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Another busy week in the MTV Newsroom has come to a close, though the news certainly won't be stopping just because there are a few days off. In fact, the world will almost certainly remain focused on the cataclysmic tsunami that has swept over the eastern coast of Japan (and the fallout that will come because of that disaster). So before you do your part in the recovery effort and reach out to those in need, be sure to catch up with everything you might have missed on the MTV Newsroom blog this week, including the saga of late former Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr, the new Foo Fighters video and a whole lot of "American Idol" madness.
» The rock world mourned the passing of former Alice in Chains member and "Celebrity Rehab" participant Mike Starr, who passed away at the age of 44.
» The week opened with a return to one of the MTV Newsroom blog's favorite television shows, as "The Celebrity Apprentice" came back around for another round of psychosis.
» A number of high-profile albums hit the street this week, including R.E.M.'s latest album Collapse Into Now, which will feature one video for each song on the album.
» Lupe Fiasco also released his long-awaited third album this week, and even though Lupe himself felt lukewarm about it, the critics had a much more enthusiastic reaction.
» Charlie Sheen still dominated a certain segment of the news this week, as he was officially fired from "Two and a Half Men." That opens the door for a replacement, but who will that be?
» In "American Idol" news, the Top 13 competed for survival, and all but Ashthon Jones survived to see the next round.
» James Durbin had another great week on "Idol," delivering an impressive rendition of "Maybe I'm Amazed." Durbin is a stellar performer — something he and the Rock have in common.
» Ever notice how much Lil Wayne is like "Weird Al" Yankovic? You don't? Move along, then.
» The Strokes debuted a new song on "Saturday Night Live," further compounding the buzz they have been building for their big comeback album Angles.
» Britney Spears' new single "Till the World Ends" busted onto the Billboard Hot 100 this week, but Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" remains at the top of the heap.
» Foo Fighters released a new video for "Rope," and MTV News was there for the unveiling.
» Finally, don't forget that MTV's Musical March Madness kicks off on Monday (March 14). Lots of bands think they can win — including the boys from Linkin Park.


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Harley spokesman Bob Klein says the objective is to export American-made motorcycles to China. Klein says the company has no intention of manufacturing bikes in China.
Harley won't name the Chinese manufacturer or specify what technologies it plans to share.
However, Klein says it's not technology that would enable the Chinese partner to copy Harley-Davidson.
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
In order for Russellville's 175th anniversary celebration to be a success lots of help is needed from everyone. Please consider helping out with one or more of the activities listed.
Join the Committee. The meetings are held the third Thursday of each month at the St. Michael's Parish Hall basement at 6:30 p.m.
The committee plans to have a "History Museum of Russellville" and needs someone to help organize the museum and people to work it that weekend. Any church, organization, business or individual that would like to have a table to display historical pictures, articles, or items is welcome. A table can be reserved for your project.
All quilters of the community are encouraged to join in the quilting of the two quilts to be auctioned off at the festival. To volunteer quilting services please contact Sharon Distler at 782-3136. A quilt show in connection with the History Museum would be welcomed. People to be in charge are needed and people of the community to provide quilts.
Someone or a group to coordinate the children's area is needed. Please consider giving some time to help make this weekend one to remember.
Items for the silent and live auction are needed again this year. Please let us know if you have something you would like to donate.
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Maude Falgout Pierpont
Published: Thursday, January 31, 2002 at 6:01 a.m.
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Maude Falgout Pierpont, 98, a native of Raceland, and former resident of Jefferson Parish and resident of Lacombe, died at 11 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2002.
Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to funeral time Friday at Falgout Funeral Home in Raceland. Mass will be at 1 p.m. Friday at St. Mary Nativity Church in Raceland with burial in the church cemetery.
She is survived by three daughters, Catherine P. Domangue, Constance P. Bentin and Carol A. Pierpont; one son-in-law, Roy P. Domangue Sr.; one brother, Elmo Falgout Sr.; one sister, Sadie F. Laris; 10 grandchildren, Roy J., Ronald and Albert Domangue, Elizabeth D. Kulas, Robert and Richard DeValcourt, William and Alexander Williams, Tracy W. Fontenot and Marisa W. Elliot; 14 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Albert B. Pierpont Jr.; her parents, Joseph and Elvire Grabert Falgout; four brothers, Nelson Sr., Allence, Idie and Loney Falgout; and three sisters, Sidna F. Hunter, Lizzie F. Domangue and Josephine F. Aucoin.
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God of War: Ascension's First 30 Minutes: Hands-On Preview
With the shield and sling, the total of world weapons comes to five. Two were available during the hands-on time I had with the game, and I was able to mix them in with Kratos's standard attacks. "The world weapons all have tactical differences," McDonald said. "If you pick up one, you have to drop the other, and we wanted them to have a strategic flair."
If it sounds a bit like the Ascension multiplayer experience that players have been able to try in Sony's beta for the game over the last few weeks, that's because it is. In fact, notably, combat in single player feels almost exactly like combat in multiplayer. The controls for Kratos have been reworked slightly, adding a physical kick attack to the circle button (it's also the button for using your world weapons) and making throws and grappling more prevalent, just like in multiplayer.
Also as in multiplayer, you'll be able to utilize those throws to your advantage against enemies. This is called "tethering," and as Director Todd Papy put it during a short video demo, the ability will allow you to "weaponize" the guys you're fighting.
Just like multiplayer, you'll see enemies getting stunned a lot more. This previously was a part of God of War and always led to a grapple move for instant kill potential. Now, however, grapples are a little different: Kratos can still tether an enemy to take him out when he's an inch from death, but stunned enemies can be grabbed from a distance and used as battering rams. You can also snag a bad guy with one Blade of Chaos, while smashing his buddies with the other, and certain attacks will swing the other guy through the air like a morning star, making him a part of your attack. Weaponizing is actually a big part of your strategy, as you'll often need to use enemies against one another, and different enemies offer different effects when you smack them into their buddies.
Balance in combat feels as though it's been tweaked a little to reflect the multiplayer formula, which isn't a bad thing. "We've revamped a few things for freshness," McDonald said. "In multiplayer, it's all about offense and defense, and there's a little bit of rollover between the two. It's a little different though, because Kratos overcomes things a little differently than you do in multiplayer."
