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On Aug. 9, Matt Cmeyla was sworn in as the newest member of the Sussex Village Board, replacing longtime Trustee Fred Gallant.
Cmeyla, 40, has lived in the village for six years and chose to move here because of the quality of the schools and less congestion than his native Wauwatosa. And as a married father of two and director of marketing at Sharp Packaging, Cmeyla said he's ready to help out and make the area a great place to live for years to come.
- Why did you apply to be a village trustee? I really wanted to understand our local government and I've always wanted to be more involved in the village and the community.
- Are you involved in any other local organizations? No, this is it. But I am an usher at our church, St. James.
- After sitting through your first two meetings, has the experience lived up to your expectations? I really didn't have any expectations, but that's even better because you don't know what to expect. But I would say they've met my expectations as far as meetings go. There has been nothing controversial, just somewhat simple issues. But I am going to be on the Public Safety Committee and we're going to be going over the concealed carry and sexual predator ordinances, so that's going to be a challenge to meet everyone's needs and fears, I guess.
- While you serve on the board, what do you hope to impact going forward? Obviously, planning for future growth and having the infrastructure to do that and not have to catch up. Also, being a progressive village and having long term plans as well as a safe, good environment for children to grow up in because that's why we moved here and we want to maintain that quality of life. When you live in a small town you feel more close-knit and I like that.
- Did you ever expect you would hold a public office in your life? Actually, I wanted to. Back in the day I wanted to be a lawyer and then go into political science and get into politics. I ended up taking a different route, so it's a back-end passion for me.
- When you approach an issue or an ordinance, how do you look at it before you cast a vote or decide you position? I like to take a step back, look at it from 10,000 feet away and then dive in. You have to know all of the issues before you make a judgment and keep emotions out of it. You have to take a step back and look at it logically, the cause and effects that will happen.
- Obviously the people of Sussex really don't know you yet. But as time goes on, what is it you hope they realize about you personally or professionally about how you conduct yourself as a trustee? I'm definitely passionate about what I do and I give 110 percent. I've done that with my career, working 80, 90 hours per week and I used to travel 300,000 air miles per year. When I do something, it's all-in, but I have fun doing it.


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Socializing the Electorate: Campaigns, Operatives Turn to New Media
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When he tweeted that John Boehner was "the worst speaker" ever of the U.S. House of Representatives, he "got chewed out" he says, by the RNC, Republican National Committee. It is just one illustration of the impact of social media—and makes clear that people are watching—and responding, a fact ever more in use by political campaigns and their supporters. "It's a critical component of how both sides are communicating," says Espuelas, host of The Fernando Espuelas Show on the Univision Radio Network and a pioneer in online communities and the social networks that have fostered them.
Barack Obama's aggressive online campaigning, fundraising and networking earned him the moniker as, "the first digital president." Some now are using those same social media tools in hopes of making Mitt Romney the second.
Both candidates and parties are using social media to fundraise, test messages and garner grass-roots support. They're using it to leverage influence, hoping recipients will post and retweet to friends. It's even spawned fake sites designed to mislead.
This may prove particularly effective among Hispanics, who tend to have higher social media usage and are widely seen as one, if not the, deciding vote bloc in the upcoming presidential election. Both campaigns are banking on social media to make a difference. "Now, all the social media is grandfathered in from two years ago and is the central tool for grass-roots organizing," says Gus West, president and board chairman for The Hispanic Institute.
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Obama for America's reach can be felt web-wide with a Spanish-language site and an English-language site for Hispanics and a blog. It sends bilingual emails to supporters—the Latinos for Obama Facebook page has 50,000 likes and the campaign regularly tweets in English and Spanish. By linking its own site log-in via Facebook, Obama for America reportedly also can gather personal data to add to its own data banks. The campaign apparently has hired analysts, software engineers, statisticians, predictive modelers and others, according to a February story in The Guardian. Obama for America is no longer talking about its social media to reporters and Gabriela Domenzain, its director of Hispanic media, declined to talk to PODER about the issue.
