women who give birth by caesarean, they can expect changes too.
Even though the percentage of caesarean births in the U.S. has stabilized — it increased steadily from 1996 to 2010 from just more than 20% to 32.8% — nearly one-third of babies are born by C-section each year.
In the March issue of OBG Management, Dr. William Camann, director of obstetric anesthesiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and an associate professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, co-wrote an editorial, "Mother-, Baby-, and Family-Centered Cesarean Delivery: It Is Possible," in which he explained some of the options that have become available in the last couple of years.
For example, instead of using an opaque drape to create a surgical shield, two drapes are put in place: a solid one and a clear one. Once the doctor has made the necessary incisions and is ready to deliver the baby, one drape is lowered, leaving the clear plastic drape in place. This allows the mother and her partner to view the birth and touch the baby through the clear drape, while preserving a sterile surgical area.
A second change is one that Camann describes as "slowing the delivery process." Normally a baby is removed from the mother's uterus within seconds. But by allowing the baby to remain in the uterus after the head emerges, the uterus can contract around the baby, and at the same time, the baby starts to breathe and cry. Some experts believe this helps babies clear their respiratory system of fluid (babies born by C-section have a higher risk of respiratory problems), Camann says.
There are even doulas who specialize in assisting women during a surgical delivery.
"The mothers who have doulas in the OR are more involved and not as detached from the birth experience if their physician is more open to the concepts of a family-centered birth," says Tara Poulin, a certified doula in Boston. Even small changes, such as putting the IV in the non-dominant hand, putting the heart-monitor leads on the woman's back and letting her initiate breast feeding make the experience less stressful, she says.
The bottom line: "There seems to be more willingness among [obstetricians and] anesthesiologists to involve the dad/partner into the process, and even to welcome doulas and midwives into the delivery room, whether it is a caesarean or vaginal delivery," Camann says.
Free webinar on family-centered C-sections
Dr. William Camann, director of obstetric anesthesiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and the author of the book "Easy Labor: Every Woman's Guide to Choosing Less Pain and More Joy During Childbirth," recorded a free webinar that explains the family-centered caesarean section.


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There is little if any dispute that the 1960s were a high-water mark for popular music. With the arrival of Bob Dylan and, in quick succession, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to American ears, creativity exploded within the genre. No longer a collection of singles, the LP format became a sprawling canvas on which musical ideas within a song expanded dramatically, and individual songs could collectively form a larger theme.
At the same time, jazz was still a popular and evolving genre, with artists including Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk smashing through accepted forms and pushing their creativity into previously unexplored territory.
With this expansion of aural possibilities, the artwork on an album's front and back covers also saw a dramatic evolution that toyed with convention. The 12-by-12-inch cardboard sleeve of an LP provided a generous canvas to visually convey the artist's music and personality.
Fortunately for Columbia Records and the artists whose music it released, this era coincided with the arrival of John Berg. A 29-time Grammy nominee and winner of 4, he designed more than 5,000 record covers, mostly for Columbia Records.
A small portion of Mr. Berg's astounding collection of iconic album covers — the audio content within isn't so bad, either — is on display at Guild Hall through Jan. 6. On Saturday at 11 a.m., he will discuss the collection in Guild Hall's Wasserstein Gallery.
"John Berg: Album Covers, 1961-1985" will delight fans of jazz and rock from the 1960s and '70s. The album covers of the wildly eccentric Thelonious Monk and the young, enigmatic Bob Dylan each complement the music within, yet are in stark contrast with one another. Multiple album covers by Chicago display madly creative incorporation of the group's distinct, Coca-Cola-inspired logo.
"I knew what I wanted to do all my life, there was never any doubt," said the Brooklyn-born Mr. Berg, who is married to Durell Godfrey, a photographer for The Star. "Well, it was either that or a fighter pilot." Fortunately, art won the day, and he graduated from Cooper Union in New York City. He worked for magazines including Esquire, and was later hired on the spot by Bob Cato, Columbia's creative director. "He didn't even look at my portfolio," Mr. Berg recalled. "What he knew, I don't know." His first album cover was Andy Williams's "Moon River."
Bob Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde" was a first in album design: The two-record set's gatefold sleeve opens to depict a three-quarter length vertical photo of the artist. "The record would fall out on the floor when you opened it up. That was a big selling point," Mr. Berg said. "Everybody wanted one, because they'd never seen that before."
The daring cover to Thelonious Monk's "Underground" depicts him as a French Underground resister, seated at a decrepit piano in a cluttered subterranean scene complete with Nazi imagery. The title, Mr. Berg said, referred to the small "underground" movement in jazz at the time. "I had this idea instantly, 'underground' — a lot of my work is done like that, words that pull the trigger on something. I convinced them to do the French Underground. I had just read a book about it, and they thought, 'Why not?' There was a lot of that." Other times, he said, he would agonize over a cover.
Perhaps his best-known cover is Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." With the photographer Eric Meola, the musician himself came into his office, Mr. Berg recalled, with a stack of contact sheets. "Bruce showed me the picture he wanted, which I always describe as 'John Updike.' He looked like an author, one of those back-cover-of-his-book pictures. I asked him to leave the stuff with me and I would go through the contacts. There were about five shots like [the 'Born to Run' cover]. I took them up to management, got an okay that I could spend the extra money" — the gatefold sleeve costing more to produce — "then had to sell it to Bruce. The rest is history. It's just charming, that's the only word I can use."
It was also fortunate that Mr. Berg's time at Columbia overlapped with that of its legendary A&R man, John Hammond. "Think about his record," Mr. Berg said. "Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Ray Vaughan."
A conversation with Mr. Berg is like a walk through a vintage record store, albeit one overflowing with direct knowledge and experience of the creative works in it. Barbra Streisand, for example, "is smart! God, she's smart. Ramsey Lewis is a really neat guy. Tony Bennett is fun, and he's a good painter. Ted Nugent is totally out of his mind."
The collection displayed at Guild Hall is stylistically all over the map, yet reveals a striking consistency: Each conveys a message that perfectly complements the sounds contained within. "That's exactly the story," Mr. Berg commented. "Selling stories, that's all it is. And keeping the dirt out of the grooves."


