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MANATEE COUNTY - A 19-year-old man told sheriff's deputies someone fired gunshots at his maroon Cadillac Catera late Saturday night as he drove down a south Bradenton street.
Shortly after midnight, Manatee Memorial Hospital notified deputies that a gunshot wound victim drove himself to the hospital. The man had a grazing gunshot wound to the left side of his head and his car had multiple bullet holes, deputies reported.
The victim told deputies someone opened fire as he passed a group of people in the 1000 block of 60th Avenue Terrace West.
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BRECKENRIDGE - When skiing's international governing body, the International Federation of Skiing (FIS), last spring proposed cutting costs for the Winter Olympics in Sochi by combining snowboard and ski judges for the Olympic debut of slopestyle, athletes resoundingly panned the plan.
The FIS scuttled the proposal, but the idea that the stodgy, bureaucratic ski government would even ponder snowboarders judging skiing and vice versa struck fear in both camps. As slopestyle begins its Olympic qualifying World Cup contests at Copper Mountain; Park City, Utah; Switzerland; and Sochi, Russia, in the next few months, skiing and snowboarding athletes are raising their voices to make sure their nascent, style-heavy sport is not debased with ill-conceived course designs and awkward judging criteria.
"A lot of people don't really want to go to the Olympics because they think it's not the right thing for the sport, and I agree. The Olympics are not why we ski," said Sweden's Henrik Harlaut, who placed third in a sketchy ski slopestyle contest featuring gusting winds and blinding snow Sunday at Breckenridge's Dew Tour stop. "But if skiers who are good go there, we could change it so at least it's as cool as it can be."
Harlaut would like to see a wide variety of rails and jumps - much like the course designs at the Dew Tour and X Games.
"What we don't want to see is some crazy Russian or someone who is an aerialist coming in and ski for a year and do crazy double or triple corks or whatever," Harlaut said. "We have to see different tricks and style so it's not just 'spin to win.'"
Freeskiing was born in the moguls, with skiers drawn to the aerial tricks. Back then, a decade ago, skiers were not allowed in the snowboarders' halfpipes and terrain parks.
Read more at http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_22206348/slopestyle-competitors-want-have-say-competition

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Donald Trump says he'll sue Bill Maher, claiming the "Real Time" host stiffed him on a $5 million challenge. Trump won the challenge when he provided a birth certificate to prove he isn't the child of an orangutan.
Birth certificates can be forged, you know.
According to The Wrap, The Donald called in to Fox News' "Fox & Friends" on Monday to announce his planned lawsuit.
Last month, Maher made fun of Trump's questioning President Obama's birth certificate by claiming Trump's biological parents were human and an orangutan. He told "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno he would pay $5 million to charity if Trump proved he was fully human.
Trump responded by giving a copy of his birth certificate to Yahoo News, and demanded Maher pay up.
Yeah, but is there anywhere on a birth certificate that says whether the parents are human?
Nearly a month later, Maher hasn't paid, and Trump wants to hold Maher to his promise.
"He promised me $5 million for charity if I provided certain information," Trump said on Monday. "Well, I provided the information. He didn't pay. So today I sue Bill Maher for $5 million for charity."
Can someone give this guy some attention?
Trump refused to believe that the whole thing was merely a joke.
"I don't think he was joking. He said it with venom. That was venom. That wasn't a joke. In fact, he was nervous when he said it; it was a pathetic delivery. But he said, 'I will give,' and said, 'I will accept.'"
You have to admit, if anyone knows venom, it's Donald Trump.
Maher has not commented on the matter.
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STOCKTON - Police are looking for an armed man who robbed a business in the 800 block of East March Lane late Saturday.
An 18-year-old clerk was working in the business shortly before midnight when she was approached by the suspect, who had a black handgun. The suspect pushed her to the ground and stole money from the cash register.
A customer intervened, punching the robber in the face as he tried to flee. The robber dropped his weapon but was able to leave the business and jump into a black BMW occupied by two women.
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In observance of Christmas, Brown County Heartland Express will not be operating and the office will be closed on Christmas Day, Tuesday, Dec. 25. Service will resume on Wednesday, Dec. 26 as usual.
The transit system will be operating on Christmas Eve Day. Patrons needing transportation on Wednesday, Dec. 26, are asked to call the Heartland Express Office by 3 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 24 to make arrangements for their rides. Call 359-2717 or 1-800-707-2717.
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Adprime Media UK is currently looking for a Commercial Director with strong agency sales background to leads its team in the UK. Adprime Media is a highly successful premium ad network based in New York expanding its operations to London.
As the Commercial Director you will be responsible for managing and leading the sales team, meeting and exceeding targets, managing PNL, coming up with creative sales strategies, working with the NY team on global campaigns, etc.
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Cormier Honors College Student Organizes Soldier Care-Packages
CHC freshman Amber Elmore (Hopewell, VA.) encouraged all students to share a little holiday cheer. Several care-packages were sent to soldiers in Afghanistan just in time for the Holidays. The packages are full of food, supplies, and heart-felt notes and thank-you cards to help the soldiers enjoy their Holidays, many of whom will not be with their families.
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The Story of the Cormier Honors College Vegetable Garden
--from a news release by Kent Booty, Media Specialist, Longwood University Office of Public Relations
The Cormier Honors College for Citizen Scholars has established a vegetable garden that will be used to teach students about such issues as botany, agriculture, nutrition, and biodiversity. The garden was prompted both by the vegetable garden that President and Michelle Obama instituted at the White House last spring and by Gov. Tim Kaine's Renew Virginia initiative, a year-long series of legislative and administrative actions promoting renewable energy, creating green jobs, and encouraging preservation of the environment. The garden, which was staked out in mid-September and will be planted this fall, is beside one edge of the Wheeler parking lot near the corner of Griffin Boulevard and High Street.
After the site was chosen, the garden's organizers learned something that was a pleasant surprise. A large Southern magnolia tree a few yards away grew from cuttings brought to Farmville in 1898 by Robert Evans, who apparently once lived in Farmville and was an African-American groundskeeper at the White House under President McKinley. Evans, probably after pruning a tree at the White House, brought cuttings to Farmville as gifts for friends and relatives. The tree next to the garden is one of two trees resulting from branches he gave to Pompey Bland, a friend who lived at the corner. The trees, one of which died recently, lined each side of a walkway leading to his house, which is no longer there.
Evans was the son of a Reconstruction-era member of the Virginia House of Delegates, William D. Evans, and also a relative of a state senator during that era, James W.D. Bland, who was Pompey Bland's brother. Because of the tree's historical significance, the vegetable garden also will stimulate discussion of the role that African-Americans in Prince Edward County played in building and operating Longwood from when it was founded, in 1839, until it admitted its first black student, in 1966.
"Students in the Honors College study the local community, and we thought it'd be a good idea to study this chunk of Farmville," said Dr. Geoff Orth, director of the Cormier Honors College. "After we found out this tree came from the White House, we thought it was an opportunity to study the local African-American community. It all just seemed to come together. We feel really good about this."
The garden will be managed by students in the Cormier Honors College, especially freshmen. All but one of the 44 freshmen in the Cormier Honors College live in Wheeler Hall, just across Griffin Boulevard from the garden, which was renovated a few years ago as the program's home. A total of more than 230 students are in the Cormier Honors College, officially launched in January 2009, which blends the former Honors Program and the Cormier Citizen Scholars Program, previously a scholarship program within the Honors Program.
"The garden will be a hands-on educational tool and a continuing lab that will involve students from many disciplines," said Dr. Michael Lund, assistant director of the Cormier Honors College, who was instrumental in developing the project. "In the Honors College, we like to have students involved in activities outside the classroom which are related to the classroom, which is what this garden will do. It also supports the university's theme of sustainability. Visitors to the site may learn about such diverse topics as Jeffersonian democracy and reasons behind current drives to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Student research projects in a variety of academic disciplines also may be tied to the site. Among the topics to be studied are food production, diet in an age of fast food and busy lives, and other contemporary issues. We hope to develop interactive multimedia displays at the garden and online.
"Because I was interested in the Honors College being involved in a sustainability project, I first proposed a roof garden on Wheeler, but concerns about structure and liability - the roof wasn't built to support the extra weight of a garden and gardeners - precluded that," Lund said. "Then I looked for a place close to Wheeler, so the Honors students could work there easily, and saw that spot not being used. It was also large enough to fit the same plan as the White House garden. Only when I was meeting with (Longwood employees) Louise Waller, Kelly Martin, and Bill Westerhoff did I learn, from Louise, that the tree came from the White House, which was fortuitous."
The size of the garden, 37 feet by 20 feet with an extra 12-foot by 12-foot section in one corner, is virtually identical to the White House garden, and its shape also is similar. A walking path will cut through the garden. "We hope to have two or three beds in this fall," said Lund, who also is professor emeritus of English. "This fall, we'll plant cold weather crops: lettuce, turnips, and collards. Maybe we'll plant rye grass this winter. In the spring, we'll try to copy the White House garden exactly. We'll also have flowers, to repel bugs."