Meanwhile, social media is not all about touting "their" guy. Earlier this year, the Democratic National Committee created a two-minute online spoof depicting Mitt Romney's Facebook timeline, with his gaffs front and center.
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Yet if Barack Obama and the Democrats have a four-year head start, the GOP is catching up. Zac Moffatt, digital director for the Romney campaign, says the campaign is tapping into strong social media adoption by Hispanics—54 percent use Facebook and 18 percent use Twitter, versus 43 percent and 13 percent of the general market, respectively. Yet Republicans have a long way to go. Romney's Spanish-language Facebook page launched in mid-June and had 23,000 followers by month's end, Moffatt says. Not just followers—but "across-the-board engagement and intensive levels," he says. Still, Moffatt claims Hispanics are the highest users of the campaign's Foursquare location-based social networking app. The campaign works closely with the RNC for mobilization and coordination.
Rollout of a Spanish-language site is "very imminent," Moffatt says. The next target: mobile web and applications. Some 36 percent of all mobile phone users are Hispanic, and 51 percent use their phones to access the net. The campaign runs bilingual advertising on mobile. Some 20 percent of the Romney website is trafficked by mobile. About 17 percent of all consumers visiting the campaign's mobile-optimized site are Hispanics, whom Moffatt called "power users" of smart phones and mobile Internet. At the Republican National Convention in August, the campaign and GOP operatives will flood Facebook, Twitter and Google + to transform the event into a "convention without walls," Moffatt says.
Social media's real power is in its reach. The "amplification effect" spreads out like ripples across a Facebook or Twitter feed, to one's Pinterest, YouTube, even across emails, says Carmela Aquino, senior marketing manager with comScore Inc., the online data analysis service. Unlike "paid" media impressions found with traditional advertising, these "earned" media impressions take the message beyond merely fans to seeing how people are exposed to, affected by and willing to act upon a brand message.
Case in point, the Obama campaign bought some 800 million paid online display ads in January. Yet Obama's 25 million Facebook fans provided some 66 million additional earned impressions of Obama's brand messages virally, Aquino, wrote in a May article titled "Social Media Delivers Valuable Exposure for Presidential Campaigns."
Social Media vs. Big Money
Still, some aren't so sure of social media's power this time around. More compelling may be the impact of unlimited cash borne of the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling. Social media can coordinate action but ongoing engagement is the challenge.
Multi million-dollar contributions from big givers might overpower the small-dollar contributions that funded Obama in 2008—and the impact of social media. "Politicians given their druthers would prefer to raise an enormous amount of money and advertise on TV," says Clay Shirky, a professor of new media at New York University, writing in Foreign Affairs magazine. "Now, social media is really just second fiddle to unrestricted money for candidates and unsponsored television."
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The Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore holds it's 11th Annual Holiday Gift Fairs -The Park Heights JCC's event will be held on Sunday November 11th from 10am to 2pm and with free Zumba classes from 9-11am.
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---- — METHUEN — The custodian convicted last month of embezzling thousands of dollars from her union over a period of years was terminated last week from the School Department.
Beth Reuter, 48, a senior custodian at Comprehensive Grammar School, was fired March 7, Superintendent Judith Scannell said. Reuter's last day of paid employment was Feb. 13, the day a jury convicted her of one felony count of larceny of property greater than $250 in value by a single scheme.
Judge Michael Uhlarick sentenced her to 30 days in jail, and she was taken into custody at the end of her trial. Department of Corrections director of public affairs Diane Wiffin said Reuter served her sentence at Massachusetts Correctional Institute-Framingham until Feb. 28, when she was transferred to another jurisdiction.
Wiffin said she did not have information on where she was transferred. A message left with Kevin Maccioli, public affairs officer for Middlesex County Sheriff Peter Koutoujian, seeking information on where she was transferred was not returned.
A message seeking comment left with attorney Michael Hogan, who represented Reuter during her trial, was not returned.
In 2011, Reuter was charged with nearly 30 counts of larceny for writing numerous checks to herself totaling $6,235.95 while she was treasurer of the Methuen Custodial Association over a period of five years, according to the original Methuen Police report.
