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Summer Camps & Programs are coordinated by competent professional staff and are housed in our many residence halls on the University of Michigan campus. We work in conjunction with many U-M departments and coaching staff to provide world-class academic and sport camps for youth.
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From cotton sheets in guest rooms, to food in the restaurant and wood used for furniture and fittings, the products of biodiversity are found everywhere in hotels. Restaurant chefs, spa managers, interior designers, shopkeepers, as well as all their customers all have a role to play in protecting biodiversity. Find out what you can do to help.
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IUCN Director General Julia Marton-Lefèvre talks about the unsung conservation heroes who are working with quiet determination to protect biodiversity and give nature a voice.
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Save Our Species is a global coalition to build the biggest species conservation fund, supporting on-the-ground conservation projects all over the world. Companies are welcome to join this initiative. SOS is a response to an emergency call from nature. We need to act NOW to stop the biodiversity crisis!

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""My model for business is the Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other's kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team." "
Taxing Situations
First, some good news: aircraft ownership, while expensive, offers many tax benefits. A business jet may generate, say, $2 million of out-of-pocket costs annually, but if all of those costs are deductible against taxable income, your after-tax out-of-pocket costs might be only $1.2 million.
To achieve this kind of savings, of course, you have to be entitled to the tax deductions, and for that, you must (ignoring other sources of deduction, such as gifts to charity) employ the aircraft in a trade or business. This sometimes inspires taxpayers to try to create a business that can justify the deductions, and sometimes these "businesses" lack a genuine profit motive. If an activity is merely a hobby, the IRS won't permit deductions against income in excess of the income specifically generated by the hobby. An activity that doesn't generate gross income in excess of tax deductions for at least three out of five consecutive years will be presumed to be a hobby and not a for-profit enterprise, but it is possible (though often difficult) to overcome this presumption and still qualify as a for-profit business.
There is a common misconception that more than 50 percent of an aircraft's usage must be business-related for its expenses to be deductible. In reality, the expenses are deductible to the extent that you use the aircraft in a trade or business. In other words, you're still entitled to deduct aircraft expenses arising from use in a trade or business even if you use the aircraft principally in another activity. But, as we shall see, the percentage of non-business use may have an impact on how fast you can take depreciation on the aircraft for tax purposes.
While depreciation expense is capitalized and recognized over time, you can deduct most business-related aircraft expenses in the year you incur them. These costs include fixed expenses such as hangar, crew salaries and insurance, and the direct operating costs of flights, such as fuel and landing fees. Most maintenance expenses are also currently deductible, although the IRS may require you to capitalize maintenance expense that materially adds to the aircraft's value or prolongs its useful life.
Dealing with Depreciation
For many business aircraft buyers, the most appealing tax benefit of ownership is the ability to write off depreciation expense. Aircraft owners can be thankful that tax depreciation bears little or no relation to real depreciation.
A common assumption is that, over time, business jets depreciate at an average rate of 4 percent per year. At this rate, they would be worthless after 25 years, but most business jets remain in service far longer than that. Tax depreciation, on the other hand, occurs at an even faster rate. Assuming an aircraft is employed annually in a qualified business more than 50 percent of the time, you can write it off in only six years (eight if you use it mostly in commercial operations, including charter flights) on a schedule that is heavily front-loaded. The IRS calls this "accelerated depreciation," and indeed it is. On an accelerated schedule, a two-year-old noncommercial aircraft that is still under warranty and that the marketplace regards as almost new will have only 48 percent of its tax life remaining.
If this seems like a windfall, it is worth remembering that Congress in 2002 and again in 2003 further accelerated depreciation deductions for aircraft by enacting "bonus depreciation" rules. Under the 2003 legislation, the buyer of a factory-new aircraft could actually write off 60 percent of the cost in the first year.
Though bonus depreciation is no longer available, regular accelerated depreciation remains a siren song for many airplane buyers. You might think the way to optimize the benefit of tax depreciation would be to make your purchase on December 31, and thereby get a whole year's depreciation even though the aircraft is in service for only one day that first year. But the IRS decided that, instead of looking to see exactly when during the year an asset such as an aircraft is placed in service, it would simply assume that it is placed in service halfway through the year. This is known as the half-year convention. A second convention-the mid-quarter convention-says that if more than 40 percent of the aggregate basis of assets placed in service that year are placed in service during the fourth quarter, the assets will be deemed to be placed in service midway through that quarter. Consequently, if you buy the aircraft on December 31, and (as is often the case) it's the major asset placed in service that year, the most you are entitled to is one eighth of the first-year depreciation percentage, not 50 percent.
Making Tax-Free Exchanges
The effect of tax depreciation is dramatic: if you buy a $20 million aircraft, you can shelter $20 million of income from tax over six years (a savings of $8 million at a 40-percent tax rate). But this is really an interest-free loan from the government, not an outright savings. The value of tax depreciation is that you have the temporary use of funds you would otherwise pay in taxes. Meanwhile, the tax basis of the aircraft is reduced over time to zero. When you sell it, it is time to pay off the "loan," and consequently, any proceeds from the sale will be taxable, a chastening phenomenon known as depreciation recapture. These days, when aircraft owners sometimes sell airplanes for more than they paid for them, it's important to remember that the portion of the sale proceeds in excess of original cost represents taxable capital gain.
A sure-fire way to avoid recapture is to die before you sell your aircraft. Your estate will then get a tax-free step-up in basis of the aircraft to fair market value. A more attractive strategy from the owner's standpoint, though less attractive from a tax standpoint, is to postpone depreciation recapture further by doing a tax-free or "like-kind" exchange.
Suppose you purchase a Hawker 800XP for $10 million. Under accelerated depreciation schedules, its tax basis after six years is zero. If you then sell the jet for $8 million, you'll have $8 million of taxable income. Alternatively, if you use the Hawker to make a tax-free exchange for a $22 million Challenger 604, there will be no recapture of any income on its sale. The quid pro quo is that your tax basis in the Challenger will be reduced by $8 million, so that your tax basis for depreciation in the Challenger going forward will be $14 million.
Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code sanctions tax-free exchanges, and for that reason they are often called "1031 exchanges." The key to complying with Section 1031 is to avoid two independent transactions: the sale of the existing aircraft and the purchase of the new one. Instead, you basically need to exchange one aircraft for another. In some cases, this is easy-for example, when trading in an aircraft to a manufacturer for a new model. More often, though, owners sell an existing aircraft to one party and purchase the new aircraft from another. To transform such transactions into an exchange, you will probably want to retain a professional exchange company to act as an intermediary. Section 1031 permits you to wait 180 days after selling your aircraft to take title to the replacement, though you are required to identify the replacement aircraft with some specificity within 45 days after the sale. A policy published by the IRS in 2000 also permits this process to work in reverse: you can acquire the new aircraft first through an intermediary as long as you sell the existing aircraft within 180 days.
Paying for Personal Use
Business executives sometimes use corporate jets for non-business flights. The treatment of these flights for tax purposes has been a subject of great controversy in recent years.
Personal use involves two main tax issues: recognition of income for the executive and deduction of expenses for the company operating the aircraft. Let's consider these in turn.
If you take a free personal flight on the company aircraft, the IRS considers that you have received a taxable fringe benefit. You could eliminate this benefit by paying for the flight, but because of one of the more notorious disjunctions between FAA regulations and IRS requirements, you may find it difficult (without violating FAA rules) to pay an amount sufficient to wipe out all, or even any, of the fringe benefit. Fortunately, in lieu of paying fair value for the flight, IRS regulations permit you to receive imputed income for it, using an attractive valuation formula called SIFL. The SIFL rules, which are based on first-class airfare, generally result in income far less than the actual cost of the transportation to the company, let alone what you would pay for an equivalent
charter flight.
Turning now to the company's tax position, the IRS and aircraft owners battled in the courts and elsewhere for years about the correct amount of expenses the company should be entitled to deduct for personal flights. Initially, the IRS lost this battle, and the agency conceded that a company was generally entitled to write off all expenses of a personal flight. But the IRS enjoyed the last laugh. In late 2004, Congress passed legislation that limited deductions for such flights in the case of certain top executives (or "specified individuals") to the amount of imputed income recognized by the executive or the amount paid by the executive for the flight.
To see why this is a drastic change, suppose a company operates an aircraft that makes 50 flights annually, 10 of which are non-business trips for top executives, and that total expenses associated with the aircraft for the year, including tax depreciation, are $5 million. Depending on how you do the calculations (and there is plenty of uncertainty about how to do them), the company could easily lose on average one fifth, or $1 million, of tax deductions to which it might have been entitled if the personal flights had instead been business-related. This $1 million deduction is not suspended, postponed or carried over-it's just lost.
In 2005, the IRS released a notice designed to provide interim guidance on how to calculate the disallowance of deductions for personal flights until regulations could be promulgated. Unfortunately, the notice exhibited little understanding of how business aviation works and occasioned almost as much controversy as the new legislation. As of this writing, the IRS regulations have still not appeared.
Understanding Excise Taxes
The basic federal taxes specifically applicable to business aviation are the excise taxes on transportation and fuel. Both of these taxes are relatively esoteric and not well understood by many tax professionals not directly involved in aviation.
The fuel excise taxes are payable by the aircraft operator when it buys jet fuel. Currently, they total approximately 22 cents per gallon, though increases are expected. (The FAA's February 2007 funding plan called for an increase of more than 300 percent.) The excise tax on transportation, on the other hand, is owed by the person paying for the transportation, and it is sometimes called the "ticket tax" because it is listed as a separate item on airline tickets.
The transportation excise tax is a tax on commercial aviation. According to the IRS, a flight is commercial, and transportation excise tax is payable, when the provider of taxable transportation is engaged for compensation for hire and has possession, command and control of the aircraft. So the tax applies to charter flights and other flights conducted under Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) Part 135. In addition, transportation tax is payable on certain flights that the FAA treats as "noncommercial," such as a time share or demonstration flight under FAR Part 91.501. Fuel excise taxes, on the other hand, generally apply to noncommercial aviation. If a flight is commercial and subject to transportation excise tax, you are entitled to request a refund or credit for most of the fuel taxes paid for the trip.
The rate of the transportation excise tax used to vary, but it has remained the same for some years now at 7.5 percent of the "total amount paid" for "taxable transportation," plus a "segment fee" that usually adds a modest amount to the bill. The transportation excise tax has traditionally been considerably higher than the fuel tax, so most tax planners seek to avoid it.
A potential major new tax on the horizon is "user fees." The airlines have been advocating that the FAA be funded by a user fee system that would cause business aviation to bear a larger-and many industry experts believe unfair-percentage of the agency's costs. The issue will come to a head later this year when the current scheme for funding the FAA expires.
Get Professional Help
As you can see, the various taxes related to business aviation form a confusing and often frustrating web that can easily ensnare the unwitting aircraft purchaser. Solutions for one tax issue inevitably have ramifications-often disastrous ones-for other tax issues. Aircraft purchasers would be well advised to seek advice on such issues from professionals who are intimately acquainted with them.
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St. Louis (KSDK) - Police are on the scene of a standoff in north St. Louis.
A spokesperson for the police department says a man armed with a shotgun barricaded himself inside a home in the 3900 block of Ashland.
No hostages are involved.
Members of the SWAT unit and negotiators are on the scene trying to get the man to surrender.
There's no word on why the man barricaded himself in the home.
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Most parents are unaware that cord blood, which comes from a newborn baby's umbilical cord and placenta, can save lives.
Among other diseases, cord blood stem cells can treat:
- Blood disorders such as sickle cell anemia
- Some cancers, including leukemia and lymphoma
- Genetic disorders such as Hurler's Syndrome and Krabbe Disease
Cells in the innermost layer of the placenta also have healing properties. They serve as a surgical dressing and are used in surgeries for the eye, teeth, brain, and urinary system.
Don't let your cord blood and placenta be disposed of as medical waste.
If you're expecting a baby, find out how you can make a difference in someone's life, even a family member's.
Donating Cord Blood
Cord Blood Banking for Personal UsePrivate cord blood banking is often considered when a full sibling in the family has a medical condition that could potentially benefit from cord blood transplantation or stem cell transplant.
Cord blood banking is available through several cord blood banking labs, such as Via Cord, that can save cord blood for use by a family member.
This option requires you to register with a private company and bring the cord blood collection kit to the hospital. The cord blood is collected by your midwife or physician, and you label, package and arrange for the transport of the cord blood. Because the contract is between you and a private company, your hospital cannot become involved in this process.
The cost for the collection and processing of the cord blood varies, and there is a yearly fee for the storage of the blood.
Donating Cord Blood to a Public BankA cord blood bank will save your cord blood until a need for it is identified and a match is found. It could also be used by a member of your family, if the cord blood is still available when the need arises.
Donating cord blood to a public bank is free for parents. However, the cost to the blood bank is high, which is why there are so few public cord blood banks in the United States.
In the Western New York area, there are no national public cord banks. Donation to a public cord bank can only be accomplished at one of several hospitals in New York City and Virginia. These hospitals typically serve a larger population and deliver at least 7,000 babies each year.
Although Western New York does not have a public cord bank, you may be able to donate to Be The Match Registry® by contacting an affiliated hospital. Limited donations are accepted.
Please note that your midwife or physician must be willing to collect the donation.
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Donating the PlacentaPlacenta can be used in tens of thousands of surgeries annually.
Donations of placenta are accepted by the local organization Unyts at no cost to you.
A routine blood specimen will be collected on the day that you deliver, at the same time as your admittance. The placenta will be collected following your baby's delivery – no additional surgeries are required, and the donation is safe for both mom and baby.
To donate placenta, you must deliver your baby via a scheduled C-section (as the placenta must be harvested under sterile conditions), and you must have the approval of your physician.
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Summer is still here. And depending on where you live, so is the sun! That means it's the perfect time for popsicles. Of course, we believe everything is better with booze.
Spirited Popsicles have to be low in alcohol because alcohol doesn't freeze very well. To get them to work, you need to combine the alcohol with juices and syrups, and even then they take longer than your average pop to freeze. But they


