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WASHINGTON -- The head of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that the agency would write new regulations on the leasing of local telephone networks, now that the Bush administration has decided not to appeal a ruling overturning competition rules.
FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell said that revising the rules was at the top of his agenda. The rules, thrown out by an appeals court in March, have saved customers $16 billion a year by forcing SBC Communications Inc. and other Baby Bells to lease parts of their networks to rivals such as AT&T Corp. at regulated wholesale rates.
Powell said the rewriting process would cause "as minimal consumer disruption as possible" and that any increase in price would be "phased in, if necessary." He didn't outline how he would recommend the rules -- crafted by a divided FCC last year -- should be refashioned.
His comments came a day after the FCC and the solicitor general said they wouldn't ask the Supreme Court to reverse the U.S. Court of Appeals ruling.The government's decision put in doubt the ability of AT&T, MCI Inc. and other Bell rivals to offer the sort of competitive local phone service envisioned by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist must decide whether to stay the appellate court ruling until the Supreme Court considers whether to hear the case. Without a stay, the rules will expire Tuesday.
A full Supreme Court hearing couldn't take place until November at the earliest.
"The solicitor general represents the United States of America and the Supreme Court is much more likely to hear a case if it has the backing of the government ... so this represents a big blow for the chance of an appeal," said Jason Oxman, general counsel for the Association for Local Telecommunications Services, a Washington trade group that is supporting an appeal of the FCC's rules.
Other backers of an appeal are the state of California, Michigan utility regulators and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. In court papers, they told the Supreme Court that the appeals court ruling "jeopardizes the local telecommunications competition that has developed over the last decade."
In moving to rewrite the FCC phone rules, Powell didn't indicate how he and his four fellow commissioners would mend their bitter disagreement. The rules were approved last year with Republican Commissioner Kevin J. Martin siding with the agency's two Democratic commissioners.
Phone industry and FCC sources said the regulatory landscape was unlikely to dramatically change, at least in the short term.
The Bells have long complained that the regulated rates are below their own costs. Consumer groups, some labor unions and lawmakers have predicted the Bells would try to raise prices for consumers. But the Bells contend fierce competition inhibits their ability to raise prices any time soon.
The Bells are already losing local phone subscribers to wireless phone carriers and new providers that offer local phone service over cable TV systems or the Internet.
In any event, the Bells need the money they receive for leasing their networks to others, because they are under pressure to improve their networks to offer more modern communications services such as high-speed Internet access and video programming.
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For two years, Philadelphia had the Budweiser Made in America festival all to itself. Last month, however, it was announced that the Jay Z-curated fest would go bicoastal in 2014, taking place both here and in Los Angeles on Labor Day weekend (Aug. 30-31).
Whatever agita that news created - was Made in America going Hollywood? Would the Left Coast take all the best acts? - calmed down Thursday when it was announced that Kanye West will headline MIA in Philadelphia.
West, the most polarizing - and one of the most talented - figures in pop music, guarantees that MIA will be anything but dull. (The news also raises hope he'll follow his wedding to Kim Kardashian in Italy on Saturday with an album of new material this summer.)

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly declassified pages from a congressional report into 9/11 released Friday have reignited speculation that some of the hijackers had links to Saudis, including government officials — allegations that were never substantiated by later U.S. investigations into the terrorist attacks.
"I didn't set out to write about the melancholy bewilderment of middle-aged men," says Chris Bachelder of his fifth novel, "The Throwback Special." "But that's where I ended up." And, IMO, he ended up with a very special book.
WASHINGTON (AP) – A medical implant that slowly dissolves into the body could be the answer to long-standing safety concerns with devices used to treat clogged arteries.
But not so fast, say experts.
DETROIT (AP) – Hailing a ride with a smartphone app in many U.S. cities is coming down to a fight over fingerprints.
Following incidents where Uber drivers were found to have criminal records, a number of state and local officials have proposed fingerprint background checks for ride-hailing drivers – often with the support of local taxi companies.
"… That cowboy by her side was only five-foot-three/So I moved in, I never thought he'd dare to stand his ground/Only to discover that he was sitting down."(c) Tim Bays and David Kent
The Cleveland Cavaliers are the NBA champs, beating the Golden State Warriors 93 – 89 in the final game of the NBA's second season. I don't want to hear a word about how baseball takes too long.
Experts say it's too soon to gauge whether a week of horrific news out of Orlando will hurt tourism there. But travel agents are not seeing widespread cancellations, and many travelers say they're committed to visiting.
Almost every George Lapides story, at least for those of us working in Memphis sports media, begins with those first impressions after arriving in town.
His town.
Seeing George take over an interview or a press conference and putting on his own full-court press when the subject was trying to skate by with lame, say-nothing answers.
Two longtime Memphis-area companies secured tax incentives at the June meeting of the Memphis-Shelby County Economic Development Growth Engine.
The payment-in-lieu-of-taxes will support TAG Truck Enterprises LLC's plans for the former Mall of Memphis site as well as an expansion of Turner Dairy in the heart of Midtown.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Reserve is keeping interest rates unchanged in light of an uncertain job market and offering no hints of when its next rate hike might occur.
The Fed noted in a statement Wednesday after its latest policy meeting that the pace of hiring has slowed even as the overall economy has improved.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal health officials failed to force a recall of peanut butter and almond products for three months after advanced DNA testing confirmed salmonella contamination, government investigators reported Thursday.
WASHINGTON (AP) – A new federal study of the potential dangers of cellphone radiation, conducted in rats, found a slight increase in brain tumors in males and raised long-dormant concerns about the safety of spending so much time with cellphones glued to our ears.
Future conversation in Sacramento between new coach Dave Joerger and franchise player DeMarcus "Boogie" Cousins:
Joerger: "DeMarcus, do you get what we're doing here, do you know what you're doing on this play?"
I've never watched an NFL draft before Thursday evening's in which Paxton Lynch, quarterback for the University of Memphis, was drafted by the Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos as the 26th pick of the first round.
The current debate over the Memphis Zoo's use of the Greensward for overflow parking is more complex than most realize. Opponents of this usage try to paint a very compelling picture of the Zoo as a massive, profit-driven enterprise which came into Overton Park like an invasive species and has recklessly expanded, gobbling up park land and taking it away from the citizens.
Just when it appears the Tennessee Senate is made up of sensible people – as evidenced by the killing of de-annexation legislation – the body is changing course with a Bible-thumping measure.
MOSCOW (AP) – Authorities in Europe and across the world tightened security at airports, railway stations, government buildings and other key sites after deadly attacks Tuesday on the Brussels airport and its subway system.
