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Video from MMS 2005
Jonathan Hardwick
Larry Gregory has posted a great video from the Microsoft Management Summit — well worth watching, even if you were there in person! It's the "Management" episode of his ISV Show series, so as well as walking around the conference floor and interviewing KirillT and BobKelly (in charge of engineering...
17 May 2005
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The MMS 2005 conference bag
Jonathan Hardwick
I've had a couple requests for a picture of the MMS 2005 conference bag that I enthused over :
7 May 2005
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Microsoft Management Summit 2005: Day 2
Jonathan Hardwick
Yesterday was naming day! The Project Formerly Known As Indy is now: System Center Capacity Manager We already have a nice little placeholder page on microsoft.com, and you can see Sabrina McBride giving our demo starting about 43 minutes into Kirill's keynote video: 56 kbps , 100 kbps , or 300...
20 Apr 2005
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Microsoft Management Summit 2005: Day 1
Jonathan Hardwick
Best. Conference bag. Ever. I think we hit a home run on this one. It's your typical nerdy backpack, but with two important differences: It's actually big enough to hold all your conference swag plus your laptop — very important for that first day before you can do some swag triage in your hotel...
18 Apr 2005
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Microsoft Management Summit 2005: Day 0
Jonathan Hardwick
If everything had gone according to plan I'd have arrived in Las Vegas by now, with a couple of hours to check into the hotel and then an evening of prep sessions and rehearsals. Of course, nothing ever quite goes according to plan, and a hydraulic leak in our plane's nose-wheel means that a bunch of...
17 Apr 2005
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Microsoft Management Summit 2005: Day -2
Jonathan Hardwick
As you can tell from the title, I'm starting this series of blog posts a little earlier than planned – in fact, I'm not even in Las Vegas yet. But our PR machine is cranking into action, and so journalists are already reporting on what we'll be showing next week: Microsoft to unveil a capacity...
15 Apr 2005
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Blogging at MMS 2005
Jonathan Hardwick
Rod Trent asks if anyone will be blogging at MMS 2005 next week. I certainly will! In fact, I've been "volunteered" to provide status updates from the conference for the rest of my team back in Redmond, so I'm hoping that I can repurpose most of that content :-) Sounds like there'll be a good party on...
12 Apr 2005
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Where to learn more about Indy if you're NOT going to MMS 2005
Jonathan Hardwick
A reader asks : What about those of us that cannot attend MMS? Is there anything available that describes what Indy does? Hmmm, let's see. Right now we've got no official web presence, partly because we don't have a name. Both situations should be remedied within the next month, and I think...
18 Mar 2005
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Come check out our new capacity-planning product at MMS 2005
Jonathan Hardwick
Ok, so we still don't have a name , but we did just hit feature-complete for our product's first milestone. And we'll be flaunting our stuff (i.e. demo'ing all our cool features) at MMS 2005 in a month's time. In fact, if you're a systems integrator and you've signed up for the Crisscross Pre-Event...
17 Mar 2005
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Register now for Microsoft Management Summit 2005!
Jonathan Hardwick
Ok, I know that I said I'd cut down on the SMS and MOM blogging, but really, these quick posts just write themselves. Registration is now open for MMS 2005, so if you're at all interested in what Microsoft is doing to make it easier to manage computers, go sign up today at http://www.mms2005.com/ ! As...
1 Feb 2005
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MMS 2005 blog and announcements
Jonathan Hardwick
If you're not reading the myITforum newsletter , you probably missed the announcement of the official MMS 2005 blog . It's being written by Martin Dey, the overall organizer of the Microsoft Management Summit 2005 , where we talk about all things MOM and SMS. Expect more news as we get closer to April...
16 Jan 2005
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2013 Nissan Maxima • 13,000 miles
I recently rear ended a new black nissan maxima. It left 2 piercings in the bumper from my front license plate screws. How much am I looking to pay for the repair? Will the whole bumper need to be replaced or will the piercings be fixed?
July 16, 2013.
July 16, 2013.
We don't get involved with costs here because there's way too many variables, but in general plastic bumper covers can usually be repaired with special products. The expensive part is repainting it. Thanks to EPA rules and regulations and our really intelligent politicians, (sarcasm), a gallon of paint can cost $400.00 to $500.00. Most body shops mix their own paint so they don't have to sell you the entire gallon, but there are sealers, primers, and additives to make the paint flexible on flexible rubber and plastic parts. They will have to repaint the entire bumper cover. That is actually easier and less expensive than trying to blend in a small area. They will tape off the cover at a joint or seem so the repair can't be detected. Any body shop will give you an estimate for the repair. Most use a crash estimating guide so they will quote you the same labor times and material costs as any other shop. Only the hourly labor charge will vary a little. The lowest cost shop isn't always the best value. If the car owner isn't satisfied with the quality of the work you could be in for more headaches. Stick with a reputable shop and take your lumps. The cost is going to be a lot less than my recent trips to the hospital.
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She's like an assless game of Twister.
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Muslim screenwriter, Kamran Pasha, discusses Sleeper Cell, The Interview and the portrayal of Muslims in Hollywood
Muslimah filmmaker, Lena Khan, directs her first feature-length film
Saudi Agreement With Indonesia To Secure Rights Of Domestic Maids
"Halal Holidays" Ranks Best Destinations For Muslim Travelers
Father and Imam Charged For Marrying 12 Year-Old Australian Girl
Orthodox Jews Hold Mass Prayer Against Middle East Peace Talks
The Muslim Male Perspective of Faith, Love and Relationships
New York Mayor To Add Muslim Holidays To Public School Calendar
Muslim Groups Petition White House To Recognize Islamic Holidays
The FBI's New Mission Is Negatively Impacting Fighting Crime
There's been much controversy surrounding the burial of suspected Boston bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. He was recently buried in a cemetery in rural Virginia, drawing sharp dissent from the locals. His burial has not only angered the community as whole but has also drawn a great deal of criticism from the area's Muslim community as well as local officials.
