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on July 24, 2013 - 4:48 PM
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You see one of the cellphone recordings of the murder of Oscar Grant III at the very beginning of Ryan Coogler's raw and exceptional "Fruitvale Station." The very last second of the footage has been lopped off.
The transit cop who killed the New Year's Eve celebrant claimed that Grant resisted arrest and made a suspicious move. And that, from about 20 yards away, is what we see. The cop reached for his taser, he said, pulled out his gun by mistake and shot Grant in the back while his hands were cuffed. He died in the hospital the next day.
What I've seen in the best-known cellphone recording of the incident is what looks like a tell-tale movement and facial expression by the cop a second after you hear the shot: The cop's head snaps up from looking at the victim and looks directly at the bystander filming the incident 20 or so yards away. It's almost impossible not to read that head snap and terror-stricken glance in the camera's direction as a sudden guilty spasm meaning "Oh my God, did that camera get THAT?"
The answer is a resounding yes. Which is why he was, at least, convicted of manslaughter. He wound up serving only 11 months.
There were riots in the Bay Area over Grant's murder. The national release of "Fruitvale Station" after the George Zimmerman verdict and President Obama's moving comments about it couldn't possibly be more timely. But then, tragically, one could argue that even in 2013 there isn't ever really a time when the national release of this film wouldn't be timely.
And that, I think, is the whole point of 27-year-old first-time director Ryan Coogler leaving off that final second of cellphone footage from the opening of his film.
This is not a movie about that transit cop's guilt or innocence. That's another subject.
This is a movie about the way lives are lived, specifically the final day in the life of Grant, a very imperfect young man of 22 trying to do better and straighten out his life. He only took the train to San Francisco on New Year's Eve in the first place because his mother didn't want him to drink and drive. (When talking to him on the phone in the car, she insisted he pull over and put on his headphones, too, to keep his driving hands free.)
Oscar and his girlfriend only went out with partying friends that night because she wanted to. According to the film, he was making noises beforehand about wanting to stay home and celebrate.
The result was tragic. And bracing for two cities, Oakland and San Francisco.
Writer and director Coogler wants us to understand Grant. He was a sweet young guy but no saint. He loved his mother but he had a quick, vicious, self-defensive temper sharpened by minor prison stretches. He was an adoring father to his young daughter but his repeated late arrivals at work caused him to lose his job.
He was making money dealing weed (he's played by Michael B. Jordan of "The Wire"). We see him stash a huge plastic bag in the closet, but at a crucial moment we see him emptying the bag into San Francisco Bay, even though he's in acute financial need. It's a story we can only surmise, but no less powerful for that.
Coogler's film is about a young man having a typical New Year's Eve – a mix of celebration (it's his mother's birthday as well as New Year's Eve) and passing life contemplation until his temper and his lock-down past suddenly pull him into a fight aboard the celebrating BART train to San Francisco.
The transit cops step in. The train stops at the Fruitvale Station. The transit cops pull him and his friends off, corral them next to the track.
Oscar's objections infuriate the keyed-up cops. And then the calamity.
And all of it – like every bit of this film – is filmed with documentary-style verisimilitude. In the case of the film, though, the apparent artlessness conceals just how much art from young Coogler is involved.
This is close to a brilliant piece of work – a film document that seems to come right from the streets but is, in fact, a very careful re-enactment starring Jordan and Academy Award- winner Octavia Spencer as his mother.
The film was grandfathered into being by Forest Whitaker using his influence.
The importance of the film after the Zimmerman trial couldn't be more obvious. It's an unsparing, i.e. not always flattering, look at a very tragic victim of the facts of black life in America.
The film's final shot is about the most heart-rending victim of all.
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Three and a half stars (Out of four)
Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer, Melonie Diaz
Director: Ryan Coogler
Running time: 90 minutes
Rating: R for violence, language, drugs and sex.
The Lowdown: A re-creation of the murder of Oscar Grant in the Fruitvale Station of the BART Line that rocked the Bay Area four years ago.
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The "Olympics" of software for students is about a month away. That's right, the finals of the Imagine Cup 2009 starts July 3rd in Cairo, Egypt. This is a quick lowdown from the Director of Education here at Microsoft.
