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Matt Lauer sat down with Oscar winner Julia Roberts in an interview to air tomorrow, Friday, August 1 on NBC's TODAY. Roberts talked about her film The Normal Heart, which received 16 Primetime Emmy nominations. She also shared stories about her family, discussed the movies she is most proud of, and she named her "dream" ensemble cast.
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Police in Shanghai have arrested five people for making fake iPhones, state media said on Friday, just as Apple fans overseas wait with bated breath for the launch of the US giant's newest model.
Police in Shanghai have arrested five people for making fake iPhones, state media said on Friday, just as Apple fans overseas wait with bated breath for the launch of the US giant's newest model.
(AP) -- Two Northern California men are charged with misdemeanors for selling a lost Apple iPhone 4 they found last year in a bar.
Technology news website CNET reported that a new version of Apple's coveted iPhone went astray in a bar in a replay of an embarrassing loss that took place last year.
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Unquestionably, the city of Boca Raton bears a responsibility to provide adequate facilities for boaters.
The hotly debated issue is whether to build a marina on the last undeveloped spot in Rutherford Park, where the environment could be damaged.
Surrounding the debate is stern opposition plus a thick cloud of troubling questions, enough to cause an unbiased observer to conclude the city would be wise to choose another site.
Four other sites were considered, and the city should rework its priorities and pick one of the others.
The City Council cannot ignore pertinent and serious questions asked by citizens wondering why this project is going forward. Last year, voters resoundingly rejected the $4 million marina, and other parts of a $36 million bond issue. Yet the city bulled ahead with a marina design and sought state and federal permits. Why?
A possible conflict of interest is disturbing, and legitimately so. A consulting firm was paid $160,000 to design the marina, and the firm`s project manager is Terry Alexander, wife of the city`s parks and recreation director, Tom Alexander.
Both vigorously dispute any suggestion of a conflict, and Tom Alexander didn`t take part in the selection of his wife`s firm. Still, a perception of a conflict persists.
There`s also the foggy story of a commitment made in the 1980s to the development company Arvida to remove existing boat ramps from Silver Palm Park. The park is adjacent to an Arvida condominium development. So far, no one has found a written record of this commitment.
Finally, environmental concerns are real. An acre of mangroves would be chopped down -- and replaced, 2 for 1, with new plants elsewhere -- to accommodate roads and parking lots. Sea grasses would be lost and manatees disturbed, environmentalists contend.


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In these days, it is very important for every parents to teach their kids for money saving and utilization. Having children understand the value of each dollar is difficult. This will only happen when we allow them to earn their money like make them earn their allowance, teach them the importance of budgeting and so on. This practice make them more responsible for their money.


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Only thing I'm not keen on is the darkness around the eye. Is this something I can fix in photoshop or is it down to lighting?
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How did you do your border- Photoshop
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How about making a selection aroun, and under, the eyes, feather by 25, adjustment layer- levels and bring the right slider in. Just an idea. or make selection as above then adjustment layer - curves and push the line up a little.
Relaxed image - the crop at top and btom seems a little sever
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Another way you could try to brighten up the dark area is to press Ctrl "j" to make a copy on a new layer then change the blend mode of this new layer to Sreen.
Now hold the Alt key and click on the layer mask icon to mask the layer.
Select the brush tool make sure the colour is white and pain over the dark areas with the white brush, if you paint over an area by accident press ctrl "z" to undo or chage the brush colour to blackand paint over the area again.
Once you have painted over the dark areas it might look too bright just adjust the opacity untill you get the results your looking for.
The great thing about using a layer mask like this is that it's non destructive the changes aren't permanent until you merge them down onto the layer below.
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With the almost-balmy weather moving in, we might get lulled into thinking we've seen the last of snow for this part of 2014.
I suspect I could be in a small minority of people who will be sorry to see it go. Count me in the camp that believes the best springs come after the worst winters.
Before this current thaw is over, though, there is still time left for people to scold those who don't shovel. I'm sure everyone knows some shoveling slackers.
The problem is most obvious in cities, where a cleared sidewalk is crucial after a big snow.
In many places, shoveling scofflaws are subject to fines. More important, it's a mark of good citizenship, making sure pedestrians can travel safely past your property.
After this year's snowy winter, a new proposal surfaced in New York City to not only fine property owners who don't shovel, but also to do it for them and then bill them.
This mandatory shoveling program might work well in New London. The current system is not working. Actually, there is no system in New London.
A spokesperson for the mayor told me this week they stopped writing tickets for not shoveling snow about two years ago, because of the diminished police patrol strength. The city shoveling ordinance calls for fines up to $100.
You don't have to go far on the main streets of downtown New London to find a lot of unshoveled sidewalks.
One of the biggest offenders is the city itself, leaving a long stretch of Eugene O'Neill Drive, what was once Main Street, with unshoveled sidewalks. Curiously, it is the stretch of sidewalk along the municipal parking lots, where the city directs you to park when it snows.
The mayor's spokesperson told me they have been behind on shoveling because one of two public works sidewalk plows has been broken since January and they have focused instead on sidewalks around parks and schools.
I don't have the expertise needed to be a public works director, but if I did I might decide that, on snow days when schools are closed, you might concentrate on downtown sidewalks.
The city sets a bad example, but there are plenty of others.
I am surprised to see unshoveled sidewalks in front of businesses, bars especially, like the State Street Saloon and The Exchange Bar & Grill on Bank Street.
The sidewalk has been nicely shoveled this winter in front of Hanafin's Irish Pub on State Street, but not in front of the empty building at 18 Bank St. owned by the same people. The blighted Bank Street building has had a treacherous sheet of ice across its sidewalk most of the winter.
Another big offender, strangely enough, is the U.S. Postal Service, which cleans the sidewalk out front but not the one running along the side of its building.