Tsarnaev's body had been kept at a funeral parlor in Massachusetts until it was recently buried. But most burial venues were reluctant to take on the controversial task of burying Tsarnaev, explaining the resulting delay. Typical Muslim custom dictates that bodies be buried soon after death.
Tsarnaev didn't benefit much from this tradition, as his body was buried weeks after he was killed on April 19th, in a gunfight with police in the Boston area. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, his younger brother, was captured later that day and still remains in police custody.
The two brothers were of Chechen descent and had lived in the US for nearly a decade. They'venow been accused of detonating two pressure cooker bombs on April 15th near the marathon finish line, killingthree people and injuring more than 260.
READ: 4 Things To Know About Chechnya (ILLUME)
Many Muslim communities that were approached about hosting the gravesite refused because of fear of reprisal from the public. The backlash against Muslims since the burial has been in line with concerns that many had-it certainly has proven true in many instances, with Muslims bearing the brunt of much Islamophobia following the Boston Bombings.
Although permission is generally not needed for a burial, as long as laws are followed, officials in Virginia are unhappy, largely due to the negative association, reports Al Jazeera News.
According to Al Jazeera, Imam Ammar Amonette, of the Islamic Centre of Virginia, expressed criticism, claiming that he was not consulted about the burial of Tsarnaev. Speaking on behalf of Muslim community, hesaid that the community isfurious about the secretive nature of how the burial took place.
Bukhari Abdel-Alim, vice president of The Islamic Funeral Services in Virginia disagrees though, writes Al Jazeera. He voiced that though Tsarnaev's actions were horrific, that his body must be buried regardless.
Tsarnaev's mother attempted to his her son's body buried in her native Dagestan, but Russia refused to allow the body in the country.


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Vigil held for teens killed in Pittsylvania County wreck
And I'm Chris Hurst. Tonight two families and many more friends paused to remember two teenagers who died in a hit and run crash earlier this week in Pittsylvania County. WDBJ7's Justin Ward takes us to the moving vigil in their memory. It was supposed to be a week of reunions at Gretna High School. But as classes started Monday, one student was missing. Tonight hundreds of friends and family members came to the schools football field, lit a candle, and remembered Donovan Stone and William Ward. Santonio Witcher/Friend: "These two youn men they both had good hearts. They was real good people. And for them to go like this is was just, i couldn't believe it." Ward graduated from Gretna High School in May. Stone was set to start his junior year here, his jerseys were laid on a table. Their families displayed their artwork from school. Jalani Brooks/Friends: " still, i just don't want to believe it. i really don't want to believe it ." The two were cousins. Family members say they were rarely apart. Tonight close friends did what they never thought they'd do, read Stone and Ward's obituaries. Jamar Jones/Cousin: "i know they goo now. i know they're in a better place. That makes me feel a lot better." Sunday the two were killed on Level Run Road in Hurt when Virginia State Police say another car crossed the center line and hit them head-on. Ward and Stone died, two other passengers were injured. The driver of the other car left the crash scene and was later found in a hospital and questioned by state police. They believe the driver may have been drinking. Tonight friends and family have more questions than answers as state police continue their investigation. RIght now these friends are remembering two lives cut short. It's clear these two were loved. Santonio Witcher: "They put a smile o everyone that is coming here. They was just good people and for everyone to just come here and pour their hearts to the family, it shows a lot." In Gretna, Justin Ward, wdbj7 It's a welcome
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by Di Pearson
More postponements at Laser World Championship being raced off the Australia east coast at Terrigal north of Sydney.
Laser Storm Day 3
Racing was all set to go ahead on time at the Laser World Championship this morning; breezes were looking to be a stable south-east to south-west at 15-20 knots with a south-east swell of up to 2 metres on seas of 2 to 4 metres.
Although heavy rain periods were expected (and arrived early), isolated thunderstorms were also predicted and one arrived just as the boats started leaving the ramp - jury members came out blowing whistles calling the boats back to their Terrigal base.
Advice from Sydney was that a storm had hit the northern suburbs of Terrey Hills and Avoca and was on its way to Terriga,l along with a 70 degree shift in winds prompting organisers to bring the boats back to shore, more because of the shift than the storm, which is not as severe as predicted.
At 12.30pm, the boats headed out to the course again, officials confident racing will likely get underway after 1.30pm, once winds have stabilized.
"You get used to this, it's part of our sport," said Canadian Olympic campaigner Michael Leigh in relation to the cold, rain and storms.
Laser Worlds 2008
Leigh, one of the top world ranked Laser sailors, did not have a good opening day yesterday. "I guess I got a bit nervous in the first race. I hit the weather mark and had to do a 720 and didn't recover.
"In the second race, the wind faded on the left side of the course – where I was," he said.
(90 minutes later the storm is now right over the race course. There is lightning and thunder and torrential rain. Are they racing, well we cant' see, visibility is not good enough at the moment. More soon. Sail-World )
Di Pearson reports an hour later 'We are supposed to be a sub-tropical nation, but here at Terrigal in Australia, it is getting ridiculous as torrential rains and storms continue to undermine the Laser World Championship.
The worst of the water seemed to have dissipated and the 160 competitors from around the globe were sent out to the course area at 12.30pm.
By 2.30pm NSW time, the fleet started to return to The Haven – and a haven it is in this weather, as storms once more lashed the east coast of Australia. "Welcome to sunny Australia," someone sarcastically yelled as sailors dragged their Lasers up the ramp.
It's cold and miserable for all concerned. Terrigal is normally a great holiday destination, particularly over the Australian summer – but not this week! Businesses would have to be suffering.
Only Races 1 and 2 have been sailed so far after officials were forced to abandon all racing on the opening day. All will have to sit it out again this afternoon and see whether any racing can be held. The weather radar does not look too welcoming at this stage.
Positive race officials are hoping that at least one of the Robson Civil Projects Races 3 and 4 can be held today.
Racing is set to get underway just after 5.00pm, when it is hoped that at least Race 3 will be completed in the three groups of the 160 boat fleet.
We will keep you posted.
