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His former campaign treasurer is expected to go to trial on fraud charges next month, but that is not stopping John Liu who on Sunday formally announced his candidacy for mayor. NY1's Courtney Gross filed the following report.
City Comptroller John Liu officially announced his candidacy for mayor at City Hall on Sunday, joining a crowded Democratic field that includes City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, and former City Comptroller Bill Thompson.
"This can't be a city of rich and poor, of them and us. New York City needs to be one city," Liu said.
Liu had crowds -- several hundred -- behind his candidacy.
The steps of City Hall reached capacity and supporters overflowed into the adjacent park behind security gates.
As a populist touch, Liu gave his speech a second time.
"The rich keep getting filthy rich," Liu said.
He spent Sunday crisscrossing the five boroughs: St. Patrick's Day celebrations in Staten Island, handing out food for Passover in Brooklyn, and a Lunar New Year lunch in his own neighborhood of Flushing.
It was a schedule packed with 14 hours of events, the culmination of which took place at City Hall.
"Other candidates will also talk about housing, public education and job creation. But the difference between them and I, is I've lived it," Liu told supporters.
The comptroller has an uphill battle and his candidacy will include some skeptics.
On Sunday, he once again claimed he worked in a sweatshop as a child.
"And my mom spending years in a sweatshop, many days I had to join her in," Liu said.
That story was challenged when he ran for comptroller in 2009. And next month his former campaign treasurer and a campaign fundraiser will stand trial for fraud.
The comptroller hasn't been implicated with any wrongdoing but his own phone was tapped during the investigation.
And the allegations have made some question his candidacy for the city's highest office.
"People have said there is a witch hunt. The problem is there is no witch," Liu said.
The comptroller says no matter what happens at next month's trial his campaign will continue full steam ahead, and says clearly his support has not dwindled.
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SOURCE Republic of Equatorial Guinea
Symposium will give international investors a closer look at the country's investment opportunities
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, Jan. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Business and investment groups from around the world will come together from February 3-4, in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, for the inaugural Symposium for Economic Diversification for the Emergence of Equatorial Guinea.
The objective of the symposium is to provide attendees a deeper look at Equatorial Guinea's investment opportunities, mainly in the agriculture and ranching, fishing, petrochemicals and mining, tourism and financial services sectors.
Since the 1990s, the country has been utilizing oil revenues to finance major projects around the country, such as in the infrastructure, education and health sectors. The government continues to work toward ensuring that the public and private sector grow and provide jobs for Equatoguineans. This symposium aims to show international investors many of the opportunities offered by the government's economic diversification and industrialization plans.
During the symposium's launch ceremony, Marcelino Owono Edu, Minister of Finance and Budgets and event leader, said that the meeting will be of great importance because it will set the course of economic and social development for the country.
The symposium will review the Horizon 2020 development plan as well as provide information about the obstacles that investors may find and the resources that will be needed to create a more attractive business climate. It will give international investors the opportunity to directly interact with the representatives of the economic sector.
About Equatorial Guinea
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea (Republica de Guinea Ecuatorial) is the only Spanish-speaking country in Africa, and one of the smallest nations on the continent. In the late-1990s, American companies helped discover the country's oil and natural gas resources, which only within the last five years began contributing to the global energy supply. Equatorial Guinea is now working to serve as a pillar of stability and security in its region of West Central Africa. The country hosted the 2011 Summit of the African Union. For more information, visit http://www.guineaecuatorialpress.com.
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Diseases Linked to Obesity and Insulin Resistance: Obesity: Building A Program For SuccessPosted: Saturday, December 27, 2003
This is the last in a series of articles that have all focused on a single theme – obesity and the ravages which ensue from a long standing battle with being overweight. We've examined the overwhelming evidence linking heart disease to obesity; linking diabetes to obesity; linking hypertension, high cholesterol, and stroke to obesity. Those are just the major illnesses. There are countless minor ones. These diseases are the leading cause of death in most of the world we live in. Yet, the evidence is far from clear about what to do with that information.
Being obese or overweight is entirely someone's choice; however, it is really up to the health care practitioner to help and encourage in any way they can. In fact, recent studies have uncovered that there are few studies that prove that losing weight increases your life span. Thinner people live longer but does that mean that you have to have been born thin? Is an overweight person bound to die earlier regardless of how much they weight? We really don't know the answer to those questions and only time and research will provide us with the knowledge of what to do.
Since we do not know the answer to that very important question of, "will my intervention make any difference in life expectancy?;" we must examine things that we do know will a difference, and learn to ask the right questions. Perhaps the question we need to ask is, "is my intervention going to improve someone's quality of life?" If they don't live a day longer, will they feel better on each of those days they are alive.
Perhaps I am a little discouraged today because in my office this week, I saw a patient who was very sad. He was 13 and weighed 280 pounds. His blood pressure was through the roof; he couldn't walk, and had rashes all over his body. The worst part of it all was that he did not care. He had no motivation or desire to lose weight and feel better. He was completely resigned to his fact of life. I have to feel that making an intervention in his life will make a difference in not only his quality of life but in the prolongation of his life.
We do know that giving diabetics a proper diet will decrease the risk for peripheral vascular disease. This is accomplished through better control of blood sugar. Improved blood sugar control will also decrease risk for kidney disease and hence less need for dialysis; decrease incidence of blindness and less need for seeing-eye dogs; less numbness and tingling; less gum disease so less trips to the dentist (that means more fun in my life); and a longer sex life (who isn't up for that?). There are many more that we could mention too. Things that a diabetic stops enjoying because their blood sugar is not well controlled; or, they waited too long to get serious about their disease.
Diabetes is one of my least favorite diseases because people get lazy about it as they don't feel its effects necessarily on a daily basis. Until they are paralyzed from a stroke, they could easily forget that they have high blood pressure. Unless they get third degree burns from keeping their hand on a stove or pot too long because they couldn't feel the heat, they might never know they had no sensation in one of their extremities. Unless they get jaundiced, they may never know there liver is failing from the multitude of drugs being given to them by their well meaning physician to help keep them in check. Besides, who is going to pay for all of these expensive drugs? And, are they even necessary?