That said, your multiplayer strategies will probably become a part of your single-player play. There were a few instances in which I was able to apply multiplayer's "rock, paper, scissors" approach to combat and apply the correct move against an enemy — like tethering a guy who was blocking my attacks, for example. Those are skills that are developed out of dealing with other players in multiplayer, translating to the single-player experience.
After all that new combat, the rest of the level translated into Kratos doing a lot of what Kratos does, and it will probably make many players happy to know that Ascension's first 30 minutes didn't feel remarkably different from any other bit of God of War I've played. This largely seems to be a result of the game easing players into the new mechanics, but it also stays very true to the existing formula, while making solid, working tweaks.


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FAIRMEAD — A 27-year-old man was killedWednesday about 3:15 p.m. when he lost control of his SUV and struck the back end of parked tractor-trailer on Maple Street, near Yates Avenue, according to the California Highway Patrol.
CHP Sgt. Lincoln McKenna said the deceased had no identification and officers were interviewing nearby residents and otherwise attempting to determine who the man was and where he was coming from.
"The investigation is ongoing, but alcohol and use of a cell phone are under investigation as factors" in the fatal crash, McKenna said.
Conditions at the time of the collision were clear and the roadway was dry...


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Ignorance is Bliss is a new collaboration from San Francisco based Claude Von Stroke and UK based Eats Everything. The track was released on Claude's label 'dirtybid' just a few weeks ago and is a part of a greater compilation of tracks entitled 'Hatched Vol. 1,' featuring works from artists like A1 Bassline. The track is very techy, slightly deep, and very Claude – check it out!
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5 ways to compose an image for supreme impact: easy tips to train your creative eye
Compose an image with impact: 03 Shoot close for sports
For really dramatic sports images, get in on the action with a wide-angle lens
What's the angle?
Rather than using a long telephoto lens, and shooting from a distance, for this technique to work you need to get as close to the action as possible – that way, you can use a wide-angle lens, which will help you include all of the action, and a lot more of the background than a shot taken with a long telephoto lens.
When it works
With a wide-angle lens you need to be able to get really close to the action for frame-filling shots, so this isn't a suitable technique for all sports – you'll find it easiest to get close to the action at sports such as motocross, mountain biking or running races rather than, say, motor racing or most team sports.
Why it works
Getting in close will really emphasise the sense of speed and action. It can also make the viewer feel much more a part of the action than a telephoto image taken from a distance.
SEE MORE: How to get composition right every time
Things to watch out for
Getting close to any action can be a risky business, so never put yourself in an area that could be dangerous.
Most organised sporting events will have rules only allowing you access to reasonably safe areas, and marshalls to make sure that you adhere to these rules.
How to compose an image with impact: 01 Shoot low for portraits
How to compose an image with impact: 02 Shoot high for cityscapes
How to compose an image with impact: 03 Shoot close for sports
How to compose an image with impact: 04 Shoot upwards for abstracts
How to compose an image with impact: 05 Shoot long for landscapes
Panning: how the pros capture motion (and the best shutter speeds to use)
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I have to admit, I've been a little behind on Zotero developments. But I'm catching up, zipping through about four months of posts in BlogBridge. Last week Zotero released v.2 beta which includes the ability to collaborate in groups. It's only in beta so watch out for other developments in this regard. While you're at it, bookmark their blog.
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STT = degree program must be completed on the St. Thomas campus
STX = degree program must be completed on the Albert A. Sheen Campus on St. Croix
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The courses of study toward a Bachelor of Arts degree in the School of Business are designed to prepare the student to assume positions in middle and upper management in business and governmental organizations.
A graduate with an accounting major has a broad exposure to business concepts and in depth knowledge of the accounting discipline. The alumni of this program would be prepared for entry level positions in the accounting profession and have sufficient accounting credits to sit for the Certified Public Accountants (CPA) and the Certified Management Accountants (CMA) examinations in most United States jurisdictions.
Study for your Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and prepare for the professional exams as set forth by the Institute of Management Accountants (CMA) and the United States, State Boards of Accountancy (CPA) while you are studying for your degree.
Preparation for the CPA and CMA examinations are integrated in the curriculum and the School offers courses specifically for the purpose of preparing candidates to take these professional examinations.
Our curriculum is designed to meet the 150 hour educational requirement rule for CPA licensure1.
Preparation for the CPA and CMA examinations are integrated in the curriculum and the School offers courses specifically for the purpose of preparing candidates to take these professional examinations.
The School of Business is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP). The bachelor of arts degree in accounting is one of the degrees accredited by this international business program accrediting body.
The Associate of Arts degree program in Accounting is designed to prepare students for careers in the fields of accounting and financial administration.
The accounting program is offered on the Albert A. Sheen Campus on St. Croix and the St. Thomas Campus. For more information about this program contact Dr. Dion Gouws, CPA.
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April 30, 2016
Every year Citizens Property Insurance gambles. The board weights its risk, and places its bet on how bad the hurricane season could be.
This year, the board voted to buy 400 million dollars in reinsurance and issue 900 million dollars in bonds in order to have cash on hand to pay claims.
Christine Ashburn, Citizens Director of External Affairs says, "The catch 22 is if we buy reinsurance and there is no storm that money that we've spent on that reinsurance is not recouped."
She goes on to say the 1.3 billion dollar purchase will allow citizens to pay more than seven billion dollars in claims.
"Citizens paid out in all eight storms in 04, 05, about 5.5 billion dollars so this would put us in a much better position."
But critics of Citizens aren't satisfied. They say if one major storm hit a large Florida city, Citizens would be on the hook for more than 15 billion dollars.
Sam Miller of the Florida Insurance Council said, "I mean if there is a one-hundred year storm this year, no that's not going to be enough."
Lawmakers could have passed Citizens reform legislation when they were here last week, but they went home with no reform.
Now opponents are working behind the scenes to get Governor Rick Scott to call lawmakers back for another shot at Citizens.
But there are still concerns over how lawmakers would vote, and calling the legislature back to Tallahassee without a deal would be viewed as a waste of money.
