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NEW YORK, NY – May 23, 2012 – More than 50 New York City leaders addressed critical issues affecting the lupus community at the Gaining Ground: The latest on lupus in New York – a briefing hosted by the S.L.E. Lupus Foundation. Presentations outlined the challenges of identifying and treating lupus, recent research advances and critical steps for improving care by rolling out the new federal education and training program, the Lupus Initiative, within NYC's public and private healthcare systems.

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MOREHEAD, Ky. -- Fifteen Morehead State Eagles have earned 2012 Pioneer Football League postseason honors, including two individuals who were named to the league's first team and four individuals who were tabbed to its second squad.
Donte Sawyer and Rees Macshara are first-team selections on offense. Joey Clegg is a second-team choice on offense, while Aaron Meadows and Jordan Hendrix are second-team picks on defense and Sawyer is a second-team selection on special teams.
In addition, Ronald Cooper, Rainer Duzan, Dexter Geohagan, Kalvin Harrington, Michael Jackson, Rob Lewis, Zach Lewis, Eric Matteson and Kameron Scott are all honorable mentions. A total of 116 individuals have been recognized from 10 PFL schools.
Sawyer, a senior wide receiver from Acworth, Ga., set MSU career records for receptions (199), receiving yards (2,555) and receiving touchdowns (24). He also set school standards for single-season receptions (81) and receiving yards (1,024).
Sawyer led the conference in receptions per game (7.4) and all-purpose yards per contest (159.0), while ranking second in receiving yards per affair (93.1) and kick-return average (26.2). He also posted two of MSU's three kick returns for scores.
Macshara, a sophomore running back from Danville, Ky., became MSU's first 1,000-yard rusher since the 2000 campaign. He placed second in the conference and 37th in the Football Championship Subdivision with 92.1 rushing yards per game.
Macshara also finished the season with five 100-yard rushing performances over his last six tilts. He rolled up a career-high 211 yards on 25 carries -- an average of 8.4 per attempt -- in a 76-24 rout of Valparaiso in the season finale.
Clegg, a senior offensive lineman from Westerville, Ohio, blocked for a unit that led the conference in points (38.4), total yards (471.5), passing yards (305.4), third-down conversions (51.0), sacks allowed (1.00) and red-zone conversions (88.4).
Meadows, a junior defensive lineman from Salt Lick, Ky., registered 43 total tackles. He tallied a career-high seven stops at rival Eastern Kentucky. He also paced the Eagles with six sacks (for 51 yards) and 12 tackles for loss (for 73 yards).
Hendrix, a sophomore linebacker from Columbus, Ohio, set MSU's single-season record with 123 tackles, which led the PFL and ranked 10th at the FCS level. He collected eight double-figure tackle performances, including 17 at EKU.
Lewis, a senior quarterback from Manchester, Ky., led the honorable mention selections in his final campaign by completing 266-of-402 passes for 2,955 yards (268.6 per game) and 25 touchdowns.
Lewis finished his career by setting MSU records for completions (936), passing attempts (1,499), passing yards (10,251), passing touchdowns (72), offensive plays (1,710) and total yards (10,164).
Duzan, a senior specialist from Dublin, Ohio, also re-wrote his section of the MSU record book. He drilled 54-of-57 extra-point attempts this year, which were both single-season standards.
From a career standpoint, Duzan established school records for field goals (36), field-goal attempts (53), extra points (150), extra-point tries (156) and points by a kicker (258).
Harrington, a junior from Seville, Ohio, and Matteson, a senior from Saline, Mich., were both recognized with the offensive line group.
Cooper, a freshman from Atlanta, and Lewis, a first-year player from Somerset, Ky., both earned honors at the defensive line position.
Geohagan, a senior from Far Rockaway, N.Y., Jackson, a sophomore from Cincinnati, and Scott, a senior from Portsmouth, Va., were all given the nod at defensive back.
Jackson led the defensive honorable-mention selections with 57 total tackles, while Scott added 54. Jackson also contributed an interception, fumble recovery and forced fumble, while Scott recorded one pick and scooped up three loose footballs.
Morehead State finished the campaign 4-7 overall and 3-5 in the PFL. The Eagles won three of their last four contests after beginning the year 1-6.


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700 people packed in to the Civic Hall in Ellesmere Port to see The Beatles on this day - a sell-out for the venue. Read more »
Television: Thank Your Lucky Stars
The Beatles made their most important television appearance to date, with a place on the bill for the popular show Thank Your Lucky Stars. Read more »
Live: Invicta Ballroom, Chatham
The Beatles travelled 170 miles for a performance at the Invicta Ballroom in Chatham, Kent. Read more »
Live: Plaza, Old Hill
The Beatles' second show of 11 January 1963, following their lunchtime show at Liverpool's Cavern Club, took place at the Plaza Ballroom, Old Hill, near Dudley in Staffordshire. Read more »
Live: Cavern Club, Liverpool (lunchtime)
The Beatles played two shows on 11 January 1963. The first was a lunchtime performance at the Cavern Club, Liverpool. Read more »
UK single release: Please Please Me
The Beatles' second single was their first to reach number one. That is, according to some charts. Read more »
Live: Grafton Rooms, Liverpool
The Beatles performed in Liverpool on this evening for the first time in 1963, with a show at the Grafton Rooms, West Derby Road. Read more »
Television: Roundup
Although The Beatles had concluded their five-date tour of Scotland, they remained in the country to record an appearance on the children's television show Roundup. Read more »
Live: Beach Ballroom, Aberdeen, Scotland
The Beatles' January 1963 tour of Scotland drew to a close on this evening, with a performance at the Beach Ballroom, Aberdeen. Read more »
Live: Museum Hall, Bridge of Allan, Scotland
The penultimate date of The Beatles' January 1963 tour of Scotland took place at the Museum Hall in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire. Read more »
Live: Town Hall, Dingwall, Scotland
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The Beatles had been due to fly from London to Edinburgh on the morning of 2 January 1963. Due to bad weather, however, their flight was changed at the last minute and they landed in Aberdeen instead. Read more »
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SALFIT, West Bank (WOMENSENEWS)--This month, five Palestinian female workers from a factory in the Israeli settlement of Barkan, in the West Bank, expect to find themselves in a Jerusalem court.
They are part of a group of 21 women embroiled in a long-running legal battle with their employer, Israeli company Royalife, which manufactures bed linen for export to Europe, Turkey and the United States.
The women claim that conditions in the factory break Israeli Ministry of Labor health and safety rules and that they were paid far less than the Israeli minimum wage, which a 2007 Israeli Supreme Court ruling declared applicable to industrial settlements.
Royalife's management has so far rejected the claims.
"The plant is a very high standard sewing unit which has top work conditions," the company said in a press statement in November 2008. "The unit was authorized by leading international institutions."
In a recent interview, Umm Raed, a woman in her 50s from a village near Barkan, told Women's eNews that female workers in the factory were paid between six and eight shekels an hour (under $2), while male workers earned an hourly wage of between nine and 12 shekels. All of these factory wages were less than the minimum wage of 20 shekels.
Umm Raed, who requested that only her first name be used for safety purposes, also alleged that they received no paid holidays, sick pay or maternity benefits.
Hazardous Conditions, Mistreatment
"We also have accidents because we are cutting cloth," said Umm Raed, one of 16 women still waiting for court dates. "My daughter had an accident where a roll of cloth fell on her legs when the supervisor dropped it. It broke her legs but they didn't call an ambulance; they put her in a private car to the hospital. They didn't pay for medical treatment and now, three years later, she still has pain in her legs."
The group of female workers from the Royalife factory first took their employer to court in 2008, after being refused better pay and conditions. As a result, they say, they were fired from the factory.
KavLaOved, a Tel Aviv-based labor rights advocacy group, helped them obtain a court order to reinstate their jobs.
Salwa Alinat, a case worker with KavLaOved, told Women's eNews that Royalife has since repeatedly sacked workers who maintain their claims, reinstating them for short periods if ordered to do so by the court.
The women say they have tried to start a sewing factory of their own to earn an alternative living, but that they have faced threats of violence and arson by a local subcontractor who helps Royalife recruit its workers.
Pressured Out of Court
According to Khalila, who also requested that only her first name be used, of the around 45 women who initiated the court case in 2008, about 20 have withdrawn because of such pressure. Khalila is one of the five women due in court in July.
"This is normal," said KavLaOved's Salwa Alinat. "If you interview employers, all of them say 'OK, we break the law. We don't care.' There is no shame and there is no enforcement in the settlements by the Israeli ministry."
Under pressure from KavLaOved, the Israeli Ministry of Labor announced in 2006 that it would start to enforce employment standards for Palestinian workers in West Bank settlements. The Ministry declined to respond to KavLaOved's allegations this month.
Alinat says the conditions alleged by the women in Barkan are common in other Israeli-controlled industrial and agricultural areas in the West Bank.
"There are many problems, with salaries, social security, health and safety," said Alinat. "Israeli companies come to the settlements and industrial zones for cheap labor, so it is like a jungle. The employers decide whatever they want."
Palestinian society also discriminates against women working in settlements, seeing them as verging on collaborators.
"My two daughters now support our family," said Umm Raed. "But they are thinking of giving up their jobs in the settlement or nobody will marry them."
Sarah Irving is a freelance writer based in Manchester, Britain. Her work can be found at http://www.sarahirving.net
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How long does it take to boil water...anywhere from 2-5 minutes for the average cooking amount, right? It varies, of course, but regardless of your equipment, elevation, temperatures, etc., everyone knows one thing for certain: all things being equal, hot tea comes much faster than iced coffee. Such is life.