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Boy's limbs found in crocodile's stomachComment on this story
Sydney - The limbs of an 11-year-old boy have been found inside a huge crocodile and his head discovered nearby after he was attacked in Papua New Guinea, a report said on Wednesday.
The four-metre-long crocodile grabbed the boy, Melas Mero, as he was fishing with his parents on Thursday at the Siloura River in Gulf Province in the south of the Pacific nation, police commander Lincoln Gerari told PNG's National newspaper.
"The crocodile swept the boy with its tail and then attacked the defenceless child," Gerari said.
The provincial commander said police found two hands, two legs and a hipbone inside the crocodile after they tracked it down and killed it. The head was found later and taken to a morgue.
The attack is the second to take place in PNG this year, according to a global database managed by researchers at Australia's Charles Darwin University.
The CrocBITE database said a man, whose age was not given, was killed on January 1 by a saltwater crocodile at Rawa Bay in North Bougainville.
A total of 75 crocodile attacks, of which 65 were fatal, have been recorded in PNG by the database since 1958. - AFP
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According to NCU's Dr. Darren Adamson, Assistant Dean of the School of Marriage and Family Sciences, "The modern American family represents an evolution over time that reflects changes in the larger society." Countless studies have been done that confirm his observation. And much has been written about the evolving American family. Television programs and motion pictures examining the changing nature of life's most basic social institution have been plenty as well.


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The power of a single vote.
In the biggest story in town - who will win the O.C. supervisor's race heading for trial - the fact that seven ballots can make or break a candidate has shown the promise of energizing voter registration campaigns launched by immigrant communities, including the Vietnamese.
As I make my way from group to group, event to event, I'm hearing this mantra over and over, much to the delight of those rallying for political participation.
"Look at this election. Look at the 2000 election" when the world waited to hear the outcome of the race between George W. Bush vs. Al Gore. "That was the moment that made me realize just how important one person - one vote - is, and I'm realizing it again, right in Orange County," recalled Robert Fukumoto, program coordinator for CAUSE, the Center for Asian Americans United for Self-Empowerment. "This should show more people that they need to get out there and exercise their civic duty."
Fukumoto is referring to the fight between Janet Nguyen and Trung Nguyen, battling to represent the residents of the 1st District in a red-hot competition dominating headlines. Team Trung, initially declared winner, is suing Team Janet, the current winner after a much-heralded recount conducted by the Registrar of Voters. Regardless of who will fill the seat, the drama and its daily soap opera has hit home with one slogan: You must vote.
"I lost it by seven votes at first, and now I win by seven votes - that's one household that made a difference," says Janet Nguyen, 30. "If you ever question whether one person can do something significant, you don't need to question" anymore.
"Everywhere I go," she adds, "people stop me and say, 'My son was away for college and I'm so sorry I didn't ask him down to submit his vote. Or my cousin was going to register to vote and she decided she didn't want to, but now she thinks she should have.'
"At the end of the day," she said, "they realize every vote matters."
Trung Nguyen, 49, declined comment until after the March 21 trial. But GOP Assemblyman Van Tran, who endorsed him, and who is among the original activists pushing to increase political clout in Little Saigon, said: "There was an early realization that in order to have a voice, you must be able to vote, and to vote, you must register. It's a simple calculation."
Tran had been a part of Congressman Robert Dornan's staff when he set up a table outside Hoa Binh groceries along Bolsa Avenue in Westminster, a space occupied these days by Hanoi restaurant.
"We had a lot of ground to catch up on," recruiting Vietnamese and Koreans, the two largest Asian groups in O.C. The effort picked up pace in the late '90s, following the controversial Hi-Tek protests when tens of thousands of refugees converged against the owner of a video store who displayed the communist flag and a picture of Ho Chi Minh.
"Taking our issues to the street and demonstrating publicly can only get you so far. Voicing your sentiments at the ballot carries a more powerful message in the long run," Tran said.
So he joined forces with Nam Loc Nguyen, a Catholic Charities director, and Viet Dzung, radio personality, to help stage "Rock the Vote," a three-month drive in 1999 capped by a star-studded concert at the UC Irvine. Immigrants came to hear famous singers perform free; in return, many filled out voter registration cards.
The basis then - and today? Asians can be a crucial swing vote, supporters say.
Consider the case of Lan Nguyen, running for the Garden Grove school board in 2002, who was losing by more than 700 votes on election night, yet emerged ahead by 99 votes three weeks later - after late absentee and provisional ballots had been tallied.
Tri Ta of the Westminster council and Truong Diep of the Midway City Sanitation District both saw similar results in their own campaigns when they finished victorious in the 2006 election. All three men and their backers had worked to register voters month after month.
Voting "is the American way at its best," Tran added. "You must participate or other people will speak for you."
Fukumoto agrees. Within CAUSE, he and his peers held voter education forums leading up to last November's election, and recently, during Lunar New Year celebrations.
"We talked to infrequent voters who didn't know what they were voting for," he said, prompting them to offer materials about statewide propositions and newspaper ads explaining steps to voting in many languages.
"Political parties, if they're smart, they will develop greater outreach to immigrant groups," says Fred Smoller, associate professor of political science at Chapman University. "If you're in the business of winning elections, you listen to people and you go to where the people are. You figure out how to get into their communities and find out what they want."
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Baghdad car bombs kill 10Comment on this story
Baghdad, Iraq - Car bombs mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas of Baghdad killed at least 10 people on Wednesday, security and medical officials said.
The bombs in Kadhimiyah and Sadr City in north Baghdad, Saidiyah in the south and Mashtal and Baghdad Jadida in the east also wounded at least 45 people, the officials said.
The sound of explosions could be heard in central Baghdad.
Violence in Iraq has fallen from its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks remain common, killing more than 200 people in each of the first four months of this year. - Sapa-AFP
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On the morning after one of the most shocking, sobering and painful days of his professional career, Paul Casey played golf with friends.
The morning after that, he is scheduled to tee it up yet again, this time at fabled Pine Valley with a group including a player who actually made the Ryder Cup roster.
