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Stocks' Biggest Gains Are an Inside Job
Quick, what is the stock market's biggest driver today?
Corporate earnings? Interest rates? The Federal Reserve? Some say the correct answer is something people rarely discuss: companies buying back their own stock.
Companies purchasing their own shares represent the single biggest category of stock buyers today, according to a study this month by Jeffrey Kleintop, chief market strategist at brokerage firm LPL Financial.
Only one other major group, individuals, is a net stock buyer now and individuals are buying less than corporations, Mr. Kleintop found. Of six major groups he identified, hedge funds, foreigners, insiders and investment institutions such as pension funds and insurance companies all are net sellers, he found. He used data from the Fed, the U.S. Treasury, FactSet, the Investment Company Institute and other sources.
The pullback by traditional investors helps explain why stocks have had trouble making progress at various points this year, money managers say. And the increasing prominence of corporate buybacks has drawn criticism from some in the investment world.
"Most of the buying is coming from the companies themselves. It doesn't sound healthy but that is certainly where it is coming from," Mr. Kleintop said.
He points out that stock buyers tend to wax and wane over time. In the future, corporations may find more productive investments and buy less stock, and traditional investors may become more active again.
Companies spent $598.1 billion on stock buybacks last year, according to Birinyi Associates in Westport, Conn. That was the second highest annual total in history, behind only 2007, Birinyi calculated. The pace picked up in the first quarter of 2014, when companies spent $188 billion, the highest quarterly amount since 2007.
"They have obviously been a driving force," said Robert Leiphart, a Birinyi analyst who tracks buybacks. "They really benefit everybody."
Despite several benefits, buybacks also are a source of controversy. Some money managers and analysts say they permit companies to provide artificial support for stock prices.
The most direct impact of stock purchases is to increase demand for the shares, which supports their prices. But buybacks also have a more subtle impact: If a company reduces its number of shares, simple math dictates that earnings per share will rise even if total earnings go nowhere. Analysts and money managers look mainly at earnings per share, so buybacks can improve a company's apparent earnings performance even if overall earnings aren't rising at all.
Some critics go so far as to say executives use buybacks to manipulate share prices, which helps them hit earnings targets, please investors, receive bonuses and avoid scrutiny from shareholders and boards.
Mr. Kleintop of LPL Financial and Scott Clemons, chief investment strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman Private Banking, both calculate that half of the first quarter's S&P 500 per-share earnings gains came from declining share count, not from increases in actual earnings.
"If a company is buying shares to hit earnings-per-share targets, that is not good capital allocation and there is a lot of that going on. For the market as a whole, there is too much of it," Mr. Clemons said. "There are an awful lot of buybacks taking place that aren't adding value to shareholders."
That doesn't mean all buybacks are misguided, he added. In some cases he likes buybacks better than dividends as a way to return money to shareholders, because investors pay taxes on dividends and don't on buybacks unless they sell shares.
Mr. Clemons generally agrees with an argument Warren Buffett has made: Companies should consider buying back shares only if the shares are undervalued based on the company's earnings, sales, book value or other valuation benchmarks. But Mr. Clemons also worries that the ease of buybacks, compared with the difficulty of business investment, can lead a company to avoid seeking opportunities and taking risks in uncertain times. That can hold down profits and overall economic growth, he said.
"I think there is a lot of corporate cash on the sidelines not being put to work because of the uncertainty, not because of the lack of investible opportunities," he said.
Last year, owning the stock of companies with significant share-buyback programs was one of the most successful investment strategies tracked by Goldman Sachs, according to its research reports. As of June 20, buyback-related stocks had risen more than 115% since the end of 2012, Goldman found.
But almost all those gains came last year and buyback stocks have done no better than the S&P 500 this year.
Several companies have gotten attention for their heavy buybacks, including International Business Machines. Under pressure to meet earnings targets in the face of steadily declining sales, IBM spent $8.3 billion in the first quarter purchasing its own shares. Some analysts criticized that and noted that IBM's debt level rose, suggesting it was in effect using borrowed money.
A person familiar with IBM said the big first-quarter purchases weren't a typical pattern for IBM and that IBM has said it doesn't intend to continue spending at that clip. He called it irresponsible and unfair to say IBM was supporting its per-share earnings numbers through buybacks.
Some analysts project that 2014 could be the third-biggest buyback year ever. But there also are signs the buying could begin to wane, said research analyst Michael Amenta of FactSet Research Systems in a June report. Most of the 10 biggest big corporate buyers of their own shares slowed their buying pace in the first quarter and many indicated that they expect to further reduce spending as the year goes on, he said.


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BERKELEY -- Charlie Louis Russell Jr., renowned for his play about the dynamics of an African-American family, died June 28. He was 81.
The man affectionately known by his daughter as a "writer's writer" is best remembered for his play "Five on the Black Hand Side," which appeared off-Broadway and was made into a movie in 1973. Russell won an NAACP Image Award for writing the screenplay.
He also was the older brother of former NBA great Bill Russell.
Wynn Handman, co-founder of the American Place Theater, which produced Charlie Russell's play, worked closely with the playwright for a year. "Five on the Black Hand Side" is the only play that came out of the theater that was made into a movie.
"He had a wonderful sense of humor, and everything he did had rhythm to it," Handman said. "His comedy 'Five on the Black Hand Side' was hugely successful and it was quite innovative."
Handman said that at that time, there were no plays like Russell's about black family life that were comic. He said Russell was innovative, very "talented, funny and full of life."
Charlie Louis Russell Jr. was born March 10, 1932, in West Monroe, La. His parents, Charlie and Katie, were hardworking, industrious and ran a tight ship. He and his brother, Bill, spent days shooting BB guns, hunting birds and going to the movies.
In the 1940s, in search of a better life, the family moved to Oakland. Charlie attended Cole Elementary, Hoover Junior High and Oakland Tech High.
Charlie attended Santa Rosa Junior College and later was briefly married to Donna Diston. Their son, Michael, was born in 1950. Russell served in the Army from 1953 to 1955 and was stationed in Korea. Upon his return, he attended the University of San Francisco, where he majored in English. He also was on the school's 1957 basketball team that reached the NCAA Final Four.
"He had a great personality, and he was just full of jokes," said Robert H. Johnson, who has known Russell for more than 50 years. The two would frequently play basketball together when they were younger. "He was my best friend."
After college, Russell moved to New York, married Tanya Johnson and they had a daughter, Katheryn, in 1961. Later, he joined the Harlem Writers' Guild and published several well-received pieces.
Russell returned to the Bay Area in 1978 and taught drama at Contra Costa College. In the mid-1980s, he moved to San Diego, where he worked as a social worker. He later moved back to the East Bay to manage the care of his father. He then worked for Alameda County Child Protective Services.
When he would write, Russell would play jazz music, his favorite, sequester himself in his "writing space" and keep at it for hours, his daughter recalls. Most of what he wrote focused on the lives of everyday working class African-Americans.
"He believed the real heart of the stories about the black community were in the lives of everyday working folks," said Katheryn Russell-Brown, a law professor. "Not just stories of oppression and the downtrodden, but stories about how people kept moving forward and made a difference."
Russell was sick with gastric cancer for six months before his death. At the time of his death, he was working on a novel based on Toussaint L'Ouverture's life and the Haitian slave rebellion.
"Even though he was sick and died just a few weeks later, he was able to get back to his house in early June," Russell-Brown said. "What he was most interested in was seeing his words, his computer, he wanted to see his writing and hear his music."
Russell is survived by his daughter, Katheryn Russell-Brown (Kevin Brown); son, Joshua Russell; grandchildren, Louis and Sasha Brown; brother, Bill; special friend, Sandra Johnson and ex wife Tanya Russell. He was preceded in death by his son Michael.
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Published: Monday, March 18, 2013 at 7:13 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, March 18, 2013 at 7:13 a.m.
METAIRIE, La. (AP) — Authorities in Louisiana say they tracked a man accused of stealing drugs from a pharmacy because he left behind a pickax he used to break in — and forgot to remove the price tag.
Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Col. John Fortunato says the sticker included a bar code indicating when and where the pickax was bought. The store had video of the purchase.
Fortunato tells The Times-Picayune (http://bit.ly/ZBcFaW ) that a store near the pharmacy had surveillance video from the night of the burglary, showing the same man and a vehicle license plate.
Fortunato says drugs from the pharmacy were found during a search of 43-year-old Scott Rodrigue's home.