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Officials with the Lake Placid Fire Department say a fire broke out around 1 a.m. Friday at 263 Station Street.
The building housed a few businesses including Placid Boatworks, Griffith Oil, Rick's Taxi and Cake Placid Bakery.
Lake Placid Fire Department officials said nearly 10 departments and 100 firefighters helped battle the blaze.
The structure, including all the businesses inside, are a total loss.
Officials said the ice, which is covering everything, is going to make the investigation very difficult, though they believe it started in the Placid Boatworks.


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October 06, 2004
DOE Offers Grants to Small Businesses for Energy Technologies
DOE announced on September 28th that it is offering grants to small businesses that are developing new energy technologies. DOE's solicitations for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBTT) programs offer grants of up to $100,000 for small businesses to evaluate the scientific or technical merit and feasibility of energy technologies that appear to have commercial potential. This year, the bulk of the grants will go towards manufacturing-related projects in accordance with Executive Order 13329, "Encouraging Innovation in Manufacturing," signed by President Bush in February.
Each grant application must relate to a specific DOE technical topic. Topics listed under the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy include solar photovoltaic technologies; sensors for wind turbines; systems to draw energy from tides, waves, and ocean currents; hydrogen storage technologies; advanced materials for fuel cells, bioproducts, lighting products, and lightweight vehicles; advanced power electronics; sensors and controls for geothermal systems, vehicles, industrial processes, and heating and cooling systems; innovative waste heat recovery technologies; novel cooling systems; and a variety of chemical processes. Related topics listed under the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences include solid-state lighting; capacitors and lithium-ion batteries for electric and hybrid vehicles; hydrogen pipelines, compressors, and storage tanks; advanced membranes for energy-efficient chemical separations; nanotechnologies for chemical processes; and new chemical processes that eliminate the use of solvents. Applications are due by December 13th. See the SBIR and SBTT solicitations.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The No. 73 Texas A&M – Corpus Christi men's tennis team lost a hard-fought match against Nevada on Sunday afternoon, losing a close 5-2 match that saw the deciding singles matches come down to a third and final set.
The Islanders move to 2-1 on the year, with the final of the four-match road trip coming on Monday night at 7 p.m. against No. 56 New Mexico. Nevada evens their record at 2-2 on the year with the win.
"Our guys fought their tails off today, I'm incredibly proud of their effort," said Director of Tennis Steve Moore. "Nevada is an excellent team that plays every well indoors and they got off to a very good start on us.
"We talk a lot about staying in the present and playing every point with intensity. That's what they did and I'm proud of the way they clawed back."
In a close match from the start, Nevada grabbed the opening point by taking the three doubles in nail-biting fashion, including one match that went into extra points before the Wolfpack prevailed. Aurelien Tave and Matt Westmoreland were unable to take No. 2 doubles, falling 9-7 in extra points, while Alex Pavlov and Nathan Robinson fell 8-6 at the No. 3 position. Peter Nagy and Gergo Weidinger suffered an 8-4 final to complete doubles play.
In singles, Fernando Llorens tied the score for the first time at 1-1 by taking a 6-3, 6-1 final in the No. 5 singles match. After Weidinger fell by a 6-2, 6-1 final at No. 3, Robinson once again tied the match by winning at No. 6 in 6-1, 6-4 fashion.
Nevada once again regained the lead when the freshman Nagy lost his first match of the year by a 6-2, 6-1 final in No. 1 singles against Wessim Derbel. One of the hottest players in the country, Derbel is ranked in the Top 50 of the ITA Division I rankings.
That left the match up to No. 2 and 4 singles. Both matches reached a final set, with the Islanders unable to prevail for another comeback win. At No. 2, Tave suffered a 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 setback, while Westmoreland went down fighting by a 6-1, 5-7, 6-3 final.
"It was a great college tennis match, with the match hanging by two sets side-by-side and both teams screaming at the top of their lungs. This is what it's all about." said Moore. "Sometimes you compete hard and tough, but you lose close.
"We have to get better at certain things, but I really like this group's character, tenacity and they way they support each other and stick together."
For the Islanders, they will compete one more time on the road trip, taking on No. 56 New Mexico on Monday night at 7 p.m. before returning to Corpus Christi.
For all the latest on Islanders Tennis, like the team on Facebook (Islanders Tennis) and follow them on Twitter (@IslandersTennis).
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi vs Nevada
1/22/2012 at Albuquerque, N.M.
Nevada 5, #73 Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 2
Singles competition:
1. Wessim Derbel (NEV) def. Peter Nagy (AMCC) 6-2, 6-1
2. Victor Ouvrard (NEV) def. Aurelien Tave (AMCC) 6-2, 3-6, 6-2
3. Moez Echarqui (NEV) def. Gergo Weidinger (AMCC) 6-2, 6-1
4. Fernando Sunago (NEV) def. Matt Westmoreland (AMCC) 6-1, 5-7, 6-3
5. Fernando Llorens (AMCC) def. Philip Hinojosa (NEV) 6-3, 6-1
6. Nathan Robinson (AMCC) def. Nathan Reix (NEV) 6-1, 6-4
Doubles competition:
1. Wessim Derbel/Fernando Sunago (NEV) def. Gergo Weidinger/Peter Nagy (AMCC) 8-4
2. Quentin Mege/Nathan Reix (NEV) def. Aurelien Tave/Matt Westmoreland (AMCC) 9-7
3. Victor Ouvrard/Moez Echarqui (NEV) def. Alex Pavlov/Nathan Robinson (AMCC) 8-6
Match Notes:
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 2-1; National ranking #73
Nevada 2-2
Order of finish: Doubles (3,2,1); Singles (5,3,6,1,2,4)


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Just less than half of the East Bay's 17 fire agencies meet the minimum staffing level of one sworn personnel member per 1,000 people in the population recommended for adequate fire protection by the International City/County Management Association.
Here's the breakdown:
Alameda (city)* 1.29 Yes
Alameda County 0.95 No
Albany* 1.06 Yes
Berkeley* 1.06 Yes
Fremont 0.64 No
Livermore-Pleasanton 0.69 No
Oakland 1.07 Yes
Piedmont* 2.43 Yes
Contra Costa County 0.44 No
East Contra Costa 0.30 No
El Cerrito 1.26 Yes
Kensington 1.26 Yes
Moraga-Orinda* 1.62 Yes
Pinole 0.56 No
Richmond 0.85 No
Rodeo-Hercules 0.40 No
San Ramon Valley* 0.87 No
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Mark Emmert, president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, said that Monday's sanctions handed down against Penn State were "needed to reflect our goals of providing cultural change."
We hope that those who run the university and fans of the university's athletic programs in general and football team in particular take those words to heart.
The sanctions - fines of $60 million, a ban from post-season play for four years, a reduction in scholarships to 65 from the standard 85 for four years, a five-year probation for the football team and a decision to vacate 112 wins recorded from 1998 to 2011 - are just the latest fallout in the sordid Jerry Sandusky affair.
Sandusky, a longtime assistant with the Penn State program, was convicted on June 22 on 45 counts of child sexual abuse, some of which occurred on school property. A 267-page report prepared by Louis J. Freeh, the former director of the FBI, indicated that the predator could have been stopped many years ago if any one of several Penn State officials had chosen to act.
Among those officials cited in the report was former coach Joe Paterno, who died of lung cancer earlier this year.
The penalties are steep, among the most severe the NCAA has ever handed down. Their affect on the school's football program will be immediate, and will surely be felt for years to come.
In any situation as terrible as the Penn State case is, there is bound to be collateral damage. In this case, that includes the players, coaches and others associated with the football team who will not have the chance to compete for a conference championship or play in a bowl game. While every member of the team has been declared, in essence, a free agent by the NCAA, many will have a hard time finding another place to go to this year. As for next year and the remaining years covered by the penalty, it would seem to be hard to believe that a player who has the skills to play in the upper tier of college football would choose to attend a university that could not participate in postseason play for a large portion of that player's career.
It would appear to add up to a devastating set of penalties which many experts are predicting will take the school's football program at least a decade to recover from.
What will take even longer to recover is the school's reputation. Up until the scandal hit and in some cases long after - the school and its fans had stated that Penn State held its athletes and sports programs to a higher standard than other schools. While few outside the enclave of the university's home of State College, Pa., ever were completely true believers, that reputation has been forever tainted, sullied to the point that nothing can erase.
In the end, the NCAA chose to hold the university accountable for the actions of its officials, men who truly believed they and their university were better served by looking the other way and empowering a pedophile to freely seek out new victims.


