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RICHMOND, VA. (Dec. 13, 12:50 p.m. ET) — A Virginia lawmaker has proposed imposing a nickel tax on single-use plastic bags, the Washington Examiner reported.
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When Baidu announced that it was buying app store 91 Wireless, investors rejoiced as the move seemed to target one of the company's weaknesses–its lack of mobile exposure. Are they paying too little attention to Baidu's online struggles?
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BIDU's market position has changed from a monopoly in search to being a competitor on multiple fronts of PC search, mobile market and online video. In PC search, it is facing competition from Qihoo (QIHU). Since QIHU launched its search in mid-August 2012, BIDU's market share has declined from 80%+ to 69%. At this point, it is hard to say if its market position has been stabilized. On the online video front, BIDU faces competition from Youku (YOKU, BUY), Sohu (SOHU) and Tencent (0700.HK). The competition in this area is intense and it could take a while for a winner to emerge. On the mobile front, while the acquisition of 91 Wireless enables BIDU to be more advanced in mobile than before, the competition could be worse than in PC search and online video since mobile is still at an early stage without a clear business model.
Baidu's search business is also being hit by as small businesses consider their other options for online advertising, Hou and Chen:
BIDU faces not only the migration of internet users from PC to mobile, but also the migration of small and medium businesses (SMEs) from search on BIDU to other venues. Compared with a couple of years ago, SMEs now have more options of online marketing – in addition to BIDU search, they can use Qihoo's directory services, Alibaba's online ecommerce platform and SINA's (SINA) Weibo platform.
As a result, Hou and Chen consider Baidu's shares fully valued and maintained their Hold rating on the stock. Baidu is set to release earnings after the close on July 24.
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Alternate name: Loggerhead Sea Turtle
Family: Cheloniidae, Sea Turtles view all from this family
Description Largest aquatic turtle. Carapace has 8-12 scutes. Plastron whitish/yellow with 8 scutes. Brownish-tan with mottling. Males have longer tails. Flipper-like limbs.
Dimensions 79-122cm. (31-48")
Endangered Status The Loggerhead is on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is classified as endangered in Alabama, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. Development of beaches and coastal islands has destroyed many of its nesting sites. Hatchlings, normally attracted to light reflected off the ocean, are sometimes confused by artificial highway lights and crawl toward them, and many are accidentally killed. In the past, many Loggerheads drowned in shrimp nets, but the introduction of turtle excluder devices, which allow them to escape from the nets, have reduced this threat significantly.
Breeding Breeds along Gulf coast. Lays eggs May-August. Females come ashore at night during high tide to lay eggs. 125 eggs in a clutch, laid in a cavity dug on the beach. Incubated for 7-9 weeks.
Habitat Open seas, estuaries, coastal waters and lagoons.
Range Warm Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans.
Discussion Largest aquatic sea turtle. Weighs between 80-200kg (180-440lbs). Numbers have been reduced recently. Diet includes sponges, crustaceans, aquatic plants and sea urchins. In a fight if tail is curled it will submit. Female-female aggression rarely occurs. Travels thousands of miles to return to its birthplace to breed.


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In NIJ's Research Report Digest, you will find brief descriptions of studies in a variety of criminal justice disciplines, such as criminology and forensic
sciences, and evaluations of technologies that are used in the law enforcement and corrections fields.
This issue includes reports based on NIJ-funded research that were added to the NCJRS Abstracts Database from April-June 2011.
Find research reports related to:
Final Report on the Evaluation of the SAGE Project's LIFESKILLS and GRACE ProgramsAuthors: Marcia I. Cohen, Mark C. Edberg, and Stephen V. Gies
The SAGE Project is a nonprofit organization that operates two commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) intervention programs
— LIFESKILLS and GRACE. Both programs operate from the philosophical approach of harm reduction, which emphasizes peer education
and skills development. Participants in LIFESKILLS are younger (under age 18) and are either involved in CSE or are considered
at high risk for sexual exploitation. GRACE participants are older (adults) and have been arrested for prostitution. Most
GRACE program clients are court-ordered to participate for a minimum of 25 hours of group services. Findings show the following:
the SAGE Project succeeded in reducing contact with the criminal justice system for both the LIFESKILLS and GRACE groups;
girls and young women typically track along one of four risk-related trajectories; and, although a LIFESKILLS curriculum with
a good theoretical foundation exists, fidelity to a model is lacking, and it has not been sufficiently formalized, operationalized,
and documented.
Read the complete report Final Report on the Evaluation of the SAGE Project's LIFESKILLS and GRACE Programs (pdf, 371 pages)
People with Dementia as Witnesses to Emotional EventsAuthors: Aileen Wiglesworth and Laura Mosqueda
In order to determine whether people with dementia (ages 55 and older) can provide reliable evidence as witnesses to emotional
events, this study conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 95 people with dementia and a control group of 50 older adults,
eliciting memories of recent autobiographical events with both positive and negative emotional content. The study determined
that a significant subset of older adults with dementia illnesses can reliably report on emotional events that have happened
to them. Compared to people with dementia who have less reliable emotional memory, these individuals were able to report details
of the event accurately and to recall the same event with the same accuracy after a short time delay. This subset of the dementia
sample are likely to be in an earlier stage of the disease, to be more aware of their own cognitive impairment, to be more
likely to report negative events in their lives, and to be able to recall an event without cues. These findings suggest that
older adults with dementia who are crime victims should be evaluated for their ability to remember emotional events in which
they have been involved. If the evaluation shows the capacity to remember autobiographical emotional events, the individual
should be allowed to provide testimony about the criminal events.
Read the complete report People with Dementia as Witnesses to Emotional Events (pdf, 30 pages)
Sex Trafficking in a Border Community: A Field Study of Sex Trafficking in Tijuana, MexicoAuthor: Sheldon Zhang
This study examines human trafficking and the commercialized sex industry in Tijuana, Mexico. The study used in-depth interviews
with semistructured and open-ended questions, field observations, and conversations with those who are involved in the prostitution
business, law enforcement, and advocacy groups. The data include interviews with 220 women from the sex industry, 92 sex trade
facilitators, 30 government/law enforcement officials and 20 community-based service providers. The study found that women
from a wide variety of social and economic backgrounds entered into commercial sex. The vast majority of the women interviewed
chose prostitution as a means to achieve personal and familial financial ends. The sex trade facilitators either relied on
existing businesses in the red light district or initiated their own entrance into the sex trade.
