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What's your favourite Christmas movie? Miracle on 34th Street? It's A Wonderful Life? Bah! humbug! I laugh at your sentimentality!
Where are the guns? The explosions? The sex!? I need more drama from my festive flicks!
Here Brandish recommend 7 awesome alternative Christmas movies, each set during the Yuletide period but each often overlooked as a holiday film.
Die Hard
Bruce Willis' finest hour, Die Hard is set on Christmas Eve. It's also maybe the greatest action flick of all time, with Willis' New York cop John McClane taking on a terrorist gang holding an entire tower of people hostage. And not a mince pie in sight. Yippee ki-yay!
Comedy horror film Gremlins all kicks off with an early Christmas present yielding unexpected results. Sure, a little cuddly bear pet thing sounds like a good idea at the time, but when it multiplies into hundreds of deadly little green monsters, you'll wish you got given safe old socks instead.
Home Alone
OK, so I'm pretty sure you're all aware that Home Alone is a Christmas flick. I mean, it's theme tune is one of the most Christmassy tunes of all time ever. The problem is, Home Alone is so good, it's on the TV all year round, so many of us probably forget that its a Christmas film at all. Throw in the casual child-on-adult uber violence (Macauley Culkin's Kevin maims, burns and bludgeons hapless burglars Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern repeatedly over the course of the film) and the sort of neglectful parenting that'd make an NSPCC advert look like an episode of Little House On The Prairie and you've got a far darker Christmas flick than you perhaps first thought.
Batman Returns
Burton's Batman always knew how to have fun. The Batman flick that best captured the feeling of the comic books, it's a wild gothic tale that sees the Catwoman and the Penguin out to ruin the winter holiday. Nothing says Christmas like an army of penguins with missiles strapped to their backs!
Terry Gilliam's surreal masterpiece Brazil is set over Christmas. No seriously. Double check. There's no reason for it to be, other than to make the warped foreboding world that star Jonathan Pryce inhabits feel all the more callous. A Kafka-esque tale of a white collar worker's attempt to correct an administrative error, only to have the whole state gunning for him, is as funny and discomforting as it is insane. One to watch after a few sherries I'd say.
Trading Places
They've both had a checkered silver-screen track record since their Trading Places heyday, but for belly laughs with a festive framing, Trading Places has Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd. A classic role reversal movie (hobo conman Murphy ends up replacing executive Aykroyd on the board of a Wall Street firm as part of an elaborate prank by a pair of mean spirited zillionaires), this'll be far funnier than any Christmas special cooked up for the Christmas break by broadcasters.
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Another action flick with a Christmas theme, Geena Davis seems like the perfect housewife, though amnesia has knocked a fair chunk of her memory off kilter. Amnesia, as ever, has clouded the fact that Davis is actually a kick ass assassin, whose skills with a knife see her castrating carrots and gangsters alike. She's like a hot Jason Bourne, with enough claret spilled on the snow to keep in line with the Christmas colour scheme.
Any alternative Christmas flicks that we've missed that you feel deserve a mention? Give us a shout in the comments section below and let us know what you think!


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Windows 8 introduces a new "Start Screen" for launching applications which you can use to launch Logos Bible Software.
Note: If you do not use the "Start Screen", or if you haven't yet upgraded to Windows 8, you can still open Logos through the previous method by opening the icon on your Desktop or Programs list.
- From the "Start Screen" click the Logos Bible Software app.
- The view will change to the "Desktop" and the Logos application should begin to open.
- Alternatively, you if you do not see the app listed, you can simply begin to type the name and Windows 8 will find it for you.
- Tip: right-click it, and choose "Pin to Start" for easy access later.
- If you would like to return to the "Start Screen", tap the "Start" or "Windows" key on your keyboard.
- You can also use the "Start"+"Tab" to swap between other open applications, like Microsoft Word, etc.

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MetLife, the largest life insurer in the United States, warned 2013 earnings may be well below what Wall Street expects and said it needed to accelerate its strategic plans, which include the sale of its banking business.
The company said it expects to earn between $5.5 billion and $5.9 billion, or $4.95 to $5.35 per share, in 2013.
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Analysts expect the company to earn $5.47 per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Metlife shares traded down 1.8 percent at $33 before the bell on New York Stock Exchange.
"While our operating earnings per share are expected to be lower in 2013 than in 2012, they are broadly consistent with what we predicted a year ago for an extended low interest rate environment," Chief Executive Steven Kandarian said in a statement.
The company said it expects to earn between $5.5 billion and $5.6 billion, or between $5.15 per share and $5.25 per share, in 2012.
Last week, Metlife won approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for the sale of its deposit-taking business to a unit of General Electric Co's GE Capital.
The long-delayed approval brings MetLife one step closer to shedding its banking business and its bank holding charter.
MetLife was one of four financial institutions to fail the Federal Reserve's stress test in March.
Shares of the company, which have risen about 5 percent since the beginning of the year, closed at $33.61 on Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange.


