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Here is some information about the possible genetic link to Coats' disease. In some circles, it is believed that Coats' disease is caused by a somatic mutation of the NDP gene. Mutations of this gene can also cause Norrie Disease. This page is just informational, we are not trying to suggest that Coats' disease will lead to Norrie Disease.
What is Norrie disease?
Norrie disease is an inherited eye disorder that leads to blindness in male infants at birth or soon after birth. It causes abnormal development of the retina, the layer of sensory cells that detect light and color, with masses of immature retinal cells accumulating at the back of the eye. As a result, the pupils appear white when light is shone on them, a sign called leukocoria. The irises (colored portions of the eyes) or the entire eyeballs may shrink and deteriorate during the first months of life, and cataracts (cloudiness in the lens of the eye) may eventually develop.
About one third of individuals with Norrie disease develop progressive hearing loss, and more than half experience developmental delays in motor skills. Other problems may include mild to moderate mental retardation, often with psychosis, and abnormalities that can affect circulation, breathing, digestion, excretion, or reproduction.
What is the official name of the NDP gene?
The official name of this gene is "Norrie disease (pseudoglioma)."
NDP is the gene's official symbol.
The NDP gene provides instructions for making a protein called norrin. This protein is believed to be crucial to normal development of the eye and other body systems. In particular, it seems to play critical roles in the specialization of the cells of the retina (the thin layer at the back of the eye that senses light and color) and the establishment of a blood supply to tissues of the retina and the inner ear.
Many different mutations of the NDP gene cause Norrie disease. These mutations interfere with the role of the norrin protein in the specialization of retinal cells for their unique sensory function. As a result, masses of immature retinal cells accumulate in the back of the eyes. Disruption of norrin's role in the establishment of blood vessels supplying the eye eventually causes some of the tissues to break down.
Norrin is also expressed in other systems of the body, and the effects of the disorder can be widespread. Specific abnormalities and their severity depend on the type and location of the NDP mutation. Mutations that delete portions of the NDP gene prevent production of norrin and result in severe problems affecting many body systems in addition to the eyes. Mutations that delete or change just a single protein building block (amino acid) usually result in less widespread effects.
NDP mutations may cause other disorders that affect the retina. One mutation is associated with a disorder called Coats' Disease that causes leakage of blood vessels in the retina and retinal detachment. Other NDP mutations may cause exudative vitreoretinopathy, another condition that results in progressive damage to the retina.
In addition, NDP mutations influence the course of a retinal disorder that affects some premature infants. Babies with retinopathy of prematurity may experience improvement of the condition over time, but in those with NDP mutations, the condition tends to worsen.
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Coats' disease of the retina (unilateral retinal telangiectasis) caused by somatic mutation in the NDP gene: a role for norrin in retinal angiogenesis.
Black GC, Perveen R, Bonshek R, Cahill M, Clayton-Smith J, Lloyd IC, McLeod D. University Department of Medical Genetics and Regional Genetics Service, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester M13 OJH, UK.
Coats' disease is characterized by abnormal retinal vascular development (so-called 'retinal telangiectasis') which results in massive intraretinal and subretinal lipid accumulation (exudative retinal detachment). The classical form of Coats' disease is almost invariably isolated, unilateral and seen in males. A female with a unilateral variant of Coats' disease gave birth to a son affected by Norrie disease. Both carried a missense mutation within the NDP gene on chromosome Xp11.2. Subsequently analysis of the retinas of nine enucleated eyes from males with Coats' disease demonstrated in one a somatic mutation in the NDP gene which was not present within non-retinal tissue. We suggest that Coats' telangiectasis is secondary to somatic mutation in the NDP gene which results in a deficiency of norrin (the protein product of the NDP gene) within the developing retina. This supports recent observations that the protein is critical for normal retinal vasculogenesis.
PMID: 10484772 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


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The accident occurred during the student's first supervised solo flight, which was observed by the student's certified flight instructor. The student's first two attempted landings terminated in go-arounds. During the next two approaches the student performed touch-and-go's, and the fifth approach terminated with another go-around. The accident occurred during the following attempted landing. The student made a hard bounced touchdown, ballooned 50 to 75 feet into the air and attempted to initiate a go-around. The student reduced the wing flap setting, increased the angle of attack, and the airplane stalled and rolled into a steep left bank and descended until contacting the ground. Thereafter, it cartwheeled and came to rest in a nose down attitude in an open field near the control tower. The student indicated that he should not have retracted the wing flaps so quickly while initiating the go-around.
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The 2012 upgrade of iPhone – most likely to be called the iPhone 5 – is around the corner. As per rumors, Apple is to uncover the device at its Worldwide Developers Conference 2012 in June. As usual, the tech world has been creating buzz over the new iPhone for sometime.
The summary of most pf the iPhone 5 rumors is that the device will have a sweeping modification in design and features. It is high time Apple should change the very form factor, screen size and interface of the new iPhone. There are loads of fantastic rumors on the expected features of iPhone. And it's no surprise, Apple hasn't yet confirmed any of the rumors, though.
Bigger than iPhone 4S
The rumor is strong that iPhone 5 will have a big display. Well, Apple is largely anticipated to break its tradition of 3.5-inch small display and to sport a 4-inch plus on the new iPhone. Like all other Apple rumors, this one also has no base or confirmation from the company. But as far as the new trend in smartphone market is taken into account, Apple can't withstand competition in market with an iPhone 5 that has a crammed 3.5-inch display. Indeed, iPhone's key Android rival in market the Samsung Galaxy S' third version has just come out with a 4.8-inch display.
Quad core processor
It is another prominent iPhone 5 rumor that the device will sport a quad core processor. You might have noticed that the recent handsets come with quad core processors. Including the just uncovered Galaxy S3, all the latest phones tout quad core processors. So it is high time Apple should design its next gen iPhone 5 with Apple's own quad core compatible chipset, possibly the Apple A6. Apple slotted in a new A5X chipset inside its new iPad, which Apple claims will perform several times better than Nvidia's quad core processor. So we can certainly expect for a more powerful quad core chip inside the iPhone 5.
Better screen resolution
The current iPhone 4S already sports a high resolution Retina Display. The new iPad has landed in stores with a Retina Display with a massive resolution of 2048 by 1536 pixels. Hence, we can definitely look for a more powerful Retina Display on the upcoming iPhone 5 also. Of course, Apple will have to face the challenge of keeping up the pixel density along with increasing the screen resolution.
