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It's hard to imagine a shipping business without an IT department nowadays. As technology becomes more and more advanced, carriers keep up by taking advantage of the latest innovations and best practices in the industry in order to remain competitive. Forward thinking operators have taken advantage of the rapidly changing technology by using advanced shipping software solutions to enhance their competitive advantage. However, when it comes to choosing the right software solution, the shipping industry is divided between in-house and packaged solutions. Shipping companies need to analyze their unique requirements to determine the type of business solution that will bring more advantage to their daily operations.
Global operators seem to have conflicting views with regard to the cost-effectiveness of building in-house IT systems compared with buying ready-made, customizable platforms. Both have their own advantage when it comes to streamlining operations that have direct effect on the cost-efficiency of a shipping business. Understanding the specific differences between these two systems can help operators make more informed decisions in using their resources.
Bespoke System
Many operators prefer hiring programmers and software developers, and build customized software to fit their specific business requirements. Doing this gives them full control of software development. However, bespoke or in-house systems will require time until they are working live, which will delay the positive impact of automation sometimes up to 3-4 years as seen for bigger implementations. It will also consume resources on the carrier side not only from the IT but also from the involved departments.
In addition, the fact that technology evolves rapidly, software solutions that have been custom-tailored to support a specific function may date quickly and not work on newer platforms, necessitating a painful upgrade that may include an expensive migration process. For the same reason, in-house systems require skilled IT staff which results in increased operational expenses – something that does not sound interesting in a slumping economy.
Packaged System
Generally, ready-made shipping software are a lot cheaper and easier to implement when compared with in-house systems. In fact, buying off-the-shelf solution can be 10 to 50 times cheaper than developing a bespoke system. In addition, modern packaged software incorporates a switching capability, which allows the user to customize each application to handle specific requirements without any expensive re-programming. Once customized, packaged software have the capability to automate time-consuming and resource-intrusive business processes.
Modern packages solutions are flexible enough to work for almost any carrier, regardless of size, specialization, or local requirements. This capability makes it even more appealing for vessel operators to buy off-the-shelf instead of commissioning expensive in-house solutions.
Packaged software solutions are widely available in the software market and can be purchased at very reasonable prices. In addition, many software companies offer excellent guarantee periods for their products during which any software issues are fixed without extra cost.
Change can be Painful
Despite the impressive features of packaged shipping software solutions, many carriers are still stuck with bespoke systems because of perceived difficulties that accompany a change in IT infrastructure. In most cases, these difficulties have something to do with legacy systems which often control key areas of a shipping business. Change in this case must be managed properly using correct methodologies avoid common problems that usually come with the process of implementing a new business system.
Shipping goods involves too many complicated processes that require focus and expertise in all aspects. To be more productive, operators must focus on their core business which is operating ships. They should not divert large amounts of resources to other activities outside their expertise to avoid uncontrolled expenses that can hurt their business in the long run.


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Monday, April 09, 2007
Israeli-developed auditory device makes walking easier for MS patients
By David Brinn April 08, 2007
A Technion Institute computer science researcher has devised an auditory feedback system which enables patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) to improve their gait.
Professor Yoram Baram said that the apparatus, which is an updated version of a virtual reality visual feedback apparatus he developed a decade ago, can also help Parkinson's disease patients walk better.
"Our earlier system was based on a visual feedback device - this one is an auditory feedback device that has a visual element to it," he explained to ISRAEL21c. "The apparatus we built is the size of a Walkman and is worn on a belt. It measures body movement, processes it using a computer and then sends a signal to the ears through earphones."
According to Baram, auditory feedback helps patients walk at a fixed pace because gait quality is expressed through a series of sounds that a person hears while walking.
"The user hears a ticking sound which is synchronized to his steps, rather than hearing a rhythm track and having to respond to it. Now he hears his own steps. If the patient doesn't have a balanced, steady walk, all he needs to do is produce his own rhythm as an auditory cue," he said.
The 400,000 Americans suffering from MS, lack a simple, but integral element that healthy people have to control their walking - sensory feedback from muscle nerves, which report on muscle control, telling them if they are using their muscles correctly or not.
"This feedback is damaged in Parkinson and MS patients and the elderly. Parkinson's results from the production of dopamine in the brain which affects muscle function, and MS develops when the patient's immune system attacks the white matter nerves in the brain," said Baram.