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Getting interested in technology has never been as simple and as easy to do as it is today.
RNIB - supported by BT, have worked together to create a range of great tools to show you what's available and help you get started. Whether you're keeping in touch with friends and family, managing your money or getting out and about, there's technology that can help!
In 2011, BT supported us to investigate the barriers preventing older people with sight loss from using the internet. The results highlighted a need to promote the advantages of getting online.
Having access to technology can enhance almost every part of our lives and feeling included, is today very much about being connected. This is particularly the case if you have sight loss.
"Getting interested in technology" is part of RNIB's initiative to show you that it isn't complicated to get started with technology. In our short series of videos we cover all of the popular topics and questions around technology and have made it really simple and user friendly.
If you are using a computer but have not tried using features that can make this whole experience more accessible, then our first chapter is for you. It touches upon "first experience with a computer using accessibility features".
While the number of people reaping the benefits of internet access is continuing to increase, for many people their experience of internet will not be on a traditional computer but a Smartphone or a tablet. The accessibility of mainstream Smartphones and tablets has progressed significantly over the past couple of years and for this reason it is often easier to start out on the internet using a device other than a traditional computer.
While you are online, it is also very important to stay safe and maintain a feeling of confidence, so find out what you can do to protect yourself and your identity in this chapter.
In our fourth module, find out about social media networks such as Facebook, twitter and LinkedIn, and how you can use video conferencing to stay connected without incurring costs.
Online shopping has grown in popularity enormously in recent years. For people who are blind or partially sighted, online shopping can offer solutions to a number of challenges:
For all of us, managing our finances is an important everyday task. Online banking can allow you to have 24-hour access to your bank account, providing greater control and confidence when it comes to managing money.
Technology is playing an increasing important role when it comes to travelling around independently. Whether it is for journey planning, real time travel information or independent personal navigation, there are many solutions available in the market which can boost your independence.
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Quote: The army said he was arrested for defying the Supreme Court, though no explanation has been given for why he was not brought before a Honduran judge. The legislature then voted almost unanimously to install Mr Micheletti, a Liberal rival of Mr Zelaya, as his successor. Congress has no constitutional power to remove the president. Mr Micheletti produced a curiously worded resignation letter which Mr Zelaya denies having written or signed.
These events took the region by surprise. Honduras, although poor and ravaged by corruption and violent gangs, had a seemingly stable democracy. But signs of strife were there. Mr Zelayas presidency has been marked by a rise in crime, corruption scandals and economic populism. He pushed through big wage increases for teachers and government workers. When money ran short, he turned to Mr Chávez for petrodollars. Despite more than $100m in Venezuelan aid, the government has stopped paying some suppliers.


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In 2004 I was fortunate enough to interview Colleen Coover–during her Small Favors days/on the eve of the creation of her and husband Paul Tobin's all-ages Banana Sunday. I enjoyed her art then, but never hoped for how effectively Marvel would tap her fantastic style for many of its books and characters. Much to my delight, it seems like Coover's reputation and fanbase is growing larger every day. Last week saw the release of Girl Comics No. 2, which featured a two-page opening piece by Coover as well as a Shamrock eight-page adventure drawn by her (and written by Kathryn Immonen). We briefly discussed it, as well as her other current Marvel work (such as the Hercules back-up tale in Thor and the Warriors Four) for this brief email interview. I look forward to down the road when Coover flexes her "writer muscles" (as she calls them).
Tim O'Shea: Marvel's keeping you busy at present. How did the Hercules the Olympian Babysitter story land on your table?
Colleen Coover: The book's editor Jordan White asked me to come up with a Power Pack backup story for a four-issue mini series. I was flipping through Bullfinch's Mythology one evening, and I came up with the Hercules story when I woke up the next morning. At the time I didn't know that the Alex Zalben's main story was a team-up with Thor, titled Thor & The Warriors Four, so it was a happy coincidence that I used one of Marvel's other mythological characters!