Unlike Casey himself.
Shell-shocked or not, the world's ninth-ranked player tried to move forward Monday after he was skipped over for a spot on the European Ryder Cup team by captain Colin Montgomerie.
Which isn't to say it was easy.
"Obviously, he's extremely disappointed," said Peter Kostis, Casey's swing coach, who played alongside his pupil in a friendly round Monday at a course in New Jersey. "He wanted to play very badly. But it is what it is, and it's out of his control."
It is what it isn't, too, a phrase that described the whole confusing Sunday scenario, which resulted in Casey and world No. 22 Justin Rose being bypassed for one of three available captain's picks doled out by Monty after the European Tour event concluded in Scotland night.
Casey took the news hard and was struggling to maintain his composure when offered condolences were offered by a parade of onlookers who felt he had been, as they might say in that particular area of New Jersey, royally hosed. Casey at one point was unable even to croak out a response and kept his dark sunglasses in place to mask his watery eyes.
Kostis, also an analyst for CBS Sports, came out counterpunching Monday and defended Casey against those who felt he should have played more often in Europe to help secure an automatic spot based on merit. Casey, who played in the final group at the British Open six weeks ago, was bounced out of the top nine eight days ago.
"When they say he didn't play enough or isn't committed enough, look at the numbers," Kostis said.
Fair enough. Of the two PGA Tour members who were picked ahead of him Sunday, Padraig Harrington, who hasn't won a tournament in two years and hasn't won a match in the past two Ryder Cups, played in two European Tour events in 2010. Luke Donald, ranked No. 10 in the world last week, one slot below Casey, played in four European events this year. Casey has played in five.
Kostis said Casey was seriously taken aback by overseas reports characterizing him as a less-than-cohesive figure in the Ryder team room, but in other media quarters, his snub by Monty was fiercely criticized.
"Trust me, he has been heartened by the outpouring of commentary along the lines of, 'I can't believe what happened,'" Kostis said.
Adding more salt to the wound -- Casey personally attended Monty's wedding two years ago and they share the same agent.
Considering that players who already secured positions on the European team were critical of a selection system that could leave out Casey and Rose, a two-time winner on the PGA Tour this year, Kostis predicted that an overhaul will be forthcoming. Casey, a member of both tours, is on the European committee that overseas the Ryder system, ironically.
"In my opinion, the real bad thing here is the system," Kostis said. "It sucks when you can't manage to get a player with two big PGA Tour wins or a guy ranked No. 9 in the world on the team. Their system is even more convoluted than FedEx Cup points.
"The net result of this whole debacle is that their points system is going to change."
The timing of the announcement could stand a good enema, too. The Barclays results were largely irrelevant because Monty had to announce his picks when the final round in the States was still being played. In the U.S. process, the wildcards picks are announced a day after the final qualifying tournament in the evaluation period has ended.
"I think the way he found out was even more devastating than the news itself, and that's something else that needs to be rectified," Kostis said.
In a particularly brusque slap, Casey learned he hadn't been picked when Harrington's wife, Caroline, gave her husband a cheery thumb's up as the two pairings partners played the sixth hole Sunday. When Casey didn't receive a similar gesture from her, he knew he was toast.
Casey and Kostis are set to play Pine Valley on Tuesday and Wednesday with a handful of fellow members from the Whisper Rock Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., including PGA Championship winner and Ryder member Martin Kaymer. Kostis said Casey was bruised but moving forward.
"He is doing as well as can be expected, and I am going to use Dustin Johnson as an example," Kostis said of the player who lost a shot at the PGA title because of a last-hole rules infraction. "He has made a giant step toward putting it behind him, or at least as much as he can in one day.
"He's going to try to continue toward that end like Dustin had to after what happened at the PGA."
Good luck there. The difference is, Johnson was zapped in a cut-and-dried, black-and-white, depersonalized ruling. It'll be impossible for Casey not to take his subjective snubbing far more personally.


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Attendees of eXtremeCRM were the first to be briefed on the soon to be released Microsoft Dynamics CRM Statement of Direction in a keynote address delivered by Craig Dewar, Director Microsoft Dynamics CRM Product Marketing.
According to Craig Dewar, Director Microsoft Dynamics CRM Product Marketing, "It is exciting to see the energy and passion from the Microsoft Dynamics CRM ecosystem at eXtremeCRM! It is truly a community hub with tremendous partner engagement. eXtremeCRM is the place for partners to get connected with each other, Microsoft and the Microsoft Dynamics CRM roadmap. We look forward to the next event in Rome!"
Designed specifically to meet the needs of each member of the CRM organization, more than 70 sessions were offered at eXtremeCRM 2012 Las Vegas. Educational sessions, led by industry experts, were tailored specifically for business leaders, implementers, developers, and those in sales and marketing. This year's conference also offered the new eXecutive Summit, an exclusive opportunity for business owners to work together with Microsoft executives and industry experts in an interactive executive forum. In addition to Craig Dewar, keynote addresses from Microsoft included Seth Patton, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Product Marketing Senior Director, Microsoft, and Connor Marsden, US Director, CRM, Microsoft. They also heard from author and industry analyst Paul Greenberg as he addressed the communications revolution that is taking place.
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China's Central Government Gets Serious About Changing IPO Rules And Helping SMEs Raise Capital, Global Times Article
Govt calls for progress in IPO reform to help small firms
Amid a slowing economy, the Chinese government is considering strategies to help the country's cash-starved micro and small companies. Upcoming IPO reform is expected to offer easier access to stock market funding, but investors are concerned it could divert funds from existing stocks.
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While China's economy has been affected by a weakening property sector, erratic foreign demand and sagging domestic investment growth, the authorities are hoping that the country's millions of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) can offer a source of economic energy.
The State Council, the country's cabinet, pledged on Wednesday to lower the cost of raising funds by giving banks more flexibility to lend and removing rigid profit requirements for a firm to get listed in stock markets, among other measures aimed at making it easier for small firms to grow.
