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That is very disturbing, Clip.
Every one of them needs the crap beat out of them for that. That was horrible.
What the cops should have done is let them do it again, and have some undercovers... "defend themselves." Problem solved. This really bothers me. Wish the carry age was lower than 21
"I only regret I have but one life to lose for my country" Nathan Hale Amendment 2 - Right to Bear Arms. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
The problem with this attack is that I don't think the victim was aware, so having a weapon would have been much worse. If he was aware, he didn't show it by his actions. If he wasn't aware, as I suspect, getting KTFO and resultingly searched by his aggressors might have lead to him getting shot as well. Situational Awareness would have gone a long ways in this instance. Even with a weapon it wouldn't do you any good to get cold cocked by some coward trying to prove something to his friends. Take someone like DzScubie, IGETEVEN, Canebrake, or one of our other members that constantly preach about knowing your surroundings and put them in that situation, I can assure you the result would have been some leaking bad guys. Living in a City like St. Louis, and I haven't been there since the late 90's, there is no way in hell you would find me out walking, by myself, unarmed, without a care in the world.
The way I see it, it would have taken a second mag to give each of them what they deserved. Double tap x 7 = 14 rounds well placed if possible. Rather be judged by 12 then carried by 6. roger
When I was in highschool something similar to this was going on. They would wait in the bathroom and they would attack you... Supposedly, a kid tried to attack someone else who was using the urinal and the guy slammed the attackers face into the metal part of the urinal, knocking him unconcious. Apparently this person then left the unconcious attacker lying there and continued to go to class.... I don't know who it was But the game quit happening after that. Sometimes all it takes is a little display of what happens when you mess with the wrong person to make activities like this cease. I will not be surprised when one or more of these kids gets shot, I would wager the "knock out game" will be game over...
Elevators in parking garages are notoriously located in very bad places and cause lots of situational awareness problems. Typically a bank of elevators are located at the dead end of a hall or in a corner with no other means of egress other than past the threat. I almost never take the elevators and opt for the stairs or a walkway if I'm alone.
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of course they sucker punch the guy when he's not looking and attack in a large group...how very brave of them....guess that's all it takes to make them feel like tough guys. So much for ACTUALLY being able to take someone in a fight.


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RICHLAND TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- A Johnstown mother-daughter duo is in jail, accused of stealing the credit card numbers of customers at a local department store to purchase gift cards for themselves. But police said Boscov's internal security team was able to pick up on the alleged crime fast, confronting the employee before the affected customers even knew they were targeted.
You hear about credit card numbers being stolen all the time, but in this case police said the victims did nothing wrong and really couldn't have prevented it.
Khadija Salazar and Kim Triplie are facing charges of theft, fraud and receiving stolen property after police said Salazar, a former employee at Boscov's in Richland Township, stole from several customers in a unique way.
During the Christmas holiday police said Salazar would memorize customers' credit card numbers after ringing them up for a purchase, then plug those numbers back into the system to purchase gift cards that she gave to her mother.
"This is something unique that somebody actually has the memory, and could actually recall and could remember the credit card numbers," said Richland Township Police Chief Michael Burgan. "What had alerted Boscov's was one, the amount of the charges that were coming through and number two, no card actually being swiped. It was all through key entry."
In all, police said Salazar was able to get $1,000 in gift cards purchased through the credit cards of customers. A criminal complaint said Triplie then used one of those gift cards to purchase more than $250 worth of merchandise.
"It had flagged internally with the amount of money that was being purchased, which a lot of major credit card companies have," said Burgan. "If it's beyond their normal spending habits, it will send up a red flag."
And because of that police said Boscov's was able to discover the alleged crime before the victims, something police said customers really couldn't have even prevented.
"They're working with their customers," said Burgan. "They've been very, very cooperative with this and I have to credit the store with being able to jump on this immediately to stop it from occuring."
Police said Salazar and Triplie have admitted to the crime and have already returned $500 worth of giftcardsgift cards and 22 items of merchandise. They're both in jail, their bond set at $35,000 a piece.


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China's CNOOC Ltd said Monday it has agreed to pay $570 million for one-third of US firm Chesapeake Energy's shale oil and gas drilling project in the American states of Colorado and Wyoming.The investment in the 800,000-acre (323,749-hectare) project in two basins is the second deal between the firms since October and signals greater efforts by both energy-guzzling countries to develop the hard-to-reach resources.
U.S. drillers that set up rigs amid the rolling farmland of eastern Ohio on projections underground shale held US$500-billion of oil are packing up.
Skeptics are too quick to dismiss the potential expansion of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing to other shale areas in the United States and around the world. Based on early setbacks and the slow rate of progress outside Bakken and Eagle Ford, they doubt whether the revolution can be replicated. But shale entrepreneurs are investing heavily to prove them wrong. So far, the North American shale revolution has been confined to two states, Texas and North Dakota, at least as far as oil is concerned.
