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ARLINGTON, Texas -- After a limited number of sections in temporary seating areas at Cowboys Stadium were not completed in time, 400 fans were left without seats at Super Bowl XLV on Sunday.
Two hours before the game, workers were frantically trying to fix the sections or get the fans "relocated to similar or better seats," valued at $800. The NFL found alternate seating for 850 of the 1,250 fans affected. The 400 who were not able to be seated were given a refund of triple face value -- $2,400.
Archer: Stadium Fails To Salvage Week
The game was great but seating woes capped a bad Super Bowl week for North Texas, ESPNDallas.com's Todd Archer writes. Story
"Incomplete installation of temporary seats in a limited number of sections made the seats unusable," the NFL said in a statement. "The safety of fans attending the Super Bowl was paramount in making the decision and the NFL, Dallas Cowboys and City of Arlington officials are in agreement with the resolution. We regret the situation and inconvenience that it may have caused. We will conduct a full review of this matter."
The NFL tried to placate those 400 fans, taking them inside the stadium to watch the game on monitors in the North Field Club behind the Pittsburgh bench. They also had the option of viewing the game from standing-room platforms in each corner of the stadium. Those fans will still get the triple refund.
The fans "watched game in club w/free food, soft drinks + merchandise," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello tweeted. "The other 850 were re-located to seats in equal or better locations. NFL + Cowboys staff and families gave up seats."
After saying all week that he expected Sunday's game to set an all-time Super Bowl attendance record with 105,000 fans seated inside the stadium, Dallas Cowboys owner/general manager Jerry Jones come up short as the announced attendance of 103,219 was just shy of the 103,985 mark set in Super Bowl XIV between the Los Angeles Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers at the Rose Bowl.
Based on the 850 seats that were forfeited by the NFL and Cowboys to make room for those who were relocated, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy confirmed that the seating debacle was the reason the attendance record was not set.
"Yes," McCarthy said when asked if those seats would've been otherwise occupied had the displaced fans not been moved there. "But we've been focused on the safety and experience of our fans."
Instead, Jones will have to settle for the fourth-largest Super Bowl crowd.
At about 4 p.m. in a concourse, a Steelers fan in a Troy Polamalu jersey was yelling obscenities into his cell phone at a stadium employee. He couldn't be seated because his seats were in an area near the seats that didn't meet code.
"We spent $3,000 on tickets," his friend said. "After parking and $10 beers, it's $3,000. I just want to sit."
Said Jennifer Dunfee, a friend in their party who flew in from Colorado for the game: "We've spent over an hour trying to figure out how to get up there.
The NFL closed four of the 10 entrance points into the stadium Sunday because of lingering ice on the roof of the stadium. On Friday, six people were injured by ice falling onto the sidewalk outside of the structure. NFL officials worked with the Arlington Fire Department to direct fans safely into the stadium. Safe corridors were established around any potential fall zones.
In addition, the Arlington Police Department requested additional officers to the East Plaza ticket offices after the crowd started to become unruly after ticket scanners weren't functioning. There were chants of "Jerry Sucks!" and "NFL Sucks!"
Steve and Dawn Novak traveled from Rochester, N.Y., to find that their $800 seats could be exchanged for three times face value, or else for a $350 standing-room-only ticket. They said the NFL would not reimburse the difference in value. They decided to take a loss on the ticket but attend the game after coming all that way. She is a Packers fan and he is a Steelers fan, and they were both angry about the experience.
"We said one of us was going to be happy at the end of the day and we were wrong," Steve Novak said.
Dallas resident Brian Shake said it generally takes 15 minutes to wait at the gate. He said he waited in line for an hour and 20 minutes on Sunday.
"It was just so long," Shake said. "Problem was, you didn't know if you were in the right line or not. Everywhere you looked, there were just fences and screens and you couldn't get in anywhere."
His wife Kathy Shake called it "frustrating."
"It was very confusing on how to get in as you snaked your way through security."
Paul Bryant, from Milwaukee, said he and his party waited at least 90 minutes in line to get into the stadium.
"Nobody knew where to go. ... They had 14 detectives, and there's got to be 20,000 people going through here. If you do the math, that isn't enough," Bryant said.
Stadium workers were covering the top corner sections of the upper deck behind one end zone two hours prior to kickoff. There were off-limits seats in the same upper-deck rows as seats that were deemed safe. Yellow police tape was used as a dividing line, with uniformed personnel also keeping folks away.
The fans affected were directed to the Party Plaza area, which is located outside the stadium for the Super Bowl.
The temporary-seating sections were erected in what is usually an open area. Fans can purchase $29 "Party Passes" to stand in the open areas during Cowboys games.
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informing investigations, providing strong evidence, and avoiding errors in important ways. NIJ is the only federal agency that provides direct support to crime laboratories to alleviate the backlog, and those funds are minimal. The forensic science system is underresourced also in the sense that it has only thin ties to an academic research base that could support the forensic science disciplines and fill knowledge gaps. There are many hard-working and conscientious people in the forensic science community, but this under-resourcing inherently limits their ability to do their best work. Additional resources surely will be necessary to create high-quality, self-correcting systems.
However, increasing the staff within existing crime laboratories and medical examiners' offices is only part of the solution. What also is needed is an upgrading of systems and organizational structures, better training, the widespread adoption of uniform and enforceable best practices, and mandatory certification and accreditation programs. The forensic science community and the medical examiner/coroner system must be upgraded if forensic practitioners are to be expected to serve the goals of justice.
Of the various facets of underresourcing, the committee is most concerned about the knowledge base. Adding more dollars and people to the enterprise might reduce case backlogs, but it will not address fundamental limitations in the capabilities of forensic science disciplines to discern valid information from crime scene evidence. For the most part, it is impossible to discern the magnitude of those limitations, and reasonable people will differ on their significance.
Forensic science research is not well supported, and there is no unified strategy for developing a forensic science research plan across federal agencies. Relative to other areas of science, the forensic disciplines have extremely limited opportunities for research funding. Although the FBI and NIJ have supported some research in forensic science, the level of support has been well short of what is necessary for the forensic science community to establish strong links with a broad base of research universities. Moreover, funding for academic research is limited and requires law enforcement collaboration, which can inhibit the pursuit of more fundamental scientific questions essential to establishing the foundation of forensic science. The broader research community generally is not engaged in conducting research relevant to advancing the forensic science disciplines.
The forensic science enterprise also is hindered by its extreme disaggregation—marked by multiple types of practitioners with different levels of education and training and different professional cultures and standards for performance and a reliance on apprentice-type training and a guild-like structure of disciplines, which work against the goal of a single forensic science profession. Many forensic scientists are given scant opportunity for professional activities, such as attending conferences or


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For improved efficiency, it became necessary to divide the existing "Lee County Utilities Operations Manual" into two separate manuals. The Board approved this division on 02/02/2010. The Fiscal Sections (1 through 3) of the former "Lee County Utilities Operations Manual" have now become the "Lee County Utilities Customer Service Operations Manual". The remaining sections (4 through 13) became Sections 1 through 10 of the "Lee County Utilities Design Manual".
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US retailer GameStop plans to hand out Destiny posters to customers who pre-order Bungie's new game from Monday, February 18, claims an unconfirmed report.