At the meeting on Wednesday, Premier Li Keqiang urged the securities regulator to speed up plans to unveil simplified rules for new IPOs.
Two days after the cabinet's meeting, the central bank cut interest rates for the first time in two years.
While the rate cut will be of particular benefit for large State-owned enterprises, simplified IPO access is expected to make it easier for cash-starved smaller firms to raise money directly in the markets.
Under the existing IPO scheme, applicants must meet certain conditions in order to get listed in Shanghai or Shenzhen, including having made a profit for at least two consecutive years and having net profit of at least 10 million yuan ($1.63 million).
Even if they meet these requirements, IPO applicants are also subject to the review and approval procedures of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), the securities watchdog.
The CSRC suspended its IPO reviews in late 2012 in a bid to enhance information disclosure and crack down on rampant financial fraud and insider trading.
The CSRC also wanted to lay solid foundations for a new round of IPO reform intended to diminish government intervention and establish a more efficient, market-based IPO filing system.
The regulator restarted IPO approvals in December 2013 after a 13-month hiatus.
However, the suspension had resulted in a long queue of IPO applicants. As of mid-November this year, 570 firms were waiting for their applications to be reviewed, according to media reports.
A plan for an IPO filing system with a focus on information disclosure is likely to be released by the end of 2014, the 21st Century Business Herald reported on Thursday, citing a source close to the CSRC.
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Under the new IPO registration system, the CSRC will no longer intervene in the listing process and will focus on supervision rather than review and approval, analysts said.
The system will provide access to market financing for all firms, not just those at the front of the queue for IPO approval, and the investment value shall be judged by investors, not the government, Dong Dengxin, director of the Finance and Securities Institute at Wuhan University of Science and Technology, wrote on his Weibo on Saturday.
The CSRC was not available for comment on the schedule of IPO registration reform when reached by the Global Times on Thursday.
As China tries to move up the value chain and restructure its economy, small firms have become increasingly important. They also account for more than 70 percent of the country's jobs.
"While the IPO reforms are absolutely correct in their direction and implementation, the capital markets in China are still unable to provide the financing needed for most MSEs to continue to grow," Peter Fuhrman, chairman and CEO of Shenzhen-based investment bank China First Capital, told the Global Times in an e-mail on Saturday.
Relatively slow approval of IPOs and the exceptionally long waiting list are seen as the major reasons for the difficult funding.
There are "thousands of Chinese MSEs with good size and profits" that are waiting to go public, said Fuhrman.
This year has been a difficult year for MSEs in China. With the overall economy slowing down, profits and growth have been lower than at any time in recent history.
At the same time, domestic banks have tightened up on lending, and MSEs are now largely relying on high-cost loans from trusts and other shadow banking organizations.
The new IPO filing system will offer a fresh lifeline for MSEs, Wang Jin, general manager of TLD Registry, a domain name registration service provider, told the Global Times on Thursday.
Though his company, headquartered in Ireland, is poised to get listed in the European stock market in the future, a listing in China would also be a good option as the company's business is mainly in China, he said.
Due to the current rigid rules and long waiting list, many high growth Chinese tech firms including Alibaba Group Holding and JD.com Inc have chosen to list in the US instead.
In January, China launched the New Third Board, an over-the-counter (OTC) market similar to America's Bulletin Board and Pink Sheets, which offers a national share transfer system for MSEs. There had been years of trials for the new board in several cities as part of China's efforts to build a more diversified market.
The OTC market also serves as a springboard onto the Growth Enterprise Board, China's NASDAQ, with companies able to move onto the main exchanges later.
However, a lack of active trading and uncertainty over the process of transferring onto the main exchanges have held back the fledgling OTC market so far.
Investors still concerned
One major concern for investors is that simplifying IPO access will result in a greater supply of stocks, which will lead to funds being diverted away from existing stocks.
However, the IPO registration system will be beneficial as long as it involves tough penalties and strong oversight against financial fraud and insider trading in order to protect investors' interests, Wang Zhan, a Shanghai-based retail investor, told the Global Times on Thursday.
With an increasing supply of stocks under the new IPO system, fresh capital, particularly international capital, needs to be introduced into the Chinese stock market to ensure active trading, he said.
Wang likened China's stock market to a water pool - if more fish are put in it, more water will be needed, Wang noted.
The Shanghai and Hong Kong Stock Connect program went live on November 17, giving Hong Kong and mainland individual investors access to each others' stock markets. It also gives far greater access for international capital to China's A-share market.
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NFL And American Football Are Booming In China, My Chinese-Language Column For Forbes China, "美式橄榄球:美国最受欢迎的运动能否赢得中国市场?"
Peter Fuhrman 中国首创投资的创始人和董事长美式橄榄球:美国最受欢迎的运动能否赢得中国市场?
