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Terry Nagi, Consultant, and Former PIA Executive, Passes Away
By Dr. Joe Webb on April 29th, 2013
Neil Richards, retired market research executive (and legend) of Kodak, spread the word about the end of Terry Nagi's battle with brain cancer the other day after getting the news by phone from Terry's wife, Barbara. I've known Neil for more than thirty years, and it was Neil who introduced me to Terry. At the time, Terry was the executive director of GAMIS, the Graphic Arts Marketing Information Service, part of Printing Industries of America. GAMIS was a vibrant organization of market research and planning executives of vendors, printers, and paper companies, meeting together and funding research. There were very few sources of data about printing, and GAMIS was one that had not just historical data, but also analysis by top consulting firms like Battelle and Arthur D. Little about the future of technology and the industry.
Unfortunately, I was getting involved in GAMIS around the time in 1982 that Terry's tenure was coming to a close. But it was clear from the cohesiveness of the organization that his skills and guidance were significant. How else could so many members of divergent interest and purpose be so supportive of each other? Frank Romano "always respected his dedication to the industry" and noted that Terry "…had a challenge balancing the paper, prepress, press, typesetting and other factions. He did a good job moving consensus agendas along."
He was always introducing people and telling them why they needed to know each other. He made sure they got involved in the flow of research at GAMIS and that their skills were well-used. Whenever I asked for advice in my role as representative from Chemco Photoproducts, it was always timely and always opened a new research door for me.
Terry's life in the printing industry began in the business forms industry, and then as the vice president of marketing for Western Publishing. In 1973, he became an executive at Printing Industries of America. In 1974, Terry took over for the GAMIS founder, Henry Paulsen, who had retired. Terry left PIA in 1983. He spent the rest of his career consulting to printing companies, large and small.
Dee Gentile, who is now at Printing Industries of America, was a GAMIS representative for AM International and later for Mergenthaler Linotype. She said that "…it was hard to imagine who could take Henry Paulsen's place, but his "son" did, with his matching look, beard and all, and commitment to the print industry." Terry had worked alongside Henry as his retirement was nearing. "What I do well-remember about Terry was his boundless energy, enthusiasm and his ideas, combined with his love of the printing industry. He always said it was the greatest industry with the best people ever. The meetings were filled with information and ideas along with fantastic conversations and networking and gatherings that were not to be missed."
GAMIS meetings were definitely not to be missed because of all of the marketing, economics, and technology information that was provided by leading speakers and thinkers in the industry. One of the regular speakers was the Commerce Department's specialist for printing and publishing, Bill Lofquist. "Terry Nagi was one of the smartest, sharpest men I've ever met," Bill says. "Missing a GAMIS meeting was unthinkable: there was so much information and analysis being delivered, with so many opportunities for networking. He was at the forefront of an industry in transition and his impact was significant."
One of the people who worked with Terry early in her career was Jackie Bland, the director of PRIMIR, the organization that GAMIS became when it moved from PIA to NPES. Terry's assignments at PIA were many and varied. "I was his first executive assistant and he was the Director of Marketing. He was responsible for not only GAMIS, but also the Security Lithographers Section, Conference Board of Major Printers and a number of other special industry groups of PIA. He also was involved in the Comprint International program as well as the GraphComm USA program and research report. Terry also ran the Sales & Marketing Executives group and conferences. And, of course he has authored probably a half dozen books on sales & marketing topics, some of which are still available. Terry was a brilliant sales & marketing guy and a terrific mentor for me. He taught me so much about publicity, promotion, sales & marketing, and conference and association management."
Neil Richards summed it up best. "GAMIS truly became the industry source for unimpeachable market research under Terry. This was in a time when market research in commercial environments was virtually non-existent. Terry was the consummate market researcher, but also the consummate marketeer at a time when PIA and GAMIS and the printing industry needed both desperately. Terry was many things to PIA, GAMIS, and the industry, but most of all, to me he was a wonderful friend. He was an inspiration to make GAMIS and what its members did the best we could. He brought joy as well as wisdom to those who knew him, and that was an unbeatable combination."
A memorial service for Terry will be held on May 24 at Georgetown Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC. The date is Terry's birthday; he would have turned 74 years old this year.
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Yesterday morning there was headline on NN relating to us and Man City defender, Matija Nastasic. To be fair to the author, he didn't at any time suggest or make out that Arsenal were on the verge of signing him or anything such like, he just looked at City's situation logically. They are on the verge of signing some all singing and dancing defender apparently which could in theory push Nastasic further down the pecking order.
Low and behold, today's newspapers are full of headline which suggest we are now readying a £15 million bid for the player who has suddenly jumped to the top of the clubs transfer target list.
Just like all, well most of what we read in the newspapers is made up as we all know and I doubt this story holds any truth whatsoever but, if by some miracle there was a grain of truth behind the Nastastic stories, would Man City sell to another Premier Club I wonder? More so, would they sell to a club which is really trying to set itself up to win the Premier League?
We know Chelsea wouldn't and I doubt Liverpool or Manchester Utd would, well the latter did not long ago and that was a disaster for us but no way would they sell us an upcoming star like Nastasic is supposed to be. We are used to selling players to City for a hefty transfer fee, not taking their players for £15 million.
Would you guys/gals like to see Nastasic at Arsenal?
He's 21 years old, plays for Serbia but has just had a horrid injury plagued season. Sounds right up our alley….
Talking of young upcoming stars, a few of our own are expected to be included in the squad for the trip to America. Arsene Wenger is due to announce who will be travelling to face Thierry Henry's side later today.
One who won't be travelling of course is Theo Walcott as he continues his recovery. He's doing well and should be back in full training towards the end of August.
Arsene Wenger is looking forward to the trip to the States and believes it's the perfect time for Arsenal.
It is the first time since I [started to] go to World Cups that I've been stopped by so many American people. I can tell you something I'm completely convinced of – before people didn't know who you were, but now every American guy I met knows Arsenal, knows England and knows the Premier League.
The enthusiasm about soccer in the States is new but big. I expect us to have a good crowd there. I hope that we can help to develop the interest in the game and that we can play a good match there to make people enjoy it.
It is the perfect time to go. I always wanted to go with Arsenal to the United States, so I'm personally very happy to do it.
Thankfully, the boys aren't there for too long, just a quick visit, play and then home in time for the Emirates Cup on the 2nd August and that's when we'll see our two new signings, maybe even three with David Ospina set to be announced any day soon.
Could even be four if the story about Gino Peruzzi has substance to it.
According to The Metro, Arsenal have taken Serbian midfielder Mladen Micanovic on trial ahead of a possible transfer to the club before the end of the window. The 17-year-old, who plays for FK Javor Ivanjica, is regarded as a big talent in his homeland and Arsene Wenger has invited him to London for a trial.
The midfielder can play right back and centre back as well as in midfield.
That's it for another day, have a good one…

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|There were a lot of firsts in the CW, a lot more than just weaponry. The first Self Propelled Gun (RR mounted Cannon) not to mention the strategic use of the Railroads for moving troops and supplies. First Aerial observation in warfare and consequently the first anti aircraft fire, first succesful use of a submarine in combat, first practical combat use of the internally primed cartridge. Ironically the 20th Centuries attraction to the 75mm Artillery & AT guns stemmed from the 3" (75mm) Ordnance Rifle which saw service (as a breechloading conversion) all the way into WW2. A majority of parts for the M1855 were still interchangeable w/ the last model Trapdoor Springfields.