AT&T, too, has shamefully ignored the sidewalks in front of its State Street building, after emptying it of workers last year. Sadly, the sidewalks in front of the First Congregational Church on State Street remained snow covered.
Maybe if AT&T were to send a crew they could do the church, too.
I know the proposal in New York, to shovel walks and bill the property owners would be problematic here, since the city isn't doing some of its own shoveling.
But maybe if a plan were in place, the city could designate a contractor who would be paid by the property owners, with the city as the enforcement authority.
I would bet the first time someone gets a lien on their property for an expensive shoveling, they probably won't get a second.
Unshoveled sidewalks may not seem like much of a priority at City Hall, where it has been hard to see beyond the steam leak this winter.
But you can't have a vibrant downtown if people can't safely walk around it.
This is the opinion of David Collins.
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A west side fashion show next week will benefit a local charity.
The Hilldale Mall is hosting the Little Black Dress Affair Thursday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Organizers said the main event is a fashion show scheduled at 6:30 p.m.
The show will feature fall fashions modeled by local folks and representatives from area businesses and Madison non-profits. Tickets to the fashion show are $15 and will benefit Gilda's Club Madison, a local support organization for people with cancer and their families.
Stores, eateries and boutiques in the shopping center will offer a variety of promotions during the Little Black Dress Affair, which organizers called an "amped up ladies night out" to include giveaways, music by DJ Nick Nice, a photo booth, refreshments, demos, and one-night-only discounts for event ticket holders.
The Little Black Dress Affair is part of Hilldale's planned Fall Fashion Week with a variety of events taking place Monday through Sept. 15. For a list of specials during the weeklong event, visit Hilldale.com.
News 3 Anchor Michelle Li is scheduled to emcee the fashion show.
- WHAT: Little Black Dress Affair
- WHERE: Hilldale Shopping Center,
- WHEN: Thursday, Sept. 12 (during a weeklong fashion week beginning Monday)
- INFO: Online schedule of events at Hilldale.com


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Dumb crook of the day
A Maine man who'd been wanted by police for several weeks made a couple of critical mistakes that led to his capture – he sent out social media messages pinpointing his location.
The Somerset County Sheriff's Office had been looking for Christopher Wallace, of Fairfield, in connection with a burglary in January.
Police tell the Morning Sentinel that on Sunday night they received tips from people who said Wallace had posted on Snapchat that he had returned to his Fairfield home.
So, police went to the house.
While they were searching with permission of the resident, they were tipped off that Wallace had posted a new Snapchat message saying police were in the house looking for him and he was hiding in a cabinet.
There is dumb. Then there is compulsively dumb.
Dumb crook of the day
Police photo in the State Patrol parking lot — click for video
A man faces auto theft charges after he drove a stolen car right to the Washington State Patrol district office parking lot in Bellevue…
An alert driver recognized the stolen vehicle from a post on a european motorist club Facebook post and spotted it in the Issaquah area, troopers said. The witness captured video of Micah Hatcher, 36, behind the wheel of the car and used his cell phone to report it, troopers said. The witness followed the car along Interstate 90 between Issaquah and Bellevue. Hatcher got off the freeway and drove the stolen car into the WSP district office parking lot, where he was arrested by troopers….
Detectives said it was the easiest auto theft arrest they'd ever had.
Hatcher had been arrested several days prior on outstanding warrants and drug charges, troopers said. He was contacting troopers to try to retrieve some belongings that were taken during his initial arrest, they added. Hatcher was arrested – again – and booked into the King County Jail.
I've added the video taken by the witness who spotted Hatcher and the stolen car.
5% of Americans want their sex tracked online … Really
The Consumer Electronics Show is in full swing in Las Vegas, which means editors' inboxes are flooded with press releases about it.
Here at MedPage Today, we received one Monday that made us do a double-take. Well, one line in it, anyway.
The release, on behalf of "A&D Medical, the worldwide leader in connected health and biometric measurement devices, was about a survey of Americans' attitudes on using smartphones and other "connected health devices that automatically connect online and send information to their doctor or other people they choose."
We had just posted a story with a headline including the phrase "Smartphone in Bedroom Is Not So Smart Choice," albeit for kids. Still, we were primed for some cognitive dissonance when we saw a line in the release saying that "And only 5% of Americans wanted their sexual activity monitored online."
Really? We wondered whether "only" was really the right term there. We're not PR experts, but we might have gone with something more like "More Americans want their sexual activity monitored online than voted for a third-party candidate in 2012."
I must be out-of-date. I recall [in 1965] causing a disturbance in the middle of orientation for a group of activists when a pedant started listing distractions from strategic goals. He said something about food, where to eat in Chicago. He said something about sex.
I said "I don't especially differentiate between the two…food and sex, that is." Made some good friends on the West Side that day.
Now, I guess I need a new simile about smartphones and sex. I don't think it works as well.
The Geography of Hate
The prominence of debates around online bullying and the censorship of hate speech prompted us to examine how social media has become an important conduit for hate speech, and how particular terminology used to degrade a given minority group is expressed geographically. As we've documented in a variety of cases, the virtual spaces of social media are intensely tied to particular socio-spatial contexts in the offline world, and as this work shows, the geography of online hate speech is no different.
Rather than focusing just on hate directed towards a single individual at a single point in time, we wanted to analyze a broader swath of discriminatory speech in social media, including the usage of racist, homophobic and ableist slurs…
All together, the students determined over 150,000 geotagged tweets with a hateful slur to be negative. Hateful tweets were aggregated to the county level and then normalized by the total number of tweets in each county. This then shows a comparison of places with disproportionately high amounts of a particular hate word relative to all tweeting activity. For example, Orange County, California has the highest absolute number of tweets mentioning many of the slurs, but because of its significant overall Twitter activity, such hateful tweets are less prominent and therefore do not appear as prominently on our map. So when viewing the map at a broad scale, it's best not to be covered with the blue smog of hate, as even the lower end of the scale includes the presence of hateful tweeting activity.