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Lynn: My words of wisdom: timing is everything! There are ebbs and flows in business and in the economy and you must take advantage of the moment. Calculated risks are successful if all the key elements are in alignment. However timing is one factor that must not be overlooked. Building a nest egg while the economy was on a high was key to my success, much in the same way that investing wisely in times of economic downturn. Buy low; sell high is the old adage.
However, knowing when to take advantage of the crests and troughs of the economy is like reading a crystal ball. There have been many instances where my heart has urged me to make a move, but in my heart I knew that the timing was not appropriate. I would override my desires with my head and wait for the appropriate moment to make a move. Balancing my heart and my head has not always been easy, but being able to chart a course with the appropriate timing has certainly been a key to my success.
When I bought the Black Horse Inn in 1992, the property was in a shambles and needed extensive renovation or as we would call it in the mining industry "reclamation." I had waited nearly a year and a half to make an offer, and finally did so at the appropriate time, when the real estate market return would be at it's highest for my investment. At my first party at the Inn, prior to its restoration, my friends laughed and told me to step outside, that they would be happy to torch it for me. I said, "you have no vision…this will be a jewel someday." With my earnings from the mining industry, I started restoration of the Inn and reclamation of the grounds. Fortunately, the timing was right and today my initial investment has turned into a "gold mine."
History repeats itself and my husband and I recently restored a "shack" in St. Michael's, MD. Fencing on the property was deceptive and most buyers never looked beyond the fence to see that the property boundaries just happened to have one of the prettiest views of St. Michael's harbor. My husband and I both realize that with a little "reclamation" a minimal investment could become another gold mine–in time. Our purchase of this property in 2009 was when the real estate market was at an all time low, and contractors were hungry for work. Our "shack" is now called "Second Wind" and is a respite for us from our hard work and busy schedules. We hope to retire there someday.
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Oklahoma State Cowboys wide receiver Isaiah Anderson (82) jumps above Purdue Boilermakers cornerback Ricardo Allen (21) to score during the second half of the Cowboys 58-14 win in the inaugural 2013 Heart of Dallas Bowl Tuesday, January 1, 2013 at the Fair Park Cotton Bowl in Dallas.
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Venture-to-Capital - A New Framework for Growth Venturing and Professional Ownership
Rasila, Tommi
Publication type: Doctoral dissertation
Issue date: 2004-11-24
Belongs to: Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto. Julkaisu - Tampere University of Technology. Publication; 498
University: Tampere University of Technology
Faculty: Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
Department: Institute of Industrial Management
The objective of this study is to build a theory of growth venturing as a practical phenomenon, contributing to the understanding of all interested parties: the owners and managers of the ventures, if not one and same person, also their financiers and other aides, such as business angels and advisors as well as the potential buyers of the companies and government policy makers, making decisions that shape the business environment. The study starts by assessing the current theory of growth venturing by defining the elements it requires - Entrepreneurship, Equity Financing, Ownership and Management. Based in this extensive concept-analytical study, the theory of Venture-to-Capital as a new framework is synthesized from existing theory. The framework includes the operating modes, milestones and actors of the Venture-to-Capital arena. The reasons contributing to the need for the new discipline are also analyzed. Next, the study seeks to modify and improve the theory of Venture-to-Capital by assessing and categorizing the operating models of both prevalent and emerging actors in the Venture-to-Capital arena. This empirical effort is based on 14 case studies as well as the analysis of the five existing actor classes - Advisor, Incubator, Seed Venture Capitalist, Business Angel and Business Angel Network. It is noted that due to the development and the change in the requirements for the V2C actors from the market and the target ventures, new kinds of actors have emerged alongside the traditional ones. As a result an improved, evolutionary classification of six different Venture-to-Capital actors is presented. Further theoretical and practical implications of the findings are also presented, including a normative model of a V2C actor. Keywords: venture-to-capital, V2C, entrepreneurship, venture capital, equity financing, equity gap, start-up company, NTBF, strategy, ownership management
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Covers of rock classics like Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven." Massive 20,000-person sing alongs. Pyro, confetti, and a beer-guzzling Drunk Bunny: Green Day's summer tour is a total blowout. And Saturday night in Denver it got even better: The Bay Area punks debuted a never-before-heard song. Watch video below.