The most common neurological disorder diagnosed in young adults, MS affects eyesight, mobility, bladder and bowel control, and causes chronic pain and dizziness.
Together with Prof. Ariel Miller of the Technion's Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and the Multiple Sclerosis and Brain Research Center at the Carmel Medical Center in Haifa, Baram examined the influence of the auditory/visual apparatus on the gait quality of MS patients. Their work was recently published in the important scientific publication, Journal of the Neurological Sciences.
In the study, on-line (device on) and residual short-term therapeutic effects on walking speed and stride length were measured in 14 randomly selected MS patients with gait disturbances. The results showed an average improvement of 12.84% on-line and 18.75% residually in walking speed. Average improvement in stride length was 8.30% on-line and 9.93% residually. According to Baram, the improvement results are particularly noteworthy when compared with the lack of change in healthy control subjects.
Baram says that the virtual reality visual feedback apparatus developed 10 years ago influences more stride length while the auditory apparatus influences walking speed. Now that both devices have been integrated, the patient wears the visual feedback apparatus on his eyes and the earphones are connected to it.
"Our findings also raise the possibility of understanding the processes that go on in the brain when processing the sensory information reaching it," he adds.
Baram recently returned to the Technion after spending a year in the US conducting research on the device with MS and Parkinson's patients at the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cincinnati, as well as at the Parkinson's Institute at Stanford University in California.
"The device has been tested at all those places and the preliminary results are very good. We received very positive response from our colleagues at those institutions," he said.
Baram, who holds a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, once designed a mechanism for the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration that helped helicopters navigate at low altitudes around obstacles such as electrical poles and trees. Several years after his work for NASA he was watching television and heard a man with Parkinson's describe how he found it easier to walk on a tiled floor since the grid pattern made the image more stable.
Baram made a connection between his work for NASA and the Parkinson's patient's description. The design Baram later used for the visual device was based on the idea that optical images of fixed objects help people stabilize themselves, whether they are walking or flying a helicopter.
One patient who tested the audio/visual system was Jack Rose, a 77-year-old Parkinson's patient from outside Cincinnati. He told The Cincinnati Enquirer that the grid "makes you feel like you have something to step over," which makes it easier to take that first step.
At the neurology clinic, Rose and other study subjects walked on a special mat equipped with sensors that measure how fast they walk and the length of their steps.
The information was fed into a computer so researchers could track people's progress. Rose's data showed his steps were short and close together at the start of the study session, and longer and faster at the end of it, indicating his progress from a slow shuffle to an easy, natural stride.
According to Baram, the main reason for developing the auditory element of the device is because many of the patients are also handicapped by poor eyesight, for which the audio device compensates.
"Some people don't see very well, and this provides an auditory channel option. In addition, the rhythmic sound device is less expensive than the relatively costly visual display," he said, adding that the combined device would probably cost in the area of $1,000.
Now ensconced back at the Technion, Baram is concentrating on conducting further testing of the auditory/visual device and looking forward to the day when MS and Parkinson's patients will be walking steadier.


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NASA says it'll buy up to $30.1 million worth of data about robotic lander projects - basically doubling the potential impact of the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize.
The space agency said its Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data program would pay a minimum of $10,000 for each data contract relating to the design and demonstration of a lunar landing mission. "This includes data associated with hardware design, development and testing; ground operations and integration; launch; trajectory correction maneuvers; lunar braking, burn and landing; and enhanced capabilities," NASA said in today's news release.
Such data could help NASA design its own landers for robotic as well as human missions to the moon, Mars, asteroids or elsewhere. The program also provides an extra financial incentive for the 21 teams chasing the Google Lunar X Prize, which would richly reward the first team to land a privately developed rover on the moon. Ramin Khadem, chairman of Odyssey Moon Limited, told me last year that data purchases were part of the financial model for his venture's Lunar X Prize effort.
Today another front-running Lunar X Prize team, Astrobotic Technology, hailed NASA's data-purchase announcement. "NASA is turning to companies like Astrobotic and SpaceX to bring down the costs of space exploration," Astrobotic's president, David Gump, said in the news release. "Along with lower costs, the private sector can create innovative events and promotions that involve the public, which is one of the factors that the NASA data buy wants to measure."