Some drugs are certainly necessary but they are prescribed at overwhelming amounts and always the newest, most expensive ones. This can be a real burden, not just on the person, but on the taxpayer as well. So, let's examine the implications of everything I've written about on the future of health care.
If you recall, 20% of those over the age of 65 are diabetic. If this figure holds true as the baby boomers age, we are facing an enormous potential problem. It will become financially impossible to care for all of these people. There won't be enough hospital beds to handle the cardiac implications of this, let alone anything else. Most hospitals and health care operations are already at the brink of bankruptcy – what is going to happen if we don't stop this tide?
Are you prepared as a practitioner to handle the onslaught of a diabetic patient population? They need more care, more time, and more of everything; yet, time is finite and our day won't be getting any longer – the amount we will have to work in that day may though. We are all going to have become more knowledgeable about the natural history of the disease and what to look for. Expect to see many more people using canes to walk, needing joint replacements of every sort and needing more room on the subway.
Our practice or counseling strategy is going to have to change to include time counseling the chronic overweight. Most overweight people are not first time offenders by the time they show up in our offices. By the time they get to see a professional, they have tried most of the other options available to them and have failed. Or, they were successful in the short term but failed to keep the weight off. Recidivism is extremely high for overweight people. One study even showed a failure rate of 95% for all weight loss programs across the board. To make matters worse, popular diets are being compared to each other and the outcomes so far appear that they are all equally ineffective. This is a very confusing proposition for the chronically overweight. They do not need another obstacle to stand in their way.
Therefore, simply devise a program that works for you and that you think will work for your patients. Then, you have to stick to your beliefs. Not every patient will be successful no matter what we try. That is why sometimes you have to have certain tricks up your sleeve for those troublesome patients. That is okay as long as the message you send out about what they should be eating is consistent. If you waiver, then so will they. They will lose faith and then you have lost them for good.
We are going to have to devise a program that is successful for our patients. For me, that program includes a good psychological support system. Behavioral medicine is extremely vital to the success of my patients. The issues patients face and the defense mechanisms are so powerful, partly because they are so primal and have been present for so long; that they have to be addressed as a separate entity from how to eat and what nutritional supplements to take.
Another important part of my program, Thin For Good, is an incentive program. Incentives need to be built into each patients program individually and something they can relate to. For example, one of my patients wants to lose weight so he can take me diving – not something I relish at all; but a simple price to pay if he lost the weight and got control of his diabetes.
Part of the challenge in tackling this recidivistic clientele is overcoming boredom. Try doing this by offering varied menu choices when making suggestions. Visit local fast-food places and local restaurants and delis and advise on what they should and should not eat. Most of my patients really appreciate the 7 day or 14 day sample menus that I give them. Since I individualize my diet programs, they are always not going to be accurate; but, it gives them a good idea of what you want them to do. This just makes it a little easier. Even if there are many things they have to change on those plans, they feel as if they have gotten something that they could really use. Go the extra step and your patient will appreciate it.
Something else to consider is the number of different nutritional supplements and the amount of pills that you ask them to take in a given day. This can be really overwhelming for some, especially if they have never taken them before. Remember to tell them to build up to the amount of supplements slowly. Sometimes it even takes my patients two weeks or more to get to the amount that I recommend. That is fine as long as you get to the goal – which is long term compliance. Assess the personality of the patient and if you can't get a good handle on them, then ask straight out – how do you feel about taking vitamins. Most people will have an opinion. Then come to a compromise that still maintains the integrity of the program you want them to follow with something they can handle.
And, lastly, set a good example. If you are overweight, smoke, drink to excess and don't exercise, what kind of example does that set for your clientele? Never eat something in front of them that you recommend against. Never allow your staff to do that either. They must believe that you practice what you preach; or why should they? That is not to say that you have to be thin and beautiful to take care of patients. You have to look like you are trying. Making an attempt is usually all your patient asks of you. Many diet and obesity doctors are overweight - even famous ones. Your clientele simply must believe in the faith of your convictions.
Whether you choose, or your patient chooses to lose weight or not, there is overwhelming evidence that suggest that there are foods that will support a healthier lifestyle. I think that will be my new series of articles – focusing on all the recent developments in the nutrition industry. We can review the latest studies and really explore the basis of a diet and lifestyle change that is necessary and long overdue. I can even give you sneak previews of my new book which is on this topic. Probably not too many or my publisher will get angry, but enough to whet your appetite.
I hate saving really good information. Since I just handed this book in, it will be at least 6 months before it gets to the stores and I am expected to keep all the good information to myself. That is very hard to do so I will leak it to all of you during the next few articles. So, until next time, when we examine fats, happy eating because you may have to change some of those habits once you are finished hearing what I have to say.
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Holtkotter 2501 Five Light Up / Down Lighting Floor Lamp
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Technical Specs
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|Light Direction
|Up / Down Lighting
|Number of Bulbs
|Reading Light
|Suggested Room Fit
|Bedroom, Living Room, Office
|Swing Arm
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Holtkotter 2501 Five Light Up / Down Lighting Floor Lamp
A breathtaking design, world class finishes, up lighting, downlighting and reading lighting: all of these features are combined into this prestigious torchiere, Holtkötter's Ultimate Lighting Machine. This torchiere provides 300 Watts (5 x 60W) of halogen light. Safety is provided by Holtkötter's HPN Safety System including a tilt switch, a heat control switch and a fully enclosed bulb compartment. The sidearm is lit with a double-ended, 100-Watt halogen bulb. Halogen light is rivaled only by the sun with respect to quality and quantity. Holtkötter's Leuchten Secundum dimming technology allows you to adjust the light levels from romantic hues all the way up to daylight-like brightness.
- Swing Arm Floor Lamp
- HPN Safety System
- Tilt Switch
- Heat Control Switch
- Fully Enclosed Bulb Component
- Requires (5) x 60 Watt Halogen Line Voltage G9 Base Bulbs
- Height: 73"
- Width: 26.75"
Holtkötter has been manufacturing chandeliers and lamps in Germany for more than 40 years. They are one of a handful of companies left that still designs their own fixtures and does their own manufacturing from the raw metal to the finished product, resulting in chandeliers and lamps of lasting quality. Holtkötter emphasizes that their reason for being is defined by their manufacturing tradition, by their manufacturing expertise, and by their dedication to quality. Holtkötter's future will be shaped by their continued devotion to the technical, functional and design challenges of lighting.