Photos of the double-sided poster (pictured), along with new info apparently provided by documentation that came with the posters, was passed to Joystiq by a 'GameStop source'.
According to the report, the documentation reveals that players will be able to create their own character, earning customisable gear, weapons and vehicles as they do battle in an 'always-connected universe'.
The first-person shooter is also said to include co-operative and competitive multiplayer modes along with 'public and social activities'.
Bungie has officially confirmed its new game will be revealed on February 17 - this coming Sunday.
Plot and concept art details for Destiny leaked in November last year pointed to "a universe as deep, tangible and relatable as that of the Star Wars franchise" said to be "fun and accessible to all."
According to the leaked docs, Destiny will feature a story set seven hundred years from now in the Last City on Earth, in a Solar System "littered with the ruins of man's Golden Age". Head over here for more Destiny details.


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Case Histories Retail
The Gs Carrefour Case History
The Iper Case History
The Gs Carrefour Case History
The Context
Players:6 GS supermarkets
Areas: Como, Varese and the province of Milan, of which:
- 3 in an area where organic waste is collected separately
- 3 in an area where organic waste is not collected separately
Times: Autumn 2002 - action in the supermarkets
Spring 2003 - research on the consumer
Basic problems
The Mater-Bi shopping bag was not very well known by the consumer, it had limited visibility and as a result was not purchased very much. The cashiers did not encourage the purchase because its price was higher than that of the traditional plastic bag.
The solution:
a joint Novamont - GS Carrefour communication plan
It was decided to develop communication activities in the point of sale:
1. The message contained three key points:
- lThe supermarket chain presents its "new" biodegradable carrier bag
- the characteristics of the bag: it is obtained from renewable sources, and is 100% biodegradable
- it can be reused for the separate collection of organic waste
2. The Point of Sales material:
- crowner
- rotair
- posters
- leaflets
- dispenser placed near the cash desk.
3. Entertainment in the Point of Sales:
- Hostesses in Point of Sales for 12 days
- the leaflet was distributed, and the product's characteristics and the fact that it can be reused to collect organic waste were explained as well as the fact that the double use reduces the cost
4. Internal communication:
- * communication directed to the employees at the cash desks, as they have an important role in sales.
5. External communication:
- Leaflet distributed door to door
The study
A study was carried out in May 2003, nine months after the activities in the sales outlet, to assess the actual impact and degree of liking of the Mater-Bi shopping bag. A total of 500 interviews were held.
The target consisted of regular GS supermarket customers in the province of Milan, that were identified in the areas where organic waste is collected separately, and in areas were no separate collection was made.
From the results of the study:
- The Mater-Bi bags were used because they could be recycled for organic waste, because they were ecological and biodegradable; the non-users did not consider them because of their high price and because they were not interested in separate waste collection.
- However, the bag's impact on all of the interviewees (users and non-users) was most positive. What they liked about it was the fact that it was biodegradable and ecological, and that it could be recycled.
- The inclination to purchase was very good, approximately 70% of the overall sample
- The price was the least appreciated variable
- Use would certainly increase if something were done about the price
- The construction of an additional emotive value could partly compensate for the price.
Vedi la comunicazione
Iper Case History
The Iper case history: "a bagful of respect for the environment"
The ContextPlayers: Iper
Location: 24 shopping centres throughout Italy
Timing: July 2004: press campaign and public relations activities
April/May/June 2005 events in the shopping centres
Basic problem
The Mater-Bi shopping bag was not very well known by the consumer, it had limited visibility, and was therefore not purchased very much. The cashiers did not encourage the purchase because the price was higher than the traditional plastic bag. Furthermore, at the cash desks, there was also a shopping bag in PE that had the same format as that in Mater-Bi, but a lower price.
The solution: Novamont-Finiper co-marketing plan
The following communication plan was produced:
Phase 1:
Press advertising campaign in the newspapers sold in the areas around the Point of Sale, published in "Corriere della Sera", Milan edition, "Il Centro", "Messaggero Veneto", "La Prealpina", "La Provincia Cr", "La Provincia Pavese", "Tribuna di Treviso", "Gazzettino TV", "La Stampa", Alessandria edition, "Gazzetta di Parma", "Corriere di Romagna", "Il Tempo", "Secolo XIX Nazionale", "Eco di Bergamo", "La Provincia di Como", "Il Giorno", Lombardy edition, "Resto del Carlino", Romagna edition, "Resto del Carlino", Pesaro edition, "Il Corriere Adriatico", "Messaggero Marche" and "Messaggero Abruzzo".
PR and press office activities
Shopping bag restyling with the same message of the campaign "a bagful of respect for the environment", in order to highlight the concepts of the natural origin (maize), biodegradability, compostability, reuse for collecting organic waste, contribution to reducing the greenhouse effect.
Phase 2
Weekend events in the point of sales for 3 months, to present the advantages of the biodegradable bag, and the principles of organic waste collection, with the support of information stands, live characters, the distribution of bags of compost, and entertainment for children, with a free "Happy Mais" toy made of Mater-Bi.
- The co-marketing operation contributed to getting the Mater-Bi shopping bag better known, more visible, and therefore, purchased more by the consumer:
- Increase of 30% in sales of the Mater-Bi shopping bag in the April-June quarter (from 710,000 in 2004 to 920,000 in 2005)
- In Finiper, in 2004, 2.8 million Mater-Bi shopping bags were sold, with an energy saving of 28,000 litres of oil.


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Angie Stone | |
Angie Stone Stockholm 2010 | |
Background information | |
Birth name | Angela Laverne Brown |
Born | Columbia, South Carolina, United States | December 19, 1961
Genres | Soul, neo soul |
Occupation(s) | singer-songwriter, record producer, actress |
Instruments | Singing, keyboards |
Years active | 1979–present |
Labels | Arista, J, Stax, Saguaro Road |
Associated acts | The Sequence, Vertical Hold, Mantronix, Devox, Joss Stone, Anthony Hamilton |
Angie Stone | |
Angie Stone Stockholm 2010 | |
Background information | |
Birth name | Angela Laverne Brown |
Born | Columbia, South Carolina, United States | December 19, 1961
Genres | Soul, neo soul |
Occupation(s) | singer-songwriter, record producer, actress |
Instruments | Singing, keyboards |
Years active | 1979–present |
Labels | Arista, J, Stax, Saguaro Road |
Associated acts | The Sequence, Vertical Hold, Mantronix, Devox, Joss Stone, Anthony Hamilton |
Angie Stone (born Angela Laverne Brown December 19, 1961) is an American soul/neo soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has been nominated for three Grammy Awards. Stone has been most successful on the R&B charts, with four Top 10 albums, including a number one, and 10 singles, including a Top 10. She has sold over 1.4 million albums in the U.S. and over 5 million albums worldwide.