NASA's purchases can be made through 2012, which is also the deadline for winning the Google Lunar X Prize program's maximum prize of $20 million. After that, the top prize shrinks to $15 million - and it goes away altogether if the money isn't won by the end of 2014. (Subsidiary prizes account for the competition's other $10 million.)
Are private-sector lunar missions the way to go? How about commercial lunar colonies? Let your imagination fly free and share your views in the comment section below.
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Trophic level
Trophic level is an organisms position in a food chain (or food web), and describes the way energy is obtained. (Purves, 1060). For example, plants are in the first trophic level. As producers who make their own energy, they are known as autotroph. Hetertrophs that eat plants (herbivores) are in second trophic level, and carnivores follow.[1]
When one animal eats another animal, the energy is lost. When the consumed animal moves, it loses additional energy. As the trophic level goes up, loss of energy in the process goes up. [2]
In the ecosystem, there are four basic components: abiotic environment, producers, consumers, and decomposers.[3] Plants are known as producers because of their production of chemical potential energy through photosynthesis. Consumers must eat other organisms to obtain their energy. Carnivores and herbivores are both consumers, which are otherwise known as heterotrophs. Decomposers (i.e. scavengers and detritivores) eat dead organisms or waste products.(Purves, 1060)
Heterotrophs are the organisms that depend on other organisms for their nutritional requirements. (Hetero means other and troph means nutrition in Greek). [4] Animals, fungi, bacteria, and non-photosynthetic organisms are the examples of the heterotrophs.(Purves, 1060)
The heterotrophs need to get organic compounds either directly or indirectly by ingesting other organisms or their products.(Purves, 620) Therefore, heterotrophs occupy the consumer trophic level. They consume the primary producers first compare to other consumers, so they are called primary consumers. If the heterotrophic organisms consume plants, they are called herbivores. When organisms consume the herbivores, they are called second consumers. Tertiary consumers eat the second consumers and so on. (Purves, 1060)
Most plants are autotrophs, but some live as obligate parasites and are therefore heterotrophs. If an organisms cannot synthesize the organic and inorganic compounds they need to survive, but must obtain them by consuming other organisms, they are considered heterotrophs.[5] Depending on how the heterotrophs use carbon, there are two subtypes of the heterotrophs.
Chemoheterotrophic organisms must obtain organic building blocks, because they cannot produce those by themselves. They gain the energy from the organic molecules.[6] Most archaea, bacteria, animals, and fungi are the examples of chemoheterotrophs.(Purves, 530)
Photoheterotrophic organisms use the sun's light as the energy like other phototrophic organisms, but they gain carbon by consuming other organisms. The examples of the photoheterotrophic organisms are purple non-sulfur bacteria. (Purves, 530)
Most plants are the autotrophs, but some plants live as the parasitic lives. Therefore, these kinds of the plants are the heterotrophs. The heterotrophs cannot synthesize the organic and inorganic compounds as the autotrophs. They consume the autotrophs or other heterotrophs to get energy. The heterotrophs have carbon from the organic compounds. [7]
Autotrophs are the organisms that produce complex organic compounds using energy that is either derived from the sun or inorganic chemical reactions.(Auto means self and troph means nutrition in Greek).[8]
Usually, producers occupy the autotrophic level. The autotrophs are the most important organism in an ecosystem. They obtain nitrogen from other organisms but not energy. The plants or the autotrophs use sources from the environment such as the sunlight and inorganic compounds to live. They become important resources for the heterotrophs. (Purves, 717)
Photoautotrophs collect energy from the sun and make energy through photosynthesis.(Purves, 962) Because they gain energy by photosynthesis, they are called photosynthesizers. Primary producers are another name to the autotrophs, because they are in first position in the trophic level.(Purves, 1060)
Phototrophs are the organisms that gain the energy from the light and have carbon in an organic form. [9]
Phototrophic organisms perform photosynthesis to gain their energy. (Photo means light and troph means nutrition in Greek.) (Purves, 530) Aquatic organisms are examples of phototrophic organisms. They produce starch to use when the organisms do not have much energy to conserve. [10]
Chemotrophs (or lithotrophs) are the organisms that gain the energy by consuming the organic molecules or carbon in an organic form.[11] Explaining the chemotrophs further more, the chemotrophic organisms gain the energy by the oxidation of various molecules. (Chemo means chemical and troph means nutrition in Greek). They can be the autotrophic or the heterotrophic. [12]
Chemoautotrophic (or chemolithotrophic) organisms gain the energy from the chemical reactions by synthesizing the chemical compounds. They use only inorganic energy sources, while the chemoheterotrophic organisms use the organic sources. [13] The chemoautotrophic organisms use photosynthetic cycle or other pathways to fix carbon dioxide. Some organisms oxidize ammonia or nitrite ions to nitrate ions, and some oxidize hydrogen gas, hydrogen sulfide, and sulfur. Most archaea are the chemoautotrophs. Chemoautotrophic prokaryotes are base ecosystem in deep sea. (Purves, 530)
Ecological Pyramid
The trophic level happens in sequence, so it can use the ecological pyramid to explain it easily. [14] There are three types of the pyramids and each name describes what kinds of the pyramids are.