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The first still image of Katie Holmes in director Troy Nixey's new horror movie, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, recently appeared in Entertainment Weekly's San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) preview issue. Now a high-resolution version of the image is online.
A remake of the 1973 made-for-TV movie of the same name, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is produced and co-written by Guillermo del Toro and tells the story of a young girl (played by Bailee Madison) who unwittingly unleashes evil creatures in the basement of the mansion that her father (Guy Pearce) and his girlfriend (Holmes) are renovating.
Miramax will debut the first footage from Don't Be Afraid of the Dark at SDCC on Friday, from 2:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. in Hall H of the San Diego Convention Center. Nixey and del Toro will be on hand to introduce the footage and answer questions about the movie.


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Some individual numbers:
Charde Houston and Brittany Hunter have a collective 70 percent field goal percentage. Houston is first in the Big East (71.4 percent) and Hunter is second (67.6).
Houston is 17-for-20 her last two games, scoring postly on drives to the basket, rebounds or short jumpers.
Hunter has been quite efficient coming off the bench. She has scored 51 points and grabbed 42 rebounds in 64 minutes. That averages to 8.5 points and 7 rebounds every 10.7 minutes.
For all her early shooting struggles, Tina Charles has shot 51.9 percent in her last four games. This is an improvement from there first two game when she shot 32.1 percent.
Renee Montgomery has averaged 17.67 points in the past three games. She is a career 80.8 percent free-throw shooter, making 59 of her 73 attempts. She is 16 for 19 this year.
Ketia Swanier has created just six turnovers in 119 minutes -- or one about every 20 minutes. This is a vast improvement from her first two years when she averaged one turnovers every 9.2 minutes.
Mel Thomas has shot 74.7 percent from the free-throw line in her UConn career.


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Call of Juarez Gunslinger
Call of Juarez Gunslinger - Reveal Trailer
From the dust of a gold mine to the dirt of a saloon, Call of Juarez Gunslinger is a real homage to the Wild West tales and era. When justice is bought and paid for, enforced by the man with the quickest draw, who's to say what freedom means.
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Made of memorable encounters with some of the West's most notorious names such as John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid and Jesse James, the game blurs the lines between man and myth. They all made their choice, and now you'll make yours. Call of Juarez Gunslinger lets players live the greatest legends of the Old West. It's time to settle up!
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Some more Scott Boras quotes on Machado signing
Talking to superagent Scott Boras – especially about his clients – is always an interesting experience. I spoke to him for several moments this morning about the Orioles' newly minted pick Manny Machado, whom the Orioles signed to a $5.25 million deal three minutes before Monday's midnight deadline.
Here are some Boras quotes:
On Machado: "He has a chance to become a premier major league player. We don't see that often, much like Wieters, that a player can come to the big leagues with a very short minor league career. He is a very instinctive hitter. And he will be a guy who hits for power, he certainly has the power.
On whether Machado will stay at shortstop or eventually move to third base: "He can hold the middle infield now and he will have the bat to move to third base if and when he gets older and it merits a move off short. …. At this point in time there is nothing to indicate he would have to move from shortstop, but bodies can change at 23, 24. Some players remain lean and some players get thicker."
On having a track record with the Orioles and quality clients: "With the Orioles, specifically, I like to address the fact that I had Matt Wieters and Jake Arrieta and both of them are players sitting in the big leagues right now. We knew (Manny's) value, Joe (Jordan) knew his value, and I think this is a great signing for Baltimore, as Wieters was."
On getting big contracts for amateurs: "You talk about players' credibility, any amateur player we have gotten $5 million or more for has turned out to be a significant, contributing major leaguer every time. 100 percent."
On asking for $5 million for amateurs: "In my 30 years or so of doing this we have asked for $5 million (for an amateur) less than 15 times, maybe even less than that. They have to be a very special player, and Manny falls into that class. Skill-wise, attitude and exuberance, who he is is a tried and true baseball player and so this is a very equitable deal for both sides. This is a young player that is going to be a very important part of their future."


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Business News
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EUROPEAN OUTDOOR FRIEDRICHSHAFEN: NEW RECORDThe 14th European OutDoor Trade Fair in Friedrichshafen, Germany, closed on Sunday again with an increase in visitors and exhibitors. From July 19 to 22, a total of 16,900 visitors (compared to 15,529 in 2006) and 731 exhibitors (compared to 675 in 2006) – including Nike ACG, The North Face, Timberland and Columbia – came to the show at the Lake Constance. The growth of the fair corresponds to the development of the European outdoor segment in general, which grew its turnover by 2.6 % in 2006, as Rolf G. Schmid, president of the European Outdoor Group (EOG) and CEO Mammut Sports Group, presented in the last survey of the EOG. Lifestyle clothing and clothing for traveling is the fastest growing segment within the outdoor business.
The growth of the fair has produced a new problem: limited space and infrastructure of the Messe Friedrichshafen GmbH and the whole region. Although the Messe Friedrichshafen is hopeing to build up two new halls and new parking areas for the next show (July 17 to 20, 2008), there are ambitious efforts from other German fair-companies to convince the EOG to change the location.
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The great TWAIN journey
Over the past decade, TWAIN has established itself as an important standard in the desktop publishing industry. This white paper...