Law enforcement agencies on both sides of the border expressed concern about sex trafficking, and the majority of these officials
believed that current anti-trafficking campaigns can be improved in the following five areas. First, the governments of the
United States and Mexico need to focus on disruption-oriented law enforcement policies and strategies that seek out individual
entrepreneurs who engage in sex trafficking activities. Second, to increase the cost of doing business for these entrepreneurs,
legislative changes are needed that specifically target the final outcome of human trafficking, i.e., asset forfeiture. Third,
significant resources and efforts are needed for bilateral collaborations to educate and train law enforcement agencies as
well as medical and social service providers on how to recognize and respond to sex trafficking activities and victims. Fourth,
one of the most effective ways to reduce sex trafficking might be through a public awareness campaign — flyers, billboards,
and radio/TV announcements. Fifth, a major anti-trafficking strategy missing from the current movement is the lack of political
will and resource allocations to secure and offer long-term solutions that can persuade women to exit the sex trade.
Read the complete report Sex Trafficking in a Border Community: A Field Study of Sex Trafficking in Tijuana, Mexico (pdf, 164 pages)
Where Political Extremists and Greedy Criminals Meet: A Comparative Study of Financial Crimes and Criminal Networks in the
United StatesAuthor: Roberta Belli
The author of this dissertation conducted a systematic study of financial crime cases involving Islamic extremists, domestic
far-rightists, and their nonextremist accomplices who were prosecuted by federal courts in 2004. A descriptive analysis was
conducted; it compared schemes, crimes, and techniques used by far-rightists, Islamic extremists, and nonextremists before
moving into an in-depth social network analysis of their relational ties in co-offending, business, and family networks. The
descriptive findings revealed considerable differences in the modus operandi followed by far-rightists and Islamic extremists
as well as the prosecutorial strategies used against them. The subsequent exploratory and statistical network analyses, however,
revealed interesting similarities, suggesting that financial schemes by political extremists occurred within similarly decentralized,
self-organizing structures that facilitated exchanges between individuals acting within close-knit subsets regardless of their
ideological affiliation.
Read the complete report Where Political Extremists and Greedy Criminals Meet: A Comparative Study of Financial Crimes and Criminal Networks in the
United States (pdf, 464 pages)
Adolescent Sexual Assault Victims' Experiences with SANE-SARTs and the Criminal Justice SystemAuthors: Rebecca Campbell, Megan Greeson, Deborah I. Bybee, Angie Kennedy, and Debra Patterson
The purpose of this project was to examine adolescent sexual assault survivors' help-seeking experiences with the legal and
medical systems in two Midwestern communities that have different models of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE)/Sexual Assault
Response Team (SART) interventions. Rather than focusing on any one stage, the researchers assessed progress through this
system as an ordinal variable in order to capture incremental change. They examined how differences between the two SANE-SART
models — and the evolution of these models over time — predicted prosecution outcomes relative to the predictive utility of
victim characteristics, assault characteristics, and medical forensic evidence findings. With respect to site differences,
there were no significant main effect differences between the two SANE-SART programs studied, suggesting that one model of
SANE-SART intervention was no more or less effective than the other with respect to achieving prosecution success.
Read the complete report Adolescent Sexual Assault Victims' Experiences with SANE-SARTs and the Criminal Justice System (pdf, 164 pages)
Mental Health and Violent Offending in Chicago Youth: A Multilevel ApproachAuthors: Denise Paquette Boots and Jennifer Wareham
This report explores the early identification of mental illness in youth as an important goal for researchers who are interested
in determining if a causal relationship exists between various forms of mental disorder and offending. The study examines
the role of various mental health problems on self-reported violence among the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods
across age cohorts while controlling for various community-, friend-, familial-, and individual-level risk factors that may
also influence violence pathways. Results from the multilevel analyses suggest that a continuity of oppositional defiant and
antisocial personality problems over the life-course may predict violence. The implications of these findings are offered
as they relate to public policy, treatment, and future research efforts. Consideration of mental health problems is also of
great importance to practitioners in criminal justice who treat youth presenting with co-morbid mental and behavioral issues.
Building on preliminary work, the study uses gender- and age-appropriate continuous indicators of psychopathology to explore
the link between child and adolescent mental health and youth violence.
Read the complete report Mental Health and Violent Offending in Chicago Youth: A Multilevel Approach (pdf, 124 pages)
The Structural and Cultural Dynamics of Neighborhood ViolenceAuthors: David S. Kirk and Andrew V. Papachristos
The purpose of this study was to inject a cultural dimension into neighborhood effects research and, in the process, provide
an explanation for the paradoxical co-existence of law-abiding beliefs and law-violating behavior that characterizes many
disadvantaged urban neighborhoods. This study explores the origins of "legal cynicism" and its consequences for neighborhood
violence. Legal cynicism refers to a cultural framework in which people perceive the "law" as illegitimate, unresponsive,
and ill equipped to ensure public safety. To achieve the research objectives, the authors performed a series of analyses on
a merged data repository that included the following datasets: (1) the 1994-1995 Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods
Community Survey, (2) the U.S. Census, and (3) 1991-2002 homicide data obtained from the Chicago Police Department. Findings
from this study reveal that tolerant attitudes toward deviance and violence have little bearing on neighborhood rates of violence.
Findings also indicate that cynicism of the law has a general effect on violence, and that collective efficacy substantially
mediates the association between legal cynicism and homicide. Legal cynicism undermines the collective efficacy that is vital
to the social control of neighborhood violence.
Read the complete report The Structural and Cultural Dynamics of Neighborhood Violence (pdf, 91 pages)
Theoretical Model Development in Elder MistreatmentAuthors: Kerry Burnight and Laura Mosqueda
This research report focuses on developing a theoretical model for elder mistreatment, a relatively new family violence-related
issue that lacks empirically based knowledge and a theoretical framework within which to understand its multiple manifestations.
Effective intervention and prevention strategies depend on theory-driven hypotheses testing in order to understand how risk
factors at various social-ecological levels interact in the etiology of elder mistreatment. To foster theoretical model development,
this report takes an inventory of the empirically derived knowledge on elder mistreatment, reviews the major theoretical approaches
to the etiology of elder mistreatment, and proposes a new model of elder mistreatment of older adults with cognitive impairment.
Each component of the work was heavily informed by the methods and models from the adjacent areas of inquiry — child maltreatment
and intimate partner violence. Information was obtained through an extensive literature review of the criminal justice, psychology,
sociology, gerontology, forensics and public health literature as well as from interviews with experts from the elder mistreatment,
child maltreatment, and intimate partner violence fields.
