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HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Australian stocks declined, and Hong Kong equities snapped a three-day winning run on Tuesday, weighed by overnight losses on Wall Street and uncertainty over U.S. monetary policy.
Japanese and mainland Chinese shares overcame choppy trade to finish higher, meanwhile, with a weakened yen helping the Nikkei Stock Average set a fresh multiyear high.
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Japan's Nikkei /quotes/zigman/5986735/delayed JP:NIK -0.63% changed direction a few times before rising 0.1% to 15,381.02, its highest finish since December 2007. The benchmark is now up 11% so far in May, and almost 48% higher from the level at last year's end.
The Shanghai Composite /quotes/zigman/1858913/delayed CN:000001 -1.56% inched up 0.2%.
"While there is a strong argument among investors that stocks are due for a pullback, any signs of weaknesses in equities are very quickly used as a buying opportunity," said Rivkin Securities global analyst Tim Radford.
"So until we see any indication of the Federal Reserve tapering stimulus, modest pullbacks of 1%-3% will likely continue to be used as buying opportunities by market participants riding high on a stimulus-driven market," he said.
Trading in most markets was choppy after U.S. stocks reversed course from a record-setting run to end lower Monday, as investors remained focused on how long the Federal Reserve will maintain its asset buying — a key source of stimulus for global equities over the past several months.
Caution prevailed ahead of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony before lawmakers Wednesday, even as Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans on Monday voiced support for the central bank's accommodative policies, saying the economy still faced headwinds.
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HOUSTON—Hurricane season is in less than three months away and at the National Hurricane Conference this week in Orlando is looking at new ways to protect you from a flood threat.
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Flood Sax is just one of several ways to hold back a flood. You can also use door dams.
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WENDELL — Corinth Holders boys soccer team thrives on starting matches fast. The Pirates did just that Tuesday night, scoring twice in the first 13 minutes of play.
Finishing strong doesn't hurt either. The Pirates did that, too, scoring two more goals in the final 14 minutes of play in a 4-1 third round 2A soccer playoffs win over Pittsboro Northwood.
"That's the way we always come out, it's our style," said forward Brock Waynik, who assisted on the first goal of the match, then scored the second. "We want to create as much pressure as we possibly can on our opponent. It's all about building good plays with good passes, good angles and going hard."
Seven minutes in, Waynik pushed a ball through to Nick Burton who held off a Northwood defender and drilled a shot to the far post for a 1-0 lead.
Six minutes later, Waynik made a run of his own up the left flank and sent his shot by a diving Chase Golden for a 2-0 advantage.
The Pirates (19-3-1) will host the winner of Thursday's game between 16-1 Kill Devil Hills First Flight and Carrboro (15-6-3) in an eastern regional semifinal match on Saturday. Northwood finishes the season 13-8-2.
The Chargers cut the lead to 2-1 with 2:40 to go in the first half when Nathan Svendsen lofted a high 25-yard free kick to the Corinth Holders goal.
It was the first goal the Pirates have given up in the playoffs.
The Chargers (13-8-2) nearly equalized 10 minutes into the second half when a ball in the air in front of the goal got to the head of Clark Streets. Streets headed the ball on goal, but Karst dove hard to his left to tip it just wide of the goal.
"I saw that our guys couldn't get it cleared," Karst said of the shot. "I was going to come out on it but I wasn't sure that I could get there, so I backpedaled and was able to tip it away when they got a head on it."
Corinth Holders, a third-year school making its first third round playoff appearance, kept working for the key goal the Pirates had discussed at halftime, even though it didn't come for the first 26 minutes of the second half.
"We knew we had to get the first goal after halftime," Waynik said. "It took us some time, but our midfield and defense didn't give them any real good chances to get even."
The Pirates' solid passing finally led to that next goal. An eight-pass string ended with Burton dropping the ball from the left side onto a running Waynik in the middle of the penalty area. Burton's shot banged off of the far post and into the net for a 3-1 lead.
"It was 27 minutes into the second half before we scored, but we controlled the flow," said Corinth Holders coach Brent Walston. "They like to try to control the play with their center mid (Pedro Ramos) but we didn't let them do that for the most part. Aaron Lopez and Melecio Rubio-Villagran did a great job controlling the middle of the field for us."
Five minutes later, Grant Austin blasted a shot that Golden knocked away from the goal but a rushing Lopez was there drive the loose ball home for the final margin.
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Earlier today, the Justice Department announced it had charged seven people on counts of copyright infringement and conspiracy in what's being called one the biggest criminal copyright cases.
NPR's Carrie Johnson filed this report for our Newscast unit:
"The Justice Department accused Megaupload, a popular file sharing site, with helping millions of people gain access to pirated movies, music and TV programs, often before the items are released for sale.
"The Justice Department accused Megaupload, a popular file sharing site, with helping millions of people gain access to pirated movies, music and TV programs, often before the items are released for sale.
The Justice Department announced that 36 Boeing employees and one non-employee were arrested in connection to a drug sting at the aerospace company's Ridley Park, Penn. plant.
Twenty-three of them were charged with illegal distribution of a prescription drug; while the rest were charged with buying the drugs. The FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration placed an uncover agent at the plant, after Boeing complained that there was a problem.
There has been a lot for supporters of gay marriage to celebrate this year, including a new law that permits same-sex nuptials in New York.
Back in February, the Justice Department said it would no longer defend the federal law that restricts marriage to heterosexual couples, citing doubts about its constitutionality. This week, the White House said President Obama wants to overturn the law. On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will consider a bill that would do that and — for the first time — give federal benefits to same-sex couples who marry.
On Monday, House Republicans are scheduled to weigh in with a federal court in New York on the side of a law called the Defense of Marriage Act.
Big majorities in Congress passed the law 15 years ago to define marriage as being between a man and a woman. Usually, it's the Justice Department that speaks up when federal laws are challenged in court. But in this case, the Obama administration has declined to defend a law it considers unconstitutional.
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Rincon City Council members are gearing up now for the city's annual 4th of July celebration.
Osman Bholat, area sales executive for Georgia Power, was the guest speaker at the Rotary Club of Effingham County's meeting on Thursday.
Bart Waller, Effingham County commodity producer, was the recipient of the 2014 State Non-Irrigated Soybean Efficiency Contest.
Sometime early Saturday afternoon, Ken Lee will walk out of the Kroger store in Rincon and head to his pickup. The next time he passes through its doors, he'll be a customer, and not its manager.
Growing up in Effingham County, Nick Webb took piano lessons as a child and sang in the school chorus from fourth-12th grade.
ATLANTA - A Georgia Lottery instant ticket worth $400,000 was sold in Effingham County. Gurudev Datta Inc., in Clyo, sold a 20X The Money instant ticket with a $400,000 top prize.
Brian Dickey was honored Thursday night by the Rotary Club of Effingham County as the community's Volunteer of the Year.
Lainie Jenkins, director, and Eileen Bayens, advocacy coordinator, from CASA Ogeechee attended the annual CASA Day at the Capitol event in Atlanta on Feb. 4.
