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For a foreign film to pull down an Oscar nomination is a big deal, especially if the category is not only best foreign-language film, but best picture itself.
Only eight non-English-speaking foreign movies have snagged best picture nominations in the Academy Awards' history, so this year's "Amour" is in some limited company. The movie has also received nominations for best actress, best foreign-language film, and best director and screenplay for its Austrian filmmaker, Michael Haneke.
It's a pleasure to report that the film deserves its accolades. If the intellectual Haneke has been a severe observer of life in his previous films (which include "Cache" and "The White Ribbon"), here he matches that rigorous outlook with the most human situation imaginable.
After a brief opening sequence, "Amour" takes place within a large Paris apartment. The long-married octogenarians that live here, Anne and Georges, have wrapped themselves in art and culture (she's a classical piano teacher), and their home is full of tasteful decoration and books.
That seems important, because the coming of illness and infirmity is not tasteful or decorous, and this is what Anne and Georges must deal with after she suffers a stroke and her mobility becomes limited.
They are not ready for this, but who is? In the series of deliberately composed scenes, Haneke measures the denial, panic and sadness that attend Anne's declining state.
The only other character of significance is their daughter, played with typical precision by French star Isabelle Huppert.
Although Haneke is extremely smart about which moments will illuminate this situation, he also relies on his actors, two veterans of international cinema dating to the 1950s, to bring their skill and presence. They are Emmanuelle Riva, who long ago starred in the groundbreaking film "Hiroshima, Mon Amour," and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
Riva is heartbreaking in the movie, and it's entirely possible she could win the Oscar. But the larger role is Trintignant's, and he is superb. The movie's not interested in explaining the psychology of the couple based on great revelations, so Trintignant must quietly suggest the positive and negative attributes of his character's past, all of which get expressed in Georges' behavior in the present.
The role is a real career landmark for Trintignant, the compact star of "A Man and a Woman," "My Night at Maud's" and "The Conformist." Coincidentally, he also acted in one of those other foreign films nominated for the best picture Oscar, the 1969 "Z."
The situation described in "Amour" lends itself to sentimentality, yet it avoids that. Haneke's temperament, so frosty in his other films, here keeps the film from finding easy answers or platitudes.
The movie's called "Amour" for a reason. Haneke is asking us to examine love, that most exalted of human emotions (and most frequently trivialized movie subjects), and think about what it means. That our eyes fall on people who are weathered by experience and decidedly non-face-lifted is the first of the movie's wonders.
"Amour" (four stars)
The multiple Oscar nominations for this film are well earned: a rigorous study of two Paris octogenarians (Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva) dealing with her sudden infirmity. The frosty manner of director Michael Haneke keeps the subject from falling into easy sentimentality or platitudes, although it remains a very emotional experience. In French, with English subtitles.
Rated: PG-13 for subject matter.
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I recently watched a movie titled Living on One, a documentary about four college students' efforts to spend a summer in Guatemala living on a dollar a day. (The movie is available on Netflix and is worth an hour to view.) As 50% of the citizens of Guatemala live on less than a dollar a day, the film explored the personal finance habits of people who have a hard time earning enough money to live on, much less save.
My favorite segment of the film discussed the concept of savings clubs, a popular strategy in less developed areas of the world. To illustrate how a savings club might work, consider a group of 12 individuals who each agree to save $12 every month. However, each member contributes their $12 of savings to the group every month, and one of the twelve members keeps the full sum of $144. The member taking the lump sum alternates each month, so that consequently, every member of the club receives $144 once per year.
As you likely already see, the purpose of the savings club is not to achieve investment growth. Each member contributes a total of $144 to the club each year (12 contributions of $12), and every member receives $144 once per year in return. So what's the point?
The point is that in the arena of personal finance, it is often more beneficial to receive a large lump sum occasionally than to receive a smaller amount more consistently. In Guatemala, a large lump sum can be used to purchase a stove to cook food, while in more developed parts of the world a lump sum might be used to purchase a car or as a down payment on a home. The $144 lump sum is more valuable than simply saving $12 for 12 months because humans find it difficult to save money they have access to. Having smaller amounts of money available that can spontaneously be spent on nice dinners, vacations, or other small ticket items can ultimately be a drag on a person's savings efforts.
Another benefit of the savings club is that they force individuals to prioritize savings. If a member of the club can't contribute their $12 during any given month, they are kicked out of the group and will not collect the $144 lump sum they have been counting on. A factor that motivates savings is indescribably beneficial. Most people earn a salary, pay bills and have fun with that salary, and intend to save any funds that are leftover. Unfortunately, for most people very little is left after maintaining their standard of living, so very little gets saved. When we prioritize saving, we earn our salary, achieve our savings goal as soon as income is received, and find a way to live off what is left. This tactic ensures we are saving the amount required to meet our financial goals.

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Sure you could blow sixty grand on an Arri Alexa or $16 thousand for a Canon C300. Then again, you could just as easily get the same 4K video quality for less than $10k with Red's newest iteration of the Scarlet Cinema Camera rig.
The pocket-sized Scarlet has advanced quite a bit since its initial release. For one thing, the Scarlet now records in full 4k resolution—up from a measely 3K in 2008—that's 4096×2160 pixels for video, a stunning 5120×2700 for stills, and a maximum frqame rate of 120 per second. For reference, that's 50 megabytes of data captured every per second.
The new Scarlet wil retail for an estimated $9750 when it debuts November 17th. [TechCrunch]


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Son of Jerry Remy pleads not guilty to murder
WOBURN, Mass. >> The son of Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy pleaded not guilty Tuesday in the stabbing death of his girlfriend as his lawyer fought an attempt by prosecutors to release what the defense called an inflammatory summary of the evidence against him.
Jared Remy, 35, is charged in the Aug. 15 stabbing death of Jennifer Martel, 27.
Authorities say Remy stabbed Martel at their Waltham apartment and was covered in blood when they arrested him there. A neighbor told police he tried unsuccessfully to pull Remy off Martel during the attack, which came a day after Remy was released from custody after being accused of assaulting Martel.
Remy entered his plea during his arraignment on murder and assault charges in Superior Court. A magistrate ordered him held without bail after his lawyer, Edward Ryan Jr., said he would not seek his release at this point.
Prosecutors were prepared to file a document in court Tuesday that summarizes the state's case against Remy, Assistant District Attorney Lisa McGovern said.
Ryan said he objected to release of document, saying in many cases it amounts to a "self-serving recitation of the facts that they allege."
In Remy's case, he said, there is no reason for prosecutors to release the document, called a statement of the case, because Remy is not seeking to be released on bail so prosecutors do not need to spell out their case against him.
"There is no purpose in this case served by filing an inflammatory statement of the case," Ryan said. He would not discuss its contents.
Ryan said Judge Kathe Tuttman granted his request to preliminarily bar prosecutors from filing the statement, but she agreed to hear additional arguments from both sides. A hearing was scheduled for Oct. 15.
Ryan declined to comment on what Remy's defense will be.
In a jailhouse interview with the Boston Herald on Sunday, Remy denied killing Martel and said he still loves her. The couple has a 5-year-old daughter.
Martel posted to her Facebook page the night she was killed, "Jennifer Martel is in a complicated (Relationship)," according to court documents. The 8:26 p.m. posting was described in a list of evidence turned over to the defense Tuesday.
After his son's arrest, Jerry Remy announced that he would not return to the broadcast booth this season. He was not in court Tuesday.
Ryan said Remy's parents "are very supportive of him" and have "good reasons" for not going to court.
"Their hearts bleed for the victim in this case and the child involved," he said.
Remy is due back in court on Oct. 28 for a pretrial conference.
He had already pleaded not guilty in District Court. After he was indicted, the case moved to Superior Court.