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Tuttle has been the publisher of the best Origami books for years. Now they have taken it to the next level by packaging it along with a DVD that can be stopped and started as you work step by step to follow and learn all the folds. In no time you and your child will be able to make fish, flapping birds, butterflies, boxes--among so many other shapes. Use these to decorate the house for the holidays. Use them for a fun way to refine visual and fine motor skills along with patience all with fun payoffs. The kit comes with 70 sheets of colorful origami paper. This is so much better than a book and paper alone. It's a book, a DVD, and a craft kit all in one. The DVD holds your hand and makes this ancient art form easier than ever!
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Naples, FL (SportsNetwork.com) - Sandra Gal managed a 3-under 69 on Friday and
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Gal finished 36 holes at 11-under-par 133 and set a new 36-hole scoring
record. A day after she matched the course record, Gal's total of 133 beat Na
Yeon Choi's two-day total of 135 from last year.
Sun Young Yoo carded her second straight 68 to end alone in second place at
minus-8. Gerina Piller fired a 5-under 67, the low round of the day Friday, to
move into a share of third place.
Piller was joined at 6-under-par 138 by Cristie Kerr (69) and Pornanong
Phatlum (68). Morgan Pressel used a 68 at Tiburon Golf Club at The Ritz-
Carlton Golf Resort to climb into a tie for sixth. She stands alongside Hee
Young Park (70) and Anna Nordqvist (73).
Women's world No. 1 Inbee Park dipped into a tie for ninth at minus-4 after
posting an even-par 72 in round two. Natalie Gulbis (70), Shanshan Feng (74),
Lexi Thompson (74), Jennifer Johnson (69) and Azahara Munoz (68) are tied with
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Kill Game (Fearless FBI, Bk. 1) : Gaia Moore isn't like anyone else in the world. She's trained in ten different martial arts. She has a sharp mind, and an even sharper tongue. As a teenager she cut class to bust gang members and drug dealers on the streets of New York City. And now Gaia's been recruited to join the world's leading crime-fighting organization. At FBI training camp in Quantico, Gaia will become a part of an unparalleled team. She'll learn the strict codes and procedures of the FBI. She'll be pushed to her body and mind's utmost limits. She'll learn how to hunt serial killers. And she will catch one.
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Take a look back at how Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence has become one of Hollywood's top actresses.
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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
How Long Did Brandi Date Lisa's Chef and More Burning Questions From Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season 3, Episode 9
Each episode of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is filled with surprising and shocking moments that sometimes require closer examination. With that in mind, here are the top five burning questions from Season 3, Episode 9: "Moroccan Madness."
1. Did Brandi date Lisa's hottie chef, Francis?
Before Lisa Vanderpump discusses the Villa Blanca menu with Francis, she teases him about how he wants to wake up with Brandi Glanville. Does this mean that she and Francis have hooked up? Actually, it does! On Twitter, Brandi has referred to Francis as "yummy" and says they've made out from the waist up. So it doesn't sound like it got too serious, but she's certainly right about the yummy thing.
2. Which movie did Kim and Kyle Richards star in with James Brolin?
If you were wondering if you've seen the movie that Kyle Richards mentions having starred in with James Brolin, the answer is probably no. At least, we hope it's no. It's a 1977 movie called The Car, and according to its Wikipedia page, it's "the story of a mysterious car which goes on a murderous rampage." No, we didn't make that up. Thank goodness Kyle and Kim Richards found careers in reality TV and never had to contemplate starring in anything called, say, The Car 2: Full Bleed Ahead.
3. Does Mauricio feel badly about what happened between him and Brandi?
Mauricio isn't usually quite as vocal as he was this week, so we wondered if he had regrets. Based on what he's tweeted, he doesn't feel that he insulted anyone, but he does give Brandi "my sincere apologies" after she tweeted to him that she felt he was being mean. Kudos to Mauricio for being a big enough person to say that.
4. How did Adrienne feel about what went on at the Moroccan restaurant?
Adrienne Maloof was the only Housewife not at the uncomfortable dinner party this week (lucky her!), and she says it was "hurtful" that people were talking behind her back. She also calls Mauricio a gentleman and "man of integrity" for standing up for her.
5. Did Lisa agree to renew her vows?
Lisa wasn't too eager to renew her vows during this week's episode, even though Ken thought it would be a great way to celebrate their 30th anniversary. As it turns out, that swing apparently paid off, as the couple did end up renewing their vows in the backyard. The ceremony involved dinner and dancing — and Giggy, natch, who was held by Ken. The ceremony will air during the show's season finale later this year.
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Hey? Remember when the Crimson Map Pack was free for everyone? Well, now it looks like they're banning people for playing the maps. Smart move! No one will be mad about this!
Hey? Remember when the Crimson Map Pack was free for everyone? Well, now it looks like they're banning people for playing the maps. Smart move! No one will be mad about this!
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Spoiler:- My Claims:
My Claimed Bishies:
Chihaya Kisaragi - Chihaya Ayase
My Claimed Anime Songs:
Sign - Promise - Alicemagic - BravBlue
So what if you had the pass. It came with the Limited Edition so would I get banend?
The Thruster Pack kinda sucks. I think it either needs to be use-able twice before it's empty (like the evasive roll in Halo Reach), or it needs to be as powerful (er, slightly less) as the Thruster Pack in the Flood gametype.
Also, when do challenges give the EXP reward for completing them? It never tells me.
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At the end of the match I think.
Anyone need some double XP codes? I thought id get to go to my cousins and use them, but looks like I wont be able to. 4 mountain dew codes and one dorito code. PM me. Ill give one per person. First come first serve.
White friend code: 0347 5916 2191
Black 2 friend code: 0820 1802 1694
So I got Halo 3 and Halo Wars for Christmas. I don't know which one to play first.
Well I'm considering getting Halo 2 off of Amazing and going to the whole series.
I got 4 on Christmas, and beat the campaign last night. I was extremely impressed and emotionally stretched. It was like how Mass Effect 3 could've been if the vanilla ending wasn't so terrible. I got started on Spartan Ops and some matchmaking tonight, already at SR 12. If anyone wants to do some Spartan Ops with me, message me, please.
Add me on Live the 3rd H0kage. But anyway if anybody needs some Double XP codes, I have more then I will use. So message me and I'll give you the code on the cap.
I just beat the campaign, and it was decent. It seemed as if it were shorter than the other campaigns, and I thought that the fights were repetitive, but it was still a great campaign, especially plot-wise.
Snake? Snake? Snaaaaaaake!!!
I just have to say this...my best, and most favorite playlist on halo 4 is the Team Regicide one...I'm just...so good at it comparitivly to everything else ._...
In there I'm always carrying the weight of the team with over 300 points >3>...Yet when I play on most other playlists, and spartan ops...hell even the campaign... I'm always "Okay" or myeh at it. I have no idea what about team regicide that makes me like it (besides the fact that I'm suddenly good at halo ._.), but I just do. Perhaps the fast paceness+team in a small area? lol
Also started trying to beat the campaign on legendary. I've done up to infinity. Somehow i managed to pull off "midnight launch" without meaning too...I don't even know how. lol I just got the "air" and when I landed, it told me I acheieved "midnight launch" for 20G. And it was 12:00 am exactly...I was...suprised to say the least. I didn't think I could do it by accident. XD
"I don't live in absolutes, absolutes are my fantasy."
My eyes! (my eyes!) are filled with curiosity! You think! (You think!) that you have power over me! In this life! (This life!) Theres no room for you and me! So turn around and face the day with me!
Such a sexy song. Urgh.
Nice. I just bought Halo 2 and another game off of Amazon. So when they come in I'm going to start a run of the entire series in order. So Wars, Reach, Combat Evolved, 2, 3 ODST, 3, 4.
Just got Halo 4, and I gotta say it's already great. Nice graphics and an intriguing storyline.
Cools, if you want to play on War Games some hit me up on Live. My GT is the 3rd H0kage. So I found out today that we are playing the Halo the from CE in my orchestra class. I play Bass and I have the cool part that everybody knows of the song. and Halo 2 came in today. So I'll start my series runthrough soon if anybody wants to join for Halo 3 and up hit me up on Live.
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Any of yall watch Team Epiphany on YouTube? I love them, their are retty funny as well. And damn, i wish i had live
White friend code: 0347 5916 2191
Black 2 friend code: 0820 1802 1694
Fails of the Weak is also an excellent youtube show for gettin some laughs from Halo Although be warned there's plenty of swearing in it so not for youngsters.
Almost three quarters of the way through my series playthrough (since sadly I don't own 2 and Wars doesn't interest me) for my comprehensive review of Halo 4. But having done 3 so recently on Heroic I dunno if I can be bothered fighting my way through Cortana again...
Add me I can't get on right now and I'll accept next time I'm on in about a week. My GT is the 3rd H0kage
Cheers guys, looking forward to seeing you in action follow Spartans!


