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A court victory in the GEICO case brings relief, but maybe not for long.
Despite a key win in court yesterday against auto insurance giant GEICO, Google's trademark-related legal battles are not yet over, and individual advertisers can still be held accountable for trademark violations in search engine ads.
Federal judge Leonie Brinkema ruled Wednesday in an oral decision that Google's policy to allow ads to be triggered by trademarked keywords can continue. She continued the case indefinitely to put the decision in writing, urging the two sides to settle their disagreement on the remaining issues of the case, which involve Google advertisers using trademarks within the text of their ads.
Since yesterday's decision is only based on the facts of this case, other pending cases, including one by American Blind & Wallpaper Factory, will not be affected by this ruling.
"Judges in other cases are absolutely not bound by this ruling. This is not binding precedent on anything other than this case," said Martin Schwimmer, a noted trademark attorney.
In fact, since the judge had ruled on two other occasions to allow GEICO to pursue trademark infringement and other claims against Google for its practices, the only thing that yesterday's ruling reflects is that the judge felt GEICO failed to present enough evidence of confusion involving GEICO's brand name, said David A. Rammelt, an attorney representing American Blinds in its case.
"I don't think yesterday's ruling has much precedential value beyond the specific facts of that case," Rammelt said. "The judge did not make any sort of sweeping declaration that Google's AdWords program is legal or that Google may sell other companies' trademarks for Google's own profit."
This leaves the door open for GEICO to pursue lawsuits against other search engines or individual advertisers, and for other trademark owners to sue Google.
"GEICO will continue to aggressively enforce its trademark rights against purchasers of its trademark on search engines and against search engines that continue to sell its trademarks," said Charles Davies, GEICO general counsel. "We continue to believe that the sale of GEICO's trademarks to its competitors is wrong and a violation of federal and state law and look forward to litigating that issue in future cases."
GEICO had argued that allowing competitor's sponsored links to appear next to search results when a user typed in "GEICO" or "GEICO Direct" was confusing to consumers, and infringed upon GEICO's trademarks, but the judge disagreed. "There is no evidence that that activity alone causes confusion," Brinkema said yesterday.
The judge's decision only addressed the direct infringement issues -- things Google did -- not the indirect issues concerning what Google allowed third parties to do, according to Schwimmer. He said the chances of Google being held accountable for the actions of advertisers was slim, based on legal precedents.
"Publishers will be held liable under the somewhat unusual circumstances that they don't take action after they are placed on notice," Schwimmer said. "It's always conceivable that someone can be held contributarily liable for something an advertiser does, but it would have to be pretty extreme that someone like Google was held liable, given they have a well developed and active policing program."
Google's trademark policy leaves individual trademark disputes to be worked out between the trademark holder and individual advertisers. It will "perform a limited investigation of reasonable complaints," the policy states. Overture, which settled its portion of the GEICO suit two weeks ago, has a similar trademark policy.
The potential for litigation, as well as other potential negative impacts, leads many search engine marketers to advise clients against purchasing trademarked keywords or using them within their ads, said Melissa Burgess, director of business development at SEM firm Impaqt.
"We highly advise our clients not to buy a competitor's keyword. It's not something that is in the best interest of our clients," she said. "We do encourage them to purchase their own trademarks as search terms to protect them."
A company owning its own trademarks helps ensure that it, and not its competitors or affiliates, gets the traffic from searchers who are farther along the buying cycle, when they tend to narrow their searches with specific brand names, or model names and numbers, Burgess said.
She notes that a PPC search campaign should include broad keywords, such as "laptop," more specific keywords like "Sony laptop," and finally precise keywords like "Sony VAIO 500." This would help deliver buyers who are in various stages of research and buying readiness, she said.
"This helps you get the branding impact, and helps you down through the purchase cycle when someone knows the exact make and model they're interested in," Burgess said. "You go broad to get visibility and brand awareness, but you're going to get higher conversions from the specific terms."
Though Burgess' opinion is shared by many search engine marketers, a recent study by comScore and Overture finds that most people don't even get to the point of searching by manufacturer or product name. The report also revealed that broad search terms that do not include a manufacturer name account for 70 percent of total search volume, and 60 percent of all conversions. Trademark searches, meanwhile, accounted for 20 percent of all online searches.
Kevin Newcomb joined ClickZ in August 2004, covering search marketing and other online marketing topics. He has been reporting on web-based businesses since 2000.
Before the bubble burst, Kevin was a marketing manager for an online computer reseller, handling copywriting, e-mail marketing, search marketing and running the affiliate program.
With a combination of real-world marketing experience and years of business journalism, Kevin brings to ClickZ a unique ability to deliver news and training materials that help online marketers do their jobs better.
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The office of Clerk of Orphans' Court Bradley C. Jacobs issued the following marriage licenses:
Guy Marshall and Karen Davis, both of Spring Grove.
Travis Moody and Joelle McElyea, both of Lewisberry.
Jody Gordon Jr. and Etiene Haas, both of York.
Dakota Bollinger and Krista Warner, both of Spring Grove.
Paul Lighty and Amy Taylor, both of Wellsville.
Edward Sweeney and Elizabeth Boyer, both of York.
David Keeny and Joanne Hunt, both of Newberry Township.
Steven Dehoff and Debra Sellers, both of York.
Raul Garcia Garcia and Maria Fajardo Diaz, both of Hanover.
Lloyd Tillman and Courtney Gembe, both of Red Lion.
Michael Duerr and Julie Stein, both of Manchester.
Joseph Plaskin and Gwendolin Wilson, both of Dallastown.
Kody Krannebitter and Meghan Muller, both of Baltimore.
Joe Frey, Windsor, and Lisa Smith, Brogue.
Robert Silverman Jr. and Emily Ness, both of York.
Sean Barry, Glenshaw, Allegheny County, and Amanda Rock, Cockeysville, Md.
Wallace Wolf Jr. and Rae Llewellyn, both of Hanover.
Stephen Smith Jr. and Lindsey Stough, both of York.
Daniel Laucks and Jessica Newell, both of Spring Grove.
Steven Kohne and Mary Beth Landis, both of York.
German Oropeza and Sara Serrano Oquendo, both of York.
Chad Walker and Shannon O'Malley, both of Dover.
Stanley Knaub and Kathleen Cramer, both of York.
Wayne Beck Jr. and Kimberly Triplett, both of York Haven.
Shanon Sweeney and Kristen Hlavacik, both of York.
Alexander Caralle III and Leigh Gibble, both of Jacobus.
Steven Cole and Candice Willis, both of Newberry Township.
Gerald Thomas and Lucretia Ricks, both of Philadelphia.
Christopher Deitrick and Brittany Kitts, both of Mount Wolf.
Dallas Elliott and Bethany Fissel, both of Spring Grove.
David Shoop and Brianne Kuhn, both of York.
Charles Kinney III and Lauren Gentzler, both of York.
Michael Kohler, Hanover, and Leah Shaffer, Yoe.
Dale Hawkes, Felton, nd Dawn Bortner, Windsor.
David Lewis and Amanda Clemens, both of Owings Mills, Md.