By Bret Jensen:Domestic energy production has exponentially increased over the last few years due to fracking technology. No place has ramped up energy production more than the Bakken reserves. Numerous E&P outfits with shale acreage/production have seen their shares doubled, tripled or more in the past twelve to eighteen months, and it is certainly harder to find bargains now than it was in 2010.
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China National Petroleum Corp., the country's biggest oil company, is seeking its first stake in the U.S. as Chinese explorers with US$40-billion of cash try to join an energy renaissance unlocking billions of barrels of crude. "We are currently studying" investing in U.S. oil, Jiang Jiemin, chairman of the state-run company, said Monday at the National People's Congress meetings in Beijing. Domestic rival China Petrochemical Corp. last month agreed to buy stakes in an Oklahoma field from Chesapeake Energy Corp. for US$1.02-billion.
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The threat of a Jan. 15 government shutdown receded as the leaders of the Budget committees in the House and Senate agreed on a two-year deal that deflects some of the cuts imposed by sequestration in the near term while extending the sequester regime by two years, through 2023.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) essentially agreed to split the difference between their two budgets on discretionary spending. The final deal calls for $1.012 trillion in spending for fiscal 2014, with $520.5 going to defense and $491.8 billion to non-defense agencies. It taps the brakes on sequestration cuts, with a reduction of about $45 billion in fiscal 2014 and $18 billion in fiscal 2015.
"In divided government, you don't always get what you want," Ryan said in a Capitol Hill press conference on Dec. 10.
Opposition from House Republicans appears to be the biggest political hurdle to the agreement. Ryan urged House Republicans to vote for the plan because the deal contains no tax increases, extends the regime of automatic budget cuts, takes aim at improper payments and moves toward reining in federal pension costs.
Murray said at the joint press conference that she made the deal in consultation with Senate leaders, and the White House issued a statement saying President Barack Obama would sign the bill.
If the deal is passed, appropriators would be able to write spending bills for the remainder of fiscal 2014 and full appropriations for fiscal 2015 based on the measure's caps.
"This deal allows congressional committees to proceed under regular order, and gives government agencies and the companies that do business with them the certainty they need to hire workers and make investments," Murray said.
Changes to retirement benefits
Changes to military and civilian federal employee pensions figure into the $63 billion in sequester relief and $23 billion in deficit reduction promised under the deal. Federal employees hired in 2014 and beyond will contribute 4.4 percent of their salaries toward retirement, an increase of 1.3 percentage points from the current rate of 3.1 percent. Feds returning to the government with more than five years of service will be exempt from the increase.
"Nothing in this agreement affects current federal employees," said Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), a member of the conference committee that negotiated the deal. "All of this has to do with federal employees who will be going to work for the government after Jan. 1, 2014."
The largest federal employees union opposes the deal because of the increase in contributions to defined benefit pensions for newly hired employees.
"The result will be a serious shortfall in their retirement income security and a substantial lowering of their standard of living," said J. David Cox Sr., national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, in a statement.
On the military side, the deal reduces the cost-of-living adjustment for working-age military retirees. A 0.25 percent decrease will hit in December 2014, followed by a 0.50 percent reduction in December 2015. The deal does not reduce retirement benefits from one year to the next, nor does it affect injured or disabled veterans.
A new cap on contractor compensation
The deal also reduces the cap on contractor executive compensation on federal contracts to $487,000. The Obama administration recently announced an increase to the cap from $763,029 to $952,308. The Ryan-Murray deal allows for "narrowly targeted exceptions for scientists, engineers or other specialists," but such exceptions will be limited, and Congress will have to be kept in the loop through an annual report on contractor compensation from the Office of Management and Budget. Additionally, the deal repeals OMB's authority to set annual increases.
The contractor compensation measure is competing against a similar provision in the defense authorization bill agreed to by the House and Senate Armed Services committees earlier this week. That bill proposes a $625,000 cap on contractor compensation and includes exceptions for certain high-tech categories, including cybersecurity.
Stan Soloway, president of the Professional Services Council, said the rate in the defense bill represents a reasonable compromise that the Ryan-Murray measure threatens to upset.
"This is not about egregious salaries," he told FCW. "It's about enabling industries to compete for the right kind of talent to support the government."
It's unclear how the two measures will be resolved if both pass.
Still, Soloway said he is pleased to see the prospect of a January shutdown dimmed. "Getting the budget deal done is critical for federal agencies to plan and execute programs," he said. "The uncertainty and chaos that has buffeted agencies flows down to external partners, including industry."
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I guess when your approval rating is down to 9% it's a good idea to finally do SOMETHING!
Seems as though someone up there in DC has finally relaized what we peasants have known all along - you don't always get everything you want - you have give a little!! I hope this deal passes because it'll mean 18 months of work without worry of new cuts and furloughs!!


