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At the Half Moon Bay Golf Links, where the latest wunderkind in women's golf sometimes practices, general manager Bill Troyanoski recalled with some amusement the first time he ever heard of Lucy Li.
It started with a pair of complaints, one last year and another earlier this year, about a "young lady" taking forever between shots. Upon the second complaint, Troyanoski headed out to the course to see for himself.
What he saw was indeed slow. And also remarkable.
"I don't know that I've seen anybody practice more intensely and passionately at any level -- I mean any level -- than Lucy," Troyanoski said.
While she takes her time on the course, Lucy is getting places faster than anyone in the history of women's golf. The kid from Redwood Shores earned her way to this week's U.S. Women's Open at age 11, making her the youngest qualifier ever.
"It's pretty amazing, but I try not to think about it," Lucy said Tuesday during a press conference in Pinehurst, N.C, where the tournament begins Thursday. "I'm just another player, just trying to do the best I can."
A home-schooled sixth-grader, Lucy advanced to the major stage by dominating the sectional at Half Moon Bay last month, topping the field by seven strokes. Lucy celebrated the feat by going to dinner at her favorite restaurant (Little Sichuan in San Mateo) and catching a showing of "The Amazing Spiderman 2."
While golfers of all ages salute the achievement, the feat also inspires a wary eye. Navigating the terrain of "youngest ever" can be perilous.
Juli Inkster, a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, said she wasn't even playing at age 11. She barely even played as a young teenager in Santa Cruz because, she said, "I sucked. ... I got my brains beat in and it wasn't fun."
Instead, she played just about everything else: baseball, basketball, track. Inkster's game started coming together in college, at San Jose State, where she was an All-American in 1979, '81 and '82.
Now 53, and with 31 LPGA Tour victories -- including seven majors -- to her credit, she cites a balanced childhood for her long-term success.
Inkster, who now lives in Los Altos, was asked if she had any advice for Lucy. "Enjoy the game and everything you've accomplished," she replied. "Just make sure golf doesn't define who you are."
Harry Cathrea, whose daughter was a young phenom from the East Bay, is extra cautious. Though he stressed repeatedly in an interview that he wanted his overall message to be positive, Cathrea knows from experience that there are pitfalls to early stardom.
His daughter, Casie Cathrea, of Livermore, qualified for an LPGA event at age 13 in 2009 and then became the youngest participant to make a hole-in-one in a tour event.
Thrilling as it was at the time, it came at a price.
"I can tell you firsthand," Harry Cathrea says now, "it may not be worth it all."
Their story has a happy ending. Casie, now 18, has recently relaunched her golf career and come to terms with a childhood in which she pushed too hard, too young, and sacrificed the normal perks of growing up. Friends? Nights at the movies? Those didn't come till college. After all, there were tournaments to play.
Now, when Harry Cathrea watches Lucy, he's watching to make sure there's a smile on her face.
"I didn't pay attention to the social aspect of my kid," Cathrea said. "The mistake that I made was that I got in front of boyfriends and friends and told Casie, 'You're going to play golf. Forget them. They won't be around.'
"And then when she turned 18, she discovered that she actually liked to have some of those folks around. ... I think people forget that these are kids. I did."
Casie, who has played several rounds with Lucy and admires her game, suggested that rushing to the big stage has its drawbacks. If the goal is sustained success, it might be better to play in the open as a contender, not a novelty act.
"She's 11," Casie Cathrea said. "There will be plenty of time for U.S. Opens. If you're not going to win, what's the point of going?"
Her family is doing what they can to protect her. They kept her away from the media spotlight until Tuesday's press conference, where Lucy seemed undaunted by her surroundings. She talked with sophistication about golf, and her admiration for course designer Donald Ross, who designed Pinehurst No. 2 as well as Peninsula Golf Club in San Mateo. "So I know that he loves those undulating greens,'' she said.
Lucy said she hits her drive about 230 yards, sometimes longer when she gets an adrenaline boost during tournaments. She can hit a 5-iron 170 yards.
Lucy also provided a few reminders of her age, detailing an ideal birthday playing arcade games at "Dave & Busters."
Until Tuesday, only a few basic facts were known. Lucy often plays under the watchful eye of her mother, Amy Zeng, a former table tennis player who used who work as a manager at Hewlett-Packard, and her aunt, Tao Zeng. Lucy's father, Warren Li, is a stock broker. "He's really good at it," Lucy said.
Lucy trained under several golf coaches, including for the past four years with Jim McLean, who owns Jim McLean Golf Schools. McLean, reached by phone in Miami, says Lucy "has the makeup to (handle pressure) really well. But, she's still just a little girl. It's going to be a huge stage. There will be a tremendous amount of scrutiny."
The Associated Press, in a profile about Lucy, said those who have watched her play have seen her skip down fairways and bring granola bars to club members.
But her game looks all grown up. Not long before qualifying for the U.S. Open, she won the Girls 10-11 age bracket at the first ever Drive, Chip and Putt championship at Augusta National, home of the Masters tournament.
Last year, at age 10, she was the youngest participant to reach match play at the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links.
When Lucy qualified for the Women's Open in late May, she did so with rounds of 74 and 68 at the par-72 Old Course at Half Moon Bay.
That's the win that made history. Lexi Thompson, the previous youngest to qualify, was 12 when she earned a spot in the 2007 Women's Open at Pine Needles. (Beverly Klass played in the 1967 Women's Open when she was 10 but that predated qualifying.)
In this case, practice makes prodigy. It's not just that Lucy takes a long time setting up and analyzing a shot. It's that she does so afterward, too, assessing what she did right or wrong on a given swing. Troyanoski senses that the emphasis is on the "positiveness of the shot," that is, focusing on what to repeat in the swing rather than beating herself up over what went wrong.
Even on this grand stage, though, Lucy seems happy just to play with the big kids.
"The perfect week?" she said, repeating the question. "I just want to go out there and have fun and play the best I can and I really don't care about the outcome, it's just I want to have fun an learn. I can learn -- I want to learn a lot from these great players."
Staff reporter Steve Corkran contributed to this story. Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. Follow Daniel Brown at Twitter.com/mercbrownie.