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Rotary Encoders are devices that convert a motion into an analogue or digital signal. These devices are electro-mechanical sensors that monitor the position of the shaft or axle and convert it into the signal readable for digital devices. Rotary Encoders are also known as shaft encoders.
Rotary Encoders can be divided into 2 main types:
· Absolute – Digital Absolute encoders produce a unique digital code for each angle of shaft. These type of encoders maintains position information when a system power is off. The position of encoder is available again on applying power. The relationship between the encoder value and the physical position of the controlled machinery is set at assembly, the system does not need to return to a calibration point to maintain position accuracy.
Types of absolute encoders:
o Mechanical
o Optical
o Magnetic
o Capacitive
· Incremental – These encoders accurately records the changes in position of the shaft but does not power up with fixed relation between encoder state and physical position. The point where the counting begins depends on the external device counting system and not the position of the encoder. To provide useful position information, the encoder position must be referenced to the device to which is attached.
Rotary Encoders are commonly used in many applications that require precise shaft unlimited rotation. It means they can be used across industries such as robotics industry, electronic industry, and machinery production but are also very popular parts of many household devices.


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I recently found out that the iPhone keeps (at least on older versions) your location data in a data file:
I have an iPhone on iOS 6 but my consolidated.db doesn't have the CellLocation table. The only table that has Lat / Lon information is Fences, but it's empty.
Has Apple fixed the security hole and stopped recording the data?
I found this article saying that Apple promised to keep the data for a shorter time:
I'd like something more certain about which iOS versions are affected.


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New signs are on the way to remind bicycle riders about riding on downtown sidewalks.
At Monday's city council meeting, audience member Matt Woznicki told councilors that signs need to erected indicating that bicycle riding on downtown sidewalks is prohibited.
"To be fair to children, it should be marked at every location," he said.
"Half of the kids don't know where they aren't supposed to ride," added his wife, Jean.
City superintendent Lonnie Vanderpool said that state highway workers removed several signs during the Main Street paving project and new signs should arrive by next week.
Council was asked if police would still be issuing tickets or only giving warnings.
"There's no obligation to warn," council member Keith Pennington said. "It's a courtesy."
The ordinance applies to riders of all ages, he said, but police officers have the discretion whether or not to issue a ticket. For example, an officer would have the option of deciding whether or not it was appropriate to issue a citation to a four-year-old.
Morenci mayor Russ Sutherland commended police officer Frank Cordts' action in ticketing one rider and rescinding the tickets of four others.
Council member Peggy Decker—in her final meeting after eight years of service on council—said she called the police about the five bicyclists who were ticketed. Some members of the group were doing tricks in Main Street and disrupting traffic.
"I don't want my kids to think that's all right," she said.
Bike riding on the sidewalk is prohibited downtown along Main Street from Summit Street west to the start of Wakefield Park and along North Street from Locust to Main.


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interesting.. but it's only 1 LED on that IC, do you know if there's something similar but that drives many separate LEDs independently?
Quote350mA, That's hardly "high power".3.5a? maybe.
Thanks to you all, in particular the TLC5940 seems a good solution, I hadn't realized I could use more than one output on the same LED. @MarkT, could you clarify this part a bit? would I just need to wire the 3 outputs together and set the same pwm on them? Or maybe I need some capacitors to smothen things up (random guess )Thanks


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John and Carla Hanks were pulling up carpets and cleaning the run-down house they had just purchased in Lafayette when a neighbor stopped by and said "you do know the guy was cooking meth in the house?" John Hanks recalled Sunday.
"That was the first we had heard" that the home they had just bought from Kenneth Harrison Dimon was contaminated.
Last week a Boulder County grand jury indicted Dimon, who had lived with a child and a woman at the 100 W. Spaulding St. home, charging him with theft, child abuse, forgery and reckless endangerment.
"Expert evidence shows that samples taken from this address proved to be among the highest levels recorded at confirmed methamphetamine houses in Colorado," according to the indictment.
Dimon moved into the property in 1998 and contracted with a real estate agent to sell it in the summer of 2010.
The child who lived with him had been taken to the emergency room at least six times during the first three years of life, once for unexplained shaking of limbs and a sudden inability to walk, according to the indictment.
In April 2011, Dimon sold the house to the Hanks, who paid for the property in part from two mortgages from Elevations Credit Union and from savings.
"Mr. Dimon received a balance of $103,154.35, which was immediately wired into his bank account. To this day, Mr. Dimon has retained the entire proceeds of the sale, and no portion of the money has been returned or refunded to the victims," according to the indictment.
Dimon didn't decontaminate the house, nor did he disclose to the buyers that he had manufactured meth within its walls.
The Boulder County Public Health Department told the Hanks to move out after the couple hired a company to test for the drug and found the house was contaminated.
They had lived there for only three weeks, John Hanks said.
"Their possessions, which had only been at the property for a matter of weeks, were already so contaminated that they were advised that they should leave these behind also," the indictment said.
For each pound of meth produced, five to six pounds of hazardous waste are generated, "posing immediate and long-term environmental health risks", according to information about the drug on the web site of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.
A person who answered the phone at a listing linked to Dimon said Dimon was in jail but would not give his name or comment otherwise.
Buying the home led to a financial disaster for the Hanks, who are still paying on the mortgage and ran up credit card debt for testing and other expenses related to it, said John Hanks.
The Hanks won a lawsuit against Dimon, but they don't expect to recoup their losses from him. "This has been two years of financial hell for us," John Hanks said.
"After two years of us getting all the pain and difficulty, it is nice to see an arrest."