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Holtkötter International, Inc. warrants its products free from defects in materials and workmanship. Under this limited warranty, Holtkötter International, Inc., upon receipt of written notice of a claim, shall, at its option, repair or replace warranted products at no charge. This limited warranty is for one year from the date of shipment by Holtkötter International, Inc. This limited warranty is in lieu of any and all other warranties either expressed or implied, including but not limited to, those of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
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If you are an Authorized Holtkötter Dealer, we will resolve a problem with our product due to a defect in material or workmanship during our one year warranty period in one of the following ways:
1. If the fixture can be repaired by you with a reasonable effort, we will send you the parts that you need free of charge.
2. If the fixture cannot be repaired by you or one of our sales representatives, our "REPAIR AND RETURN SERVICE" is available.
The Holtkötter "Repair and Return Service" works as follows:
a) We will issue a "Repair and Return Authorization" (R&R) to your company. The R&R will specify how you need to return the fixture to us (e.g. UPS Call Tag, Freight Company Pick-up, etc.)
b) If not otherwise instructed, we will need to receive the fixture back complete (including reflector kit, bulb, dimmer, canopy set, etc.) and in good condition. The lamp/lighting fixture needs to be packaged appropriately.
c) If you do not have the original packing materials, please notify our office and we will send you a packing kit. Include a short note (on the R&R or any sheet of paper) of what you think the problem is.
3. If the fixture cannot be repaired by us, we will send you a new fixture free of charge.
The Holtkötter "Repair and Return Service" is available after the expiration of the warranty for a nominal charge.


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The Practices & Patterns team has released another guidance.
This time it's the Building a Release Pipeline with Team Foundation Server 2012.
Prism for the Windows Runtime and the associated AdventureWorks Shopper reference implementation is now available on the Windows Dev Center.
You can read all about it on Blaine Wastell's blog.
Brian Noyes has also released a Pluralsight course: http://tinyurl.com/prismrtcoursesummary
Red Gate is looking for feedback on its ASP.NET Web Development Education website.
Visit their website and answer the survey.
Patterns & Practices has released Hilo guidance: Developing a Windows Store app using C++ and XAML which is part of the Windows SDK.
Having created an Rx wrapper over the GeoCoordinateWatcher on a previous post, in this post I'll demonstrate how it can be used in a simple application.
The application will display the status of the service, the position and the distance traveled.
For this simple application the service will be exposed as a singleton property of the App class:
public partial class App : Application
// ...
public static IGeoCoordinateReactiveService GeoCoordinateService { get; private set; }
public App()
// ...
// ...
// ...
private void InitializePhoneApplication()
// ...
GeoCoordinateService = new GeoCoordinateReactiveService();
// ...
// ...
Getting the status of the service is very simple. It just requires subscribing to the StatusObservable. Since we want to display the status, we need to observe it on the dispatcher before:
For the position we do the same with the PositionObservable:
The distance traveled would seem a bit more complicated because we need to keep track of the last position and calculate the distance traveled on every position change. But this is where the Rx excels with its query operators. If we combine the position observable with the position observable having skipped one position with the zip operator we end up with an observable with the current and previous position. And if we apply a selector, we get the traveled distance:
(p1, p2) => p1.Location.GetDistanceTo(p2.Location))
You can find the complete implementation of the service and application here.
The C++ Team (blog) has been researching roaming Visual Studio settings and they have a few questions that will help gain insights into what the best experience would be. They have created a survey (http://aka.ms/vsroaming) aimed at understanding Visual Studio settings usage patterns and gathering feedback. The survey should take less than 10 minutes, maybe more if you want to provide a ton of details.
Your voice is important. Make sure it is heard!
With Rx, events are first class citizens that can be passed around and composed as needed in a very simple way.
"The Reactive Extensions (Rx) is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences and LINQ-style query operators. Using Rx, developers represent asynchronous data streams with Observables, query asynchronous data streams using LINQ operators, and parameterize the concurrency in the asynchronous data streams using Schedulers. Simply put, Rx = Observables + LINQ + Schedulers." – from the MSDN page.
The library also provides a considerable amount of helpers that make it easy to warp events into observables.
Wrapping the GeoCoordinateWatcher as a reactive service is quite simple. All it takes is creating observables and exposing the events as observables:
public class GeoCoordinateReactiveService : IGeoCoordinateReactiveService, IDisposable
private readonly GeoCoordinateWatcher geoCoordinateWatcher = new GeoCoordinateWatcher();
public GeoCoordinateReactiveService()
this.StatusObservable = Observable
handler => geoCoordinateWatcher.StatusChanged += handler,
handler => geoCoordinateWatcher.StatusChanged -= handler);
this.PositionObservable = Observable
handler => geoCoordinateWatcher.PositionChanged += handler,
handler => geoCoordinateWatcher.PositionChanged -= handler);
public IObservable<EventPattern<GeoPositionStatus> StatusObservable { get; private set; }
public IObservable<EventPattern<GeoPosition<GeoCoordinate>> PositionObservable { get; private set; }
And now, instead of the StatusChanged and PositionChanged events we have respectively the StatusObservable and PositionObservable as a stream of EventPattern<TEventArgs> instances.
But the EventPattern<TEventArgs> class includes the source of the event and an the event arguments in properties which is far more than we need in this case. With normal LINQ operators we can convert thes streams of EventPattern<TEventArgs> instances in streams of the desired values.
public class GeoCoordinateReactiveService : IGeoCoordinateReactiveService, IDisposable
private readonly GeoCoordinateWatcher geoCoordinateWatcher = new GeoCoordinateWatcher();
public GeoCoordinateReactiveService()
this.StatusObservable = Observable
handler => geoCoordinateWatcher.StatusChanged += handler,
handler => geoCoordinateWatcher.StatusChanged -= handler)
.Select(ep => ep.EventArgs.Status);
this.PositionObservable = Observable
handler => geoCoordinateWatcher.PositionChanged += handler,
handler => geoCoordinateWatcher.PositionChanged -= handler)
.Select(ep => ep.EventArgs.Position);
public IObservable<GeoPositionStatus> StatusObservable { get; private set; }
public IObservable<GeoPosition<GeoCoordinate>> PositionObservable { get; private set; }
And to use these observables all it is needed is to subscribe to them:
But, usually, we want to use these values in view model to bind to the UI and, consequently, we want this to happen in the UI thread:
It's as simple as that!