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Don't let all the names of possible Cleveland Browns coaches confuse you. I'm convinced owner Jimmy Haslam has a plan.
I am way too far down on the fan food chain to begin to figure out what that plan is but Haslam didn't get where he is today in business without a plan.
True, the speculation has the coach search -- up until now -- looking like everyone is turning down the Browns like a spurned suitor.
Chip Kelly? After toying with all the NFL offers, he's staying with the Oregon Ducks. Don't think the NFL will put him on their dance card again...ever.
O'Brien with Penn State? That's also a no-go, as he's staying at Penn State.
The CFL's Marc Trestman was in Berea Tuesday and he's a known commodity, having been the Browns' quarterback coach in the Bernie Kosar era. But I think that interview was maybe not for coach so much as for head of player personnel. That's my personal opinion.
Now I like the Colts' Bruce Arians who missed the last Colts game this past Sunday because he was in the hospital. And late Tuesday night, ESPN was reporting that Arians was back in the hospital, suffering from an inner ear problem and dizziness. And the only NFL coach that I can call a friend and whose opinion I value -- Sam Rutigliano -- is also on the Arians bandwagon. Enough said. And look what Arians did with rookie quarterback Andrew Luck.
Of course, I still like Alabama's Nick Saban but he told the media as late as Tuesday afternoon again that he is happy where he is. His words? "I've learned this is where I belong. I'm happy and at peace with that." And I think his wife Terry may have also nixed a jump from Alabama, especially to go up north to the cold of Cleveland. Can't say that I blame her.
So for now, the Browns are playing it close to the vest and heard, like everyone else did today, that Bill Cowher could come back to the NFL "eventually." Now, with Haslam's former connections with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and a boatload of money, eventually could be sooner than later. I like Cowher, by the way.
And after Monday's disastrous performance by the Fighting Irish against Alabama, maybe another Kelly -- Brian Kelly -- could be in the mix. I, personally, don't think so.
So where does all this leave us?
The Browns are still without a coach and we still have a problem at quarterback. I think Haslam knows deep down he can't hire a college coach with no NFL experience and that other NFL teams are also still looking for coaches.
I think we need to have faith in Haslam...and some patience. That is not something I am known for, though.


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By Lauren Ratcliffe
Published Nov. 15, 2012
South Carolina's foreclosure rate is the ninth highest in the nation, but down from 2011 levels, according to a monthly report issued by RealtyTrac.
In the state, 3,557 homes, or one in every 601, were under some form of foreclosure in October, down 2% from last year.
This compares to the national rate of one in every 706 homes. Foreclosure activity declined 19% in the U.S. compared with October 2011, but grew on a month-over-month basis.
The Columbia metropolitan area posted one of the largest increases in foreclosure activity on a month-to-month basis for any U.S. metropolitan area, with an increase of 58%.
Real-estate owned foreclosure notices, or bank foreclosures, increased significantly in the state. REOs in South Carolina increased by 37% — one of the largest spikes in the country.
Florida had the highest foreclosure rate for the second straight month with one in every 312 homes under foreclosure.
"We continued to see vastly different foreclosure trends across the country in October, depending primarily on how each state's foreclosing infrastructure was able to handle the high volume of delinquent loans during the worst of the foreclosure crisis in 2010," said Daren Blomquist, vice president of RealtyTrac. "Unfortunately the three states dealing with the biggest rebound in deferred foreclosure activity — New Jersey, New York and Connecticut — also had to deal with the devastation to homes inflicted by Superstorm Sandy."
S.C. foreclosure activity in October
S.C. region
South Carolina
Number of Foreclosures
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MOUNDSVILLE - Lacking the size and the physicality to pound the ball inside against most opponents, John Marshall boys' coach Bill Storm sees patience on offense as the key if the Monarchs are going to have a successful season.
During Friday night's home opener against Oak Glen, the Monarchs sailed through the back door to the basket time and again in rolling past the rebuilding Golden Bears 54-28.
''With no size inside, that's the way we are going to have to play,'' Storm said. ''We even have to be more patient than we were.
''I'm still looking looking to see who our go-to guy is going to be. We need to find that guy that we know is going to give us that basket when we need it.''
Although he didn't start because of a hamstring problem the last 10 days of the preseason, senior Evan Magers provided some early indication he might be ready to step up in the clutch for the Monarchs. Magers hit all five shots he attempted from the floor in pacing the Monarchs scoring with 13 points. Ryan Davis drained a couple of 3s during the first quarter and finished with 10 points.
Back on the Oak Glen bench for the first time in nine years, Coach David Smith has no illusions about the difficulty he faces in trying to resurrect the Golden Bears program.
However, despite the outcome, Smith expressed his joy at being back in charge of the basketball program.
''I love every second of it,'' said Smith, who coached Oak Glen to a West Virginia Class AA state tournament berth in 2004. ''I know we are going to have a rough go this year but as a coaching staff we can't and won't give up on these kids.''
Defending John Marshall's deliberate offense was one of Oak Glen's main problems in the mutual opener. Especially early in the game, the Monarchs were able to spread the floor and pass the ball around several times before one of their cutters broke free for a layup.
This also resulted in few opportunities for the Golden Bears as during the first half they got off 12 shots. Oak Glen scored two points in the second quarter while trailing26-8 at the intermission.
The visitors held the lead once at 2-0 after junior forward Taylor Kincaid flashed across the lane and hit a turnaround jumper from just inside the free-throw stripe.
John Marshall senior guard Derek Och worked his way free to the basket and dropped in a layup to tie the score. Cole Sobutka then rebounded his own missed shot to put the Monarchs in front to stay.
Davis was left alone twice behind the arc at the top of the key and banged in both around a Cody Howell inside bucket for the Golden Bears as John Marshall broke out to a 10-4 advantage.
Kincaid and Cody Howell finished with 10 points each to lead the scoring for Oak Glen.
John Marshall shot a shade less than 50 percent, hitting 19 of 40 shots, while the Golden Bears finished 12 of 29 from the field..
''I really didn't know what to expect,'' said Storm. ''We really came out and played some tough man-to-man half-court defense. They had a couple of big kids inside but we were able to keep them from getting the ball underneath most of the game.''