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Guadalajara, Mexico
One of the most frequently asked, and one of the most difficult questions to answer is, "How much money will I need to study abroad?"
Students can research the cost of living in the destination city to see how prices differ from home. Investigate sites such as the Comparative Cost of Living Index.
In general, students will spend differently while studying abroad as they do at home, since there are new things to do and see, and costs may be higher. It is also common for students to spend the most money during the first few weeks, while getting used to a new life abroad (and understanding the value of the foreign currency!). Soon, you will learn to seek out the restaurants and shops for your budget. Keep in mind that many places offer student discounts—keep your International Student ID (ISIC) card handy! Students will receive their ISIC cards during pre-departure orientation. Find out more about it here.
It is always helpful to have a budget planned before going abroad. Keep these factors in mind while planning a budget:
1. For Webster students, tuition charges will be added to the student account. Be sure to make note of what fees you will need to pay out of pocket while overseas. Students studying at UAG will pay housing fees in local currency onsite.
2. The dollar may be weaker or stronger than the local currency—and can also fluctuate rapidly.
3. Local transportation costs. How far is housing from the campus? What mass transportation is available (taxis, buses, subways, etc.)? Check out monthly passes or student rates to make sure that you get the best deal.
4. Entertainment. Remember, you do not need to experience everything in the first week you are abroad! You will have several weeks to explore your new city—there's no need to spend your entire budget right away! The more you travel, shop and eat out, the more you will spend. Don't forget to bring your ISIC card for discounts!
5. Food. While studying at UAG, most meals will be provided by the host family. Eating out all the time can get pricey, but students will have cooking facilities available. Search recipes for quick, easy and cheap meal ideas; investigate markets around your city to see who offers the best prices; and plan group meals with other students.
6. Weekend trips. Students often want to make use of their time abroad to visit other countries. Check out budget airlines, or train and bus prices. Finding other students who wish to go to the same location can help split costs. Figure out which locations are the best for you budget and schedule.
7. Personal items. Remember that you will be spending a good amount of day-to-day living besides the weekend trips! Factor in shampoo, soap, toiletries, laundry, clothing, etc. into your budget as well.
We encourage you to contact study abroad alumni to get an idea on what other students have spent and ask for money-saving tips.
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In accordance with paragraph 17 of the annex to decision I/7 of the first session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention, where the secretariat, in particular upon considering the reports submitted in accordance with the Convention's reporting requirements, becomes aware of possible non-compliance by a Party with its obligations under the Convention, it may request the Party concerned to furnish necessary information about the matter. If there is no response or the matter is not resolved within three months, or such longer period as the circumstances of the matter may require but in no case later than six months, the secretariat shall bring the matter to the attention of the Committee, which shall consider the matter as soon as possible.
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A few days ago, we received a mystery package from the good folks at RadioShack. Inside the package were three phones - the Samsung Stratosphere on Verizon, HTC EVO Design 4G on Sprint, and Samsung Infuse 4G on AT&T. Since these phones are ours to do with what we please, we've decided to do what we always do when we end up with extra goodies: give them away.
Since we have three phones to hand out, we're going to make each contest quick and dirty. Each one will last for one day, and one day only.
RadioShack's Pre-Black Friday Sale
Before we get into the giveaway details, we want to give a shoutout to the guys at RadioShack. They have an awesome pre-Black Friday sale currently going with over twenty-five phone from AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon all going for absolutely free. Here is a shortlist of some of the deals that you can catch:
Keep in mind that this deal ends today, so if you're looking to score a new phone for nothing, you better hurry!
What You Get
We've already given away the first two of three devices, the Samsung Stratosphere and Samsung Infuse 4G, which leaves only one - the HTC EVO Design 4G on Sprint. This is the newest of the three phones, with specs on the higher end of mid-range devices:
- 4-inch 540x960 Super LCD display
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If you could choose any one Android device to receive as a gift this holiday season, what would it be?
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The Hermit
Give yourself time for contemplation. Don't allow others to stand in your way.
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The challenge of The Hermit card is to be able to recognize a teacher in a humble disguise. This font of mysterious knowledge will not make it easy for the student to acquire his wisdom, as it takes time and long contemplation to fathom what he knows. He often speaks wordlessly, or in ancient and barbaric tongues, communicating with the elements, animals, and nature herself.
While an hourglass was an identifying feature on the earliest Hermit Tarot cards, more modern cards have shifted the metaphor, showing more or less light released from his lantern. In either case, the Hermit card reminds us of the value of time away from the hubbub of civic life, to relax the ego in communion with nature.
In the Reversed Position
When the Hermit card is reversed, you may be resisting the process of evolving towards a level of wisdom that sets you apart. Fear of the path is haunting you; it could be a fear of loneliness.
Try to remember that the shamanic method for facing fears is to relax and open. Let them in and allow them to have their way for a while. This way you know them fully and will see them pass of their own accord. When there are no more surprises, you can move into a place of empowered action.
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The Hermit advises that you think things through carefully. The demands on you have been high, giving you scant time for reflection. While you have a gift for understanding the larger implications involved, you need some private time to consider the steps to take in the future. You can't just lock yourself in your room for fifteen minutes and expect to come up with profound solutions. You need more seclusion and time to assimilate and process.
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Cody knows his Make-A-Wish experience didn't end after a few days in Sweden, it may have changed his future.
Almost all wish kids insist they had the coolest wish ever. But Cody, 17, can make a strong case that he had the coldest wish on record after feeling the sting of 20 degrees below zero.
Due to an interest in architecture, a Swedish pen pal and a love for cold weather, Cody wished to go to the ICEHOTEL, located about 65 miles north of the Arctic Circle in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden.
Cody, who was diagnosed with a rheumatic disease, learned about the ICEHOTEL in a documentary on the Discovery Channel. A part-time draftsman for an architecture firm, Cody became enthralled by the idea of a hotel hewn each winter from ice and snow.
With the help of Make-A-Wish® volunteers, Cody icey journey started as he ventured through more airports than he's ever seen: Dallas, Chicago, Stockhom and finally the airstrip of Kiruna, a city near Jukkasjärvi.
It's not a Swedish ice adventure though without traveling to a destination by dogsled. Cody jumps in and races from Kiruna to the ICEHOTEL 30 miles away as he takes in the snow draped view. Cody says most of the snow drifts were more than 10 feet tall.
He breathes in the cold climate and clean air as it makes him forget about his medical condition and simply soak in this once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Cody spends two days in a permanent heated room of the hotel, but finally he has the chance to spend in the night in one of the cold rooms. The cold rooms are built each year using blocks of ice from the nearby River Torne and stay at 28 to 40 degrees F.
As he sleeps in a bed made of ice and covered in reindeer fur, Cody enjoys the sights of a "serene blue glow" from LEDs in the icy walls and the serenity of the hotel's silence. In the morning he wakes up and drinks a steaming cup of lingonberry juice, a concoction he likes better than hot chocolate.
But the trip isn't over just yet. Cody reconnects with his pen pal, Martina, and her friends and family. He spends a few days in Stockholm with them visiting the Royal Guards at Stockholm Palace and experiencing his first ride on a train.
Cody knows his Make-A-Wish experience didn't end after a few days in Sweden, it may have changed his future. Now rejuvenated, Cody stays optimistic focusing his mind on cool career goals. He received a job offer to train dog sled teams, and is considering a position at the ICEHOTEL to put his architecture skills to use.
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For football enthusiasts picking a Madden cover boy from a a field of 64 candidates, graced by some of the game's greatest players of all time, one name stands out from all the rest.
Ron Rivera.
Ron Rivera? you're wondering. Wait, the backup Chicago linebacker? Boy, whoever picked this bracket, he wasn't a Bears fan.
Actually, he is. Anthony Stevenson grew up in the heart of Bears country, and loves the team.
"I will be honest, when you say Chicago Bears, a lot of names come to mind before his," Stevenson, the game's marketing director, admits. "One is Sweetness, obviously, Walter Payton, but he is no longer with us, so it's difficult for him to be our cover athlete. There are other names out there, too, like Mike Singletary."
Reading between the lines, though, I think I could understand why a Bear like Singletary wouldn't be interested, assuming EA Sports approached him. Stevenson declined to mention any candidates who were contacted but do not appear. Still, speaking generally, he said, "These are high level athletes who are born to win," he said. "For some of them, if they don't feel like they have a great chance of winning, they don't want to participate."
And the field that a Singletary or a Richard Dent or a William the Refrigerator Perry would go up against is damn formidable. Half of this year's field are legacy players, nearly all of them retired, representing their franchise's glory days during the Madden era (which explains why Ditka, Gayle Sayers or Dick Butkus are not repping the Bears, either.) Deion Sanders' outsized presence alone kills a lot of hopes for victory. And anyone going through Prime Time will then have to take down Jerry Rice, the game's greatest receiver, followed by Joe Montana, who threw him the ball.
That's just to get to the final round of voting, where a guy would probably be pitted against someone from what is easily the best draft class of quarterbacks during Madden's reign—Robert Griffin III, Andrew Luck and Russell Wilson. Even if a rookie is put up against a Hall of Famer in a popularity contest voted on by fans, somehow that feels like a legitimate toss-up after the season we just saw.
Three More Questions about the Madden Cover Vote:
• So, OK, about Ron Rivera, let's hear your pitch, Mr. Madden Marketer: "At the end of the day, you're going back to the 1985 Bears championship team, arguably the best defense in history, and Rivera played a part of that," Stevenson said. Yeah. He played part of 16 games that year, starting zero. He played a part in one sack, too.
• Why isn't Calvin Johnson, the Madden NFL 13 cover star, back in the field again this year? "Look, if you're Megatron, and if you believe in this sort of thing—I'm not saying I do—but if you believe in this cover curse, then he just looked it in the face and shut it down," Stevenson said. "Do you really want to get on that ride again?" The real reason, Stevenson said, is after winning last year, Johnson wanted a teammate—Matt Stafford—to have the fun of being in the voting campaign.
• Also, where the hell is John Elway? Denver is represented by Terrell Davis, a fine running back. But John Elway is one of the greatest quarterbacks, Madden era or otherwise, ever. He appeared on the "Canton Greats" all-time team in Madden NFL 13 and also is one of the Hall of Famers who present a Super Bowl trophy to you in that game. "Performance on the field is paramount," Stevenson said, "but so is the consideration of, how good of a brand evangelist will they be? John Elway is incredibly busy right now." He's the Broncos' executive vice president of football operations. "He's out wining and dining the Wes Welkers of the world.
"We go through this process for two-plus months, so when we get down to that moment in New York City, it's really important to me that our fans get to witness, in person, their choice at that moment," Stevenson said. "Due to scheduling considerations because of the draft, there's no guarantee John could appear." There's no guarantee Ozzie Newsome, representing the Browns, could appear either. He's the Baltimore Ravens' general manager. But, yeah, there's no chance Newsome would even make it that far, either.
"My bosses are adamant about the old school winning," Stevenson says. "They really think it's no question. I don't know if it's because they're older than I am or what, but their logic is that you don't have to be a fan of the 49ers to like Jerry Rice or Joe Montana, and you probably do if you're a fan of Colin Kaepernick," who is a top seed among current players.
"I say that's incredibly flawed logic, because of fantasy football," an obsession that creates loyalty to specific players, Stevenson said. It has proven to be a significant influence on voting in the past two years. Peyton Hillis may have been an ironic choice, or one largely determined by a motivated Cleveland constituency, but the guy did run very well for a lot of fantasy league owners in the year preceding the Madden NFL 12 cover vote. Last year's finalists, Calvin Johnson and Cam Newton, were household names well beyond the Detroit and Carolina markets because of it, too.
For as much as I have complained about social media voting for a video game cover, I still tip my cap to Madden NFL, because it truly does take a simple bar argument or a comment fight and elevate it into an event for which Las Vegas sports books will take a bet. Joe Montana is the money-line favorite in one listing; he and Barry Sanders are 7/1 odds favorites in another. We haven't yet mentioned Adrian Peterson, the Minnesota running back who came within nine yards of the NFL's single-season rushing record, and had what is arguably the greatest single season of any player, regardless of position. He's a 10-to-1 shot.
Peterson isn't a "No. 1 seed," whatever that means in a popularity contest—and it should mean little. He'll still kill everyone in his region until meeting Griffin for a final four berth. Stevenson says seedings for current players were tied not just to their athletic excellence, but also their team's popularity within Madden's multiplayer. And as devastating a runner as Peterson is, as clutch and automatic as Luck is, far more people were picking Kaepernick's 49ers or Griffin's Redskins in the quickmatch screen.
"We have the telemetry, you know. And you can see when a certain player is excelling on the field in real life, how it changes the way Madden players play the game," Stevenson said. "Washington just became a popular team, if not the most popular team, as the season went on. One team is trending up, that's the Redskins, and another team is trending down—that's the Vikings, who also just lost (receiver) Percy Harvin to free agency."
So there is method to the madness in determining candidates and seedings. "You know, in the NCAA tournament this year, North Carolina and Kansas may face each other in the second round, and the seeding committee is like, 'Well, that's not why we put them there.'" Stevenson said. "I'm here to tell you that, yes, we do do that."
That's why Luck and Wilson will likely meet in the third round of voting, and receivers A.J. Green and Julio Jones are scheduled to clash in the second. It's why linebacker Ray Lewis, of the University of Miami, meets linebacker Derrick Brooks, of Florida State, in the opening round. It's why Deion Sanders, representing the Atlanta Falcons, is a good shot to face Troy Aikman, later his teammate in Dallas, for a bid to the round of eight. It's why Dan Marino is in the same subregional with Joe Montana, to give that who's-better debate—guy with the stats, or guy with the rings?—some kind of a knockout result.
With all that in mind, Stevenson and I got down to arguing about who would emerge in the contest's final four.
Old School Region 1: Joe Montana is easily the favorite, but don't discount newly retired Ray Lewis coming off a Super Bowl winning year and carrying a more developed social media presence than Super Joe. Lewis was also the cover star of what many consider Madden's finest edition back in 2004. "I'll say Ray Lewis," Stevenson said. My pick actually is Barry Sanders, who faces, ahem, Ron Rivera in the first round. I just see him as a more popular pick against Lewis, where Montana could get into more trouble against Dan Marino and, potentially, lose.
Old School Region 2: There is very little to suggest anyone other than Jerry Rice or Deion Sanders will come out of this. "Watch out for Michael Strahan, though," Stevenson said. "If you were to talk about a viewership you wouldn't expect to over-index among these voters, it'd be Live! With Kelly & Michael." If the former Giant can get his daytime TV audience to flood the polls, he could cause problems for Rice. Stevenson thinks Sanders struts into the end zone easily, as a contrarian pick against a consensus greatest-of-all-time like Rice. I concur, setting up a Sanders-Sanders semifinal.
New School Region 1: "Seattle fans couldn't be more excited about their upcoming season," Stevenson reasons, "and they are very motivated to vote." That makes Russell Wilson deadly and perhaps underseeded at No. 3. "It comes down to, if you're not a fan of the 49ers, do you like the Seahawks more, and vice versa." A regional final with Colin Kaepernick is almost foreordained. Houston's Arian Foster could show up with get-out-the-vote. Again, Stevenson and I are of a like mind, and I think Wilson's red-hot and top-of-mind, the two essential qualities of a popularity contest.
New School Region 2: The weakest of the four regions paves a road to a Robert Griffin III and Adrian Peterson final. Fans will have to balance Griffin's performance last year with the fact he tore ligaments in his knee in the playoffs and his rehabilitation could cause him to miss the beginning of the season. The guy he's going against, Peterson, tore up his knee late in the 2011-12 season, returned, started every game and obliterated the league, so it is possible to return from this injury to ultra-stud status. Griffin could be the most popular player in the NFL but the uncertainty is enough to make a broad electorate think the game should be fronted by someone guaranteed to start opening day. Stevenson says Griffin, I say Peterson, All Day.
Whatever takes place in the final four, Stevenson said it is a winner-take-all contest. One guy on the cover. I asked if Madden planned secretly to give a prominent cover shot to the overall winner, and maybe place the runner-up in a background pose, as NCAA Football 13 did when fans selected Barry Sanders to accompany Griffin last year. No. "That is not in our plan, to have two guys share our cover," he said. "That would be news to me."
Voting on the first round will close tomorrow, at which point EA Sports is likely to announce record-breaking participation. If you want to register your choices, by all means, head to the link. A winner will be announced April 24, the day before the NFL Draft.
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The daring $6.5 million robbery of a British Airways van in February at Heathrow Airport had all the markings of an inside job, according to former mobster Henry Hill. At JFK, Hill took Air France for $480,000 in 1968 and Lufthansa for a record $6 million in 1978.
by Jon Tait
Former New York gangster Henry Hill is convinced that the daring $6.5 million dawn heist at Heathrow Airport on Feb. 11 – described by British police as the "perfect crime" -- was an inside job.
At 6.30 a.m. two men dressed in British Airways uniforms stopped a BA security van in the cargo hold at Terminal Four and bound the driver with zip cords. They transferred eight red cash boxes - containing used notes bound for New York's JFK from Bahrain - into their own van and drove off. The van was later discovered burnt-out in the residential area of Feltham in West London.
Hill knows something about airport heists. He walked out of the John F. Kennedy Airport with a suitcase packed with $480,000 in cash after raiding Air France in April 1968. And he was part of the Jimmy 'The Gent' Burke gang that masterminded and carried out the notorious Lufthansa robbery, which netted over $6 million in cash and jewels, at JFK 10 years later.
The Lufthansa take was America's biggest ever criminal haul. The 58-year-old ex-mobster - whose life in the Lucchese crime family provided the basis for the Martin Scorsese movie Goodfellas - said: "The only way they could have pulled off a job that size is with help on the inside. Wait and see. There will be more people who took part as something that big needs more."
Hill spent weeks planning the Air France theft with the assistance of the foreman of the company's cargo deck, Bobby "Frenchy" McMahon. The European airline was building a new strong room to replace the old iron cage that previously housed valuables, and was using the cargo office as a temporary safe. But the 25-year-old Hill could only watch in frustration while selling hijacked cigarettes at the airport as the strong room was eventually completed with a door that required two keys. Frenchy McMahon held one - but the other was kept on a keyring on the belt of a 'straight' guard. The guard was a bachelor and Hill set him up with a beautiful hooker in order to separate him from his belt. He cut a copy of the key and waited for the call from Frenchy.
Just before midnight on a Saturday, Henry Hill and Tommy DeSimone walked up to the steel door of the cargo hold, slipped in the keys, and walked out with a suitcase jammed full with seven white canvas bags. He paid $60,000 to Sebastian Aloi of the Columbo crime family and $60,000 to his own capo, Paul Vario, in tributes before the robbery was even discovered.
Hill wore thousand dollar Brioni suits, hand-tooled lizard skin shoes, designer shirts, and was hailed as an 'earner' by Mob bosses. The information for the Lufthansa job came from a 46-year-old cargo supervisor named Louis Werner. He owed Mob bookmaker Marty Krugman $20,000 and tipped him off on the heist. Krugman was an associate of Hill's and the crew that hung out in Jimmy Burke's joint - Robert's Lounge, a hijackers paradise.
Hill and Burke had just been released from jail after serving six years of a 10-year sentence for extortion. In the early hours of the morning on December 11th, 1978, several men wearing black ski masks and brandishing pistols and rifles burst into the Lufthansa cargo bay at Kennedy Airport. They handcuffed nightshift employees and forced the supervisor into opening the vault. In just over an hour, the gang had left $6 million richer. "When we took Air France for $500,000 it was huge and then when we took off Lufthansa - that was the biggest score in U.S. history," said Hill. "Air France made us and it was happy times. But after the big job, Jimmy (Burke) got real nuts and wanted all the cash for himself and our boss Paul (Vario)."
Hill turned state's evidence in 1980 while facing 25 years to life for drug offences. His testimony helped convict both Burke and Vario. Hill was placed in a witness protection program but got kicked out several years ago for drug violations. He is currently writing Mob and Italian cookery books and running a web site despite being in hiding from Mafia hitmen for over 20 years. He says he is not paranoid, nor does he take the death threats that he receives via e-mail seriously.
Hill also sent out a chilling warning to the Heathrow gang as he added: "I don't care how good the two that pulled it off are, they will start to shoot their traps off. "The rush they must feel has to be shared with other people. And someone will get jealous and greedy."


