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Sara Evans has been selected to perform for VIPs at the NFL Super Bowl XLII Tailgate Party in Glendale, Ariz., on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 3.
After performing a full concert, Sara will join Willie Nelson during his set for a rendition of the classic, "Mammas, DonÂt Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys," which will be televised on the FOX–TV pre–game festivities. To make the day even more special, Sara will be attending her first Super Bowl with son Avery. "I'm absolutely thrilled to be performing at the Super Bowl," Sara raves. "It's the first time for me, so I'm taking my son, his friend and my nephew with me and we're going to have the best time."
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Qin, Y, Brando, VE, Dekker, AG, Blondeau-Patissier, D (2007). Validity of SeaDAS water constituents retrieval algorithms in Australian tropical coastal waters. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 34(21), L21603.
AbstractThis paper reports an assessment of the performance of the seven global empirical and semi-analytical chlorophyll and bulk IOP retrieval algorithms implemented in SeaDAS, for the local conditions in tropical waters off the Australian northeast coast. An approach based on radiative transfer simulations was used providing systematic assessments. The study shows that when coloured dissolved organic matter ( CDOM) and non- algal particle ( NAP) concentrations are low, the seven algorithms tested, as expected, can retrieve chlorophyll with an error of, at best, 75% for 80 - 90% of the cases. The accuracy generally degrades rapidly with increasing CDOM and NAP concentrations. For the semianalytical algorithms ( bulk IOP retrieval enabled), the QAA algorithm achieved a better result at retrieving the total absorption, a, backscattering, bb and backscattering by particles, bb(p). However, none of the algorithms can break down the total absorption into components with reasonable accuracy. The study indicates that without incorporating regional and seasonal knowledge of specific IOPs the accuracy in water constituent retrievals from remote sensing is poor, hindering the use of remote sensing in water quality management.
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While the Ivrea Institute for Interaction Design is gone, its legacy
is alive and well.
http://is.gd/4yXk (Core77.com article).
I have to say that the people I've met connected to IIID were some of
the best, brightest and most thoughtful Interaction Designers I've
met. I'm sorry this resource is gone, as I think it was something
special. I wonder if anyone can really recreate it. I know there are
some trying (mentioned in the article).
I'd love to hear from grads, faculty and staff (if any) on the list
their thoughts about Ivrea and what made it so special and why hasn't
another institution been able to really replicate it. Or maybe I'm
wrong, and there are others, and then I'd love to hear about which
ones are doing it and what they're up to.
- dave
David Malouf
Hey David
I'm glad you've pointed out this article. Oh, the good old days...
Three years ago Erez and I, both IDII Alumni, wrote about the Ivrea
experience for UI garden:
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What a giant question, David. (And thanks for the blanket
compliments.) I was part of the founding class, and I'd say the
things that made it the thing what it was for me are:
1. A spirit of entrepreneurship. They were still making it up when we
walked in the door. The constraints and pressures of the new school
meant we had to decide what we wanted and make it happen despite the
chaos, and much of the faculty recognized and supported it.
I made a poster with the IDII building flying in the sky with the
X-Files-esque caption "I Want to Believe" and a number of other
students and faculty said they felt the same.
2. Deep pockets. Telecom Italia was the original sponsor for the
program, and rumors ran that they were hoping to turn it into an IP
farm. They were eager to have interaction design expertise flourish
in Italy generally, and were prepared to front lots of money for it.
3. The inclusion of business in the curriculum: RCA and ITP both were
(and still are) working fantastic programs that focused on art. IDII
included real-world business as an equal partner in the curriculum.
This was attractive to employers who felt students had exposure to
business strategy and thinking, and obviously encouraged graduates to
act on their own business ideas.
4. Well-connected faculty: Gillian picked the multicultural faculty
carefully for subject expertise, pedagogical eloquence, and/or
industry experience. Through them we had a stream of fantastic
lecturers and adjunct professors, even though we were in a small
Italian town a couple of hours from the nearest metro.
5. Culture clash: There was a clash between the different cultures
participating. I recall some deep discussions between the students on
the merits of the USofA-esque, aggressive style of being a student,
and the more passive expectations of the European-esque-educated
students. We learned a lot from each other, and I at least was
constantly inspired by the intersections.
Additionally, and this is a little nuanced, but I think the fact that
we had to up-level our English helped a lot as well. Native speakers
couldn't rely on idiom and slang, and we had to think about what we
were saying and get very used to explaining and re-explaining
ourselves. This forced us to examine and iterate our ideas quite a
6. Isolation: This worked against us part of the time because it was
hard to find materials and services to support our work. (Not to
mention the constant need for interpreters for those of us whose
Italian was middling at best.) But it also kept us free from
distractions and focused on creating and nurturing the internal
We even lived in the same strange underground apartment block,
reinforcing this interdependence and sense of like-it-or-not family.
7. Connected locals: I'm not sure this would need to be replicated
in another school, but in Italy it was vital to have staff who were
"in" with the locals.
This is MHO. I'd love to hear from other IDII veterans. What did I
Hello David,
during my MSc degree at the IT University of Copenhagen, I was taught
by Simona Maschi who was an Associate Professor at Interaction Design
Institute Ivrea and Heather Martin who was an Academic Director at
I have gained immense knowledge and learned alot from these two.
Their creative and outspoken teaching techniques were amazing. They
encouraged wild ideas and were very different from the previous
Interaction Design tutors at the IT university.
They spent alot of time showing us videos and cases of previous
students at IVREA which inspired us to cross boundaries.


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New Fed Exit Strategy Emerges and Foreign Banks Big Winners
Federal Reserve officials haven't decided when to raise short-term interest rates, but as The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week, they are closer to finishing a blueprint for how they'll do it.
