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Support for people to stay as independent as possible in their own home
Who is the Home Care Enablement Service for?
The Home Care Enablement Service may be for you if you:
- have been in hospital and need help to learn how to manage when you get home; or
- are finding it difficult to manage living at home.
How do I apply for the Home Care Enablement Service?
If you are in hospital, a hospital social worker will talk to you about the Home Care Enablement Service before you leave hospital.
If you live at home and you are having difficulty managing, we will arrange for a social care worker to visit you and assess your needs.
Assessing your needs
For more information about getting an assessment of your social care needs, please see the How to get adult social care services page.
You can ask us for an assessment by contacting our Adults and Communities Access Point (ACAP).
Phone: 0121 303 1234
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Am I eligible for the Home Care Enablement Service?
If we assess you and you are not eligible for the Home Care Enablement Service, we will give you advice and information about other services and organisations that may be able to help.
What happens next?
If you have critical or substantial needs, a social care worker will work with you to make an enablement plan.
This will show the areas you need help with and how you want us to give you that help.
Your enablement support plan will look at:
- how much you can do for yourself
- what you want to achieve
- the tasks you need to do to be able to carry on living at home; and
- the people who will provide your support.
Your Home Care Enablement Service will start when we have written and agreed your enablement plan.
What kind of support is available?
For up to six weeks we can help you relearn, or learn a new way, to:
- get in and get out of bed
- get in and out of the bath or shower
- get dressed and undressed
- prepare meals and snacks and
- practise using any new equipment.
We may give you equipment and devices to help you live as independently as possible in your own home, such as:
- a bath lift to help you relearn or change the way you get in and out of the bath or
- a kettle tipper, kitchen trolley or perching stool to help you relearn how to prepare drinks and meals.
We may ask an occupational therapist to help you choose the most suitable equipment for your needs. We can help you to practise using it.
The support we give you may also include products known as 'assistive technology'.
Assistive technology
Assistive technology is a range of devices that can help you stay safe at home.
Examples of assistive technology include a falls detector that alerts a relative or carer if you have a fall at home and a pill dispenser that will remind you to take your medication.
Reviewing your enablement plan
When you have had four weeks of support, your social care worker will visit you to see how you have been getting on. We call this a review.
The review will help you and your social care worker decide if you will need more care after you have had the Home Care Enablement Service for six weeks. If you do, we will do another assessment to see if your needs have changed.
Will I have to pay for the Home Care Enablement Service?
The Home Care Enablement Service is free for the first six weeks. After this, you may have to pay something towards the cost of any care we provide for you. How much you have to pay will depend on your financial situation.
A member of staff from our Fairer Charging Team will visit you to ask about what money you have already and what money you could get from the Government and from us. You won't have to pay anything until you have had a financial assessment.
More information and contact details
If you would like more information about the Home Care Enablement Service, please read the leaflet below 'An easy guide to the Home Care Enablement Service' or contact the Adults and Communities Access Point (ACAP).
Phone: 0121 303 1234
Textphone: 0121 303 6245
Email: email@example.com
Other pages
How to get adult social care services
Rehabilitation and enablement service
Other websites
The Department of Health web page 'Care Services Efficiency Delivery' has links to general information about enablement (also called 're-ablement').
If you would like any of our leaflets, forms or other documents in another language, in Braille, in large print or on audio tape, MP3 or CD, please phone the Communications team on 0121 464 3123 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. All our adult social care leaflets, forms and documents are free in any format.


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Campbellsville Mayor Tony Young and Taylor County Judge/Executive Eddie Rogers proclaimed the week of July 4 as Donate to the American Red Cross Week.
According to the proclamation, the local Red Cross disaster team formed in March and volunteers have helped at the scene of disasters and blood drives, provided shelter for those in need and helped with the Taylor Regional Hospital health fair, Crusade for Children and the Campbellsville/Taylor County Fourth of July celebration.
James Gray was the winner of a mossburg shotgun that the Central Kentucky FOP Lodge 22 raffled on July 4.
Money collected will go toward the Cops and Kids program in which the lodge buys clothes for students from local schools each July. Seven hundred dollars was raised.
James Gray was the winner of the raffle and Rick Benningfield, lodge president, presented him with the prize.
Jill B. and Jimmy Sapp of Campbellsville announce the birth of a son, Matthew James Sapp, at 9:30 a.m. on June 30 at Spring View Hospital in Lebanon. He weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces and was 20 inches long.
Grandparents are Lyle and Beverly Burchell of Bradfordsville, Mike and Alicia Sapp of Campbellsville and the late Wanda Sapp Bell.
Great-grandparent is Manuel Marlow of Lebanon.
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Three couples recently graduated from prenatal and childbirth classes taught at Taylor Regional Hospital. They are Ashtion and Jacob Merton of Campbellsville, Renee and Dwight Renfro of Columbia and Katrina and Regina Judd of Greensburg.
Classes are taught on Tuesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. and the first Saturday of the month from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at TRH's meeting room.
Classes are free to anyone delivering at TRH and are taught by Nicole Collins, RN, CCE.
Three couples recently graduated from prenatal and childbirth classes taught at Taylor Regional Hospital. They are Rachel Price and Joanie Price, Cheris and Casey Young and Ping Zhou and Zianjia Wong, all of Campbellsville.
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"I love talking with the kids one-on-one and presenting the message of Jesus in a way they can understand," Dr. Shane Garrison of Campbellsville University said.
Garrison is in his fourth year of working with and serving alongside LifeWay's CentriKid Camp. It's a joy for Garrison, who serves as associate professor of education ministries at CU, and who has worked with thousands of young people through CentriKid.
Fifty-three Bibles have been handed out this summer to campers at Campbellsville University. Rusty Watkins is proud of that.
Watkins, who has worked with summer camps at CU for 13 years, said each young person who is saved while at camp gets a Bible with a camp worker's name in it. Fifty-three students have received the Bibles in the first three and a half weeks of camp, with 3,600 campers, out of about 7,000 who will be on campus this summer.
Dr. Heather Wise, a local dentist, was recognized at the Kentucky Head Start Association Annual Conference in Louisville on May 2 as the Humanitarian of the Year.
She was awarded the honor for her continued support and collaboration with Lake Cumberland Head Start. She has given her time and services to children in order to promote oral health.
Lula and the Baldwin Sisters celebrated Lula Baldwin's 76th birthday on June 20 at Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee.
Baldwin celebrated with her daughters, Jennifer Graham, Shirley Burress, Judy Sparks and Denise Graham.
Baldwin and her daughters live in Campbellsville.
There is nothing that sets off a cold cut chicken or tuna sandwich better than the taste of a pickle, and with so many varieties, you are bound to find one to suit every palate.
So it probably won't surprise you that pickles are a popular home food preservation item.
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'Ray Donovan' Season 1 Finale Recap
In the season finale of "Ray Donovan" we see Ray and Avi working to track down Sully and the money. They initially retrieve a chunk of it when they find Eddie on the run. They turn their attention to Tiny, trying to pursue him by tracking the many all-you-can eat-buffet restaurants in Santa Monica, which they know he must frequent. Ray presses Lena and Avi to work harder to find Sully, explaining that it should be easy because he hides in plain sight. Avi repeatedly tells Ray to check in with Abby, which infuriates Ray each time.
Ray's family is hiding out at an expensive Malibu hotel, though they don't know why has put them there. Abby is so distraught over Ray not being around and not knowing what he has been up to, that she sleeps the day away despite efforts by the kids to wake her.
When Ray pops by Ezra's to tell them they got some of the money back, he finds Frank in Ezra's office waiting. Frank threatens to arrest Ray for Van's murder, but Ray asks for 12 hours, telling Frank that he knows Ray's not that sloppy and that if Ray goes down, Frank does too. Ray hands him some cash, which Frank accepts.