Rodrigue was booked with pharmacy burglary and drug possession and freed on $70,000 bond. He does not have a listed phone number and could not be reached.
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AURORA, Colo (KKCO) Mayor Hogan says there are federal, state and local government representatives who have been in Aurora offering support. He says the city has also received messages from people offering support and prayers from around the world, and thinks maybe now, everyone can start the long process of grieving.
"We can I think, now, start this process of, natural process, of grieving and healing. I started talking today (Saturday) with representatives of our community of faith and how involved they are and want to be in our community and to be helpful to our citizens," says Hogan.
The mayor also met with some of the families of people who were badly injured at the hospital.
He says he tried to let them know the city cares and that they will do whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, to help them.


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Sooooooooooooooooo amazing.
Great PE track to boot.
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WOW just WOW. I'm sitting here with the Biggest smile on my face right now! :D Makes me want to get up and dance..hell I think I will.
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This is so great! I can't even imagine how surreal that must feel.
It's funny over the last couple of weeks i've been listening to the first three PE albums over and over non-stop at work, then this happens and Buck 65 writes this essay about Yo! Bum Rush The Show
I think the universe is reminding me to buy tickets for the upcoming Public Enemy tour. Ok ok I give in!
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i've listened to this dozens of times the past two days... did i miss the part where someone said PE has a new album coming out?
please tell me i did.
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The hook on this is so catchy. I love it. That beat is a banger. Wide Open.
They picked a good picture of you too Sage. Ali as well.
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my baaaaaaaad, i should've commented on this earlier but it slipped past me. fucking awesome. fantastic song & video from the best to do it. amazing honor sage. it's gotta feel good & it's well deserved.
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Bumpity bump bump......
Tomorrow night PE is playing in Essen and I'm going. I had to bump this out of respect for this track...and my long time love for PE. It is the 'Fear of a Black Planet' tour. I haven't been to a hip hop show in this part of Germany and I'm kind of interested to see what the turn out is. The venue is rather intimate, from what I've heard. This album brings me back to the days of flea markets and discovering bootleg cassette tapes ("why is the print on the cassette blurred?"). Ahhh yeaaah! Welcome to the terrordome!
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The Daily Startup: OpenCoin Cashes In on Bitcoin Frenzy
Top stories in today's VentureWire:
OpenCoin has secured seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz, FF Angel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Vast Ventures and Bitcoin Opportunity Fund. OpenCoin is the latest startup to ride a wave of investment in the developing Bitcoin virtual-currency economy. It's developing Ripple, a distributed open-source payments system and a virtual currency which it describes as "a second iteration" of Bitcoin. Recently a dozen or so fledgling companies have emerged to provide digital wallets and payment and exchange platforms for Bitcoin.
Cydan has raised $16 million to launch research into possible treatments for rare diseases, from investors including New Enterprise Associates and Pfizer venture arm. Cydan's founding team includes Chief Business Officer Chris Adams, who held the same title with FoldRx Pharmaceuticals, acquired by Pfizer in 2010. Cydan intends to identify drug programs from various sources, including academic and commercial settings, and to "de-risk" them through additional research.
Also in today's VentureWire, Quantance has received a $12 million Series D round from its existing investors DoCoMo Capital, Granite Ventures, InterWest Partners and TD Fund, to advance its power-management chips for mobile phones to the market…Optimizely has raised $28 million in Series A funding with the goal of personalizing the Web for every person who uses it. The round was led by Benchmark Capital…and Advanced Animal Diagnostics, a company offering a rapid-response test kit that dairy farmers can use to diagnose contagious inflammation in cows' mammary glands, has raised a $6 million fourth tranche of Series B funding to continue developing new applications for its tests.
(VentureWire is a daily newsletter with comprehensive analysis of all the investments, deals and personnel moves involving startups and their venture backers. For a two-week trial, visit our homepage, scroll to the bottom and click "try for free.")
Elsewhere around the Web:
Google Ventures has teamed up with venture firms Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to find and back developers of apps for Google Glass, the glasses-like computing device that Google is preparing to ship. About five years ago Kleiner Perkins joined with Apple to launch the iFund to finance apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
You've probably heard of "affordable housing;" now Cambridge, Mass., is pressing developers to set aside affordable office space for startups, The Wall Street Journal reports. The city, home to MIT and Harvard, struck a deal with MIT to offer affordable space for entrepreneurs as part of a $1 billion development plan and plans to impose similar requirements on other developers in its Kendall Square tech hub.
Foursquare, the once red hot maker of a check-in app, rounded up new financing, says Bloomberg Businessweek. The $41 million in debt was mostly a multi-year loan from Silver Lake Partners and buys Foursquare time to build a business.
Venture investors and entrepreneurs offer advice on setting the right price for a product or service in posts on WSJ blog The Accelerators.


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Some Taxi Owners Rushing to Buy Older Models
As the Taxi of Tomorrow launch approaches, fleets are buying taxis of today.
The switch to the "Taxi of Tomorrow" is slated to begin Oct. 28, when the Nissan200 becomes the "Official Taxi Vehicle" of New York City. But it won't happen overnight.
And some taxi owners, especially some fleet operations, are trying to put off the switch as long as possible.
Proof is in the sales receipts at City World, the big Bronx Ford and Toyota dealership. Carmela and Joan Ciccone, sisters who manage City World's taxi department, say they've been selling roughly 150 taxi vehicles per month — twice as many as usual — in advance of the Taxi of Tomorrow's launch date.
Taxi owners are rushing to purchase and hack up cars that are permissible now — like the Camry hybrid, or the Ford Transit Connect — before the deadline, Carmela Ciccone said. Others in the taxi industry confirmed that account, especially on the part of fleets, which buy cars and spare parts in bulk, and are leery of having to adapt to an unfamiliar vehicle.
"They don't like to be pushed into anything," Carmela Ciccone said of her customers.
"We are very busy with Ford and Toyota," said Ms. Ciccone, who will also begin selling the Nissan once it is available next month. "They love that Camry and the Camry's going away."
Once it is "hacked up" for service as a taxi, including being outfitted with a meter and a rooflight, a yellow cab that continues to pass regular inspections can be used for up to three years, or up to five years if it isn't being driven for two shifts per day. That means hacking up another car could put off for years the decision whether to purchase the NV200, as the city is encouraging, or to opt for one of the three potentially more expensive hybrid models that will still be temporarily permitted until a hybrid version of the NV200 is developed.
Others have cut deals. Some fleets that are members of the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade are exercising their right under a stipulated agreement with the TLC to extend the life of some of their fleet vehicles in exchange for agreeing to eventually shift to the Nissan in the future, the group's spokesman said
A Nissan official said the company is taking necessary steps to get fleet owners acquainted with the new car. Nissan's contract with the city requires guarantees about the availability of vehicles and spare parts, and provides the city the right to immediately clear other cars for use as taxis in the event of a major failure, like a vehicle recall.
And even Nissan and the TLC plan a gradual introduction of the new cab. Only two taxi medallions are scheduled to be transferred to a new vehicle in October, a spokesman for the TLC said, though many more taxi owners could decide to change vehicles that month.
And in a city environmental document filed as part of an ongoing court case seeking to block the taxi, the city says Nissan will deliver the new cars at a rate of about 220 per month. At that pace, it would take about five years to convert the entire city taxi fleet to the Taxi of Tomorrow.


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Like any preschooler, Rintoo experiences different feelings all the time--happy, sad, angry, scared, or just relaxed. How does your child feel today? Help her express her own emotions through a Rintoo face pillow (featuring swappable facial expressions) and our companion feelings flash cards. Use your words--and make a face--together!
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Trace Rintoo's head shape twice onto yellow felt and cut out both pieces. Trace and cut out Rintoo's eyes, nose, inner ears, and hair pieces from felt of designated colors. Glue Rintoo's facial features to the front head panel. Then use puffy/fabric paint to draw Rintoo's eye reflections, nose reflection, and black triangles at the edge of his face and ears. Refer to the images provided on the template.
Once the facial features have been glued down and dried, glue the front and back panels of Rintoo's head together by applying glue along the edge of the bottom and sides. Wait about a minute for the glue to take, then stuff with batting and glue the top together. Try not to over-stuff the pillow, as this will distort Rintoo's face and make it difficult to glue the top together.