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I arrive home from the screening of "You're Next" and see the headline, "Cops: 'Bored' teen hunted kittens with bow and arrows." Jeez. As if I didn't already feel uneasy enough about the gratuitous use of crossbows in this horror-comedy, whose murderers' killing methods are needlessly messy considering their motive.
Semi-related note: The crossbow accident in "The Five-Year Engagement" wasn't funny either.
Obviously, Paul (Rob Moran), his wife, Aubrey (Barbara Crampton), their four kids (including Chicago-based "Drinking Buddies" director Joe Swanberg) and their significant others (including Sharni Vinson of "Step Up 3D" and "Drinking Buddies" co-star Ti West) have no idea why their large, isolated home has been overrun by people in animal masks. They just know the dinner table squabble stemming from decades-old sibling rivalry doesn't seem as significant once someone has an arrow sticking out of his back.
That Paul worked in defense but can't protect his home recalls this year's surprise hit "The Purge." Most home-invasion thrillers feel similar, of course, and director Adam Wingard ("V/H/S") aims to separate the moderately creepy "You're Next" from efforts like the great "Funny Games" and decent "The Strangers" with a knowing wink at everyone's fallibility. The film suggests audiences assume no one has any self-defense abilities, and that those trained in that sort of thing are out of control. Say this for "You're Next": Unlike a lot of horror movies, when it's funny, it's funny on purpose. Drake (Swanberg) claims, "I don't think I know any filmmakers," an in-joke for anyone who knows that "You're Next" is filled with filmmakers including West ("The Innkeepers"), Amy Seimetz and the guy delivering the line.
Overall, though, these are thin excuses to trot out the usual sequences of maniacs busting through windows and gleeful deaths (like one dude swinging an ax into someone's head) that add layers of bloodlust-fueling cruelty the film's premise doesn't support. Just because some characters are supposed to look stupid doesn't mean the film itself should crumble under the mildest scrutiny.
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I had the day off today, and was finishing my Christmas shopping.
I was dragging through it, not much in the mood. My life had been upheaved by Sandy, and little seemed like Christmas at my house. My block is still a depressing mess. Nobody has decorations up. Half the families we know and love aren't living there. Rebuilding is taking longer than expected, and I hated it. The top floor of my home, where six of us are living, including my mother, is cluttered and cold, perpetually dirty from sand and muck tracked in and out. Patience and tempers are wearing thin. I am sick of not feeling normal.
Plus: Talking to Kids About the Newtown School Shooting
Waiting in line at Walmart, I decided I was bagging sending cards this year. Who would blame me?
Then the woman in front of me turned and said "Did you hear?"
Oh god. Now what? Locusts?
"No. What?"
"There was a shooting in a school in Connecticut. All these kids dead."
"What? Really? In a college, I guess?"
"No! Little kids. Elementary school."
She looked away as she put a coffee maker, a box of Legos, and some boots on the counter.
"So sad. I feel like calling my school to check on my kids, but that'd be crazy, right?"
Before I could compose an answer she was handed her receipt and was gone.
An elementary school? Why? Who? Little kids? It's always high school or colleges, isn't it?
Grade schools seemed sacrosanct, a haven of the best of your childhood memories. I had trouble wrapping my head around it as I walked to the car.
I had a couple more errands to run, but all the while kept trying to remember whether my daughter's elementary school doors were always locked. Did people have to be buzzed in? I thought so, but being a full-time working mom, who visited the school during the day relatively rarely, I couldn't remember for sure.
In Toys R Us, there was more chatter in the aisles: "Maybe it's part of a terrorist plot. Maybe there will be other schools."
I truly did not think it was part of a terrorist plot, but just hearing the words "other schools" made my mind race, trying to remember the details of the entries to JFK Elementary School. Where was the back door? Was that locked? Did it lead to a public area?
Plus: When Will These School Shootings Stop?
I checked the time: 3:20. My 9-year-old's bus dropped her off at about 3:35. Barely enough time to get home if I didn't hit any lights. I had set out that day knowing I might be a little late for the bus. But I didn't give it a thought. It would only be a few minutes, and I'd left the front door open. I had taken her routine safe arrival home casually, for granted.
Now I was running every orange light, trying a new route from the mall, guessing it might shave a minute or two off the ride. Suddenly, I could not bear her stepping off the bus with nobody to greet her. What had I been thinking? What kind of mother was I, not even considering whether I'd be home in time for a 9-year-old's bus?
As I approached my neighborhood, her bus was in front of me. I tailgated it down to the block before mine, when it made a right to loop around. I was able to pull up into my driveway before she stepped off. I saw her at the end of the street, stepping off alone. Not the usual gaggle of kids, since most of my neighbors were displaced. She slogged toward home, not looking up.
"Amelia!" I called.
She looked around, as if she didn't trust her ears.
Then she saw me and came running, arms outstretched.
Yes, corny, but that's what happened.
"Mommy! Why are you here? You're never here!"
She's way too heavy for me to carry, especially with a back pack, but I did it anyway. All the way up the steps into the top floor of my high-ranch.
"I just wanted to see you. I'm happy to see you."
Only one tear, easily wiped away, escaped. Not bad, considering.
"Don't cry mommy! Our house will get cleaned up, and grandma will move back downstairs. I keep telling you it will be OK!"
"No, baby. It's not that. It's nothing. I'm fine. I don't care about the mess. I'm a lucky mommy."
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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan told supporters Sunday that running mate Mitt Romney "will become a great president."
Ryan made the comments in a county fairground's barn in Colorado, the fourth of five states he visited Sunday.
He said supporters shouldn't be in a position to regret not working harder to elect Romney as president Tuesday. He said no one wants to wake up Wednesday asking if they did everything they could.
Ryan said he understands why voters loved President Barack Obama's message of "hope and change," but he encouraged the crowd to talk to their unhappy neighbors and urge them to vote for Romney.
Earlier Sunday, during an event in Minneapolis, Ryan promised: "Mitt Romney and I are not going to duck the tough issues. We're not going to kick the can down the road.
"We are not going to spend the next four years blaming other people, Ryan said. "We're going to take responsibility."
Ryan also campaigned in Wisconsin and Ohio on Sunday. After Colorado, he flew to Nevada for an early Monday event in Reno.


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Augustus signs extension with Lynx
Minneapolis, MN – The Minnesota Lynx have announced a multi- year contract extension with 2011 WNBA finals MVP Seimone Augustus.
Per team policy, terms of the deal have not been released.
In eight WNBA seasons, all with the Lynx, Augustus has posted career averages of 18.7 points and 3.6 rebounds per contest. She is Minnesota's all-time leader in points (4,174), field goals made (1,666) and games played (223).
"We are thrilled to have extended the contract of one of the league's premier scorers and a cornerstone of our franchise over the last eight years," said Lynx executive vice president Roger Griffith.
Augustus, 29, was selected by the Lynx with the No. 1 overall pick of the 2006 WNBA Draft and won the league's Rookie of the Year award in 2006. She has appeared in three All-Star games and earned a place on the All-WNBA second team three times.