Seven of the branches from the magnolia tree at the White House became trees in Farmville. Five of the trees were victims of Longwood's expansion. The White House magnolia tree is still standing, said Dr. Jeff Kirwan, a forestry expert who is a Virginia Tech-based extension specialist and has researched historic trees in Virginia.
"The connection between this site and the White House is quite interesting, particularly since we now have our first African-American president," Lund said.


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Crunch time for San Diegans in Rose parade
It's crunch time in Pasadena, where much of the planet will focus attention on a five-mile stretch of Colorado Boulevard just after sunrise New Year's Day morning.
In the last hours before the Tournament of Roses Parade, float builders are putting the finishing touches on their floral creations and equestrian performers are galloping through their final paces.
The world-famous parade, unfolding for its 124th year at 8 a.m. Tuesday, can spell high anxiety and higher anticipation for the thousands of volunteers who spent months working toward a single-minded goal.
"It's pretty exciting," said Charlene Zettel, chief executive of Donate Life California, a San Diego charity that for the 10th year in a row is producing a float for the parade. "Right about this time, they go into long shifts. It can even be 24 hours, depending on how the last minutes go."
This year's event includes a number of entries from San Diego County, perhaps none bigger than the "Journeys of the Heart" float being prepared by Donate Life California.
The design of interlocking hearts is aimed at inspiring people to register as eye, tissue and organ donors.
"It's about the miracle of saving lives through organ and tissue donation," Zettel said of the float her charity produced. "People are passionate about this."
Donate Life California operates a state registry for people who agree to donate body parts when they die. One of the 2013 honorees on the Donate Life float is Jeremy Henwood, the San Diego police officer killed on duty last year.
Debra Duncan-Montoya of Valley Center will be participating in her third Tournament of Roses Parade in the past four years, but it will be the fourth for her 19-year-old Arabian, Sol Spirit. A friend rode the purebred in the 2005 event, she said.
Duncan-Montoya is part of the Costumed Arabians Region One group, a team of 13 riders from across Southern California who will don traditional outfits and trot up Colorado Boulevard in a pie-shaped formation for two hours.
Duncan-Montoya won her seat on the group by writing a winning essay based on this year's parade theme, the Dr. Seuss-inspired "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" The theme, of course, further links the parade to San Diego. The Dr. Seuss books were by Theodor Geisel, a La Jolla resident who died in 1991.
"Even though this will be my third time I'm so excited," Duncan-Montoya said. "When you turn that corner and you see all the people and hear the crowd, it gets very emotional."
This year's event is Tournament of Roses President Sally Bixby's 24th. In a telephone interview Friday, Bixby said the final days may be frantic and crazy, but everything somehow comes together.
"We manage it because we have so many dedicated volunteers who have the same goal — to make sure it goes off without a hitch," she said. "We are all very motivated people who want to give back to the community and love doing it."
In all, the parade will feature 42 floats, 23 bands and 21 equestrian units.
More than 700,000 people are expected to line the street New year's morning and 47 million Americans will watch it on television. The parade also will be televised in 200 countries.
The U.S. Marine Corps West Coast Composite Band stationed out of Camp Pendleton is scheduled to perform during the parade.
Another San Diego area group participating in the parade is the Scripps Miramar Saddlebreds, a collection of high-stepping American Pinto show horses trained by Michele Macfarlane.
Macfarlane first appeared in the Tournament of Roses Parade in 1962.


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ROCK HILL, SC -- The Lincoln Memorial University baseball team was tabbed for a seventh-place finish in the South Atlantic Conference and four Railsplitters were selected to the preseason All-SAC Team, as the league office unveiled the results of the 2013 SAC preseason coaches' poll as well as the 2013 preseason All-SAC Team on Tuesday.
The Railsplitters garnered 34 points in the SAC preseason coaches' poll, slotting them in seventh overall. Lincoln Memorial University finished 21-28 and 10-17 in league play in the 2012 campaign, finishing seventh in the standings and as the last team out of the 2012 SAC Tournament.
Catawba and Tusculum both earned five first-place votes, as both notched 77 points in the poll to split the top spot in the preseason coaches' poll. Tusculum heads into the 2013 campaign fresh off of a 48-10 finish during the 2012 season that included a SAC-record 24 conference wins as well as the SAC regular-season title and the 2012 Food Lion SAC Baseball Tournament Championship. Catawba rides into the 2013 season after an historic season that saw the Indians ride into the NCAA Baseball World Series for the first time in school history, where they fell to eventual national champions West Chester in the third round. The Indians finished 23-4 in SAC play last season.
Wingate earned 62 points in the preseason coaches' poll to grab the third spot, followed by No. 4 Brevard (56) and No. 5 Carson-Newman (46). Newberry finished just behind Carson-Newman with 45 points to fall into No. 6 in the preseason coaches' poll.
After Lincoln Memorial, the poll was rounded out by No. 8 Mars Hill (20), No. 9 Lenoir-Rhyne (17) and No. 10 Anderson (16).
Heading into the 2013 campaign, the Railsplitters will be bolstered offensively by the much anticipated production of four preseason All-SAC selections on that side of the field. LMU boasted the third-most preseason selections this year, as Catawba and Tusculum earned six apiece while the Railsplitters tied Wingate with four nods. Lincoln Memorial finished in the upper echelon of the South Atlantic Conference last season in nearly every offensive category, as they ranked fifth in the league in team batting average with a .300 mark. Lincoln Memorial also finished the season fourth in slugging percentage (.440) as well as on-base percentage (.394) and doubles (104), while ranking third in stolen bases (77). The Railsplitters were also the second-toughest team in the league to strikeout, as they only fanned a total of 302 times last season.
Headlining the offensive unit, senior Andre Rodriguez was selected to the preseason All-South Atlantic First Team after a stellar 2012 campaign. Last season, Rodriguez, a 5'11" infielder hailing from Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, collected a vast array of distinctions, including All-SAC First Team, NCBWA All-Southeast Region First Team, Daktronics All-Southeast Region First Team, ABCA All-Southeast Region First Team, Daktronics All-America Third Team and NCBWA All-America Honorable Mention. Rodriguez was among the most productive players in the South Atlantic Conference last season, as the middle infielder finished third in the league with a .414 batting average, only .005 points off of Brevard's Champ Stuart for the league batting title. Rodriguez also finished sixth in the league with a .494 on-base percentage and 10th among all players in the SAC with a .600 slugging percentage. Rodriguez filled out his stat ledger with a team-leading 60 hits, 12 doubles, five home runs a nd 27 RBIs.
Senior Cody Baker, an outfielder hailing from Knoxville, Tennessee, also garnered preseason All-SAC First Team laurels after capping the 2012 campaign with a .322 batting average and a .433 on-base percentage. Last season, Cody was named to the SAC Gold Glove Team after posting 116 put outs in centerfield without an error to his credit. Baker also proved to be a dangerous threat on the base paths, as he finished second in the South Atlantic Conference with 25 stolen bases in 28 attempts. Baker currently sits in fifth all-time at Lincoln Memorial in stolen bases, as he has compiled 46 steals in his three-year career, 38 away from the all-time record held by TeWayne Willis.
Senior catcher Nick Pressley, a product of Knoxville, Tennessee, also picked up preseason All-SAC honors, as he was selected to the second team following a breakout year in 2012. Pressley started all 49 games for the Railsplitters in 2012, finishing the year ranked third on the team with a .327 batting mark and a .513 slugging percentage. Nick capped the year just outside of the top-ten individually in the league with 14 doubles while ranking second on the team with five home runs. His stat sheet was rounded out with 37 RBIs, a .429 on-base percentage and 11 steals, while he also compiled an unblemished 1.000 fielding-percentage behind the dish for Lincoln Memorial.
The Railsplitters' preseason All-SAC selections were rounded out by senior Curt Fuqua, as the Jackson, Tennessee native also grabbed the nod for the second team. In his first season at Lincoln Memorial during the 2012 campaign, Fuqua made a splash by raking a .355 batting average with 59 hits, both of which ranked second on the squad. Fuqua finished fourth in the league with a team-leading 18 doubles and also ranked third in the league with four triples. Along with Baker and Pressley, Fuqua notched a 1.000 fielding-percentage with 85 put outs playing primarily in left field for the Railsplitters last season. He also tallied a .584 slugging percentage, a .463 on-base percentage with 13 steals in only 15 attempts.
The Railsplitters' offense will also be driven by a talented group of returners and newcomers this season. Scott Miller and Nick Morabito headline the group of returners that were not selected to the preseason All-SAC Team. Sophomore Scott Miller, a Knoxville, Tennessee product, will look to build on a freshman season that saw the outfielder post a .300 batting average in 12 starts for the 'Splitters. Morabito, a sophomore from Vienna, Virginia, made 19 starts for Lincoln Memorial last season at various positions, notching a .224 batting average with 13 RBIs.