美式橄榄球的历史源自于英国在19世纪中期公立学校流行的各种早期"足球类"运动,是由英式橄榄球直接演变过来的。自1960年代,美式橄榄球就已经超越 篮球和棒球成为美国最受喜爱的运动项目。美式橄榄球在美国受欢迎的程度超乎想象,它的比赛已经不仅仅是一种体育项目,更是美国文化很重要的一部分,如果你 了解它,会发现它并非只是暴力的对抗与碰撞,还融合了速度、力量、战术、团队配合等,也是一项充满智慧的运动。
美国国家橄榄球联盟(National Football League,简称NFL,中文译为"美球") 是世界最大的职业美式橄榄球联盟,已经有94年历史了,也是世界最具商业价值的体育联盟。联盟共有32支球队,因为他们都是私人投资、按照公司模式运作, 所以也被称为特权会员队 (Franchise)。
成立之初的NFL很难称为一个大型体育联盟,直到1970和1980年代,在NFL的不懈推广下,橄榄球强化了其做为美国顶尖运动的地位和在美国文化里的 重要角色。1967年,NFL举行了第一场年度冠军赛 "超级碗 (Superbowl)",之后每年超级碗固定在一月或二月初的星期天举行,比赛那一天也被称为"超级碗星期天(Super Bowl Sunday)"。
超级碗多年来都是美国收视率最高的电视节目,并逐渐成为一个非官方的全国性节日,被中国媒体戏称为"美国春晚"。每年,超级碗在美国国内有一亿多的电视观 众,其广告也是美国电视上最贵的,30秒的广告费用达到400万美元(相比之下,奥斯卡的广告费用是每30秒180万美元,还不到超级碗的一半)。
现在的NFL已经是美国最著名的职业体育联盟,其他联盟也试图和NFL竞争,但都没能像NFL那样获得这么大的支持,拥有这么多的球迷。NFL的球迷人数 超过其他三大联盟(棒球联赛,NBA,冰球联赛)球迷人数之和,达到1.88亿人,其中有高达半数认为自己是"狂热球迷(Avid fans)",并且球迷横跨各个年龄层。在美国,NFL赛事也是收视率最高的比赛。NFL的季前赛收视观众数就已经超过了NBA总决赛的收视观众 数;2013年NFL常规赛的平均收视人数是1,760万,而NBA仅120万。
这样无与伦比的受欢迎度也使NFL成为世界上最成功、盈利最高的体育联盟, 2013年收达到120亿美元。NFL的32只球队的平均市值达到14.3亿美元(约87亿人民币),其中市值最高的Dallas Cowboys (达拉斯牛仔队)价值32亿美元(196亿人民币)--成为世界上市值第二高的球队,仅次于市值34亿美元的皇家马德里足球俱乐部。
但是,随着20多年来NFL在英国不遗余力地推广美式橄榄球,培养更多的英国人去热爱这项运动,如今美 式橄榄球已经在英国最受欢迎的运动里排名第五。从2007年开始,NFL每年在伦敦举行固定赛事,这也成为了NFL International (NFL国际系列) 目前最主要的赛事。今年,NFL在温布利体育场一共举行三场比赛,所有的门票(共24万张)在开售后两天内即售罄。
http://www.forbeschina.com/review/201411/0038571.shtmlTags: NFL in China, football in China, National Football League China, American football in China, football China, China First Capital, Peter Fuhrman
China's 800-Year-Old iPhone
While China's recent performance may be a disappointment, averaged across the millennia no other nation has provided the world with such an abundant wellspring of innovation. Have a look at this long list of Chinese inventions. Not a day passes for most of us when we don't rely on at least one product of Chinese ingenuity, be it paper money, the bristle toothbrush, toilet paper, oil wells. A slightly smaller group of us wouldn't want to long tolerate life without noodles, steamed or stir-fried food, tofu, tea, alcoholic drinks.
Left off the Wikipedia list is one other Chinese gadget that played a central role in people's lives, especially in East Asia, for centuries and then abruptly disappeared over the last two decades. It's also my personal favorite among all Chinese inventions, the abacus. I grieve over its extinction.
When I first got to China in 1981, the abacus was ubiquitous - in every shop, bank, schoolroom and government office. If it had to be counted or calculated, an abacus was required. I still remember the loud and ceaseless clicking sound inside the main room of Nanjing's cavernous People's Bank as dozens of clerks tabulated and re-tabulated sums, louder and more rhythmic than the clatter of cicadas outside. Cheap electric calculators and PCs not only killed off the abacus they also have turned China's banks and offices into quieter more monotonous spaces.
Among all Chinese inventions, nothing quite rivals an abacus, or "算盘 suanpan" in Chinese, for pure "out of the box" ingenuity. There's no clear predecessor machine, and no real evolution or improvement from the device that is first described almost eight hundred years ago in Chinese books and begins appearing in Chinese paintings five hundred years ago.
Though the name of the inventor (or inventors) is lost to history, none but a towering genius could invent a portable lightweight tool and the accompanying fingering technique to allow a few rows of beads separated on two stacked decks, five beads on the lower and two on the upper, to perform high-speed, accurate multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, square root and cube root operations. In geek-speak, hardware and software are proprietary and seamlessly integrated. The abacus, unlike the modern electronic calculator, is as easily used for calculations in base ten (decimal), base 16 (hexidecimal) or any other base you might choose.
Europe and America, so dominant in most spheres of invention these last 400 years, contributed in the 17th century the slide rule and adding machine to the technology of calculation. But, neither achieved the widespread use in teaching and daily life the abacus enjoyed for centuries. Most Chinese aged over 30 (as well as tens of millions in other parts of Asia) were taught in school to use an abacus. While most have since sadly forgotten how to use one, they once could manipulate the wooden beads as quickly and accurately as skilled touch typists.
I recently went off to see if I could buy an old wooden abacus. It's harder than you'd think. My guess is there were at least 400 million abacuses in China thirty years ago. Today, they've completely disappeared from sight. I can't recall a single time I've seen one in use during the last five years living full-time in China. Something of great functional beauty and utility has gone out of Chinese lives.
I did eventually succeed in finding one at an antique market in Shenzhen. It looked to me, based on the filigree bronze hinges, to be about 120 years old. The seller, in his early 60s, had forgotten how to use it, as did everyone else who gathered around to watch me bargain for it, with the exception of one handsome older woman trained in the early 1970s as an accountant. I asked the seller to give us some random four-digit numbers to add and subtract, with me using the calculator on my phone and her using the old abacus. In each case, she was quicker than me. I had to repeat each number in my head before tapping on the keyboard. Her fingers, on the other hand, were in motion from the first sound. It was a virtuoso performance.
An abacus is not a calculator, in the sense that you punch in numbers and it spits out an answer. "The person operating the abacus performs calculations in their head and uses the abacus as a physical aid to keep track of the sums, the carrys," explain the experts at Canada's Ryerson University.
After polishing away the dust, I put the abacus on the table in the CFC's meeting room. I'm determined to learn better how to use it, but conscious of ebbing mental and physical dexterity.
