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HP has today launched its first business-class ultrabook, the EliteBook Folio 9470m, with a thin and light design that aims to tap into the consumerisation trend while still providing enterprise functionality and security features.
The Folio 9470m, which was unveiled at HP's Global Influencer Summit 2012 in Shanghai today, has a 14-inch screen and is 19mm thick, weighing in at 1.58 kg. It runs on Intel's third generation Ivy Bridge processors, includes 16GB of RAM, and offers a choice of 500GB HDD or 256GB SSD.
The new notebook comes pre-loaded with Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, with the option to upgrade to Windows 8 when it arrives. It offers an array of ports and connectivity options for business users, including optional built-in wireless WAN, full-sized Ethernet, VGA, DisplayPort and USB 3.0 connections.
It also has up to 20 hours of battery life, according to HP, and comes with a secondary battery that attaches to the base of the device for extended power usage. The company said this makes it ideal for mobile professionals who spend a majority of time away from their desks.
On the security front, the Folio 9470m has an integrated smart card reader, fingerprint reader, embedded TPM security chip and choice of management tools. It also offers enterprise-class manageability and multilevel security features, including HP Bios Protection.
"We are looking to bring out designs that deliberately push on the idea of classic consumer and enterprise needs," said James Mouton senior vice president of personal computing at HP's Global Business Unit, in a keynote address.
"The new HP Elitebook Folio has a more compelling, sleeker design, but security is still the utmost thing. We think this is a nice way to sexy-up the core."
The Folio 9470m is expected to be available in October, and will ship with HP Premier Image business software and antivirus protection.
The Folio was among a selection of ultrabooks announced at HP's Global Influencer Summit. The HP Spectre ultrabook, targeted primarily at the consumer and executive market, aims to appeal to the style-conscious with an even slimmer design and all-metal case. It has a 13.3-inch HD screen and is just 14.5mm thick, weighing in at 1.395kg.
Meanwhile, the HP ENVY ultrabook is available in 14-inch and 15.6-inch versions, and features a soft-touch, slip-resistant base, dual speakers and a subwoofer for movies and music.
Both ultrabooks use Intel's Rapid Start Technology for quick boot and resume times, and Intel Smart Connect Technology, which automatically updates email while the notebook is in sleep mode.
They also include HP Beats Audio, for high-quality sound, CoolSense technology to optimise performance and cooling, Imagepad, for multifinger touch and gesture navigation, and TrueVision HD Webcam to produce bright HD images.
In a panel session at the Summit, HP executives said that the company aims to provide a broad range of options in order to meet the needs of its customers, adding that ultrabooks are a natural fit for cloud-based computing.
"This is the future of the notebook and you're seeing it today."


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But the exception-or-not thing with "lu". Tricky. Definitely isn't to do with being impossible to say the (provably possible1) /dj/, it just seems to be a rough convention. And my convention for SCUBA, remember, was the /j/less one, also, even if it isn't impossible to say with one.
Lucy, lunar, lunatic, (also lutefisk, lughole, luvvies), all are /j/less, but it doesn't take much effort to read as lieucy, lieunar, lieunatic, lieut(e)fisk, lieughole, lieuv(v)ies, as speakable, if not necessarily comprehensibly English, words.
Quick Google gives the following top "lu" words
* luncheon /lu/
* luminous /lu:/
* lukewarm /lu:/
* luscious /lu/
* lustrous /lu/
* luckless /lu/
* luminary /lu:/
* lungfish /lu/
All /lu/-starting, by me. And those with a consonant+vowel following extend to /lu:/, without exception, without any of the others. In that list, at least..
1 There's so much accent variation in the UK, I can only speak for myself. /lm/ is an 'impossibility' for some UK regional accents. As may commonly be considered (outside of their locality) the placenames Ystradfellte or Auchtermuchty. (Never mind the usual problems with tourists to the country with Leicester(shire), Bicester, Towcester, Worcester(shire), Edinburgh, Slough, Tintwistle, Ely, Alnwick, Wombwell, Frome, Ruislip. And Uttoxeter being a rare /ju:/-starting name. That's a different issue, though.)


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Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a short, tidy novel, told in a one-sided epistolary format, with our protagonist Charlie narrating the story through letters to an unnamed friend. In the film adaptation Charlie's tale is opened up to his viewers, showing him from more of an outside perspective while still maintaining the integrity of the letter-writing format. This means a lot of the introductory stuff needs to be tweaked a little bit, but most of the major stuff that stays hits all of the right notes.
A lot of the credit for the tight transformation goes to Chbosky himself, who wrote the screenplay for the film and also directed it onscreen. Much of the time, novelists don't get a say in an adaptation at all, which is why The Perks of Being a Wallflower is so special. Charlie, Patrick and Sam are Chbosky's darlings, and instead of handing them off to someone else, he makes them shine more brightly on the big screen.
Most of the differences between The Perks of Being a Wallflower's book and movie are successful, but this is because most of the changes are minor and never work to change the plot's overall direction. Following are the seven biggest changes I noticed in my screening of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Feel free to remark on any changes you feel may have been more noticeable.
There are many spoilers in The Perks of Being a Wallflower book to movie comparison. Do not delve in if you want the film to be a surprise.
Overall, by keeping all of the important moments in Charlie's timeline and showing us more about our favorite side characters onscreen, Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wildflower is a wildly successful film, capturing the ache and grandeur of growing up in the suburbs in the early nineties perfectly. I was happy to see some of my favorite characters fleshed out, but I was sad to see some of the literature and poetry moments missing. Overall, it's a toss up regarding whether the book or movie is the better endeavor. Despite both having nearly the same plot, there are elements in both versions that make each unique. I'm glad that both the movie and the book exist, and that's a rare thing.
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If giving a enormous stylish look for your house to make it seem fresh and up to date is one of your top most priorities, in that case you will be no stranger to laminate flooring that would give the whole interior of your home an upscale and sophisticated look devoid of breaking the bank. Truly, the laminate floors is one of the best ways where you can instantaneously create a clean finish to your own homes and give it an updated sophistication without going over the budget or breaking the bank.
And given that we all know that laminate flooring is one of the easiest and affordable ways to make our homes a better place to live in with minimal maintenance but at the same time give the kind of elegance that we want for our own homes, it is still is great if we would find shops that would give us discount laminate flooring. Therefore if you are finding great ideas that you could incorporate into your own home, you should go for having a discount laminate flooring to help us save money and at the same time, give the look that we want for our home.
While your budget for your home improvements is really small, there may be bargains for some products, in particular discontinued laminate flooring. As many times the particular pattern or color has been discontinued, laminate flooring from the same manufacturer is still on the market. Nevertheless, regardless of how good the deal may seem, if there are not enough boxes of that style to cover your floor, it is definitely not going to be a good buy.
Very much depending on the reputation of the manufacturer, as well as the retailer, there have been times that discontinued laminate flooring has been found to include hidden damage inside the box. In lots of cases, the purchase of flooring at a discount outlet may also be short of any type of warranty and once you take it out of the store, you own it. If there are any hidden damages inside the box, there may not be sufficient to complete the job you had in mind.
If possible, try buying an extra box or two of discontinued laminate flooring will help eliminate that problem, plus allowing you to have some on hand in case of damage later on. If you have to replace damaged pieces, they will be impossible to find and the appearance of your floor will have to suffer.
Not a word in the English language is more definite than the word cheap. If a supplier chooses to use the word cheap in describing their product then you may want to consider again about buying it. Certainly the supplier could choose to use the word inexpensive or even the word value when describing their lower quality line of laminate flooring however using the phrase cheap laminate flooring says a great deal concerning the supplier and none of it is good.
Purchasing laminate flooring is an imperative decision because aside from the cost of the flooring you also have the installation and use factors to remember as well. Installation of laminate flooring is though a simple process yet that is not easy to do so if you invest in cheap laminate flooring, and spending a great deal of time installing it, you may consider it days lost when the cheap laminate flooring starts to fail on you. Wear and tear on a floor is above the wear and tear in any other part of your house and if you use cheap laminate flooring then that wear and tear won't take long to obliterate your cheap new floor.