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Dave Grohl discusses 'Sound City' documentary
By Bob Strauss, Los Angeles News Group
Sound City - the legendary Van Nuys recording studio where key albums by Neil Young, Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac, Johnny Cash, Nirvana and dozens more were made from 1970 to 2011 - has now been immortalized on film.
By that world-renowned director Dave Grohl.
Actually, "Sound City" - which has its L.A. premiere Thursday night at the Cinerama Dome followed by a sold-out concert at the Palladium - marks the first time Nirvana and Foo Fighters drummer/guitarist Grohl has made a movie.
"I had never aspired to become a movie director," the 43-year-old rock star said in a phone interview. "But if there were ever a movie I wanted to make, it would be the `Sound City' movie."
In 1991, Grohl, Krist Novoselic and the late Kurt Cobain slammed out their generation-defining album "Nevermind" over two weeks in Sound City's historic Studio A. Twenty years later, when Tom Skeeter and his daughter Sandy, who still own the Sound City complex, ceased operating the studio, Grohl bought its storied, custom-built Neve 8028 recording console, which he now uses at his own Studio 606 in Northridge.
"When I bought the board from Tom and Sandy, I thought that I would make a short film about the history of the studio and the board to go along with the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's `Nevermind'," Grohl recalled.
"I have a real emotional connection to that studio and that board because I don't know where I would be without Sound City. So I asked Tom for a list of all the people who've recorded there, and I started reaching out to them about doing interviews. It soon became clear that I couldn't fit these 40 people into the 12-minute long YouTube clip I was trying to make. So I decided it made more sense to make a full-length feature documentary."
The resulting film is not only a love letter to the place where "After the Gold Rush," "Fleetwood Mac" and "Rumors," "Damn the Torpedoes," "Rage Against the Machine" and countless other classic albums were recorded. It's an in-depth exploration of how changing technology affected both the business and artistic sides of the music game, and shows just how articulate rock stars can, sometimes unexpectedly, be when discussing their art.
"Before I interviewed any of these people, I let them know that the film wasn't just a retrospective documentary about the history of the studio and silly anecdotes of what it was like to make those albums," Grohl said. "I wanted them to know that the movie was also about technology and the human element of music and the craft of playing an instrument and what it really feels like to play music with other people. In that, the questions were a lot deeper and much broader than just specific questions about trivial bull---."
The 1970s pop sensation Rick Springfield, who was managed by Tom Skeeter's late business partner Joe Gottfried, agrees that Grohl's film goes well beyond the usual sex, drugs and you-know-what rockumentary recollections.
"It could make Sound City the second most famous studio in the world, after Abbey Road," said Springfield, who hopes to play at tonight's Palladium concert if he can shake the nasty cold he caught at a similar marathon gig following the movie's world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this month.
"I think it's great," Springfield said of the film. "It builds really well, the up and down and up and down of the studio, based on the music trends of the time, and then the final demise of the studio and then the re-animated board."
Springfield was one of the artists who recorded on the board again in Grohl's new studio.
"It's a great ending to the story," he said. "It's a really unique perspective and Dave completely pulled it off."
Those ups and downs had to do, mainly, with the gradual digitalization of the music business and the substitution of programs like Pro Tools for analog recording devices such as the Neve.
But Sound City is far from dead - or even digital at this point.
Sound City Inc. President Sandy Skeeter noted that Kevin Augunas' Fairfax Recordings, which now leases Studio A, installed an analog board that's even older than that early '70s Neve.
"We're still keeping the studio history alive," she said, noting that bands who record at Fairfax still buy her Sound City T-shirts. The Skeeters also maintain a Sound City Facebook page and the website soundcitystudios.com and are working on a book about the place.
They were looking forward to seeing the film for the first time at Thursday night's premiere.
As for Thursday night's concert, Grohl promised Stevie Nicks, John Fogerty, Springfield, Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen, Lee Ving from Fear, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Chris Goss from Masters of Reality and Al Johannes (Queens of the Stone Age) would all show up and play.
Grohl still sounds amazed that he's gotten all these folks onstage and on camera. But he knows why he did.
"I was surprised that everybody was as excited about the project as I was," Grohl said. "It's because of what Sound City represented to us. It wasn't some commercial studio where you backed the truck up to the door, put your gear in, made an album and split. There was something about that studio that really grew on you. Everyone seemed to have the same emotional connection that I did to Sound City."