Make four different mouths of Rintoo by cutting out the pieces and glue them together as the template instructs. To make Rintoo's "relaxed mouth" and "sad/angry mouth," trace the shapes to white felt and then draw the mouthline with black puffy paint.
Peel tape from backing of a piece of "hook" and press it firmly to the back of Rintoo's "happy mouth," "scared mouth," "relaxed mouth," and "sad/angry mouth." For the "relaxed mouth" and "sad/angry mouth," glue the hook to the back of the tooth. You may need to trim it down along the tooth shape. For the "happy mouth" and "scared mouth," you probably need two hooks at the back to hold them up.
Trace and cut out Rintoo's eyebrows from black felt. Set aside. Trace the eyebrows again onto a piece of "hook" and cut out the shapes from the hook. Peel tape from the backing and press them to the back of the two felt eyebrows.
Once the eyebrows and four mouths have been made and hooks attached to their back, they are ready to stick to the Rintoo face pillow. Try all possible expressions by moving Rintoo's eyebrows around and switching between different mouth shapes.
Print the "How Does Rintoo Feel?" flash cards and follow the guides to cut and fold them. For added durability, you can use a glue stick to adhere them, and then laminate.
Follow the instructions on the flash cards to play! As you're talking about feelings together (Rintoo's and your child's), you can use each flash card as a guide to help you create the appropriate facial expression on Rintoo! For more social-emotional tips, check out Social-Emotional Learning with Rintoo.
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Christopher Woodruff graduated from Battle Mountain High School in 2007, he had an overall 4.3 GPA and graduated in the top 10 percent in his class. As a peer of his growing up I was always impressed with his intellect, I always knew Chris would go far in life. Woodruff went on to attend the University of Southern California where he added many more accomplishments to his resume. While at USC he studied abroad at the Queen Mary University of London and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering. I was not surprised at all when I heard that Woodruff was moving to Korea for work for Samsung and that this young adult would peruse something so challenging to enrich his life.
I have always dreamed of one day growing up and working on printers. I guess it started about halfway thru my junior year of college. I started frantically applying for just about any internship I could find, desperate to not spend back-to-back summers working in my parents store (sorry Mom!). I came across one very vague post on my school's job site about internships at Samsung headquarters in Korea. After a few emails and interviews in broken English, I got on a plane to Seoul in June of 2010, still harnessing some doubts about whether or not I was being scammed.-
The internship went well after all and I enjoyed life in Korea however, when I left I was told that I wasn't eligible for a full-time job because I was only working on an undergraduate degree. So I started looking for other jobs ... and kept looking. Anyone who graduated within the last few years knows how that goes. Around Thanksgiving I got an email from Samsung with a full time offer to sign and return within a week.
After about 6 months of contract/visa issues I was finally able to return to Korea in September 2011. I'm working in the IT Solutions division on printer engine firmware. Not quite sure what that means exactly, but I think it has something to do with controlling hardware components after receiving commands from your computer. So, if you've seen any news about Samsung record profits and smartphone sales, know that it has nothing to do with me.
There are a lot of stereotypes about Korean work culture: long hours, heavy drinking, and very strict hierarchy. They're mostly true for the older generation, and starting to change among entry-level employees. However, I've still had to work 16-hour days, drink soju and eat live octopus for hwesik (monthly team dinner to build morale), and complete trivial tasks like proofreading manuals and quality assurance tests simply because I'm the newest/youngest employee on my team and will be for a while (Korean men have mandatory military service so the next youngest guy is four years older than me).-
Early last year I attended 'Samsung Value Program', a 3-week training course about the company's history, values, and corporate culture. Being woken up at 6:30 a.m. by the latest K-pop hit played over the loudspeaker, I had flashbacks of summer sports camp at the Air Force Academy. Lectures went until around 11 p.m. and included subjects such as how to properly greet your seniors (45-degree bow and polite 'annyeong hassibnika'), encourage diversity within the company (citing McDonald's international menus), and my personal favorite, why unions are not allowed in the company (videos of violent 'union' protests playing in the background that looked suspiciously like Arab Spring news clips). The fiery socialist inside of me died that day, and I was reborn a "true Samsung man," as they refer to graduates of the program. I guess this is what people are referring to when they say "you'll gain tons of great experience" working abroad.-
While vacation time is limited (only 15 days your first two years), I managed to travel to China last summer, spent this past Christmas in Vietnam, and spent Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving) showing my mom around Korea. After a year here I had grown quite accustomed to some of the random quirks of Korean culture. My mom wanted me to come back to America, but remarkably the food, sightseeing, and friendly people won her over and she's planning a return trip this year.
Joking aside, I have had some truly great experiences over here- new friendships, travel experiences, culture and interesting food (I've tried chicken feet, horse bones, tuna eyeball soju shot, blood sausage, eel liver, as well as a few other Korean delicacies).-
Moving abroad for work wasn't a flawless process by any means. I haven't really decided how long I plan to stay here, but moving here alone right after university has really given me the flexibility to decide any day that I've had enough kim chee for a lifetime and return to America.
Britney Brown is a current resident in Lindesberg, Sweden, as she pursues her professional volleyball career overseas. Brown grew up in Edwards and graduated in 2007 from Battle Mountain High School. She was on the 2006 state championship volleyball team and earned a full-ride scholarship to Northeastern University to play for the Huskies in Boston. In May of 2010, Brown graduated from Northeastern with a bachelor's degree in business marketing. Brown will be sending stories about Vail Valley young adults exploring the world.-


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* The HFPA was formed in 1943 as a way for international journalists to band together, exchange ideas and gain access to Hollywood stars.
* The organization's first awards took place in 1944 with an informal ceremony at the 20th Century Fox studios. Jennifer Jones received the best actress award for "The Song of Bernadette," which also won for best film, while Paul Lukas won best actor for his role in "Watch on the Rhine." Awards were presented in the form of scrolls.
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This is an excerpt from EERE Network News, a weekly electronic newsletter.
December 05, 2007
DOE Creates a $7.2 Million Clean Energy Commercialization Fund
DOE announced on November 29th that it will establish a $7.2 million commercialization fund to be divided among three DOE national laboratories: the National Renewable Energy Laboratory will receive up to $4 million, Oak Ridge National Laboratory up to $2.5 million, and Sandia National Laboratories up to $700,000. The three national laboratories will use the funds for clean energy technologies that have advanced beyond the research stage, moving the technologies toward commercial viability though prototype development, demonstration projects, market research, and other deployment activities. The new fund was announced in conjunction with an announcement on solar thermal power funding. See the DOE press release.
The DOE emphasis on commercialization comes at a good time, as U.S. venture capital investments in the "CleanTech" sector reached a record high for the first three quarters of 2007. According to data from Thomson Financial and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), 158 deals resulted in $2.6 billion invested in CleanTech, which includes clean energy as well as other environmental products. Solar energy garnered the lion's share of the investments, with 35 deals worth a total of $664.6 million, while the relatively mature wind power industry drew only four deals worth $62.9 million. One of the largest single venture capital deals was a $77 million investment in Heliovolt Corporation, a maker of thin-film solar cells. See the NVCA press release (PDF 38 KB). Download Adobe Reader.
Meanwhile, the United States and the European Union have submitted a proposal to the World Trade Organization to remove trade barriers to clean energy technologies and services. The proposal calls for eliminating worldwide tariffs on a specific list of climate-friendly technologies, as well as a commitment by most countries to eliminate trade barriers for a wide range of environmental technologies and services. See the press release from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.


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This past November, my husband and I moved from Northern California to the South Central Valley. One of the main things we were going to miss when we made the move was the chapter we had a hand in helping establish...PFLAG of Greater Placer County. We scanned the Internet and found the closest chapter to our new home was in Fresno – a 45 minutes drive. Our two minds thought as one: we're going to help found another chapter for an area in desperate need of one.
And so it began. The networking aspect of the process was made easy by my husband and his love of talking. He contacted www.queervisalia.com and explained to the Web Owner what we planned to do and what we hoped to accomplish. We were invited to the "Queer Visalia" Meet and Greets where we were given time at these social events to talk about the need for a PFLAG here and our vision for a new chapter. People really started warming up to us when they realized that these two old people are true allies.
