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Starting, Torque Assist, Cruising
The engine is started by the 'e-system' to ensure a prompt and smooth start. During acceleration or uphill driving, the 'e-system' provides torque assistance by taking energy from the battery. When cruising at constant speed, the combustion engine partially recharged the battery if the charge level is low.
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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:
Looking to keep track of all the various projects in development? Click here to visit our signature "Devwatch" section. There visitors can view our listings by network, genre, studio and even development stage (ordered to pilot, cast-contingent, script, etc.). It's updated every day!
Separately, McCormack is attached to a comedy pilot from Alex Barnow and Marc Firek ("'Til Death") set to go out to the broadcast networks shortly. In said half-hour he plays Kris Jacobs, "a recent widower surrounded by an eccentric cast of family and friends who tries to put his life back together." The pair will pen and executive produce the Sony-based project alongside Jamie Tarses and Aaron Kaplan with McCormack himself earning a producing credit.
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Who did you vote for?
Don Smith: "I wrote in my choice. I believe Bush and the neocons planned and executed 9/11. Both Kerry and Bush are Skull and Bones fraternity brothers, and there's very little difference in their ideologies."
Gena Soja: "Kerry– because he's not Bush."
Gary Goerss: "I didn't cast a vote for the presidency because neither candidate was qualified."


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After a dramatic and incredibly successful week of racing at the iconic Isle of Man TT races, Kawasaki emerged as the most successful brand securing the coveted Manufacturer Award.
Taking a podium place in every race entered, the combined finishing places of Kawasaki riders at the world famous "pure roads" racing festival also resulted in a race win for Dean Harrison on his Silicone Engineering Ninja ZX-6R in Wednesday's Supersport race. Achieving a 129mph (207kph) average lap during the race, the Bradford rider also set a new race record of 1h 11m 28.059s, bettering the previous record by 8.7 seconds.
"I got my head down from the start, built up a bit of a lead and kept pushing. I'm over the moon," commented Harrison. "We've been trying, trying, trying all week and now all our hard work has paid off."
This wasn't the only notable achievement for Kawasaki mounted Harrison at this year's event after he guided his Ninja ZX-10RR to the fastest ever Superbike race lap of the 37.75 mile (60.75 km) course on 2 June. The stunning 134.432 mph (216.347 kph) lap established an almost unbelievable lap and race record for the Superbike race, a time which he eventually bettered later in the week during the Senior race posting a stunning 134.918 mph (217.229 kph) lap.
Podiums also came the way of James Hillier in both the Superbike and Supersport races on his JG Speedfit Bournemouth Kawasaki machinery. The 33 year old was seeking his third podium of the week in the festival ending Senior race but damaged the sump of his engine at Barregarrow and was forced to retire.
The smallest capacity class now featured at the TT is the Lightweight and Kawasaki also featured at the front of this race with a strong second place for Ireland's Derek McGee on his KMR Kawasaki among a raft of other Kawasaki powered machines.
Paddock celebrations on the final evening were characterised by fans meeting their racing idols and, in the case of James Hillier, an awning full of admirers buying T Shirts to be signed by their hero.
For his JG Speedfit team there was a race of their own as they focus on round four of the British Superbike Championship at Snetterton, Norfolk run over the weekend following the TT races.
Team Green racing coordinator for Kawasaki Motors UK, Ross Burridge, summed up the TT fortnight saying: "The TT is the ultimate test of motorcycle and rider and this year the boundaries have been pushed once again. Dean Harrison on his Silicone Engineering machines has been sensational while James Hillier demonstrated once more how consistent and in contention he can be supported by the JG Speedfit Bournemouth Kawasaki team. Amongst the elation we must also keep in our thoughts the family and friends of Dan Kneen and Adam Lyon who sadly passed away at this year's event."
Collecting the Manufacturers Award on behalf of Kawasaki, Howard Dale, Branch Manager of Kawasaki Motors UK, highlighted the significance of the achievement.
"If you ride or drive round the TT course it almost impossible to imagine how these riders can circulate at such speeds. Kawasaki achievements at this year's TT were incredible with podiums in every class a Kawasaki rider could enter. James Hillier gave his all and Dean Harrison came so close to taking victory in the final Senior race missing out by less than 2 seconds after 226 miles (363 km) of racing.
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Homestead Act (1862)
The Homestead Act of 1862 provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of federal land. They had to "improve" the land by building a house and cultivating the fields. After 5 years occupation the farmer owned the land free, except for a small registration fee. Ownership was possible after only 6-months by paying $1.25 per acre. Union veterans could deduct their service time from the residency requirements. Women were entitled to homestead on equal terms as men. 10% were women before 1900 and 18% after.[1]
The national land policies from the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 sought in principle to provide cheap land to family farmers. Strongest support came from Northern Democrats, but Whigs wanted high land prices to discourage settlement. Free grants were given in the colonial period, and in Oregon and Florida before 1862. The federal government before 1862 sold its land, and the revenue helped keep taxes low. The idea of "Free Soil" for "yeomen" farmers reflected Jeffersonian Democracy and was a major political issue in the 1850s. It was promoted by the Republican Party and opposed by Southerners. President James Buchanan, a Democrat, vetoed a homestead law in 1860 but Abraham Lincoln eagerly signed the new law on May 20, 1862. It opened up all federal land to homesteading.
The law made available millions of acres to farming. It was taken up especially by people with previous experience on farms back East or in Europe. Landless men or laborers seldom could afford the acquire the necessary tools, seed, and livestock. Many of them became farm laborers and worked their way up the "agricultural ladder." In the end, most of those who purchased land under the act came from areas quite close to their new homesteads (Iowans moved to Nebraska, Minnesotans to South Dakota, and so on). A small amount of fraud was involved.
Much of the land went to first to speculators who resold it. Other land went to cattlemen, miners, and lumbermen who built up the western economy. Of some 500 million acres dispersed by the General Land Office between 1862 and 1904, only 80 million acres went to homesteaders. Indeed, small farmers acquired more land under the Homestead Act in the 20th century than in the 19th.
see Agricultural history of the U.S.
- Eudora, Edith. Land Of The Burnt Thigh - A Lively Story Of Women Homesteaders On The South Dakota Frontier (1986)
- Fite, Gilbert C. The Farmers' Frontier: 1865-1900 (1966), focus on the west
- Gates, Paul W. "Homesteading in the High Plains," Agricultural History 1977 51(1): 109-133
- Harris, Katherine. Long Vistas: Women and Families on Colorado Homesteads (1993) 216pp
- Hibbard, Benjamin H., and Paul W. Gates. A History of the Public Land Policies. (1965)
- Hyman, Harold M. American Singularity: The 1787 Northwest Ordinance, The 1862 Homestead And Morrill Acts, and the 1944 G.I. Bill (2008)
- Nordin, Dennis S. and Scott, Roy V. From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture. Indiana U. Press, 2005. 356 pp.
- Shannon, Fred Albert. Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860-1897 (1945) online edition comprehensive survey
- Wyman, Walker D. and Helen B. Wyman, Frontier Woman: The Life of a Woman Homesteader on the Dakota Frontier (1990)
Text of the Homestead Act
An Act to secure Homesteads to actual Settlers on the Public Domain.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such, as required by the naturalization laws of the United States, and who has never borne arms against the United States Government or given aid and comfort to its enemies, shall, from and after the first January, eighteen hundred and. sixty-three, be entitled to enter one quarter section or a less quantity of unappropriated public lands, upon which said person may have filed a preemption claim, or which may, at the time the application is made, be subject to preemption at one dollar and twenty-five cents, or less, per acre; or eighty acres or less of such unappropriated lands, at two dollars and fifty cents per acre, to be located in a body, in conformity to the legal subdivisions of the public lands, and after the same shall have been surveyed: Provided, That any person owning and residing on land may, under the provisions of this act, enter other land lying contiguous to his or her said land, which shall not, with the land so already owned and occupied, exceed in the aggregate one hundred and sixty acres.
And be it further enacted, That the person applying for the benefit of this act shall, upon application to the register of the land office in which he or she is about to make such entry, make affidavit before the said register or receiver that he or she is the head of a family, or is twenty-one years or more of age, or shall have performed service in the army or navy of the United States, and that he has never borne arms against the Government of the United States or given aid and comfort to its enemies, and that such application is made for his or her exclusive use and benefit, and that said entry is made for the purpose of actual settlement and cultivation, and not either directly or indirectly for the use or benefit of any other person or persons whomsoever; and upon filing the said affidavit with the register or receiver, and on payment of ten dollars, he or she shall thereupon be permitted to enter the quantity of land specified: Provided, however, That no certificate shall be given or patent issued therefor until the expiration of five years from the date of such entry; and if, at the expiration of such time, or at any time within two years thereafter, the person making such entry; or, if he be dead, his widow; or in case of her death, his heirs or devisee; or in case of a widow making such entry, her heirs or devisee, in case of her death ; shall. prove by two credible witnesses that he, she, or they have resided upon or cultivated the same for the term of five years immediately succeeding the time of filing the affidavit aforesaid, and shall make affidavit that no part of said land has been alienated, and that he has borne rue allegiance to the Government of the United States ; then, in such case, he, she, or they, if at that time a citizen of the United States, shall be entitled to a patent, as in other cases provided for by law: And provided, further, That in case of the death of both father and mother, leaving an Infant child, or children, under twenty-one years of age, the right and fee shall ensure to the benefit of said infant child or children ; and the executor, administrator, or guardian may, at any time within two years after the death of the surviving parent, and in accordance with the laws of the State in which such children for the time being have their domicil, sell said land for the benefit of said infants, but for no other purpose; and the purchaser shall acquire the absolute title by the purchase, and be en- titled to a patent from the United States, on payment of the office fees and sum of money herein specified.
And be it further enacted, That the register of the land office shall note all such applications on the tract books and plats of, his office, and keep a register of all such entries, and make return thereof to the General Land Office, together with the proof upon which they have been founded.
And be it further enacted, That no lands acquired under the provisions of this act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
And be it further enacted, That if, at any time after the filing of the affidavit, as required in the second section of this act, and before the expiration of the five years aforesaid, it shall be proven, after due notice to the settler, to the satisfaction of the register of the land office, that the person having filed such affidavit shall have actually changed his or her residence, or abandoned the said land for more than six months at any time, then and in that event the land so entered shall revert to the government.
And be it further enacted, That no individual shall be permitted to acquire title to more than one quarter section under the provisions of this act; and that the Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby required to prepare and issue such rules and regulations, consistent with this act, as shall be necessary and proper to carry its provisions into effect; and that the registers and receivers of the several land offices shall be entitled to receive the same compensation for any lands entered under the provisions of this act that they are now entitled to receive when the same quantity of land is entered with money, one half to be paid by the person making the application at the time of so doing, and the other half on the issue of the certificate by the person to whom it may be issued; but this shall not be construed to enlarge the maximum of compensation now prescribed by law for any register or receiver: Provided, That nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as to impair or interfere in any manner whatever with existing preemption rights : And provided, further, That all persons who may have filed their applications for a preemption right prior to the passage of this act, shall be entitled to all privileges of this act: Provided, further, That no person who has served, or may hereafter serve, for a period of not less than fourteen days in the army or navy of the United States, either regular or volun- teer, under the laws thereof, during the existence of an actual war, do- mestic or foreign, shall be deprived of the benefits of this act on account of not having attained the age of twenty-one years.
And be it further enacted, That the fifth section of the act en- titled" An act in addition to an act more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and for other purposes," approved the third of March, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, shall extend to all oaths, affirmations, and affidavits, required or authorized by this act.
And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act shall be 80 construed as to prevent any person who has availed him or herself of the benefits of the first section of this act, from paying the minimum price, or the price to which the same may have graduated, for the quantity of land so entered at any time before the expiration of the five years, and obtaining a patent therefor from the government, as in other cases provided by law, on making proof of settlement and cultivation as provided by exist- ing laws granting preemption rights.
APPROVED, May 20, 1862.
- ↑ Harris (1993)