Read the complete report Theoretical Model Development in Elder Mistreatment (pdf, 36 pages)
Development of an Integrated Workflow from Laboratory Processing to Report Generation for mtDNA Haplotype AnalysisAuthors: Rhonda K. Roby, Nicole R. Phillips, Jennifer L. Thomas, Marc Sprouse, and Pam Curtis
The objective of this project was to develop an integrated workflow from laboratory processing to data management for mitochondrial
DNA (mtDNA) sequence data. mtDNA analysis is an invaluable tool for victim identification from mass disasters and missing
persons programs to criminal casework. The University of North Texas Health Science Center uses advanced DNA technologies
to process unidentified human remains and the family reference samples from biological relatives for both nuclear DNA (nDNA)
and mtDNA. Since most missing persons cases rely heavily on mtDNA testing of skeletal remains, mtDNA testing of reference
samples is necessary for making family associations. The resulting DNA profiles are uploaded to the Missing Persons Index
database. In this database, mtDNA and nDNA profiles from the unidentified remains can be searched against the biological family
reference profiles and associations are recommended through kinship analysis testing.
Read the complete report Development of an Integrated Workflow from Laboratory Processing to Report Generation for mtDNA Haplotype Analysis (pdf, 145
Streamlining the DNA Process through Implementation of Automation and Information TechnologiesAuthor: Sara Hochendoner
In this study, the Allegheny County (Pa.) Office of the Medical Examiner Forensic Laboratory proposed to improve the major
bottlenecks identified within the current forensic biology scheme. The goal of the research was to reduce turnaround time
for cases, improve efficiency through the implementation of automation and information technology systems, and provide an
optimized processing model for small DNA casework laboratories. The areas of the analysis process that required increased
efficiency included manual microscopic examinations for the presence of spermatozoa, manual sample manipulation in DNA processing,
data transfer, and profile interpretation. The study showed that the efficiency of the transfer and analysis of data was improved
using information technology resources, a network of instrument and data analysis computers, and a dedicated DNA Laboratory
Information Management System for the purpose of information and sample tracking through analysis in the DNA section.
Read the complete report Streamlining the DNA Process through Implementation of Automation and Information Technologies (pdf, 269 pages)
Evaluation of Reflective Vest OptionsAuthors: Aaron Nisenson, Bruce Kubu, and Ashley Carney
This report summarizes the findings of a survey designed to obtain information from police officers about their need for visibility
in certain tactical situations, the amount of training they have received in the use of reflective vests and safety gear,
the agency policy governing vest usage, and the officers' experience and perceptions in the use of reflective vests. The survey
participants were street-level officers who would be expected to wear reflective vests. The five agencies that were selected
included a medium-sized urban police department on the west coast, a large state patrol division in the Midwest, a medium-sized
suburban police department in the northeast, a small rural and suburban police department in the southeast, and a large metropolitan
police department in the southwest. All eligible officers in four of the departments were part of the sample. In one large
department, a convenience sample was used.
The survey found significant consensus among the respondents regarding the need for high visibility while directing traffic,
assisting motorists, stabilizing an accident scene, taking down an accident scene, and conducting roadblocks. There was no
consensus among the respondents about the need for high visibility in other tactical situations, such as during routine patrol
or while conducting traffic stops. There was significant disagreement among respondents about certain aspects of vest usage,
which may reflect geographic and demographic differences among the departments represented. The confusion regarding the requirements
for when vests should be worn points to a need for further education of departments and officers. It was recommended that
NIJ or another authoritative source should consider developing guidelines for law enforcement agencies in implementing the
regulations, particularly since the scope of the regulations is currently being expanded. In addition, training in the requirements
of the regulations and the use of the reflective vests is inconsistent from one agency to another, suggesting the need for
a training module or sample training material for the use of reflective vests.
Read the complete report Evaluation of Reflective Vest Options (pdf, 103 pages)
Incarcerated Women, Their Children, and the Nexus with Foster CareAuthors: Susan George, Roland Holst, Haeil Jung, Robert LaLonde, and Rekha Varghese
This report examined the problem of incarcerated women and their children along with their experiences with the foster care
system in Illinois. The report presents the results of a project that merged administrative databases from different state
agencies in Illinois into one large database that would provide a more complete picture of the incarceration, employment,
social, and child welfare histories of women and their children. After matching corrections data on female offenders from
Illinois to the state's child welfare records, the researchers examined the incidence of childhood foster care spells among
incarcerated women, the incidence of female prisoners having their own children in foster care, and how time in prison or
jail is associated with different foster care outcomes, such as the loss of parental rights. The study found that 75 percent
of children in foster care had been there for more than a year prior to their mother's first prison stay, reunification is
unlikely if the child's foster care overlaps with the mother's time in prison, the labor market outcomes of incarcerated mothers
whose children spend time in foster care are worse than those for other incarcerated women both before and after prison, and
time served in prison is not strongly associated with reunification rates.
Read the complete report Incarcerated Women, Their Children, and the Nexus with Foster Care (pdf, 146 pages)
Reducing Courts' Failure to Appear Rate: A Procedural Justice ApproachAuthors: Brian H. Bornstein, Alan J. Tomkins, and Elizabeth M. Neeley
This paper examines the effectiveness of using different kinds of written reminders to reduce misdemeanants' failure-to-appear
(FTA) rates. Misdemeanants in 14 Nebraska counties were randomly assigned to one of four conditions prior to their court date:
no reminder (control), reminder-only, reminder with information on the negative consequences of FTA (reminder-sanctions),
or reminder with information on sanctions as well as the procedural justice benefits of appearing (reminder-combined). A subset
of individuals was surveyed after their scheduled court date to assess their perceptions of procedural fairness and their
level of trust/confidence in the courts. Survey results indicated that misdemeanants' trust/confidence assessments, as well
as their perceptions of procedural justice, were related to their appearance in court. Defendants who appeared in court had
higher institutional confidence and felt they had been treated more fairly by the criminal justice system than nonappearers.
Institutional confidence and procedural justice were also highly correlated. Defendants with low trust in the courts were
less likely to appear than those with higher trust when there was no reminder, but this relationship was not statistically
significant when there was a reminder.
Read the complete report Reducing Courts' Failure to Appear Rate: A Procedural Justice Approach (pdf, 62 pages)
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Hi everyone,
Well, trying to cure my daughters Betta fish Boomer. yesterday we notices he had white fuzz on his eyeball and some on his body, to be honest I can't see any on him today, but I have given the tak two doses of colloidal silver since lastnight and one does of Pimafix...but he's still 'lurking' very unenergetically around the tank, he's gone darker in colour and generally doesn't look well. I have snails in his tank, so my idea of salting the water is out and we are in peak snail breeding time, as most of you may know, the snails will multiple very quickly and then die off as food source because a problem, so we have babies at the moment, no way i can 'fish' them all out of there.Anyway I am concerned also, the last two days he has had what looks like a long transuscent/white piece of string approx 2 inches long coming from the front of his body just behind his head, now i used to have gold fish and their poop never looked like this, theirs was brown and would break off, this just kinda....floats, like string, what could it be?We have had Boomer for two years, found some fungus yesterday also growing in the filter, have cleaned it thoroughly, was advised with the Pimafix that we dont do a water change until the 7th day...as it says also on the bottle.Any ideas? I swear i was up googling at 5am this morning looking for cures etc, i could not for the life of me sleep, no matter how big or small the pet is they worry me just the same.Any help appreciated, thanks.He has been a very happy boy for the last two years so no, i dont wish to change anything, step one is saving him, then I will look at how to prevent it from happening again. My daughter would be heartbroken if he died.