4G LTE and NFC
Apple may have rolled out iPhone versions like iPhone 4 and 4S. But both of them ironically miss 4G LTE capability. Hopefully, the tech world looks for 4G LTE on the new iPhone. As well, it will further have Near Field Communication chips, thus iPhone can smartly compete with the new line of smartphones.
Well, rumors are nothing in front of an Apple product. The company keeps up a very strict privacy policy. It reveals nothing about its new products until their official launching ceremony. But rumors still pour in aplenty and seamless. That is why all the above rumors have little significance. Whatever rumors are there, we will have to wait and see what the new iPhone 5 will be.
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BT preps nationwide TV network
BT is upgrading its national network to reliably deliver TV on-demand, partly in preparation for the launch of Project Canvas alongside the BBC and other broadcasters. The firm's wholesale division today announced it has signed a deal to implement Cisco's Content Delivery System by early next year. BT was one of three founding …
What is "Cisco Content Delivery System"?
Is it for real ( real architecture, real products, actually in use in real applications, if so what kind of products - routers, storage, servers, etc?), or is it more like Microsoft's SetTopBox stuff, a marketecture desperately seeking suckers to sign up to be its first customer (yes BT Vision I'm looking at you).
And as it's BTwholesale we're talking about, how relevant is this offering to the UK's 7 million LLU lines (as announced today?) My guess is that actually this Content Delivery lark, despite being nominally a BTwholesale offering, is only really relevant to BT Retail and its customers, in which case it's yet another regulatory triumph for Ofcon. Not.
the end of the internet as we know it
the suits and spreadsheet jockeys have long been wanting to get control of the Internet so get ready for more traffic shaping and higher costs .
Those suits and spreadsheet jockeys have ALWAYS had control of the Internet. Where do you think all those wires, undersea cables, cellphone masts and satellite dishes come from? Thin air?
The Internet was a corporate tool long before Joe Public heard of it. All the likes of Berners-Lee and
Demon (and >>cough<< AOL) did was *popularise* it.
And before anyone mentions ARPAnet, allow me to point out that not even DARPA has ever been beancounter- and suit-free. And universities have dried-frog-eating Bursars for a damned good reason. (You'd know what that reason was if you'd ever met a tenured Professor of Literature.)
Oh well, there goes all my bandwidth
> guaranteed quality of service.
So while all my neighbours are getting their guaranteed X MBit/s on the BT owned copper from the exchange to our collective local distribution box, the rest of us who just want to send the odd email will be left fighting for scraps from whatever's left over in the contention ratio.
I don't think it works like that. Contention ratio applies to backhaul bandwidth to the public Internet. This isn't using the public Internet, it's an overlay IP network that's just delivered down the same last mile medium.
Unless what you mean by "collective local distribution box" is that you're sharing a broadband account with your neighbours - that would certainly cause a problem.
Bye bye net neutrality.
If you're wondering why your 8 or 20 mbit/s ADSL connection to your exchange less than 500 yards away is never capable of attaining anywhere close to the top speed then look no further than BT's 21CN network where subscriber content gets priority. Basically everyone with a regular (paid for - I hasten to add) broadband connection has to suffer the consequences.
Now I'm okay with streaming media, I'm not one of these people who reckons TV should stay on the airwaves, but I do have serious concerns about sacrificing the quality of our internet connections (which we do pay quite a bit for, as an example I pay Zen Internet £35 a month for a normal home user connection) in return for better content delivery. The focus should be on improving the overall network infrastructure so that it doesn't matter what type of content is being delivered. Proxies, caching servers and use of alternative technologies such as IGMP multicast can all help reduce the burden of content delivery.
I personally believe that creating a virtual highway that takes priority over other types of internet traffic (including content streamed from overseas content providers who may not have access to the media highway BT have introduced) is the wrong way to improve the internet.
No one has answered..
... my long asked question about how they're going to do this while bandwidth caps exist.
Currently, the only bandwidth unlimited times on "some" packages are overnight when I'm tucked up in bed.
If I started watching TV on my internet connection it will cost me a small fortune in bandwidth charges 'cause I'd eat through my cap in a few days or maybe a week.
@ Michelle Knight
>> No one has answered... my long asked question about how they're going to do this while bandwidth caps exist.
Probably they won't stream it down your regular connection, they'll slice off some bandwidth to a second (or third) virtual connection over the ADSL link - much as BT already do with their Vision Video-over-IP product. Your regular IP internet connection has traffic caps, but the video is uncapped.
Meanwhile, Out In...
...the Colonies, those pesky Americans, Century Link*, An aggresive CLEC that just bought The Las Vegas LATA from Sprint^W Embarq called me and offered 120 channels of HDTV for an extra 40 bucks a month. The very sweet lady in an American Town**, told me that TV rides the same copper as your voice line and DSL, so adding FTTN is pretty cheap, and produces an instant revenue stream. Also, she went on, they are rolling out 40 Meg home service but it is not yet in Las Vegas.
While she was on, I bumped my DSL from 3 to 10 megs for $10 more a month. Century Link is at the paperwork stage of buying AT&T^W Mountain Bell^W Qwest's 14 States full of ILEC plant and customers!
Now that telephone and cable companies have a level playing field in the triple play arena, we can hope for a true marketplace to emerge.
* I asked, and i was happy to find an American job that had not been sent abroad.
** All trademarks are the respective property of their owners, and will be randomly misspelled and miscased. I have no relationship with any companies mentioned except as a customer and/or reseller.
Here's a pint to all the lab guys that develop this stuff, and the provider management with the guts and vision to deploy it.
Srange how BT can do this, yet not improve broafband speeds?
Given the trashy TV programming that fills our screens these days, often junk from the U.S.of A., is it a wise investment to implement steaming anything rather than improving consumer data flow?
A confusing choice, indeed.
confusing choices
it's blindingly obvious. you will pay whatever rupert wants for whatever worthless shit he decides to shovel down the interwebs. and you will be grateful. the likes of bt are just providing the sewers.
improving the flow of bits is incidental to this masterplan, other than making sure the shit will flow towards you at a rate that won't result in ofcom taking action (as if...).
coming to an isp near you: want fast internet? fuck off. want to pay 200 quid a month to get indoor hang-gliding in hd on sky super sports 14 extra, come on down.
I guess the issue comes down to cost - billions to increase broadband speeds for all, versus I guess millions to build a CDN. There is an established market for Pay TV - Virgin and Sky both offer on-demand services. The junk on TV is probably a good reason to have a video on demand service - if broadcast TV was a scintillating and enriching mix of audio-visual goodness no-one would want to pay per view.