Bunchy, finally at peace knowing his molester is dead, takes control of his life and kicks Mickey out of his apartment, but not before revealing the details of the night with the priest, including the fact that Ray was molested as a child too. Mickey wants to know how Ray feels about killing a priest and seems to be remorseful that he didn't believe Bunchy when he first told Mickey he'd spotted the priest. With nowhere to go, Mickey calls Conor and finds out where they're all staying in Malibu.
But he's not as welcome as he thought he might be. Abby wakes up to find Mickey in bed with her at the hotel. He fell asleep by accident next to her. She screams. As they talk, it's revealed that she's suddenly unsympathetic towards Mickey (for the first time this season). She tells him to leave. He tells her she needs to shower and go take care of her children, and then he'll go. Abby does so, but when she gets down to the pool to see the kids, Mickey is still there. She takes him aside, finally having come to the realization that Ray was correct, and Mickey is bad news. She tells him so and chastises him for not being a better father. Ray's being abuses comes up. Mickey admits to having known, but says he struggled in those days. She tells him to stay away from her family. Leaving the hotel, Mickey calls Ray. He asks for 10 minutes with him, promising to leave town after that. They agree to meet at the gym.
Sully attempts to buy ID off of a homeless man, but the homeless guy decides to shake Sully down with a knife instead. Sully kills him in a bathroom stall near the beach, then with blood on his shoes, returns to the motel. He beats Tiny with the shoe when he finds out Eddie took off with a bag of money and Tiny let it happen. He sends Tiny out for new sneakers. Tiny stops to eat first, and is met at his table by Ray. Ray offers him a deal to take to Sully. Tiny admits killing Sean Walker was a mistake and says that he's been crying over it ever since. Tiny asks if he can work for Ray instead, knowing Sully won't likely take him out of the country. Still, he takes the deal back to Sully: that Ray will get them out of the country if they give back half of the money they took after the botched attempt on Mickey's life. Back at the hotel, Sully directs Tiny to tell Ray there's no deal.
Terry and Ray talk briefly about what the priest did to Ray. Ray tells Terry he might have to let Frances go over the night they killed the priest. Terry is upset and when Frances tries to talk to him later about the incident, he flips out and ultimately chooses family over Frances.
Lena and Bridget have a heart-to-heart. Bridget is having negative feelings about her father, but Lena seems to put them to rest telling her what a great guy her dad really is. Abby seems to feel forgiving as well. She leaves Ray an emotional message, asking him to come home.
With no deal accepted, Ray plays hardball with Sully. He alerts the press that Sully is in Santa Monica. Sully sees the news and realizes he's in trouble. He prepares to run.
Ray meets Mickey at the gym and they have the discussion we've waited for all season. Mickey tries to appeal to Ray and apologizes for all that's gone on, but Ray is unmoved by his attempt. Mickey says he'll leave town, but first wants to know why Ray wanted him dead. Ray laughs, surprised that Mickey has no clue. Ray rhymes off all of the reasons, including: their sister killing herself, letting Terry fight beyond when it was medically safe for him to do so, and letting their mom die alone. Mickey tries to make excuses for it all, but Ray says there is no excuse, that Mickey made the decision to sell coke and whore around every night. Mickey gets emotionally, saying he did 20 years to protect Ray. Rays says he only did jail time because he stole a lot of money from Sully and jail was the safest place for him to be. Mickey tells Ray he's always been his favorite child and that they're alike. Ray scoffs and appears to almost relent, but then reveals that he told Mickey about the priest abusing him and when he did Mickey beat him up for it, and accused Ray of being a liar. Ray says the priest kept coming after him after that, until he finally turned his attention to "sweet" Bunchy.
"That's when I decided to kill you, Mick. You've been dead to me since that day. You've been dead to me since I was 10 years old."
Mickey says he's sorry, but Ray says, "There's no forgiveness for you."
Avi interrupts, showing up at the gym, and says Sully will be at the Marina. Mickey asks about the plan, but Ray ignores him and he and Avi leave together.
Avi and Ray wait at the Marina. It's dark. When Sully and Tiny finally show up, Mickey is with them. He says he wants to go with Sully and start a new life too. Sully shoots Avi, gives Ray half of his money back and takes his new passports from Ray. Then Sully and Tiny point guns and Ray. Ray leads them down a dock to what they assume is their getaway boat. Frank is on his boat. He asks Ray what's going on, and then pulls a gun on Sully. Sully instructs Mickey to take the gun from Frank, which he does. Sully turns his gun to Ray, says he's taking all of the money and is going to kill Ray. Mickey puts a bullet in Sully's head, giving Ray a chance to get Tiny's gun. Frank freaks out, asking how he is supposed to explain that the FBI's most wanted is on his dock.
Ray says, "You were just in a shootout with Sully Sullivan." He tidies the crime scene to reflect that and hands the gun back to Frank. He tells Frank to say he hired Ray's firm to help him find Sully, to explain away all of the details. Frank later looks like a star for the capture.
At the car, Mickey gloats. "I saved your life Ray, Ray. I guess we're even now."
Ray says, "Is that how you see it?" Ray hands Mickey a wad of cash and tells him to leave. He says goodbye.
We see Avi in the hospital, with Ray covered in blood at his side. Lena arrives.
The show ends with Ray listening to Abby's voicemail message, which we'd only partially heard when she left it. She tells Ray she loves him and that he doesn't have to talk, she just wants him to be there, that she needs him. We see Mickey return to the gym like nothing has happened. He sits down with the boys and they all watch a fight and toast to life. He asks Terry if the cot bunchy slept on is still at the gym. It is, Mickey says, "good." We see Ray sleeping in a chaise on the beach, his shirt still bloodied from Avi's shooting. Conor and Bridget arrive and take a chair next to him. As they lie listening to the waves, Abby arrives climbs onto Ray's chair and the show ends.
Were you looking for a cliffhanger? Did you feel any pity for Mickey?
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1. Speaking of fitness landscapes...: 22:10
Neil wanted to follow up on my post last 2008.08.12 about fitness landscapes and life, so here it is:
Imagine that a bumpy surface is in front of you, like a model of a group of mountains. Your task is to find the highest point on this surface. However, you can't see anything—you can only touch it with one finger.
By putting your finger anywhere and following the slope up slowly, taking little steps, you'll be sure to find some peak. But is it the highest point? There could be another, higher mountain a little further off. You may have to start again and trace up a different mountain. Jumping far away increases your chances of ending up at a different, possibly higher mountain. You might start out initially lower, but you might work your way up higher (or not).
No, I don't casually think about local and global maximums. I got prompted by a book called "More Than You Know: Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places." Chapter 19 talks about fitness landscapes and how companies can evolve.
So I was thinking about fitness landscapes and business insights when a personal issue came to the fore. As I tried to sort it out, I found myself sketching a graph showing one of the reasons I had for making a certain difficult decision. I realized that although some people thought my decision was a step down from my "potential", I made that decision because I felt there was a higher peak somewhere. (And *I* thought it was actually a step up, or at least sideways, but that's beside the point...)
Life is a little like a fitness landscape, isn't it? You can make little changes that make your life better and better (or worse and worse, if you're not paying attention to where you're going). However, you can only get so far with those little changes. Sometimes bigger changes are needed. Sometimes you need to hike down one slope in order to go up another. And even if you make a mistake and the other mountain isn't as high as the one you were on, maybe the exercise will be good for you anyway!
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Seniors who get a call from someone claiming to be a grandchild stranded in Canada or overseas needing to be wired money should just hang up the phone, police said.
The Oregon State Police said two such incidents have been reported in Eastern Oregon recently. In the past, Jackson County residents have been targeted. An Ashland woman thwarted the scam this summer, but people in Ashland and Talent lost thousands of dollars in similar cases in 2008 and 2010.
Callers typically request money be wired in a very short time frame, saying they are stuck in a foreign country, possibly hurt or facing criminal charges. They often insist on secrecy and get some personal details wrong, police said.