If you be desperate to save money on laminate flooring in that case don't buy cheap laminate flooring but rather buy inexpensive flooring from a supplier that has a reputation to uphold. The best case in point of this is the local home improvement super store. From time to time they will get laminate flooring that is of good quality but their price is so low that it seems too good to be true. That super store has many to lose if you buy that flooring and it turns out to be cheaply made so you are pretty safe buying inexpensive laminate flooring from the local home improvement super store.
You will end up getting what you pay for if you do not do your homework and if you try and buy cheap laminate flooring from a less than reputable supplier then you are asking for trouble. Flooring is particularly important so make sure you make the right choice when you go to buy your laminate flooring and make the choice that not only makes sense for your wallet but furthermore makes good business sense as well.


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DIXON � Sophomore Carly Rochelle plays beyond her years.
DIXON � Sophomore Carly Rochelle plays beyond her years.
The 15-year-old Dixon High forward doesn�t play soccer as if she were a young underclassman still trying to gain experience and get accustomed to competiting against older players.
Rather, Rochelle has emerged as a standout for the Bulldogs because she plays with confidence and a high level of intensity, coach Josh King said.
�Carly doesn�t play scared,� King said. �She believes in her abilities and in her teammates� abilities around her. On the field, she doesn�t play like a freshman or sophomore. She plays beyond her years, that�s for sure.
�This is a sport she loves and she has a passion for it.�
Rochelle has made a name for herself in the area the last two seasons by being one of the best players for Dixon (3-4-3, 1-0 Coastal Plains 1-A Conference), which visits rival and defending state 1-A champion Southwest (3-4-2, 1-0) tonight in a key league match.
Rochelle leads the Bulldogs in scoring this year with 11 goals and 6 assists. Last year, Rochelle finished tied for third in area scoring with 27 goals and 12 assists and made the second team of The Daily News all-area team.
She has no complaints thus far this season.
�Yeah, I�m pretty happy,� Rochelle said. �I�m happy as a team that we are working good together and, as an individual, I�m happy.�
That is likely all you will get from Rochelle when you ask about her game.
While her play on the pitch has made plenty of noise, Rochelle shows more of her youth with her reserved personality. She just doesn�t like talking about herself much.
�Carly is very respectful and very humble and she gets embarrassed if you talk highly of her,� King said. �She doesn�t like all the extra attention as much. She�s friendly with the girls and everybody likes her, but she�s not the girl cutting up or being goofy.
�She is a quiet, humble kid who lets her play on the field do her talking.�
But that�s just who Rochelle is. That�s her personality.
�I�m kind of a shy person in the crowd,� Rochelle said. �I�m kind of quiet, actually, but I�m loud on the soccer field.�
However, Rochelle said that sometimes she tries to go outside of her shell and open up a little more with friends and teammates away from the soccer field.
�I know people say that I�m shy, I get that a lot�, but I just want to prove that I can go beyond my limits and push and fight,� Rochelle said.
Rochelle certainly has been a fighter in her two seasons with the Bulldogs.
On the field she is an aggressive player who is as skilled as a four-year starter. Rochelle has solid footwork with the ball and is quick enough to make solid runs toward the goal and get back on defense.
�She has a relentless motor and a never-give-up attitude. Her work rate is something that coaches dream about, especially from a forward,� King said. �She not only works offensively but on defense to win balls and create havoc in the opposing team�s backfield.�
Rochelle is also confident with the ball. She can keep it for long periods of times and go at defenders on the attack with a full head of steam.
�Carly�s foot work is very advances for a kid her age,� King said. �And she�s explosive. She can get by you in the first 10 steps and she strikes the ball as well as any player I have ever had.�
But ask Rochelle about her individual talents and, again, she won�t give you an extended answer. Instead, she simply says she works hard and depends on her teammates for her goals and assists.
�I think I work good with everybody,� Rochelle. �I communicate and my passes and runs are pretty much spot-on.�
It appears as if Rochelle is also more comfortable playing for the Bulldogs, compared to last year. While she was a good player last year as a freshman, she knew she had to �prove something� during her first year as a starter.
�The biggest difference is as a freshman you are trying to look up to the higher classes and you have to work harder,� Rochelle said. �This year, I had a feeling of how the team goes.�
And given Rochelle�s play last year, King expected her to have another good showing this season.
Rochelle hasn�t disappointed her coach.
�Last year she had a major role for our team and I expected that to continue,� King said. �I knew this season we were playing a much tougher nonconference schedule and I didn�t know if her numbers would be the same. But I did know she was going to contribute just as much, and she has.�
And King would like nothing more than for Rochelle to continue her good play tonight when the Bulldogs battle Southwest, which defeated Dixon three times last season en route to their second state title in three years.
�Carly just needs to do what she�s done all season and that is to play within our system and utilize her teammates around her to create chances,� King said. �Carly knows she has to bring her best for us to match-up against them.�


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Chinese detain civil society activist
BEIJING — A Chinese businessman who supports a grass-roots group promoting civil society was detained by police on Friday on suspicion of gathering crowds to disturb public order, his friends said, in a sign the government is stepping up efforts to crack down on the loosely organized movement.
Xiao Shu, a family friend, said police officers took venture capitalist Wang Gongquan from his Beijing home for questioning and formally detained him several hours later.
''We believe this is an absurd allegation. It is impossible for Mr. Wang Gongquan to disturb order at any public place,'' his supporters said in a written statement, noting that Wang has been advocating peaceful social changes.
Beijing police did not respond to a faxed request for comment on the case.
Wang's detention followed the detentions of two leading members of the New Citizens movement — Xu Zhiyong and Yang Maodong. Yang is better known by his penname of Guo Feixiong.
''This is an important sign that Beijing wants to nip the New Citizens movement in the bud,'' Xiao Shu said. ''In the past, the authorities were ambivalent toward civil society, but now how they are treating Gongquan will send a clear signal that they consider the New Citizens movement as a hostile force that should be suppressed.''
The group's members have done little more than lobby for rights of rural children and public disclosure of officials' assets.


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A U.S. Navy veteran who served in World War II has received a medal of honor -- from Russia.
Delbert Dauenbaugh, of Rockford, recently received the Medal of Ushakov, which is given to military personnel who demonstrated courage during the defense of the Soviet Union.
Dauenbaugh served as a signalman on the SS Hawkins Fudske, a cargo ship that ran supplies to two Russian ports from the Britain, Ireland and Belgium.
He joined the Navy at the age of 17.
His duties included standing on the ship's bridge and sending and receiving messages with flags, flashing lights and Morse code.
The Rockford Register Star reports the award was sent from the Russian Embassy in Washington.
Dauenbaugh says that "after 70 years, it's pretty good Russia remembered what we did."


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June 11's NYC Middle School Baseball League title game pitted newcomers I.S. 318 from Williamsburg against those scrappy standouts from the Bronx, the J.H.S. 145 Tigers. To get there, the Tigers had to successfully fight their way through two consecutive come-from-behind victories, down to their last out on both occasions, while the 318 Conquistadors served notice to all by topping the Queens champion, I.S. 61 out of Corona, a team that had not lost a single game in the last two years of competition. By the time they made it to Roosevelt Island's Firefighter Field on Saturday, the hard-hitting Conquistadors had all the momentum in the world.
But when center fielder Andrew Hernandez had to be rushed to the hospital after an outfield collision in the top of the fifth – one of those no-man's-land fly balls that make the game of baseball such a challenge – it seemed as if the tide was about to turn against the Conquistadors. After all, Tigers pitchers Jesus Zapata and Pablo Brito had done a nice job silencing their bats, preserving a 1-1 tie over four innings. Zapata, in fact, was the one who had hit the ball in question, standing on second base as the go-ahead run in an excruciatingly close game, and was poised to help finish what he'd started.
As paramedics tended to Hernandez, the Conquistadors regrouped underneath a tree behind third base, brushing away tears and summoning up their resolve. "I'll be honest with you, I didn't want to play anymore," said head coach Thanasi Iliopoulos afterwards. "I asked them, I said, 'Do you want to continue on?' And they answered as a team, they said, 'Let's do this for Andrew.'"
It was decided that what was needed immediately was team captain Daniel Montanez on the hill, not to mention his indomitable heart and 0.00 ERA. Montanez, who'd been injured himself on a bang-bang play at third earlier in the game, had used the injury timeout to stretch and warm-up, and was allowed to re-enter the game via the injury rule. "I knew I couldn't let my team down."