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house pool design. Monday , February 19th , 2018 - 17:02:13 PM
The first thing you need to consider when designing your pool is its intended use. Do you want to swim laps, do physical therapy, exercise, entertain guests, let the kids have some fun, or impress your neighbors? After all, you want to get a pool for a reason or a multitude of reasons to enhance your life. A pool′s intended use has arguably the greatest impact on the way it should be designed, and therefore, the needs and wants your swimming pool is intended to fulfill should be identified very early in the design process. It is also useful to recognize the pool′s primary functions to help you narrow down your design choices. In the following sections we′ll go over some of the most popular benefits people get from owning a pool, and how these impact the swimming pool′s design.
Whichever idea you decide to choose picking out indoor pool designs is a team effort and you also need to pick a place where you would like someone to come to your home to put one in. You may have to leave your children out of that decision because they′re not going to have a clue of any place. Especially small children would be restless by now, so it would be a good idea to leave them out. Besides they did a good job in helping you pick out a design to use.
When you find a pool design - and that includes not only the shape of the pool but the colors of the liner and deck material - try to envision it in your backyard. The swimming pool will become the focal point of your yard so you need to think about how it will fit in with your landscaping and whatever type of outdoor living situation you already have. The pool will definitely add to the ambiance of the backyard.
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Downtown's good vibes
Tampa Tribune - It started out as a circled date on the calendar: May 4. The occasion: the Saturday night performance of �War Horse� at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts. It ended with hailing a late-night cab on Tampa Street. Variations, as it turned out, on a theme. The Tony Award-winning �War Horse� was as promised. It was enchanting and moving, a marvel of evocative, period-piece design and spectacular effects � most notably, of course, the equine puppetry. Expertly manipulated and choreographed, the horses fascinated as characters capable of animation as well as nuance. My wife and I exchanged subtle fist bumps for remembering to bring binoculars. And once more we were reminded of this city�s good fortune in having the Straz � one of the premier performing arts centers in the country. Going there now moves on two levels. First-class performance is a given, but it�s also a night out on your own town, re-discovering that Tampa is, indeed, well into mid-morph.A decade ago, Tampa�s downtown population was about 600. Now it�s 5,000. And more are coming because urban living with amenities is a big draw to a burgeoning demographic that combines generation, vocation and lifestyle. It�s reflected in high-rise rentals, museums, bistros, colorfully-lit bridges, joggers, bicyclists and a designated place to stroll, chill or check out an outdoor concert. On this night nothing was as prominent as Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park. That�s where �Funk Fest,� a hip-hop and R&B festival that recently re-located from Vinoy Park in St. Petersburg, was entertaining an overflow crowd. It was another reminder that � in the paraphrased words of Gertrude Stein � Tampa finally did have some �there there.� Not that �Funk Fest� was my kind of scene. But it signaled inclusion and gave the area up-tempo ambiance, without imposition. To be candid, I wouldn�t want to impose my own musical tastes � from Philly string bands and doo-wop to Little Richard and Roger Miller � on anyone. But the point is: Tampa was sounding like a happening downtown and not one where The Hub was where it was happening. Tampa was no longer a city with a riverfront that was an afterthought but one with an after-hours venue to hang out with your music. There was verve; there was a vibe. It was loud, but it wasn�t raucous. You could hear these sounds of the city upon exiting the Straz. You could also sense that traffic would be an issue. It�s why we had arrived by cab. But now we had to find one for the return trip. This was a first. We crossed Ashley at Cass, then ambled around the Residence Inn to Tampa Street. Within one light change, we were able to flag a United Cab, one of a number that were heading east amid heavy traffic. Not to sound like Jon Voight�s naive, skyscraper-gazing �Midnight Cowboy� character, but it had that big-city feel I�m not accustomed to in Tampa. This wasn�t a post-concert or post-hockey game exodus at The Forum. There was generic bustle and energy and activity and sound. I was no longer consumed with getting home in time to let the dogs out and catch the beginning of �Saturday Night Live.� I was in the moment, in a cab, in downtown Tampa on a Saturday night. Where �War Horse� incongruously met �Funk Fest.� It was the place to be. ? ? ?You go, Lynn Marvin Dingfelder. The former TV reporter is hard at work researching, interviewing and rallying interest in the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy�s historic � Nov. 18, 1963 � visit to Tampa. When completed, her production work will include a Tampa Bay History Center exhibit and a one-hour (WUSF-TV) documentary planned to premier at the Tampa Theatre. A coffee-table book will complete the multimedia celebration. And, yes, there will be DVDs with all the outtakes. And, yes, we all owe Lynn a debt of gratitude. This is important. Dingfelder is adamant in underscoring that the project is not about President Kennedy�s assassination in Dallas. It is about celebrating Tampa�s brush (actually an extended five-hour visit) with history and what those with memories of the event can share. While Kennedy�s local appearance predates my relocation to Tampa from Philadelphia, I did have the good fortune two years ago to spend precious time with former U.S. Rep. Sam Gibbons, who reflected on the Kennedy visit. Gibbons, who as a state senator had helped the Kennedy campaign in Florida, knew the president well enough to be on the podium for speeches at the International Inn, Fort Homer Hesterly Armory and Al Lopez Field, and in his Lincoln convertible through downtown. Gibbons recalled the Tampa crowds as notably �enthusiastic.� In fact, surprisingly so. �He wasn�t that popular before the election,� recalled Gibbons. �But whole schools got off. Whole families got together. The president waved and shouted back. Even had the limo stop a few times to get out and talk with the crowds. I remember him saying: �Sam, you�ve sure got a lot of pretty girls in this city.� � As for security, Gibbons said he wasn�t privy to details or rumors, although he noted that Secret Service agents rode on the presidential limo�s rear bumper throughout the motorcade, something they didn�t do in Dallas.


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Whoa Nellie on coach's plans to put Ellis at point
Janny Hu, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Warriors coach Don Nelson's plans to convert Monta Ellis into a point guard are being put on hold.
"We're going to switch the assignments, play him more at the two and Jamal (Crawford) more at the one," Nelson said before Friday's game.
Golden State had divvied up ballhandling duties between Ellis and Crawford in their first game together Wednesday, and the resulting lack of cohesion - and ball movement - helped prompt Nelson's change.
"(Jamal's) more used to what we're doing, and it'll just let Monta be a scorer, come off screens," said Nelson, who has talked about converting Ellis into a point guard for more than a year.
"It's a little different when you have to initiate - that guy's got to move the ball. (Monta's) a shoot-first guy and he's had success doing that. You don't expect he's going to change it."
Ankle alert: For the first time since returning from injuring his left ankle, Ellis had a minor flare-up.
"The ankle got a little stiff at halftime, but he played through it," Nelson said.
Ellis, who was also playing with a sore left knee, insisted after the game that he was feeling fine all around.
i think it's a good move. I had thought one of the benefits of bringing in Crawford was that he is big enough to guard the sg, but can handle the point on offense. however, another part of me believes the season is waste, so why not give ellis all the run he can handle at pg.
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The Chief Fiscal Officer (CFO) manages the financial activity of the Municipality of Anchorage to provide accurate and timely financial information for strategic planning, management and decision support to the Mayor, elected officials and general public.
The Municipality of Anchorage hired CH2M Hill to provide recommendations on whether the Municipality could be more efficient in the delivery of many of our O&M functions. The scope of the project included fleet maintenance, facility maintenance, streets, grounds, Parks and Recreation and Project Management and Engineering.
CH2M Hill collaborated with Municipal staff to evaluate our current processes and functions. Municipal performance was compared against industry best practices and benchmarks. The report identifies opportunities for improvement. View the MOA 2011 Efficiency Study and attachments:
The Municipality of Anchorage recognizes the importance of financial planning beyond the next budget year. The 2013-2018 Six Year Fiscal Program focuses on key issues related to present and future public services, fiscal policies and capital improvement and also presents options of addressing future fiscal requirements.
The 2013-2018 Six Year Fiscal Program begins with Mayor Dan Sullivan's Six Year Strategic Plan, Vision, Mission, Values and Goals. After a discussion of the local economy and historic financial trends, fiscal projections and strategies are presented. This year the Mayor provided the Assembly with two financial budget scenarios, Plan A and Plan B, to assist them in making their decision about how to use property tax revenues.
View the Mayor's 2013-2018 SIX YEAR FISCAL PROGRAM (pdf)
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Heat could play spoilsport in the proposed Pakistan-Australia limited-overs series in the UAE as the cricketers from Down Under have "significant concerns" about playing there in searing temperatures of August.
Pakistan Cricket Board's director for international operations Intikhab Alam has said three ODIs and three Twenty20s are being planned in the UAE in August, one of the hottest months.
Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) says it was fine with the Twenty20s as they will start in the evening but ODIs are a concern as daytime temperature is expected to be over 40 in the UAE in August.
"How wise is it to be going to a region that you know is going to get up to 45-plus at that time of year?" ACA chief executive Paul Marsh told 'ESPNcricinfo'.
"That's extreme heat. It's also very humid. It's of significant concern for us at the moment. The health and safety of the players needs to be at the forefront of any decision that is made."
Marsh said a better idea would be to have six T20s.
"The common-sense approach would be that six Twenty20s is going to be better than three of each because of the weather conditions," Marsh said.
"We would rather see them play six Twenty20s if they have to play in the UAE because they could start later and it takes less time. But we have to wait and see what the ICC says."
"If the decision is they can't play six Twenty20s then you're faced with the question of what do you do? I'm not an expert on heat but we'll look at it from an occupational health and safety perspective," Marsh added.
"We have concerns about the health and safety of our players if they were to have to play 50-over games in those conditions."
Marsh said even a 5pm start for ODIs would be tough on the players. "Five o'clock is still going to be pretty warm," he said.
"At least with a T20 you could start it at eight or nine o'clock and finish at 11 or midnight and then you'd be getting out of the heat of the day. A three-hour game versus an eight-hour game is obviously the issue."
Cricket Australia has also expressed concerns about the heat in the UAE with CEO James Sutherland saying players have to be protected from extreme weather conditions.
"It's a time of year when it is very hot and humid in the UAE," Sutherland said.
"It will be hot for our players and it will be hot for their players. We would expect both countries would have concerns about that and would be doing everything they can to minimise that effect."
Aussie players concerned about heat in UAE
Heat could play spoilsport in the proposed Pakistan-Australia limited-overs series in the UAE as the cricketers from Down Under have "significant concerns" about playing there in searing temperatures of August.