It looks like nothing else on the planet, and yet it shares similarities with an iconic device invented from 800 years later (in 2007) in Silicon Valley. A swipe-operated high-tech tool, with a simple rectangular design, its engineering elegant yet practical, and an intuitive interface that allows anyone with a little practice, from kids to old folks, to solve routinely and quickly a host of problems once thought too challenging for ordinary folk. The iPhone is the abacus of our age.Tags: China, abacus, China innovation, China inventions, China technology, China iPhone, China First Capital, 算盘
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Good point! I sometimes wonder if countries will unwittingly develop themselves out of this innovative time in product design. Half of creative green-thinking engineering seems to me to be spurned by the need for its use in struggling environments. Once an area enjoys easy living mod-cons, it might drop such great work. There are incredible designers here in the UK where I'm from but you don't see that much green-energy in use in your average home.


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Show him the overhand right, Ray.
Ray Edwards bounces around an octagon cage, his left jab lightly pounding the gloves of trainer Jeff Warner until the real thunder comes from across Edwards' lengthy chin hair.
About 260 pounds of torque and freakish athleticism thrust into the target. Warner looks to the sidelines, clearly impressed.
Edwards keeps bouncing before letting out a "Woooo" after his three-minute round.
"On the heels of your feet, that's how you get knocked out," Edwards says between heavy breaths. "Gotta be on your toes."
The Vikings' starting defensive end isn't swinging his fists as part of a glorified hobby. His vision for boxing glory expands beyond the confines of Ambition Training Academy in Eagan, where Edwards trains twice a week.
By February, Edwards could be preparing for small-circuit amateur fights in Minnesota. Every few months, a new challenger could take him to Las Vegas or Atlantic City.
In 18 to 24 months, he'll be a certified heavyweight prizefighter.
That's the plan, at least, a sense of insurance if Edwards doesn't get a long-term NFL contract after this season or if the league locks out in 2011.
"I'm really invested in this," Edwards, 25, says during a recent workout. "I'm looking forward to the future, whether that's in boxing or football. I don't know where I'll be. When the season ends, I'll start training for boxing heavily.
Besides mandatory team weightlifting, practicing, film studying, Bible studying, riding his motorcycle and helping nephew Dominique with homework, Edwards squeezes in a few hours every Monday and Wednesday at Ambition, which specializes in Mixed Martial Arts training.
Edwards starts with a 16-pound mallet that he'll pound into a human-size tire about 100 times. He follows with intense core training, works the speed bag and hits the ring with Warner, a former professional boxer and wrestler.
The two met at a church speaking engagement about three years ago, and their training schedule has ballooned ever since. Warner, now a pastor in Burnsville, turned Edwards on to Detroit's Kronk Gym, founded by legendary trainer Emanuel Steward. Edwards trained there for a week during the offseason, but he spent most of the past eight months training with Warner in Eagan.
Boxing training has helped reduce Edwards' body fat from 15 percent to less than 6 percent, which Edwards says helped fuel his breakout 2009 season of 8 1/2 sacks in the regular season and four in two playoff games.
"Boxing is all about keeping a cool head, very much a thinking game," Edwards said. "Every second must be anticipated. It's about balance. It's taught me patience, and it's also given me quicker body strength and core strength, which has helped me on the field tremendously. I'm definitely a better football player because of this."
In a dry-fit black shirt, white shorts and black Jordan-brand boxing shoes, Edwards hardly takes breaks between sets. The guy once labeled as a low-motor guy out of Purdue says he can't get enough working out because "I'm a live-in-the-moment guy."
Warner is convinced of the boxing future for Edwards.
"He's not that far," Warner said. "Eighteen months, and he'll be ready for anything. He's got all the raw talent you'd want in a boxer, and he picks everything up quickly."
Boxing has not interfered with Edwards' work with the Vikings, he says, but it's not like the Vikings are tracking his every move away from the field.
Edwards calls himself "not one of their high-priority guys" and expects this to be his last season with the Vikings because of the several key free agents looking for contracts.
Edwards, Minnesota's fourth-round draft pick in 2006, seeks a long-term deal. In June, he signed a one-year restricted tender for about $2.5 million.
"There are too many guys," Edwards said. "Just on defense, they have me, Chad Greenway, Ben Leber. (Brett) Favre won't be here, so they have to find a quarterback. I just don't see it. I don't know where I'm going to be."
A big year in 2010 could go a long way toward elevating Edwards to the status of his defensive linemates who often overshadow him in the national spotlight. Defensive end Jared Allen recorded 14 1/2 sacks last season, and Kevin and Pat Williams have been one of the NFL's best interior run-stopping tandems for years.
Then there's Edwards, whose performance is starting to catch up with his immense talent. Although he is sackless through two games, his tackle of Saints quarterback Drew Brees two weeks ago appeared to be behind the line of scrimmage, and his pressure of Dolphins quarterback Chad Henne on Sunday opened the lane for an Allen sack.
Vikings coaches sent film of his Brees tackle to the NFL for a review, Edwards said. Which he appreciates. Sacks equal potential money, after all.
Teammates know what Edwards can do on the field, but what he can do in the ring is another matter.
"They've never come to watch me train," he said. "They just joke that I'll get knocked out when I do box. But they'll be surprised to see what I can do. This boxing thing feels inevitable for me."
As for Edwards' first fight? Not so easy.
"We can't find anybody who wants to get in the ring with him locally," Warner said. "He's pretty scary."


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i am in great need of your input. I am in search of a new bike (im well.. a newb) and i have went to a few local LBS's and heard a few differing opinions. I should preface all this by saying that i am goign to be riding primarily on the asphalt. But becuase there are some trails in my backyards i wanted to be able to go riding on them (they are nothing more than old horse trails that are hard pan and dirt (no rocks and almost no dirt to speak of). Here is what the local shops said:
1. Go with a mtn bike (like the trek 4500 or 4300, mongoose tryax or a GT avalanche 2.0). 2 different shops said taht for my range (which was oringally 300-600) this was the best way to go. Both shops agreed that a hybrid/cross/comfort would be useless for me becuase i could be riding for more than 15-20 miles round trip and at that point those bikes just arent worth it. Plus you can just swtich tired if need be and you will be good to go with more slick tires on.