Montanez quickly worked a two-strike count on the first batter he faced, when suddenly Zapata tried to force the issue, racing from second in an attempted steal of third. Conquistadors catcher Giovanni "Gio" Quinones, however, made a picture-perfect throw, nailing Zapata and erasing the threat. Montanez then got that third strike he was looking for, and suddenly there were two outs. A ground-out to shortstop sent the Conquistadors to the plate once again, the score still deadlocked at 1-1.
But the Tigers weren't going quietly either. Reliever Pablo Brito struck out the first batter in the bottom of the fifth. He even struck out the second batter, Edison Rivas, but the dropped third strike proved costly, as an errant throw allowed Rivas to make it all the way to third. After hitting leadoff hitter Rayner Guzman, Brito then got Ivan Davila looking for what should have been his third strikeout of the inning.
With the heavy-hitting Montanez at the plate, Tigers head coach John Mehling called time and headed for the mound to calm Brito down. The home plate umpire, however, argued that he'd never granted the time out, and called a balk on Brito when he turned to face his head coach. A controversial decision, to say the least, as it allowed Rivas to score, making it 2-1. Still, it might not have mattered at all, because after Montanez was intentionally walked, Quinones then singled in another run, scoring Guzman, and making it 3-1. Brito struck out Brandon Sinche to end the inning – four strikeouts in one inning! – but the damage was done.
With the lead now, a resolute Montanez took the ball again and closed the Tigers out in dramatic fashion, throwing seven strikes in a row en route to an impressively economical sixth, preserving the win, as well as his season-long 0.00 ERA. Finally, it was over.
Tigers head coach Mehling, despite the loss, couldn't have been prouder of his team, who had two come-from-behind victories to earn a shot at the title. "These guys, they have so much fight in them," he said. "I've tried to teach them the way I was taught, maybe they call it 'old school' or whatever, but I couldn't be prouder of these guys."
"It just shows you, you can't predict kids," said Iliopoulos, the Conquistadors head coach, visibly emotional after his team's performance. "You can't always know what they have inside. They show their heart, their fight – they just amaze you sometimes."
As Commissioner Rob Schliessman commenced the post-game ceremony, presenting Iliopoulos and his team with the city trophy, and praising the Conquistadors for demonstrating "what baseball is all about," a cell phone rang in the crowd. It was Andrew Hernandez calling from the hospital - he wanted to know who won.
The NYC Middle School Baseball League was started in Manhattan with just four teams and very little equipment. Thanks to the generosity of leading realtors The Pinnacle Group and its CEO Joel Weiner, the league currently accommodates 55 teams throughout the city, providing opportunities for more than 1000 players. For more information, please visit www.MSBLNYC.com.


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Herbert E. Miller Jr., 81, Owner And Operator Of Falls City Boat Works, Inc.
Herbert E. Miller Jr., 81, lost his courageous battle with cancer on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012, with family at his side.
Herb was the son of the late Herbert E. Miller and Virginia Ferguson Miller. He attended Male High School, the University of Florida and University of Louisville. Herb was an avid tennis player and was a member of the teams at Male, UofL and Florida. Herb served in the Army Signal Corps during the Korean War. He was based in Yokohama and Sendai, Japan. While there, he successfully represented the U.S. Army in various USA vs. Japan tennis matches.
Herb owned and operated his family's business, Falls City Boat Works, Inc. He worked there with his father for many years. Since 1986, he has worked alongside his son, Ed, who runs the business. In the early 1970s, Herb helped develop 16 acres of riverfront property, along with the owners of KingFish Restaurants. Herb and his late wife, Carolyn, hosted a popular Great Steamboat Race Party at the Boat Works from 1970-93.
Herb and Carolyn were also fortunate enough to travel extensively by boat to the Florida Keys, Bahamas Islands and the Leeward Islands and spent many years visiting Delray Beach, Fla. Herb was a lifelong member of the Louisville Boat Club and a former member of the Pendennis Club and the Delray Beach Club. He was also a previous member of various advisory councils for Chris Craft, Starcraft, Glastron and Johnson Motors. He was an avid fan of the University of Louisville Cardinals. Herb was a member of St. Mark's Episcopal Church for 67 years. He served on the church vestry during the 1980s. He was honored to be a delegate to the Diocese of Kentucky Episcopal Convention in 2008.
Herb was preceded in death by his wife, Carolyn Langan Miller, almost 20 years ago.
He is survived by his children, Barbara Baker (Brad), of Dover, Mass. and Herbert E. Miller III and Lynn Miller (Mike Risley), all of Louisville; his grandchildren, Michael and James Risley and Christian and Mary Gwen Baker; and cherished grand dog, Murphy. He is also survived by his sister, Mary Virginia Bickel; a niece and nephew, Nancy Tafel (Tom) and Paul Bickel (Jackie), all of Louisville; great-nieces and nephews; and devoted friends.
Funeral service was held 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Mark's Church, 2822 Frankfort Ave., with burial at Cave Hill following. Visitation was 3 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Pearson's, 149 Breckinridge Lane.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks donations be made to St. Mark's Episcopal Church-Music Fund or Nashoba Learning Group for Children with Autism, 10 Oak Park Dr., Bedford, Mass., 01730.
Rhoda P. Fulton, 103, Retired Business Office Supervisor
Rhoda P. Fulton, 103, was born in Louisville, Ky., on Feb. 24, 1909, and died on Sept. 9, 2012, at the Altenheim. Rhoda was a retired business office supervisor for 40 years with the old South Central Bell Telephone company (Now AT&T) and had worked with the late C. Huntger Green, Paul D. McCandless and Guy Wesley.
She was a graduate of the Louisville Collegiate School and had attended finishing school in Italy. Rhoda had wonderful stories to tell of her trips to Africa and many European countries.
After retiring, Rhoda was an avid gardener at her home in Brownsboro Village in Louisville and played a mean game of bridge. She was a volunteer for Meals on Wheels and at the age of 90 she moved to the Forum at Brookside.
Rhoda was a former member of the Louisville Country Club and a member of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America and a lifelong member of the Cavalry Episcopal Church.
Preceding her in death were her parents, Dr. Gavin C. and Mary Henri P. Fulton, her sister Nell F. Norman (A.E.) and her niece Mary Henri Norman Pollock. Rhoda is survived by her great niece Nell Pollock Weyler (Ed) and cousin Arthur C. Peter (Lynn).
Years ago Rhoda decided to donate her body to the University of Louisville Department of Anatomical Science and Neurobiology. She will be buried in Cave Hill Cemetery at a later date. Memorials can be made to the Cavalry Episcopal Church, 821 S. Fourth St., Louisville, Ky., 40202.
Jane Ellen Hurst,90, Homemaker
Jane Ellen Hurst,90, of Louisville, passed away Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, at the Episcopal Church Home.
Jane Ellen was a graduate of the University of Louisville, where she was member of Pi Beta Phi sorority, a life-long bridge player and avid college basketball fan, particularly the Louisville Cardinals. She was a homemaker, raising four children.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Squire Raymond and Aileen Boggess, and by her husband, Bernard Hurst.
She is survived by her children, Will, Lucy (Tom Ehrbar) of Princeton, N.J., Tom (Joanne), Michael (Joan) of Sewanee, Tenn.; grandchildren, Victoria Ehrbar, Jane Ellen Ehrbar, Lucy Hurst, Peter Hurst, William Hurst, Christopher Hurst, Anna Hurst, Katie Finn Hurst; one step-grandchild, Jennifer Reading (Brian).
Her funeral service was Tuesday, Sept. 18, at 11 a.m. at the St. Luke's Chapel of The Episcopal Church Home, 7504 Westport Road, with burial at Lawrenceburg, Ky. cemetery. Visitation was Monday, Sept.17 from 3 to 7 p.m. at Pearson's, 149 Breckenridge Lane.
The family would like to thank the Episcopal Church Home for the loving care that they provided for mother in her last few years spent there.
Lyle M. Hove, 68, Area Manager For Baker Performance Chemicals
Lyle M. Hove, 68, of Louisville went to be with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012, with his wife Ilene by his side.
He was born Sept. 24, 1943 in Williams County, N.D., the son of the late Haakon Hove and Evelyn Smith Hove. Lyle was a member of Lakewood Baptist Church and an area manager for Baker Performance Chemicals.