George Howard Putt died in prison sometime last year state prison officials disclosed Wednesday -- far from the brief time he spent in Memphis but never far from the carnage he left behind in the Memphis of 1969.The bodies of the first two of the five people killed by Putt between Aug. 14 and Sept. 11, 1969 were discovered just days after the murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles by the Manson family dominated national news coverage. Less than a year earlier the Boston Strangler movie was in theaters, creating a sensation about the murders committed by serial killer Albert DeSalvo in Boston just a few years earlier.Bernalyn and Roy Dumas were strangled by Putt in their home in Cooper-Young and Putt mutilated her body in a way that police homicide detectives still wouldn't talk about decades later. The bodies were found in separate rooms.Even with no details other than the names of the victims, the city was quickly spooked by the double murder. So when the body of Leila Jackson was found short of two weeks later, the city's reaction was a palpable fear in which anyone unknown was to be avoided. Memphians didn't tarry after work. They went home and bolted the doors.It got worse as more victims turned up with little in common other than four of the five were women. They were of varying ages. Some were strangled and some were stabbed.Just about any magazine rack of the day include true crime magazines that by the late 1960s were beginning to look very dated in their lurid noir-like covers teasing the most sensational crime narratives of the day.They were an intentional contrast to the cover images of youth in bright colors in natural settings in other magazines heralding a new future and youth culture.The murders in a Southern city, whose 1969 conservatism is hard to describe nearly 50 years later, quickly grabbed the covers of the true crime magazines. And the images they offered spoke to the scenic reality where Putt roamed even as the murders continued.Apartment buildings and boarding houses were the settings for some of the murders but not all.Glenda Sue Harden was last seen walking to her car parked on the Cobblestones from the insurance office she worked at nearby. Her body was found in Martin Luther King/Riverside Park hidden under a piece of plywood.At one of the murder scenes, police found an ice pick stuck in the side of the building with a stocking tied around it.Putt's last victim, in an apartment building on Bellevue, screamed as she was stabbed repeatedly and others in the building gave chase with police close behind, arresting Putt near the new and unopened section of the interstate that runs west of Bellevue.Putt tried to force his way into another apartment nearby but the women inside kept him on the other side of the door.The killer that panicked an entire city was a skinny utterly forgettable guy in his 20s with sideburns and glasses who appeared to have rarely roamed beyond a community of neighborhood bars, boarding houses and old apartment buildings in the Midtown and Medical Center areas.It turns out he came to Memphis after walking away from a prison farm in Mississippi and into a Memphis that was slowly but surely changing. And the world that Putt encountered would soon vanish in large part.Overton Square's incarnation was about a year away. A new bridge was about to be built across the Mississippi River as part of Interstate 40 which was to go through Overton Park just south of the north-south leg of the interstate where Putt was captured.Originally sentenced to death, Putt's sentence was commuted when the U.S. Supreme Court banned the death penalty in the early 1970s.He was serving a 497-year sentence when he died at the Turney Center Wednesday in Only, Tennessee.Putt never sought parole and never gave any explanation for why he killed five people in less than a month and his apparently random selection of victims.
A block-wide warehouse at 301 S. Front St. is getting new life as the Old Dominick Distillery. When it opens to the public in December, the distillery will brew and bottle two kinds of vodkas and three kinds of whiskey. Plans for the historic 54,000-square-foot warehouse include two tasting rooms, a rooftop patio, restaurant and retail area in addition to best-in-class equipment.
Coach George Karl's Denver teams used to battle against this incarnation of the Memphis Grizzlies. Now, his Sacramento Kings come into FedExForum and engage in elbow-to-elbow and push-and-pull hardwood combat with the edited version of this era's Grizzlies.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – While Tennessee lawmakers balked last year at making the Holy Bible the official state book, they showed little hesitance Wednesday in designating an official state rifle.
Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell is considering a run for Congress and he expects to make his decision in the next week.
Good morning Memphis. The Monday holidays are gone for a while, we're afraid, but you've got a whole week to finish that work instead of just four days. Here are a few items to look forward to this week, led by the annual announcement of performers who will descend on Memphis this May for the Beale Street Music Festival.
Tennessee football coach Butch Jones keeps his pulse on recruiting year-around, along with his SEC counterparts and other FBS coaches.
Chasing recruits is an endless cycle, the lifeblood of championship football teams.
The line for the 8th Congressional District seat began forming within half an hour of incumbent Stephen Fincher's announcement Monday, Feb. 1, that he would not seek re-election in the August primaries.
State Sen. Brian Kelsey calls himself "a proud conservative who likes to get results."
When nexAir CEO Kevin McEniry says his company is always on the lookout for growth opportunities, it's both an accurate reflection of its evolution over 75 years and also something of an understatement.
Memphis-Mayor elect Jim Strickland announced on Christmas Eve that he will eliminate eight positions in the current administration, one of them vacant. And a ninth positon will become a part-time position. Strickland will also follow through on his long-held desire to end the city's involvement in and funding of the Memphis-Shelby County Music Commission.
The city of Memphis eventually will have a new Memphis Police Department director, but, for now, current director Toney Armstrong will continue to hold the job.
Mayor-elect Jim Strickland announced Friday, Nov. 20, that Armstrong will remain in the job while he searches for a replacement.
Chris O'Conner's childhood was probably like many other boys growing up in the 1980s and '90s who enjoyed watching "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "G.I. Joe."
Only what made O'Conner different than other kids was that after he watched the cartoons, he then sat down to draw the characters he watched.
Sedgwick Claims Management Services Inc. has added K. Max Koonce II as senior vice president of client services for its casualty retail business unit. Koonce, an attorney by trade, comes to Sedgwick from Wal-Mart Stores Inc., where he was senior director of risk management. He simultaneously served as president of Claims Management Inc., Wal-Mart's wholly owned third-party administrator.
The college entry process is changing as the College Board debuts redesigned SAT and PSAT tests this school year.
SAT vocabulary words are gone, meaning students won't be forced to memorize obscure words they likely won't encounter gain. Also, gone is the penalty for guessing; students will earn points for the questions they answer correctly, but will not lose points for incorrect answers.
Carole King famously sang, "[I]t's too late, baby now, it's too late,/ Though we really did try to make it." Something in this song created a gluey intangible not-yet-named noun that affixed itself to my soul. When I hear the words "Somethin' inside has died, and I can't hide/ And I just can't fake it," I feel a shudder throughout my being.
It's been a scrap from the start.
But with the first televised debate in the 2015 race for Memphis Mayor Monday, Aug. 10, more citizens got a first-hand look at what the top contenders have agreed is a milestone political race.
The first televised debate of the 2015 race of Memphis Mayor Monday, Aug. 10, saw incumbent Mayor A C Wharton Jr. and city council member Jim Strickland clash repeatedly while fellow council member and mayoral challenger Harold Collins said Strickland and Wharton were "acting like Tom and Jerry."
Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. was the target of two Memphis City Council members challenging him during most of a Cooper-Young political forum Tuesday, July 28.
It's what Wharton predicted would happen once the campaign to the Oct. 8 ballot began to throw sparks.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton plans later this week to propose raising capital gains taxes for some investors, part of a larger campaign effort to encourage greater focus on longer-term economic growth rather than more immediate gains for investors.
It won't always be as easy for Mike Conley in the NBA as it was for Scott Reall in high school. But when Reall talks about being Brandan Wright's teammate at Brentwood Academy in the mid-2000s, you do get the idea that Wright brings some much-needed athleticism to the Grizzlies' front court.
Ten-year-old actress Ashley Blair takes her job seriously. She's like many other actors in the region working to improve her craft and looking for the next project. The Knoxville area has a thriving community of actors, writers, directors, and producers, all trying to showcase their best work, both locally and nationally.
WASHINGTON (AP) – How does a musician-senator fill the time during yet another partisan Senate stalemate?
In Sen. Lamar Alexander's case, he sits down at a borrowed piano in his Capitol Hill office and, with a grin, bangs out "The Memphis Blues."
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration is increasingly confident that China's government, not criminal hackers, was responsible for the extraordinary theft of personal information about as many as 14 million current and former federal employees and others, The Associated Press has learned. One sign: None of the data has been credibly offered for sale on underground markets popular among professional identity thieves.
Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed our name. Well, hell, Mick, if it's puzzling you, it's Nashville. Music City USA.
We're the national media's flavor of the day – the "It city," which has gone from being a secondary concert market – remember The Beatles played Memphis, not Nashville – to one of the country's prime touring destinations.
The Glimmer Twins wannabe in the white cowboy hat and the 21-year-old blonde who has worked her tail off to climb from the audience to one of the main stages at CMA Music Festival display different but genuine levels of excitement about Music City's biggest week.
My great-great-great-great grandfather Elijah Fleming had eight kids and no middle name.
According to an essay by a distant cousin of mine, five of the eight left their South Carolina homes "the night the stars fell."
Lucy Woodson and George Saig went to lunch recently in Overton Square.
They chose Babalu, the site where the entertainment district began in 1970 with the opening of the former TGI Friday's, just months after Memphis voters approved "liquor by the drink."