The influence of the CW: tactically, strategically and industrial upon history cannot be denied. The campaigns of the CW were, and still are, studied, in depth, in war colleges across the world. Grants audacity in movement and manuever in the Vicksburg campaign and Lee's actions at 2nd Bull Run and Chanclorsville will be studied for generations to come to name only a couple relevant studies.
The ability of Johnny Reb to prevail in the face of overwhelming quantative and equipment superiority and of Billy Yank to keep going after so many defeats. Proof to any grand planner that a few costly or even seemingly catastrophic defeats did not mean the end.
So many changes and innovations; is it any wonder so many European Nations sent observers? Or that they were both suprised and frightened by what they saw. Within a decade most nations in Europe were feilding breech loading rifles... and shortly after that magazine fed ones almost exclusively designed and developed initially by Americans. Rolling Blocks, Peabody (predecessor to the Martini Henry), Linder, Berdan all names that would become synonomous w/ military firearms development in the last half of the 19th Century along with names like Remington, Henry (Winchester)Ballard, Sharps. By 1880 every Nation had adopted the ironclad warship w/ turrets and enormous rifled guns.


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A novel design could boost energy storage.
Imagine a cell-phone battery that recharges in a few seconds and that you would never have to replace. That's the promise of energy-storage devices known as ultracapacitors, but at present, they can store only about 5 percent as much energy as lithium-ion batteries. An advance by researchers at the Research Institute of Chemical Defense, in China, could boost ultracapacitors' ability to store energy.
A capacitor consists of two electrodes with opposite charges, often separated by an insulator that keeps electrons from jumping directly between them. The researchers have developed an electrode that can store twice as much charge as the activated-carbon electrodes used in current ultracapacitors. The new electrode contains flower-shaped manganese oxide nanoparticles deposited on vertically grown carbon nanotubes.
The electrodes deliver five times as much power as activated-carbon electrodes, says Hao Zhang, lead author of the Nano Letters paper describing the new work. The electrode's longevity also compares with that of activated-carbon electrodes, Zhang says: discharging and recharging the electrodes 20,000 times reduced the capacitor's energy-storage capacity by only 3 percent.
In a typical ultracapacitor, two aluminum electrodes are suspended in an electrolyte. A voltage applied to the electrodes separates the positive and negative ions in the electrolyte, which get attracted to the oppositely charged electrodes. How much energy the ultracapacitor can store largely depends on the electrodes' surface area: the more area, the more space to store charge. Coating the electrodes with activated carbon increases their surface area, since a teaspoonful of the porous, spongelike material has about the surface area of a football field. Ultracapacitors can store millions of times more energy than the tiny capacitors used in electronic circuits.
But their performance still pales beside that of batteries, which store energy using chemical reactions. "If I gave you a cell phone with an ultracapacitor battery, you'd never replace the battery, and you could recharge it in a few seconds, but it would only last half an hour," says Joel Schindall, an electrical-engineering professor at MIT.
So far, ultracapacitors have been limited to niche applications that require high power and quick, repetitive recharging. For example, the devices provide quick bursts of power to buses, trucks, and light-rail trains over short stretches, and braking replenishes them. If they could store more energy, however, they could be a powerful, long-lasting replacement for batteries in hybrid-electric vehicles and portable electronics.


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Gas and payroll are going to be the same. Maybe its time to raise your prices.....gasp..... No more mulch for 29 dollars a yard, no more cuts for 19.95.....gasp......
Got into a conversation with a guy yesterday. I told him they need to quit working for so cheap. He says but i mow 8 lawns on this street, i can put one truck at the end and it doesnt move for 4 hours and i make 200 bucks!!! I said yeah well i cut 4 lawns on this street and we are done in 1 hr and 15 minutes and i make 195.00 bucks.
Who's winning? hes still there for another 3 hours and im gone and off to my next cluster.
The problem is the guys that want to be big big big and only can get lawns on price alone. How about a little personal care and relationships to grow slower but get higher priced work? Most guys dont want to wait for that though.
Talked to a guy who is heavy in your area justin, company starts with a bea, Hes complaining that every one is so cheap. He just couldn't believe it when i told him HE WAS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM. Every one is trying to match or beat your price. I gave him a specific street and said i mow those for 55 a piece and you mow them for 28....... why? I have a feeling Mr. Obama's health care mandate will deal a blow to that company.
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As a result of the horror in Newtown, Conn., we will now enact laws outlawing the "assault weapons" and we will all feel safer until the next mass murder, when we will again call for tighter gun controls. Problem is, these items exist, and the tightest law can at best make them as difficult to obtain as say, cocaine (remember the 18th Amendment, which forbade the manufacture, transportation, sale, possession or consumption of alcohol in the U.S.?).
Can you imagine someone thinking, "I was planning to kill a couple of dozen people, but it's illegal to have a gun, so I guess I'll have to forget that idea!"
Horrific as the idea seems, the only way to prevent these disasters would appear to be to have trained, armed people (perhaps in administrative positions) in all of these places where such attacks may occur.
The suspicion that there is likely to be an immediate armed response will often forestall the attack, since the one common thread in all these massacres is knowledge of a total lack of ability of the targets to respond in kind.
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In a statement late Monday, Cruz says he always assumed since he never made an attempt to claim Canadian citizenship, he was only an American citizen. However, he acknowledges it's possible he also has Canadian citizenship, as reported by The Dallas Morning News.
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After request for compensation is denied, does any recourse exist?
After request for compensation is denied, does any recourse exist?
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DEAR BENNY: I purchased vacant land (over 1/2-acre) a little away from the city in a country living-style neighborhood. At the time of purchase, the lot was overgrown and mostly couldn't be accessed except in one corner where a pumping station existed. I did not obtain a survey; I just looked at the county records/maps and purchased the land.
A couple years later, a neighbor complained about one of the trees being dead on the property. The county code enforcement was after me to remove the dead tree.
In the process of removing the tree, I met with the neighbor who mentioned to me about the pumping station being on my property (which I was not aware of), and he also said the previous owner was getting paid from the county every month for having the station on the land.
During the process of tree removal I decided to clear the land as well. Then, I approached the county about the pumping station and asked them to pay me or remove the pumping station. The county attorney sent me a letter indicating that neither will happen because the pump existed when I bought the land and the arrangement of the payment was between the previous owner and the county.
Do I have any recourse with the county to get paid or have it removed? I'm trying to sell the land but nobody seems to be interested at this time. The local Habitat for Humanity wants me to donate the land to them or let them buy it at a discount. Now that I cleared the land, I'm having to incur expense to keep it clean. Any helpful advice would be appreciated. --Majid
DEAR MAJID: Why did you buy the land without talking with an attorney who practices real estate law? I know that readers will immediately say, "Kass is just pushing for more legal fees." I can't stop what you think, but let me explain.
My law firm has been representing real estate clients for many years, and our practice primarily involves residential real estate. When I am first retained, I tell the client that I will insist on reviewing (or drafting) the following: (1) the sales contract and all addenda and attachments; (2) the loan documents if the client is obtaining a mortgage loan; (3) the appraisal (under law, buyers are entitled to get a copy of the appraisal they paid for); (4) the title report; (5) the HUD-1 -- unless my office is conducting the settlement (in the West, you guys call it "escrow"); and (6) a survey.