Minutes of the Fed's July 29-30 policy meeting laid out fresh details and elaborated on others. Among the big winners in the new approach–as we'll explain lower in this post–are foreign banks.
But first the details:
- Rather than target a specific federal-funds rate, as it did before 2008, the Fed in the future will try to keep its target interest rate within a band. Right now it is between 0% and 0.25% and when it decides to raise rates the Fed will move that quarter-percentage point band higher. "Almost all participants agreed that it would be appropriate to retain the federal funds rate as the key policy rate, and they supported continuing to target a range of 25 basis points for this rate at the time of liftoff and for some time thereafter," the minutes said.
- The Fed's primary tool is an interest rate it pays banks for the money they have on deposit with the central bank, known as interest on excess reserves, or IOER. This will be the upper end of the band. This rate is now 0.25% and seems likely to go to 0.5% with the Fed's first rate increase. The lower end of the band will be interest the Fed pays money market funds and other nonbanks for cash not on deposit at banks (known as the overnight reverse-repo rate, or ON RRP in Fed lingo). This is now 0.05% and seems likely to go to 0.25% with the Fed's first rate increase. "Most participants anticipated that, at least initially, the IOER rate would be set at the top of the target range for the federal funds rate, and the ON RRP rate would be set at the bottom of the federal funds target range," the minutes said.
- The Fed wants to gradually shrink its securities holdings and eventually get its portfolio of mortgage-backed securities to a minimum.
- After the Fed starts raising short-term interest rates using these tools, officials will allow their holdings of all securities to shrink as the securities mature. Right now, the Fed is reinvesting proceeds from maturing securities to keep the size of its portfolio stable. "Most participants supported reducing or ending reinvestment sometime after the first increase in the target range for the federal funds rate," the minutes said.
- The Fed is going to avoid disrupting financial markets by selling its securities, unless absolutely necessary or for fine-tuning its portfolio. "Most participants continued to anticipate that the Committee would not sell (mortgage-backed securities), except perhaps to eliminate residual holdings.
- Fed officials are on track to formalize the plan in September, but want to give themselves wiggle room because they've had to revise their vision of this process before and they're still learning how to use some of these new levers. "Participants agreed that the [Fed] should provide additional information to the public regarding the details of normalization well before most participants anticipate the first steps in reducing policy accommodation to become appropriate. They stressed the importance of communicating a clear plan while at the same time noting the importance of maintaining flexibility so that adjustments to the normalization approach could be made as the situation changed and in light of experience."
The most striking feature of the Fed's strategy is that it keeps in place an effective subsidy that the U.S. central bank is currently paying to foreign banks.
Here's how:
In recent years foreign banks have been tapping U.S. money market funds for very cheap short-term loans. Unlike domestic banks, foreign banks don't have domestic depositors to tap for funds, so they turn elsewhere for dollars. Money market funds make the funds available for a few hundredths of a percentage point. The foreign banks in turn park those loans at the Fed for 0.25% interest. They earn profits on the spread between the cheap cost of funds available from money market funds and the higher rate they get at the Fed.
It's a trade that domestic U.S. banks have been unwilling to make because they have to pay additional fees to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on their borrowings, fees the foreign banks don't have to pay. "A change in the calculation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) deposit insurance fee in 2011 likely reinforced the relative attractiveness of fed funds borrowing for foreign banks (which are generally not FDIC insured) versus domestic banks," New York Fed economists found in a study last year. Foreign banks accounted for nearly 60% of fed funds market trading in 2012, according to the New York Fed study.
By keeping a quarter-percentage-point spread in place between money market funds and commercial banks with its new system, the Fed is effectively keeping in place a structure that allows foreign banks to profit where domestic U.S. banks can't.
"The wider spread is primarily a gift to foreign banks," said Louis Crandall, a money market analyst with Wrightson ICAP.
Another striking feature of the Fed's evolving strategy is its broader reliance on the federal-funds market, where banks make short-term loans of reserves to each other overnight. The Fed has used the fed-funds rate as its benchmark short-term interest rate for many years. But some analysts wonder of this market is outdated.
This market is awash in cash due to the Fed's efforts to pump money into the banking system. Because banks have so much cash, the fed-funds market where they tap reserves experiences very little day-to-day trading. One New York Fed study shows daily trading volume in the market has contracted from an already-thin $200 billion before the financial crisis to nearly $50 billion. Moreover, traditional U.S. commercial banks are especially inactive. The most active players are government sponsored Federal Home Loan Banks and foreign banks.
"The fed funds market is but a shadow of what it was prior to the crisis," Raymond Stone, an analyst at Stone McCarthy Research, said in a note to clients Wednesday. "It is no longer clear that the funds rate is the key determining factor of the behavior of short-term interest rates."
Fed officials don't want to abandon the fed-funds rate, in part because the values of many derivatives contracts are tied to it, and in part because they are used to it being their key tool for influencing short-term rates. "Almost all participants agreed that it would be appropriate to retain the federal funds rate as the key policy rate," the minutes said.


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This "hands-on" class certifies you to reserve camcorder, lights, tripod, microphones, etc.
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AmBank Group's conventional unit trust AmMutual is confident of good opportunities to be found in Asian commercial real estate.
For the next 12 months, AmMutual will focus on the Asia Pacific region. The conventional unit trust belonging to AmBank Group is positive on the Asia Pacific real estate investment trusts (REITs) market and is seeking to expand its acquisitions in the region. However, the company said that it's buying decisions would also depend on the liberalisation of a country's REITs regulation.
Chief investment officer Andrew Yong said that AmMutual would buy properties for REITs investment in any Asia Pacific country as long as its REITs regulations were liberal, as this was a crucial consideration in the REITs business.