LAS VEGAS (AP) – B.B. King, whose scorching guitar licks and heartfelt vocals made him the idol of generations of musicians and fans while earning him the nickname King of the Blues, died late Thursday at home in Las Vegas. He was 89.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened a public inquiry Thursday into student loan servicing practices that it says can make paying back loans "stressful or harmful."
A team of outside experts will come to Memphis for a short period of time to analyze a specific problem and make recommendations to City Hall.
If that scenario sounds familiar, it's because Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. sought the same solution in February to his administration's stalled plan for a Mid-South Fairgrounds renovation.
Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. rolls out a new plan for emergency medical services Tuesday, May 10, that is expected to involve some private, nongovernment involvement.
No further details of the announcement were forthcoming from his administration, but it returns the still-forming 2015 race for mayor to an issue that is basic to virtually every mayoral election: public safety.
Late last year, Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. was pushing a town center-type conversion of Whitehaven's Southbrook Mall.
But Memphis City Council members questioned Tuesday, May 5, whether the Wharton administration's plan for a town center at the Southbrook Mall site in Whitehaven was set up to fail once the funding reached the mall's nonprofit board.
Memphis City Council members questioned Tuesday, May 5, whether the Wharton administration's plan for a town center at the Southbrook Mall site in Whitehaven was set up to fail.
The reaction came as citizens on the board of the nonprofit organization that owns the mall complained that the terms of $2.1 million in bond money they got for HVAC and roof repairs changed.
Five and Five Workshop (A Wake-Up Call for Business Owners) will be held Tuesday, April 28, from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. at The Crescent Club, 6075 Poplar Ave., suite 909. Business coach and author Bridget DiCello and business attorney Alan Crone will present "The Five Most Common Mistakes Business Owners Make (and how to avoid them)" and "The Five Things Every Small Business Owner Should Have (but generally doesn't)." Cost is $75. RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com or 901-410-5154.
City Hall's budget season in this Memphis election year will be about more than the dollar figures and line items in Mayor A C Wharton Jr.'s budget proposal.
It will be about different versions of how the city got into its ongoing financial crisis.
The state of Tennessee may have moved out, but the city of Memphis could be moving in.
The city has a tentative deal to buy the Donnelley J. Hill state office building near City Hall for $1.5 million.
There was a moment Tuesday, April 7, at City Hall when outgoing chief administrative officer George Little paused in the middle of his grilling by the council to look over at incoming CAO Jack Sammons and smile.
With an 11-0 vote, the Memphis City Council approved Tuesday, April 7, the return of former council member Jack Sammons to City Hall as the city's new chief administrative officer.
One of the themes that quickly emerged from the speakers and subject matter experts participating in the latest installment of The Daily News' seminar series, this time on health care, is that few things are more important when it comes to health care reform than bending the cost curve.
Stylistically, it was a bit of short of spectacular. No one on the Grizzlies cracked 20 points, the opponent was bound for the NBA Draft Lottery, and the game was less about buzz and more about finally taking care of business on the home court.
Incoming city chief administrative officer Jack Sammons should arrive at City Hall on May 8, just a few days after Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. presents his budget propsosal to the Memphis City Council.
The Memphis Fire Department plans to test software this summer that it hopes will reduce non-emergency ambulance calls it responds to.
The pilot program is one part of a long-term strategy for the department recently rolled out by the administration of Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr.
The Honorable George Rose Smith is depicted in a John Deering wall-mounted bronze relief at the Central Arkansas Library System's main branch. He's in his robe, seated in front of a giant crossword grid. The inscription reads: "Wordsmith Extraordinaire – New York Times Crossword Puzzle Author – Arkansas Supreme Court Justice 1949-1987."
His plan to make Jack Sammons his new chief administrative officer is stalled – at best – but other parts of Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr.'s election-year overhaul of his administration are starting to move.
The new construction at 2314 Castleman sold last week for $1,365,000 after Brent Morris of Parks listed the home for $1,395,000. Morris has developed a niche in locating infill lots and teardowns – to use the plural of the now-popular noun created by adding verb to adverb – in the Green Hills area.
The Memphis City Council and the chief administrative officer both have offices in City Hall.
But to Jack Sammons, who served on the council for more than 20 years and was Chief Administrative Officer for eight months, there is no contest over which job is better.
The move of Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority Board chairman and former Memphis City Council member Jack Sammons back to City Hall is not a done deal just yet.
The political timing of Memphis Mayor A C Wharton's shake-up of his leadership team could have been worse – closer to the October city elections in which he is seeking a second full term.
Facing specific criticism from political challengers that his administration is disorganized and hasn't focused on priorities much past initial press conferences, Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. acted this week to shake up his office starting at the top.
After handling clients at SunTrust as a senior portfolio manager for high-net-worth clients, many with $10 million or more in assets, Dana Moore, CFA, and two colleagues (George Stadler, Angela Helbig), founded HMS Investment Advisors in 2009.
For a small business owned by a women or a minority already encountering formidable barriers because of that, the bureaucratic hoops any small business has to deal with can be lethal.
For three years, Memphis Office of Resources and Enterprise, operated by city government, has been helping all small businesses specifically to navigate those hoops.
UPDATE: Council committee sessions are beginning late Tuesday – at 10:30 a.m. – because of weather-related road conditions, and committees will have a condensed schedule, according to council staff.
It's back to mediation Thursday, Jan. 8, in the six-year long schools funding deadlock between the city of Memphis and Shelby County Schools.
That was the next step several Memphis City Council members pointed to after more than an hour behind closed doors at City Hall Tuesday with their attorney as well as city Chief Administrative Officer George Little.
A New Year's eve letter from Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. indicates that when spring crowds begin to reach parking capacity in Overton Park, the park's greensward will be used for overflow automobile parking at the Memphis Zoo.
Maybe it was that last Facebook post that put them over the top. Or, maybe it was the #voteforgoats hashtag.
Little Seed Farm's goats aren't telling, but they do look a bit smug.
The goats, along with Little Seed Farm owners James and Eileen Ray, recently pulled in a cool $25,000 by snagging the top spot in furnishing retailer west elm's, "We Love LOCAL Small Business'' grant contest.
"Everybody has to meet his Waterloo," sings honky-tonk hero Stonewall Jackson in his breakthrough No. 1 hit back in 1959.
Of course, that line, the entire song really, means everybody must meet his or her fate someday.
The 2014 election year began in January with dissent from the floor.
At the end of the Shelby County Democratic Party's annual Kennedy Day fundraiser in January, former Memphis City Council member and state Rep. Carol Chumney, who was not among the speakers, challenged the party establishment from her table to do more to support women running for office.
FINDING MEMPHIS. Last week the Church of the Holy Communion inaugurated a reading group called Words, and enticed an eclectic baker's dozen of participants with Muddy's cupcakes. I can't speak for the rest, but I've worked for much less.
Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr.'s hybrid pension proposal, the second of two parts of his overhaul of city employee benefits, was voted down Tuesday, Nov. 18, by the Memphis City Council in a bid by some on the council to end "uncertainty" among city employees.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Voters made clear Tuesday that they're worried about the economy, despite steady job gains, a robust stock market and faster economic growth this year.
So what can – and should – the now-dominant Republicans in Congress and President Barack Obama do together to benefit more Americans?
NEW YORK (AP) – Hotels don't want guests to have to linger at the front desk – or even stop by at all.
New programs are helping speed up the check-in process for busy travelers, or in at least one case, letting them go straight to their rooms by using their smartphone to unlock doors.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – The passage of several months since a heated legislative debate over the legal definition of Tennessee whiskey has done little to mellow the dispute between two global liquor giants and the growing number of craft distillers caught between them.
The odds of an income tax becoming a reality in Tennessee – one of the nation's lowest-taxed states – are slim to none.
And, yet there is an amendment on the Nov. 4 ballot that would change Tennessee's constitution by giving the Legislature authority to prohibit passage of an income tax or payroll tax in the state.