Stone was born in Columbia, South Carolina, where she began singing gospel music at First Nazareth Baptist Church, under the leadership of Reverend Blakely N. Scott. Her father, a member of a local gospel quartet, took Stone to see performances by gospel artists such as the Singing Angels and the Gospel Keynotes.[1]
Stone has a son and daughter. During the 1990s, Stone dated neo soul singer D'Angelo for four years. Their son, Michael D'Angelo Archer II,[2] was born in 1998. Stone's daughter, Diamond, was born in 1984 and is from her marriage to Rodney Stone (also known as Lil' Rodney C!, from the hip hop group Funky Four Plus One). Diamond contributed background vocals to Stone's 2007 song "Baby". Diamond [3] gave birth to Stone's grandson in 2008 and another grandchild in July 2012.[4]
Stone lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her son, Michael, and boyfriend and manager, Ashanti Graves, an airline auditor who has two children of his own.[5][6][7]
While working a temp job in a lab at New York City's New York-Presbyterian Hospital, 26-year-old Stone was exposed to a sap that gave her sarcoidosis. The treatment of this condition gave her health problems, mainly due to her strong doses of Prednisone. She was on the drug for 12 years, eventually weaning herself off.[8]
Stone was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 1999[9] and, along with comedian-actor Anthony Anderson,[10] was part of the F.A.C.E Diabetes (Fearless African-Americans Connected and Empowered) program sponsored by Eli Lilly,[11] which helps African Americans understand their risk for the disease and how to control it.[12] Stone said that both her mother and her mother's sister were diabetic.[13][14]
In the late 1970s, when Stone—then known as Angie B. -- was 16,[11] she formed the rap trio The Sequence, a female hip hop/funk act consisting of Cheryl The Pearl and Blondie. They were the second rap group signed to the Sugar Hill Records after auditioning for Sylvia Robinson backstage at a Sugar Hill Gang concert in South Carolina.
The Sequence had a hit in 1980 with "Funk You Up", which reached number 15 on the U.S. Top Black Singles chart, and a minor hit with "Monster Jam" featuring rapper Spoonie Gee. Regarding the royalties of the wildly popular hit, "Funk You Up", Stone said "Sylvia had sold the licensing and rights to the song over to Dr. Dre. Right now to the day Dr. Dre is collecting publishing on a song we wrote. I never had a publishing deal because I was underage. By the time I went to deal with it legally the building had burned down and there were no records or files of anything. So [The Sequence is] still being cheated. It hurts because this was our first song ever by the first female rap group worldwide."[15]
The Sequence enjoyed a series of rap hits as the first female rap group during the early years of Hip Hop. Such hits as "Funky Sound (Tear The Roof Off)" kept the band touring with many of the Soul Bands of the day. Stone said "Sylvia Robinson was a mentor for us all. We learned every trick of the trade from her.... When my group did break up she had already positioned me to stretch out because I had a gift and she acknowledged the gift a long time ago."[15]
Stone then worked with Mantronix, before singing background on Lenny Kravitz's fifth studio album, 5. The Sequence faded into obscurity as Hip Hop changed from its original party sound to a more gritty street art form.
Stone emerged during the 1990s as part of the trio Vertical Hold which released the popular single "Seems You're Much Too Busy" as well as two albums: A Matter of Time (1993) and Head First (1995).[4]
In 1996, Stone teamed up with Gerry DeVeaux (Lenny Kravitz's cousin) and Charlie Mole to form the group Devox. They recorded one album, Devox Featuring Angie B. Stone, released in Japan by Toshiba EMI. Selected cuts were featured on Gerry DeVeaux's Front Of The line via the UK Expansion Records, which also included Stone-penned material.[16]
Stone shared songwriting credits on D'Angelo's first two studio albums, Brown Sugar (1995) and Voodoo (2000), as well as provided backing vocals when on tour with him. On this collaboration, Stone said "In my case, I came from a hip-hop success story to a songwriter that ended up getting a second chance with another group, ended up falling in love with a superstar sex symbol. And within that pivotal moment of my career, it's almost like I lost myself because the relationship overshadowed Angie Stone, the singer, the songwriter, the producer. It reduced me to just being a woman with a baby from a superstar."[17]
Stone's debut solo album, Black Diamond, was released on September 28, 1999 on Arista Records; the album was eventually certified gold by the RIAA. She then released Mahogany Soul on October 16, 2001 (which also went gold, on Clive Davis' J Records) label, and Stone Love on July 6, 2004.
Much of Stone's solo material has significant soul influences and features notable samples. For example, her first solo single, "No More Rain (In This Cloud)" samples Gladys Knight & the Pips' 1972 song "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)", while "Wish I Didn't Miss You", Stone's most successful single, samples The O'Jays' 1972 song "Back Stabbers". The New York Times noted "[Stone] calls her music soul. Not funk, not R&B, not hip-hop, not urban, but soul, the secular pop with gospel fervor behind it."[18][19]
During an interview to BBC 1Xtra on August 27, 2006, Stone announced that she had signed to the reworked Stax Records. Her fourth studio album The Art of Love & War was released on October 15, 2007. The lead single was "Baby" and featured Betty Wright. Its music video features cameo appearances by comedian Mike Epps and America's Next Top Model, Cycle 3 winner Eva Pigford. The song was nominated for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals at the 2008 Grammy Awards.
The significance behind the record's title was about her changing situation at J Records with Clive Davis, during a time when she said she was contemplating leaving the secular set and going straight to gospel music.[5] The record was recorded at Marvin's Room, the same studio where Marvin Gaye recorded many of his later albums.[20]
"My People," a track on the record that the actor Idris Elba wrote for the Stone, is "a serious and hilarious song about black empowerment."[8]
Angie released her fifth studio album "Unexpected" in the UK on February 8, 2010 on Stax Records. Speaking to noted UK R&B writer Pete Lewis of the award-winning Blues & Soul in January 2010, she explained her ideas behind 'Unexpected': "Being as I've delivered four decent albums already, I felt it was safe to switch up and do something different this time. And musically overall I just wanted to have FUN! I wanted to do something that embodied a jam kinda feel, so that we could have some fun in concert and show people everything doesn't always have to be so serious."[21]
In 2012, Stone signed to Saguaro Road Records, an in-house music recording label of Time-Life, and released Rich Girl September 25, 2012.[4]
The actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner contributes a poetry-slam-style spoken-word interlude to the record.[22]
Stone sings the theme song for the UPN/The CW's sitcom Girlfriends.
In addition to Mary J. Blige, Stone has worked with many artists, as both a songwriter, as well as - in the case of Lenny Kravitz - playing the saxophone on his Let Love Rule tour.[15]
Stone participated in Music in High Places: Angie Stone - Live in Vancouver Island (2002).[23]
She also sang "Wade in the Water" in the civil rights documentary, Soundtrack for a Revolution.[24]
Stone performed a stand-up theatre play tour entitled Issues: We've Got Them All, in which she had a leading role.
Stone toured with Sisters in the Spirit in 2007. She also toured in Europe in May/June 2008 and performed at various Summer Festivals in the U.S. in summer 2008 (including three headlining June shows) and two in the Netherlands in August 2008.
Angie Stone appeared at London's Indigo2 (at The O2) on 23 July 2012.
Stone appeared on the VH1's reality television series Celebrity Fit Club for the fourth season, which began on August 6, 2006. While on the show, Stone lost eighteen pounds, the second lowest loss in the history of the show.[25]
Stone played a strip-club owner in the film Pastor Brown (2009).[21] Stone then played the Head Matron of an all-girls school in the film, School Gyrls (2010), directed by Nick Cannon, which featured many Def Jam artists.