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The Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation said Tuesday that it will contribute a total of $2 million toward an oral health clinic opening at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.
The clinic is part of the UAMS Center for Dental Education, which is "working toward accreditation for postgraduate residency programs in advanced general dentistry and oral surgery," according to a news relase.
Five of the clinic's planned 18 treatment rooms are open. When the expansion is complete — scheduled for 2014 — UAMS will name the clinic the Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Oral Health Clinic, in recognition of the foundation's total $2 million in backing, which includes a $440,000 grant announced last year.
"The strong support by the Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation has been critical to our ability to open this clinic and plan for the kind of facility we need to provide comprehensive care for our patients and host the dental residency program, which will have a wide-reaching effect on improving dental care in Arkansas," UAMS Chancellor Dan Rahn said in a statement.
The Oral Health Clinic's hours of operation will be from noon-5 p.m. Mondays; from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays; and from 7 a.m. to noon Fridays. Appointments are available by calling (501) 686-5733.


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Internet Beef of the Day: Sergei Kharitonov and Aleksander Emelianenko
(If Aleks hadn't gone and contracted Hep C, they could have sorted things out the old fashioned way. – vid courtesy of YouTube/Sakuraba78)
When Russians fight, they don't beat around the bush.
In an interview he did over the weekend with Valetudo.ru in which he responded to claims from Aleksander Emelianenko that his brother's loss to Dan Henderson over the weekend was the fault of Fedor's trainers, Sergei Kharitonov called Lil' Emel "a drunken, diseased drug addict who wasn't raised properly and who was a mistake."
"When I read his interview I laughed out loud. Although he is 30 years old and that's certainly not the reason for laughter. Firstly, for guys like Aleks I am not 'Serezha' but rather 'Sergei Valeryevich.' Secondly, it's about time for him to learn how to compress thoughts and, above all, to think before he speaks. He didn't get a proper upbringing, I guess, but I don't want to go deeper in it – he doesn't deserve so much honor. He is a great trash-talker, but real fighters prove their strength in the ring. Aleks is a drinker, he is always brawling. Normal men like me or Fedor would never drink to alcoholic mania and fight in the street. But I often hear about Aleks getting into scraps like this in different corners of our country," he says. "He rampages, harasses the waitresses and other girls, lies, cries on every corner that he is a champion of the world and the strongest man on Earth. I guess, this is some kind of a drug effect."Read More DIGG THIS


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Sat 27th Apr 2013 00:10 UTC
"Why did Google spend $12.5 billion to purchase Motorola Mobility? It's been nearly two years since the deal was announced and close to a full year since it closed, and the questions keep piling up while the answers keep getting worse. The biggest problem is that Motorola's patent portfolio doesn't appear to be worth anything close to what either company assumed: the judge in the Microsoft v. Motorola patent case ruled yesterday that Redmond owes a paltry $1.7 million in annual royalties for using Motorola's standards-related Wi-Fi and video-encoding patents in every Xbox 360 and Windows 7 PC sold, rather than the $4 billion Motorola had originally demanded."


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Spring Cleaning For Your Social Networks
Sure, you're already well equipped to clean up your house or apartment or mega-yacht. But what about your virtual homes? Check out The Next Web's tips and tricks for tidying up your Twitter and keeping Facebook fresh. Spoiler: you've probably got a lot of expendable friends. [TNW]


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Hi all,
My baby is now 5 days old and I have low supply. I checked with my LC consultant today, and we found I am producing 18ml both breasts combined. He was born at 39 weeks by c-section due to breech presentation, but I feel (and so does my LC) that he is more like 37 or 38 weeks as he is small, a slow feeder, etc. He was 6lb 13oz but lost weight quickly (12% by day 3) as my supply is low and we had to start supplementing, but he is very sleepy and it is very difficult to bottle feed him. Just fyi, supposedly my milk has "come in" but the supply is abysmal, as you can see.
This, unfortunately, is a repeat performance for my breasts which pulled the same stunts last time with my first baby. Last time I started taking domperidone at around 4 weeks to give my body "time" to see what it could do on its own. Taking the domperidone doubled my supply which meant I could give my baby anywhere from half to up to about 80% of his feeds depending on how fast he was outpacing me. I breastfed until 5 months and pumped until a year even though it meant pumping like crazy around the clock. I was SO PROUD to give my baby my milk, and I want to do it again!
So this time I am very disappointed as I was hoping for a better supply than before, but I guess this is it. Sooooo... when should I start the domperidone? I am hesitant to start it so early just in case a miracle occurs (very doubtful) and my milk "comes in" better over the next several days. However, my baby is not gaining weight very well as it is difficult to formula feed him, so the sooner my supply is up, the better!!!
I would appreciate all advice on the matter, especially people with experience. I don't want to hurt my supply by starting too early, but not even sure if this is possible. Thank everyone, and GOOD LUCK to all the mommies out there like me who want desperately to give their babies the best they can .


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Two key budgetary measures are headed to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's desk after the City Council gave final approval Monday to new storm water fees and a pension overhaul.
The new storm water fees will cost homeowners between $40 and $120 a year. The rate depends on the amount of impervious surfaces that allow rainwater to wash pollution into Chesapeake Bay tributaries.
The council signed off on the fees — included in the city's $2.4 billion operating budget — without discussion. Councilman Brandon M. Scott voted against the plan, having previously voiced concern over the impact to his Northeast district.
Municipal workers will now have to contribute 1 percent of their salaries to the city pension each year for five years, growing to 5 percent. The increase is paired with a 2 percent raise each year for a total raise of 10 percent.
The pension increase applies to Baltimore's non-public-safety workers.
Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke voted against the pension plan and Councilwoman Sharon Green Middleton abstained.
Clarke has called the pension contribution increases excessive when factoring in the higher out-of-pocket health care costs workers now face.
The new spending plan takes effect July 1.


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Description: First, we plan to do file system work in the context of PVFS, a freely available developed at Clemson University. Why PVFS? Many parallel and distributed filesystem have been developed and discarded over the years, and multiple well-funded research groups are simultaneously working on completely new systems. There are even companies in business to sell production-quality data storage systems, both completed and in the development stage. Most are incompatible with cluster computing because they insist on using expensive components such as fiber channel disks and switch, or large single servers. They also tend to be designed with serious hindrances to scalability, by relying on a single machine to serve data, or lock files. And they insist on providing NFS and CIFS protocols to gain more market share, constraining the implementation. PVFS begins with an assumption that the IO nodes need be fundamentally no more expensive than cluster compute nodes---all the cost is in the disks which can be standard IDE drives. PVFS also has the potential to scale well. It also is not overdesigned for the task of storage for parallel applications: for instance, coherence is maintained by the application itself, not by the filesystem.