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Arabesque is a quaint little coffee shop and cafeteria to visit for a light lunch and some delicious treats in the tea garden. Kick off your day with an Arabesque breakfast, followed by some delightful lunch items such as pastas, bobotie and lasagna. Pair your coffee and tea with something sweet from the selection of home-baked cakes and tarts.
Molinari Café is a convenient little restaurant perfectly located in the Kalahari Pick n Pay shopping complex. Choose from a selection of delicious meals and treats after your long shopping excursion. Especially try out the freshly baked breads or tarts.
This bakery and small coffee shop is located on the Pearly Bay side of Yzerfontein. They offer lovely cakes, pastries and breads baked daily for takeaway. Alternatively just sit back, relax and enjoy the ambience and a delightful coffee.
Enjoy a scrumptuous breakfast or lunch, available all day, served with fresh breads and preserves. They also serve cakes and many other yummy treats.
The coffee is a blend exclusive to Whale Tale and is said to be the best in the area and is also available for purchase.
Whale Tale Studio Cafe also offers catering services for events such as weddings, birthdays, production sets and conferences. They deliver home-cooked meals, platters and fresh home-made bread to the locals in and around Yzerfontein.
During the holiday season, and on weekends, order a picnic basket and have it delivered to you and your family and friends on the beach. In the winter months visitors can have warm fresh bread while sipping on soup at the studio and watch while the chef creates a perfect birthday cake.
On a warm summer's day, take in the fresh sea air, watch the whales and dolphins play and see Table Mountain and Dassen Island as a picture on the horizon. Sit in the tea garden and enjoy a platter made to your taste and sip cold fresh fruit juice. As an added bonus, a private chef can be hired for your dinner party to make the evening unforgettable.