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Melissa M. Walker, 19, of New London, Mo., was flown to Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Ill., for treatment of serious injuries she suffered in a one-vehicle crash at 3:45 p.m. Saturday, May 11, on Route T four miles east of New London in Ralls County.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Walker was driving a 1997 Dodge Ram, which went off the right side of the road.
Officers said she overcorrected, and the truck overturned, ejecting her.
The state patrol was assisted at the scene by the Ralls County Sheriff's Department and New London Fire Department.
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Candidates continue to skew facts
Published: Sunday, October 7, 2012 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, October 5, 2012 at 4:52 p.m.
In the heated final days of this presidential election, supporters of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney are cheered by his feisty performance in Wednesday nights presidential debate. But both Romney and President Barack Obama disregarded facts to such an extent that no one should be cheering their performances.
Due to his ever-changing positions, voters have long suspected that Romney will say anything to get elected. Many will suspect the same of Obama based on misstatements and exaggerations he made during his lackluster performance in Denver.
Who says Obama and Romney were both spinning the facts? Nonpartisan, independent fact-checking organizations such as PolitiFact.com and the Annenberg Public Policy Centers Factcheck.org, as well as journalists at respected news organizations across the country. Heres a review of a few of the pants-on-fire whoppers and serial exaggerations that should (but probably wont) make fervent supporters of both candidates cringe:
Obama says Romney proposes a $5 trillion tax cut. Factcheck.org rates this one as false while PolitiFact.com, a Pulitzer Prize-winning effort of the Tampa Bay Times, calls it half true. We know we are in trouble when even the fact-checkers cant agree. But a closer look shows the analyses are not really in conflict.
Romney wants to cut federal income tax rates by 20 percent and extend tax cuts enacted in the Bush administration. He also proposes to eliminate the estate tax permanently, repeal the alternative minimum tax, and eliminate taxes on interest, capital gains and dividends for taxpayers making under $200,000 a year in adjusted gross income, Factcheck.org says.
Those changes would lower the amount of income taxes collected by about $480 billion by 2015 provided the Bush era tax cuts remain in place, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center says. Obamas claim that Romney would cut taxes by $5 trillion is an exaggeration based on extrapolating the numbers out over 10 years. However, Romney has issues here, too.
Romney says he will offset lost revenues by reducing tax deductions and eliminating loopholes. But he has refused to detail how he would do that, and continued to obfuscate when Obama pressed him Wednesday night. Romney asserted: My No. 1 principle is, there will be no tax cut that adds to the deficit while promising not to reduce taxes paid by high-income earners and pledging to cut taxes on middle-income families. Voters waiting for the details on how he will accomplish all those things should not hold their breath.
Obama said inaccurately said that health care premiums under his Affordable Care Act have gone up slower than any time in the last 50 years. Health care spending, not insurance premiums, has slowed. And that is because of the economic slowdown, not Obamacare.
The list of half-truths, exaggerations and outright falsehoods goes on. In the latter category is Romneys claim that an unelected board created under Obamas health care reform will tell people ultimately what kind of treatments they can have. The board was created to recommend cost-saving measures for Medicare, and is legally forbidden to ration care or reduce benefits, Factcheck.org says.
Romney told the truth when he said Obama pledged he would cut the deficit in half. But he wrongly accused Obama of doubling the deficit. The nations annual deficit was $1.2 trillion when Obama became president and $1.16 trillion in the most recent budget year. Total debt has increased 50 percent since Obama took office.
Obama rounded up the latest employment figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics figure in his claim that 5 million jobs have been created in the past 30 months. The actual figure is 4.6 million jobs.
Obama also said hed raise taxes on high income-earners to the rates that we had when Bill Clinton was president. He didnt mention that the wealthy will also pay additional new taxes under Obamacare.
Overall it was not a good night for the president. He looked like a man who wanted to be somewhere else (maybe celebrating his 20th wedding anniversary with his wife), while Romney displayed the fire one would expect from someone seeking the nations highest office. But when Romney chided Obama, saying, Youre entitled as the president to your own airplane and to your own house, but not to your own facts, he should have heeded his own advice. Facts will continue to be a casualty as the campaigns draw to a close. Voters who care should beware.
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Sales Open for Second 2013 America the Beautiful Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin™ on June 6
WASHINGTON - The United States Mint will open sales for the America the Beautiful Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin - Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial (product code NQ6) - on June 6 at noon Eastern Time (ET). The coin is currently priced at $179.95. As with all products sold by the United States Mint containing precious metals, the price is subject to change. Mintage for each of the 2013 America the Beautiful Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coins is limited to 25,000 units.
The America the Beautiful Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coins are collector versions of those issued through the America the Beautiful Silver Bullion CoinTM Program. The designs on both the three-inch, five-ounce uncirculated coins and the bullion coins are identical to the ones that appear on the corresponding circulating quarters issued through the America the Beautiful Quarters® Program, except that the bullion coins do not have a mint mark.
The America the Beautiful Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coins are struck in .999 fine silver and display the "P" mint mark indicating production at the United States Mint at Philadelphia. To protect the uncirculated quality finish, each coin is enclosed in a capsule and placed in an attractive presentation case. A Certificate of Authenticity is also included.
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Tom Row of Oak Ridge, renowned for his work with the Rotary Club of Oak Ridge and other worthwhile church and community organizations, will be giving away 5,000 daffodil bulbs at noon today, Wednesday, May 8, in the Oak Ridge Food City parking lot.
'It's late for this year, but the bulbs are in very good shape,' Row told The Oak Ridger Tuesday afternoon.
'You can put the bulbs in a nice hole, cover them up and you'll be pleasantly surprised next spring.' Row estimated the local Rotary Clubs have probably helped plant 65,000 to 70,000 daffodil bulbs throughout the community over the past several years.
Today's daffodil bulbs will be handed out in 25- to 50-bulb bags, according to Row.
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Jason Bivins, Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism (2008)
Grant Wacker insists that students in his seminars learn to distinguish between what is important and what is merely interesting. Religion of Fear makes important contributions to the study of evangelicalism. At the intersection of conservative politics, evangelicalism, and American popular culture, a "religion of fear" has developed. Emerging after the 1960s, this religio-political impulse used the medium of popular culture to scare the Hell out of people—literally. The religion of fear offered readers and audiences an "interpretive template that posits demonological causes for political decline… [one that situates] readers in a historical framework and [defines] for audiences a coherent, unchanging place therein" (9). Part of Bivins's project consists of documenting the rhetorical and affective strategies of anti-rock preaching, Hell Houses, Jack Chick's cartoons, and the Left Behind novels. The creators of these works, he argues, act as savvy "technicians of identity," engaging fear and horror in specific ways to create a politically charged range of acceptable religious identities (16).
Despite its claims to fixity and stability in a declining culture, Bivins declares that the religion of fear is actually animated by two instabilities: 1) the erotics of fear and 2) the demonology within. The "erotics of fear" describes the fact that fear's discourse, though strongly condemnatory toward American culture, nonetheless displays deep fascination with what is forbidden. Evangelical teenagers compete heartily for the right to play the sexually active, unmarried couple in a Hell House play. Jack Chick's most interesting drawings show sinners writhing in pain for their wrongdoing. The final book of the Left Behind series contains about a hundred pages of Jesus unleashing blood-drenched wrath on God's enemies. In the religion of fear, forbidden evil goes on display. The "demonology within" describes the basic irony of using popular culture to condemn popular culture. The pure Christian self is constituted by its Others. You define yourself as a Christian teenager by not listening to Slayer—but this means that you know what Slayer is, that the demons behind the Slayer lyrics might grab hold of you at any moment.
But it's Bivins's approach to his subject that makes the most important contributions to the field. Far too few books explore the felt-life of evangelicalism. Emotion takes center stage in this book about political religion—"fear" isn't some clever heuristic for explaining evangelical theology or its "relation" to governmental politics, it's a feeling that certain religio-political popular culture artifacts engage and frequently try to produce in viewers, readers, and listeners. Bivins offers new ways of thinking about conservative evangelicalism: rather than an agglomeration of cleanly theological or political "movements," conservative evangelicalism emerges from this text as a messy mélange of discursive strategies, techniques of identity, body practices, products of entertainment. And Bivins doesn't shy away from criticizing this religion of fear when he thinks it warrants it. If scholars of religion abandon all claims to normativity and all forms of social critique in the name of taking our subjects "seriously," we play the conservatives' game: Bivins doesn't want to play that game, and argues that scholars should counter fear with "sober political vision" instead of reactionary disavowal or willful indifference (228). Fear thrives when democratic culture atrophies. The point is not for scholars to proceed recklessly against our subjects, but rather to suggest that we scholar-citizens have a responsibility to remain politically engaged. That responsibility doesn't disappear when we put on the mantel of scholarship. Bivins models his vision of social critique by engaging fear's political vision seriously and carefully: "fear's political vision should be contested in the name of politics itself, with the goal of a reaffirmation of a democratic process allowing for the pursuit of reasonable compromises of principled differences" (235).


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LOS ANGELES -- Allen Crabbe scored 27 points in Cal's 72-64 win over USC on Saturday night, but that wasn't the difference, according to Trojans coach Kevin O'Neill.
"He's obviously a great player. He gets his (points), and that's OK," O'Neill said of Crabbe. "We did a bad job on a couple other guys."
No Cal player was more clutch down the stretch than freshman guard Tyrone Wallace, whose two 3-point baskets in the final 4:31 helped the Bears (9-5, 1-1 Pac-12) escape Los Angeles with a split on the opening weekend of the conference schedule.
"I've been struggling from 3 -- everybody knows that," said Wallace, who was converting just 21 percent through Cal's first 13 games. "I just knew if it came to me and I had a good look, I was supposed to shoot the ball. It felt good to have one finally go in."
The second of his 3-pointers, with 1:15 left, pushed Cal into a 66-58 lead.
Crabbe was proud of Wallace for having the confidence to take shots with the game on the line.
"They were definitely big. I was telling him he's the next Shabazz Muhammad," Crabbe said, referring to UCLA's star freshman. "Tyrone just shot it with confidence."
"It was a good win," said Cal coach Mike Montgomery, whose team had won just three times in eight games after a 6-0 start. "For us, we needed this badly."
Wallace wasn't the Bears' only unexpected contributor. Two nights after Cal's bench players totaled just four points in a loss at UCLA, they produced 10 points and 10 rebounds by halftime.
Their production was significant for the Bears, who once more were without guards Brandon Smith (concussion) and Ricky Kreklow (foot). Montgomery said he expects Smith back soon -- perhaps in time for Wednesday's home game against Washington -- but isn't sure about Kreklow's prospects.
Jeff Powers came off the bench to deliver a pair of 3-pointers. The first, with 7:58 left in the first half, ended an 0-for-22 drought from beyond the arc by the Bears, spanning 98 minutes, 5 seconds and dating to the Dec. 22 game against Prairie View A&M.
His next one came with 46 seconds left in the half off an assist from reserve Bak Bak, just the fourth assist in four years for the senior forward.
"I'm really proud of Jeff Powers," Montgomery said. "He actually said he was a little bit nervous before the game. He went in and knocked down a 3 and had a big smile on his face."
Powers, a junior walk-on from De La Salle High-Concord, had totaled just nine points in nine previous games this season. Bak, who had played just 26 minutes all season before Saturday, added two points and a steal.
Sixth man Robert Thurman grabbed a career-high eight rebounds.
"That's what you have to have," Montgomery said of the boost the reserves gave his team. "Maybe that's on me. Maybe I've just got to trust guys off the bench a little more."
Crabbe scored nine straight points in a span of 1:52 midway through the second half to help Cal extend a 32-29 halftime lead. He finished 9 for 12 from the field and made all of eight of his free throws.
Wallace and point guard Justin Cobbs each contributed 10 points, with Cobbs hitting four late free throws. Cal missed its first four shots from the foul line, then made 21 of its remaining 22 attempts.
USC (6-9, 1-1) stayed close most of the night but led for just 35 seconds after the opening six minutes of the game. Eric Wise led the Trojans with 14 points.