The prosecutor in last month's trial focused on about 20 checks totaling $5,815 over the course of about 18 months in 2006 and 2007.
The checks were discovered after an officer in the Methuen Custodial Association reviewed account records in 2011. Patrick Winn, a former custodian at Methuen schools and a one-time secretary/treasurer, was charged with stealing $22,400 from the union. He pleaded guilty to a single felony larceny charge in September and was sentenced to one year of probation.
Methuen police arrested Winn in March 2009 on gambling charges after two men said they placed thousands of dollars in sports bets with him. He admitted to sufficient facts for one of the charges, and his case was continued the case without a finding, according to court documents.
In 2007, Reuter was charged after trying to buy cocaine in a Home Depot parking lot with her children in the car.
Scannell fired Reuter on May 26, 2011, after criminal complaints for larceny were filed in Lawrence District Court, and Reuter appealed to the Civil Service Commission. Reuter and the School Department signed a settlement agreement in November 2011 that brought her back to work, at a lower base wage that totaled $43,222.40 per year. Six months later, on May 27, 2012, her pay was bumped back up to a salary of $62,905, the rate she was payed before she was fired, according to School Department records.
Civil Service did not issue any ruling in that case, and Reuter withdrew her complaint as part of the agreement.
Scannell released a copy of the settlement agreement to last summer, but key terms of the agreement were redacted. A request to the School Department last month for an unredacted copy of the agreement was denied.
Winn resigned from the School Department in June 2012.
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A pack of coyotes chased a California man out walking his 130-pound dog.
A strong storm system is bringing blizzard conditions to the Great Lakes region, and the Carolinas will feel the impacts from this system as well.
After some much needed rain moved through the area, the winds began to pick up overnight Thursday. The potential for damaging winds will be even higher Friday afternoon, as wind gusts approach 70 mph in the high country, where a High Wind Warning has been issued.
Strong winds from the same system tore down trees and overturned power poles in Green county, Tennessee. Several homes were also damaged.
Another potential travel hazard will be snow falling in the mountains. One to three inches is forecast through Saturday morning that could cause slick roadways.
The Piedmont will also see strong winds, with gusts of up to 50 mph possible in the late afternoon hours.
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Saturday, my husband and I had the rare privilege of babysitting available to us so we decided to head downtown and check out one of the new restaurants at the "slow" end of downtown. It was a hot and casual kind of day, so we opted for pizza over the alluring, yet formal, white tablecloths of Naschmarkt.
was the perfect spot. We arrived early - and I'm glad we did. The place was full, both inside and outside on the sidewalk patio, by 6:00 p.m. What we didn't realize was just how family-friendly it was going to be. Every other table was a family with young kids, each happily entertained during the long wait for the deep-dish Chicago-style pizzas (25-30 minutes) with a personal miniature Etch-A-Sketch.
The decor is edgy and modern - I especially loved the giant abstract canvases showcased on every wall. If you're there for their signature deep-dish pizza, plan to wait a while, but those who ordered thin crust, we observed, were served promptly. Reviews on Yelp! claimed the noise-level inside was annoying - we didn't find it so at all, despite the packed tables.
What's a deep-dish pizza? That was my first thought - and no, Pizza Hut doesn't count. Real Chicago-style deep-dish involves a thick, crunchy, not at all chewy crust, filled with goodness - we selected the Meatball Deep Dish: spicy house made meatballs, ricotta, spinach, mushrooms, and red bell peppers. It arrived in less than 30 minutes; a chunky, flavorful tomato sauce piled on top off the filings, and lots of stringy, beautiful mozzarella on the inside. In a word: yummy. Downright yummy. When asked, our server said she liked the White Pie Thin Crust the best: garlic infused olive oil base, roasted zucchini, fresh tomatoes, feta.
I couldn't resist the desserts and took an order of Brownie Wedges home for later: house-made brownies made fair-trade chocolate, topped with salted caramel sauce and nuts. It was good - not stellar - but solid.