Sgt. Jose' Ramirez, patrol commander for the Rincon Police Department, told the Effingham Sunrise Rotary Club about the Citizens Police Academy.
The Georgia State Firefighters Association named Effingham County Fire and Rescue Lt. Hannah Jenkins as the 2013 educator of the year.
When Sarah Puente and her family moved to Effingham County four years ago, they joined the YMCA in hopes of finding friends and fitness.
These days, the Historic Effingham Society appreciates a contributor like John Tebeau more than ever.
Mike Murphy, Effingham Health environment of care manager and disaster preparedness coordinator, was presented the Champion of Emergency Preparedness Award at the Georgia Healthcare Association's Winter Conference held Jan. 22.
As severe winter weather begins to subside, the American Red Cross is asking all eligible blood and platelet donors to help offset a weather-related shortfall in donations.
Edwin Myrick, director of the Effingham County Emergency Management Agency, recently completed a week of vigorous training at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla.
Clyo Youth Chapter was recognized as the outstanding chapter of the year at the Prince Hall Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star 38th Grand Youth Session, held in Statesboro on April 25-26. There are 47 youth chapters in the Grand Youth Chapter.
In light of the accusations of waiting lists and other problems at Veterans Administration hospitals and facilities across the country, state Sen. Jack Hill said the nation needs to make taking care of its veterans one of its top priorities.
Students typically enjoy the last day of school, but three Effingham County girls had an unforgettable one Friday.
The Effingham Health System Auxiliary was awarded the Sunrise Rotary Club of Effingham County's Service Above Self Award.
Rincon residents participated in the National Letter Carriers Postal Food Drive on May 10, as they were encouraged to fill a bag with non-perishable food items and place it at their mailbox. These items were collected and donated to a local food pantry to help "stamp out" hunger.
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Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, November 30, for a performance by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member Eric Clapton at the Arena at Gwinnett Center. The March 27 concert in Duluth is part of Clapton's 2013 tour, according to an announcement issued by Gwinnett Center.
Clapton, whose career began in the 1960s, has assembled a band for the 2013 U.S. tour consisting of long-time touring partners Doyle Bramhall II (guitar), Steve Jordan (drums), Chris Stainton (piano and keyboards), and Willie Weeks (bass), along with newcomers Paul Carrack (organ and keyboards) and Greg Leisz (pedal steel guitar). Michelle John and Sharon White will join the touring band again as backing vocalists.
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September 13, 2012 | Vol. 39, No. 37
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A small dog explores a rock path in the new Petersburg Humane Association Public Dog Park at its opening on Sunday.
It wasn't quite raining cats and dogs, but it certainly was raining on Sunday at the opening of the new Public Dog Park sponsored by Petersburg Humane Association.
About a dozen PHA volunteers, pet owners and supporters braved the weather for the afternoon festivities which included activities, raffle prizes, and refreshments for canines and humans.
Located at Petersburg's old Tent City, on Haugen Drive near Sandy Beach, the park is now an off-leash area for dogs of all sizes, plus a fenced-in park specifically intended for smaller dogs, 25 pounds and under.
Chihuahuas, toy poodles, miniature pinschers and a few mixed breeds chased each other along the paths and splashed in the puddles of the new little dog park after the ribbon cutting. Larger dogs explored the open trails of the dog park on the opposite side of the grounds from the little dog area.
"We were just looking for a dog shelter, and a cat shelter and we were looking at all of the places that would be possibilities," said Anne Lee whose vision helped bring the concept of the park to a reality.
"There was another possibility up by the sewage trapment hill ... there are some city lots that could be used. Then there was this that already had the gravel pad ... and it had such great lands around it, it was totally cool for a dog park and [provides a shelter] so that our cats aren't away somewhere. This is a great fun people and animal place," she added.
According to Lee, PHA plans to turn the existing structure at the site into a shelter for cats and dogs that are available for adoption.
With the ambiance of a Zen garden, the little dog park is laced with rock paths and wood chip paths that wind around trees benches and sheltered seating areas. The little dog park is completely enclosed by a fence and has a double-gated entrance to avoid escapees.
All of the wood for the benches is reclaimed old harbor-front benches. "It was all part of our recycling project, it's all recycled or donated," Lee said.
"It can be kind of hard to find a place to walk your dog in the wintertime when the snow is piled up. This will be nice," Lee said. "We will have to pay to have it plowed, but this is another option for people to go."
She also said that the fenced area provides a certain level of safety against hazards such as chasing porcupines, or annoyances such as rolling in deer poop and dead fish.
Lee described the dog park as a fun place for dogs to hang out, but it is also low maintenance.
There are poop bags, a shovel and a couple of trash cans in both areas of the park to allow a way for dog owners to easily dispose of their dogs' waste.
Lee suggested that if drivers park facing into the park and owners keep dogs on leashes in the parking lot, it will make it easier for everyone to use the park.
The park is open for use in daylight hours.
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In my last four posts I've shared some of the lessons that I've learned from helping set up lullubee.com, a new business that makes and markets kits for making crafts. After we launched the site and figured out how to take orders and ship products, the next task we faced was to get more visitors to the site, and ultimately more sales. In the next few posts I'll cover several of the techniques we implemented, but in this post I'll focus on Facebook Facebook marketing.
The first thing we did was to set up our Facebook Page, as recommended in Facebooks "Four Steps to Business success on Facebook".
Once you set up your page, you need to get users to visit it and, hopefully, to "like" it. The reason you want people to like your page is that your posts will then appear on that users news feed. Over time this will allow you, according to Facebook, to start "building loyalty and creating opportunities to generate sales." The first method to get likes is to promote it on your own website using Facebook social plugins. As this costs nothing, you may as well do it, but the percentage of visitors that click on these is typically very small. The second is to purchase Facebook Ads that persuade people to visit your page and to like it. The irony of spending money to promote our Facebook page instead of our site was not lost on us.
After some experimentation I was able to create several ads that successfully generated likes on our page at costs that averaged from $0.27 to $0.57 per like. We spent some money and built up several thousand likes, all the while optimizing the campaign to better target likely customers. We justified the expense as it seemed to be analogous to building up a database of email addresses of people that wanted to learn about our site and our products. However, we shortly discovered our error.
Once we started posting on our Facebook page, we were shocked, shocked, to see that not all the users that liked our page were seeing our posts. For example, with over 6,000 likes on our page, a typical post would only be seen by fifty to several hundred people. To reiterate, only 1% to 5% of the people that liked our page saw our posts. If we were justifying our expense as analogous to building a database of emails, then it was a database that only allowed you to access a tiny, randomly selected, subset each time it was used.
Not quite what we had expected.
Facebook, of course, has a solution for this quandary. Unsurprisingly it involves paying Facebook yet again. Next Next to each post is a small "Promote" button which innocently suggests that for the mere sum of anywhere from $5 to $300, you can have your post reach from 500 to 50,000 people. This is equivalent to paying from $6 to $10 CPM, advertising rates typically paid for premium ad inventory, to have your post appear on the news feeds of people for whom you have already richly paid Facebook once before. Bear in mind that this is just for your post to appear fleetingly on their feed, with no guarantee that they will see it or click on it.