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#PhRMA13 Closes With Focus on Patients and Challenges That Lie Ahead
Address by Patient Advocacy Groups, Indianapolis Colts Football Coach Drive Home Innovation Message
A strong finish to #PhRMA13 today drove home the message that for patients, there is no greater source of hope than the continued medical innovation that leads to new treatments and further, new hope.
A bright and early (way early) panel about innovative patient engagement left many reinvigorated about what the role the biopharmaceutical industry plays in patient advocacy. Larry Hausner spoke frankly when he mentioned that as he initially began working with the American Diabetes Association, which he now helms, it was "widely known that PhRMA is the enemy." However, he added, he was happy to note that there has been a 100% turnaround in that attitude of late, and his focus is how to consistently improve engagement between biopharmaceutical companies and patients. That sentiment was echoed by American Cancer Society CEO John Seffrin, who gave a heartfelt thanks to the biopharmaceutical industry for their innovation, and noted that "Your first job, we can never forget, is to make new medicines. And you're good at that - we can never forget that. God bless you for it; we all benefit from new medicines, and that includes my family and myself."
Incoming PhRMA Chairman Bob Hugin, CEO of Celgene, gave an impassioned address on the challenges the industry yet faces, supercharging the crowd by noting the interwoven issues of innovation and economic policies that enable access and medical breakthroughs. "Our pipelines are the solution, not the problem," Hugin reminded the crowd, "The lifescience industry is a crown jewel of the U.S. economy." Truer words.
With that, NFL Football Coach Chuck Pagano of the Indianapolis Colts took the stage, explaining his experience with leukemia, and making an effective analogy admonishing biopharmaceutical companies to push through adversity, refuse to lower expectations even in the face of massive challenge, and continue to provide research, progress and hope to patients, like him. Not many dry eyes in the house, after Coach Pagano's (#ChuckStrong) speech.
#PhRMA13 broke new ground in many ways, addressing issues we hadn't explored at our annual meeting before and engaging unlikely bedfellows in open, frank conversations that often spilled into the halls and meeting spaces around us. If this year's Annual Meeting was a sign of what's to come, as Coach Pagano advised us, we'd better be prepared to, "Stick with the process. Look for the next play and keep moving forward, keep battling. Eventually, you're going to get the results you want."
Great advice. Thanks for joining us at #PhRMA13!


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July 4 saw the discovery of an alleged methamphetamine laboratory near the Randolph and Howard County lines. Jacob Strain, 32, of Bunceton, was arrested and charged with a Class B Felony. The individual had prior convictions and was on parole, according to Missouri case.net.
After receiving a dispatch from Moberly 911, Howard County Sheriff Deputies responded to County Road 251, where the alleged incident took place.
Ronnie Byar, a local landowner who placed the call, had dealt with recent theft activity on his property, according to Howard County Sheriff, Charlie Polson.
"Byar had been having problems with theft and suspicious activity on his property. He encountered a silver vehicle. A warning shot was fired by Byar and the vehicle took off," said Sheriff Polson.
After the 911 call was placed by Byar, the Sheriff's Department responded to the area. Initially, according to Polson, Byar thought a round may have struck Strain.
Upon arriving at the scene, Deputies discovered an abandoned building of sorts on Byar's property – which appeared to be a production facility for the manufacture of methamphetamine, according to Sheriff Polson.
Boonville, though drugs are present in the city, rarely sees lab activity within the city limits, according to Chief of Police Bobby Welliver.
"In the old process where they used to make meth, they were almost never inside of the city because of the smell – it was usually done out in the rural areas," he said.
Methamphetamine is still a problem, though, insists Chief Welliver.
"Now, unfortunately, we're seeing what's called shake and bake labs from time to time. This is where ingredients are placed in a 2-liter bottle or other container, and can be shaken together to produce methamphetamine," said the Chief.
Methamphetamine effects, in users, can produce euphoria and hyper-manic behaviors. After days of use, due to the chemical effects on an individual's brain conjoined with severe sleep-depravity, psychosis often onsets. Auditory and visual hallucinations are common, according to the website methproject.org.
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Revitalization district debate
October 19, 2013
Business was booming at The Original Pizza Place Wednesday as lunchtime patrons lined up for a salad, sandwich or slice of pepperoni pizza....
Tess's kind of a grouch ain't she!? So, do you just hate kids mostly Tess or is it they just bug you when your eating? As for knowing how a place will beat the system, well just keep showing how little you know about the revitalization thing and how to run business in general. I see you know very little about it and disliking kids to boot. Shame on you.
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Buy a cheap liquor license for your new restaurant. Serve "complimentary" beer, wine, etc to patrons who eat food. Of course the price of the alcohol (owners cost) will inflate the price of the food (customers cost). It's easy to meet the requirements of at least 75% of the income from the sales of food.
There are some very good restaurants. The Buckley House & Austyn's are Marietta's examples of "fine dining", at least as fine as one can get in the Valley. I wish people would leave their children at home when they visit these restaurants or at the very least, teach them manners. If you must take them to these restaurants, how about taking them for lunch?
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I don't know what's worse, Chen thinking his liquor license will be "devalued" or that Austyn's food is the best in town. Stupid quotes of the day.
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Let everyone sell a drink or two. Maybe some of the empty building will have a chance.
We need more restaurants, more liquor, more antique shops; more used clothing shops; let them all sell booze.
Bring in a shoe shop, serve a beer. Sip a glass of wine while getting your hair done. How about shots as they trim your nails? Buy a bead get a buzz. How about a hat shop with a nice foamy head?
How about permitting the hot dig wagon to do a beer. Dogs steamed in beer...grrreat.
But no alcohol sales at Mickey D's, please.
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DevAd - spot on 100%. Chen paid more than the state sells them for making the licenses like purchasing stock. The State never intended that and the business decision at that time should be no excuse to inhibit competition. FWIW - The Buckley House has the best food in town. And Ms. Damron should know that the facts are being skewed if she thinks this is about "bar traffic". Just not true.
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So is saying "no" to today's opportunity. Vote "yes" & enable this town to expand in choice by individuals willing to lay their money on the line.
Don't stifle competition by picking winners & losers.
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We know HN & MM are picking winners. Will TV, ST, RK, MMc, & DA pick winner/losers, or will they capitalism & business savvy take root?
Other thoughts: Mr. Chen says he paid $50G for his license. So what that means if you recall that he wasn't able to obtain one of the original 8 or 9 licenses available to Marietta, OH. Mr. Noland, Anderson, & Lehman also bought theirs off the open market. Their choice!!! Some group of individuals at some time voted to allow out of town licenses to be purchased & brought into Marietta. Members of council remember that. Also, to all those men who brought in a license, imagine if you couldn't. You would be bust or not even in existence.
IMO, if you gents don't want these, & council votes this down, then they need to pass an ordinance that only allows the original 8/9 licenses in town. Force anyone that brought one to town to sell or close.
Foolish sounding isn't it? Con't.....
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Damron said: "The city doesn't need more liquor licenses. We have enough liquor establishments here. What restaurant up & down Front Street doesn't already have a liquor license?" Bingo! WTG genius, TOPP is located on 2nd. Twenty-five years ago TOPP sold drafts in the mall before the big renovation. He wants to do the same here.
Damron also said, "When I open up in the mornings I have to clean up all kinds of trash & broken bottles from in front & all around my store." Well guess what, first & foremost these licenses will require the eatery to be a restaurant, not a bar. They will be selling draft & a select few bottles. To qualify for a liquor permit state law requires eateries to obtain at least 75% through food sales. Myself, I like to frequent eateries where I can have a beer/wine with my meal.
Next, council how dare you be the judge by picking winners & losers. We know HN & MM are picking winners. Will TV, ST, RK, MMc, & DA p
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I also do not know one person who comes out of a restaurant after a fine meal and raves about the alcohol that they had with their food. I know many people who would not go to a restaurant if they could not have glass of wine or a beer before dinner. If the food and service are bad it does not matter about the alcohol. If we had more choices in town the dogs of the restaurant business in town would have to step it up. We all know who they are. People are confusion this revitalization with opening up more bars. I see it as opening up more restaurants. God knows we don't need another Locker Room or Four Seasons. I would not drive to Parkersburg for a bar but I would for a good place to eat.
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Why do you think alot of people in Marietta go to Parkersburg or Veinna to eat .
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Here we go again some on council wants to pick and choose there competition. Not good for business or growth more sales more tax revenew. Council need to look at this way Rich has it right everyone has differrent taste buds when it comes to food and will eat where they think the (food is best) with or with out a beer wine etc. I don't know anyone that says hey lets go to Original pizza and get pizza and then change their mind and say well maybe not they don't sell beer. The only way I can see that happening is if the food is equally as good. If I like good pizza and a beer thats where I will go. Not bad pizza and a beer to wash the bad pizza taste out of my mouth and that goes for most people they go where (they like the food best ). Defferent taste for defferent people. The more selection you have more the more atractive it becomes as a place to go eat.
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The Times should have checked with Lehman on this one...oops. Maybe he was away planning his School Board effort. Somehow the humor stops when considering him into our schools.
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Australian Motorcycle Accessories Clearance Warehouse opened its doors in Yatala, Queensland (halfway between Brisbane and the Gold Coast) in March 2008, with the aim to provide motorcycle riders with the best brands of apparel at heavily discounted prices. The response since AMA's grand opening has been overwhelming and, to meet the demand, AMA Clearance Warehouse has drastically increased its range of road and off-road apparel. AMA Warehouse is now bursting at the seams and has added another location in Caboolture QLD to cater to their growing customer base!
AMA caters for everyone on two wheels - men and women - including trailriders, road riders, motocross riders and racers, pitbike riders, scooter riders...... all riders. Proprieters Ben and Shannon Warner have an extensive history in motorcycle riding and racing and are every bit as passionate about bikes as their customers are. Customer service is a high priority at AMA. The store has always been open to the public 7 days a week, and now with the online store and Australia-wide delivery, AMA Clearance Warehouse is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Find us locally at Caboolture on the Sunshine Coast and Yatala between Brisbane and Gold Coast for all your motorcyle accessories and needs.


