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An unpredictable but dangerous Notre Dame girls volleyball team lived up to its billing Tuesday night in a Southern Section Division I-A first-round playoff match against Marmonte League champion Westlake.
The Knights, who took third in the Mission League and played 13 matches that ended in a sweep this year, surprised the Warriors with a 26-24, 20-25, 25-18, 25-21 victory.
"I think they finally believe in themselves," Notre Dame coach Kristin Dolan said. "They looked like they believed they could win."
Zana Muno, a junior committed to UCLA, had 14 kills and 26 assists to lead the Knights (15-10).
Muno had kills in the first game to put the Knights ahead 19-18 and later 24-23, a big block to extend a third-game lead to 10-6 and another kill in the fourth to give Notre Dame an 18-10 lead.
"Our team chemistry is coming together," Muno said. "We are coming together as a team. The blocking was great. We really closed the block on them."
Jasmine Gritton had six blocks and Kyra Auten finished with five blocks.
Westlake senior Julia Mannisto, signed with South Carolina for beach volleyball, was nursing a leg injury and had to face a Notre Dame defense geared to slow her down. She finished with 18 kills in her final high school match.
"We closed the block on the outside to take the line off (Mannisto)," Notre Dame's Katie Kidder said. "That helped us tremendously."
Allison Webb had 12 kills, Natalie Anselmo added 17 digs and Louisiana Monroe signee Mary Anselmo contributed 40 assists for the Warriors (18-5), who overcame a two-game deficit to win in five Nov. 5 against Moorpark, but couldn't force a deciding game Tuesday.
Westlake hurt itself with 13 serving errors, including one in the opener to give the Knights game point, two more late in the third and another one in the fourth after closing an eight-point deficit to three.
"They played well and got kills and blocks that we didn't," Westlake coach Ernest Rittenhouse said. "They earned it. The serving errors hurt us. We don't usually, normally do that."
Notre Dame plays Thursday against Villa Park.
"We played really well last week and had some really good practices," Dolan said. "We lost game two and came back and took game three. They believe now. And Zana is a beast."
Muno added: "I think we can go pretty far. I'm not gonna say we are going to take the whole thing tonight, but based on the brackets, I think we can go far. Anything can happen at this point."
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Oaks Christian 3, Glendora 0 >> Shelby Livingstone had 13 kills in a 25-9, 25-10, 25-13 Division II-AA win for the No. 2 Lions. Grace Napolitano added 15 digs and Izzy Carey had 40 assists for Oaks Christian (27-5).
Valencia 3, St. Joseph/Lakewood 1 >> Lindsey Knudsen had 17 kills and 15 digs for the Vikings in a 22-25, 25-18, 25-21, 25-13 Division I-A victory.
Hayley Alvarez contributed 37 assists and 11 digs, with Makena Lautner adding nine kills and eight digs, and Emily Bible recording 13 digs for Valencia (20-12), which plays El Dorado on Thursday.
Village Christian 3, Fullerton 0 >> Meghan Lacey had 18 digs in a 25-13, 25-7, 25-18 Division II-A win for the Crusaders.
Kyra Banko recorded 13 digs and 12 kills, with Selby Schnobrich adding 34 assists for Village Christian (23-7).
Thousand Oaks 3, Santa Ana Calvary Chapel 0 >> Laura Leap had 15 kills in a 25-19, 25-17, 25-15 Division I-A win for the Lancers.
Kristin Kingi added 13 digs and Amanda Lichtl had 33 assists for Thousand Oaks (15-8).
Viewpoint 3, Granite Hills 0 >> Colette Franz had 10 kills to lead the Patriots to a 25-10, 25-21, 25-10 Division III-AA playoff victory.
Lara Schwieger contributed 10 digs and Rachel Furash recorded 16 assists for Viewpoint (14-4).
Harvard-Westlake 3, El Toro 0 >> The No. 3 Wolverines (24-10) prevailed 25-9, 25-16, 26-24 in their Division I-A opener.
Mia Natsis had 10 kills, Marielle Bagnard contributed 11 digs and Nicole Elattrache added 21 assists for Harvard-Westlake.
Monrovia 3, La Reina 0 >> Carolena Huseby had seven kills for the Regents (14-12) in the 27-25, 25-21, 26-24 loss in their Division II-AA opener.
Thousand Oaks Hillcrest Christian 3, San Jacinto Academy 0 >> Kirsten Mueller had 10 kills and 14 aces in a 25-11, 25-16, 25-14 Division V-A win for the host Saints.
Leigha Kunkel added 22 assists for Hillcrest Christian (14-0).
City Section volleyball
Taft 3, University 0 >> Tanyia Dadbin had eight kills, with Negin Akhavan contributing 15 assists for the top-seeded Toreadors (28-11) in the 25-12, 25-22, 25-21 Division II first-round victory.
Rachel Lodgen added four aces, with Samantha Huynh recording six digs for Taft.
Granada Hills 3, North Hollywood 0 >> Hannah Patton and Sarah Hagge each had 12 assists in a 25-8, 25-11, 25-9 win for the No. 2 Highlanders (17-6) in their Division I playoff opener.
Rachel Kayongo added nine kills for Granada Hills.
Arleta 3, Canoga Park 0 >> Yolanda Mosley had 11 kills to lead the No. 5 Mustangs to a 25-20, 25-21, 25-17 Division III first-round victory.
Stacy Molina added five digs and Jocelyn Colocho had 10 assists for Arleta (4-12).
Verdugo Hills 3, Contreras 0 >> Hannah Evans had five kills to lead the No. 2 Dons to a 25-9, 25-15, 25-11 Division III victory.
Rebecca Stalvey added nine digs and Jadira Espindola contributed 13 assists for Verdugo Hills (22-8).
El Camino Real 3, Bell 1 >> Trinity Goodman and Kayla Jacks each had 15 kills in a 25-18, 25-16, 23-25, 25-11 Division I win for the No. 5 Conquistadores. Alex Ardaki added 19 digs and Isabella Barbera had 43 assists for El Camino Real (16-9).
Men's soccer
CSUN 4, Cal Poly 1 >> Sagi Lev-Ari scored twice, with Nicolas Camacho and Brian Behrad adding goals for the Matadors (14-5-1) in the Big West Conference tournament.
Behrad contributed an assist, along with Mynor Giron, David Turcios, Chris Smith and Edwin Rivas for CSUN, which will play in Friday's semifinals at UC Santa Barbara.