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'Making the Grade' contest adds incentive prizesBy MICHAEL COUSINEAU
New Hampshire Union Leader
September 25. 2013 8:30PM
MANCHESTER — Sponsors are spicing up this year's car giveaway to a high school honor roll student by adding more prizes to boost participation.
This year's "Making the Grade" contest includes offering two more rounds of prizes and providing gifts — and iPad mini and $100 gift card — to the 11 student finalists who don't hold the winning key to start the 2013 black Ford Focus.
The sedan's sticker price runs $16,995.
"I think it's amazing," junior Leah Raymond said after the contest was unveiled at Memorial High School. Similar assemblies were set at Central and West.
Raymond and fellow junior Diana Cantin said they would study more to earn a higher rung on the school honor roll — and thus garner more entries for the car.
"I will because I really want a car," Cantin said.
Not everybody interviewed at Memorial was as enthusiastic.
Senior Elizabeth Morrissette, who's made high honors in the past, probably won't enter, calling it "more of a hassle" than it's worth.
And she already has a car.
Junior Jordan Fischer said he might enter depending on whether he had the time to go enter.
Mayor Ted Gatsas said students should seize the chance and enter since life provides limited opportunities.
"It's a car you get to keep," Gatsas said.
A West student has won each of the past two years. A Central student won the first year.
For each of three report-card quarters, students can earn entries: one for making the honor roll, two for high honors and three for the principal's list, for a potential of nine entries per student. To enter, students must bring to AutoFair their report card and a letter they receive from the mayor congratulating them for making the honor roll.
H. Andy Crews, AutoFair president/CEO, said too many students were waiting until near the end of the year to enter and often couldn't find the paperwork they needed. So students now have more reasons to enter earlier.
After both the first and second report-card quarters, two names will be chosen from each school. One will win an iPad mini and the other a $100 gift card.
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Candia board member faults spending for policeBy BENJAMIN C. KLEIN
Union Leader Correspondent
November 11. 2013 11:51PM
CANDIA — Despite her fellow board members expressing happiness with next year's $2 million proposed budget, Select Board member Amanda Soares said that she is unhappy with how much money the Police Department and the Smyth Memorial Building are set to get.
Soares said that she believes Police Chief Mike McGillen needs to prioritize his wants and needs better in his proposed $600,000 budget, and that board member Carleton Robie should not have proposed $10,000 being added to the budget for repairs to the Smyth Memorial Building.
"Last year, the warrant article asking voters for $160,000 to fix the building was voted down by hundreds of votes. I felt the way Robie and the rest of the board put the $10,000 (in) was deceiving the voters. It is not an appropriate place to put the money, do not put it in the budget, put it in a warrant article and let the residents vote on it," Soares said.
"McGillen just got a new officer, and now he is talking about a new cruiser. He really needs to find out what his needs are as opposed to his wants," Soares said.
At $666,313, the proposed police department budget would be an increase of about $12,000 over the current operating budget.
"We filled a vacancy with a much-needed officer. This is not a newly created position; it never was. And we appreciate the board support to get the officer hired," McGillen said.
McGillen also said that the $12,000 added to the police budget for a new cruiser was an important move because despite the addition of two vehicles over the last two years, the department's fleet is aging.
"This way the money is there, so we won't buy a new one this year, but we will ask for the rest of the money for a new cruiser the year after," McGillen said.
Soares said that she often feels like the lone voice on the board trying to find ways to bring the budget down. She said she thinks the budget should be decreasing, not increasing.
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Soares said she would also like to explore the possibility of cutting town employee health insurance.
"I know we offer insurance to our employees, and we don't have to, but we do, and that is about $75,000 we could cut out of our budget if we had to if it's not economically viable to offer that to employees if cost keeps going up. I'm sure I'll be a hated person for saying these things, but that's OK. I have spoken to enough people to know they are not happy with how their money is spent by the town," Soares said.
McGillen said that without health insurance, the town would have a difficult time attracting qualified employees. "We need to have a competitive package because it is hard to compete with the bigger towns, and we need qualified professional officers, which we have and want to retain," McGillen said.


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The Washington Post couldn't resist a colorful headline about the outcome of Montana's tighter-than-tight race for the U.S. Senate: "A true blue libertarian: Stan Jones, the also-ran who changed the hue of politics." Jones, 67, is certainly known for his ashen-blue face — the unfortunate result of drinking a homemade medicine that contained silver — and there is a good case that his presence on the ballot tipped the election to "blue" Democrat Jon Tester, by pulling votes from Republican incumbent Conrad Burns. Jones raked in just over 10,000 votes, and Tester won by a slim 2,565 margin. If Jones hadn't been in the race, his votes probably would have gone to Burns, since Jones opposes abortion and same-sex marriage, in contrast to the usual live-and-let-live libertarian agenda. Jones may be a perennial loser in Montana politics, said the Post, but in the last election he "recast the political complexion of the U.S. Senate."
Who said neighborliness is dead? In Mesa, Ariz., at least 15 people offered to help a young man who was having trouble getting his car to go. When the hapless driver then got stuck in reverse, said Phoenix police, even more people pitched in to push the car, and after he still couldn't figure out how to operate a manual transmission, passerby Margarita Wood gave up offering advice and just climbed in the car to help. Nobody realized that the desperate driver was actually trying to steal the car, reports The Associated Press; in any case, the 14-year-old was too young for a driver's license. "It is incredible that an entire neighborhood would participate in this comedy of errors," said police Sgt. Dave Norton. The would-be car thief was cited and released to the custody of his grandmother.
Writer Rebecca Solnit received an infuriating offer from the alumni association of the University of California, Berkeley. For only $44,950, she read, she and other alums were invited to tour "Vanishing Cultures: An Epic Journey by Private Jet." Her question: "Can enlistees congratulate themselves on helping cultures vanish; do you get to see the Inuit with the melting tundra and drowning polar bears or touch down on a Pacific atoll about to go underwater forever? … The whole notion of goggling at vanishing cultures is so offensive, as is perhaps the notion that they are vanishing rather than adapting, as most have in the face of the worst we have been able to come up with. To say nothing of what you might do for these cultures, other than enjoy watching them vanish … May the culture of ultra-high-end conspicuous consumption vanish."
The town council of Pahrump, population 1,300, got a bee in its bonnet about illegal immigration, so it passed a law making it a crime for anyone to fly a foreign flag alone or above the U.S. flag. The penalty for doing so is a $50 fine and 30 hours of community service. "All of the illegal alien protesters are waving Mexican flags, and we just got tired of it," town clerk Paul Willis told Reuters. John Trasvina, who heads the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said he thought the law was clearly unconstitutional, but "given that Pahrump is such a small town, I don't think they are going to be hiring any flag police any time soon."
Two policemen from Isleta Pueblo bought hamburgers from the drive-through window at Burger King in Las Lunas, N.M., but noticed after eating half their meal that marijuana flavored the meat. "It gives a whole new meaning to the word 'Whopper,' " attorney Sam Bregman told the AP. Three Burger King employees were indicted for serving up the spiked burgers; the officers are now suing the corporation for damages. And talk about tainted food: a Santa Fe couple recently ate part of a loaf of rustic Italian bread from the high-end Whole Foods market before discovering that an exploded AA battery had been baked in with the bread. The store's bakery manager had a likely explanation: On the day the bread was baked, a clock fell off the wall and into the bread mixer, reports The New Mexican. The clock has been removed.
Is the Forest Service bipolar? In mid-November, the agency announced that its budget was so tight it had to analyze all its recreational facilities and close perhaps hundreds of its 15,000 campgrounds and developed trailheads, most of which are in the West. The Forest Service explained that firefighting was chewing up some 42 percent of its budget, and the backlog in maintenance was only growing bigger. Yet only a few weeks later, reports USA Today, the very same Forest Service will introduce a pilot program in January called "More Kids in the Woods," part of a federal back-to-nature movement for young people. The kids better head for national forests in campers that include bathrooms.
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Saturday Sample Sipdown! Who's in?
Kasumi no Chajin is THE Queen of Sipdowns! ^^
i forgot about the Sat Sipdown but did get to try the Blueberry Danish on my unbirthday tea party…but i forgot the tip to not steep it too long X_x
I'm not using this for sipdown per se. I am using this to log tasting marathons. Many of the teas I account for here I still have to finish.
about 7 new samples tasted/logged so far today.
Counted…and I still have about 50!! teas total (not just untasted ones, or sample sizes) that still need logged here in tasting notes…need to work harder at stash reduction.
I did an iceday sipdown today, since the city was basically shut down, my boss told me to stay put. I tried & or finished 9-10 teas.
awesome! I saw some of your posts, was wondering what happened. glad you are safe.
5 new sampled today so far
I'm so in! I've sampled lots so far today but I think I have only sipped down one sample thus far. I will have to try harder once I sleep for a bit, haha.
I'm in. Still working through persimmon tree samples (now only have 5 new flavored samples!) and others.
I'm starting my sip down with some samples from BoxerMama.
I started with Paris (H&S), & now I'm working on David's org breakfast.
I continued my sip down into today, polishing off all of my samples from BoxerMama, Josie Jade, Rachel, & the Tea Spot.
Managed to do a sample sip down in one go today since I used the whole sample to make a pot of tea. I love doing that!
No true sip downs today really, but I've almost managed to organize my real life cupboard and have a plan for what I'm drinking in the next week. Haha
I got through at least 5 today & tried a few others. I can never manage to get my sipdowns done on a Saturday