In addition, Yong said that the company would also consider countries with higher demand than supply for property REITs. Also considered would be regions with favourable liquidity requirements in terms of liquidity risk upon exiting.
Currently, AmMutual has property REITs in various Asia Pacific countries, including Australia, Singapore, Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong and Malaysia. The REITs are held under the company's wholly managed property fund, AmAsia Pacific REITs.
AmMutual is also looking at REITs in countries which are starting to thrive. Wong said that the upcoming Malaysian IGB REIT is one in which the company is interested in, adding that its exposure to Malaysia's REITs market is about 7% at present. AmMutual would also buy other suitable REITs.
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MUMBAI: Investors are turning to stocks that offer high dividend yields such as ITC and Castrol despite steeper valuations. This trend is due to skepticism towards mid-cap shares on increasing scandals such as price rigging.
Large-cap stocks are outperforming on the perception that chances of corporate misgovernance issues are fewer than smaller players, where a few traders rig up stocks in collusion with promoters.


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In the battle of Noble County, Shenandoah (1-8) makes the short trek to Caldwell to take on the playoff- bound Redskins (7-2).
The Skins clinched a playoff berth last week with a 48-6 triumph over West Muskingum.
Running back Bricker Lori continues to excel for Caldwell as the sophomore has rushed for over 100 yards in five straight games while also scoring at least two touchdowns in each of those five games.
Lori eclipsed the 1,000 yard mark last week with a 10-carry, 102-yard performance against West Muskingum.
Caldwell quarterback Tanner Clark has rushed for 854 yards on the season while passing for 728 yards and eight touchdowns, while wide out Tanner Baker has caught 29 passes for 448 yards and five touchdowns.
The Caldwell defense has been quite stingy as well as it has held its opponents to under-20 points in every single game of the 2013 season sans one.
The Redskins are currently ranked No. 6 in the Division VII, Region 25 rankings and would need a win over Shenandoah and a whole lot of luck to move up to the coveted No. 4 spot in the rankings which would allow them a playoff opening game at home.
Shenandoah snapped a 15-game losing streak back in Week No. 6 with a win over Buckeye Trail (32-21) and would like nothing more than to play the role of spoiler against the Skins.
Last week, the Zeps dropped a 35-7 decision to Fort Frye after narrowly missing out on win number two the week before when they lost a 40-34 thriller to River.
Shenandoah features a super sophomore of its own as running back Michael Vanfossen is closing in on the 1,000 mark himself with 988 yards rushing on the season on 152 carries.
Caldwell could also claim a share of the Pioneer Valley Conference title with a win and a Monroe Central loss at Buckeye Trail.
Last year, Caldwell rolled to a 47-16 win over the Zeps in Sarahsville.
Fort Frye will host Bishop Rosecrans Friday night as the Cadets look to clinch a trip to the postseason for the second straight season.
The Cadets, who come into the game ranked in the eighth and final spot in the most recent Division VI, Region 21 rankings, will need a win against Rosecrans and a loss by the 10th seeded Columbus Academy to advance to the playoffs.
The Cadets rebounded last week from a heartbreaking 20-19 PVC setback to Caldwell with a 35-7 win over Shenandoah.
Senior running back Colten Shuster had a career night against the Zeps by rushing for four touchdowns while carrying the ball 15 times for 91 yards.
Chandler Lang continues his outstanding senior season for the Fort as in addition to being the heart and soul of the Cadet defense, the senior quarterback has rushed for 872 yards on 133 carries for 17 touchdowns and also thrown for 922 yards (63-127) and 10 more scores.
One year removed from a playoff berth of their own, the 2013 season has been a true nightmare for the Bishops as they are yielding over 50 points per game while averaging less than a touchdown per game on offense.
Last year the Cadets clinched their post season berth with a 34-28 win in their season finale against Rosecrans in Zanesville.
Frontier will look to climb back to the .500 mark Friday night when it hosts an improving River Pilot squad in a PVC match up.
The Cougars look to rebound from a disappointing 63-6 conference loss last week to Monroe Central and snare their second PVC win of the season.
Quarterback Mitch Reynolds figures to once again lead the Frontier offense as the junior signal caller has thrown for 861 yards on the season (70-150) and six touchdowns.
Receivers' Nick Camino and Damon Metheney have both developed into favorite targets for Reynolds, while all-purpose back Rodney Barnes leads the Cougars in rushing with 578 yards on 111 carries. He also caught 17 passes for 213 yards.
The Cougars will look to snap a four-game conference losing streak.
River started the season by dropping it's first five games but has rebounded nicely of late by winning three of its last four contests.
The Pilots, who own victories over Rosecrans (41-0), Bridgeport (23-15) and Shenandoah (40-34), narrowly missed winning their fourth game in a row last week as they dropped a 21-17 conference game to Buckeye Trail.
Key players for River figure to be running back Jordan Sapp as well as quarterback Joey Flannery.
Sapp rushed for 73 yards and a pair of touchdowns on 23 carries last week against Trail.
Last season in Hannibal, the Pilots easily handled the Cougars 44-19.
Belpre hopes to continue its strong second half when it welcomes Waterford Friday night in a Tri-Valley Conference Hocking Division season finale for both schools.
The Golden Eagles have won three of their last four games, all against TVC schools.
Last week Belpre blanked Miller 39-0 for its second shutout of the season.
The Eagle defense has allowed 21 points or fewer in six of its nine games this season.
Offensively, Manney Tulius has rushed for 814 yards (109 carries) on the season despite missing the better part of three games due to injury.
Quarterback Tavian Miller has completed 48-of-111 pass attempts on the season for 636 yards and six touchdowns while freshman wide out Dijon Bedgood has 330 receiving yards on 18 catches.