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Standard Italian, as a written administrative and literary language, was in existence well before the unification of Italy in the 1860s. However, in terms of spoken language, Italians were slow to adopt the parlance of the new nation-state, identifying much more strongly with their regional dialects. Emigration in the late 19th and early 20th century played an important role in spreading the standard language; many local dialects had no written form, obliging Italians to learn Italian in order to write to their relatives. The eventual supremacy of the standard language also owes much to the advent of television, which introduced it into almost every home in the country. The extremely rich and, hitherto, resilient tapestry of dialects and foreign languages upon which standard Italian has gradually been superimposed reveals much about Italy's cultural history. Not surprisingly, the greatest divergence from standard Italian is found in border areas, in the mountains, and on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia.
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Roman Catholicism has played a historic and fundamental role in Italy. It was the official religion of the Italian state from 1929, with the signing of the Lateran Treaty, until a concordat was ratified in 1985 that ended the church's position as the state religion, abolished compulsory religious teaching in public schools, and reduced state financial contributions to the church. More than four-fifths of the population declare themselves Roman Catholics, although the number of practicing Catholics is declining. An estimated 450,000 people worship in the Protestant church, including Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists, and Waldensians. They are all members of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy (Federazione delle Chiese Evangeliche in Italia) founded in 1967. Albanian communities in two dioceses and one abbey in the Mezzogiorno practice the Eastern Orthodox rite. Migration that began in the latter third of the 20th century brought with it many people of non-Christian religious beliefs, significantly Muslims, who number more than one million. The Jewish community fluctuated between 30,000 and 47,000 throughout the 20th century. In 1987 Jews obtained special rights from the Italian state allowing them to abstain from work on the Sabbath and to observe Jewish holidays.
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In general, rural life is in decline. The majority of the population of Italy live in cities and villages; only a fraction live in hamlets or in isolated houses. In the long Alpine valleys the economy was always both agricultural and commercial, with towns such as Aosta and Bolzano at the outlets of the lateral valleys and agricultural settlements higher up or on the slopes of hills. The perpetual subdivision of landholdings makes a purely agricultural economy precarious in this region except in the upper Adige, where the Germanic system of primogeniture survived, producing the masi, family holdings that are passed on to the eldest son intact. These rural areas now also include an increasing number of skiing and tourist centres, such as Courmayeur and Cortina d'Ampezzo. In the band of Alpine and Apennine foothills, the villages, often situated on the knolls and flanks of the hills, are linked by roads that hold to the heights, away from the humid valley floors. Each village is usually grouped around a church, a castle, or a nobleman's palace, with its fields on the slopes around it and woodlands lower down. There are innumerable plum and cherry orchards and, above all, vineyards; their wines (Conegliano and Monferrato) are famous. Lombardy is the only area in which the ancient rural way of life has been comprehensively displaced by the development of heavy industry. The Padano-Venetian-Emilian plain is the most important agricultural and stockbreeding region of Italy. The upland plain hosts the great industrial centres such as Turin, Milan, and Busto Arsizio, while the lowland plain remains socially as well as economically rural.
Villages high in the Apennines are less prosperous than those of similar elevation in the Alps. They are still isolated, the ground is infertile, and land is rarely owned by those who work it. Tourism and the expansion of cottage craft industries, such as the porcelain making at Gubbio, near Perugia, have helped these towns survive. The lower hills and plains of Italy are covered with agricultural villages in which a wide variety of crops and vegetables are grown, though often in low yield. In Puglia and Basilicata large farms are staffed by labourers who live in urban centres, such as Cerignola and Altamura, and travel to work in the countryside. Some fertile and well-watered plains, such as the Neapolitan countryside, have a high level of productivity, especially of market vegetables. Here there is direct ownership of land and fairly dense settlement. In Sicily, settlement is clustered in widely spaced, nucleated towns, with extensive pastureland and farming. In Sardinia the settlement is sparse and mainly inland, and most of the local fishing industry is carried on by men from the mainland.
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Official name | Repubblica Italiana (Italian Republic) |
Form of government | republic with two legislative houses (Senate [3231]; Chamber of Deputies [630]) |
Head of state | President: Giorgio Napolitano |
Head of government | Prime Minister: Matteo Renzi |
Capital | Rome |
Official language | Italian2 |
Official religion | none |
Monetary unit | euro (€) |
Population | (2013 est.) 59,866,000 Expand |
Total area (sq mi) | 116,346 |
Total area (sq km) | 301,336 |
Urban-rural population | Urban: (2011) 68.4% Rural: (2011) 31.6% |
Life expectancy at birth | Male: (2011) 79.4 years Female: (2011) 84.5 years |
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Rescue teams went on 2,876 missions last year to get ill-prepared visitors out of harm's way.