Microsoft Patterns & Practices has recently released Developing Multi-tenant Applications for the Cloud, 3rd Edition.
The purpose of the synchronization model implemented by the SynchronizationContext class is to allow the asynchronous/synchronization operations of the common language runtime to behave properly with different synchronization models. This model also simplifies some of the requirements that managed applications have to follow in order to work correctly under different synchronization environments. Examples of such synchronization environments are user interface infrastructures like Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation and ASP.NET.
Providers of synchronization models extend this class to provide their own implementations. Because these user interface infrastructures usually run on their own threads, dispatching execution to their execution contexts usually means leaving the current thread.
The Task Parallel Library (TPL) provides dataflow components to help increase the robustness of concurrency-enabled applications. These dataflow components are collectively referred to as the TPL Dataflow Library. This dataflow model promotes actor-based programming by providing in-process message passing for coarse-grained dataflow and pipelining tasks. The dataflow components build on the types and scheduling infrastructure of the TPL and integrate with the C#, Visual Basic, and F# language support for asynchronous programming. These dataflow components are useful when you have multiple operations that must communicate with one another asynchronously or when you want to process data as it becomes available.
The TPL Dataflow Library (System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow namespace) is not distributed with the .NET Framework 4.5. To install the System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow namespace, open your project in Visual Studio 2012, choose Manage NuGet Packages from the Project menu, and search online for the Microsoft.Tpl.Dataflow package.
The TPL Dataflow Library (System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow namespace) is not distributed with the .NET Framework 4.5. To install the System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow namespace, open your project in Visual Studio 2012, choose Manage NuGet Packages from the Project menu, and search online for the Microsoft.Tpl.Dataflow package.
Sometimes, for demo or testing purposes, I need a synchronization context that behaves like the user interface ones but doesn't force me to build applications with a user interface and the TPL Dataflow Library seemed like a good option to implement such synchronization context.
It was as easy as this:
public class TplDataflowSynchronizationContext : SynchronizationContext
private ActionBlock<ActionItem> ab
= new ActionBlock<ActionItem>(
item =>
string.Format("{0}: {1}", Environment.CurrentManagedThreadId, item.operation));
public override SynchronizationContext CreateCopy()
return new TplDataflowSynchronizationContext();
public override void Post(SendOrPostCallback d, object state)
string.Format("{0}: Posting...", Environment.CurrentManagedThreadId));
this.ab.Post(new ActionItem { d = d, state = state, operation = "Post" });
string.Format("{0}: Posted.", Environment.CurrentManagedThreadId));
public override void Send(SendOrPostCallback d, object state)
string.Format("{0}: Sending...", Environment.CurrentManagedThreadId));
ActionItem item = new ActionItem { d = d, state = state, operation = "Send" };
string.Format("{0}: Sent.", Environment.CurrentManagedThreadId));
public class ActionItem : TaskCompletionSource<bool>
public SendOrPostCallback d;
public object state;
public string operation;
Fixed implementation because the SynchronizationContext.Send method returned without having completely executed the operation. Thanks to Svick for pointing that out and Stephen Toub for the help fixing it.
Here are the materials from my What's New In C# 5.0 session at the Rumos InsideOut Event.
Slide deck:
Sample code:
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While entrepreneurs are discovering the possibilities of crowdfunding websites such as Kickstarter, upstarts are realizing crowdfunding isn't an easy fix for raising money.
Kickstarter and competitors such as Indiegogo are online funding platforms that connect entrepreneurs with potential backers.
Much attention has been paid to breakout successes such as Pebble, a watch that syncs with smartphones including Apple's iPhone. The venture raised millions this spring on Kickstarter.
But for some upstarts that use crowdfunding to raise early-stage funding, the results can be more mixed. The early buzz wears off and the funding platform may in fact put more pressure on entrepreneurs to deliver — often in a very public forum, where disgruntled comments can quickly go viral via Facebook, Twitter or other social websites.
(Read more: Lockitron: How a Startup Overcame Kickstarter's Rejection)
"A lot of people think Kickstarter is a pot of gold," said Eric Corl, co-founder of Fundable, a company that's applying crowdfunding to the venture capital process. ut crowdfunding doesn't make raising capital easy. "It makes it easier," Corl said.
In a Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania analysis of Kickstarter campaigns, author Ethan Mollick found 75 percent of design- and technology-related projects on Kickstarter failed to meet promised deadlines. The research was released earlier this summer.
Turns out technology alone can't fix what entrepreneurs have known for decades: starting a new venture is a huge gamble.
New Kickstarter Rules
Since its launch in 2009, Kickstarter — the most prominent crowdfunding site — has grown in popularity. Unlike some competitors, Kickstarter does not accept all projects submitted for promotion on their website. Last month, the company published a blog post that stressed, "Kickstarter is not a store." Kickstarter also launched new guidelines, requiring entrepreneurs outline project "risks and challenges."
The post came as a few, high-profile projects received millions through the site to develop products — then only to miss shipping goals and leave backers frustrated. Smartphone watchmaker Pebble, for example, has faced scrutiny about shipments after receiving more than $10 million in funding from nearly 69,000 backers, according to Pebble's Kickstarter page.
Kickstarter declined to comment, and a spokesman pointed to Kickstarter's Sept. 20 post, which also featured new project guidelines for hardware and product design.
Pebble is not yet in mass production. Updates can be found here. "We've decided to hold off from announcing interim ship dates until we're certain we can hit a given date," Eric Migicovsky, Pebble's creator, said in an email.