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In the online profile, at www.PrincetonReview.com, students were able to voice their opinions about UST's campus culture and student body. One student commented on UST's close-knit community.
"Having grown up attending large public schools, there's something to be said for smaller schools, where you're not treated like a number but a real person. Each of my professors, advisors, etc., knew me personally before the end of my first semester. They are truly concerned with making sure that you fully understand the material and are getting the most out of your academic experience."
Another student commented on the inclusivity of the student body.
"We have commuters, homeschoolers, varsity players, introverts, perfectionists and clubbers, and they all interact quite well."
St. Thomas is also a part of The Princeton Review "The Best 377 Colleges – 2013 Edition" Guidebook, which is based on 122,000 student surveys.
"Each of our 377 best colleges offers outstanding academics," said Robert Franek, the book's author and The Princeton Review senior vice president/publisher. "We don't rank them 1 to 377, because they differ widely in their program offerings and campus culture, and that is their strength. Instead, we tally lists of the top 20 schools in 62 categories based entirely on what students at these schools tell us about their campus experiences. Our goal is not to crown one college 'best' overall, but to help applicants find and get in to the college best for them."
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Last week we announced the availability of OpenPages version 6.0, which marks a major milestone in the evolution of the GRC market-from convergence to insight. It also represents the completion of the first phase of our technical integration with IBM. And, the new release will help prepare our customers for managing through regulatory change in the post-Dodd-Frank environment.
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In the wake of Dodd-Frank passage, Chris McClean of Forrester Research commented that there are nearly 200 regulatory changes still on the U.S. federal agenda that span industry verticals such as finance, healthcare, and consumer protection.
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Fueled by a global audience that is desperately looking for disclosure in the wake of the economic crisis and mature digital computing technologies that make it more and more difficult to contain sensitive information, WikiLeaks has emerged as a viable new threat to data security.
Until now the United States government has been the central target of WikiLeaks attacks, however, with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's recent claim to be ready to release corporate secrets in early 2011, organizations everywhere are faced with a looming risk management challenge that is not likely to dissipate anytime soon.
Experts agree, and Assange himself has suggested, that the information that will be leaked is more likely to consist of internal communications between executives and other employees rather than the personal data protected by privacy compliance laws. However, the threat of any kind of exposure means that corporations need to tighten data security and evaluate areas of potential vulnerability.
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A recent poll by Harris Interactive reports that only 9% of companies have adequate crisis protocols in place to protect themselves from a potential onslaught. In this period of uncertainty, with virtually all large enterprises under the WikiLeaks radar, it is vital that organizations devise an adaptable enterprise risk management strategy to identify and manage areas of weakness without sacrificing business performance.
Just as a sharp increase in regulatory compliance mandates has created a necessary shift in industry risk management tactics, so has WikiLeaks spawned the recognition of new vulnerabilities that face companies in the modern digital age. The organizations that are well prepared to assess and mitigate against untested threats, like the one posed by WikiLeaks, are those that combine deep domain expertise with powerful and flexible tools to analyze and weigh the probability and cost associated with any given challenge.
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Tonight I'll be chaperoning the Junior/Senior Prom! This year's theme is "All That Jazz" which is just perfect. I always love seeing the kids and what they're wearing. They go all out and look so glamourous! I found some images of dresses I like or would actually have worn to my prom (years ago)! I can't wait to share pictures with you all tomorrow of the actual event! Have a great Saturday and make sure to take some time to relax.
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LOVE the green dress, but I would wear any of those! Gorg! Hope you had fun!
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I love the green one. So cute!
I love that short green one!!! I had no idea "All That Jazz" was a movie. I thought it was just a song from the musical Chicago. I just added it to my Netflix queue. I LOVE Bob Fosse.
Oooh I love all of these dresses. Oh to be young again and be able to wear something so sweet and fluffy. Love the first picture of the cutie pie Glee boy too! I hope you had fun at the prom!
I hope you had a fabulous time at the prom!
When I was at school we didn't have proms' but they seem to be increasing in the UK now,
Victoria xx
The second to last dress is my favorite!
Love it!
So many cute dresses these days! Back when I went to my Prom and Homecomings there weren't a lot of cute styles to chose from… and that was only 11 years ago.
Although seeing that typed out is kind of crazy; I've been out of high school for 11 years WOW!
Have fun!
I really like the first dress! Have fun. My little sis chaperoned her "kiddo's" prom a few weekends ago. Hope you take lots of pictures!
That sounds like so much fun!! I have my junior prom next week and I'm SO excited!
That Rosette Dress gives a whole new meaning to prom dresses.. these are one's we'd keep and not hide away in our closets!
Have fun at prom! Those dresses are awesome!
o0o0o have fun at the prom!!! I just had flashbacks to getting ready for those big nights… I always cried about something not being right. Now I can laugh about it!
Oh, LOVING most of those dresses!! I hope you have a fabulous time tonight.
Cute dresses! Have fun tonight!!
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Join me for Sand and Sea Sundays @ Gypsea Nurse!!
Enjoy sweets!
Zomg love Darren criss! He's so cute in that pic. And that second dress is awesome! Would so wear that f I could go back to prom.
How exciting!. Great dresses, if I could go to prom all over again I'd definitely pick from one of these.
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I like the first dress!
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While her peers, such as they are, wear spinning whipped cream bras and Alexander McQueen couture to perform concerts (you know who you are), Lana del Rey has taken the opposite approach and wore this girl-next-door frock and headband at a recent concert in Australia. What do you think of it?
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April 15, 2014 – Ko Olina, Hawaii – Beginning Sunday, April 20th Monkeypod Kitchen in Ko'Olina Oahu will celebrate brunch each weekend on Saturdays and Sundays with brunch service from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Dedicated to handcrafted preparations and locally grown ingredients, offering a quality brunch service to Ko'Olina Resort visitors and residents is a natural progression for the restaurant.
"Brunch is one of the better things in life", says Monkeypod Kitchen General Manager Joe Fittipaldi. We kept talking about what a great brunch we could offer with so many house made creations and our beautiful setting. Finally it got to the point where we all said, "We have to do brunch!"
New menu items will include eggs benedict with house baked english muffins and jalapeño hollandaise, homemade flap jacks, huevos rancheros made with local farm fresh eggs and 'from scratch' cinnamon rolls. Additional breakfast favorites will also be available along with handcrafted breakfast cocktails. Live music will begin at 11:00 a.m. with half price champagne offered on Sundays.
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Ned Yost media session: New look to the lineup, Duffy's debut
Heading into Wednesday's 7:10 contest against the Texas Rangers, Royals manager Ned Yost has approached the lineup a little differently for today's game at Kauffman Stadium. With left-fielder Alex Gordon leading off, Yost comments that Gordon has excellent on-base percentage and placing the squad's best hitters in front of designated hitter, Billy Butler, will create run-scoring opportunities for the Royals.
"Basically it's just trying something a little different, get a different look, see if we can't shake something up a little bit and score some runs," Yost said.
Yost's decision to move the lineup around was based off the Royals runs scored in the past two series vs. the Detroit Tigers, where they went 0-2 for the series, and the Cleveland Indians, where the squad went 0-3 for the series at Kauffman. The skipper raved about the starting left-hander tonight, Danny Duffy. Duffy has been called up from Triple-A Omaha and will be making his Major League debut tonight against the Texas Rangers. Yost remarks that the squad will have a slight edge over the opposition since the Rangers have yet to see Duffy take the mound.
"He's [Duffy] got good stuff. He's got three quality pitches… He's got a real good breaking ball and a real good change-up. He's got great make-up and those are the ingredients of being a good Major League pitcher," Yost said.
When asked a question regarding starting pitchers Kyle Davies and Bruce Chen on the 15-day disabled list, Yost replied by saying Davies received a cortisone injection as of today and will rest for seven days. If Davies is pain free after the seven days then he will start a throwing program. The Royals manager is waiting for left-hander Chen to be pain free and start his throwing as well. With Davies on the disabled list, right-hander Nate Adcock will be expected to start this Saturday for the Royals' 1:10 game vs. the St. Louis Cardinals.
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In prepping for our forthcoming GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 Linux benchmarking, I've been running fresh rounds of benchmarks on my large assortment of GPUs, beginning with the GeForce hardware supported by the NVIDIA 367.18 beta driver. Here are the first of those benchmarks with the ten Maxwell/Kepler GPUs I've tested thus far.
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Mesa release manager Emil Velikov has announced the first release candidate of Mesa 12.0, formerly known as Mesa 11.3.
The latest FreeBSD development code has integrated the zfsd daemon.
With the main Mesa drivers (Intel, RadeonSI, NVC0) jumping ahead to OpenGL 4.3 and mostly done with OpenGL 4.4/4.5, plus Intel adding their Vulkan driver, and many other improvements over the past three months, the next stable release of Mesa is going to be massive.
The latest piece of hardware I've been playing around with at Phoronix is Samsung's V-NAND SSD 950 PRO M.2 NVM Express SSD. Assuming you are running a modern Linux distribution, this M.2 PCI-E NVMe SSD can offer blazing fast performance.
This week marks Phoronix.com turning twelve years old! I've been working on a number of special articles and such for publishing in June, but to get things started here's a special for you.
With Linux 4.7 there are four new DRM drivers! But that flow of new DRM/KMS drivers, largely for display hardware on ARM SoCs, is not over.
Mark your calendars for tomorrow to watch AMD's Computex livestream for Polaris.
A few days ago code landed in VA-API for VP9 hardware encoding support and was wired into the Intel Video Acceleration driver. Now more details are known.
What happens when a game engine meets a display server meets a multimedia framework? Oh yeah and whereby the behavior is controlled with Lua. No, it's not a joke, just the latest creation in the open-source world. Say hello to Arcan as a new Linux display server.
Expect many hardware announcements this week for Computex. ARM Holdings this morning lifted the lid on their Cortex-A73 and Mali-G71.
Intel's Mesa Linux graphics driver is now officially at OpenGL 4.3 compliance.
29 May
Today is NVIDIA's paper launch of the GeForce GTX 1070 with the first Windows reviews going up. Our Linux review will be coming in the days ahead.
The first test release of Linux 4.7 is now available. This new kernel version comes with plenty of new features and functionality.
Over the past two weeks of the merge window for the Linux 4.7 kernel, around 200,000 lines of code was added.
The KDE Partition Manager, the promising disk partitioning application that's become a viable alternative to GParted, is up to version 2.2.
Chris Michael of Samsung has been working on a new DRM library for the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) with a number of improvements.
Bhyve, the hypervisor developed by FreeBSD that supports running BSD/Linux/Windows guests, has initial graphics support.
After a very exciting past two weeks, the merge window for Linux 4.7 is expected to close today. This was an action-packed merge window with a ton of new code being introduced. While I've already written dozens of posts on Phoronix about the changes that got me excited, here's my usual kernel feature overview. Here's a look at what's coming for Linux 4.7.
28 May
If all goes well, the GNOME 3.22 release due out in September will feature a new Control Center user-interface.
The Chrome platform driver updates were sent in on the last day of the Linux 4.7 kernel merge window.
Systemd 230 was released just last week and it has taken heat not only for opening up FBDEV to potential security issues, which already reverted, but also for changing the default behavior of user processes.
Thanks to new code that appeared in Mesa Git this week, games/demos relying upon OpenGL tessellation are significantly faster now with this new code.
Given our open-source/Linux reader base and many of our readers being very privacy-minded, Anonabox sent over their Tunneler and Pro products for us to try out. The Anonabox Tunneler is a WiFi VPN router and the Anonabox Pro is a WiFi Tor and VPN router.
One of the last pull requests to cover for the Linux 4.7 merge window is Darren Hart's platform-drivers-x86 updates.
The Khronos Group doesn't appear to be letting down in their weekly release cadence for new point releases to the Vulkan 1.0.x specification.
The Linux 4.7 kernel is going to include out-of-the-box support for Microsoft's Xbox One Elite Controller.
Last week Takashi Iwai of SUSE sent in the main audio/sound changes for the Linux 4.7 kernel but with the 4.7 merge window not being quite over yet, he's sent in a second helping of sound driver updates.
NetBSD 7.0.1 is now available as the first point release to NetBSD 7.0 that happened last October.
Francisco Jerez of Intel was pushing his SIMD32 changes into Mesa Git over night and benefits the driver's ARB_compute_shader support.
27 May
It's been quite a while since the last Gentoo LiveDVD release, but a new image has surfaced this weekend as Gentoo 20160514 and codenamed the "Choice Edition" release.
Their drivers have basically been at OpenGL 4.3 compliance for a few days now, but today the switch was finally made where the Nouveau NVC0 and RadeonSI Gallium3D drivers are officially advertising OpenGL 4.3 support.
With the GeForce GTX 1080 now shipping, NVIDIA has made public the release candidate for CUDA 8.
While the F1 2015 Formula One racing game was released for Windows last year, only yesterday was the Linux port released by Feral Interactive. Given the high requirements for F1 2015 on Linux with this OpenGL port, I decided to test this racing game on a range of NVIDIA graphics cards under Ubuntu Linux. Yep, only NVIDIA tests this round as the game doesn't work yet with the AMD Linux drivers.
Out now is Wine 1.9.11 and its release has improvements in its Direct3D 11 support, but still it doesn't appear that Wine is ready yet for handling all the latest D3D11 AAA games.
This morning the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Founder's Edition cards are available for sale as well as various GTX 1080 cards offered by AIB partners.
Following the DRM feature pull for Linux 4.7 sent at the beginning of the week, David Airlie has now sent in a batch of "DRM fixes" for Linux 4.7 that does include some new functionality too.
GNOME 3.21.2 was released this morning as the latest development version of the desktop leading up to September's release of GNOME 3.22.
Researchers and scientists appear up in arms this week over the state of Indirect GLX (IGLX) in the X.Org Server and the potential they'd lose the remote OpenGL rendering support they've been accustomed to using for seeing visualizations from clusters / super-computers on their workstations.
The Intel China team maintaining Beignet, the open-source OpenCL driver implementation for modern Intel graphics on Linux, has landed the code for supporting this implementation on Android.
The OpenChrome project has long aspired to having a mainline DRM/KMS driver but that original developer since left. These days OpenChrome is down to basically one developer left working on this open-source driver for VIA x86 graphics hardware.
Genode OS 16.05 has been released, the research Opearing System Framework project that's been making very good progress over the years and has a loyal open-source following.
Intel has added VP9 encoding support to the Video Acceleration API (VA-API).
26 May
Feral Interactive released F1 2015 for Linux earlier today and it sure is a demanding game. Here are some preliminary benchmark figures.
The X.Org Server Git code finally has the threaded input support that's long been a work-in-progress.
If you are a user of the out-of-tree Reiser4 file-system, an official patch is now available to get it working with the Linux 4.6 kernel source.
Normally the Kbuild pull requests for the Linux kernel merge windows tend to not be too noteworthy, but it's a bit different this time around for Linux 4.7.
Earlier this month I wrote about much faster tessellation coming for AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D driver and now that code has landed.
With today's release of F1 2015 for Linux as the popular Formula One racing game, only NVIDIA graphics are listed as supported but I decided to try this game anyways with the AMDGPU-PRO and RadeonSI Gallium3D drivers.
Earlier this week I published some Dota 2 Vulkan vs. OpenGL benchmarks with AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards under Linux. Since then I received some feedback from Valve with regards to Dota 2 on the Source 2 Engine testing along with a better demo to use for benchmarking and also using the latest Dota 2 Vulkan DLC updates. So here is a fresh look at the OpenGL vs. Vulkan performance for this popular Valve game on an assortment of NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards.
Version 1.9 of the Rust programming language is now available.
Feral Interactive has made the Linux port of the F1 2015 Formula One racing game available now via the Steam Store and their own Feral Store.
Earlier this month we learned of a new game coming that's powered by Unigine after first the developers were looking to make use of Unreal Engine 4. We've already confirmed there will be a Linux port of this Unigine-powered MMORPG and this week the developers published the first screenshots.
Since yesterday all 12+ of my systems running daily mainline Linux kernel benchmarks have failed to boot when using Linux 4.7 Git.
Something's happening at ownCloud Inc, the company behind this popular open-source alternative to Dropbox and other cloud hosting services.
Not only is Feral expected to launch today F1 2015 for Linux but they've also put out a hefty update to Tomb Raider.
The third development milestone release of Phoronix Test Suite 6.4 "Hasvik" is now available.
The Linux and OS X builds of Valve's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive are finally 64-bit!
Dave Chinner has submitted the XFS file-system updates for the Linux 4.7 kernel merge window.
Out now is the SteamOS 2.80 Brewmaster Beta update for those using Valve's Linux distribution for gaming. SteamOS 2.80 most notably brings the AMDGPU-PRO driver.