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Experts remain concerned about drilling off Alaska
By DINA CAPPIELLO
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- A year after the disastrous Gulf oil spill, the prospect of a major accident in oil's next frontier -- the icy waters off Alaska's north coast -- has experts even more concerned.
With no roads connecting remote coastal towns, storms and fog that can ground aircraft, no deepwater ports for ships and the nearest Coast Guard station about 1,000 miles away -- it would be nearly impossible to respond on the scale that was needed last year to stop the runaway oil well and clean up the mess. That means the burden to respond would rest to an even greater degree on the company doing the drilling.
An oil company drilling off Alaska would have to bring all the equipment needed to the isolated drilling site. The federal government, at least in the early stages, would be far away from the scene.
Unlike the Gulf, where tens of thousands of oil wells and runoff have tainted the waters for decades -- and where rigs once again are probing the depths for oil -- a spill in the Arctic risks tainting a pristine and sensitive landscape, one that has not been as well studied and where drilling in federal waters is limited. That makes it harder to determine what toll a spill would have on the endangered polar bears and migratory whales that make use of the oil-rich seas.
The accident in the Gulf last April highlighted shortcomings in spill preparedness. Experts such as Thad Allen -- the government's point person on the Gulf spill -- and the presidential oil spill commission have questioned whether companies, and the government, are adequately prepared to overcome the challenges of responding to an Arctic spill.
"We ought to be extremely careful about the Arctic, because we know that spill response and the Coast Guard cannot get to the Arctic very well," Cherry Murray, a member of the presidential oil spill panel, told a committee on ocean energy safety this week. "And cleanup is going to be considerably more difficult."
Despite lessons learned from the massive response to the Macondo well blowout on April 20 a year ago, many of the techniques deployed -- skimming, burning and the application of chemical dispersants -- either wouldn't work in the frigid seas off Alaska or would be diminished in effectiveness.
Booms, depending on the degree of ice cover, can freeze. Ice can also clog the suction devices used to mop up the spill, diminishing how much oil can be collected. Depending on the time of year a spill occurred, daylight can be scarce.
"The problem is on what order of magnitude are you prepared to respond, and I don't really think we know that," said Allen, now a senior fellow at the Rand Corp. "That doesn't mean that we shouldn't proceed, but everyone needs to know that's a very, very difficult place to operate."
Allen, in an interview with The Associated Press, listed the challenges: The largest city anywhere close to the drilling, Barrow, has extremely limited motel space; there is no hangar for aircraft, a must in stormy and variable weather, and the shallow water means no port.
The focus on the obstacles to spill response off Alaska comes as the Obama administration is under in-creasing pressure to boost domestic oil production as a means of tempering high gasoline prices. President Barack Obama last month set a target of reducing foreign oil imports by a third by 2025.
To reach that goal, he will need the oil and gas off Alaska, where an estimated 27 billion barrels of oil lies beneath the ocean floor. Yet despite these huge reserves, the costs of drilling in the Arctic, along with permitting delays and lawsuits have resulted in fewer than 100 wells being drilled in federal waters off Alaska.
In December, in part because of concerns about responding to an oil spill, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar canceled the sale of new oil and gas leases in the Arctic. And a federal court recently ordered the agency to go back and analyze the risks of a large oil spill for a 2008 Chukchi lease sale, including how it would be handled.
While the department said it would honor existing leases, delays in permitting have caused the only company that was seeking to drill a new exploratory well in federal waters off Alaska to delay those plans until 2012.
That company, Shell Oil Co., says it will be fully prepared to handle a worst-case spill, in the unlikely event that one occurs. Peter Velez, Shell's oil spill response manager, told the AP that equipment would be stationed offshore with the drilling rig and could start skimming oil within an hour of a spill.
The company also will have onsite back-up blowout preventers, the valve tower on the sea floor that is supposed to shut a well in the event of a blowout. The one on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf failed to halt the flow of oil.
And in another difference from the Gulf disaster, a new capping and containment system that under construction could reach its target within days or weeks. In BP's case in the Gulf, the equipment that eventually contained the spill before the well was killed needed to be built from scratch.
"We will have enough equipment at each of the locations to meet, and in most cases exceed, the worst-case discharge," Velez said.
In the spill last April, the worst seemed to happen -- a super-deep well in about a mile of water and nearly 3 1/2 miles below the ocean floor erupted, spilling as much as 2.4 million gallons of oil into the Gulf each day.
A spill of that magnitude is much less likely in the Arctic, according to experts, where drilling would occur in very shallow water, where oil and gas are not as deep underground and where pressures are much less than what is found in the deepwater Gulf.
Ice, which can be an obstacle to clean up, can also act as a natural barrier to a spill. And the frigid water means the oil would be slower to degrade, buying more time to apply dispersants, burn off oil and use other clean-up techniques -- though potentially exposing wildlife to more toxins. Exploratory drilling, as Shell points out, would be limited to the open water season from July-October, making the timing of a spill important. If one were to happen toward the end of the season, ice would be coming in, complicating cleanup efforts.
Leslie Pearson, who for 19 years worked at the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, and who for the last six years has been in charge of oil spill response -- says it wouldn't take very long for a long-term blowout to exceed a single company's response capabilities.
"I have my doubts for sure, about being able to sustain a response," Pearson said. "What makes or breaks an oil spill response is whether you can get personnel or equipment to the site in a timely manner. In a long-term blowout, it will only be a matter of time before they are overwhelmed."
Alaska Clean Seas, an oil spill response contractor for 10 companies with oil and gas drilling operations in Alaska, most in state waters, is currently prepared to handle a spill of 231,000 gallons a day -- as Alaska's state law requires.
But most of its equipment is located in Prudhoe Bay, some 90 miles from where Shell hoped to start drilling this year.
In a recent analysis requested by a federal court, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement simulated a hypothetical blowout in the Chukchi Sea. The calculation estimated that a blowout there could release as much 2.6 million gallons a day, a disaster of Macondo-sized proportions. The only remedy analyzed was a relief well, which would take 39 days to drill if the rig on site were used. The analysis assumes total failure of the blowout preventer and no cap or containment, scenarios made more unlikely by requirements put in place since the Gulf spill.
Velez called it "an extreme scenario."
Ron Morris, president of Alaska Clean Seas, said he was confident he would be ready to help out.
"Nobody wants to have a Macondo spill anywhere," Morris said. "That scenario would not bode well anywhere in the U.S., I don't care who you are or where you are."