Lincoln Memorial' offensive firepower should also benefit from the return of sophomore Nolan Woody to the lineup after sitting out last year due to injury. The 6'2", 215 pound catcher hailing from Chattanooga, Tennessee notched a .268 batting average with 21 RBIs and a pair of home runs during the 2011 season, his debut at Lincoln Memorial University.
Junior Josh Coker, a transfer from JUCO powerhouse Walters State Community College, highlights the list of newcomers for the Railsplitters this season, as he comes to Lincoln Memorial after compiling a .306 batting average with 10 home runs, 14 doubles and a pair of triples while at Walters State. Coker will be looked upon to provide a potent power threat from the left side of the dish for the Railsplitters this season.
Pitching will dictate the success for the Railsplitters this season, as Lincoln Memorial University will look to improve their numbers from the mound during the 2012 campaign, as they finished eighth in the league with a 7.13 team earned run average and a .337 opposing batting average. Senior Brandon Cowan looks to play a pivotal role on the hump for the Railsplitters this season, as the lefty hailing from Tequesta, Florida, will look to build on a 2-2 mark in 2012 that included a team-leading 47 strikeouts. Cowan is the top-returning innings pitched man, as he tallied 44 innings on the mound for the Railsplitters last season.
After sitting out a year due to injury, junior Austin Johnson looks to return to his form from the 2011 campaign which saw the righty compile a 6-2 mark, headlined by an unblemished 6-0 record in SAC play. During that season, Johnson posted a stingy 3.06 earned run average with 47 strikeouts, limiting his foes to only a .263 batting mark.
The Railsplitters' rotation will also benefit from the return of several key contributors who have a year of college experience under their belts. That group is comprised of sophomores Austin Pittman (Benson, North Carolina) and Logan Sawyer (Seymour, Tennessee). Lincoln Memorial also boast a pair of veterans who look to build on the 2012 campaign, as Seth Woods (Watseka, Illinois) notched a perfect 3-0 mark last season in 23.2 innings pitched, while Patrick Morris (Plantation, Florida) will add depth and experience to the rotation after tossing 22.2 innings last year.
Newcomers Dillon Swaggerty and Ian Creager highlight the group of fresh faces that the Railsplitter faithful should expect to see on the mound this season. Swaggerty, a right-handed freshman out of Marietta, Georgia, comes to the Railsplitters after posting a 6-3 record with 68 strikeouts during his senior season at The Walker School. Creager, a 6'3" right-hander out of Englewood, Ohio, will be making his debut at Lincoln Memorial after a two-year stint at Sinclair Community College where he posted a 6-2 mark and ranked in the top-15 nationally with 70 strikeouts in only 54.2 innings on the mound.
The Railsplitters' season is primed to get underway this weekend, as head coach Jeff Sziksai's group is set to head to perennial national powerhouse University of South Carolina Aiken, ranked 10th nationally in the 2013 Collegiate Baseball Newspaper preseason poll, for a three-game set with the Pacers. First pitch is slated to be thrown at 4 p.m. on Friday, February 1st in Aiken, South Carolina. The Railsplitters and Pacers are scheduled for two more games over the weekend, with a nine-inning game at 1 p.m. on Saturday and the nine-inning finale at 1 p.m. on Sunday afternoon.


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I am trying QCad as newbie and maybe I have a problem with a simple solution.
I have drawn a small mechanical part with a size of 19x5mm.
This is normally too small to be printed out 1:1. As I read in the
manual, I should draw in 1:1, and a scaled output could be done later
by scaling the printout.
I did so and the printed it out on A4 with 5:1.
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The linewith is not scaled, the object dimensions are scaled.
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The arrows of the dimension lines and the dimension text look huge
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OAKLAND -- The Tampa Bay Rays are going to leave town with plenty of stories to tell, the best ones having nothing to do about playing the A's for three games.
On Friday, Rays pitcher David Price spent well over an hour in a cab, and $202, on his trek from the team hotel in San Francisco to the Coliseum.
In the top of the eighth inning, Rays closer Fernando Rodney entered the bathroom in the dugout. For what happened next, we'll turn to Rays manager Joe Maddon.
"All of a sudden, I hear voices coming from behind me," Maddon said. "What is going on? Then, of course, you hear Fernando with his little Fernandoisms coming out of the bathroom."
Rodney was locked in the bathroom and unable to extricate himself without help. Ultimately, a Coliseum security guard and a Rays trainer destroyed the door knob with a weighted bat and freed Rodney.
The Rays trailed 3-1 when Rodney entered the bathroom. He was stuck in there for 15 minutes or so, according to Maddon. The score was tied at 3 when Rodney rejoined his teammates.
"It was pretty funny, actually," Maddon said. "And actually we should have put him back in there for another two runs. That would have been fine. ... It was pretty entertaining. Hey, listen, it got us back in the ball game."
As for getting to the Coliseum, Maddon said it took him and his players only 20 minutes by BART on Saturday, whereas they spent one hour, 45 minutes by bus Friday.
Rays third baseman Evan Longoria said he was one of the few players to take BART both days, so he isn't sure what the fuss is about.
"Once I heard that the (Bay) bridge was closed, I didn't want to sit on the bus for two hours," Longoria said. "So I hopped on BART. It was quick and easy, very nice public transportation. It was uneventful. It was a lot like riding a bus, just a lot quicker, that's for sure."
Longoria said no one noticed him and his teammates during the ride to the Coliseum.


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CUPERTINO -- Apple (AAPL) has dominated the mobile device market since basically inventing the sector with the iPhone and iPad, but tablets running the Android operating system will overtake the iPad in 2013 much as smartphones utilizing Google's (GOOG) offering already have, according to a study released Tuesday.
The study by IDC reported that Apple's majority in the tablet market will end in 2013 for the first time since the iPad was introduced, with the Cupertino company's share of the market expected to drop from 51 percent in 2012 to 46 percent in 2013. Android devices will grow to 48.6 percent of the market in 2013, the study concluded, because the preponderance of smaller devices running Google's operating system have proved extremely popular.
"One in every two tablets shipped this quarter was below 8 inches in screen size. And in terms of shipments, we expect smaller tablets to continue growing in 2013 and beyond," IDC research analyst Jitesh Ubrani said in Tuesday's news release. "Vendors are moving quickly to compete in this space as consumers realize that these small devices are often more ideal than larger tablets for their daily consumption habits."
Apple, noticing this trend, moved into the market for smaller tablets in 2012 with the iPad Mini, but the smaller device is likely hurting sales of the larger iPad more than competing Android tablets, which Apple CEO Tim Cook has noted, using the industry term "cannibalizing."
"Our base philosophy is to never fear cannibalization. If we do, somebody else will just cannibalize it, and so we never fear it," Cook said in Apple's first-quarter earnings report conference call.
Cook's theory is that the tablet market will eventually overtake the personal-computer market, allowing the iPad to continue to grow sales at a rate that will keep Apple very profitable, an idea that the IDC numbers support. IDC increased its projection for 2013 tablet sales to 190.9 million in Tuesday's report, while the firm projects PC sales will decline for the second consecutive year to 345.8 million; by 2017, the two are expected to be close to even, with IDC projecting 350 million tablet sales and 382 million PC sales.
Apple is also facing more competition in the smartphone market, as rival Samsung has overtaken it while the two tech giants fight in court on accusations that Samsung copied the iPhone and iPad in creating its Galaxy line of mobile devices.
The smartphone market is slightly more mature than the tablet market, and the trends are similar yet more advanced -- smartphone shipments are growing but Apple's dominance has subsided.
Smartphone shipments are expected to outpace their less accomplished brethren, dubbed feature phones, in 2013 for the first time, IDC reported earlier this month. While Apple's operating system market share remained the same from 2011 to 2012 in the global smartphone market, IDC has reported, Android's share grew heavily. Google's operating system was used on 68.8 percent of the smartphones shipped in 2012, up from 49.2 percent in 2011, while Apple's iOS stayed the same at 18.8 percent.
Competition is only gearing up in the tablet and smartphone markets, with other manufacturers offering stronger products. Samsung is expected to show off its Galaxy S4 smartphone in an event Thursday, with a launch date likely to precede the next iPhone.
"I really doubt it is a coincidence that Samsung is launching in a quarter (when) there is nothing coming from Apple," Citigroup analyst Glen Yeung told MarketWatch on Tuesday.
Other Android-based manufacturers such as HTC, Huawei, LG and Google's Motorola Mobility continue to develop new devices, as well, while Microsoft has already introduced a mobile operating system for phones and BlackBerry's new operating system arrives this month. In the tablet market, Microsoft's Surface tablet received only 1 percent of the market in 2012, but that is expected to grow to 7.4 percent by 2017, IDC reported.