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SOUTHINGTON, Conn. — A lit sparkler cut one teen's life too short and changed another's forever in Southington.
According to WFSB, police arrested Eric Morelli, 18, in connection with the death of 19-year-old Kristen Milano.
Friends said Morelli thought he was being funny when he allegedly threw the sparkler through a second-floor apartment window on Sunday.
They also said he was in and out of trouble, but they never thought his immaturity would be linked to someone's death.
"He just goes off and does what he wants to do at that time," said Brian Goralnik, a neighbor.
Growing up next door to Morelli, Goralnik said the teen never really thought about his actions.
Southington police said they arrested Morelli on Tuesday and charged him in the death of Milano, the sister of one of his friends.
"He thought it was a good idea to throw a firework up there, trying to be funny, trying to wake him up," said Kyle Cima-Yannell, Milano's friend.
Milano's friends told Eyewitness News that Morelli rode his moped over to the Summer Brook Apartments early Sunday morning.
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"They just thought she was still out," said Cima-Yannell.
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Since the fire, neighbors said they noticed police out in front of Morelli's home.
"At some point, you would think that maybe he'd find the right light, the right way, and he just couldn't find that," said Goralnik.
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Inside the Weird World of Justin Bieber Micro-Gossip
Internet fandom has existed since the dawn of the Internet. But Justin Bieber's fans have pioneered a strange new form: Justin Bieber micro-gossip, which painstakingly chronicles the obscure controversies and characters only a true Belieber can follow.
First, a pop quiz: What was the Justin Bieber iChat scandal of June, 2010?
A true Belieber would know all about the big iChat scandal: A screenshot purporting to show a 19-year-old girl flashing Bieber on iChat shot through the Biebersphere a few weeks ago. The girl was identified by Bieber micro-gossips, and she's since become something of an anti-hero among the Beliebers: The (older) slut who tried to seduce their boy king.
Justin Bieber micro-gossip items lie somewhere between classic Teenbeat drivel and fan fiction. They are stories about Justin, but grounded in real people with real Twitter accounts. Usually, they're backed up with some scrap of evidence—a screenshot, for example—that gets passed around along with the story. These stories form a miniature universe of fandom populated by Justin's childhood friends—"The Stratty Boys"—his potential love interests, and the thousands of Beliebers fighting to prove they love Justin the most.
After spending some hours immersed in the frothy hot tub of Bieber micro-gossip, we can break down the stories into three major categories:
Girls trying to date Justin
Bieber micro-gossips like to push the idea that a fan is just one Twitter message away from a date with Justin. One of the most well-known is the girl who, legend has it, actually went on a date with Bieber in LA. But she got cocky and lost it all. Writes the Bieber gossip site BieberHeiress:
They went out to dinner and movie. Simple as that. Yet she took it upon herself to spread rumors that Justin tried to literally get in her pants and do some stuff that no Mama would be proud of. Hmm.
Chronicled also are the love lives of Justin's best friends from Stratford, Ontario, who have become celebrities in their own right. (Ryan Butler, one of the The Stratty Boys, has over 140,000 Twitter followers.)
Justin Bieber's Twitter
Bieber's hyperactive Twitter account is the subject of endless speculation among tween Bieber micro-gossips. A Belieber is sustained by the hope of someday being followed by, and receiving a direct message from Justin on Twitter. And, if they are to be believed, this happens more frequently than you might think. The Bieber micro-gossip site BieberHeiress posted this series of messages Justin allegedly sent to a fan who freaked out after her friends told them they were at a party with him:
Rival Justin Bieber Factions
Justin Bieber factions with names like Bieberswomen andLegalbiebers battle it out on Twitter and blogs to prove their love for Justin. An enemy recently hacked BieberHeiress, the gossip site, leaking alleged messages from Justin scolding the authors of the blog for writing lies about him. When the Bieber iChat scandal broke, Bieberinmypants called out those Beliebers obsessing over the screenshot: "I understand that most of the beliebers are pissed that she flashed 'their man' but honestly get over it. It's in the past nothing can be done about it, so don't bitch at her about it."
Micro-gossip is a weird new form of fandom. For Justin Bieber, it's also a lucrative one. The same enormous networks of Beliebers who send the latest Justin scandal flying around Twitter also organize massive "buyouts," wherein dozens of tweens descend on a mall and buy their entire stock of Bieber paraphernalia to donate to charity. Their quest to connect with Justin leads inevitably to FYE.