James Siddle IV, Newberry Township, and Elizabeth Laforme, York Haven.
Jere Walker and Marcia Boettcher, both of Manchester.
Shawn McCabe and Rebekah Basler, both of Montclair, N.J.
Robert Emig and Heather Shearer, both of Dover.
Donald Mueller Jr. and Christina Mueller, both of Dallastown.
Jamin Miller and Bethany Neff, both of Dover.
Jesse Trout and Jaimie Kowalsky, both of York.
Mark Maldonado and Mandie Reibold, both of York.
John Shannon Jr. and Janelle Hobbs, both of Wrightsville.
Gregory Becker, York, and Dawn Wolford, Littlestown, Adams County.
John Ziats and Denise Wolf, both of Dallastown.
Jose Alvarez-Benitez and Ideliza Gonzalez-Garcia, both of York.
Brandon Smith and Brittany Waltz, both of York.
Kennedy Alajemba and Daisy Flores, both of York.
William Burkins, Red Lion, and Kathy Bare, York.
Jeffry Mummert and Tiffany Hazard, both of Hanover.
Steve Kramer and Jennifer Kerr, both of York.
Peter Lee and Hong Zhang, both of Delta.
Peter Lehmayer and Jordan Willis, both of Arlington, Va.
Paul Kendrick and Rebecca Asch, both of Baltimore.
Todd McCarrey and Vanessa Lindsey, both of York.
Douglas Leese Jr. and Andria Williams, both of Hanover.
Nickolas Siegfried and Jacklynn Sennett, both of York.
Zachery Strausbaugh, Dover, and Rachel Musser, East Berlin.
Vernon Smith and Judy Albert, both of Dover.


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Anila Asghar
Anila Asghar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University. Prior to joining McGill she was an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Education. Her research focuses on the complex interactions among Islam, modern science, culture, and education. She focuses this interest more specifically on the conflicted, and conciliatory, relationship between evolutionary science and religious interpretations in predominantly Muslim societies. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative methods she is examining, comparing, and contrasting various trends and methodological issues across diverse Islamic cultures and communities. She has also been looking at science education reform in diverse contexts in her research. She received her doctorate in Education from Harvard University and did postdoctoral research at the Evolution Education Research Center at McGill University.
Johan Braeckman
Johan Braeckman studied philosophy at Ghent University, Human Ecology at the Free University of Brussels and Environmental History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His doctoral thesis was on the influence of the theory of evolution on philosophy. He published books on Darwin and evolutionary biology; cloning; the history of philosophy, critical thinking and bioethics, as well as various articles in peer reviewed journals. At Ghent University, Johan Braeckman teaches courses on the history of philosophy, the history of biology and philosophical anthropology. He has also taught a course on bioethics at Amsterdam University, the Netherlands. At Ghent University he is co-director of the research group The Moral Brain. Johan Braeckman is also an active member of the Flemish skeptical organisation SKEPP.
Chris French
Professor Chris French is the Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the Psychology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, as well as being a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association, a member of the Scientific and Professional Advisory Board of the British False Memory Society, and a Director of the Centre for Inquiry UK. His main current area of research is the psychology of paranormal beliefs and anomalous experiences. He frequently appears on radio and television casting a sceptical eye over paranormal claims, as well as writing for the Guardian's online science pages. For more than a decade, he edited of The Skeptic and he co-edited, with Wendy Grossman, Why Statues Weep: The Best of The Skeptic (London: The Philosophy Press).
Luigi Garlaschelli
Luigi Garlaschelli teaches chemistry at the Università di Pavia (Italy) and is research director of CICAP, the Italian skeptics group. He has done major investigative work on claims of miracles. His duplication in the lab of the blood of St. Januarius, published in Nature in 1993, made worldwide news. He has investigated and duplicated weeping madonnas and other religious relics, including the Shroud of Turin (on which he wrote a book, and in October 2009 revealed a major experiment during CICAP's 20th Anniversary Congress; see SI, January/February 2010). He is also expected to publish soon an investigation on the supposed miracles of Lourdes. Apart from miracles, as a chemist he has investigated and challenged homeopathy and many other pseudoscientific claims. From the late India skeptic Premanand he learned how to be a fakir, and during lectures and TV shows he frequently performs fakir stunts. He has helped in the investigation of dozens of psychics, both in the lab and out.
Dittmar Graf
Dittmar Graf, born in 1955, Professor of Biology and Biology Didactics at the University of Dortmund, Germany. Editor for biology and co-editor of the journal "Der mathematische und naturwissenschaftliche Unterricht". Current books: Evolutionstheorie – Akzeptanz und Vermittlung im europäischen Vergleich (editor); Evolutionsbiologie: Moderne Themen für den Unterricht (co-editor). Member of the scientific advisory board of GWUP
Harriet Hall
Harriet Hall, MD, aka "The SkepDoc," is a retired family physician and former Air Force flight surgeon who writes prolifically about science, critical thinking, alternative medicine, and quackery. She is a CSI fellow, a contributing editor to both Skeptic and Skeptical Inquirer magazines, an editor of the Science-Based Medicine blog, an adviser to the Quackwatch website, a founding fellow of the Institute for Science in Medicine, and is on the editorial review board of the Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database.
Sven Ove Hansson
Sven Ove Hansson is professor in philosophy and head of the Division of Philosophy at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He is editor-in-chief of Theoria. His research areas include philosophy of science, theory of knowledge, and decision theory. He is the author of several books and more than 200 articles in refereed journals. He was the founding chairperson of the Swedish Skeptics (in 1982) and has been a board member ever since then
Holm Hümmler
Holm Hümmler is a Physicist with a degree in Business Administration. He has done research at CERN and Brookhaven National Laboratory, worked for the Boston Consulting Group and now has his own consulting firm, specializing in strategic planning and the management of business uncertainties.
Ray Hyman
Ray Hyman is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Oregon. Prior to obtaining his doctorate in 1953, he worked as a professional magician. His background in magic and his lifelong interest in how smart people can believe in the paranormal prompted him to focus his research on the psychology of deception. He has written books, journal papers and popular articles dealing with how we are fooled. In 1976, he joined with James Randi, Martin Gardner, Paul Kurtz, James Alcock and a few others, to establish the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) which is now known as the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI). At that time this was the first and only national or international organization devoted to evaluating skeptically claims of the paranormal. During his career he has served on several governmental committees investigating allegedly paranormal work involving intelligence, military and other agencies.
Walter Krämer
Walter Krämer is professor of Statistics at the University of Dortmund, Germany. He is the author of more than 200 scientific articles and books, plus several popular bestsellers like "So lügt man mit Statistik" or "Lexikon der populären Irrtümer" (translated into 20 languages with world wide sales beyond one million). His talk will be based on his most recent book "Die Angst der Woche" ("The scare of the week") which is devoted to the scaremongering industry in Germany. Walter Krämer is also a member of the scientific advisory board of GWUP.
Benedikt Matenaer
Benedikt Matenaer, M.D., anaesthesiologist, pain therapist, specialist in palliative care medicine; works in a palliative care unit of a hospital and in own practice; member of the examination board of the medical council Westfalen-Lippe for "palliative care", B-diploma in acupuncture.