Blue Line Pizza is rapidly expanding throughout the Bay Area, due to the popularity of the flagship store, Little Star Pizza in San Francisco, since opening in 2004.
If you haven't made a point to stop by, you should. Not to mention, they have their very own parking lot - accessible only from Campbell Avenue, but handy during those busy downtown Campbell evenings.
Adelle Gabrielson: writer, boy-mom, shoe addict. Read more at www.AdelleGabrielson.com or follow me on Twitter or Pinterest.


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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian military were blocking a Ukrainian military airport in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Crimea near the Russian naval base while unidentified armed men were patrolling another airport serving the regional capital, Ukraine's new Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on Friday.
No violence was reported, and flights continued to operate at the airport serving Simferopol, the regional capital. It was not immediately clear whether the airport in Sevastopol, owned by the Ukrainian defense ministry, was open but there are no scheduled services to the facility.
The Russian foreign ministry refused to comment while a spokesman for the Russian defense ministry also had no comment.
Avakov wrote in a Facebook post that the Belbek international airport in Sevastopol was blocked by military units of the Russian navy.
"I can only describe this as a military invasion and occupation," Avakov said.
GOP derails Senate Dems' bill boosting vets benefits amid disputes over spending, Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Senate on Thursday derailed Democratic legislation that would have provided $21 billion for medical, education and job-training benefits for the nation's veterans. The bill fell victim to election-year disputes over spending and fresh penalties against Iran.
Each party covets the allegiance of the country's 22 million veterans and their families, and each party blamed the other for turning the effort into a chess match aimed at forcing politically embarrassing votes.
Republicans used a procedural move to block the bill after Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., chided GOP lawmakers about their priorities.
"I personally, I have to say this honestly, have a hard time understanding how anyone could vote for tax breaks for billionaires, for millionaires, for large corporations and then say we don't have the resources to protect our veterans," said Sanders, the measure's chief author.
Democrats noted that more than two dozen veterans groups supported the legislation. But Republicans said they still favor helping veterans while also wanting to be prudent about federal spending.
Sen. Cruz blasts GOP leaders, refuses to endorse fellow Texan or others with party challengers
WASHINGTON (AP) — The sniping between establishment Republicans and tea partyers resumed Thursday as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz refused to endorse his state's senior senator in next week's Republican primary.
Sen. John Cornyn, the Senate's second-ranking Republican leader, faces tea party-backed Rep. Steve Stockman in Tuesday's election. Cruz declined to tell reporters how he plans to vote.
"I am not supporting any of the senators from my party or their opponents" in this year's primaries, Cruz said, adding that he might change his mind later.
Cruz, a tea party favorite and potential 2016 presidential candidate, has infuriated fellow Republicans by forcing uncomfortable votes on issues such as the debt, and by raising money for conservative groups trying to defeat veteran Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
Cruz's comments are especially notable because he is a vice chairman of the GOP committee tasked with winning Senate elections. He criticized the committee's track record and policy of virtually always backing incumbents.
US officials: Al-Qaida planning comeback in eastern Afghanistan after anticipated US drawdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — Al-Qaida's Afghanistan leader is laying the groundwork to relaunch his war-shattered organization once the United States and international forces withdraw from the country, as they have warned they will do without a security agreement from the Afghan government, U.S. officials say.
Farouq al-Qahtani al-Qatari has been cementing local ties and bringing in small numbers of experienced militants to train a new generation of fighters, and U.S. military and intelligence officials say they have stepped up drone and jet missile strikes against him and his followers in the mountainous eastern provinces of Kunar and Nuristan. The objective is to keep him from restarting the large training camps that once drew hundreds of followers before the U.S.-led war began.
The officials say the counterterrorism campaign — a key reason the Obama administration agreed to keep any troops in Afghanistan after 2014 — could be jeopardized by the possibility of a total pullout.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said the number of al-Qaida members in Afghanistan has risen but not much higher than as many as the several hundred or so the U.S. has identified in the past.
"I think most are waiting for the U.S. to fully pull out by 2014," he said.