I must review all of these documents before closing and while the buyer has the right to back out of the contract, based on any contract contingencies. Had I represented Majid, I believe that I would have discovered the pumping station on his property. The title report would probably reflect some document about that, and the survey would also have shed some light on this.
Additionally, many states have laws requiring sellers to disclose unusual conditions in the property. Does your state have such a law? If so, did your seller fully disclose the existence of the pumping station?
The only suggestion I can make is that you should retain a good attorney in your area, and have the attorney explore the situation with the county. I am curious why the county was paying the previous owner and is not willing to pay you.
In the future, however, readers should understand that buying a house is, for most consumers, the largest investment they will ever make. When we buy a car, we at least kick the tires; when you buy a house, you have to do a lot more research.
DEAR BENNY: I am 78 years old, own two homes and have been a widow since 2008. At the time of my death I want to give one or both of the homes to my daughter. She will be the sole beneficiary of my estate. She lives in one home and I live in another that is valued around $240,000, and her home's assessed value is about $200,000.
I paid $322,000 in 2004 for my home/condo, and the principal balance is $140,000. I paid $225,000 in 2008 for my daughter's home, which is in my name only, and the principal balance is about $177,000.
In the past, I understand that it is best for her to inherit one or both of these properties and not for me to give her one as a gift. Financially, is this still true? --Dolores
DEAR DOLORES: In general, it makes a lot of financial sense to let your children inherit the property rather than give it to them during your lifetime. It's all about money and taxation, so let me explain.
Let's take your home, for which you paid $322,000. That is the tax basis of your property. In my example, we will ignore any major improvements that you may have made, since they will increase your tax basis.
If you give your daughter the house, her basis will be the same as yours. Under the tax law, the basis of the gift giver becomes the basis of the gift receiver (giftee). So if she just wants to sell it after you die, and can get only the current value, she will have no profit but she cannot take a loss.
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"I think the property owner is doing a great job by raising his voice, isn't it?
"Objection by the property owner might be for the reason. I think be it any person he is going to make an objection, isn't it?
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I just realized yesterday afternoon that I completely screwed up on the Theme Camp Deadline, as we were just too excited about our new MV project this year. Because of that, we won't be getting placement, and I was wondering if anyone knows, do MVs without placement ever get EA passes? Our project will take quite a bit of assembly when we get to the playa, and we'd like to have it ready for when the masses start to get into the city on Sunday night.


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Springdale Township revives public works department with hiring of employee
Springdale Township commissioners revived the municipality's road crew, hiring a new public works employee at Thursday night's meeting.
Rudolph Shondeck will start work shortly at the township with a $39,000 salary.
He was chosen from a pool of 43 applicants, according to township officials.
Springdale Township's former public works employee, Mike Shock, resigned in early December.
At the time, Shock said he was pushed out of his job. Township commissioners said that they would not recognize Shock's union affiliation after his labor contract expired at the end of last year.
Under state labor laws, the township has the option of whether to recognize the union affiliation of a one-man bargaining unit. Shock resigned when the township refused to negotiate a new labor contract.
That left the township without a road crew for several months. During that time, township officials handled salting the roads and other projects with temporary help.
Shondeck is the only public works employee for the township, but the commissioners said they would consider another hire if it is necessary.
Township officials decided to trim their public works department from two to one full-time worker in 2010, when they opted not to replace Phil Hans, now a township commissioner, when he retired after 30 years.
Park use OK'd
The commissioners received a request from Springdale Baseball Softball Association for use of William Street Park.
The baseball and softball association has expanded to include 11- and 12-year-old players, in addition to 9- and 10-year-old players and girls softball. The league has asked for use of William Street Park from March through the end of October in 2013.
The commissioners agreed to allow the association to use the park, contingent on a maintenance agreement.
The Springdale Baseball and Softball Association agreed to work its schedule around that of Lower Valley Little League, which also uses the park.
The association will have to add the township to its liability insurance policy.
Kate Wilcox is a freelance writer for Trib Total Media.
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As a mother of 2 years its difficult to cook and take the photos at the same time. I have to be alert all the time because my little one tries to take everything away from my kitchen stand. Last night only, I forgot to keep salt back to the shelf, and after few minutes there was salt everywhere in our living room. So why I am mentioning all these here, because this is the bread, my daughter and her friends love to eat at her play school.
We use to buy banana regularly for shakes, and yes it is one of the best fruit kids can have anytime, so it is always a part of our grocery list. but since the day we baked banana bread, we started buying bananas specifically for that . I love the moist texture and also the mixed flavor of banana and vanilla. I use a very short method to make this one hope you like it…
- 3 ripe bananas( 300 gm puree)
- 100 gm Sugar
- 250 gm Self raising flour
- 1/2 cup butter ( about 3 tablespoons)
- 3-4 drops of vanilla essence
- 2 tablespoons egg replacer ( or simply add 2 egg )
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Mix banana and sugar in blender. I usually don't waste time in mashing the banana and mixing sugar in it, simply use blender to do this task.
- So here are my rest of the ingredients
- Now first combine flour and baking soda, then add banana puree ,butter , vanilla and egg replacer and mix in.
- Mix in for 1 minute to make moist and soft batter
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Jimmy Kimmel Calls Himself a 'HusBoss': What Does That Mean?
Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is putting his interview skills to good use.
He's sitting down with NBA pro Kobe Bryant for a one-on-one conversation, which benefits Cedars-Sinai Sports Spectacular and the Kobe & Vanessa Bryant Family Foundation.
Dubbed Kobe Up Close, the special will give fans an exclusive opportunity to witness an entertaining chat with the Los Angeles Lakers' five-time champion about his past, present, and future in the NBA, while also sharing some of his favorite stories.
"It's for charity and we're just going to talk for an hour," Kimmel adds. "I'm going to ask him a lot of questions and people in the audience will ask questions and we are going to learn about this man we all love so much."
Jimmy Kimmel Gets Married!
And when he's not interviewing, Kimmel is playing the role of newlywed. The 45-year-old recently married Molly McNearney, who also works as a head writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live.
So how have things changed now that the co-workers are married?
"It's a little bit uncomfortable when I bring women home, but other than that it's pretty much the same," Kimmel jokes. "We were living together beforehand."
Jimmy continues his jokes, adding: "We work together … it is sometimes [weird]. And I make her call me her 'husboss'…I tell her, 'Listen, at work yes, I'm the boss. But at home, I'm also the boss.'"
Catch the one-night-only event Kobe Up Close on AXS TV tonight at 8:30 p.m. PT. For ticket information, click here!


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List of Countdown records
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The following is a list of Countdown records compiled using The Countdown Corral, The Countdown Page, Countdown Update UK and automated and human research from this wiki. Much of the list is divided up into records from the 15 round era, the 9 round era and the 14 round finals, since the considerable differences between these formats make it almost impossible to compare the games like for like. This is particularly difficult when comparing the classic 15 round format to the current one, where differences of just a few points per game are to be expected.