The youthful Wildcats hope to finish a tough 2013 campaign on a winning note after dropping seven of their last eight games including last week's 33-12 loss to South Gallia.
Senior running back Austin Lang has rushed for 506 yards on 135 touches, while freshman quarterback Isaac Huffman has completed 37-of-107 passes for just over 400 yards.
Last season, Belpre blanked the Wildcats 27-0.
Monroe Central tries to run the table in the PVC Friday night when it travels to Lore City to take on a potentially dangerous Buckeye Trail team.
The Noles are a perfect 5-0 in conference action, outscoring their opponents by a whopping 262-56.
Head coach Jay Circosta's team has been led all year long by the dynamic duo of quarterback Curtis Nixon and running back Levi Brown.
Nixon has completed 59-of-101 pass attempts for 1082 yards and 10 touchdowns on the season while rushing for an additional 801 yards on 103 carries.
Brown has rushed for 851 yards on 116 carries while also catching 11 passes for 227 yards.
The Seminoles have won six of their last seven games after beginning the season with a pair of non-conference losses to Union Local (14-13) and Shadyside (35-20)
The Warriors come into the game on a two-game winning streak as they defeated West Muskingum (53-28) two weeks ago before coming up with a 21-17 win last week over River.
Quarterback Morgan Dougherty had a huge game against the Pilots as he rushed the ball 23 times for 134 yards and three touchdowns while also throwing for 180 yards.
Warrior receiver Tyler Starr caught five passes for 131 yards against River.
Last season, Monroe Central closed out the regular season with a 48-13 win over Trail.
Trimble will look to complete a perfect regular season when it makes the trip to Stewart Friday night to take on Federal Hocking in a TVC Hocking Division finale.
The Tomcats are playoff bound as they are currently ranked No. 2 in the Division VII, Region 25 rankings just behind top-ranked Shadyside.
Trimble, which is currently ranked No. 4 in its division, has used a perfect balance of an offense that finds the end zone with regularity mixed with a stingy defense that has surrendered just 33 points the entire season.
Quarterback Konner Standley provides a two-way threat for Trimble as he has passed for over 1400 yards and 19 touchdowns on the season while leading the Cats in rushing as well with 395 yards on 63 carries.
Running back Jacob Koons and receiver Austin Downs are also integral parts of the Trimble offense.
Federal Hocking looks to finish the season on a strong note after climbing back over the .500 mark with victories the past two weeks over Miller (48-20) and Eastern (20-14).
Delbert Crum and Peyton Seel have provided an outstanding one-two punch for head coach Phil Hoffman and his Lancers all season long.
Crum has rushed for 826 yards on 11 carries, while Seel has 574 rushing yards and 254 receiving yards on the year.
Last season in Glouster, it was all Tomcats as Trimble rolled to a 41-7 win over the Lancers.
Something will have to give Friday night when Morgan plays host to West Muskingum.
One of the two schools will capture that elusive first win of the 2013 season and the other squad will finish the season 0-10.
West Muskingum comes into the game on the heels of a 46-8 loss to Caldwell, while Morgan was easily defeated by the Philo Electrics 55-0 in Duncan Falls.
The Raiders have been shut out in four straight games, last scoring way back in Week No. 5 against Sheridan.
Last year, Morgan downed the Tornadoes 34-13 in Zanesville.
GILMER COUNTY (5-3) AT PARKERSBURG CATHOLIC (6-2) Saturday 7:30
In a game with definite playoff implications, Parkersburg Catholic plays host to Gilmer County Saturday night.
The winner will keep its postseason hopes alive while the loser may well find itself on the outside looking in.
Catholic will look to snap a modest two-game losing streak as the Crusaders have fallen at the hands of Valley Fayette (38-15) and Williamstown (16-13).
Quarterback Payton Sturm leads a balanced Catholic offense with 948 yards passing and 576 yards rushing, while Jake Boice, Nick Roedersheimer and Kyle Bronski are other key figures for the Crusaders.
Gilmer County is led by quarterback Austin Cunningham, who has thrown for over 1500 yards on the season for 22 touchdowns.
Last season, Parkersburg Catholic rolled to a 36-6 win over the Titans.
Eastern would like nothing more than to put an end to a disappointing season by pulling off a major upset over the Southern Tornadoes when they do battle Saturday night in a TVC Hocking Division tilt.
The post season bound Tornadoes have rolled over top of most of its competition this season losing only to powerhouses Trimble (42-14 and Wahama (28-14) while going 7-0 against everyone else.
The Tornadoes are currently ranked fifth in the Division VII, region 25 standings and would dearly love to move up one more spot to secure a home game in the opening round of the playoffs.
The Eagles have lost their last five games and have not tasted victory since a 28-0 win over Waterford way back in week number four.
Zach Scowden leads Eastern in rushing on the season with 368 yards on 80 carries while quarterback Dylan Bresciani has ran for 246 yards and threw for 386 more.
Last year in a good one in Reedsville, Southern edged the Eagles 21-14.


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Then her abuser takes her to court on 3/18/2009 pro-se. Case Type: PET TO ESTABLISH PARENTAGE (NON-IV-D) Case # 2009D679047 Filing Date: 3/18/2009 Court Date: 5/14/2009.
Then on Sept 25, 2009 the abuser takes the case off call. You may find this by going to the Markham Court in IL and search Lacey Gaines as defendant, choose Domestic Relations/Child Support
"What I found interesting with that was the writer complained about the lack of security, drugs, gangs, constant break ins, and added, "…no one else but the maintenance they have keys to everything and every door in the building…" I thought it was interesting that the writer felt the need to add that. They mentioned break ins but then the fact maintenance has keys? Why? I thought that was odd and if it was written by the suspect, it could indicate a plan or preparation to the commit the murder and to leave a bogus suspect trail to divert the investigation. No force was used for the "break-in" at the murder scene, right? Also, this was written in mid September…I think I read that in September the baby's father also stopped pursuing the parentage through the courts? If that's the case the timing is interesting and maybe he decided to pursue another path to eliminate his problem?