OSP said the imposters may go through newspaper anniversary announcements and obituaries to find information about the family.
"This is a despicable scam conducted by con artists in the U.S. and other countries," OSP said in a news release.
Those who think they have received such calls should report the scam to the Oregon Attorney General Consumer Hotlene at 1-877-877-9392 and the Federal Trade Commission at 1-800-FTC-HELP.
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The information provided here is meant to give you a general idea about each of the medications listed below. Only the most general side effects are included. Ask your doctor if you need to take any special precautions. Use each of these medications as recommended by your doctor, or according to the instructions provided. If you have further questions about usage or side effects, talk to your doctor.
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
Common names include:
Stimulants can help you be more alert and awake. While using stimulant medications, you should take the following precautions:
You may experience the following side effects:
Note: You may notice these things when you first begin taking a stimulant medication. Until you know how the medication will affect you, you should avoid driving, operating machinery, and doing hazardous activities.
Common names include:
You may be given a tricyclic antidepressant if you have symptoms, such as attacks of weakness, hallucinations as sleep begins, or sleep paralysis. To avoid stomach upset, take your tricyclic antidepressants with food, unless your doctor has told you otherwise.
Possible side effects include:
Sodium oxybate is used to treat cataplexy. It is a drug that can be abused, so it is a controlled substance. Abuse can cause serious problems, such as trouble breathing, seizures, loss of consciousness, coma, and death. Abuse can also lead to dependence, craving, and withdrawal symptoms. If you are prescribed sodium oxybate, you will have to get the medicine from one central pharmacy. It is not available anywhere else.
Sodium oxybate can reduce the number of cataplexy attacks. But, it must be taken exactly as prescribed. The medicine works very fast, so you need to take it only when you are ready to fall asleep. Sodium oxybate must be taken in two doses each night. The first dose is taken right at bedtime and the second dose is taken 2-1/2 to 4 hours later. You will probably need to wake yourself up to take the second dose. The most common side effects are nausea, lightheadedness, headache, sleep problems, confusion, vomiting, and bed-wetting.
Do not engage in activities that require alertness, such as driving, for six hours after taking the medication. Do not use alcohol or other sedatives while taking this medicine. Your doctor must instruct you in the safe and effective use of this medicine.
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You may be given an SSRI to treat weakness, hallucinations as sleep begins, or sleep paralysis. If this medication upsets your stomach, you can take it with food.
Do not take monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors:
Serious side effects of SSRI antidepressants include:
Note: You may notice these symptoms when you first begin taking a medication. Until you know how the medication will affect you, you should avoid driving, operating machinery, and doing hazardous activities.
If you are taking medications, follow these general guidelines:
Antidepressant use in children, adolescents, and adults. US Food and Drug Administration website. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/InformationbyDrugClass/UCM096273. Updated August 12, 2010. Accessed June 3, 2013.
Narcolepsy. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated March 6, 2013. Accessed June 3, 2013.
What is narcolepsy? National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. National Institutes of Health website. Available at: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/nar/nar_what.html. Updated November 1, 2010. Accessed June 3, 2013.
Xyrem (sodium oxybate) information. Center for Drug Evaluation and Research website. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/PostmarketDrugSafetyInformationforPatientsandProviders/ucm332408.htm. Updated December 27, 2012. Accessed June 3, 2013.
2/18/2011 DynaMed's Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/what.php: Serretti A, Mandelli L. Antidepressants and body weight: a comprehensive review and meta-analysis. J Clin Psychiatry. 2010;71(10):1259-1272.
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Texas Sudden Impact 12U will be hosting try-outs on Saturday, Aug. 10th from 2:00pm – 4:00pm on Field 1 at SMGSL – South Montgomery County Girls Softball League – 1080 Pruitt Road in The Woodlands, TX.
The Texas Sudden Impact organization has teams from 10U through the 18U Gold level and once again had every team qualify for ASA Nationals and continues to be recognized as one of the premier organizations in the country.
The 12U team will be coached by Lexy Bennett. Lexy was a standout player and a four year starter at the University of Texas and was drafted and played with the Akron Racers of the National Pro Fastpitch league. Lexy was an All-American at Texas and was selected to three All Big-12 Teams and she also holds 7 offensive career records for the University of Texas. Lexy has a great repoire with young athletes and is a great teacher of the game.
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1 Leah Duncan: Geometric and colorful pillows made with Mod Green Pod's 100% organic fabric.
2 Urban Posture: Silhouette images screen printed onto repurposed fabrics.
3 White Nest: Modern pillows made of felt, velvet or linen with graphic stitching.
4 Sukan: one-of-a-kind pillow covers from 100% wool antique kilims
5 PLYtextiles: Gorgeous geometric pillows made from recycled wool sweaters.
6 Shapes & Colors: Bright and bold navajo-inspired graphics screenprinted onto canvas linen and hemp.
7 Casa Bean Design: Pillows made from upcycled cotton fabric and repurposed coffee bean bags.
8 Sukan: Bright and adorable pillows handmade from linen and felt.
9 That Funky Boutique: Ruffled rose pillows made from recycled wool and cashmere.
10 Fabric Junkie: On trend pillows available in tons of colors, patterns and sizes.
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Two Cincinnati women were were arrested after a fatal crash early Friday morning.
The Hamilton County Sheriff's office said a 2000 Volvo S-80 was traveling north on Ridge Road near Highland Avenue at about 4:30 a.m. when the driver lost control of the vehicle.
The car ran off the right side of the roadway and hit a large wooden utility pole.
Deputies said a passenger in the car, Curtis Larkin, 30, of Cincinnati, was killed in the crash. He was not wearing a seat belt, police said.
Police said Yasee Thomas, 21, was the driver at the time of the crash. She initially told investigators that she was riding in the back seat, according to police. She was arrested and charged with vehicular homicide and obstructing justice.
Passenger Chaniqua Green, 20, of Cincinnati, was also arrested and charged with obstruction of justice.
Thomas and Green were not hurt in the crash, police said.
Police said both women provided false information early in the investigation by telling police that the driver of the car was a man who had fled the scene.
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Lewis Klahr will be presented with the 2013 Stan Brakhage Award by Phil Solomon on Sunday, November 10, at the Sie FilmCenter following the screening of several of his films. A reception in his honor follows.
"Lewis Klahr's films unspool like Delphic visions or vignettes glimpsed in a crystal ball in which dream, memory, and history—and past, present, future, and phantom tenses—are indistinguishable," writes Chris Stults in Film Comment magazine. "The necessity of interpretive engagement is crucial to the power of his work."
Called the "reigning proponent of cut and paste" by J. Hoberman of The Village Voice, the master collagist has been making cutting-edge movies since 1977. He is known for his uniquely idiosyncratic experimental films and cutout animations. Far removed from from the smooth, illusionist techniques of hand-drawn or digital animation, Klahr's collages move in fits and starts. The artist has called his work "the pastness of the present," reanimating movie genres, consumer-culture ephemera, and pop sounds, revealing in the process that the outmoded and obsolete are still with us.
Klahr's films have screened extensively in the United States, Europe, and Asia—in prestigious venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Biennial, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Redcat, and in numerous film festivals, including New York, Toronto, Hong Kong, and London. He also has received commissions from European arts organizations in Copenhagen and Rotterdam. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Klahr, who was ranked fourth in a recent poll of the top 50 experimental filmmakers by Film Comment, teaches at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles.
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Microsoft Down 11%: Welcome to the Post-PC Era
Despite a constant drumbeat of bad news about the PC business for months Microsoft investors have sent the stock up and up and up since the spring.
Now in one gasp-inducing stock move Friday, the chickens are coming home to roost. Shares have fallen 11% — 11%! — wiping out more than $32 billion in stockholder value before lunch.
The reason, of course, was the gift-wrapped earnings stinker Microsoft gave markets on Thursday afternoon. The fiscal fourth quarter numbers were about 9 cents a share shy of the average of analyst expectations. On a percentage basis, is was Microsoft's worst earnings miss since 2004, according to FactSet data.