Ultimately, some of the slurs included in our analysis might not have particularly revealing spatial distributions. But, unfortunately, they show the significant persistence of hatred in the United States and the ways that the open platforms of social media have been adopted and appropriated to allow for these ideas to be propagated.
Clicking through to the original article details the methodology of analysis. It's a start. Poisonally, I think more time spent verifying and validating target analysis will lead to more precision.
Still, this is not only a productive study, it's provocative. Useful in its own right.
Clicking on the graphic at the top leads you to an interactive map for homophobia, racism, disability – hatred in several forms.
Thanks to Barry Ritholtz for pointing this out
Associated Press reporters smacked by the boss for tweeting
Karen Matthews, AP reporter, arrested by NYC coppers
Photo by AP photographer Seth Wenig, also arrested
Associated Press has reprimanded some of its journalists for breaking news on Twitter before posting it on the wires.
The news agency issued the warning after some staff members tweeted that AP journalists had been arrested at the Occupy Wall Street camp in Manhattan. An email from bosses followed reminding staff about AP's social media policies…
While Twitter is an invaluable tool in newsrooms around the world, it has also forced news organisations, including AP, to draw up strict rules.
"If you have a piece of information, a photo or a video that is compelling, exclusive and/or urgent enough to be considered breaking news, you should file it to the wire, and photo and video points before you consider putting it out on social media," the AP policy reads.
After the recent incident in New York, AP's managing editor Lou Ferrara wrote an email to employees explaining that their first duty was to the agency not Twitter.
And executive editor Kathleen Carroll issued a memo saying much of the resulting "chatter" had missed the point.
"When we lose contact with a journalist, our main focus is making sure they are safe, no matter where they are. Sometimes, talking about it while things are still uncertain can endanger them," she said.
"It's not outlandish to think that a tweet that's taken by someone in authority to be opinionated or sarcastic could lead to one of our staffers being held longer than necessary…"
But Anthony de Rosa, social media editor at Reuters, thinks that such policies may need to be overhauled. He tweeted: "News agencies must evolve or face extinction."
He expanded the point in his official Reuters blog.
"The wire is still a huge part of our business and always will be. However, acting in a way that handcuffs us from doing our best work on Reuters.com and on social networks, which help drive traffic and extend our brand, is writing a death sentence for us as a future media company.
"To bury our head in the sand and act like Twitter (and who knows what else comes into existence next month or five years from now?) isn't increasingly becoming the source of what informs people in real-time is ridiculous," he wrote.
RTFA – the discussion moves in a few directions not the least of which is hoax tweets – which are generally reprehensible.
Book industry balance continues to tilt towards the author
Every week, it seems there is more evidence that the balance of power in the book industry continues to tilt towards the author and away from the all-powerful publisher. One of the latest examples is John Green, who writes fiction for young adults from his home in Indianapolis, and whose latest novel has hit number one before it has even been published.
Green gives credit for this phenomenon to his Twitter and YouTube followers, but the real credit should go to him for being willing to not just use social media as a promotional tool the way some do, but to actually reach out and engage with his readers and fans.
As the Wall Street Journal describes it, Green simply posted the title of his new book — a story about two young cancer patients called "The Fault In Our Stars" on his Twitter account — where he has built up a following of more than a million fans — and on his Tumblr blog, as well as a community forum based around Green's work called YourPants.org.
He then offered to sign the entire first print run of the book, and later followed that up with a live YouTube show, in which he discussed his plans for the book and read from a chapter of the uncompleted novel.
The whole process started on Tuesday afternoon, and by that evening, the book had apparently hit the number one spot on both the Amazon list of bestsellers and the Barnes & Noble list.
Not surprisingly, this kind of word-of-mouth marketing multiplied by the force of social media has caused a lot of raised eyebrows in the industry. As one senior editor at publisher Harper Collins told the Journal:
"Everyone is now focused on it, because when it works, it can be a runaway train"
Obviously, not everyone is going to have the million-plus followers that Green has, or the devoted following on YouTube that he and his brother Hank have built up over years of doing what used to be called "vlogging" or video-blogging… The point is that no publisher or agent or industry had to create those things; the author did it himself with help from his fans.
RTFA. More information, more compartments of experience and method open up. How and why an author can seize more control over growing their fans, their market. Because the capability is there for writers. Because publishers aren't especially willing or able to do the same.
Egyptian dad names his newborn 'Facebook'
A man in Egypt has named his newborn daughter "Facebook" in honor of the role the social media network played in bringing about a revolution, according to a new report.
Gamal Ibrahim, a 20-something, gave his daughter the name "to express his joy at the achievements made by the January 25 youth," according to a report in Al-Ahram, one of Egypt's most popular newspapers.
Many young people used Facebook and other social media networks to organize the protests, which began January 25 and ultimately led to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak after 30 years in power.
Rock on, dude! May your daughter enjoy the fruits from the tree of liberty and democracy.
Pope whines about alienation inside social networks
"Look what I just got from Intel!"
Pope Benedict gave a qualified blessing to social networking Monday, praising its potential but warning that online friendships are no substitute for real human contact.
Amazing insight, dude – for someone who defines women, gay folks, members of most other religions and atheists all as inferior beings.
The 83-year-old pontiff, who does not have his own Facebook account, set out his views in a message with a weighty title that would easily fit into a tweet: "Truth, proclamation and authenticity of life in the digital age."
He said the possibilities of new media and social networks offered "a great opportunity," but warned of the risks of depersonalization, alienation, self-indulgence, and the dangers of having more virtual friends than real ones…
The vast horizons of new media "urgently demand a serious reflection on the significance of communication in the digital age," he said.