Along with NeNe Leakes, Stone co-starred in the play, "Loving Him is Killing Me," that was performed in Washington, DC, Miami, and Philadelphia in May 2011. The play was written by Theo London and also starred Tyson Beckford and Christopher Williams.[26]
Stone and Brian McKnight, who starred together in Chicago on Broadway, starred in the national tour of Hinton Battle's "Love Lies," which started on April 2–7, 2013 at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. The cast features McKnight as Harrison Brown, Stone as Victoria Davis, Elise Neal as Kim Anderson, gospel singer-songwriter Crystal Aikin as Mother Harrison, comedian Kier Spates as Funeral Director and newcomer Amber A. Harris as Pam Jackson.[27]
In 2013, Stone appeared on season two of TVOne's R&B Divas.[28][29][30] Faith Evans, who produces the show, wanted Stone on the show the first season but the timing didn't work out until the second season.[31] Stone's role is that of a mentor and life coach.[17]
Year | Title | Role |
2002 | The Hot Chick | Madame Mambuza |
2003 | The Fighting Temptations | Alma |
2008 | Caught on Tape | Diane |
2009 | Pastor Brown | Rick Fredericks |
2010 | School Gyrls | Headmaster Jones |
2011 | Dreams | |
2012 | The Wonder Girls | Betty |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
2000 | Moesha | Herself | "D-Money Loses His Patience" (season 5, episode 22) |
2002 | Girlfriends | Darla Mason | "Blinded by the Lights" (season 3, episode 51) |
2004 | One on One | Herself | "It's a Mad, Mad Hip Hop World" (season 3, episode 92) |
2008 | Lincoln Heights | Octavia | "Prom Night" (season 3, episode 9) "The Ground Beneath Our Feet" (season 3, episode 10) |
2013 - 2014 | R&B Divas: Atlanta | Herself | (season 2 - 3, main) |
2014 | Celebrity Wife Swap | Herself | 1 episode |
Year | Title | Role |
2003 | Chicago | Big Mama Morton |
2011 | Loving Him is Killing Me | Mutha |
2013 | Love Lies | Victoria Davis |
'My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate,' said Stone
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quote:Basketball had 3 in 5 minutes.. I don't think they were going to start rolling in.
quote:Id give up the whole baseball program forn1 bball ring
quote:that post has 8 likes now
quote:is there some kind of rule where people can't like baseball and basketball?
quote:ETA: and no I'm not saying that accounts for the huge disparity, but it's definitely a contributing factor.
quote:But I have perspective.
quote:The LSU baseball post about LSU being down 1-0 heading to the 2nd inning has 48 likes.
quote:The LSU baseball post about being down 1-0 in the 2nd inning has 48 likes
quote:I mean you are kinda comparing apples to oranges anyways, you're comparing the likes on a big baseball play that tied the game and a score update where LSU is losing. Not much to like about being down 7 pts, a whole bunch to like about a HR that tied the game
quote:How does that perspective work for you at the world level in professional sports?
quote:Can you rephrase this in a way that makes sense?
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Believe it or not, these were all heard on one conference call last night: that of Ulta Salon (ULTA), following a report that showed a quarter going steadily downhill as the months dragged on.
If you don't know Ulta, then you don't know the high-growth retail world. It's a world where some companies believe that there is endless demand for more stores, and that the idea, when executed properly, never runs out.
In Ulta's case, the numbers have been fabulous, but the situation has been suspect -- as anyone paying attention to Herb Greenberg here would know. Congrats to Herb for telling you to be careful before the quarter's announcement. That warning paid for a hundred subscriptions to Real Money if you were in it and sold or shorted the thing.
I have no question that Herb is right about how the new CEO is unsure that the company is executing well. But I also have no doubt that this company is a metaphor for why the Federal Reserve's job is so difficult. Why should a store that sells beauty products be so badly hit if the economy is so strong? The answer is, as with Conn's (CONN) yesterday, some parts of this nation are strong and others are weak. Plus, retail has become a changed landscape -- one in which companies have become increasingly desperate for business. Be mindful of Ulta, and not just because of the management problems red-flagged so well by Herb. Be mindful, because retail has become too hard to invest in. It's just too difficult to figure who is in trouble and who isn't, which means a lower multiple on lowered earnings going forward. At the time of publication, Action Alerts PLUS, which Cramer co-manages as a charitable trust, had no positions in stocks mentioned.Editor's Note: This article was originally published at 7:32 a.m. EST on Real Money on Dec. 6.
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Imogene is a former populated place (Class Code U6) located in Martin County in the U.S. state of Minnesota at latitude 43.66 and longitude -94.346 (Imogene Panoramio Photos). The elevation is 1,129 feet. Imogene appears on the Granada U.S. Geological Survey Map.[1][2]
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In 2005, Jerry asked if I would go to Vietnam with him for a 30th-anniversary service of remembrance for those who died in the Operation Babylift crash. As a friend and a pastor, I was honored to join him, and I also wanted to explore mission opportunities in Vietnam.
After many long hours and several connecting flights, we were finally making our approach into Saigon at the very airport where his father had taken off 30 years before. For just a moment, I felt that Jerry's expression registered the emotion one feels at the end of a long personal journey.
As we toured the city and the countryside, Jerry kept repeating, "I can't believe we're here." But when the time for the memorial service arrived, he opted not to go.
He preferred, he said, to visit the crash site alone. So on another day we hired a driver who took us beyond the city, down a long, dusty road, to a trail where we set out on foot. After about 300 yards we saw part of the C5-A's landing gear deeply embedded in the ground.
A makeshift altar had been erected over the landing gear. Our driver placed incense on the altar, lit it, and stepped away. At Jerry's request I offered a prayer. He thanked me and then we walked back to the car in silence.
Our itinerary in Vietnam included time with the Children of Vietnam, a nonprofit organization serving the children of Da Nang. We visited an orthopedic hospital specializing in the treatment of amputees, handed out rice to the poor, and attended the dedication of a new home for a needy family. We also toured a squatter's village where Children of Vietnam planned to build additional homes, a women's nutrition program, several orphanages, and a street children's home.
Spending time with the children of Da Nang reminded Jerry of our work in Bosnia. Soon he was asking one of the translators where we could buy the children ice cream, something he does in Bosnia every summer. Later that day, after touring an orphanage and hearing the house mother speak lovingly about the children, Jerry asked if he could make a donation to help with the cost of their food and supplies. After handing her all his cash, Jerry spontaneously reached out and hugged her.
Since that first visit, Jerry and I have made two additional trips to Da Nang where we continue to partner with Children of Vietnam. Those long flights lend themselves to thoughtful reflection and conversations about life and the world in general.
As we returned from our most recent visit, Jerry shared that he could see God's hand in all of this, as if he now is carrying on his father's work by caring for the Vietnamese children. His wife and others note that he seems to have found an inner peace. Having found a way to care for the people of Vietnam, he also found a way to let go of feelings he had harbored for more than 30 years. As he opened himself up to care for others, the grace he offered them was returned.