Stock markets don't like to be unpleasantly surprised when it comes to quarterly financials. Especially from a big company as typically predictable as Microsoft.
One big culprit, of course, was a $900 million writedown Microsoft took on unsold inventory for its Surface RT tablet computer. A newcomer to making its own computing devices, it looks like Microsoft overestimated demand, and now it is cutting prices on the Surface RT to try to salvage sales. Investors also have fretted about rising costs as Microsoft makes more of its own hardware.
The other big whiff was the PC business, where Microsoft is still trying to fine tune a radically new operating system, Windows 8. Revenue in Microsoft's Windows division slipped nearly 6% from a year earlier. Sales of the division anchored by the Office software suite, typically tied to new PC sales, also was weaker than expected at about 2% growth.
Essentially, Microsoft is turning into a tale of two companies. The pieces of the empire focused on corporations are doing more than fine for now, while the consumer businesses — smartphones, Windows 8 computers for consumers, and even the Xbox — are big question marks. For example, Office revenue from consumers slipped 27% Barclaysid.
It was the corporate-focused bright spots that Microsoft investors chose to focus on in the first part of this year while they pushed aside worries about PC weakness. Shares, which were as low as $28 at the beginning of the spring, rose to multi-year highs as investors started to digest Microsoft's "cloud" future.
And in the latest quarter, Microsoft's businesses offering back-end software for servers and data centers continued to grow at a heady clip, though not as fast as some people expected. Microsoft is trying to turn more of its software offerings into subscription businesses, and the subscription version of Office is showing a quick rise to a $1.5 billion annual run rate, the company said Thursday.
Microsoft executives pointed to those strengths on Thursday, and reiterated that it's going to take time to transition the company from a PC company to a post-PC, tablet, smartphone and software services company.
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Six luxury hotels are expected to open in 2013, the same as in 2012 and down from 23 just three years ago, according to Lodging Econometrics, a Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based research and consulting firm. Investors are instead focusing on the so-called upscale category, where new properties are forecast to climb 49 percent from last year to 131 hotels.
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BELPRE - Several area businesses have joined forces to help those with diseases aided by bone marrow transplants by hosting a match event at three separate locations.
The Parkersburg News and Sentinel, Pioneer Chevrolet and Family Ford along with Memorial Health Systems, Peoples Bank, WMOA, Clear Channel and The Marietta Times will join forces for the Be the Match Swab-a-Thon.
The event will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 30 at Pioneer Chevrolet, the Peoples Bank location on Putnam Street in Marietta and the Marietta Memorial Hospital Belpre Campus Strecker Cancer Center lobby.
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Marshall Brown, account executive for Be the Match, the national bone marrow program, talks to Cortney Beymer with Strecker Cancer Center at Marietta Memorial Hospital during a meeting Friday morning to discuss a Nov. 30, three business bone marrow swab-a-thon.
"This started with a personal experience of a close friend needing a bone marrow transplant," said Barbara Norris-Sanford, sister of Dick Norris, owner of Pioneer Chevrolet and Family Ford. "This personal experience has driven us to the cause, and we wanted to act locally."
Those who show up to the event will have the inside of their cheeks swabbed with a cotton swab and their medical information put in the bone marrow match registry to potentially benefit people with life-threatening blood cancers.
"There are 73 different diseases to be helped with a bone marrow transplant and 10,000 to 11,000 people across the country actively looking for a match," said Marshall Brown, account executive for Be the Match, the national bone marrow program.
Cortney Beymer with Strecker Cancer Center at Marietta Memorial Hospital said there are many patients locally "desperately looking" for a positive bone marrow match.
Brown said the biggest issue facing those needing a bone marrow transplant is only one in three patients will match a family member.
"The rest of those seeking a transplant will need to find an unrelated match within the registry," he said. "That doesn't sound like a lot until you realize that it's less than half of all cases."
Brown also pointed out that donating for bone marrow transplants is not as painful or difficult as it once was.
"About 80 percent of the time, people are asked to give stem cells instead of marrow, which is a process very similar to donating blood," he said. That means the other 20 percent of the time, marrow from the pelvis is necessary.
Those who are considering joining the drive are reminded they must be committed to donating bone marrow, Brown said.
"Donors must be committed to be somebody's cure," he said. "If you are part of the registry and get a call, it means you are somebody's hope to survive."
"One person can save a life by being part of this swab-a-thon," Beymer added.


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The case of a body found in the woods on Saturday takes a turn. On Tuesday, Edgefield County took over the investigation. News 12 explains why this change may leave families waiting much longer for answers.
The body was found on the Aiken/Edgefield County line and so Aiken County had been handling the case. Coroner Tim Carlton wanted to send the DNA to a private lab for testing. That would bring the families of missing women answers more quickly. Now it looks like they'll still have to wait.
Bessie Funches walks in to her sister's room for the first time since she went missing. In August her sister, Rosa Ann Mekevie, went on a walk and never came back. It's been a tough month for Bessie. She's even having health problems from the stress of not knowing where her sister is. And to top it off, her son died a week ago.
"It's just been terrible for me," Bessie said.
On Saturday hunters found a badly decomposed body in the woods near the Aiken/Edgefield County line. Investigators say it's a petite black woman, just like Rosa Ann. So Bessie waits again, anxious for DNA test results.
"I want to know if it's my sister or somebody else," Bessie said.
And that wait could be a while. Aiken County's coroner wanted to send this body to a private lab to speed up results. Because of backlog tests could take four or more months at the FBI lab.
"Oh, just tear me apart. I don't believe I can last four months like that," Bessie said.
Edgefield County's Coroner Thurmond Burnett is now in control of the case. Because private tests cost thousands of dollars, he will send the body to an FBI lab.
"It's very expensive and with the budgets like it is now it's kind of difficult to get the council to go along," Burnett said.
It looks like Bessie is in for a long wait. Until then, she'll hope for the best.
"I just think like soon, she'll be knocking on that door," Bessie said.
Edgefield County's coroner says he will also review the missing person cases in Edgefield County to see if this body matches anyone from there. But he told us this afternoon, this does look to be a long identification process.


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STORIES, MEMORIES AND camaraderie took place on June 29 when the 1958 Sleepy Eye Amateur baseball team reunited at the Eagles Orchid Inn. The team took first place at the 1958 Western Minny Tournament and got together on Saturday to relive the past. Almost everyone on the team came to celebrate, including Don Boelter, who was the organizer of the event. A few of the players on the team went on to play professional baseball, including Bill Horn who played for the Washington Nationals and the Cleveland Indians, Walt Dzeick with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Fred Brackbauer who pitched a single game for the Twins. Brackbauer's one and only major league pitching debut was an interesting one. He faced four batters and never recorded an out. He is one of only 19 pitchers in MLB history with a career earned-run average of infinity.
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The U.S. Department of Energy today celebrated the commissioning of a 2.5-megawatt wind turbine at the Eolos Wind Energy Research Station, which it supported with funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The research station, located at the University of Minnesota Outreach, Research and Education Park, features the newly-constructed, American-made Clipper Liberty wind turbine, as well as a 426-foot-tall meteorological research tower. The new installation will allow researchers to conduct tests that could improve wind turbine efficiency and help train the next generation of wind industry technicians and engineers who will bolster our nation's competitiveness in the global clean energy economy.
"Broadly deploying wind power and developing a skilled workforce to design, install, and service these high-tech turbines will help us diversify our energy portfolio, reduce carbon pollution, and create thousands of jobs over the next decade," said Energy Secretary Steven Chu. "Projects like the research station at the University of Minnesota provide hands-on training for talented students and help advance the technologies necessary to achieve the Administration's goal of generating 80% of our nation's electricity from clean energy resources by 2035."
The University of Minnesota will also use the new wind turbine and research tower to conduct ongoing studies that test ways to optimize wind turbine operations, improve wind farm design, minimize interactions between turbines and radar, and monitor turbine performance.