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CMC concerned by taser use on medically vulnerable
THE number of indigenous and medically-vulnerable people facing police tasers is a concerning trend, the Crime and Misconduct Commission says.
The watchdog also says the proportion of people subjected to multiple and prolonged discharges remains high, with more than one quarter of people stunned in this way.
Police used tasers 1187 times between July 22, 2010, and June 30 this year, though for the majority of those the trigger was not pulled.
Indigenous people are most likely to have a taser pointed at them but Caucasian people are most likely to feel the sting.
The CMC report, released on Tuesday, found a large proportion of taser targets were substance-affected, with most multiple or prolonged taser use involving people believed to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
"Although there was some reduction in the proportion of injuries and medical complications associated with Taser deployments, the majority of Taser-related injuries are still caused by people falling on hard surfaces while incapacitated by the Taser," the report.
Queensland Police Commissioner Ian Stewart said the Taser was a great option for officers to have when they feared for their lives.
He said officers were regularly trained in ways to de-escalate issues but it was effective in stopping people, especially drug-affected offenders.
"The Taser is an important tool in our arsenal in non-lethal force to stop major assaults to our officers and one we're not about to reneg on," he said.
"The status quo remains. There is concern about multiple cycling of Tasers on some people we've had to deal with in that way.
"We check the electronic records to make sure that the description given by the officers, or the person Tasered, about what occurred can be backed up.
"That's an important part of the safety net. We also do random audits."


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You can write a book review and share your experiences. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books you've read. Whether you've loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them.


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Part V in our series. Thanks to Troy Warwick for analyst coverage.
Industrial materials have always been useful tools in the prediction of economic prospects to come. Of these materials, copper is most notably reliable in indicating future market moves—in fact, some investors call the metal "Dr. Copper" because of its trend-predicting ability. Most of copper's usage is put in place before industries are created, like in telephone wires and electrical equipment, which explains it use as a leading economic indicator.
The three main funds that track copper futures (CPER, CUPM and JJC) have dropped 15% in the last three months. Most investors see this drop in price as a result of lowered expectations of global economic growth. Worries over Greece's New Democracy government and the continually shaky Spanish economy have been contributors as well. If the summit this week between European nations do not yield any real solutions in the euro debt crisis, copper will likely continue to drop.
China also has the ability to drastically affect the copper market. Focusing on massive industrial growth in recent years, that country has become the world's largest consumer of copper, with about 40% of the global market. A large attributing factor in the drop of copper value is due to the slowdown of Chinese growth.
So what can Dr. Copper tell us? Investors may want to monitor the three funds listed above for evidence of bottoming in the red metal. Observing how the funds react to inputs of new information may also be useful—for example, if the funds rally on bad news that may portend a change in trend. At any rate, as we've said numerous times, the crisis in Europe will eventually be resolved, so market participants should be looking for opportunities to redeploy risk capital sometime in the next three or so months.