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TAMPA — From his hospital bed Tuesday, John Agan told the world that two snakes bit him at the same time. Experts doubted him. Agan had more to say.
Snakes had bitten him nine times in 10 years, he said.
And local law enforcement reports turn up his name in a trail of calamities: The 46-year-old truck driver was behind the wheel when someone turned in front of him, crashed and died. He was robbed at gunpoint and stuffed into the trunk of a taxi. He's been stabbed.
Listen to him talk, and you'll hear about a hornet attack, old football injuries, his blocked urethra and that time in Little League when he didn't wear a cup. Guess what happened next.
"I got a nickname of Bright Eyes," Agan said. "They said my eyes would have lit up the city."
Is John Agan the unluckiest man on the planet? Or …
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Terrie Jenkins didn't believe Agan. Not when she says he told her he couldn't pay the rent because his boss was in Africa. Not when he told her snakes bit him three times in one month in the back yard.
Jenkins manages the company that rented a house to Agan in Seffner and evicted him this month. She lives next door and says she's never seen a snake in the yard. The last tenants who lived in Agan's house told her they didn't see a snake there in seven or eight years.
She says he told her other unbelievable things, too: He had been shot as a taxi driver. He fell off the roof trying to fix the plumbing and broke his neck. His last home fell into a sinkhole.
Agan said he fell off a ladder, not the roof. He denies that he told her about a sinkhole, or being shot. And he says snakes did bite him in that yard. He says he had witnesses.
"I have nothing to hide," Agan said Thursday, speaking to the Times after his discharge from University Community Hospital.
At a news conference from his hospital room Tuesday, Agan told reporters he had been walking his dog at Seffner's Masters Economy Inn when the dog got away. He said he made his way to a grassy area where two wooden boards rested by a Dumpster.
He said he's not sure if he jostled the board or nudged it, but he felt a sharp, stinging pain in his right shin and looked down to see a 10-inch red and yellow snake gnawing on his foot.
Doctors treated Agan's two wounds as possible pygmy rattlesnake and coral snake bites.
"I am seriously thinking my body puts off some kind of pheromone to attract snakes," he said.
There's no such thing, said Dr. Cynthia Lewis-Younger, managing medical director for the Florida Poison Information Center in Tampa. "We're not very good lunches for them because of our size," she said.
You have to be really close for a snake to strike, and if you back away, it won't chase you. They'll bite if you step on them, but they don't actively try to attack people. "This is not Snakes on a Plane," she said.
Encountering two snakes of different species at the same time? Lewis-Younger has never heard of it happening. The snakes don't normally hang out together. The coral snake would more likely have killed the pygmy rattler, she said.
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Agan has heard the rumors. His wife read them on the Internet, he said. People are saying he injured himself to get drugs.
"You're talking to somebody that don't even drink," he said. "Yeah, they gave me good drugs in the ambulance. Once I got to the hospital, they didn't give me any more narcotics. I laid there in the hospital and I hurt the whole time I was there."
When doctors sent him home, he said, "they told me to take Tylenol."
Agan says he's just unlucky.
"My dad was the luckiest guy," he said. "My dad, when he was alive, when they first brought out the Florida Lottery, he hit the Cash 3 the first four days in a row. He hit the Fantasy Five three times within a month."
As for himself, he says, "my wife says she's going to buy me a bubble to live in."
When Agan worked as a truck driver in 2000, a report from the Florida Highway Patrol says a pickup turned into the path of his semitrailer on State Road 60.
The other driver died.
A 2007 Hillsborough County Sheriff's report says Agan, then driving a taxi, picked up two men at 15th Street and Fowler Avenue. Then, he felt the cold barrel of a gun pressing against the back of his skull.
Back then, he told the Times that instinct kicked in. He hit re-dial on the cell phone between his legs, which activated his Bluetooth headset, which allowed his wife to listen to the next — and what he called the worst — 14 minutes of his life.
He gave the men $130, but they hit him, he said. Meanwhile, he was asking out loud where they wanted him to turn so his wife could locate him. They made him stop the car, he said. Then, they stuffed him in the trunk.
His wife called the police, who found him in there, cuts on his face and his head.
Hillsborough County Sheriff's deputies caught no suspects.
On June 5, 2008, Agan drove his taxi to a Tampa Fire station with a butcher knife sticking out of the upper-right side of his chest, a Tampa Police report says. An officer noted the knife was in at a heavy angle, blade pointed toward his shoulder, the handle across his chest.
A passenger had done it, he told police — a man with a teardrop tattoo under his eye. He'd seen the suspect's arm come around his body from the backseat. Reacting, Agan lifted his own arm. Then, he saw he had been stabbed. The man grabbed a few $1 bills and fled.
Agan's injuries healed, and police made no arrest.
"I don't know," Agan says. "It's not bad karma because I haven't done anything to anybody. I've given people free rides in my cab. … I've actually stopped in the middle of an intersection and pushed a lady across the street in a wheelchair."
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On Thursday, hospital spokesman Will Darnall said doctors were awaiting test results to determine how much venom if any entered Agan's blood stream. Darnall said snakes can bite you without envenomation.
When doctors take in a patient, they work with the information paramedics give them, he said.
Tuesday, the only evidence paramedics had of bites were the swelling punctures on Agan's leg and foot.
That, and his word.
Times researcher John Martin contributed to this report. Alexandra Zayas can be reached at email@example.com or (813) 226-3354.

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This game was classified by the community with the following category scores - Violence=3/3, Sex=0/3, Mature Content=0/3. Are you ready to slaughter some prairie dogs? It's going to be a massacre. Be careful though, some of them can shoot back. Shoot the prairie dogs with the guns to get more ammo. If you run out of ammo or get shot five times it's game over for you.
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The 20 Best Apps For The HP TouchPad
The HP TouchPad may have been discontinued, but the thousands of people who picked up tablets since HP dramatically slashed prices still have plenty of apps to choose from. HP has hundreds of dedicated TouchPad apps in its store, and the tablet can also run about 70 percent of the more than 8,000 apps designed for HP's WebOS phones. The phone apps run in a little phone-sized box on the tablet's 9.7-inch screen, though.
HP will reportedly kick off one last fire sale for the TouchPad, with the 16GB model selling for $99 and the 32GB version for $149. These TouchPads are said to be refurbished, rather than brand-new models.
It remains to be seen if any more apps will be created for WebOS. But after much discussion, HP recently announced that it will not sell its webOS unit but instead contribute the platform to the open-source community. The company said it will "continue to be active in the development and support of webOS," but handing it over to the open-source community will help improve applications and Web services for next-generation devices."
This decision may mean a steady flow of new apps will appear for the TouchPad and other devices, but we wouldn't count on it for the near future. Of the TouchPad's existing apps, many are games and productivity apps, but you'll find some entries in all of the usual-suspect categories. Some big names are represented, but not others: Kindle, Facebook, and Angry Birds are all on board. Slacker Radio, Autodesk Sketchpad, Fruit Ninja, and other popular iPad apps haven't made it over. On the other hand, the iPad doesn't have a dedicated Facebook app yet, while the TouchPad does.
Discovering TouchPad apps is much simpler than it is on Android devices, although it's not quite as foolproof as on the iPad. Peering through the HP App Catalog, just look for the little gray words "for TouchPad" below titles; those apps show up at the top of each category list on the TouchPad. That's superior to Google's frustrating, undifferentiated jumble, but it would be nice to be able to hide the not-for-TouchPad apps entirely.
The TouchPad's app catalog comes with one major unique feature: Pivot, an "app discovery magazine" with articles by professional journalists seeking out interesting apps that may not appear on top or new lists. The current issue of Pivot may be its last, but it was a very neat idea.
The relatively thin app catalog gives some developers room to stand out. Typewriter, for instance, is a good-looking and ingenious text-entry app that uses the simple formatting language, Markdown. Spaz, a popular Twitter app on the Palm Pre, takes on Tweetdeck's columnar approach on the TouchPad.
Many apps in HP's catalog—especially the games—are paid, and prices are similar to what you'll pay for similar iPad apps. Every TouchPad must be associated with a Palm Profile, and setting up your profile includes adding a credit card. After that, it's just two clicks to buy apps—quick and seamless. Developers get paid via PayPal, which works to deliver money in about 100 countries.
Here are our picks for the best TouchPad apps so far.
HP App Catalog
TouchPad App List
Angry Birds HD (Free)
Facebook (Free)
Glyder 2 HD ($2.99)
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit ($9.99)
Amazon Kindle (Free)
Localscope ($2.99)
Spaz HD Beta Preview 1 (Free)
TuneIn Radio (Free)
Typewriter Beta (Free)
Epicurious (Free)
Groupon (Free)
WordPress (Free)
Pandora Radio (Free)
Box.net (Free)
Interface Lift HD (Free)
Robotek HD (Free)
Mosaic Reader (Free)
AccuWeather (Free)
Camera for TouchPad ($.99)
ToodleTasks HD ($4.99)


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Deadly Drug-Resistant Bacteria Becoming Increasingly Common
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(NEW YORK) — A bacterial family that has become resistant to many antibiotics has caused infections in hospitalized patients and is an increasing concern, says the Center for Disease Control.
In a press release, the CDC called for action to stop the spread of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae. The bacteria kill up to 50 percent of the patients who get bloodstream infections from them, says the press release. The bacteria, which include E. coli, are increasingly resistant to almost all antibiotics, and leave doctors with limited or no treatment options.
Dr. Thomas Frieden, Director of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said, "CRE has not yet spread to the community like MRSA, and it's important that we keep it that way. We have a window of opportunity to prevent its spread." Almost one in five long-term acute care hospitals had at least one infection of the bacteria in the first half of 2012.
According to the CDC press release, doctors are very concerned that these "nightmare bacteria" could increase in frequency, leaving patients with potentially untreatable and deadly infections.
In 2001, CRE accounted for just one percent of infections in hospitalized patients. That number increased to four percent in 2012, according to the CDC.
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text: I just started this thread to admit that I was wrong about the franchise not getting compensation for Carr. After looking at all the evidence, I admit that it was a combination of Carr's lack of overall talent AND his intractabilty concerning renogotiations to his contract that led to this event. I applaud both Kubiak and Smith for doing what was necessary to correct this mistake. That took great big balls and that's not something you find everday, especially in their respective positions. Go Matt Schaub and, most importantly, GO TEXANS!!!!