15 rounds
High scores
- The highest ever score is 146, jointly held by Julian Fell, in his semi-final against Danny Hamilton, and Conor Travers, with his victory against Jack Hurst in the 30th Birthday Championship final. Fell's game is notable for being the only time a contestant has found four nine letter words in a single game. The third highest ever score was 143, amassed by Jack Hurst in Round 1 of the 30th Birthday Championship. See the list of 15-round scores over 125.
- The highest score set by a challenger was 134 by Hamish Williamson. The highest score for a debutant was 129, set by Giles Hutchings, which was equalled by Jamie Ilett-Jones in Episode 5988. Williamson had already appeared once before in Series 40, so the matter of who holds the record for highest début score is somewhat controversial.
- The highest ever total score over an octochamp's eight preliminary games was 974, set by Dylan Taylor. The only other players to score over 900 are Giles Hutchings who scored 965, Jen Steadman who scored 952, Jack Hurst who scored 946, Glen Webb who scored 945, Andrew Hulme who scored 930, Kirk Bevins who scored 925 points, Julian Fell who scored 924, Craig Beevers who amassed 907, Adam Gillard who achieved 903, and Mark Murray who scored 902. Taylor, Hutchings, Steadman, Hurst, Hulme, Fell, Beevers, Gillard, Murray, Eoin Monaghan and Andy Platt are the only players to have scored eight centuries in their run of eight games.
- The highest ever total over 11 games, the maximum possible in one series, was 1319 by Dylan Taylor, despite not winning his series. The record for a series winner is 1307 by Julian Fell, including the aforementioned scores of 146 and 138.
- The highest possible score was available in Episode 3967, when five niners and a number of other favourable rounds made for a possible 173. Only one of the nine letter words was found by the contestants (oddly by the losing contestant), neither of whom managed to score a century. This is the only episode to date in which five nine-letter words have been available.
- The most nines found by one contestant in one game is four; Julian Fell found SALMONIDS, DEPORTING, INGATHERS and DEFLATION in his record-breaking game.
- The highest ever losing score was Matthew Shore's 117 against Mark Tournoff in the Championship of Champions XII. The game was poised 117 – 114 going into the conundrum SOLILOQUY which Tournoff solved, leaving Shore as the loser with 117 points. That was equalled in Series 68, when Chris Davies lost after a tie-break conundrum to David O'Donnell in Episode 5644.
- A few other losing scores over 100 have been recorded: Ciaran McCarthy lost with a score of 104, Terry Rattle lost with a score of 107 in Series 47, which was later beaten by David Williams's losing score of 113 – 111. Both Rattle and Williams lost to Chris Wills. McCarthy, Rattle and Lesley Hines are the only players ever to have lost on their début whilst scoring over 100, Hines getting 104 in Series 61.
- In the 30th Birthday Championship, no fewer than 8 matches ended with the defeated contestant scoring 100 or more. They were: Mark Deeks (losing to Jack Hurst 108 – 103), Nick Deller (losing to Mark Tournoff 101 – 100), Chris Davies (losing to David O'Donnell 127 – 117), Innis Carson (losing to Kirk Bevins 112 – 102), Jack Worsley (losing to Jon O'Neill 122 – 104), Jonathan Rawlinson (losing to Jack Hurst 116 – 105), Jon O'Neill (losing to Conor Travers 120 – 102) and Jack Hurst (losing to Conor Travers 146 – 111).
- The highest-scoring tie-break conundrum was between Chris Davies and David O'Donnell in the second round of the 30th Birthday Championship. After the regular conundrum PATRANGME, the scores were neck and neck at 117 – 117, so a second conundrum BAGOGLORY was necessary. O'Donnell solved it to score 127 after the tie-breaker.
- While the all-time record score is 146, Dylan Taylor holds the record for the highest score with no nine letter words of 124, beating the old record of 122 that Jon O'Neill laid down in the 30th Birthday Championship in a perfect game, albeit under the classic 15 round format. The highest with one nine is Dan McColm's score of 137 and the highest with two is Glen Webb's 141. Conor Travers found three nine in his 146 point game, whilst Julian Fell achieved the same total with four nines in Episode 3387. Nobody has ever found five nines in one game. If you ignore the nine-point bonus for nine-letter words altogether in order to combine these records, Dan McColm's above score of 137 becomes 128, and is the record score under this system. Interestingly, Julian Fell's equal all-time record score of 146 would only be worth 110.
- Kirk Bevins was the first player to get a maximum score in a 15 round game. He scored 126 out of a possible 126 on 4 March 2009. Bevins equalled this feat with his score of 130 out of 130 during the 30th Birthday Championship. This same mini-series contained four further perfect games. Jon O'Neill scored 122 out of 122 in his quarter-final against Jack Worsley, and Conor Travers achieved three consecutive perfect games with 119 in his second round and quarter-final matches, and 120 against O'Neill to reach the tournament final. Dan McColm scored 123 out of 123 in his Series 71 semi-final against George Ford, which also happened to be the first time a perfect game had been achieved in the "new" 15-round format.
- The largest winning margin ever was in Episode 5264, where Tom Barnes beat Christine Buffrey by 112 points, 119 – 7, which was also notable for Buffrey's record-breaking low score, as you can see below. It is rare that games are won by 100 points or more, but the full list is; Episode 3349, where Julian Fell beat Carl McDermott by 109 points, 138 – 29, including three niners: VALORISED, REPULSION and ANTIPODES, Adam Gillard's 125 – 23 win over Mavis Riley, Dylan Taylor's 109 point defeat of Leone Mitchell and 121 – 17 victory over Russ Millhouse, Graeme Cole's win over Mike Linnell by 106 points, with the score 125 – 19, Andy Platt's crushing victory over Carl Anderson by a score of 109 – 7 (notably in the final match of the 'old' 15 round format) and finally Giles Hutchings's game against Mike Lee, which finished 119 – 19 to the Series 68 Champion.
Low scores
- The lowest ever score was 6, and this has been "achieved" by Wendy Cooke, in her game against Tracey Mills in Series 72. See the list of 15-round scores under 30.
- The lowest recorded maximum in a 15-round game is 105, which included a numbers game in which no points were available and a series of difficult letters rounds. The Championship of Champions XI final had a maximum of 106, only one point more.
- The lowest winning score was 41, set by Rob Jennings in Series 71.
- The lowest score in the finals of a series was 21, by David Butcher against Mark Deeks in Series 65.
9 rounds
High scores
- The highest ever score was 83, first achieved by Series champion Stephen Balment in episode 546. This score was made on Stephen's debut, and so it is also the highest debut score of the 9 round era. The score was equalled by Allan Saldanha in Series 33 against Darryl Francis. Saldanha won 83 – 24 in Episode 1886, a feat made even more amazing as he was competing against the Series 6 champion.
- The highest ever score by a champion was Harvey Freeman's 82, later equalled by Lucy Roberts in Episode 2641. Neither of the scores of 83 was made while Balment or Saldanha were the current champion.
- Unofficially, the highest ever 9-round score was achieved in the 5th episode of the 1st series of the 8 out of 10 Cats Mash-ups, when Jon Richardson and Adam Hills defeated Lee Mack and Bob Mortimer by a score of 153 – 0, which also makes it the highest score and highest winning margin of all time. But, this was primarily achieved because the conundrum in this episode was worth 100 points, instead of the normal 10.