Most incidents involving rescue squads have a happy ending — 85 percent of people who need help are brought to safety. Above, helicopters helped in the search for a missing person in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.
The national parks are our collective treasure. And it's great that about 283 million visitors came to see the beauty up close last year.
But a growing number of our fellow citizens and some foreign visitors too are getting too close — or too high, deep or far away — in their explorations.
The numbers were laid out by the website NationalParksTraveler.com just this month.
The National Park Service search-and-rescue teams put in 92,732 hours on 2,876 missions getting people out of trouble that, for the most part, they could have avoided with a better grip on their own physical fitness and more common sense when faced with decisions in unfamiliar country.
A Park Service report said the top contributing factor in rescues was that those needing help were not in physical condition to attempt the hike or other activity they were trying or underestimated the level of fatigue they would experience once too far into the activity to get themselves out unaided.
The second top factor: "error in judgment," a catchall that basically means failing to turn around, taking the wrong route, underestimating the amount of time before nightfall or a storm hits, bothering large mammals, taking a shortcut, going for a closer view and falling, and myriad other actions ranging from ill-advised to idiotic to fatal.
Third: Trying a hike or other activity without the proper clothing or gear.
High-risk group: Day hikers
Not surprisingly, the biggest group to get in trouble was identified as "day hikers." Saturdays and Sundays were the most likely day for rescue calls. Though all sorts of people need rescue, the most common profile was a man, age 20-29.
For those who are rescued, there is relief and embarrassment. Nobody wants to have a TV crew ask you how you ended up in a ravine in the Grand Canyon at 3 a.m. without water. Most of the incidents involving the rescue squads have a happy ending — 85 percent of people who need help are located and brought to safety within 24 hours of the first report.
Not surprisingly, people who get into trouble continue to show bad judgment even after needing rescue. The National Park Service urges those seeking rescue to stay put and wait for help. But in more than 1,000 incidents, those needing rescue moved more than a mile from their last reported position. Fifteen cases involved people who moved more than 20 miles.
An unfortunate death toll every year
The worst scenario is recognized several times a year across the country. Last year, 26 hikers died. Though hiking leads to the most calls for the rescue team, fatalities are more likely to involve swimming, with 34 deaths in 2012.
Among the dead: Jacob Adams, 6, and Andreas Adams, 10, of Yorba Linda, Calif. The brothers died last August when they went wading in the swift Merced River near Vernal Fall.
Fourteen people reported missing were never found.
This year is shaping up to be no different. Over two days in June, a woman was swept over a waterfall at Yosemite and a man fell from El Capitan. Both died.
Though the National Park Service covers 84.4 million acres of land, the danger is not evenly spread out. Overall, the highest rate of rescues is in the service's Intermountain Region, which includes Yosemite, Yellowstone, Glacier, Rocky Mountain, Grand Canyon, Big Bend and other famous parks known for their wild beauty. Second is the Pacific Region, which includes Yosemite.
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The easiest way is to set it from DateTime. Implicit conversion of NSDate to and from DateTime is quite good, but you must be aware that NSDate is always an UTC time and DateTime is default set to DateTimeKind.Unspecified (when read from database) or DateTimeKind.Locale (when set with DateTime.Today). The best way to convert without complicated time-zone computations is to force the right DateTimeKind:
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It's hot. It's so hot I can't breathe and I wish this taxi had air-conditioning. I never wish for air-conditioning but all four windows are wide open and I still feel like I am suffocating. It is so bright outside that the industrial buildings stretching from the airport to Bucharest city are white-washed, bleached as if my eyes are a camera, set on over-expose. The driver is smoking and talking on his phone and looking over his shoulder at me at the same time. He has the bluest eyes I've ever seen. Walking through the airport I was struck over and over again by blue, blue eyes and dark, dark skin. Later at my hotel I will Google "blue eyes Romania." I end up in a rabbit hole of stories about blue-eyed Arabs, and dating sites for men to meet hot young Romanian women, conspiracy theorists talking about blue-eyes sometimes being a dominant gene instead of a recessive one, and a Wikipedia article about how Estonia's population is 99% blue eyed. I scour the television stations to catch sight of these blue eyes again. But the airport is the only place I see them.
I am in Bucharest, Romania for two weeks to work for the secretariat of an international environmental treaty on wetlands, biodiversity and climate change–the Ramsar Convention. It is their triennial COP, or Conference of the Parties, where delegates from about 153 different countries come together to negotiate environmental policy, which they will then take home with them and implement.


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Washington, DC | www.adc.org | May 10, 2012 -- Last week, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) National President Warren David completed a three-day tour of select states in the Northeast, attending events and discussing ADC with interested communities throughout the region. The three-day "President's Tour", which took place May 4-6, 2012, took Mr. David through Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey.