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TWAIN defines a standard software protocol and application-programming interface for communication between software applications and image acquisition devices. In the early days of desktop publishing, most publications contained only text plus simple black and white line drawings that were output to black and white laser printers. In recent years, however, business professionals and graphic artists have been able to create and output complex, full-colour publications. This near-commercial quality work may include black and white, greyscale and colour images acquired from desktop and handheld scanners, or from still video, digital cameras or image capture boards.Image acquisition was always a difficult process. To acquire and place an image in a publication, users had to leave the application in which you were working. Then they had to locate and open a hardware driver, set the device options, acquire the image, save it to disk, close the hardware driver and return to the application. Next, the image file had to be located and read in from the disk. The process was time-consuming, tedious and not the way business professionals, designers or publishers wanted to work, particularly with the ever-increasing need for on-demand integration of images acquired in real-time. When the image acquisition issue surfaced, hardware and software developers began defining their image acquisition interfaces. This was a step in the right direction, but it soon became apparent that high numbers of proprietary interfaces were not the ultimate solution. It was inefficient to require software developers to write a driver for each device they need to support. Conversely, it did not make sense to ask hardware vendors to write a different driver to interface with each software application. Most importantly, from the user perspective, it was unacceptable to deal with many unique application/device driver files. What was needed was a painless way to get image data into applications. Software developers needed compatibility with the widest range of output devices without having to write and maintain multiple device drivers. Hardware developers needed compatibility with the greatest number of applications without application-dependent coding. The solution was an open industry interface that directly acquires image data from external sources while within an application. Each hardware vendor writes one driver for the device, which can be used by all software applications supporting the standard data acquisition interface. Software vendors will be freed from writing and supporting device drivers, or from soliciting support for their own proprietary interface. Another benefit is that one single interface will support vendors writing these device drivers. Users will benefit because they can place a smaller set of drivers at the operating system level and take advantage of seamless images acquisition from a large number of applications. Forming the TWAIN ConsortiumIn early 1990, the formation of the Macintosh Scanner Roundtable group heightened awareness in the imaging industry of the need for an open interface. But it proved difficult to resolve issues and progress was slow. At one of the group's last meetings later that year, it was suggested that a smaller set of industry leaders form a consortium and create a specification for review, revision and ultimate adoption by the imaging industry. The result, the TWAIN Working Group, was formed with representatives from Aldus, Caere, Eastman Kodak, Hewlett-Packard and Logitech. The group's primary goal was to promote imaging products through developing an easily used image acquisition interface and educating users about it. A key requirement of participation was that members were willing to represent a broader interest than that of their own company. The number of participants was kept low so that the specification could be written quickly, while representation from a wide spectrum of application developers (desktop communications and OCR) and hardware vendors (handheld, desktop and high-end colour imaging devices) was maintained. The result was that working group members represented diversity in the industry, bringing in-depth imaging experience to both hardware and software development, and marketing fields. At the working group's first meetings, engineers faced the huge task of reviewing specifications and resolving outstanding requirement issues. Most working group companies had written their own interface for direct image acquisition and these were considered along with more than two dozen specifications provided by other companies. No single specification or protocol ( including those from operating system vendors ( provided the richness of functionality and ease of implementation that was required. Eventually, a composite of Silicon Beach/Adobe Plug-ins, an internal Aldus protocol, an HP protocol under development and Logitech's SAPI was used as the basis for TWAIN. Working group engineers participated in monthly workshops to define the specification. A separate marketing working group met to discuss how to publish a toolkit, support the interface, plus how to inform the industry and public about the interface. Besides the TWAIN Working Group, more than 175 major imaging hardware and software companies form a group called the TWAIN Coalition. This larger group reviewed the specification and provided feedback before its release. The working group took comments and suggestions from the coalition, examined the costs and benefits of the modifications, and decided which to incorporate into the specification. The specification is now in its third revision. Consortium and coalition informationAs of 1995, the TWAIN Working Group is composed of four companies: Hewlett-Packard, Logitech, Documagix and Canon. These companies continue to update and modify the specification regularly, set the direction for future TWAIN development and implement additions to the TWAIN Data Source Manager and tools. In addition, the group provides the core answers to questions from the TWAIN community. Goals of the TWAIN SpecificationTWAIN was designed to provide a consistent, easy integration of image data between sophisticated input devices and software applications. The interface must work across many operating systems and use of platform-specific mechanisms should be kept to a minimum. Supported devices include handheld scanners, flatbed scanners, slide scanners, image capture boards or frame grabbers, digital cameras and image databases ( a broad range of raster image generating devices. The interface should be well defined and enables the majority of leading hardware and software developers to provide drivers for their devices or include support through their applications and promote acceptance of TWAIN. Multi-data capacityThe general data interchange mechanism must be able to transmit data in existing standard formats and native file formats such as TIFF, PICT and DIB. Furthermore, TWAIN was designed to support data type extensions outside the realm of images, such as text, facsimile data and vector graphics. ArchitectureTWAIN provides a simple methodology for universally connecting TWAIN-compliant applications with TWAIN-aware devices. The model for the interaction of applications with the source of input data can be described through a four-layer protocol: the application layer, protocol layer, acquisition layer and device layer. The acquisition components correspond to these layers and include the application, source manager, source and physical hardware device. The application communicates through the source manager to a source driver, which represents the physical hardware device that generates image data. The hardware interface element of the TWAIN architecture is the source. A source is a TWAIN entity whose purpose is to take data from a hardware device and provide it to a TWAIN-compliant application. A source is typically written by the hardware vendor to control a peripheral device. Such a device is usually a piece of hardware, such as a scanner, although a virtual device such as an image database also fits the source model. The device may be connected locally or accessed remotely over a network. The central element of this architecture is the source manager (SM), whose primary role is to establish and manage connections between the application and the sources. The SM allows the user to select the desired source, loads and unloads the selected source, and makes sure that all calls from a particular application are correctly routed to the appropriate source. The SM is implemented as a code resource on the Macintosh and a Dynamically Linked Library (DLL) under Microsoft Windows. Under Windows, there will be only one copy of the SM active in memory at any given time. On the Mac, there will be a separate copy of the SM for each application accessing it. When the application needs to communicate with a source, it calls the SM with a correctly addressed message. An application never calls a source directly. To acquire an image using the TWAIN protocol, users choose Select Source from the Application menu. This identifies the source device from which the image will be acquired and is only accessed when it is necessary to switch between connected devices. It also invokes the source manager, bringing up a selection dialogue box. Once the source is selected, choose Acquire to initiate the image acquisition process, which brings up the source manager to facilitate a process called capabilities negotiation. The process takes place between the sending messages application (describing the data it wants) and the source (defining the data it can provide). When negotiation is complete, control is passed to the source. The source's user interface allows you to set scanning options and start the scan, or the user interface can be suppressed, leaving whatever has been previously negotiated as the settings. Extensibility and revisionsAs the industry grows, the specification's architecture should be extensible and able to handle new, unknown conditions. Revisions will be backwards compatible, with code written to earlier versions of the specification. While the aim was to provide a solution as quickly as possible, the standard was designed to last for several years, or until such time as this type of facility could be supported at the operating system level. It is a goal of the working group that this functionality is incorporated at the operating system level and is TWAIN-compatible. The full text of this white paper can be found at Hewlett-Packard's website. Compiled by Richard Pitt
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Globalization and sustainable development in Africa / edited by Bessie House-Soremekun and Toyin Falola.