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$50,000 (est.) WTBOA LADS STAKES2-YEAR-OLD COLTS & GELDINGS, 6-½ FURLONGS31st RUNNING, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012 Track & World Record: 1:13, Sabertooth (7), May 22, 2005Stakes Record: 1:16 2/5 Dr. Slew, 2000Most WinsTrainer: 4, Bud Klokstad (T.D. Passer, 1989; Time to Pass, 1990; Staff Rider, 1992; Bub, 2002)Jockey: 3, Gary Baze (Colonel Stevens, 1983; Brent Goes On, 1985; Harvard Avenue, 2003)Owner: 3, Jollie Four Stable (T.D. Passer, 1989; Time to Pass, 1990; Staff Rider, 1992)
Gross Purse: $50,000* 1st- $24,500 2nd- $9,000 3rd- $6,750 4th- $3,375 5th- $1,125 (based on nine starters)
Owners Hometowns1—Country Rules (9-2) Sue & Tim Spooner, Olympia, WA2—Billable Ours (8) One Horse Will Do Corp (Jody Peetz, Issaquah, WA.), Scott & Tina Saxwold, Des Moines, WA & Chris Stenslie, Enumclaw, WA3—Notdabossame (12) Squatting Dog Stable (Craig Harder, Moses Lake, WA)4— Gilmore (15) Delwyn Ellis, Blackfoot, ID; Debra Larson, Phoenix, AZ5—Cat Mon Blue (20) Al Adams, Seattle, WA, David Israel, Enumclaw, WA & Charlie 6—Scat Daddybaby (4) Michael & Amy Feuerborn, Maple Valley, WA7—Music of My Soul (6) Elttaes Stable (Ken Alhadeff, Seattle, WA)8— Finallygotabentley (7-2) Northwest Farms LLC (Jerre Paxton, Yakima, WA) & Debbie Paxton, Yakima, WA9— Mike Man's Gold (3) Swag Stables (Keith Swagerty, Auburn, WA)
2YO Colts & Geldings Series @ Emerald DownsJuly 1: $25,000 NWSS Slewdledo Stakes, Master's Bluff, 5F/:57.91 (fast), $5.20 (2-6)July 29: $50,000 Premio Esmeralda Stakes, 6F, Mike Man's Gold, 6F/:1:10.04 (fast), $20.20 (4-8)Aug. 18: $50,000 WTBOA Lads Stakes, 6-½ FSept. 9: $35,000 Dennis Dodge Stakes (WA-Bred), 6-½ FSept. 23: $65,000 Gottstein Futurity, 1M
SUPER 6 HANDICAPPERSJoe Withee (EmD1): Mike Man's Gold, Billable Ours Finallygotabentley (6-18/$198.10)Robert Geller (EmD2): Billable Ours, Finallygotabentley, Notdabossame (2-18/$154.70)Gary Dougherty (Horse Racing Seattle): Music of My Soul, Finallygotabentley, Mike Man's Gold (3-18/$169.50)Vic Cozzetti (Predictorsays.com): Finallygotabentley, Scat Daddybaby, Billable Ours (6-18/$195.60)Nick Rousso (Daily Racing Form): Billable Ours, Country Rules, Mike Man's Gold (9-18/$241.90)Jacob Pollowitz (EmD3): Finallygotabentley, Music of My Soul, Billable Ours (6-18/$196.40)Consensus: Billable Ours (14), Finallygotabentley (13), Mike Man's Gold (7) (8-18/$189.40)
NOTES: The WTBOA Lads is the final open stakes for 2-year-old colts and geldings before the $65,000 Gottstein Futurity on closing day, September 23…Chu and I won last year's WTBOA Lads Stakes en route to Top Juvenile Male honors. In fact, the last five winners have gone on to receive Top honors including Couldabenthewhisky (2010), Hollywood Harbor (2009), Gallant Son (2008) and Gallon (2007). Chu and I's connections, owner Michael and Amy Feuerborn and trainer Jim Penney, look for back-to-back Lads scores with Scat Daddybaby…The WTBOA Lads is one of the few stakes races to elude trainer Doris Harwood, who will saddle Noosa Beach's full brother Music of My Soul. A victory would give the younger sibling bragging rights over his multiple award-winning brother, who finished third in the 2008 Lads…Conditioner Tom Wenzel (Finallygotabentley) leads all trainers with six stakes wins this season, including the Angie C Stakes with Goin to the Window.–##–
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|Young Americans rock the house at HHS concert
|Written by Darci Tomky
Around 150 area students came alive on stage Tuesday night, Oct. 2 when they performed with the Young Americans during their 2012 International Music Outreach Tour. The line of parents, family and friends stretched outside the door and down the street, and the HHS auditorium was overflowing at the high-energy concert.
Most of the grade 4-12 students who participated in the three-day music workshop were from Holyoke, but others were from Haxtun and Julesburg. They worked with the college-age Young Americans on singing, dancing, theater and much more.
Eighth-grader Norman Mendoza got the party started Tuesday night when performers erupted with
A Young American performer, pictured in center, encourages local students as they sing and dance
Holyoke band teacher Mitsuko Martinez said besides the music aspect, the Young Americans really help build self-esteem and self-confidence in the students, which built on the Challenge Day experience they went through earlier in the school year.
"They were pulling kids out of their comfort zone in a very empowering way," she said.
Students commented the program inspired them to do more with their lives, and their interaction with the Young Americans helped them get through personal problems.
"It was a really positive experience for the students," said Martinez, noting how the music workshop rejuvenated the music program in Holyoke.
HHS sophomore Brandon Struckmeyer stretches his muscles during
Jordan Brophy, pictured in center, is a Young American from Wray
The first half of Tuesday's performance featured the Young Americans, with the local students joining in for the second half. Everything from Disney songs and Broadway theater to rock'n'roll and comedy sketches got the kids and the audience pumped about music and the arts.
Two familiar faces, Jordan Brophy and Deann Sullivan, were part of the cast of the Young Americans. The two girls from Wray auditioned when the Young Americans came to Holyoke in February 2010, and now they are on tour themselves, inspiring kids to pursue music.
Martinez expressed much gratitude toward the Holyoke Music Parents Association for paying half of the workshop cost for the Holyoke students. Many local families also opened their homes to host the Young American kids during their stay in Holyoke.
It's another day on the slopes as local students Marques Harvey and Luke Stewart, pictured at left and center, work with the Young Americans on a comedy skiing routine.
—Enterprise photos
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Holyoke Enterprise October 11, 2012