Germantown will have a new mayor once all of the votes are counted Nov. 4 in the city's municipal elections on the ballot.
But the race between former Germantown Community Services director George Brogdon and alderman Mike Palazzolo likely won't completely settle the community's discussion and debate about development and the future of the Germantown Municipal Schools district.
If it wasn't apparent before, it became apparent Tuesday, Oct. 21, that the city's effort to change the pension system of city employees is back at square one.
The council was already scheduled Tuesday to hear from Segal Consulting, the actuary firm the council hired at the outset of its discussion about pension changes proposed by Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr.
Shelby County Commissioners Van Turner and George Chism belong to different political parties. Turner is a Democrat and Chism is a Republican.
City of Memphis employees just emerged from the open enrollment period for the still-evolving changes in health insurance benefits for 2015. And city retirees are about to enter their open enrollment period for the same benefits plans that take effect in January.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration's plans to screen certain airline passengers for exposure to Ebola are based on the Constitution and long-established legal authority that would almost certainly stand up in court if challenged, public health experts say.
Memphis City Council members again delayed final votes on a set of ordinances that would change pension benefits for city employees.
The delay Tuesday, Oct. 7, on third and final reading of several pension ordinances was expected. The items are now on the Oct. 21 council agenda, but council members expect there will not be a vote then either and city Chief Administrative Officer George Little said the administration can live with a further delay.
It was a phrase guaranteed to put more diss in the dysfunction between the Memphis City Council and Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr.
And some on the council had plenty to say Tuesday, Oct. 7, about the weekend press release from Wharton announcing changes in the city's health insurance plan starting next year.
Memphis City Council members debated who is a "key member" of the body Tuesday, Oct. 7, as they delayed action on changes to city employee pensions into November.
The delay on third and final reading of several pension ordinances was expected. The items are now on the Oct. 21 council agenda. But council members expect there will not be a vote then either and city Chief Administrative Officer George Little said the administration can live with a further delay.
Call the doctor, the sports doctor. Because the collective temperature of Mid-South college football fans is at unsafe levels.
Mississippi State and Ole Miss are undefeated and tied for third in the Associated Press poll. The historically downtrodden University of Memphis football program just blasted preseason American Athletic Conference favorite Cincinnati on the road and hung with both Ole Miss and UCLA.
Memphis City Council members have third and final votes scheduled Tuesday, Oct. 7, on a set of changes to the city's pension benefits that are the second of two major sets of reforms in benefits for city employees and retirees.
George Hernandez is not only the CEO of Campbell Clinic, he's a client.
An avid runner, Hernandez was doing a trail marathon last winter. Conditions were rainy, cold and windy. Worst of all, there were wet leaves underfoot covering protruding tree roots.
Nothing surprises Murfreesboro Blackman High School football coach Philip Shadowens when it comes to college recruiting.
Shadowens has seen it all – including the flurry of activity created by Blackman senior quarterback and safety Jauan Jennings, rated the No. 18 athlete in the nation by Rivals.com.
City Chief Administrative Officer George Little says he hopes the city's long debate about health insurance coverage changes will mean a shorter discussion about proposed pension changes to come.
The political struggle to close the door and lock in changes to city health insurance coverage is proving to be a challenge for the Memphis City Council.
The council voted Tuesday, Sept. 16, to adjust the health insurance changes it approved in June to grandfather in for a year approximately 300 retirees and their spouses when it comes to the 70 percent subsidy on insurance premiums they currently get from the city.
The South Carolina defense still has improvement to make, but in beating Georgia 38-35 last Saturday the Gamecocks made a fourth-quarter goal-line stand and reasserted their presence in the SEC East Division.
Memphis City Council members could put to rest alternatives to the health care insurance benefits cuts they approved in June when they meet Tuesday, Sept. 16.
The question is whether they would do that with some kind of vote or indication through discussion or whether they will simply let the June decision stand and take no further votes.
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Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here?
Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows, she is off on an adventure she never dreamed of, running into people she never in a million years expected to meet. Meanwhile, back home, Elner's nervous, high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold rag on her head; Elner's neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditch and the entire town is thrown for a loop and left wondering, What is life all about, anyway? Except for Tot Whooten, who owns Tot's Tell It Like It Is Beauty Shop. Her main concern is that the end of the world might come before she can collect her social security.
In this comedy-mystery, those near and dear to Elner discover something wonderful: Heaven is actually right here, right now, with people you love, neighbors you help, friendships you keep. "Can t Wait to Get to Heaven" is proof once more that Fannie Flagg was put on this earth to write (Southern Living), spinning tales as sweet and refreshing as iced tea on a summer day, with a little extra kick thrown in.
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About the Author
FANNIE FLAGG's writing career began behind the scenes of television's "Candid Camera" and progressed to out-in-front as performer-writer. Her acting achievements led to roles in motion pictures including "Five Easy Pieces," with Jack Nicholson; "Stay Hungry," with Jeff Bridges and Sally Field; and, most recently, "Crazy in Alabama," with Melanie Griffith. For the theater in New York she did "Patio Porch "and "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean," and played the lead role in the Broadway musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,"
Her first novel, "Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man," was on the "New York Times "bestseller list for ten weeks. Her second, "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe," praised by Harper Lee and Eudora Welty, was on the "Times" list for thirty-six weeks. It was made into the memorable hit movie "Fried Green Tomatoes," starring Jessica Tandy and Kathy Bates. The screenplay, also written by Flagg, earned her the coveted Scripters Award and was nominated for an Academy Award and the Writers Guild of America Screen Award. Her reading of the Random House audiobook received a Grammy nomination.
That book gave way to an even bigger hardcover success for "Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!, "a "New York Times "Notable Book of the Year, which "The Christian Science Monitor "called "captivating . . . a comic novel to open with open arms." Flagg lives in California and in Alabama.


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My Best Mother's Day Spent at DisneylandDisney Sisters
Last year for Mother's Day my family asked what I wanted to do on my special day. I said "Disneyland," and let out a girlish squeal. To my delight, my husband and son came up with the idea that I would get to choose everything we did that day. I happily began making a list in my head, there are so many things I love to do at Disneyland. Where to start? Top of the list is pin trading! We packed up our backpack, jumped in the car, and off we went on the quest to have my best Mother's Day at Disneyland.
This year for Mother's Day my whole family will be at Walt Disney World for the Disney Social Media Moms Conference we are very excited and can't wait to share it all with you! Be sure to follow our DisneySisters twitter stream for all the exciting news and updates! You can also follow along with the official hashtag #DisneySMMoms Or Keep up with us on the DisneySisters Facebook Page.
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Solar Frontier benefits from Japanese boom19. February 2013 | Markets & Trends, Financial & Legal Affairs, Industry & Suppliers | By: Jonathan Gifford
Japanese thin film manufacturer Solar Frontier is capitalizing on the country's solar boom and is focusing on becoming a downstream business leader and provider of "full turnkey solutions" in the country. The company has also begun to reduce the losses of the business unit of which it is a part.
The move towards the downstream integration of photovoltaic manufacturers continues to pick up steam, with Japan's Solar Frontier announcing its intentions to become a developer of projects for customers in its home market. The move was announced in parent company Showa Shell Sekiyu's "Medium Term Business Action Plan", released yesterday.
In the plan, the company stated that it aimed to establish "A leading position with regard to both production and marketing in the Japanese market." In terms of its downstream integration, the Action Plan said, "We will establish our servicing capability to offer customers 'full turnkey solutions' ranging from solar panel supply to system procurement, solar power plant development, maintenance, financing, and technical support in order to enhance our added-value for customers."
Move towards profit?