Numbered Pyramid
Numbered pyramid shows the number of the organisms in each trophic level. There are more small animals than large animals. As the pyramid goes up, the number of the organisms is less than the organisms in the lower level. [15]
Biomass Pyramid
Biomass pyramid shows total number of existing organisms in each trophic level. (Purves, 1060) Total mass of the consumers is less than total mass of the predators. Products of the consumers are not important as the those of the producers, so the number of the consumers is not much. Total mass of the predators is less than total mass of the herbivores with same reason. For example, there are great amount of grains than the mice to support the mice. Greater number of the mice supports less number of the hawks. [16]
Energy Pyramid
Energy pyramid shows decreased energy from low trophic level to high trophic level. (Purves, 1060) When the trophic level goes to the higher level from the lower level, the energy is lost and decreasing waste. Also, the potential energy changes into the kinetic energy and the heat energy as the energy pyramid goes up. Because the energy pyramid can compare different ecosystems, it is used often more than other pyramids. [17]
Multitrophic interactions
When more than two trophic levels are involved, it is called the multitrophic interactions. Usually this term is used to an interaction among the plants (producers), herbivores (consumers), and carnivores (consumers). The producers in the first trophic level are eaten by the consumers in the second trohpic level. Strong and bigger consumers in the third trophic level (sometimes in the last trophic level) consume the weak and smaller consumers. [18]
Omnivores consume both plants (autotrophic) and animals (heterotrophic) organisms, and are therefore considered multitrophic. Many species commonly referred to as carnivores are actually omnivores.(Purves, 1060) Examples of the omnivores include dogs, cats, and seals.
- Autotroph Wikipedia
- Chemotroph Wikipedia
- Heterotrophs Wikipedia
- Trophic Level Wikipedia
- Trophic Levels and Food Chains University of Wisconsin
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This is a collection of basses I have found at various locations around the internet. Some were chosen for aesthetics & some for technical inspiration for an upcoming project that I will be putting together while others were selected just for variety & good photographic technique. . These galleries are designed for slideshow. Enjoy a beverage of your choice and relax as the images come & go.Take care. BobRead More


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Friday, January 23, 2009
Sad News from Conception Seminary
Nicholas Roberts, a seminarian for KCSJ currently at Kenrick-Glennon, posted sad news today about Jeff City Seminarian Alan Brown (from facebook):
"Alan Brown, 49, beloved seminarian of Conception Seminary, studying for the Diocese of Jefferson City, passed away Thursday at 3:45PM at Heartland Regional Health Center in St. Joseph, MO from heart complications.
Alan came to Conception Seminary College in the fall of 2005. He was a senior and was set to graduate this May.
Alan was greatly respected and loved by his brother seminarians and the Conception community. He will be missed. Please keep Alan and his family in your prayers.
Eternal rest be granted unto him, O Lord."
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Reggie Bush arrived in the NFL as one of the most hyped college prospects of his generation.
Bush never matched those sky-high expectations with the New Orleans Saints, and a two-year stay with the Miami Dolphins similarly offered mixed results. No one ever described Bush as a bust, but no one would say he was a running back who had realized his potential.
That seems to have changed in Bush's eighth pro season. Bush has found an offense that suits him with the Detroit Lions, and his performance this season has summoned memories of his dominant run with the USC Trojans.
Which begs the question: What took so long?