Chris Mooney
Chris Mooney is a science and political journalist and commentator and the author of three books, including the New York Times bestselling The Republican War on Science–dubbed "a landmark in contemporary political reporting" by Salon.com and a "well-researched, closely argued and amply referenced indictment of the right wing's assault on science and scientists" by Scientific American–Storm World, and Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future, co-authored by Sheril Kirshenbaum. They also write "The Intersection" blog together for Discover blogs. In addition, Chris is a host of the Point of Inquiry podcast and was recently seen on BBC 2 guest hosting a segment of "The Culture Show."
Simon Perry
Simon Perry runs a web software development company in the UK. In his spare time, he uses his IT skills to fight nonsense claims on the Internet. This has helped in the reporting 500 chiropractors to Trading Standards and the General Chiropractic Council, caused huge annoyance to the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council and organised the reporting of 250 Boots products to the Advertising Standards Authority overnight. He is also the creator of FishBarrel, the Chrome browser plugin that makes it quick and easy to report misleading complaints online. FishBarrel has been responsible for close to 1000 complaints and works with 8 different regulatory bodies in 5 countries.
Massimo Polidoro
Massimo Polidoro, a journalist and writer, is cofounder and head of the Italian skeptics group CICAP. He began his career as an apprentice of James Randi. He is the first professor of Anomalistic Psychology in Italy, at the University of Milano, and the author of over thirty books. Among his works in English are: "Final Séance", on the strange friendship between Houdini and Conan Doyle, and "Secrets of the Psychics", on his investigations among psychics and mediums. He is often called on TV as an expert or a host for shows related to mysteries: his latest series was "Legend Detectives" for Discovery Channel. He is a Research Fellow for CSI and a longtime columnist for its magazine, the "Skeptical Inquirer".
James Randi
James Randi is best known as the world's most tireless investigator and demystifier of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. Randi has pursued "psychic" spoonbenders, exposed the dirty tricks of faith healers, investigated homeopathic water "with a memory," and generally been a thorn in the sides of those who try to pull the wool over the public's eyes in the name of the supernatural. He has received numerous awards and recognitions. He is the author of numerous books, including The Truth About Uri Geller, The Faith Healers, Flim-Flam!, and An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural. His 10th book, A Magician in the Laboratory, is in preparation. In 1996, he established the James Randi Educational Foundation. Randi's long-standing challenge to psychics now stands as a $1,000,000 prize administered by the Foundation. It remains unclaimed.
Gita Sahgal
Gita Sahgal is the Director of the Centre for Secular Space and has campaigned against fundamentalism in all religions. She has made numerous and prize-winning documentaries on women's rights and on war crimes in Bangladesh.
Eugenie Scott
Eugenie C. Scott, PhD, an internationally known expert on the creationism and evolution controversy, is the executive director of the National Center for Science Education. She is the author of Evolution vs Creationism and co-editor, with Glenn Branch, of Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design Is Wrong for Our Schools.
Simon Singh
Simon Singh is an author, journalist and TV producer, specialising in science and mathematics. His latest book is Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial, which he has co-authored with Edzard Ernst, the world's first professor of complementary medicine. He is also the author of Big Bang and a history of cosmology, (details here). In 1996, he made a BBC documentary about Fermat's Last Theorem, and later published a book on the subject – the first mathematical book to be a UK No.1 bestseller. He is also author of The Code Book, a history of codes and code breaking from Ancient Egypt to the Internet.
Samantha Stein
Samantha Stein is the founder and director of Camp Quest UK (CQUK), a secular summer camp that promotes science, philosophy and critical thinking amongst young people aged 9-16. Samantha studied Psychology at York University and Religion in Contemporary Society at Kings College London during which time she wrote her thesis on the rise of organised irreligion in the Western world. In 2010 she was awarded a special award from the National Secular Society for her work on Camp Quest UK.
Kylie Sturgess
Kylie Sturgess is the host of the Token Skeptic podcast and regularly writes editorial for numerous publications and CSICOP's 'Curiouser and Curiouser' online column. An award-winning Philosophy teacher with over ten years experience in education, she has lectured on teaching critical thinking and anomalistic beliefs worldwide.
Rebecca Watson
Rebecca leads a team of skeptical activists on the Skepchick Network, which includes Skepchick.org, Teen Skepchick, Swedish Skepchick, Esceptica, and Mad Art Lab. She also co-hosts the weekly Skeptics' Guide to the Universe radio show and podcast. She travels around the world delivering entertaining talks on science, atheism, feminism, and skepticism. There is currently an asteroid orbiting the sun with her name on it
Jürgen Windeler
Professor Jürgen Windeler is the Director of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Healthcare IQWiG, an independent scientific institute that investigates the benefits and harms of medical interventions for patients and informs about the potential advantages and disadvantages of different diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.
Tomasz Witkowski
Tomasz Witkowski is a psychologist and science writer. He is the founder of the Polish Skeptics Club, and specializes in debunking pseudoscience, particularly in the field of social science, psychotherapy, and diagnosis. He is the author of 7 books including "Forbidden psychology. Between charlatanism and science". As an expert in science-pseudoscience issues, he is frequently called by the media to comment on frauds and abuses witnessed in psychology, psychotherapy and other areas of scientific activity. He is also co-author of the "Open letter in defense of reason" addressed to the Polish Government.


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Iowa's 2012 Schedule
September 1 – Northern Illinois
September 8 – Iowa State
September 15 – Northern Iowa
September 22 – Central Michigan
September 29 – Minnesota
October 13 – at Michigan State
October 20 – Penn State
October 27 – at Northwestern
November 3 – at Indiana
November 10 – Purdue
November 17 – at Michigan
November 23 – Nebraska
The Iowa Hawkeyes finished the 2011 season with a 7-6 record following a loss to Oklahoma in the Insight Bowl. The Hawkeyes went 4-4 in the Big Ten last season and look to improve on the mark with 40 players returning (19 – offense, 18 – defense, 3 – special teams).
James Vandenberg returns for his senior season in Iowa City following throwing for 3,022 yards and 25 touchdowns a year ago. While Vandenberg returns, the Hawkeyes lost running back Marcus Coker. Coker ran for over 1,300 yards and 15 touchdowns. Iowa also lost Marvin McNutt, the top wide receiver for the Hawkeyes, who caught 82 passes for 1,315 yards and 12 touchdowns last season.
Iowa's non-conference schedule includes games against Northern Illinois, Iowa State, Northern Iowa and Central Michigan. The Hawkeyes open the conference season against Minnesota, road games against Michigan State, Northwestern and Michigan.
The Heroes Game between Iowa and Nebraska is set for November 23 at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City.