Crowdfunding Growing Pains
Pebble's experience illustrates the challenges of seeking funders and managing expectations — essentially through the Internet for all to see and judge. What happens when they come in droves, even before you've built it?
Paul Gerhardt is co-founder of Lockitron, a combination door lock device and smartphone app that transforms your mobile device into a digital house key. When orders for their product exceeded expectations this fall on their crowdfunding website, Gerhardt and his team promptly notified funders about estimated production cycles. Rejected by Kickstarter in September, Lockitron creators fashioned their own online funding platform.
(Read more: Why More Millennials Go Part Time for Full Time Pay)
Overall, Gerhardt said the potential of reaching financial backers through crowdfunding outweighed the risks of sharing their nascent product with the public. The first version of Lockitron attracted roughly $100,000 in sales without crowdfunding. With the second-generation launch of Lockitron this year on their crowdfunding site, they've received more than 13,300 backers with nearly $2 million in pre-order sales, according to their website.
"When starting a business, it all comes down to risk assessment," Gerhardt said. "Letting the public see that other people are buying is very important for a new product."
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Crowdfunding broadly allows founders of nonprofit, for-profit, artistic and cultural ventures to fund their projects by collecting relatively small contributions from a large number of individuals — often strangers — through the Internet.
Since its founding in 2009, Kickstarter contributors have invested more than $300 million in more than 31,000 projects.
Entrepreneurs set funding goals and deadlines — or risk losing all the money raised that comes under the total target — which is how Kickstarter works. About 44 percent of projects featured on Kickstarter have been successfully funded. In contrast to Kickstarter, Indiegogo lets entrepreneurs keep money raised — even if they fall short of the total funding goals.
In exchange for promotion, both sites pocket between roughly 4 and 9 percent of the total funds raised.
And while Kickstarter's projects are curated, Indiegogo is open to all entrepreneurs and has about 6,000 live campaigns at any given time vying for attention on its website.
Indiegogo has allowed startups such as The Can Van in Belmont, Calif. to move forward as a venture. The Can Van is a mobile business that helps small craft breweries can their beer for distribution. They raised about $4,000 of its $10,000 goal through Indiegogo.
While the funding campaign fell short of their total goal, they pocketed the $4,000 raised — and plenty of local media exposure, said The Can Van co-founder Jenn Coyle Catalano.
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But for every success story like The Can Van, there are crowdfunding growing pains. With the initial buzz of crowdfunding waning, funders are discovering first-hand the pitfalls of investing in early-stage projects. Crowdfunding sites don't offer refunds of pledges — whether you change your mind, or if the product is delayed for some reason. You're out of luck.
Despite the risks of using crowdfunding, there's no denying the new platform is reimagining the path of upstarts. Crowdfunding is an opportunity for entrepreneurs, who might have been bypassed by traditional investors such as banks and private equity.
The Lockitron team got started with angel investors but other, traditional capital sources were closed to them. Banks don't like to give loans for unproven projects and private equity largely is relegated to projects much larger than Lockitron, Gerhardt said.
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-The only console contenders were Nintendo, Sega, NEC, Atari, and SNK.
-There was more than just Windows and Mac. (Commodore 64 and Amiga were the shit back in the day.)
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-Newgrounds was focused on killing celebrities, extreme explicitness, had a five megabyte upload limit, and wasn't following stupid trends/dogmatic mindsets into a death trap.
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Arcades... god how I miss the sensation of stepping into a good arcade with all it's buzzing noises and lights, been a baller at Street Fighter and remembering Tekken as being stupid cause of it's gfx! Oh yeah having the theme songs from Bubble Bobble, Lemmings and Settlers running on repeat in your head.
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Of course, now when the power goes out, I let out a stream of curse words that does not end until the lights are back.
The only thing I had to change was the keyboard, for the computer, as for the 1571 and 1541 diskette drives they're broken. the C64 joysticks sucked so much that it was better to get third party. Below the manuals, PC manuals. above the computer, an Infocom box thing. Next to it, a lot of games and programs, mostly pirated.
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Didn't have my own Amiga, but I "volunteered" at a local community TV station so I could play with theirs, and drew a lot of silly animations on it using DPaint3, with a mouse... They also had a Video Toaster, so I played with that too. OH THE GOOD OLD DAYS WHEN IT WAS ALL SO SIMPLE AND CAREFREE... Seriously, computer graphics seemed so cool and exciting then. Now software is just another tool to wrestle with and gripe about.
I still have the discs somewhere. I wonder if they still work.
It kind of blows my mind that DPaint3 had the concept of using z coordinates in a 2D drawing software way back then, and Flash only caught on, what, in CS4 maybe? And z coordinates are STILL way more convoluted in Flash than in DPaint3. Sheesh.
I know NASA used the Amiga computers for some of their projections up until 00s, since Amiga computer were supposedly the very reliable.
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Plus Bilbo Baggins [NZ] invents the microchip in all modern smart phones.
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me "wait, you've never seen the dark crystal?"
her "no."
me "the never ending story?"
her "no."
me "LABYRINTH?!?!?!"
her "no"
me "oh come on, thats got david bowie in it!"
her "who?"
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Watched Legend with my wife the other day. She found it unwatchable...so did I. (Had seen it as a kid though)
I bought the Neverending Story DVD...but, again, while I could watch it as a kid, I can't watch it now. There's
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talking about. Funny, it never bothered me as much when I was a kid.
We both love Dark Crystal, don't know how many times I got my folks to hire that for me when I was a kid.
Labyrinth is cool, though some of those musical numbers are grating...and Bowies codpiece comes right out
of your TV without any 3D glasses needed.
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-Taito, IREM, Hudson Soft, and various other lesser game studios had actual name recognition.
-Rare used to be an independent company that made quality stuff.
-Growing up when Bill Hanna, Joe Barbera, Chuck Jones, and Friz Freleng were still alive.
-MTV used to have good programming like Beavis & Butt-Head, Daria, Celebrity Deathmatch, Liquid Television, and Aeon Flux.
-Console RPGs weren't pretentious, convoluted, contrived, poorly paced, and boring.
-Old systems lasted longer than one year after the new one was released.