It would be helpful to know your tank size, water temperature, tank maintenance schedule, etc,...
Is that an anchor worm hanging from him? His darker color sounds like stress. I don't know what colloidal silver is or what used for. But I don't think Melafix is very useful for much of anything and not sure as it should be used with another medication either.
I think that by the string the Op is referring to poop, since the vent of a betta is quite close to it's head.
LOL I read that one twice and wasn't sure what he was talking about because he said "behind his head". I know a little about fish anatomy and was pretty sure he didn't poop behind his head but ..........?
LOLOL If it's long stringy poop, internal worms, not anchor.
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Hi guys, I have been tryyyyyying to post and I don't know, having a lot of trouble.
I have photos, very hard to get pics that show his problem because it seems the flash on the cam kind of disguises it...also I have nowhere to upload images, it's been sooo long since I used photobucket or flickr. I will try upload something tonight, sorry busy woman here..two jobs....etc
Anyway, I am even more concerned today, re the stringy thing coming from his body is only as thin as a piece of cotton, it is 'transluscent'/white.
I begun with the Pimafix on Monday simply because what he had was very obviously a kind of fungus,( looked like the fuzz that grows off mould) on his right eye and just below on his body. As far as I can see ( this is day 4) the eye has cleared up and there may be a small amount on his body still but this morning I noticed a NEW thing I am worried about now. He has, only what I can explain to be like a mouth ulcer on his 'chin', it's not raised, it looks infectious if anything and it may be slightly inverted asthough maybe he had something that burst?????Also he is staying at the top of the tank, using the plant tops to rest on an sticking his mouth out of the water a lot!, he appears to be 'tail down' facing upwards. I have still continued Colloidal Silver ( its a natural antibiotic), also got Stress Coat yesterday and today I panicked and bought Melafix, so he has his first dose of that *sigh*, he is still sort of eating though his 'aim' seems to be off as he swims a little on his side and appears clumsy, hes also hanging around the heater, wedges himself in between that and the tank wall.His mouth is open constantly, he has the ability to dart off every now and then but I can tell there is soemting very wrong because his movement is very little and not in a normal fashion, to sum it up, he is acting sick....I also did a quarter water change today, was advised at the petshop to not do any more than this because it will shock him. he is in an 18 litre tank at 25 degrees...I have those pesty little snails in there, started off with 2 which someone told me would keep the tank clean and voila...I have a gazillion of them now, though it seems they tend to die off when there are too many an obviously small food aupply. I do NOT want to kill them though by putting in an unsafe product, I have done a lot of Googling, yes...GOOGLing to make sure what I have put in is safe and so far no losses. I have bought a new tank today, decided if boomey makes it he's going in that and the snails can have the other one since it's very hard to clean the tank with the snails in it. I had the water tested today everything is good except ammonia was a bit high hence the part water change. I am at a loss, the pet store says theres nothing else I can do for him. I have been reading about Melafix and from my understanding between this and the colloidal silves I have got the bacteria covered....do i just wait and see???
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May I suggest that you get your own test kit - a liquid one is the best. If you aren't checking your own water parameters, chances are really good that poor water quality is stressing this fish - most LFS use test strips which aren't as accurate as liquid testers and they become unreliable once exposed to air.
Also, if you have a snail "explosion" in that small tank, it's very possible you are overfeeding that fish. Leftover food will rot in a tank and contribute towards ammonia. In a cycled tank, the ammonia should be 0 - anything more than that you should be changing large amounts of water to remove it - it sounds to me like your tank isn't cycled. Buying a new tank to put the fish in if it survives isn't a good idea unless you cycle it first.
I don't know how long the fish has been in the tank and how often you are changing the water, but checking your own water parameters will tell you when to change the water which should be once a week if it's cycled - more often if it isn't.
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Hi Andrea,
We have had Boomer for 19 months now. I should have mentioned the test kit at the pet store is a liquid test kit but I will get my own.We do a part water change every 3 weeks? that's hard for me to gague, I should probably mark it on the calender.I'm not sure what you mean by cycling?
Is there anything else you think I might do for him now to save him? What do you think the new spot on him is?
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Do the most massive water change you can do, right now. Make sure the water is dechlorinized and at the same temp.
You need to change the water every week at LEAST. Perhaps more depending on how many snails.
I am assuming you also don't have a heater. Bettas NEED warm water (about 80 degrees) to be happy and healthy. Room temp water stresses them out and makes them prone to infection.
If the fungus is growing on the filter, there is way too much waste in the tank. Rinse the filter in old tank water to get the gunk off.
Your problem isn't bacteria, so stop that treatment.
Clean water, stat!20 gallon with a male betta, neons, glowlights, and red cherry shrimp. (work in progess) Recently added a few LIVE plants and driftwood, Woooohoooo!


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The artist's extensive love letters to Isabel articulate the same passion that his sculptures exude. In 1915, three years after making this work, the artist wrote Isabel, calling her: "A beautiful goddess of heavy breasts and splendid white belly, goddess of sublime thoughts of tranquility and strength. You are the harmony of heaven and earth. I sing my hymn to you . . . You inspire my every moment."


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Soirée by Tara Guérard dressed Boone Hall Plantation's Cotton Dock in reds and golds galore: candles glowed from every surface; racks of wine bottles lined the walls as a salute to Darcy's California roots and red wine loving self; boughs of fiery colored maple leaves sprouted from the timbers; and velvety red dahlias dressed tables where guests sampled tapas from j.b.c. catering.
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Stay tuned for more to come from the wedding—fabulous photog Squire Fox shot it—we'll be running more on it in the months to come! And in the meantime, best best wishes to Darcy and Wally, and to our other staffers who are celebrating their first Thanksgivings as Mr. and Mrs., too—Nicole Noble and Josh Warren (in London!), and Holly Burns and Sean Slinsky (in San Fran!).
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How do you talk about this past week without talking about Big Data, data infrastructure and analytics?
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No matter who you voted for or what your party affiliation is, the clear winner in this election was awareness of Big Data, both within the insider circles of the DC Beltway as well as the general public.
A great deal of that awareness is thanks to sabermetrics statistician Nate Silver, who accurately predicted almost every single state's election returns.