"When I look back, I'm so much more advanced in just my vision, my understanding of schemes, linebackers, where they have to play their gaps and just all the different things that come along with being a running back," Bush said, via ESPN.com. "So it's taken a while. It didn't happen overnight. It took me a while, took a couple years.
"I would say it took a good four or five years until I really had a true, good understanding of defenses and schemes and how to run the ball."
Look in the trenches for evidence of how Bush has grown. According to ESPN, a career-high 81 percent of Bush's carries this season have come between the tackles. That's up from 76 percent in Miami and 64 percent in his final three seasons with the Saints.
Check out Marc Sessler's latest "Game Rewind" write-up to watch some footage of Bush in vintage form. Health might be the only thing that can stop the running back from an MVP-caliber season.The "Around The League Podcast" is now available on iTunes! Click here to listen and subscribe.


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To their credit, the folks where Monica's husband purchased this tried to talk him out of it...
...but apparently, "He just wouldn't listen." So here's Monica smiling in a way that says - through gritted teeth - "Take the picture already...and then get that camera and other breakables as far away from your face as possible."
I don't have the story on this next one, but the underline is six kinds of ominous, don't you think?
And here's my favorite:
Personally I find this hilarious - but then I also think it's fun to introduce John at parties as "My first husband, John." Keeps him on his toes.*
Photography Tip of the Day: Unless you want people to think you topped your cake with stewed prunes, you might want to rethink photographing those glazed strawberries in black and white. Unless of course they ARE stewed prunes, at which point photography should be the least of your concerns. [shudder]
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It's the day after Christmas and you're in bed mentally backpedaling through the various hoops and turns, and vocal explosions of yesterday's wine-soaked conversation. The food coma was unparalleled. Then someone committed the emboldened atrocity that is name-dropping Donald Trump in a perfectly sane and reasonably mannered conversation.
Like, excuse me?. To put it lightly you got pissed. It's alright. Trump happens. Make amends with an annual Vladimir Putin calendar. You could say he's showing us his soft side.
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By By Keith Cianfrani | January 1, 2010
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In my last article we discussed the mid-air collision of a Eurocopter AS350BA with a Piper 32R-300 over the Hudson River Exclusion Area that claimed the lives of nine people. Although the NTSB investigation is still ongoing, there has been progress in making the skies over New York City safer.
Let me report first of all, that there has been much speculation on what happened and what to do about it. Some pilots claim this mishap was inevitable and that change is definitely needed with the airspace management in that area.
As a result of this mishap, hearings were held in September by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure's Aviation Subcommittee regarding the Hudson River airspace area and management of uncontrolled airspace corridors. HAI's president Matt Zuccaro testified before the committee to his activities as a member of the recently convened FAA New York Airspace Task Force. Zuccaro stated that making mandatory the existing voluntary practices, which have been in used for safety over the last 26 years, would eliminate any ambiguity, and would standardize procedures within the airspace.
I support Zaccaro and the FAA's recommendation to standardize procedures in the New York exclusion area. This would include making the practices currently used mandatory, establishing two tiers of airspace to enhance separation on transitioning aircraft, standardizing procedures for fixed-wing aircraft entering the Hudson River exclusion area, and finally to standardize the three aeronautical maps which relate to this airspace, as well as the reallocation of the available Unicom frequencies utilized at New York City heliports, which is believed will reduce frequency congestion and enhance communication capability.
Nov. 19, 2009 marked the first day for the new traffic pattern regulations, created by the FAA, aimed to separate helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft passing through the area (See chart above). Local aircraft will be restricted to altitudes of 1,000 feet or less. Aircraft passing through will operate between 1,000 feet and 1,300 feet. Speeds within the corridor will also be restricted.
Why does it always take a mishap to initiate actions to make general aviation more safe? Unfortunately, many of us in the aviation field are satisfied by the way things are right now and don't worry about changing anything until we have a fatality. As a U.S. Army Aviation accident investigator, I used to say that the "notes, cautions, and warnings in the operators manual were written in blood". Once again, we are talking about training and risk management. I understand that not everything we do can be changed but this issue regarding the airspace in the New York exclusion area is not new. Many helicopter pilots who fly in that area have been complaining about the congestion for years. As we wait for the findings of the investigation to be released, I am very glad to see that politics did not get in the way of safety.