Friday, May 4th, Mr. David visited Danbury, Connecticut. Nada Farhat and veteran ADC member Samar Sakakini organized and hosted a networking reception for Arab Americans in the area to meet with the National President. Mr. David spoke about ADC's latest developments and the plans for moving the organization forward. Chairwoman Dr. Amal David also spoke about the ADC Women's Initiative and its success in empowering women in their roles within ADC and the community in general. The event was extremely successful and ADC is pleased to announce the next step planned in organizing an ADC Chapter in Danbury.
The next stop on the itinerary was New York City, where Alwan for the Arts Executive Board Members Ahmed Issawi and Sabi Kanaan hosted ADC at a luncheon meeting. ADC National Board Member Assad Jebara and his wife, Mary, were in attendance asd well as New Jersey activist Samer Khalaf and other community members. Mr. David spoke about ADC's accomplishments and the strides the organization has made during the last ten months of his assuming the presidency. Additionally, Mr. David was given a very important assessment of the New York community by those participants who were in attendance.
The President's Tour concluded on Sunday, May 6th, when Mr. David and his wife were invited to attend the Palestinian Heritage Foundation's 25th Anniversary Banquet, held at the Marriott Hotel at Newark Airport in New Jersey. The event celebrated the accomplishments of Hanan and Farah Munnayer for their contributions in enhancing the Palestinian and Arab heritage in the United States. Among the guest speakers were Metropolitan Philip Saliba, Primate of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese, Archbishop Attallah Hanna of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, former Ambassador Dr. Clovis Maksoud, and Dr. John Mahoney, Director of Americans for Middle East Understanding. Mr. David addressed the attendees and spoke about ADC's accomplishments and then inviting them to participate in the upcoming ADC National Convention,"Taking Charge, Moving Forward: Decision 2012," being held in Washington, DC June 21-24.
ADC thanks all those who invited and organized these events for their hospitality. This tour enabled them to further spread ADC's message to the Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey communities. ADC encourages members of those communities who are interested in joining ADC to contact the National Office for information and to join us this year in Washington, DC for the ADC National Convention.
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I can only hope that one day, when I have a baby, my dog Lucca is as good with him or her as these two Huskies are with this little boy. As he embarks on his crawling journey across the linoleum, the two pups mimic his every move. Squees for days! [NY Daily News]
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Video TranscriptHOUSES AND TREES DESTROYED IN SECONDS WILL TAKE MORE THAN A WEEK TO CLEAN UP. BEAVER CROSSING IS STILL A DISASTER AREA... UNDER MILITARY CONTROL. BUT TODAY... WE FOUND VETERANS MAKING ONE OF THE BIGGEST IMPACTS. K-E-T-V NEWSWATCH 7'S DAVE ROBERTS SPENT THE DAY ON THE GROUND .. HE'S JUST BIG STORY AT TEN. THIS IS WHAT IT WAS LIKE... WHEN MY PHOTOGRAPHER... ASHLEY AND I... DROVE AWAY FROM THE TORNADO THAT HIT BEAVER CROSSING LAST WEEK. NOW AS THE COMMUNITY TRIES TO ESCAPE THE MESS LEFT BEHIND... A VETERAN VOLUNTEER EFFORT IS MAKING A BIG IMPACT. WHEN BEAVER CROSSING FINALLY GETS CLEANED UP... THERE WON'T BE MUCH BEAVER CROSSING LEFT.("When we first came into town a lot of people assumed that we were charging that our help wasn't free that we were expecting something in return.Seeing when we told them we were volunteer their facial expressions had absolute smiles. They brought us into this community and we feel like we are a part of it.") TEAM RUBICON IS ON IT. VETERANS WITH VALUABLE MILITARY EXPERIENCE... ASSISTING EMERGENCY RESPONDERS. ("Not only does this help the communities but it helps us immensely.") HELP IS NEEDED.("We are just working as hard as we can to do what twister tore up in beaver Crossing that's not a tree ended up here.After one week the pile is already three stories high and that's after trucks took some of it away.") you hit your breaking point it is very overwhelming.") CAME... SO DID TEAM RUBICON... TO CLEAN UP THE FRY FAMILY ACREAGE.("My dad was military. They were very awesome. They saved all of the military stuff for us.")("I kind of found myself looking for that but never did I feel as fulfilled as I did when I was in the military.") WHILE HELPING THE PEOPLE OF BEAVER CROSSING... THESE VETS HELP THEMSELVES.("I am in Iraq veteran and I was an IED Hunter and I was in Iraq. Coming home it's been a difficult transition. Surveyed with team Rubicon has help me get back on my feet and plug back into the community.") COPING WITH CIVILIAN ACCLIMATION ... CARING FOR OTHERS.("Never really realized how much that meant to be till I stopped doing it when I got out of the Marines it was a large part of my identity.") TEAM RUBICON PLANS TO STAY IN BEAVER CROSSING FOR TWO WEEKS. THEY'RE FIRST PRIORTY IS TO HELP VETERANS AND PEOPLE WITHOU INSURANCE.