He is preceded in death by two sisters, Beatta Gilbertson and Jeanette Ritterman.
Lyle is survived by his loving wife of 48 years, Ilene (Moe) Hove; two daughters, Terrilynn Jurich (Tom) and Michelle Whites (Steven), of South Jordan, Utah; two sons, Kevin Hove, of Tioga, N.D. and Kyle (Angela) of Legrande, Ore.; 19 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; two brothers and a sister, and several nieces and nephews.
A celebration of life was held at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept, 12, 2012, at Lakewood Baptist Church, 13803 Shelbyville Road. Burial took place in Beaver Creek Lutheran Church Cemetery, Ray, N.D. Pearson Ratterman Funeral Home, 12900 Shelbyville Road, was entrusted with arrangements.
Memorial contributions may be made to The Gideon's International, P.O. Box 140800, Nashville, Tenn., 37214-0800 or Lakewood Baptist Church Building Fund.
Marie Sims Rupp, 94, Founding Member Of Christ Church United Methodist
Marie Sims Rupp, 94, passed away at her home on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012. She was born in Louisville, Dec. 31, 1917, to Charles B. Sims and Willie McCall Lawson Sims.
She was predeceased by her husband of 68 years, Lloyd Rupp, her brother, Gene Sims and sister, Virginia Emmerich. She is survived by her three children, Patricia Rupp, Nancy Marie Holt (Stephen) and Janet Rupp; three grandchildren, Geoffrey Gleitz, Stephanie Marie Madsen (Paul) and Samantha Holt; three great grandchildren, Emma Grace Marie, Mason Trent and Maxwell Lloyd Madsen and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was a founding member of Christ Church United Methodist, and a member of The Woman's Club of Louisville and Northfield Garden Club.
Visitation was Wednesday, Sept. 12, at Arch L. Heady & Son Funeral Home, 7410 Westport Rd from 5Â to 7 p.m.
A memorial service was held Thursday, Sept. 13, at 4 p.m. at Christ Church United Methodist, 4614 Brownsboro Road, Louisville, Ky., 40207.
Expressions of sympathy may go to Christ Church United Methodist, The Methodist Home Of Kentucky, P.O. Box 749, Versailles, Ky., 40383-9982.
Stephen Tyler Bow, Co-Founder Of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
Stephen Tyler Bow, co-founder of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, died Sept. 11, 2012, in Northern California.
Steve was named CEO of Kentucky Blue Cross Blue Shield in 1989. During his reign, he turned a nearly bankrupt company into a profitable customer service company in record time. Bow, a native of Kentucky, rose through the ranks of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company following his graduation from Berea College. He was known at Met Life for turning around regions and territories within the company and making them profitable. That reputation was noticed and in '89, he retired after 37 years with Met and took over the reigns of Kentucky's Blue Cross Blue Shield Company. The creation of Anthem was his biggest venture when the Kentucky Blues were merged with the Indiana BCBS company led by Ben Lytle. Today, Anthem is one of the country's largest insurers, and is known throughout the country as a Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurer.
Bow leaves behind his wife, the former Kathy O'Connor; and twin sons, Ballard High School graduates, Jarod and Jonathan Stephen Bow, their wives Leslie and Corinne and five grandsons, Jaxon Tyler, Brandon, Connor, Tyler and Roderick Bow. The families all reside in Northern California.
Graveside services were held on Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, in Newcastle Cemetery, Newcastle, Cal.
Donations in memory of Steve Bow can be made to Lewy Body Dementia Association, 912 Killian Hill Road SW, Atlanta, Ga., 30047, Attn: Becky Dennis or Women 4 Women, 323 W. Broadway, Suite 502, Louisville, Ky., 40202, Attn: Cissy Musselman.
Ada "Louise†(Cissell) Sidebottom, 81, Member Of Lees Lane Baptist Church.
Ada "Louise†(Cissell) Sidebottom, 81, of Louisville, passed away Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012, at Summerfield Manor Nursing Home.
She had formerly worked at White Castle, Jackies and Leeanna's restaurants. She also worked at Consolidated Sales. She was a member of Lees Lane Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Albert A. Sidebottom; sons, Roy Allen and Raymond A. Sidebottom Sr.; daughter, Alice "Cookie†Mealor; and sisters, Anna Rose Webb, Evelyn M. Kirby and Martha "Puckie†Davis.
She is survived by her son, Eddy Sidebottom; daughter, Sandy Layne; brother, Roy G. Cissell; sister, Norma Jean Burney; eight grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; and caregivers, Pat and Betty O'Flynn.
Her funeral service was 11 a.m. Wednesday at Ratterman Grand Chapels, 4832 Cane Run Road, with burial in Resthaven Memorial Park. Visitation was Tuesday from 2 to 8 p.m.
Bettye Ann Young Dixon, 86, Devoted Teacher
Bettye Ann Young Dixon, 86, of Louisville, passed away peacefully at her home, surrounded by her loving children, on Sept. 14, 2012, on her birthday.
As a devoted teacher for thirty years, she had a lasting impact on the lives of many children. Mrs. Dixon volunteered in multiple aspects of community life, including Home of the Innocents and Alliance Christian Academy, and was a member of Jeffersontown United Methodist Church. She was an inspiration not only to her family, but also to many friends and acquaintances. She graduated from Atherton High School and received her Master's degree in Education from the University of Louisville.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 63 years, Clarence Kay Dixon, Jr. M.D.; her parents, Clarence Henry Young and Catherine Josephine (Dahl) Young; her brothers, Lance Young, Kenneth Young, John Young, Jack Young, Bob Young and Ray Paul Young; and grandson, Jack Henry Evans.
She is survived by her sister, Joyce (Young) Von Almen; sons, Danny Dixon (Corinne) and Clancy Dixon; daughters, Linda Knutson (Carl), Rebecca Dixon, Kathy Dixon Cunningham (Mark), and Elisabeth Evans Watson (Greg); 12 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Her funeral service was 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, at Highlands Family-Owned Funeral Home, 3331 Taylorsville Road, with burial following in Louisville Memorial Gardens East. Visitation was 3 to 7 p.m. on Sunday at Highlands.
Expressions of sympathy may be made to Home of the Innocents or to the Gideons.
Michael R. "Micky†Suell, 59, Kentucky Certified Real Estate Appraiser
Michael R. "Micky†Suell, 59, of Louisville passed away Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012, at Baptist Hospital East.
Micky was a graduate of Trinity High School and the University of Louisville and was a Kentucky Certified Real Estate Appraiser.
He is survived by his parents, Raymond and Mary Angela Senn Suell; siblings, Richard "Rick†Suell, Gerald "Jerry†Suell (Paula), Robert "Bob†Suell Sr. (Linda) and Angela Denny (Brian); nieces and nephews, Robert Suell Jr., Erin Suell, Lucas Suell, Samatha Suell and Meagan Denny.
His funeral Mass was 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Cathedral of the Assumption, 433 S. Fifth St. with burial in St. Andrews Cemetery. Visitation was 3 to 8 p.m. Tuesday with a Memorial service starting at 7 p.m. at Ratterman's, 3711 Lexington Road.
Memorial donations in Micky's memory may be made to White Pine Stables, Therapeutic Riding Center, www.whitepinestablestrc.org.
Ann Eva Blalock Maddox, Retired Elementary School Teacher
Ann Eva Blalock Maddox died Aug. 26, 2012, in Roanoke, Va.
She was born March 27, l928, grew up in Murray, Ky., and graduated as class valedictorian from Kentucky Wesleyan College. Ann was a devoted elementary school teacher for 26 years and was retired from Dunn Elementary School.
Ann was preceded in death by her husband of 39 years, Jake Maddox, Jr.
Ann is survived by her sons, Tom Plain (Ellen), Bob Plain (Cindy) and Patrick Plain (Seongman); grandchildren, Brian Plain (Karen), Anne-Marie Plain, Alison Plain, Jacqueline Waddell (Billy), Jake Truman Plain; step-grandchildren, Jeffrey Maddox (Patti), Amy Duncan (Travis); step great-grandchildren, Beatty Duncan, Cooper Duncan, Parker Maddox, Gunnar Maddox, and Jeffrey David Maddox; step daughter-in-law, Cheryl Rago (Jim); two sisters and many nieces and nephews.