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When she put on her frilliest nightgown to watch TV.
We can always count on Sophie for two things: filling her DVR with reality shows and wearing outrageous outfits. So, when Max and Caroline needed to watch reruns in order to prepare for their meeting with reality-TV starlet Kim Kardashian, it came as no surprise when Sophie volunteered to help them out or that she greeted them dressed in what looked to be the most uncomfortable sleeping gown ever invented.
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Tahini sauce is a sauce made from a thick sesame seed paste called tahini. It typically also includes garlic, salt, olive oil and lemon juice, and some recipes may also include parsley or water.Continue Reading
Tahini sauce is made by combining all ingredients into a food processor to form a smooth, thin sauce. It can also be prepared by mashing garlic and salt with the back of a spoon until a paste forms, then whisking in the other ingredients by hand. Once combined, the sauce keeps for about five days in the refrigerator.
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ALBANY, N.Y. – A same sex couple who were told they could not use a wedding venue in the area have won their discrimination case.
The New York State Division of Human Rights has ruled that Liberty Ridge Farm cannot discriminate against same-sex couples.
The two Albany women, Melisa Erwin and Jennie McCarthy, find a complaint on October 11 after the Liberty Ridge Farm said it would not host their wedding. The owners said they had objections to gay marriage based on their values and religious background.


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In XP they say "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work." I think the word 'simple' has been abused and often turns into "roll my own, quick and dirty." I'll use a common example from recent history: date manipulation.
Why wouldn't you want to use DateTime? It gives you so much for free, I consider that the quintessential simple. Instead, so many people write their own date formatter, or calculator, or whatever. Please, if you're going to use this XP theory, stop writing code!
I'll admit, I've only recently been studying XP, but it would seem I've been doing quite a lot of it for a long while. I just think that the phrase should be "Find the most useful thing that could possibly work."
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Frank Promoted To Associate Head Coach
After helping to guide the Buffaloes to their best season to date in school history, Colorado head coach Ann Elliott has promoted assistant coach Alex Frank to an associate head coach, effective immediately.
Freshman Duo Pick Up Athlete of the Week Honors
BOULDER - Lacrosse's Johnna Fusco and track and field's Ben Saarel were named CU Athletes of the Week on Tuesday for the week of Feb. 10-16.
Eight Buffs Earn MPSF All-Academic Honors
Colorado placed eight on the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation All-Academic Teams for the 2017 season. Those athletes are Olivia Aschman, Sarah Brown, Carly Cox, Kelsie Garrison, Marie Moore, Samantha Nemirov, Molly Rovzar and Paige Soenksen.
Buffs Finish Season Ranked 16th In IWLCA Coaches Poll
After a historic season that saw the Colorado Buffaloes record numerous firsts in the fourth year of the program's existence, including competing in their first NCAA Tournament, CU finished the season ranked 16th in the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Division I Coaches Poll, which was released on Tuesday afternoon.
Trio Earns IWLCA All-America Honors
Sarah Brown, Darby Kiernan and Paige Soenksen have earned IWLCA All-America honors for the first time in CU history.
Buffs End Record-Setting Season With Loss In NCAA Tournament
The Colorado Buffaloes had a year to remember, but their season ended on Friday night in the first round of the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Tournament, falling 13-7 to Massachusetts (17-3) at Penn Park.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- In a stunning criminal complaint, State Sen. Leland Yee has been charged with conspiring to traffic in firearms, and public corruption as part of a major FBI operation spanning the Bay Area, casting yet another cloud of corruption over the Democratic establishment in the Legislature and torpedoing Yee's aspirations for statewide office.
Yee, D-San Francisco, highlights a series of arrests Wednesday that included infamous Chinatown gangster Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, whose past includes a variety of charges including racketeering and drug crimes. Targets of the raids appeared in federal court in San Francisco on Wednesday afternoon.
Yee wore handcuffs and was shackled at the waist when he appeared in court with 20 other defendants. His demeanor was downcast, and he looked nervously into the packed gallery of about 100 reporters and observers.
He did not enter a plea. He was being held on $500,000 bail, and his passport has been confiscated. Hours later Yee was released from custody and his lawyer says the his client plans to plead not guilty to the corruption and gun charges.
Yee left the federal courthouse shortly before 7 p.m. Wednesday after spending most of the day locked up after his early morning arrest. Yee declined to comment.
Yee's lawyer, Paul DeMeester, declined to discuss the charges against the senator in detail, saying the 137-page criminal complaint will take time to read and fully grasp the criminal case. DeMeester said the day's goal was to get his client freed on bond. Beyond that, he declined further comment.
If convicted on all the counts against him, Yee faces up to 125 years in prison. The complaint charges 26 people -- including Yee and Chow -- with a panoply of crimes, including firearms traf- ficking, money laundering, murder-for-hire, drug distribution, trafficking in contraband cigarettes, and honest services fraud.
Yee is charged with conspiracy to traffic in firearms without a license and to illegally import firearms, as well as six counts of scheming to defraud citizens of honest services. Each corruption count is punishable by up to 20 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000, while the gun-trafficking count is punishable by up to five years and $250,000.
Yee is also accused of accepting tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions and cash payments to provide introductions, help a client get a contract and influence legislation. He or members of his campaign staff accepted at least $42,800 in cash or campaign contributions from undercover FBI agents in exchange for carrying out the agents' specific requests, the court documents allege.
Yee discussed helping the agent get weapons worth $500,000 to $2.5 million, including shoulder fired automatic weapons and missiles, and took him through the entire process of acquiring them from a Muslim separatist group in the Philippines to bringing them to the United States, according to the affidavit by FBI Special Agent Emmanuel V. Pascua.
He was unhappy with his life and told the agent he wanted to hide out in the Philippines, according to the affidavit.
"There's a part of me that wants to be like you," he told the undercover agent, according to the affidavit. "You know how I'm going to be like you? Just be a free agent there."
The charges are particularly shocking given that Yee has been among the state Senate's most outspoken advocates both of gun control and of good-government initiatives.
San Francisco political consultant Keith Jackson, a former school-board president, allegedly was the link between Yee and Chow, who federal prosecutors say is the current "Dragonhead," or leader, of the San Francisco-based Chee Kung Tong organization.
Chow introduced an undercover agent who had infiltrated his organization to Jackson, who with his son, Brandon Jackson, and another man, Marlon Sullivan, allegedly sold the agent various guns and bulletproof vests.
The Jacksons and Sullivan also allegedly conspired in a murder-for-hire scheme requested by the undercover agent, as well as other crimes including sale of stolen credit cards and purchase of cocaine.
Yee ran for mayor of San Francisco in 2011 and now is a candidate for California Secretary of State. But the criminal complaint likely ruins his candidacy and further threatens Democrats' efforts to restore their state Senate supermajority that already has been broken by two other lawmakers' paid leaves of absence to deal with criminal charges.
Keith Jackson and Yee from 2011 until now allegedly solicited donations from undercover FBI agents in exchange for official acts and conspired to traffic firearms, the complaint says. Starting in May 2011, Jackson solicited an undercover FBI agent to give money to Yee's mayoral campaign, including asking the agent for donations in excess of the $500 individual donation limit. The agent refused, but introduced Jackson and Yee to a purported business associate -- another undercover agent -- who they also solicited for at least $5,000.
Yee's mayoral election loss left him with $70,000 in debt, the complaint says, and so Yee and Jackson allegedly agreed that Yee would call a California Department of Public Health manager in support of a contract under consideration with the second undercover agent's purported client, and would provide an official letter of support for the client, in exchange for a $10,000 campaign donation. Yee allegedly made the call on Oct. 18, 2012, and provided the letter on or about Jan. 13, 2013; Jackson allegedly accepted the $10,000 cash donation on Nov. 19, 2012.
The complaint also says Jackson last August told one of the undercover agents that Yee had a contact who deals in arms trafficking; Jackson requested that the undercover agent provide a campaign donation in exchange for Yee facilitate a meeting with the arms dealer so the agent could buy a large number of weapons. Yee and Jackson allegedly discussed with the agent details of the specific types of weapons the undercover agent was interested in buying and importing.
The agent who discussed arms with Yee presented himself as a member of Ghee Kung Tong, a fraternal organization in San Francisco's Chinatown that Chow reportedly headed. It was among the sites searched Wednesday.
Firefighters were seen going inside with a circular saw and later said they had cracked a safe. FBI agents were seen coming out with boxes and trash bags full of evidence that they loaded into an SUV.
Yee had yet to appear before the judge as of 3 p.m., but earlier in the afternoon the judge ordered Chow be held without bail. Government attorneys called him a flight risk and danger to the community, citing his criminal history. Chow's lawyer objected saying that Chow has been fighting with immigration authorities to stay in the United States.
Chow is not a U.S. citizen. He is being represented by public defender and lives in San Francisco with his girlfriend. He has been on electronic monitoring since he's been out of prison and seeking legal immigration stays, even during the current investigation.
FBI agents and local police served arrest and search warrants throughout the Bay Area, with agents seen in San Francisco and San Mateo and Yee's Capitol office in Sacramento. One of the searches was at the San Francisco Chinatown office of the Ghee Kung Tong Free Masons and is linked to Chow's arrest.
Outside that building on Spofford Street -- a Chinatown alley between Clay and Washington streets -- FBI Special Agent Michael Gimbel would say only that "the FBI is executing numerous search warrants around the Bay Area."
San Francisco firefighters carried a heavy rotary saw into the building late Wednesday morning; neighbors said they believe there's a safe inside the building. Federal agents removed about 10 boxes of documents and several bags of material from the building at about 12:30 p.m., and the FBI left the scene soon after that.
Federal law enforcement officials have been chasing Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow for decades, branding him one of the longtime Bay Area leaders of a Hong Kong-based criminal syndicate called the Wo Hop To. Chow's criminal rap sheet dates back to 1978, and includes federal racketeering indictments that have alleged attempted murder, murder-for-hire, gun trafficking and other crimes.
Chow was originally indicted in a federal racketeering probe that targeted the alleged leader of the Chinatown gang, Peter Chong. At one point, Chow cooperated with federal law enforcement officials against Chong, who had fled to Hong Kong after being indicted on racketeering charges but was later extradited and convicted in San Francisco federal court in a case marred by setbacks and delays. Chow's original 1995 sentence of 24 years was cut to 11 years as a result of his cooperation, and he has been out of prison for 10 years.
During an afternoon press conference, State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said "Leland Yee should leave the Senate and leave it now."
Yee represents San Francisco and a portion of San Mateo County. Before becoming the first Chinese-American ever elected to the state Senate in 2006, Yee was an assemblyman from 2002 to 2006; a San Francisco supervisor from 1997 to 2002; and had been a member and president of the San Francisco Unified School District board. While in the Assembly, he was the first Asian-American to be named Speaker pro Tempore, essentially making him the chamber's second-most-powerful Democrat.
That power would have been exercised this year in Yee's run for Secretary of State against state Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Van Nuys; Democrat Derek Cressman; Republican Pete Peterson; and nonpartisan Dan Schnur.
Upon pulling his candidacy papers in February, Yee issued a news release saying it was time for a Secretary of State "who will expand access to the ballot box, make our government more transparent, and strengthen California's democracy."
"I am committed to empowering Californians so that they can guarantee fair elections, expose special interests and prevent corruption, because it's your California," Yee said at the time.
Yee campaign spokesman Joaquin Ross declined to comment Wednesday morning, saying he would have to call back.
Yee is the state's third Democratic legislator recently targeted in corruption allegations. In February, State Sen. Ron Calderon, D-Montebello, surrendered to authorities after being indicted on bribery charges. In January, state Sen. Roderick Wright, D-Inglewood, was convicted of voter fraud and perjury stemming from a 2010 indictment.
Cressman, who until last June was vice president of the nonpartisan government watchdog group Common Cause, Wednesday morning said that charges against Yee must be "a wake-up call" given other Senate Democrats' legal problems.
"We are clearly beyond the point of looking at one bad apple and instead looking at a corrupt institution in the California Senate," Cressman said. "The constant begging for campaign cash clearly has a corrosive effect on a person's soul and the only solution is to get big money out of our politics once and for all."
Schnur, a longtime GOP campaign strategist who more recently served as chairman of the state Fair Political Practices Commission and directed the University of Southern California's Unruh Institute of Politics, said news of Yee's arrest "is yet another in a series of reminders of why Californians have so little trust in their elected officials.
"My hope is that this will prompt the Legislature to take much more aggressive and meaningful action to fix a broken political system than they have been willing to do to date," Schnur said.
Yee emigrated to San Francisco from China at age 3; his father was a veteran who served in the Army and the merchant marine. Yee earned a bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley; a master's degree from San Francisco State University; and a doctorate in child psychology at the University of Hawaii. He and his wife, Maxine, have four children.
Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough, served with Yee for several years in the Legislature but was never close to him. She said the senator is innocent until proven guilty but called the allegations "regrettable."
"It's always sad for all of us in the profession," said Speier, "to see individuals who lose sight of what the public trust is all about."
(The Associated Press contributed to this article.)