Solar Frontier's strategy in the Japanese market and firm focus on its own backyard looks to be slowly moving the business unit it is a part of towards profitability. In Showa Shell Sekiyu's financial results for 2012, which were released last week, operating losses from the business segment were significantly reduced from JPY28.80 billion (US$308.92) in 2011 to JPY15.4 billion (US$164.53) in 2012. Showa Shell Sekiyu also has gas-powered generation assets as a part of this business unit, although Solar Frontier comprises the bulk of the economic activity.
The results show that the company has managed to reduce the losses being sustained by the Energy Solution Business. The business unit, which also includes some gas fired infrastructure, recorded total sales of JPY85.71 billion (US$916.39 million) in 2012, an increase on JPY70.75 billion (US$756.48) in 2011. Operating costs were also reduced to deliver the reduction in losses for the business unit.
In the Japanese market, Solar Frontier has been most active in supplying the small photovoltaic power plant market. In Show Shell's annual report, the company indicated that it had developed, "a solar power generation package product targeting individuals and companies who own small-scale idle land." The company reported that these were well received in the market.
Brooks Herring, Vice President of Communications and Operations with Solar Frontier explained that these smaller projects are less complicated to develop under the generous Japanese FIT – which came into effect in July 2012.
"There's this distinction in the mega-solar project scale where it's easier to grid connect a project that is less than 2 MW," Herring explained to pv magazine. "So again, that's one of the challenges to work through all the utility company's regulations, in order to get these things grid connected on time." Herring said that as a part of Solar Frontier's service, it can assist developers or landowners with grid connection issues.
Production progress
In terms of production, Solar Frontier is continuing to ramp its 900 MW Kunitomi plant in Myazaki, Japan. Currently the company has told pv magazine it is running at approximately 600 MW of annual production. In December, the company closed its older 60 MW Miyazaki Plant 2. There are plans to turn it into an R&D facility.
The company's CIGS thin film modules are currently rolling off its production lines with 13% conversion efficiency and 14% aperture efficiency – or 165W. The company has achieved impressive results with micro-modules or CIGS cells, which it has previously announced. It continues to develop CZTS technology, in an R&D program.
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Situated in Liverpool, this hotel is within 9 mi (15 km) of Radisson Greens Golf Club, Onondaga Lake Park, and Liverpool Public Golf and Country Club. Lake Onondaga and Salt Museum are also within 9 mi (15 km).
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An indoor pool, a snack bar/deli, and coffee/tea in a common area are available at this smoke-free hotel. Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include a business center, dry cleaning, and a 24-hour front desk.
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Company: Kick Ass Pictures
Cast: Tommy Gunn, Tony Tedeschi, Steven St. Croix, Lee Stone, Nadia Styles, Gabby, Finesse Navarro, Seth Dickens
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: All-Sex
This series stays strong.
We are forced to dock this edition of an outstanding series for one reason and one reason only: Jazmin, although she is certainly scorching hot, is Bangladeshi, not Latina, and even though the producers try to make a joke of it, the fact is this is cheating. Her scene is so yummy, though, that it's easy to see why they gave in to temptation. Pre-Nom for Best Couple.
While we're at it, A pre-nom also goes to Steven St. Croix and Nadia Styles for their opener. Croix is keeping up the girl in the neighboring hotel room with his before-bed jerk-off sounds, so she offers to take care of that hard-on the old-fashioned way instead. When she begs "Please, put it in," the temperature in the room clearly rises a degree or two. The rest of the scenes are a cut above average as well, though just what you'd expect by now from this series.


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Cameron Has Lost Grip on Government, Poll in Sunday Times Shows
A majority of U.K. voters say that Prime Minister David Cameron has lost control of the coalition government, a YouGov poll for the Sunday Times showed.
Fifty-nine percent said they didn't think the Conservative leader has a grip on government, more than two-thirds believe him to be out of touch and more people see him as weak than strong, the Sunday Times said, citing the poll.
Cameron's Conservative Party trails the main Labour Party by 10 percentage points, with 32 percent support to 42 percent for Labour. Cameron's Liberal Democrat coalition partner had 8 percent backing, according to the poll.
YouGov questioned 1,546 adults online between May 31 and June 1, the Sunday Times said. No margin of error was given.
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An upcoming book argues that meetings -- one of the most loathed aspects of academic life -- are untapped sources of creativity and insight.
A documentary filmmaker releases a critical look at higher education and student debt. But was he wrong to ignore the for-profit sector?
Author discusses a new approach to affirmative action in admissions that she says could help the disadvantaged without some of the legal and political issues that challenge current approaches.
Study finds that the more students engage with faculty members and academics, the more their political views moderate. Student activities are what appear to encourage those already leaning left or right to tilt further.
A new book considers the founding father of psychoanalysis as self-made man. Scott McLemee has a look.
How we communicate about disease can have consequences for prevention and treatment. Scott McLemee consults a new book on a recent epidemic.
A professor accused and cleared of intentional plagiarism has been accused again, this time for his new book. His defenders say the real issue is that the allegations are being made anonymously.
New book on making the choice offers an enriching discussion with no clear answers.
A publisher demands the removal of writings by Marx and Engels -- just before May Day. Scott McLemee fans the flames of discontent.
Author of new book explains why no one case can be made for the importance of the humanities -- and why the arguments must be different in America and Britain.
1177 B.C. was the kind of year people try to forget. Scott McLemee reports on a book that takes us all the way back.
A new book describes the history of resistance to the income tax. Scott McLemee celebrates April 16 with a look.
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Fragment-based drug discovery is gaining momentum as an efficient strategy to find and optimize leads. The technology first identifies small chemical fragments that bind weakly, yet efficiently, to the target, and then grows or combines them to produce a lead with a higher affinity.
Fragment-based discovery differs from high-throughput screening. The latter assesses libraries with up to millions of compounds bearing molecular weights of around 500 daltons and nanomolar binding affinities. In contrast, the early phase fragment-based lead discovery screens libraries with a few thousand compounds with molecular weights of ~200. The hits that have comparably low binding affinities are then optimized. At the recent CHI conference on fragment-based drug discovery, participants discussed challenges and new insights into this emerging technology.
"To understand the concept of fragment-based drug design, think of a drug molecule as composed of building blocks like Legos™," recommended Eric Springman, Ph.D., head of discovery, Locus Pharmaceuticals. "Pieces are connected to build up the compound. This is in antithesis to high-throughput screening, where large libraries of elaborate compounds are scoured to find a starting point for drug discovery.
"There are important advantages to fragment-based design. First, because you start with something that is less complex, you can effectively screen a broader swath of chemical space and make the final product more efficient. Second, experience from combinatorial chemistry and high-throughput screening has taught us to emphasize certain drug characteristics early in the discovery process. In fragment based-design, you can choose these characteristics from the very beginning of the process."
Locus conducts contract drug discovery research and also has internal discovery programs targeting protein kinases in cancer and inflammation.
"We use our computational platform to model proteins and to simulate fragment binding," added Dr. Springman. "This requires a solid core of high performance computing to handle and mine the vast data sets we generate. One cornerstone of our platform is based on patented methods for estimating the free energy of binding for virtual drug fragments that are selected from an in-house database of ~15,000.
"The power of virtual fragment simulations is in the combinatorial search of chemical space. For instance, if we are looking for a molecule composed of three fragments and we simulate 2,000–5,000 fragments, we're searching chemical space equivalent to 8–125 billion possible combinations. That's 1,000-fold larger than a typical chemical library."
Dr. Springman provided a perspective on this new and emerging field. "Fragment-based approaches have led to a paradigm shift in the field of drug discovery. The fragment-based approach has enabled a much more close and productive relationship between computational chemists and medicinal chemists.
"In the past, there has often been a large gulf between the two, with each having different perspectives on the process of drug design. Fragment-based methods click with the way medicinal chemists think and the process is necessarily prospective in nature. This brings the two sides together to decide what to focus on and how to construct it. Ultimately, it is leading to an improved way to produce drugs."