Tea party to establishment: We're alive and ready to do battle in 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The foot soldiers of the tea party movement dismiss the chatter about its demise and stand ready to use their unbending political force against both President Barack Obama and the Republican establishment this election year.
The Tea Party Patriots, one of the major grass-roots groups, marked the fifth anniversary of the movement Thursday, attracting hundreds of members and plenty of speakers to a Washington celebration in which they directed their animosity at the Washington establishment.
Keli Carender, national grass-roots coordinator, said the strength of the group was reflected in the $1.2 million and counting that it raised in 10 days.
To the "establishment and permanent political class," Carender said, "we don't need their millions, we've got our own."
Republican primaries this election year will be a crucial test for the movement as the GOP establishment has aggressively challenged tea party-backed candidates in Kentucky, Kansas, Idaho, Mississippi, Michigan and elsewhere. Republicans blame the tea party for losses in winnable races in 2010 and 2012 that many believe cost the GOP a Senate majority.
Tokyo bitcoin exchange files for bankruptcy, significant amount of virtual currency missing
TOKYO (AP) — The Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange in Tokyo filed for bankruptcy protection, acknowledging that a significant amount of the virtual currency had gone missing.
The exchange's CEO Mark Karpeles appeared before Japanese TV news cameras Friday, bowing deeply for several minutes.
He said a weakness in the exchange's systems was behind the massive loss of the virtual currency.
Speaking in Japanese at a Tokyo court, he apologized for the troubles he had caused so many people.
Kyodo News said debts at Mt. Gox totaled more than 6.5 billion yen ($65 million), surpassing its assets.
GAO report: scant evidence of growing shortage of airline pilots; low pay appears to be issue
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's not clear there is a shortage of airline pilots even though regional airlines report difficulty over the past year in finding enough pilots to hire, according to a draft report by a government watchdog obtained by The Associated Press.
The U.S. airline industry will need to hire 1,900 to 4,500 new pilots annually over the next 10 years due to an expected surge in retirements of pilots reaching age 65 and increased demand for air travel, the Government Accountability Office said. The report, obtained late Thursday, was to be released Friday.
Eleven out of 12 regional airlines failed to meet their hiring targets for entry-level pilots last year, the report said. However, no major airlines were experiencing problems finding pilots. Some airline officials did express concern that service to some cities might have to be cut back if their regional partners cannot hire enough pilots, the report said.
Major airlines generally pay significantly higher salaries than regional carriers. The average starting salary for first officers at regional airlines is $22,400, according to the Air Line Pilots Association.
"Data indicate that a large pool of qualified pilots exists relative to the projected demand, but whether such pilots are willing or available to work at wages being offered is unknown," the report said. And, the size of these pools of pilots has remained steady since 2000, the report said.
Aided by Gulf millions, exiled Palestinian operative Mohammed Dahlan seeks new Gaza foothold
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Fueled by millions in Gulf aid dollars that are his to distribute, an exiled Palestinian operative seems to be orchestrating a comeback that could position him as a potential successor to aging Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.
In a phone interview from London, Mohammed Dahlan spoke of his aid projects in the Gaza Strip, his closeness to Egypt's military leaders and his conviction that the 79-year-old Abbas has left the Palestinian national cause in tatters.
If staging a successful return, Dahlan, a former Gaza security chief once valued by the West for his pragmatism, could reshuffle a stagnant Palestinian deck. Some caution that Dahlan has made too many enemies in Abbas' Fatah movement and will continue to be ostracized by those planning to compete for the top job in the future.
Dahlan, 52, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he is "not looking for any post" after Abbas retires, but called for new elections and an overhaul of Fatah.
"Abbas will leave only ruins and who would be interested to be a president or vice president on these ruins?" Dahlan said. "What I am interested in is a way out of our political situation, not a political position."
AP Exclusive: Airport phone system didn't give location of Los Angeles airport shooting
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A dispatcher at Los Angeles International Airport couldn't immediately send police to a shooting last year because the emergency phone system didn't provide a location, according to an investigation that also found broken panic buttons that are supposed to quickly call for help.