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SCOTT CITY -- Carol Jean Wilburn, 50, died at 10:39 a.m. March 6, 2003, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.
Born Oct. 14, 1952, in St. Louis, daughter of Eugene Colvin of Ocala, Fla., and the late Ruth Gale Heaver, she was a member of Father's Arms Fellowship in Scott City.
Survivors in addition to her father include: three sons, Jon Wilburn, Steve Wilburn and Christopher Wilburn of Scott City; one daughter, Michelle Wilburn of Scott City; one sister, Aloma Ray of St. Charles; and four grandchildren.
Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City with the Rev. Kenneth Strong officiating.
Burial will follow in Lightner Memorial Cemetery in Scott City.


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Condensator : Mermaid Condensator
The Mermaid Condensator is the solution to water in your bilge! For anyone looking to prevent condensation from reaching the bilge or the sump pumps, Mermaid has your solution!
Working the the "Venturi" principle, the Mermaid Condensator is installed in-line with the marine air conditioners water discharge line. As the marine air conditioner and sea water pump are running, the device creates a vacuum effect and literally pulls the condensation water out of the drain pan, merges it with the discharge water, and you condensation is now overboard! The principle here is to leave your boat a "dry boat" by removing all condensation from the marine air conditioners drain pan, bilge, and/or sump pump.


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Evergreen Curling Club formed in 2002 and, after several years of curling in local ice arenas, opened Oregon's first dedicated curling rink in 2012. We offer regular leagues, bonspiels, clinics and other events throughout the curling season of October - May. We are a fun, welcoming group with a lot of enthusiasm, and we love newcomers. So if you're interested in curling, please let us know.


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The data set is small and covers only a 30-day period in the operation of the call center. The data tracks the number of new and experienced operators in each shift, the number of incoming calls, the number of orders as well as issues that must be resolved, and the average time a customer waits for someone to respond to a call. The data also includes a service quality metric based on abandon rate, which is an indicator of customer frustration.
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Lyons Township — The Lyons Sanitary District 2 transferred operations to its new treatment plant on June 1, but details still need to be cleaned up.
The Lyons Sanitary District 2 Board, at its July 16 meeting, agreed to a 30-day contract extension with Miron Construction of Neenah to put the finishing touches on the $4 million project. The contract deadline was July 15. The penalty for exceeding the deadline is $250 a day, said board chairman James DeLuca.
The old treatment plant building also needs to be razed and the land cleared.
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"I'm trying to be nice, but I want to get this done," DeLuca said. "If they can't get these issues resolved in 30 days, then the penalty will kick in back to the July deadline," he said.
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"Green Wake" was a great little mini-series that has been upgraded into an ongoing series, much to everyone's benefit. Extending a mini-series into an ongoing doesn't always work, but there were so many mysteries in the first arc, it's a pleasure to see Kurtis Wiebe and Riley Rossmo go back to this intriguing concept and dig deeper.
When last we left the characters of "Green Wake," our hero Morley had just returned to the shores of Green Wake after escaping. Morley finds Green Wake much changed, mostly for the worse, as a mysterious man named Micah has taken control and seems to have a cultish hold on the residents that Morley encounters. But after a murder, the first since Morley left Green Wake (gulp!) Morley is able to team up with his old friend and partner Krieger to solve the crime.
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SANTA CLARA -- With the 77th pick in Friday night's third round, the 49ers drafted Wisconsin's Chris Borland to help out a linebacker unit that will be without NaVorro Bowman for likely the first half of the season.
"I expect Bowman to make a comeback. He's a great player. It's way too early to look that far," Borland said. "I'm just going to find my role."
Borland, the Big Ten's Defensive Player of the Year, started 45 games and forced 15 fumbles, the second-most in FBS history.
With Patrick Willis still in his mainstay role, Borland will look to win a spot on a linebacker corps that also features Michael Wilhoite and Nick Moody.
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KINGSTON — Ulster County's budget director, James J. Hanson, is leaving county government for work in the private sector.
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SIKESTON - Elmer James "Jim" Wills Jr., 82, died Aug. 2, 2003, at Missouri Baptist Hospital in St. Louis.
Born Nov. 22, 1920, in Olney, Ill., son of the late Elmer J. and Lydia Ethel Thomas Wills Sr., he was a member of the First Christian Church. A U.S. Navy veteran of World War II, he was a 32nd degree Mason in the Consistory of Bloomington, Ill. He was manager for Missouri Utilities in Charleston and Poplar Bluff, retiring in 1982.
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After the Fox, Spin City Bets Big on a Man with a Past: Charlie Sheen
That, producers insist, is not the Charlie Sheen who's replacing Michael J. Fox on ABC's Spin City starting Oct. 18. Although Sheen's character, deputy mayor Charlie Crawford, is, like the actor, a man trying to live down a notorious past, the similarities, says Spin executive producer Gary David Goldberg, end there. "This is another guy," maintains Goldberg of his star, who reportedly has stayed sober since participating in a 1998 detox program. "This guy's going to bed at 9:30, quarter to 10. We can't fax him new changes on the script too late because he's already asleep. He's the first one on the set every morning and the last to leave at night."
Indeed Sheen, 35, nicknamed "the Machine" because of his unstoppable pursuit of a good time, was as earnest as a Boy Scout when he spoke to reporters last summer about the show: "To get a shot at getting back in the game with something at this level of exposure, this level of quality, with this amount of talent, is really a blessing," he said.