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Season 26
13 Oct. 2002Mike Leigh
24 Nov. 2002Joan Rivers
5 Jan. 2003James MacMillan
15 Apr. 2003Caryl Phillips
Filmed in London, Leeds and St Kitts, this documentary film explores the life and work of novelist and playwright, Caryl Phillips. Phillips, born in the West Indies but brought up in Leeds, has written extensively about notions of home and his colonial inheritance both in his novels but also in his non-fiction. We follow the author back to the West Indies of his birth but also to Leeds where his fascination and examination of ideas of identity and belonging is matched only by his obsession with Leeds United Football Club.
27 Jul. 2003The Real George Orwell
10 Aug. 2003The Songwriting World of Nick Cave
Documentary profile of one of the most original singer-songwriters, occasional novelist and now screenwriter, of the past 30 years. Filmed in London, Berlin and Bury-St-Edmunds, and built around a candid interview with Cave, the documentary looks at his early work but also examines his deep interest in dark love songs.
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It's finally here! Fall 2 Rise will be releasing their brand new EP "The Starting Line" at a brand new local venue The Electric Banana!! With some of the best local (and not local) talent, Fall 2 Rise wants to make this a night you won't forget. With the help of Andromeda Theory, Vox Vendetta, and Fade the Sun to help make this a successful EP release party, come join the fun with awesome drinks, an amazing venue, and great music from El Paso, and Albuquerque's best!!! Tickets are $4.00 at the door and ladies get in free!!!
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Blue Throne Poets, Fall 2 Rise, and Alodex will be tearing up the stage at the historic and legendary King's X Bar! Come support the local acts, enjoy the fun and great drink specials as well!
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Two nights of El Paso's best local bands Free Show, Ages 21+, 8pm Donations will be greatly appreciated in order to raise money for the film's release This is a non profit show DAY 1 - Saturday Aug 2 VOYEUR ANDROMEDA THEORY ALODEX BROTHER STRANGE PRO CORPSE CLUB DAY 2 - Sunday Aug 3 VOYEUR JO HOBO WITNESS REVOLT EPAKA CHASING SOLACE
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This is a benefit show that we were recently asked to take part in and have gladly obliged. This benefit show is for the family of Billy Granados who passed away in a recent rollover. Come on out, support the family, bring donations, enjoy some great local music, comedy and more!
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Philippine Peso Falls on Concern Greece May Restructure Debt
The Philippine peso fell the most in more than a week after a European Union official warned that a possible debt restructuring in Greece may lead to another credit crisis, damping demand for emerging-market assets.
South Korea's won led declines among Asia's most-traded currencies as the MSCI Asia-Pacific Index of regional shares slumped 1.6 percent, the biggest loss in two months. "A debt restructuring in Greece would have major consequences on the soundness of the banking sector in Greece," EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said yesterday.
"The worries are coming from Greece's problems and it is now risks off," said Roland Avante, a treasurer at Sterling Bank of Asia in Manila. "We may see the dollar strengthen as investors assess the risks."
The peso dropped 0.5 percent to 43.105 per dollar as of the 4 p.m. close in Manila, its biggest loss since May 3, according to Tullett Prebon Plc.
"Such a major banking crisis would lead to a massive credit crunch," Rehn said yesterday at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. "The contraction of the economy would be unprecedented in Greece."
Philippine benchmark three-year bonds fell, ending two days of gains. The yield on the 6.25 percent note due January 2014 climbed five basis points, or 0.05 percentage point, to 4.875 percent, according to Tradition Financial Services.


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CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's cultural minister says a stolen Vincent van Gogh painting valued at $50 million has been recovered by police at Cairo airport.
Minster Farouk Hosni says airport security confiscated the painting from two Italians on Saturday evening hours after the artwork was stolen from the Mahmoud Khalil Museum in the Egyptian capital.
Hosni says the Italians were trying to leave the country.
The paiting goes by two titles, "Poppy Flowers" or "Vase with Flowers," according to the Khalil museum's director, Reem Bahir.
This is the second time the painting by van Gogh has been stolen from the Cairo museum. Thieves made off with the canvas in 1978, before authorities recovered it two years later at an undisclosed location in Kuwait.
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my droid x
Ive already taken the battery out multiple times and hit the power button when it the battery was out of it now i am just playing the waiting game for it to turn on. it wasn't acting up when i turned it off other then the back button was stuck on it?
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Cells with built in USB 2.0?
We are looking for a cellphone from a major carrier that has a built in USB 2.0 MALE part (like on a thumb drive), not the FEMALE PART (like how most phones get their power, thru 'female' micro and mini USB ports. It can just be so very frustrating getting halfway to school and realizing that yeah, you have your phone, it has your data, but without the cord it's useless. If I can find him a cell (we barely care about the carrier) with a built-in USB 2.0 male part he'd be all set.
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Think about it... most users say that its not much slower than an EVDO phone when browsing the web. That's called PROCESSING POWER people. Its proving that there is a LOT of room for improvement in the Windows Mobile, Blackberry and yes EVEN THE PALM os...
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Mainly, I was wondering if any models will be coming out with similar dimensions, but higher res screens (e.g., 640x960). Yes, there are iphones, but I refuse to buy those for religious reasons . Any news from manufacturers as to when such a high-res android phone would be on the market?
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I have a Nokia 6030b with T-Mobile. I always unlock my nokia phones when I get them using codes from nokiafree.org.
Well when I got my Nokia 6030b I accidentally put in the wrong codes 5 times and now it won't unlock. This is the first time in history where I have goofed like this. (I usually always get the codes right) I read on their site that I need a cable to unlock my phone.
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funds looking for an investment, but also the flexibility to
use them for a few weeks every year, institute Queenstown
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The median sale price reduced to $517,500, pulled down by the
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There were 53 residential property sales in December, which
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Mr Collins said there were eight sales of property selling
for more than $1 million.
''Demand in this sector of the market has continued to be
good, especially for property with an X-factor.''
Section sales were quiet, with only three sales compared to
13 the previous month.
Residential dwelling and apartment sales totalled 52 in
December compared with 40 in November.
''[However] agents are reporting lower listings than last
summer,'' he said.
Rental property also remains tight, with very few vacant
properties and strong demand resulting in a lift in rents of
about 10% during the year.
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Best guide for 100% achievements?
I'm thinking about firing up this game for the first time.
There are several walkthroughs out there and wondering which one was the best for getting 100% of the achievements.
I used this sites achievement guides coupled with a general walkthrough that I found typing "Eternal Sonata Walkthrough" into google, though the guide didn't have a mysterious unison map but you can find that easy, too get all the achievements you have too do two playthroughs on the first you should mostly focus on getting all the score pieces you can, since you can't get all the EZI on the first and they don't transfer over.
I've been using this guide...
...which has been quite helpful.
It isn't the best guide for the Mysterious Unison dungeon... but I just used maps from GameFaqs for that.
Working my way through that dungeon now... love this game btw. :woop:
I used this one
Strategywiki is the best site for this. while others are helpful, but they are not as quite as clear/specific as strategywiki. And plus, strategywiki gave me a feeling of old RPG strategy sites where everything is pretty accompanied with pictures and screenshots... The guides online nowadays are just faqs... wall of texts... jeez...
So, I finished a first playthrough what seems like forever ago. Is there anything that I could have missed that would prevent me from being able to get 1000gs on my second play? I know playthrough 2 opnes up all the collectibles but I was curious If I had to have some of them from the first play.
I guess my point is, if I start an Encore play, can I just recollect EVERYTHING since I will not remember what I did in my original playthrough?
You can recollect everything but you may have to do some backtracking. For example if you didn't kill the pirate in the caves, and the city you won't have a specific score piece that you need in the second playthrough. So you'll have to kill the pirate in the second playthrough get the score piece, then backtrack to the person you need to play the score piece with.
Most of the backtracking you can do in chapter 6 after you've got the key.