-Miss Dynamite (Newgrounds series) used to have good animation and voice acting.
-Flash was just starting to be used for game making.
-Arcades had actual variety and people still go to them.
-Internet Explorer's only worthwhile competitor was Opera.
-Dubbed anime was far worse than what we have today.
-Atari used to be its own company rather than a part of Infogrames.
-Watching Spicy City and Spawn on HBO.
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This thread makes me feel old. I keep reading "old things" being posted here that came out after I was an adult.
I used to love Never ending story. Legend was ok. Willow was and still is awesome. I also used to really like Lady Hawk, but it's very hard to watch as an adult (mostly because of the 80's soundtrack).
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Great eclectic space in the hood, Jazz, Opera, movies, batting cage, cafe. – What a great find. I first saw the sign for the batting cage and went inside. It?s got a great cafe (new owner) and Jazz on Wednesday and Sunday night. I went to the jazz the other night not knowing what to expect quality wise but it had some hot world-class musicians. The next night they had an opera scheduled. Their schedule is full diversity but if you want a hard drinking rock club this ain't it. Their spaces physically are amazing with 20 ceilings, raw brick and steel. Upstairs you can imagine the steam baths that long ago kept the skylights free of snow.
a response – dear prospectplayer:
we here at the lyceum wish you had a better experience.
while we understand your concerns and issues, heat on the night of rentals is up to the production company. they choose whether to heat or not. and if so how much.
sometimes fledgling troupes cannot afford to head the theater up to your standards. the lyceum has chosen to continue to rent to those who are full of energy and vibrancy even if sometimes short on cash.
we urge you to contact the building for a refund of your ticket price.
we also urge you to specify the production and what you thought of the production. the lyceum will weather occasional complaint, but the theater companies need all the reviews they can get.
the brooklyn lyceum mangement.
Worst theatre experience ever – I went to see a play at this theatre...expecting it to be a warm...friendly...down-to-earth place. Instead I found the proprietors to be dismissive and arrogant. The play was three and one half hours long and I was literally shivering the entire time....as the theatre was FREEZING cold.
When I inquired about providing a bit of heat I was looked at as though I had just landed from Mars...
and rudely ignored. I guess it's "cool" to see theatre in a dank and cold old bathhouse...but I...for one.... plan to delete this space from my list of theatres as these proprietors are essentially taking advantage of their good
natured Park Slope clientele.
Park Slope's former Public Bath #7 is brimming with creative energy. – The Overview
Eschewing the notion of Brooklyn as an artistic outer borough, founder Eric Richmond has transformed the mammoth 1910 bathhouse into a cultural/social locus that houses three theaters, the WYNK cafe/internet center, a garden and a gift shop. The Lyceum also stretches outside geographical boundaries with gowanus.com, a forum for posting events and other local info.
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With its open-mike nights, readings, radio plays, theatrical performances, music and sketch comedy acts, the Lyceum is busy nearly every night of the week. Boasting three theaters, including the tiny 60-seat Geloscopic black box and two gigantic raw spaces measuring 3,500 and 5,400 square feet, the in-house troupe is poised to head up a new wave of Brooklyn-centric entertainment.
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It's time for another functional North County (San Diego) Graphic Design event! Please join us Thursday, February 8, 2012 from 5:30pm — 8pm at the Smart & Social office (inside Cedros Works at 444 S. Cedros Ave. in Solana Beach, California) for a free seminar about Social Media for Creatives.
Sondra Drahos and Sugar Jones of Smart & Social, will discuss how to use social media to help grow a creative business.
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Fourteen adults who started antiretroviral therapy (ART) soon after becoming HIV-infected and continued treatment for at least a year have been able to control the virus for one to seven years, even after stopping ART, according to French researchers. Lead author Asier Sáez-Cirión called the success a "functional cure" in which the virus is still present in low levels; most of the patients had undetectable HIV blood levels (below 50 copies per milliliter), but some had up to a few hundred copies per milliliter.
Sáez-Cirión described the study patients as "post-treatment controllers" in contrast to "elite controllers" who comprise the less than one percent of HIV-infected people whose bodies are able to control HIV without antiviral drugs. The study indicates that the post-treatment controllers developed high viral loads shortly after infection, which led to starting drug treatment within several months of infection. Post-treatment controllers also have smaller viral reservoirs and a smaller proportion of long-lived immune cells. Elite controllers are able to keep virus levels down, even at the start of infection.
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This a large pool table in very good condition. Some light wear on the felt but in all around good condition with automatic ball return. Unknown manufacturer name. Comes with cue sticks, stick rack and the balls. This only offered for local pick-up in Long Island, NY. Size 56" Wide x 100" Long x 32" Tall $1200 or best offer Call if interested to make arrangements to see this. This is available for inspection 7 days a week during day hours anytime after 10am. 516-422-2996
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This a small pool table in excellent condition. Hardly any wear on the felt and no scratches of the synthetic mica faces and surfaces. A very well cared for table. With automatic ball return. Made by American Pool Table Company. This only offered for local pick-up in Long Island, NY. Size 49" Wide x 89" Long $750 or best offer Call if interested to make arrangements to see this. This is available for inspection 7 days a week during day hours anytime after 10am. 516-422-2996
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American Heritage 7 ft pool table Legs easily come off for ease of transportation Beautifully hand crafted, custom built billiard table. It is well built and made of solid wood. Table is in great shape itself. American Heritage is a premiere billiard table producer in the USA. Prices I have seen for similar tables go for around $3000 Comes with pool accessories...many cues, all balls,chalk , 2 racks
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Hunt ID: ElkMDeer-All-NERGARD-RONCAMERANCH-AMERONC If you like to hunt elk and big bucks along with take some of your friends and family on the hunt you have found what you needed to keep everyone happy. Elk Hunt for 4 - 700 Acres Posted along with a 5 Bedroom Deluxe Cabin at only 7000 feet of altitude. Surround yourself with elk, deer and bear and you can hunt one or all at the same price. The elk are in the largest value since there is a alfalfa field at the edge of the property that is a daily ...
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Slate table. Contender Series. Black finish/Burgundy felt. Gully return. Similar in style to Brunswick Black Wolf. Mint Condition.