Irrelevant to a lot of us...
....broadband connection tops out at 700kbps - normally 300-400kbps. No LLU.
No amount of playing about gonna get me IPTV until BT upgrades the cables!
@ Knight 2000
No one has answered.. ... my long asked question about how they're going to do this while bandwidth caps exist.
Quite simply the traffic is coming from the BT network so they will not count this in the cap. Some ISPs do this instead of traffic shaping already, they give you a cap for stuff they don't like (peer to peer etc) and not for stuff they want to encourage. My ISP will take a fiver a month off of me and give me 'unlimited VoIP' as a bolt on so that stuff like Skype does not come out of my monthly allowance.
So basically you pay for your web connection and get a cap on that but if you are watching TV (with a separate, premium, cost) you get that down the same pipe but without it coming out of your web/email/p2p data allowance.
It's also quite similar to what 3 do on their phones. You pay for web stuff but get free access to their portal and stuff they want to give you for free (to market other stuff). Networks with their portals and walled gardens have enjoyed multi tier internet since the days of WAP.
BT adverts are always:-
"Our product is so shit that the only good thing we can say about it is that the routers wireless range is not shit"
Says it all basically.
I doubt their TV offering will be any better. Avoid like the plague.
It's all very well, but...
A huge number of UK broadband subscribers are on exchanges classed as more expensive, and the rollout of 21CT will be very slow across these exchanges. Where I am in rural Devon there's no cable, and appalling Freeview reception, plus (although I'm near an exchange) an average speed of 3.5Mbps for DSL would be a fair assessment, although I get double that bandwidth.
Many folks will be getting 24Mbps and 21CT before my exchange even goes to ADSL2 (which is something BT have been promising for a year, and keep putting off) and the irony is I have to pay more the 7Mbps than someone on a more formidable exchange pays for up to 24Mbps.
The UK needs fairer bandwidth regulation and a better infrastructure before BT roll out TV over their network and wrecks the existing purposes of the internet. As things stand BT are already beginning excess bandwidth charges from November 2010, which makes me suspect their future tariffs could be specifically based on user bandwidth consumption.
Other than that I'd welcome freeview over copper wires, or through fibre optic, Virgin seem to have managed to do it relatively well.
"The UK needs fairer bandwidth regulation and a better infrastructure before BT roll out TV over their network and wrecks the existing purposes of the internet."
It's not the Internet. Your broadband connection is not the Internet. It's an access method to any number of potential IP networks - one of which is the Internet. The article says that this is a private IP network that can be used to deliver traffic to your broadband connection - how is that wrecking the purpose of the Internet?
take a look at cisco.com/go/cds
think of cds as essentially a cache. iplayer content for example can be pre pushed out to the exchanges.
So when everyone is on broadband watching dr who on iplayer, instead of a thousand streams clogging up the backhaul network it's all delivered locally from the exchange. and it actually probably got sent to the cds at 3am the night before when everyone was tucked up in bed.
So all that bandwidth is available for browsing etc.
much smarter and cheaper than ugrading bandwith. quite frankly at the moment traffic is increasing faster than moores law can keep up. hence the need for stuff like this.
i'd guess the other llu guys will be looking at similar solutions.
Video-on-demand was BT's pipedream back when Martlesham was still a research lab. AIUI the rf component of adsl had it's origin in Video-over-copper ideas.
What they need to look at is one of their oldest ideas - street level caching. If 5 people in the street want to watch the same football match it makes no sense to transfer it over the whole route 5 times. Once to the street cab & 5 times to the subscribers. Or another old chestnut - video on near demand. People ask for content, which is distributed with fixed start times e.g. 2 minutes apart. They get an hourglass till the next start time.
Keyword: wholesale (Part 2)
As in:
CDS is not vaporware
"What is "Cisco Content Delivery System"? "
No it's not Microsoftian vaporware. A CDS, when you get right down to it, is a box placed reasonably near to the customer, where videos (usually, although other content could go on there) are preloaded onto it, so when customers access that video, instead of being streamed or downloaded from the original source, it is streamed from that local box. If you look up CDNs (Content Distribution Networks) this is similar in concept, except with a CDN, a customer pays the CDN to provide distribution all over the planet, and it's mainly meant to reduce load on the originating site. Whereas, BT is trying to push this BT-specific service to basically make up for their inadequate network.
The keyword is....
BT isn't really looking for its own direct customers (oops! sorry BT Vision people) it is primarily looking for corporate customers in the first instance.
I'd guess that, given BT's track record, that what this means to consumers is what it has always meant to BT's direct non-corporate consumers and that is reduced service (if ever a service level agreement to direct customers existed in the first place).
Practical consequences
BT copper/cable and servers probably going to corporate customers with robust service level agreements further probably enforced by corporate customers themselves.
New vision service to follow the above model.
Interim conclusion: BT continues to plop on direct customers for benefit of corporate customers (ever wondered where that lost BT bandwidth and speed went to?) and will do same again when new vision service starts with corporate customers taking precedence and resources over direct to BT non-corporate customers.
Consequence: got other than BT?
On one hand it seems that this move will ensure better delivery for *some* tv programming. However, bearing in mind that we only have some of the technical details to hand - I can't help but think that it is all going pretty much against the main principles of the Internet as we know it.
Someone above mentioned the mobile Internet providers and their walled gardens with unlimited/priority access to their own services/portals. For good or for worse, these portals and provider specific services have stayed relatively unpopular so far. And this is pretty much a summation of what BT will be doing as a traffic model - just on a much larger scale. However, what comes directly to mind is the tremendous amount of control the companies involved in the project will have over our Internet connections. Over our access to information. I can't but wonder what will happen when they will be able to either exclude, or make it too expensive or slow to consume TV or video content outside their network of affiliates.
What we have known so far on the Internet, at least to the greater extent, have been access controls at the far end of the connection - e.g. the content generator. This is effectively bringing control in the hands of the middle man - not only by being able to prioritise its own stream, but being able to influence the information stream coming from the competition as well. Similar controls are in place at the moment - but they tend to concern spam and illegal content.
I am not altogether sure the advantages of this situation do out-weigh the disadvantages.