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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi youth football team managed to qualify for Youth World Cup, which will be held in Turkey, after beating its Japanese counterpart (2-1) in the quarter-final of the Asian Youth championship cup U-19 held in the UAE.
The Iraqi player, Mohamed Jabar Shukan, scored the first goal at the 33 minute of the first half of the match then the Japanese team scored a goal at the beginning of the second half, but the Iraqi player, Ali Adnan, scored the winning goal for Iraq at the second half.
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Bucharest (Jul. 11)
The Roumanian press here and in Czernowitz is almost united in demanding a new and thoroughgoing investigation into the disastrous fire in Borscha last week which left several thousand Jews homeless and caused damage estimated at 50,000,000 lei. In view of what it terms the contradictions and inconsistencies in the evidence on which the government's communique on the fire was based the "Adverul" leads the way in demanding a new probe.
The "Lufta" also joins the call for a sweeping inquiry and punishment of the guilty. If this is not forthcoming, the "Lufta" says, it is the government's duty to prove that the allegation that the fire was incendiary in origin is false because the country's prestige is at stake. It is also pointed out that unless real action is taken Borscha will be but the beginning of such fires.
Discussing the government's statement on the fire, the "Adverul" points out that the official version of the disaster stated that the fire had started through negligence and that this was confirmed by a Dr. Solomon whose house was among those destroyed. The "Adverul" remarks, however, that not only does Dr. Solomon deny having given such evidence but he says that the fire started in his house in a chimney that had been unused for four


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Advertising, quality, and willingness-to-pay: Experimental examination of signaling theory
According to the quality signaling theory, firms are motivated to invest more advertising in high-quality products. This paper conducts an experiment through a closed-ended double-bounded dichotomous choice of the contingent valuation method to measure consumer willingness-to-pay for a fictitious cell phone market of varying quality before and after advertising. The results show that advertising effectively influences consumer awareness of perceived quality and enhance their WTP. The results also suggest that even though the high- and low-quality products differ in the investment of advertising, the effect of advertising on the increase in consumer WTP for low-quality products as well as for high-quality products.
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- Hao Zhao, 2000. "Raising Awareness and Signaling Quality to Uninformed Consumers: A Price-Advertising Model," Marketing Science, INFORMS, vol. 19(4), pages 390-396, January.
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Google and Samsung have asked the Chinese government regulators to have a look at the possibility that the proposed Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia does not lead to increased patent licensing fees, a report from Bloomberg says.
These two companies are in unison with two Chinese companies ZTE and Huawei in raising their worry that Microsoft, with this acquisition, will have gained unwieldy power in the smartphone market, the report from Bloomberg says.
The officials who are in knowledge of the case say that these companies have asked the Chinese government to attach conditions to the deal.
Microsoft's Nokia deal is under an anti-monopoly review by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and there are good chances that the deal will be approved. Earlier the deal has been given a go-ahead by the regulators of the European Union in December.
Both Google and Samsung have not responded for comments on this news item to Reuters.