Within three months we had formed a core group from the Meet and Greet as well as with other straight allies met along the way. At our second meeting one of our group members thought we should try an informational meeting to test the murky waters here in the Valley. We checked with PFLAG National and received the "OK" to give it a shot. Before we went "public" we decided to have a "practice meeting" at our house made up of the planning group, since most had never been to an actual PFLAG meeting. Would you believe that little "practice" meeting had several of what we call "PFLAG Moments"--mini meltdowns and understanding looks?
The day of the meeting finally arrived on June 19th, 2008. We had no idea what to expect or who would attend, but we were full of hope. And amazingly enough, with 20 minutes remaining before the meeting was scheduled to begin, people started to arrive. Not just a few, but enough to fill the entire room. We had to make the circle of chairs bigger and bigger until the backs were up against the walls. As one of our members put it, "I don't know how many people are here, but there's a butt in every chair." Well, there were over 40 people to be counted and the meeting was a terrific success. We told the story of PFLAG, went around the circle and witnessed the inevitable PFLAG Moments take place over and over again. We watched a short video and when it was over, people stayed. They stayed to talk and to have the opportunity to look into the eyes of others who believe like they do that PFLAG is here to stay.
The meetings will now run regularly the third Sunday of every month. And we look forward to growth and being a force for change within our community here in the South Valley.
One of our members created our website at no charge to us, and another developed our MySpace page.
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So I am testing PMS under Ubuntu 12.04 right now and while for the most part its working well I will need to increase the heap size once I put this into full operation. Currently my main media server is my personal desktop and to allow streaming to 3 devices at once I needed to increase the heap size to 1500MB under windows 7, so I know that I will need to do the same with ubuntu when I fully deploy my new standalone server.
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The 2013 Texas A&M – Corpus Christi Women's Tennis season will get underway on Sunday afternoon, with the Islanders traveling to No. 75 Houston Cougars for a 3 p.m. match.
Coming off of the best season in program history, the women's team will look to improve on the highest Southland Conference finish since the start of the program, the first Southland Conference Tournament win ever and a 16-5 record, the best in school history.
Doris Kuselj, Leanne Mascall, Mia Matuszak are the three seniors that lead the eight returning players. Sandra Burges, Stefania Nicolae, Cassie Shaw, Ashley Garza and Chelsea Horan also return for the team, while Venesa Figueroa, Maider Martin and Celia Rodriguez Delgado represent the incoming freshman class.
The Cougars broke into the national rankings this past Tuesday, and improved their record to 3-0 after winning matches over McNeese State and Tyler Junior College on Friday at the Galleria Tennis and Athletic Club. Elena Kordolaimi leads the team at No. 1 singles while Celia Fraser follows up at No. 2.
Match time is set for 3 p.m. at the John E. Hoff Courts on the UH campus. It will be the first meeting between the teams since Houston earned a 6-1 win at home over the Islanders on Feb. 22, 2007.
For all the latest on Islanders Tennis, like the team on Facebook (IslandersTennis), follow them on Twitter (@IslandersTennis) and visit www.GoIslanders.com.


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Another long-time member of the forum provides a report from the signing in Dublin. He received clarification from GRRM regarding the dialogue coach item we reported on previously. There will be no particular effort to vary accents between different regions of the Seven Kingdoms, and the dialogue coaching and linguistic work is primarily to develop the sound and feel of the Dothraki language. Other reports note that it's probable that while actors may mouth Dothraki in scenes, in all likelihood these will be dubbed in later to make sure everything is consistent and sounds natural.
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Main Page | Risk Factors | Symptoms | Diagnosis | Treatment | Screening | Reducing Your Risk | Talking to Your Doctor | Living With COPD | Resource Guide
In addition to medicines and surgery, other treatments are often used to help relieve some of the symptoms associated with COPD. These treatments help reduce phlegm and other pulmonary secretions. Reducing these makes breathing easier.
Postural Bronchial Drainage
This procedure is designed to help remove secretions from the airways. You are instructed to lie in various positions. The different positions allow gravity to drain fluids from different parts of your lungs. This may be done after inhaling an aerosol that loosens secretions.
Chest Percussion
In this procedure, a respiratory therapist lightly claps the chest and back. This helps to dislodge large amounts of secretions and makes them easier to cough up and spit out.
While this may be used, the evidence supporting the effectiveness of postural drainage or chest percussion is weak
About COPD. American Lung Association website. Available at: http://www.lung.org/lung-disease/copd/about-copd . Accessed October 1, 2012.
COPD. American Association of Respiratory Care website. Available at: http://www.yourlunghealth.org/lung_disease/copd/index.cfm . Accessed October 1, 2012.
COPD. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: https://dynamed.ebscohost.com/about/about-us . Updated September 25, 2012. Accessed October 1, 2012.
What is COPD? National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) website. Available at: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/copd . Accessed October 1, 2012.
What you can do about a lung disease called COPD. Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease website. Available at: http://www.goldcopd.org/uploads/users/files/GOLD_Patient_RevJan10.pdf . Accessed October 1, 2012.
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- Choose a residence hall (or apartment for married students and families)
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- Skim our Frequently Asked Questions or email the Housing Office
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Our Greece luxury honeymoon itinerary includes a stay in vibrant and historical Athens, and the romantic and beautiful island of Santorini.
- 3 nights luxury hotel accommodation in Athens
- 4 nights luxury hotel accommodation in Santorini island
- Half day Athens guided sightseeing tour
- Air tickets Athens - Santorini - Athens
- Candlelight dinner in Santorini (drinks excluded)
- 5 hour semi-private Caldera cruise in Santorini, on a catamaran
- Private half day island tour of Santorini
- Massage treatment in Santorini
- All transfers as mentioned
- Entrance fees during guided sightseeing
- Daily breakfast
- 24 hour assistance phone number
- All taxes
- Travel insurance
- International flights
- Personal expenses
- Gratuities
Arrival in Athens. Connecting flight to Santorini. Upon arrival in Santorini, you will be met by our assistant and transferred to your hotel. A bottle of wine and flowers will be in your room upon arrival.
5 hour semi-private catamaran cruise along the caldera. Sail by the volcano, swim in the hot springs, visit secluded beaches and more. Includes BBQ meal and local wine.
After breakfast you will be met by our English speaking driver for a 4 hour private tour of the island.
Visually, Santorini is the most spectacular of the isles in the Cyclades. With its brilliant flooded caldera, high cliffs and charming villages, it is the Greek Isle of everyone's dreams. Our tour will take us to Santorini's highest peak, crowned by the Mount Profitis Ilias Monastery. At 883 feet, Mt. Profitis Ilias rugged landscape is largely composed of volcanic rocks as a result of hundreds of eruptions during the last two million years, some of them being large caldera-forming events. Here, in this remote spot, we'll have an ideal photo opportunity to capture the beauty of this ancient island.
We'll discover the village of Pyrgos, which was the capital of Santorini until 1800. Here we'll be able to admire the beautiful old houses and the Venetian Fortress crowned by several churches.
Our half-day tour then takes us to one of the island's most famous traditional wineries. Viniculture is an ancient art in Santorini, and the fact that vines thrive at all is amazing considering the fact that the island has limited water resources. But the volcanic soil is an excellent medium for producing grapes, especially the Assyrtiko grape – a rare, white variety.
After our visit, we'll drive through the countryside to visit Oia. This traditional Greek village of whitewashed cubes is perched impossibly high on cliffs at the north west tip of the island. Here, take in the stunning views of the island from one of the charming cafés or stroll above the rooftops of the homes carved into the cliffs and gaze into the deep blue waters of the caldera far below.Afternoon free.
Day at leisure to enjoy the sun, the unforgettable view and the most romantic sunset in the world. Santorini is the essence of a Greek island, where sea meets weather-beaten rock and colors are bold and elemental. Blue-domed chapels stand on hilltops; houses are simple white cubes, sunsets flamboyant orange. The half-moon island, with its rearing cliffs and dramatic outlooks, is all that remains of a huge volcanic explosion. Inland, fertile soils provide a softer landscape of silvery olive trees, fields of tomatoes and neatly pegged vineyards that produce sweet amber-colored wine.
Massage treatment in your room before your evening outing.
In the early evening we will transfer you to a deluxe restaurant located in Fira town. Enjoy your candlelight 4 course dinner in a romantic location overlooking the sunset, the sea, and the volcano.
Optional (not included): After dinner you can enjoy a drink in one of the many great bars before you make your own way back to your hotel.
At the indicated time you will be transferred to the airport for your flight to Athens. Upon arrival in Athens, you will be transferred to your hotel. Balance of the day at leisure.