We have done over 20 promotions now at varying costs from $5 to $50, and the results in terms of users actions have been dismal. The effective cost per user action is over $2, and on some campaigns it can even reach $6 or $12. If we only look at "page likes" and "link clicks", and leave out "post likes", "post comments" and "post shares", whose value is even more ephemeral, the cost per action goes up significantly, from $6 to $20 and in some cases $50. Compared to the alternatives, these are unreasonably expensive. Unless Facebook is charging other companies an order of magnitude less than the rates we are seeing, Facebook promotions are simply not a viable option for small businesses.
Our biggest disappointment was our misunderstanding of how Facebook Pages work. Instead of building a database of users that you can contact at will, you are essentially paying Facebook to build a list of people that you can then advertise to.
Facebook, you can't have it both ways. Either ask businesses to pay for likes, or ask businesses to pay for posts. But asking them to pay premium rates for both is unreasonable and drives the cost of marketing on Facebook into the stratosphere. Perhaps this model works for celebrities or famous brands that can build up huge followings organically. But for small businesses that closely track their spending, Facebook Pages in their current incarnation are a bad investment.
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Facebook is an advertising platform for Facebook. It gets them hits with your traffic.
Couldn't agree more Cheryl. Sharing strong, relevant content is the key to engaging consumers on Facebook: Post it and they will come – RD
You stated that you "promoted" the testimonial. I assume this testimonial was written on the business fan page. Were you able to promote that post written by the fan our did you re-post the testimonial and then promote it? I can not find a feature to promote "posts by others" in Facebook. Thanks!
If you want someone to see the pictures of your kids, you can share the album on their page. You don't need to pay.
I had a Facebook page for my music that I recently 86′d. I'd rather pay an annual or monthly fee than pay by post.
I love this article! It concisely shows how Facebook is ripping off small businesses. My business sees a whopping 12 viewers per post. Others say it's a timing issue. I say it's a Facebook issue. I like the idea of posting onto Facebook to interact with customers, fans of my business, followers of my business; whatever you want to call them. However, I don't like having to pay to get people to follow my page, and then again to talk to them.
My company recently did a sale for small retail client with a couple dozen stores in NY/NJ. We paid $75 dollars to promote a Friends & Family sale on Facebook and it generated $75,000 in sales tied to that Facebook-only coupon.
It's true that Facebook makes you pay to reach for you fans. Facebook isn't free. It's a business and entitled to make money, especially when doing so properly can result in extremely successful marketing campaigns with big ROI.
Never use the Promote on Page tool. Use Facebook's Power Editor tool. The key is good "snackable" content and great real-time targeting.
Incentives work extremely well. Give-aways, coupons, etc. The problem starts when you have nothing to give out and you start at 0 likes. If you just feed content to the site, you'll die. Despite fully optimizing your page, your content, and your posting, you'll die. I think Facebook is a good medium for people willing to cough up freebies or hemorrhage money to the site. I just find it interesting that no one actually cares about news or advice. They care about free stuff and brands on Facebook and everything in between is just noise.
The important thing to remember is expectation. If you expect to run a non-profit, for example, on Facebook you'd be better off investing your time elsewhere and casually running Facebook in your spare time. Maybe you'll generate buzz, maybe you won't.
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When the University of South Carolinas new $30 million alumni center opens in late 2014, the schools 260,000 graduates will not only have a place to meet the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center will get extra space that leaders have sought for years.
USCs alumni association closed a $1.1 million deal this week for the site of the former Damons restaurant at Senate and Lincoln streets across from the convention center.
In addition to housing 20 alumni staff members, the 60,000 square-foot building will include a 500-seat ballroom, a 125-seat auditorium and more than 10 meeting and conference rooms. The alumni center also will have two gardens including one on its rooftop to use for events or weddings.
The alumni association expects to bring many of its 200 events now spread across Columbia to the new center, said Lee Bussell, president of the USC Alumni Association.
The convention center will use the meeting areas when USC is not.
USC alumni wont have to worry about cooking or serving food. The convention center authority is negotiating a contract with the alumni association to manage meeting areas and provide food service, said Ric Luber, chief executive of the Midlands Authority for Conventions, Sports & Tourism.
The USC alumni center joins a new 130-room Hyatt hotel coming to Gervais Street in providing more space for convention business in Columbia.
With the alumni building, the convention center will add about 25 percent more usable space and compete for larger gatherings. The convention center is maxed at events that attract 3,000 people, Luber said.
In addition to the extra ballroom, the alumni centers auditorium with theater seating will be a draw for groups because few convention centers have them, he said.
A tunnel, started when the convention center was constructed in 2004, will be dug under Lincoln Street to connect with the alumni center. The tunnels cost will be covered by $1.7 million remaining from bonds issued to build the center, Luber said.
The city of Columbia bought the property that included a Damons restaurant in 2004 with the convention center expansion in mind, city manager Steve Gantt said. The restaurant closed two years ago, but the convention center did not have the money to expand.
The alumni association building was slated for a site at Greene and Assembly streets before convention center officials approached alumni officials about locating near the areas main visitors hub, Bussell said.
They looked at the parking lot between the convention center and Colonial Life Arena before settling on the Damons site. The $1.1 million purchase price paid to the city is about $170,000 more than the sites assessed value, according to property records.
We wanted to be where people were, Bussell said.
The association plans to build a showcase that will give the alumni center its first permanent home, Bussell said.
The alumni center has moved at least four times since leaving a location near the Capstone dorm in 1999. Operations are split now between two buildings two blocks apart near Gervais and Pickens streets.
Costs of the new alumni center will be covered with donations, including some being collected as part of USCs $1 billion fundraising campaign, Bussell said.
The center will include high-tech museum-like displays to tell the story of USC, Bussell said. Those displays also will be accessible to convention visitors exposing more people to the school.
The new center also will offer career counseling, continuing education and job placement something requested by younger alumni who are more likely to change jobs, Bussell said.
Construction of the center is expected to start in about a year.
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Cheap hotels in South of the Train Station, Munich
Neighborhood DescriptionThe blocks south of the Hauptbahnhof, or main train station, feature a staggering number of hotels. Many of Munich's sex shops can also be found here, as well as a dizzying range of shops, restaurants, bars, and cafés. Far to the south, this area morphs into a genteel commercial district speckled with green boulevards and quiet side streets. The hotel-heavy part of the area is conveniently located next to Stadtmitte and very well served by public transportation nonetheless, allowing for easy escapes from the hectic tourist-oriented atmosphere.
Address Schillerstrasse 24 (South of the Train Station)
The four-star Hotel Astor, located in a colorful area south of Central Station, has nowhere to run from the sex shops and strip bars in this part of town.
Address Gollierstr. 9 (South of the Train Station)
Tucked away on an old side street southwest of the center, the three-star Bavaria is a family-run hotel with modern décor.