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Track your activities, projects, music and websites on a beautiful timeline.
TrackTime tracks all your activities on a timeline and provides statistics on applications, music, websites and your own projects.
You can see:
- how long you listened to music by a specific artist,
- which websites you visit most and how long,
- which applications you use and when,
- your own activities that can be logged manually or automatically (using AppleScript)
and much more.
- A beautiful interface - All your activities are arranged like in a multi-track-recording application. You can quickly see, how much time you spent on each "track". Discover forgotten music and websites in your personal history and enjoy them instantly again.
- Detailed statistics - Get a quick glance on your activities and discover which are your most used applications, best rated artists and favourite websites.
Date Range - Specify any time frame to examine. You can for example only view the music you played last month.
- Your projects - Track working hours or your hobbies with TrackTime's easy-to-use project tracking capabilities. Running projects can be indicated in the menubar using a colored dot.
- Easily delete unwanted items from your Timeline or pause logging, just like Safari's "Private Mode".
- Growl support - Get notified what happens â" using your own style.
Required OS: 10.4
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And it's been transferred again, apparently â" this time to NimbleWorks. To their credit, they seem to be putting out updates. Good to see this great app still getting some love.
This has now been transfered back to Mamooba and a new version released, so far from dead. Need to get all the info changed here though.
obviously apokalypse software did nothing good to tracktime.
i've bought tracktime when it came out (on mamooba) and communication have initially been good.
i still have no news from the new company. no new license keys, nothing at all. tracktime still checks mamooba.com for updates though the transfer to apokalypse is ages old.
i'd call this dead, though it is (or was) a good tracker
Maybe I can explain the name of this application:
"Hora" in Portuguese (my language) and in Spanish means "hour".
Just think of it when considering what this appication does...
Apparently (well, according to the website) the name is a reference to the book 'Momo' by Michael Ende. But I'm afraid I don't know much about that...
Anyway, this is a sweet looking app, and I have to say the developer is very friendly fellow. I emailed him requesting Firefox support in the web browsing tracking (it's pretty neat how it works - but only with Safari at the moment) saying he'll try and get it done within the next few days, and that he'll notify me when it's done! Pretty bloody awesome in my opinion.
You really can't beat independent developers for creative software, and customer support.
And I have to stress, this app is SEXY, as well as very functional. Worth checking out anyway, IMHO!
The app name is a bit unfortnuate for Swedish users. Hora is a rather nasty patronising word used on girls or one who sells here body to men. I believe the english word is "whore".


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The Daily Start-Up: Lithium Technologies Acquires Social Dynamx, Pairing Social Marketers
Top stories in today's VentureWire:
Lithium Technologies has acquired Social Dynamx, VentureWire has learned, bringing together two players in the rapidly changing field of social marketing. Former Social Dynamx Chief Executive Mike Betzer will head a new Lithium product line out of Austin, Texas, where Social Dynamx is based. All former Lithium Response products will be standardized on the Social Dynamx platform going forward, and the Social Dynamx product line will "represent a material portion of revenue in the future," said Lithium Chief Executive Rob Tarkoff.
Anametrix, the newest company from the team behind WebSideStory, one of the earliest website analytics companies, has landed $4.4 million in new funding. The San Diego-based company sells a visualization and analysis tool that pools marketing performance data from the websites, email, online advertising and other channels. Anametrix, founded in 2010, helps marketers analyze all these channels in a single visualization tool. It now has "millions of dollars" in annual revenue, said Pelin Thorogood, Anametrix's chief marketing officer.
Also in today's VentureWire, Zenoss has raised $25 million in Series C equity to keep up with the business of managing technology infrastructure, which is changing rapidly along with the explosion of cloud computing. The round was led by Summit Partners, with all current investors–Grotech Ventures, Intersouth Partners and Boulder Ventures–participating…Vaccine-technology start-up Vaxxas, which has just landed Merck as a partner, hopes to be the company that large players turn to as they strive to solve problems that hold their industry back. Instead of making vaccines itself, Vaxxas plans to help Merck and other companies surmount issues like the need for refrigeration in a vaccine supply chain, and other challenges…andBaxter Internationalid it is leading a $4.9 million financing for start-up Gliknik, one of several investments and other deals it has made with venture-backed companies lately. The Baltimore start-up said it would use the round to advance a recombinant compound that could complement plasma-derived intravenous immunoglobulin.
(VentureWire is a daily newsletter with comprehensive analysis of all the investments, deals and personnel moves involving start-ups and their venture backers. For a two-week trial, visit our homepage, scroll to the bottom and click "try for free.")
Elsewhere around the Web:
First there was Silicon Valley and then Silicon Alley. Is Silicon Beach next? Australian entrepreneurs think so, saying their tech-savvy country has reached a critical mass of investors and expertise, and is close to Asian markets.
Looking north, there's Finland, which gave the world Angry Birds and where another mobile games start-up, Supercell, is looking to become a hit, the New York Times says. Accel Partners is a backer.
Twitter CFO Ali Rowghani is working closely with CEO Dick Costolo to ensure that, when it finally goes public, the IPO doesn't run off the rails like Facebook, Bloomberg Businessweek reports.
(Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the future of the Lithium product portfolio. All former Lithium Response products will be standardized on the Social Dynamx platform going forward.)


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MOUNT DIABLO -- From his backyard 2,100 feet up Mount Diablo, Jason Hart has a million-dollar view. Alamo, Walnut Creek and Concord are spread out before him between the ridges and peaks.
In the daytime, he can see the buildings and homes stretching into the distance. At night, civilization is alight down below.
"I look out over a landscape where you know there are a lot of people out there," he said. "But the sounds I go to bed to at night are a pack of coyotes yapping and owls hooting."
Hart is one of 11 park employees who lives and works in Mt. Diablo State Park.
Statewide, the California Department of Parks and Recreation has 538 employee homes or trailer pads in its parks, said parks spokesman Roy Stearns.
Workers with their own trailers are charged $32 a month rent per occupant. For a house, rents range from about $185 to $250 a month.
On Mount Diablo, employees work at ranger stations, patrol the park and maintain the grounds. In exchange for low rent they must be on call to help visitors in need of assistance, or rescue, 24 hours a day.
As a child, Hart said he was a "park brat" who grew up in the state system. His father was a ranger, and he followed in his footsteps and became a state park worker.
Today, he is the Mount Diablo maintenance chief. He, his wife, 2-year-old son and cat live in a 760-square-foot home built in 1948.
Summit Museum, the campgrounds and many park trails were built from 1932 to 1942 by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Park workers live in "postwar park rustic" homes of wood and stone, built between 1948 and 1953, or in their own modular homes, said Breck Parkman, the senior state archaeologist.
Hart said it is a privilege to live with such scenery, but it has its trade-offs.
He is on call whenever he is at home. If a waterline breaks, it's his job to respond. If the wind is howling and a tree falls on Summit Road, or there's a landslide, he and his crew make sure the road stays open. If a hiker gets lost at night, or a camper has a medical emergency, it's a team effort to ensure the visitor makes it home safely.
Between 40,000 and 50,000 hikers, cyclists and campers visit Mount Diablo each year, so workers living in the park are often interacting with the public.
Hart said knocks at the door can come at any hour, mostly from visitors desperately seeking a toilet. He points them toward the nearest public restroom.
Another trade-off is the twisty 10-mile drive down the mountain to go to the store or his son's day care.
Hart's nearest neighbor is park Superintendent Roland Gaebert whose home, at 2,300 feet, is the highest on the mountain.
"My house comes with two guarantees," Gaebert said. "In the summer, it's incredibly hot because it's not air-conditioned. In the winter, it's incredibly cold because it's not insulated."
One thing that's not guaranteed is hot water. The park's water supply flows from 14 mountain springs.
"This morning, I had a half-water, half-air shower," Gaebert said. "Sometimes, we don't have water at all."
Hart, Gaebert and park Ranger Carl Nielson, who lives at Diablo's base, agree that mountain wildlife keep life interesting.
"You've got to have a certain appreciation and tolerance for critters," Gaebert said.
They share their living space with coyotes, bobcats, gray foxes, raccoons, deer, turkeys, feral pigs, rattlesnakes, centipedes, tarantulas and plenty of other mammals, reptiles, birds and bugs.
Gaebert has had to shoo a bat out of his home, and once discovered a nest of hundreds of baby scorpions in his floorboards.
Hart recalled when he nearly stepped on a rattlesnake by his front door. In the past year, he has removed seven baby rattlers from his yard.
"You have to be careful of tarantulas crossing the road," he said. "Last July, one got into the house and walked across the living room floor."
Hart said one day he and his family watched from their door as a coyote and her pup ate berries from juniper trees in their front yard.
Nielson said you have to look and listen whenever you step outside, but he wouldn't trade living and working in the park for anything -- the wildlife, the scenery, those winter days blanketed with snow.
"We're sort of an exclusive bunch," he said. "I consider my backyard to be 20,000 acres."
Hart and his wife think about moving closer to life's conveniences. But for now, they're staying put.
One October morning, Hart stepped out his front door to see the full moon in a pink dawn sky -- and the ridges below floating in a sea of fog.
"They say we're paid in sunrises and sunsets," he said. "As long as I can appreciate every part of my job, I will continue doing this."
Contact Jason Sweeney at 925-847-2123. Follow him at Twitter.com/Jason_Sweeney.