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- Publication:
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2011.
- Series:
- Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora.
Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, 1092-5228
- Format/Description:
- Book
xviii, 463 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Subjects:
- Sustainable development -- Africa.
Globalization -- Africa.
Africa -- Economic policy.
Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1960-
- Contents:
- Part one: Globalization and development: The trouble with globalization: it isn't global enough! / Martin C. Spechler
Can Africa compete in a global economy? / Baiyee-Mbi Agbor-Baiyee
A two-track strategy for viable development in Africa / Benaiah Yongo-Bure
Solutions to Africa's development challenges / Stephen D. Kpinpuo
Renewable energy, migration-development model, and sustainability entrepreneurship / Rubin Patterson
Part two: Localities, nations, and globalization: Transborder labor liberalization and social contracts / Karen E. Bravo
Asante society and the global market / Gracia Clark
Enterprising women in Zimbabwe: confronting crisis in a globalizing era / Mary J. Osirim
Sustainable strategies in a postconflict environment: fostering local entrepreneurship in Côte d'Ivoire / Ulf Richter
Part three: Industrial and financial networking: Globalization and monetary convergence: independent currency union or dollarization? / Christopher E. S. Warburton
The impact of globalization on emerging markets: the case of Côte d'Ivoire / Ulf Richter
Globalization and industrial development in Nigeria / Kola Subair
Interest rates, fiscal policy, and foreign private investment in Nigeria / Iyiola Alade Ajayi and Adeyemi Babalola
Why Nigeria does not work: obstacles and the alternative path to development / Charles J. Mambula
Part four: Insecurity and conflicts: The impact of globalization on international security / John Babatunde Bamidele Ojo
Resource curse, globalization, and conflicts / Ricardo Real Pedrosa de Sousa
The politics of oil and development and visual metaphors of the crisis in Nigeria's Niger delta / Aderonke Adesola Adesanya
Islam and the "global war on terror" in West Africa / Abdoulaye Saine.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.
- Contributor:
- House-Soremekun, Bessie, 1956-
Falola, Toyin.
Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.
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9781580463928 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 679940781
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After 32 years in Juneau, Perseverance Theatre, (PT) is expanding its season to Anchorage in 2012 by remounting two well-received productions from its most recent season, "The Blue Bear" and "A Raisin in the Sun."
Both offerings will be presented at the Sydney Laurence Theatre at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts.
PT is Alaska's largest and most acclaimed professional theatre company. Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "How I Learned to Drive" was written while she was a PT artist in residence. More than 50 new plays have debuted on its stages.
Presented in conjunction with the Anchorage Concert Association, "The Blue Bear," which debuted earlier this year in Juneau, will feature its original cast in Anchorage next February. Lorraine Hasberry's landmark 1959 play "A Raisin in the Sun" will follow in April 2012.
PT's artistic director, Art Rotch, is excited to bring the shows before a new audience. "We turned 30 a couple of years ago and we had a change in leadership. It was time to take stock, look all the way back and then look forward more than a few years," Rotch says. "To achieve our long term vision we needed to stretch and grow a little bit and reach more Alaska audiences."
With support from the Alaska Humanities Forum, "The Blue Bear" was adapted from author Lynn Schooler's 2002 book The Blue Bear: A True Story of Friendship, Tragedy and Survival in the Alaskan Wilderness. It chronicles Schooler's friendship with Japanese wildlife photographer Michio Hoshino and their quest to find and photograph the elusive glacier bear.
Glacier, or blue bears (named for their silvery pelts) are estimated to number fewer than 100. They exclusively inhabit the coastline of Southeast Alaska, whose Native peoples revere the bears as mystical beings.
Rotch, who joined PT in 2008, proposed adapting the memoir for the stage during his job application and interview process in his vision of a "dream project" for PT's 30th anniversary season.
"The author, Lynn Schooler, has some qualities I relate to," he says. "The book stuck with me."
The book details how Schooler, scarred by childhood scoliosis that confined him to a back brace and subjected him to ridicule from his peers for much of his formative years, is trying to come to terms with a friend's murder at the hands of a serial killer when he and Hoshino meet. Schooler is hired to guide the renowned photographer. The Blue Bear traces the friendship they developed while exploring some of Alaska's wildest places on their search.
Before Schooler and Hoshino found a glacier bear to photograph, a grizzly bear killed Hoshino on the Kamtchaka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, where Hoshino was on assignment. While Schooler eventually photographs a glacier bear in honor of his friend, the profound impact of Hoshino's friendship on Schooler's life is the book's central premise.
Published in 2002, The Blue Bear has been highly acclaimed. The Oregonian raved about the "awe-inspiring beauty of Alaska's Glacier Coast" described in its pages. Publishers Weekly called the memoir "beautifully crafted" and spoke of the "overpowering Alaska landscape." The Seattle Times labeled Schooler's prose "cinematography," while the New York Times Book Review praised it as "sublime."
Rotch was faced with the challenge of just how to capture these abstract concepts and present them on stage, how to portray the essence of Schooler and Hoshino's journey together without overstating their intimacy, and how to translate internal dialogues for dramatic audiences.
Rotch and PT received a $10,000 grant from the Alaska Humanities Forum in 2010 to create an Alaska-inspired dramatic text along with related workshops and discussions. They enlisted Luann Schooler, a playwright and the author's sister.
Lynn was initially reluctant to participate in the process of converting her brother's deeply personal work to a stage performance. She had the original text in a word document on her computer and cut out everything that wasn't dialogue, Rotch recalls.
"There's about a page on 27, half a page on 52, and in total about nine pages of dialogue in the entire book," he says. "The heart of the story is the relationship between two people and what was not said was often as important as what was said. The task of creating playable action and dialogue out of that book was hard but really vibrant once it came to the stage."