No one in tech is loudly complaining yet, but there's a funny sort of co-opting of Silver by the political left wing of America going on right now since he accurately predicted President Obama's re-election. This might get under the skin of long time Big Data nerds, since this has lead to a proliferation of folks in political punditry who claim a monopoly on concepts of math and Big Data similar to the bloom of the "social media guru" during the early days of social media.
For now, I'm choosing to bask in the glow of the national spotlight on Big Data for a while, since it's sure to fade by the time the next episode of Bravo's "Start-up: Silicon.Valley" convinces the American public all math majors are throwing nightly toga parties.
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Shares of both Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) and Sunoco, Inc. (SUN) were up Monday after ETP said it will acquire Sunoco for $50.13 per share in a deal worth approximately $5.3 billion. SUN shares were the big winners, gaining 20.5% to $49.29, while ETP shares were up 1.71% to $49.63.
Barclays analyst Paul Cheng called it "a seemingly surprise move" and upped Barclays' SUN target price to $50 from $37. Selman Akyol of Stifel Nicolaus says he foresees a combined enterprise value of $8.55 billion, and reiterates Stifel's buy rating for ETP and its $52.00 price target.


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As the violence escalates in Libya, Western governments remain tongue-tied and befuddled as they struggle to react to the popular revolts that are sweeping the Middle East. At one moment, they eagerly compare the uprisings to the French revolution or the fall of the Berlin Wall. At the next, they cautiously backpedal, clearly mindful of the threats the revolts pose to the West's strategic and economic interests.
The confusion is understandable. The unrest marks a buoyant reaffirmation of the universal desire for voice and dignity and may well enable democracy to take root in the Middle East. At the same time, the uprisings are not only producing bloodshed, but also toppling regimes on which the West relies for energy and strategic cooperation.
Putting the upheaval in historical perspective buttresses the case for caution.
To be sure, the moment has enormous potential. After all, the arrival of participatory government in the Western world cleared the way for secular nationalism, social cohesion and peaceful relations among stable democracies. But there was plenty of conflict along the way. Democratization in the Middle East promises to be similarly turbulent — and is poised to have quite different effects.
On two key dimensions — the relationship between religion and politics and the link between nationalism and social cohesion — the Middle East is following a trajectory quite different from the West's. If democracy does take root in the Middle East — and the jury is still out — the regimes that emerge may well be much tougher customers than the autocracies they replace.


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I am so sure this is applicable to most of us, but it came to me as a NC email so thought I'd share!
IT'S SO HOT in North Carolina.....the birds have to use potholders to
pull the worms out of the ground.
.....the trees are whistling for the dogs.
.....the best parking place is determined by shade instead of distance
.....hot water comes from both taps.
.....you can make sun tea instantly.
.....you learn that a seat belt buckle makes a pretty good branding iron.
.....the temperature drops below 90 F and you feel a little chilly.
.....you discover that in July it only takes two fingers to steer your car.
.....you discover that you can get sunburned through your car window.
.....you actually burn your hand opening the car door.
.....you break into a sweat the instant you step outside at 7:30 A.M.
.....your biggest motorcycle wreck fear is, "What if I get knocked out
and end up lying on the pavement and cook to death"?
.....you realize that asphalt has a liquid stage.
.....the potatoes cook underground, so all you have to do is pull one
out and add butter.
.....the cows are giving evaporated milk.
.....farmers are feeding their chickens crushed ice to keep them from
laying boiled eggs.
IT'S SO DRY IN North Carolina that the Baptists are starting to
baptize by sprinkling, the Methodists are using wet-wipes, the
Presbyterians are giving rain checks, and the Catholics are praying
for the wine to turn back into water!
No offense intended with the religion references - I was brought up a Baptist, attended Catholic school all my life and am now personally a Methodist, so I got a kick out of the references!
It's So Hot In Nc That........
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Posted 05 July 2012 - 12:45 PM
LOL Sara! I love it. Sounds like North Carolina and Pennsylvania are having the same kind of weather today lol
Posted 05 July 2012 - 01:24 PM
You are too funny! Thanks for the cooling laughs!
Posted 06 July 2012 - 12:28 AM
When we have heat waves in Cape Town, some of the above is true as well, especially the seat belt and the steering wheel. Love it Sara. Love the references to the baptism (I've also belonged to 3 of the above mentioned churches}
Posted 06 July 2012 - 02:59 AM
Very funny, Sara, I actually wish it was like that here. I think I can count the number of completely dry days we have had since the beginning of April on one hand. We're on flood alert again today.
Posted 06 July 2012 - 10:43 AM
Cute and accurate!!!
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My longest was at 40ish yds and was the result of a slight misjudgement. My closest was about 3 yds. Most of my work is done around 20 yds.
I like to see the whites of their eyes if I can. I shoot a factory-full choke and I have only missed a few times (once last year [:@]).
I tend to think that a lot of these ultra-full turkey chokes are designed to deliver at the wrong range. I suspect they cause as many close range misses as long range kills.
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While working driving the taxi cab during my 11 AM to 8 PM shift I took a break and dropped by the toy store (Barnens Hus = Childrens House in English) where I buy all my LEGO Star Wars sets to see that they finally had the Jedi Star Fighter on the shelf. Im not sure and I dont have a clue when it was officially released here in Sweden as I havent been to that toy store for a couple of weeks and then again the lady in charge for the LEGO department had her day off so I couldnt ask her about it. Anyway... I bought the set and it cost me something like $23.00 or 239.00 Swedish crooner and even if I havent opened the box yet the set looks excellent and Im excited about building it and displaying it as well. Ill get back tomorrow with my views on the set as I really got to sleep after working all day and Im way to tired to build it now so Ill save that for tomorrow after my Sunday shift.
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A memorial service is planned for Saturday, Dec. 16, for Dr.
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first female physician after it became a coeducational institution.
The service will begin at 2 p.m. in the William Penn Lounge at Crosslands in Kennett Square, Pa. Junker died Nov. 29 at her home in Kennett Square of cancer at age 84.
Junker's career was remarkable for her work in the field of college health, where she confronted many new medical and social issues in the '60s and '70s. Sexuality, drugs and the emergence of women's issues commanded much of her professional attention.
Junker joined what is now Princeton University Health Services in 1973 and served as a physician there until her retirement in 1989. She was the guiding force of the Sexuality Education Counseling and Health Program and was a powerful advocate for the female population of students first admitted in 1969. She also was instrumental in establishing the first occupational health and safety program at the institution, as well as the first educational physical assessment program for nurses.
Born in New York City, Junker earned degrees at Vassar College in 1943 and the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1947.
At Southampton College of Long Island University, which she joined at its inception in 1963, she served as college physician and director of the student health service until 1973. During this period she was involved in the region's first drug abuse councils and educational organizations, often serving as chair.