Address Landwehrstraße 13,80336 München (South of the Train Station)
Munich's CVJM/YMCA is a good pick for Cheapos who want a hostel without the party scene. Rooms are bare-bones basic, but the rates and the central location are hard to beat.
No online booking
Address Schwanthalerstrasse 28 (South of the Train Station)
The Hotel Germania sits in the hotel-heavy area south of the main train station, and it sports 99 simple, mostly small rooms.
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5Hotel Condorstar
Address Zweigstr. 6 (South of the Train Station)
The three-star Hotel Condor offers 65 guestrooms and a sophisticated vibe near the southeast corner of Central Station.
6Hotel Deutsches Theaterstar
Address Landwehrstrasse 18 (South of the Train Station)
Located in the hotel-rich Bahnhof Sud neighborhood near Marienplatz and the Augustiner Grobstatte beer hall just south of the train station, the Hotel Deutsches Theater Stadtmitte is an attractive three-star hotel housed in a beautiful Jugendstil building.
7Hotel Italiastar
Address Schillerstr. 19 (South of the Train Station)
The Italia offers 40 basic and comfortable rooms at unbeatable rates.
8Hotel Wallisstar
Address Schwanthalerstrasse 8 (South of the Train Station)
Since 1975, Hotel Wallis's 54 rooms have been enticing a varied crowd, including plenty of Americans, to its central, Bahnhof Sud location.
9Hotelissimo Haberstockstar
Address Schillerstr. 4 (South of the Train Station)
The Haberstock stands at the foot of Schillerstrasse, a street crowded with hotels.
Address Bayerstrasse 95 (South of the Train Station)
Located near the Oktoberfest grounds and a ten-minute walk from Central Station, Hotel Jedermann is a popular and friendly pick.
Address Landsberger Strasse 20 (South of the Train Station)
The Meininger, just a ten-minute walk from Central Station and the Oktoberfest fairgrounds, offers fresh and simple dorms and private rooms at decent rates.
Address Landwehrstr. 42, Eingang Goethestr. (South of the Train Station)
With 68 rooms, a Central Station locale, and a bubbly staff, the three-star Hotel Mirabell is a cheap and cheerful pick in the middle of Munich.
Address Schillerstr. 9 (South of the Train Station)
The two-star Hotel Monaco, located south of Central Station, offers reasonably priced rooms with a bed and breakfast charm that sometimes veers into kitsch.
Address Haydnstr. 9 (South of the Train Station)
Pension Haydn offers 15 rooms in an apartment building on a quiet, leafy side street near the restaurants, cafes, and tourist attractions clustered around Sendlinger Tor.
Address Goethestr. 26 (South of the Train Station)
The three-star Hotel Schweiz sits south of Central Station and offers cheap and basic rooms with a few attractive extras.
16Tryp Munchenstar
Address Paul-Heyse-Strasse 24 (South of the Train Station)
The massive, 201-room Tryp Hotel towers over the busy Paul Heyse Strasse near Central Station.
Address Uhlandstrasse 1 (South of the Train Station)
Hotel Uhland is a four-star, family-run hotel housed in a fabulously grand mansion.
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. – Frank Bensel of Purchase, N.Y., made history Sunday at PGA Golf Club, becoming just the second player to win three PGA Assistant Championship titles.
"We want to beat up on each other as much as possible," Rickie Fowler says of his good buddy Rory McIlroy, with whom he'll share the final group on Sunday at the Open. His goal: Make McIlroy "earn" the claret jug.
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Stenson snaps (club)
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Rose's missing driver
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Rory McIlroy has the lead in the Open Championship after firing a 6-under 66 on Thursday at Royal Liverpool, but 14-time major champ Tiger Woods – playing in his major this year – is just three back after a 69.
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HOYLAKE, England (AP) -- Tiger Woods is back at the majors. Seems like he was never away.
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Adam Scott, the No. 1 ranked player in the world, has some unfinished business when it comes to the Open Championship.
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Ernie Els is a four-time major champion. Two of those victories have come in the Open Championship, most recently just two years ago. For that very reason, the Big Easy -- even at age 44 -- is always a player to look out for at the majors.
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Henrik Stenson -- the No. 2-ranked player in the world -- is often a fun-loving guy. But, like all of us, he sometimes gets a little annoyed on the golf course.
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Early lead for Rory
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Rory McIlroy got off to a dream start Thursday in the first round of the Open Championship. The two-time major winner fired a bogey-free, 6-under 66 to take the early clubhouse lead at Royal Liverpool.
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Tiger's solid start
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All eyes were on Tiger Woods at Royal Liverpool as the Open Championship teed off on Thursday.
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Timeless Tom Watson
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We call him "Captain," but you could also call him "Timeless Tom."
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The Open Championship is just now teeing off, and much of the talk this week has been on the difference in the course conditions at Royal Liverpool in 2006 and this year.
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NEWTON, Kansas – Joshua Lee defeated co-medalist Zane Thomas 1-up Wednesday in the first round of match play at the U.S.
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DUPONT, Wash. – Medalist Eun Jeong Seong rallied from four holes down to beat Samantha Gotcher on the first extra hole in the first round of match play Wednesday at the U.S.
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Rory McIlroy lost all his lead midway through today's third round, but regained it and more over the closing holes and leads big heading into Sunday. How did your favorites fare on Moving Day? Check our leaderboard.
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The eve of golf's oldest championship seems like a fine time to showcase one of the game's youngest practitioners. Meet 2-year-old Jaxson Kelly of National City, Calif., who loves to hit golf balls.
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Are you tired of developing Android applications in Eclipse? Do you miss the comfort and familiarity of Visual Studio? Look no further. Nsight Tegra is a complete Android development environment integrated into Visual Studio 2010. Native Android project management is available using the 'vs-android' (MSBUILD) build integration and makefile/ndk-build projects are supported as well.
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Alpha Blending is a small--but important--part of virtually every 3D application. Conceptually, alpha-blending is used to communicate the transparency of a surface. Generally, consumer applications (games) tend to use RGB to communicate the color of the underlying surface, relying on the alpha channel to indicate the "opaquness" of that color. More specifically, when alpha blending is enabled in the pipeline, developers tend to use this form for their blending:
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In the last OpenGL SDK post I introduced the new SDK, now let me introduce our first new sample, "Simple Tessellation Shader". As the name implies, it demonstrates the minimum parts necessary to use tessellation shaders in OpenGL. The sample only demonstrates tessellating the quad domain (rather than the triangular domain), and it shows two modes: one with a flat plane and one where the plane is wrapped into a torus.
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Direct3D 11 (and the hardware that supports it) includes a lot of new functionality for programmers, but one of the most interesting and powerful additions is Tessellation. This feature has been used in numerous high profile titles and is a great way to upgrade your visuals without an unreasonable amount of extra content effort.


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As Myrtle Beach, Horry County and the state continue to grow, issues of all kinds compete for our attention. Election integrity, development, transportation, energy policy, education, gambling, we could spend years and fill books on any of these subjects. But time and space is limited, so each year, as we on The Sun News editorial board finish celebrating the New Year with friends and family, and pack up the Christmas decorations, we ponder our priorities for the coming year. What are the most pressing needs of our region? What is not being talked about elsewhere? How should we budget our time for the coming year?