"[My brother] wrote a giraffe, and we're making a monkey," Luann told the audience at a University of Alaska "Page to Stage" lecture on the book's transformation into a play. "The book is quite introspective, it has a lot of fabulous natural history sections in it, there's internal journeys. Although it's rich material, it's really not an obvious play."
Hoshino's estate and widow were supportive of the project and the play uses many of his photographs as well as Schooler's in the stage production. The photos were integrated into the production at the same time the script was being created and are projected on a screen behind the sparse set.
"There are moments in the play in which the pictures actually do take the foreground and the actors step back and let them take the lead," Rotch says.
Directed by Leon Ingulsrud, with Ryan Conarro portraying Schooler and Taka Yamamoto as Hoshino, the play garnered sterling reviews during its Juneau run.
Tickets for the February 10 through 12 performances of "The Blue Bear" are $15 to $29 and can be purchased from the Anchorage Concert Association, (907) 272-1471, or online here. Email: email@example.com.


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Tuesday, November 9, 2010
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A statewide project that documents Missouri soldiers' stories in their own words will be publicly unveiled Thursday.
The Veterans Day event at the University of Missouri in Columbia features a project previously known as Missouri Veterans Stories.
The project began in 2007 in Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder's office and has since produced about 1,300 videos of World War II veterans through a private firm. But state lawmakers last year cut $600,000 from the project's budget.
The new Missouri Veterans History Project is a nonprofit effort that now relies on university researchers and graduate students as well as volunteers.
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Many young adults may have questions that others around them cannot answer. However, there are many resources available. A few websites are listed below.
The Trevor Project- The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth.
Book and Film Guide (PDF)- This free guide provides recommended reading and film lists for educators and parents, as well as youth-targeted reading and film lists. From The Trevor Project.
GLSEN- The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network strives to assure that each member of every school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression
It Get's Better Project- Many LGBT youth can't picture what their lives might be like as openly gay adults. They can't imagine a future for themselves. So let's show them what our lives are like, let's show them what the future may hold in store for them.
Amplify Your Voice- Amplify is a project of Advocates for Youth (www.advocatesforyouth.org). Established in 1980 as the Center for Population Options, Advocates for Youth champions efforts to help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Advocates believes it can best serve the field by boldly advocating for a more positive and realistic approach to adolescent sexual health.
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While 2012 was a landmark year for 401(k) plans with the new fee disclosure requirements going into effect, the annual Deloitte 401(k) Survey revealed that the top-of-mind issue for plan sponsors in 2012 was education, not regulation. In fact, 84 percent of plan sponsors identified improved participant education as a focus area for their plans.
The 2013 Top Five Global Employer Rewards Survey from Deloitte Consulting LLP seems to indicate that participant education is important, reporting that 66 percent of employees in the Americas rated "my ability to afford retirement" as their top personal challenge. As many U.S. workers may rely primarily on 401(k) plans to fund their retirement, the survey sought to understand how plan sponsors felt their plans were doing in meeting the retirement income challenge for their employees. Only 12 percent of employers felt that most of their employees are, or will be, financially prepared for retirement. So, even with a slowly improving economy, there is still a long road to retirement savings that lies ahead.
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While most 401(k) plans have an investment policy statement (IPS), education policy statements (EPS) are uncommon. An area that has grown in importance with plan sponsors since the global market meltdown of 2008 is the need for meaningful continuing education for plan participants.
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Killer Workouts: Exercise-Induced Anaphylaxis
What Is Anaphylaxis?
What Is Anaphylaxis?
You probably know someone who is severely allergic to something like peanuts or bee stings. These allergies can cause anaphylaxis, a type of severe allergic reaction that affects your whole body. It happens quickly and can lead to life-threatening complications.
In rare cases, anaphylaxis is caused by physical activity. A combination of exercise and other contributing factors such as food, weather conditions, or medications often causes exercise-induced anaphylaxis.
Literally Allergic to Exercise
Literally Allergic to Exercise
Running and jogging are usually blamed for exercise-induced anaphylaxis. However, it can happen during any physical activity, such as raking leaves or tearing it up on the dance floor.
Eating particular foods before exercising may bring on an allergic reaction. Peanuts, seafood, and wheat are associated with exercise-induced anaphylaxis. Certain medications like aspirin and anti-inflammatories are sometimes part of the problem.
Extreme temperatures, humidity, and hormonal changes can also be contributing factors.
Symptoms can come on quite suddenly. They may be mild at first but can accelerate rapidly. Common symptoms include:
- hives
- nausea
- dizziness
- swelling
- cramps
- diarrhea
You may experience coughing, wheezing, and difficulty breathing if you don't stop to rest. This is a life-threatening situation requiring emergency medical attention. Severe cases may progress to shock, loss of consciousness, and respiratory or cardiac arrest.
What to Do
What to Do
Stop what you're doing and rest if you feel early symptoms of exercise-induced anaphylaxis. Sometimes that's all it takes.
Call 911 immediately if someone near you exhibits signs of anaphylaxis. Signs of anaphylactic shock include:
- pale, clammy skin
- weak, rapid pulse
- breathing problems
- confusion and loss of consciousness
If the person has emergency medication like an epinephrine auto-injector, you may help administer it. Don't attempt to give oral medications to someone who can't breathe. It may be necessary to begin CPR while awaiting emergency responders.
Emergency Treatment
Emergency Treatment
The emergency medical team will try to help the person breathe and keep their heart beating. They may use adrenaline (epinephrine) to tame the body's allergic response.
Emergency responders may also use intravenous antihistamines or cortisone to decrease inflammation in the air passages. Medications called beta-agonists ease troubled breathing.
See your doctor for a complete physical if you've experienced exercise-induced anaphylaxis. Keep a record of foods you eat before exercising.
Avoid exercising outdoors during allergy season and in extreme temperatures. Exercise with a partner who is aware of your condition, and who will know what to do in an emergency.
Pinpointing the factors that contribute to anaphylaxis will help you prevent future attacks.
The Auto-Injector
The Auto-Injector
Your doctor will probably prescribe an auto-injector (EpiPen®) if you have a serious allergy. It injects just the right amount of epinephrine into your system.