The striking contrast between breathtaking monuments of a glorious past and modern elegant structures is what you will enjoy during your tour of Athens. Visit the Acropolis,the crowning beauty and glory of Ancient Athens, with its many monuments atop its rocky base, including the awesome Parthenon, the Propylea, the temple of Athena Nike and the Erechtheion, with its Porch of Maidens. Drive to the Roman Temple of Olympic Zeus, the Panathinaikon Stadium(site of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896), the Tomb of the unknown Soldier in front of the Parliament House on Constitution Square. See views of government buildings and elegant structures of the 19th century. Drive along Panepistimiou Avenue and view the Catholic Cathedral, the Academy, University, National Library. In contrast, conclude your tour with a visit to the new Acropolis museum, a marvel of architecture with a full exhibition of the glory of Ancient Athens. Balance of day at leisure.
Free day to explore Athens. Athens is a city where antiquity meets edginess. Museums and galleries abound, and new ones are in the works. The New Acropolis Museum, designed by the New York-based architect Bernard Tschumi, is now open at the foot of the ancient citadel. A major makeover prior to the 2004 Olympics added squares and pedestrian walkways, and new subway stations that double as museums. Today this ancient city is a vibrant megalopolis with nonstop nightlife, creative cuisine, and sites both ancient and modern. In the thousands of sidewalk cafés, courting teenagers, young professionals, and old men shuffling their worry beads all bask in Athens's modern-day renaissance.
According to your departure flight, you will be transferred to the airport.
Optional Tours
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From Nov 1 to Mar 31 - Every Mon-Wed-Fri & Sat
From Apr 1st to Oct 31st - Daily
Dep.: 3:00pm – Ret.: 7:00pm
Driving along the coastal road past the wonderful beaches of GLYFADA, VOULIAGMENI, VARKIZA and countless coves, one has a splendid view of the Saronic Gulf. A crowning feature of the tour Cape SOUNION, dominated by the spectacular Temple of POSSEIDON overlooking the Aegean sea.(Oct 1 to Mar 31 - ½ hour earlier)
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Then we will visit the museum of Ancient Greek musical instruments and discover the music history of Greece. Explore the greatest and only collection with 60 reconstructed Ancient Greek Musical instruments.
Next we will walk through the narrow pedestrian street of Plaka, the old city of Athens, to dine in a Greek typical restaurant with floor folklore show with live music, ballet with dancers in traditional costumes
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1. That Goebbels's version of events was an accurate one is strongly indicated by the fact that the economic measures which Hitler proposed in his meeting with the Reich Propaganda Minister were shortly afterwards put into effect. Goebbels did not have the power to intervene in economic matters in this way. The main responsibility lay with Göring, as head of the Four-Year Plan. Göring summoned a conference to put into effect Hitler's views on the economic and other measures to be taken in the aftermath of the pogrom. It was held on 12 November 1938. Those present included Göring and Goebbels, Heydrich as Chief of the Security Police, the Economics and Finance Ministers, the head of the uniformed police, and representatives of the Foreign Ministry and the insurance companies. Göring opened the meeting by declaring that he had 'received a letter written on the Führer's orders by Bormann, the chief of staff of the Führer's deputy, requesting that the Jewish question be now, once and for all, co-ordinated and solved one way or another. And yesterday once again the Führer requested me on the phone to take co-ordinated action in the matter.'115
2. The meeting proceeded to issue a decree ordering the Jews to bear the cost of the damage and declaring any insurance payments made to them the property of the state. Another measure, the 'Decree Excluding Jews from German Economic Life', ordered the final 'Aryanization' of Jewish property. The running or management of shops and businesses was to be forbidden to Jews from 1 January 1939. In the Spring of 1938 there were still some thirty to forty thousand Jewish businesses in Germany; by 1 April 1939, nearly 15,000 of these had been 'liquidated', over 10,000 had been or were being 'Aryanized' and just over 7,000 were being investigated.116 These were precisely the measures that had been proposed by Hitler when he met Goebbels in the Osteria restaurant. Yet Irving makes no mention at all of the connection between that meeting and the meeting of 12 November, nor of the way in which Hitler had obviously been pushing Göring on to implement his ideas in the intervening period. Nor does Irving mention that Hitler later publicly endorsed various measures which had been discussed at the meeting on 12 November 1938. For instance, Göring reported on 28 December 1938:
On my report, the Führer has taken the following decisions in the Jew-question:...The Aryanization of businesses and shops, landed property, forests etc. is a matter of priority. The use of sleeping-cars and restaurant-cars is to be barred to Jews...Moreover the Jew-ban can be pronounced for bathing establishments, certain public places, seaside resorts etc..117
3. However, Irving's account of the conference in Berlin on 12 November focuses on differences of opinion between Göring and Goebbels, from which Irving concludes that Goebbels's diary entry for 12 November ('I am co-operating splendidly with Göring. He's going to crack down on them too. The radical line has won') was written with 'less than total honesty'. But in fact Göring did agree with Goebbels, and did follow a radical line, agreeing for example to Goebbels's suggestion that Jews should be banned from German baths, parks and other public spaces.
4. The kind of disagreement which arose between them is exemplified by Göring's remark on 12 November: 'I would have preferred it if you had beaten 200 Jews to death and hadn't destroyed such valuable property.'118 Once the property was damaged, however, Göring ensured that the meeting took maximum financial advantage out of the events for the Nazi state. The tone of the meeting is vividly captured in the following exchange between the two men:
Goebbels: For instance, it is still possible today for a Jew to share a compartment in a sleeping car with a German. Therefore we need a decree by the Reich Ministry of Transport stating that separate compartments shall be available to Jews; in cases where this compartment is full up, Jews cannot claim a seat. They will be given a separate compartment only after all Germans have secured seats. They are not to mix with Germans, and if there is no more room, they will have to stand in the corridor.
Göring: In that case, I think it would be more sensible to give them separate compartments.
Goebbels: Not if the train is overcrowded!
Göring: Just a moment. There is only one Jewish coach. If that is full up, the other Jews will have to stay at home.
Goebbels: Suppose, though, there aren't many Jews going on the express train to Munich, suppose there are two Jews in the train and the other compartments are overcrowded. These two Jews would now have a special compartment. Therefore, one has to say that Jews may claim a seat only after all Germans have secured one.
Göring:... I'd give the Jews one coach or one compartment. And should such a case as you mention really ever arise and the train be overcrowded, believe me, we won't need a law. We'll kick him out even if he has to sit all alone in the lavatory all the way!
Goebbels: I don't agree. I don't believe in that. There ought to be a law....119
115. ND PS-1816 in IMT,Vol. XXV!!!, pp.499-540; translation in Noakes and Pridham, Nazism, Vol.2, p. 588.
116. Reichsgesetzblatt I (1938), pp. 1579-80; T.W. Mason, Arbeiterklasse und Volksgemeinschaft(Opladen, 1975), pp. 890-2; H. Genschel, Die Verdrängung der Juden aus der WIrtschaft im Dritten Reich (Götingen, 1966), p. 206; A. Barkai, 'Schicksalsjahe 1938', in Pehle (ed.), Der Judenpogrom, pp. 94-117, here p. 96.
117. Der Führer hat auf meinen Vortrag folgende Entscheidungen in der Judenfrage getroffen: ... Vordringlich ist die Arisierung der Betriebe und Geschäfte, des landwirtschaftlichen Grundbesitzes, der Forsten u.a... Die Benutzung von Schlafwagen und Speisewagen ist Juden zu untersagen... Ferner kann der Judenbann für Badeanstalten, gewisse öffentliche Plätze, Badeorte usw ausgesprochen werden.' - Der Prozess gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher, Vol. XXV, pp. 132-4, Göring note, 28.12.1938, ND 069-PS.
119. Nuremberg Document PS 1816, in Der Prozess gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher, Vol. 28, pp. 499-540.
119. Ibid..
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Police report: March 27 - 28, 2013
Published: Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 6:12 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 6:12 p.m.
March 27, 2013
Portions of the following information are based on facts provided by the arrested individuals. Those individuals have been booked with, not convicted of, the offenses shown. All accused should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Lafourche Sheriff's Office
Jarrid Hester, 33, 405 St. Patrick St., Raceland, sentence imposed.
Mark Mccarthy, 48, 609 Sycamore St., Thibodaux, revocation of probation/parole.