The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the University of Maine in Orono were selected in October 2009 to each receive $7.9 million of Recovery Act funds to develop university-led consortia for wind energy research. The consortia support university research and development programs to improve wind turbine performance and reliability, as well as provide career educational opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students in wind energy technologies.
The planning and construction of the Eolos Research Station has supported local construction and engineering jobs, and the new research consortium has fostered new collaborative research projects between academia and U.S. private-sector industry. For example, the consortium is leveraging the University of Minnesota's expertise in aerodynamics, 3M's expertise in product development and manufacturing, and Clipper Windpower and United Technologies Research Center's experience with testing, to develop and test surface-mounted films that could make wind turbine blades more aerodynamically efficient, reduce blade noise, and reduce ice formation.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Bridges speak but they can require translators.
To that end, internationally renowned architect Donald MacDonald has set out to explain why the eastern Bay Bridge replacement span looks the way it looks.
Few know the subject better.
MacDonald was the lead architect on the team that submitted the winning Bay Bridge design in 1998 and he has remained an architectural consultant on the project through its 15 politically tortured years.
Now, finally, the bridge is months away from completion and despite construction setbacks that cloud the precise opening date, MacDonald is ready to tell the $6.4 billion span's story from an architect's perspective.
"The idea was to get into the layperson's mind and explain the bridge in a way that wasn't a technical engineering thing," MacDonald said. "Why bridges look the way they look, how they came about and how they work with the natural and man-made environment are often not explained in a digestible form."
The architect feeds that void with his latest book,"Bay Bridge: History and Design of a New Icon." At half the size of a sheet of letter paper and packed with MacDonald's colorful illustrations, the little aqua book co-written with author Ira Nadel fits snugly in the hand and offers readers a gentle introduction to bridge architecture vocabulary.
The book is the third in a trilogy about the history and design of three prominent features in San Francisco Bay. MacDonald and Nadel released "Golden Gate Bridge: History and Design of an Icon" in 2008. Last year, they followed with a look at Alcatraz.
Now in his 70s, the Canadian-born architect worked on the Golden Gate Bridge's toll plaza and suicide barrier. He helped craft a master plan for the historic Alcatraz.
But none of those jobs were as fundamental as his role on the new Bay Bridge.
MacDonald was the architect on the team that submitted the 1998 winning design for the new 2-mile bridge, an all-white, asymmetrical, single-tower self-anchored suspension span and accompanying viaduct. It is the largest bridge of its kind in the world.
In the diffused light from MacDonald's second-story window in a gritty industrial block south of Market Street, the angular architect with intense blue eyes thumbed through his Bay Bridge drawings during a recent interview.
He described how over the years he perfected his illustration method -- ink, colored pencils, tracing paper -- as a quick means of showing his clients what he had in mind.
The artwork isn't a big stretch for him. In the early days before his architectural business took off, MacDonald sold his own oil paintings to pay the rent.
Accompanying the explanatory text, MacDonald's drawings take readers from historic Ohlone Indian housing on Yerba Buena Island, to design types considered for the original 1936 bridge, to the new span's architectural details.
The first bridge had an architect but engineers rejected most of the nonstructural aesthetic proposals as too costly. This included an Egyptian-like figure on the western span's monolithic concrete center pier, according to MacDonald's book.
In stark contrast, both architects and engineers sat at the design table for the new Bay Bridge and overcame the critics who argued a "plain vanilla skyway" would be cheaper and faster.
"I have to give the public a lot of credit," MacDonald said. "They really wanted a signature span and they stuck with it. What you see today is the winning design that we did with the public."
MacDonald's architectural contributions to what he calls the "White Span" have their roots in the "golden ratio," a specific mathematical proportion long considered pleasing to the human eye. Painters, building architects and furniture designers all use it.
Photography, for example, has a similar principle called the "rule of thirds," a concept in which an image is more pleasing if the horizon runs along the upper or lower third of the frame rather than at dead center.
On the new bridge, the "gold" is prominent in its pentagon-shaped tower legs, light poles and pier corners. The deck's placement is two-thirds of the distance from the top of the 525-foot tower, MacDonald said.
Readers of the book will also learn of MacDonald's largely undiscussed inspiration for the tower, the Saturn V launch rocket.
He didn't mention the spacecraft in the late 1990s when he pitched the ultimately successful design in public hearings, fearing it "wouldn't come across in the right way," MacDonald said.
But the rocket's aesthetic influence on the four-legged tower is undeniable as shown in MacDonald's side-by-side illustrations -- round facades affixed at the top mimic the rocket, and intentional spaces called voids between the tower legs are similar to the spacecraft's blacked-out areas.
"I want the public to understand what they've got," he said. "That's why I wrote the book."
MacDonald said he isn't worried the latest political firestorm set off by construction glitches -- chiefly, broken anchor rods in crucial seismic stabilizers -- will permanently stain the public's appreciation for the span.
"There has always been so much politics around this project," MacDonald said. "But the bridge will get done."
Contact Lisa Vorderbrueggen at 925-945-4773. Follow her at Twitter.com/lvorderbrueggen.
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Luxury Goods MNCs Collaborate to Battle Counterfeiting in China
A corporate strategy article by Thunderbird students David Curtis, Merissa Gordon, Kori Joneson, Emily Mahoney, and Robert Thompson
The luxury goods market in China is a must-enter space for global companies in this industry. Research indicates that multinational corporations (MNCs) need to assess their current strategies and take advantage of challenging, yet rewarding opportunities in emerging markets1. By 2015, China will represent 20% ($27B) of the market in luxury goods, and MNCs like Marc Jacobs cannot afford to hesitate in penetrating this emerging market2. The Chinese view these high-end products as "trophies of success" and are worn as such3. Labels and visible brand symbols are critically important for show in public, but rarely of value in the home. While this new market opportunity presents promising avenues, the Chinese market is known for its battles with infringement through counterfeiting, parallel importing, or unauthorized selling of goods. Companies like Marc Jacobs are forced to address this issue head on and seek ways within their global strategy to develop solutions.


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Historic Railroad To Offer Kids Free Ride Again This Summer
RUSK, Texas — Parents and grandparents seeking an inexpensive and fun way to entertain youngsters during summer vacation should consider climbing aboard a steam train for a ride through the East Texas piney woods.
The Texas State Railroad's "Kids Ride Free" promotion kicks off June 1 and runs through Sept. 30. Each paying adult can treat up to five children 12 years old and younger to a free ride on the 124-year-old railroad operated by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Round-trip tickets for children normally cost $10.
Persons 13 and older pay a $16 round-trip fare for regular seating and $22 for a climate-controlled railcar.
Last year's special promotion proved a great success, according to Mark Price, TSRR assistant manager. He said that compared to summer 2003 statistics ridership more than doubled to 26,403 and total park revenues jumped by $146,698 during last year's promotional period. Ticket sales, gift shop sales and concessions all recorded sizable revenue boosts as well.
"The Kids Ride Free program," Price said, "has been a win-win system that has given families an opportunity to ride and enjoy the railroad at a discounted rate while helping out the state of Texas. Everybody seemed to leave here happy. We're staffed up and ready."
Price attributed much of the increased interest in the Texas State Railroad to grandparents who were hosting grandchildren during summer vacation. In addition, the railroad saw a number of church groups, such as Vacation Bible School, and summer YMCA youth camp attendees taking advantage of the bargain.
Ida Stokes of Dallas heard about the TSRR's special promotion and took her three grandsons, ages 9, 11 and 13, to ride the train that steams through wooded hills and over 24 bridges between depots in Rusk and Palestine. "When I saw the Kids Ride Free ads in Dallas, I couldn't wait to bring my grandkids," she said.
Price said the special promotion helped increase annual ridership from 41,000 in 2003 to 58,000 in 2004. As a result, TPWD has decided to make "Kids Ride Free" an annual program.