We certainly don't always have the influence needed to effect change, but what we do have is a platform that allows us to reach the ears of those who do. Most of those people are ordinary citizens, who read something that stirs a desire to help or who become angry at a report of public wrongdoing. We often hear from readers who felt compelled to act to right a wrong or improve the Grand Strand because of something they discovered in The Sun News. It's those stories that keep us digging and writing and lifting a candle in the dark places of our community.
The area certainly saw its fair share of problems last year. Atlantic Beach continues to vex its residents and the rest of the county with its never-ending squabbles and election issues. County residents watched as dozens of local candidates were tossed off ballots because of a trivial paperwork issue that we sincerely hope will soon be fixed. We dealt with an explosion of inane and immature laser strikes on airplanes, which threatened to end local Coast Guard rescue missions. Some local businesses met their demise in less than stellar fashion. Myrtle Beach's Direct Air abruptly closed down in mid-March, stranding passengers and leaving $30 million still missing. Long-time business Lavin Cars also unexpectedly shut down, amid a check-kiting investigation. And some economic development projects have either struggled to get off the ground or invited controversy after being announced.
But the year just completed did offer hope for a better future. Jobless numbers declined, and Horry County saw a number of new businesses open. The summer tourism season was strong, with visitors filling our streets and hotel rooms. Real estate professionals are seeing signs that the long depression of our local housing market may be coming to an end, with rising prices and sales in 2013. Myrtle Beach's downtown area continues to flourish, led by the success of the boardwalk and the strong leadership of the city and downtown merchants. And large transportation projects, such as the extension of Harrelson Boulevard, the new airport terminal and the back gate interchange, were either completed or made good progress.
We certainly hope such good news will continue, and we plan to do what we can through these editorial pages to ensure that it does. To that end, though many other issues will doubtless come up from time to time, the attention of The Sun News editorial board will be focused on five main areas in the year ahead:
Few, if any, of the problems we face have easy or simple solutions. They are multi-faceted, with complex problems that will require complex solutions. We need leaders who are willing to talk to each other and we need voters and constituents who are willing to support those having hard conversations. We do not live in a county, state or nation made up of single-minded individuals, and we cannot rely on one party or one viewpoint to address our many issues.
Compromise is a vital component of leadership, not a poison pill. In election after election, voters have expressed a fairly clear desire for leaders who work better together. It's past time to stop talking past each other and time to talk with each other. S.C. Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter of Orangeburg put it well at a meeting on Thursday:
"What we're missing and what I hope we'll see is leadership that is dealing with reality and not rhetoric."
The need for rational, adult conversations goes beyond politicians, however, and extends to all of us. We believe in the merits of a spirited public debate of ideas, which is why we continue to solicit and publish hundreds of letters to the editor each year, talk to folks all year long as we're in the community and provide online forums for discussions. We will not always agree, and that's fine. But we're better for having the conversation.
Good works
In a media world often dominated by news of crime, violence, scandal and corruption, we feel it's imperative to continue shining a spotlight on the good news all around us. To that end, we highlight each week the selfless work of local nonprofits and their leaders. The work these everyday heroes do – clothing the needy, feeding families, teaching a child to read, building a better community – is sensational in the best sense of the word. These organizations and the unsung champions that keep them running do life-changing work that deserves to be highlighted and celebrated. We're both humbled by their dedication and delighted that we have the opportunity to share their stories with a larger audience.
Public spending
As the economy improves and government tax revenue picks back up, it's important to be smart about how that money is spent – and to ask sometimes whether it really needs to be spent at all. Though the fiscal cliff seems to have been avoided, the nation – and state – continue to face numerous hard decisions involving our tax money, from the national debt to Medicare expansion to infrastructure spending. Some money will no doubt be misspent, and we'll do our best to highlight such failures. We'll explain why some ideas – such as school bus privatization – may end up costing more money than they save and should be avoided.
Other areas will not see enough money, and we'll similarly point those out. The state, like the nation, cannot and will not provide economic prosperity solely with tax cuts and spending reduction. On the state level, especially, the people of S.C. have needs – such as roads, improved public education and public health – that may require such unthinkable actions as increasing the motor fuel tax. The legislature and governor – and taxpayers – should not close that opportunity.
Open government
One of our favorite topics, we've been gratified in recent years to see the public and our readers join us in demanding more transparent government and leadership. We'll continue to point out when the curtains are drawn in front of the public. We'll support the strengthening of our state's lax and toothless freedom of information laws, by adding real penalties for ignoring them. And we'll push for legislative clarification on documents such as autopsy reports that are now often withheld because of gray areas in the law, always with the same simple mantra: If the public paid for it, it deserves to see it.
Accountability and honesty
Finally, we will continue to hold our leaders accountable for their actions and statements. If a leader bends the truth or ignores it, we'll give it the attention it deserves. If our leaders put their own comfort and interests above the public that they serve, we'll call them on it. And we'll celebrate those leaders who take courageous stands for the truth, even in the face of pressure or opposition.
Our roots in this community stretch back to 1935, when C.L. Phillips and Clarence Macklen founded the Myrtle Beach News. Over the ensuing 77 years, we have taken seriously our position as an institution in this community and the responsibility to seek the best for its residents. We live here too, and we want things to go well. We encourage our readers to let us know when they think we've fallen short. Our contact information, as always, is located on the left of this page. We won't always agree on controversial issues, but with your help we can all work toward a shared goal: improving and bettering this amazing stretch of land we call home.


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A discreet entrance with a sweeping driveway leads into a secluded 4 acres of wooded and lawned grounds overlooking the majestic River Tay, which forms part of our natural garden, and for which we have brown trout fishing rights over a 150m stretch of the river.
Riverwood Strathtay, a contemporary house in the Arts and Crafts style, is a luxury bed and breakfast. It is positioned to take advantage of the superb south-facing views up and down the Tay valley.
The emphasis here is on the absolute highest quality in simply stunning surroundings. We specialise in peace and tranquility, and offer the most sumptuous accommodation with focus on space and luxury.
We are just over 10 minutes' drive from both Pitlochry and Aberfeldy, and with so many things to see and do in this beautiful pocket of Highland Perthshire, we offer perhaps the best base of all.


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The spokesman for the Cumberland County, North Carolina Sheriff's Office has posted redacted gun permits dated in 2008 for Wade Michael Page, identified by authorities as the suspect in Sunday's Wisconsin Sikh temple shootings.
Page, an Army veteran, .
Police on Monday said one gunman was responsible for the Sunday shooting that left seven people dead at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek: Wade Michael Page, a 40-year-old Army veteran.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Page was attached to the Fort Bragg base in North Carolina. Three bodies were found outside the temple at 7512 S. Howell Ave. and four were inside the building. Among the deceased is the gunman, who apparently acted alone.
The five permits issued are good for five years. According to the North Carolina Rifle & Pistol Association, all handgun transfers in North Carolina require that the intended recipient obtain a Pistol Purchase Permit from his/her local Sheriff.