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When you glance out the window today, the view might look about the same as yesterday. But don't be deceived -- our world is being transformed by a new, often invisible, reality. Everything from how our electrical power is delivered, to how and where we shop and pay for goods and services, is undergoing great upheaval, transforming how we conduct our lives.
Entire industries have been revolutionized by the transformative forces of digitization enabled by new consumer-oriented technologies -- namely, social, mobile, analytics and the cloud, or what we call "the SMAC Stack." Consider that MasterCard now describes itself first as a technology company and second as a payments industry leader, and little wonder, considering its success facilitating mobile commerce. Much of the disruption is invisible, as data events occur without our awareness -- thanks to transponders and digital tags -- as we drive our cars, navigate airports, walk the aisles of a store or move through our virtual workdays at home or in the office.
At Cognizant, we work with industry leaders to "run better and run different" by helping them simultaneously boost operational efficiencies and create innovative capabilities as well as ways of working that advance necessary business process and model change. These foundational changes, however, require a more holistic and unified solution, because they affect not only individual businesses but the very infrastructure that shapes our personal and professional lives.
[ How do you drive big-picture innovation while keeping a handle on shorter-term goals? Read CIOs Must Innovate Or Go Home. ]
Just as building highways and a national communications system were national priorities in the last century, it's time to contemplate how we can modernize our national infrastructure to meet today's needs and collectively extend the U.S.'s competitive edge well into the 21st century. As described in a new report from Business Roundtable, "Catalyst for Growth: America's Hybrid Infrastructure," this means building "hybrid infrastructures" that combine physical foundations (roadways, buildings, electrical systems) with SMAC-based information technology (the Internet, sensor networks and tags). Such infrastructures are needed to provide the wherewithal to support some of the most important initiatives of our time -- the smart grid, mobile payments, business cloud solutions and the Next-Generation Air Transportation System, to name a few.
Each of these initiatives -- which can flourish only on an integrated physical-digital backbone -- delivers a multitude of benefits to the U.S. economy and society as a whole. For instance, aggressive development of these initiatives will boost our global competitiveness, as U.S.-based technology and manufacturing firms become leading providers of cutting-edge capabilities. As these initiatives mature, they will increase productivity, lower upfront computing investments and encourage entrepreneurship. Individuals, meanwhile, will realize higher quality of life due to the convenience, safety and reduced energy use of these initiatives. For example, by delivering key business and technology services via the cloud, companies can quickly scale computing power and investment as operating imperatives dictate, accelerating return on investment and freeing up capital for innovation.
Connecting physical infrastructure to the Internet is a logical next step in cloud computing. IT services have been heading steadily to the cloud, but in the future, companies will begin moving more critical business processes there to seize the competitive high ground. By deploying private, public or hybrid cloud services, organizations can deliver a standardized suite of business utilities in areas such as order management and digital asset management (e.g., videos and other online content), or industry-specific functions such as medical management (in healthcare) and clinical trials (in life sciences), to employees, business partners and customers. Cloud-enabled process standardization renders key tasks more repeatable, efficient and accurate, thereby allowing capital expenditure and human resources to be focused on activities that are truly market-differentiating.


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An island of contrasts between land and sea
Caribbean sun, white sandy beaches, turquoise sea, and a European lifestyle. Guadeloupe's two islands offer a captivating array of natural and cultural attractions.
Guadeloupe, a narrow territory in the Caribbean Sea, is part of the Lesser Antilles and comprises several islands with contrasting scenery and wildlife, all united under the French banner. The largest, posed like a butterfly in the middle of the water, is called 'Karukera' in Amerindian. It is the most amazing, both in terms of its mountainous topography and exuberant nature, and the diversity of its beaches. There are two regions for the same island: Grande-Terre and Basse-Terre.
Grande Terre, the right wing of the butterfly, flat and arid, is the most popular tourist area with the most beautiful beaches. The shores of golden sand are lined with coconut trees and bathed by crystal-clear water. It is a paradise for divers and water sports enthusiasts. Most hotels are located on its coast, notably in Le Gosier, Sainte-Anne, Saint-François and on to the Pointe des Châteaux. Not far away, Pointe-à-Pitre forms the head of this beautiful butterfly.
Basse-Terre, mountainous and green, is the left wing. It is a veritable lush Garden of Eden where the active La Soufrière volcano rises proud. Here you are in the national park of Guadeloupe, the realm of hikers, covered with a tropical forest dotted with waterfalls, vertical drops, and trails lined with ancient trees. Its beaches of black sand are not to be missed.
A few nautical miles away are the southern islands with poetic names like Marie-Galante, Petite-Terre, La Désirade, and Les Saintes, evoking enchanting lagoons, protected wildlife, and unspoiled nature. The Petite-Terre Reserve is a very reachable refuge for iguanas. Marie-Galante, known for its beaches and rum, offers a journey back in time, far from mass tourism. Désirade, often compared to the island of Robinson Crusoe, inspires calm, with its heavenly beaches and unpeopled landscapes. Les Saintes offers an unparalleled spectacle, featuring one of the most beautiful bays in the world.
You will be amazed by so much beauty and diversity, with idleness the ideal approach for some, sports and exploration for others. Happiness is a temperature of 27°C and water at 25°C all year round. What are you waiting for?
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The first validation is for a Zip Code and the second is for a Bar Code.
I'm just clueless on how to perform these validations.
My program is set us so you go and it asks enter Z to enter a Zip Code or B to enter a Bar code. From here I have 2 if statements ( if (choice.equals("Z") then perform the Zip Code Part of the Program and if (choice.equals("B") to go to the Bar Code part of the program.


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The DoubleTree by Hilton™ Breckenridge Hotel is centrally located, is a short walk across the street to the Quicksilver chairlift and offers deluxe accommodations, complimentary shuttle service, & easy access to everything Breckenridge has to offer. Dogs are welcome!
The DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Breckenridge, situated across the street from Peak 9, offers spectacular Rocky Mountain views and proximity to invigorating summer hiking. From first tracks turns on Breckenridge Mountain to après drinks after a day of skiing, our friendly hotel staff delivers DoubleTree service and the warm hospitality for which Breckenridge is known. Curl up with a book in our cozy lobby, enjoy a world famous DoubleTree walnut chocolate chip cookie or relax with a glass of wine. Our inviting hotel in Breckenridge is your perfect Colorado vacation headquarters.
Spacious guest rooms feature everything you want for corporate, vacation or family travel. Enjoy flat-screen TVs, a work desk and WiFi, indoor swimming pool, outdoor hot tubs, and a fully equipped fitness center and sauna.
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Dine at 9600 Grill, which is open for breakfast, lunch or dinner daily. Start your day right with the extensive DoubleTree Breakfast buffet. Plan your event at the DoubleTree by Hilton Breckenridge offering 9,000 sq. ft. of flexible meeting and banquet facilities, including a magnificent ballroom.
The DoubleTree is pet friendly! Dog owners love exploring Breckenridge with man's best friend, so why shouldn't you? Call ahead to book your pet-friendly room. Dog-friendly rooms are limited and require advanced reservation and additional pup fee.