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Here are IDC predictions for growth this year and over a five-year period for tablets, their mobile operating systems and the PC industry.
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EDWARDS - Hannah Litt combined her passions for creating jewelry and helping others to launch Cute as a Bead.
The local 11 year old began creating and selling the jewelry earlier this year and has donated ever dime to three local charities: Jack's Place Cancer Caring House, Friends of Dance and Eagle County Charter Academy.
"When I started my hobby, instead of just giving pieces to my friends I decided to help local charities by selling my jewelry," said Hannah.
So far, her three chosen charities have received a few hundred dollars each.
Litt said she chose Jack's Place because she feels strongly about keeping families together even when someone is getting cancer treatment.
"I hope they'll use the money I donate to make everyone feel more at home," she said.
The Eagle County Charter Academy is building a new school and will spend its month on supplies like gym equipment.
She started dancing when she was 2 years old, so Friends of Dance was an easy choice.
"I've always looked up to the girls in company who work so hard, dancing six days a week," Litt said.
Litt is a fifth grader at Eagle County Charter Academy. She taught herself to wire and bead popular designs. When she's not in school or making jewelry she dances and performs with Vail Performing Arts Academy.
Her creations range from playful to sophisticated and can be worn by children and adults. Prices range from $20 for earrings to $30 for necklaces.
"I love introducing new ideas, so you really do get an original," she said.
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The census applies to dogs in both the town and villageUPDATED 8:08 AM EDT Jun 21, 2013
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TOWN IS CRACKING DOWN ON OWNERS WHO DON'T LICENSE THEIR PUPS WITH THE VILLAGE. IN FACT, SO FEW DOGS ARE ACTUALLY REGISTERED...TO WN OFFICIALS ARE RAISING THE FEES TOO. NEWSCHANNEL FIVE'S ALISON CAREY WENT DOOR TO DOOR WITH THE MALONE DOG CONTROL OFFICER AND HAS THE STORY TONIGHT. nat pop: shelter volunteer knocks on door, opens it and walks in IF YOU LIVE IN MALONE YOU CAN EXPECT A VISIT FROM A AN ANIMAL SHELTER VOLUNTEER. IT'S AS PART OF A DOOR-TO-DOOR DOG CENSUS TO ENSURE ALL DOGS ARE LICENSED AND VACCINATED. DONNA BAILEY VOLUNTEER do you have a dog? I do. Is he licensed? Yes. THE CENSUS APPLIES TO DOGSLIVING IN THE VILLAGE OR TOWN OF MALONE. ACCORDING TO NEW YORK STATE LAW, ALL DOGS FOUR MONTHS AND OLDER MUST BE LICENSED. MUNICIPALITIES DETERMINE THE LICENSING FEES. IN MALONE THE COST TO LICENSE A DOG WILL REMAIN THE SAME. BUT IF DOGS AREN'T REGISTERED BY THE TIME THEY'RE FOUR MONTHS OLD OWNERS HAVE TO PAY AN additional FEE THAT'S GOING UP.. SHIRLEY MORTON CONTROL OFFICER because so few people automatically license their dog, they decided to raise the enumeration fee from five dollars to twenty-five dollars. THE EXTRA MONEY GOES TOWARDS TRACKING DOWN OTHER UNLICENSED DOGS. SHIRLEY MORTON CONTROL OFFICER they're supposed to license them immediately. They've already lost out on the grace period. They had three weeks from the time the town of Malone decided to increase the fee. They could get in, license their dog, visit the free rabbis clinic so they had their dogs already licensed for rabbis which is needed to present to the town clerk upon licensing. ALISON CAREY the malone animal shelter is where animals end up when they are found lost on the street. However, because many people don't license their pets, not all of them are so lucky. SHIRLEY MORTON CONTROL OFFICER They're making it not only harder for the dog, but they're also making it harder for themselves because they'll have to pay the twenty-five dollar enumeration fee and if they're summoned to appear in court, they'll also have to pay court fees. ALISON CAREY IN MALONE, NEWSCHANNEL FIVE. THE NEWS CONTINUES WITH NEWSCHANNEL
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Food and nutrition crises in the region have grown in frequency and severity since 2005, mostly driven by sporadic rainfall, insufficient local harvests, and high food prices. As a result, people's resilience has been eroded, undermining their capacity to respond to what have become recurrent emergencies. The 2012 crisis was compounded by the conflict in northern Mali, which affected about 400,000 people internally and exacerbated the situation in Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Niger.
At the end of 2012, good rainfall and better harvests provided some relief. Cereal production is 13% higher than last year, but this does not mean the crisis is over. Food prices remain high and many farmers were unable to take advantage of the better rains to plant their crops. Malnutrition rates for children remain above emergency levels in many parts of the region. Millions of people still require sustained support to recover from the crisis, rebuild their assets and livelihoods, and be able to support their families.
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Today: Cisco (CSCO) hits its highest price in more than two years and may be poised for more gains. Also: Tesla and SolarCity record big gains, Apple (AAPL) turns back to green, NetApp and AMD tumble.
The lead: Cisco roars to new highs, could be first step on way to more
Cisco Systems took a wild ride to multiyear highs Thursday, after San Jose's largest private employer announced improved quarterly earnings that changed its perception from a company struggling in a global economy not conducive to large enterprise hardware spending to one that is able to succeed despite such woes.
Cisco reported a profit of $2.5 billion on revenues of $12.2 billion in the first quarter in a Wednesday afternoon announcement, reflecting year-over-year growth of 15 percent for profits and 5 percent for sales. Investors celebrated by pushing Cisco to a high of $24.24 before closing with a 12.6 percent leap at $23.89, establishing its highest closing price since 2010 and its largest one-day gain since 2011.
Cisco CEO John Chambers -- respected among analysts for his ability to discern which way the global economic winds are blowing -- suggested in Wednesday's conference call that Cisco's gains were due to the early signs of an improving global economy, with Europe rebounding from hitting its bottom and China remaining sluggish but not decimated. Traders and analysts seemed to agree Thursday.
"Cisco will see the benefits of a macro recovery earlier than most," Nomura analyst Stuart Jeffrey told Reuters. "We believe that this is largely due to sustained share gains and strong sales execution; both factors that we believe are sustainable for some time yet."
Sustainable profits could generate more strong gains for Cisco, but the stock could be in for ongoing positive movement due to technical reasons as well, the Wall Street Journal reported. Thursday's gains pushed through a resistance level that Cisco had been unable to clear for more than two years, and its ability to power through that ceiling is likely to mean greater rewards for Cisco investors, John Schlitz, chief U.S. market technician at brokerage firm Instinet, told the Journal.
"It's a good breakout. It looks like it has put in a long-term bottom," Schlitz said, adding that he believes the current upward trajectory is likely to reach $28.
Cisco's earnings were a surprise because other large enterprise-hardware companies seemed to be suffering, and the networking sector as a whole grabbed gains in the wake of Cisco's strong showing. Sunnyvale-based Juniper Networks, which released preliminary earnings information in April that did not exhibit the same level of growth, but its stock still moved 4.2 percent higher to $17.78 Thursday. San Francisco-based Riverbed Technology gained 4.8 percent to $16.38 and Santa Clara's Infoblox increased 2.4 percent to $21.82, while non-Silicon Valley networking companies like F5 and Radware, both up 3.4 percent, also found gains.
SV150 market report: Tesla, SolarCity, Apple, Google, NetApp, Intel, Yahoo, AMD, Microsoft
Cisco's strong performance couldn't lift the market as a whole, however, with all three major U.S. indexes declining as much as 0.5 percent thanks to discouraging economic reports and disappointing earnings from large retailer Wal-Mart. Silicon Valley did enjoy gains, however, with the SV150 moving 0.7 percent higher as other large-cap tech stocks moved higher.
Apple moved back into the green after a couple days of large declines, with Wednesday's fall likely related to three hedge funds dumping large volumes of Apple stock on the market. The Cupertino tech giant recaptured the title of most valuable company in the world in terms of market capitalization by gaining 1.3 percent to $434.58 while Apple CEO Tim Cook prepares to tell Congress that corporate tax laws need to be overhauled and build a new flagship store in San Francisco. Apple faces more difficulties in Asia, however, with the Wall Street Journal reporting it is still having trouble complying with labor laws in Asian factories, while bitter rival Samsung seeks to horn in on Apple's parts suppliers to help with its competing products.
Elon Musk had another excellent day, as both his Silicon Valley companies scored on Wall Street. Tesla, the Palo Alto electric car maker Musk runs, again hurt the legion of short sellers targeting his company, as a plan to release nearly 3 million more shares in the company helped the stock price rise 8.7 percent to close higher than $90 for the first time, at $92.25, though that plan could test the company's recent record-breaking gains.