A memorial service for Ann Eva Blalock Maddox will be 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, in the Chapel of Broadway Baptist Church, 4000 Brownsboro Road, Louisville, Ky., 40207. The family cordially invites Ann's friends to attend the service and reception.
Dorothy E. Byron, 80, Member Of Holy Trinity Church
Dorothy E. Byron, 80, of Louisville, passed away Friday, Sept. 14, 2012.
Dorothy was a native of Louisville, daughter of the late Coleman and Florence Ludwig Edrington. She was a graduate of Ursuline Academy, homemaker and member of Holy Trinity Church.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Barbara Owens; and brothers, Donnie and Bobby Edrington.
She is survived by her loving husband of 60 years, Gene; children, Joan Merrick (Norman) and Tony Byron (Mary); three grandchildren, Liz McGill (Jeremy), Bobby Byron, and Tori Merrick; sisters, Sue Hellmueller (Walter) and Mary Cunningham (Elmer); and brothers, Jim Edrington (Joanne) and Coleman Edrington (Nadine).
Her funeral Mass was held 10 a.m. Tuesday at Holy Trinity Church, 501 Cherrywood Road. Visitation was 4 to 8 p.m. Monday at Ratterman's, 3711 Lexington Road. Memorial donations in Dorothy's memory may be made to Society of St. Vincent DePaul, c/o of Holy Trinity Church.


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August 22, 2005 - New York, NY - Barbara Nitke and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom have filed a notice of appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court of the District Court's decision in the Communications Decency Act (CDA) challenge. Their appeal contends the District Court applied an incorrect legal standard for determining whether protected material was improperly banned under the CDA. The District Court also committed legal error in finding that many local communities do not have pre-determined standards of obscenity that can be verified--and then ruling the plaintiffs failed to prove what those standards are.
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This week's trophies — from tournaments in Brazil, Marseilles, Bangalore, San Jose, and Antwerp — range from simple (read: generic) to extravagant. Of course, I would be crazy not to highlight the Proximus Games' diamond-encrusted tennis racket, a prize awarded to any player who wins the tournament 3 times in 5 years. Mauresmo achieved this feat this past Sunday:
The racket has 1,700 diamonds and is worth 1 million euro.
The rest of this week's trophies are below the cut.
Leis added a nice touch to the glass sculptures awarded to Shvedova and Santangelo at the Bangalore Open:
and the doubles winners received these:
Uhm, the WTA needs to offer a refresher course on how to behave during photo opps. Lecture number one? "Don't stick your tongue out for the cameras."
And the Brazil Open doled out these trophies:
Note that this is Canas' first tournament back from doping (right?). People are talking about the (dis)advantages of what he's done: after winning a few extra matches via doping, he gets to take a mandatory rest, detox, and be slightly quicker in his step when he jumps back into the fray. So first he screws a few players over by taking away their glory and prize money (yes, yes, he had to give back the prize money he won while doped up, but it still doesn't make up for the fact that he deprived some other player of that opportunity). Now he gets to win tournies because of his "time "out.
Onto Marseilles. Here's a classic cup for Gilles Simon:
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I can't imagine anything but a battle between the same three guys who have dominated dirt since the last Olympics. Barring a mechanic or unforeseen physical issue, I see Nino as the favorite for GOLD.
Sagan is creating a buzz but I don't see him being in the battle for medals.


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• FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites — now – The feds want to amend a law that currently only applies to phone companies to include Web operations.
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A rustic rye boule
I tried a couple of weeks ago to make a rye loaf, but it was fit only for the hens. They loved it, but they're connoisseurs of good grains and flours, rather than bread. This one is a success, because 75% of the flour is white, giving the dough enough gluten to rise. I'm still on a mission to make a loaf which is mostly rye - and I'd also like to find some darker rye meal than the very pale flours available here. Suggestions warmly welcomed.
I used the no-knead method for this loaf: it's my favourite way to bake, because of its elegant simplicity - you let time do all the work for you, and the result is a flavourful rustic boule. (You may remember the sensation this recipe caused when it went viral in 2007.)
400g flour altogether (100 of which was rye), about half a teaspoon of yeast, and a little less than a teaspoon of salt. Otherwise, no change from Jim Lahey's original no-knead method.
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Bulldogs Knock Off Defending Ivy Champion Princeton In Overtime
PRINCETON, N.J. - Meredith Speck has a number of key roles for the Yale women's soccer team. Late in the second half of Saturday's Ivy League opener against Princeton, head coach Rudy Meredith had her back on defense. When the game went to overtime, his plan was to keep her there. Speck, though, had other ideas.
"She came to me and said 'Let's go for the win.' She looked so confident that I had to listen," Meredith said.
So Meredith moved her up front. The decision paid off when Speck helped set up the game-winning goal. She took a long feed from Frannie Coxe, dribbled down the wing, drew the goalkeeper towards her and then sent a perfect cross to a wide open Paula Hagopian, who knocked it in to the empty net with just 1:16 left in the first extra period, lifting the Bulldogs to a thrilling 3-2 victory on a gorgeous afternoon at Roberts Stadium.
It was the second game-winner of the season for Hagopian, who also scored in overtime against Towson.
"It was exactly the same kind of goal," Meredith said.
There were other similarities to the Towson game as well. Most notably, the way Yale came from behind. The Bulldogs trailed 1-0 and 2-1 against Princeton. In the game with Towson, they overcame a two-goal deficit to force overtime.
"That was a good lesson, and it carried over," Meredith said. "We believe we can come back."
It also was similar to recent Yale-Princeton games. For the seventh straight time in the series, the visiting team won.
Meredith can't really explain that, but does think there is a benefit to having the first Ivy game on the road.
"The team gets some time together to bond away from campus," he said.
The Bulldogs trailed 1-0 at halftime, but tied it just 1:39 into the second half when Speck headed in a Hagopian cross.
Princeton, the defending Ivy League champions, took a 2-1 lead on Haley Chow's goal at 73:21, but Yale answered less than a minute later. Melissa Gavin settled a short midfield pass from Hagopian and fired a shot from 20 yards out that beat Princeton goalkeeper Darcy Hargadon.
"I joke with her all the time about shooting from far out, but she has a lethal shot," Meredith said. "All she needs is half a step."
It was Gavin's team-leading sixth goal of the season.
Princeton had a big edge in play early in overtime and had the first four shots, but the Bulldogs capitalized on their only quality scoring chance to win it.
Goalkeeper Rachel Ames made eight saves to earn the victory.
"Rachel made some unbelievable saves to keep us in the game," Meredith said.
The victory snapped a two-game losing streak for the Bulldogs (5-3). The losses were the final two games of a three-games-in-five-days stretch last weekend.
"I knew that would be a rough stretch, but I thought we handled it pretty well," Meredith said. "We had faced a lot of different scenarios and I think that helped prepare us [for Ivy League play]."
The Bulldogs are off until next Saturday when they host Harvard at 4 p.m. at Reese Stadium.
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"I suppose it's time I should be going." And with that line, one of the more notable companion departure scenes for one of the least notable companions begins. The scene itself is played well enough by Sylvester McCoy and Bonnie Langford, but there is never a sense of real emotion to be found anywhere. It looks like two characters who have reached a mutual decision to split up, but neither wants to be the one to say it first. You could ask the obvious question of why Mel wanted to leave in the first place, to say nothing of why she would want to become the traveling companion of a rogue pirate in a giant spacecraft shaped like a starfish, but as Mel was a two-dimensional companion from the start, any explanation would have seemed both surprising and expected.
Once Ace was introduced in this story, and to a lesser extent Ray in the previous story, it was clear by comparison that Mel was just not the companion for this new era of Doctor Who. There was no attitude or no edge to Mel. You would never have to worry about telling Bonnie Langford to shave her armpits like John Nathan-Turner famously did to Sophie Aldred. Aldred was yet another iconoclast joining the new wave. Aldred's first appearance in a studio was her first studio session for Dragonfire. Sylvester McCoy fell into acting rather than being properly trained for it, and Andrew Cartmel and his new team of writers came from outside the world of Doctor Who and were completely fresh to this 24-year-old programme. Even the directors were relatively new to the show as well, and John Nathan-Turner, the only obvious holdover from years gone by, was keen to have a new outlook given the strife and controversy of the past two years.