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The way our science fiction depicts life in space, you'd think you could do just about whatever you wanted. Well, apparently that's very false. You can't even have pizza in space. Or ice cream.
According to ABC News, pizza simply doesn't hold up in zero gravity. Neither does it freeze-dry or dehydrate very well. Meanwhile, there's no ice cream because there are no freezers. Which makes me wonder what we've been doing wrong that we haven't figured this out yet.
Also on the list of impossible things are doing your laundry (What must the International Space Station smell like??) and getting pregnant due to the dangers of intergalactic radiation. Terrifying.
Whether or not sex has occurred in space is still a big question mark, but NASA's official stance is that our astronauts are to comport themselves as nothing short of professional. The Russians on the other hand... [Motherboard]


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Real Maid 13
Episode 13
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Hayato's increasing love for the selfless Moe triggers her ability to remove her clothes…! At the same time, however, it also triggers confusion in Hayato, who realizes that he's beginning to love her as if she were human…and concludes that keeping a distance is the best policy.
Around that time, Hayato begins to spend days and nights at the university preparing for his North Pole expedition. This means less time at home with Moe, whose body begins to feel the strain of not being attended to in quite the same way as before. Exactly how long can she last…?


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Hunt down your opponents in an armoured tank or pursue them at speed in a Fast Attack Vehicle. Enter the fray in an all-terrain battle-fest of online multiplayer action.
Plough through a range of unique combat arenas, claiming bounties, completing Challenges and wreaking terrible vengeance upon old adversaries. With a range of upgrades to unlock as you progress, multiple battle modes and regular community events, there will always be a chance to settle the score.


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Martin dives into his cycle theory and how it came about. This is part II and it dives deeper into his theories with emphasis on how the cycles interact.
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Friday, September 11, 2009
Martin Armstrong – Cycle Theory & the Sixth Dimension - Part II
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Between significant upheaval (especially on the mobile payments front) and the imposition of seemingly impossible regulations, the banking industry is currently undergoing one of the most evolutionary periods in its history. Managing a global financial institution's technology portfolio while at the same time meeting the cutting-edge expectations of increasingly savvy customers (both consumers and business) is enough to keep any technologist up at night. Especially a global CTO like Yobie Benjamin.
Benjamin recently joined Fritz Nelson and David Berlind on the set of InformationWeek's Valley View to talk about his top priorities. Among those priorities is getting his company to Internet scale.
The way Benjamin describes it, the user experience that consumers are seeing on their iPads is setting bank customers' technological expectations. Not only must everything be available across the Internet, both the user experience and the speed must be uncompromising. For example, according to Benjamin, much the same way Internet users are accustomed to getting sub-500ms performance out of websites like Google, the same is expected of his bank's online applications.
Unfortunately, getting to Internet scale is easier said than done. One of Benjamin's biggest challenges is reconciling his institution's large, expensive, proprietary technology portfolio with the low-cost open source solutions that not only run the Internet, but that have helped other companies like Facebook scale quite well. The regulatory environment that Benjamin must operate in doesn't make things any easier.
Another priority for Benjamin is making sure that his bank systems are well-tuned to handle whatever innovations come out of the mobile- and micro-payment sectors. According to Benjamin, he meets with hundreds of startups that promise to reinvent how banking and payments are done and they all think they're going to disrupt the status quo. However, most of them forget that at the end of the day, all transactions are backed by financial institutions like his; in other words, the "status quo."
On the question of which payments infrastructure will survive in the long run (referring to Google's, Apple's, Amazon's, and PayPal's), Benjamin says not to worry; most merchants will end up taking all of them because they'll take anything that adds to their cash flow. Benjamin cites the credit card industry as the history that will repeat itself. Merchants started by taking Bank Americard which eventually became Visa. Then, it was Visa/Mastercard. Then American Express. Then Discover Card, and so on.
Make sure to tune into our October Valley View, on October 24 at 11 am Pacific Time, where we'll have more startups -- including Taptera (enterprise mobile applications), Alteryx (big data), and Hearsay (social enterprise). We'll also feature conversations with Cisco CEO John Chambers, and Oracle president Mark Hurd. You can also register for the October Valley View show and have a chance to win some excellent gear.