text: NEW YORK--The average pay increases for Jewish Community Center (JCC) employees exceeded the rate of inflation, according to the JCC's first salary survey since 2003. The Florence G. Heller-JCC Association Research Center studied compensation for 39 full-time job categories from executive directors to facility managers. The chief financial officers from 77 JCCs reported information on 1,973 employees for the survey, which looked at gender, age, education, number of years working at the JCC and the size of the JCC. The survey showed that the executive directors were the highest paid with an earned average salary increase of 11 percent from 2003-2006 while entry-level workers' salaries raised an average of 14 percent during the past three years. The study also found that while one-quarter of JCC executives are women, women are paid less than men despite comparable work experience and skills. When looking at the entry-level positions, however, the pay gap between men and women narrowed, according to the JCC.


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This event takes place on 7th March 2016 from 10:00am to 4:00pm and will take place at Berwick Village Hall, Station Road, Berwick, Polegate, East Sussex. BN28 6TE. It is a Guild event being organised by Jan Allston, 01323 487411.
Learn Stuart's method of machine appliqué and take away a delightful memento of the day with a hilariously funny guy and a great teacher.


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Peterborough (the first one) and Nidden (the second one) call for worsted weight, and this yarn is DK (which Nespelem calls for). The trouble with Nespelem is that I find myself leaning more towards Peterborough or Nidden, because I like the long look and the drapey style. And when I look at the other FOs, peopel have been using DK weight for both of those other sweaters as well, with lovely results; and they all call for 4mm or 3.75 mm needles, respectively. Which means I feel pretty confident about subbing in some DK and just have a slightly lighter weight cardigan if I decide to go for Nidden or Peterborough.
So what do you think? I'm having a tough time deciding, and sure could use some advice from you guys!


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Ghost in the machine
Capital Goods – August 2010
Not long ago, a crowd in the hundreds — large by the standards of your usual Raleigh political protest — showed up at the Legislative Building. A few milled about the halls. Others tried to buttonhole lawmakers. Some stood outside waving signs, a few reading: "Ban the NC Senate." They had come to try to save video poker — or rather its latest incarnation, those "Internet sweepstakes cafes" popping up across the state. Many of the protesters must have had no inkling of recent Tar Heel political history, else they would have known, standing outside in the oppressive heat, the only thing they would accomplish was working up a good sweat.
The key event of that history, as it related to their cause, revolved around the previous speaker of the North Carolina House, a man who held that post a record-tying four terms. Jim Black, the mumbling optometrist from Matthews, a Charlotte suburb, became one of the most powerful people in the state. He was once the legislative champion of the video poker industry. Today, he's in prison. Those two facts aren't unrelated.
The probe that sent him to the pen was wide-ranging, and the criminal charges to which he ultimately pleaded guilty in 2007 had to do with taking cash from a trio of chiropractors looking for legislative favors. That exchange in a restaurant bathroom may be the basis behind the public-corruption charges, but the FBI investigation began with video poker and the thousands of dollars in donations he took in from an industry operating on the fringes of the law. As much as Black's former colleagues in the General Assembly would like to forget about it, they haven't. In 2006, a year before he would resign his House seat in disgrace, legislators voted to ban video poker. A year later, the machines began appearing again in convenience stores, operating as computer sweepstakes games, with customers buying prepaid cards. In 2008, legislators outlawed them again.
But like Ahab trying to kill his white whale, legislators can't seem to strike a final, fatal blow. Court decisions in three counties last year helped to revive the machine operators and their games. (One ruling has been overturned. Two others are on appeal.) The judges ruled that the ban didn't cover Internet sweepstakes cafes, where purchasers ostensibly paid not to gamble but for Internet time to play the games. Before long, "cafes" could be found in once-shuttered clothing stores, old warehouses and in strip malls built a few years ago at the height of the real-estate boom.
Operators say they employ 10,000 people in 900 parlors across the state. In trying to save those businesses, they did something rare for any industry: They asked for regulation and taxation, touting the tax revenue that the machines could generate — as much as $500 million a year — as a way for a cash-strapped state to balance its budget.