- At least two contestants found two nine letter words in a nine round game. Jill Bright scored 81 in her second game. She got two nine letter words in rounds 1 and 2, but failed to solve the conundrum and could have beaten the highest ever score by 8 points. Similarly, John Snedden found two nine-letter words in Episode 2693 and scored 80 points before the conundrum, but also failed to break the high score record. See the list of 9-round scores over 75.
- The highest ever eight game total was 535, achieved by David Williams. This beat Harvey Freeman's total of 523 in Series 10. The highest ever total over the maximum eleven possible games in one series was 760, also set by Harvey Freeman. This includes 10 9 round games and a 14 round final.
- The highest losing score was 70. In the Championship of Champions IV, Tony Vick beat Steve Williams by a score of 80 – 70. Williams was leading 60 – 70 after 8 rounds but Vick got the conundrum to set up a 70 – 70 tie. A second conundrum was used to separate them, and it was Vick that spotted IMPOUNDED to win with a score of 80. In Series 4, Robert Richland beat Stuart Schofield by a score of 75 – 70 in episode 152.
- The highest known max score for a 9 round game is 106. This included three niners, EXTENSION, CRUDITIES/DIURETICS and GUARDIANS. The Richard Whiteley Gotcha episode actually also had a max of 106, but this is not usually considered to count because the rounds were set up to include certain words.
- The highest known 9-round score with no nine-letter words is 75 points; this record is shared by Harvey Freeman, achieving this score in Episode 466, and Richard Campbell, who got it in Episode 1504. If the 9-point bonus for nine-letter words were excluded, these would also have been the joint highest 9-round scores of all time.
- At least three contestants have got a perfect score in a 9 round game. Jenny Haldane scored 70 points out of 70 in her debut game against John Widdowson in Series 16, and Darren Shacklady scored 69 points out of 69 in his debut game against Tony David in Series 29. Allan Saldanha also scored 67 points out of 67 and achieved a perfect game in his Supreme Championship quarter-final against Joyce Cansfield.
- The highest score in the finals of a 9-round series was 79, by Mark Nyman against Ted Wiles in Series 3.
Low scores
- The record lowest scores belong to John Brooks and Sylvia Pitman, who failed to score a single point between them in Episodes 637 and 2343 respectively.
- The lowest score in the finals of a 9-round series was 10, by Denys Hollis against Derek Coombs in Series 20. However, Dictionary Corner mistakenly awarded Coombs points for an invalid word, so Hollis' correct score should have been 14, not 10.
14 rounds
- The highest ever score in a 14 round game was 115 by Harvey Freeman in the Championship of Champions III final against Series 9 winner David Trace. Trace was leading 107 – 105 going into the final conundrum, but couldn't get it and lost with 107 points. This is also the highest losing score in a 14 round game, and the third highest score. See List of 14-round scores over 100 for more details.
- The lowest score in a 14 round game was 36, by Joel Salkin against Nic Brown in the final of Series 14. The lowest 14-round winning score was 59, by Stuart Wood against John Rainsden in the final of Series 44.
- Freeman also holds the record for most 14 rounds games won, winning the final of Series 10, the final of the Championship of Champions III and the final of the Supreme Championship. The only player to play four 14 round games was Allan Saldanha, who played in the final of Series 15, two specials against Tim Morrissey and Gareth Williams, and the aforementioned Supreme Championship final against Harvey Freeman. He won the two specials and lost the two finals.
- Harvey Freeman holds the record for the most wins on Countdown with 19 wins from 19 games, or 20 if his Countdown Masters game is counted. Just behind him is Allan Saldanha with 18 wins from 21 games — the most of any player. He played 11 games in Series 15, one game in the Championship of Champions IV, two specials against Tim Morrissey and Gareth Williams, a Masters game, and six games in the Supreme Championship. The second longest winning streak belongs to Don Reid who won 16 games in a row — 11 games in Series 25, three games in the Championship of Champions VII and two games in the Supreme Championship, before losing to fellow Series champion John Clarke on a crucial conundrum.
- Conor Travers holds the record for the most Countdown appearances since the introduction of the 15 round format. In 20 appearances, in which he has won 19 of them, he's scored 2,279 points; this is the highest ever total, though players who have played more games than Travers did so in the shorter format. For this reason, Travers also holds the record for the most airtime, with 900 minutes or 15 hours. He averaged 113.95 points per game.
- In all forms out of Countdown, Nita Marr holds the record for the most defeats. In total she's lost six times: in the heats of Series 13, the finals of Series 13, the Championship of Champions IV, the Supreme Championship, a Masters game against Jenny Haldane and a special against Mike Brown.
- The longest word to come up in reverse order on the letters board was the niner DECANTERS in Episode 4523. However, neither contestant spotted it.


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Welcome back to iDownloadBlog.com's series in iPhoneography. So far we have covered everything from exposure to composition. One thing we haven't addressed are the apps. This has been by design. I wanted to make sure we had a solid foundation in photography before we started exploring the the digital darkroom.
Later in the series we will continue to expand our foundations in photography, but today we jump into the darkroom, and there's no better darkroom than Snapseed. I'm guessing many of you have already begun to explore Snapseed. If not, watch this video for a quick tour…
Now that we know the basics of Snapseed, let's take a look at some before and afters. I hope that by looking at these images, not only will you learn some tips and tricks, I hope they will spark your own creative vision.
Who doesn't love sunsets? One thing you can do to make your sunset images even more magical is to warm them up using the white balance tool in the Tune Image module. By changing the white balance you can warm up or cool down the image. I demonstrate this technique in this video.
There is no limit to the various combinations of Snapseed filters you can use on a single image. Well, there might be a theoretical limit, but no creative limit. You can tune your image, perform a black & white conversion, and apply a focus effect. No need to limit your creative vision to a single filter. In this image, my goal was to draw the viewer into it. To achieve my goal, I performed a black & white conversion which darkened the trees (border) and lighten the road (center). However, I didn't stop there. I applied the 'Center Focus' filter to complete the sense of mystery and adventure I was after.
Snapseed doesn't limit your creative vision to a single filter. No, you can apply as many filters as you would like. Heck, you can even double down on the same filter. In this image, I was able to achieve this effect by applying the 'Vintage' filter twice. Each time changing the effect slightly.
I hope these before and afters have sparked the creative muse inside all of you.
For this week's assignment, let's all head out into the field and make some magic with Snapseed. Make sure to tag your Instagram photos with #iDBSnapseed and we will feature our favorites in the next lesson. As always you can follow us @Justinbalog & @SebastienPage on Instagram. If you'd like to see other videos, feel free to subscribe to my YouTube Channel. We will see you back here in two weeks!
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London Broncos have confirmed the signing of back-row forward Atelea Vea from St George Illawarra.
Vea, 27, who played for Tonga in the 2009 Pacific Cup, began his NRL career with Cronulla in 2009 and also played for Melbourne before moving to the Dragons.
Broncos head coach Tony Rea said: "The squad is delighted to welcome the hard-working and skilful attributes that Atelea brings to games."
Rea, whose side went down 44-18 to Salford Red Devils in their opening home game on Saturday, is still re-building his squad following the move to Barnet.
The Londoners, who St George Illawarra announced had also signed Josh Drinkwater from them yesterday, have confirmed Leeds Rhinos youngsters Alex Foster, Thomas Minns and James Duckworth will remain with the club for the rest of the season after iniitally joining on loan.