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Proposed TSA changes endanger travelers
Editorial first aired on WPTZ on Friday, March 15
If you've flown in the last 10 years or so, you've certainly noticed the changes at our airports. Increased screening…reinforced cockpit doors…and a long list of prohibited carry-on items.
Following 9/11 – these were common sense measures to keep people safe.
Now – the TSA is set to allow small knives back on planes. What's a small knife?
Anything with a blade less than 2.36 inches. So a knife like this would be fine.
Under the new changes, so would a pool cue – a hockey stick – a baseball bat – and not one…but two golf clubs – who uses just two golf clubs??
We think these changes are unnecessary and compromise passenger safety.
We applaud Senator Gillibrand for sending a letter asking for the proposed changes to be reconsidered.
Knives and sporting equipment that can be used as weapons have a place on planes – in the cargo hold.


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The path to superhero royalty began with a spelling bee. Having immigrated from Guyana to London when she was 7, and using her boundless energy and uncanny knack for mimicry to shake the new-kid stigma, Wright was a young teenager when she first saw Keke Palmer in the 2006 indie Akeelah and the Bee. Palmer's "nerdy" but "cool" bespectacled character sparked something in Wright—not just the acting bug, but a desire to show audiences a new kind of relatable character, something she hopes to pass on to young fans with Black Panther.Keke Palmer
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Wright attended London's Identity School of Acting , a relatively recently established multicultural program that was formed in response to some of the mustier art schools in town; it boasts John Boyega and Wright among its notable alumni. The teenaged Wright was rushing full-steam ahead to land roles in British TV and theater, but she wasn't equipped to handle the crippling depression that hit her at the age of 20.John Boyega
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Wright came to Christianity after attending a London actors' Bible study with fellow Identity graduate Malachi Kirby ( Roots, Black Mirror ) at the height of her depression. Her immersion in her newfound religion was so strong that Wright walked away from a role in a Nicole Kidman - Elle Fanning film, most likely How to Talk to Girls at Parties, in order to focus on her relationship with God. When it came time to tackle her career with newfound commitment in 2015, she ran to it full tilt—and hasn't stopped since.
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As technology changes, the problem is becoming more acute. Those who have toiled for decades using traditional marketing channels are amazingly daft when it comes to new media, while digital specialists suffer from ignorance of decades of accumulated wisdom (and are often even more daft).As technology changes, the problem is becoming more acute.
How long do the basic principles of each specialty really take to learn? Certainly not a whole career. Why is it that people are expected to continue in their function long after they've mastered it? Wouldn't they be better off applying their skills to different domains?
The question is especially pertinent in light of growing evidence that people often get worse with experience , at least in some aspects. On the other hand, there are very good examples of people who used old skills to make contributions in new fields (i.e logician Kurt Gödel to physics, physicist Richard Feynman to biology and computers, etc.).The Quiet Revolution
Some of the world's most exciting research is happening now at the Sante Fe Institute , which was set up specifically for work across domains. These days, most software is developed using the Agile method , which emphasizes cross-functional teams. GE's Crotonville training center incorporates group training.
Increasingly, the ability to synthesize concepts across disciplines is much more valuable than domain knowledge, which is becoming commodity. As information becomes more accessible, the trend is sure to continue.
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Excellent article!!
Thanks for saying so, David.
Have a great week!
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Indeed, an excellent article.
Just a reminder – it's important to become an expert in one field at least before you begin interdisciplinary work.
In academia today interdisciplinary is all the rage, but you see a clear distinctions between people who have a good grounding in one or two disciplines and those who take a little bit from many disciplines.
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You don't often find Commonweal hunting heretics. In the latest issue, Daniel Finn takes aim at Fr. Robert Sirico of the Acton Institute and other Catholics who force fit Catholic social teaching into free market ideology. Sirico, he says, "uses his tendentious view of law and morality to conclude that raising taxes to help others is unchristian, since citizens have no choice but to pay the tax... One wonders if this conviction hasn't been engendered by a libertarian view of government actions, where such redistribution is always immoral." Commonweal isn't alone in recognizing this distortion of Church teaching, which has always recognized the authority of government to balance private property rights with the "universal destination of goods." There is a silent majority of orthodox Catholics who resent Acton and other Catholic think tanks that are so well-funded by wealthy pro-big business donors that they're able to drown out genuine Catholic social teaching. Finn thinks its time that "neoconservative Catholics inquire into the influence of libertarianism on their work and, most importantly, that they make Catholic moral theology the standard for judging right-wing claims about morality in economic life-and not the other way around." READ MORE >
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Jillian Soto's most enduring memory of her college years at Eastern Connecticut State University came in December 2007, near the end of her big sister Victoria's time at the school.
Jillian Soto's most enduring memory of her college years at Eastern Connecticut State University came in December 2007, near the end of her big sister Victoria's time at the school.
The day of Victoria's graduation, Jillian went to her sister's dorm, only to be told Victoria had stepped out. A suitemate asked Jillian to put some water in the refrigerator in Victoria's room.
And when she did, Victoria — masked — popped out of the appliance with a camera.
"She was always silly and spontaneous, and I loved that about her," Jillian, 24, said during an emotional tribute to her sister Saturday afternoon at the campus where Victoria spent four years training to be a teacher. "It is times like these that I remember Vicky made us so happy, yet makes it so hard because we miss her so much."
It has been nearly three months since Victoria Soto, 27, and 25 others were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. In the days since Dec. 14, her name has become synonymous with the stories of heroism that flowed out of the community.
Soto died protecting her first-graders, shielding them with her body from the bullets of the gunman's rifle. In January, officials in her hometown of Stratford unanimously voted to name a new school in her honor.
"I can't think of any better way to dedicate your own careers, those of you who are looking to be teachers, than to keep in your heart and mind the gifts of this extraordinary teacher who, upon leaving this campus, dedicated herself to the Sandy Hook school," Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said. "You could not find a finer person to want to emulate than the one whose life we celebrate today."
The Betty R. Tipton Room, which seats 500 people, was filled to capacity on Saturday, and most who attended the service wore the green-and-white ribbons representing the school colors of Newtown affixed to their lapels.
Soto graduated from ECSU in 2008, double-majoring in education and history. Her friends and family said Soto knew from childhood that she'd become a teacher, and never stopped striving for that goal.
But along the way, she found time to be a friend, mentor and community leader – often volunteering at Big Brothers Big Sisters while taking classes full-time.
"If you were going to be with Vicky, you were going to have a good time," said Rachel Schiavone, Soto's college roommate and best friend. "Her friendship was completely genuine and true. We shared a bond that was so strong and beautiful."
The 90-minute memorial included a constantly running slide show capturing moments of Soto's life. In nearly every picture, she was smiling or hugging someone.
ECSU President Elsa Nunez, who got to know Soto during her time there, said officials decided to hold the event because of the profound impact she had on so many in the community.
"It is my hope that by coming together today, it will uplift the hearts of everyone here, because that is what she did naturally, and that is the greatest tribute we could give her today," Nunez said.
Malloy, comparing the teaching careers of Connecticut's hero and heroine — Nathan Hale and Prudence Crandall — to Soto, said her legacy is now etched in the state's history.
"We all know there is another heroine who is a teacher also," Malloy said. "This sister, this daughter, this teacher, this fellow student."