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Most people wouldn't consider losing a million in revenue an effective way to run a business. Matt Eisenhower isn't one of those people. For him and other caregivers at PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center, this is a new way to define success. Matt is Program Manager for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Grant awarded to PeaceHealth Ketchikan in 2012. His work is part of a dramatic philosophical change in health care delivery that has successfully saved local patients about $1.5 million in the last year and a half. Payments to PeaceHealth are down 14 percent, hospital readmissions between two and four months after discharge are down 65 percent, and there is improvement in patients with chronic conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure. While at first glance it may look as if Matt's job is to decrease revenue for PeaceHealth Ketchikan, the real purpose is to find innovative ways to provide better care, which leads to better health, resulting in lower costs. "Hospital-based health care costs continue to go up, and the way insurance companies and government pays for this care is changing dramatically," Matt says. "For decades, American health care payment models have been heavily weighted toward fixing problems in the hospital setting. This has been the emphasis of health care, and it's what primarily drives health care payments now. We are on the cutting edge of developing different models that reward hospitals and clinics for effective preventive care." The centerpiece of the grant is care coordination, which provides ongoing care and contact with patients who have been discharged from the hospital or who live with a chronic disease. New staff has been hired to implement the program. Through the three-year, $3.5. million grant, PeaceHealth Ketchikan has hired three registered nurses, a licensed practical nurse, a social worker, a clinical educator, a nurse practitioner, and a manager. Ten other positions are partially funded through the grant. Here's how it works: When patients leave the hospital and return home, a nurse or the social worker calls to talk about the patient's progress and answer any questions. This care coordinator asks questions too and, most important, listens. Earlier this year, a patient remarked in conversation that there was some warmth near the surgical site and that the patient planned to tell the surgeon during a follow-up appointment the next week. Instead, because of care coordination, that patient was seen almost immediately, and what could have become a major infection was an easily treatable condition. In the last quarter of 2013, about 70 percent of the more than 525 patients discharged were contacted. Intervention at that time resulted in an approximate decrease of percent of immediate readmissions. "What that means," says Matt, "is that three or four patients every month were not returning to the hospital." For people with chronic conditions like diabetes or congestive heart failure, a care coordinator helps monitor their condition, makes appointments, and otherwise helps overcome hurdles to care. It's no secret that some people avoid colonoscopies and mammograms. With the encouragement of care coordinators, more people are being reassured that the tests aren't horrible (they really aren't) and are being screened for breast cancer and colorectal cancer. Particularly encouraging is a big uptick in immunizations. From a baseline of 55 percent in November 2012, 85 percent of people now have the appropriate immunizations. But what about all that lost revenue? Matt has the answer. "This is what we celebrate," he says. "It's not about revenue alone, but about healthier people and fewer people in the hospital. This is deep in the DNA of PeaceHealth and the people who work here. This is good medicine, it's the right thing to do, and ultimately the path toward balancing revenue and costs by reducing unnecessary return trips to the hospital for expensive care."


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It's no secret that since the beginning of GENERATION LOST, Maxwell Lord has been plotting something extreme against the Justice League.
The Secret Origin of Hot Pursuit
When Hot Pursuit first appeared in the pages of THE FLASH earlier this year, his identity was a mystery. If you haven't been reading the series and haven't already learned who Hot Pursuit really is, we recommend you stop reading this blog post now. OK, still reading?
The Dinosaurs are Magical!? Better call Zatanna...
Superman and Power Girl's battle against dinosaurs in NYC takes a grave twist when they discover these aren't just normal dinosaurs - they're magical dinosaurs. Luckily, Power Girl has a magician on speed-dial. Not-so-luckily it seems that Zatanna isn't able to answer the phone at this moment...
Huntress and Catman Kiss
Romance is in the air for Huntress and Catman as they share a passionate kiss while on a night on the town – which of course for them means fighting bad guys and trying to rescue an asthmatic hostage. But will a major reveal about Catman's past change everything?
An Ominous First Look At The Last issue of THE FLASH
THE ROAD TO FLASHPOINT storyline concludes in THE FLASH #12, the series' final issue. Here's the very first look at Francis Portela's variant cover, which is sure to raise a lot of questions about the series' finale.


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Monday June 30, 2014 Rest of Gators' 2014 signing class on campus and enrolled in classes
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- The Gators report to fall camp on Aug. 3 and the good news is that every member of the latest recruiting class is already on campus.
The final 14 signees from the 2014 recruiting class are enrolled in Summer B classes and participating in offseason workouts and conditioning drills.
Defensive lineman Gerald Willis enrolled in Summer A and has been on campus for the last six weeks.
In addition, the Gators have added five preferred walk-ons in the latest batch of players to join the program.
The latest wave of players follows the early arrival in January of nine members of the 2014 signing class who enrolled in the spring semester.
Here is a look at the Gators' newest players and their jersey numbers and latest measurements:
Summer B enrollees
(54)--Khairi Clark, DT, 6-2, 308, Hollywood Chaminade-Madonna
(52)--Travaris Dorsey, OL, 6-2, 333, Jacksonville Raines
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I was more impatient to finish this book and actually found myself fast-forwarding a few sections. I loved the first book and think the storyline is great.
The author is writing about things he clearly doesn't understand, such as blended families. So sometimes he gets into directions that don't work or fails to arrive to the natural conclusion. You could say some of it is necessary for his story line timing but other times it's bad writing.
Author keeps putting lengthy flash-backs smack in front of key story line events in order to develop characters.
Some characters repeatedly admonish themselves word-for-word the same way. This poor writing is aggravating.
I clearly get the feeling 'Left Behind' established a recipe and this series is simply trying to cash-in on that recipe.
The whole book only advances a couple of days, my goodness he needs to have a better follow up that this. And I wish the characters would stop talking to themselves after every sentence. I would have thrown this across the room if I was reading it.
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'Pre-Incan remains' discovered in Peru burial site
A burial site dating back about 3,000 years has been found in Peru, containing remains believed to be from a pre-Incan culture.
The discovery made in Cusco was announced on Friday. The site contained the remains of one child, an adolescent, and two adults. Archeologists believe the remains are from the Marcavalle culture.
They believe the remains found are from the pre-Incan Marcavalle culture.
Also found at the site, belonging to around 1,000 B.C., were ancient artifacts, including tools made from obsidian and camelid bones, ceramic fragments bearing artistic motifs known to be associated with the Marcavalle culture, and beaded necklaces.
Archaeologists say what lends significance to the discovery is that no human remains dating back to the Marcavalle culture have ever been found before.
The burial site, which contained two double graves and one single grave, was found on land owned by a Cusco center for juvenile rehabilitation.


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OC Music Awards Announces Live Showcase Series Lineup
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Assuming the Mayan's apocalyptic predictions are a little off, we'll all be around to catch the next round of OC Music Awards goodness next year, starting with their eight-week stint of annual live showcases to decide the winner of OC's best live band. Today, the OCMA's announced the lineups for each of the shows. The process for picking the bands came after month of submissions from bands all around the county--in the end, 35 were chosen. The fun starts on Jan. 8 at Detroit Bar, where Fellow Bohemian, Alabaster Stones, Flying Sparks, Robert Jon & the Wreck and the Field Trip will perform on stage vie for your affections. All showcases are free and occur every Tuesday until the finale at the House of Blues Anaheim on Feb. 26. The venues range from ages and 18-and-over clubs to bars that are 21-and-over. See the full schedule after the jump.