What part of communications matches the weight of "pronouncements" inside the corporate Catholic Church?
The pope did not mention any specific social networking site or application by name, but sprinkled his message with terms such as "sharing," "friends," and "profiles."
Not a whole boatload of difference from the agitprop Madison Avenue crap ranging from my favorite laugher – renaming the War Department – to reactionary demagogues still trying to destroy Social Security and Medicare after decades and calling the process "reform".


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Texans coach Gary Kubiak says tight end Owen Daniels was ''very limited' in practice with a back injury on Friday and could miss Sunday's game in Chicago. Daniels, Houston's second-leading receiver, sat out practice on Wednesday and Thursday. Kubiak says he'll be a ''game-time decision'' when the Texans (7-1) play the Bears (7-1) on Sunday night. Kubiak said nose tackle Shaun Cody (ribs) and backup running back Ben Tate (hamstring) will definitely sit out. Tate also missed last week's game against Buffalo. Daniels leads the Texans with five TD receptions and ranks second in receptions (37) behind Andre Johnson. If Daniels can't play, Kubiak says ''it affects us a great deal,'' because of how much he relies on tight ends in his offense.
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Poll: Florida, Ohio, Pa. swinging to Obama
Voters back the president on immigration, split on economy
Voters in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania support President Barack Obama's new immigration policy and are divided on whether the president or Gov. Mitt Romney would be better for their personal economic future, as they give Obama leads in these three critical swing states: a razor thin 4 points in Florida, a healthy 9 points in Ohio and 6 points in Pennsylvania, according to a Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll released today.
This compares to the results of a May 3 Swing State Poll by the independent Quinnipiac University, showing Obama with an eight-point lead in Pennsylvania with Florida and Ohio too close to call.
Matching Obama against Romney in each of these key states – no one has won the White House since 1960 without taking at least two of them – shows:
• Florida: Obama edges Romney 45 percent to 41 percent;
• Ohio: Obama over Romney 47 percent to 38 percent;
• Pennsylvania: Obama tops Romney 45 percent to 39 percent.
"President Barack Obama has decent margins over Gov. Mitt Romney in Ohio and Pennsylvania and a smaller advantage in Florida. If he can keep those leads in all three of these key swing states through election day he would be virtually assured of re-election," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
"Of course the election is more than four months away, which is a lifetime in politics," Brown added.
"The president's overall margin is built on his big lead among women, younger voters and African-Americans. In Florida, on the heels of the president's order that will prevent the deportation of some younger illegal immigrants, he holds a big lead among Hispanic voters.
"The horse race numbers reflect the general view of voters that they like the president better. Obama has a net favorable view among Ohio voters and he is viewed evenly by those in Pennsylvania and Florida, while Romney's favorable/unfavorable ratio is negative in all three states.
"Voters in all three states voice strong support for the president's mini 'Dream Act' immigration order, and they say the president would be better than Romney handling immigration.
"For much of the last year, more voters in these swing states have said Romney would do a better job on the economy. That advantage has largely disappeared, at least for now."
Voters in all three states are mixed on which candidate "would do a better job on the economy," and which candidate "would be better for your personal economic future."
Florida's Hispanic voters back Obama 56 percent to 32 percent, compared to 49 percent to 39 percent in a June 21 Quinnipiac University poll, conducted before Obama and Romney each made major addresses on immigration policy.
The president leads 85 percent to 6 percent among black voters while white voters back Romney 50 percent to 35 percent. Obama leads 47 percent to 40 percent among women, while men are divided with 43 percent for Obama and 42 percent for Romney.
Obama leads 81 percent to 7 percent among Democrats and 44 percent to 37 percent among independent voters, losing Republicans 86 percent to 8 percent.
Voters split 47 percent to 49 percent in their approval of the job Obama is doing and 46 percent to 47 percent on whether he deserves four more years.
Florida voters give Obama a split 47 percent to 47 percent favorability, while Romney gets a negative 37 percent to 42 percent favorability rating.
Romney would do a better job on the economy, 46 percent of Florida voters say, while 44 percent say Obama would do a better job. Obama would be better for their personal economic future, 46 percent of voters say, compared to 45 percent for Romney.
Florida voters support Obama's immigration initiative 58 percent to 33 percent and say 46 percent to 40 percent the president would do a better job on immigration.
Voters disapprove 48 percent to 35 percent of the job Gov. Rick Scott is doing, continuing a 16-month string of negative ratings.
Florida's U.S. Senate race remains too close to call as Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson gets 41 percent to 40 percent for U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, the leading Republican challenger.
"The U.S. Senate race between Bill Nelson and Connie Mack remains a dead heat with 17 percent of voters still undecided, an unusually large number," said Brown.
In Ohio's presidential face-off, men split with 45 percent for Obama and 42 percent for Romney. Women go Democratic 50 percent to 35 percent. White voters tip to Romney 45 percent to 41 percent. The president wins 92 percent of black voters, with 6 percent undecided and no measurable black support for Romney.
The president leads 85 percent to 5 percent among Democrats and 45 percent to 36 percent among independent voters, while Republicans back Romney 84 percent to 5 percent.
Obama gets a 50 percent to 44 percent favorability rating, compared to Romney's negative 32 percent to 46 percent favorability score.
Ohio voters give the president a split 48 percent to 46 percent job approval rating and say by a tepid 49 percent to 46 percent that he deserves to be reelected.
Voters say 47 percent to 42 percent, however, that Obama would do a better job on the economy than Romney and say 47 percent to 42 percent that the president would be better for their personal economic future.
Voters back Obama's immigration policy 52 percent to 38 percent and say 45 percent to 38 percent he would do a better job than Romney on immigration.
Gov. John Kasich gets a slightly negative 40 – 44 percent job approval rating from Ohio voters, continuing an 18-month run of negative scores with the exception of a tie in March. Women disapprove 46 – 36 percent while men split 44 – 43 percent.