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Rounding Up The Privacy Debate
by Steve Smith on Jun 26, 2:15 PM
When we started the OMMA Behavioral shows two years ago, privacy was still regarded as an unwanted, if necessary, topic. The arguments were predictable ("We don't collect personally identifiable information -- next question"), and most people in the industry felt it was an issue that engaged only consumer advocates and journalists, anyway. Frankly, the privacy panels often cleared the room of attendees, who used that time as a chance to take an extended break. In the last year, this situation has changed: the privacy panels are among the best-attended and the most exciting.
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Omnicom Readies Behavioral Targeting Services Suite
by Laurie Sullivan on Jun 24, 5:30 PM
Omnicom Media Group (OMG) will offer clients "advanced targeting" similar to the rich media and video display targeting services Interpublic Group's Mediabrands unveiled with Cadreon earlier this month, according to OMG Digital CEO Matt Spiegel.
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Omnicom Readies Behavioral Targeting Services Suite
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Omnicom Media Group (OMG) will offer clients "advanced targeting" similar to the rich media and video display targeting services Interpublic Group's Mediabrands unveiled with Cadreon earlier this month, according to OMG Digital CEO Matt Spiegel.
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The Meaning in Being Mobile
by Steve Smith on Jun 19, 3:45 PM
Not to diminish the role that Web learnings will play in the evolution of mobile platforms, there will in fact be a lot that is similar here. Smart phones in particular are helping to proliferate mobile media in large part because they do port familiar elements like Web sites and email to a handheld. The users themselves need some familiar pathways into new media as well. They all have their own hammers of consumption. But there are areas where there will have to be differences. Behavioral targeting is one of them. On all levels, mobile poses both unique challenges and ...
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BT Gets Really Personal
by Laurie Sullivan on Jun 17, 3:30 PM
Amadesa has a behavioral targeting platform that learns over time without manual input from anyone. The software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, based on machine learning technology, runs on a predictive modeling engine that identifies categories, or microsegments, that score and select the most relevant content to serve up relevant ads. The engine focuses on ecommerce sites.
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A Mood Ring For The Internet
by Steve Smith on Jun 12, 12:45 PM
Voicing opinions online may be one of the core behaviors that most of us online either practice or pursue and watch. In fact, we spend an awful lot of time hunting for opinions, across blogs, scrolling into article comments sections, hunting for ratings and reviews, etc. When most of us read impartial news articles about a topic, we also wonder what the reigning sentiment is around the issue, out there and apart from the voices quoted in the piece before us. This is the subtle itch that an upcoming product from New York start-up Jodange is promising to scratch, for ...
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I'm Being Followed Into Social Networks
by Laurie Sullivan on Jun 10, 1:45 PM
OK, I'll admit it. I like to visit neimanmarcus.com, look at designer clothes from Carolina Herrera and Nanette Lepore, and click on an item or two. But when I realize it's more than I want to pay, even with free shipping, I leave the shopping cart stranded in cyberspace and go about my weekend chores of grocery shopping and cleaning up the yard. I come back later in the day to go online again -- and there are the display ads from Neiman Marcus staring me in the face, begging me to click on them. Score one for behavioral targeting ...
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A Must-Read For BT Wonks
by Steve Smith on Jun 5, 1:45 PM
The academic studies of online privacy and the technologies behind data collection are coming on strong of late. I have been covering them here in recent months because as a former egghead (I say that lovingly) in the media studies field, I have seen this movie before. As legislators and regulators turn their eye towards a commercial endeavor, scholarly research and opinion that ordinarily gets shared among a relative handful of experts suddenly becomes widely cited, misquoted, turned into gospel.
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BT: Can It Mean Behavioral Responses To Ads?
by Laurie Sullivan on Jun 4, 2:31 PM
Can behavioral targeting also mean understanding human behavior in reaction to an advertising campaign? Companies touting the targeting of online ads to consumers as a mixture of art and science could soon find psychologists employed among their midst. The need to better understand human behavior will prompt the shift, as the technology becomes more affordable and agencies attempt to regain their online footing following the industry slowdown.
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When Chris and Susie Linford of Anchorage, Alaska, found out that their bank account was drained of more than $5,000 without their knowledge, they were stunned.
"We had our debit card on us the whole time," said Susie Linford, who believes the thief may have stolen the couple's information remotely.
Fortunately for the couple, their credit union — Credit Union One — quickly detected the fraudulent purchases and refunded their money. But the surprises didn't end there.
In the weeks after the theft, the Linfords began receiving an odd assortment of Christmas gifts at their front door. It was a veritable hodge-podge version of the 12 days of Christmas that directly corresponded with the thieves' $5,000 shopping spree.