And a challenge, not least because Spin City is up against NBC's higher-rated The West Wing, starring Sheen's father as the President. Goldberg believes audiences will ultimately be drawn to what he calls the younger Sheen's "innate sweetness."
Yet the old spice still surfaces. In a recent interview in Maxim magazine, Sheen threw out a wild guess that he'd slept with 5,000 women; denied as "completely ridiculous" a tabloid rumor that he liked prostitutes dressed as cheerleaders; admitted to having 12 tattoos (one looks like a memo and reads, "Back in 15 minutes"); and concluded, looking back over his antics, "I wouldn't trade all that stuff in a million years."
He was probably not referring to the battery charges brought by model-actress Brittany Ashland, to which he pleaded no contest in 1997. Still, months before Sheen landed the Spin City gig, the 71 days remaining on his probation were dropped. Leaving court, Sheen said, "I feel great."
His brother, songwriter Ramon Estevez, 37, doesn't doubt that: "You can't get that screwed up and recover and not feel great."
Sheen's downfall was the old Hollywood story. "Sometimes when you get too much too soon," says his ex-girlfriend, adult-video actress Ginger Lynn Allen, "nothing is ever enough," Born Carlos Irwin Estevez in 1965, Sheen and his siblings—brothers Ramon and Emilio Estevez, 38, also an actor, and sister Renee, 33, an actress (who plays a low-level staffer on The West Wing)—were exposed to show business through father Martin. (Like his dad, Charlie borrowed mother Janet's maiden name as an actor.) He was 21 when he became a star in Platoon. By that time he already had a daughter, Cassandra, out of wedlock with then-girlfriend Paula Prof fit (now a married travel agent). Charlie "wasn't the greatest dad on earth," says Ramon, but today he and Cassandra, now 15, "always hang out and stuff."
Thanks to family intervention, he was in rehab as early as 1990, the same year he was briefly engaged to Kelly Preston (now Mrs. John Travolta). In 1990 he also began dating Ginger Lynn Allen, who at the time was working in adult films. "When Charlie's sober, he's sweet, kind, loving, generous," says Allen, who stayed with him off and on for five years. "When he's drinking and using, he's out of control." Once, she says, she called him on his birthday and "Charlie couldn't come to the phone because, according to his assistant, he had a dozen hookers over and an entire baseball team." He once brought his dealer to his father's birthday party, says Ramon, who adds, "Watching my parents age before my eyes was not a lot of fun."
The shocks piled up. During Heidi Fleiss's 1995 tax-evasion trial, Sheen testified that he had spent $53,000 on 11 of the Hollywood madam's prostitutes. Also in 1995, two months after marrying model Donna Peele—"She's an angel sent from heaven," he said, "to take me through the rest of my journey"—he was sued by a UCLA student who claimed he'd struck her in the head in 1994 when she refused to have sex (the case was settled out of court). He divorced Peele in 1996 saying, "You buy a bad car, it breaks down." His own breakdown continued. In that same year, Brittany Ashland filed charges claiming Sheen had thrown her onto the kitchen floor of his San Fernando Valley home and split her lip. In June 1997 he pleaded no contest, earning a year's suspended sentence, two years' probation and a $2,800 fine. "You will not see me back in this courtroom," a repentant Sheen told the judge.
The very next year, though, he was hospitalized for a drug overdose. The drug use violated his parole. After his father walked into the Malibu courthouse and reported him, Charlie—in a deal that kept him out of jail—was given an added year's probation, ordered to perform 300 hours of community service and sent to lock-down detox followed by treatment.
Sheen, says Ramon, was finally scared straight: "He just wanted to avoid having all of his freedom taken away." In 1999, when he and brother Emilio were filming Rated X, a Showtime movie about porn-making brothers Artie and Jim Mitchell, he told cast-mates he was marking his first year of sobriety. "He just casually mentioned it," says Tracy Hutson, who played porn star Marilyn Chambers, "but he was definitely proud about it." Says director Peter Bogdanovich, who had a cameo: "He was very professional, very sober without being boring."
What's next? "This is a country that believes in a second chance," says series creator Goldberg, "and this is a guy who is grabbing this second chance with his whole heart and soul. I have never rooted as hard for anybody as I'm rooting for him."
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Dealpolitik: Martin Marietta and Vulcan Face Off — What's a Judge to Do?
Delaware Chancellor Leo Strine just completed a four-day trial in Wilmington that could decide the outcome of Martin Marietta's hostile $5.7 billion bid for Vulcan.
The primary legal issue is straightforward, yet Chancellor Strine, head of the prestigious Delaware court, has a complex decision ahead of him.
The litigation arises out of two short confidentiality agreements the parties entered into back when they were talking about a friendly deal.
In essence, they agreed to keep each other's information — and the fact that they were having negotiations — confidential unless there was a legal requirement to make such a disclosure and not to "use" the information other than in connection with evaluating a business transaction between the two parties.
When Martin Marietta made its hostile bid for Vulcan it was legally required to make disclosure of some of that information, including the prior history of negotiations.
But because Martin Marietta voluntarily put itself in a position to be required to make such disclosure despite its agreements, Vulcan has a strong argument that Martin Marietta breached at least one of the confidentiality agreements. Martin Marietta has denied it violated those confidentiality agreements.
Even if there was a violation, it gets tricky for the Delaware court. That toothpaste is out of the tube — the information is out there and no longer confidential. Is the Chancellor going to stop a big deal over something that is done and cannot be undone?
And that is just the beginning of the complexity. Many similar confidentiality agreements contain a standstill agreement—in other words, an obligation not to make a hostile bid. Vulcan did not obtain a standstill from Martin Marietta.