In Ohio's U.S. Senate race, Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown tops State Treasurer Josh Mandel, the Republican challenger, 50 percent to 34 percent.
"The president's lead is largely due to his lead among independent voters, the group that usually decides Ohio elections," said Brown.
Women carry the day for Obama in Pennsylvania, backing him 48 percent to 36 percent, while men are divided 41 percent to 42 percent. Romney leads 76 percent to 10 percent among Republicans and 43 percent to 37 percent among independent voters, while Democrats back the president 82 percent to 7 percent.
Obama gets a split 45 percent to 47 percent favorability rating, compared to Romney's negative 34 percent to 39 percent favorability.
The president's job approval rating tips negative 45 percent to 49 percent and 45 percent of voters say he deserves reelection while 47 percent say he does not.
Pennsylvania voters split 44 percent to 44 percent on who would do a better job on the economy and 44 percent to 43 percent on who would be better for them personally.
Voters support Obama's immigration policy 51 percent to 41 percent and say 44 percent to 38 percent he would do a better job on immigration.
Voters disapprove 50 percent to 35 percent of the job Gov. Tom Corbett is doing, his lowest approval rating since he took office 18 months ago.
Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Robert Casey Jr. leads Tom Smith, the Republican challenger, 49 percent to 32 percent.
"Pennsylvania voters have no great love for President Barack Obama, but at this point they like Gov. Mitt Romney less," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "Women, especially, are in the president's corner.
"Gov. Tom Corbett continues his steady dive in popularity, from a 50 percent approval rating last September down to numbers that rival the embattled governors of Florida and Ohio."
From June 19–25, Quinnipiac University surveyed:
• 1,200 Florida voters with a margin of error plus or minus 2.8 percent.
• 1,237 Ohio voters with a margin of error plus or minus 2.8 percent.
• 1,252 Pennsylvania voters with a margin of error plus or minus percent.
Live interviewers call land lines and cell phones. The Quinnipiac University Poll, directed by Douglas Schwartz, Ph.D., conducts public opinion surveys in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, Virginia and nationwide as a public service and for research.
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Reports of crime in Milwaukee dropped by nearly 17% in the first three months of 2009 compared with the same period last year, with violent crime falling even further, Police Chief Edward Flynn announced Wednesday.
The new numbers come after the city recorded a 6% drop in reported crimes in all of 2008 compared with the year before.
During the first three months of 2009, reports of crime were down broadly across several categories, highlighted by a 30% drop in auto theft and a 23% drop in aggravated assault, police figures show.
Flynn attributed the drop to the department's increased use of data to target hot spots, better sharing of information between detectives and patrol officers, and improved follow-up investigations.
"Our presence is being felt," Flynn said in a news conference in front of the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts downtown.
"This is a great city, a city in which violent crime is declining."
The only one of eight crime categories that was up during the first quarter of 2009 was sexual assault, which rose from 43 in 2008 to 57 this year, according to police figures. Flynn said that there were only three rapes by strangers. The others involved acquaintances, family members or drug-related incidents.
Homicide was roughly steady from the first quarter of 2008 and 2009. Homicide dropped dramatically for the full year 2008, falling 32.4% to 71 killings, compared with 105 in 2007.
Nonfatal shootings, considered by criminal justice experts to be a good barometer of gun violence, also were down during the first quarter, police figures show. Eighty people were shot in the first three months of 2008, compared with 67 during the same period this year.
Some have attributed a sometimes bitterly cold 2008 as a reason for the drop in crime that year. Flynn noted that the average temperature was nearly the same in the first three months of 2008 and 2009.
In early 2008, the one area of crime that was up was burglary, which rose 10% in the first quarter of 2008. Flynn said the department was able to turn around that trend by using data to look for trends and moving police resources to problem areas.
For instance, in the city's District 2 on the south side, there was a rash of daytime burglaries. The district stepped up truancy enforcement, handing out 241 tickets since Jan. 1, according to the department. Burglaries are now down by 20.5%, according to the department.
Flynn said he continues to be concerned about domestic violence and child abuse, which accounted for a large share of the homicides so far this year - more so than in most years. "That is a disturbing trend," he said. "This is a communitywide problem."
The chief said it is important for people to understand that people who are victimized often themselves often have substantial criminal records.
"Those kinds of incidents need to be put into a perspective so people who are coming to our community to work, recreate or visit have a sense that they are not likely to be victimized," he said. "Even in our poorest neighborhoods, the majority of victimization is among people who are mutually committing crimes on each other."


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I am not good at English because I am not native speaker but I would like to tell Forex Peace Makers reader what happen to me using forex broker that is called 4runnerForex. Please read my story and help me regardless of my poor intelligence. 4runner that is managed by FXsystems ltd is criminal broker. I deposited 5290US dollar I opened swap-free account at 4runner and I started to trade. In this broker I opened position one time. I have had short position AUD/USD on February 2012. I was intent to have long time. About on 6 March 2012 I got profit they stopped email me daily confirmation. ( So now I have just evidences I got only 159.22 US dollar profit but I got 4432.42 US dollar profit) On April 2012 position had profit and I closed my position. I decided to withdraw money with profit but no answer from broker in term of 2 weeks. I was worry about withdrawal and I send ticket many times to send me money but they keep ignoring my ticket. After three weeks they send me my Liberty Reserve account but money amount to 5290US dollar I deposit a month before. They didnt send me profit that is 4432.42 US dollar. And they cancelled my account. I could not open Metatrader and could not confirm detal. I open ticket complaining but they keep ignoring again and could not access 4runners home page from my computer in home. Somebody please help me.
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Thread: 4runnerForex is scam.
4runnerForex is scam.
If you haven't done so already, leave a 1 star review for them.