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A Sonoma developer plans to assemble futuristic electric vehicles in Santa Rosa in partnership with a Chinese automaker that acquired the prototype from a failed Southern California startup.
"We want to build a niche car, and we want to build it in Santa Rosa," said Rick Deringer, who owns a 100,000-square-foot industrial building in Santa Rosa's historic West Side neighborhood.
Inside his warehouse is a small fleet of sleek Apteras, three-wheeled, two-seat runabouts that look like giant insects or wingless birds.
The plug-in vehicle was developed by Aptera Motors, a startup that ran out of money and closed its doors in December. Its assets were purchased by Jonway Group, a Chinese automaker that also has invested in Santa Rosa-based electric car distributor Zap Jonway.
Zap Jonway isn't part of the Aptera project, said Deringer, who leases part of his westside complex to Zap.
Deringer said Jonway Group will make the aerodynamic Aptera bodies in China and ship them to Santa Rosa, where they'll be fitted with motors, drive trains, batteries and interiors, he said.
The partnership could produce 25,000 cars over the next year, Deringer said. The new company, called ApteraUSA, is aiming for a price point between $25,000 and $30,000.
John O'Dell, who tracks the electric vehicle market for Edmunds.com, said he's skeptical about ApteraUSA's prospects.
"It takes a lot of money to launch a vehicle," he said. Even if ApteraUSA could produce 25,000 vehicles, it's doubtful they'd sell very quickly.
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ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - Bond will not be reduced for a woman accused of lighting a dog on fire and bragging about it.
Adrienne Martin, 35, is charged with animal abuse and knowingly burning a dog named "Brownie" by rescuers.
The dog was found July 10 anchored to a chain in the 4300 block of Cote Brilliante Avenue with burns to his eyes, nose, feet, ears, legs, and body.
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How many of us came to this fair city with big dreams of roughing it in a big old SoHo (or, more appropriately Brooklyn) loft gorgeously hanging about all these our half-painted canvases. Makes for a nice story, but reality sure does bite. Instead, we are happy to indulge in some painterly passions in Built By Wendy's artfully inspired spring '10 lookbook. With soft still-life T-shirts, mini-dresses adorned with Monet-inspired blooms, and a loose dotted blouse named Degas (natch), these new pieces will deliver that artisan-chic look without ever having to get your hands dirty.
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U.S. News & World Report magazine has ranked the part-time Master of Business Administration program at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business No. 41 in the nation, out of of 326 part-time M.B.A. programs, based on peer evaluations and the caliber of entering students.
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The information was released Monday by editors of U.S. News & World Report's "Best Graduate Schools 2013" edition.
"We're pleased to see that the U.S. News ranking has again placed SCU among the top part-time programs in the nation," said S. Andrew Starbird, dean of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. "While no rankings are without flaws, we appreciate being recognized for our innovative programs like entrepreneurship, our high-quality students, our extensive Silicon Valley connections, and the strong reputation of our faculty in areas like behavioral finance, business ethics, and international management."
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A new site has opened to the delight of Vacation Bible School teachers and facilitators everywhere. In fact, the site is dedicated to none other than Vacation Bible School children's stories, which are Bible lessons for kids in story format.
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OFPEB announces the release of a new website for Vacation Bible School, featuring picture storybooks that are versatile enough for a child to pick-up and read for enjoyment-sake, but profound enough to design an entire lesson plan around.
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Sony demos new car speakers, amps, subwoofer
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New Sony car audio
Presenting at the SEMA tradeshow, Sony has announced several new car audio products. At the fore are three speakers in the new GTX series, comprised of the XS-GTX1620S, GTX6930 and GTX1640. The 1620S produces 260W of peak power (60W RMS), and comes with a highly-oriented polyolefine (HOP) cone woofer for better bass, along with a 0.75-inch tweeter that can be mounted separately to fit a car's dynamics. Two-way passive crossovers guide frequencies for clearer response.
The 6930 and 1640 also have HOP woofers, but the 6930 is a three-way setup, and the 1640 is four-way. The speakers technically better the 1620S, though, with 400W peak/100W RMS power in the case of the 6930, and 300W/75W power in the 1640. The latter speakers will retail for $120, the 1620S raising to $150. All three are expected in January.
New amplifiers include the XM-GTR6001, a mono class-D unit with active thermal control to stop overheating, and a dynamic distortion suppressor to control output near maximum volume. It produces 900W with 2 ohms of resistance, but can hit 1,300W at top levels. The GTR2022 (pictured right) is a 2.1-channel amp that falls back to 200Wx2 at 2 ohms with a 1,200W maximum, while the ZR1252 is limited to 125Wx2 at 4 ohms, or 340Wx1. Also launching in January, the amplifiers should cost $280, $200 and $150 in order.
Last is the new "entry-level" subwoofer, the 12-inch XS-L120PSA. It is built around a pentagonal-shaped polypropylene cone, and uses a 4-ohm single-voice coil with 1,000W peak and 300W RMS power. It should be out in January for $80.


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On Monday 16th November 2009 there was a special tribute to our dearest Nana Mouskouri here in Thessaloniki, Greece.
We were shown Nana's appearances on British TV from 1968 until 1986.
Nana sang on the screen alone as well as with The Athenians, Charles Aznavour, Michel Legrand, Cliff Richard, Demis Roussos, George Tsakiris and The King's Singers.
Nana's mesmerising voice as well as her unforgettable glasses reminded the whole audience of those years in the past and of those unique songs such as "Only Love", "Casta Diva", "Mes Tin Varka", "I Will Wait For You", Plaisir d' Amour and many many more.
This tribute was a constant reminder that Nana is still and forever will be within our hearts. After all, how can you possibly forget someone who made your own country known all over the world through music? How can you possibly forget someone whose voice still echoes inside you? Quality always prevails!
My kindest regards to you all out there, to Nana's friends all over the globe.
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January 16, 2014 at 5:02 pm #22659
…or a cement anchor, a buoy and a leaky rowboat.
The idea is that it's freely open to expansion, from the time of it's conception onward…those amenities are suggestions and ideas for what would offer a lucrative return to investment, but they're not necessary for people to take up settlement at sea. At the very least, a mooring field along a major shipping lane is a good, sound start on establishing a permanent settlement at sea. Any services offered which were a viable alternative to hefty port fees and routes through national waters would have to be of benefit, and would give good incentive for the world community at large to support the settlement. The fair weather and novel concept of the community design would be lucrative to drawing tourists, and a floatel could be positioned on-site for under or around one million even, give or take variance on the basis of market availability and range to transport it to the site, at the time of purchase.January 12, 2013 at 3:55 am #21647
Reefs and shallows outside of the EEZs of existing nations have been mentioned…could anyone refer me to some of these areas or their coordinates, for more careful examination? I've heard some people speaking of the Saya de Malha banks as being in unprotected territory, but the map I'm looking at shows France and Mauritius have pretty much everything out there annexed.January 10, 2013 at 7:18 am #21630
That works well to a certain degree…the EEZ issue is only concerning because it limits the free enjoyment of the sea for all purposes other than transit, to landed nations whose exclusive vested interest in the wealth lying a full two hundred miles along the sea floor beyond their beaches I seriously have to question. It means we can't harvest fish, plant or harvest a crop, or draw in the wealth of the ocean floor in the regions most lucrative for a population at sea to do so (for example, rendering the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico entirely under the control of such landed nations), and if it was convenient to facilitate some tyrant to seize such a vessel from it's population, they might even challenge that population's use of the water itself in such areas for purification, salt extraction, or fuel use, etcetera.