Good deal, thanks! I know I probably made it harder on myself by not cleaning everything up that I could in playthrough 1, but after Resonance of Fate I'm up for the challenge.
@ Extra Saucy: As long as you completed the Mysterious Unison dungeon in your first playthrough it won't be that bad. Since the monsters are tougher the second time around that place is a real pain. >.<
But yeah, unless you did the secret dungeon on the 1st playthrough, 2nd time will be tougher. I didn't even go near it 2nd time round.
Thanks for the input!
The secret dungeon isn't overly difficult, you just need to have good reflexes to block/counterattack what's coming in. You can avoid most of the fights if you want. I normally only fought the dragons on the lower levels, and the monster with the huge hands on the higher levels.
Stay away from the pirates in the secret dungeon, they will kill you before you even have a chance to blink.
If you're not sure if you can beat the dungeon, try it at least. Saves 20+ hours it's going to take to get back there lol.
I've got the 1000 on this and it was relatively straightforward, I used a mixture of the achievement guide on here and a full walkthough guide from gamefaqs. It didnt take me too long and I have to say the game gets so much better the further you get, especially on the second playthrough.
Thanks for listing all the guides! I just started the game and all this information should help alot.
Is there any proper guide for the encore mode? Meaning, is there a guide which gives explanation to all the changes and so on during playthrough 2?
Still need to go back and get all the score pieces, Ill try a few of these suggestions.
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LED Light Bulbs Are Increasingly Cheaper, Greener And Controllable
LED light bulbs are the longest-lasting and most efficient mass-produced light sources to date. And now, they're also among the most affordable, with some costing less than $10 per bulb — a drastic drop compared to their recent $50 price tag.
They'll also do anything an incandescent or compact flourescent bulb can do, and more. Last week, the New York Times published a product review of LED bulbs from six manufacturers, several with features such as dimming, changing colors, and pulsing. Four of the bulbs reviewed can be controlled remotely: using an iPhone or Android app, users can control the brightness and colors of Philips Hue bulbs, and Greenwave Solution bulbs come with an online app that users can program according to their schedules — turning off all the lights at night or when they're away.
The article's author lauds the benefits of LED light bulbs, and with good reason. Even in 2012, when the bulbs cost closer to $50 instead of $10, an LED bulb saved consumers about $100 over its lifetime compared to an incandescent bulb. LED bulbs save energy — from manufacture to disposal, an LED bulb uses 5 times less energy than an incandescent one.
And LED bulbs are far more efficient than incandescent bulbs and last longer than both incandescent and compact fluorescent bulbs, as the NY Times points out:
LEDs last about 25 times as long as incandescents and three times as long as CFLs; we're talking maybe 25,000 hours of light. Install one today, and you may not own your house, or even live, long enough to see it burn out. (Actually, LED bulbs generally don't burn out at all; they just get dimmer.) You know how hot incandescent bulbs become. That's because they convert only 5 to 10 percent of your electricity into light; they waste the rest as heat. LED bulbs are far more efficient. They convert 60 percent of their electricity into light, so they consume far less electricity. You pay less, you pollute less.
LED bulbs have been popular installations in flashlights and Christmas lights for the past few years, but maybe this recent price drop coupled with the high-tech features the bulbs boast of — along with the federal phase-out of some kinds of incandescent bulbs — will help spur more regular household use of LEDs — an important scenario to consider, given that electricity used to power homes, businesses and industry is the highest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.
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The incandescent bulb is going to get wiped out in the next 5-10 years (maybe closer to 5 than 10, but we'll see). CFLs are soon to follow (their use of mercury and their fragility will make them obsolete very soon after incandescents).
Here's an account of our experience putting LED down lights in the house we purchased in 2011: http://www.koomey.com/post/8765851978
Installation was simple and the light is so good that my wife gave her enthusiastic approval. I've recently seen similar products at Home Depot for $35 (we paid $50, including installation), although not the major brand we used (Sylvania).
I also recently bought some excellent $10 CREE LED bulbs at home depot to replace 40W bulbs in our bathrooms, so prices are really starting to come down:
Finally, if you have someone in your household who is a real stickler for incandescent light, you can try the Phillips LED lamp that won the L-prize from DOE. I defy anyone to tell the difference without looking at the bulb itself. It works very well in standard upright lamps with lampshades. It used to cost around $50 each, and is now down to $25 on Amazon. It's a nice thing when prices follow the laws of electronic products!
Yes, minimal waste heat also greatly facilitates bringing light real close to where you need it pretty much amplifies LED usabilty since light falls off by the square of the distance.
Minimal power requirements greatly amplify usability were energy is expensive and precious as in highly mobile and or remote situations.
They also don't increase your air conditioning bill.
LED bulbs are better for the chemically sensitive 2% of the nation than mercury vapor bulbs. Tiny amounts of mercury released from a broken light bulb act as a neurotoxin. This won't bother most people, but some people are 100 times as medically sensitive to neurotoxins in the air. My wife is sensitive.
"LED bulbs are far more efficient [than incandescent bulbs]."
"They convert 60 percent of their electricity into light…"
Not true. LED bulbs are about 6 times more efficient that incandescent bulbs, and are about 60% more efficient than CFL's. But the actual efficiency of an LED bulb is about 29.3% (using CREE's most recent 200 lumen/watt, and the idealized 100% efficiency of 683 lumen/watt). That puts the lowly incandescent efficiency at under 5%.
LED Bulbs are the future . True prices dropped and have improved. China has taken a leading role in LED.s but Cree an American company that pays very good wages has made many technical advances in LED's. Buy the best buy Cree ( an American Company) PS I have nothing to do with Cree.
People have been attached to incandescents precisely because they radiate heat, so we need other cheap localized heat sources by the time the old light bulbs go off the market.
I urge industrial designers to come up with alternatives for chicken incubators, keeping an old car engine warm over night, keeping pipes from freezing. I'm sure people can come up with something or other.
I've bought a lot of led lights and very few have lasted even a year.
So even though they are "rated" at 25,000 hours, only about 1/5 of the ones I bought are working after a year.
I'll keep trying the newer ones, though.
I like LED's.
I'd like to replace my CFs with the neat, new LEDs, but the damned CFs will not die. The one on my front porch is 14 years old and still going.
We use incandescents here in critical areas of the house. They give off both heat and light for us in the Winter time. One 100 W bulb heats my office for the most part when days are over 0 C Mean 24 hour temp. We are at 43 N Latitude.
Banning incandescents is a huge mistake for northern climates.
Summer and warmer days are the cfl times here for sure.
RE: "an LED bulb uses 5 times less energy"
Do you mean one fifth of the energy? Five times less is a mathematical impossibility. One times x is 100% of x.
Wish I knew how you do that. I've never had a CFL that lasted a significant length of time and thus own no CFLs. I'm sure you are not using magic and I'm sure not all of the bulbs I bought over the years could have been defective in the ordinary sense. But in practical terms all the bulbs I bought were worthless. Since I don't own an iphone I may not even be able to operate an LED. Hence I am stocking up on incandescents before the ban.
Or a carboy of homebrew fermenting away.
I have to have any problems with any CFLs I have installed the past few years, and I'm using them in many spots. None have burned out yet. However, the older style tube fluorescent lights burn out infrequently.
If you want to pay a lot more in electricity bills than your neighbors, stocking up on incandescents will work great for that purpose.
I have yet to have any problems, I meant.
No tengo gran cosa que decir, y menos en otro idioma, sobre las lamparas LED, tan solo q es la iluminacion del futuro proximo ( hope that more near than away) i'ts right
Space heaters do the same thing, and they're cheap.
I want them with some amber (bi-chromatic red/green mixture type) LEDs mixed with the quasi-white (i.e. UV emitters in florescent casings) LEDs to yield a lower-temerature (mellower) white.