Send an email to every address you can find for them. Include a link to this thread. Let them know that you will update the thread and let everyone know if they pay you or if they keep your money.
If that fails, open an FPA Traders Court case.
Call me a skeptic, but I this all smells a bit fishy to me. Polinky says he doesn't have any proof of any of his claims, well I have traded with 4runner for almost 2 years and am able to save reports from MT4 anytime I want, I do this every day that I have trading activity for my records. Furthermore, I have been successful (at times) and made profits and was able to withdraw them just fine with no hassles.
This seems to be like there is more to this story than Polinky is letting on....
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San Diego Symphony broadening its reach
"The San Diego Symphony has a wider impact than often seen by the public," said Ian Campbell, general director of the San Diego Opera. "Members play for the opera, are part of several other musical ensembles throughout the area, and frequently teach. Their teaching ensures a new crop of musically literate young people, something our schools are unable to deliver in too many instances, sadly."
Glen Campbell (no relation to Ian), for instance, has taught at San Diego State, co-directs Strings by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University with cellist Karla Holland-Moritz, and has private students. Then there's his service at the San Diego Civic Theatre for some of the musicals brought in by Broadway San Diego, his performances at the Globe, and his "church jobs."
His colleague Holland-Moritz not only takes ensembles comprised of her cello students to homeless shelters, Veterans' retirement homes and Alzheimers centers, but is a patient care volunteer at San Diego Hospice and does outreach for St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral.
"I've never been in a city, and I'm on the board of the League (of American Orchestras), where I've seen this infiltration into the fabric of a community," Gill said. "Our musicians play so much outside, teach so much outside, are willing to have this interaction with other groups, they're out there all the time."
Wilds, in addition to his full-time symphony job, is principal trumpet with Orchestra Nova (formerly the San Diego Chamber Orchestra), and teaches at San Diego State, Point Loma Nazarene, the University of San Diego and Rancho Bernardo High School, where he spends every Monday during the school year, from 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., working with the band's 32 trumpeters and giving private lessons.
"I always think, I don't have time for this anymore, but it's such cool work," said Wilds. "For me, It's matter of scheduling extremely well, and having a very supportive family."
Like most major orchestras, the San Diego Symphony requires its musicians to play eight "services" (at 2 1/2 hours each) a week. Unlike most orchestras, however, eight of those services (a year) are mandated for individual (or small ensemble) outreach to the community, ranging from performances in senior centers to coaching in elementary schools.
"It's very unusual for a symphony contract," Gill said. "And we are so firmly entrenched, it was a deal breaker in our contract. If they don't do the education outreach, they don't get paid."
But it would seem the musicians need little encouragement to reach out beyond Copley Symphony Hall.
Violinist Kathryn Hatmaker, a relative newcomer to the orchestra, coaches strings at the Coronado School for the Performing and Creative Arts, has played with Orchestra Nova and frequently performs chamber music, including a series she coproduces at the San Diego Museum of Art with flutist Demarre McGill, Art of Elan.
"I talk to a lot of people, especially younger people in San Diego, who don't have any idea of where Copley Hall even is," Hatmaker said. "I say, 'Oh I play with the San Diego Symphony,' and they say, 'Wow, you can make a living doing that?' So we're getting the word out, with different organizations in different venues, and I think that positively impacts the symphony and makes San Diego a more vibrant community."


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Street legal Trials bike for Canada/US?
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The current GasGas models may still come with all the street hardware but unless your MTO office (DMV for the US guys) have them on the OK list for BC you will be out of luck with the exception of 20+ yr old bikes such as the one shown that where prevously allowed.
My 2008 250 came with /DRL/hi/lo beam, switches for turn signals and headlight, horn, speedo computer (same as the enduro model), tail/brake lights and switches. Basically everything you would need except turnsignals, but the switch is there for that too. No chance to street plate it in Ontario though, as shortly after I street plated my 300EC they pulled the plug on allowing such things to happen due to non conforming vin# and NIVIS which states its an offroad only model. Luckily they are still allowing the previously plated bikes to remain plated.
What trials trails are you speaking of ? A bud is moving to BC as I type and I'm sure he will be interested.
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One dead, 2 injured after fire in Northeast Houston
By Heather Alexander | June 7, 2014
One person has died and two others are injured after a house fire in northeast Houston early Saturday.
Firefighters were called to a home in the 3200 block of Florida Street around 1:15 a.m., according to the Houston Fire Department.
It took less than 30 minutes to get the fire under control.