San Mateo solar installer SolarCity, for which Musk serves as chairman, saved its big news for Thursday, announcing a $500 million investment from Goldman Sachs that will help it continue to install residential solar-power systems with little or no money down. SolarCity gained 11 percent to $35.69, barely shy of its own record closing high set Monday, and Raymond James analyst Pavel Molchanov said short sellers were also disappointed in that move.
"The short squeeze in Tesla has been spilling over into gains in SolarCity," Molchanov told CNN Money. "That's something that's unrelated to SolarCity's own business -- you can call it the Elon Musk Trade."
NetApp managed a big gain, moving 6.2 percent higher to $38.46 after Bloomberg News reported that activist investor Elliott Management had piled up a big stake in the Sunnyvale data-storage company and would likely agitate for change.
While large-cap stocks such as Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) (up 1.9 percent) and Oracle (ORCL) (up 1.1 percent) joined those gainers, Google (GOOG) and Intel (INTC) weren't so lucky. Google did manage to extend its streak of sessions with a new intraday high to 10, thanks to early sales that reached $919.98, but the Mountain View search giant eventually dropped 1.3 percent to $903.87 on the day. While the company failed to maintain momentum from its I/O keynote, the developers conference continued with announcements about apps for Google Glass while the company introduced a new way to transfer money with Gmail. News wasn't as good across the pond, however, as British lawmakers lambasted a Google executive, calling the company "evil" and saying Google had misled them on taxes.
Santa Clara chipmaker Intel dropped 1.1 percent to $23.94 on its first day with Brian Krzanich in the CEO seat. Krzanich took over at the company's annual shareholders meeting and admitted the company was slow to mobile, though a long feature from The Atlantic detailed that Paul Otellini's tenure was still mighty profitable despite missing the mobile boat. Fellow chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, which had been on a roll on Wall Street, turned the other way and plummeted 12.6 percent after Goldman Sachs downgraded the stock to sell from neutral.
Yahoo (YHOO), which again hit its highest prices since the failed Microsoft merger in 2008 after Goldman raised its price target on Wednesday, couldn't maintain those gains Thursday. The Sunnyvale company dipped 2.8 percent to $26.58 despite a deal with Twitter to display tweets in its newsfeed, but it could get back to increases Friday after announcing after the bell that a $2.75 billion Mexican verdict had been tossed out.
Outside of the valley, Microsoft hit a five-year high with a 0.7 percent gain to $34.08, helping co-founder Bill Gates regain the title of world's richest man.
Up: Cisco, SolarCity, Tesla, NetApp, Ruckus, Juniper, Palo Alto Networks, VMware, HP, Yelp, Apple, Oracle, Splunk, Workday
Down: AMD, SunPower (SPWRA), Zynga, Yahoo, Electronic Arts (ERTS), Netflix (NFLX), Gilead, LinkedIn, Facebook, eBay (EBAY), Symantec, Google, Intuit (INTU), Adobe (ADBE), Intel, Applied Materials
The SV150 index of Silicon Valley's largest tech companies: Up 8.75, or 0.69 percent, to 1,275.29
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Down 6.38, or 0.18 percent, to 3,465.24
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Down 42.47, or 0.28 percent, to 15,233.22
And the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index: Down 8.31, or 0.5 percent, to 1,650.47
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As you can see I have had the privilege of meeting and playing some tennis with one of the greatest legends of our sport: Björn Borg! I have always been interested in the history of the game and his is certainly a name you come across very often in this regard. So it was a dream come true for me to spend around an hour on the court with Björn.
Upon my stay in Dubai on my way to Shanghai, I saw that a senior exhibition called 'The legends rock Dubai' was being held. Björn Borg was there along with John McEnroe, Mansour Bahrami and others. I asked him if he would like to play some tennis with me and it was terrific!
The tournament in Shanghai is moving closer rather rapidly. It's great to have prepared for the Masters Cup quietly in Dubai. I'm looking forward to this year's final challenge!
Speak to you soon,
I hope you will have a nice time here,and good luck in the TMC.
Waiting for your next letter.
a fan from Shanghai
Anne Cheng
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But I'm sure that also Bjorn is enthusiastic to have
go roger!
good luck at the TMC!
Happy to hear about your meeting with Borg. I never saw him play, but I gather that he was quite something. BUT no-one can rival our champ Roger! Go, go go Roger!!!
nice to hear that you spent some time with the tennis legend. Hope that you are ready to play in Shanghai, good luck.


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24 home sales of $1 million-plus in November
Published: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 1:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, December 10, 2012 at 6:44 p.m.
SARASOTA COUNTY - Did turkey dinners take some of the stuffing out luxury home sales during November?
Real estate agents sold 24 properties that were worth more than $1 million during November.
It was still a strong pace -- $38 million in value, or an average of $1.58 million per property -- but down from 34 sales worth nearly $70 million, or an average of $2.055 million, in October.
Florida Realtors, the trade group, is expected to report November sales on Dec. 20, and many local sales agents expect deals will have continued at a strong pace in Southwest Florida, based on the number of pending contracts signed in recent months.
Among luxury sales during November in Sarasota County, the biggest action for the most valuable properties was on the barrier islands. Of the top 10, three were on Longboat Key, two on Siesta Key, two on St. Armands Key and one each on Bird and Casey keys. One mainland house in Sarasota made the list.
By dollar value, the top house last month was a 6,493-square-foot house on Siesta Key that changed hands for $4.1 million. The previous owners paid $1.675 million for the property in May 2008 and built the house two years later.
Other top luxury sales for the month included:
A 2,370-square-foot house on Casey Key Road that sold for $2.925 million. The property had sold for $3.8 million in July 2007.
A 3,951-square-foot house on North Washington Drive on St. Armands Key for $2.25 million. The house had last changed hands in November 2003 for $1.725 million.
A 3,273-square-foot condominium in the Water Club complex on Longboat Key for $2.15 million. The previous owner had paid $1.45 million in January 2000.
A 2,754-square-foot house on Bird Key's Partridge Circle for $1.85 million. The previous owner had paid $775,000 for the property in March 2002 and built the house in 2009.
A 4,526-square-foot house on Longboat Key's Fair Oaks Lane that sold for $1.7 million. The property had last changed hands for $1.228 million in July 1999.
A 2,634-square-foot condominium unit on L'Ambiance Drive on Longboat Key for $1.675 million. The previous owner had paid $715,000 in January 1993.
A 2,542-square-foot condo unit on Midnight Pass Road on Siesta Key for $1.59 million. The property had last changed hands for $350,000 in June 1988.
A 5,345-square-foot house on Stone Ridge Trail in Sarasota that sold for $1.5 million. The previous owner had paid $183,300 for the land in November 2001 and built the house in 2007.
A 3,558-square-foot house on St. Armands Key's Jackson Drive that sold for $1.48 million. The property had previously changed hands for $270,500 in August 1993.
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GYPSUM, Colorado - Mac's Liquor is pretty quiet in the middle of the day - business starts to pick up in the late afternoon, when people start coming home from work. That's one reason store owner Peter Struve is looking forward to a new power plant being built in town.
That plant, being built by Eagle Valley Clean Energy LLC and financed in large part with $40 million in federal loan guarantees, will generate electricity by burning chipped wood, primarily from beetle-killed forests. That process, known as "biomass" generation, is classified as "renewable" energy, which is something Holy Cross Energy wants, since state law requires utilities to provide a significant portion of their power from renewable sources.
The plant - which will be just east of the town's wallboard plant, above the Eagle River and just southeast of the town's Interstate 70 interchange - is expected to generate about 11.5 megawatts of electricity every year. Eagle Valley Clean Energy will keep 1.5 megawatts for its own operations and sell 10 megawatts to Holy Cross.
Besides electricity, the biomass plant also will generate jobs. Construction is expected to create in the neighborhood of 100 jobs. A few of those jobs will be taken by specialists coming from outside the area - which means hotel nights in Eagle and restaurant meals in both towns. Most of the jobs, though, will be taken by local companies whose employees already live in the area.
After construction, the plant will have about 40 full-time employees, most of whom will be either current residents or will move into the area. In Gypsum, all of the above is a big deal.
"We're a bedroom community," Struve said. "That's why our restaurants struggle at lunch."
Struve said another 40 people spending their work days down valley will have an effect on those restaurants. It could also help diversify Gypsum's retail businesses.
"We have three liquor stores, three convenience stores and the grocery store right here - and Costco, of course," Struve said. "We could use some more retail."
A few blocks away, Danny Woolsey owns the Ekahi Grill, the town's Hawaiian restaurant. Woolsey said he's already seen some workers coming in for lunch from the plant. And that's a good thing.
"I'm looking forward to it," Woolsey said. "We need more people in town."
Gypsum Mayor Steve Carver owns Big Steve's Towing, which means he's often helping clean up messes on I-70. Carver said keeping people in town could help, at least a bit, with traffic safety.
And, Carver said, it's better for families to have parents working closer to home.