So if Chancellor Strine enjoins Martin Marietta's bid, he will effectively be giving Vulcan the benefit of a standstill agreement which it did not negotiate. He must be asking himself if that is his role as a judge. Will all confidentiality agreements in the future become de facto standstills if he rules in this way?
On the other hand, if he finds a contractual violation and let's Martin Marietta go forward anyway, he is effectively allowing it to march right through an agreement it entered into and violated with little or no consequences.
As he examines that alternative, he will be asking whether there is any real meaning to confidentiality agreements in these situations if a potential target does not obtain a standstill.
Whichever way the court rules, it could have an enormous impact on the dynamics of deal negotiations for public companies. It is not unusual for merger discussions to start as friendly, but when negotiations fall apart one party decides to resort to a hostile bid.
For this very reason, prospective buyers frequently resist standstill agreements or limit them to a relatively short period of time to retain flexibility.
This case is likely to raise the stakes of those early friendly discussions over the mundane and apparently non-controversial subjects of handling confidential information.
For that reason it could be one of the most important deal cases this year.
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Like Dallas Cowboy Jay Ratliff, celebrities think they're above common responsibility
Re: "Police say Ratliff was intoxicated — Test shows Cowboy's alcohol level was twice legal limit after crash," Tuesday news story.
How many people have to be injured or even killed due to someone's irresponsible and reckless behavior?
The other Dallas Cowboy who was killed in a drunk driving wreck several weeks ago should have made others think before putting themselves and others in danger. Yet, once again, another celebrity has given a black eye to those who are responsible and accountable for their own actions.
A lot of celebrities have people to call for their "get out of jail free" card. I, for one, am getting very tired of reading about these celebrities who can't or won't take personal responsibility in their lives.
They should have to face the consequences of their actions instead of a mere slap on the wrist.
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Police ID victim in Corryville homicide
No arrests in overnight homicide
UPDATED 12:12 PM EDT Mar 13, 2013
A man was shot to death early Wednesday morning in Corryville.
According to homicide investigators, a man was found near an apartment building on Highland Avenue, between William Howard Taft Road and McMillan Avenue.
Police identified the victim as 32-year-old Lonnel Lucas.
Witnesses told investigators two men approached the victim, shot him, and ran off.
One person who lives in the area told WLWT News 5 they heard as many as eight shots fired.
Investigators towed a car from the scene, but they have not said how it was connected to the investigation.
No one has been arrested in the case.
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For the 14th straight year, New Hampshire downed Vermont in the annual Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl. The Granite boys jumped out to a quick 20-0 lead in the first quarter and never looked back en route to a 42-6 win at Memorial Field.
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Vermont's lone points came on a 25-yard touchdown pass from James Shufelt to Joe Couture in the middle of the second quarter. Trevor Knight anchored the offense behind center for NH, totaling over 200 all purpose yards and three touchdowns.
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Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev spoke to RFE/RL's Russian Service in Moscow on February 14 about the surprise changes at independent radio station Echo Moskvy, saying that he had no doubt the changes were sanctioned by the Kremlin.
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DEXTER -- The Dexter Chief of Police and another officer have been arrested after a Stoddard County grand jury handed down several indictments on Friday.
Police Chief Kenneth Rinehart and officer Sammy Stone were each taken into custody Friday after warrants were issued for their arrests. Both were indicted on Class D felonies of hindering prosecution and their bond was set at $15,000 each. Both men were processed at the Stoddard County Jail and were released on cash bond pending a court appearance.
The grand jury was convened to investigate the Dexter Police Department after former officer Robert Kennedy was arrested in July on several charges of improper sexual activities.
Kennedy later resigned from the police department and pleaded guilty to two counts of statutory rape and one count of deviant sexual intercourse. He did not go to jail however, receiving a sentence of five years supervised probation while also having to register as a sex offender with the state of Missouri. Kennedy also agreed to cooperate with authorities on any other possible investigations.
The controversy within the Dexter Police Department continued as Rinehart submitted his formal resignation to the Dexter Board of Alderman. However, they in turn rejected the resignation to show their support for the police chief.
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When it comes to the legislative session in Jackson these days, District 83 Rep. Greg Snowden says things are tense to say the least.
"There's no consensus on how this should work. We know we've got to make cuts in Medicaid, but nobody's anxious to do it."
Currently, Mississippi's Medicaid budget is $268 million short of what it needs to function. With the agency's funding set to be depleted by March 1, something must be done and quickly.
"We know we've got to find funding for the Medicaid deficit, but nobody really wants to raise taxes or go into the tobacco trust fund, and certainly we're going to have to do one or the other to fix the deficit," says Snowden.
Conference committees have now been formed to address this issue. They are made up of several lawmakers from the state House and Senate who were appointed by the lieutenant governor and speaker of the house.
Meanwhile, the mounting concern among many Medicaid recipients is how this could affect them if no action is taken by next week? While certain federal laws are in place which could require hospitals to treat Medicaid patients even if they agency is broke, the same safeguards are not necessarily in place for pharmacies, something which could create another problem.
"This is going to be tough for the patients too because they're going to have to decide if they're kicked off the program, 'Do I take my diabetic medicine? If I can't afford my diabetic medicine and my two different types of blood pressure medicines, which one is most important?' and that's where we're going to have to work with the patients and physicians and try to help these people out," says pharmacist Don Waldron, Jr. with Mr. Discount Drugs in Meridian.
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Reference tuning architecture - Directory Server running on small systems
By tgardner on Aug 18, 2008
Following is an effective reference tuning architecture for servers with insufficient physical memory to cache the entire Directory Server database in database cache and entry cache(s).