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text: Repositório Colecção: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/2403 2015-05-22T13:05:13Z Esquiveles y Manriques, I, de Salvador de Madariaga, edição de Alexia Dotras Bravo http://hdl.handle.net/10198/11281 Título: Esquiveles y Manriques, I, de Salvador de Madariaga, edição de Alexia Dotras Bravo Autor: Dotras Bravo, Alexia (Ed.) Resumo: En la actualidad, conceder a Salvador de Madariaga el puesto que merece en el mundo político y cultural heterogéneo en que se insertó resulta todavía harto complejo. Figura de humanista contemporáneo, este ingeniero de minas de formación, pero político europeísta, pacificador, liberal y federalista, historiador riguroso de la conquista y colonización de la América hispana y escritor más que notable -todavía por redescubrir-, no ha logrado el merecido reconocimiento y restitución cabal de su polifacética labor. A pesar de los premios recibidos, de las justicias históricas hechas en su persona al final de su vida, varios aspectos de su obra todavía no han sido estudiados bajo las perspectivas detalladas que tendrían cabida, ni divulgados justamente. Tal es el caso de su faceta como escritor de novelas, ya que su labor poética, incluso la destinada al público infantil, está bien considerada en los círculos académicos actuales. Esta edición de las cinco novelas que componen su serie «Esquiveles y Manriques», de corte histórico, ambientadas en la conquista y colonización de América-El corazón de piedra verde (1943), Guerra en la sangre (1957), Una gota de tiempo (1958), El semental negro (1961) y Satanael (1966)-, pretende restaurar la figura literaria de Madariaga, más allá de El corazón de piedra verde, su obra más conocida. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Teaching Crossroads: 9th IPB Erasmus Week http://hdl.handle.net/10198/9447 Título: Teaching Crossroads: 9th IPB Erasmus Week Autor: Pais, Clarisse (Ed.); Pais, L.S. (Ed.); Silva, Elisabete (Ed.) Resumo: Acknowledged for its unceasing promotion of the Erasmus mobility programmes, the IPB has been accredited with the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education 2014- 2020 and awarded by the European Commission with the ECTS Label (for the period 2011-2014) as well as the Diploma Supplement Label (for the period 2013- 2016). The IPB is proud to be one of the few national and international institutions that has been distinguished simultaneously with both quality labels. These awards represent a strong indicator of the international level achieved by the IPB as being on the top of the European Higher Education Institutes within the scope of the Erasmus mobility programmes. After two numbers of Teaching Crossroads within the 7th and 8th IPB Erasmus Weeks, we are now proud to present the third number of Teaching Crossroads as regards the 9th Erasmus Week which took place in May 2013. Once again, teaching staff, who participated in the academic and cultural event that made up the Erasmus Week by delivering seminars, lectures and/or workshops, were invited to make their texts available for publication. In this number of Teaching Crossroads, we aimed, once more, at making the publication thorough regarding the accuracy and effectiveness of the articles presented. Therefore, for the first time, the texts have been peer-reviewed. We would then like to thank all the peer reviewers who most kindly and willingly reviewed the texts, namely Ana Paula Monte, Ana Paula Sismeiro, António Meireles, Cláudia Martins, Elisabete Silva, Maria Augusta Mata, Miguel Ângelo Rodrigues, Paulo Mafra and Rui Pedro Lopes from the IPB. The research areas focused on in this number are rather multidisciplinary covering the following knowledge domains: Information Technology and Applied Sciences; Nursing and Health Care; Economics; Law and Environmental Education; Education (Art, Linguistics and Translation and Culture Studies). Patrick Siegfried devotes his attention to the importance of the service sector for the industry, highlighting the German situation in regard to the tertiary sector. In his article, the author presents several research approaches launched in Germany that deal with the recent developments in service engineering and service development research in Germany over the last years. Axel Sikora gives us an overview on The Internet of Things (IoT) applications, such as ubiquitous computing and ubiquitous connectivity, Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), ambient intelligence, Machine-to-Machine communication (M2M) or Carto- Car (C2C)-communication, smart metering, smart grid, telematics, telecare and telehealth. The author demonstrates how these applications are used today to increase efficiency and to improve the availability of information. Moreover, we are also shown the different phases of the evolution of embedded system for social-enabled applications, particularly in relation to the connectivity and information exchange. Pedro Gutiérrez Moraño, Belinda Basilio Fernández and José Luis Bote Mohedano offer us a series of health hints and preventive measures, as far as Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and its consequences are concerned. In order to prevent the amputations related to the diabetic foot, the authors provide us with a series of effective preventive strategies to decrease the incidence, prevalence, morbidity and the costs of the diabetic foot and foot at risk, as well as to improve the quality of the attention process to people with DM in Primary Health. Alba María Priego de la Cruz in her article entitled 'Value added as a Source of Information for Stakeholders' defines the concept of economic value added and evaluates the participation and behaviour of stakeholders in the generation and distribution of value added, which may be decisive in favouring the business activity. María Rosa Vásquez Rodriguez with the text 'Environmental policy: Environmental Education' continues the same study that she presented last year, but this time with some more additional information. The author tries to settle a connection between economics and environmental policy and the impact of environmental education on the environment protection, pointing out the different instruments available to public administration that ensure the preservation of the environment. Elisabeth Fernbach, with the very original and appealing title 'With an open mind', captures one's attention by demonstrating that creativity can be taught with a cross curricular focus on new media. Therefore, she upholds that education in art and art in education epitomises the right path to self-discovery and to a clearer understanding of the world and others, by presenting several possible tasks that can enhance creativity. Finally, she also offer examples of students´ and children's art works as a result of these creative processes. Cláudia Martins, the regular speaker for the lectures on Portuguese Culture and Language during our Erasmus weeks, presents now a very enlightening text on 'Diatopic Variation in Portugal: Notes on European Portuguese Dialects'. In this article, she describes, in a very detailed way, the geographical varieties of European Portuguese, namely the dialects in mainland Portugal and the islands of Madeira and Azores, based on the information gathered in the main linguistic atlases. Bearing in mind the spirit of this publication, which is the promotion of crosscurricular studies and teaching mobility, this year we have also decided to include the texts of some of the IPB teachers who were given a grant within the Lifelong Learning Programme-Erasmus Mobility for Teachers during the last two years and thus delivered lectures in several European partner universities. Isabel Chumbo went to the University of Zagreb in 2012 and there she gave a lecture under the title: "Translators censoring Propaganda – a case study on the translation of Salazar's speeches into English". The author presents a very insightful analysis of translation as a propaganda tool during the dictatorial regime of António Oliveira Salazar (1932-68) in Portugal. Elisabete Silva went to the Riga Teacher Training and Educational Management Academy, Latvia, in May 2011 where she delivered a lecture on Isaiah Berlin, born in Riga, highlighting the man and the intellectual and focusing on the importance of education as a valuable asset in a person's life. 