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Hunter hits career homer No. 300
Former Twin reaches milestone at Target Field
MINNEAPOLIS -- Tigers outfielder Torii Hunter hit career home run No. 300 on Sunday in the city where it all began.
"It's special," Hunter said. "Just hitting my first home run in old Tigers Stadium against the Tigers with the Twins, to hit 300 against the Twins in the Tigers uniform at Target Field -- it's special. It's kind of weird, but it's special. I'm glad I got that monkey off my back."
Hunter, who played for the Twins from 1997-07, hit a two-run shot to left field in the first inning at Target Field. The homer, which scored Austin Jackson, went an estimated 376 feet off of right-hander P.J. Walters.
Finally got that 300th HR. It's feels great to do it on Father's Day. #monkeyoffmyback???- Torii Hunter (@toriihunter48) June 16, 2013
"That's quite an accomplishment, and he did it against his own team," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "I think that it was kind of a neat scenario with the Minnesota fans [who] love him and they got to see him do that. It probably wasn't special for [Ron Gardenhire and the Twins today] but it was probably special for some of the fans."
Hunter, who now has three homers this season -- his previous on May 26 against the Twins -- hit the first 192 home runs of his career as a member of the Twins
"He's killing me," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "Not exactly happy when he does it against you, but I'm proud. He's started in this organization and has had a heck of a career. Three hundred home runs is a lot and he still plays with the same enthusiasm as he had when he played here. So you always tip your cap to him, because he's one of the classiest guys in the game."


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Usually when my little brother sends me tips they have to do with the idiocy of Bush or organized religion or... well anyway, to get to the point, I was somewhat baffled when he sent me a link to this picture on a German website. I clicked about as far as here before I was just like "We're all always searching for new sources of free porn but um now's not the time, broseph!" But as it turns out, this is a serious issue! Meet Mara Carfagna, Silvio Berlusconi's new Minister Of Equal Opportunities. A lot of hands have been wrung over why the Italians would vote for that guy again — aside, you know, from his whole King of all media thing — but until now we did not really realize he had such inspired brain trust. See, Mara Carfagna — rhymes with Barack Obama! — is one of those transcendent politicians whose rich and varied biography gives her a persona that can resonate with anyone. A photo essay of Hope (and humps!) after the jump.
Like Barry, Mara has dabbled in youthful radicalism. Here, her "the only Bush I trust is my own" pose.
In recent years she has been accused of being too refined, elitist.
But that belies her red-blooded agrarian roots!
And it's a little too, uh, "raw" for us but here she displays her willingness to bend over backwards (or anyway, bend over) to serve the people! (What are those people doing there anyway?
Former Topless Model Joins Berlusconi's Cabinet As Equalities Minister [Daily Mail]
Berlusconi's Pin-Up Ministerin [Stern]
Related: Italiy Embraces Silvio, Again And Again [Economist]