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Jewelry Box , Pool Table Design , 13 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 6 1/4 , Top Opens , Front Drawer , 2 Front Cabinets , Excellent Condition
Mar 17 - Philadelphia : Voorhees - Jewelry & watches
Looking for some fun in the man cave? Hurry into Resellables for this awesome pool table! It is currently assembled in store so you can see how it will look in your home. It is a level table so no worries! The dimensions of this piece are 100Lx54Wx31H. Located at Resellables, 163 Mendon Street (Route 140), Bellingham, MA. 02019 New Hours: Wednesday 9-5 Thursday 10-6 Friday 10-6 Saturday 10-6 Sunday 10-6 Open Wednesday through Sunday. Call us at (508) 657-1960 or visit us online at www ...
Mar 14 - Boston : Bellingham - Sporting goods
8' Wilmington Table. Purchased new 1997, never moved, gently used. Includes all accessories including balls, triangle, brush, chalk, 6 cues, bridge and rack.
Mar 9 - Baltimore : Ellicott City - Sporting goods
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Joe Camel Matchbooks Box of 50 Unopened ,1992 thru 1995 , RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company. D.D. Bean & Sons Company Example : Camel "Joe Goes Hollywood" .Joe's Smooth Philosophy , Camel Floyd "The Hard Pack" . Pool Table Light $125.00 Pack of Camels T-Shirt $25.00 Camel Calander $25.00
Mar 3 - Philadelphia : Voorhees - Collectibles
8 1/2 ft Connelly Billiards table. 3 piece slate, oak rails , leather pockets. Great shape, 7 assorted size sticks. Wall mount for sticks and floor stand. Has a cover and 8 ball rack, plus 9 ball rack. Comes with brass pool light still in box, cost $299.00. Needs to be taken apart before being moved.
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May 22 - SUMMER KICK OFF PARTY
June 26 - CRIB GAY PRIDE
THE CRIB is San Francisco's famed 18+ destination for Gay Boys, Girls and thier friends! Join us for the best in pop, hip-hop, rap and video, with crazy giveaways and hot surprises every week!
375 11th Street (near Harrison)
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The Flora-Bama will be hosting their 29th Annual Interstate Mullet Toss April 26th through the 28th.
Mullet Toss? No.. we won't be tossing middle aged men with bad hair cuts, or no hair cut should I say. We will be tossing a fish called a Mullet. Mullet are populous to the area and are a local delicacy. They are also told to possess mystical powers.
Join hundreds of mullet-tossers as they flock to the beaches to join in on this annual weekend long party. There will be live music and lots of food to go around all weekend long.
Visit www.FloraBama.com for more information and how to enter the Mullet Toss Competition.
Visit www.KaiserRealty.com or give one of our Reservation Specialist a call at 1(800) 225-4853 to book your reservation today!


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Delicate and intricately beautiful, in the bold style not found anywhere else but the Black Hills of South Dakota, USA! Gorgeous 10K yellow gold cross with accents of 12K gold leaves, polished to a gorgeous satin diamond-cut finish. Pendant hangs from an 18" 14K gold-filled chain.
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Garner Elementary School third grader Ben Nielsen, 9, arrives at school dressed as a school bus while participating in the school's new Walking School Bus program Wednesday, March 21, 2012 in North Liberty. A Walking School Bus (WSB) is a group of children walking together with adult "drivers" to supervise. It is a similar set-up to car pooling without the car. WSBs help increase physical activity among children, help kids learn lifelong safety techniques, and prepare them to be safer drivers who watch out for pedestrians and bicyclists. (Brian Ray/ SourceMedia Group News)
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NetAffx Analysis Center
Get unprecedented access to array content.
The NetAffx Analysis Center enables researchers to correlate their GeneChip® array results with array design and annotation information.
- NetAffx Query Search transcript clusters and probe sets for a particular term or identifier
- Batch Query Retrieve annotations for a probe list
- Probe Match Find probe sets that identically match a nucleotide sequence(s)
- NetAffx Query - Search probe sets for a term or identifier
- Batch Query - Retrieve annotations for a probe list
- BLAST - Find probe sets that BLAST align to your sequence(s) through BLAST
- Probe Match - Find probes that identically match your sequence(s)
- UCSC Query - Query the UCSC Browser including a custom track for your array of interest.
- NetAffx Query - Search probe sets for a term or identifier
- Batch Query - Retrieve annotations for a probe list
- LD Mapper - Evaluate GenomeWideSNP arrays coverage for your list of rsIDs, genes, or genomic regions
- UCSC Query - Query the UCSC public genome by position
- SNP Finder - Search for SNPs between microsatellites
The Axiom Design Center enables you to quickly select and configure a custom Axiom myDesign Array for your genotyping studies. You can choose from the 11 million common and rare markers in the Axiom Genomic Database and/or submit your own sequence information.
- NetAffx Query - Search probe sets for a term or identifier
- Batch Query - Retrieve annotations for a probe list
New releases, product support, applications
For an archival listing of NetAffx Announcements click here
January 22, 2014
Release of NetAffx NA34 for IVT Expression and Genotyping Arrays
In addition to the usual updates for biological annotations for transcripts, gene symbols, OMIM, Gene Ontology and over a score of other data sources, NetAffx update NA34 includes new genome builds for mouse (mm10), rat (rn5), chicken (galgal4), and cow (bosTau6) and dbSNP build 137.
The annotation process for WT Gene, WT Exon and HTA arrays has undergone a major overhaul to improve the quality of annotations for these arrays. This has caused a delay in the NA34 support for the Whole Transcript Expression arrays. These updates will be released shortly.
Click here for full documentation on sources used in NA34.
May 23, 2013
Update for GenomeWide SNP 6.0, GenomeWide SNP 5.0, and Axiom Bovine arrays
GenomeWide SNP 6.0 na33 annotation update released. Minor performance updates for GenomeWide SNP 5.0 and Axiom Bovine arrays.