One Pistol Purchase Permit is required per handgun at $5 apiece. When the owner takes possession of the handgun, they must present the permit to the seller, who must keep it in his or her records. It is a Class 1 misdemeanor if the transaction takes place without the permit being presented.
There is a vigil at the Sikh Temple in Palatine at 7:30 p.m. tonight.


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If you fail to repay on time, you are delinquent. If you continue to be delinquent, you're in default — and your entire loan balance becomes due.
Default means trouble. You may be ineligible for further student aid or other credit. Collection charges may be added to every payment you do make. To ensure your loan gets paid, the government may withhold your federal and state tax refunds or even part of your wages.
But none of this has to happen. Before defaulting on your student loan, you may be able to switch repayment plans to reduce your monthly payment. Or, you may have special circumstances that make you eligible for other repayment options, including forbearance and deferment. Even if you're in default, there's still help through a variety of programs.
Should you face payment problems, learn more about your repayment options, including Income Based Repayment, and about postponing loan payments and loan default; or contact a member of HESC's Delinquency Resolution Team at 1-800-888-0741 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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By Arritta Morris
Register Columnist
When I thought of the ways we deal in our area with stuffings at Thanksgiving, I am amazed at the different recipes I found. We have certainly gone away from a lot of the cornbread types most common in the past.
When I went to the grocery store this past week I was bombarded by all the different types of box mixes for stuffing that is on the shelves.
There is a large cultural difference between the southern and northern parts of our country when it comes to how stuffing is made. My husband's aunt makes a dressing called "stuffing balls." (She is from Pennsylvania.)
3 loaves of bread (I use white bread)
1/2 cup of butter or margarine
1 cup of chopped celery
1 cup of chopped onions.
1/4 cup of rubbed sage
3 cans of turkey gravy
salt and pepper to taste
Chicken broth to wet dressing down.
Set bread out at least one day in advance. Tear into small pieces. If you do not do this, you need to air dry it in about a 200 degree oven the day you make them
Sauté the onion, celery and sage in the margarine until tender. Mix into the bread and shape into balls about the size of baseballs. One can make these smaller.
Place in a large baking pan depending on the size of the balls. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes covered in a 320 degree oven. When done, pour turkey gravy over balls and place in oven for about 15 minutes to heat gravy.( One can heat gravy in a saucepan as well and pour over balls.)
As you can see there is no cornbread in this recipe. Most homes in the Northern part of our country us only white or wheat bread as their stuffing.
However living in the South, I have to post the recipe that I ate at the Madison Country Home Extension office Tuesday night at the "Secret Ingredient" Club. The recipe is Diana Thacker's Aunt Helen's Dressing.
Aunt Helen's Dressing
4 1/2 cups cornbread crumbled
2 cups of biscuits crumbled
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped celery
1 small can cream of mushroom soup
1 can chicken broth
1 can of mushrooms(optimal)
1/2 cup melted butter
2 Tbsp sage
1 Tbsp poultry seasoning
2 tsp celery seed
1 Tbsp parsley(optional)
Mix the above ingredients. Place in a buttered pan and or roll into balls. Bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes.
If you would like to see more of these recipes I encourage you to attend the Secret Ingredient club that meets at the Madison County Home Extension building on Duncannon Lane the second Tuesday of the month at 5:30.
Have you ever ridden to work in a car pool? I have to tell you about the car pool I got into and what happen around Thanksgiving time. You see these car pool folks had a requirement to receive a initiation into the pool. Unknown to me, I was done in by these folks one holiday week. If you see me out and about I will tell you what they pulled on me. I decided that payback was needed to even the score. So the Tuesday before Thanksgiving one year, I made up this recipe about how to stuff your Turkey with uncooked Popcorn. I made the recipe so long that I knew they would not take the time to read it all. I gave it to them and they could not wait to pass it out in the department they all worked in. They realized at the end of the day that I had paid them back. The last statement on the recipe was-TURKEY IS DONE WHEN TAIL IS BLOWN OFF AND OVEN DOOR FALLS OFF. I really hope there was not too many ovens destroyed that fixed the recipe without reading the ending.
I need to go way down South on this recipe. Jeanette Heindel who hails from New Orleans shared this stuffing recipe with me. It is different but so good. This recipe makes a lot so I did half a recipe for 5 people.
Jeanette's Corn Bread Stuffing
This is the larger version-serves 10
1/2 cup olive oil
8 Tbsp unsalted butter
4 large yellow onions, sliced thin
6 celery stalks-chopped
8 carrots-chopped
2 (12-ounce) boxes corn bread stuffing
4 cups chicken broth
1 (10-ounce) can cream of celery soup
1 1/2 cups fresh orange juice
1 cups scallions, chopped
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
1 Tbsp kosher salt
Lots of pepper
Preheat oven to 325 degrees
1. Pour the cornbread stuffing in a large bowl
2. In a large skillet, heat the olive oil. Add the onions, cover with a lid and lower the heat to caramelize-about 10 minutes. Add the celery, butter and carrots.
3. Add the cooked vegetables to the stuffing mix.
4. Add the cream of celery soup, chicken broth, orange juice, lemon juice, scallions and pepper to the stuffing. Mix well.
Place the stuffing in a baking pan and cover tightly with aluminum foil. Bake for 45 minutes. Serves 10
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I am adding my email to this writing in hopes that you can share with me your holiday blessings. Of course I would love some of your favorite recipes to share with other guest that might stop by sometime.
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MOORE — Jordan and Laura Rousseau, Oklahoma City, announce the birth of a daughter, Reagan Paige Rousseau. She was born at 6:59 p.m. on June 20 at OU Medical Center. She weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces and was 20 inches long. She is the granddaughter of David and Alison Walker, Moore, and Art and Lyla Rousseau, Oklahoma City.
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Exhibition Film "Installation - Phil Solomon: American Falls"
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Part of the exhibition Film After Film
Phil Solomon will appear in person at the Museum on October 3 with a program of short films and digital works
Phil Solomons immersive triptych film installation American Falls (20002012, 55 mins.), which was originally commissioned by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., transforms the Museums 4,000-sq. ft. third floor gallery into a panoramic and artistic journey through the catacylsms of American history, and an elegy to the film medium that welcomes a new era of mixed medias. Combining chemically degraded film images with computer editing precision, Solomons piece recasts the Niagara Falls as both a metaphoric landscape and audiovisual backdrop to American history.
Archival footage of moments in the nations historythe fall of presidents, the Great Depression, Amelia Earharts flight, the civil rights struggle among themopens with crackling images of Annie Edson Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. These are interlaced with clips from American cinema, including scenes with Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Busby Berkeley dance numbers, and Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will be Blood, all accompanied by an intricate soundtrack of historical addresss, popular music, and sound effects (designed and mixed in 5.1 surround by Wrick Wolff).
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Indiana State Police responded to the possibility of increased accidents brought on by Wednesday's adverse weather by calling in extra troopers throughout the agency's five-county district.