Directory Server uses a single database cache for all entries in the database, that is, db/\*/\*.db3 files, and one entry cache per backend. The database cache is a copy in pages of the .db3 files, the entry cache is essentially a hashmap of entries formatted to return to the LDAP client. The best possible performance occurs when the entry being searched for is in the entry cache and can be returned immediately to the client. The worst possible performance occurs when Directory Server must read a page containing an entry from disk and the page is not in the file system buffer cache.
Referring to the diagram below, when an LDAP client issues a search, Directory Server examines the entry cache for the entry and returns the entry if found. If the entry is not in the entry cache, Directory Server examines the pages in the database cache for the entry. If the entry is found in the database cache, the entry is formatted, placed in the entry cache, and returned to the client. If the entry is neither in the entry cache or the database cache, then Directory Server must issue a disk read to read the page containing the entry - assuming it exists - into the database cache, then format the entry for the entry cache, then return the entry to the client. If the page containing the entry is not in the filesystem buffer cache, then that page must be read from disk.
In some large databases, all entries cannot be cached in database cache and entry cache. When all entries cannot be cached, tuning efforts should concentrate on reducing disk I/O on search operations. This is accomplished by caching the database file pages in the file system buffer cache as follows: set segmap_percent in /etc/system to accommodate the database, reboot the server, and prime the file system cache with dd, set database cache and entry cache sizes to something reasonable, perhaps 2GB each - the database cache size will help with updates. Directory Server response times should be excellent in this scenario. To determine the amount of memory needed for the file system cache, sum the number of bytes in all the db3 files in the database and multiply the result by 1.2 (20%). This is easily done with ls and awk:
ls -l db/\*/\*.db3 | awk '{ total += $5; } END { print total \* 1.2; }'
I/O caused by Directory Server reading data from disk can have a negative impact on Directory Server response times. Not only can response times be elevated, the response times are subject to a greater correlation of variation, i.e., response times are "spiky". The following graph shows the results of a 40 minute test run against Directory Server 5.2 patch 4 under extreme load, with the nsslapd-db-home-directory set to a local filesystem:
in the diagram above, disk service times on the filesystem containing the mmap backing files averaged above 500 ms.
Change the nsslapd-db-home-directory to a tempfs filesystem, restart Directory Server, and run a new test. After restarting directory server, there will be a short "caching" period as the database cache and entry cache are filled, resulting in:
The gradual increase in average response times up to about 1000 seconds into the test is the caching period. Immediately afterwards run the same job again and Directory Server begins to respond with very even average response times: this is because there is no I/O on search operations:
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Francis Bacon and Rothko lead way as auction records tumble
Sotheby's New York takes record $375m in a day as 'Teflon-coated' art market proves its resilience again
THE ART world's apparent immunity to economic hard times has been underlined by the record $375 million paid in a single day for a series of trophy paintings in New York.
The sale of works yesterday by post-war masters including Francis Bacon, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock, was the highest one day haul in auction house Sotheby's 268-year history.
On a day when pre-auction estimates were shattered and 85 per cent of the 69 lots found buyers, Rothko's abstract No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue) led the way by selling for $75 million after frenzied bidding.
New auction records were set for six artists, including abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock, whose 1951 drip painting Number 4 went under the hammer for $40.4 million. The previous record for a Pollock was $23.04 million set in May this year.
A "screaming pope" piece – called Untitled (Pope) - by British artist Francis Bacon sold for nearly $30 million (pictured above), a Willem de Kooning fetched just under $20 million and a Gerhard Richter scooped $17.4 million.
The New York sale proves the resilience of the elite art market which has mostly been on a roll since making a quick recovery from the 2008 financial crisis.
"The art market is coated with Teflon," Joanne Heyler, director of the Los Angeles-based Broad Art Foundation, told Bloomberg. "Fiscal cliffs, eurozone crises, hurricanes, nothing can really stop it. People are looking for a place to put their money."
But some dealers say extravagant prices are only obtained when the works are by big names and have been locked up in collections for years.
"You don't get new records unless you have things that are perceived to be of the highest quality and are fresh to the market," said New York gallerist Frances Beatty. "In the contemporary market, there's a pretty deep list of collectors who want to reach for trophy pictures."


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Toyota to Start Building Lexus Sedans in U.S.
Yoshio Takahashi and Jeff Bennett
Toyota Motor Corp. aims to produce a Lexus-brand luxury sedan in the U.S. for the first time as the Japanese auto maker strives to streamline manufacturing and distribution.
The company will move a significant portion of production of its Lexus ES model, which now is manufactured at a plant in Kyushu, southern Japan, to an existing facility in Kentucky according to people familiar with the matter.
Toyota on Wednesday received a $146.5 million tax incentive package from the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority to locate the production at an existing Toyota complex in Georgetown, Ky. The authority estimates about 570 new jobs for local residents would be created by the expansion.
The state has scheduled an event at the Toyota plant on Friday to disclose a production announcement. The authority said Toyota is considering adding production of 50,000 new vehicles beginning in the fall of 2015. It did not disclose the name of the model.
The shift is the latest evidence of Toyota's efforts that began in 2010 to revamp its world-wide manufacturing operations to make them leaner and less vulnerable to fluctuations in the value of the Japanese yen. Such efforts were spurred by a rapidly appreciating yen against the euro and U.S. dollar in recent years. A strong yen raises the price of Japan-made cars in world markets. One key strategy is to move production of export models to the markets where they are sold.
Such moves allow car makers to trim manufacturing costs and respond more quickly to changes in global demand by flexibly shifting production between numerous factories in different locations, said Masahiro Fukuda, manager of the Japan research department at Fourin Inc., an automotive research firm. Improving manufacturing technology levels at overseas plants has been making it possible to build even upscale vehicles outside Japan, Mr. Fukuda said.
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