If the Black corruption probe still haunts the state House, the will of Marc Basnight still prevails in the state Senate. The Dare County Democrat and longtime president pro tem of the upper chamber has never been a fan of video poker. A decade ago, he pushed the Senate to pass legislation prohibiting the games, telling about seeing a child left alone by a parent plugging quarters into a machine. Black and the House blocked the legislation. Ten years later, the House appeared poised to act first to undo those court rulings and ban video gaming a third time. Then House Democrats hesitated, some swayed by e-mails from the machine owners and their employees.
Basnight and his chamber were having none of it. In three days, the Senate stripped the contents from a House bill, rolled new language responding to the court rulings into it, moved the bill through a committee and passed it. A few days later, the protesters showed up at the Legislative Building. They failed to understand that the game was already over. A ghost, the revenant of a man who still lives but is no longer there, haunts the House. On July 7, it passed the Senate bill 86-27.
Even before the House acted, industry officials predicted that the effort would be futile, that technology would again offer a loophole, a way around the ban, which takes effect Dec. 1. People who want to gamble are going to gamble, you know. Some machine owners also argue that legislators are only protecting their own gambling enterprise — the state lottery.
Perhaps the industry will prove correct about the futility. If so, state legislators will have at least made their intent clear to the courts. They don't want small-scale casinos, no matter what you call them, popping up anywhere and everywhere. They also don't want to be reminded of a past path to corruption by failing to make that intent clear.
Scott Mooneyham is the editor of The Insider, www.ncinsider.com.


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Boston 24: A look at the last 24 hours in the City of Boston./
Significant incidents reported to the BPD, from Tuesday, November 28, thru 10 AM Wednesday, November 29 2006.(See our Daily Incident summaries and earlier postings for more detailed descriptions of some of the incidents identified below) Homicides: 1 Non-fatal Shootings: 1 Non-fatal Stabbings: 1 Street Robberies: 10 Commercial Robberies: 0 Vehicle thefts: 3. One attempted. Vehicle recoveries. 11 Larceny from motor Vehicles (motor-vehicle breaks): 23. One arrest. One fourth occurred in District C-6. Residential break-ins: 12 Commercial Break-ins: 6 Note: the information above is preliminary information, and should not be considered official crime statistics. The information is based on an initial review of incident reports and may not be a comprehensive listing of events. It is not a statistical analysis, but rather an initial tally of significant events. Some of the incidents included may be covered in more detail in other blog postings.


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What Are Your Favorite Film Quotes?/
Continuing on with my crowdsourcing of blog posts for you, I followed up my tweet of "What's the first best lesson you learned about the film business" with one about what was your favorite quote. I didn't get anywhere near as many suggestions, but the results are good. More suggestions are welcome.
Billie Burke On Hollywood: "To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony." - (via Randy Finch)
Brian De Palma: "The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second. " (via @rudra_banerji Rudra Banerji)
Werner Herzog: "You want to make a film, steal a camera, steal film stock, sneak in to a lab and do it. - from Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (via @wvfilmmaker Jason Brown)
Alfred Hitchcock: ""A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake." (via @rudra_banerji Rudra Banerji)
paraphrasing Mike Nichols: "Directing is like sex. You don't usually get to watch other people doing it, so you are never sure you are doing it right." (via @catsolen)
Graham Taylor: "What's not boring is making shit happen." (via dantherriault Dan Therriault )
Orson Welles: "A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army." (via TS86142 TAKAE)
Orson Welles: "I do try to keep the screen as rich as possible, because I never forget that film itself is a dead thing, for me at least -- the illusion of life fades very quickly when the texture is thin." (via @catsolen)
"Waste everything except Time" 1 of my carpentry mentors. (via @davepowersNYC Dave Powers)


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As our numbers show in 2019 average cost that homeowners paid for window shade installation in Will county is between $163.00 and $241.00.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — With billionaire investor Carl Icahn recently tweeting about how Apple Inc. should return more cash to its investors, and buying up $500 million more of the company's stock, Apple on Monday will report on what historically is its best business period of the year.
When Apple AAPL, -1.46% reports its fiscal first-quarter results after the close of trading Monday, analysts surveyed by FactSet will be looking for it to deliver a profit of $14.09 a share on revenue of $57.47 billion for the quarter ended in December, up from earnings of $13.87 a share on $54.5 billion in sales in the same period in 2012.