Seconds count, so make sure you understand how and when to use it. Tell those closest to you that you carry an auto-injector and teach them how to use it.
It's important that you carry the auto-injector with you at all times. Replace your medication before it expires.
Long-Term Outlook
Long-Term Outlook
The good news is that anaphylaxis is usually very treatable if you act quickly. If you have a known allergy, carry with you the emergency injectable medication your doctor prescribed, especially when you exercise.
The long-term outlook is very favorable if you try to avoid your known triggers. However, this is a serious allergy and you should treat it as such. Complications can include respiratory arrest, cardiac arrest, shock, and loss of consciousness.
A Few More Precautions
A Few More Precautions
Consider wearing a medical alert tag. Alert your family and friends to your condition and teach them what to do in an emergency. Read all labels carefully if you have a food allergy.
Stop and rest at the first sign of anaphylaxis. Keep your medications and a cell phone on you when exercising.
Exercise is good for you. As long as you take the proper precautions and listen to your body's signals, you should be able to continue exercising.
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For more than 25 years, James Balog has broken new ground in the art of photographing nature. Time magazine photographer James Nachtwey wrote of his images, "Each new series represents a quantum leap in creativity...He is a visionary and his works are like sacred objects."
If Balog's work is artistically and intellectually inspiring, it is also physically exhilarating. It springs from his passionate, lifelong involvement with nature as an artist, scientist, explorer, and adventurer. He is equally at home on a Himalayan peak or a white-water river, the African savanna or polar ice caps.
Balog's work has received international acclaim, including the Leica Medal of Excellence and the premier awards for nature and science photography at World Press Photo in Amsterdam. His exhibitions have been shown at more than a hundred museums and galleries around the world. He was the first photographer ever commissioned to create a full plate of stamps for the U.S. Postal Service; the 1996 release featured America's endangered wildlife.
Many major magazines, including National Geographic, the New Yorker, Life, Vanity Fair, the New York Times Magazine, Audubon, and Outside, have published his work. He is a contributing editor to National Geographic Adventure and is the subject of the short film A Redwood Grows in Brooklyn.
Balog is the author of six books, including Tree: A New Vision of the American Forest and Survivors: A New Vision of Endangered Wildlife, which was widely hailed as a major conceptual breakthrough in nature photography. Recent work includes the Extreme Ice Survey, a project that brings image-makers and scientists together to create a photographic record of global climate change.
Balog lives on a Rocky Mountain ridge high above Boulder, Colorado, with his wife, Suzanne, and two daughters.
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I know I haven't been contributing much to my blog but I've been reasonably prolific on the forums and Facebook over the last year, so I don't feel like a total lazy ass. Most of the stuff I've been addressing lately is related to this new weird censorship movement in the trans community. It's bizarre and I'm afraid we're only a couple of months away from actual book burnings so it's definitely going to get interesting. We do live in interesting times after all, but that is not what I'm thinking about right now.
What I'm musing about today is why any of us go through this awful process of transitioning at all. It has been very difficult for me and when I look around, it occurs to me that I may have even had it easy compared to some of my sisters. As hard as it's been, I can certainly imagine how it could have been much harder. My heart goes out to all of the transitioners, but especially to those gals who have seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their way. There are all kinds of things that can derail a transition not the least of which is a decidedly masculine presence. I grew up as kind of a femmy boy but even I had considerable testosterone poisoning by the time I pulled the pin on the Tranny Grenade at 42. Luckily I had some resources that allowed me to deal with looking like a dude, and I dealt with it with extreme prejudice. It only took a couple of years for the whispers to stop. I'm one of the lucky ones though. What about the gals who don't have the resources and who were cursed with a large masculine frame that a pro athlete would envy?
I'm sure those gals feel the same way I do and like me, they are going to do it regardless of what they end up looking like. That's the way it is you know, once you realize that there is a way out of the bondage you've endured for a lifetime, you can't get out fast enough. So they do and they end up trading a life of privilege as a large imposing man to a life of scorn as an obvious transsexual. Who in their right mind would do such a thing? Well, clearly nobody. I honestly don't think any of us are in our right minds. I think the decision to transition is made somewhere so primal that it can't be intellectualized. There is no advantage to transition. There is no reason whatsoever to do something that completely dismantles your life and very likely alienates you from everyone you know. No reason at all. ...except for one; Freedom.
I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to explain this, but we are all simply trying to be free. Imagine going to the beach in a tuxedo you couldn't take off. It's fun to be there but volleyball would be so much easier if you could kick off your shoes. It would also be nice to get in the water for a minute, maybe catch some rays. Sure you could sit in a nice comfy chair with a drink and watch everyone else. That has its own appeal right? It's comfy, you can get a nice buzz, you can watch the girls and/or the guys frolic in skimpy clothes. I could easily spend a couple of hours doing that. Then what? Then nothing, you go home and wonder why you're wearing a fucking tuxedo. That was my life. Always watching, always on the outside looking in. Drinking too much, watching too much, and never really living. I knew there was something I should be doing, but I frankly didn't have the courage to do it. Hell I didn't even have the courage to face it. The day I finally kicked off my shoes was a point of no return for me, I knew then that it was only a matter of time before I was in appropriate beach wear.
There is really no way to explain what it feels like to be profoundly uncomfortable in your skin. The easy answer is to say I felt like a woman, but that doesn't seem right to me. I don't know what I felt like, but I can say for sure that I felt like an outsider. I felt like a perpetual student, always on the lookout for new lessons on how to fit in. Always denying myself any desire that would threaten my acceptance as a regular dude. It was a lonely and pathetic existence. So my transition was truly liberating in a way that makes all of the difficulties of that transition totally worth it. That's the deal. As bad as transition can be, our lives before it were even worse. I know that seems hard to believe but if you take away the trappings of a life that appears to be great, then you can see that what's left is just a person who is desperately pretending to be great. We don't transition because we hate our lives, we do it because we want to feel something real as the person we really are.We want to express something real. A real emotion, a real laugh, a real attraction. Something that is not shrouded by the veil of a facade built up over so many years that we barely remember who we are anymore. We transition because we want to feel the sun and the wind and the sand on our skin, without the protection of a disguise made of lies and confusion and anger.