The tune, "Cigarettes and Valentines," is a power-punk jam that sounds more like Green Day's ragtag roots than their rock operas of late (see American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown). Which makes sense: According to Punk News the song was the title track from the band's


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For some, that day cannot come quickly enough. For others, there is simply not enough time. World Dairy Expo is the event that so many producers, cattle owners, allied industry representatives, and young adults anticipate all year. "Crowning Achievements - Golden Opportunities" is aptly themed for this year's World Dairy Expo and is especially true of the youth dairy judging contest. Only a few winners will be crowned, but the opportunity to represent your state and your university is a very special honor.
The national 4-H, collegiate, and post-secondary judging contests are held on Monday, September 27. Teams from Washington to Florida, California to Vermont will be competing for the prestigious title of National Champions and individual All-American honors. While dairy judging may be seen as just another dairy youth contest, it holds valuable lessons that are not available to the majority of young people outside of agriculture.
Simply speaking, knowing how to select cattle of good conformation helps producers determine which animals would be the best investment when adding cattle to their herds or making breeding decisions. This is a skill that those wanting to enter dairy production or dairy support careers should develop. On the next level, the ability for young people to make decisions (place the classes) and then prepare logical reasons for those decisions are skills that every young person, whether in agriculture or not, should develop. Forming an opinion and then confidently defending that decision when presenting oral reasons will undoubtedly create more self-confident young people who, in turn, will be effective employees, employers, and members of society. So, when the results are announced for the 4-H and post-secondary contest on Monday evening and the collegiate contest on Tuesday morning, take note not only of the names at the top of the lists, but of the group as a whole. Only one team or individual can wear the crown, but be confident there is a kingdom of young people who have developed the decision-making and communication skills to lead our industry into the future.


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The Stetson volleyball team dropped a 3-0 (25-11, 25-11, 25-20) decision at USC Upstate in an Atlantic Sun Conference match Friday night at the Hodge Center.
USC Upstate improved to 11-15 overall, 6-8 in the A-Sun while the Hatters fell to 4-28, 0-15.
Freshman Cailyn Prewitt led the Hatter offense with six kills, while Kaley Melville had 15 digs and Monique Russell added 13 digs to lead the defense.
The Hatters hit -.009 (22-23-109) for the match as they were held to just six kills in each of the first two sets. Stetson came back after intermission and posted 10 kills in the third set.
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A credit card which most stores do NOT accept. Discover usually has a high credit limit.
I went to the audio/video store to buy a plasma tv, and the store wouldn't take my Discover card.
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A fictitious word made up by people who don't know words like fictional and fictitious. The people making it up are probably fictional too.
There's no such word, so there's no valid example.
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. — If you ever hear about Portuguese-speaking Brazilians dressing up in American confederate uniforms, waving the Rebel flag, wearing Southern-belle skirts, and playing the banjo at a Fourth of July barbecue, one of the people you can blame is Lansford W. Hastings.
Anyone familiar with the Donner Party story will remember Hastings. He is often cast as the villain in this tragic tale. In early November 1846, members of the Donner Party were trapped east of the Sierra Nevada by deep snow. One of the reasons their wagon train was attempting to cross the mountains so late in the season is because Lansford Hastings, a California land promoter and lawyer, had convinced leaders in the Donner group to take his untried shortcut through the Wasatch Mountains in Utah.
In 1845 Hastings had published a popular overland trail guide to the Pacific, a book that promoted the virtues of the land, climate, and health found in California and the Oregon Coast. He traveled from Ohio to New York City giving lectures and hawking his book, "The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California." In New York City he met Mormon leader Sam Brannan who was preparing a ship to carry Latter Day Saints to the West Coast. Hastings tried to persuade Brannan to bring his followers to California's Sacramento Delta where Hastings was hoping to establish a settlement on a Mexican land grant, in the manner of John Sutter's fort.