"We'd love to employ all the people we can in town," Carver said.
Beyond the prospect of having more residents actually working in town, Carver said it's also good to have at least some industry in the county. Right now, Gypsum, with its existing wallboard plant, is the only place in Eagle County where that's happening.
Struve said the issue isn't simply a matter of one kind of business or another but diversity in what kinds of businesses operate here.
"We depend so much on tourism," Struve said. "One down snow year can affect us for a few years after that. We need to make sure we can survive that."
All of that can help make a "well-rounded community," Gypsum Town Manager Jeff Shroll said.
"I think it's hard to find a negative about it," Struve said.
Business Editor Scott N. Miller can be reached at 970-748-2930 or email@example.com.


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Grand Central: Yellen Didn't Rule Out Monetary Policy to Combat Bubbles
The Wall Street Journal's Daily Report on Global Central Banks for Tuesday, July 8:
- Hilsenrath's Take: Yellen Didn't Rule Out Monetary Policy to Combat Bubbles
- Fed Defends Its Approach to Punishing Banks for Improper Foreclosures
- Is BOE Gov. Mark Carney's Recovery for Real?
- ECB Would Need Good Reason to Start Asset Purchases, Lautenschlaeger Says
- Economic Growth Likely to Strengthen in India But Slow in Germany
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen caused a stir last week when she appeared to rule out raising interest rates to tame financial bubbles. But a close reading of her comments suggests she actually went to great lengths to leave her options open.
Ms. Yellen made headlines by asserting monetary policy faces "significant limitations" as a tool to protect financial stability and shouldn't be used right now to restrain markets. She went on to argue that regulatory tools should be the Fed's first line of defense against future bubbles, a stance very much in line with that of her predecessor Ben Bernanke.
In several instances, however, she explicitly said the Fed might someday need to raise interest rates to tamp down overheating markets.
"I am mindful of the potential for low interest rates to heighten the incentives of financial market participants to reach for yield and take on risk, and of the limits of macroprudential measures to address these and other financial stability concerns," she said in one example. "Accordingly, there may be times when an adjustment in monetary policy may be appropriate to ameliorate emerging risks to financial stability."
What's striking in that comment is an acknowledgment that monetary policy itself might become a source of instability that needs to be restrained.
Nor were her caveats purely theoretical. Though she isn't worried about financial overheating now, "I do see pockets of increased risk-taking across the financial system," she said. With that in mind, she continued, "It is therefore important that we monitor the degree to which the macroprudential steps we have taken have built sufficient resilience, and that we consider the deployment of other tools, including adjustments to the stance of monetary policy, as conditions change in potentially unexpected ways."
Fed officials regularly receive financial stability reports at monetary policy meetings and discuss the interplay of policy and markets. It is worth remembering how last year's discussions about the Fed's bond-buying program played out. Some officials pointed to financial excess as discussions intensified in April 2013 about winding down those purchases. "A few participants expressed concern that conditions in certain U.S. financial markets were becoming too buoyant, pointing to the elevated issuance of bonds by lower-credit-quality firms or of bonds with fewer restrictions on collateral and payment terms," said the meeting minutes. A few weeks later, Mr. Bernanke publicly raised the idea of scaling down the bond purchases.
Most top Fed officials see interest rate increases as a second line of defense against financial excess. Like it or not, however, financial stability has become an important part of their complex conversation about policy.
-By Jon Hilsenrath
Fed Defends Its Approach to Punishing Banks for Improper Foreclosures. The Fed said the settlement program, in which 13 banks agreed to compensate homeowners whose properties may have been improperly sent into foreclosure, had transferred about $3.1 billion to borrowers as of April.
Is BOE Gov. Mark Carney's Recovery for Real? Watch this video discussion featuring Wall Journal editors and reporters and private analysts.
UK Economists Back BOE Action on House Prices Risks. A majority of the U.K.'s leading economists back action to prevent a sharp rise in house prices from once again threatening the stability of a financial system that has not fully recovered from the 2008 financial crisis, but some believe the response should include a rise in the Bank of England's benchmark interest rate.
ECB Would Need Good Reason to Start Asset Purchases, Lautenschlaeger Says. ECB executive board member Sabine Lautenschlaeger Monday said it would take some time for all of the measures agreed to in June by the ECB to take effect. Still, she said, if the inflation outlook doesn't improve as expected, the ECB's Governing Council is unanimous in its willingness to use unconventional measures to stop inflation from falling too low for too long.
ECB Noyer: Declining Inflation Remains Challenge. Low and declining inflation remains the main challenge in Europe, European Central Bank governing council member Christian Noyer said Tuesday – Dow Jones Newswires.
Economic Growth Likely to Strengthen in India But Slow in Germany. Economic growth is likely to strengthen in India over coming months, but slow in Germany, according to leading indicators released Tuesday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The Paris-based research body's gauge of future economic activity suggests growth in developed economies will remain around current rates, with large developing economies making a smaller contribution to global economic growth than they did in the years following the onset of the financial crisis of 2008. As a result of that combination, global growth is unlikely to pick up significantly this year.
BOJ Says Japan's Regional Economies Stay Solid. Japan's regional economies reported smooth sailing in the three months to July, providing the latest indication that businesses are weathering the headwinds from a higher sales tax. In its quarterly "Sakura Report," the Bank of Japan maintained its assessment of all of the nation's nine local economies, describing the overall state of the economy as "recovering or recovering moderately as a trend."
Bank of Canada Survey Supports Neutral Policy Stance, but Offers Encouraging Signs. The survey's findings on sales expectations and hiring plans were weaker than in the central bank's first-quarter survey, and an indicator of capacity constraints eased. Crucially, businesses' inflation expectations remained locked in the bottom half of the central bank's 1-3% target range despite a recent spike in consumer prices, as stiff competition prevents many companies from raising prices.
Survey Says Malaysian Central Bank to Raise Interest Rates. Malaysia's central bank may raise interest rates for the first time in more than three years when it meets Thursday, in an attempt control household debt and anchor inflation expectations. A Wall Street Journal survey shows that 11 out of 15 economists expect Bank Negara Malaysia's monetary policy committee to raise the benchmark overnight policy rate by 0.25 percentage point to 3.25% when it announces its decision at 1000 GMT Thursday. Four economists expect the central bank to keep the rate steady for the 19th review since mid-2011 – Dow Jones Newswires
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is looking into the possibility of ending the longtime industry practice of treating government bonds as risk-free assets. The practice matters because banks hold a lot of government bonds, but they don't actually count as assets for purposes of calculating banks' capital ratios. The problem is that some government bonds aren't risk-free, as holders of Greek bonds learned during the euro-zone crisis. Which countries might protest the loudest? Look at the ones where banks are big holders of government bonds.
-Richmond Fed's Lacker speaks on the economic outlook at 1 p.m. EDT in Charlotte, N.C.
-Minneapolis Fed's Kocherlakota speaks on monetary policy and the economy at 1:45 p.m. EDT in Minneapolis, Minn.
Home-Price Drop Held Back Start-Up Hiring After the Recession. The steep drop in house prices during the 2007-2009 recession likely held back hiring by start-up companies during the recovery, which could help explain why overall U.S. job growth has been so weak, according to two San Francisco Fed economists. "Our analysis suggests that between March 2010 and March 2011, lower employment growth at start-ups may have subtracted as much as 0.7 percentage point from total job growth, translating into roughly 760,000 fewer jobs."
Some Surprising Findings On International Competitiveness. In a recent paper published by Germany's central bank, a pair of Bundesbank economists constructed a comparable benchmark of international competitiveness across countries, based on price and productivity data, to gauge whether a country's price levels are higher or lower versus their trading partners. . It yielded some surprising results. Germany's price competitiveness was found to be in line with most other euro zone members including Spain. "At first glance, one may have expected a more favorable result for Germany and a more unfavorable one for Spain," the authors noted. Meanwhile, "at the current juncture, and in contrast to the prevailing view, we find US price competitiveness to be above and China's price competitiveness to be below" the benchmark, the paper states.
There were seven major messages to be gleaned from Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen's speech last week at the International Monetary Fund, writes Mohamed El-Erian in a Bloomberg View column. "They collectively signal that the Fed will maintain a gradual policy approach for now. Markets, conditioned to expect strong and steadfast monetary support from the Fed, welcome that stance. But Yellen's statements also point to the need for a delicate transition from policy-induced growth to more organic economic growth. If that transition is mishandled, it would trigger renewed financial and economic instability."
Paul Krugman writes in the New York Times, "You might wonder why monetary theory gets treated like evolution or climate change. Isn't the question of how to manage the money supply a technical issue, not a matter of theological doctrine? Well, it turns out that money is indeed a kind of theological issue. Many on the right are hostile to any kind of government activism."