Her professional dedication extended to community affairs. She served on the Princeton Borough Board of Health, the Princeton Regional Health Commission and the Stony Brook Regional Sewerage Authority, which honored her in 1989 for her outstanding environmental work.
Junker is survived by her daughter, Ellen of Jericho, Vt., and two sons, Peter of Easton, Pa., and Valentine of Princeton.
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Two views of mountains from Lead King Loop, a narrow 4x4 trail with splendid, varying views, ranging from cool drives through dark valleys at the foot of huge evergreens to these sunny meadows with expansive mountain views, plus a person in the middle. These were put together because the single views weren't big enough to upload, plus the combination is sort of interesting!
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August 29, 2013
Even though the calendar indicates the fall season is right around the corner, Labor Day symbolizes the end of summer when the kids head back to school and family vacations end.
But, as Southern Californian's know, the hot weather lingers long into September and October.
Considered a day of rest for American workers, Labor Day is next Monday, September 2. Originally coined as the "workingmen's holiday," the annual holiday is observed on the first Monday of September.
With its origins steeped in history as early as the Industrial Revolution where workers toiled on the job 12 hours a day, seven days a week often in unsafe working conditions and accompanied by low wages, the unofficial holiday at that time, was first recognized in 1882 by the Central Labor Union as a holiday for workers.
But it was the abject working conditions that sparked worker protests, rallies, strikes and riots.
In 1894 striking workers of Chicago's Pullman Palace Car Company that built railroad sleeping cars walked off the job. They boycotted the company, protesting wage cuts, layoffs and the firing of union representatives that subsequently led to halting railway traffic nationwide due to a lawsuit by the American Railway Union representing the striking workers.
Created by the Federal Labor Union that became vocal in protecting workers, Labor Day became an official holiday in 1894 after Congress legalized it, honoring those in the American workforce.
In observance of the newly established annual holiday, events included a street parade exhibiting "the strength and esprit de corps of trade and labor organizations," festivals and picnics.
With numerous ways to honor the three-day-weekend, activities in cities and towns across America today include parades, athletic events, picnics and barbeques.
As the tradition continues 119 years later, the annual September holiday doesn't necessarily put an end to hard-to-resist dining alfresco by gathering friends and family to celebrate the unofficial end of the summer season.
So whether your plans for the holiday weekend are simple or a bit more extravagant, take advantage of summer berries with this recipe for Three Berry Cream Pie that can be served to your dessert loving guests indoors or out.
Three Berry Cream Pie
1 frozen prepared pie crust
6 oz cream cheese, at room temperature
¾ cup confectioner's sugar
1 ½ cups heavy cream
½ tsp. vanilla extract
8 oz. of strawberries, hulled and cut into quarters
1 6 oz. basket of raspberries- rinsed and well dried
1 6 oz. basket of blueberries- rinsed and well dried
Prepared pie crust: Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Prick pie crust several times with tines of a fork. Bake pie crust 10 to 12 minutes until golden. Remove from oven and cool completely.
Filling: Beat the cream cheese and sugar until well blended. Beat in the heavy cream and vanilla extract until fluffy and well-mixed. In a separate bowl, carefully mix together the berries.
Assemble pie: Spoon two-thirds of the cream mixture in prepared pie crust and smooth over the top. Spoon two-thirds of the berries over the cream mixture. Spoon remaining cream mixture in the center and top with the rest of the berries in a mound formation in the middle.
Chill for 1 to 4 hours.
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Mum and I are at the beach, somewhere in Marin. She's lounging in a deckchair, wearing sunglasses, very glam. A plane swoops low over the city. Something falls from its belly. I stare, uncomprehending, until the penny drops. I pull Mum down and try to shield her body with mine. "Is this another one of your silly nuclear war nightmares?" she asks, irritated. The fire sweeps towards us across the water and burns the clothes off my back.
I wake up, terrified, and go to work. It turns out that the headquarters of Red Hat and Caldera have been destroyed by atomic bombs. My coworkers and I discuss it, bewildered: What was the point of that? Who will be next? Above our office, the bomber engines grow louder.
I wake up, terrified, and go to school. Russell Crowe tries to seduce me, but I'm more interested in his lasagne.
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It's on genetic engineering! Celebrity guest is Eduardo Blumwald of UC Davis, inventor of a tomato plant that desalinates salted earth. $5 donation requested. All welcome. Fun will be had.
The Bedrock Theater Company is doing a reading of Macbeth, with Debbie Leeding as Macbeth. I'm the director, and I urge her to underplay "sleep no more".
Sarah Michelle Gellar deliberately runs me over in her SUV.
My friends Jonathan and Recheng have a baby boy and name him Giaaq.
We drop off Nancy and Colin at Circus Circus in Reno, but as we're driving away I realize it wasn't Circus Circus at all. The sky turns black.
"The ancients decorated their sarcophagi with symbols of life and procreation, some of them even obscene. For the ancients, in fact, the sacred and the obscene were very often one and the same. Those people knew how to honor death. Death is to be honored as the cradle of life, the womb of renewal. Once separated from life, it becomes grotesque, a wraith - or even worse. For as an independent spiritual power, death is a very depraved force, whose wicked attractions are very strong and without doubt can cause the most abominable confusion of the human mind."
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, translated by John E. Woods.
Auden, towards the end of his life, repudiated the poem I quoted from last week. "The reason (artistic) I left England and went to the US was precisely to stop writing poems like "Sept 1st 1939", the most dishonest poem I have ever written," he said. "A hang-over from the UK. It takes time to cure oneself." And: "If, by memorability, you mean a poem like "Sept 1st 1939", I pray to God that I shall never be memorable again."
Oh well.
The Onion has excelled itself.
So my baby brother Alain turned 32 yesterday. 32! The fact is, people are always as old as they were when I first met them, so that Jeremy is permanently 24, and Kay will never be older than 10, and Alain is 19 months old. We're practically twins.
He's wanted a proper American football for ages, and I tried to buy one from the online NFL store last year, and they screwed me around, so I didn't. So no link for them. Anyway, I was at the Seybold keynote this morning, and after I'd finished absorbing fun facts about Apple (10.1 looks pretty slick), I went into Copeland's Sports on Market and demanded the finest football money could buy.
It was really expensive. But it's pretty fine. It's a Wilson, which is good, apparently, and it's made out of dead pig; also good, I'm told. "Designed for the serious competitor/professional" it warns, in a handsome navy font on cardboard of beaten gold. "To revitalize tacky grip, buff with a stiff brush." Words to live by.
I'm planning to be in Queensland in January, so I'll give it to him then. I thought about keeping it as a surprise, but then, you know, I thought better of it. So I called. Yay, international telecommunications. I love how you can just punch in a number and be talking to your brother 13000km away.