Hastings' message was perfectly timed as it fit in with a growing political push toward westward expansion, and an almost religious exhortation that inspired frontier families to search out new land. Everyone was swelling with the notion of American Exceptionalism and driven by the concept of Manifest Destiny. In the years between 1840 and 1845, the total number of emigrants who traveled from the United States overland to the Mexican province of California was just 325. But in 1846 alone, at least 1,500 people took on the grueling, often deadly California Trail.
There were plenty of people involved in the Donner Party's trajectory to disaster, but historians often label Hastings as the "bad guy." Technically, there should have been nothing wrong with Hastings promoting a new cutoff that would save time and distance. Others were also developing alternate routes and parts of the California Trail changed frequently during the 1840s, but Hastings failed to lead the late arriving Donner Party through his cutoff and they were abandoned to their fate. Hastings' tendency to improvise as he went and overstate his knowledge of geography led directly to the Donner Party tragedy and tarnished his reputation.
Hastings arrived back in California just in time to join Major John C. Fremont in the war against Mexico. Fighting in California was short-lived and in 1847 Hastings moved to San Francisco where he practiced law and invested in real estate. In January 1848, gold was discovered at Sutter's sawmill and Hastings was soon plucking nuggets out of the American River. That summer, 29-year-old Hastings married 19-year-old Charlotte at Sutter's Fort. (Hastings' abandoned first wife had either died or divorced him by then.) Over the next eight years, Charlotte Hastings gave birth to five children, four of whom survived. In 1858, Lansford moved his family to Arizona Territory, where Hastings became postmaster, practiced law, and in 1860 was appointed a judge.
Although raised as a "Northern Yankee" in Ohio, Hastings saw opportunity in aligning with the Confederacy at the start of the American Civil War. He devised a scheme to annex Southern California and Arizona Territory with an occupation by anti-Union recruits from the Golden State. After Charlotte died in 1861, Hastings placed his children in the care of friends near San Francisco and traveled to Richmond, Va., where he met Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America. For his efforts, Hastings was commissioned a major in the Confederate Army. After the South's military defeat in 1865, Hastings headed for Mexico and then journeyed to Brazil to obtain permission from Emperor Dom Pedro II to establish a colony for disaffected southern families seeking relief from the victorious Union government. After choosing a large land parcel near the Amazon River, Hastings returned to Alabama to publish his next book, "Emigrants Guide to Brazil."
In 1867, 115 ex-patriots sailed with Hastings to Brazil to develop tropical plantation lifestyles free from interference. In less than a decade, Hastings' colony consisted of 22 families with more than 100 workers. But Hastings' life-long dream of ruling his own settlement was dashed in 1870 when the 51-year-old died at sea while on another voyage from the U.S. to Brazil. Overall, close to 20,000 ex-Confederates immigrated to Brazil where today their ancestors live in the community of Americana. Proud of their heritage, descendants still celebrate Dixie traditions and the Fourth of July.
— Tahoe historian Mark McLaughlin is a nationally published author and professional speaker. His award-winning books are available at local stores or at www.thestormking.com. Check out Mark's new blog at www.tahoenuggets.com.


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WELLSVILLE - Another piece of the river valley's energy production future fell into place Monday when Anchor Drilling Fluids USA, Inc., announced the opening of a new production and storage facility at the Wellsville Intermodal Industrial Park.
According to a press release from the Oklahoma-based company, the 12,000 square-foot, $2 million facility is the first permanent drilling fluids operation in Ohio. It is strategically located adjacent to the existing Cimbar Performance Minerals facility at the Intermodal Park, where the barite used in Anchor's drilling fluid is processed.
The facility went online on Oct. 31 and currently employs 15 people on-site, with plans for another 20 to 30 field employees to be based out of the plant.
"After extensive groundwork with local and state officials and significant capital investment, we are proud to be operational and serving our industry's customers, hiring Ohio residents and contributing to state and local tax revenues," said Anchor Drilling CEO Bob West in the press release.
Columbiana County Port Authority CEO Tracy Drake says the new facility is a culmination of efforts dating back to the 1990s to bring more business to the region through ventures such as investment in the Wellsville Intermodal Park. "It's good to see that prior planning pays off," he said.
Anchor was referred to the Port Authority by Cimbar Performance Minerals during their negotiations with the company. "We looked at what they needed to do, put together a game plan," Drake said. "This is the result of those efforts."