Since the results will cover the end-of-the-year Christmas and holiday shopping seasons, Apple is expected to post strong sales of its most-popular products, iPhones and iPads. Cowen and Co. analyst Timothy Arcuri estimates Apple sold about 55 million iPhones and 22 million iPads during the quarter in which Apple released its iPad Air tablet and expanded the release of the iPhone 5c and 5s to more than 30 countries after the initial launch on Sept. 20.
Arcuri said that demand for the iPhone improved as the quarter progressed, and the company is using the newest devices as a setup for the release of the so-called iPhone 6, which may come out as early as June, and an upgrade of the iPad, most likely in September.
Chris Caso, of Susquehanna Financial Group, echoed some of Arcuri's views as he moved Apple to his "Top 2014 Idea" for investing. Caso also holds a rating of positive and a $650 price target on Apple's stock.
"Looking at the year as a whole, we expect iPhone 6 to be the major catalyst this year, and our production checks still indicate that a July launch is most likely," Caso said in a research note. "We think Apple has become one of the most compelling ideas in tech."
But when Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook starts taking questions from analysts on Monday, he may find himself responding to queries about Icahn as much as he will about Apple's results.
In May 2013, Apple said it would return $100 billion to its shareholders over three years through stock buybacks and a quarterly dividend payment of $3.05 a share. That is good, but not good enough as far as Icahn is concerned.
On Wednesday, Icahn used his Twitter account to claim that Apple is "doing a great disservice to shareholders by not having markedly increased its buyback." While he chastised Apple for not increasing the amount of cash it plans on returning to its shareholders, Icahn also said he has raised his stake in Apple by $500 million, to more than $3 billion, over the last two weeks.
Also read: IBM investors weary of managed earnings
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In some elite zip codes, $1 million homes now count as affordable housing.
A new report from Coldwell Banker shows that sales and listings of homes priced at $10 million or more have more than doubled in some communities in the past year. While the market for these mega-mansions remains tiny nationally, they are becoming downright common in a select few towns favored by the super-rich.
The top zip code for homes sold for $10 million or more is Beverly Hills, with 19 mega-homes sold between November 2011 and October of 2012. Tied for second place was Aspen, Colo., and Santa Barbara, both with 13 homes sold for $10 million or more.
Beverly Hills and Aspen also led the list of zip codes for sales of homes priced at $5 million or more, with Beverly Hills reporting 70 homes in that category, and Aspen 33. (Read more: The Five Largest Landowners in America)


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Ok tomorrow can be the end of the world as we know , tomorrow we will have the second round of the constitution referendum. In this stage we will have : Giza, Qalubiya,Monufia, El Behaira, Kafr El Sheikh, Damietta, Ismailia, Suez, Port Said, Red Sea, New Valley, Fayoum , Matrouh, Bani Sawif , Maniya, Luxor and Qena.
The big voting blocs this time will be in Monufia and Giza.
I do not have high hopes. There will be more violations and elections fraud I am fraud.
I will be live blogging but not from the street. Last time I got terrible flu that I am trying to recover from it up till now.


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Welcome to Caldera, a peaceful little town in the Nevada Territories, at least until a powerful secret hidden in the town's mines attracted the plot for Red Steel 2.
There's a lesson in this video, and that lesson is, never attract the plot for Red Steel 2 to your prosperous, peaceful town. It can only end in tears.
The other lesson in this video is confirmation that Red Steel 2 is slated for a March 23rd release date in North America, with Europe getting the title a few days later on the 26th. This doesn't quite jibe with the advertisement on the back of the No More Heroes 2 manual, which, according to Totilo, lists Red Steel 2 as available February 2010.
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Marble Blast! - ZUMA Game! v1.1.3 Apk | 11 MB | Mediafire
Requires Android:2.1 and up
Are you a super fan of Zuma games? If the answer is yes, Marble Blast is the game that you must have.It has a lot of new items to make the game much more interesting and challenging.
v1.1.3 update:
- Added 5 levels (No.71-75).
- Reduced Level difficulty of No.71.
How to play:
- Shoot to match colored marbles in group of 3 or more;
- More marbles, higher score;
- Create Combos to cause a chain reaction and earn more opportunities to get awarding items.
Highlighted features:
- Well-designed maps, to make the game more enjoyable and addictive.
- New items, to make the game more exciting and interesting.
- OpenFeint leaderboard, to compete with the players around the world!