See Also:Jan. 15: Annie McQueen, Becky Holt, Cherokee Fade, Alice Wallace and Justin Soileau perform at the District at Tustin Legacy.
Jan. 22: Anna Vexa, Snakebit Drifters, Friction Reform, Beneath the Buried and Death Hymn Number 9 perform the Slidebar Rock-N-Roll Kitchen in Fullerton.
Jan. 29: Nilu, Golden Afternoon, Lowly Spects, Preacher's Sons and Moonsville Collective perform at the Constellation Room in Santa Ana.
Feb. 5: Solution, 80 Proof, Seven Year War, Headshine, Wheeland Brothers perform at the Tiki Bar in Costa Mesa.
Feb. 12: Breach the Summit, the Devious Means, Jeramiah Red, Standing Hawthorn and Midnight Hour will play Founder's Hall at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa.
Feb. 19: Brother C & Sister J, Electro City, the Kettle Drivers, Time and Energy and Decode Radio perform in the upstairs room at the Yost Theater in Santa Ana.
Feb. 26: The five finalists from the showcases will perform at House of Blues Anaheim.
One important thing to note: Unlike previous series, when showcases were split into two categories (best live acoustic and best live band), this year all artists will compete for one title: best live band.
Each showcase will be hosted by a DJ from partner KROQ/106.7 FM, with artists judged by a small group of handpicked judges (including your faithful music editor), who will score on musicianship, originality, song composition, stage presence and crowd size. At the end of it all, the winner will receive a hefty prize, which we don't have any details on yet. In the past it's been everything from Recording time at Red Bull Studios to opening slots on the Vans Warped Tour. The winner will be publicly announced at the OC Music Awards on March 9 at the City National Grove of Anaheim. For more details on the showcases and the awards ceremony, visit their website.
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The original in the Tirta Mertha family, this hotel is a bit of a gaudy throwback to the past with an abundance of concrete shaped into trees and other objects and painted turquoise and brown. It really does nothing for the aesthetic appeal of the place, but one can overlook this lack of taste when offered rooms as cheap as they are here. For your money you get a big clean room with spring bed, threadbare sheets, local TV straight out of the 1980s, a spacious bathroom with scalding hot spring water-fed bath and a Western toilet sans toilet seat. It's certainly a budget joint, but does the job just fine. Towel and soap not included.
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Threat of eutrophication to the Baltic Ecoregion
A widespread and persistent problem
Eutrophication it is a process where bodies of water, such as lakes, estuaries, or slow-moving streams, receive excess nutrients that stimulate excessive plant growth.
This enhanced plant growth, often called an algal bloom, reduces dissolved oxygen in the water. This affects the ecosystem and might change it totally.
About 80% of all nutrients in the sea come from land-based activities, including sewage, industrial and municipal waste and agricultural run-off. The rest is mainly from nitrous gasses, emitted when burning fossil fuels, from traffic, industry, power generation and heating
The Baltic Sea contains 800% more phosphorus than it did 100 years ago
There are two main nutrients causing eutrophication, nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). They are deposited to the sea in several different ways. In 2000, about 660,000 tonnes of nitrogen and 28,000 tonnes of phosphorus entered the Baltic Sea via rivers. The Baltic Sea now contains four times as much nitrogen and eight times as much phosphorus as it did in the early 1900s. Five large rivers – the Neva, Nemunas, Daugava,Vistula, and Oder – together account for the majority of the nutrient loads entering the Baltic Sea. Although a decline in the nutrient loading has been observed in recent years, little change in eutrophic effects has been recorded in the Baltic Sea.
The expected development of agriculture in the new EU countries around the Baltic Sea will worsen the conditions measurably if no measures are taken to reduce the harmful effects of nutrient losses.
Global warming a contributor
Global warming is also stimulating eutrophication as higher temperatures in the Baltic Sea region increases the decomposition rates of the algae, compounding the effects of the nutrients.
Ecological effects of eutrophication
The imbalance caused by the abundance of nutrients has led to numerous changes in the ecological composition and state of the Baltic Sea. Certain plants and animals thrive, enabling them to increase in number and geographic spread, frequently at the expense of other species.
Some of the negative effects of the nutrient overload of the past century are:
- excessive growth of plants and algae – there has been an increase in primary production by 30-70%. Annuals such as green and brown filamentous algae have grown at the expense of the perennial bladder wrack, which in turn has had severe impacts on the littoral ecosystem
- algal blooms, some of them even toxic, are a frequent phenomenon in the Baltic every summer
- a decrease in water transparency by 2.5-3 metres as a result of the increase in biomass, e.g. an increase in zooplankton by 25%
- changes in fish species composition. Economically less valuable freshwater fish species are thriving and cod is severely affected
- a decrease in numbers and spread of predatory fish, such as pike, in coastal waters.
State support for drainage and regulation of rivers and the construction of dams have been the key reasons for loss of these natural features. The changes have been driven by demands for additional land for farming, protection from flooding and a growing demand for electricity. The lack of market or regulatory mechanisms for assigning value to wetland functions is a major root cause for the loss of ecological functions.
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Efforts have been made to limit the production of algae and reverse the development of a eutrophied Baltic. Major investments have been made in Waste water treatment plants and industrial production. But the main problems are now non-point sources – mainly run-off from agriculture.


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Two prophets, in music, of suffering and redemption.
Sep 12, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 48 • By ALGIS VALIUNAS
There was much to celebrate and much to mourn in Mahler's life. Genius like his is a rare privilege, and it has its perquisites. Thomas Mann, who was not inclined to acknowledge superiors, found himself tongue-tied in Mahler's presence, and inscribed a gift copy of a novel of his to "a man who seems to me to embody the most serious and sacred artistic purpose of our time." Mahler was not only one of the most celebrated but also one of the best-paid musicians of his day: At 41 he married the 22-year-old Alma Schindler, a famous beauty said to work erotic sorcery. But five years later he would resign from the Vienna Opera under duress, lose a cherished daughter to diphtheria, and receive the diagnosis of a potentially fatal heart condition. In the last year of his life, Alma took up with the handsome young architect Walter Gropius.
"There is not one spot on your body that I would not like to caress with my tongue," she wrote to Gropius. One can be quite sure that not one spot went uncaressed. When Mahler discovered the affair, he was devastated. But the pains of love did not last long. He contracted subacute bacterial endocarditis in 1910 and died a few months later.
There are two ways of understanding Mahler's music. One of them is a common misunderstanding. In Why Mahler? Norman Lebrecht, a critic who has lived with Mahler about as long and as intimately as anyone going, discerns his hero's signal innovation as "the application of irony in a musical score." Lebrecht cites Samuel Johnson's definition of irony: "a mode of speech in which the meaning is contrary to the words." In more up-to-date parlance, what is said is different from what is meant. Composers before Mahler, Lebrecht says, kept the emotions they described or evoked clear and simple and discrete: Joy was unambiguously radiant, sorrow was draped in mourning, and there could be no confounding beauty with ugliness. Mahler changed all that, Lebrecht rightly states, but he did not change it in quite the way Le-brecht would have it.