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- One week left 00:31
- Daniel S. Weld: Personalization 10:16
- [Abrams, 1997] Abrams, D. (1997). Human factors of personal web information spaces. Technical report, Knowledge Media Design Institute Technical Report 1, University of Toronto. 12:52
- Modification of johnsu01's scoring 15:44
- Brilliant idea about my summer schedule 18:43
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1. One week left
Seven more days and I'll be home! I need to think about how I'm going to spend my summer.
I've realized that I don't _have_ to do a lot of advocacy talks. People are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves. However, I do need to do braindumps of the stuff I learned in Japan, if only so that I can summarize them into presentations.
I also don't need to worry about computer science education just yet, as I won't be able to do much about it at this point in time. Not with just six months before I start grad school...
What am I going to do?
Adphoto IT geeking
First, there's my family's company. Among other things, I want to work on:
- the Adphoto website - setting up a good long-distance transfer method for large files: need to write instructions for FTP. - figuring out how my parents can do stock photography online - the shoot scheduler
I will set aside regular time for this and my Planner work. =) I think it will be tons of fun, and quite an experience. The major thinko I just had is that hey, look, I've got practically 24/7 access to a bunch of users with different needs. I should take advantage of that. Besides, if we get the processes into place, things will be much smoother.
Hanging out with friends
One of the strange things about my trip to Japan is how much time I've actually spent outside my dorm room. This is in stark contrast to some days at home when it was just Internet room - lunch - Internet room - dinner - Internet room - sleep. I think that knowing you'll only be someplace for six months really wakes you up. I wanted to meet people and see the sights instead of just staying in my dorm room all the time.
So you can expect me to be a lot more social when I get back. I want to see my parents and my sister--and not just a brief glimpse before going to bed. I want to chat with my friends. I want to challenge their minds with all these cute little puzzles I'm bringing back home, or simply find out what they're interested in. Sure, we all have blogs, but it's fun to just relax. =)
This can get expensive, but we'll find ways of keeping the costs down so that it's sustainable. We'll stay at houses and parks instead of in malls, for one.
There are so many people I want to talk to, so many people I'd like to just relax and chat with. =)
'course I might still go all introverted on occasion, but I think I've tipped over into extrovert mode. =)
Reading up on personal information management
In preparation for grad school, of course.
Street performing
I have a staff, a pair of electric poi, and two diabolo sets. I'm looking forward to doing pair diabolo with Kathy. That's not enough for a full circus-in-a-suitcase kind of gig, but it's a good start.
Taking lots of strange classes
Cooking, for one.
2. Daniel S. Weld: Personalization
K. Gajos, R. Hoffmann and D. Weld, "Improving User Interface Personalization" UIST 2004, Santa Fe, NM, October 2004.
D. Weld, C. Anderson, P. Domingos, O. Etzioni, T. Lau, K. Gajos, and S. Wolfman, "Automatically Personalizing User Interfaces" IJCAI-03, 2003.
C. Anderson, P. Domingos and D. Weld, "Web Site Personalizers for Mobile Devices" (IJCAI-01 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for
Web Personalization)
C. Anderson, P. Domingos and D. Weld, "Adaptive Web Navigation for Wireless Devices" (IJCAI 2001)
C. Anderson, P. Domingos and D. Weld, "Personalizing Web Sites for Mobile Users" (WWW10)
3. [Abrams, 1997] Abrams, D. (1997). Human factors of personal web information spaces. Technical report, Knowledge Media Design Institute Technical Report 1, University of Toronto.
"Human factors of personal web information spaces" is a detailed statistical study of how people use bookmarks, including observations on filing and navigation patterns.
Many of the issues raised in the paper have been addressed by recent innovations in bookmarking. For example, browser-based bookmarks allow you to automatically check if pages have changed or disappeared. The flat tag-based organization of services such as http://del.icio.us reduce much of the cognitive load of organizing projects. http://del.icio.us also offers a chronological view of bookmarks.
This paper made me think about organizational strategies for categorized tasks. Tasks in Planner and other PIMs that allow you to directly hyperlink to resources (Microsoft Entourage, Microsoft Outlook) act as bookmarks, creating a personal information space annotated by the things you need to do.
Task- and schedule-related personal information suffers from many of the same problems as the World Wide Web. Information overload comes in the form of e-mail about tasks and appointments. The inbox is polluted by irrelevant messages. Task- and schedule-related information tends to be less chaotic than the Web because the former is personal by nature, but it still lacks aggregate structure and a global view.
This paper makes me want to look into the organizational strategies of PIM users. For example, how do people categorize their tasks? Creation-time filing or sporadic filing? How do they choose categories? How do they deal with long task lists? Do they really reorder tasks for priorities, or just scan through them and pick items? Can I characterize PIM users by scale, like the way Abrams describes light to heavy bookmark users, citing characteristic strategies?
4. Modification of johnsu01's scoring
The following code allows you to sort tasks based on regexp matches against the line. It's fairly simple, but may give people ideas about fancier task sorting.
(setq planner-sort-tasks-key-function 'planner-sort-tasks-by-score) (defvar planner-score-rules '(("read" . 50)) "Alist of planner scoring rules of the form (regexp . score-value). Tasks with higher scores are listed first.") (defun planner-sort-tasks-by-score () "Sort tasks by the rule in the table." (let ((score 0) (case-fold-search t) (line (buffer-substring-no-properties (line-beginning-position) (line-end-position)))) (mapc (lambda (item) (when (string-match (car item) line) (setq score (- score (cdr item))))) planner-score-rules) score))
5. Brilliant idea about my summer schedule
I need to hack a couple of things in Adphoto. For one, the scheduling system needs to be improved. Also, we need to work out a smooth way to transfer files to clients.
The best way to get me to work on these things would be for me to get annoyed with them.
The best way for me to get annoyed with these things would be for me to have to do them.
So that can be my summer job. If my mom doesn't mind having me underfoot, I will work for Adphoto. First, I need to hack scheduling. In the process, I'll probably also tweak office communication. When I'm not scheduling things or improving the scheduling infrastructure, I can work on making the website more informative.
Sounds like a good plan.
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Objective 2: Consult with ARS and ARS' Cooperator, the LSU Agricultural Center to examine a sufficient number of properties for statistical analysis that are selected from all properties included in Operation Full Stop. Selected properties may be from inside and outside of the treatment zones and may include properties with continuing infestations or properties with no detectable termite active after treatment with an approved termiticide. Selected properties will be examined both internally and externally with IR thermography and other detection technologies as determined by New Orleans Mosquito and Termite Control Board (NOMTCB) to confirm the presence or absence of termites or their activity.
Objective 3: Determine the extent of the range of FST throughout Louisiana by means of light traps for alates and through survey of licenced Pest Management Professionals and Mosquito Abatement Districts. Provide instruction for FST identification and treatment to members of the Louisiana Pest Management Professional Industry and abatement district personnel. Instruction and materials provided are sanctioned by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry as part of re-certification for licensees and registered technicians.
Objective 4: Continue monitoring in open spaces (railroad, levee, parks and pavilions) in the French Quarter with in-ground stations and alate traps and when termites are found, a commercial bait system is used to control termites. Archive and collate samples of termites collected in the French Quarter and maintain a data base (File Maker Pro) of collected termite samples which are used for microsatellite analysis of DNA for determination of colony relationship and success of treatment.


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How to choose a gift watch
Posted by Shreve & Co. at 9:41:34 AM in Baume & Mercier (29)
Watches make fabulous gifts. But is it important to bear in mind the overall personality of the receiver before you hit the purchase button. In reality, not all people are watch freaks. Hence, you should know if the person will love to receive one as a gift, the first place. If yes, there are more details to iron out. The first thing you have to consider in buying a gift watch is the person's lifestyle. There are different kinds of watches for different people. Is the person formal or casual most of the time? The second thing you have to consider is the design. Does the person prefer gold or silver? Does he or she want something classic or trendy? A metallic band or a leather strap? The perfect clue on the best gift watch to buy are the kinds of clothes the person usually wears. Baume & Mercier has various watch collections perfect for different occasions. You can even have the watches engraved with your heartfelt message. The watches also come in a special packaging and are elegantly wrapped to add excitement to the receiver.
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - The Incline Village General Improvement District Waste Not program recently announced the receipt of a $14,000 grant from the Nevada State Lands License Plate Grant Program for the 2012 "Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake Snapshot Day" event.
The grant supports the collaborative efforts of IVGID Waste Not, Tahoe Water Suppliers Association, Tahoe Environmental Research Center, Northern Sierra Region of California Trout (CalTrout) and others by providing fiscal support for monitoring and test equipment, staff and production of the event's summary report.
Snapshot Day is a two-day, volunteer-based event designed to collect information relative to the health of area watersheds.
Each May, Snapshot Day brings hundreds of volunteers together to collect information on the Tahoe Basin and Truckee River Watersheds. Each volunteer team conducts water quality testing in the field, including photographing and providing narrative descriptions of stream, river and lake conditions.
In 2012, more than 700 volunteers sampled 97 sites on the upper and lower Truckee River, at Lake Tahoe and at the terminus at Pyramid Lake. It is important to note that citizen monitoring is designed to supplement existing agency monitoring efforts. All information is provided to regulatory and resource management agencies, whose responsibility it is to protect water quality.
The goals of Snapshot Day are two-fold: to promote environmental education and stewardship, and to collect valuable water quality information.
Snapshot Day began in 2000 and is sustained by the dedication of both paid and unpaid staff, grants and donations, and primarily, the commitment of hundreds of citizens who value public involvement in protecting the community's watershed. Nevada License Plate Grant funding was critical to the 2012 event's success.
IVGID Public Works Program Manager Rebecca Sawyer Williams, a lead site coordinator for Snapshot Day since 2008, coordinated the grant writing process.
Snapshot Day's collaborative effort was planned and coordinated by the Truckee River Watershed Council, TWSA, IVGID Waste Not, CalTrout, Tahoe Resource Conservation District, Nevada Division of Environmental Protection and the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe.
Other organizations involved in Snapshot Day 2012 include:
• Nevada Division of State Lands Grant Funding
• The City of South Lake Tahoe
• Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board
• Lake Tahoe Community College
• Lake Tahoe Unified School District
• University of California Berkeley, Sagehen Creek Field Station
• University of California Cooperative Extension
• University of Nevada Cooperative Extension
• University of Nevada Electrical Engineering Department
• US Geological Survey, Carnelian Bay Field Station
For more information, visit the Snapshot Day website at www.snapshotday.org, or call 775-832-1284.