Also, as many appear very flickery to me, I assume most only rectify one way (chopping the AC sine wave in half). It would not be that difficult a design problem to solve. Arranging the LEDs electrically into four banks (within each bulb) into a bridge rectifier configuration, and then adding a single capacitor to each bank, would smooth the line voltage to a merely slightly ripply DC. In this way, the 'flicker' can be smoothed to an imperceptible level
Do that, and I'll buy it
If you don't know what I'm talking about, then hire me to design it for you
I agree, Gord. Banning incandescent lighting altogether would be an excessive measure.
I also live at a high North latitude. Interestingly, we are only allowed electric heat in my apartment building. Therefore, every 100 (or 60) Watts of incandescent light I decommission is just another 100 (or 60) Watts of additional energy my two [permanently installed] electric heating units have to transduce (into heat) to make up for it
The compact fluorescent bulbs in my apartment (which are most of them, btw) are at their best in the warm summer months (when waste heat from lighting is detrimental to comfort)
I am all for energy conservation. I'm a member of our local 4R group (Reduce; Reuse; Recycle; Repair). I ritually unplug my equipment rack and turn my thermostat all the way down when I leave the house. But, given that my building uses electric heat (exclusively), thinking that I would be saving energy by not using incandescent lighting during the heating months would be quite daft
I have been using them over the past 3 years or so. Initially they were not that bright, but the bulbs today are almost as bright as their incandescent counterparts. Initially I used them where temporary task lighting was required stairs, laundry room, etc. With the energy savings, I wish they had of been around when my kids were younger, would have saved a lot of chasing kids to turn out lights. Yes the up front cost is more, but you will see a significant reduction in your energy bill.
When looking at non-heat, it depends where you live.
In the northern areas of the country, the incand bulbs provide light and heat, which is required approx 8 months of the year.
Also, as stated, heat lamps are going to be hard to replace.
Joan, the white LEDs used for lighting are made by coating a visible blue LED emitting around 460nm with a yellow (red plus green) phosphor. They are bichromatic, and can also be made "softer" by skewing the phosphor a bit more toward the red.
The LED bulbs directly rectify the line voltage using a silicon diode bridge circuit. LED's are unsuitable for use in the bridge because their reverse breakdown voltage will be exceeded when reverse biased by line commutation. This would damage the LED. The rest of the circuitry drives the LED(s) with a chopped 120 Hz signal. It's amazing that you can see a flicker. The vertical sweep on a raster scan TV is 60Hz line-interlaced for a vertical refresh rate of 30Hz, and most people can't detect a flicker on that.
@ john c. wilson:
"But in practical terms all the [CF] bulbs I bought were worthless. …Hence I am stocking up on incandescents before the ban."
Oh, I doubt the actual performance of CFs has anything to do with it, John. More likely? You think they'll give you Al Gore cooties.
The progress in LEDs has been great!
My house is filled with 40 and 60 watt candelabra base light fixtures – so far the max lumens is about 200 in that form factor. I have been slavishly checking the hardware stores for the 400 lumen candelabra base bulbs. They don't seem to exist yet.
Geez, my bicycle is powered by an LED that is solar charged. Battery life is advertised as 6 hours though I have never had the need to have it turned on for much over 1 hour. I think the newer ones have a little more output, which I would welcome.
My most recent monthly electric bill is for $28.20. That would be $6.96 for 145 kilowatts of power and $21 for tribute to our overlords. This powers a house in Evanston IL for a couple in their early 60s. I assure you our neighbors all have much higher electric bills.
After the first few rounds of failures I went to so much trouble as to find reviews of which bulbs were more reliable and purchased only those. I have experimented within the past year with new purchases. They just have a short life. Part of it is living in an old house. Part of it is the extraordinarily erratic service from Com Ed. Much is unexplained. It is not mature tech. It has been oversold.
I have put in LED to replace halogen spot lighting in the kitchen, gradually, as the halogens burn out. It has been about $24 per LED. I didn't need the heat from the halogens and the quality of LED light is adequate though not great for color.
The big pluses with the LEDs are of course chipping away at the electric bill and in my case, a much longer interval before I have to go through the multi-step process of using a step ladder and dis-assembly and re-assembly of the lighting canisters.
They can be controlled remotely using your phone. How many people will now try to convince their friends and family that the house is haunted. Fun uses for green technology!
When people complain about the short lives of CFL's, I always wonder if they are buying the cheapest they can get their hands on, and getting what they paid for.
I bought name-brand CFL's about 6 years ago, and am just replacing the ones of that vintage, in living room lamps that are on just about every evening of the year for reading. I would love to know for sure what the difference is in our experiences.
In my experience, for CFL (spiral) bulbs to last, they need to be protected from overheating, vibration and cold temperatures.
They last best when mounted in a table lamp pointed up (threads down). some have a vent for heat to escape in the base. If the vent is not pointed up, or they are in a closed fixture, they can easily overheat.
pointed down or sideways against the ceiling is bad, in a ceiling fan is bad.
If you are having trouble with them burning out, try one this way and see if it makes a difference. they also work better if they are not switched often (a timer is good). If you figure out the cost of electricity for the needed amount of light and much lower watts using CFL vs incandescent, you might find that the cost of the bulb is inconsequential. even if you had to replace a CFL yearly, it might cost less than standard bulbs.
Don't forget the EasyBake Oven…
There was a time, when prices were dropping dramatically for CFL's and they were going widespread that the quality was awful for many of them (short life times), but that was fixed after a while and the darn things last forever now.
Dennis, from what I've seen while an actual LED is very efficient (much more efficient than a fluorescent source) once you add in the power conversion inefficiencies boat anchor that converts 110volt power to LED compatible power the LED bulbs end up putting out about the same amount of light for the same amount of power as CFL's.
The LED's will last longer and come on instantly (great for cold spots like the garage in the winter), but the CFL's at this point are significantly cheaper but come with complementary mercury dust if broken.
WRT space heaters … they don't provide enough light.
I forgot to mention that our elecrical power is only 25% carbon. The rest is hydro and nuclear. We heat our house with a gas boiler for domestic hot water and hot water for the radiators. So replacing heating at 100% carbon with heating at 25% carbon is a good trade-off. We also use electric space heaters to the same end … ie to off set carbon release.
Seems to be working; our winter heating efficiency is getting better even though we are not modifying the house further with more insulation.
I think the boat anchor set sail a few years back. With the new breed of switching PWM controllers and drivers, it's not unusual for LED drive circuitry to achieve 90% efficiency. The diode bridge that rectifies the AC line is responsible for most of the non-LED electrical losses.
So I walk into a room, turn the light on, walk out of the room, turn the light off and I have just damaged my CFL. I have no lights whatever on timers. I do not need my house lit up like the mall. If I use less electricity than all my neighbors, by a large margin, why must I use CFLs that I do not want?
Oh well, we do some of our lighting already with beeswax tapers and kerosene is still an option. When all my obsolete stockpiled incandescents die of old age or get confiscated maybe by then the LEDs will stop flickering and looking blue. And maybe by then some genius will have an LED I can work with a switch instead of an app. But I doubt it.
Vibration. You said vibration. Yes, the 1885 house vibrates. A lot. Visitors who walk like elephants only visit here once.
So we'll tear down the house, pour large amounts of thick reinforced concrete, and then we can use socially acceptable lightbulbs.
Hi Tom,
May I suggest SEXY LEDS' candelabra base light bulbs?
They are 400 lumen bright (thus considered 40 watt incandescent equivalent). Please read customer reviews about these bulbs at LED candelabra Gold-Round
LED light bulbs use 90% less energy than incandescent bulbs as they waste far less energy as heat. good reasons to choose LED light bulbs are that they can last for 25 -30 years, they give out all their light immediately at start-up, so don't have to wait for a few moments of dim light when flick the light switch, and importantly for the environment, LED light bulbs don't contain mercury.


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