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Can Kraft Be a Big Cheese Abroad?
When Aussies stroll down the aisles of their local supermarket, what catches their eyes are snacks from Unilever (UL ) and Nestlé (NSRGY ). Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and Oscar Mayer hot dogs, on the other hand, are hard to find and far from first choice. "They would be classified as a slow-moving line," says Terry Walters, the owner of an IGA store in Cairns, Queensland, about the classic American macaroni-and-cheese dinner. As for hot dogs: "We have the meat pie."
Kraft may be ubiquitous in U.S. grocery stores, but overseas it's a far different picture. Kraft isn't one of Walters' top five food suppliers, ranking below even H.J. Heinz Co. (HNZ ), despite its ownership of Australia's famed Vegemite spread. Only 27% of its total revenues come from overseas, vs. 44% for Heinz, more than 50% for McDonald's Corp. (MCD ), and more than 80% for Coca-Cola Co. (KO )
That will have to change. As Kraft embarks on a giant initial public offering, expected in mid-June, its challenge is to once again become a growth company. Widely admired for the astute management of its brand lineup, Kraft is nevertheless stuck in a slow-growth industry in the U.S. Smart marketing and methodical cost-cutting helped it boost earnings 14.1% last year, but Kraft's sales actually dipped slightly, to $26.53 billion. In fact, Kraft's annual sales have dropped 16.2% since 1994. The company took a big step toward building revenues in December with its $19.2 billion purchase of Nabisco Group Holdings Corp. (NGH-U ), whose cookie and cracker brands are growing faster than Kraft's top brands.
That deal should boost Kraft's sales to an expected $35.05 billion this year. But analysts say that if Kraft is to spark long-term growth, it must do a better job of tapping foreign consumers. Kraft acknowledged as much when it announced that once the IPO is completed, Betsy D. Holden, CEO of Kraft Foods North America, will share the chief executive office with Roger K. Deromedi, a 13-year Kraft veteran who has been president and CEO of Kraft Foods International Inc. for the past two years. The company declined to comment or make top executives available to BusinessWeek, citing the quiet period before the IPO, as did parent Philip Morris Cos. (MO )
AMERICAN ICONS. The largest food company in North America by far, Kraft has dominated U.S. grocery-store shelves for decades. Its powerhouse brands are American icons: Philadelphia Cream Cheese, Oreo cookies, Tang, Jell-O, Kool-Aid, Life Savers, Planters peanuts, Lunchables prepackaged meals for kids. Its portfolio comprises a remarkable 61 brands with more than $100 million in sales last year. Supermarket consultants say it would be nearly impossible to run a U.S. grocery store without its products.
But these aren't the best of times, even for strong supermarket brands. Shopper loyalty has waned as the grocery chains' in-house brands compete for shelf space, and big brands such as Kraft's tend to be mature. Take salad dressing. Even though Kraft is the market leader, "there's Kraft, there's Wish-Bone, there's Hellmann's," says John P. Mahar, operations director at the Green Hills Farms supermarket in Syracuse, N.Y. "If we have Wish-Bone on sale, shoppers pick up Wish-Bone. They don't care. The majority of Kraft's brands are just another commodity."
TOBACCO TAINT. Boosting sales will become even more urgent once Kraft has outside shareholders to answer to. Cigarette maker Philip Morris, which has owned Kraft since 1988, is putting 16.1% of the company on the market in an offering that could raise as much as $8.4 billion. That would be the second-largest IPO on record, behind only AT&T Wireless Group's $10.5 billion stock market debut last year. Philip Morris will remain firmly in control, but its goal is to realize more of Kraft's value by distancing the business from the tobacco taint that has held Philip Morris' stock price down.
The first concern for investors might be whether Kraft's co-CEO structure can work. Deromedi, 47, and Holden, 45, who started at Kraft as an assistant product manager in 1982, will both report to Geoffrey Bible, chairman of Philip Morris. Analysts wonder how long the arrangement will last, citing a long list of prominent companies, from DaimlerChrysler to Citigroup, where co-CEO setups fizzled. "The co-CEO structure calls into question if this is truly an independent company," says Goldman, Sachs & Co. analyst Romitha S. Mally. "At the end of the day, it will be the chairman and the board, which is controlled by Philip Morris, who will be the ultimate decision-makers for Kraft."
In this case, though, the co-CEOs have well-defined management areas. Another plus: Their personalities seem to complement each other. James J. Drury, vice-chairman of Spencer Stuart, an executive-search firm in Chicago, describes Deromedi, who holds a math degree, as "more focused on problem-solving and more likely to make tough decisions in complex situations." Holden, he says, is creative, charismatic, and more people-oriented: "She's more the one to take into consideration how a business situation may impact people."
A top task for the new CEOs will be figuring out how to expand outside North America. Overseas, Kraft faces a lineup of tough global competitors--Unilever, Nestlé, Groupe Danone--that were quicker to break into fast-growing markets in Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. Unilever and Nestlé, for example, each get 32% of their sales in developing countries. Western Europe, Kraft's strongest international market, is almost as saturated as the U.S. Even in Great Britain, Kraft is only the eighth-largest food company. "A truly global organization would have a quarter to one-third of their business in North America, not three-quarters," says Adrian Richardson, global consumer and retail-sector head at BT Funds Management, a large money manager in Sydney.
FORTRESS. One problem is that Kraft's strength, convenience products, don't go over well in emerging markets, where scarce shopping dollars are concentrated on necessities. Unilever, for example, sells staples in India such as rice with added protein and salt with iodine. Kraft, on the other hand, has only a tiny presence there. But Kraft plans to jump-start sales in emerging markets by introducing additional snack, beverage, cheese, and other brands in countries where it already has a presence. It also plans to enter countries where it has no operations and to make acquisitions, especially in snacks and beverages, according to its filings with the Securities & Exchange Commission. Richardson believes Kraft could make up to three significant acquisitions in the next few years to beef up its offshore operations: "If they just build, build, build [new plants], they won't meaningfully move the dial," he says. For Kraft, "the U.S. domestic base is an absolute fortress that provides a very good cash cow" with which to go shopping. "They're not too late."
Close to home, Kraft is getting a much-needed shot of adrenaline from the Nabisco purchase. Last year, Kraft's sales dipped 1%, vs. gains of 7.3% at General Mills Inc. (GIS ) and 6.3% at Hershey Foods Corp. (HSY ) Many older Kraft products are in aging categories with flat or declining volumes, such as cereal and traditional store-bought coffee. But with Nabisco, Kraft picked up faster-growing product lines such as Chips Ahoy! cookies and Ritz crackers that will fuel earnings growth. Overnight, Kraft moved from a 6% to a 20% market share in crackers and cookies, a category that's expanding at more than twice the rate of the food-industry average. Goldman's Mally expects Kraft sales to rise 3.5% in each of the next three years, just ahead of the industry average. And with the cost savings it expects to squeeze from Nabisco, Kraft estimates that its earnings will grow at an above-average 18% to 22% annually over the same period.
That additional growth will be needed to cover the cost of the Nabisco deal. The newly public Kraft will carry an $18.5 billion debt load, even after using the offering proceeds to pay off a portion of the $11 billion it borrowed through Philip Morris to buy Nabisco. Nest year, $7 billion of this debt comes due, and Kraft won't be able to meet that payment, according to its prospectus. But it says it plans to use its good credit rating to refinance.
Kraft has long been a leader in product development--in 1989 it launched the novel Lunchables line that's now a $750 million-a-year product. Innovations like that put Kraft on top of the U.S. food industry. Now investors will be counting on Deromedi and Holden to sprinkle some of that magic overseas.
By Julie Forster in Chicago, with Becky Gaylord in Sydney