ISP Sgt. Jerry Goodin with the Sellersburg Post reported two accidents resulting in non-life threatening injuries and 14 accidents resulting in only property damage Wednesday morning and afternoon. Goodin said troopers also responded to a number minor incidents of vehicles sliding from the roadways.
He said the reported accidents caused no road closures Wednesday afternoon in the ISP's district that includes Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Washington and Scott counties. Goodin said all the traffic accidents were quickly cleared by troopers and resulted in only minimal delays.
The district staffed 14 troopers, about double the typical manpower, to patrol the roadways Wednesday, Goodin said.
He said the majority of the snow and rain fell in the agency's northern district of Scott and Washington counties, but the overall reported accidents were evenly distributed throughout each of the counties. Goodin said weather caused the worst road conditions in the northern counties, but with the areas' lower populations there are less motorists on the roadways to be involved in accidents.
Officials in Floyd County reported 18 traffic accident calls between 5:30 a.m. and late Wednesday afternoon. Floyd County Sheriff's Department Maj. Jeff Topping said three of the total calls resulted in injuries, none of which were life threatening. He said the accidents were distributed throughout the county, with no concentration of accidents taking place in particular areas.
Topping said there are steps people can take to better their chances of avoiding an accident during inclement weather conditions.
"When there are signs of bad weather, people need to plan ahead and expect to take a bit more time getting to where they are going," he said.
Topping said leaving for a destination earlier than usual and being patient while en route can help motorists stay safe. He also said that people should anticipate, depending on the length of their trip, that road conditions can change from one area to another.
"The temperature can change, and road conditions can be different in one part of the county than another," Topping said. "You just got to be careful."
Clark County Sheriff's Office Maj. Chuck Adams reported five incidents involving vehicles sliding from the roadways throughout Clark County from the early morning hours Wednesday into the afternoon.
None of the incidents resulted in injuries and all were single-vehicle wrecks, he reported.
Three of the incidents occurred on Ind. 60 between Borden and Sellersburg, and two of the wrecks occurred on Ind. 62 between Charlestown and New Washington.
Officials with the New Albany Police Department reported two traffic accidents during Wednesday morning and afternoon.
New Albany police Maj. Keith Whitlow said a vehicle struck a deer near Grant Line Road and Hausfeldt Lane, and a vehicle ran off the road on Grant Line Road and East Daisy Lane.
He attributed the small number of traffic accidents to the temperature staying above freezing and the work of the city's street department keeping the roadways clear.
Officials with Jeffersonville and Clarksville police departments reported no traffic accidents occurring during the morning and afternoon of adverse weather.
Indiana residents largely heeded warnings to stay home Wednesday as a rare blizzard swirled across the state, dumping a foot of wind-whipped snow on southern areas and creating harsh conditions for motorists who did venture out.
The heaviest snowfall amounts — about a foot of wet snow — fell from about Vincennes in Southwestern Indiana across South-Central Indiana through the Bloomington and Nashville areas, according to the National Weather Service.
The storm quickly dropped several inches of snow in some areas, including 3 inches in an hour in the Indianapolis area Wednesday morning. The storm produced sustained winds of 25 to 30 mph, and gusts of up to 40 mph that just barely made the storm a blizzard, weather service meteorologist John Kwiatkowski said.
"The way I've been describing it is as a low-end blizzard, but that's sort of like saying a small Tyrannosaurus rex," Kwiatkowski said.
The Indianapolis weather office reported 7.3 inches of snow by late Wednesday afternoon — the heaviest amount since a January 2009 storm dumped about a foot of snow on the capital — and little additional accumulation was expected, fellow meteorologist Dave Tucek said.
The blizzard warning that had covered the southern two-thirds of the state was lifted by mid-afternoon as the storm system mostly pushed east of the state. Five Southeastern Indiana counties remained under a blizzard warning, however, into Wednesday evening.
Up to 12 inches of snow buried Knox and Greene counties in Southwestern Indiana, prompting Greene County officials to close all county roads except to emergency service and private health care workers.
Some motorists risked venturing out and ran into trouble. About 40 vehicles became stuck for a few hours Wednesday morning on Ind. 37 between Bloomington and Martinsville when they couldn't make it up an ice-covered hill, said First Sgt. Dennis Kirkman of the state police's Bloomington district.
"There's always people who don't pay attention or who've got four-wheel drive and think that they're immune to everything," Kirkman said.
Schools and many businesses were already closed for Christmas break, and many state and local government offices told nonessential employees to stay home.
In Indianapolis, most businesses and restaurants were closed because of the storm, but a few motorists crept along streets filled with drifts and lumps of snow. Roadside ditches were littered with cars that had slid off or were involved in accidents.
The storm was welcomed at Southern Indiana's ski slopes.
Lauren Grenier, whose husband is the general manager of Paoli Peaks about 90 miles south of Indianapolis, said the half foot of snow forecast for the resort was certain to boost business in the days ahead.
"There's a small blizzard going on down here right now," she said. "This is good news for us."
Chip Perfect of Perfect North Slopes said the storm is also expected to dump a half-foot of snow on the Lawrenceburg-area resort in Southeastern Indiana. Perfect said the storm, like all snowstorms, would keep some people away at first.
"The first day of a snowstorm it tends to reduce the crowd, but it'll be on the ground and it will on the ground in people's minds for the rest of the week, so each day we'll build and for us the timing's good," he said.
Nationwide, the powerful winter storm system pounded the nation's midsection Wednesday and headed toward the Northeast, where people braced for the high winds and heavy snow that disrupted holiday travel, knocked out power to thousands of homes and were blamed in at least six deaths.
Hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed, scores of motorists got stuck on icy roads or slid into drifts, and blizzard warnings were issued amid snowy gusts of 30 mph that blanketed roads and windshields, at times causing whiteout conditions.
The system, which spawned Gulf Coast region tornadoes on Christmas Day and a historic amount of snow in Arkansas, pushed through the Upper Ohio Valley and headed toward the Northeast. Forecasts called for 12 to 18 inches of snow inland from western New York to Maine starting late Wednesday and into Thursday and tapering off into a mix of rain and snow closer to the coast, where little accumulation was expected in such cities as New York and Boston.
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They say there's a thin line between love and hate. In the world of business however, the lines are clear and they are bold – you can't miss them. This is especially true in the tech sector where companies fight every day trying to put each other out of business.
There has been no better example of this than with tech giants Apple and Samsung and their on-going legal dispute over copyrights. Samsung proclaims "flattery" while Apple screams "theft." Who's right? I suppose it depends on who the judge is.
Four months ago, Apple was awarded $1 billion worth in damages after a federal jury found sufficient evidence to determine that Samsung willfully infringed upon several Apple patents. Apple immediately sought to ban sales of several Samsung products in the U.S. Samsung argued that it deserved a new trial – citing (among other things) juror misconduct. Suddenly, the company has done an about-face. What changed?