"To revitalize tacky grip, buff with a stiff brush," I told him.
"You bought me a blow-up doll!" he cried in glee.
It's the right football!
"It's sitting on my desk, quietly glowing," I said.
"That's what it'll do when I get it," he said. "Except I'll make a few passes."
"Oh you can't play with it. It's way too good."
"Only indoors," said Alain.
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
NOT, I'll not, carrion
comfort, Despair, not feast on
Not untwist -- slack they may be -- these last strands of man
In me or, most weary, cry: 'I can no more.' I can;
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Yeah I'm a Fender guy first and foremost, but I have played a few Les Pauls and I hate the necks on them.
The Stratocaster was a gift from the music gods.
I have an Ibanez S470 which I bought years ago to play metal shredding stuff when I'm just messing around with sweep picking, pinch harmonics, etc and that is the lightest guitar I own, plus the super thin wizard neck makes it really fun to play.
My favorite guitar I own is definitely my Mexican Strat. I got it when I was 12 years old ( now 26 ) and it's been my baby forever. Added 2 Seymour Duncan pickups (humbucker on the bridge) and it sounds great. I also love my Martin 00CXAE Grand Concert. The lightest and most playable acoustic I've ever held.
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I think the name is long enough to land a plane on, but this is just a simple hair do done better. How I do it makes it look tighter and hold up to wind and child play a lot better. This bow was provided by Flowers and Bows. A personal friend of mine. She is new in bow making world and has a great talent to share. So go check out her stock and say hello. I heard a rumor there may be a giveaway coming up very soon. So watch for that.
Lets get started.
Lets get started.
Here's where the tight trick comes in. You are going to part the hair starting at the top about an inch to the left of your starting part and at a sharp angle part to the back of the head and secure it with a rubber band. The tick is it is now held tight and we are going to hide that rubber band as if it was never there.
And secure the two together. Now of course this will never fly. You know those will twist right back out if you don't do one more thing.
Move that hair out of your way so you can make a new bundle of hair and smooth it out. Or rat it up--- its your call!
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Now I don't know what has happened to boys.. and you before you think I am going to rant about video games and MTV.. stop. But I wonder when we stopped being physically fit.
I remember as a kid there were not to many "Heavy kids". We ran, jumped, climbed, and rode our bikes all over the place.
In Scouts, we hiked, biked, canoed and seemed to always be doing something active. I can remember every troop meeting doing something physical, weather that was playing a game or riding our bikes to and from our Scout house.
Last Monday we helped a group of Scouts complete the physical fitness requirement for Tenderfoot. I was, and am always amazed at how out of shape our kids are. Do they not take PE in School anymore? It seems to me that just by being a kid with all the running and playing you do.. how can you be out of shape?
We are a backpacking troop and the good news there is that anyone can do it, but it sure helps to be in shape. Most of that is mental. But watching some of the Scouts doing sit ups this Monday… well it made me wonder what the kids today are doing.
I own a Wii and an X Box, but they are not the center of my house. I guess those two items have become babysitters in some cases, where as my mom would tell us to get outside and play.
I enjoy a house that my kids like to bring there friends to. They play games on the X Box, but are limited to the amount of time they spend on it.. then it is "grab the football and get outside"!
We make a promise in the Scout Oath to keep ourselves Physically Fit. Your own personal limitations will apply, the Boy Scouts want you to do your personal best. What the Scouts also realize is that when you keep yourself physically fit you are healthy and when you are healthy you have a better life.
Scouting impacts us all in many ways.. if it is a promise to be fit that motivates a young man to be healthy then we win in Scouting.
Your troops activities should push the Scouts to try new things, be adventurous, and test the limits of their physical fitness. The Scouts will have a lot more fun then sitting in a class room cranking out merit badges, and they will benefit by being more physically fit.
I don't know what happened, and I am not one to buy a bunch of excuses.. just get them outside and let them play. Playing keeps them fit. Bumps and bruises from a good hard game of ball are not a bad thing and you will see a healthier son in the end.
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Oh you should go to the USA vs Italy game! I would love to see that live. I go to Spring Training by myself and various friends meet me at times. Otherwise I meet my team's fans (Padres / Angels) who are there anyway and I know some of our players that I visit with.
I guess I just do what I want on my trip, regardless of what anyone else is doing. I'm like that - meaning no disrespect, but not sacraficing my own vacation time of course.
Hey I did do that Arizona Speedway thing - with the miniature indoor racecar course while I was there. That's a lot of fun for a group of friends. They're pretty strict about running a demolition derby in there though. I actually went with a pro-baseball player on my team and the staff was pretty hard on him since I guess they figured he could pay to replace their cars if we seriously damaged anything (we did not!) but it was a lot of fun. I have a video of us racing on my Facebook page and I did this total spin-out and slammed into him - now THAT was podracing!
I also went to the Challenger Space Musuem with Yoda. Yes - with Master Yoda for real. I have pictures of us on our simulated space shuttle mission. But Yoda just sat there like a stuffed animal and I had to do all the work of the pilot and co-pilot. Maybe he was trying to train me?
Anyway, I love the Padres' home stadium (Peroria Sports Complex) where I stay by, but Maryvale (the Brewers) and Surprise (the Rangers) were nice ballparks, as is Daiblo - where the Angels play - but there's hardly any shade at Diablo. Trying to remember the name of the Whitesox / Dodgers' facility. That was alright. It felt like a Double-A field - quaint is the word, I guess.


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Shares of Apple (AAPL) are $3.75, or 0.7%, at $513.54, recovering from their worst levels of the morning, as the Street cuts estimates for the iPhone and debates whether Apple has greater competition in smartphones and tablets.
The debate follows Apple's announcement last night it sold over 2 million iPhone 5 units in China in the first weekend the device went on sale, a result that some analysts cheered as setting a new record.
As I mentioned earlier, Glen Yeung with Citigroup cut his estimates for the fiscal year 2013 ending in September, citing both supply-chain component order productions, and also rising competition from Samsung Electronics (005930KS) and other vendors of Google (GOOG) Android-based smartphones, as well as cannibalization of the iPad by its smaller, cheaper sibling, the mini. Yeung changed his rating on the stock to Neutral from Buy, and cut his price target from $675 to $575.
Sanford Bernstein's Toni Sacconaghi was among those defending the stock overnight, reiterating and an $800 price target, calling Apple's risk/reward balance "compelling."
But then came another negative note this morning. Pacific Crest's Andy Hargreaves reiterates an Outperform rating, but cuts his price target to $565 from $645, writing that "We believe weak global eco- nomic conditions and saturation at the high end of the smartphone market are reducing Apple's ability to add new iPhone users."