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Cannabis and Psychosis: What's Behind the Link
Cannabis and Psychosis: What's Behind the Link
FEATURED SEARCH TERM: cannabis induced psychosis
Marijuana is known to induce acute psychotic symptoms, and its chronic use may increase the risk of schizophrenia. Functional MRIs show that the primary psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, Δ9-tetrahydrocannibinol (THC), can significantly increase the severity of psychotic symptoms compared with placebo and another ingredient, cannabidiol. The ingredients in marijuana appear to affect regions of the brain that contribute to salience, a fundamental factor underlying psychosis, state the authors of the report below.
RESULT: Induction of Psychosis by {Delta}9-Tetrahydrocannabinol Reflects Modulation of Prefrontal and Striatal Function During Attentional Salience Processing
Archives of General Psychiatry | Jan 1, 2012 (Free abstract. Full text $30)
Strong evidence supports cannabis consumption as a risk factor for the development of psychotic symptoms and schizophrenia, say the authors of this review. They contend that cannabis use worsens the clinical course and overall prognosis of schizophrenia, and strongly suggest that clinicians assess patients for cannabis use and educate them about the drug's potential dangers as well as the benefits of quitting.
RESULT: The Cannabis-Psychosis Link
PsychiatricTimes | Jan 12, 2012 (FREE FULL TEXT)


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Romney's Utah retreat creates 'reunion' with supporters
DEER VALLEY — For former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, the "Experts & Enthusiasts" retreat hosted by 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney that ended Friday was an opportunity to reunite with some of the campaign's other key supporters.
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Self Conscious wrote: THX 1138
thought i was ok. i dont really like George Lucas as a director but give it a try
Self Conscious wrote: dune
i havent seen it yet so i cant say how it is. its in my netflix instant just waiting to be watched. its available on instant till the 11th so i better watch it soon.
Quote: The film makes some departures from the novel, most notably in the case of the weirding way. In the novel, it is a form of training that allows Paul to move with lightning speed and have near-perfect dexterity; in the film it is replaced with "Weirding Modules", sonic weapons that resemble small video cameras and amplify the user's voice into a destructive force, a controversial choice among Dune fans.[24][25] The film grants the Bene Gesserit telepathy, while the novel notes their keen, nearly superhuman awareness. The film also suggests that the spice allows Guild Navigators themselves to fold space as opposed to assuring the Heighliner reaches its destination safely. Some of the novel's central themes were simplified for the adaptation, including the intricate political interplays at work in Herbert's universe,[26] the use of religion to control the populace, and ecology. [clipped spoiler]
There are several distinctive visual and aesthetic choices made in the film that are not directly inspired by Herbert's novel. In the film, Bene Gesserit are bald after they become Reverend Mothers, the Mentats have enormous eyebrows, Stillsuits are brown, and Baron Harkonnen is afflicted with bubo-like blisters. Gay writer Dennis Altman suggested that this aspect of the film showed how "AIDS references began penetrating popular culture" in the 1980s, asking, "Was it just an accident that in the film Dune the homosexual villain had suppurating sores on his face?"[28] Ornithopters are depicted as jet- or rocket-propelled aircraft, rather than the flapping-winged aircraft described in the novel, and the Harkonnens and their followers (including the Baron himself) are given "heart plugs" that can be pulled out to kill them.
Flossin wrote: Self Conscious wrote: THX 1138
thought i was ok. i dont really like George Lucas as a director but give it a try
I really like this movie. It didn't really seem very Lucas-y to me. Very different than his other movies. Worth the watch.
PoetryBox wrote: Theres not many good sci-fi flicks that I can recall from the top of my head but I can recommend Event Horizon, Outland, 12 monkeys, Equilibrium. Ive heard great things about a movie called Primer but I havnt seen it yet.
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This is an excerpt from EERE Network News, a weekly electronic newsletter.
February 07, 2007
DOE Requests $1.2 Billion for Office of Efficiency and Renewable Energy
DOE announced on February 5th that President Bush's Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 Budget requests $24.3 billion for DOE, including $1.236 billion for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). In addition, the request for DOE's Office of Science includes $75 million to establish three Bioenergy Research Centers that will accelerate basic research in cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels. These combined funds will directly support the President's goal of reducing gasoline use by 20 percent over the next 10 years while advancing the goals of the President's Advanced Energy Initiative, which aims to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign sources of energy. The President's budget is meant to serve as a starting point for Congressional budget negotiations.
The EERE budget request is $73 million more than the FY 2006 appropriations, a 6.3 percent increase (FY 2007 appropriations are currently subject to a continuing resolution in Congress, so FY 2006 is the best standard for comparison). Much of this funding expands key programs that focus on developing new energy choices, including biomass energy and biorefinery systems ($179 million, a doubling of funds), hydrogen fuel and fuel cell technology ($213 million, a 39 percent increase), solar power ($148 million, an 81 percent increase), wind energy ($40 million, a 4.5 percent increase), and vehicle efficiency technologies (nearly level funding at $176 million). The request eliminates funding for geothermal and hydropower technologies.
Funding for DOE's Biomass Program advances the President's Biofuels Initiative, which aims to develop cost-competitive, biobased liquid transportation fuels, while the Solar Program funding supports the President's Solar America Initiative, which aims to develop cost-competitive solar cell technologies by 2015. Roughly half the funding for vehicle efficiency technologies will go toward research into hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles. Plug-in hybrids can be plugged into an electrical socket to recharge their batteries and can cover moderate commuting distances using battery power only. See the DOE budget summary from the White House, the DOE press release, and the full EERE budget request.