The other sudden relic, in addition to Mel, was a story like Dragonfire. It seems like a Season 15 story stuffed into the late 1980s, even down to the quality of the sets. Season 24 had been a season of great transition, but whereas other notable seasons that ushered in a great deal of change (Season 7 and 18 spring to mind) set the standard for things to come, Season 24 feels like a purge of the old rather than a surge of the new. From now on in the classic run, even when the show brings back established favourites like the Daleks, the Cybermen, and the Brigadier, they all add to the mythos of Doctor Who rather than rely on it. Season 24 is made up of 14 episodes that, for the most part, must be endured to understand and appreciate where the show would go from here.
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The Wall Street Journal from a few days ago contained a smug editorial containing the pithiest summation I've seen of the establishment GOP view of the Tea Party:
Jeffersonian activists across the country have introduced various interposition measures–most fall short of nullification–against portions of the NDAA, two of which have passed in Arizona and Virginia. Now that the Tea Party has begun to take on the national security state and not just the entitlement state, the neocons of the WSJ editorial board are complaining about their "Inner ACLU." In Virginia, Governor Bob McDonnell received a letter from Romney advisor and MeK supporter Michael Chertoff, Ed Meese, and others urging him to veto the bill. He prudently changed some of the wording, but signed it into law.
It's especially telling that many of these people also support the Arizona immigration law which, if upheld, will lead to a holding tank-type situation in which Arizona law enforcement will corral illegal immigrants but, lacking the authority, won't be able to deport them without federal cooperation. In other words, a little law enforcement give-and-take between state and federal governments is a-ok on illegal immigration national security requires a unified top-down approach regardless of the outrageousness of the federal government's diktats, which now include the authority to detain Americans indefinitely without trial and extrajudicially assassinate them by drone while abroad.
But to the Wall Street Journal's editorial board, these are not issues about which reasonable people can disagree:
In 1942, a military court ordered the execution of six Nazis, including an American citizen, who were captured after having come ashore from submarines off the U.S. East Coast. Yet some tea partiers want to let today's version of infiltrating Nazis get the same rights as burglars.
Some tea partiers also want to distinguish between U.S. citizens and foreigners, as if that would matter to their victims. Anyone who takes up arms against the U.S., fails to wear an enemy uniform and targets civilians is an unlawful enemy combatant regardless of citizenship.
That's right, if you don't agree with the NDAA, you must be a terrorist/Nazi sympathizer.
The distinction between a U.S. citizens and foreigners is of paramount importance because American counterterrorism strategy developed to fight Islamic terror has come home, as the recently-released list of domestic drone permits demonstrates. And the fact that a handful of American citizens become terrorists seems a poor reason to open the door to applying the laws of war at home, which is a serious possibility under the NDAA. There is a major difference, from a law enforcement standpoint, between Jared Loughner or the would-be May Day anarchist bombers and Anwar Al-Awlaki.
Bernie Quigley has a more hopeful take on the Jeffersonian uprising, and he mentions a few friends of TAC:
Wouldn't the next obvious step be a connecting network of these states, most of them from the heartland, interested and inclined toward Ron Paul and Jeffersonian ideas including states' rights, constitutional government and sound money; possibly a "supercommittee of governors" much like the great ambassador George Kennan advised in his last days?
But there has been so much interrelated thinking now in the past three years that there might even be considered an ad hoc experimental congress of some sort to bring together the related ideas and interested amateurs and professionals.
Participants besides the concerned governors might include "Freedom Watch" Judge Andrew Napolitano; Michael Boldin, founder of The Tenth Amendment Center who was scorned this week by The Wall Street Journal (a badge of honor) for his leadership in state opposition to NDAA; Sarah Palin; the Pauls; Rep. Justin Amash (R) of Michigan; the distinguished delegate from Virginia Jim LeMunyon, who has called for a new Constitutional Convention; Sen. Mike Lee (R) of Utah; the brilliant libertarian journalist Jack Hunter; libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson; scholar Thomas Woods, who writes on nullification; Joe Miller of Alaska; and my neighbors here in New Hampshire, state Reps. Paul Ingbretson and Dan Itse, who first brought the state's challenge to ObamaCare citing Jefferson's Kentucky Resolutions.
Lawrence Lessig gave me some hope of a left-right alliance on some of these issues too, especially on technology and civil liberties, but it looks like he's turned most of his attention away from the bold Call a Convention proposal and toward the aimless Rootstrikers which wants publicly-funded elections and an end to corporate personhood.


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It was jarring to read the coverage of the new "anti-gay bill" passed by the Arizona Legislature and then look up the text of the instantly notorious SB 1062. The bill was roughly 998 pages shorter than much of legislation that passes in Washington, so reading it didn't take much of a commitment. Clocking in at barely two pages, it was easy to scan for disparaging references to homosexuality, for veiled references to homosexuality, for any references to homosexuality at all.
They weren't there. A headline from The Week declared, "There is nothing Christian about Arizona's anti-gay bill." It would be more accurate to say that there was nothing anti-gay about Arizona's anti-gay bill.
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The legislation consisted of minor clarifications of the state's Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which has been on the books for 15 years and is modeled on the federal act that passed with big bipartisan majorities in the 1990s and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton.
Arizona was going to lose the Super Bowl over this? Maybe so. Gov. Jan Brewer took no chances and vetoed it Wednesday. The bill was the subject of a truly awe-inspiring tsunami of poorly informed indignation.
For The New York Times editorial board, the bill was "A License to Discriminate." It constituted "the legalizing of anti-gay prejudice," according to a piece in U.S.News & World Report. It was, Salon scoffed, "cartoonishly bigoted." A reference to Jim Crow was obligatory in any discussion of the bill on cable TV.
Writing in The Week, Elizabeth Stoker said the logic of the bill "threatens to twist Christianity into a vile, exclusionary isolating thing." But it was beyond the power of Arizona lawmakers to redefine Christianity. Stoker must have mistaken the Arizona Legislature for the Council of Nicaea.
In USA Today, the influential liberal pundit Kirsten Powers posited that the bill would enable all-out civil conflict, with Muslim pharmacists possibly refusing to give uncovered women antibiotics, Christian pacifists refusing to let Army sergeants stay in their hotels, and Christian restaurateurs who oppose judging gays refusing to serve overly judgmental Christians.
There you have it: If a few lines were changed in Arizona's religious freedom law, the state would practically become Bosnia-Herzegovina circa 1992. Rarely had so much hinged on a couple of dozen words of an otherwise wholly innocuous statute.
If you'll excuse a brief, boring break from the hysteria to dwell on the text of the doomed bill, it stipulated that the word "person" in the law applies to businesses and that the protections of the law apply whether or not the government is directly a party to a proceeding (e.g., a lawsuit brought on anti-discrimination grounds).
Eleven legal experts on religious freedom statutes — who represent a variety of views on gay marriage — wrote a letter to Gov. Brewer prior to her veto explaining how the bill "has been egregiously misrepresented by many of its critics."


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I have been told recently in no uncertain terms that by the time I graduate medical (at the age of 37) the only viable option will be to become a GP. Not denigrating the role of GP's but I was hoping to specialise in Bariatrics or general surgery. The person telling me this is a Radiation Oncologist Registrar who enjoys the fact he is a 'tertiary care' provider (meaning minimal patient contact) and that by the time I finish my internship and first year residency Ill be 40 if Im entering a specialty program, 45 by the time Im a member of a Royal College of friggin whatever - which will be too old.
Unfortunately I never had the opportunities he did as he was growing up and Im not making excuses but now that Im 32 and plan to sit the gamsat next year (have passed it before with a 67 but GPA was below 5 in my teaching degree so am doing a bloody masters degree at the moment) this is the only time thats really presented itself as feasible to do it. I did have a GP in Toowoomba laugh and say that if Im good enough and enthusiastic enough that Ill get 'snavelled up' by any number of hospitals looking for more mature candidates for their fellowship programs. What do you think gang?
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Brave new world of Cuba travel begins Monday
By MIMI WHITEFIELD
Posted on Fri, Jan. 11, 2013
Cuba, which has long been criticized for keeping families apart and punishing those who try to leave the island illegally, has removed nearly all restrictions on travel by its citizens, a move that could cause ripples well beyond this island of 11 million people.