Dayne Andras, 26, 2264 Laurel Valley Road, Thibodaux, two counts contempt.
Calvin Rhinehart, 41, 325 Ayo St., Raceland, contempt, illegal use of weapons or dangerous instruments, attempted second degree murder, three counts aggravated criminal damage to property.
Tyrone ShowaLter, 30, Santiny Lane, Grand Isle, possession of Xanax.
Shantel Cheramie, 25, 138 Tutty Loop, Houma, home invasion, simple battery, simple assault.
Evette Curole, 21, 161 Linda St., Lockport, revocation of probation/parole.
Darice Davis, 35, 521 Dantin St., Raceland, domestic abuse battery, simple assault, violation of protective orders, contempt.
James Jarvis, 42, 709 St. Louis St., Raceland, contempt.
Joshua Harris, 18, 1300 Ridgfield Road, Thibodaux, two counts contempt, two counts violation of probation/parole.
Sidney Roger, 32, 444 Church St., Raceland, contempt.
Cedric Bentley, 37, 773 St. Philip St., Raceland, contempt.
Jordie Gonzales, 29, 205 Jolie Oaks Blvd., Thibodaux, contempt.
Lance Cheramie, 29, 345 E. 40th St., Cutoff, two counts contempt.
March 28, 2013
Lafourche Sheriff's Office
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LETTER: Volunteers work to improve lives here
Published: Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 8, 2013 at 3:22 p.m.
Dear Editor: Over the past 18 months, First Christian Church and Cottondale Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) have had the privilege of hosting 24 teams of volunteers from Disciples churches throughout the U.S. under the direction of Disciples Volunteering, the organization of our churches that responds to the needs of our neighbors through hands-on mission opportunities. These volunteers have been responding to the needs of the people in Tuscaloosa who were affected by the tornado of April 27, 2011.
Disciples Volunteering has been working hand in hand with Compassion Coalition of Tuscaloosa in serving the underserved. These volunteers have worked in all conditions performing jobs ranging from clearing debris shortly after the storm to assisting in the rebuilding of homes. They come with smiles on their faces and love in their heart to improve the lives of the people in Tuscaloosa County.
Thank you to all the volunteers who have given of their time and resources to answer the call to help people in need and to those who will continue to come until the last blue tarp is gone.
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Headlines for Friday:
- Very odd - caring about the nitty-gritty (211 words)
- Emacs multi-tty is sweet (104 words)
- Remembering to Org and Planner (253 words)
|@15:00 Michael Nielsen, Linux Caffe?
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|Drop card off
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|Recompile Emacs, try out multitty - enigmacurry
|@1200-1300 Read entire org.el manual (WickedCoolEmacs)
|Transfer notes so far into muse or org mode file (WickedCoolEmacs)
|Schedule co-driver thing? - no need
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1. Very odd - caring about the nitty-gritty: 11:22
While reviewing the volunteer application form for a charity that I'm thinking of supporting, I grew uncomfortable with the confidentiality agreement. In particular, I resisted the idea of treating it as "work for hire" and assigning all my rights to whatever ideas, material, or processes I might develop while I'm volunteering.
I've come to value the ability to come up with ideas, write about my experiences, and learn from other people. I want to avoid constraining that freedom. Just as software developers may take special precautions not to taint their minds with code that they can't reuse so that they can avoid questions about the code they produce, I may need to avoid experiences that add complications to my ability to share and learn. Private, confidential, or copyrighted material is relatively easy to delineate, but what about insights and advice? If someone's question prompts me to collect advice and to write an article that I've been meaning to do for a while, would I be unable to republish that article even after removing sensitive information? Maybe that's the price other people pay to gain experiences they wouldn't otherwise have, but if I can get similar experiences elsewhere...
Random Emacs symbol: pcomplete-command-completion-function - Variable: *Function called for completing the initial command argument.
2. Emacs multi-tty is sweet: 11:47
The multiple-terminal support in Emacs 23 (CVS) means that I can leave my main Emacs session running on my laptop, connect to it from the desktop using SSH, get a graphical display on a big screen, and still be able to use my laptop if I decide to go off wireless. It also allows me to fake having a dual-screen Emacs setup. =) Very happy. This will be good for when I'm writing WickedCoolEmacs, too.
I used the great scripts from Enigma Curry: Multi-tty Emacs on Gentoo and Ubuntu to make it painless.
Random Emacs symbol: pcomplete/eshell-mode/eshell-debug - Function: Completion for the `debug' command.
3. Remembering to Org and Planner: 13:17
Most of my notes are in Emacs Planner. Handy commands like M-x remember help me quickly take notes and write down ideas, saving the text to my blog.
While reading the manual for Org, another PIM for Emacs (yes, another one!), I decided to give it a try. Org uses Remember, the same quick note-taking module that Planner does. I wanted to set up Emacs so that I could remember a note and have it go either to my Planner-based blog or to my notes file.
M-x remember is a two-step procedure. First, Remember sets up the buffer and inserts the annotation. After you write the note and press C-c C-c, Remember passes the note's contents to a handler function. Because Planner and Org have incompatible annotation functions and destinations, I needed to override both.
Here's how I did that:
(defun sacha/remember-to-org () (interactive) (let ((org-directory "~/path/to/my/orgfiles/") (org-default-notes-file "~/.notes") (remember-annotation-functions '(org-remember-annotation)) (remember-mode-hook (cons 'org-remember-apply-template remember-mode-hook))) (remember) (set (make-variable-buffer-local 'remember-handler-functions) '(org-remember-handler)))) (global-unset-key [f9 ?o]) (global-set-key [f9 ?o ?r] 'sacha/remember-to-org) (global-set-key [f9 ?r ?o] 'sacha/remember-to-org)
I've set up Remember to work with Planner by default:
(setq remember-handler-functions '(remember-planner-append)) (setq remember-annotation-functions planner-annotation-functions) (global-set-key [f9 ?r ?p] 'remember) (global-set-key [f9 ?p ?r] 'remember) (global-set-key (kbd "
r SPC") 'remember)
I've added plenty of keyboard shortcuts to see which ones feel the most natural.
I'm looking forward to playing around with this and seeing what works!
Random Emacs symbol: tty-color-define - Function: Specify a tty color by its NAME, terminal INDEX and RGB values.
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FREMONT -- The Fremont Symphony Orchestra is tuning up to celebrate the city and its student musicians in a March 30 concert at Ohlone College.
In "A Celebration of Fremont," musicians will perform vignettes representing the city, including the Niles district's silent film history, an orchestra spokeswoman said.
Cellist Connor Kim, winner of the orchestra's 2012 Young Artist Competition, then will perform Antonin Dvorak's "Cello Concerto."
A multimedia presentation will feature the orchestra playing original compositions by winners of its 2013 Young Composers Competition as videos produced by Fremont sixth-grade students are screened.
The concert will end with a performance of composer Aaron Copland's "Billy the Kid," which will include dancers from the Walnut Creek-based Diablo Ballet.
The concert will begin at 7 p.m. in the college's Smith Center, 43600 Mission Blvd.
A public reception with the orchestra musicians will follow the performance.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.fremontsymphony.org, or by calling 510-371-4859.
Tickets prices are $45-$49 for adults, and $20 for students.
Contact Chris De Benedetti at 510-353-7011. Follow him at Twitter.com/cdebenedetti.


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OKLAHOMA CITY -- San Antonio fought off Father Time, the league MVP and an injury to its best player to return to the NBA Finals.
The Spurs beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 112-107 in overtime Saturday night in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals to set up a rematch with the Miami Heat.
San Antonio will host Game 1 on Thursday night and will try to avenge last year's heartbreaking loss. San Antonio led Miami 3-2 before losing Game 6 in overtime, then dropping Game 7.
"People keep talking like we weren't close to winning, but we were ready to win last year," Spurs center Tim Duncan said. "We're happy it's the Heat again. We've got that bad taste in our mouths still."
A trio of 30-somethings led the way for the Spurs. Duncan had 19 points and 15 rebounds, Boris Diaw scored 26 points, and Manu Ginobili chipped in 15 points and six rebounds.
San Antonio pulled this one out despite All-Star point guard Tony Parker missing the entire second half and overtime with left ankle soreness. Popovich said Parker had been struggling with the ankle since Game 4 of the series. The Spurs overcame it the way they have for more than a decade -- with teamwork, passing and great performances by role players.