Mahler's First Symphony opens with the softest sounds of pastoral, even Edenic, gentleness, as though a warmhearted Creator were fashioning a world from His boundless love. Yet one hears presently some of the agony in beauty, the inescapable pain in being alive. Pain of this order is an essential Mahlerian feature. So is the thunderous grandeur that ends the first movement. The second movement is a Ländler, an Austrian folk dance in which bubbling woodwinds make merry, though a gay Viennese urbanity seems more prominent than peasant jollity. So far, the shifts in mood and blends of style indicate a certain aesthetic novelty, but it is with the third movement that things get harum-scarum. A funeral march to the folk tune Bruder Martin (or Frère Jacques) in the minor mode, with a reiterated marcato fillip that rings like a comic slap to the head, had some first-night concertgoers and critics howling abomination.
Not a few listeners, Vienna being what it was, howled Jewish abomination: There were, after all, echoes of klezmer music, played by small bands and popular at Jewish weddings, and some found such stuff low-rent and degrading. Mahler certainly gave the audience cause for bafflement. Welcome to modern music, he announced, where antic grotesquerie has its rightful place alongside the tragic or the sublime. With the first notes of the fourth movement, the sublime enjoys a resurgence, as tempest bursts out of nowhere. We are back in the world of Berlioz and Liszt and Alfred de Vigny and Caspar David Friedrich. The grimacing modernist in Mahler's nature cannot suppress his impulse to Romantic magnificence. No other composer, except perhaps Tchaikovsky, dares incite the strings to so melting a rapture as the one that follows the storm. But Tchaikovsky, of course, never caroms from overrich heart-wrung sentiment into sardonic mockery.
That is Mahler's innovation, but it cannot correctly be called ironic music. With "irony" the true meaning is not found on the surface; it broods or rages or smirks underneath, and the aesthetic and moral responsibility of the adept audience is to ferret it out. In the case of Mahler, his meaning lies precisely on the surface; Mahler always means what he says; it's just that what he says out of one side of his mouth jars so violently with what he says out of the other.


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I have issues with what I call trust peddlers. They mail you letters with "New Federal Law!" peeking out through the window. They have wine and cheese seminars (and if you attend, bring a designated driver, eat, drink and be merry, learn, but sign nothing, especially your check or their contract). When there's wine, don't sign. Decline complimentary high-pressure visits to your home. They make you think the sky will fall in if you don't have a Trust. They charge more for a trust than local lawyers. You see them once or twice. They send you a beautiful notebook full of papers you don't understand, and instructions you will never complete. That's it. Their total investment is the wine and cheese (usually Gallo/Kraft) and about 20 minutes of word-processing time on the computer. Their fee is $750 to $5,000. You might get the trust fully funded (everything retitled in the names of the trustees), but you probably won't, meaning there will still be a probate using the pour over will. When you get stuck with both a trust and a probate, one can't be consoled by the fact that many probates cost less than the trusts these guys sell to avoid the dreaded probate.
One trust peddler got caught, and an excerpt from the Bar Bulletin reads: "Several factors in aggravation were found in this proceeding. These factors include your history of prior disciplinary offenses, selfish motive, committing multiple offenses, engaging in deceptive practices in responding to the disciplinary process and your substantial experience in the practice of law."
Why might you need a trust? If you are rich! Now remember, I have previously defined "rich" as net worth over $5.3 million. Everybody know net? Your net is what you get after you add all your assets and subtract the debt.
If you are above $5.3M, and if you care how much will be owed from your estate after both you and the wife are deceased (the IRS generally leaves widows and widowers alone on the death of the first spouse ... rather, it nails the kids' inheritance after mom and dad are both gone), then you probably ought to make an appointment with a trust specialist. No, not me. I used to think I was one of the specialists, but about 15 years ago I began to have my doubts and I quit making trusts for the rich. Just simple trusts for me, but I'll tell you who the rich folks' lawyers are, privately. Oh, the tax figure is 40 percent MOL of all over $5.3M. Zero percent of that below.


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September's WASDE report projected the 2013 corn crop at 13.84 billion bushels, which would be a record crop, if realized, and more than a 3 billion bushel increase compared to 2012. The report estimates the 2013 corn yield at 155.3 bushels per acre, up slightly from the prior month's forecast.
"This is a later maturing crop than 2012 so the yield projections become more accurate as the crop becomes ready for harvest," explained Todd Davis, American Farm Bureau Federation economist.
The USDA report predicts 2013-14 corn ending stocks to drastically increase to 1,855 million bushels, from 661 million bushels for 2012-13.
"The U.S. corn market will shift from a 21-day end-of-year supply to a 53-day end-of-year supply. This increase in stocks will cause prices to decline from a marketing-average price of $6.90 per bushel for 2012-13 to a projected $4.80 per bushel in 2013-14," said Davis.
The 2013 U.S. soybean crop is projected at 41.2 bushels per acre. This is down from the August estimate and reduces the projected soybean crop by 36 million bushels from the previous estimate to a 3.15 billion bushel crop for 2013-14.
The 2013-14 soybean ending stocks are expected to sharply decrease from the August estimate, to 150 million bushels. If realized, soybean stocks are projected to increase by only 25 million bushels over the 2012-13 marketing year. Looked at another way, 150 million bushels in stocks equates to about 17 days of soybeans in the grain bins on Sept. 1, 2014.
Even so, the projected marketing-year average price for soybeans is expected to decline from $14.40 per bushel for 2012-13 to $12.50 per bushel for 2013-14, although this estimate is up slightly from the prior month.
Soybean prices will be less connected to corn, in the coming year, according to Davis.
"Market dynamics are changing compared to what farmers have seen over the last three years or so," Davis said.
"Soybean prices have been following the corn market the last three years but are now poised to separate from corn," said Davis. "As corn stocks are projected to increase, the corn price will have limited upside potential as the market has to clear. Soybeans are projected to continue to have tight stocks, which will keep prices high enough to ration use throughout another marketing-year."
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The one-room schoolhouse is alive and well in Alaska
May 30, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 35 • By WILLY STERN
• Pay teachers not to teach. Burch must count his students every year in October to try to reach the magic number of 10 per school. If he is short, the state cuts off funding—for that same school year, which still has eight months to go. That makes it hard on the 9 remaining students. Meanwhile, Alaska law requires Burch to pay the teacher anyway, even if the school is shuttered. "If we count 9 students in October," explains Burch, "I have the dysfunctional privilege of forking out a total salary, benefits, and housing package of $100,000 for the teacher, and then have to explain to the bewildered parents of the remaining 9 students that they aren't entitled to this teacher as I'll have to move him to a different school."
Talk about dysfunctional: Burch is forced to spend far more time fretting over student counts than textbooks, curriculum, faculty, and core educational issues.
• Incentives to hire bad teachers. To find quality staff, Burch must hire teachers in January for the following academic year. But he often doesn't know in January if he will get funded for the following year. That means he must gamble with the students' futures. Burch can hire a first-rate teacher in January but then run the risk of the school being shut down. Or he can wait until summer and, if the school is a go, at the last minute try to hire one from the teaching dregs nobody else wanted. Neither option is a good one.