Gone is the reviled tarjeta blanca, the white card or exit visa that Cuba used to control who could leave the island. Gone is the notarized letter of invitation from a foreign host.
Now Cubans simply need a valid passport to travel — as long as they can get a visa from the country they intend to visit and a ticket for travel. Cuban authorities say they have set up 195 locations around the country where citizens may apply for their passports. Those who already hold passports will be required to recertify them under the reform.
But getting an entry visa allowing travel to another country and paying for a ticket are two big ifs.
"I was in Havana when the new policy was announced in October and people were very happy,'' said Domingo Amuchastegui, a former Cuban intelligence analyst who lives in Miami. "But people thought it was going to be easy to get a visa and travel. Just getting the money for a ticket will be a monumental problem for many people.''
Presumably many Cubans will seek visas to travel to the United States — and now even minor children will be allowed to travel as long as they have the authorization of parents or legal guardians.
"The United States welcomes any reforms that allow Cubans to depart from and return to their country freely,'' said Will Ostick, spokesman for the U.S. State Department Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.
But it's unlikely the U.S. Interests Section in Havana will be handing out significantly more non-migrant visas than it does now. That could spur Cubans, intent on reaching the United States, to seek indirect routes through nearby countries or those that don't require entry visas for Cubans.
"We cannot predict if the change in exit visa requirements will lead to a change in migration patterns from Cuba,'' said spokeswoman Victoria Nuland at Friday's State Department briefing. "We continue to encourage people not to risk their lives by undertaking dangerous sea journeys, and we note that most countries still require that Cuban citizens have entry visas.''
Although the United States is committed to processing at least 20,000 non-migrant visas annually for Cubans, so many have been applying that last year some applicants said they were given appointments for visa interviews three years down the road.
"We have dramatically reduced wait times for visitor visa appointments…. as the U.S. government intensifies our commitment to provide appropriate legal avenues for Cubans to travel to the United States,'' said Ostick this week.
But he said wait times for appointments could return to "multi-year levels if demand increases after the changes to Cuban exit permit requirements go into effect, because of constraints on our staffing levels and facilities in Havana.''
Currently, the number of consular personnel authorized at both the U.S. and Cuban Interests Sections is 50 people and there is strict reciprocity between the two countries, which maintain Interest Sections instead of embassies because they don't have diplomatic relations.
"I think there will be a large number of Cubans who will want to leave," said Robert Pastor, a professor of international relations at American University and national security advisor for Latin America during the Carter administration. The majority, he said, will probably opt for a third country that doesn't require Cubans to obtain an entry visa or that is within striking distance of U.S. borders.
Under the Cuban Adjustment Act, Cubans who reach U.S. soil can be paroled into the United States and become permanent residents a year later. Making the whole scenario even more convoluted: under Cuba's migration reform, Cubans will be allowed to stay outside the island for up to two years — rather than the current 11 months — without losing their rights as residents, meaning their could get green cards and work in the United States and still freely return to Cuba at the end of 24 months if they choose.
In this hemisphere, Haiti, Ecuador, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and a handful of small islands such as St Lucia and Grenada don't require entry visas for Cubans. Maximum stays range from a low of 28 days in Barbados to as long as 90 days in Ecuador and Haiti.
"Cuban citizens like many other foreigners can enter Ecuador without a visa for tourism,'' said Nathalie Cely Suárez, Ecuador's ambassador to the United States
Some Cubans, she said, have tried to use "irregular mechanisms,'' such as fake marriages, to remain in Ecuador, which has prompted stricter controls by Ecuadorian authorities.
Because of the difficulty in reaching the United States, the ambassador said she didn't think concerns about Cubans using Ecuador as a launching pad to reach the U.S. are "substantive.'' But already there are reports of smugglers taking Cubans who enter Ecuador across Colombia to the rugged Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama and then on up to the Mexican border.
Mexico requires entry visas for Cubans but it has been a favorite jumping off point for Cubans who can present themselves at the border and request to be paroled into the United States under the adjustment act, a 1966 law that was designed to normalize the status of thousands of Cubans who fled to the United States after the 1959 Cuban Revolution.
Some Cubans may make the assumption that once they reach a non-visa country, they can then apply for a U.S. entry visa but it might not help their chances. "Although visa applicants may apply at any U.S. consular office abroad, it may be more difficult to qualify for the visa outside the country of permanent residence,'' said Ostick of the State Department.
Analysts say it's hard to know whether the influx of Cubans through third countries will be a trickle or a torrent or whether it will prompt smugglers to create new networks to bring more Cubans to U.S. shores but there appear to be plenty of legal loopholes.
The U.S. Coast Guard says it will continue to maintain a "robust maritime presence in the Caribbean" but declined to say whether it planned to beef up efforts.
However, sooner or later, analysts say, Cuba's new travel policy will have an impact on U.S. policy.
"I think there's an understanding in Cuba that finally the ball is going to be in the other court,'' Amuchastegui said.
Cuba's new policy, for example, may indirectly prompt calls from other migrant groups for the same access to the United States now enjoyed by Cubans, said Pastor. "I think this will be a real test for the Cuban lobby to retain the Cuban Adjustment Act.''
But Larry Rifkin, a Miami immigration lawyer, said, "The Cuban Adjustment Act won't be removed until democracy returns to Cuba.''
In the meantime, Cubans who reach U.S. borders can seek refugee status and will be admitted.
Rifkin was counsel in a 2007 case known as the "Matter of Vasquez" that involved a Venezuelan native born in Caracas to Cuban parents. The case, he said, established a legal precedent as to who qualifies as a Cuban national and is eligible under the adjustment act.
Now the U.S. accepts, he said, that a child born outside Cuba to at least one parent who is a Cuban citizen at the time of the child's birth and registers the birth at a Cuba consulate in the country where the child is born is considered to have acquired Cuban citizenship.
So-called step-across the border migration to the United States might also be aided by Spain's Law of Historical Memory, which gives citizenship to the descendants of Spaniards who were persecuted and fled during the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship.
Spain has closed the period for accepting passport applications under the law, which went into effect in 2008. But passport applications from 500,000 Cubans are still pending, said Gregorio Laso, a spokesman for the Spanish Embassy in Washington. Several thousand Cubans have already received Spanish passports under the law, setting them up for travel to Spain and countries and territories that don't require entry visas for Spanish citizens. In the Caribbean that includes the Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos.
The Spanish themselves aren't expecting a large influx of Cubans under the new policy. "It is not so easy to move your family and begin a new life in another country without a job,'' Laso said. Spain's unemployment rate is currently 26.6 percent.
But he said the embassy was aware of some Cubans who have tried to enter the United States on Spanish passports. Some have been rejected, he said, but more recently, cases have been referred to immigration judges. Spaniards can visit the U.S. without a visa.
For its part, Cuba has said it wants its travel laws to be similar to those of other countries.
"For many Cubans, this is a very positive thing,'' said Nik Steinberg, an Americas researcher at Human Rights Watch, "but the critical question, as with any reform, is how it is implemented. The real test will be whether those who are critical of the government'' will be allowed to get their passports and travel.
The Cuban government is apparently betting that most Cubans who travel abroad will return. A program broadcast on Cuban television in October gave this statistic: Of 941,953 Cubans who traveled to foreign countries from 2000 to last August, 12.8 percent — or 120,705 people — didn't come back to Cuba.
Miami Herald reporter Jacqueline Charles contributed to this report.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/11/v-print/3178584/brave-new-world-of-cuba-travel.html#storylink=cpy
Major provisions of Cuba's New Migration Policy
• Allows Cubans who obtain their passports to travel as long as they have an entry visa from the country they intend to visit and a ticket; eliminates the need for an exit visa and letter of invitation.
• Increases the time Cubans may stay outside the country from 11 months to 24 months without losing their status as residents of Cuba. Previously Cubans were given permission to visit for only 30 days after which they had to pay a fee for each additional month's extension up to 11 months.
• Allows those younger than 18 years to leave the country with the notarized authorization of their parents or legal representatives.
• Allows Cubans who have emigrated to visit the island for a period of up to 90 days — 60 more than currently allowed.