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WordPress.com: Our Labor of Love — 2012 in Review
For us, WordPress.com is our labor of love — we're continually releasing new themes, upgrades, and features to help you create the best website and/or blog you can. In addition to great tools, we publish articles, prompts, and writing and photo challenges to inspire you to start posting and keep posting. While we're never, ever done making WordPress.com better, we wanted to look back at some of the goodies we brought you in 2012.
We've got the look: 65+ new themes in 2012
We released themes at a rate of more than one a week in 2012. These beautiful themes look great no matter which device your visitors use to see your content. What's more, if you're a musician, restaurateur, bride-or-groom-to-be, or a civil servant looking for a simple way to share information with your audience, we've got you covered.
Custom Design puts you in charge
Have design chops or an eye for contrast, color, and composition? With the Custom Design upgrade, you can tinker with your site's CSS, compose a unique color palette for your site, and choose from among some awesome Typekit fonts to create the specific look you desire for your online home on the web.
New and improved for 2012
No matter whether you're just starting to blog or are a seasoned web designer, here's a sampling of how we made WordPress.com better for you in 2012:
- We doubled the space we offer in the space upgrade.
- We introduced SASS and LESS for those who've got the Custom CSS upgrade.
- We added unique visitors and countries to all WordPress.com stats pages.
- We created importers to help you bring your Tumblr blog or your Splinder site to WordPress.com.
- We released tiled galleries that allow you to get creative with photos on your blog.
We made a lot of progress in 2012 and we're already working on bringing you more awesome in 2013. Happy New Year from WordPress.com!
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We bloggers appreciate your attention to making the experience so positive for us.
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I want to commend WordPress for all the excellent work its done on behalf of its bloggers. Thank you.
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Thank you. I have enjoyed the additions. I love the new themes available as well. I actually wrote something today about the addition of the "unique visitors" and "country" stats. A lot of people didn't seem to understand how to utilize the stats vs. just see them.
How/where can I go to learn about all things WordPress? How everything works… back end, plug ins, updates, etc., etc., etc.??
Thank you!
Great 2012!! I have thoroughly enjoyed WordPress. It's like you read our mind. The moment I tell myself "I wish the would …" I wake up one day and its done. And then there are those features that we don't even know we want until you give them to us. You make blogging fun … And beautiful!
Happy New Year!
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Pretty, just now trying to keep up with the differences in layout 😡
Blogging has opened a whole new world for me, and I thank WordPress for being so user friendly and accessible. Happy New Year!!
Thank you, WP, for all you do.
Thank you… It's great to be part of the WordPress family.
The WordPress Reader is like a high-quality Twitter. Have you considered adding more interactivity, such as giving blog owners the option of publishing followers or even encouraging them to do so? If privacy is a concern, there could be a public/non-public box for each blog one follows, with non-public as default if need be,
Thank you for all that you do, and ask so little for in return. My blog has completely changed, if not saved my life, and of course it would have never turned out this way without WordPress to begin with. You've touched so many lives, and this is still just the start. Wishing you the happiest 2013 possible!
Enjoying my blogging adventure…thanks for making it possible!
My #1 New Years Resolution is to develop my writing skills. I signed up thinking how steep the learning curve would be even tho' I have a few computer skills. A great delight to find how easy and intuitive the WP program is. I am going to enjoy this journey. Well done.
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Thanks for a good WordPress year 2012 – It is a pleasure to work with the tools that are present and I am sure that WordPress can meet the year 2013 with great serenity and dynamism.
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Thanks for all your love and hard work…Have a Happy New 2013 and keep on the good work.
Thank you for all your hard work. I appreciate all of the tips and updates that are given to help me navigate through areas that I'm not real comfortable with. Hopefully, it will become easier the more I use it! I'm looking forward to a great year with WordPress! 🙂
We can help a lot of volunteer-organisations with your CMS. Thank you very much.
I'm a first-time WordPress user, Krista. I"m amazed just how powerful all the tools are, even on a free template. Looking forward to what WordPress has in store for 2013!
Thank you for the highlight.
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I'd really like to know where in the countries the hits are coming from … so maybe an option to show city/country or even IP address … Just having US as a country doesn't tell me much.
I am someone who knows just enough to mess things up. Royally. I may not be able to figure out how to do all the things I would like to do on the blog, but at least I can share the writing, and that's the most important thing to me. Thank all of you for making that impossible dream of mine possible. May 2013 bring even more inspiration to your already inspired minds.
I'm really lucky to know & use word press since 2011 it has changed my life completely as web designer .. great wishes for more success in 2013
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I really appreciate all the work you all do! I've used other blog sites before, but when I switched to WordPress, I fell in love with the ease of use, lovely designs, and immediate sense of community. I'm never using anything else. Thank you so much for creating such a wonderful space!
Thanks for all your hardwork and ingenuity in providing us with such great incentives free of charge. May 2013 be a brighter year in every aspect and initiative gearing towards growth for the wordpress family.
2012 seems to have added most of the things I was looking for – well done. It seems a little smoother and slicker and more complete. Speeding up the interface and looking at Google+ integration are on my wish list for 2013. But really guys you seem to have most of the bases covered now.
Thank you so much for 2012 and part of 2011. I blogged and used many forums of WordPress for my new book. All this is free, what an opportunity to start advertising, and communicating with people of interest.
Who the heck is Tae Phoenix? She seems to be giving me the eye.
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15 Tax Breaks You Won't Believe Are Real
As you struggle with your tax return, trying to come up with some extra deductions to pump up your refund or reduce what you owe, don't you sometimes think about taking a few flights of fancy?
As you struggle with your tax return, trying to come up with some extra deductions to pump up your refund or reduce what you owe, don't you sometimes think about taking a few flights of fancy? We've all done it, conjuring up in our heads miraculous tax write-offs until we're brought back to reality. "Can I claim a deduction for all those blood donations at the Red Cross?" Nope. "How about a charitable contribution for all the time I donate to the church?" No, again. "Can I take a dependent care credit for my dog?" Come on!
On the other hand, your fellow taxpayers have successfully claimed write-offs for many things that most of us wouldn't even imagine, ranging from cat food to body oil used by a professional bodybuilder.
Here are 15 of our favorites.
Compensation for Being (Wrongly) Locked Up
With exonerations on the rise, thanks in part to advances in DNA testing that have helped the wrongfully incarcerated win their freedom, Congress has taken a step to make amends as well. Compensation that these victims receive is fully exempt from federal taxation.
Genetic Testing Kits
Speaking of DNA testing, many people nowadays use a DNA ancestry company to find out not only the regions and ethnicities of their ancestry, but also for genetic testing.
And here's some good news if you buy a kit from 23 and Me: The IRS said that part of the price of the combined health and ancestry kit produced by the company may be treated as a deductible medical expense. People who buy the DNA collection kit and pay extra to include the genetic testing can allocate the kit's price between the nondeductible ancestry services and the deductible health testing (generally treated as a medical expense deductible by itemizers on Schedule A to the extent total medicals costs exceed 7.5% of adjusted gross income). People who buy the cheaper kit only for ancestry services won't get a deduction.
You can also use flexible health spending account funds or your health savings account to pay for the genetic health services.
Playing Bass
An accomplished bass player and music professor laid a major beatdown on the IRS. He traveled to jazz rehearsals and performances to keep his skills sharp so he could play with other well-known musicians. The IRS said he could not deduct his travel costs because he enjoyed playing the bass and performing wasn't part of his teaching duties. Nevertheless, the Tax Court allowed him the write-off because he translated what he saw and heard in the music scene and taught it to his students.
Being a Starving Artist
This deduction is both obscure and listed right there on the tax forms. If you are a "performing artist," you have the ability to deduct business expenses related to your work, even if you don't itemize—it's one of the rare "above the line" tax deductions.
But before you dance an extra little jig, note the considerable restraints on this deduction: You have to have at least two employers (not gigs—actual W-2 income), and each has to pay you at least $200. Your expenses have to be at least 10% of what you make as a performer. But here's the real kicker: Your adjusted gross income can't be more than $16,000, even if you're married.
Why so low? The value was set in 1986 and has never been adjusted for inflation.
Cat Food
A couple who owned a junkyard was allowed to write off the cost of cat food they set out to attract wild cats. The feral felines did more than just eat. They also took care of snakes and rats on the property, making the place safer for customers. When the case reached the Tax Court, IRS lawyers conceded that the cost was deductible.
Cat Food, Part II
A woman used her own money to care for feral cats that she fostered in her home for a charity that specialized in the neutering of wild cats. She spent more than $12,000 of her own money paying for vet bills, food and other items.
The Tax Court ruled that she can claim a charitable deduction for her expenses, but limited her write-off because she didn't meet the substantiation rules, failing to procure a contemporaneous written acknowledgment from the charity each time she spent $250 or more on the charity's behest. With the proper documentation, she could have deducted all the costs she incurred for the organization.
Body Oil
A pro bodybuilder used body oil to make his muscles glisten in the lights during his competitions. The Tax Court ruled that he could deduct the cost of the oil as a business expense. Lest it be seen as a softie, though, the Court nixed deductions for buffalo meat and special vitamin supplements to enhance strength and muscle development.
Barking Dogs
A self-employed consultant who worked in her condominium sued her neighbors and the condo association, alleging that her work was disrupted by noise from faulty construction and barking dogs. Also, in connection with the litigation, she was charged with a criminal misdemeanor. She deducted $26,000 of attorney fees associated with both of these proceedings as business expenses.
The IRS said the legal fees were personal costs. But the Tax Court OK'd half of the write-off because she used 50% of the condo for business, and the IRS failed to prove that the noise didn't adversely affect her business use of the residence.
Free Beer
In a novel promotion, a service-station owner offered his customers free beer with a fill-up. Not surprisingly, his station's gasoline sales increased significantly. Proving that alcohol and gasoline do mix—for tax purposes—the Tax Court allowed the owner to deduct the cost of the beer as a business expense.
Making Movies
A lawyer faced a challenge from the IRS as she sought to deduct losses during the six years she spent making a documentary film on the musical group Up With People. The IRS claimed the long series of annual losses indicated that her filmmaking activities were a hobby, asserting the project was essentially a high-cost home movie because her husband once was a member of that group.
Furthermore, at one point during hearings, the judge reviewing the case suggested that documentary filmmaking is by nature not-for-profit—a musing that so alarmed the film industry that a number of well-known filmmakers filed friend-of-court rulings to say, in essence, that you can make money with documentaries.
Ultimately, the court ruled in her favor, allowing her deduction of six-figure losses. It noted that she acted in a businesslike manner, hiring staff such as a bookkeeper, buying insurance, consulting experts, changing the story line to make the film more marketable, blogging about it, and taking it on tour to movie festivals.
QUIZ: Can You Tell If These Tax Deductions Are Legit?
Babysitting Fees
Fees paid to a sitter to enable a parent to get out of the house and do volunteer work for a charity are deductible as charitable contributions even though the money didn't go directly to the charity, according to the Tax Court. The court expressly rejected a contrary IRS revenue ruling.
A sole proprietor who regularly met clients in his home office was allowed to deduct part of the costs of landscaping the property, on the grounds that it was a part of the home being used for business, according to the Tax Court. The court also allowed a deduction for part of the costs of lawn care and driveway repairs.
Swimming Pools
A taxpayer with emphysema put in a pool after his doctor told him to develop an exercise regime. He swam in it twice a day and improved his breathing capacity. Turns out he swam in the pool more than his family did. The Tax Court allowed him to deduct the cost of the pool (to the extent the cost exceeded the amount it added to the value of the property) as a medical expense because its primary purpose was for medical care. Also, the cost of heating the pool, pool chemicals and a proportionate part of insuring the pool area are treated as medical expenses.
Helping Your Child's Career
A father owned a profitable real estate development business. His teenage son was a local celebrity for his successful motocross racing, so the father decided to have the company become a sponsor for his son's racing activity. Over a two-year period, the firm paid $160,000 for motorcycles, equipment and other costs. The funding ceased when the son turned pro.
The Tax Court said that most of the $160,000 was a deductible business expense because the firm obtained new business connections, favorable construction financing deals and other similar benefits from its sponsorship.
QUIZ: Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Millionaire?
Rather than drive five to seven hours to check on their rental condo or be tied to the only daily commercial flight available, a couple bought their own plane. The Tax Court allowed them to deduct their condo-related trips on the aircraft, including the cost of fuel and depreciation for the portion of time used for business-related purposes, even though these costs increased their overall rental loss on the condo.