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LITTLE ROCK — A state court official said Friday there has been some improvement in court fee and fine collections after a recent drop that prompted state officials to direct one-time money to prop up a fund that pays for much of Arkansas' judicial operations.
Keith Caviness, a staff attorney for Administrative Office of the Courts, told reporters that he is hopeful the improvement in collections will continue and boost the Administration of Justice Fund. Caviness appeared before a legislative committee reviewing the causes for the shortfall in the fund.
"Maybe we have a trend here, but so far February collections were sufficient and much better than before," said Caviness, who said courts collected about $3.7 million during that month. Caviness said the fund had been collecting about $2.2 million a month previously.
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel announced in February that he would direct $450,000 from two settlements toward the fund, a move aimed at preventing the furloughs of 120 trial court assistants. Gov. Mike Beebe had previously used $130,000 from his emergency fund to avoid the furloughs.
In addition, the Administrative Office of Courts shifted $150,000 from another program to go toward the assistants earlier this year.
The fund, which is financed by court costs, fees to file lawsuits and fines for drug and traffic violations, has dwindled in recent years. Legislative auditors said Friday that the fund's balance dropped from a high of $18 million in 2000 to about $1.4 million at the end of 2011.
J.D. Gingerich, the office's director, said officials are hopeful that the increase means the justice fund is recovering from its past shortfall. The audit blamed a shortfall in the fund on a drop in court cases and warrants filed, as well as the national economic downturn.
Gingerich said officials weren't sure why the collections had improved, but suggested that the focus on the fund's shortfall may have helped.
"I think that the addition of a lot of attention, both on cities and counties and law enforcement and on judges and on court staff, that the extra attention on everybody involved in the process may have added some emphasis and impetus to paying closer attention to outstanding court costs," Gingerich said.
Caviness said court officials have been talking with national consultants about ways to improve court fine and fee collections and are also studying whether any changes to state law are needed to boost collections. Caviness said court officials don't have specific proposals for next year's legislative session.
"We would like to see this fix itself, like the economy hopefully will fix itself, and that's the hope," Caviness said.


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Twenty tracks that inspired Andy Partridge and Peter Blegvad's Gonwards.
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December 21. 2012 7:42PM
Impersonating an EMT case remanded for jury trial
By BILL SMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
State Street store owner Brian Blackden testifies in the trial of Hill Police Sgt. Jonathan Evans, left, at Concord District Court on Aug. 25 this past summer. (David Lane/Union Leader File Photo)
CONCORD - Brian Blackden will get his jury trial on charges that he impersonated emergency medical workers at an accident scene more than two years ago.
The state Supreme Court ruled that he should have received a jury trial in superior court and has ordered the case remanded for a jury trial.
Blackden was charged with impersonating emergency medical personnel at an accident in Canterbury. At the time he was working as a freelance news photographer, taking pictures of accident and crime scenes, and used a converted ambulance while dressed in a coat and helmet.
Convicted by a judge in district court, Blackden exercised his right to ask for a jury trial in superior court. But the Merrimack County Attorney reduced the charge from a class A misdemeanor to a class B misdemeanor, and the judge ordered the case to a bench trial without a jury in superior court.
A unanimous Supreme Court, in an order based on papers filed in the case, agreed with Blackden that the prosecutor "improperly deprived him of that right by reducing the class A misdemeanor of which he was convicted in the circuit court to a class B misdemeanor after he appealed for a de novo jury trial in superior court.
Blackden appealed with case to the Supreme Court on his own, without an attorney. "It reminds me of an old story in the Bible called David and Goliath, that's what it feels like," Blackden said.
In the original trial, Blackden was fined $1,000 after his conviction. The justices ordered that that sentence be vacated, but said if he decides to waive his right to a jury trial in superior court, the circuit court can reimpose the sentence.
Merrimack County Attorney Scott Murray did not return a call late Friday seeking comment.
Trial on the criminal charge will be held before a jury, and Blackden said he may ask for a change of venue to get the case away from the courthouse where he was improperly given a bench trial instead of trial by jury.
"I think common sense will take over instead of what has occurred throughout this whole ordeal," he said. "I trust 12 citizens more than what I consider the play-manship on the state's side that has taken place so far."
Blackden is suing the state police in U.S. District Court in Concord, claiming that police have violated his rights. That case has been put on hold until the charges against him in the state criminal courts have been resolved.
Blackden was also the center of controversy over a case in which he claimed a group of police officers visited his business on Main Street in Concord and stole a Red Dawgs motorcycle vest.
Blackden said he bought the vest at auction and used it to promote his self-defense equipment business.
Two officers were ultimately charged in the case; one was acquitted, the other committed suicide.
The officer who went to trial on the case was acquitted because, the judge said, he brought the vest to the Concord police station soon after taking it when a group of motorcycle riders descended on Blackden's business.
Judge Gerard Boyle ruled that because the officer had the vest for a only short period of time, he lacked the requisite intent to permanently deprive Blackden in the case.