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Yeah we know about stage diving.
It's banned at most concerts because of the danger of landing on your head or kicking someones teeth out.
What were the chances of that guy being caught? Did he actually get dropped? I couldn't see.
He didn't exactly make the most fluid exit off the stage. Looked like he was going head first
ok i think akon needs to get his act together.. thats ridiculous throwing a kid off stage, as a performer he should know to expect thngs like that and needs to keep his cool, hell if everyone threw a person off stage everytme something was thrown at them there would be alot of people getting chucked around at concerts.. and second i hope , really really hope that kid sues his ass and sends him back to the projects, we dont need people like him around who need to be tough guys, theres way too many of them out there as is.. sadly nothing will be done because somehow it will be twisted into being racism, whereas if the beastie boys or some other white singer did that itd be all over the news.. ridiculous..
Who's Akon and what was he doing on stage??
next time , I'll bring Britney's fat ass up on the stage and thrown that bitch in the
audience..and you'all better run, coz when her fat ass hits someone , it's going to hurt.
say what you may….there's a big difference between what the kid did and what akon did.
the kid is a child, akon is an adult…he should know better. I hope he loses a lot of money and a lot of fans because of this.
Bad Call Akon, bad call…
@ #23
I agree. Little bastard shouldn't have thrown something.
As the amazing linguist and English professor Lil Jon once said:
"Don't start no shit, won't be no shit."
What a jerk!!! He's only getting lamer and lamer…when is somebody just ging to cut this guy off?!?!
what a bastard moron….i can't believe tha he did that…ok..the guys throw something..but..c'mom…
The real problem is that a lot of dumb people still going to Akon show's…
cheers from italy!
I was there, this was totally a set up. Little bastard didn't even run and I saw security talking to him before, slappin' him on the shoulder and shit.
Akon had said something before hand about being 'hard' and 'nothing holding him back'. The kid did it not even 45 seconds afterwards.
Can you say SET UP?!
I thought "midget-throwing" was illegal?
lets see….. If i was that kid i would be at a lawyers office right now.
Hmmm… Kidnapping ( they took the kid against his will)
Assault ( Thats obvious)
Wreckless endangerment ( for the people that the kid landed on)
If the universe is right that monkey will get his ass sued……..
Akon is nothing more than an over-egotistical CUNT. He does not deserve to have any type of career where any people look up to him, much less does that little bitch deserve his freedom after that shit. And you can quote me on this, if he ever laid a fucking finger on one of my kids i would inject his ignorant knob gobbling ass with the ebola virus and masturbate as he bled out of every pore and orifice in his waste of space body. Nuff said.
Akon should be shot.
Now…what's this story about?
By the way…#158 you are an ignorant mongoloid.
@#70 – BWAHAHAHAHAHA!! thanks for the side splitting Although I may have to sue you for making me laugh so hard……
#70… that was funny…..
I can't believe the twat actually took off his top beforehand.
Did someone say this guy was wealthy and educated? Yeh, and I'm the Easter Bunny…
I hope they find the kid and sue. I hope everyone who found themselves the safety net of the kid's fall sue.
Sue him til he has no more dosh and has no chance of making anymore shit music.
Anyone who goes to see one of these no talent baboons gets exactly what they deserve. You lay down with apes, you get bananas.
every live concert i've been to ppl throw shit on stage and the artists take it lightly. even the dude from slipknot laughed about it when a water bottle just missed his head. he just goes "nice one, fucker"
its just what happens at live events. deal with it akon. maybe its just my bias against his crappy music. gimme some fuckin ed banger crew any day over this garbage.
I can not believe that he could be so childish, he was a young boy. So it starts with the Pacers… when you are public figure things are going to happen, if you don't like things like that, then don't be in show biz idiot! If I were that child's parent I would have sued him, and then maybe then he would go back to being a convict wearing the stripes and working on the chain gang. Had this had been a white singer tossing a black child from the stage OMFG, we would have never heard the end of it. What an ass! I hope this kids parents take him for a few million. Maybe we should get the radio stations to boycott his music for awhile…
HOW THE $#*# IS THIS GUY (akon) NOT IN JAIL!?!?!? WTF?!?!?!?
from the look of that second vid, it doesn't look like anyone attempted to catch the young sap. poor fella.
I hate Akon, but that kid isn't 8 years old. What is he, like 16? Who freakin' cares? If he isn't suing the bastard, why should we care?
Seems like Akon is the 8 year old boy, acts like one. What a piece of S__T !!! People like this ass hole?
Serves you right for going to an Akon show in the first place.People actually paid money to see that shit?
The only thing thats more disgusting are the cocksuckers still cheering for them I hope they all fucking die
So true. People these days are f'd up.
any fuckin thing for attention
juzt call him Lindzay, Brittney, Pariz!