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Call them "progressive bluegrass" if you like, but the genre-spanning string band is wary of applying the label to their own sound, lest they insult those who are truly pushing the genre, Tim McKay (bass, vocals) told Michigan's Northern Express. Hence the name Fauxgrass - a much more playful way to describe the boundary-pushing musical journey group members have undertaken since the band formed in 2011. Still, Fauxgrass' band members are no newcomers to the bluegrass scene. Joey Schultz (banjo, vocals) studied under banjo legend Bill Keith, and after more than a decade of mandolin and music study, Jason Wheeler (mandolin, vocals) currently studies under jazz mandolin master Don Julin as well as Don Stiernberg. "We listen to a lot of Don's music on the road and try to figure out what he's doing," Wheeler commented.McKay started playing electric bass in 1989, initially to pursue a love for rock and metal, and the self-taught Adam Balcer (guitar, vocals) blends bluegrass, jazz and rock guitar styles and has shared the stage with mentors including Karl Denson, Papadosio and Hal Ketchum.A growing presence in the Michigan music scene, Fauxgrass is currently in the midst of a winter tour, including tonight's stop at the Motherloaded Tavern in Breckenridge. "The tour is going great," Wheeler said. "We've performed in sold-out theaters, breweries, house concerts and corporate events since mid-January and we've got about 20 shows still ahead of us. We're healthy; we're safe and enjoying each other's company. We're doing what we love to do and improving as musicians every day." The band is inspired by "the universe, the earth, all types of sincere music, conversations, chance encounters, true friends, family and the crowd's interaction at a show," Wheeler said. "I'm inspired by the sense of generosity, compassion, community and creativity we witness on the road. We're inspired by our teachers and our ancestors (musically speaking), the mountains, The Great Lakes, the snow." Those elements and the group's diverse background including rock, jazz, classical and 90s punk reflects in the band's sound, expanding the boundaries of traditional bluegrass. "Our shows feature traditional music, bluegrass tunes, original compositions, fiddle tunes and a few outside-the-box pieces for fun," said Wheeler. The group has high expectations for tonight's concert. "We're gonna bring it," Wheeler said. "We plan on playing our hearts out. It's our first night in Colorado, and we absolutely love your beautiful state so we'll be celebrating with original music, some fiddle tunes, some bluegrass tunes and a whole bunch of Michigan music."
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I'm receiving a message when trying to generate thumbnails that is:
Can't create thumbnail for E:\ISO\charmed\Charmed-(a Knight To Remember)-2005-01-03-0-1.mp4: No suitable ImageReader found for E:\ISO\charmed\Charmed-(a Knight To Remember)-2005-01-03-0-1.mp
I've put some debugging info in and the thumbnail is being generated but when the code hits the method "toFile() it is failing:
file: DLNAMediaInfo.java
In method: public void parse(InputFile inputFile, Format ext, int type, boolean thumbOnly) {
Line of code failing: thumbnail.toFile(thumbFilename);
I know that the thumbnails are being generated as I commented out their deletion. I know that the JPG files are being created as I removed the deletion of those files from the code. It appears that the "thumbnailator()" is failing to create the thumbnail. This is all new to me.
Can someone comment if this is a known issue? Perhaps I have beta code? POM.xml says that I'm using 0.4.2. I tried reverting to 0.4.1 but no difference.
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Our PhD students enter the academic job market with excellent credentials as both scholars and teachers.
Students receive careful mentoring throughout the job search. In addition to the advising provided by students' dissertation committees, two faculty members each year serve as job placement officers. Beginning several months prior to the fall application deadlines, the placement officers lead a series of intensive workshops, with at least two sessions dedicated to each separate element of the application package, including the cover letter, dissertation abstract, cv, teaching statement, and/or teaching portfolio. Students also practice interviewing and presentation skills.
Over the past fifteen years, UR PhDs in English have entered tenure-track positions at
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take their ministry to unforeseen places—
NJ, June 3, 2014–One hundred fifty-two students were awarded
165 degrees at Princeton Theological Seminary's 202nd commencement
on May 24. Students received their Master of Arts, Master of Arts (Theological
Studies), Master of Divinity, Master of Theology, Doctor of Ministry, and
Doctor of Philosophy degrees during the ceremony. Graduates' friends and family
members filled the Princeton University Chapel and joined in the celebration.
his address, "The Reverend Dr. Theophilus," President M. Craig Barnes,
challenged graduates to move from being disciples to apostles. Barnes ushered
them to experience the unpredictable power of the Holy Spirit, which will take
their ministry to unforeseen places.
will serve as pastors in churches, as hospital and prison chaplains, and in the
mission field. They will teach in urban schools, minister on college campuses,
and continue their studies, both in the United States and abroad.
T. Toe (M.A.) is heading to Trinity Healing Temple Church, a Pentecostal
denomination in Liberia, West Africa, where he will serve as a pastor.
Shrestha (Ph.D.) is training Nepali-speaking pastors and leaders worldwide.
Niehoff (M.Div.) is heading to University of California San Francisco Medical
Center for a twelve-month Clinical Pastoral Education residency.
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Chiu (Ph.D.) is heading to Taiwan, where she will join the faculty of Taiwan
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Arlene L. Reynolds, 89, of Redwood Falls passed away on Monday, October 22, 2012 at the Golden Living Center – Sunwood Care Center in Redwood Falls. Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. on Saturday, October 27, 2012 at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Redwood Falls. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church on Saturday. Burial will be in the Belview City Cemetery. Online condolences may be placed at www.sunsetfuneralassociation.com. The Sunset Funeral & Cremation Association of Echo and Wabasso are handling the arrangements for the family.
Arlene Lucille Reynolds was born on September 29, 1923 to Irwin and Luetta (Schoer) Gibbs on the family farm in Redwood County. She attended country school through the 8th grade and was baptized and confirmed at Our Saviors Lutheran Church in Belview.
On October 11, 1942, Arlene was united in marriage to Eldon Reynolds at the English Lutheran Church in Redwood Falls. They made their home on a farm outside of Redwood Falls for a short time before moving to a farm near Echo until 1970. In 1970, they moved into Echo until 1980 when Eldon passed away. After Eldon passed away, Arlene moved to Belview and in 1984 moved to Redwood Falls. She was a homemaker most of her life but did work for 10 years at the Parkview Nursing Home in Belview. She was a member of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Redwood Falls and attended services faithfully while she could drive. Otherwise she watched the televised version and was active with the Ladies Circle Club and the Quilters group.
Arlene enjoyed going for car rides the most. She loved to see the seasons change and to get out into the fresh air. She also liked people watching, reading, shopping, taking care of her grandchildren, playing cards such as Skipbo, Uno and Whist with her neighbors, and loved just spending time with her family.
On Monday, October 22, 2012, Arlene passed away at the Sunwood Care Center in Redwood Falls at the age of 89.
Arlene is survived by her three children, Shirley (Gene) Engstrom of Redwood Falls, Nancy Hirman of St. Cloud and Steven (Toni) Reynolds of Dawson; one sister, Donna Poye of Mission, Texas; one sister-in-law, Betty Gibbs of Buffalo; 11 grandchildren, Shari (Mike) Christensen of Sleepy Eye, Ryan (Tara) Engstrom of Echo, Eric Engstrom of Montgomery, Anthony (Tammy) Hirman of Coon Rapids, Shawn Hirman of Kansas City, Missouri, Heidi Hirman of Eden Valley, Nathan Reynolds of Dawson and (special friend Amber) of Clara City, Jennifer (Mark) Olson of Storm Lake, Iowa, Michelle (Jason) Young of Renville, Angie (Mark) Miller of Sacred Heart, and Chad (Becky) Reynolds of Renville; 22 great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren; nieces, nephews, cousins and a host of friends.
Her parents, husband, Eldon Reynolds, son, Donald Reynolds (2008), two sisters, Pearl Vouska and Lois Hoover, brother, Harlan Gibbs, two infant brothers, Leroy and Myron and one infant sister, Amanda preceded her in death.
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This month's movie is a dark classic directed by Terrence Malick's in one of American cinemas' most powerful, daring filmmaking debuts. This is a visionary masterpiece based on the 1950s murders in the badlands of South Dakota by Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate and starring the young Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as the killer and his girlfriend. Don't miss this one!
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Car Disappearing Piece by Piece
Published: Monday, November 19, 2012 at 12:38 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, November 19, 2012 at 12:38 a.m.
A Frostproof woman was arrested Saturday and accused of selling parts off another woman's vehicle, according to an arrest report.
Melissa Polly of Sebring told Polk deputies she left her 2001 Chevrolet Lumina at Julia Garcia's house, 15 Center St. in Frostproof, the report said. When she went into the shed where the vehicle was stored in late October, she noticed it was missing several parts, such as the front bumper.
Garcia, 20, said Polly's boyfriend gave her and a man she lives with permission to scrap the vehicle if it wasn't picked up by Oct. 1, the report said. However, Polly's boyfriend told deputies he never said that.
Garcia is charged with false verification to a secondary metal recycler and dealing in stolen property, both felonies.
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Funeral services for Mr. Gilbert Dale Boles, 79, of Wilson are scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday, December 11, 2012, at Alexander Funeral Home Chapel, Wilson, Oklahoma with Rev. Dustin Wright officiating. Interment will follow at Hewitt Cemetery in Wilson. Services are under the care and direction of Alexander Funeral Home of Wilson.
Dale was born May 26, 1933, at Healdton, Oklahoma, to Mr. John Gilbert "Buck" Boles and Mrs. Robbie Gail (Hodge) Boles. He departed this life December 7, 2012, at his residence in Wilson, Oklahoma.
Dale was raised in Fox and was one of many children. He and his family moved back and forth from Fox, Oklahoma, to Leveland, Texas, working in the cotton fields. He married Ms. Mary Aubrene Way August 4, 1955, in Gainesville, Texas. He and Aubrene made their home in Wilson, Oklahoma.
Dale worked in the oil well service industry mostly for Deans Well Service from where he retired from in 1992.
In his retirement years Dale pumped wells and enjoyed riding around. He also enjoyed tinkering with lawnmowers and bicycles. Dale loved his grandchildren and enjoyed spending time with them. He was a member of the Zaneis Baptist Church.
Preceding him in death are his parents; brothers, R.L., Hershel, Cletus, Jerry and Kenneth; sisters, Helen Wicks, Geraldine Pierce and infant baby girl; son-in-law, James "Thorpe" A. Shaw.
Survivors include wife, Mary Aubrene (Way) Boles of the home; two daughters, Cheryl Boles of Wilson, Okla., and Peggy Shaw of Wilson, Okla.; sisters, Nelda Floyd and husband, John of Maricopa, Calif., and Shirley Baird of Taft, Calif.; four grandchildren, Kim, Jessica and husband, John, Kyle who was like a son, and wife, Kaylee and Jamie; five great -grandchildren, Page, Brianne, Joshua, Jacelyn and Kyler; adopted daughter, Ashley Shores; numerous other family and friends.
The family would like to extend a special thank you to Cross Timbers Hospice, doctors, nurses and staff.
Family visitation will be Monday December 10, 2012, from 6-8 p.m. at Alexander Funeral Home in Wilson, Oklahoma.
Condolences may be sent online at www.alexanderfuneralhome.org.
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Eliminated by Argentina's Guillermo Canas in the first phase, Roger will try to bounce back this week at the second Masters Series of the season. Having won the tournament in 2005 and 2006, Roger will try to capture the title in Florida a third consecutive time.
Not having to compete in the first round, Roger will meet the winner of the match between America's Sam Querrey and Russia's Igor Andreev. Should he go on to the next round, Spain's Nicolas Almagro (ATP 34) and France's Richard Gasquet (ATP 16) could be up after that. Tommy Haas (ATP 9) or Spain's Tommy Robredo (ATP 6) are possible opponents in the following rounds and towards the end Roger could cross paths with Nikolay Davydenko (ATP 4) or Croatia's Ivan Ljubicic (ATP 7).
Roger's early defeat and Rafael Nadal's victory in Indian Wells only had a relatively small influence on the world rankings. The Spaniard moved up to Roger by 770 points, but still lies 2960 points behind him. Andy Roddick occupies the third rank at a fair distance.
The loss in Indian Wells is nothing, which is all because of your bad luck and some trouble with your feet. It's OK now, isn't it? Such awaful things say missing all the key points in a match will hardly happen again as you are an expe
You will bounce back AS USUAL and you will show the whole world how great and dominant you are. No one but you deserve the Miami open. You are the greatest.
All the best
Unleash the hero inside of you go ahead the trophy is waiting for you .
All our prayers with you
God bless you
Roger, I always believe in you.
cheering for you from bangkok,
I want to wish you all the best in defending your title in Miami. I miss watching you play tennis so hopefully I'll get to see you play all the way to the final this coming week and also see you lifting the trophy ;)
Please make sure that
good luck in my favorite State of Florida!!!! All my prayers are with you this week and next. Go get them my Tiger!!!!!!!