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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Daniel Descalso hit his first career grand slam and had a career-high five RBIs, and Adam Wainwright won for the first time at Petco Park as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the San Diego Padres 10-2 Tuesday night.
Descalso lined a 1-2 pitch from Anthony Bass into the Jack Daniel's Old No. 7 Deck in right-center with one out in the eighth, his second homer of the season. Jon Jay was intentionally walked ahead of him.
Descalso, hitting just .197 coming in, went 3 for 3 with a walk and scored three runs. He missed the cycle by a triple. He singled leading off the third and scored on Matt Carpenter's double. He hit an RBI double in the four-run fifth and scored on Carlos Beltran's two-run single.
Matt Holliday struck out opening the eighth but reached on Bass' wild pitch and Allen Craig singled. Padres first baseman Yonder Alonso tried for a reverse double play on Yadier Molina's grounder but his wide throw pulled shortstop Everth Cabrera off the bag and Craig was safe. Jay was intentionally walked and Descalso hit his slam.
Wainwright (6-3) held San Diego to one run and four hits in 7 1-3 innings, struck out six and walked one.
The 6-foot-7 right-hander had been 0-2 with a 2.57 ERA in his previous three appearances at the spacious downtown ballpark, including two starts. That leaves New York's Citi Field as the only NL park where Wainwright has never earned a victory.
San Diego's Edinson Volquez (3-5) allowed five runs and eight hits in six innings, struck out five and walked one. He allowed four runs on six hits in the fifth.
San Diego got its only run in the second when rookie Jedd Gyorko doubled, advanced on Chris Denorfia's single and scored on Alexi Amarista's double play. Gyorko had three hits.
NOTES: Padres lefty Clayton Richard made his second rehab start with Triple-A Tucson at Omaha, allowing two earned runs on five hits in six innings, with four strikeouts and no walks. ... Cardinals 3B David Freese was out of the lineup for the second straight game. He got three stitches in the base of his right thumb after getting spiked by Milwaukee's Norichika Aoki while tagging him out during a rundown Sunday. ... Padres LF Carlos Quentin sat out with a balky right knee. He had an awkward slide into home in Monday night's 4-2 victory. ... The series concludes Wednesday night when St. Louis LHP Tyler Lyons is scheduled to make his big league debut against rookie RHP Burch Smith (0-0, 15.63). Lyons will be the second Cardinals lefty in nine days (John Gast, May 4 vs. New York Mets) to make his big league debut in a start. Lyons was a ninth-round pick out of Oklahoma State in the 2010 draft.
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Switch to enterprise system begins this month, could save $100M by 2013
After much groundwork, the Army has announced that it will start migrating individual e-mail accounts to a cloud-based enterprise e-mail service by the middle of this month. The service will transition an initial batch of accounts in the coming weeks with the goal of moving 200,000 classified and 1.4 million unclassified accounts by the end of the year.
The first 2,000 users moving to the new system will also serve as a testbed to ensure a smooth transition. Brig. Gen. LaWarren Patterson, commanding general of the 7th Signal Command (Theater) at Fort Gordon, Ga., told NextGov that this first group will ensure that e-mail service and system management processes are working and in place.
One difference is that this initial selection of users consists of the Army's top technology personnel, including the chief information officer's staff, who will have their Microsoft Exchange accounts moved. NextGov noted that the email accounts for the Army's headquarters staff will switch over in March.
The Army expects the service to save about $100 million a year by 2013. Speaking last year, former Army CIO Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson said that the cost savings will kick in during the 2012 fiscal year and beyond. He said the Army currently pays more than $100 per user seat annually for e-mail services. Under the enterprise e-mail system, he said the cost will drop to under $39 per seat. The service will provide users with 4G of mailbox storage, up from the 100M currently available.
Key features of the e-mail system will allow users to access their e-mail wherever they are, from any CAC-card equipped computer; e-mail accounts that follow users as they move between duty stations and deployments; and an active directory listing e-mail addresses of Army and DOD personnel. Speaking in December, Brig. Gen. Jennifer Napper, commander of Army NETCOM/9th Signal Command, noted that the directory serves as an enterprise security boundary and an authentication source.
According to the 7th Signal Command, the changes include "persona extensions" to all Army personnel e-mail addresses. These extensions will identify users as active duty military, civilian Army employees, reservists or contractors. After the transition, NextGov reported that all Army individual e-mail addresses will contain a first name, middle initial and last name, followed by numbers for identical names such as: email@example.com. A reservist's account would be firstname.lastname@example.com and a contractor's account would be email@example.com.
The move to an enterprise e-mail model is being managed in conjunction with the Defense Information Systems Agency. E-mail and calendar functions are being virtualized and stored on DISA's cloud. Agency officials said in October that the enterprise service consolidates the Army's e-mail addresses within the DISA cloud, which is the first step in a greater effort to condense all military e-mail addresses under a single DOD.mil listing.
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Wow, I can't believe you are all complaining… EE is going to save tons I mean tons of cash!! 52 states and territories have their own exchange system. Then back up requirements wow that gets costly. Also last I knew every DOD, EVERY DOD system is going to be on EE AF, Navy, Army (Rev, NG), DOD ALL… that means there are going to be less and less severs, backs electricity, Money saved!!
Here at Ft.Dix we migrated to DISA and it is a complete disaster! I cannot believe someone is getting paid to make asinine decisions like this.
The connection to DISA exchange servers painfully slow and users all over the base are having issues with productivity due to inferior connectivity to the exchange server!
@AKO Support Employee: AKO is horrible. Name a feature, it's horrible. We can't wait for it to go away. Signed, everyone who has ever used AKO.
Give it up, enterprise email in the cloud. I'm a high-tech guy, and no one has ever explained the cloud... what cloud? define cloud computing? For this article: enterprise email (MS Outlook/Exchnage) in a cloud = moving from the AKO system complex to a DISA system complex. Currently, AKO is a contracted service provider, and DISA will probably do the same. BTW, how much will it cost to implement the new email naming convention? Let's all hold-our-breath waiting for any "real" cost saving... looking in the sky for the right cloud... laughter required...
A couple of points that need to be clarified -
1) AKO is the current solution for the Army (active, guard and reserve).
2) The actual costs of an AKO mail account is closer to $11 annually per seat, not $100. First, consider all the services AKO provides: Email, Portal, Web accessible storage, Business Process Management (BPM), and Single Sign On (SSO). The approximate budget for AKO is $67 million and there are about 2.5 million users. That means that AKO spends about $26.80 per user and less than half of that amount is used for email services.
3) The limitation of 100Mb is due to funding - AKO is currently working on implementing 1G mailboxes, but staffing limitations is a problem. AKO has just had a 30% reduction is staff.
4) A lot of the limitations of AKO's email is due to DoD/Army required security. Some good examples of this are no HTML email and KBA (Knowledge Based Authentication)
Bottom line, AKO is a good solution given the constraints. The DISA solution will be more costly and will have some of the same limitations as AKO (unless they ignore their security requirements). Instead of rebuilding the systems, DoD/Army should properly fund AKO.
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Although the U.S. housing market continues to struggle, many local markets are doing significantly better than the country as a whole, with some places virtually missing the housing bust altogether.
While shifts in home values are important in any market, it's important for sellers to determine the length of time a property can expect to be on the market before it will be sold. The faster that homes sell, the faster an inventory backlog can be cleared, suggesting heightened demand and an upward trajectory in prices. Additionally, if a home is on the market for an extended period of time, it may may turn off prospective buyers and force sellers to accept less-favorable offers.
To find the cities where this trend is the most extreme, real estate website Zillow.com analyzed the numbers to identify the cities where homes sell the fastest, according to the median number of days on the market. The numbers presented here are representative of home sales between mid-April and mid-July 2011.
During this time, the national median for time spent on the market stood at 117 days, while New York (168 days), West Palm Beach (175 days), and Indianapolis (180 days) were the cities where homes sold the slowest.
Also included in the analysis is the Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), which represents the median measure of home valuations covered by Zillow. The information presented here also includes the proportion of listings with price cuts, the average amount those listings were reduced, and the "final discount from list price," which is the average amount that was negotiated off the original list price before the sale.
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By Paul ToscanoPosted 15 September 2011