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Rabbi Leon Harrison of the Temple Israel, St. Louis, leaped to his death Saturday in front of an I. R. T. subway train at the 116th Street and Broadway station.
Death apparently was instantaneous. The body was wedged against the platform in such a manner that the train crew could not extricate it and traffic was held up for twenty-five minutes.
Police Emergency Crew No. 2 freed the body. In the dead man's pockets were papers that identified him as Dr. Leon Harrison of St. Louis. There was also a local address which indicated that he was residing temporarily at 417 Riverside Drive.
Dr. Harrison was for more than thirty-five years rabbi of Temple Israel in St. Louis. His first charge was in Brooklyn, where he presided at Temple Israel.
Dr. Harrison was a native of Liverpool, England, but came to this country when ten years old.


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Belleville, Ill. • A few years into their relationship, Sabra Blumhorst and Chelsea Baker exchanged wedding vows, never mind the couple's November nuptials weren't legally recognized in Illinois. Civil unions didn't interest the Carbondale couple, who long had hoped to have a legal marriage.
"I felt very strongly that if we can't be married-married, I'm not going through the steps of the interim process of separate but equal," Blumhorst, who now uses the surname of her five-year partner, said Wednesday. "I wanted complete equality, and we decided to wait."
The waiting ends Sunday, when Illinois' 102 counties may begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Gay couples and gay-rights advocates across the state will mark the date with blessing ceremonies and group weddings, and several county clerks offices will make an exception and offer office hours that day for license-seekers unwilling to wait until Monday morning.


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Allen Iverson crosses the ball from right to left, hops over the rock as it bounces past, adds a hesitation step, then spins through the air like a Tony Jaa missile as he bursts past defenders. When he lands, the crossover dribble starts beating the concrete under his feet faster and faster like a paddle ball player on andro until The Answer finally crouches down in front of his defender to skip the leather back and forth at its most frenzied pace. A.I. hesitates again, this time spinning on his back Electric Boogaloo-style before popping up and performing a kick pass to Vince Carter who is streaking toward the basket.
This isn't a canned animation or even a Gamebreaker. Seems The Answer holds the answer to NBA Street Homecourt's biggest secret: The Trick Remixer.
The results? A responsive, seemingly unlimited set of moves that will have the A.I. in all of us crossing over defenders with the specific dribble combinations (and speed of those dribbles) your fingers tap out.
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Step 1: The Tap
Tap X on the 360 to perform a simple crossover. The faster you tap it, the faster you'll cross the ball back and forth. Repeatedly tap X as fast as you can and your player will crouch down as he dribbles the ball back and forth between hands. While you're doing this, you have full freedom of movement in any direction.
Step 2: The Press and Hold
While tapping the button gives you speed of dribble, pressing and holding the X button will add hesitation into the mix as well as vary the animations depending on how long you hold X down. Use the hold after a series of taps to perform different tricks and showboat on your homecourt.
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Want to vary your movements even more? Press the left or right bumper while performing the series of taps and holds to show even more style as you dribble between your legs, behind your back, or even roll the ball down your shoulder. So now combinations can look like this: Tap X, X, X to cross quickly into a crouch, hold X to start jumping over the ball with every dribble, tap X (while holding the left bumper) to roll on the ground, then get up and hold X and the right bumper to spin your way into the lane for the dunk.
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Tapping and holding X is great, but it's when you include the combination of the second trick button (Y on the 360), that things get insane. While X is about dribbling, Y is about the circus, strut-your-stuff, cartwheel with the ball and breakdance moves that make Street so fun. They are also about individual moves like Steve Nash's kickflip, where he uses his old-school soccer moves to flip the ball over his defender's head before delivering the kick pass alley oop.


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Stupid football is the worst, especially when it might have cost a team their chance at winning.
The Washington Redskins fell victim to stupid football on Sunday against the Rams when a costly 15-yard penalty made a potential game-tying field goal much, much more difficult than it should have been.
The culprit was Joshua Morgan whose unsportsmanlike conduct penalty turned what would have been about a 47-yard field goal attempt into a 62-yard attempt. AFC Championship goat Billy Cundiff couldn't pull off the miracle kick, and the Skins took their first loss of the season.
Morgan actually did a nice job of picking up a handful of yards on third down to get Washington a little closer for the field goal, but he let his emotions get the best of him. St. Louis cornerback Cortland Finnegan (who else?) gave Morgan a little shove after the play, to which Morgan responded by throwing the ball at Finnegan.
The flag then went flying, setting the stage for the missed field goal.
The play was probably best summed up by the fantastic photo below of the Washington sideline right after the penalty flag was tossed.
See boneheaded play in the video below, courtesy of The Big Lead.
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He steered clear of the controversy over the kind of proof collected by security agencies with regard to Pakistan's involvement in the July 11 Mumbai blasts, saying "certain evidence" had been gathered which will be shared with Islamabad.
"As we cannot alter our neighbours, it is desirable to live with our neighbours in peace and create tension-free situation on our borders with our neighbours," Mukherjee told reporters while responding to questions on Pakistani role in terror attacks in India.
Mukherjee, who has moved from the Defence Ministry, said peace and tranquility in the region as well as other parts of the world was "most important" to ensure that India succeeds in its ambition of achieving sustained high economic growth of 9-10 per cent and above.
For attaining the high economic growth, India will require investments and access to state-of-the-art technology, he said on returning to the ministry after 10 years.
The minister said peace in the world at large was also desirable as developments in one part have impact on other parts.
With regard to the controversy over the kind of evidence available with regard to Pakistani involvement in the Mumbai blasts, Mukherjee said his views couldn't be different as he was part of the same government.
"Our law enforcement agencies have gathered certain evidence," Mukherjee said, adding it will be shared with Pakistan.
He was asked about differing statements made by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, National Security Adviser M K Narayanan and Home Secretary V K Duggal.
While Singh has been saying that India has "credible" evidence, Narayanan said last week that the evidence was "pretty good" but not "clinching". Duggal later said the evidence was "fairly solid".
To a question about terrorism emanating from Bangladesh, Mukherjee disagreed with a suggestion about use of "force" against it.
The Minister said India has already taken up the issue with Bangladesh and suggested to them that it is in the interest of both countries that terrorist activities are curbed.
The matter was even raised with Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia when she visited India in April 2006, he said.
Mukherjee was allocated the External Affairs Ministry portfolio on Tuesday, a year after the post fell vacant when Natwar Singh had to resign. Singh had to quit after his name appeared in Volcker Committee report as a 'non-contractual' beneficiary in Iraq's oil-for-food scam.
Mukherjee, who held the External Affairs portfolio in the P V Narasimha Rao government till May 1996, said he was happy to be back.
He said he was fully aware and conscious of the responsibilities of the new assignment, particularly as India was at the moment poised to play more important role to take its rightful place in the comity of nations.