Of course, the resourceful folks at the Southeast Island School District have adapted to these perverse incentives. They invest in kayaks and mountain bikes. They have wonderful outdoor leadership programs. They do lengthy educational camping trips. They build trails and cabins. They find independent teachers who love the outdoors. How to compete in sports when they cannot even field a soccer team, much less get to another school? No problem. The district has won numerous state championships in archery. (Until the national level, archery meets can be held without travel.) The volleyball team has been known to hitch a ride with a passing fishing vessel to get to an off-island game.
Burch is always selling. "We concentrate on what we do well," he says. "We are able to give individualized instruction with astoundingly low ratios of adults to kids of about 1:3. We have a wonderful place to raise children. We don't have gangs, fights, detention rooms, vandalism, intimidation, or kids afraid to use the bathroom during the school day. We don't have fences, metal detectors, or police in the schools. Yes, the sighting of a buck during hunting season has been known to empty a classroom.
"But parents here can have an impact on the education of their children," Burch continues. "I like to think it's because we care, but it's also because we understand that we're a service provider in a competitive market. It's still a hard slog. Basically and perhaps quite reasonably, nobody much knows we're here." Well, at least now, a few more may know.
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Two die and one arrested as Launceston and Bodmin crashes close Cornwall's A30
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LATEST UPDATE: Police have now issued an appeal for witnesses to the day's second fatal collision on the A30.
Six vehicles were involved in "multiple collisions on both carriageways" near Bolventor, a few miles east of Bodmin, shortly after midday, say police.
The driver of one of three vehicles that collided on the eastbound carriageway was pronounced dead at scene.
Officers are in the process of identifying their next of kin.
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Two occupants of another eastbound vehicle were taken by Devon Air Ambulance to Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. The extent of their injuries is not yet known.
No one was injured when three other vehicles collided on the westbound carriageway.
Devon and Cornwall Police say the eastbound carriageway will continue to be closed for some time but the westbound carriageway is due to be reopened shortly.
The Highways Agency put on diversions to ensure traffic could keep moving locally but delays were experienced due to the earlier collision on the A30 near Launceston.
The central reservation was damaged and is being repaired by the Highways Agency before the road is safe to be reopened.
No-one has been arrested in connection with the incident.
Sergeant Olly Tayler, senior investigating officer, said: "Both carriageways were closed due to the serious nature of the collision and the horrendous weather conditions.
"We understand it has caused some disruption for motorists, particularly as it is a busy weekend prior to Christmas.
"Please be reassured officers and the other emergency services have been working as quickly as possible in these very difficult circumstances.
"The investigation into what caused the collision continues but one line of enquiry is that there was an unexpected exceptional weather event that happened at the time of the collisions in the form of a hail storm.
"Motorists are reminded to drive according to the conditions they are faced with on the roads, particularly with the weather forecast over the next few days."
Anyone who witnessed the collision is asked to call police on 101 quoting log 384 of 22/12/13.
UPDATE 6.30pm: Police have revealed details of the road traffic collision on the A30 near Launceston that saw a pedestrian killed after he was hit by a van and two cars.
Devon and Cornwall Police say a 38-year-old man – who has not yet been formally identified was pronounced dead at the scene.
The man is believed to have been standing on the eastbound carriageway when he was hit by three vehicles.
The male driver of a white Peugeot Boxer van, registered to St Columb Major, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and interviewed by police.
The 50-year-old local man was released on police bail until March 12.
The two other vehicles involved were a blue Peugeot 106, registered to Launceston, and a white Mercedes Sprinter van registered to Newton Abbot, say police.
Paramedics treated the female driver of the Peugeot 106 and both male van drivers for shock.
Both carriageways of the A30 carriageways were both closed while officers from the Serious Collisions Investigation Unit and a body recovery team worked at the scene.
They were kept shut while a fatal injury investigation was carried out. Police are still examining the circumstances that led to the collision.
The westbound carriageway was reopened at around 1pm and the eastbound carriageway was due to reopen at around 6.30pm.
Sergeant Jane Corkhill, from the Serious Collisions Investigation Unit in Plymouth, said: "This was a very challenging and horrific scene for everyone involved. Officers and staff dealing with the collision have been working in incredibly difficult circumstances and have been offered support for dealing with the upsetting nature of this incident."
Anyone who witnessed the collision is asked to call police on 101 quoting log 0218 of 22/12/13.
An incident near Bodmin where another person died following two separate crashes is still ongoing, say police.
Two people are believed to have died in three separate incidents on the A30 today that has led to Cornwall's main arterial route being closed entirely between Bodmin and Launceston.
At around 6am this morning one person died in an horrific incident on the A30 between the Launceston and A388 Lifton turn.
The incident involved a pedestrian and four cars according to people at the scene.
The situation led to Devon and Cornwall Police immediately closing the A30 both ways and setting up a diversion around the area.
Police officers were also making attempts to contact the dead person's next of kin.
Two other collisions on the A30 near the Jamaica Inn Road on Bodmin Moor closed the A30 20 miles west of first crash.
The first, at about 09.30am involved two vehicles. The second, at about 12.10pm, between the A389 Bodmin junction and the A395 Trethorne junction, was declared a major incident and it is believed – although this has not been confirmed – that a person involved in this incident died.
A fire service spokesman said they were alerted to the second Bodmin incident just after noon: "A further call from the police declared it as a Major Incident."
Cornwall Fire and Rescue sent crews from Bodmin, Launceston and Callington to the scene.
These were joined with rescue tenders from Bodmin and Camborne supported by the Command Support Unit from Launceston.
Firefighters used crash rescue equipment at the scene to release casualties and ensuring scene safety. Both South West Ambulance Service and Cornwall Air Ambulance were called to the scene.
An update at 2pm said firefighters were returning to their stations but it is understood the road is still closed as police continue their investigations at both sites.
The closures led to traffic chaos in Launceston as last minute shoppers met huge Christmas getaway tailbacks.
Current diversions start at Carminnow Cross west of Bodmin for eastbound vehicles and at Exeter for westbound vehicles as traffic is funelled onto the A38.
In the last hour there have also been reports of a crash on A38 at Carkeel near Saltash although this is not thought to have closed the road.


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BATON ROUGE- A misdemeanor warrant roundup is underway in Baton Rouge, where the City Constable is trying to whittle away at a stack of more than 100,000 misdemeanor warrants.
Space has been cleared at the city jail to provide room for offenders until their warrants are cleared.
"A warrant is a warrant, and it's just like there's a right and there's a wrong there is no in between if you have a warrant or you don't have a warrant if you've got a warrant then you have a problem if you're not taking care of it," said Major Reginald Brown of the Constable's office.
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Cubs pound Pirates, 12-3May 23, 2008 10:00 PM
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The Chicago Cubs amassed 19 hits -- including four by pitcher Carlos Zambrano -- and routed the Pirates again, 12-3, tonight in front of 32,656 at PNC Park.