@Henry Wertz re what is Cisco Content Delivery System
Thanks everso Henry but I've been watching stuff like Akamai's content distribution network (and e.g. its on/off deal with the BBC for quite a long time now). Being a Pipex customer back in the day when the Pipex->BBC link went via NY (I kid you not, and therefore UK-only content wasn't available to Pipex customers at that time) has had long term effect on me :)
The reason I am (still) thinking this is mainly slideware and marketechture is that a search for cisco "Content Delivery System" comes back with no brochures, manuals, product descriptions , whitepapers, etc, but does come back mainly with lots of coverage of this BT/Cisco press release. There's also lots of July 2010 coverage of a security vulnerability in the CDS Manager app, which is kind of confusing - how can slideware have security vulnerabilities ? :)
I am not favor of BBC and other broadcasters and I think it is a standard review. Whenever I start watching my favorite shows online I got a high speed with no buffering. It seems to be great to me..
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According to court documents, an employee of a Mosinee business called police around 11:46 a.m. Thursday after she refused to sell alcohol to an intoxicated man. The woman said the man left and drove away.
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COLORADO SPRINGS - Colorado Springs Mayor Steve Bach is asking for a second opinion when it comes to the size and price of fixing the city's aging storm drainage system. The city issued a formal Request for Proposal (RFP) Monday to seek an independent engineering consultant who can evaluate the storm water needs within city limits.
The request follows a news conference last month in which the mayor rebuffed an estimate prepared for a regional storm water task force that priced the city's backlog of projects at $686 million, (a previous estimate listed the needs at $500 million.)
In that February 26 news conference the mayor also rejected plans to form a regional storm water entity on the grounds that the new body would ask voters for a tax increase to pay for the $880 million of improvements throughout Colorado Springs and El Paso County. A city news release Monday points out that Colorado Springs bears the largest share of that financial burden is the greatest at roughly 78 percent.
"The Mayor believes Colorado Springs should control the funding, management and construction of its improvements, given that it owns the lion's share of needs, while coordinating and collaborating with other communities," the release reads.
It also notes the $28 million commitment made by the city and Colorado Springs Utilities to begin construction this year on the most urgent storm water projects.
Firms that interested in preparing an estimate must respond by Friday, April 5 at the following website http://www.springsgov.com/rfp.aspx.
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The Creighton University Athletic Hall of Fame announced three inductees Thursday, Rusty T. Komori, II, Korie Lebeda and Laura Spanheimer Dechant. They will be honored April 9th at the DoubleTree Hotel in downtown Omaha.
Komori leads Creighton in all-time singles wins for men's tennis at 81, playing his entire career in the top two singles positions and no lower than No. 2 doubles. He ranks No. 1 overall, No. 1 in singles and No. 8 in doubles victories. He served as a team captain for his final two seasons, 1990 and 1991, and earned the MVP award for the men's tennis team in 1989 and 1991. Komori is the boys tennis coach at Punahou (Hawaii) High School where he has led the team to 20 consecutive state titles, a national record for the most consecutive championships in any sport.
Lebeda played volleyball from 2005-2008, playing the second most matches of any player in Creighton history and starting all 119 matches of her career. She is number one in program history with 5,281 career assists and set a Missouri Valley Conference record by averaging 13.34 assists per set during her freshman year. Lebeda was named to the All-Missouri Valley Conference Team three times. She is a graduate assistant volleyball coach at Wayne State College where she is pursuing a master's degree in education.
Spanheimer was a two-time Missouri Valley Conference Defensive Player of the Year (2003, 2004), earned the 2004-05 Women's Basketball Team Most Inspirational Award and received Creighton's Carl M. Reinert, S.J., Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award and John J. "Red" McManus Award in 2005. She ranks first in steals (369), seventh all-time in points scored (1,588) and eighth in games played (125). She works at ProCare3 in Omaha and is married to former Creighton golf team member John Dechant.
The Creighton Athletic Hall of Fame started in 1968 with the induction of Bluejay basketball and baseball great Bob Gibson, who played at CU from 1954-57 and went on to a Major League Baseball Hall of Fame career with the St. Louis Cardinals. Since then, 73 other outstanding individuals have also been honored.


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For years, a single mother paid to keep her Omaha home and family secure but she recently learned that the cost of her security had doubled.
When Becky Ferris moved into her home three years ago, she put in an order for an ADT security system. She said the reason was, "not have to worry about intruders."
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HUNTINGTON, IN MAY 28, 1996 -- Huntington College announced today that David Schroeder will head its volleyball program. Schroeder, a local business owner, will assume coaching responsibilities in the fall.As founder of the Huntington Volleyball Club, Schroeder has been involved in volleyball for many years. He has conducted volleyball clinics for children and adults, organized and coordinated leagues and tournaments, and played USVBA volleyball."Dave is a well known and respected member of the volleyball community," says Huntington College athletic director Lori Culler. "His success as a player will be an asset as he makes the transition to the college coaching ranks. Dave's dedication to the sport and his organizational abilities will serve him well. He will be a valued addition to our coaching staff at Huntington College."Schroeder is vice president of Schroeder's Sales and Service, Inc. and owner of the local Ryder Truck rental dealership. He and his family attend Central Christian Church and reside in Andrews.
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The ICC has admitted its Playing Control Team (PCT) made "an honest error" while applying the DRS to the Jacques Kallis review on the second day of the Newlands Test and that the batsman was erroneously given out.
Kallis was given out after an appeal that Pakistan coach Dav Whatmore confirmed was for a bat-pad catch off Saeed Ajmal's bowling. Umpire Steve Davis upheld the appeal but the batsman immediately asked for a review.
Hot Spot replays indicated there was no bat involved, so it couldn't be out caught, but the ball had both pitched and hit Kallis' pad well in line with the stumps and the ball-tracking indicated that it would have clipped leg stump, which was shown to be an umpire's call. As a result, Kallis was instead given out lbw, after input from the third umpire, Billy Bowden.
The playing conditions allow for the method of dismissal to be changed during a review but have specific terms under which that can be done.
Point 3.3 (f) in the playing conditions states: "The third umpire shall not withhold any factual information which may help in the decision making process, even if the information is not directly prompted by the on-field umpire's questions. In particular, in reviewing a dismissal, if the third umpire believes that the batsman may instead be out by any other mode of dismissal, he shall advise the on-field umpire accordingly. The process of consultation described in this paragraph in respect of such other mode of dismissal shall then be conducted as if the batsman has been given not out."
So when it was evident Kallis could not be out caught, because he had not hit the ball, the evidence for an lbw decision should have been considered from the point of view that the on-field umpire had ruled it not out. The projected path of the ball - clipping leg stump - was then an umpire's call, according to the DRS, and Kallis would have been not out.