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I spoke with Paul, one of the Park Bosses at Davenport Parks.
They are planning on changing the hole numbers to better utilize the newly paved back parking lot. ( The one behind 11's Tee, and next to 11's long pad ) 11 will become 1 and 12 will be 2, and so on.
I am still working on getting secondary pin placements in, but probably wont happen before the ILO on August 29th.
I told him I didnt think it was a big deal, but did suggest moving the kiosk or placing a new one out there, with the long term possibility of getting vending machines out there. I also said I didnt think it would have quite the impact he thinks, and most people will still play the old layout as most rec players play mainly the 1-9 loop.
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Tottenham Hotspur Message Board
Berkshire Yid Berkshire Yid Aug 27, 2012 10:55 Flag
Is It Time Yet?
been away for a couple of weeks now im back im wondering is anyone's hand start to twitch? and you keep looking at the panic button should we be getting ready to push it?
Two games one point 1 thought we were unlucky against the toon i felt we should have came away with a point.
Then the West Brom Ade should have started the game we dominated the first half but failed to find the net.
Second half sat back invited West Brom onto us and Lukaku took Vertonghen to the cleaners.
Im Hoping it is just a blip despite the results we played some great football in both games and at times look simply brilliant but the ominous signs are there i am getting twitchy and looking at the panic button because i think deep down the newspapers have already written up the AVB Sacked story lines.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Just a point on the Verthongen comment. No he didn't get taken by Lukaku although he (Lukaku) was a handful.
He did however get rugby tackled to the ground just prior to the WBA goal which was a blatant foul missed by the officials and then in the dying seconds put the ball in the net. Don't know why the goal was disallowed. Anyone know?
The guy AVB, you guys have taken on will need a season at least, if he's still there, to transfer he's ideas and choices to the pitch and achieve consistency. So be prepared to whinge a bit and face up to a slip down the table.
H---Have I worded that right, Harry.
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FABONGRASSS FABONGRASSS Aug 28, 2012 21:17 Flag
'So be prepared to whinge a bit and face up to a slip down the table.
H---Have I worded that right, Harry. '
Hmmmm....not quite....
So be prepared to whinge a lot and face up to a permanent slip down the table.
That's more like it.
The results don't always match the performance. As you mention had the Toon result matched the performance, then we should have got a point at least.
The point against West Brom was about fair given the way we trailed off in the second half. I wouldn't have started Ade either, I assume that he hasn't had much training/pitch time etc during the summer, so bringing him on as a sub was reasonable to me.
I just thought we went round in circles with the subs though. The 'remove a creative midfielder for a striker', then 'remove a defensive midfielder for a creative midfielder' followed by 'remove a striker for a defensive midfielder' and lost a bit of momentum (maybe coincidentally) after VdV went off.
I'm not sure though that AVB quoting our start last year and comparing it to this was a good 'publicity' stunt - as surely he realised that last season's openers were against (as it turned out) the top two clubs in the land. Especially as pre season he was talking about winning the title (see http://www.footytube.com/news/guardian/andre-villas-boas-begins-by-talking-up-tottenhams-title-credentials-L18257?ref=hp_newsfeed) - so 1 point against two teams that may struggle to finish in the top 6 isn't too good. But luckily, the season seems to have started with a stutter again for the alleged top teams, and only the Chavs seem to have come out of the blocks firing on all cylinders (at least in way of results).
Now with Modders resolved, hopefully the team and formation can be resolved and we can start getting more points on the board. I was a bit concerned though that AVB thinks we don't need more strikers - but if he can work the squad and get the results I don't care if we field 11 keepers - as long as the footie is good and the results do come.


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Here we find ourselves, the end of another week. If you think about it, knowing you'll never again live the week of January 20-26, 2012 can be a little melancholy. Then again, it was the coldest week in 17 years here in New York, so fuck this week.
That said, both of my cousins have birthdays this weekend so I'd like to give them a very special shout... haha just kidding, they aren't reading this.
To the emails, shall we?
I'll only say this once, Canadians. The more you bitch and moan aboot us teasing you, the more fun it is to tease you. You should apologize to yourselves.
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Hello, I recently saw an article of yours by Caity Weaver about the Canadian $20 bill. I am highly offended by it. The 'jokes' about my country were uncalled for. What did we do to you to deserve the absolute rudeness expressed in that article? I demand an apology from not only you, but from Caity Weaver personally!
Lots of hate over George Saunders too.
That's pretty much all I have to say about that because books are so booooooooring.
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UK lags in emerging market investment
A study by Tata Communications shows the UK falling behind other established countries when it comes to investing in the emerging markets.
The UK is not investing as heavily into the emerging markets as some of its equally established neighbours, according to research.
The findings from a study by Tata Communications - conducted on its behalf by Vanson Bourne - showed both emerging and established markets were looking to the likes of India, China and Brazil for growth lessons and opportunities to invest.
Whilst the UK was showing interest, with business leaders planning to put 34 per cent of their cash into the emerging markets, this focus is much lower than the likes of the US, which planned on 42 per cent investment. Only Singapore showed less enthusiasm with plans of 30 per cent investment.
Srinivasa Addepalli, senior vice president of corporate strategy at Tata admitted the UK, France and Germany were "slightly less inclined" to invest than the rest of the world. However, his colleague who heads up Tata's European business, Claude Sassoulas, revealed the UK was the worst of the bunch.
"The UK [will invest] a bit less and probably one of the reasons is the structure of the companies," he told IT Pro]/i].
"There are various sectors but they are very large companies. Where Germany is much more in manufacturing, the UK is more geared towards service and banking, making it hard to invest right now."
Sassoulas said UK firms could not keep this attitude for long.
"Large companies in these countries have no choice," he added. "The growth is coming from the emerging markets and the 1.5 per cent predicted growth in Europe is not going to help companies achieve their growth targets."
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When you've been doing something exceedingly well for more than 30 years, it's easy to forget that excellence is hard work. Velodyne's been a leader in subwoofers and bass technology for so long that our achievement has seemingly become part of the furniture (no pun).
So how did we get here – and how do we remain the class of the field?
For one thing, we've been single-minded for most of our existence. Long before home theater was even a gleam in the consumer electronics industry's eye, Velodyne was one of the few companies manufacturing subwoofers. As the audio business evolved, subwoofers found their way into people's living rooms, but over the course of that evolution, Velodyne continued to make subs and little else — all the while delivering superior, low-distortion bass reproduction.
Today, there are a lot of speaker companies who believe that putting a big speaker in a big box with an amplifier and hitting some crazy dB level is all you need to do to create a quality sub. Velodyne's legion of loyal consumers knows better. We've pioneered and patented some fundamental bass technologies over the years, from accelerometer-based servo systems and DSP tuning to high efficiency amplifiers, equalizer based room correction, and more. Every one is dedicated to recreating the most accurate bass possible.
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Promising New Results from Fragile X Drug Trial
At the International Fragile X conference held in Michigan last week, researchers working in partnership with Seaside Therapeutics presented promising results from a Phase II clinical trial with compound STX209. The research was presented by Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, MD, PhD, (Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois) and Randi Hagerman, MD, (M.I.N.D. Institute).
The study followed 63 patients with Fragile X from three groups spanning 6 to 40 years of age. The aim of the study was to investigate the safety and efficacy of STX209 across a broad range of individuals with Fragile X. The research team specifically looked at behavioral and cognitive measures that might indicate benefit from the drug. Indeed, they found statistically significant improvements in sociability in a pediatric group who had scored low on scales of sociability prior to the treatment. This result is particularly important because impairments in social function are a core feature of Fragile X, and also a core feature of autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
In a press release from Seaside Therapeutics, Dr. Hagerman offered a perspective on the results her team has observed. "A majority of the patients enrolled in the STX209 study are participating in the ongoing open-label extension study and are continuing to benefit from treatment with STX209," said Dr. Hagerman. "Physicians and parents are reporting increased sociability and communication and decreased outbursts and tantrums. In several cases, patients have been successfully withdrawn from other medications, including mood stabilizers, anti-depressants and, most importantly, anti-psychotics—a significant benefit for patients given the severe side effects associated with this particular class of drug. It is my hope that, with further study, STX209 may be able to play a much needed role in improving the symptoms of fragile X syndrome and help patients and their families achieve an improved quality of life."
These results are exciting for individuals and the families of those living with Fragile X. However, perhaps the greater excitement lies in what may come next. Fragile X is the most frequently observed genetic syndrome in individuals with ASD. Synaptic over-excitability has been observed in animal models of autism and is believed to be a common neurobiological underpinning. Seaside Therapeutics is currently exploring the potential for benefit in individuals with ASD through a clinical trial of STX209 in adults, adolescents and children with ASD. We anxiously wait for further data on the use of this compound.