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I've been working on this mesh in the Drydock area and wanted to make it a public release. It is a fairly low poly model so the details have been kept to a minimum.
The RAR file contains the .max file, a .3ds file, a .obj file, as well as the various textures.
Hopefully the file paths work for the textures, if not, they are quite easy to fix! :-)
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text: Ashley Pittman wrote: > It's not about competence, it's about time and effort spent. I wouldn't > need to compile every application myself if there was a ABI. It's not a > particularly difficult thing to do, it just going through the hoops of > doing it every time you need an application. The ability to install a > cluster and type '[apt-get|yum] install pmb' would be a truly wonderful > thing indeed. My experience is that such sites want to use their (expensive, commercial, Fortran) compiler to optimize the binaries to their platform. In some cases, this requires source-code changes (parameters) anyway. It's not about PMB. > You also make the assumption that it's the high-performance vendors who > do things differently, I don't believe this is the case. Quadrics for > example (my employer) happen to use whatever ABI MPICH (1.2.x) provides [...] I can't see where I made this assumption. Indeed, most interconnect vendors (Quadrics, various Infiniband, Myrinet, ...) happily plug their low-level stuff into the latest MPICH and are done. So, it's most often the cross-interconnect MPI vendors which create their own ABI for some reason. Other cases are vendors (like us) who started to provide MPI-2 when there was no open-source MPI-2 around. We had to do our own definitions then. But this doesn't really matter after all; what matters is if there are enough parties to take part in this effort, and to understand the related issues as much as possible and as early as possible. Joachim -- Joachim Worringen - NEC C&C research lab St.Augustin fon +49-2241-9252.20 - fax .99 - http://www.ccrl-nece.de


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Marathon attacks, and the manhunt
Marathon attacks, and the manhunt
Two bombs tore through the crowd around 2:50 p.m. on Boylston Street.
Police officers with their guns drawn heard the second explosion down the street.
Police looked at blown out windows at the scene of the first explosion.
Federal agents joined Boston police at the scene outside the emergency room of the Boston Medical Center.
By early Tuesday, a memorial for the victims of the attacks began to form at Boylston and Berkeley streets.
Investigators worked at the site of the second bomb explosion.
Marathon bomb scene pictures taken by investigators showed the remains of an explosive device.
Officials spoke to the media Tuesday at their command post, the Westin Copley Place hotel. Ultimately, 1,000 investigators would be based there.
State Trooper Mike Currier and his dog "Chico" patrolled Terminal B at Logan Airport.
Armed members of the Regional Response Team took up position at City Hall.
A bomb threat on Wednesday caused the evacuation of the Moakley federal courthouse.
On Thursday, FBI agents released images of the suspects. They were later identified as Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, brothers who emigrated with their family from Russia in 2002.
The bombing suspects together on the street, the day of the Boston Marathon attack.
MIT Police Officer Sean Collier was shot to death late Thursday near the university in Cambridge. The alleged bombers were suspected.
Law enforcement agencies congregated in Watertown following a police chase.
Friday began with one suspect dead, a region locked down, and a massive manhunt underway.
SWAT teams conducted a house-to-house search in Watertown.
State Police stopped a car at the intersection of Carver Road and Belmont Street in Watertown.
A wounded Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was handcuffed, bringing the nightmare of a daylong manhunt to a dramatic end.
After the arrest, police officers were cheered as heroes. One of them posed with admirers on Boston Common.