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Da Blues Concert
Saturday, May 25, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM (PDT)
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Legendary Blues singer Ellington "Fuji" Jordan is headlining a Mega-Blues concert on May 25th at Woodward Park Ampitheatre. "Fuji" is known worldwide for his songwriting and soul inspiring voice. He wrote the song "I'd Rather Be a Blind Man", which has been re-recorded by legendary artists such as Beyonce, Etta James, Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, and B.B. King. "Da Blues" concert will showcase his newest album, Almost Home, as well as some of his classic songs when associated with the famouse funk group band, Black Merda. Also performing is the beautiful and talanted Fresno native and Jazz musician/singer Jeanette Harris. Other musicians scheduled to perform are Lo Down Bobby Brown and Baby B & The Goodfellas. Please join us for some "rockin" Blues and BBQ.
TICKETS: can be purchased in advance here or by calling 559-360-4334. You can also purchase at the event for $20.
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New York City- with its skyscrapers, millions of people and eclectic neighborhoods- can be hard to get around if you're not from there.
This is what Chinedu Echeruo encountered in 1995 when he moved to the Empire State. The Nigerian native, now 38, worked on Wall Street. Ten years after making his own way around the city, Echeruo created HopStop, an online city transit guide offering door-to-door directions from buses and subways.
"Every entrepreneur starts off thinking 'What's a problem I can fix?' The problem for me was how to get from Point A to Point B in New York," Echeruo told The New York Times (LINK: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/01/technology/01hop.html).
The popularity of the NYC HopStop site led to offshoot sites in other U.S. cities, including Boston, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and San Francisco. It even spread internationally, to London and Paris, and has a free app available on most smartphones.
Chinedu Echeruo is making history… as an innovator who took his personal experience of navigating through New York City and created a site that would help others find their way around more easily. He was named Black Enterprise Magazine's 2007 Small Business Innovator of theYear and was listed in their top 40 Under 40 list.
What's next for Chinedu?
The Harvard Business School graduate is now a partner in a private equity firm in Accra, Ghana.
A little-known fact about NYC Subway system
In 2010, the average ridership for the New York Subway system over the year totaled more than 1.6 billion people.
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Q: What's next in this chapter of your life?
A: I left HopStop in 2009, to join Constant Capital as a partner, and head of the Principal Investing group. Constant Capital (Constantcap.com) is a West-Africa based investment bank and private equity firm. I currently live in Ghana.
Q: What's a fact about you that many people don't know?
A: I am very interested in philosophy.
Q: What's your favorite quote?
Fortuna farvis fortius means; Fortune favors the brave
Q. Where do you get your inspiration?
A: Just like many entrepreneurs, I am inspired by finding solutions to problems. I see problems as opportunities to design and create businesses.
Q: Who are/were your mentors?
A: All the members of my family.
Q: What advice would you give to anyone who wants to achieve their dreams?
A: I wouldn't advice people to chase dreams. Instead chase what inspires you and makes you happy. They can very different things.


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Sean Simpson is living the dream. The 27-year-old Troy resident had spent too many years of his life wearing the shirt and tie uniform of an engineer, filling out TPS reports, and rolling his eyes at the Lumbergs who infested his office. Today he is running an innovative start-up, AutoBike, pursuing his MBA at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, and working in jeans as he pleases and when he pleases.
"I hate having to come in at an exact certain time, super scheduled," Simpson says. "Life doesn't seem to work that way — forcing people into that makes them less efficient. If I think a certain way is the best way to do something, I want to do it that way. I don't want to have to work within certain confines."
That doesn't mean the path Simpson travels is a smooth one. He's working twice as many hours by building up AutoBike during the day, and then taking business classes at night and on the weekends. He does have help, however, from the company's three other co-founders and a handful of independent contractors.
Together they are working to develop AutoBike's highly innovative, automatic shifter. The idea is to create a mechanism that eliminates the guesswork of which bicycle gear makes pedaling the easiest for amateur cyclists. The company is in the final stages of developing its Beta version now and plans to begin selling it later this year.
AutoBike's co-founders didn't know they wanted to create this technology at first. The four friends from a variety of backgrounds (engineering, product development, private equity, etc.) held bi-weekly meetings in early 2010 to figure out the best idea to base their start-up ambitions around. About 18 months ago, one of the co-founders had a chance encounter with novice bicyclists pushing their bikes up a hill. It lit up the CFL above his head.
"They said it was too hard to pedal up this hill," Simpson says. "He said they were totally in the wrong gear and asked them why didn't they just shift. They said they had just bought these things and were just starting to get into biking. He was taken aback by that. He thought there must be something we can do that will make this easy so people can just get on and ride the bike."
"We wanted to pick an idea that wasn't so grandiose that you needed 10 years to figure out if it would work or not or was super capital intensive," Simpson says. "Something we could prove out with a concept fairly cheaply. The bike idea was a good one because there aren't a lot of regulations or barriers to entry."
Last fall that entrepreneurial seed had grown to the point where Simpson could leave his full-time job and focus on AutoBike, a dream his co-founders also aspire to. Simpson recently sat down withMetromode's Jon Zemke to talk about bicycling, live/work/school balance and why business plan competitions should be more standardized.
You're still in the early stages of your business. Is being an entrepreneur everything you envisioned it would be?
It's 90 percent unlike what I thought it would be and 10 percent what I thought it would be. The challenges are completely different. I thought I would be nose to the grind stone working on the technology stuff. You know, what I am good at. Instead I spend a lot of my time working on stuff I am not qualified for, like finding and recruiting the right people. I didn't think I would have to learn how to become a public speaker. But we have done a couple of pitch events where I had to put a few presentations together.
So have the rose-colored glasses come off yet?
For sure. It's not build the bike and everyone will line up at the door.
You're working to earn your MBA from U-M, which is not an inexpensive venture. It's also why many MBAs decide to work for big companies instead of start-ups. How are you able to pay for your education, work on AutoBike, and pay your bills at the same time?
Carefully. When I went to undergrad at LTU I had a full ride. The first year and a half that I worked at GM I lived at home because we were supposed to move plants. I saved a bunch of money along the way. I build race cars, and I sold one I built in school. [I] pretty much minimized expenses.
So your life parallels the lean start-up model of your company?
Yeah. I paid off my car before I left my job and I have a roommate so my cost of living isn't that high. I knew I wanted to start a company, so I was purposely not going on vacations and stuff like that.
I have heard a lot of entrepreneurs downplay the importance of MBAs these days. What's your take on the necessity of a business school education to run a business?
Where I think an MBA really helps out is minimizing costs of going from a start-up to an established business with revenues. An MBA teaches you how to run big companies and the point of a start-up is to grow it into a big company. A lot of the MBA stuff comes in when the start-up phase is done.
Autobike has received funding from the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund. Describe what that seed capital has meant to building your start-up?
It has kept us from making sacrifices that would make us uncomfortable. It has given us an extended runway so we can focus on the product and the business, not on what are we going to do for money. It has taken us from our second prototype to significant progress toward our production bicycle. It's been huge.
They also give you money before anyone else will give you money so they are vetting your idea in the process. The fact that we got that loan means people will consider investing in us that wouldn't have done it otherwise. There are some smart people who manage that loan and they see some value in that idea. Maybe it's a good thing for us to look into. Showing the progress you can make with small sums of money is the biggest value.
The business plan circuit is becoming a well-traveled path for local, student-run start-ups looking for seed capital. Sometimes it seems like there are too many of these competitions. What's your take as a new entrepreneur?
I don't think there is ever too many. If they could standardize the requirements it would make the lives of the entrepreneurs much easier.
AutoBike's technology, an automatic gear shifter, seems like an obvious idea. Has anyone else tried to create such technology and if so what sets AutoBike's technology apart?
There have been two big players that took a crack at it. Shimano did it in 2007 with a three-gear system. Landrider did it 2003 with a mechanical based system. We're using an embedded controller that can understand the exact riding conditions for the ride. We can understand not only how fast the bike is going but whether you're going uphill or downhill.
Metro Detroit is far better known for its car culture than bicycle culture. How close is the region to being truly bicycle friendly?
With all the plans I have seen for bike paths and rail to trails, I would say Detroit is trending better than just about any other city I have seen in the country. Within the next couple of years you will see a big shift of people riding more, especially if they can connect the suburbs to downtown.
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"The Real Housewives Of Atlanta's" NeNe Leakes kept it very real – and a little spicy – when she stopped by Access Hollywood Live on Wednesday. The reality personality dished on her possible divorce, a falling out with co-star Kim Zolciak and why she thinks Billy Bush would benefit with a little "brown sugar" in his life.
NeNe dove into questions on her fans' mind – first getting candid about her martial woes with husband Greg.
"Obviously it's hard, I've been with Greg for 14 years. So, its hard, he's my friend, we have a family, we have a son," NeNe told Access Hollywood Live hosts Billy and Kit Hoover.
The always-outspoken reality TV mom said the future of her marriage is currently up in the air, but could come crashing down any second.
"We're legally married. We're in the same home. We're legally married and that can mean whatever you want it to mean," she continued. "We're legally married today, it does not mean I'm [going to be] legally married next week or next month."
NeNe kept it extra real when it came to co-star Kim Zolciak.
"I'm done with Kim. I never have to see her again," she snapped when asked about her co-star. "It really doesn't matter, I'm totally done with Kim, like done."
The 42-year-old might be in the midst of a possible divorce and a friendship falling out, but the Bravo star still kept Billy and Kit on their toes during her Access Hollywood Live visit – especially Billy.
"I gotta tell you this Billy, you are looking good," NeNe said batting her eyes.
"You know, another time, another place, you and I might have been a pretty sweet pair," Billy said flirting right back.
"You know what, you should get you some brown sugar! It's good!" NeNe said with a smile.
"How do you know I haven't had any?!" Billy quipped.
"I bet you have!" NeNe added with a laugh.
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So late this summer I bought a new car and therefore a new rack. I went with the Rocky Mounts Pitchfork b/c it seemed to have a good reputation and is made in the U.S.
In general, it seems well made and for the most part has held up.
However, the metal pin that the handle pivots around to secure/unsecure the fork has rusted to the point where I have to wrestle with the handle to get it open or closed. It happened on both racks. Grease or WD40 temporarily help make it easier to open/close the handle, but they aren't permanent solutions.
Somewhere in their manual it talks about how all the steel used is marine grade, etc.
Well, I promise you that the pin is not. And I don't know how much they save by cheaping out on one pin, but it's pretty much a deal breaker for me.
Anyone else having this same problem or any suggestions for mitigating the issue?
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Easton-Bavents is a hamlet in the Waveney District and the county of Suffolk in England. It was once the most easterly ecclesiastical parish in England; a map of Suffolk dated around 1610 shows a headland projecting eastwards into the sea there. However, it is now restricted to a stretch of the Suffolk coast to the east of Reydon, as coastal erosion has caused Easton-Bavents to be under the North Sea for over 1 mile (1.6 km) east of that stretch. The remaining area is now part of the civil parish of Reydon.
During the Middle Ages Easton Bavents was a parish of some importance and in the 14th century it was granted a weekly market as well as a three-day-long fair on the feast day of St Nicholas. Records indicate that the parish church, also dedicated to St Nicholas was in use in 1639 and a rector was appointed as late as 1666. However, around that time, the cliff on which the village was built collapsed and the church itself seems to have gone under the sea during the latter part of the 17th century. A chapel dedicated to St Margaret was also erected but that too is now long gone.
The Battle of Sole Bay of 1672 (during the Third Anglo-Dutch War) took place off the coast of Easton Bavents. Easton Bavents survived as a fishing village until the 19th Century.
Its population in 1801 was 17, in 1901 16, and in 1971 19. Easton Bavents continued to be a civil parish until 1974.
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NC Theatre's A CHORUS LINE kicks off rehearsals for October production
Posted September 26, 2014
Updated September 30, 2014
North Carolina Theatre brings a vivacious cast and creative team to the stage for their season opener, the American musical sensation: A Chorus Line running October 14-19th at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. Earlier this year, the company announced Mitzi Hamilton, original London cast member and inspiration for the character "Val" will direct the production and they recently announced the talented cast behind the show, which blends Broadway pedigree with strong local talent.
This Broadway classic has doubtlessly endured and rung true to audiences for so many years because of the authenticity and novelty of its story. In 1975, director and choreographer Michael Bennett did something that would revolutionize musical theatre; he sat down in a warehouse with Broadway chorus dancers and gave them the spotlight. A Chorus Line reenacts these clandestine interviews in the form of an audition and gives the audience a rare look at the individual facets that make up the seamless entity of a Broadway chorus line and the tasking audition and rehearsal process that goes into it.
NCT brings in a diverse cast with versatile artistic backgrounds to the stage. Jessica Lee Goldyn, who appeared in the 2006 Broadway revival of the show, will play the role of "Cassie" and Nathaniel Shaw, a director, actor, choreographer, and Artistic Director, whose currently serving as Asst. Choreagrapher on Broadway's TONY-award winning Once, will play the role of "Zach."
North Carolina native, Ashley Adamek will reprise the role of "Kristine," which she sang in NCT's last production of A Chorus Line in 2002. She most recently appeared in Broadway's Spiderman: Turn off the Dark. Several of North Carolina Theatre Conservatory's talented young artists and alumni including Raleigh natives Kinsland Howell and Kelsey Walston will appear alongside NC Theatre Conservatory's Director of Dance and Broadway veteran, Tito Hernandez, who will play the role of "Larry."
A Chorus Line will run from October 14-19, 2014 at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. Tickets can be purchased online, over the phone, or at the NC Theatre box office. For up-to-date behind the scenes coverage, follow NC Theatre on Facebook and Twitter.