Hargreaves cut his fiscal 2013 iPhone estimate from 174 million units to 151 million, and cut his 2014 estimate from 181 million units to 161 million.
Hargreaves's new estimate leads to a financial estimate of $182.2 billion in revenue and $45.13 in EPS this year, down from $198.7 billion and $51.49 previously.
Apple's market is simply becoming saturated, Hargreaves avers:
Faster-than-expected inventory builds in Western Europe and supply-demand equilibrium in the United States suggest that global consumer demand for iPhone 5 is not as strong as we anticipated. Although we believe iPhone 5 remains the best-selling high-end smartphone on the market and is likely gaining significant share right now, a combination of market saturation, weak global demand and incremental innovation that has surpassed consumer demand are likely negatively impacting iPhone sell-through. We believe saturation at the high end of the smartphone market, a soft global consumer demand environment and incremental innovation that has surpassed many consumers' needs are negatively impacting iPhone 5 sell-through. We believe faster-than-expected supply-demand equilibrium in the United States and building iPhone inventory in Western Europe support this view. Our work suggests that iPhone retention rates remain extremely high, so slower-than- expected sales to new users are likely driving the weakness in sell-through versus our expecttions.


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UCLA rallies to beat Nebraska
Huskers can't hold 21-3 second quarter lead
LINCOLN, Neb. - UCLA pressed early, then simply put the pressure on Nebraska after the Bruins' slow start.
Brett Hundley passed for 294 yards and three touchdowns as No. 16 UCLA overwhelmed No. 23 Nebraska with four third-quarter touchdowns for a 41-21 victory on Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
UCLA (2-0) trailed, 21-3, in the second quarter, but scored touchdowns on five of six possessions to gain momentum after Nebraska capitalized on two turnovers to take an early lead.
"I felt that the first quarter and a half of the game, we were trying so hard -- so hard -- to try and make something happen good, that we were tight," UCLA coach Jim Mora said.
"In the second quarter, there at the end, we kind of relaxed and made plays, and we kind of found our rhythm again."
The Bruins, who scored 41 of their 58 points in the second half of a season-opening victory over Nevada, had 236 yards of offense in the third quarter, when they scored their four touchdowns over a seven-minute span.
"We came in at halftime, (and) not a lot of adjustments had to be made," Mora said. "Really, just an adjustment in our mindset, which was to relax, play with confidence, go out and have fun playing the game and let it roll."
Taylor Martinez passed for 203 yards for Nebraska (2-1), but was sacked twice and finished with minus-13 yards rushing, as UCLA held Nebraska to 123 rushing yards.
The senior quarterback threw three touchdowns passes, including two after UCLA turnovers.
Nebraska's defense, which made strides last week in a rout of Southern Miss after allowing 602 yards to Wyoming in the opening week, lost steam after a strong early start.
The Huskers missed tackles in open space and allowed seven plays of 12 yards or more in the third quarter alone.
"We got beat in every phase of the game in the second half," Nebraska coach Bo Pelini said. "I think we showed a little bit of what we're capable of as a football team in the first half, but in the second half, we got away from fundamentals. It's nothing magical."
The game turned late in the second quarter, when Hundley, on third-and-12 from the UCLA 39, twice avoided near sacks, eluding Nebraska freshman defensive end Avery Moss, and ran 13 yards to keep the drive alive.
That series ended with Paul Perkins scoring on a 10-yard run up the middle with 57 seconds remaining in the half, pulling the Bruins to within 21-10 at halftime.
UCLA, with a stiff wind at its back in the second and third quarters, didn't stop there.
James Jordon scored on a three-yard run to cap a 10-play, 89-yard drive to make it 21-17.
The Bruins' next three touchdown drives lasted 1:01, 1:49 and 45 seconds, and UCLA, a year after compiling 653 yards in a victory over Nebraska, was on its way to 504 totals yards.
"When things started going the other way on us, we lost a sense of what our job was," Pelini said. "Some of the basic things that we were doing through one quarter, two quarters, two and a half quarters, we stopped doing.
"You have to be able to refocus and keep your composure to do your job and execute your football."
Nebraska had an early surge of momentum.
Stanley Jean-Baptiste set the tone with his third first-quarter interception of the season. The senior cornerback sat on a route and returned Hundley's pass 34 yards to the UCLA 28-yard-line to end the Bruins' second series of the game.
Four plays later, Martinez threw a fade pass to Quincy Enunwa in the end zone for a 7-0 Nebraska lead with 9:45 to play in the first quarter.
Leading, 7-3, Nebraska put together its only sustained drive of the game -- a 17-play, 92-yard series that lasted 6:34 and ended with Martinez's 14-yard touchdown pass to Enunwa.
Nebraska went ahead, 21-3, when Martinez hit Kenny Bell on a 22-yard touchdown pass, a short series set up after the Huskers recovered a fumbled punt snap at the UCLA 26-yard line.
NOTES: With 114 yards of total offense in the first half, Taylor Martinez moved past 10,000 career yards of total offense. He is the ninth player in Big Ten history with 10,000 yards of total offense. ... Nebraska players wore a "36" decal on the back of their helmets, and UCLA players and coaches wore a "36" patch on their uniforms and shirts in remembrance of UCLA walk-on receiver Nick Pasquale, who died after he was struck by a car last weekend. Nebraska students released 200 blue and gold balloons during a moment of silence before the game to remember Pasquale. ... The collapse was Nebraska's biggest at home since losing a 12-point first-half lead to Washington in 1991.


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Great tale. A friend and I were there Saturday also, fishing on the point across from the channel. We picked up 8-10 fish up to 22 inches, still smaller than last fall but alot bigger than 2 weeks ago. We caught all of our fish between 4:30 and 6:30, once the sun got onto the water we could not buy a strike. My friend got his first striper a 20 incher on his 7-weight. He realized they fight a bit harder than trout and cannot wait to visit again.
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Guess that answers the question "are the blues on the bayside?".
I observed that stripers also eat snapper blues on numerous occasions. I even had a giant bass sniffing my snapper blue (hooked on a popping fly) all the way in. I actually fed line out to see if I could get the bass to eat the snapper... only live-lining I'd done since w-a-a-a-a-yy back.
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Hit Brewster flats this morning. Somewhat slow. I had 8 fish from 6:00-8:30. One cool thing did happen. I was pulling in I think my last fish of the day. It felt like a 16-18". Then all of a sudden it starts freaking out, even jumps out of the water, then I see it, It looked like a 35-40" fishing. At first I think keeper baby then as it runs in the shallow I see that it is actually a 16" striper with a 30"+ blue chopped onto it's tail. The striper breaks free one or twice, all the time I am working the fish in as fast as I can, then he breaks off. it is a shame for the striper that all his effort was for not, the blue kept at him until he got him.
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