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Iles, Elijah. Sketches of Early Life and Times in Kentucky, Missouri and Illinois . Springfield: Springfield Printing Co., 1883. [format: book], [genre: memoir]. Permission: University of Chicago
Reminiscences and Anecdotes First Settlers Cut Silver Money The Owls and Boys Grass-hoppers A Cyclone The Contract Conclusion. In the spring of 1822, my father visited me at Springfield, and on his return to Kentucky I accompanied him six miles. Here we met a family consisting of a man named Anderson, his wife, and three children. He was coming to hunt a tract of land the government had given him for services in the war of 1812. He said he had come all the way from New York on foot, camping out at night, and only rode short distances when they met empty wagons. His wife carried the babe and a bundle, and he the plunder. When they got to Illinois they had to wade an overflowed bottom, and when the water was over the depth of the little boys they would keep their heads above water by holding to the tail of his coat until they got out. I told him he would find his land on the other side of the Illinois river, and no person living within forty miles of it, and that he would have to stop with us until a settlement began in the vicinity; that we could locate him where we located all new comers, in our mud-daubed court house, until the settlers helped build him a house. Years after, he moved to his land, made a fine farm, and raised a respectable family. Many of the first comers from Kentucky and Tennessee moved with one-horse wagons to haul the plunder, the families walking and camping out. Many came without a dollar, but by raising corn and selling it to those who came later were enabled to buy land at the first land sales. Most of the deserving got rich. Our nearest mill for grinding corn was at Belleville or St. Louis, one hundred miles, and the nearest post-office Edwardsville, eighty miles. The first settlers practiced every economy. The women spun, wove, and manufactured most of the wearing apparel; the men made their caps for winter wear out of coon and other skins, leaving the tails for ornament. In the early days of Kentucky what little money we had was silver. We had no banks. Change was scarce, but we had an easy way of making it. If a man had a dollar and wanted to pay fifty cents, he would cut the dollar into two pieces; in like manner, the halves and quarters would be cut. We used leather purses to keep the sharp points of the silver from cutting our pockets. In 1817 the legislature chartered a batch of banks and cut money went out of circulation. When I emigrated to Missouri in 1818 I had more than one hundred dollars in this mutilated silver, which I changed into bank notes, and soon paid them out in Missouri for land. It was well I did, for the banks soon bursted. In the early days of Springfield, sixty years ago my wife's sister Clarissa, John Williams, and Philip Latham were going to school together. She was the youngest of the few girls in town. She told Phil. to say to the young men that when they saw a candle at her window they might know the girls had congregated in her room, and they would find a welcome and have a jolly time. Latham, on seeing the signal, would attract attention by calling out, "Boys, the candle is lit!" In the fall of 1820 I explored the entire western part of Missouri bordering on the Indian Territory, more than a hundred miles beyond the settled part. A few men had been up in the spring and had raised small patches of corn and garden stuff without fencing, and had just moved up. Here I saw the first grasshoppers I had ever seen. The air was filled with them, as high as the eye could see; the ground was soon covered, and by next day all vegetation was eaten up. Although they have frequently made their appearance since, I believe they have never come below the border counties in Missouri. On the 18th day of May, 1883, the day I reached my home in Springfield from my sojourn in Florida, a terrific cyclone started two miles south of Springfield. Its track was northeast, sweeping from their foundations several farm houses, leaving scarcely a vestige; two men were killed and several persons badly crippled. It struck my farm two miles east of town, and passed through a forest of lofty young timber, mostly white oak, which I had been nursing for more than fifty years. When I entered this land it was open woods of lofty white oak, from which the rails were cut to fence my farm. The fires being kept out, it grew up into a dense forest of white oak and other timber, the bodies being from 40 to 50 feet high; it had trimmed itself, and was a sight to look at. I was fond of it. After the cyclone passed, there was not a large tree left standing; they were torn up by the roots, or twisted as a withe; it made me sick to look at it. More than 4000 cords of wood were destroyed. It struck the corner of my brick house, blew down one chimney on the house and one on the kitchen, blew down my smoke house, wood house, and work shop; it blew down more than four miles of my fencing, and one-half the rails could not be found. Now, to draw the contrast. From the date of my birth, in 1796, to the present year, 1883, one can but wonder at the progress made in everything. Then, there were but thirteen states; now, thirty-eight. Then, there were but few places west of Virginia called towns, except Lexington, Ky. The district where I was born and raised was heavy timber, and all the implements we had to work with were of the rudest kind. Our chopping axes were made by our blacksmiths, and were very rough. It took two men the most of a day to grind an axe to an edge, one to turn the grindstone, the other to hold the axe; they made slow headway. In clearing ground for corn, the timber was felled and cut into convenient lengths to roll and carry to heaps for burning. The neighbors would collect at each other's cabins to help roll and carry the logs. This was called log-rolling. Everything was done by main strength. The heavy lifting made men stoop-shouldered and old at forty and fifty. Our hay-forks were made out of forked sticks; the hay was raked into rows with hand rakes. Our wheat, what little we raised, was cut and bound by hand, and threshed out with a flail or tramped out by horses. It was separated from the chaff by pouring it down from an elevation, allowing the wind to blow the chaff away, or by two men with a sheet winnowing it. This had to be done a number of times before it was clean enough for the mill. In the spring we prepared our corn ground for the plow by cutting the stalks with a hoe, picking each stalk up by hand and piling them into heaps to be burned. There seemed to be no ingenuity to lessen or lighten labor, hardly to so much as use lever power to aid in heavy lilting. This state of affairs continued until about the year 1830, when inventive minds began to make machines to do much of the work for us, by which it is now done more perfectly than we can possibly do it by hand. We can now take one of these machines into a harvest field, and it will cut, bind, thresh, and clean the wheat for the mill in a flash, acting like a thing of life. They can even talk for us, or transmit our voices to a long distance. We can all see what a revolution invention has brought about in so short a time; and it seems as though it would be no great wonder, in view of what it has done and is doing, if something was invented that would do to some extent our thinking. IN CONCLUSION. I have just returned to my home in Springfield, Ill. The most of the foregoing was written the past and present winter of 1882 and 1883, while sojourning at my winter home in Florida, on Indian river, with Mr. Armour, at Jupiter inlet, and the lighthouse. 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See H. Tyndale-Biscoe, Life of Marsupials (1973); A. K. Lee and A. Cockburn, Evolutionary Ecology of Marsupials (1985).
Any mammal of the infraclass Marsupialia, characterized by premature birth and continued development outside the womb. The young remain attached to the mother's teats for a period corresponding to the late stages of fetal development of a placental mammal. More than 170 species (e.g., bandicoots, kangaroos, koalas, wombats) are found in Australia, New Guinea, and nearby islands. About 65 species of opossum occur in the Americas and seven species of ratlike marsupials in South America. Many species have a pouch (marsupium), a fold of skin covering the nipples on the mother's lower belly, where the young continue their development.
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Some scientists believe that the marsupials evolved in North America and dispersed from there, via Europe, to Asia and Africa. This diaspora would have also reached South America before it became an island continent. This theory suggests that marsupials passed from South America through Antarctica to Australia (via Gondwanan land connections), a continent already occupied by placental mammals. Alternately, another theory posits that marsupials originated in Australia and traveled, via Antarctica and South America, to North America.
The discovery of Chinese marsupials appears to support the idea that marsupials reached Australia via Southeast Asia. However, marsupial fossils found in New Guinea are younger than those in Australia, evidence which presents a problem for this theory. There are a few species of marsupials still living in Asia, especially in the Sulawesi region of Indonesia. These marsupials coexist with primates, hooved mammals and other placentals.