The Bank for International Settlements and Ms. Yellen disagree on monetary policy and its role in promoting financial stability in a fundamental way, writes Gavyn Davies for the Financial Times. "To a large extent, the dispute can be viewed as old wine in new bottles: the 'Wicksellian' BIS versus the 'Keynesian' Yellen. But the Great Financial Crash has provided the two schools with plenty of new evidence to deploy."
-A brief bomb scare at the Fed's Detroit branch turned out to be a truck that had been used to deliver fireworks, local television station WXYZ reported Monday.
-A compilation of U.S. job-market indicators confirms healthier demand for labor in June, according to a report released Monday. The Conference Board said its June employment trends index increased to 119.62 from a revised 119.03 in May, first reported as 118.58.
-Both Germany's exports and imports fell in May, official data showed Tuesday, reflecting a slowdown in economic activity.
-U.K. factory output fell unexpectedly on the month in May, due to a broad-based decline, official data showed Tuesday.
-China's central bank bought a net 361 million ($58 million) of foreign currency in May, the lowest in almost a year, central bank data released on Monday showed, suggesting capital inflows decreased in May – Dow Jones Newswires.
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MF Noob wrote: haha come on. This name makes sense in the other thread. Just a little poke at MF Toon and his ways.
I'll still use this name for noobie purposes I guess. Went through the trouble of registering it and all. Jeesh.
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Haha. When I first listened to that tape I regretted buying it. haha. I went back a couple of months ago and listened to it and "Chester" is the reason I will never attempt to play that tape again.
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UNION CITY -- When asked recently what he likes about football, James Logan High running back/linebacker Warren Miles Long paused and thought about the question for a few seconds.
Then he said, "It's a thinking game. You have to know what you are doing."
That response isn't surprising. Long is a self-described "academics guy" who holds a 3.8 grade-point average and chose to attend Northwestern next fall largely because of its academic reputation.
But Long isn't just intelligent, he is also one of the top two-way players in the East Bay for the third-seeded Colts (12-1) and could be a major factor in Saturday's North Coast Section Division I title game against No. 1 De La Salle (12-0) at Dublin High. Kickoff is at 7 p.m.
"He's got great vision, keeps his feet moving, which means he breaks a lot of tackles. That's what impresses me most about him," said Terry Eidson, who's been De La Salle's defensive coordinator since 1991. "He gets a lot of his yards after first contact."
During the regular season, the 5-foot-11, 195-pound Long rushed for a modest 934 yards and 10 touchdowns -- averaging 9.6 yards per carry. But he was limited to less than 10 carries in six lopsided wins.
The NCS playoffs have been a different story.
In the Colts' three postseason wins, Long had a combined 644 yards on 50 carries and 10 TDs. In last week's semifinal matchup with No. 2 California, Long ran for 143 yards and three scores in a 40-7 win.
"You have to wrap up, slow him down, gang-tackle," Eidson said. "We have to get him to run sideways, not downhill."
Long has been a mainstay in the Colts backfield since his sophomore season. He rushed for 1,314 yards and 19 touchdowns as a junior, and 1,545 yards as a sophomore.
"He's always played at a high level," Colts coach George Zuber said. "His vision has gotten better. He is more confident running up the middle."
Long also mentioned that he has improved this season in being "more reliable as far as not losing yardage, sticking my head down for four to five yards if it's there."
This is the first season that Logan has been an independent team, and it has worked out well for the Colts.
"Obviously the more top quality teams you can play, the better," said Zuber, who also confirmed the Colts will play the Spartans in the regular season next year. "The regular season worked out great for us."
Now the Colts will be playing in the NCS Division I championship game.
"It was one of my goals I set out my freshman year," Long said.
That's smart thinking.
Saturday night
Visit contracostatimes.com/high-school-sports or insidebayarea.com/high-school-sports on Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. for live scoring updates from high school football games from throughout the East Bay.
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The Backstage Theatre is presenting an adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" through Dec. 29. The production is Charles Dickens' holiday classic in plot, but not in presentation.
Commissioned by the Backstage and adapted by Josh Hartwell, the play is delivered by a cast of puppets created by Cory Gilstrap of Imagined Creations.
Artistic director Christopher Willard said the production came together in an eclectic and fortuitous way.
"Our actors are extremely passionate and we were lucky to work with the talent of Cory Gilstrap, who brought another component to the production with his handcrafted puppets."
The actors each play several characters using puppets and larger-than-life masks created by Gilstrap, designer for the Backstage's multi-award-winning production of "The Hobbit."
Acting with puppets and masks requires special techniques and training, which the performers underwent in Denver before coming up to Breckenridge.
"The puppets are controlled by the actors in the play but they really end up taking up a personality of their own," Willard said.
The Tiny Tim puppet, made mostly of moldable foam, plastic and rubber is garnished with crutches and a facial expression that depicts his pain.
Gilstrap said of all the puppets featured in the production, Tiny Tim was the one that took the longest to construct because of the importance of detail.
"Tiny Tim had to be seen as a character worth feeling sorry for," Gilstrap said. "He really drives Scrooge's transformation and I thought it was the most important part of the production to get his character to speak to the audience."
Jim Hunt plays the familiar role of Ebenezer Scrooge. However, the theater hopes the addition of Gilstrap's puppetry gives Scrooge's journey toward redemption a whole new energy and feel.
Other actors include Brian Landis Folkins, Mackenzie Paulsen and Lindsey Pierce.
"There are various styles of puppetry in use in this production," Willard said. "Most of the ghost puppets are bunraku-style puppets that require two operators to bring them to life. We are using a rod style for the narrators. We're utilizing full-size shadow puppets for the Fezziwig party and kite-style puppets for the phantoms that appear during the Marley scene."
"You have to breathe life into an inanimate object and to invest in it so completely that the audience believes that object is alive, a unique personality and full of character."
Early bookings and reservations are recommended by the theatre company. Tickets can be purchased at www.backstagetheatre.org.


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Definition of naturalist in English:
1An expert in or student of natural history.
Example sentences
- Ornithologists and naturalists, including the renowned nineteenth-century illustrator John Gould, originally classified male and female huias as two different species.
- To help do this, the event organizers have recruited naturalists and scientists with expertise in various animal and plant groups to lead teams of volunteers through the park and identify what is there.
- On this year's Antarctic cruises, for example, the onboard team includes scientists, naturalists and explorers, led by respected naturalist Nigel Sitwell.
natural historian, life scientist, wildlife expert;
2A person who practices naturalism in art or literature.
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- The novel received wide critical acclaim and Motley's harsh, unrelenting realism invited comparisons with Richard Wright and the revered naturalists Theodore Dreiser and Frank Norris.
- In other words, Caravaggio died because of his artistic success as a naturalist.
- Even a naturalist like Zola cannot help giving his characters insight (of joy or despair) into the sweep of human meaning even as he feeds them to the grinder of biological determinism.
2.1A person who adopts philosophical naturalism.
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- A methodological naturalist would insist on explaining all phenomena, however strange, in natural terms.
- But as Johnson himself notes, many people think that they can be methodological naturalists and theists.
- The naturalist on the contrary simply points out that, whatever the mind is, our continuing existence is proof that it has done its job of keeping us around.
another term for naturalistic.
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- But that, again, is a triumph of naturalist ideology over common sense.
- Nevertheless, such a logic fully brings out the absurd implications of the feminist and naturalist accounts.
- This was a challenge to the dominant, naturalist conventions of his day, where characters in drama represented specific social types without contradiction, predetermined and easily recognisable.
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Monday, November 19, 2012
The regular season has been no sweat at Silver Bluff the last few years. It's the postseason that's been the issue.
Of course, with a longtime coach like Al Lown in charge, things like that seem to work themselves out eventually.
In the six seasons before this one, the Bulldogs have won 80% of their regular season games, but just over 50% in the playoffs. That included a streak of five straight second round exits that ended just last year.
But now, with two playoff wins already in 2012, the Bluff has its sights set on a trip to the state championship. And just one win stands between them and that golden ticket.
Lown said, "Two years in a row to play for the Lower State title game is pretty big, especially the with the way we won a bunch of games this year. It's been an unbelievable year of comebacks and close games, and we've been able to scratch out wins. So, we're really proud to get back to this game."
Quarterback Jalen Jackson added, "We like that a lot. We do. To be able to play at home in front of all our friends and family and to play the team that put us out last year and get a chance at revenge, we've got a lot of confidence. We think we can do it. We think this is the year for it."
The Bulldogs host the same Bishop England squad that knocked them out a year ago.


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The Magic shot 50 percent from the field in earning their first win since Jan. 16. They play their next two games at home. Reserve Gustavo Ayon had 16 points and 11 rebounds for Orlando.
LaMarcus Aldridge led Portland with 25 points. Nicolas Batum added 19 points and Wesley Matthews chipped in 17.
The Blazers, who have lost three in a row overall, fell to 1-7 in their last eight road games. They play at Miami on Tuesday and New Orleans on Wednesday before the All-Star break.