A screening supervisor picked up the "red phone" seconds after shots were fired in the sprawling airport's Terminal 3 last Nov. 1, but she fled as the gunman approached with his high-powered rifle. Because no one was on the other end of the line to provide details and no location information was included with the call, the dispatcher was helpless, according to two officials briefed on preliminary findings of a review of the emergency response.
They spoke only on condition of anonymity because the final report won't be released until next month.
One of the officials likened the situation to a 911 call with police not knowing what address to go to. Airport dispatchers knew something was wrong but didn't know where to send help because the system didn't identify the locations of its emergency phones.
An airline contractor working in the terminal called dispatch directly from his cellphone and provided the location. Officers were sent nearly 90 seconds after the shooting started.
Married priest ordained by Maronite Catholic Church in US for the 1st time in nearly 100 years
ST. LOUIS (AP) — For the first time in nearly a century, a married priest has been ordained by the Maronite Catholic Church in the United States — and his wife and daughter were on hand to support him.
Wissam Akiki was welcomed by hundreds of supporters during a ceremony Thursday night at St. Raymond's Maronite Cathedral in St. Louis. He called it a "historic day" and said he had been given two great blessings: marriage to his wife of 10 years, Manal, and "the dream to serve the Lord thanks and church as a priest."
Maronites are among more than a dozen Eastern Catholic church groups in the U.S. that accept the authority of the pope but have many of their own rituals and liturgy.
Eastern Catholic churches in the Middle East and Europe ordain married men. But the Vatican banned the practice in America in the 1920s, after Latin-rite bishops complained it was confusing for parishioners.
Pope John Paul II called for greater acceptance of Eastern Catholic traditions, and over the years popes have made exceptions on a case-by-case basis for married men to become Eastern Catholic priests in America. Pope Francis gave permission for Akiki to be ordained.


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It has not been easy to keep up to date with the International Accounting Standards Board's (IASB) decisions on the project to replace IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement. The fact that the project is split into three phases has made it particularly tricky to keep track of. For a number of months, questions have been asked about whether the classification and measurement requirements for financial assets and financial liabilities that were finalised in 2010 would be revised and in November 2011, the IASB decided to consider limited modifications to IFRS 9.
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Ivy Tech Community College is now a Motoman Endorsed Robotics Instructor Training (MERIT) center, bringing Motoman training to Indiana region.
Ivy Tech Community College is now a Motoman Endorsed Robotics Instructor Training (MERIT) center. Through the MERIT program, community colleges and universities such as Ivy Tech bring the same level and quality of Motoman training to the regional manufacturing workforce.
Initially the Columbus, Indiana campus of Ivy Tech will deliver the DX100 Basic Programming course, with possible expansion to include other courses and other campuses. Ivy Tech can offer training in a flexible format and schedule that best meets the needs of their students.
"We are very excited about collaborating with Ivy Tech and manufacturers in central Indiana," says Doug Schenher, vice president of Motoman Robotics, Customer Satisfaction Group. "We view Ivy Tech as an extension of our Motoman training department. With an installed base of over 1,000 robots in this area, this is a significant win for the regional workforce and manufacturers. Increasing the skills of the workforce in the areas of robotics and advanced manufacturing enables companies to achieve new levels of productivity and profitability."
"Robotics is critical to Indiana's advanced manufacturing sector and as companies strive to increase efficiencies, the use of automated technologies will continue to grow," says Thomas J. Snyder, president of Ivy Tech Community College. "Other economic sectors are also relying more and more heavily on what has become over a $20 billion industry including military/defense and medicine/healthcare. Creating a training center featuring an industry leader in robotics makes sense for Indiana's workforce and for Indiana's businesses."
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Overnight Markets: Economic reports push S&P 500 to five-year high
by Himanshu Singh on Jan 18, 2013 at 03:51
Wall Street gained on Thursday, pushing the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to a five-year high, amid stronger-than-expected data on housing starts and jobless claims.