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This is the second post in our monthly series "Running Mates," showcasing chic comrades of N&P for their sartorial smarts and their enterprising insight. This month, we caught up with sisters Elizabeth and Paige Hill, Californians brightening up the District with their sunny dispositions and colorful closets.
Pictured above is our friend Elizabeth Hill (left). Elizabeth is the Director of Corporate and Social Responsibility at Rubicon Global, a sustainable waste stream solutions company. Elizabeth's passion for reducing waste also influences her wardrobe: she invests in long-lasting, classic apparel rather than trendy items that can end up getting tossed out at the end of the season. Elizabeth loves vintage jackets, jewel-toned sweaters, demure party dresses, and anything in black. She swears by her Cole Haan pumps because they are feminine yet comfortable–allowing her to dance all night.
ON ELIZABETH • JACKET: Yves Saint Laurent (vintage, borrowed from mom) // SWEATER: J.Crew // SKIRT: Vince // HEELS: Cole Haan // EARRINGS: Vintage {similar} // SUNGLASSES: Thierry Lasry {similar} // SCARF: Hermès // BUCKLE RING: Vintage {similar}
Elizabeth's younger sister, Paige (right), arrived in Washington three years ago by way of Elizabeth's sofa. Shortly after arriving, Paige took a job as a journalist and met a handsome D.C. native who will become her husband this February. Paige currently covers national health care issues for a daily publication—which means very early mornings (Ray-Bans and Laura Mercier concealer), long days (ballet flats), and caffeine (Dolcezza lattes). But that doesn't stop Paige from bringing vintage flair to the office—after all, it was Rosalind Russell in the 1940's film "His Girl Friday" who first inspired her to the career. Paige loves anything with a story behind it–be it a necklace from travels in Central America or Art Deco handbags handed down through the family–and living near Georgetown's antique stores only fuels her passion for unique finds.
ON PAIGE • JACKET: Zara {similar} // TURTLENECK: Splendid // SKIRT: BCBG {different color} // BOOTS: Cole Haan {similar} // CLUTCH: YSL {similar} // TIGHTS: Wolford // SUNGLASSES: Ray-Ban // JADE NECKLACE W/MAYAN CALENDAR: Central America find


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Zynga Moves to Make Good On Mobile Gaming Pledge
Zynga, engaged in a high-stakes effort to move its videogame franchise to mobile devices, is fleshing out its strategy.
The San Francisco, Calif. game maker announced new mobile versions of three popular games–"FarmVille," "Zynga Poker" and "Words With Friends." Zynga said the new titles will arrive soon in select markets and be available worldwide in the coming months.
Clive Downie, the company's chief operating officer, said Zynga attempted to answer many customer requests and complaints in its newest versions. "These new mobile games are for you, by you," he wrote in a blog post.
The new mobile title called "FarmVille 2: Country Escape," for example, will offer a connected rewards system between the current Web game and the new mobile experience, he said. The top request for "Words With Friends" was an integrated dictionary, Downie said, which will let users "build vocabulary with definitions and audio pronunciation."
The new titles are part of a larger effort to turn Zynga's business around after numerous stumbles attempting to cater to the large and growing mobile games market. For years, Zynga thrived as the top destination for Facebook users to play games. But as mobile devices became increasingly more important, Zynga's business faltered.
Zynga began spending big to catch up, paying $183 million to buy OMGPOP, maker of the surprise hit sketching game "Draw Something," at the peak of its popularity. It quickly faded, and as Zynga's struggles continued, it began cutting its workforce to below what they were during its initial public offering in late 2011. In January, Zynga cut even further.
To that end, Zynga said in January it agreed to purchase NaturalMotion, maker of popular mobile games such as "CSR Racing" and "Clumsy Ninja," for more than $525 million in cash and stock. Zynga has said NaturalMotion's technology will help its games stand out.
Don Mattrick, who was appointed Zynga's CEO in July, has focused much of his time reducing the number of projects under way and eliminating bureaucracy, people familiar with the company have said.
"We've reset the company at an executive level," he said in an interview in January.
The company has pledged that 75% of its new games will arrive on mobile, including its new entry in the "FarmVille" franchise.


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Yahoo Earnings: Alibaba, Ad Growth and Other Key Areas to Watch
Without the life jacket of Alibaba, can Marissa Mayer stay afloat?
In the week marking Mayer's two-year anniversary as Yahoo's chief executive, investors may cast their vote on whether they believe her attempt to turn around the aging Internet portal is working.
Yahoo's second-quarter earnings, expected after the close of New York trading Tuesday, will likely be the first time in more than a year the company announces results without simultaneously disclosing any materially new numbers related to Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant in which it owns a 24% stake. (Alibaba already opened its books in May, when it filed for an initial public offering.)
That means Mayer will no longer be able to hide sluggish growth in Yahoo's core business, which analysts expect to produce revenue of $1.08 billion, up 1% from a year ago, and 38 cents a share in profit, up from 35 cents a year ago.
Mayer and finance chief Ken Goldman will appear on a video conference call with analysts at 5 p.m. ET. Any details they share about the planned sale of 40% of Yahoo's stake in Alibaba in its IPO, and any hints about what they plan to do with the proceeds, will be closely watched.
Here are the key issues to watch for:
Advertising growth. Yahoo in April reported growth in its core business of display ads for the first time since Mayer took the reins in July 2012. Now we'll see if that was a fluke or if the CEO is winning back the marketing dollars her company has lost to Google and Facebook and moving ad growth further into the black.
Video. Some of Mayer's biggest bets of the year have gone toward building an online video portal to rival Google's YouTube, such as her acquisition last week of video-streaming startup RayV and her high-profile move to bring the sixth season of beloved TV sitcom "Community" exclusively to Yahoo. But she still hasn't said much about how soon this effort could generate material returns.
Alibaba proceeds. Analysts have estimated Yahoo could net as much as $10 billion from the sale of its Alibaba stake, and investors are thirsty for any indication of what Mayer intends to do with that money. While the CEO has only said the company plans to be "good stewards" of the capital – a hint that she's likely to distribute much of it to shareholders through buybacks or a dividend – she could tip more of her hand now that the IPO is coming into view. Is a multibillion-dollar acquisition, such as AOL, in the offing? "There will be a lot of people trying to read the tea leaves," said Brian Wieser, analyst at Pivotal Research.
Alibaba tax bill. Yahoo paid a hefty tax bill the last time it sold a portion of its Alibaba stake in 2012, and analysts expect it will again have to pay a full 35% rate on its capital gains. But CFO Goldman has said he's researching tax-avoidance schemes that could lower this bill, and shareholders will be listening closely on Tuesday's call for any suggestion Yahoo is pursuing one of these strategies.