"We didn't know how much Tony was hurt in his ankle," Diaw said. "But we didn't want to go to Game 7, and we didn't know if he would be ready to play if we did or if he would be 100 percent, so we tried to get it over with tonight."
It was the third-best playoff scoring effort of Diaw's 11-year career and his best since 2006.
"Boris was amazing," Duncan said. "He had an unbelievable game. He's had a great series."
Russell Westbrook had 34 points, eight assists, seven rebounds and six steals, and MVP Kevin Durant added 31 points and 14 rebounds for the Thunder. But Oklahoma City committed 20 turnovers that led to 33 points for the Spurs. Westbrook and Durant each had seven turnovers.
"We started settling for too many jump shots," Thunder coach Scott Brooks said. "It just seemed like we couldn't get enough good looks at the basket."
San Antonio also handled Serge Ibaka's return from injury. Oklahoma City's defensive star missed the first two games with a strained left calf, but he returned to help the Thunder win the next two games and tie the series.
"I have to be honest, this victory is really sweet because we know we played one hell of a team, and we take great satisfaction in that since they're so special," San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich said.


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Students at Evans High School worked hard to submit a video entry for the Lady Antebellum contest. (WRDW-TV / March 19, 2012)
News 12 at 6 o'clock / Monday, March 19, 2012
EVANS, Ga. -- They're the hometown band taking the world by storm and now country stars Lady Antebellum are looking to give one lucky high school a prom night they'll never forget.
Evans High School is hoping to own the night this April at their prom.
"It really was such an awesome experience," explained Evans senior Becca Olsen.
Last week nearly 300 students helped tape a video in the halls of the school to send to Lady Antebellum.
"Everybody just danced around and jumped around and it ended up looking really good," said Evans senior Kayla Moore.
"It was just cool seeing the school come together," added Evans junior Savanna Gladue.
The band is awarding one school with a prom performance of a lifetime, in their "Own the Night with Lady A" contest.
"They give back to the community and they show they do actually care about their fans," said Evans senior Ashley Doolittle.
But the Knights have some stiff competition; support on YouTube and Facebook has been overwhelming for Henryville High School in Indiana.
"Prom, that's still in the hearts of more teenagers, whereas reality is there is no school," said Evans High School Assistant Principal Angie Cliatt.
Dozens of videos, from schools hundreds of miles of away, have popped up supporting the school that was destroyed by a tornado.
"I just couldn't imagine it ... it would just be awful," Olsen said.
"It puts everything into perspective, reality really hit for all of us, as well as the seniors that this is their senior year and these are supposed to be the memories that they'll cherish forever," Cliatt said about Henryville.
Although the school worked hard on their video, they understand the teenagers in Henryville may need the win more.
"I think the most deserving school will win and we had a great time making it," Cliatt said.
The winner for the contest will be announced sometime on Tuesday. The band will also pay for the students' tickets to the dance. The band is judging on creativity, originality, school or hometown pride.
Here are some of the videos high schools around the country have submitted:


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Chris's research interests centre on the relationships between humans, animals and technologies. He has pursued this through studies of recreational and commercial fisheries, and of dairy farming. He is one of relatively few human geographers to have a focus on aquatic environments. He has recently completed ESRC-funded research on the adoption of robotic milking technologies in the dairy sector. Chris is Treasurer of the Royal Geographical Society's Social and Cultural Geography Research Group.
- MA (Hons) in Geography, University of Aberdeen, 1999.
- PhD in Geography, University of Aberdeen, 2004.
- Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education, Aberystwyth University, 2012.
- Lecturer, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University (2012-present).
- Lecturer, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University (2009-2012).
- Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, Durham University (2006-2008).
- Research Associate, Department of Geography, University of Hull (2004-2008).
- Teaching Fellow, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen (2002-2004).
Memberships/External Activities
- Treasurer of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (2011-present).
- Membership Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (2009-2011).
- Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (2003-present).
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2012-present).
I have conducted peer review for academic journals including Environment and Planning A, Environment and Planning D, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Agriculture and Human Values, Emotion, Space and Society, Polar Record, Environmental Humanities, Society and Animals, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, Surveillance and Society, Journal of Rural Studies, Environmental Values, International Review of Administrative Sciences and Gender, Place and Culture. I have also completed book manuscript reviews for Pearson-Prentice Hall and Taylor and Francis, have acted as a rapporteur for the ESRC and am a Remote Reviewer for the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.
Group Membership and Centre Affiliation
- Member of the Environment Research Group
- Member of the Research Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Food
- Member of the Food Security and Land Research Alliance
- Member of the St David's Day Water Research Consortium
Research Interests
My research focuses on the interlinked themes of: human-animal-technology relations; aquatic geographies; and geographies of knowledge and expertise. These foci are permeated by a theoretical interest in hybridity and assemblage and are often studied through an empirical concentration on recreational activities and the changing agro-food system.
1) Human-animal-technology relations.
I developed an interest in more-than-human geographies during my PhD, which examined the different ways in which salmon were experienced and accounted for in the management of Scottish river fishing. Much of my subsequent research has focused on relationships between animals and humans in diverse contexts such as commercial and recreational fisheries, an aquarium, and dairy farms. My work on robotic milking on dairy farms, conducted in collaboration with Lewis Holloway (University of Hull) and supported by an ESRC grant, examined the co-production of robots, dairy cows and humans, looking at how the introduction of robotic milking may change the ways dairy farmers manage their farms and businesses, and might affect the farmer-cow relationship. I previously examined anglers' conceptualisations of fish as individuals and collectives, developing Deleuze and Guattari's concept of 'becoming animal' and Haraway's notion of 'beings-in-encounter'. I also recently completed research into the co-production of scallop fishing regulations in Cardigan Bay by humans, scallops, dolphins and fishing technologies, examined through the conceptual framework of geographies of assemblage. I am increasingly interested in developing less anthropocentric research methods that are suited to the study of more-than-human relationships. I have developed this research theme more widely, co-convening a session on Emerging geographies of animal-technology co-productions at the 2011 Royal Geographical Society annual conference (which will be published as a special issue of Journal of Rural Studies in 2014), and convening a session on Critical perspectives on human-animal-technology relations for the British Animal Studies Network in November 2012.
- Holloway, L., Bear, C. and Wilkinson, K. (available online; scheduled for publication in 2014) Re-capturing bovine life: robot-cow relationships, freedom and control in dairy farming Journal of Rural Studies
- Bear, C. (2013) Assembling the sea: entanglement, movement and uncertainty in the Cardigan Bay scallop fishery Cultural Geographies 20(1): 21-41
- Holloway, L. and Bear, C. (2011) Commentary: DNA-typing and super dairies – changing practices and remaking cows Environment and Planning A 43(7): 1487-1491
- Bear, C. (2011) Being Angelica: exploring post-species animal geographies Area 43(3): 297-304
- Bear, C. and Eden, S. (2011) Thinking like a fish? Engaging with non-human difference through recreational angling Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 29(2): 336-352
2) Aquatic geographies.
My research is unusual in cultural geography for its focus on environmental change in the aquatic. This research theme, developed in my PhD, has been taken forward through the RELU-funded Angling in the Rural Environment project, on which I worked as a Research Associate at the Universities of Hull and Durham. This work, with Sally Eden (University of Hull), looked at the different knowledge practices employed by a variety of river users, such as anglers and scientists, in making sense of, engaging with and transforming the underwater environment. I have further critiqued cultural geographers' disregard for underwater environments through studying an aquarium octopus. My recent research on scallop fisheries extends my conceptualisation of ocean space, having previously adopted a topological approach to Marine Stewardship Council certification practices. I co-convened a Royal Geographical Society annual conference session on the aquatic in 2008, resulting in a special issue of Environment and Planning A, which I co-edited with Jacob Bull (Gender Studies, Uppsala University).
- Bear, C. (forthcoming) Governance of the seas: a more-than-human perspective in Peters, K. and Anderson, J. (eds) Water Worlds: social and cultural geographies of the ocean Farnham: Ashgate
- Bear, C. (2013) Assembling the sea: entanglement, movement and uncertainty in the Cardigan Bay scallop fishery Cultural Geographies 20(1): 21-41
- Bear, C. and Bull, J. (2011) Editorial: the matter of water Environment and Planning A 43(10): 2261-2266
- Eden, S. and Bear, C. (2011) Reading the river through 'watercraft': environmental engagement through knowledge and practice in freshwater angling Cultural Geographies18(3): 297-314
- Bear, C. and Eden, S. (2008) Making space for fish: the regional, network and fluid spaces of fisheries certification Social and Cultural Geography 9: 487-504
3) Geographies of knowledge and expertise.