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The Princeton University Library has completed a multiyear project of digitizing a collection of 19th- and 20th-century maps that illustrate the history and development of communities around New Jersey.
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has cataloged and scanned some 16,000 lithograph sheets of 21-by-25-inch Sanborn Co. fire insurance maps that have been in the library's Historic Maps Collection since the 1970s.
Fire insurance maps, pioneered in the United States by the Sanborn Co. in the mid-19th century, enable insurance companies to determine the risk and liability of a property based on data such as the size, shape and function of buildings or the materials used to build particular structures. The University's collection of New Jersey Sanborn maps range from 1884 to 1950.
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Dear Editor:
Gary Fraske (letter, April 17) is curious about Finley Schaef's statement that "a fundamental reality is ....our federal government is controlled by private corporations." He asks, "When has this become a fundamental reality?"
I refer Fraske to President Roosevelt's message to Congress "on curbing monopolies" (April 29, 1938).
The second sentence in that message is, "The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism .... ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling power."
The president then went on to describe, in 1938 percentages, what we understand today as the 1 percent/ 99 percent structure of power in our country today.
My own opinion is that the "fundamental reality" goes back to the writing of the Constitution. In any event, we're all aware of the meaning of "corporate personhood."
Fraske and I are not equal in influence, power, finances or voice in Washington to the "personhood" of the people who run this country.
The writer, a Democrat, is a member of the Woodstock Town Board.


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Manny Pacquiao's boxing coach Freddie Roach admits he has a strong say in when the boxer will retire, and if he shows signs of losing his boxing abilities against Brandon Rios then they may call it time.
Pacquiao was ranked as one of the best pound for pound fighters before his defeats to the unbeaten Timothy Bradley and Juan Manuel Marquez in 2012, but now finds himself trying to rebuild his career after the shock defeats.
Roach believes if the Pac Man suffers his third defeat in a row convincingly then he would recommend the fighter to call it a day on his career.
Roach said: "It's over, 100 percent (if Pacquiao is outclassed by Rios).
"We have a deal. When I tell him it's over, he'll say it's over and that's it. He's pretty loyal with his words and if that happens, it will be the end."
He added: "The thing is, people look at the losses and they think the reason is that he's getting old. That's not the case, not from what I see. Look, we all thought he beat Bradley, so throw that out.
"And in the Marquez fight, I thought he was doing well and was looking like he was going to win by knockout when he made a mistake and ran into a shot."


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New Delhi: President of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena will arrive in New Delhi today on a two day visit.
He will address the valedictory session at the Vaicharick Mahakumbh which is being held as part of the Simhastha Mahakumbh in Ujjain on the 14th of this month.
He will also visit Sanchi where he will tour the World famous Sanchi Stupa and attend a function by the Mahabodhi Society of Sri Lanka during which he will unveil a statute of Angarika Dharmapala.
The President of Sri Lanka will also be in Delhi today where Prime Minister will host a dinner in his honour.
The visit is expected to contribute to further strengthening the close and cooperative relations between India and Sri Lanka. (ANI)