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Coldenham Fire Department and Town of Newburgh police were called to the scene of a tractor trailer rollover Tuesday morning, May 14, at the intersection of Interstate 84 westbound and Route 17K in Newburgh. According to Town of Newburgh police Officer Vincent Spaminato, a tractor trailer driven by Juan Buruca of Elizabeth, N.J., was hauling lumber when his vehicle was coming from the interstate off ramp onto Route 17K west too fast and the load shifted, causing the truck to roll over pinning him. Coldenham Fire Department responded, extricating him, then was transported to St. Luke's with minor injuries. State Police were called to assist with the investigation and inspect the vehicle. Charges are pending the outcome of the investigation.
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Hello. I'm experiencing something really irritating lately. Sometimes when I stream an MKV to my PS3 with PS3 Media Server the audio is weird. The talking is very quiet, and the action is very loud. Is there a solution to this?
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11.1Along with this program for murder in Poland, the further general anti-Jewish policy of the "Third Reich" in Poland planned above all to set up a "reservation" (Reservat) for all Jews under German domination. In this case as well, Hitler's influence was decisive: in a meeting with his heads of departments (Amtsleitern), Heydrich, the chief of the Security Police on 14 September 1939, reported that Hitler was given proposals regarding "the Jewish problem in Poland by the Reichsführer (i.e. Himmler, P.L.) which could only be decided upon by the Führer because they carried significant foreign policy consequences".93
11.2On 21 September, Heydrich was able to report to the heads of departments of the Security Police that Hitler had in the meantime made a decision on the issue of the deportations: "The deportation of Jews into the foreign-language Gau, deportation across the demarkation line, is approved." By "foreign-language Gau" was meant those occupied areas which were not directly annexed to the Reich but which were slated to become part of the Generalgouvernement later; "demarcation line" referred to the line to which the Soviet Union and the German Reich in Poland had agreed upon in order to divide their spheres of interest. Heydrich spoke further in his report on 21 September about the planned deportations:
However, the whole process was to take place over the course of one year: Jewry is to be brought together in the cities in ghettos in order to keep better control and to make later deportation easier. The first priority is the disappearance of the Jew as a small settler in the countryside. This action must be accomplished within the next 3 to 4 weeks.94
11.3On 29 September, Hitler explained to Rosenberg, the Head of the Office for Foreign Affairs of the NSDAP, that the newly conquered Polish territory was to be divided into three strips: Between the Vistula and the Bug the Jews from the entire Reich were to be settled, as well as "all in any way unreliable elements". At the Vistula an "East Wall" was to be built and on the previous German-Polish border a "broad belt of Germanising and colonising", and between them, in the middle, a sort of Polish "state".95 The idea of a "Jewish reservation" was addressed relatively frequently in the coming weeks by the Nazi leadership: Thus for example, it was expressly mentioned by Hitler to the Swedish industrialist Dahlerus when he visited Germany at the end of September, seeking to mediate between the Reich and Great Britain.96 The German press was also secretly briefed on these plans.97 To the Italian foreign minister on 1 October, Hitler spoke of the idea of a re-allocation of land according to ethnic criteria, a "general purification policy" (völkischen Flurbereinigung) in the East.98 On 6 October Hitler declared in a speech before the Reichstag that the "most important task" which follows from the "collapse of the Polish state", is a "new order in ethnographic relations, i.e. a re-settlement of nationalities". In the second part of his speech, Hitler gave notice that in the course of the coming "ordering of the entire living space according to nationalities" (which was to include all of Europe under German influence) "an attempt to order and regulate the Jewish problem will be undertaken".99
11.4Directly after this speech, on 7 October 1939, Hitler signed his edict on the "consolidation of German ethnicity" (Festigung deutschen Volkstums). Therein Hitler transmitted to Himmler two tasks: The first one was "to take in and settle within the Reich ... German people who were previously forced to live far away"; the second was to "organise the settlement of people's communities in such a way as to set up better dividing lines between them". Hitler transmitted to Himmler in this edict, not only the job of returning to the Reich the German nationals and ethnic Germans (Reichs- und Volksdeutsche) but also of "creating new German areas of settlement through deportation" and specifically the "exclusion of the damaging influence of those alien populations who imply danger for the Reich and the German people's community". In another section of the edict, Hitler specified that "those questionable population groups can be assigned to specific living areas".100
11.5While Himmler started preparations to deport Poles and Jews from the annexed Polish areas, in accordance with these orders, Adolf Eichmann concerned himself with preparations to deport Jews from the rest of the "Great German Reich", also, as he said, on orders specifically issued by Hitler. On 6 October Eichmann, at this point Director of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration (Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung) in Prague, which worked under Gestapo instructions to deport Jews systematically from the Protectorates of Bohemia and Moravia, received the additional order from Gestapo chief Müller to deport Jews from the Kattowitz district (i.e the recently annexed Polish area) as well as from Moravian-Ostrava (in the Protectorate) and to send them to Nisko am San in the District of Lublin of the Generalgouvernement.
11.6His assignment was soon extended, by virtue of orders from Hitler, to cover the deportation of all Jews from the Reich, including Austria and the "Ostmark". Thus he stated to the Gauleiter of Silesia, Wagner on 10 October:101 "The Führer has for the present ordered the restructuring of 300,000 Jews from the old Reich and the Ostmark." While visiting Vienna on 7 October, Eichmann explained to the Special Commissioner for Jewish questions in the Office of the Reich Governor for Austria: "According to strictly confidential information from the director of the Central Office for Emigration of Jews, the Führer has given the order that, to start the whole operation, 300.000 less well-off Jews from the Greater German Reich area" will be deported to Poland; in the meantime, those Jews still living in Vienna are to be seized and deported within the context of an operation which will take "at most 3/4 of a year".102
11.7Just as this first extensive deportation programme took place under Hitler's personal authority, so the crushing of the Nisko experiment is also traceable to a decision by Hitler. On 17 October, after the first deportation trains with altogether about 4700 people from Vienna, Moravia-Ostrava and Kattowitz had reached Nisko, Hitler made clear to Keitel that precautions must be taken because the future Generalgouvernement "as an extended glacis which has military importance for us, could be used as a deployment area". This perspective was obviously not compatible with that of a "Jewish reservation"; the deportations to Nisko were stopped on the order of the Reich Security Head Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt).103 From a long-term point of view, according to Hitler, nevertheless, the "leadership of the area ... must also make it possible for us to clean the area of the Reich from Jews and Poles" - a further indication that he had in no way abandoned the basic idea of a "Jewish reservation" in the Generalgouvenement.104
92. 'Ich gestehe ganz offen, daß das vorgesehene Befriedungsprogramm einigen tausend Polen das Leben kosten wird, vor allem aus der geistigen Führerschicht Polens [...] Der Führer hat mir gesagt: Die Behandlung und Sicherstellung der deutschen Politik im Generalgouvernement ist eine ureigene Sache der verantwortlichen Männer des Generalgouvernements. Er drückte sich so aus: Was wir jetzt an Führerschicht in Polen festgestellt haben, das ist zu liquidieren.' Präg/Jacobmeyer (eds.), Diensttagebuch, 30.5.40.
93. 'das Judenproblem in Polen', 'vom Reichsführer Vorschläge unterbreitet, die nur der Führer entscheiden könne, da sie auch von erheblicher außenpolitischer Tragweite sein werden'. BAB, r 58/825, 15.9.39.
94. 'Die Juden-Deportation in den fremdsprachigen Gau, Abschiebung über die Demarkationslinie, ist vom Führer genehmigt worden.' 'Jedoch soll der ganze Prozeß auf die Dauer eines Jahres verteilt werden: Das Judentum ist in den Städten in Gettos zusammenzufassen, um eine bessere Kontrollmöglichkeit und später Abschubmöglichkeit zu haben. Hierbei vordringlich sei, daß der Jude als Kleinsiedler vom Land verschwindet. Diese Aktion muß innerhalb der nächsten 3 bis 4 Wochen durchgeführt sein.' BAB, R 58/825, Amtschefbesprechungen, Protocol, 27.9.39.
95. 'Ostwall', 'breiter Gürtel der Germanisierung und Kolonisierung', 'Staatlichkeit'. Seraphim (ed.) Tagebuch, p. 81.
96. Hillgruber (ed.), Staatsmänner und Diplomaten, vol. I, pp. 29f(26.9.39).
97. Vertrauliche Information (Bulletin of the Minister of Propaganda), 9.10.41, printed in: Hagemann, Presselenkung, 145.
98. ADAP, Serie D, vol. 7, No. 176, pp. 143ff, protocol, 2.10.39.
99. 'wichtigste Aufgabe', 'Zerfall des polnischen Staates', 'eine neue Ordnung der ethnographischen Verhältnisse, daß heißt, eine Umsiedlung der Nationalitäten'. 'Ordnung des gesamten Lebensraumes nach Nationalitäten', 'der Versuch einer Ordnung und Regelung des jüdischen Problems zu unternehmen'. Verhandlungen des Reichstages, vol. 460, pp. 51ff.
100. 'deutsche Menschen, die bisher in der Ferne leben mußten ... im Reich aufzunehmen und anzusiedeln'; 'die Siedlung der Volksgruppen so zu gestalten, daß bessere Trennungslinien zwischen ihnen erreicht werden', 'Gestaltung neuer deutscher Siedlunsgebiete durch Umsiedlung', 'Ausschaltung des schädigenden Einflusses von solchen volksfremden Bevölkerungsteilen, die eine Gefahr für das Reich und die deutsche Volksgemeinschaft bedeuten','den in Frage stehenden Bevölkerungsteilen bestimmte Wohngebiete zuweisen'. IMT XXVI, 255f, 686-PS.
101. 'Der Führer hat vorerst die Umschichtung von 300.000 Juden aus dem Altreich und der Ostmark angeordnet.' YV, 053/87, Günther's Memo, 11.10.39.
102. 'Gemäß streng vertraulicher Mitteilung des Leiters der Zentralstelle für Judenauswanderung hat der Führer den Auftrag erteilt, daß zur Einleitung der geplanten Gesamtaktion fürs erste 300.000 minderbemittelte Juden aus dem großdeutschen Reichsgebiet nach Polen', 'längstens 3/4 Jahren'. Memorandum of the Sonderbeauftragte', 10.10.39 (original not available, excerpt prepared post factum), cited in Botz, Wohnungspolitik, 105, from Österreichisches Staatsarchiv.
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KWWL-TV (http://bit.ly/Zb7sED) reports that officials at the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium in Dubuque believe the tortoise named Cashew was stolen, but that the thief quietly returned the animal.
The museum says a visitor found Cashew on the elevator floor Thursday. She appears to be in good health.
The museum discovered Cashew was missing Tuesday from an exhibit with a 4-foot glass wall. Museum officials suspected she was taken as a prank or to sell.
Museum officials are reviewing surveillance video to try to figure out exactly what happened and find a possible suspect.
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MARCH 21—The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh will host their Business Program Series at 12:15 p.m. at the Downtown & Business branch, 612 Smithfield St., Downtown. The topic will be "The Mechanics of Starting a Small Business." Raymond Vargo, director of the University of Pittsburgh Small Business Center, will explain the various business structures, available funding options and what is needed to formally establish one's business. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 412-281-7141 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Cohen announces national missile defense plan
Released: 22 Jan 1999
by Douglas J. Gillert
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- The Pentagon will spend $6.6 billion over the next six years to develop and possibly deploy a limited national missile defense system.
Cohen described how the Defense Department will guard America against rogue nation missile attacks the day after President Clinton said in his annual State of the Union address that the United States must do more to restrain the spread of nuclear weapons and missiles.
Cohen; Army Gen. Henry Shelton, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman: and Air Force Lt. Gen. Lester Lyles, Ballistic Missile Defense Organization director, described the plan Jan. 20 to Pentagon reporters.
"We're affirming there is a threat and the threat is growing," Cohen said. "We expect it will soon pose a danger not only to our troops overseas but also to Americans here at home." The defense plan calls for a limited capability, one that would defend the United States against attack by rogue nations, he said. It would not provide a hedge against Russia's extensive missile capabilities.
The need for limited national defense comes from growing capabilities of nations such as North Korea that are building and testing multistage rockets capable of carrying warheads, Cohen said. North Korea's firing of a Taepo Dong missile last August indicates "the United States in fact will face a rogue-nation missile threat to our homeland against which we will have to defend the American people," he said.
The envisioned system includes a satellite-based sensor to detect the exhaust of a missile after it's launched, Lyles said. Early-warning radar would track the missile's flight path, a ground-based radar would target it and a ground-launched interceptor would destroy it.
Cohen acknowledged the plan may require altering the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty that the United States and the Soviet Union (now Russia) signed in 1972.
"We have amended the treaty before, and we see no reason why it cannot be amended again," Cohen said. He added that the treaty provides the right to withdraw with six months' notice "if a party concludes it's in its supreme national interests."
To avoid accusations of "rushing to failure" that have surrounded development of a theater missile defense system, Cohen said DOD will phase key decisions to occur only after critical integrated flight tests.
"As a result, instead of projecting a deployment date of 2003 with exceedingly high risk, we are now projecting a deployment date of 2005 with a much more manageable risk," he said. "But if the testing goes flawlessly, we may be able to deploy sooner.
"We cannot afford to fail," the secretary said. "The approach that we are presenting today is the optimal one to provide a capable national missile defense system as soon as possible."
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Rescue workers respond to car in river
Published: Thursday, July 24, 2014 at 6:36 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, July 24, 2014 at 6:36 p.m.
Jacob McDonald, 22, was driving down South Mills River Road when his car slid in a winding a curve in the road then landed sideways in a ditch around 4:30 p.m. on Thursday.
McDonald said he climbed out of the car leaving it in the ditch to go find help. After McDonald left to get help, the car fell into the river. Mills River Fire and Rescue responded to a call that there was a car in the river along with Henderson County Rescue Squad and EMS.
Deputy Chief Gary Livingston said the main goal was to locate and rescue the driver and any passengers and they were unaware at the time of their response that the driver was safe.
Livingston said if anyone were to find himself in a similar situation to call 911 and let dispatch know they safe, so rescue workers can be available for other calls.
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Welcome to the Denver Mint tour reservation system. We offer a free guided tour that takes about 45 minutes. You will learn about the history of the United States Mint and how we produce coins for the American public. After your tour, feel free to visit our Gift Shop to pick up unique memorabilia.
Reservations are required and you must present a confirmation number to enter the tour. Space is limited and fills up quickly.
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Measuring Consumer Preferences Using Conjoint Poker
The IdeaPlay games: use a modified form of poker to more accurately predict consumer preferences.
The Research
Thanks to online data collection, conjoint analysis — a standard tool of market researchers — is now easier and less costly to conduct. But conjoint analysis is time-consuming and complex: consumers' responses aren't always consistent with their real-life preferences. So conjoint surveys ask consumers a series of questions about their product preferences and infer real-life choices based on a complex analysis of choice combinations. For example, rather than ask which set of laptop features is most important, conjoint surveys ask consumers to make choices between many different laptops that have many different combinations of features.
Another consistent market research challenge is capturing and keeping the attention of survey participants, who use subtle strategies to simplify and speed up taking the surveys. That simplification can diminish how accurately their survey choices reflect their real-world preferences.
How can market researchers get people to pay more attention and treat their experimental choices more like real choices? Let them play games: Professor Olivier Toubia, Martijn de Jong of Erasmus University in the Netherlands, and Johann Füller and Daniel Stieger of the University of Innsbruck in Austria used the principles of conjoint analysis to design an online poker game that could be played as a market research study that reveals consumer preferences.
The game substituted different computer features like RAM and hard drive capacity for suits and numbers. Players created hands based on which features and combination of features they most preferred and had a chance to receive the actual product after several rounds of play. The researchers used eye-tracking technology to assess how engaged and attentive participants were, comparing eye movements of participants in a regular conjoint version of the study with those in the conjoint poker version.
Practical Applications
Marketing managers
You can use this research to more accurately predict likely consumer preferences for your firm's products and services.
The poker players spent much more time on the information presented about the products — taking in 85 to 90 percent of the information compared with 60 to 70 percent for a standard conjoint study. Conjoint poker also better predicted market share, and participants reported enjoying the game more than those who took the traditional survey. Conjoint poker does not require participants to be skilled poker players. Although playing conjoint poker does takes more time and is more complex than a standard survey, participants need not be skilled poker players to compete, and most users reported they would do it again and would only ask for the same amount ($5) of compensation.
Olivier Toubia is the Glaubinger Professor of Business in the Marketing Division at Columbia Business School.
Olivier Toubia
Olivier Toubia is the Glaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. His research focuses on various aspects of innovation (including idea generation, preference measurement, and the diffusion of innovation), social networks and behavioral economics. He teaches a course on Customer-Centric Innovation and the core marketing course, in the MBA and Executive MBA programs. He received his MS in Operations Research and PhD in...