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Julian ponders fire department's future
JULIAN For more than 30 years, the volunteer fire department that serves Julian and Cuyamaca has been a proud and integral part of the mountain community.
Now it's facing serious financial problems and will soon have to decide whether to disband.
The volunteers know the area. When a fire or medical call goes out, they understand that to reach that house or barn in the backcountry, they need to turn left at the big oak, go right at the fork in the dirt road and then take a hard left into the driveway that's obscured by pine trees.
But the Julian/Cuyamaca Fire Protection District has fallen on some tough times. The ledger sheet isn't adding up.
To ensure its financial stability, at least according to the board president of the fire department, the department needs to join the San Diego County Fire Authority.
The volunteers, however, and others in the community who don't want to abandon local control, see it differently.
The authority was established six years ago, after the firestorms of 2003 and 2007, to strengthen response in the county's backcountry. Most of the volunteer fire departments across the region joined the authority either by choice or because they had no other option.
Today, Supervisor Dianne Jacob, who was a driving force behind the authority's creation, says 50 fire stations in the backcountry are constantly staffed with professional, trained, physically fit firefighters.
Last year the Julian fire district's board president, Jack Shelver, became aware of budgeting problems in the department. A shortfall of $85,000 connected to ambulance service was not offset by a $21,000 fire suppression surplus. Simply put, it costs the department more than $1,000 each time it has to transport a patient to a faraway hospital because insurance only pays part of the tab.
Shelver, foreseeing a financial hole that will grow worse, went to see Jacob and inquired about the possibility of joining the authority. A two-year proposal was developed.
The district is funded by a $50 benefit fee collected from each parcel owner (a fee that hasn't been raised since 1984). An additional $50 fee has been collected for several years to be used to build a new fire station.
About 3,000 people live in the district, roughly 800 fewer than lived there before the 2003 Cedar fire destroyed hundreds of homes.
Fundraisers for the department are frequent. At a recent board meeting, volunteer Capt. James Stowers, a spokesman for the volunteers, announced that an anonymous donor has pledged enough cash to balance the department's books for this year.
Stowers did not respond to several phone call requests for an interview for this story.
If the district agrees to partner with the fire authority, the county would take over operations. It would bring in a chief, and the Julian fire station would be staffed with two full-time Cal Fire firefighters, as well as two reserve firefighters. The Cuyamaca station would have two reserves. (Reserves are paid a stipend and are usually young people who are on a professional firefighting path.)
If the authority took over, the fees would likely still be collected from parcel owners and absorbed into the authority's books, and the money raised for a new fire station would still be collected and used for that purpose. The authority would also maintain the equipment and provide administrative support funded by millions of dollars pumped into it by the county.
The agreement would require, after a year, that the district begin dissolving itself. But if the district doesn't like how the situation is working out, it could withdraw from the agreement. Opting out at the last minute, however, would come with financial penalties.


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Why prefer Pentax to other brands, when you can sure take fantastic pictures with all of them?
Well, what Mr Carlson doesn't talk about, unfortunately, is that in Pentax, from the K-7 upwards, weather sealing goes together with a trust-inspiringly solid, yet compact build quality rarely seen elsewhere in that class. How much fun it is to go out and shoot these cameras - because they fit your hand like a glove, and shooting becomes such an intuitive, straightforward, easily-flowing process. Or about the wonderful old-school pentaprism viewfinders that show you a 100 percent of what you will get. Or the gorgeous line of affordable Limited prime lenses with their almost Leica-like build quality and excellent optics. Pentax just needs to get the word out.
If now the K-5 IIs should turn out to be one of the highest-resolving APS-C cameras, with an IQ bordering on, say, 5D Mark II territory (without as much bulk to log around), what more could you ask of a field camera?


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Janarbek Matai, Joo-Young Kim, and Ryan Kastner
18 June 2014
As data centers are increasingly focused on energy efficiency, it becomes important to develop low power implementations of the various applications that run on them. Data compression plays a critical role in data centers to mitigate storage and communication costs. This work focuses on building a low power, high performance implementation for canonical Huffman encoding. We develop a number of different hardware and software implementations targeting Xilinx Zynq FPGA, ARM Cortex-A9, and Intel Core i7. Despite its sequential nature, we show that our hardware accelerated implementation is substantially more energy efficient than both the ARM and Intel Core i7 implementations. When compared to highly optimized software running on the ARM processor, our hardware accelerated implementation has approximately 15 times more throughput with 10% higher power usage, resulting in an 8X benefit in energy efficiency (measured in encodings/Watt). Additionally, our hardware accelerated implementation is up to 80% faster and over 230 times more energy efficient than a highly optimized Core i7 implementation.
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STEUBENVILLE- Phil Casinelli can't wave a magic wand to make his squad taller, so he's focusing on the next best thing.
"Defense," he quickly replied when asked how his 2012-2013 Steubenville girls' basketball team can compensate for its lack of height.
"Offensively, obviously we are going to have good night and bad nights shooting the ball," said Casinelli, who is entering his eighth season at the helm. "Since we're not very big, we're not going to win many rebounding battles. So, we have to score a lot with our first shot.
"We focus on a lot on defense. We can't have off nights defending. We need to limit teams to one shot then get the ball out in transition. We need to make good decisions in the open court and hope our shots are falling. The key for us is winning on the defensive end."
Casinelli lost two starters, Hannah Meyer and Veronica Orellana, from last season's club which finished 13-8.
Six letter winners (three of whom were starters) return. Leading the list is junior point guard Emiley Masloski. As a sophomore, the 5-foot-6 Masloski averaged 17.3 points an outing, 2.6 assists, 2.1 rebounds and 1.7 steals. She earned first-team all-Ohio Valley Athletic Conference honors, second team on the Eastern District squad and honorable mention on the all-Ohio team. As a ninth grader, Masloski was all OVAC and special mention all-district.
"She's an extension of the coach on the court," Casinelli said of Masloski, who will serve as the squad's co-captain along with Mytia Baker, a 5-8 junior. "She knows the game well and makes our job as coaches easier. She does a lot of directing on the floor and is a vocal leader.
"The other girls respect her. She knows the game, works hard and is a great player. Her accomplishments at this point speak for themselves. We are looking for her to continue getting better every year."
Barker and junior Brittany Bodo, listed at 5-9, are the other returning starters. The remaining letter winners are sophomore Taylor Young, junior Dominique Wilson and junior Abby Taylor.
"It seems like I repeat myself every year when I say we are young and short," noted Casinelli, who has just one senior listed as part of his rotation. "But, every year we're still young and still short. It's been several years since we had a large group of seniors. Our juniors have been playing a lot so we have experience at the varsity level even though we are young."
Casinelli indicated his club goes a "good eight deep."
Dana Poole, a 5-8 senior, is back out for basketball and should help Big Red inside.
"We're looking for good things from Dana," Casinelli said. "She will be our presence inside and she definitely can help fill the void left by Hannah and Veronica."
Hanna Masloski, Emiley's freshman sister, will be in Casinelli's eight-deep rotation.
Joining Casinelli on the Big Red bench this season will be Mark Masloski, the school's former boys' coach, and Angie Forte, who directed the girls' team.


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BELLAIRE - A good pitcher in softball can really cover up any kind of deficiencies a team might have.
St. John has an elite pitcher and very few - if any - deficiencies, so it's easy to see why the Irish are rolling along and still unblemished.
St. John posted two more convincing victories at chilly Amanda's Field on Saturday afternoon, posting 6-0 and 5-2 victories against Bishop Donahue.
Irish junior flame thrower Hannah Absalom was up to her same old tricks in the circle. She simply dominated the Bishops' to the tune of 18 strikeouts. She fanned the side in four of the seven innings.
"Anymore, there are so many strikeouts, our scorekeeper has to tell me because I lose track," Irish coach Jerry Magistro said. "Hannah deserves everything she gets. She's a great kid, hard worker and extremely coachable."
The only blemishes she allowed were a looping single that landed on the chalk line in right field and a hard shot down the third base line. She did issue one walk in the seventh inning.
However, just one Bishops runner moved up any further than first base.
"She's by far the best pitcher we've faced or will face this season," Donahue coach Curt Mele said. "She did a good job of shutting us down."
After Absalom did her thing to fan in the side in the top of the first, the hard-hitting Irish offense went to work in the home half.
Senior standout Kaydie Coppa led off the game in style for the Irish. She drove an Andrea Guzek offering well over the left-centerfield fence.
The rally was just beginning for the Irish. Absalom drew a walk and Morgan DeLuca followed by reaching on a fielder's choice without an out being recorded.
Guzek fought back to record a strikeout, but first baseman Sydney Helms roped a double into the left-center gap, plating both Absalom and DeLuca. Senior shortstop Kristen Russell then delivered a single. Helms raced home with the fourth run on a well-executed squeeze play by Amber LaMotte.
"You always feel comfortable when you get four and you have Hannah (in the circle)," Magistro said. "We hit the ball pretty well today."
Staked to the four-run lead, Absalom proceeded to sit down the first 13 in order before Selena Ghaphrey broke up the perfecto and no-hitter with one looping liner in the fifth.
"I didn't want to see our kids get content with the four-run lead," Magistro said. "I thought we played well in every phase of the game. We pitched well, hit the ball well, ran the bases and played defense well."
St. John pushed across insurance runs in the fourth and sixth innings. LaMotte reached on a walk and eventually scored all the way from first on a sacrifice, heads-up base running and a throwing error.
Coppa, who was a triple shy of the cycle, drove in LaMotte with the final run of the game on a base hit.
"Small ball got us some runs," Magistro said. "We left girls in scoring position in three innings, so we need to improve on that. Bishop Donahue is a quality team, so this was a nice win for us."
Guzek suffered the loss in the circle. After the first inning, she really settled down. She fanned nine and walked only two.
"For some reason, I think there might have been some nerves in that first inning," Mele said. "We made some mistakes in the field and when you're playing St. John, you can't make those types of mistakes."
Donahue's other base hit was produced by lead-off hitter Tess Fallova with two outs in the sixth.