This leaves the question of what venues of lobby or petition might be pursued for added protections under international law for the rights of seasteaders to the free and unfettered use of the world's oceans and it's resources, to meet their needs, as well as to establish recognition of their rights to maintain sovereign states and to define territory at sea, whether or not it challenges these rather arbitrary and previously unprecedented claims over vast expanses of the ocean by landed nations, as well as the question of whether any such agreement is ever likely to be entertained, when such powers over the sea are bound solely to the will and discretion of the same landed nations who arbitrarily claim this dominion over all things "economic" within these large regions of the sea, and who, in their avarice, are likely to remain permanently and willfully unprepared to recognize the rights of any population at sea to engage in the same rightful actions so readily enjoyed on land; to maintain security in their territory, in their economic influence, to use the abundance of resources at their disposal to provide for themselves,their families and their communities, and to maintain the right to freely engage in diplomatic relations with other populations, as they see fit.January 9, 2013 at 6:03 pm #21627
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my questions, I wasn't certain of those finer points, and that helps greatly to clarify the matter for me…I truly appreciate your help.
I am now left to wonder how these modern provisions of admiralty law impact the concept of the seastead in statehood, and of the existence of the state as a "legal person" under international law, especially as defined by such standards as the Montevideo convention of 1933, and vice versa. That particular convention defines the qualifications of a state as maintaining a permanent population, maintaining a defined territory, maintaining a government, and maintaining the plenary capacity to enter into relations with the other states.
If artificial islands, installations and structures do not possess the status of islands, cannot maintain territorial sea of their own, and if their presence does not affect the delimitation of the territorial sea or the exclusive economic zone, is it safe to say that under present standards of international law, a seastead cannot lawfully define a territory in it's own plenary capacity, and thus, cannot qualify for recognition under such articles as make provisions for statehood? I'm guessing that any permanent habitat established on the sea floor would be treated the same as an installation, as well, and unable to establish it's own territory, even in regions of outside of the territorial waters and exclusive economic zones of standing nations on land.
Is it safe to assume, then, that the present standards of international law are unprepared to recognize a seastead as a sovereign state, and that admiralty law, at present, can make no provision for the defense of the territories and economic interests of a permanent population not vested to the interests of landed nations?
I'm not trying to steer off-topic…I suppose I'm trying to determine whether a permanent population at sea can exist, under these present standards of law, with any degree of sovereignty or plenary authority as a state, or if such endeavors are to be limited to the colonial interests of originating nations on land. More specifically, if such a population can ever hold any lawful claim to the waters or submarine soil beneath, above or around it, and to the abundance of resources therein.
If not, then the establishment of seasteads within the EEZs of existing nations might provide the only standard for the protection of resources depended upon by the seastead, presuming that the seastead is dependent upon mineral or ecological resources in the surrounding waters to sustain the needs of it's population, and does not carry all that is required to meet the production needs of it's people within the confines of a vessel or installation. That's just a guess, but it seems that the standards of the free and open nature of resources in international waters and outside of exclusive economic zones cannot be legally impacted or secured by the purported claim of any seastead, any more than they can by any nation on land…am I mistaken?January 8, 2013 at 7:15 pm #21621
A few rather simple questions, I'm not sure if someone here might know the answers…is Sealand entitled, under these modern provisions of admiralty law, and presuming that it is recognized to have constituted Terra Nullius at the time of it's founding, to maintain it's own EEZ? How would this impact the UK's claimed EEZ? If Sealand expands it's topside footprint, would it's EEZ extend 200nm from it's new boundaries, or previous ones? For that matter, does the accretion and erosion of soil presumably affect the footprint of a dirtside nation's EEZ? If a nation loses a half mile of coastline due to storm erosion, does it lose a half-mile of it's EEZ?
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MIDDLEBURG, Fla. -- Earlier this year, Ernesto Gonzalez hired a contractor to install a vinyl fence and gates at his Middleburg home. To find the right company for his needs Gonzalez says he went to Angie's List.
"I specifically wanted a gate, a gate specialist and sure enough, they came up with five different locations. I chose this one because they were at home," he said.
Angie's List is a national clearinghouse that helps consumers find service companies without a hassle. The list is made up based on reviews from consumers, not Angie.
Gonzalez elected to use Heritage Fencing and was satisfied he said until the company was required to replace his gates several times.
"The folks who installed the third set of gates, as you heard from the voice mail, they damaged the gates," he said.
Now he wants to know how service companies get on Angie's List. Are the scrutinized before hand?
"I don't know if there's a recourse for Angie's List to know if they're truly getting good contractors," said Gonzalez.
Wyatt Green is president of Heritage Fencing. He said his customers made his company eligible for Angie's List.
"We've got good reviews, I believe we have one negative review and I'm pretty sure it is from this customer," said Green.
Green said his company tried to please Gonzalez, but couldn't.
"Sometimes you can't please everybody. You strive and give 110%," said Green.
Green said to resolve the issue, Gonzalez can take the remaining balance of the contract, $800, and hire another company.
"Unfortunately, we could never seem to satisfy him," said Green.
Cheryl Reed, Director of Communications at Angie's List, said Angie does not select the companies. Members create the list through their reviews.
"Companies are eligible based on the reviews of its members," said Reed.
Reed said there are systems in place to be sure that the reports are fair and accurate and no one is trying to stack the deck.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The head of the nation's largest sheriff's department is warning that the economic meltdown may mean early release for thousands of jail inmates.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca tells The Associated Press it looks as if he'll have to close two jails and eliminate the positions of the staff at those facilities.
About 600 deputy and professional positions could be eliminated.
The department faces a $71 million cut to its $2.5 billion budget in the coming fiscal year.
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Pentagon Seeks Untold Billions for Terror War
Many Details of Budget 'Classified'
The Obama Administration is seeking billions of dollars in additional terror funding for assorted anti-terror operations, including increased military aid in Pakistan and funding to confront militants across the world.
Pentagon officials declined to speculate exactly how much additional funding was being requested, and many of the requests are hidden in classified budget requests. The cost of the ever-growing CIA drone strikes against Pakistan in particular remains a closely guarded secret.
But with the Fiscal Year 2011 military budget already reaching unprecedented levels, some officials were trying to sell the additional increases as "savings." Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in particular claimed the massive increase in military aid in Yemen could in the long run save money, as it was cheaper than a hypothetical ground invasion of the nation.
The Obama Administration's official plan has the 2011 budget as dramatically larger than 2012, but it should be remembered that when the massive 2010 budget was presented, their projections for 2011 were drastically lower then they turned out, and the 2012 budget has been called unrealistic by many.
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this is the Reason for the Bankers bailout and why they were allowed to squander Tan Money on lavish bonuses. Obama needed the Banks help to create another Bubble Economy to be able to hide the exessive costs of his three, going on four Wars.