"The PCT made an honest error in this extremely rare situation," the ICC said in a release. "The umpires followed usual umpiring principles in giving Kallis out lbw on umpire's call the review was for the batsman out caught. This is because the normal principle is that an appeal covers all forms of dismissal.
"However, the playing conditions state that when the third umpire observes that the batsman could be out by another mode of dismissal, the decision being reviewed using DRS should be as if the batsman had been originally given not out. Therefore, in this instance Kallis, as the point of impact was umpire's call, should not have been given out lbw."
South Africa's team management was "happy with the explanation" they were given, though Kallis had appeared confused about the mode of his dismissal at the time and had held a lengthy conversation with Davis before leaving the field. Team manager, Mohammed Moosajee confirmed South Africa had been involved in discussions with the umpires but said they would not take the matter further.
"There is a code of conduct which we need to abide by when it comes to DRS. We sought clarity from the umpire and we were happy with the explanation," Moosajee said. "We understand that if a batsman is given out for something and the technology shows something else, the third umpire is within his rights to make that decision."
Whatmore interpreted the dismissal in the same way. "My understanding is that when a decision is referred to the TV umpire, he can make his own decision," he said.
This is the second time in the series that DRS has come under discussion. At the Wanderers, Pakistan were unhappy with the use of Hotspot after four decisions went against them. They indicated they would write a report to the ICC and Whatmore said any grievances would be addressed through the channels provided, although nothing further was heard about the issue.
Whatmore remained a backer of DRS in spite of the recent incidents. "I have always been a supporter of technology assisting umpires to make the right decisions. We are very pleased to have DRS. We had a series a few months ago in which we didn't have DRS and it was very frustrating."
South Africa were also in favour of technology. Graeme Smith previously went on record advocating that DRS be used across the board. Kallis, however, had an outburst about ball-tracking technology on South Africa's tour of New Zealand last March in which he said "99% of cricketers," do not trust it.
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The cricket world reacts to the passing away of Phillip Hughes
Phillip Hughes: Country kid who moved a nation
Likeable, hard-working and skilful, it was a matter of time before Phillip Hughes cemented his spot in the Australian Test team. Then, improbably and inconsolably, his time ran out
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It is impossible to imagine how Sean Abbott must feel after sending down that bouncer to Phillip Hughes. While the cricket world hopes for Hughes' recovery, it should also ensure Abbott is supported
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Case Study: Implementing CMS at Manchester City Council
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The announcement that Manchester City Council (MCC) has won the BT Online Excellence award for the best local council website in Britain represents a landmark in the Council's transformation agenda.
MCC's online service strategy is a key component of the council's transformation agenda which is being delivered through the Manchester Improvement Programme (MIP). This sees major internal change for the council in how it operates and interacts with the public to deliver:
- Improved customer service by enabling easier customer access to services through multiple touch points including web, telephone and face-to-face.
- The creation of a more 'joined-up' and integrated workforce, where all employees have access to the same information reflecting a 'One-Council' approach.
- Improved effectiveness and efficiency, delivered through new technologies, leading to a better customer experience and an improved skill set for council employees.
Delivering 'Britain's best local government website'
To deliver this change programme, MCC has developed an enterprise-wide strategy for delivering online services. The web content management system (WCM) and the enterprise content upon which it draws, provides a critical focal point for the external and internal change programme. It also provides a platform that reflects the City of Manchester's status across the world, as one of the UK's major centres of finance, commerce, retail, culture and leisure.
Establishing the critical building blocks for transformation
The selection of a WCM capable of supporting the Council's Enterprise Strategy was a critical building block in putting in establishing the infrastructure to support transformation. The council's existing web site had supported council operations well, but because of the need for manual HTML updating, it had become very labour intensive. Emerging standards for accessibility had also become a driver for site redevelopment, as had the need to upgrade the current A-Z capability.
The main requirements driving selection of a WCM were therefore the need for:
- Technology that was capable of supporting the emerging Enterprise Content Management strategy. This 'joined-up' approach would enable one view of content for external and internal users across multiple access points and improve customer engagement.
- A system that was easy to use and navigate and enabled rapid publishing of content to deliver the internal effectiveness and efficiency savings sought.
Excellent accessibility to meet the needs of all users and standards.
Manchester wanted an up to date, 'joined-up' site that reflected its status as a major UK city.Martin Turner, Manchester City Council Senior Project Manager
MCC went through a vigorous procurement exercise evaluating suppliers from across the UK and their ability to meet the key criteria. Jadu, a leading enterprise content management provider, was selected as the technology partner for web content management.
The solution adopted is based on a new range of Web 2.0 products and consisted of Jadu CMS, Jadu Rupa Enterprise Search for Google and the unique Jadu Galaxies delivery platform. The website implementation also uses enhanced web services that offer advanced Google Maps, social book marking of content, dynamic A-Z service listing, blogs, RSS feed management and simplified navigation.
Rapid development and benefit delivery
Development and implementation has been rapid with the website going live within six weeks. This included the migration of over 10,000 pages of content and the delivery of a train the trainer programme for over 100 staff and subsequent training of a further 200 end users.
After only six months, MCC is already seeing significant quantifiable benefits from the Jadu Web 2.0 CMS, with major progress being made in implementing the transformational agenda.
There has been an increased level of customer engagement and better customer service in many areas. Traffic to the website and page viewing activity has increased significantly and is up by 125%. MCC's recent recognition by the BT Online Excellence Awards (an award driven by user choice), as the best local government site in Britain, further demonstrates the high level of user satisfaction being achieved, placing MCC's website in the same league as Google, Amazon and the BBC.
The public is also making greater use of the online self service aspect of council services, with a significant increase in the submission of online forms. This has been enabled by the Jadu XForms Professional platform, which is fully integrated with Jadu CMS and provides more streamlined processing of forms.
MCC has also seen considerable improved internal efficiencies, with staff needing only a half day training session to be competent in making regular updating easy for the non-technical user.
It's very easy to update content and users only need a half day training session to become competent. Council employees are now able to publish information quickly. This has generated a much better service and information is now much easier to find.Martin Turner, Manchester City Council Senior Project Manager
Search was an area MCC regarded as high priority and the council opted to implement the Jadu Rupa Enterprise Search for Google product. The Jadu Rupa search system provides MCC with the ability to harness the Google Search Appliance's powerful search engine functionality to index multiple council and partner websites.
The resulting functionality presents a community search portal - http://search.manchester.gov.uk - that indexes over 40 local council related websites and services.