The Dow Jones industrial average was up 85 points, or 0.63%, at 13,596. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up eight points, or 0.56%, at 1,481. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 18 points, or 0.59%, at 3,136.
Shares gained after data showed that the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits declined to a five-year low last week and housing starts surged last month to the highest since June 2008.
A separate report showed that manufacturing in the Philadelphia region unexpectedly shrank in January, showing how companies are becoming more concerned about across- the-board US government spending cuts that could slow growth.
Gains in the shares yesterday were tempered by weakness in the financial sector as Bank of America's fourth-quarter profit fell as it took more charges to clean up mortgage-related problems. Citigroup posted $2.32 billion of charges for layoffs and lawsuits. While BofA was down 4.2%, Citigroup was off 2.9%.
Elsewhere, Intel shed 5.2% in extended-hours trading after the company forecast quarterly revenue that fell short of analysts' expectations.
Better-than-expected earnings and revenue reported by online marketplace eBay late Wednesday helped the stock gain 2.7%.
BlackRock Inc. added 4.4% after earnings increased 24% and the firm boosted its dividend and its buyback programme.
In the housing sector, PulteGroup Inc rose 4.9% and Toll Brothers Inc advanced 3.1%.
Energy shares led gains on the Dow after US crude oil prices jumped more than 1%. Shares of Exxon Mobil were up 0.8%, while Chevron added 0.7%.
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The PostgreSQL Global Development group has released version 8.0 of PostgreSQL, an object-relational database management system. Key new features for version 8.0 include savepoints, an SQL-standard feature that allows specific parts of a database transaction to be rolled back without aborting the entire operation. Also new for PostgreSQL 8.0 is point-in-time recovery, a feature that allows full data restoration from the automatic and continuously archived transaction logs, which is an alternative to hourly or daily backups. Version 8.0 also offers tablespaces, which allow the placement of large tables and indexes on their own individual disks or arrays, improving query performance. Finally, PostgreSQL offers improved disk and memory usage through the use of the Adaptive Replacement Cache algorithm, the new background writer and the new vacuum delay feature.
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Actually, at Electric Lady, Ocasek talks warmly and openly of his sons – a total of six, including two young boys with his third wife, the former model Paulina Porizkova. The couple met in 1984, when she starred in the video for "Drive," and have been married since 1989. "These are the first two kids I've seen grow up," says Ocasek, who has a house in upstate New York. "My little one is 12 now, plays the violin. He wants to be Paganini."
In the early Eighties, at the height of the Cars' success, Ocasek lived on "12 cups of coffee and no sleep," as he puts it. "It was all about the Cars. There was no domestic life. I was always sad for the children." Ocasek reveals that one son by an earlier marriage is a recovered drug addict. "I'd always think, 'Is it my fault? I could have gone different ways.'"
Ocasek describes his own childhood in Baltimore, and then in Cleveland when his father was transferred there, with zero nostalgia. "It was not tight at all," Ocasek says of his family, which included a younger sister. "I remember when I brought home the first Bob Dylan album and my father going, 'What the fuck is that? I don't want that in my house again.' Or if I brought home a black friend: 'How could you bring a black guy into the neighborhood?'
"I got out quick," Ocasek says crisply. He dropped out of Bowling Green State University in Ohio and met Orr, then began a long haul of constant aspiration and near-misses – "a lot of bands in different cities, with different approaches. All the work before the Cars was just getting to where the songs were good enough."
Between the Cars' breakup and rebirth, Ocasek briefly held an A&R job at the Cars' old label, Elektra, where he tried and failed to sign then-underground acts such as Devendra Banhart and Death Cab for Cutie. He was at his desk one day when a manager (whom Ocasek declines to name) came in, said he represented Hawkes, Easton and Robinson, and pressed for a Cars reunion. Ocasek said no.
"The shit hit the fan," he says. "Lawyers got involved. It must have cost a ton of money in legal fees that I wasted, the Cars wasted, for fucking no reason." Robinson switched sides; Hawkes and Easton toured as the New Cars in 2006-07, with Todd Rundgren up front. The venture ended when Easton snapped his clavicle in a tour-bus mishap. "Maybe it was a message," he says, laughing. Otherwise, he declines to talk about the New Cars.