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*Editor's Note: This opinion is in response to a Letter to Editor titled "Outdoors columnist fanning the fires of hate" by John and Sharon Antonich published in the Sept. 12 Lake Sun.
I see the Antonichs have only lived in this area for a year. If they had been reading [outdoor columnist] Larry [Dablemont's] column for the past ten years or so they would realize many of his writings are tongue in cheek. Larry has ragged on his secretary Mrs. Wiggins, his "daughter the doctor", and his "son in law the computer wiz". I guessed after I read that column that we would hear from the PC element in our area. After all, if one criticizes President Obama, then you must be a racist. What a concept!
I've been a subscriber to your paper for ten years; I would hate to lose Larry's column. I always look forward to reading it. He says what he thinks, not what may be Politically Correct.
Did anyone notice I wrote this short piece and never once mentioned Muslim. Oh my goodness; did I become Politically Correct?
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Great front end on this first set from the rocking Chalk Dust all the way through to a standard Bouncing. Maybe a few spots here and there in Guelah and Ice. Possum rocked, of course. Stash had some problems, but not too bad. Trey needed to tune for Glide. Rift still had some timing issues in the middle Page solo, but had much more control in the end. Horn had some tough spots tonight. Hey Magilla's back! Nicely done and a huge Antelope to close out this really nice set.
Axilla rocks the opener spot, but Fish kind of drops the end. The Curtain was kind of all over the place and not very tight. Sample was good and a solid Pen right behind it. Forbin's had some weak spots, but the stories totally make up for that. More huge bust outs with Kung and Icculus. MBird was kind of weak and tired sounding. Wedge still has the alternate arrangement and wasn't bad. Mike's was good, and you almost get a glimpse of the next piece of Simple falling into place in the jam. Trey needs to tune during an average Hydrogen. Weekapaug was great, including the Fishman drum clinic. Golgi was an ok closer, good, but not great.
Super high energy encores from Fish on Sweet One and the Ball Jam, and then everyone gets shushed for a nice Adeline.
This show was already at four and a half stars and I feel that's right on. It could have been a touch better at times, but the bust outs easily put this above the four star range.


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Multi-use trail would be a plus for community
September 14, 2013
More than 150 people took time out of their lives this week to meet and talk about the possibilities of connecting Devola to Marietta with a multi-use path....
Excellent article! Thank you to all those involved in seeing this trail become a reality.
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Construction is poised to begin on a new I-64 bridge over the Missouri River just west of St. Louis.
The Missouri Department of Transportation and various dignitaries were scheduled to break ground Thursday on a new westbound Daniel Boone Bridge near Chesterfield.
The $110.9-million project to replace the existing 1935 westbound bridge is scheduled to be completed by late 2015. But officials say the new bridge will be open to traffic by the end of next year.
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Ribbon-cutting held for new CCMC facility
May 7, 2013
PARKERSBURG — Residents in south Parkersburg and the surroundings have a new option for medical needs....
Too bad CCMH couldn't have offered the PA's( physicians assistant)a raise to keep them on like the regular doctor's. They have been very valuable to the emergencie rooms, and to the extent of training and experience, were more capable of handling some situations. Too bad we will be losing the best of them when St. Joe's ER closes.
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I think they are building things worthwhile. They are putting in primary care offices that can keep you from having to go to the ER and if they think you need that then it will make it easier and your physician can get all the information while you are at the hospital with at touch of a few key strokes. Thank You CCMC
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I believe southern girl drank the EHR koolaid
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Thank God for MMH
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OAKLAND -- The popular musical "Les Misérables" comes to the stage in the Oakland hills this month.
Based on Victor Hugo's novel, "Les Miz" will be performed from July 10-20 as part of Producers Associates' 48th season presenting the Woodminster Summer Musicals.
"The show itself is timeless, with themes and music that speak to everyone in different ways," said Juliet Heller, a San Leandro resident who plays Fantine, a poor unwed mother, in the production. "Each character is redeemed by love, and the show's themes of redemption, love, forgiveness and reinvention are universal."
The show is considered a pop opera, since it has very little dialogue. It has run nonstop in London for nearly 30 years and an acclaimed film version of the musical was released in 2012. The first U.S. production was one of the longest-running shows in Broadway history. Its most popular songs include "I Dreamed a Dream," "On My Own" and "One Day More."
Set in 19th Century France, the musical tells the story of Jean Valjean, a peasant freed after 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread. He decides to break parole and is pursued by police inspector Javert. The emotional story of their conflict is combined with other dramatic themes, such as the fight for social justice and the Paris student uprising of 1832.
"The show focuses on the dark side of people and includes prostitution, robberies and death," said Oscar Tsukuyama, an ensemble member and recent graduate of Skyline High School in the Oakland hills. "Still, it is uplifting ... while showing all the issues connected to" social unrest of the period.
The musical's official start is July 11, but a dress rehearsal on July 10 is open to the public. Children who attend a show with paying adults get in free on all nights except July 10. The production is directed by Joel Schlader and Brian Allan Hobbs leads the live orchestra.
Jerry Lee plays the part of Valjean and Anthony Rudolph portrays Javert. Other key performers include Emily Kessell and Jennifer Mitchell as Fantine's daughter, Cosette; Adam Maggio as the man who falls in love with Cosette, Marius; and Catherine Gloria as a spoiled child who later lives on the street.
"There's lots of action in the show and beautiful songs. Some songs have a positive message, and in the play, there are good guys that win," said Madison Jane Schlader, a fifth-grader at Ruby Bridges Elementary School in Alameda, who plays a street urchin and is the director's daughter. "My favorite song is 'Master of the House.' It has great rhymes and parts that keep repeating."
Sophia Tuma, a 9-year-old from Berkeley who is part of a street gang in the musical, thinks the best song in the show is "At the End of the Day," and she's enjoyed working with the "really good singers, actors and actresses."
Overall, the musical has appeal, she added, "because it's an interesting story about people with very hard lives."
To play a street kid, Tuma has to wear both a costume and a layer of cocoa powder.
"It makes me look dirty," she said.
For those who have seen the movie, "The live show enhances the story in some ways," Heller said. "On stage, there's a different interpretation by the director and actors. Live theater is always about new discoveries. No performance is the same every night."
"The show is so much more than its themes and is very uplifting," she said."It is a musical that will continue to live on for many years to come."
What: "Les Misérables"
When: 8 p.m. July 10-13, 17-20
Where: Woodminster Amphitheater, 3300 Joaquin Miller Road, Oakland
Cost: $18 to $59
Information: 510-531-9597, www.woodminster.com


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Marinade, a band whose sound offers a "juicy, succulent combination" of "funky blues, rock and reggae," stops at three20south in Breckenridge Saturday on the Colorado leg of its tour. The band is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, and refers to its fans and family as "Marianettes." Here's what Talia Keys (lead vocals, drums, guitar and mandolin) had to say on the group, its projects and its ongoing battle with zombies:
A very high-energy show, with long jams, dance frenzies and sing-a-longs. We play mostly original material, but throw in some good covers to keep the crowd familiar. From Bob Marley to War, Etta James to The Dead, Beatles to Bowie - we play a very diverse set of music.
We just released our first full-length CD called "Soak Your Meat In This...", so we have been busy playing in support of that. We also just released our first official music video for our single, "Tie-Die," better known as "the Hippie Killer song." It can be seen on our website, www.marinademusic.com. We also just started filming our next music video as well.
Live music - seeing it, playing it, being it. I love performing and being in the crowd. It's very inspirational to see someone doing what they love to do, and making people groove at the same time.
Let's just say dealing with "zombies." I call those who are intoxicated/inebriated beyond control a "zombie." In our line of work, after shows, zombies can be found everywhere - trying to help carry gear out, trying to help back up the 10-foot trailer whilst standing between van and trailer, all the way to "messing" yourself as you tried to steal a credit card from the bar. All of these things have happened, and [while] it may not be very funny when it happens, we certainly get lots of laughs about it later.
We had an amazing time playing here this summer; it was by far our best show on tour. I cannot wait to come back and play again. So come out early and stay out late. Don't forget we have a new album and T-shirts too. Please come and say hello. If you mention this article we will sell our CD to you for half off - only $5. Saturday's show starts at 9:30 p.m. and the cover is $5. Info: www.three20south.com.


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Former Burroughs baseball standout J.D. Martin pitched solidly at Columbus on Saturday night to pick up his minor league leading 13th win of the season. The victory was Martin's second of the week, a two-start stretch that earned the right-hander International League Pitcher of the Week honors for the second time this season.
Martin struck out four batters in six innings against Columbus, and allowed two runs (one earned), six hits and two walks. The Clippers ended Martin's 13-inning scoreless streak in the first inning and added a run in the second inning before Durham rallied for a 4-2 win.
The victory improved Martin's record to 13-4 and his season ERA lowered to 2.76 as the Bulls defeated Trevor Bauer, the No. 3 pick in the 2011 draft. Martin is one win away from tying Durham's Triple-A seasons win record of 14 set by Richard De Los Santos in 2010.
Martin previously earned IL Pitcher of the Week during the week of June 10-16, and is the first Bulls player to win the award twice in the same season since Jeremy Hellickson (currently with the Tampa Bay Rays) in 2010. In his first start of the week last Monday, Martin pitched eight shutout innings and struck out six batters as Durham beat Gwinnett 7-0.
In 127.1 innings this season, Martin has struck out 91 batters and allowed only 22 walks. His next start is scheduled for Aug. 1 at Toledo.
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