Orlando held a 79-72 lead entering the final quarter but had to push back against multiple attempts at a run by the Blazers down the stretch.
Portland closed to 103-95 with less than 3 minutes to play, but the Magic answered with a 3-pointer by Redick and a layup by Ayon to push the cushion back to 13 with just over a minute remaining.
Redick returned to action Sunday after missing three consecutive games with a sore right shoulder and instantly injected some energy into the Magic's lineup.
Usually most effective with his outside shot, Redick did his scoring with a variety of cuts to the basket and layups off fast breaks. He attempted only a pair of 3-pointers through the first three quarters, but still managed 17 points over that span.
The Magic led by as many as nine late in the second quarter before Batum went on a one-man 11-2 scoring run to tie it. Orlando responded with a 9-3 run to end the half, taking a 55-49 lead into the locker room.
Orlando had just five turnovers in the half and also outscored the Blazers 9-0 on second-chance points.
Notes: Orlando is the second straight opponent to shoot at least 50 percent against Portland. ...


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This episode (download here), the Geeks welcome friend of the show, Brandon Wood to the show. Brandon and the guys recap Jason's first Half Marathon experience as well as talk about how Brandon got into long distance running. No training update this week from Jason as he took the week off to rest. Raymond is still out from running – one week closer to getting cleared by the doctor though.
Along with Brandon, the guys discuss the natural running, the Stick, foam rollers and ITBS, and the Newton Running Company.
This week instead of harassing a user on twitter, we opted to give out some 'big ups' to Trevor (@indianabackdoc) for completing a Half Iron Man.
Until next time, leave feedback on iTunes, email questions and comments to feedback [at] GeeksInRunningShoes [dot] com. Also follow us on Twitter, Jason (@guttocutwl) and Ray (@adeyemiking).
As always, thanks for listening!


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Hi - trying QCAD 3.0. I appreciate the .DXF/.DWG functionality.
On desktop / office machines, the new libraries and codebase really don't cause much trouble in being slightly slower.
QCAD 2.2.2 was actually usable on an ancient Toughbook (PII, 366 MHz, 128M, Debian, XFCE) that could actually stand living in the shop or going out in the field. This was nice for looking at prints, etc., or doing sketches on-site.
I don't expect you (or anyone!) to support machines that old, but it would be nice if 2.2.2 didn't completely vanish or lose ability to open QCAD3 files. I'm sure the plus of maintainability outweighs the really sleek design of QCAD2, but I can't brag about it from a size/speed standpoint anymore.
Thanks for the good work!


text: By Douglas J. Gillert American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON -- The decision to give battlefield troops the anti- nerve agent drug pyridostigmine bromide won't be as easy in the future as it was during the 1991 Gulf War, DoD officials said Oct. 19 at the Pentagon. An estimated 250,000 U.S. service members, as well as troops from other nations participating in the Gulf War, were given the drug to protect them against soman, a deadly nerve agent. At the time, intelligence reports couldn't confirm the presence of soman in Iraqi arsenals. Instead, the decision to issue PB tablets was based partially on prior Soviet possession of the agent and concerns it might have been passed on to Iraq. Also, Iraq was known to have used nerve agents against Iran and the Kurds. "Given the deadliness of soman and the lack of other treatments available, we certainly cannot rule out using PB to protect our forces in the future," said Dr. Sue Bailey, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs. "However, our leadership would be very judicious in deciding to use PB in the future. The decision would involve weighing concerns about possible long-term health effects with a threat-risk assessment of how likely it is that soman would be used against our troops." During the Gulf War, service members were issued PB tablets and told to take them during high-threat periods. The medication would bind and block an enzyme that, when attacked by soman, breaks down excessive amounts of a nerve-signaling chemical, acetylcholine, and leads to muscle twitching, glandular secretions, abnormal moods and thinking and, at higher dose levels, paralysis and respiratory failure. PB produces temporary effects similar to low-level dosages of soman but it also blocks the nerve agent from causing permanent damage. However, results of studies commissioned by DoD suggest PB may cause lasting effects in some humans, with symptoms of the type reported by tens of thousands of Gulf War veterans. Thousands of veterans have reported difficulty with sleeping, pain, mood swings, muscle fatigue and memory loss. These are precisely the symptoms medical research shows could be caused by PB. The revelations are contained in a lengthy review of scientific literature produced by the RAND Corp. and made public Oct. 19. The research, however, is inconclusive, and DoD has commissioned RAND and others to continue studying PB for a more complete picture. The Defense Department has directed 23 of the 26 federally funded PB studies currently under way. The DoD- commissioned studies specifically address the health consequences of PB as a nerve agent pre-treatment and include evaluations of the interaction of PB with other chemicals and low-level exposure to nerve agents. "Most of the ongoing studies to date reveal no definitive results to link PB to illnesses seen in our Persian Gulf veterans," Bailey said, "but we must continue this very important research to really determine any causal relationship." Dr. Beatrice Golomb, who authored the RAND review of scientific literature pertaining to Gulf War illnesses, said future studies will address three plausible theories on how PB may cause long- term or permanent health problems. One hypothesis is that people may process PB differently, making some more susceptible than others to long-lasting effects. "Our literature review found that the same dose administered of PB would lead to sevenfold differences in blood levels of PB from one individual to another," Golomb said. "Moreover, the same blood level of PB may lead to widely different percentages of inhibition of the enzyme." A second theory suggests that certain conditions could cause the brain to absorb PB. "PB is largely barred from accessing the brain by something termed 'blood-brain carrier,'" Golomb said. But laboratory animal research suggests conditions such as heat, stress and chemical exposures could cause more PB to pass to the brain, she said. "One study suggests that PB itself may enable access to the brain of substances that are normally excluded, such as infectious viruses," she said. Under conditions where PB may access the brain, there may be increased susceptibility to the toxic effects of PB, she said. Finally, RAND will look at how and if PB is linked to chronic illness in those who may have these conditions of heightened susceptibility, that PB may in fact lead to permanent changes in regulation of the nerve-signaling chemical acetylcholine. "The question," Golomb said, "is, could these long-lasting or permanent changes in regulation of this key nerve-signaling chemical be linked to illness in Gulf War veterans? And the answer right now is that we simply don't know." Bernard Rostker, DoD special assistant for Gulf War illnesses, said he's frustrated no definitive cause for the illnesses has been found. But even as the research continues, he said the role of his office is coming to an end. "We're trying to bring to closure the various pieces of research that we have outstanding," Rostker said. "We will be republishing much of what we've done before to bring it up to date. And then, I think, the issue becomes, where do we go in the future with the whole question of deployment and the outstanding work that's been done on medical force protection over the last decade." All published information on the Pentagon's Gulf War illness investigation is available at the GulfLINK Web site.


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ahhhhh when you misuse a Timeout that **** sucks huh? LOL
NFL Championships : 1927 1934 1938 1956 Super Bowl Champions: XXI XXV XLII XLVI
Forthy Whiners.....
Congrats Ravens
Giants fan since the early 80s
Do you guys remember when we were in the Super Bowl? lolool..
Damn, I wanted the niners to win this game.
"Regular Season + Fork = Giants Playoff Chances!" Thank you Reese for putting together a stellar team.
joe elite flacco
Would be great if the Giants could eliminate the 49ers in the NFC Championship game next year. So then 3 years in a row they can be the best team that didn't win the Super Bowl.


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Persian Kebabs with Salmon or Tuna
Persian Kebabs with Salmon or Tuna
Adapted from The Legendary Cuisine of Persia by Margaret Shaida (Interlink)
Serve with rice with sliced almonds and a mixed greens salad with peeled cucumbers, tomatoes, fresh chopped dill, and a light vinaigrette.
Serves 6
5 (6 oz. each) wild salmon fillets or 8 (4 oz. each) albacore tuna medallions, cut into 1-inch cubes
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons lemon juice
½ tsp organic turmeric
Basting sauce
½ tsp dried organic rosemary
1½ tablespoons organic extra virgin olive oil or macadamia nut oil
1½ tablespoons tomato paste
Nutrition per serving: 326 calories (52 percent from fat), 18.7 g fat (6.5 g saturated, 7.4 g monounsaturated), 83.2 mg cholesterol, 30.8 g protein, 8.4 g carbohydrates, 0.9 g fiber, 122 mg sodium.
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Happy Persian New Year, Happy Nowruz!
By MortazaviBlog on Mar 20, 2009
Happy Persian New Year (Nowruz)!
As a friend wrote to me, "This morning at 4:45 am [California time] the Sun crossed the equator signaling the first moments of the Spring, and the start of the Persian New Year :-) The site http://www.timeanddate.com/news/holidays/vernal-equinox-2008.html has a good explanation of what constitutes March Equinox."
Foreign ministers of Persian speaking countries celebrated Nowruz in Afghanistan.