Nor did Ocasek bring it up when he called Easton and Hawkes about making a new album. "We blasted all that out when we were in the middle of it," Ocasek says. "This was strictly 'Fuck everything that happened before this. This is a new thing.' And it was great."
"Ric seems relaxed and less angry than he was when he was forced on long tours against his will," Easton suggests. "Everybody is more relaxed. It's not the end of the world, like it always seemed."
Hawkes is "pretty optimistic" that there will be more action after this tour. "We can make more recordings," Robinson says, "the same way we did this one. It was so easy, it was ridiculous."
Ocasek is cautious but keen. "It took on more life than I thought it would," he says of the Cars' return. "A lot of bands re-form, do stuff, and they're crap. I know this isn't crap. And the people are good. They always were." Ocasek smiles. "They might even be a little better."
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Last year, on July 6th, 2011, I began a fitness and nutrition regime that has worked fantastically.
I had felt a bit rundown and lethargic and made a decision to change it. As an educator with largely free summers, I was in a position to change the underlying habits and behaviors that had contributed to my self-imposed dilemma. My return to fitness began with an overhaul of what I ate, when I ate, and how often.
Eliminating processed, sugary foods such as white bread, candy, and most pasta had an immediate and long-term effect. I began to eat a balanced diet full of protein, healthy fats, and largely strategic carbs. I stopped eating after 7 p.m. and stopped snacking so often. I did intense cardiovascular workouts six days a week without excuses! I slept 8 hours per night and continued to increase my knowledge of healthy lifestyles through reading and listening to talks by respected sources online and in person.
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While lawmakers and the general public grapple with calls for greater gun control in the wake of the Newtown shootings, Robert Crook, head of the Coalition of Connecticut Sportsmen, is emerging as a central figure in the statewide debate.
Crook in the past week has decried a proposal to tax certain kinds of ammunition, calling the idea "asinine." He also has said the term "assault weapon" is partly a "media invention," and has expressed confidence that a proposal to ban or limit high capacity gun magazines, which can hold dozens of rounds of ammunition in a single clip, will fail once the state's attention on Newtown begins to quiet.
"We killed it once," the Hartford Courant quotes Crook saying about such a ban, "and I would suspect, once things quiet down a little bit, we'll probably do it again."
When state Sen. Beth Bye, D-West Hartford, who knows the parents of one of the 20 children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, proposed the idea of a tax on high capacity rounds Crook publicly took the suggestion to task.
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Clojure's atoms let one transactionally and atomically store values. When one uses an atom, Clojure manages the mutation of the value and guarantees atomicity. Such a feature is very useful in a highly concurrent application. Much like Java's Atomic* classes, but somewhat more powerful.
This is a brief introduction.
Atomic Values
To define an atom, one simply invokes the
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The Ashtabula Area City School District's website has a new look.
The new site is at www.aacs.net, which is the same address as the old one.
Changes were made under the direction of teacher Andrea Tredent, who also runs Channel 19. She presented the website at Wednesday night's Board of Education meeting at Lakeside High School.
One of Tredent's goals was to make the district's website more parent and student friendly, she said.
As the school district migrates content to the new design, visitors to the website will see many new improvements, including:
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Tredent showed the video, featuring Superintendent Patrick Colucci and the district's principals, to the delight of the audience.
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"We've worked very hard to improve our communication so everyone sees the great things we are doing in our district," Colucci said. "This is good stuff."
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Support for the Alpha/DUX platform will be phased out January 1, 2004. This change is due to several factors:
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- Licensing of the DUX platform has become increasingly expensive.
- Very few Alpha/DUX machines remain in use and continued Facilities support for this outdated software is no longer practical.
In general, users who are currently on facilities-supported Alpha machines should consider moving to either Solaris or Linux as their supported platform. In the coming weeks, all users on Alpha machines will be contacted to determine their best upgrade path. Options for users on Alpha machines include:
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