May 2, 2013
Improved GO coverage for WTGene array transcript annotation csv files available
They are available through the NetAffx XML annotation feed, and the online catalog:
- AraGene
- BovGene
- CanGene
- ChiGene
- PorGene
- RheGene
- ZebGene
Resources and Help
Selected resources and documentation for getting the most out of the NetAffx Analysis Center
NetAffx Help Center
The complete index of documentation available for NetAffx users. Including:
Sources for NetAffx Annotation Updates See documentation for sources and versions of data that went into the annotation updates.
Glossaries of Annotation Terms (3'IVT Expression, WT Expression, Genotyping)
- Using the NetAffx XML feed Use simple scripts to track changes in annotations or library files with the NetAffx XML Feed.
- NetAffx Annotation Whitepaper How does the NetAffx calculate the relationship between the probe set and the current transcript record. (3'IVT)
- Sleuthing with NetAffx Tips and examples on how to unravel difficultprobe sets and SNPs.


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Division of Emergency Management
How to help in an emergency EmergencyInfoUtah.com Public Safety Summit
Find My Local Emergency Manager DEM Social Media links
April 2014 CCDC Webinar
Links Available here
Now updated with Brian McInerney's presentation!
Governor's Public Safety Summit
May 20-21
Dixie Convention Center
St. George
"Building Safer Communities Through Teamwork"
The 2014 Governor's Public Safety Summit will be held May 20-21 at the Dixie Convention Center in St. George.
This year's summit brings public safety professionals together across many disciplines to hear best practices and lessons learned.
Feel free to download the following documents:
Summit flyer announcement
Summit agenda
More information on the summit, including hotels near by and registration fees, is available here.
Thank you, Utah!
The Great Utah ShakeOut... We'll see you next year. Date to be announced soon!
On April 17, 2014, we had more than 836,000 participants registered to participate in the largest emergency drill in Utah.
After your drill, you can upload photos, stories or videos to the ShakeOut website by logging into your profile.
The ShakeOut may be over for this year, but you can take time to ramp up your preparedness by visiting our BeReadyUtah.gov program
Since 2012, more than 2.5 million Utahns have participated in our annual drop, cover and hold on drill! Thanks to everyone for making this the state's largest earthquake drill ever. Click the image above to visit the ShakeOut website. You can also download your own banners to display on your website, blog or Facebook page from the Resources section of the site.
Want to know who participated? Here's the list
Show your participation by downloading your own web or social media images and banners here.
Follow the ShakeOut on Twitter: @UtahShakeOut or by using the hashtag #shakeout there, on Pinterest, Tumblr or Instagram. Check us out on Facebook, too: Facebook.com/UtahShakeOut
You can also upload photos to our Tumblr blog.
Find My Local Emergency Manager
Click on your county to access contact information for your emergency manager.
Other Safety Topics
- Power outages
- Lightning Safety
- Earthquake Preparedness
- Wildfire Season
- Winter Weather Preparedness
- Flood Safety Awareness.
More emergency preparedness information at:
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@Utah Emergency -- Emergency alerts and tweets from the PIO
@BeReadyUtah -- Preparedness, 140 characters at a time
@UT_MIT -- Lessening the impacts of natural disasters
@UtahShakeOut -- Promoting Utah's largest earthquake drill ever
@UtCitizenCorps -- Public safety volunteer opportunities abound
@UtahCERT -- Neighbors helping neighbors in disaster
Utah Division of Emergency Management
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2 die of injuries from car crashJuly 16,2013STOCKBRIDGE An elderly couple has died of injuries suffered a car crash last month in Stockbridge.
Police said the car being driven by 89-year-old Henry Maxham of Rochester crashed on Route 107 on June 16. Maxham and a passenger, 91-year-old Doris Bowen of Rochester, both were injured. Police said Maxham had fallen asleep while driving.
Police said Maxham died on July 4 of complications from his injuries. Bowen died on July 1, also of complications from injuries suffered in the crash.
Police are still investigating the crash.MORE IN This Just InA stepfather accused of killing his 2-year-old daughter was released from jail Friday night after... Full StoryWoman: Date Full StoryAs President Barack Obama travels through Asia this coming week, he will confront a region thats... Full Story
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Brown Passes Chairmanship to Nebraska Lt. Governor Sheehy at NLGA Annual Meeting in Puerto Rico
San Juan, P.R. (July 29, 2011) – Today, as lieutenant governors from across the country concluded the annual summer meeting of the National Lieutenant Governors Association (NLGA), Maryland Lt. Governor Anthony Brown completed his term as NLGA Chair and passed the chairmanship to his successor, Nebraska's Republican Lt. Governor Rick Sheehy.
As chair this past year Lt. Governor Brown sponsored and helped pass numerous NLGA policy resolutions, including measures calling for the elimination of corporal punishment in public schools, advocating increased support for military families, and encouraging states to support evidence-based home visiting programs for pre-natal and infant care.
"It has been an honor to serve as chair of the National Lieutenant Governors Association and to lead a meaningful bipartisan discussion on critical regional and national issues," said Lt. Governor Brown. "Our collaborative efforts have shown that public officials can still come together across party lines to encourage action to help families and individuals in Maryland and throughout the country."
"I've enjoyed working with Lt. Governor Sheehy this past year and I'm pleased to pass the chairmanship to him," added Brown.
"I want to recognize and thank Lt. Governor Anthony Brown for his leadership and service to the NLGA. The years of service he has shared with the nation are greatly appreciated, and I look forward to continuing to work with him as ex officio member of the executive committee." said Lt. Gov. Sheehy.
Working in close partnership with Governor Martin O'Malley, Lt. Governor Brown has transformed the Office of Maryland Lieutenant Governor from a position historically considered largely ceremonial into one of influence and substance. Lt. Governor Brown leads the O'Malley-Brown administration's work to expand and improve health care, support economic development, help victims of domestic violence, increase access to higher education, and provide veterans with better services and resources.
The NLGA, organized in 1962, is the professional association for the elected officials who are first in line of succession to the governors in the 50 states and five territorial jurisdictions. NLGA provides members the opportunity to network, meet, foster interstate cooperation and share best practices to the benefit of the constituents in the states and territories, while also promoting the effectiveness of the Office of Lieutenant Governor in every state.