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A Christian woman sentenced to death in Sudan and later freed has been detained at an airport while trying to leave the country Tuesday, her lawyer said.
Lawyer Eman Abdul-Rahim told The Associated Press that the 27-year-old Meriam Ibrahim was held along with two children and her husband at the international airport in Khartoum, the country's capital. Abdul-Rahim did not elaborate and security officials did not respond to requests for comment.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters in Washington that the Sudanese government had informed American officials at the embassy in Khartoum that Ibrahim and her family were "temporarily detained" over issues relating their travel documents.
Harf said the Sudanese have assured the U.S. that the family is not under arrest and that they are safe. She said U.S. officials are continuing to work on getting them out of the country.
Ibrahim, whose father was Muslim but who was raised by her Christian mother, was convicted of apostasy for marrying a Christian. Sudan's penal code forbids Muslims from converting to other religions, a crime punishable by death.
Ibrahim married a Christian man from southern Sudan in a church ceremony in 2011. As in many Muslim nations, Muslim women in Sudan are prohibited from marrying non-Muslims, though Muslim men can marry outside their faith. By law, children must follow their father's religion.
The sentence drew international condemnation, with Amnesty International calling it "abhorrent." The U.S. State Department said it was "deeply disturbed" by the sentence and called on the Sudanese government to respect religious freedoms.
On Monday, Sudan's Court of Cassation threw out Ibrahim's death sentence and freed her after a presentation by her legal team.
Sudan introduced Islamic Shariah law in the early 1980s under the rule of autocrat Jaafar Nimeiri, contributing to the resumption of an insurgency in the mostly animist and Christian south of Sudan. The south seceded in 2011 to become the world's newest nation, South Sudan.
Sudanese President Omar Bashir, an Islamist who seized power in a 1989 military coup, has said his country will implement Islam more strictly now that the non-Muslim south is gone.
A number of Sudanese have been convicted of apostasy in recent years, but they all escaped execution by recanting their new faith.


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(CANCELED) Bi-Weekly Board Game Night
December 8 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 5:00 pm on Tuesday and Thursday, repeating until December 31, 2020
Join us every Tuesday and Thursday evening for our weekly board game nights featuring light, medium, and heavy strategy games. Bring your favorites or try out some of our demos. (Games need to be family friendly). Stop in and play a game or two!
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So, I've just completed 4 hours of looking at one of the new hoards at the British Museum.
To put the next few posts about what I spent that time doing into context we'll start with 'when' the European Bronze Age, and more specifically British Bronze Age, was.
For those that know nothing about the Bronze Age, here's a couple of links:
The British Late Bronze Age lasted from 1300-600 BC. This period is broken down in to a small number of phases, based on the bronze objects types, which we call LBA (Late Bronze Age) 1, 2, 3 and 4. These four metalworking phases have been given names taken from sites or finds that somehow best seem to describe what was around at the time. These are Penard, Wilburton, Ewart Park and Llyn Fawr. Of course, there were different things happening all over Britain, and lots of regional traditions in terms of the types of objects they had, and therefore different areas such as southeast England, western England, northern England, Wales and Scotland all have slightly different names for these phases, so as to reflect these local conditions. The phases I've mentioned mainly apply to southeast England but are applicable for England as a whole for the most part.
Although many researchers have contributed to this scheme over the years, and certain details have changed significantly, particualrly in light of new scienetific techniques in dating, this basic scheme was laid down as early as 1881 in a wonderfully modern book called ' The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain and Ireland'. In the study of bronze objects, new isn't always better, and I and many others, still use this book today.
The hoard I was invited to look at came from our Late Bronze Age 2 phase, or Ewart Park phase. Some of the objects from this phase have been illustrated below. This phase is characterised, above all else, by the many hundreds of groups or 'hoards' of bronze objects, many of which appear in broken or damaged condition, and then buried in the ground.
Today, many of these hoards are found by metal detectorists, and often end up in a local museum where the objects are identified, not just for dating purposes but also to help tell us a little more about the lives of people at that time.
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Ark. GOP lawmakers vent concerns on health law
Arkansas' Republican U.S. House members and senator are venting concerns about the federal health care law's implementation in a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
U.S. Reps. Rick Crawford, Tim Griffin, Steve Womack and Tom Cotton and U.S. Sen. John Boozman sent the letter Monday about the impact the 2010 law will have on insurance plans in Arkansas and the rollout of the insurance exchanges created under the overhaul.
In the letter, the lawmakers asked Sebelius to provide information by Nov. 1 about the federal government's knowledge of the impact the law would have on state insurance providers, state stakeholders' knowledge of the exchange's status before its Oct. 1 launch and the number of people who have been able to enroll in Arkansas.


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Ship the Sheep
For whatever reason aliens seem to need sheep. Lots of sheep! Of course they cannot send an intergalactic cattle ship to get them, as the sheep simply wouldn't live long enough. Instead, you are part of the alien sheep abducting work force. You have to grab the sheep with the powerful tractor beam of you ship and transport it to the transdimensional gateway leading to your home planet. Be careful not to crash you flying saucer or your alien boss have to come with its flashy-thingy to clean up the mess and you have to start from the beginning. Beautiful graphics and easy controls make Ship The Sheep a game you can easily pick up. Play now for free!
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|"Holy Crap...how are we pwning NDP?"
|The Greenies, Les Verts.
|Not the guy.
|Supporters and David Kawasaki
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|Mandatory ablutions
|July 12th, 1000 A.C.
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"There is an eighty-eighth choice."
"Card board toilet paper, living in the woods, throwing compost at the Prime Minister, and the colour green, all the things I like!"
The Green Party of Canada is ...well, you don't want to know. The truth is, they have no seats for them to sit on in the House of Commons. Even the leader is outside of the House. They are a political party made up of former New Whinocrats and possibly former Kim Campbell and Cabinet Minister Garth Turner who believe in legalizing Jamaicans...for environmental reasons that is..or not. There is no real information on them...except that they are a Green jamaican party and will never be elected to the Senate!!!
Their leader, Elizabeth May, was deeply hartbroken after Garth Brooks refused to join the Goonies.
Political Beliefs[edit]
The Greenies are an extreme some wing environmentalistic party and have the following political beliefs:
- We, The Greenies, will rule Canada!!!
- Being uncomfortable with massive planets.
- Using recycled cardboard toilet paper. Unlike regular toilet paper, which doesn't contain any recycled content.
- Legalizing Jamaicans and saving the environment at any cost.
- Throw balls of compost and homemade manure at John Baird, Former Environment Minister Rona Ambrose and Stephen Harper until their demands are met.
- Having both Conservatives and Capitalists unite in the same party, we know how that's going to turn out.
- If Stephen and Layton are using the urinals, they must stand beside one another. For... trust.
- Eh?
Leaders of the Green Party[edit]
Below is a list of the past and present leaders of the Green Party of Canada:
- Tree - 1984 (you don't say?!?!?!?!) to 1989
- David Suzuki - 1989 to 1997
- David Suzuki's beard - 1997 to 2003
- That old fat windbag who is NOT Ted Kennedy - 2003 to 2006
- That flying woman from Nova Scotia