Passengers board steam trains at Victorian-style train depots in Rusk and Palestine state parks at 11 a.m. for a 50-mile round trip through hardwood creek bottoms. The trip takes 90 minutes to reach the opposite station, where visitors disembark to eat, peruse depot gift shops full of train-related souvenirs and enjoy the outdoors before reboarding. This summer, visitors can view a new exhibit about the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on display at the Rusk depot. Western re-enactments spice up activities each weekend at the Palestine depot.
Regular train excursions take place Thursdays through Sundays in June and July and Saturdays and Sundays only beginning in August. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (800) 442-8951 (Texas only) or (903) 683-2561. State parks adjacent to the Rusk and Palestine depots offer camping and picnicking facilities. Rusk State Park has full-hookup camping and group picnic pavilions; Palestine State Park offers water-only camping sites and a shaded picnic area. Nearby Mission Tejas State Park in Grapeland offers camping as well. For Texas state park information, call (800) 792-1112.
The Texas State Railroad is one of the nation's few steam railroads that runs two steam trains simultaneously each day of operation. Special events, such as murder mysteries, starlight excursions and Steam Engine Restoration Shop tours are held periodically throughout the year. The railroad does not operate in January and February.
Convict labor built the original railroad in 1881 to serve the state-owned East Texas Penitentiary smelter in Rusk that manufactured cast iron for the state's 19th century needs and today helps maintain the 32 miles of track right-of-way. TPWD acquired the railroad in 1972 and reinstated passenger service in 1976.
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I went to college at Ohio Wesleyan University where I met my future wife, got a degree in creative writing and literature and also scored an internship at Wizard. After graduating the next year, I stayed around my hometown of Toledo, Ohio until a spot opened up at Wizard. I interviewed for the job in the research department and wound up getting it. I was at Wizard for about four years where I learned a lot about the magazine business and eventually worked my way up to Associate Editor of ToyFare. Moving to New York has lead to me living in a bunch of towns no one's ever heard of like Nyack, Stony Point and New Windsor.
Since 2009 I've been freelancing full time which has been both nerve wracking and a lot of fun. I've written for Maxim.com, UGO.com, Marvel.com and a number of others, with CBR being the most recent. My main gig is covering the wild and diverse world of comics coming out from Image along with a few other topics here and there.
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Stephen Curry is tired. His droopy eyes and unkempt hair give it away. His whirlwind summer is winding down. He co-hosted the NBA social media awards. He shot a Foot Locker commercial with James Harden. He visited Africa.
Now, Curry is at Pebble Beach. After spending seven hours with campers on Monday Â-- dunking for the crowd at his overnight camp at The Stevenson School, he was back for more on Tuesday. Soon, he will head back to Charlotte, then after Labor Day, he will come back to Oakland to get ready for training camp.
But first, he took time to do a question-and-answer session with the Bay Area News Group.
It's been great -- mentally more so than physically. I can't understate how good it feels to not have to do rehab. Just not having to grind through the strenuous process. I feel like I've been able to pace myself this summer so I can be in top physical shape for training camp.Â"
Nothing really. It's just the fact I could do it a month after the season was over. I could get back into my routine. I didn't have to sit out two-and-a-half months without touching a ball. I can take my workout to new levels because I set that foundation early, instead of playing catch-up in the month of August.
Because golf is not my priority, I guess you can say. When you're in competition it's fun. But you get a little shaky hands when you have an opportunity to win if you're not used to that kind of setting. That's what happened to me. I didn't play terribly down the stretch. It was more like I tried to run the clock out instead of making a couple of big-time baskets. I tried to milk the clock like a high school game.
It killed me. Just for the first couple hours after the round. After that, it was kind of cool to be tied for fourth. They told me no basketball player has ever won the tournament. I finished higher than any other basketball player. And no current athlete has ever won it or finished that high. So, I set some marks.
According to that tournament, they'd say no. But on any given day I bet I can get beat. I played with Ray Allen. He can hit it. I beat him that day we played. But he's nice.
Probably being at my daughter's first birthday party. Blowing up rubber ducky swim rafts for the pool. Cooking for all the kids. It was nice.
We had a little anniversary weekend in Chicago. We went to our favorite restaurant. It was a good weekend. It was our first weekend together without Riley.
I wanted to go last year. You know you're helping people but you can't put faces to it and you can't really have a full appreciation for the conditions they are living in. So I had an opportunity to go and see it first hand and I jumped on it. We were able to make it happen thanks to the UN Foundation, Nothing But Nets and (founder) Rick Reilly. It really opened my eyes and even cemented the work that we're doing. Hopefully we can grow it even more.
How tough the parents have it over there. To really take care of their kids. As a parent, your one goal in life is to provide and care for your kids. Some of them have big families and they can't protect their child from malaria, from mosquitos without the nets. And they have no way to get them unless they are distributed by organizations like Nothing But Nets. So it's a sense of desperation for them. Also there was an overwhelming sense of appreciation once the mission was accomplished when we were there.
I think about Game 1 against the Spurs all the time. We played so well in Game 2. If we would have gotten that done in Game 1, I feel like we would've been in great shape to have a firm grip on the series going back home.
By sticking to the game plan consistently over the course of the season. I was really good my first two months, especially on the pick-and-roll. I don't know if it was a fatigue issue, or playing minutes, or lack of attention to detail. I wasn't that bad. I've looked at the film over the summer. But I can be a lot better, a lot more consistent, like I was the first 25 games or so.
No excuses. It's definitely possible. When I'm in the game, I'm not really thinking, 'I'm tired. Let me milk it on defense.' I've just got to dig deep. That's what you prepare in the summer for, to battle through fatigue like that. So I think it is possible. I'm not going to be defensive player of the year. But hopefully I can be top 10 (among point guards) and be able to disrupt some of the best point guards in the world.
I don't really care. I know I can. I know I'm capable of it. I know I've shown it. I'm not a liability on the defensive end at all, I don't think.
Probably just trying to balance family life and private time. You have a busier schedule and opportunities are thrown at you. Knowing when to say no, when you're doing too much, or knowing what is too much. It's a balancing act over the summer. I feel like I have a lot of free time, but I don't want to take away from family time.
Somewhere in there. It doesn't matter. What's the separation? From 1 to 10, is it that much of a drop off where you're like, 'Ahhh, I wish I was higher?' It doesn't make a difference. If you're in that group, on any given night you are going to play like you're the best. It's just who can be more consistent.
Yeah, but I don't know what it's based on. Everybody plays differently, everybody has a different role. If you're starting a team now it would be a different list. If you're basing it on whole career it would be different. From conversation to conversation, it's different. I think the only consistent thing is Chris Paul is in the top two no matter what you say the criteria is, pretty much. If it's most athletic, I'm not in the top 10.
I'll say 50 wins. I don't know what seeding that gets us, but I'm pretty sure we'd be a playoff team. Then we'd attack the playoffs like we did last year.
Still working on it. I've got big loyalty to Nike. There are some suitors that are throwing some pretty good offers when it comes to what they can do on and off the court to support what I'm interested in. So, we will see.


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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inducted its newest members Sunday, and two men with Bay Area ties figured prominently.
Gary Payton, who starred at Oakland's Skyline High and Oregon State before a sterling NBA career, and former Warrior Bernard King headlined the class.
"I played hard because I wanted to win every time," Payton said. "It was all for my crazy love for the game."
Payton was known for his defensive prowess, aggressiveness and trash-talking. He is the only NBA player with 20,000 points, 8,000 assists, 5,000 rebounds and 2,000 steals.
"I don't regret the way I went about it, and I'm a strong man today as a result, but I can't help but think I could have given more to the game that gave so much to me," Payton said. "My career is complete, Gary Payton is evolving, but GP is in the Hall of Fame."