• Allows those who were previously barred from returning, such as those who left for humanitarian reasons, rafters, and athletes and professionals who left their teams or posts while on official trips abroad, to return. Those who escaped through the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo will still be banned for defense and national security reasons.
• Allows those who left Cuba illegally after the 1994 migration accord with the United States to return as long as eight years have passed since their departures. An exception to the eight-year requirement will be made for Cubans who emigrated illegally when they were under 16 years of age.
• Allows Cuban doctors, whose travel was highly restricted except for official missions abroad, to leave the country for travel just as other citizens do.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/11/v-fullstory/3178584/brave-new-world-of-cuba-travel.html#storylink=cpy


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BOSTON, Mass. – The Bulldogs have had great success in overtime games this spring, but today they were desperately trying to avoid an extra session in the regular season finale at Harvard. The No. 15 Yale men's lacrosse team held off a late Crimson offensive rush to take an 11-10 game and finish the season with a 9-4 record heading into next week's Ivy League Tournament.
With 30 seconds left, Harvard trailed by one, won the last face-off and had the ball for the rest of the game.
Yale sophomore goalie Eric Natale stopped Harvard's overtime hopes. "They have a great offense. They're very slick, so they were able to get off two pretty good shots, but luckily I saved them and we got the win," said Natale.
The Elis started slow but ultimately found their footing, ending Harvard's chances of moving on to next weekend's Ivy League Tournament. Senior attackman Kirby Zdrill led the day with four goals, while Conrad Oberbeck and Brandon Mangan had two goals and one assist each. Shane Thornton, Mark Glicini, and Sean Shakespeare added tallies as well.
Harvard came out strong, leading 3-1 after the first quarter. The lone Bulldog goal came from Oberbeck, who ran the ball out from behind the net. While crossing in front of the crease, he threw a couple of fakes before shooting low to score.
Sophomore Shane Thornton scored 18 seconds into the second quarter to cut Harvard's lead to one at 3-2. Minutes later, the Bulldogs went ahead for the first time when Zdrill faked his defenseman into thinking he had passed off the ball. After his defender turned around, he ran to the front of the net and beat the goalie, bringing the game to 5-4.
"I got the ground ball after the shot. The defense wasn't settled so I was trying to make something happen. I threw a fake and the guy happened to look away, so I jumped on the chance to take it to the net," Zdrill said.
Harvard was quick to respond, scoring to make it 5-5 going into the half. The Bulldogs came out firing in the third quarter, scoring five goals while only allowing Harvard two. The last goal of the quarter came off an interception by senior Peter Johnson in the defensive zone.
"I never scored a goal in my Yale career and I think that one proves I wasn't to be a goal scorer. I picked the pass, went all the way down and tried to shoot low, but the ball ripped out of my stick and essentially bounced over the net," Johnson said.
Luckily, Mangan was there to pick up the wide shot and give the attack time to set up. After the attack was settled, junior Ryan McCarthy got his second assist of the game by passing to Oberbeck in front of the net to bring the score to 10-7 heading into the final quarter.
It was win-or-go-home for Harvard, and they played like it. They outshot Yale 28 to 26, won 27 to Yale's 26 ground balls, and won 18 of 24 face-offs. They even scored two goals in the last two minutes, but ultimately, it was not enough to beat the Bulldogs, who capitalized on four of the Crimson's six penalties.
"I think once we scored a couple goals, momentum allowed us to slowly chip away at their lead. We played pretty solid in the second quarter and were able to go into halftime tied. We erupted a little bit in the third quarter. We were up by four at one point, but our credit to Harvard. They came back and didn't up at all throughout the whole game, even at the end. It was great to pull out the win," senior captain Michael McCormack said.
Johnson added, "I don't think we were quite as tuned up as we were against Maryland. They were a good team and definitely didn't give up, but we bared down when we needed to and we got a win - that's all that really matters. It was the first win at Boston since 2007, so it's a great feeling to have accomplished that for Coach Shay."
Ryan & Forst Family Head Coach Andy Shay was proud of the grit his team showed: "We told the guys all week that was the challenge - that we hadn't been able to win at Harvard Stadium since 2007. They responded."
While the Bulldogs had previously clinched their spot in the Ivy League Tournament, beating Harvard ensured them the No. 2 seed and a game against No. 3 Penn (Cornell and Princeton square off in the other semifinal next Friday).
"Looking forward, we need to have a good week in practice. I don't think we did everything great today, but I also don't think we did a lot of things too poorly, so we have a big work week heading into the tournament," McCormack said.
Filed by Lilli Janney '13, Yale Sports Publicity


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They had problems sending with USPS and send the last items with UPS last time. But for the 3rd case he once again used USPS, I guess he forgot about the problems (I can understand it is cheaper). So we care calling daily to be able to get our equipment. They told us that they couldn't find the package yestarday and they are going to check it out again.
So this goes over and over and you kind of get in a mood not trusting anything anymore which is sad.
I totally regret working with them and I hope I can receive the light system and the batteries The system will be useles without these items.
Thanks to everybody responded.
My final few items turned up today. 5 and a bit months after order. To be honest I never expected them. I had already purchased these bits elsewhere though. So now i've got spares. I'll keep my word and pay something towards the viewfinder but I think it would be reasonable to take of my expenses in making the kit work myself. There was still no communication though by H20 in letting me know of the shipment or about any intentions when they were notified about the messed up order.
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What has a supercharged V8, 450+hp, and the ability to enter and exit the corporate parking deck in a sideways smokey fashion? The answer is right inside!
The car I bring you from the land of a thousand and one auctions for new Chinese junk, is this lovely W211 Mercedes Benz E55 AMG. This car has been featured in many pictures and videos for the wheel company Vossen, its also in my rotating wallpaper on my desktop because I always thought it looked great. So imagine my surprise when I got in an argument with a friend over W211 vs W210 E55's, hopped on ebay, and found this for sale!
(I might mix in some Vossen photos just to show off how great this car looks, if you google "Vossen E55 AMG" this is one of the two that is allover the net, the other is a bat shit insane 10sec 1/4 mile silver E55 owned by a guy who frequent visits a forum I'm on)
For those of you who don't know about the E55, here is a crash course. The W211 E55 was built from 2003 to 2006, and features a 5.4L Supercharged V8, utilizing a Lysholm based supercharger. Its hand built engine was rated at 469hp and 520tq. At the time when this car was produced, it was the fastest four door sedan that Mercedes and AMG had ever built. It even had faster acceleration than the Brabus E V12 biturbo of the same era. The 5.4 made so much torque that it could only be backed by the older 5spd automatic trans, because the fresh to the market 7spd auto couldn't handle it. In typical AMG fashion, they turned sensibility into insanity, and its absolutely fantastic.
On the inside, we find what you'd expect in a top trim Merc, a very well optioned, leather trimmed interior. It has all the usual toys you'll find today on any luxury car. Sat nav, adjustable suspension, 10 way power seats (I believe, I know damn well its more than 8) with heat and memory functions, rear mounted climate controls, moonroof, the list goes on for ever.
The car currently has just under 80,000 miles on it. Its very obvious that the previous owner kept this car in immaculate condition. It also happens to have a very cool instrument cluster. Its neat to watch the needle float around as this car moves. Yes, this 4200 pound car will move, it pulls like a damn train.
The wheels on the car are 20" Vossen CV3's. I think they fit the car VERY well, its a nice clean look. The fronts are 20x9" and the rears are 20x10.5". I would guess that the tires are a 30 or 35 series, the rears have to be in the range of a 295-305, which should have no problem planting the power of the big blown V8.
The E55 got replaced in 2007 with the E63 AMG. It was still a W211, but with a bit of freshening up. The 5.4 kompressor V8 was replaced with a 6.2L N/A V8, which made 507hp and 465tq. The E63 also got an updated suspension and the 7 speed auto, so it was faster than the E55. From what I have read when W211 owners compare the two cars is, the E55 has far more potential to modify and go fast, with its stout engine/trans combo. The E63 is more refined for a daily driver with its updated underpinnings and 7spd trans.
Still, if you are after a W211, or any E class, the E55 is the savage beast that deep down, you know you want.
This E55 AMG is currently listed on ebay with a buy it now price of $22,500 dollars. It has 19 days remaining, which means you have 19 days to take a crack at buying this sinister sedan.