The last decade will be remembered as the one in which the ruling political-banking-military-Wall Street establishment swindled middle class America out of trillions of dollars of savings and asset equity and permanently crippled the American economy with their insatiable greed and their profligate spending for endless war profits, so-called "intelligence" operations and fraudulent "security" measures. They know that the whole of America economic system is on the verge of total fiscal collapse and, in the meantime, they're stealing ever dollar they can get their grubbing hands on. For the last decade, the ruling establishment has enjoyed a great feast at the expense of the American people. They grow fat while the American people are slowly being starved to death. Know this: the entire American ruling establishment is nothing more than a criminal gang of con-artists, liars, thieves and murderers. Now, the great question is this Americans: what are "we the people" going to do about it.
It's the military industrial complex. It's as simple as that.
Obama can't say no to those who are keeping the U.S economy barely afloat – those who make bombs, tanks and guns and sell them to the U.S military(and Taiwan, Israel, Egypt etc..)
I think the anti-war groups are able to launch a campaign to force the Noble Foundation to get back the " PEACE PRIZE" given to President Obama.
I am sure he would be the best to receive a prize for war fighting strategies he has given so far.
Sorry – they just 'give' them to Israel (or have them stolen, sorry Phil Giraldi)….
The Pentagon just loves the "war on terror". Such a cash cow! And impossible to say when enough is enough.


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Elizabeth Hensley
Professor presents at national convention
Nancy Pace-Miller, assistant professor of communication at Evangel University, presented a workshop titled "All Good Things Come from Yearbook" at the 2012 ACP/CMA National College Media Convention, held in Chicago. The workshop illustrated the relationship between students who participate in collegiate media and how their experiences prepare them to succeed in the workforce.
"The ACP conference coordinator asked me to present a topic related to the organization, development and management of college yearbooks," Pace-Miller said. "The topic was to include the work of student media and how it provides a viable work experience that could get students internships or jobs."
Pace-Miller has served as a full-time faculty member since 1986. She is the communication department's internship coordinator and faculty adviser to Excalibur.
Evangel senior receives scholarship
Evangel senior Elizabeth Hensley, finance major, is the recipient of a $1,176.47 Edwards Jones Missouri Colleges Fund Scholarship for the 2013-2014 academic year. She is the daughter of Robert and Pamela Hensley of Granbury, Texas.


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Reasons to be Optimistic: What the Future Could Hold
The NHL has become a living model of 'how not to run your business', and has had more than it's fair share of bad publicity with headlines like; goalies vs. goals, players vs. owners, the league vs. the fans, and most notably the recent headline, Bertuzzi vs. the people. It would appear that Gary Bettman is steering his ship off the edge of the earth. But with doom and gloom hanging over the league like a bad stench, there may be light at the end of a narrowing tunnel. There is no denying the league's immense financial troubles, but as one of the few optimists left, I feel it's just a matter of time before the owners and the NHLPA reach an agreement. One main point of concern is the quality of game must greatly improve to become more fan friendly and enjoyable to watch. A major suggestion that has been shot down without hesitation is a crackdown on violence and fighting in hockey. Being a die hard hockey fan, I believe there is a place for fighting in the sport and accept that it is a way of the player's policing themselves. But the ultimate objective is to get more fans back to hockey and repairing the league's tainted reputation of brutality. Bertuzzi, as "innocent" and accidental as he has pleaded to be, has done absolutely no favors to the sport with his incident. This may sound radical but try to look at this from the perspective of a hockey critic.
Game misconducts, if not suspensions, should be handed out for fighting. There are so many levels to this argument against-and for-fighting that I can barely even begin to defend my standing, but listen; the talent pool in the NHL is depleted when 2-3 spots on a roster are reserved for guys that are sent over the boards to enforce, protect, and fight. It is the job of the referees, as questionable as they may be at times, to police illegal activity on the ice. Officials should be given the opportunity to use their discretion when dealing with penalties. Stiffer and more frequent penalties should be assessed when dealing with stick infractions, i.e. slashing, hooking, spearing. Unruly use of the stick should be heavily penalized. Over time, if called by the book which often seems too much to ask, I believe the game will open up. As far as other aspects of violence, bodychecking has always been and should always be a part of the game, but fighting does not involve the same skill and technique that bodychecking does.
Step two of reviving the league's reputation is to revive the scoring era. For God sakes, remove the red line! There is no doubt in my mind, removing the two-line pass will result in better and more effective transition, as well as add 5-10 more scoring chances per game. The age of the trap is seemingly dying off, with the emergence of a run and gun team like Tampa. Where were the Wild and Devils during the playoffs? The crackdown in goalie equipment was long overdue, and 'handling the puck behind the goal line' is still under scrutiny, but both new rule changes should help to increase offensive flow of the game. I fully understand that there are many complications to be worked out when dealing with drastic rule changes like cracking down on violence and increasing scoring, but there is no argument over the fact the league must deal with these issues, and deal with them immediately.
But outside of what could be and should be, what will be is the coming of hockey's new crop of superstars. Waiting on the doorstep are what the league has needed for a long time, marketable players. Alexander Ovechkin is known as the best prospect to have ever come out of Russia and hockey's Lebron, Sidney Crosby, represents a new horizon for the league. I don't care what anybody says, Ilya Kovalchuk is the most exciting player in the game right now. He displays *****y confidence on the ice with skills to back it. Marc-Andre Fleury is the next in line of great French goaltenders. His acrobatic style and oversized grin should become the new face of goaltenders across the league. What the NFL, MLB, and NBA have that hockey doesn't, other than a great TV deal and fan support, are marketable players and household names. Sure, Joe Hockey Fan knows who league MVP Martin St. Louis is, but does your average baseball fan? Better yet, do they care? Hockey needs to sell what they've got.
I am fully prepared for an onslaught of criticism for my comments, but before shooting me down like a hostile bogey on your radar screen, consider how you think the league could possibly begin the healing process? After all, what good is a site like hockeytraderumors if there isn't a league at all? We might as well be discussing trade rumors for Mexican kick ball. Who knows, with good marketing by the WHA we may be discussing what commissioner Bobby Hull could do to improve the quality of the game in a of couple years.


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If you planned to pick up a wedding gift for Usher this weekend, hold up — the singer and his fiancee have announced that their wedding is off.
Usher's representatives issued a statement Saturday (July 28) announcing that the singer and his fiancee, stylist Tameka Foster, have canceled their ceremony, adding that "no additional information will be given regarding the circumstances of the cancellation." The statement went on to ask for privacy regarding the matter.
Usher and Foster were engaged earlier this year (see "Usher Plans New LP — And Marriage — By End Of Year" ), and announced that they are expecting their first child in the fall.
The relationship – and engagement – was the source of much inspiration as Usher toiled away on his upcoming, yet-untitled album (see "Usher Finds 'Magic' With Jermaine Dupri On New Songs" ). He gushed about the news when MTV News visited his studio recently, and producer Jermaine Dupri noted that a track called "The Realest" was inspired by Usher's enthusiasm over the relationship. "He was like, 'I got the realest woman in the world. You ever had the realest woman in the world? You ever have a real one?' " Dupri said.
But the engagement had also been the source of much controversy, which Usher eventually addressed in an open letter to People magazine.
"I am happy, excited, completely clear and independent on my direction, feelings, decisions and I am NOT BEING LED," he wrote, addressing rumors that Foster has Usher on a short leash.