Drake anticipates Anchor Drilling's investment to be truly long-term, citing estimates of local oil and gas extraction to be a 30 to 50 year industry locally. That point was echoed by Anchor Drilling President Phil West, who noted in the press release that the Utica Formation has an estimated 940 million barrels of oil and 38 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves. "Development of this U.S. energy resource will significantly contribute to long-term economic growth and job creation in Ohio and the region," West said.


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Such alliances could offer a more efficient way of developing new drugs by requiring less than the billions long spent up-front by biopharmas on internal R&D. [© Dmitry - Fotolia.com]
Following is a list of 10 alliances announced in recent years, mostly by pharma and biotech giants with venture capital funds, ranked by total size of fund in which the biopharma(s) invested. Alliances are listed by their partners; their purpose; the role of their partners; the financial contributions of their partners, where disclosed; rights and/or options on drugs resulting from alliance activity, again where disclosed; and the date the alliance was announced. An additional two alliances did not disclose size of total investment, and therefore are included in the list without a ranking.
Significantly, five of the 12 listed alliances were formed during 2013, and another five last year, reflecting the industry's increasing view that the alliances will offer a more efficient way of developing new drugs by requiring much less than the billions long spent up-front by biopharmas on internal R&D. While the alliances require much less capital from industry, it remains to be seen whether R&D activity will increase, and more new drugs win approval and reach the market, to justify the reduced investment.
Also notable is the presence of two pharma giants in several alliances: GlaxoSmithKline, listed in four of the listed alliances, and Merck & Co., a partner in three funds, two of them listed in a single entry because the partners are similar and the funds, complementary. Both pharma giants have placed the largest bets on partnerships with venture funds as holding the greatest hope for bringing new drugs through trials and approvals faster. However, the top alliance was not led by a pharma giant but by Russia's state-owned Rusnano, whose alliance was included because it provides business development as well as investment services for companies in "medicine and pharmacology" in addition to nanotechnology and other tech sectors.
The list does not include individual corporate venture funds, the topic of last week's GEN list; or top venture capital firms, the subject of a GEN list published December 17, 2012.
Total investment size: $50 million
Purpose: Significantly advance the commercialization of scientific innovation in Canada by investing in early-stage breakthrough research.
Role of partners: GSK and its corporate venture capital arm SR One will manage the fund, which will identify strategic investment opportunities within Canada's life sciences industry—including academic and health institutions, translational research centers, and startup companies
Contributions of partners: GSK agreed to contribute all $50 million toward the fund, designed to strengthen GSK's position as a Canadian R&D leader and offers the company a unique opportunity to help close Canada's innovation gap.
Rights and/or options: Not disclosed
Announced: November 10, 2011
Total investment size: $101 million Lumira Capital II LP and $50 million Merck Lumira Biosciences Fund
Purpose: Lumira Capital II is designed to invest in late-stage clinical stage development of medications, diagnostics, and medical devices in North America; Merck Lumira Biosciences Fund was established to invest solely in Québec biotechnology companies before their products have reached proof-of-concept in humans.
Role of partners: Merck agreed to "screen and select potential partners with which we could form alliances," in order to "provide a vehicle where Merck scientific expertise could be made available to the general partners of" Lumira and Teralys, which make decisions on investments in early-stage biotechs, Reid J. Leonard, Ph.D., executive director, worldwide licensing for Merck & Co., said at the 2012 Boston Venture Forum.
Contributions of partners: Merck has committed $5 million to $101 million Lumira Capital II, and $35 million toward $43 million first closing of Merck Lumira Biosciences Fund, which has set a closing target of $50 million. The Merck funds are part of a commitment announced in 2010 to invest $100 million through 2015 in biopharmaceutical research and development in Québec. The commitment was made when, as part of a global restructuring, Merck shut down its Merck Frosst Centre for Therapeutic Research in the Montreal suburb of Kirkland, laying off most of its staff of 180. Teralys Capital committed to a total $35 million in both funds.
Rights and/or options: Unless negotiated separately with the portfolio companies of the Fund, Merck will not have any rights to the fund's portfolio companies or their products simply by virtue of its role as a limited partner.