In a move that comes completely unexpected, the South Korean giant has decided to drop its suit against Apple in Five European countries – Germany, France, the U.K., Italy and the Netherlands. Samsung's surprised decision comes only one day after the company earned a small victory after Apple's sale ban request of Samsung's products was denied by a U.S. judge
Samsung officials released the following statement:
"Samsung remains committed to licensing our technologies on fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms, and we strongly believe it is better when companies compete fairly in the marketplace, rather than in court," the company said. "In this spirit, Samsung has decided to withdraw our injunction requests against Apple on the basis of our standard-essential patents pending in European courts, in the interest of protecting consumer choice."
That sounds great, but companies don't typically make such PR moves without expecting something in return. Does it mean that Apple and Samsung will settle the rest of their disputes out of court? Is Samsung no longer a threat to cut off Apple's supply of parts? How will this impact Google's relationship with Apple?
If it is true that there will be no more nastiness between the two companies, there is a chance that this peace treaty might still present come casualties. Unfortunately, it might adversely impact Microsoft and Research in Motion since both stood to benefit from any prolonged rift with the Android OS. Phone manufactures were looking for non-Android platforms as a way to avoid potential obstacles. RIM's BB10 and Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 were ideal alternatives. But perhaps not anymore.
If Apple agrees to drop its sales ban on 26 Samsung phones, that means there are more devices with which the weaker players such as RIM and Microsoft must compete. Also it remains to be seen how this will affect the $1 billion in damages that Apple was awarded during the summer. Will the two companies negotiate the amount lower or was this already a consideration in Samsung's sudden "change of heart." Investors will find out soon enough.
Early indicators suggest that the market loves this news. Shares of Apple are up over 1% to $525.19 in premarket activity.
These two are going to need all of their own resources just to protect some of their market in 2013. Apple is in a bad way will a very poor OS and nothing they can do about it. Sad really.
Your headline is incorrect. Apple and Samsung did not agree. Samsung dropped its cases against Apple, because not only were they going to lose them, but the European Union were going to punish them for abusing their FRAND patents by trying to unfairly use them against Apple.
"…Samsung has decided to withdraw our injunction requests against Apple on the basis of our standard-essential patents pending in European courts, in the interest of protecting consumer choice."
The title talks of agreement, but the content only talks of a unilateral and temporary backdown by Samsung.
Despite the spin, that backdown is pure self preservation and there is no particular reason for Apple to respond.
Samsung is only stoping it's abuse of FRAND patents against Apple. It's doing this explicitly to avoid the wroth of European regulators who could fine then, for this, an amount that would make their eyes water.
While Apple has FRAND patents, e.g. For LTE (and remember Google says even one SEP is enough), Apple has not been abusing them.
The maximum EU fines are a multiple of revenue. With Samsung's massive revenue but low income and capitalisation, this could even be terminal. It would certainly make their eyes water. Ask Microsoft, who got off easily.
They aren't dropping the suit, they are dropping the injunctive relief. Foss Patents blog believes it is because of the European Commission and the seeking of FRAND violations on Samsung's part. They are continuing the suit for monetary relief.
I don't think so. I think if they dropped the suit they would have to start over. They just dropping injunction, as the comment states. I could be wrong, but the suit continues, just seeking different results.
I'm no lawyer, though. Mueller says the suit is ongoing. He could be wrong, too.


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TEXAS TECH 5, OSU 2 — Oklahoma State (32-12, 7-8) tied a season high with four errors at Texas Tech (22-24, 7-12) and had four hits. Losing pitcher Jason Hursh allowed five runs, just two of them earned, on seven hits, Hilldale grad Jarrard Poteete was 0-for-3 for Tech.
ORU 8, LAMAR 0 — Alex Gonzalez earned his seventh win of the season as he went eight innings, struck out seven batters and allowed just four hits. Tyler Boss was 4-for-4 for the Golden Eagles, now (16-25, 11-8 Southland). Lamar is 33-13, 12-7.
OU 4, W. VIRGINIA 3 (10) — Craig Aikin's fielder's choice grounder produced the decisive run for OU (34-12, 11-5 Big 12). Jonathan Gray, the Big 12's leader in strikeouts and earned run average, pitched opposite West Virginia's Harrison Musgrave, who earned National Pitcher of the Week honors two weeks ago after a complete game shutout at Texas. WVU is, 27-20, 9-7. Neither would earn a decision.
CONNORS SPLITS — Connors State suffered a 1-0 loss to Northeastern A&M in the quarterfinalos of the NJCAA Region II tournament in Oklahoma City after defeating Rose State 7-2 in the first round.
The Cowgirls (24-34) play Eastern (21-33) in an 11 a.m. elimination game. Eastern lost 8-1 to Seminole then beat Carl Albert 3-2. The winner plays again at 3 p.m.
Bailey Douthan's RBI single was the difference in the opener. Connors had just two hits against Kaitlin Davis. Amanda O'Neal (5-5) took the loss, giving up just three hits in five innings.
The Cowgirls had 12 hits against Rose State for their fifth win in six games in the season series. Sammy Perry had a pair of doubles to lead the way.
EMPORIA STATE 6, NSU 1 — NSU moved into the loser's bracket in the MIAA Championship at Overland Park, Kan. Cayce Coleman finished 2-for-4, Amanda Harjo was 2-for-2 at the plate. Madison Reed recorded the other NSU hit. The fifth-seeded RiverHawks (26-23) play No. 8 seed Northwest Missouri at 11 a.m. today.
NORTHWOOD 6, BACONE 5 — In the RRAC tournament at Farmers Branch, Texas, Bacone led 5-2 but a rally put them in a noon elimination game against Texas Wesleyan. The winner gets Northwood in the championship game at 4 p.m.Chelsea Schuler was 3-for-4 for the Lady Warriors (22-23) Tarah Moutray was 2-for-4 with a home run.


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BROOKSIDE — Brookside continues to offer many inviting activities for its residents and even to travelers from around the world.
Its most notable offering is the Five Mile Creek Canoe Company and campground that can be found filled with people on the weekends during the summer months. Both have become extremely popular and as Mayor Roger McCondichie has phrased it, booking for the city's recreational areas is "wide open."
With the success of the canoe company and campground comes an increase of traffic into the town. McCondichie says there have been many visitors from various countries that have visited the local attractions in town.
The canoe company offers many options for the outdoor enthusiast and is a local attraction that can offer something to those who don't want to go far for an outdoor adventure.
McCondichie also said that swimming at Horseshoe Bend has also been a very popular excursion for many in the Brookside area.
Another activity that is offered in Brookside includes the St. Nicholas Russian-Slavic Food Festival that is held in November at the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church.
The festival highlights a deep history in the town of Brookside, dating back to the late 19th century when Slavic immigrants came to Brookside and founded the Parish.
In addition to the Russian/Slavic history that the festival provides, the Burrell-Country House has been renovated to house a history museum for the town of Brookside. It is located at the Brookside Municipal Complex.
Brookside also offers a community center for its residents. It is available to rent for a variety of purposes.
For a small town, there is a lot of character in Brookside and there is a lot offered for its residents.
For outdoor enthusiasts, Brookside's website says it is "reinventing itself as a recreation destination," and it is offering plenty for those with cultural interests as well.


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