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At the turn of the year, we tend to assess where we've come from and where we're going, and advisors are no different. As a reader service, AdvisorOne has produced a dozen Outlook 2013 articles to inform and elucidate advisors over the holidays.
Reported and written by AdvisorOne's staff editors and contributors, we will follow the schedule below to provide you with an informed look at what you can expect from the markets and the economy in 2013. While we'll relate forecasts from asset manager thought leaders on stocks, bonds and alternatives, we'll also take a look at retirement vehicles, technology trends and suggest how to be more successful in your practices in 2013 and beyond.
Here's the lineup and when you can expect to see each article in the 12 Days of Outlooks:
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Best 5 Investment Picks for 2013
By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Top 7 Tech Trends for Advisors in 2013
By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne
Friday, December 19, 2012
Three Washington Heavyweights to Drive Advisor Agenda in '13
By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne
Monday, December 24, 2012
Market Uncertainty Makes Alt Outlook Strong for 2013
By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Variable Annuity Outlook 2013: Tough Road Ahead
By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Philanthropy in 2013: Worry on Cliff Tax Changes; Impact Investing Heats Up
By Michael S. Fischer, AdvisorOne
Thursday, December 27, 2012
For Bonds in 2013, Unhappy Returns: Fixed Income Analysts
By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne
Friday, December 28, 2012
Wall St. Ignores Noise, Sees Bullish 2013 for Stocks
By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne
Monday, December 31, 2012
Will Gold Lose Its Luster in 2013? Commodities Outlook
By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Future of DC Plans Hitched to Economy, Education: Outlook 2013
By Danielle Andrus, AdvisorOne
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
How Advisors Can Increase Their Odds of Success in 2013: Commit
By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne


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Team Clermont @ CMJ 2012
Join us at Union Pool in Brooklyn (484 Union Ave) on from 7PM-12AM on Wednesday, October 17th for our Official 2012 CMJ Showcase!
Performances by:
Matthew E. White (Spacebomb + Hometapes) 11PM
Opossom (Fire Records) 10PM
Twin Tigers (Old Flame Records) 9PM
Grape Soda (Kindercore Records) 8PM
Koko Beware (s/r) 7PM
It's free w/ a CMJ badge, $8 advance, and $10 day of show.
Also, be sure to catch other Team Clermont artists like Ape School, Dangerous Ponies, Darlingside, Edmund II, Gangi, Geronimo!, Grandfather Child, Kalen Nash, Kishi Bashi, The Motel Beds, Mount Moriah, New Beard, Ponderosa, Popstrangers, Son Of The Sun, Telekinesis, T.H. White, Turf War, White Violet, Wolf Ram Heart, and more!
Finally, join us for our 3rd annual hangout at Barcade (388 Union Ave) on Saturday, October 20th from 2PM-6PM! After a long week of walking from one venue to the next, you'll want to relax with some excellent craft beers, old school video games, and new and old friends before making your way out for one more night of live music.


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I am really stumped on how to correctly/honestly get my Colorado state Nissan Leaf rebate. The dealer gave me a $5,500 incentive which is shown on my purchase agreement (under "Rebate(s)"). When you fill out Line 9 of the Colorado tax form "Any other grants, credits or rebates available" do I include the $5,500? Putting this $5,500 into the rebate calculator lowers my rebate from about $5,100 to $3,800 --- a huge difference. Furthermore, I think the $5,500 was a discount for using Nissan's financing company -- so I am not sure if that counts as a "grant/credit/rebate".
The "FYI Income 67" document that Colorado put out states "Any manufacturer's rebate or other rebate reflected in the purchase or lease agreement must also be deducted in the calculation of the credit." However, when you send in the documentation, you have the option of sending either your purchase agreement or bill of sale. What's interesting is the bill of sale is that it doesn't show the $5,500 "rebate" from the dealer.
So… would it be dishonest to leave the $5,500 dealer incentive off my taxes and send the bill of sale instead of the purchase agreement? Or, do you think that Colorado state sees so many Leaf rebates come through that they would call BS on me? I am leaning towards the "honest" approach – taking a smaller rebate.
I haven't been able to find a definitive answer in the forums. What have other Colorado Leaf owners done?


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I had purchased Mk802+ from a local dealer . When I factory rested the 1st time , Android crashed . As it was under warranty I got it replaced . A year later I had the very same Problem during Factory Reset ,but now as its a year Warranty is void
LiveSuite Method Of Installation has Failed nearly spent 40 hours trying that
(Using various Drivers, Frimwares ,PCs) Though I could install and Run Linux/Ubuntu VIA SD Card . By the method suggested
Can I install Linux or Android via SD CARD ? Please Help Also is permanent Linux installation Posiible Via SDCard
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Arrest made in crash that killed expectant parents
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FILE - In this file photo of March 3, 2013, mourners surround a casket outside the Congregation Yetev Lev D'Satmar synagogue at the funeral for two expectant parents who were killed in a car accident early Sunday, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The baby of Nachman and Raizy Glauber, a boy, was delivered prematurely cesarean section and survived until the next morning but died around 5:30 a.m. on Monday, March 4, 2013. Police were searching for the driver of a BMW and a passenger who fled on foot after slamming into the livery cab that transporting the 21-year-old couple to a hospital. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)


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On Oct. 30 I was excited to sit in front of my television to watch the special opening exercise of the Utah Jazz and the Milwaukee Bucks in the opening game.
The opening had a powerful, patriotic theme. It began with Larry Miller giving a very good opening talk. He was followed by Lloyd Newel and his Spoken Word. His theme was patriotism and loyalty. The Tabernacle Choir followed with several patriotic songs, including the National Anthem. This was an outstanding and patriotic opening ceremony. At least it was up to the point where the cameras panned over players of both teams.
What a total letdown. Not one player within view of the cameras stood at attention or had their hand over their heart. They were all shuffling their feet, looking up at the center screen, some were chewing bubble gum and blowing bubbles while the National Anthem was being sung.
It would seem that those with talent to make millions of dollars and to be treated like high princes would be more willing to give thanks and show respect for the country that makes it possible for them to capitalize so richly on that talent. This is to say nothing about the message of insolence they send through their actions to the young of this nation who look up to them.
The incident became a disgraceful spectacle in my view. From this point on, I have no interest in whether the Jazz win or lose. In my mind they are losers in character. My apologies to any on either team who may have shown proper respect but who were not shown on the screen.
I have always had a lot of admiration for the Jazz and the community service projects they sponsor. I want no part of the kind of people that seem to think our National Anthem and the Stars and Stripes are a waste of their time. I hope that all veterans would regard them in the same light � with disgust.
Letter to the Editor: Disgraceful Spectacle
On Oct. 30 I was excited to sit in front of my television to watch the special opening exercise of the Utah Jazz and the Milwaukee Bucks in the opening game.


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Hi OSX Users
Here is a new download link for FGx 2.3.0rc1 with built-in FlightGear (~500 MB!):
DOWNLOAD: [edit: link removed, see recent version]
REQUIREMENTS: OSX >= 10.5 on intel-based Mac
INSTALLATION: Unzip the downloaded file and move FGx to Application folder, start FGx with doubleclick
STARTING: Database use SQlite, paths to default. Choose aircraft/airport before you start FlightGear! When import of airport not works, quit and restart FGx.
KNOWN: FGCom does not work, when it is not installed separately (see my post about FGCom for OSX)
Cheers, gral