The win was the Cubs' ninth in 10 games against the Pirates this season. The Pirates have been outscored, 80-41.
Pirate starter Zach Duke lasted four innings, allowing 10 hits and five runs (four earned). Pirate starting pitchers have an 8.28 earned run average against the Cubs this season.
Nate McLouth accounted for the bulk of the Pirate offense. He tripled in two runs in the fifth inning, then doubled and scored in the eighth.
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On the eve of the release of 'Seen It All', his 5th studio album, Jeezy shared his growth as an artist, what the word "leadership" means to him, his experience at Ferguson, St. Louis, moving from being a street cat to a responsible role model, his relationship with Jay Z, his thoughts on Sean "Diddy" Combs and why he's feeling so happy these days. No more "Young", it's now Mr. Jeezy.
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|High resolution UV roll-to-roll nanoimprinting of resin moulds and subsequent replication via thermal nanoimprint lithography.
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|UV roll-to-roll nanoimprinting at high resolution is still a relatively unexplored field of study with far-reaching application potential. One enabling technology that is particularly worthy of attention is mass production of high resolution resin moulds via UV roll-to-roll nanoimprinting at such high throughput and low cost that they can be used only once and disposed of or recycled economically. Low cost, high resolution resin moulds can greatly improve the production cost profile for a number of applications in biomedicine, nanofluidics, data storage and electronics with relatively low unit values but which require one or more nanoscale lithography steps. In this report, UV roll-to-roll nanoimprinting was employed to fabricate high fidelity resin moulds with nanoscale as well as mixed micro- and nanoscale features down to 50 nm feature diameter, at up to 120 cm(2) area and at 10 m min(-1) throughput. UV roll-to-roll nanoimprinted resin moulds were subsequently segmented out, employed in a batch mode thermal nanoimprinting process, and characterized to study performance and demonstrate viability. The results show that high resolution mixed nanostructures can be faithfully replicated in PMMA on silicon substrates with minimal volumetric shrinkage. Process details and challenges specific to roll-to-roll fabrication of resin moulds are discussed at length, particularly with respect to the curvature uniformity of the imprint roller.
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PHILADELPHIA (April 7, 2009) - Hahnemann University Hospital has been designated a Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac Care by Independence Blue Cross. Hahnemann was selected based on standards developed by an expert panel and national organizations, including the American College of Cardiology and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Criteria are divided into five categories: patient results, treatment expertise, procedure volume, structure, and process.
Hahnemann demonstrated quality care and better overall outcomes throughout each module, and has met each of the program's requirements. Hahnemann also offers the required full range of cardiac care services, including inpatient cardiac care, cardiac rehabilitation, cardiac catheterization, and cardiac surgery, which is necessary for the designation.
"We are very proud that our cardiac services have been recognized for their excellence in patient care and advanced clinical methods. Congratulations to our cardiac care team for achieving this prestigious distinction," stated Michael P. Halter, FACHE, chief executive officer of Hahnemann University Hospital.
Of the 5,708 hospitals currently registered with the American Hospital Association, only 410 have been awarded the Blue Distinction Centers for Cardiac Care.
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Hahnemann University Hospital is a 541-bed academic medical center at Broad and Vine Streets in Philadelphia, Pa. The hospital is a tertiary care institution that specializes in cardiac services, heart failure and transplantation, OB/GYN, orthopedics, medical, surgical and radiation oncology, bone marrow transplantation, renal dialysis and kidney/pancreas/liver transplantation. Hahnemann is recognized by the American Heart Association as a leader in coronary artery disease and heart failure treatments. The hospital performed one of the city's first kidney transplants in 1963 and one of the first bone marrow transplants in 1976. Hahnemann became Philadelphia's first Level I Regional Resource Trauma Center for adults in 1986, and since then has been served by MidAtlantic MedEvac, an aeromedical transport program for critically ill patients. Hahnemann is proud to be the first hospital in Philadelphia to join with The Wellness Community of Philadelphia to offer onsite support and education services to cancer patients and their families. Hahnemann is fully accredited by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the nation's oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency. An affiliate of Drexel University College of Medicine, Hahnemann University Hospital is part of Tenet Pennsylvania, which also includes St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. To learn more about Hahnemann, visit www.hahnemannhospital.com
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Thoughts on plugin to sync, convert, etc. for USB mass-storage devices, [OT split of an OT split We want a new iPod-managing plugin, #96762]
Thoughts on plugin to sync, convert, etc. for USB mass-storage devices, [OT split of an OT split We want a new iPod-managing plugin, #96762]
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However, I'm not going to beg or hold my breath. If the desire for a decent ipod music sync program does not exist on the internet, then I will either have to adapt to utilizing the tools that are available or a different music player. I haven't properly weighed my options but continually sinking 100s of dollars into 3rd party software is not a very intelligent solution to the problem as anyone might be able to conclude.You could also take this to Apple and ask them to offer an API to interface with, or refuse to buy hardware made by vendors who prohibit third-party usage of their hardware. It's not like the iPod is the only portable music player out there.
I probably donated around $100 dollars to musicmusic over the life of foo_dop.Two Sansa Clip+s.
Oddly I don't believe there anything with the functionality of foo_dop for USB Mass Storage playback devices. And it'd be much much easier to develop I'd imagine. It would be something that would work for Android devices, Sansa Clip+s, Cowon devices, older iRivers, etc.
A sync component, that auto converts FLACS, can auto attach album art in a folder, syncs playlists, deletes things from the player automatically and is somewhat actively maintained would be great for USB devices . Maybe even Rockbox compatibility for automatic scrobbling? Nobody would need to reverse engineer anything I believe. Though this may not help the apple fans, that does appear to be the price of a very closed platform, and it at least would allow a fully featured sync component for some portion of the user base.
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Traveling Exhibits
As a member of AEI, you are eligible to submit your student works into traveling exhibits that circulate through the state of Iowa, visiting schools where teachers have signed up to have the exhibit mailed to their school.
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COVINGTON - Covington police arrested a woman after they found her three children, ages 5, 7 and 8, home alone at their Nixon Circle residence and were unable to contact the mother for about two hours, according to an incident report completed by Officer Stacy Cosby.The report states that Cosby went to the residence Thursday about 12:30 p.m. with another officer to investigate a report made by a Ficquett Elementary School social worker that a child at the residence may have access to a firearm. When officers knocked on the door, a child answered and the officers asked to speak to his mother. The child, who said he was 7, said his mother had gone to the rent office, according to the report. He said his sister and brother were 5 and 8 years old. After waiting a while for the mother to return, the officers called the Housing Authority rent office and were told that the woman had been there, but had left. The Newton County Department of Family and Children Services was notified. They, in turn, called the children's grandfather, who came to be with the children. The report states that all numbers known to contact the mother were called to no avail. "After about two hours of trying to contact her, she arrived. Ms. Sina Rene Randall advised that she left her children home to go pay the rent, shop at Citi Trends, Kroger and McDonald's," the report said. Randall, 40, of 6108 Nixon Circle was arrested and charged with three counts of reckless conduct and three counts of contributing to the deprivation of a minor.
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