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|Swiss foreign exchange student explores new culture in Holyoke
|Written by Darci Tomky
With a love of travel and experiencing new cultures, Severine Barras was recently welcomed to HHS as this year's only foreign exchange student. A native of Switzerland, she will be spending the school year with her host family Thom, Julie and Camille Elliott.
Holyoke is a bit of a change for Barras compared to her hometown of Bern, the capital city of Switzerland with a population of over 300,000 people. One aspect of living that differs is the amount of space, noted Barras. In Switzerland, the houses are closer together, and they don't have big yards like families in America. Switzerland is also very green with trees and mountains, and Barras said she certainly couldn't see as far into the distance as she can here.
In Switzerland, Barras attended a school with 1,200 people, so for her it's nice how everyone at HHS knows everyone else. They are all "famous for a little town," said Barras. She jokingly pointed out that while it's good to know everyone, students must be careful of what they say or the whole school will end up hearing of it the next day.
Because she is the only foreign exchange student, Barras said it has been good to force her to make friends in Holyoke. Before coming here she was anxious about finding a group to fit in to, but now she has found it's been easy to connect, and she meets new people every day. With English as her third language, Barras is also excited to improve her communication skills.
As a senior at HHS, Barras said one major difference about school is the mixing of grade levels in the same class. In Switzerland, a senior would never be in a class with a freshman.
Another difference is the transportation. Missing the public transportation system in Europe, Barras has been walking and riding her bike and is surprised at how many people drive their cars to school and work.
This year, Barras is hoping to get involved with choir, jazz band, the play and musical, FBLA and even basketball.
Barras has enjoyed spending time with her host family and has had fun with her new role as big sister to her host sister Camille, a freshman at HHS.
Kicking off her time in America, Barras spent a week in New York City with other exchange students. During the year, she plans to travel some with her host family and is also planning trips to Washington D.C. and possibly Los Angeles or Chicago.


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Are you an iCandy winner?
To coincide with our 80th anniversary this year, we recently featured in 17 John Lewis stores throughout the UK and ran a photo competition for you to win some John Lewis vouchers!
Firstly we would like to say a big thank you to everyone who entered and we have loved going through all the entries that were submitted!
The iCandy Peach Jogger windows have all now been removed, all the entries are in and the lucky winners have been chosen! But to keep you in suspense just that little bit longer we are only announcing which five of the 17 stores featured the winning windows.
They are…
- Oxford Street
- Welwyn Garden City
- Norwich
- Milton Keynes
- Leicester
We had some fantastic entries at all the locations, but did you have your photo taken outside the windows at one of these John Lewis stores? Could you be a lucky winner?
The first winner will be announced tomorrow!
Once again, thank you to everyone who entered and well done to the winners!
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Purchase a Permit (online sales end March 1)
Follow these steps to purchase a faculty/staff parking permit online or visit the Parking Services Office in Heth Hall 152 during regular business hours.
- Login to your https://my.radford.edu
- Click on the "Parking" Icon
- Follow the directions.
Faculty/staff permits cost $132 if purchased in the fall semester, $66 if purchased beginning Jan. 1. Summer permits will be $40. Adjunct faculty permits are $40.
Which lots are designated for faculty/staff?
- LOT A: Preston/Martin Hall
- LOT B: College of Science & Technology (upper side)
- LOT C: College of Science & Technology (lower side)
- LOT D: Lawrence Street
- LOT E: University Drive
- LOT F: Muse Hall
- LOT G: Tyler Hall
- LOT J: Kyle Hall
- LOT K: Main Street
- LOT L: Main Street
- LOT M: Calhoun Street
- LOT N: Jefferson Street
- LOT R: Corner of Fairfax and Jefferson
- LOT S: Downey Street
- LOT U: University Drive
- LOT Y: East Main Street
- LOT AA: Hurlburt Student Union
- LOT BB: Behind Allen Building
- LOT DD: Tyler Avenue
- LOT EE: Fairfax Street
- LOT HH: Davis Street
- LOT JJ: Fairfax Street
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I'm interested in converting some .ppt files into beamer/.tex (or, better, .org) format. I can find numerous discussions of converting from beamer to .ppt but not the other way round. Is there any (reasonable) way to do this?
If you are interested I can share with you some VBA code I have developed to do just that. You can load it as a macro and run it. It will give you a txt file of the same name as the ppt and dump the pictures as png files. It will also show the number of the slide it came from. I want to eventually take the VBA code and create a stand alone application but the time is not there yet.
There is another project for ppt to beamer conversion. I have used it and the major downside was that a 20 slided ppt with about 8 bullets per slide became an over 200 slide beaner. I also had to manually fix about 20+ LaTeX errors per slide. And there are some difficulties with graphics.
I used this about 4 years ago and I was able to convert quickly the 72 ppt slide shows for a semester course in an afternoon.
The link are at this web site at the prersentations section. http://www.unc.edu/~monogan/computing/latex/


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It's been exactly a week since we first told you about a house fire that took the lives of three children in Onslow County. Members of the Pittman family say it's not the physical- but the emotional recovery that's going to take the most time as the mother Johnetta and 10-year-old Hannah are still recovering at the UNC Burn Center in Chapel Hill. One thing has become very clear during this last week. The Pittman's do not face that recovery alone.
The Pittmans spent Sundays in church. They were a family of ten ministering through dance and praise, but it only took minutes for flames to alter a family portrait forever. It was 5:21 a.m. last Thursday morning when firefighters got the call. Windows shattered and hearts were broken. The family of ten pared down to seven. Officials say 12 year old Tabitha was likely being the brave big sister when she died- probably trying to lead 8-year-old Elijah and 6-year-old Gabriel out of the home, but investigators say smoke caught up to the children.
Flowers were on the porch the day the three children died. Now the flowers have multiplied, and three white crosses, a tribute to each child, are planted in the front yard.
Donations of clothes and money continue to pour in. Six days after the fire, investigators ruled it accidental after a refrigerator malfunction.
The healing continues. Now only Johnetta Pittman and Hannah are hospitalized. The mother is in critical condition. While 10 year old Hannah is now opening her eyes. It's a sign the faith- filled family says may turn their mourning into dancing again.
The Pittman's four other children have been treated and released, and they're all staying with family.


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The updated Tornos MultiAlpha 6 × 32 features a 1.260" (1.340") diameter bar capacity with the work spread over six spindles. The machine is equipped with synchronous motors. Each spindle functions independently of the others for cutting rpm, spindle stops and indexing. The spindles with independent speed settings enable the range of cutting tools to be employed. Every position is potentially being used as a C axis, which enables any positioned transverse milling or drilling operation to be performed at any time and on all spindles. The spindles can be synchronized in an angular fashion. According to the company, the system is designed with optimum speed on each position in accordance with the type of machining required, high capacity for stock removal and flexibility.
Motorspindles are flexible on the frontworking units. The end units are designed to be fitted with motorquills. Two versions of motorquills are available: the high performance motorquill delivers high torque starting from its lowest speeds, while the high speed option retains the same torque rating to high rotational speeds.
Production times are reduced with a high rate of stock removal and simultaneous machining operations performed together with operations from the frontworking units, cross-slides and counterspindle, the company says. The machine's counterspindle holds the component during the cutoff operation then presents the workpiece to a tool slide for a number of operations on the back of the component. The slide can be equipped with five tools in vertical and/or horizontal position, with a number of combinations. An independent motor can drive as many as three tools; this enables the use of high speed drilling or alternate solutions. According to the company, to ensure optimum machining conditions, all tool positions have an integrated coolant supply. Fixed drills can have through-the-tool coolant via a central bore.
The machine was developed with a fully integrated palletization system located between the lathe and the electrical cabinet. This solution avoids unnecessary loss of space and optimizes the production process, the company says. Large pallets with dimensions ranging to 400 × 600 mm are standard. Once components are loaded on the pallets, they can be sent directly to a cleaning system, completing the part making process.
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Walmart Women.
by Leslie Morgan Steiner
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court took on the biggest employment discrimination case in history. The landmark suit pitted the country's largest private employer, Walmart, against roughly 1,500,000 of its current and former female workers. The case, which was been wending its way through our court system for a decade, had clearcut statistics: women made up 65 percent of the lower-level hourly workforce, but only 33 percent of the management employees. Female employees overall were paid on average $1.16 per hour less than men in the same job, despite having more seniority, lower turnover rates and higher performance ratings.
Cynics predicted that it would be difficult for a Supreme Court that is widely viewed as business-friendly to rule against a corporate giant like Walmart. But women are big business today too. We are the most valuable human resource in the country. We're better educated, with more college degrees than men, and an increasing percentage of graduate degrees. Women control $1.7 trillion in annual purchasing; we influence 85% of purchase decisions, including a whole lot at Walmart.
Walmart's simple defense against the suit? The case is too big. Too many woman are involved. Too many Walmart stores are implicated. Employees at too many levels, from entry-level positions up to managers, experienced discrimination.
This bizarre logic had me scratching my head. The case should be dismissed because too many women are affected? Because gender bias and pay discrimination are so widespread at Walmart and in society that we need to accept them?
I had hoped our wise village elders on the Supreme Court would see through Walmart's legal wrangling.
Unfortunately for all of us, there seemed to be little head-scratching among the Supreme Court justices. Two days after hearing oral arguments, in one of the speediest decisions ever returned by the Court, a majority agreed with Walmart in a baffling 5-4 ruling. The verdict was announced Friday, April 1st but it was no April Fool's joke.
The quick timing seemed intended as a slap to the Walmart women and a deterrent to future female class action lawsuits. Many Supreme Court decisions take months or the better part of a year to debate, write up and issue to the public. But the Walmart case, despite having been complicated enough to occupy lower courts for ten years, was decided in a snap of the judges' fingers. The implicit message seems to be: don't you ladies go trying this again.


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