2. In the last shop i went to, their selection was limited to Specialized bicycles. The salesperson i felt (unlike one of the other shops) was there to relay information more than sell me a bike. he did naturally however, gratitate towards an "expensive" (for my budget) bike - the Specialized Crossroads XC Expert. This is the 06 model that i can get for about 700 dollars. That is obviously more than i had anticiapted but it has the remote turn off valve for the forks, etc. The bike was suite but i want to make sure that before i fork out 700 dollars, its worth the high cost.
Do you guys have any input on this? Do you agree with shop 1 + 2 (and if so what bike in general) or should i look at the Specialized XC Expert and/or Trek 7200FX/7.2FX.
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Mary Vida Kemp Jensen, 58, a native of Florence, S.C., and resident of Little River, S.C., died Saturday, July 7, 2007.
A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Lee Funeral Home Chapel in Little River.
She is survived by her husband, James B. Jensen of Little River; her mother, Retha W. Williams Kemp; two stepsons, Cmdr. Michael L. Jensen and wife, Donna, of Virginia Beach, Va., and Christian J. Jensen and wife, Jame, of Arvada, Colo.; one brother, Allen J. Kemp Jr. of Timmonsville, S.C.; two sisters, Susan K. Martin and husband, Richard, of Lexington, S.C., and Betsy K. Anthony and husband, Keith Whatley, of Little River; and two grandchildren, Nathaniel and Mikayla Jensen.
She was preceded in death by her father, Allen J. Kemp Sr.
Memorial donations can be made to Mercy Hospice and Palliative Care, P.O. Box 50640, Myrtle Beach, SC 29579.
Lee Funeral Home and Crematory of Little River/North Myrtle Beach is in charge of arrangements.
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Annie Dookhan stands accused of faking test results, tampering with evidence and routinely ignoring testing protocols.
With thousands of challenges still making their way through the court system, many in the legal community believe it will be years before the cases handled by Dookhan are cleared.
Just two weeks ago, a lawyer appointed by Gov. Deval Patrick to help create a database of Dookhan's cases said more than 40,000 defendants may have been affected, about 6,000 more than officials first estimated.
"Forget having your day in court, forget having a lawyer—it's taken us this long just to get a number on the number of cases that she tested," said Matthew Segal, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.
"It's been very damaging to the integrity of the justice system," he said.
Dookhan, 35, treasured her reputation as the most productive chemist in the lab and became the go-to person for prosecutors in drug cases.
But now prosecutors believe Dookhan's reputation was based on fraud.
The scandal led to the resignation of the state's public health commissioner, the resignation of a manager at the lab and the firing of another manager.
The effects have reverberated throughout the state.
The state's public defender says the number of affected cases could be even higher because management and protocol lapses at the lab may have allowed other chemists to cut corners or falsify results. Defense attorneys say all test results at the lab over the last decade should be questioned.
In Suffolk County, which includes Boston, 240 defendants have been released by judges who agreed to put their sentences on hold or reduce their bail for pending cases. About 60 of those released have since been arrested on new charges.
In one case, a career criminal and convicted rapist failed to show up for court after his bail was reduced. Marcus Pixley was rearrested two days later, but his case was cited by prosecutors who feared that dangerous criminals would end up back on the streets. Pixley eventually pleaded guilty to a drug distribution charge and was sentenced to a year in county jail.
In Brockton, the dire consequences predicted by prosecutors came true, authorities said, when a man released from prison early killed another man in a fight over drugs and a gun.
Donta Hood, 22, has since pleaded not guilty in the shooting death of Charles Evans, 45. Hood's lawyer said all defendants are entitled to a review of their cases when improprieties or tainted evidence is discovered.
Hood had served about three years of a five-year sentence on a cocaine distribution charge when prosecutors learned that Dookhan testified about drug evidence at his trial. His case was dismissed and he was released. The remaining evidence had been destroyed because Hood had lost all his appeals, said Plymouth District Attorney Tim Cruz.
Evans' mother, Lucille, said her son had been trying to get his life on track after being released from prison in 2010.
"I'm a little disappointed in what happened at the lab and I'm disappointed with the court that let (Hood) walk out," she said. "Maybe he wouldn't be part of killing my son if he had been kept in jail to do his time."
Two other men who were released ended up getting killed in Brockton. Another man whose drug possession case was dismissed was rearrested after authorities say he shot at state police troopers in a gang unit.
"These individuals deal drugs; they protect their turf with weapons. Once they were released, they went right back to what they know best—dealing drugs—and as a result, we're seeing our violence going up in the city of Brockton," Cruz said.
Some defendants have tried to use their release as a second chance.
Yohan Marquez had served about eight months of a three-year sentence for selling heroin when a judge put his sentence on hold.
Marquez, 36, of Boston, has been out almost a year now but has had trouble finding work. Three weeks ago, he finally landed a job as a prep cook at a Boston restaurant. Less than two weeks later, he was fired.
Marquez said he got a vague response when he asked why, but he believes it's because of the GPS ankle bracelet he wears as a condition of his release, a constant reminder of his criminal record.
Marquez, who had an earlier drug conviction, said he's grateful to be released but disappointed that prosecutors haven't dropped the charges against him because of the accusations against Dookhan.
"I made a mistake. I was paying for my mistake, but you had somebody in the system doing what she was not supposed to do," he said. "That's not my fault."


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December 1, 2015
Boulder, Colo. (AP) The teenage daughter of a Lafayette woman found dead in the trunk of her car is now facing a first-degree murder charge.
Prosecutors filed the charge against 15-year-old Tess Damm last week, but the motion was not added to her court file nor announced by prosecutors until Monday.
Tess Damm had been accused of conspiring to kill her mother, but the new charge means she could face life in prison if convicted.
She's one of four people charged in the death of 52-year-old Linda Damm. Police were acting on a tip when they discovered her body in a car at her home February 28th.
Investigators say the body had been in the car for about three weeks.
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