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Deputies: Worker Hit by School Bus Has Minor Injuries
Published: Monday, March 4, 2013 at 9:12 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 12:19 a.m.
A worker for a tree company was hit by a Polk County school bus Monday morning, sending the worker to the hospital with minor injuries, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said.
About 7:55 a.m., a school bus on its way to Medulla Elementary with students on board was traveling on Alamo Drive near San Antonio Drive and Harden Boulevard. Workers with the Asplundh Expert Tree Co. were working alongside the road way when the bus approached.
The flagger for the company waved the bus through. As the bus passed the tree company truck, 64-year-old Rene Gonzalez was hit as he climbed from the truck, apparently as a result of a miscommunication with the flagger, the Sheriff's Office said.
Gonzalez was taken to Lakeland Regional Medical Center for examination. Officials said it does not appear the bus driver did anything wrong. Students were taken to the school.
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Small Batch of Range Rover Evoques Recalled for Loose Brakes
Jaguar Land Rover LLC is recalling a small number of LR2 and Range Rover Evoque vehicles from the 2012 model year because the bolts securing their rear brake calipers could loosen and possibly detach from the wheel assembly.
The company said the recall affects 70 vehicles it built on June 11. 2012. The problem stems from brake caliper retaining bolts that might not have been installed as tightly as they should be. Loose brake caliper bolts could allow the caliper to separate from the wheel, which could increase the risk of a crash.
In a filing with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Land Rover said drivers may notice "abnormal brake noise from the rear of the vehicle while driving or when the service brakes are applied."
The noise indicates there is a problem with the brake system and if the driver does not have the vehicle serviced, the bolts could loosen to the point where the caliper falls off the car. This could increase the risk of a crash through a partial loss of brakes or a punctured tire.
Under the recall Jaguar Land Rover dealers will inspect and tighten the rear brake caliper retaining bolts, free of charge. The recall is expected to begin by Jan. 18. Owners may contact the car maker at 800-452-4827.