King spent two seasons with the Warriors, averaging 21.9 points per game in 1980-81 and earning an All-Star berth while averaging 23.1 points per game in 1981-82. In all, he averaged 22.5 points in 16 NBA seasons with five teams.
"Anything you dream of and set a goal for can be achieved through hard work, education, the desire to achieve and commitments," King said.
For him, playing basketball as a kid involved sometimes clearing snow from a playground court in Brooklyn.
"I fell in love with basketball the first time I made a basket," said King, who missed two seasons because of injury.
Joining Payton and King were Louisville coach Rick Pitino, and two former college coaches as part of the second straight 12-member class, the largest in the Hall's history -- Jerry Tarkanian, 83, who led UNLV to the 1990 NCAA championship, and Guy Lewis, 91, who took Houston to five Final Fours. Tarkanian, who had heart surgery less than two months ago, came on stage with a walker. Lewis was in a wheelchair. Both smiled as they received standing ovations.
Also inducted Sunday into the Hall were North Carolina women's coach Sylvia Hatchell; five-time WNBA All-Star Dawn Staley; former New York Knicks guard Richie Guerin; former NBA deputy commissioner Russ Granik; and Oscar Schmidt, who played in five Olympics for Brazil.
E.B. Henderson, who learned basketball at Harvard in 1904 then introduced it to African-American students in Washington, D.C., and four-time ABA All-Star Roger Brown of the Indiana Pacers were enshrined posthumously.
Pitino looked around the audience and all the members who came before him and still felt as if he did not belong.
"Coaches don't get in the Hall of Fame," Pitino said. "Players put them in the Hall of Fame, and I've had a great journey along the way."
Henderson "laid the foundation" for the progress of African-Americans "from exclusion to domination" of basketball, Nikki Graves Henderson, wife of Henderson's grandson, said in a recorded message.
Larry Bird, a 1998 Hall inductee, was the presenter of Schmidt, a prolific scorer who said he chose not to play in the NBA because that would have barred him from playing for his national team.
The Associated Press and ABC News Radio contributed to this report.
Gary Payton, inducted into the Hall of Fame on Sunday, starred at Skyline High in Oakland before excelling in the NBA. Here's a glance at the career of "The Glove."
High school: Skyline (1986)
College: Oregon State
NBA: Seattle (1990-2003), Milwaukee (2003), L.A. Lakers (2003-04), Boston (2004-05), Miami (2005-07)
NBA championships: 1 (2006)
Nickname: "The Glove"
Points: 21,813 (34th all-time)
Assists: 8,966 (eighth)
Steals: 2,445 (fourth)
All-Star games: 9


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The 10 Coolest Apps Of 2015 (So Far)These apps up your mobile game and drive productivity, streamline communication, and help IT pros take their mobile mojo to the next level.
Microsoft Sheds Light On Windows 10 Rollout Plans, Enterprises Will Get It Aug. 1Windows 10 is close to being released to PC makers, and now Microsoft is offering a clearer picture of how and when its enterprise customers will be able to get the new OS.
Windows Server 2003 Upgrade: Solution Providers Prep For 'Last-Minute Panic' From SMBsSolution providers are putting on the full-court press to upgrade customers over the next several weeks, as the July 14 end-of-life deadline draws near.
How Open Source Drives IBM's Systems UnitIBM Power Systems Vice President and General Manager Douglas Balog details IBM's transformation around open source.
Startup Kyvos Insights Exits Stealth, Offers OLAP For Hadoop SoftwareCompany says its new big data analysis software solves the problem of how to derive insights from Hadoop systems.
What's Wrong With Software Licensing Models?Red Hat Vice President of Customer Experience and Engagement Marco Bill-Peter explains why the company believes the subscription software model is superior.
Supreme Court Declines Google's Request To Hear Appeal In Oracle Java SuitOracle and Google have been battling for five years over Java in Android, but a new Supreme Court decision could set the final stages for their long-running copyright dispute.
Red Hat CEO Warns About Faux Open SourceJim Whitehurst talks about the dangers of companies that claim to be open source but aren't actually encouraging open participation or innovation from a broad group of users.
Windows 10: Complete Coverage Of Microsoft's Newest OSThe July 29 release date is Windows 10 is rapidly approaching and as with any new release Microsoft operating system release, the excitement is papable.
Partners Applaud Red Hat's Embrace Of Container TechnologyRed Hat's latest OpenShift Enterprise release, based on Docker format Linux containers, could put the company on yet another competitive collision course with rival VMware.
Docker Steps Up Its Enterprise Game With New Container Software, SupportDocker, the startup that's building a business around Linux containers, unveils new software and support offerings aimed at getting more enterprises comfortable using the technology.
Red Hat: 'Linux Has Won The Data Center'Red Hat President Paul Cormier lays out the plan for open source after claiming victory in the data center.
Red Hat Releases OpenShift Enterprise 3Red Hat's Paul Cormier also announced the upcoming release of Red Hat Atomic Enterprise Platform at the 2015 Summit.
Red Hat, Samsung Get Together To Tackle Enterprise Mobile ComputingRed Hat will leverage its infrastructure software and development tools to support enterprise applications on Samsung mobile devices.
Snowflake Offers General Availability For Its Datawarehouse-as-a-ServiceStartup also snags $45 million in venture financing to fuel its anticipated growth.
Cisco: Plan For Failure In Big Data BackupCisco Big Data consultant Robert Novak lectures on how to back up big data and prepare for the worst.
Microsoft's Free Windows 10 Upgrade: 10 Things Partners Need To KnowMicrosoft will allow the majority of Windows users to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. But there are plenty of caveats.
Startup Docker Now Driving Industry Effort To Develop Standard For ContainersDocker, the startup that's commercializing Linux containers, unveils new industry organization that aims to develop a standard way to deploy Linux containers.
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BRENTWOOD -- A husband and wife team who have dedicated their retirement years to local public service were recently deemed the 2012 Brentwood Citizens of the Year.
It would be difficult to find a Brentwood organization that Ray and Henrietta Fontes have not assisted in some way since moving to Brentwood from Hayward in 1986. The couple has been married 52 years.
"They are a couple that do everything together," said Jilda Fairhurst of the Brentwood Chamber of Commerce.
The outgoing duo have been volunteering at the Brentwood CornFest since it was called the Harvest Festival, and they also help out at Brentwood's Hometown Halloween and the chamber's annual holiday parade and golf tournaments. Local business owner Kathi Reed said that CornFest has survived for two decades because of dedicated volunteers like them, and they are good role models to younger generations.
"They are a great couple. They share common interests. They both just really enjoy what they are doing and appreciate each other," Reed said.
The couple said that they both enjoy Brentwood's small-town charm, and volunteering allowed them to make many friends there. They served as greeters and gift shop volunteers at Kaiser Permanente and were active in the East Contra Costa Historical Society.
"We have always liked helping people," Henrietta said. "We get more out of it than we give."
Ray, 79, is known for his longtime presence on the CornFest security team and his constant commitment to the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts in Brentwood. The Korean War veteran has dedicated countless hours to renovating and repairing the Brentwood Veterans' Hall.
"I am really glad that he got it," said local VFW Commander Steve Todd. "Every year, (Citizen of the Year) is someone in the know or some big person in Brentwood. It should be a true volunteer."
According to Todd, even illness does not stop Ray's philanthropic commitment. Todd described Ray and Henrietta as nice, polite and caring.
"He is a funny guy. You can just sit and talk to him," he said.
Henrietta, 78, also participates in a special reading program for children, is a past member of the Brentwood Women's Club and Garden Club and served as the first Legion's Ladies Auxiliary president. She also has participated in the Delta Informal Gardeners and recently joined Soroptimists.
Also being recognized at the upcoming event is The Monthly Grapevine, which was named Brentwood Business of the Year for 2012. The local magazine mostly consists of ads and business stories and has been an East County fixture for 18 years.