On most continents, placental mammals were much more successful and no marsupials survived, though in South America the opossums retained a strong presence, and the Tertiary saw the genesis of marsupial predators such as the borhyaenids and the saber-toothed Thylacosmilus. In Australia, however, marsupials displaced placental mammals entirely, and have since dominated the Australian ecosystem. Marsupial success over placental mammals in Australia has been attributed to their comparatively low metabolic rate, a trait which would prove helpful in the hot Australian climate. As a result, native Australian placental mammals (such as hopping mice) are more recent immigrants.
Pregnant females develop a kind of yolk sac in their wombs, which delivers nutrients to the embryo. Marsupials give birth at a very early stage of development (about 4–5 weeks); after birth, newborn marsupials crawl up the bodies of their mothers and attach themselves to a nipple, which is located inside the marsupium. There they remain for a number of weeks, attached to the nipple. The offspring are eventually able to leave the marsupium for short periods, returning to it for warmth and nourishment.
Because newborn marsupials must climb up to their mother's nipples, their front limbs are much more developed than the rest of the body at the time of birth. It is possible that this requirement has resulted in the limited range of locomotor adaptations in marsupials compared to placentals. All marsupials must develop a grasping forepaw during their early youth, making the transition from this limb into a hoof, wing, or flipper, as some groups of placental mammals have done, far more difficult.
There are about 334 species of marsupial, and over 200 are native to Australia and neighboring northern islands. There are also 100 extant American species; these are centered mostly in South America, but the Great American Interchange has provided Central America with 13 species, and North America with one (the Virginia Opossum).
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Your Itinerary
Days 1-3
Depending on the airline used, we depart for 2 or 3 nights in
Quito. Situated between two ranges of the snowcapped Andes,
Quito has a beautiful setting and a temperate climate. The
next morning we take a tour of both the modern and
colonial quarters of Quito including La Compañía Church with
its ornate façade, and a visit to the Archaeological
Museum which houses a fascinating collection of pre-Colombian
ceramics & gold. On Day 2 there will be a morning
excursion to the Otavalo market and the countryside north of Quito.
Days 4-10
Cruise the Galapagos Islands, where Darwin observed the
wildlife that would lead him to his theory of
evolution. Spend 7 nights cruising the
archipelago onboard the M/V Eric/Letty/Flamingo
with daily morning and afternoon guided excursions to admire
the tame wildlife endemic to each island. Basking marine and
land iguanas, red and blue footed boobies, frigate
birds, giant tortoises, and friendly sea lions abound.
Days 11-12
On Monday we fly back to the mainland connecting with a
flight to Lima, where we stay for 2 nights. The following day
we explore Lima with our local guide. We will visit the
main squares, surrounded by grand colonial buildings, the
Anthropological Museum with its fascinating array
of textiles, pottery and mummies spanning from 1400 BC to
Hispanic time, and the Larco Herrera Museum, where a
large, important collection of randomly arranged
treasures is housed. (B)
Days 13
Continue with a flight to Cusco, where we stay for 2 nights.
Arrivinag at an altitude of 3,310m, we take the afternoon to
relax and acclimatize. (B)
Day 14
A fascinating half day tour of Cusco and the
ruins surrounding the city. Within Cusco, the evidence of
Inca culture is still apparent despite the destructive
tendencies of the conquistadores, with the
Cathedral, churches and hotels resting on solid
Inca foundations. Outside the city stands the fortress
of Sacsayhuamán, whose stones weigh over 100 tons
and are fitted together with characteristic Inca precision.
Day 15
Set off by train on a glorious journey along the course
of the Urubamba River to Aguas Calientes. From here
we take a bus up the steep mountain side to the
magnificent citdadel of Machu Picchu, which silently
awaits. Our local guide will show us the ruins explaining the
history of the site. Overnight in Aguas Calientes. (B)
Day 16
Early morning offers an excellent opportunity for a quiet
stroll around Machu Picchu, a walk along the Inca Trail
to the Sun Gate, or a strenuous climb to Huayna Picchu, the
rocky escarpment overlooking the ruins. In the afternoon
return to Cusco, by train and bus, where we stay 2 nights.
Day 17
A scenic, full day trip to the Sacred Valley of the Incas,
affording great views of the valleys and Inca
terracing. We stop at the Maras salt mines, and the concentric
circular terraces of Moray. On to the village of Ollantaytambo,
with its ancient irrigation system, still in
good working order, and the temple fortress towering
above. We contirune to Pisac market, a colourful show of
local foods and weavings, and visit Pisac ruins to see the
remains of some of the finest Inca masonry. (B,L)
Day 18
Early flight to Lima, where we have day use of a hotel room.
Evening flight arriving home on Day 19.
The Encantada Tour departs Friday, returns Tuesday INCLUDING 19 days, 16 nights accommodation & breakfast (B), all flights (1 overnight using Iberia ), taxes, all transfers and excursions with our English-speaking guides, entrance fees, services of our representatives throughout, all transport and meals as per the itinerary shown. Please see pages 166-168 for further details of what is included.
Extensions: Lake Titicaca & Bolivia
Day 18
Early departure from Cusco on a memorable train journey, part
of the Orient Express group, with seats at a table by
the window where lunch is served as we pass
towering Andean mountains, hot springs and
solitary villages. The train stops at isolated railway
stations where local people await to sell their wares. On
arrival on the shores of Lake Titicaca, we will be met and
taken to our hotel in Puno for 1 night. (B)
Day 19
This morning we take a boat trip on the lake to visit the
people living on the floating Uros Islands,
which together with huts and rafts, are built out of the
Totora reeds prevalent in the area. Leave Puno in the
afternoon on a scenic bus ride, skirting the lake, past local
farmers working their Inca terraces to the charming
village of Copacabana, Bolivia's main pilgrimage centre.
Continue by boat to Sun Island, where we take a short hike to
our wonderful hotel overlooking the lake. Overnight
Day 20
After breakfast, we have time to explore Sun Island before
taking a boat back to Copacabana. From Copacabana our
journey continues along the Bolivian lake shore arriving at La
Paz in the early evening where we stay for 2 nights.
Day 21
In the morning we take a city tour and visit the colonial quarter
of La Paz, the fascinating witches' market, where
weird and wonderful potions are sold, and the Moon
Valley, an area of sandstone sculpted by wind and rain to create
a surreal lunar landscape. (B)
Day 22
Transfer to the airport for your flight back home arriving on
Day 23 (Saturday). (B)
NOTE: Opportunity to see more of Bolivia including the historic city of Sucre, Tarabuco market and the ancient mining town of Potosí.
The Encantada Tour & Bolivia departs Friday, returns Saturday INCLUDING 23 days, 21 nights accommodation & breakfast (B), all flights (1 overnight), taxes, all transfers and excursions with our English-speaking guides, entrance fees, services of our representatives throughout, all transport and meals as per the itinerary shown.