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Uh Oh, He's Impotent: What to Do When Your Dude Can't Get It Up
Not all the time. But when he first comes home from work, or when he's really stressed out about something, sometimes what a guy wants most is to be quiet and by himself for a little while. When a guy's lady recognizes this and gives him that space, he notices and is grateful.
Let's face it. Guys like to feel like they're in control. Try letting go of your need to be right (even when you probably are). Sometimes you just need to let him pick the route, the restaurant, or the movie without interjecting your "better" idea. This will make him feel like he's in charge and that you trust him.
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This Valentine's Day, some lucky skier or snowboarder may stand in the singles line for the very last time.
Keystone Resort will be playing matchmaker in the gondola line today, pairing up couples for an 11-minute speed date ride to the top of Dercum Mountain in honor of the day of love.
"We think it's a fun, silly way to celebrate a day that's usually reserved for couples," Keystone spokeswoman Laura Parquette stated. "Keystone has so many great romantic options, from the Ski Tip to the spa, so couples can certainly celebrate as well, but it's nice to have a little something for everyone."
The gondola will continue to serve its normal function as an uphill transportation vehicle today as well. The resort will have a special "single singles" line for people who want to participate in the speed-dating event, officially billed "Love on the Lifts."
Keystone will pair riders up and send them off with a rose and a chocolate treat for their romantic trip up the hill. At the top, a photographer will be waiting to take new couples' first picture together - a feature that will also allow matches to reconnect over social media through the resort's online EpicMix system, which links photos to individual Facebook accounts.
"What better way to meet someone special than doing something you both love?" Parquette stated.
From the off-load station, it's up to the participants to keep the spark alive, either by taking a run together, or meeting up again later at an apres party from 4-7 p.m. at 9280 Tap House in River Run Village.
Slopeside romance is a common theme in Summit County this time of year, with local resorts now offering events to celebrate everything from the introduction to the "I do."
Many couples either tie the knot or renew their vows on the hill at Loveland Ski Area on Feb. 14 during an annual on-mountain wedding ceremony now in its 22nd year.


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This Thursday, March 24, 2011 photo shows French Chef Paul Bocuse as he poses outside his famed Michelin three-star restaurant L'Auberge du Pont de Collonges in Collonges-au-Mont-d'or, central France. Bocuse, the icon of French cuisine whom many credit with transforming the role of chef from invisible artist to celebrity, will be proclaimed Chef of the Century by the Culinary Institute of America on March 30. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)


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Highlanders Fall at Eureka in SLIAC Opener
December 4, 2013
The Highlander women's basketball team started strong but faded down the stretch in a 74-52 loss at Eureka College on Tuesday night in the SLIAC league opener for both clubs.
Coach Derek James' club led by as many as five points early in the game and had their last lead (23-22) with 7:17 left in the first half. The host Red Devils outscored the Highlanders 52-29 the rest of the game to pull away with the victory. The MacMurray women shot a cold 24% (18-74) for the game.
Senior guard Gabby Douglas had a team-high eleven points for the Highlanders, and Ashley Jenkins added ten points and eight rebounds. Megan Duisen and KayDee Carmody also pulled down eight rebounds apiece in the loss.
The host Red Devils had four players in double figures and were led by Jenna Brooks and Caty Eeten; who scored a game-high fifteen points each.
Eureka College improves to 4-1 overall and 1-0 in SLIAC play; while the Highlanders fall to 0-4 overall and 0-1 in SLIAC play.
MacMurray College returns to the court on Saturday at Principia College for another SLIAC contest. Tip-off is set for 1PM.


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Thursday August 11, 2011
Aiken, SC--After a couple of sub 500 seasons, this year's Aiken Hornets are playing with a chip on their shoulder. They've missed out on the playoffs and it's fueling the fire as they get cranking for the season ahead.
Experience should be key to this year's Hornets. They've had a lot of underclassmen on the field, and now they're juniors and seniors. It should be the experience that turns a lot of close losses into wins, at least that's the plan.
"Nothing beats experience," said Head Coach Carey Johnson. "You can have great athletes and they make immature mistakes, and that really costs some football games. We didn't have a football game last year that we were really dominated in. We were in every football game we lost. But experience helps these young men, and hopefully we'll see some dividends this year."
Coach Johnson thinks the defense will be the strong suit, at least early on. A good portion of the starters return. On offense, Devontai Pope and Aaron Griffin both return at running back and will help lead the way to the end zone.
"We have faith in our quarterback," said Pope. "It's not really that we lost a good quarterback, we'll just build another one."
"Demarcus Chestnut is doing a great job for us right now," Johnson said. "He was the back up last year, and I think he started and played in a couple of games and got a couple of wins. So I guess he's undefeated right now so we definitely have to go with him. He has the best record."
If Aiken can win those close games this year, don't be surprised if they play the role of a sleeper team in the postseason.


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Men's Nike New York Yankees MLB Jackson Cooperstown Hair-itage Player Tee
Remember the good old days when MLB players rocked classic moustaches and vintage uniforms? The Nike New York Yankees MLB Hair-itage Player Tee celebrates these days with fun, screen-print graphics that are sure to take you back a few decades.
Made of soft, 100% cotton, this officially licensed MLB tee features a prominently displayed Yankees player on the front with a throwback look. Celebrate the Yankees and the good old days while also staying comfortable in this stylish MLB tee from Nike.


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Man Tears Off Own Penis, Blames Mushrooms
(NEWSER) – Something weird is in the mushrooms in Michigan's Ypsilanti Township: Police say a man ripped off part of his own penis, almost killing himself through blood loss, after taking hallucinogenic mushrooms. Cops found the naked, screaming man outside a school after responding to a late-night burglar alarm, the Detroit Free Press reports.
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For Germany, It Takes More Than a Swallow to Make a Summer
Germany's Ifo business confidence brightened unexpectedly in November, making the institute's president, Hans-Werner Sinn, sound confident: "The German economy is holding up well in face of the euro crisis."
True, Germany has outperformed most of its peers this year.
While the euro zone as a whole slipped into recession in the third quarter — in fact, the region has not grown for four straight quarters — Germany mustered 0.2% quarterly growth. Activity was driven by robust exports and domestic consumption, while low interest rates and Germany's notorious — and often unfounded — inflation angst fanned construction activity.
But industry, the heart and soul of Germany's economy, is in decline. Manufacturing orders plunged 3.3% on the month in September — the latest month data are available for — as orders from within the euro zone dropped by almost 10%. That indicates that industrial production — down already 1.8% in September from August — has further to fall.
The latest development and a deepening recession in the euro zone — Germany's largest trading partner — doesn't bode well for the country as the industry, excluding construction, accounts for almost one fourth of Germany's gross domestic product.
Compounding the problems for the euro zone's largest economy, several blue-chip firms have already announced large-scale cost cuts to boost their competitiveness , including engineering conglomerate Siemens and car giant Daimler.
German labor productivity — measured as price-adjusted GDP per person in employment — declined further in the third quarter, data from the federal statistics office showed Friday.
Labor productivity fell by 0.5% from the same period a year earlier, adding to a trend that started in the second quarter, when productivity dropped for the first time since late 2009. Note that in 2009 Germany was in deep recession.
Against this backdrop and in light of a worsening global outlook, it's not surprising that overall corporate investment has stayed slack in Germany.
Investment in machinery and equipment dropped for the fourth consecutive time in the third quarter, falling 2.0% from the previous quarter and shaving 0.1 percentage points off the quarterly growth rate.
A rundown in inventories, meanwhile, subtracted 0.3 percentage points from growth, indicating that Germany's companies remain wary in light of the euro-zone debt crisis.
While today's publication of the Ifo survey gives some rare cause for optimism, it is too early to expect a turnaround. In fact, the German economy should contract in the fourth quarter and the weakness will linger well into next year.