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Guerre et Exil chez Louis-Ferdinand Céline http://hdl.handle.net/10198/8578 Título: Guerre et Exil chez Louis-Ferdinand Céline Autor: Alves, Ana Maria Resumo: La présente étude a pour objet essentiel les polémiques et accusations à caractère politique, dont Louis-Ferdinand Céline a fait et continue de faire l'objet. D'où l'interrogation sur les causes de la fuite en Allemagne de l'écrivain ainsi que sur sa relation avec les Allemands à l'époque de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. C'est pourquoi, dans un premier temps l'accent est mis sur le contexte de l'époque, afin de mieux percevoir la nature de la position de Céline à travers ses écrits et pamphlets d'un antisémitisme virulent. Le livre évoque ensuite de façon détaillée les différentes étapes de l'exil de Céline, d'abord dans l'Allemagne embrasée de la fin de la guerre, où il choisit de se réfugier le 17 juin 1944, puis au Danemark (1945-1951), d'où il devra répondre aux accusations de trahison formulées contre lui par la justice française, avant son retour en France et une réhabilitation tardive. Les écrits qui forment le corpus de l'étude portent l'empreinte profonde de l'expérience amère et cruelle de l'exil. Malgré un cheminement tortueux, qui lui confère une aura d'écrivain « maudit », Céline demeure, aujourd'hui, l'un des génies de la littérature française du XXème siècle. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Teaching Crossroads: 8th IPB Erasmus Week http://hdl.handle.net/10198/8350 Título: Teaching Crossroads: 8th IPB Erasmus Week Autor: Silva, Elisabete (Ed.); Pais, Clarisse (Ed.); Pais, L.S. (Ed.) Resumo: We are proud to present the second number of Teaching Crossroads, within the 8th IPB Erasmus week which took place in May 2012. This publication is the result of the papers delivered during our Erasmus Week that is becoming increasingly popular among teaching and non-teaching staff from several Erasmus partner Universities. Similarly to last year, we are continuing the publication of Teaching Crossroads whose main purpose is to reach students and teaching staff of the IPB (Polytechnic Institute of Bragança) and of other IPB partner universities. With this in view, the authors also made an attempt to present material in a manner which can be readily grasped by students and non-specialists. Likewise, we also believe it is important to have a written register of what is being studied by some researchers in Europe and make it available to students. Bearing in mind the open spirit of this publication, everyone is invited to participate with their papers delivered during the Erasmus Week at the IPB. The result was pleasantly rewarding as we had enthusiastic participants who very willingly made their texts available for publication. The organisation of the Erasmus week has been a tradition since started in 2005 aiming at a more efficient collaboration with our European partners so that they would become more familiar with the IPB campus, its schools, the city and the region. During the IPB Erasmus Week, the Institute organises teaching and staff training (STT) and the seminars arranged under Staff Teaching Assignment (STA) that are scheduled and introduced in the regular timetable of Bachelors and Masters' degrees classes. Having now participated in the Erasmus mobility programme for more than twelve years, the IPB is acknowledged as one of the Portuguese institutions that promotes students and teaching mobility the most, positioning IPB on the top of the European HEIs and on a high level in the current international scene. The review of these articles has been thorough, yet some unexpected flaws may still occur. Nevertheless, the content of the texts remains intact, without distorting the aims of the texts, and the references are the authors' own responsibility. Therefore, we accept no liabilities for any error or theoretical inconsistency or any missing information. The research areas are quite multidisciplinary, touching on areas as different as business sciences and law, agricultural sciences and natural resources, chemistry, multimedia and education. These areas comply with the areas of study that the IPB has on offer. This publication is hence rather beneficial for our students, as well as teachers and researchers. Ziemowit Kukulski, with his customary precision, expands on a topic that is truly current and relevant nowadays: 'The elimination of double taxation in juridical sense from Polish perspective'. Notwithstanding the fact that the study focused on a particular country, the author is also concerned with comparing both the Polish and the Portuguese juridical taxation framework. Rosa Vásquez presents a study on how the environment plays an important role in the economy and can contribute to making the business sector more dynamic. Emphasising the importance of state policies that affect the environment, her text outlines the different instruments available to public administration in order to enable environmental control of productive activities and promote good conduct in favour of environmental conservation. Bodgan Vlad Avarvarei presents the results of an analysis of commodity for some yoghurt assortments sold on Iasi market, in Romania. The author also aims to inform the consumers regarding not only all the information which must be marked on, such as fat content, nutritive value, shelf life, storage temperature, etc., but also to give some hints on the product design. Mario de la Fuente Lloreda gives a lesson on different ways of Spanish viticulture, exposing examples of one of the most emblematic D.O. (denominación de origen, i.e. protected designation of origin) quality brands and their evolution up to today. Igor Barényi's text delves into spectral analysis, focusing on the description of several spectroscopic methods to examine chemical composition of metal and alloys. Esteban Galán-Cubillo takes us on a tour to the use of systems of virtual scenography, along with the use of other digital technologies. Cláudia Martins's text gives us a very insightful glimpse on Portuguese meteorological adages and proverbs bearing the highly suggestive title 'Nine months of winter, three months of scorching hell'. Besides that, the author also presents a thorough linguistic explanation on fixed language, ranging from collocations to idiomatic expressions, based on several keynote authors, with a particular focus on pragmatic phrases, i.e. proverbs and adages. Jan Michalko makes an introduction to Cyber Space Economics and its relevance for such an important area as education or even training of citizens as it is in the case of public services for increasing levels of e-government. The author also emphasises the importance of Internet applications that provide a number of opportunities for education, communication and business. Slawomir Sztajer presents a deep reflection on religion, establishing a link between cognition and religion. The author expands on this new approach of religion, explaining and interpreting religious phenomena from the perspective of cognitive science. The ingredients for a gainful and stimulating reading are now served. We hope that this publication works for the interest of many students and teachers who find here information for their own studies and learn a bit more about the countries referred to here, sharing learning experiences and scientific knowledge, as well as cultural heritage. That is also the essence of the Erasmus programme. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z