He should have humped another underaged girl while he was throwing that kid.
Have fun with that lawsuit, kid.
That was wrong man
wow. wish i could have seen that one
It serves the kid right, he should've been spending his time listening to skynard instead of that jungle music! He deserved to be thrown by his Father not by Akorn.
It serves the kid right, he should've been spending his time listening to skynard instead of that jungle music! He deserved to be thrown by his Father not by Akorn.
Well the way i see it , it was un-called for on both parts… ok first of all that kid did pay to get in there. And not cheap at that… and ok yes the kid should not have thrown the bottle weather it was at akon or not… but i mean its not like Akon went to his concert thinking that every thing would be nice and quiet like a fuckin Sharon Lous and Bram sing along………………. But i mean Akon what the hell is wrong with you . your a icon for thousands of kids and millions of others and not to metion your an adult. un like the kids you like to molest on stage.
I agree that some thing needed to be done but throw him off the stage . ok that helps. all you had to do is to get the security to take him off stage and make him leave … but i gess that would be concidered nice and not gangster enough , and you frlt that you had to be an ass about it . as to being seued , I think he should be . not to mention by the people and loyal fans he fell on that payed good money to watch the hack they call Acon ………………………
Afterwards did he sing, "oh didi oh didi whoah" or some shit?
I've done my best but this country has still become a nation of weak-kneed pussies. Back in Texas, that eggplant would have been hanging from the nearest tree before that white boy even hit the ground. Word.
This dude is an idiot and needs to get some help.
fuck that, this was funny as hell. don't throw shit at performers, maybe this won't happen to you..i think the kid learned his lesson. i mean this was probably a petty response from akon, but i've seen plentyyyy of concerts where some asshole decides to throw some shit on stage and nail the performer. getting hammer thrown into the crowd is just the thing to prevent some more idiots from pullin shit like that
Leg 'er down 'n smack 'em yak 'em.
That cracker got what he deserved, bring a few more up
As we say all the time in Iraq, we're killing the wrong darkies.
As slaves, we served a purpose. But honestly, do we add anything to this country now, or are we just a big dark cancer on it? Melanoma-Americans. If we were exterminated, would anybody miss us? Nope.
I can't believe this animal did that! And there are people out there still listening to his music… we should ban him for real. Start an anti-akon campain and teach him a lesson, the fame has gone to his head…and the people in the crowd didn't do anything either. Where has this world gone!
I think that the boy definitley deserved it. I mean he threw something in the guys face,its not like he's mentally retarded or anything.I dont think the kid was hurt. Anywayz he deserved it, i mean show some respect…
@ 123 Frist … I am with you on that one!!


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March 11, 2014, (unprocessed) 4.5 cubic feet; Collection (ca. 1791-1919) consists of items related to the Augustus Moore (June 8, 1803-March 23, 1851) family of Chowan and Halifax Cos., N.C., his children Augustus Minton Moore, William Armistead Moore, Henrietta Moore Sutton, Susan Augustus Moore Righton, Mary Elizabeth Moore, Alfred Moore and John Armistead Moore, and the descendants of John Armistead Moore. Included are account books, legal records, land transactions, estate records, correspondence, clippings, and autograph books (1855, 1865) belonging to family members who attended Miss Willard's Female Seminary in Troy, N.Y., and Patapsco Female Institute in Ellicott City, Maryland. Also included are identified photographs (cartes de visite, tintypes, cased pictures, albums) of the Moore, Gilliam, Skinner, and Hall families, religious books such as Roman Catholic Missals, Episcopal Books of Common Prayer and Bibles, UNC-Chapel Hill diplomas (1824), and items related to the 1878 Exposition in Paris, France. All of these materials were in the home of Elizabeth Vann Moore (February 3, 1912-January 1, 2010) of Edenton, N.C. Gift of Carter R. Rowe, Jr.
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Augustus Moore Family Papers (#1216), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
Augustus Moore (1803-1851) and his wife Susan Maria Jordan Armistead Moore (1812-1884) were the progenitors of the Moore family of Chowan and Halifax Cos., North Carolina. Their children were William Armistead Moore, Susan Augustus Moore Righton, Henrietta Moore Sutton, Augustus Minton Moore, Mary Elizabeth Moore, John Armistead Moore, and Alfred Moore. Their great granddaughter was Elizabeth Vann Moore (1912-2010) who was a well-respected local historian and genealogist in Edenton, Chowan County, N.C.
Below is material taken from a preliminary inventory and represents content from the collection that is unprocessed.
Online access to this finding aid is supported with funds created through the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). These funds come through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services which is administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. This grant is part of the North Carolina ECHO, Exploring Cultural Heritage Online, Digitization Grant Program.
Augustus Moore Family Papers (#1216)