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What: 2012 Brentwood Citizen of the Year and Business of the Year dinner
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Texas A&M – Corpus Christi men's tennis player Aurelien Tave was named the Southland Conference Player of the Week for his efforts during the past week of play, the league announced on Tuesday afternoon.
"You will not find a more dedicated, hard-working and motivated guy than Aurelien," said Director of Tennis Steve Moore. "He has devoted all his heart to his senior season, and he has put in so much time and so much sacrifice. He carries tremendous respect on our team."
The senior from St. Gilles les Bain, Reunion Island picked up another win at No. 2 singles and at No. 1 doubles to help the Islanders to a 4-3 road win over UT Arlington to improve to 1-0 in the Southland Conference. Texas A&M – Corpus Christi improved to 28-1 in Southland Conference Tournament and regular season matches since 2008 with the win over the Mavericks.
In doubles play, Tave teamed with Peter Nagy to take a 9-7 final at the No. 1 position, clinching the pivotal doubles point for the Islanders.
In singles, Tave battled in the first set, taking a very close decision in tiebreak before dominating the second set for a 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 win over Soren Goritzka at the No. 2 position to clinch the final point. The win at No. 2 singles gave the Islanders a 4-3 road win in their first Southland Conference match of the year.
The team is now 8-9 on the season, and 1-0 in conference.
Texas A&M – Corpus Christi is back in action Tuesday, April 3, in Edinburg against Texas – Pan American.
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(Not) Full Disclosure: Companies Bury 4Q Earnings Data
The last quarter of 2012 was a tough period for some of South Korea's industrial giants as global demand remained sluggish and the won's rise ate into exporters' earnings.
How tough? Well, investors are finding it a little hard to tell for some of them.
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, for example, has been among the hardest hit by the economic slowdown as ship orders have slowed to a trickle since the 2008 global financial crisis. On Monday, it said net profit tumbled 82% last year.
For investors looking to judge its performance in the last three months of the year, a calculator is required. That's because Daewoo didn't publish its figures for the fourth quarter.
"We didn't release the quarterly results to avoid highlighting the poor performance," said a Daewoo official who asked not to be named.
Of course, you can figure out the fourth-quarter performance by subtracting the previously announced data for the other quarters from the full-year figures. But should investors be required to do that?
We asked for the figures and eventually Daewoo provided them, confirming that it slipped into its only quarterly loss for 2012 in the final three months of the year.
Daewoo is not alone. On Tuesday, steel giant Posco provided its earnings data for 2012 without breaking out the fourth quarter figures. We asked for the data and it confirmed profit fell more sharply in the fourth quarter than in the year as a whole. Posco hasn't issued its results for the fourth quarter since 2000.
Interestingly, shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries, which hasn't provided fourth quarter data for several years, did issue the data for 2012 on Wednesday. It said its operating profit and sales rose during the period, thanks to orders for offshore facilities. The company declined to say why it changed its approach for earnings disclosure for the fourth quarter.
While most South Korean companies do provide fourth quarter earnings data, officials at the Korea Exchange, South Korea's main stock market, and regulator Financial Services Commission said there was no obligation to do so in addition to full-year data.
Conglomerates such as Samsung ElectronicsHyundai Heavy Industries and Hyundai Motor say they release both fourth-quarter and full-year data at the same time in response to investor demand and to ensure transparency.
An official at the Korea Exchange said it would recommend all domestic companies offer fourth-quarter figures starting from this year as "shareholders have the right to get such information since they need to make the right investment decisions."
Late Wednesday, Posco said it will consider publishing fourth-quarter figures from 2013. The Daewoo Shipbuilding official said the company would follow any guidelines from the Korea Exchange about issuing fourth quarter results.


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Uncovering America's Heritage... Coin by Coin
"Return to Monticello" Nickel
Well, this is it: the last nickel of the Westward Journey Nickel Series™. I've learned a lot about Lewis and Clark and the Louisiana Purchase through these five nickels! Since we'll be seeing this last design for a long time to come, I picked it as the Coin of the Month.
It was in March of 1801 that Thomas Jefferson (pictured on the coin) began his first term as President of the United States. He had already served in Virginia's government and, at 33, drafted the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson was minister to France after Benjamin Franklin and Secretary of State in President Washington's Cabinet.
Ever since Jefferson was about 27 years old, he lived in the house he built on the Virginia hilltop he called "Monticello" (meaning "little mountain" in Italian). While he was president, he traveled there from Washington, DC, whenever he could because he loved it so much, though the trip took days rather than the hours it takes by car today.
For most of the 56 years he lived at Monticello, Jefferson worked on the house...adding to it, tearing parts down and rebuilding them. He called the house his "essay in architecture." By the time he finished "putting up and pulling down" in 1809, Monticello had become a 21-room mix of styles, full of his clever inventions.
As you may know, Monticello was on the back of the nickel before the Westward Journey Nickel Series began. So, just as Jefferson was always happy to return to Monticello, I'm happy to do the same with this "Return to Monticello" nickel. Watch for it in a pocket near you!


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Bradenton woman helps chase down purse snatchers
Published: Saturday, July 13, 2013 at 7:55 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, July 13, 2013 at 7:55 a.m.
BRADENTON - Beth Hoodie did not stand by after a 21-year-old man snatched her purse this morning outside her Bradenton home; instead, she got back into her car and chased after the perpetrator and the getaway driver, helping deputies capture the pair, according to a Manatee County Sheriff's Office report.
The report says Hoodie, 53, had just arrived in her vehicle at her residence in the 1000 block of 66th Avenue West when she was approached by Jeremy Smith, 21, who ripped her purse containing money and personal items from her arm and then fled the area in a vehicle driven by Maggie Malone, also 21.
Hoodie followed the vehicle while contacting law enforcement. During the chase, Hoodie observed her purse being thrown from the suspects' vehicle, the report says.
After deputies arrived, Smith and Malone were detained and Hoodie positively identified them as the ones who snatched her purse. The purse containing her belongings was recovered and returned to her.
Hoodie was not injured. The report did not say at what time the purse-snatching occurred.
Smith and Malone will face charges of robbery by sudden snatching, the report says.
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In late 1995 amidst heated debate over the blame placed on Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel and Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short for the devastation of the attack on Pearl Harbor and their subsequent demotions, the department of defense ordered its own investigation into the matter. This investigation was the only official inquiry made into the appropriateness of posthumously promoting Kimmel and Short to the ranks they held prior to the attack. As the first investigation to be conducted outside the Army and Navy establishments, it took a fresh look at the controversy.
This book reproduces the complete report issued by the investigators with added commentary and an explanation of what it all means by coauthors Fred Borch and Daniel Martinez. Borch was the Army's representative on the team conducting the investigation, and his firsthand knowledge contributes significantly to the analysis presented. Martinez, an acknowledged expert on the attack, gives an important historical perspective to the study. A foreword by Donald Goldstein, part of Gordon Prange's research-writing team for many years, gives further insights in what happened and why on that fateful December day.
Fred Borch, a lawyer and colonel in the U.S. Army, was chief prosecutor in the office of military commissions and supervised prosecution efforts involving prisoners detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Daniel Martinez is the Arizona Memorial Park chief historian and historian-in-residence for the Discovery Channel's television series "Unsolved History."
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For this week's "Scheels Weather Kid" segment, KVLY North Dakota invited 9-year-old William Hallman of Fargo to help out Chief Meteorologist Hutch Johnson with his 5 PM weather report.
Little did Johnson know that little William was actually an adorable ringer, and that, by the end of the report, he and every other adult meteorologist in the country would be out of a job.
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Pittsburg State University's Indian Student Association welcomes you to celebrate Holi, the festival of colors, on Saturday, April 19th from 12 to 3 p.m. at Gorilla Village near the University Lake.
The Indian Student Association will provide the colored powders and music. Come experience this colorful Indian festival.
This event is free and open to the community.
For more information, please contact Amrutha Varsha Tamanam at 620-704-4240 or Kartik at 620-234-4666.
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