Transition is hard but we do it because a life unlived is even harder. I'm not a big cryer but some things can definitely spark the water works and one of those things is thinking about those people who wasted their lives being afraid of who they really are. If you have the capacity for empathy then I want you to think for a moment about someone who is looking back on a long life with crushing regret. There are wonderful things to be had in this life, but you have to be real or they are as hollow as a chocolate bunny. It's funny how mundane the most incredible experience can be when you are trapped in a life you can't feel, yet the most mundane thing can be so joyful when you are free.


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I would love to know the answer to this one DD, had some plants given to me and they are doing so well. There's one that I'm itchy to pick but OH keeps saying it's not ready!
I'ts still got some prickly bits on it so I'm assuming that means that it's not ripe or can you pick them and ripen them off in a window maybe?
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SHARING RESEARCH: Dr. Indu Anand from New Delhi, India was a guest September 16 at United Tribes Technical College. She is the principal of Janki Devi Memorial College, an all-women's college, and a participant in the Fulbright Visiting Specialist Program. Dr. Anand spoke about her research into the historical figure Muhammad Akbar, a 16th Century Emperor of India, and the Sufi religion. Her visit with United Tribes students was part of a four-week stay in Bismarck that included presentations at other local colleges and the Gandhi Peace Network annual dinner.


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Late in the third quarter down 28-14 Madera was stopped on third-and-five when Alec Gamboa, playing quarterback, was sacked by Sanger defenders at the Coyote 43-yard line. The Coyotes elected to punt, but an unidentified miscue caused the snap to fall to the turf and though running back Taylor Brunolli dove on the ball, Sanger got the ball at Madera's 38-yard line.
On the next play, Apache running back Sawyer Pittman took the football all the way into the Coyote endzone to go up 35-14.
With less than a minute to go in the first half, Madera got the ball on its own 20-yard line after a touchback down 21-0. Quarterback Nathaniel Nelson found a wide open Alec Gamboa on the left side of the field for a 61-yard reception, which set up a third-and-eight pass from the Sanger 17 three plays later.
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Americans' feelings of financial security drop sharply in July. I'm Kristin Arnold with the Bankrate.com Personal Finance Minute.
Disappointing economic data and ongoing concerns about the European debt crisis helped Americans' feelings of financial security post the biggest drop in 11 months, with the Bankrate.com Financial Security Index falling to the lowest level since March.
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Interestingly, despite another poor jobs report in early July, feelings of job security were the least affected and remain the one component of financial security that Americans feel is most improved relative to one year ago.
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The gross output of the aquaculture industry in 2009, including fish farming, amounted to €76.4 million, a drop of 6.4 per cent from €81.7 million in 2008. This was mainly due to a decline of 57.0 per cent in the value of exported tuna.
The National Statistics Office (NSO) said that during the year under review, the volume of fresh fish amounted to 5,188 tonnes, or 22.9% less compared to the preceding year. Complementing this drop in volume was a 37.7% decrease in the average price of fresh fish, to €8.69.
Intermediate consumption, or the expenses incurred in the production of farmed fish, decreased by 11.8% last year. Accounting for this were lower overhead costs and a drop in the value of purchases related to live fish and fingerlings, of 50.8% and 17.4% respectively, NSO argued.
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The interest charged during the month was the highest average rate since September 2006, and considerably higher than the 15.58pc seen in December 2008.
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Returns paid on fixed-rate bonds, currently the most competitive area of the savings market, fell for the fourth month in a row, dropping to 2.51pc, down from a recent peak of 3.05pc in August last year.
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"Oh, she was up and down the field running ever since I was a little pee wee player back in the day," said Frazer, about to face the Notre Dame program he first committed to out of high school before transferring to UConn. "She'd be that Grandma running up the sideline as I'm running and I played running back. I just remember that she was the greatest grandmother anyone could have."
- One concern you may have is the familiarity the Notre Dame Coaches have with Frazer. Will it play into the Irish's hands?
"Well they recruited me so they looked at my weaknesses and they looked at my strengths," Frazer said. "I'm sure that's going to go into consideration but over time things do change. You can see my improvement on the film and you can see my weaknesses on the film. I'm sure they're good enough coaches to find out what they can do and what they need to do to help themselves but a lot of things change from playing in high school and then four years into college."
-Mentally, fullback Anthony Sherman said, it feels like the Huskies are in a new season - thanks to the time off from the bye week.
"You get almost like a whole week off, you're like 'wow' you feel great again, 'you're like allright let's go, let's get these three games, let's try to make it 3-0 with a brand new season," Sherman said. "And we needed the break, with the tough losses, so close with everything, then Jasper, this is the first time we've actually like had a break a got away from football since then. It was good to do that. Thursday night we had the celebration of his life. It was good to get away and just relax and think about other things than just football and the Xs and Os."
- On Notre Dame Coach Charlie Weis' conference call today he was asked about the decision Patriots Coach Bill Belichick made to go for it on fourth-and-2 deep in his own end against the Colts Sunday night. The Pats were stopped shy and the Colts used the short field to score and win the game, 35-34.
"I was only the story for a day instead of for two days," Weis, the former Patriots assistant cracked. "Let me just say I've been in those meetings before and I can promise you here's what happened: that situation was discussed before the game. That didn't happen just then. It was discussed with the team. It was discussed with the coaching staff. At each game, Bill is so meticulous at what he does. I'm sure that it was discussed with his coaching staff, 'if this situation presents itself this is what we're going to do'. He doesn't do thing on a whim now."
- Weis skipped out on answering what he do in that situation - because he wasn't in the situation. While UConn Coach Randy Edsall pretty much backed Belichick's decision, personally, he said he would have punted in that situation.
- Edsall said he would put true freshman Nick Williams in the mix at running back if he had to. The Huskies have taken a hit at the position. Andre Dixon is probable for the game after injuring his leg against Cincinnati but today will be the first time he gets hit since then. AD is listed as the No.2 behind Jordan Todman. Kelmetrus "Meme" Wylie (arm) is listed as probable this week. Robbie Frey (shoulder is out), Nate Sherr transferred before the season. Martin Hyppolite, another true freshman is part of the unit as well.