Again developed in my PhD, much of my interest in expertise has been explored through the aquatic. This work has broken down the binary of 'lay' and 'expert' knowledges, looking at how claims are circulated and challenged in the contexts of agro-food systems and recreational fisheries management. In the former area, the work I carried out with Sally Eden examined how knowledges of food travel, focusing on consumer understandings of certification labels, while my more recent work on robotic milking has looked at the role of automation and information technologies in changing how cows are known and cared for on farms. In the latter area, recent papers have examined the notion of 'lay ecologies', and at how anglers participate in the management of water environments.
- Butler, D., Holloway, L and Bear, C. (2012) The impact of technological change in dairy farming: robotic milking systems and the changing role of the stockperson Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England 173: 1-6
- Eden, S. and Bear, C. (2012) The good, the bad, and the hands-on: constructs of public participation, anglers, and lay management of water environments Environment and Planning A 44: 1200-1240
- Eden, S. and Bear, C. (2011) Models of equilibrium, natural agency and environmental change: lay ecologies in UK recreational angling Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers36(3): 393-407
- Eden, S. and Bear, C. (2010) Third sector global environmental governance, space and science: comparing fishery and forestry certification Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 12(1): 83-106
- Eden, S., Bear, C. and Walker, G. (2008) The sceptical consumer: UK views about food assurance Food Policy 33: 624-630
- Eden, S., Bear, C. and Walker, G. (2008) Mucky carrots and other proxies: problematising the knowledge-fix for sustainable and ethical consumption Geoforum 39 (2): 1044-1057
- Eden, S., Bear, C. and Walker, G. (2008) Understanding and (dis)trusting food assurance schemes: consumer confidence and the 'knowledge fix' Journal of Rural Studies 24 (1): 1-14
- Bear, C. (2006) Salmon by numbers: quantification and understandings of nature Scottish Geographical Journal 122 (3): 185-203
- Robotic and information technologies in livestock agriculture: new relationships between humans, cows and machines (co-investigator), June 2010 - November 2012, ESRC RES-062-23-2086 – £145,223.84
PhD Supervision
I am always keen to hear from anyone interested in developing proposals for PhDs within my areas of expertise.
Current PhD supervision:
- John Clayton: 'Balance and boundaries': policy and practice implications of otter predation on UK specimen fisheries
- Rich Gorman: Community food growing and animal farming in the UK
- Jessica Kent: The Interpretations and Impact of the Capital of Culture 2008 on Stavanger and Liverpool
- Poppy Nicol: Public-Private Regulation: Economic Globalisation and Ecological Localisation in the Agri-food Sector
- Karolina Rukinska: The Enviropig effects. STS study of biotechnological innovation enactments in animal farming
- Emma Spence: The Maritime Assemblage: A study of Superrich Mobility in the Cote d'Azur
I teach on the Human Geography and Planning and Geography degree programmes at undergraduate level, and on the MSc in Food, Space and Society.
- Introducing Research Methods
- Introduction to Geographical Ideas
- Contemporary Geographical Ideas
- Research Dissertation
- Meat Debates
- Module Convenor for Introduction to Geographical Ideas, Contemporary Geographical Ideas, and Meat Debates.
- Chair of the School's Marketing and Recruitment Committee.
- Invited webinar, Pennsylvania State University, March 2014 – in this session, I will discuss the findings of the Robotic and Information Technologies in Livestock Agriculture project to a varied audience of farmers and agricultural practitioners in the USA.
- Co-organiser of a roundtable discussion and seminar on Dairy Cow Management and Welfare: What Difference Does Robotic Milking Make? at Royal Agricultural Society, Stoneleigh Park, October 2012. This roundtable was organised to mark the end of the Robotic and Information Technologies in Livestock Agriculture project. It was attended by an invited audience of milking robot manufacturers and experts in veterinary science, dairy cow nutrition and dairy farm management.
- Member of the School's Innovation and Engagement Committee
Conference and Workshop Organisation
- Co-convener and chair of a session on Social and cultural geographies of impact at the RGS-IBG Conference, Edinburgh, 2012 (with Amanda Rogers [Swansea University], Sarah Mills [Loughborough University], Mia Hunt [Royal Holloway, University of London] and Rebecca Sandover [Exeter University]). I subsequently co-edited a special issue of ACME that resulted from this session.
- Convener of a session on Critical perspectives on human-animal-technology relationships at the British Animal Studies Network conference on 'Farm', Strathclyde University, November 2012.
- Co-organiser of a session on Emerging geographies of animal-technology co-productions at the RGS-IBG Conference, London, 2011 (with Lewis Holloway [University of Hull], Carol Morris [Nottingham University] and Katy Wilkinson [University of Hull]).
- Member of the organising committee of Geography and the New Empirics (a Social and Cultural Geography Research Group workshop), Royal Geographical Society, London, January 2011. I also led a workshop session on Generating and gathering data in face of excess, in collaboration with Owain Jones (CCRI).
- Co-organiser of a session on Water: Space, Knowledge, Flow at the RGS-IBG Conference, London, 2008 (with Jacob Bull [Uppsala University]).


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1880s Steampunk Wedding Gown – Karen
We are in awe of this stunning red silk steampunk wedding gown sewn and designed by Karen. It is a reproduction of a 1880s bustle dress, and includes such historically accurate details as a corset, bloomers, bustle pad, under skirt, over drape, detachable train, jacket, bodice and the hat. Karen bought the scrumptious red silk and the lining at Britex Fabrics (with the assistance of the always effervescent Douglas on the first floor!)


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All the information you need to enjoy a smooth journey through New York JFK airport.
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For transfers between terminals use the AirTrain which operates between all terminals at JFK as well as to stations that connect to the various New York railroad transportation systems (New York City Subway, Long Island Railroad).
Allow between 60 and 90 minutes to transfer between terminals when connecting due to the time required to clear customs, transfer baggage (where required) and travelling time.
The AirTrain operates in both directions around all terminals at JFK airport. The approximate travel time for a trip around the entire loop, including stops at all terminals, is 8 minutes. That does not include walking time between the airport and AirTrain terminal itself.
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The JFK AirTrain and the Long Island Rail Road operate train services into Manhattan. AirTrain stations are located at all terminals at JFK. The journey time between JFK airport and Penn Station in Manhattan is around 35 minutes.
Taxis are available outside the Arrivals area at each terminal. The journey time to and from Manhattan is around 40 - 90 minutes depending on traffic.
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STATEMENT OF A DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE1. SIUE is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace in compliance with applicable state and federal laws. The unlawful possession, use, distribution, dispensation, sale, or manufacture of controlled substances is prohibited on University property. Violation of this policy may result in the imposition of employment discipline as defined for specific employee categories by existing University policies, statutes, rules, regulations, employment contracts, and appropriate collective bargaining agreements. Any employee convicted of a drug offense involving the workplace shall be subject to employee discipline and/or required satisfactory completion of a drug rehabilitation program as a condition of continued employment.
2. The illegal use of controlled substances can seriously injure the health of employees, adversely impair the performance of their responsibilities and endanger the safety and well being of fellow employees, students, and members of the general public. Therefore, the University strongly encourages employees who have a problem with the use of illegal controlled substances or abuse prescribed medications to seek professional treatment. A list of sources for drug counseling, rehabilitation, and assistance programs may be obtained from the Offices of Human Resources, University Health Services, or the Employment Assistance Service. Employees may obtain this information anonymously either through self-referral, direction of his/her supervisor or the Offices of Human Resources. Employees who are engaged in work under a federal contract may be required to submit to drug test for use of illegal controlled substances as provided by the law or regulations of the contracting agency.
3. As a condition of employment, employees will strictly adhere to the stipulations as outlined in this statement. In addition, those employees working on a federal contract or grant will notify his/her supervisor if he/she is convicted of a criminal drug offense occurring in the workplace within five (5) days of the conviction. The University will notify the granting or contracting federal agency within ten (10) days of receiving notice of the conviction of any employee working on a federal contract or grant when said conviction involves a drug offense occurring in the workplace. A copy of this statement shall be given to all employees assigned to a federal contract or grant.
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