The Jadu CMS implementation has also delivered a 'highly accessible' site to meet the needs of users with impairments such as motor control difficulties and sight and hearing impairments.
Robin Christopherson, head of accessibility services at AbilityNet praises the new development. "The Manchester City Council site was praised by end users and found to be 'highly accessible' with a range of impairments for its ease of use".
Leader of Manchester City Council, Councillor Richard Leese said:"Our website combines a good mix of news and information with a range of services that people can access and order online. We use our website as one of the vital channels to make contact with and to hear from our communities, so we are delighted to receive this award"
Suraj Kika, CEO of Jadu says "We knew we were breaking a mould with Manchester.gov.uk. We really just wanted to offer the best web experience that technology could offer. The latest web standards template design techniques we employed paid significant dividends in making the site astonishingly accessible - and search.manchester.gov.uk is really a turning point in the way local councils should look at search as the key to unlocking local content.
It's the beginning of a transformation vision that the council is successfully implementing through the MIP - to improve Manchester and reinforce its position as a world class city."
Next steps
MCC's transition to the 21st century council is well underway. Information is now more easily accessible to council employees so that customers experience a more 'joined-up' service. Effectiveness and efficiency has improved and customers are benefiting from rapid access to online services.
The next step in the transformation agenda sees Jadu technology being utilised to support new areas such as helping customers to identify schools and education courses in their area through School Finder and Course Finder. These initiatives will be supported by Jadu Galaxies, which allows the design and deployment of multiple CMS-driven websites within minutes, with no technical skills required.


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Noida Extension farmers demand enhanced compensationSep 10, 2012, 01:30PM IST
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Farmers of villages along Noida Extension on 9th September vented their ire against developers and stalled construction work of housing projects and even locked up their site offices. The agitating farmers alleging that the Greater Noida Authority has backtracked in providing 10% developed plots and 64% hiked compensation.
"We had reached a settlement with the Authority and did not approach the Supreme Court. But till date no land has been identified for farmers under the 10% developed plot quota," said farmer leader Manvir Bhati. "The Authority abruptly stopped disbursal of extra compensation in December last year. Our demands regarding making abadi land freehold property have also gone unheard," added Bhati.
Though farmers claimed that they would not let construction resume, police ensured resumption of work after the demonstration. "Work has resumed. PCR vans and other police personnel have been deployed to quell off any breakdown in law and order," said Praveen Kumar, SSP of Gautam Budh Nagar.
The Greater Noida Authority has said that work on abadi settlement has already begun, but developed plots would be given in the final stage of settling farmers' issues. "Several groups of farmers have also filed over 100 SLPs in the Supreme Court against the high court judgement. We are also waiting for the outcome of these cases," said Rama Raman, CEO of Greater Noida Authority.
Raman added that disbursing extra compensation was stopped last year due to paucity of funds.
Developers said that farmers are acting in haste and should keep some patience. RK Arora, CMD of Supertech and member of CREDAI, said, "Farmers should give some time to streamline things. They should respect the court and the law. There is a lot more to be done for the farmers besides compensation. They should understand that work in the region was halted for the last 10 months and it will take some time to start functioning."
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BlueBeat, a site that sells streaming music by a range of artists, just settled a federal lawsuit that a bunch of pissed-off record labels had brought against it for selling and streaming Beatles songs. The songs were posted about a year before Apple released them on iTunes and were sold for just $0.25 each. By the time BlueBeat was forced to pull them, more than 67,000 songs had been sold. The...
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Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell issued a ruling that would make it easier for copyright holders to obtain personal information on anyone suspected of illegally downloading copyrighted files. The verdict was met with complaints from ISPs and consumer rights groups, with many arguing that it would allow copyright holders to pursue frivolous lawsuits in the hopes of striking lucrati...
N.Y. Court Rejects Settlement in Lawsuit Against Google Books
A New York court has rejected a settlement in a class action lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild against Google Books. Under the settlement, reached in 2009, Google would be able to digitize and display excerpts from books that are out of print, even if they're still under copyright, or not authorized to be included in Google Books. The agreement quickly raised the ire of many organizations, inc...
Supreme Court to Determine Congress' Authority to Copyright Public Domain Works
Yesterday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could determine whether or not Congress can remove works from the public domain and place them under copyright. At issue is a ruling from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled in July against a group of orchestra conductors, educators, publishers, and film archivists, whose professional lives rely on public domain works. The ...
Rebroadcasting TV Online for Profit Is Illegal, Says Judge
The Internet streaming video service ivi just received a vicious rebuke from U.S. District Court Judge Naomi Buchwald of the Southern District of New York. Since its inception, the service has offered live TV streams from major broadcasters like Fox, NBC and PBS by simply snatching broadcasts out of the air and retransmitting them over the Web to paying customers. The problem is that the company ...
White House to Propose New Digital Copyright Laws to Congress
The Obama administration has put together a new set of digital copyright laws aimed at cracking down on illegal downloads and other forms of online piracy. Yesterday, intellectual property enforcement coordinator Victoria Espinel released a 92-page report (PDF), outlining the White House's copyright proposals, which will be submitted to Congress "in the very near future." Although the report ac...
YouTube Extends Video Time Limits for Obedient Users
Less than five months after extending video time limits to 15 minutes, YouTube has decided to lengthen them again. YouTube product manager Joshua Siegel wrote in a blog post that the streaming giant chose to drop its time limit thanks to "advances in Content ID," the system that scans every video uploaded to YouTube, and compares its data with data provided by copyright holders. As of right now, t...
FBI Investigating 4chan and Anonymous Over DDoS Attacks
According to sources in contact with CNET, the FBI is pushing forward with an investigation of 4chan and the Internet vigilante collective known as Anonymous, which has loose ties to the controversial message board. Anonymous and its members, who frequent the 4chan boards, have unleashed a flurry of DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks over the past few months on individuals and organizati...
New 'Sesame Street' App Tune May Provoke Apple's Inner Grouch
Given Apple's staunch trademark policies and litigious history, there may be a new Muppet appearing on 'Sesame Street' soon. The show aired an original song recently, but the little ditty's catchy refrain could invite the arrival of a dreaded new puppet: Larry the Litigant. The cute, entertaining and incredibly inopportune 'There's an App for That' song alerts kids to the fact that, regardle...
Library of Congress Says U.S. Copyright Law Threatens Sound Archiving
Copyright law doesn't just pose a threat to file sharers and pirates. According to the Library of Congress, it may very well kill audio archiving, as well. In a recently published study, the Library of Congress concluded that current copyright law poses a formidable threat to music archivers, who must now work around strict regulations that the Library deems "restrictive and anachronistic" in t...