text: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, David Chalmers wrote: > I can get Charmm to run using mpirun on a single processor but it dies > (or is killed) with two. Can anybody help me with a pointer to where I > am going wrong? > CHARMM> stream /grendel/apps/charmm27/c27b4/test/datadir.def > ... > CHARMM> return > VCLOSE: Closing unit 99 with status "KEEP" > RETURNING TO INPUT STREAM 5 I think that the problems lies in CHARMM's handling of Fortran units vs. LAM's ideea. I remember seeing this very problem some time ago, but I don't recall if it was Linux+LAMMPI (I compiled and tested CHARMM for my group on something like 10 platforms...) The simplest solution is to not use the "stream" command. Sincerely, Bogdan Costescu IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY Telephone: +49 6221 54 8869, Telefax: +49 6221 54 8868 E-mail: Bogdan.Costescu at IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.De


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[Illinois] BioNanotechnology Seminar Series Spring 2012: Nanostructured Surface for Enhanced Fluorescence Cell Imaging
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We have created a nanostructure substrate on which three-dimensional confocal fluorescence cell-imaging sensitivity is amplified for cell membrane and cytoplasm. The nanostructure substrate was fabricated using a plasma etching technique to create a randomized array of nano-pillars. Confocal fluorescence imaging of Chinese Hamster Ovarian cells showed at least 10x enhancement of fluorescence signal from labeled cell membrane and cell cytoplasm compared to traditional glass slide. The observed enhancement may be due to enhanced scattering from the nanostructures and the excitation of localized surface plasmon. Additional fluorescence labels and cell types are under investigation for fluorescence enhancement.
Austin Yin Kyai Hsiao is a graduate student in the Bioengineering Department and a research assistant in Professor Logan Liu's group in the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory. He is currently developing a microfluidic platform for cell toxicity screening and exploring a new imaging technique for fluorescent enhancement in biological studies. Austin emigrated from Burma (Myanmar) when he was ten years old and is currently working to earn the first PhD in his family. Outside of research, he is a volunteer coordinator and the newsletter editor for the Wesley Evening Food Pantry, which serves over 10,000 people annually from Urbana-Champaign community.
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AC Milan players do not want the club to sign Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez as they believe they already have sufficient attacking talent.
Tevez has been linked with a switch to San Siro this summer as he heads for the exit door at Etihad Stadium, though one man is hoping that does not happen.
Ignazio Abate claims AC Milan have no need for the Argentine in their squad owing to the abundance of attacking talent already there.
"We don't need to sign Tevez," he said while away with Italy at the Confederations Cup.
"We have other great attackers, like (Giampaolo) Pazzini, who could not play much due to injury but when he did he was very good."
Tevez is going into the final year of his deal with Manchester City and they are yet to agree an extension.
This uncertainty has led to reports that the 29-year-old would be leaving, with AC Milan's Serie A rivals Juventus also reportedly interested in his signature after giving up on Real Madrid striker Gonzalo Higuain.
It is no the fist time Tevez has been linked with AC Milan, as he was reportedly very close to a move to Italy during his exile from the Etihad Stadium club two seasons ago.


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TF2 Maps Coming to Consoles for Free; More Portal
Original Story: The new Team Fortress 2 maps headed to the PC soon will also be available on the console editions at no cost, according to Eurogamer.
The maps will come in the form of downloadable packs on both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. No release date was given for the content, though the Badlands and Goldrush maps are due out on the PC next month, with a CTF version of Well already having seen release.
In an interview with the site, Valve marketing director Doug Lombardi also mentioned that the company's hit puzzle-action title Portal will not be a one-and-done release.
"There'll be more Portal, for sure," said Lombardi. "But the details of that, to be honest, we're still working out."