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The Egyptian pyramids are ancient pyramid-shaped masonry structures located in Egypt. As of November 2008, there are sources citing both 118 and 138 as the number of identified Egyptian pyramids. Most were built as tombs for the country's pharaohs and their consorts during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods.
Most famous pyramids:
The most famous Egyptian pyramids are those found at Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo. Several of the Giza pyramids are counted among the largest structures ever built. The Pyramid of Khufu at Giza is the largest Egyptian pyramid. It is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still in existence.
Number and location of pyramids:
In 1842 Karl Richard Lepsius produced the first modern list of pyramids – see Lepsius list of pyramids – in which he counted 67. A great many more have since been discovered. As of November 2008, 118 Egyptian pyramids have been identified.
Abu Rawash:
Abu Rawash is the site of Egypt's most northerly pyramid (other than the ruins of Lepsius pyramid number one) the mostly ruinedPyramid of Djedefre, son and successor of Khufu. Originally it was thought that this pyramid had never been completed, but the current archaeological consensus is that not only was it completed, but that it was originally about the same size as the Pyramid of Menkaure, which would have placed it among the half-dozen or so largest pyramids in Egypt.
Giza is the location of the Pyramid of Khufu (also known as the "Great Pyramid" and the "Pyramid of Cheops"); the somewhat smaller Pyramid of Khafre (or Kephren); the relatively modest-sized Pyramid of Menkaure (or Mykerinus), along with a number of smaller satellite edifices known as "Queen's pyramids"; and the Great Sphinx.
The Giza Necropolis has been a popular tourist destination since antiquity, and was popularized in Hellenistic times when the Great Pyramid was listed by Antipater of Sidon as one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Zawyet el-Aryan:
This site, halfway between Giza and Abu Sir, is the location for two unfinished Old Kingdom pyramids. The northern structure's owner is believed to be pharaoh Nebka, while the southern structure, known as the Layer Pyramid, may be attributable to the Third Dynasty pharaoh Khaba, a close successor of Sekhemkhet.
Abu Sir:
There are a total of fourteen pyramids at this site, which served as the main royal necropolis during the Fifth Dynasty. The quality of construction of the Abu Sir pyramids is inferior to those of the Fourth Dynasty.
The three major pyramids are those of Niuserre, which is also the best preserved, Neferirkare Kakai and Sahure. The site is also home to the incomplete Pyramid of Neferefre. Most of the major pyramids at Abu Sir were built similar construction techniques, comprising a rubble core surrounded by steps of mud bricks with a limestone outer casing. The largest of these 5th Dynasty pyramids, the Pyramid of Neferirkare Kakai, is believed to have originally been built as a step pyramid some 70 m (230 ft) high and then later transformed into a "true" pyramid by having its steps filled in with loose masonry.
Major pyramids located here include the Step Pyramid of Djoser – generally identified as the world's oldest substantial monumental structure to be built of dressed stone – the Pyramid of Userkaf, the Pyramid of Teti and the Pyramid of Merikare, dating to the First Intermediate Period. Also at Saqqara is the Pyramid of Unas, which retains a pyramid causeway that is one of the best-preserved in Egypt. Together with the pyramid of Userkaf, this pyramid was the subject of one of the earliest known restoration attempts, conducted byKhaemweset, a son of Ramesses II.


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Gaskets are one of the basic elements for preventing the leakage, mist formation, and spray outs after the flange guards. They are installed at the flange joints, pipelines or valve joints, etc. to prevent the leakage of the harmful gasses and liquids from the gap between the joints. The gaskets are proven to seal the gap between the surfaces of the joints and provide better protection at an affordable price. They bear the high pressure of the high-temperature chemicals and have corrosion resistance properties. They are used in many industries like automotive, aerospace, chemical industries, electronics, military industries, pharmaceuticals and appliances.
The Types Of The Loads That A PTFE Ring Gasket Bear Are As Follows:-
- The initial compressive load is the bolt load which pulls the gasket material into surface defects to form a strong seal.
- The hydrostatic end force which tends to separate the surfaces of the flange joints when the arrangement is over pressurized.
- The internal load pulling the part of the gasket exposed to inner force. It tends to blow the seal out of the joint.
The various metals and materials are used to make gaskets which can meet the demand of various industries. The range covers non-metallic, semi-metallic and metallic gaskets. The industries mostly install PTFE ring gaskets which are made up of a material and provide better performance in the operation.
This type of the gaskets used widely in the chemical industries and pharmaceuticals because it avails numerous benefits, besides acting as the protective seal for the leakage. It reduces friction to provide a rigid usability and avoid any of the damage or failures.
There Are Many Factors That Are Affecting The Performance Of The Gaskets:-
The Flange Load - The pressure on the two surfaces of flange joints churns the product and compresses the gasket to create an even tighter seal. The gaskets are enough tough to bear this load and the bolts of the joints should be tightened enough to create a perfect seal.
Temperature - The high temperature sometimes affects the efficiency of the product, but the gaskets are made of the high-grade material which is actually temperature resistant.
Fluid - The chemicals flowing through the pipelines is highly corrosive in nature and the liquids are harder to sell in comparison to the gas. The PTFE ring gaskets seal the liquid and prevent it from flowing outside. The product also prevents the contamination of the liquid.
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- Hulk Hogan is looking forward to Thursday's live Impact Wrestling broadcast. He remarked Monday night, "Great night with the first lazy home night in a long time, really looking foward to IMPACT Thursday with the best talent in the business." He then said this morning, "Woke up this morning hoping it was Thursday so I could be at work at IMPACT,it's really weird when this business is really in your blood."
- Last Thursday's Thanksgiving edition of Impact Wrestling averaged 1,187,000 over the course of two hours. This is down from 1,353,000 the week before, which drew a 1.07 cable rating. The final rating will be released later this week.
- Another member of Aces & 8s has been revealed: Garett Bischoff.
An eagle eyed viewer spotted pictures of both Bischoff and a member of the nefarious group sporting the same wrist tattoo. Courtesy of TNAAsylum.com, click here to view side-by-side images.
Bischoff may not necessarily be revealed as a member of faction. TNA has been rotating some workers who won't be part of the group into the beatdowns to make it harder to guess who is in it.


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eBay is one of the most successful Internet-only ventures of all time, so it's not surprising that it has come under near-constant attack by fraudsters and hackers. In the latest attempt, a hacker logged on to the eBay Trust and Security forums and pretended to post as 1,200 separate users, making it appear as if he had actually logged in with each user's account. The posts contained the users' names, contact information, and credit card numbers.
That done, the hacker posted a video of his exploits on YouTube to celebrate his "achievement" (the video has subsequently been taken down). In response, eBay and LiveWorld—the third-party software firm that operates eBay's web-based forums—took the entire Trust and Security forum offline while they looked into the problem. The forum was taken down 90 minutes after the posts first hit the Web and was put back online later that day.
eBay issued an official statement on its eBay Chatter forum, stating that while the posts appeared to contain credit card information, the posted numbers did not correspond to credit card information that eBay had on file for those users. Nevertheless, the user names and contact information were accurate, and eBay claims they are attempting to get in contact by phone with each of the 1,200 users to ensure that they can protect themselves from any attempts at hijacking their accounts. At this time, eBay is unclear as to whether or not the accounts have been fully compromised. It is also not certain that only these 1,200 accounts are affected.
While the original posts and the YouTube video showing the list of names have been removed from the Web, an eBay member has grabbed as many of the account names as possible and posted them on a personal web site so that people can easily check to see if their account was one of the original 1,200. So far, the operator of this list has not been asked by eBay to take it down.
While this particular attack may not have revealed customers' credit card information, there are plenty of fraudsters about who are trying their hardest to scam people out of their money: a helpful eBay forum member even posted a list of an astonishing 36 common scams currently being perpetrated against eBay users. Most of these involve social manipulation and phishing scams rather than direct attack, but clearly they are effective: videos of hacked accounts posting over 60,000 items for bid show what the bad guys are likely to do once they have your account information. It's always a good idea to practice skeptical computing, but eBay users should take even greater care to ensure that they are not taken in by any of these scams.
An eBay representative did not return our request for a comment in time for publication.