Extension: Lake Titicaca, Bolivia & Brazil
Day 22
From Bolivia fly on to Rio de Janeiro, via Sao Paulo, staying
for 3 nights in the cosmopolitan beach areas of
Copacabana and Ipanema. (B)
Day 23
Morning excursion to Brazil's famous landmark, the statue of
Christ the Redeemer, perched on Corcovado mountain,
granting fabulous views of the
city in a unique setting of granite peaks, lagoon, beaches
and the sea. Afternoon free to explore Rio de Janeiro. (B)
Days 24-25
Afternoon visit to Rio's Botanical Gardens. Following day
flight home arriving on Day 26 (Tuesday). (B)
NOTE: Stay on longer in Rio de Janeiro for optional excursions, visits to colonial Parati or stay at a tropical beach resort on the coast.


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Wing personnel will conduct 24-hour training, simulating operations in a combat environment, meaning the local community can anticipate an increase in activity and noise level over the next few days.
"This is our final full-up dress rehearsal before our big inspection in May," said Brig. Gen. Trulan Eyre, commander, 140th Wing. "We are periodically inspected to verify to the U.S. Air Force that we are fully capable of deploying overseas for our federal mission in support of our nation's defense."
This Operational Readiness Exercise is scheduled for March 8-11, and will include frequent sounding of alarms and sirens and increased flying operations, including jets taking off and/or landing as early as 6:45 a.m. and as late as 1:15 a.m.
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This story is from the second quarter 2011 Adventist Mission DVD. You can watch the Adventist Mission DVD in your local church or online at www.AdventistMission.org.
Alexandar serves as the head elder of the Tomsk Seventh-day Adventist Church in Siberia, Russia, where he loves to help lead a small group of believers. Every Sabbath they meet in a house church, down a back alley on the outskirts of town.
More than 120 people pack into a room not much bigger than a living room. There they study God's word and grow closer to Jesus. Many members in the congregation have seen tremendous changes take place in their lives. But none has been more impacted by change than Alexandar.
"For the first five years of my marriage everything was fine with my husband," says Alexandar's wife, Lubov. "But then he started to drink alcohol.
"It caused problems in our family. I didn't like the constant drinking and I didn't think that he was being a good example for his young sons. I didn't want them to start doing the same thing."
Before the fall of Communism, Alexandar held a prestigious job working for the government. When he lost his job, he became depressed and started to drink.
One day Lubov knelt down on the floor of her apartment and cried out to God. "If you truly exist, then help me. You know what is happening with my family."
A few days later she was given a flyer for an upcoming evangelistic meeting. The flyer invited anyone with family problems to come to the meeting. Lubov decided to go, hoping that this might be the answer to her prayer.
Lubov attended the meetings and soon became a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tomsk. Alexandar didn't like this, and he knew how to handle the problem.
"I was going to save my wife," says Alexandar. "I went to the church to cause a problem, but when I arrived I was shocked. The members were rejoicing that I was there and I didn't know what to think."
Alexandar had come to the church as an enemy, but God used the members to show him His love. Alexandar decided that he needed to follow this new lifestyle with his wife.
Alexandar was baptized and today he and Lubov live in a loving, Christian home. What was once a place poisoned by depression and alcohol became a place of love and peace.
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Exelon updates community on nuclear industry, proposed Victoria County project
By BY ALLISON MILES
July 28, 2010 at 2:28 a.m.
Exelon Nuclear Victoria project timeline
September 2008: Exelon submits Combined Operating Licensing Application to Nuclear Regulatory Commission
October 2008: NRC dockets COLA
November 2008: Exelon announces plans to change technology
July 2009: Exelon indicates plan to pursue Early Site Permit
March 2010: Exelon submits ESP to NRC
June 2010: NRC dockets ESP
June 2010: Exelon requests to withdraw COLA
July 2010: NRC accepts request to withdraw COLA
August 2010: NRC expected to issue a review schedule
Source: Marilyn Kray, vice president of nuclear project development for Exelon Generation
Exelon Nuclear still might bring a nuclear plant to Victoria County.
"We do not have a current plan to build at the Victoria site," said Marilyn Kray, with Exelon Generation. "However, we're looking to reserve that option by exercising that early site permit pathway in the NRC licensing process."
Kray presented an update on the nuclear industry and possible local nuclear plant Wednesday at the Victoria Chamber of Commerce's July luncheon.
An increased demand for electricity is likely coming in the future and nuclear energy is a strategic contributor to the power generation portfolio. It goes hand in hand with other sources, such as wind energy and natural gas, she said, explaining each method has its own ups and downs.
"There is no pretty way to make a megawatt," Exelon Generation's vice president of nuclear project development said.
The best way to go about it, she said, is to take safety and environmental issues into consideration.
The nuclear industry faces current challenges that make taking on large-scale projects difficult. Those include issues such as project financing, demand for an experienced labor force and design certification.
Economic issues also come into play, she said.
Natural gas prices have dropped, which is good for consumers, Kray said. For electricity companies hoping to turn a profit, however, it indicates now might not be the best time to build.
During a question-and-answer session, Ann Rachid asked Kray about the feasibility of building a plant directly on the water, to eliminate water availability issues that come into play with the Victoria site.
Such designs exist elsewhere but, upon reviewing the region, it did not seem to be the best option, Kray said.
Rachid attended the luncheon with concerns about whether the plant was good for the area and whether Exelon had decided to build.
Although she appreciated the update, Rachid said she didn't get all the information she hoped for.
Rebecca Gough, executive director of Nuclear Energy for Texans, attended the Wednesday event partly to get Exelon's point of view on the nuclear industry as a whole.
"We keep up with it, but individual plants can provide some really good information," she said.
Chamber President Randy Vivian said he was glad the event - which brought in about 170 people - was well attended. The proposed plant is an important topic for many Crossroads residents, he said.
"We're very much looking forward to seeing where Exelon goes from here," Vivian said. "And, as a chamber, we're hoping to see Exelon build in Victoria County."


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Talk Music: Aaron Neville revisits his roots with latest doo-wop album
Melissa Crowe
Sept. 25, 2013 at 4:25 a.m.
• WHAT: Aaron Neville Quintet
• WHEN: 7 p.m., Saturday
• WHERE: Victoria Fine Arts Center, 1002 Sam Houston Drive
• 1966 - While working as a longshoreman, Neville recorded "Tell It Like It Is, " which reached No. 2 on the pop chart and spent five weeks at No. 1 on more than a million copies and has been covered by Otis Redding, Heart and many in between.
• 1989 - Neville contributed four duet vocals to smash album "Cry Like A Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind" by Linda Ronstadt. The single "Don't Know Much" reached No. 2 on the pop chart and topped the adult contemporary chart. The album is certified triple platinum, and "Don't Know Much" won a Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group in 1990. A second single, "All My Life," performed similarly on the charts and won the same Grammy Award the following year.
Whether a tremulous-tinged, falsetto or cabaret-singer style, Aaron Neville's unmistakable voice makes him one of the greatest pop-soul singers of all time.
He's been nominated for Grammy Awards in country, R&B, pop and gospel, and Saturday, the 72-year-old balladeer will perform at the Victoria Fine Arts Center.
In the music industry the past five decades, Neville has 27 albums under his belt and smash hits including "Don't Know Much," "Everybody Plays the Fool" and "Tell It Like It Is," which is also ranked as one of the top 500 greatest songs of all time by Rolling Stone. But this year was the first chance he's had to revisit his roots.