Apple Trademarks Extremely Valuable 'There's an App for That' Slogan
Score one for intellectual property and the closing of linguistic expression! Apple has been awarded a trademark for the phrase "there's an app for that" to the chagrin of unimaginative competitors and poor parodists. (Yes, we did it, too.) Just as Facebook has been trying to protect its brand from any company using either "face" or "book" in its name, Apple seems to think that anyone employing th...
Intel Says High-Def HDCP Key Crack Is Real, Blu-ray No Longer Copy-Proof
On Tuesday, a so-called "master key" crack required to unlock the high-definition, copy-protection (HDCP) codes encrypted on Blu-ray discs began worming its way around the Internet. While many initially doubted the legitimacy of the key, Intel has now confirmed that it is indeed real, effectively declaring open season on Blu-ray copying. "We have tested this published material that was on the W...
Godard Says Intellectual Copyright Doesn't Exist, Donates to Accused Pirate
Jean-Luc Godard, master of nouvelle vague cinema, has spoken! But not, however, to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which has been waiting for Godard to decide whether or not he will show up to receive his honorary Oscar next year. Instead, the elusive French director has come to the aid of a man fined €20,000 (about $25,000) for illegally downloading music. French citiz...
'Old Spice Guy' Grabs an Emmy, Microsoft Combats 'Halo Reach' Breach
Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... The "Old Spice Guy" just valiantly strode off with an Emmy award, and Urlesque is honoring the viral phenomenon's accomplishment with a variety of LOLcat-themed captions. [From: Urlesque] The appearance of 'Halo Reach' on filesharing sites has prompted Microsoft to ominously, in the words of a 12-year-old messageboard flamer, warn...
YouTube Extends Time Limit for Videos, Gives Users a Full 15 Minutes of Fame
The days of YouTube's 10-minute upload limit are officially over, as the site has decided to give users a chance at a real 15 minutes of fame. In a recent blog post, YouTube explained that the move to extend the time limit of non-partner videos came as a response to overwhelming user demand. It was only after the site was able to better refine its ContentID copyright protection system, though, tha...
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What I loved and learnt in 2011
What a year!
By no means has it been an easy year, or a year where I've got everything I want.
This year has been more about making things happen in the face of not being able to get quite what I want, and learning slowly about what my goals actually are.
Above: my favourites of my images from 2011 whittled down to 9 – click to view larger (or to see them uncropped and whole, you can go to my newly designed website).
I've shot a large volume of work compared to other years (including over 30 models, thanks to the events), gained experience in new situations, engineered a new kind of exciting event, co-hosted a workshop production in a dream location, released a book and written my second, but most importantly, I have gained a clearer sense of direction than ever regarding where I want to go.
This year I've been working in two main series: Ecology and Surreal Fashion. Between them, I can cover most of what I currently want to express. They are quite different: Ecology uses stark nudes and landscapes, dystopian moods and ambiguous, environmentally-linked messages. It's where my self-portraiture work has led to, though it's not all self-portraiture. Surreal Fashion is my first substantial series featuring other (fashion) models, that has grown around an aesthetic that combines photos with other media, with more of an attempt at a conceptual core than most typical 'fashion' photography.
On the events side
This year I've done some teaching-based workshops in London, Scotland – and LA, right at the start of the year. I've also co-hosted a workshop for Phase One (further below). But what has epitomised this year has been our new event, what 'we' (that is, myself and Matthew my husband-to-be) have come to entitle the Fashion Shoot Experience.
It was a conception of two desires: 1) to transcend the typical 'workshop' and the limitations and contradictions it poses, as to what a photog/aspiring photog can truly take away other than some force-fed techniques and an illusion that the 'art' in photography can at all be 'taught'. Maybe that is because I'm overall valuing being an 'artist' more than just a 'photographer'. And 2) I wanted to put together a fashion shoot, instead of waiting around for a commission, but to make it happen myself. But the sentiment is not just "the only way to learn is to do it", but "images get made whilst you are 'learning' – whilst you just do it". Both myself, and all the participating photographers (who are everyone from students to seasoned pros) are on a 'learning', 'doing', and just 'being' experience together, making greater use of a great location that the typical workshop could.
The positive feedback from other photographers on the events has really made me proud of the event we have put out there. I really feel like I been able to facilitate a meaningful and fruitful experience for other people. And its growth is marked by going stateside: in 2012, one year after its launch in London, we're taking it to New York.
Feels to me like it was ages ago, but it was only this year my book Self-Portrait Photography came out in the UK in Feb (Ilex) and in the US in March (Pixiq), which has sold 24,000 copies worldwide to date and is going into second print run. I've also been writing my second book this year, which comes out in the spring, Creative Portrait Photography. Writing these books is one of the best, if not the best, work I've enjoyed so far in my photography. There's an inevitable commercialisation and level of compromise involved in the final product, but I love the freedom I get in putting them together, and I value the growth I gain in every book I write.
Shooting at Weston Park
The PODAS Phase One workshop has got to be one of the best things for me about 2011 (see blog post with video). Getting to sleep over and shoot a workshop and eat great food – and even play dress up before the models arrived – in the most wonderful stately home, and be paid for it – wow – I was very lucky. There, I made what I think is my favourite image of the year overall, Storm Door (below).
And the important 'OTHER'
This has also been a strong year for self-development. Particularly in the last couple of months, I have really solidified my sense of self and direction in life. Prioritising healthy eating and fitness above absolutely everything else, including photography. I've drastically addressed stress: the importance of getting headspace from perpetual computer use and the constant 'I could be doing more' mentality. I am so happy to be doing what I do for a living, but now I realise, for one reason much bigger than any other: the fact that I can organise my life around the priority of health, in body and spirit, which includes regular exercise, rest and rebuilding a connection with nature, in antagonism to much of the modern lifestyle that befalls most of us. Moreover, my intended direction(s) with my art have been in mental tumult over the last few months, finally landing on the one thing I want to do with my art: to question, and to seek truth.
Where 2011 has brought me
It was only a short while ago that this end-of-year post would have said something along the lines of: in 2012 I want to break into commercial work, grow my name, expand, in essence just get bigger, better, richer, greater, work and whip myself harder than ever, blah & etcetera. I'm questioning everything about that outlook. I still crave ways to use my work in other (commercial) avenues, but the right ones. This year, I have already felt this change coming, manifested in my Ecology series which has been somewhat a test run for me, for how matters of environmental concern meet 'art for art's sake'. I wrote a blog post about it earlier in the year where I professed to the series' softcore quality and that "it's not the place of my art here to tell people how to make the world a better place." However, although I still crave subtlety, I now want to invoke deeper thinking, to actively engage my audience. I do want to make the world a better place, because it is possible.