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Academic Honesty
The University expects that students will conduct themselves with honesty and integrity.
Academic Offenses
- Cheating. Cheating is defined as the fraudulent or deceptive taking, giving, or presenting of any information or material with the intent of aiding oneself or another on any academic work which is considered in any way in the determination of a course grade.
- Plagiarism. Plagiarism is the intentional or unintentional act of submitting the work of another as one's own. It includes the submission of the complete or partial work, or of the words, ideas, or format of another, published or unpublished, without appropriate reference and source credit. It includes employing or permitting another person to produce, alter, or revise material which the student submits as his or her own. If the student has any uncertainty regarding plagiarism in the submission of any material to his or her instructor, he or she should discuss the matter with the instructor prior to submission of the material.
- Forgery. Forgery is falsely recording the signature of an advisor, instructor, or any university official on any official University academic document.
Sanctions for Academic Offenses
Sanctions for Academic Offenses One or more of the following sanctions may be applied to a student guilty of commission of an academic offense:
- Assignment of any grade on a paper, examination, or other material related to the offense.
- Assignment of any grade for the course in which the offense occurred.
- Forced withdrawal from the class in which the offense occurred.
- Suspension from the University for a specified period of time. Suspension includes exclusion from all classes and termination of student status and all related privileges and activities. A student who violates any of the terms of suspension shall be subject to further discipline in the form of permanent dismissal.
- Dismissal from the University: This sanction is final and susceptible to reconsideration only after review by the University President.
Disposition of Cases of Academic Offenses
Responsibility of the Instructor
An instructor who has evidence that a student has committed an academic offense shall attempt to arrange a personal conference with the student to present the evidence of the offense, to give the student an opportunity to state his/her case, and to make known to the student the charges and possible sanctions which may be imposed and/or recommended. If the student is not available for or fails to attend such a conference, the instructor shall proceed to inform the student of the nature of the evidence, the charges and the possible sanctions by certified mail, with copies to the Chairperson and Dean of the college in which the student is enrolled. The instructor may then proceed to assign any grade on a paper or examination related to the offense, assign any grade for the course in which the offense occurred, or recommend to his or her Chairperson a more severe sanction.
Responsibility of the Chairperson
After reviewing the report from the instructor and making any appropriate investigation, the Chairperson will forward the materials, along with his or her own recommendation, to the Dean of the college in which the offense occurred.
Responsibility of the Dean
After reviewing the material furnished and conducting any appropriate investigation, the Dean of the college in which the offense occurred will forward the material, along with recommendation for suspension or dismissal, to the Vice President for Academic Affairs. If the sanction is forced withdrawal from the course, the Dean of the college in which the student is enrolled will take action to implement the withdrawal and will notify the student by certified mail. Copies of the notice will be sent to the instructor, the Chairperson of the Department in which the offense occurred, and to the University Registrar.
Responsibility of the Vice President for Academic Affairs
After reviewing the file and conducting any appropriate investigation, the Vice President shall forward the file, along with the recommendation, to the Vice President for Student Affairs, who will in turn forward the case to the All-University Court for processing according to the standard procedure of that court.
Right of the Student to Appeal
The student shall have the right to appeal the allegation of his or her guilt to each higher level of authority up to and including the All-University Court. However, the assignment of a grade by the instructor on a paper or examination involved in the offense shall not be subject to appeal.
Other sanctions may be appealed to the next higher level of authority up to and including the All-University Court. Such appeal must be filed in writing within 15 days of notification of the sanction.
The student shall have the right to attend and participate in a class until a decision is made on his/her appeal.


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REALTOR® FAQs
What Is a REALTOR®?
Not all real estate licensees are REALTORS®. While a real estate agent is simply licensed in New Jersey to conduct business, a REALTOR® has taken the additional steps to become a member of the National, State, and Local Associations of REALTORS® and are pledged to a strict Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice.
The term REALTOR® is a registered collective membership mark that identifies a real estate professional who is a member of the National Association of REALTORS®, the world's largest professional association.
A REALTOR® has its own identification standard—the REALTOR® "R" logo, a federally registered mark licensed exclusively to members of the National Association of REALTORS®. This mark represents our high standard of professional conduct in serving your interests, ensuring your transaction will be handled professionally and your real estate rights protected.
Should I use a REALTOR®?
Your local REALTOR® is a licensed real estate professional with knowledge and experience in your local market. REALTORS® can help you price and market your property for sale, find the home that's right for you and guide you through all the steps of a successful real estate transaction.
According to the National Association of REALTOR®'s 2008 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, 92 percent of sellers were assisted by a real estate agent when selling their home and 81 percent of buyers purchased their home through a real estate agent or broker. Surveys of both buyers and sellers consistently reveal that consumers value the guidance and advice offered by real estate professionals.
How can I find out what my home is worth?
You can get either a full blown appraisal, which needs to be done by a certified home appraiser, or you can get a "CMA" (Comparative Market Analysis) from a local real estate agent. The CMA will take homes that have sold recently near your home and that are comparable to yours in age, size and condition and determine a current market price. A CMA is available, at no charge, from a real estate agent. A CMA will help guide you in setting your home's sale price but the true price is what a buyer is ready, willing and able to pay for it.
What should I ask a mortgage lender?
It is important to interview a mortgage lender and choose one that you feel comfortable with. Asking the following questions will give you the insight to help you find the best overall mortgage loan.
Which type of loan is best?
Have the lender explain the pros and cons of the following loan types:
• Fixed-rate loans
• Adjustable-rate loans
• Interest-only loans
• Negative-amortization loans
Have the lender answer the following questions:
• What is the interest rate on the mortgage?
• What are all of the closing costs?
• Do you offer loan rate locks and does it cost to lock a loan?
• Is there a prepayment penalty on this loan?
• What is the minimum down payment for this loan?
• What documents will I need to provide you?
• How long does it take to process my application?
What is the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice for REALTORS® and where can I get a copy?
The Code of Ethics is a commitment made by all members of the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) that promises you honesty and ethical treatment in all transaction-related matters. All members of the Monmouth Ocean Regional REALTORS® are members of NAR and are bound by the Code of Ethics to protect your rights and always act in your best interest. Click here to view the Code of Ethics.
What is MLS?
MLS stands for Multiple Listing Service. A Multiple Listing Service is a database used by real estate agents to share information about properties with real estate brokers who may represent potential buyers. MLS systems contain hundreds of fields of information about the features of a property and are only accessible to member real estate agents. Websites that offer public access to property information have only a limited amount of property data and can often be outdated or inaccurate.
The Monmouth Ocean Regional Multiple Listing Service is provided by the Monmouth Ocean Regional REALTORS® and currently there are over 9,800 real estate professionals who access the listing information.
What is a Short Sale?
A short sale is a sale of real estate in which the proceeds from the sale fall short of the balance owed on a loan secured by the property sold. The bank or mortgage lender agrees to discount a loan balance due to an economic or financial hardship on the part of the mortgagor. The home owner/debtor sells the mortgaged property for less than the outstanding balance of the loan and turns over the proceeds of the sale to the lender. A short sale typically is executed to prevent a home foreclosure.


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Statement of votes polled and tally sheet for election of officers under the Topeka Constitution, Lawrence precinct
Author: Blackman, William I. R.; Mallory, A. H.; Robinson, Alfred
Date: August 3, 1857
An official statement and accompanying tally sheet detaling the results of the "State Election" held under the authority of the Topeka Constitution. This document was from the Lawrence precinct and was certified by election judges W. I. R. Blackman, A. H. Mallory, and Alfred Robinson. Election participants were primarily free state supporters who cast votes for state officials, representatives to the U.S. Congress, and U.S. senators; they also indicated whether they were for or against the Topeka Constitution.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: William I. R. Blackman Collection, #278, Box 1, Folder 3
Item Number: 102384 Number of images: 2
Keywords: Blackman, William I. R.; Douglas County, Kansas Territory; Election, Topeka Constitution, August 1857; Elections; Free state constitutions; Free state movement (see also Topeka Movement); Lawrence, Kansas Territory; Mallory, Anson H.; Robinson, Alfred; Topeka Constitution
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