His latest album, "My Life Story," produced by Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and Blue Note Records President Don Was, features dozens of doo-wop favorites. The album has received top praises from every major music publication in the U.S.
With covers of timeless classics like Little Anthony and the Imperials hit "Tears on My Pillow" and the Drifters' "This Magic Moment" and "Under the Boardwalk," Neville gracefully croons with his signature style and utterly inimitable voice.
The album is backed by a top-flight band, led by the distinctive, propulsive guitar work of Richards himself. The other musicians include Greg Leisz on guitar, who played with Beck and Sheryl Crow; Benmont Tench on organ, who is a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; George G. Receli on drums, who played with Bob Dylan; and Tony Scherr on bass, who played with Bill Frisell and Norah Jones.


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Public Bio
Chithra Jeyaram is an award winning documentary filmmaker and educator with an MFA in Film Production from University of Texas in Austin. Chithra's first exposure to filmmaking began in 2004 with a failed attempt to fund a film about an explosive water-sharing dispute between two southern states in India. Deeply affected by that experience, she quit a decade-long career as Physical Therapist and enrolled in film school. Her formative years in India, Kuwait and USA gives her multicultural sensibilities that helps to navigate different worlds with ease and bring divergent viewpoints to any discussion naturally. Through her films she hopes to break societal barriers, build bridges, change attitudes and take risks. Life is full of challenges and it is these challenges that validate life. Some people inhabit the stories; she is just honored to share it with the rest of the world through her documentaries.
Chithra is the recipient of the Dina Sherzer Award for Social Awareness (2009) for her film "Refugee Musings", Dance Films Association's post production grant (2011) for her film "Foreign Puzzle", CBA Your World View Documentary grant for her film (2012) "Mijo" and the winner of Benevolent Media Pitch Night Prize for her film in development "1001 Breast Cancer Nights" (2012).
Chithra is a Master instructor at Arlington Independent Media where she teaches Documentary Production and Video Editing Courses. In Spring 2013, she will be teaching Documentary Production at George Washington University as an adjunct faculty. Besides making non-fiction films, she loves to illustrate, animate, take spontaneous trips, cook exotic recipes and work as a physical therapist.


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July 15, 2004
The U.S. Import Price Index declined 0.2 percent in June. The decrease was the first since September 2003 and was led by lower petroleum prices.
Prices for petroleum fell 1.0 percent last month after rising 9.4 percent in May, the largest monthly gain for the index since February 2003. Prices for petroleum imports were up 34.3 percent over the past year.
Nonpetroleum import prices were unchanged in June 2004, the first month since October 2003 that these prices did not increase. For the year ended in June, prices for nonpetroleum imports were up 2.4 percent and overall import prices rose 5.6 percent.
Export prices fell 0.6 percent in June, as both agricultural and nonagricultural prices contributed to the decline. The price index for agricultural exports fell 4.6 percent in June, marking the first monthly decline since August 2003 and the largest decrease since September 1996. Nonagricultural prices fell in June by 0.1 percent.
These data are from the BLS International Price program. Import and export price data are subject to revision. Learn more in "U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes - June 2004" (PDF) (TXT), news release USDL 04-1306.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Import prices down in June on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2004/jul/wk2/art04.htm (visited March 06, 2015).
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Anderson House is located at 2118 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, between 21st and 22nd streets along Embassy Row in the heart of Washington's historic Dupont Circle neighborhood.
2118 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008 | View Larger Map
Public Transportation
By the Metro subway system, take the Red line to the Dupont Circle station (Q Street/North exit). At the top of the escalators, turn left on Q Street. In one block, turn left toward Massachusetts Avenue. Anderson House is across the street, to the right. Metrobuses D2, D4, D6, N1, N2, N3, and G2 stop within one block of Anderson House.
From Baltimore and Points North
Take I-95 South to I-495 West. From I-495, take Exit 33 for Connecticut Avenue, south to Chevy Chase. After approximately eight miles on Connecticut Avenue, turn right onto Florida Avenue. Immediately after crossing Massachusetts Avenue, turn left onto Q Street. At the next light, bear right onto Massachusetts Avenue. Anderson House is on the right in the middle of this block.
From Annapolis and Points East
Take Route 50 West into Washington, D.C., where it becomes New York Avenue. At Mount Vernon Square near the Washington Convention Center, bear right onto Massachusetts Avenue. Continue on Massachusetts Avenue through Thomas, Scott, and Dupont circles. Anderson House is just past 21st Street on the left.
From Arlington and Points West
Take Route 50 or I-66 to the Roosevelt Bridge. Take the E Street exit (a left exit). Stay on E Street through a tunnel, then turn left onto 20th Street. Turn left onto Massachusetts Avenue. Anderson House is just past 21st Street on the left.
From Richmond and Points South
Take I-95 North to I-395 North. Continue on I-395 until it turns into the 14th Street Bridge. Continue over the bridge and bear left to stay on 14th Street. Continue on 14th Street across the National Mall. After crossing Pennsylvania Avenue, continue on 14th Street for approximately eight blocks to Thomas Circle. At the traffic circle, travel three-quarters of the way around the circle and exit onto Massachusetts Avenue. Continue through Scott and Dupont circles. Anderson House is just past 21st Street on the left.
There is no on-site parking at Anderson House. There are a number of hotel parking garages accessible to the public located within several blocks of Anderson House. On-street parking is limited. Short-term loading and unloading space for buses is available on Massachusetts Avenue directly in front of Anderson House.
Anderson House is closed for most federal holidays and during some Society meetings and events. The building—and the Society's offices, museum, and library—will be closed on the following dates in 2014:
Wednesday, January 1 — New Year's Day
Monday, January 20 — Martin Luther King, Jr., Birthday
Monday, February 17 — Washington's Birthday (observed)
Friday, May 9 — Annual meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati
Saturday, May 10 — Annual meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati
Monday, May 26 — Memorial Day
Friday, July 4 — Independence Day
Monday, September 1 — Labor Day
Friday, October 24 — Fall meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati
Saturday, October 25 — Fall meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati
Saturday, November 1 — Society meetings
Tuesday, November 11 — Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 — Thanksgiving Day
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quote:It sure didn't wipe out the yards associated with the prior penalties.
quote:Will Smith was held on his roughing the passer penalty. The tackle had him around the throat.
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From The Forrester Wave™: EMEA Applications Outsourcing Services, Q1 2014
Forrester named Accenture a leader in applications outsourcing (AO) services in EMEA, after evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the top 12 service providers across 43 criteria.
The nature of AO services is evolving, according to the report, with a growing concentration on business outcomes. Sourcing and vendor management professionals place new urgency on selecting appropriate applications outsourcing partners, as success with applications outsourcing must translate to business results as well as progress in transitioning to the new digital enterprise.
Considering this marketplace reality, Forrester Research included Accenture as a leader among AO service providers in EMEA. This is based on Accenture's industry and technical competencies and acumen; broad geographical capabilities; strategic acquisitions to lead in the digital economy; and efforts to help clients achieve high performance in applications outsourcing by combining industrialization, intelligence and industry; dominant market presence determined by its application outsourcing revenues and employee strength.
Accenture received good scores from its customer references and was strong across all categories compared with competition.
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