I realise more about who I am as an 'artist'. I've battled with feelings of dissatisfaction about my direction, feeling that a lack of commercial work meant I am less of a photographer. Maybe in a way, but not less of an artist. I now see what my work is: it is my dog by my heel, whom I want to stay true to me, close to my side. I see that my dream is to always be able to be myself, to channel every profound thing I feel, but not just for me. In that respect, as I grow in knowledge and awareness all the time (as well as passion and altruism) the art does too! I want to turn up the volume button, by increasing my work's power and also its channels of expression; by using words, and by sharing more than just pictures that compel one to simply look and enjoy. There are too many issues around us to ignore, and too many layers to those problems than is typically regarded by the mainstream media. The kind of 'issues' I am referring to will become clearer later.
It is quite astounding to consider the potential power of a photographer who chooses to value truth over money, message over self-lording. What if my pictures can help expose truth, shift attitudes in one person and then another, and bit by bit make a difference to this world? That notion is just too exciting. I'm starting to even wonder, what is the point of art if it does not make a statement, to try make a difference? I want my art to have other purposes beyond our typical notions of 'success', and I realise I'm going against some people's advice when I say that. I'm interested in how this new perspective will change things. I know for a fact it will make me happier.
Above: Heatstroke (my favourite from Ecology this year)
Some inspirations this year…
Here's some references of things I've noted inspiration from in 2011: this picture 'Mr Vet' by Milosz Wozaczynski, pictures like this by Susannah Benjamin, and pictures like this by Chiara Fersini, and even illustrational Biblical stuff like this off Google Images, and weird animal hair pieces of Nagi Noda… also in a more general way by the following, in a random order: Tim Walker, Federico Erra, Rutger ten Broeke, Yulia Gorodinski, Martin Parr, Gregory Crewdson, Guy Bourdin, Noah Kalina, and Peter Kemp – as well as the other 4 contributors of my new book.
I also highly recommend this inspirational book Art & Fear, which has really helped me this year.
Cheers to a stimulating, enlightening 2012!
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In this Dec. 13, 2011 file photo, real estate agent Vonne Chowning, right, talks with client Brigido Cabrera at his home in North Las Vegas, Nev., as she handles the short sale of his home. Chowning, 68, along with her husband, Elmer, 70, run a real estate service and had hoped to slow down by now, but the housing crisis put an end to those plans. Faced with an unrelenting tide of foreclosures and bankruptcies, Nevada has the highest unemployment rate in the nation. North Las Vegas is among its hardest-hit cities, with the state threatening to take it over every few months. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)Photo by Associated Press /Chattanooga Times Free Press.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — More U.S. homes started on the foreclosure path in July, as lenders tackled a backlog of mortgages gone unpaid even as they pulled back on home repossessions.
The number of homes that received an initial notice of default — the first step in the foreclosure process — increased 6 percent in July compared to the same month last year, foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday.
Filings of initial default notices have increased on an annual basis for three months in a row.
The trend comes as banks work to make up for time lost last year as the mortgage-lending industry grappled with allegations that it had processed foreclosures without verifying documents.
The nation's biggest mortgage lenders reached a $25 billion settlement in February with state officials. That cleared the way for banks to address their backlog of unpaid mortgages.
On average, 104,000 homes have entered the foreclosure process each month going back to May. That's well below the 178,000 per-month average in 2009, the year with the highest monthly average, RealtyTrac said.
The increase in homes entering the foreclosure process raises the possibility that more properties could end up being foreclosed upon in coming months. But of late, banks have been dialing back home repossessions and increasingly allowing the borrower to sell the home in a short sale. That's when the bank agrees to accept less than what the seller owes on the mortgage.
Banks took back 21 percent fewer homes last month than in July last year, RealtyTrac said. Repossessions were down 1 percent from June. They've been down on an annual basis every month going back nearly two years.
"Lenders are much less likely now than they were even a year ago or two years ago to repossess a property after they've started the foreclosure process," said Daren Blomquist, a vice president at RealtyTrac.
Completing the foreclosure process can potentially open banks up to liability if they're accused of improper procedures. And short sales, on average, sell for $25,000 more than a bank-owned property, Blomquist said.
As a result, lenders are much more likely to look for alternatives, such as a short sale, a loan modification or refinancing.
So far this year, home repossessions have averaged about 57,000 a month. That puts the nation on track for just under 700,000 completed foreclosures this year, below the 800,000 recorded in 2011.
The latest crop of homes entering the foreclosure process does not signal that there is a fresh wave of homeowners in distress and missing payments. The majority of the loans entering the foreclosure process are mortgages that date back to the housing bubble years, Blomquist said.
Even so, the increase in foreclosure-starts could boost the number of homes that end up on the market for sale at a sharp discount to other properties. That means, barring another outcome, many of the homes that entered the foreclosure pipeline in recent months could end up weighing down the values of nearby homes when they hit the market.
A stronger housing market could mitigate the impact of future foreclosures on home prices, and home sales are expected to end up ahead of last year. But many economists still say the market is years away from a full recovery.
The number of homes receiving foreclosure-related notices last month increased generally in states where the courts play a role in the foreclosure process. Among them: New Jersey, Florida, Ohio and Illinois.
Many homes on the foreclosure path were left in limbo in those states last year, while mortgage lenders sorted out the foreclosure abuse allegations.
In contrast, foreclosure activity was down sharply in Arizona and California — foreclosure hotbeds throughout the housing downturn, but states where the court does not factor into the foreclosure process.
That didn't keep California from posting the nation's highest foreclosure rate last month. One in every 325 households reported a foreclosure-related notice in July, more than twice the national average.
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amount of property tax each Henry County property owner is
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A 24-year-old La Quinta man allegedly shot two people early today during an argument, a sheriff's sergeant said.
The shooting was reported around 2:35 a.m. in the 53000 block of Avenida Herrera. Robert Santos allegedly argued with the two victims and then shot at their vehicle as they drove away, striking both of them, sheriff's Sgt. Steve DaSilva said.
He said the victims drove themselves to a local hospital, where they were treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Santos was later found, arrested and booked into the county jail in Indio on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, DaSilva said.
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