Announced: March 26, 2012
Total investment size: $150 million
Purpose: Invest primarily in early-stage drug development and opportunities for life science companies.
Role of partners: TVM Capital manages the fund, with expertise provided by Chorus Canada, an offshoot of global-early-phase drug development network Chorus, focused on cost-effectively progressing potential medicines from candidate selection to clinical proof-of-concept. Chorus Canada works with development service providers across the province and elsewhere to offer development services to project-focused companies based primarily in Québec. Chorus is an autonomous unit of Eli Lilly.
Contributions of partners: $65 million from Teralys in $150 million fund, named TVM Life Science Ventures VII. Contributions of other partners not disclosed. BDC Venture Capital is the VC arm of Business Development Bank of Canada.
Announced: May 28, 2012
Total investment size: $180 million
Purpose: Enhance Daiichi Sankyo research and development activities.
Role of partners: Kearney Venture Partners, L.P., a limited partnership that invests primarily in U.S. life science companies, agreed to make equity investments in emerging life sciences and medical technology sectors including specialty pharmaceuticals, emerging biopharmaceutical, drug delivery technologies, diagnostics, biotechnology, and medical devices. Daiichi Sankyo may seek to establish research collaborations with companies in the fund.
Contributions of partners: Daiichi Sankyo agreed to invest $60 million in the $180 million fund.
Rights and/or options: Daiichi Sankyo retains the right of first refusal to make additional investments in the Fund's portfolio of companies.
Announced: September 8, 2006
Total investment size: €150 million ($200 million) fund, to be named Index Life VI1
Purpose: Stimulate promising, early-stage R&D innovation by investing in early-stage, single-asset, life sciences companies with assets that have first-in-class or best-in-class mechanisms of action and target areas of unmet medical need. Companies will be in Europe primarily, as well as the U.S. and Israel.
Role of partners: Index will maintain full decision-making rights to the portfolio companies. Fund rules and procedures will follow previous Index Ventures funds. All partners agreed to appoint executives to the nine-member Science Advisory Board: five seats for Index, two seats each for GSK and J&J.
Contributions of partners: Half the funding will come from Index, while one-quarter each will be contributed by GSK and J&J.
Rights and/or options: No exclusivity or commitment by GSK and J&J to therapeutics being developed by the startups. Drug companies will need to pursue licensing agreements with Index.
Announced: March 21, 2012
Notes:1 Figures converted to U.S. dollars via xe.com on June 172 From a press release announcing the investment partnership; see: http://en.rusnano.com/press-centre/news/88612
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International Zurich Airport (ZRH) is the largest airport in Switzerland and was opened in 1948. It is located about 13 km north of Zurich's city center. The airport extends across the municipal areas of Kloten, Opfikon, Rümlang, Oberglatt and Winkel. Opfikon (459 m above sea level) is a municipality in the Zürcher Unterland region. It is located in the Glatttal valley between Kloten and Zurich. Oerlikon is a quarter of the city of Zurich. With Affoltern and Seebach it forms the district 11 of Zurich. Along with Züri-West, Oerlikon in the north of the city is a former industrial quarter and today a fast-growing quarter of Zurich. The west and north of the city are currently the most prospering quarters of Zurich. New high-rises and freshly built parks are witnesses to this continuing development. The studios of Schweizer Fensehen (SF), the national TV station for German and Romansh Switzerland (SRG SSR idée suisse), have been located in the area of Leutschenbach since the 1970ies.swissview.com
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The 5 Year Stock Market Rule
Don't invest in the stock market unless you're going in for 5 years. That's the principle I operate under when it comes to investing in the stock market. Unless the funds I'm committing are free for the next five years, I'm not putting it into the stock market. It's not a rule grounded in deep analysis or one created by an expert in the market (but experts have come up with similarly sounding rules with different time horizons), it's simply one that I got in my head and one that has served me well thus far. The time isn't the important part of the rule, the idea behind it is.
When it comes to the volatility of the stock market, it's important that you think in the long term. In the short term, emotion often sways the performance of both the market and individual stocks. Apple has a bad quarter, everyone panics and sells the stock. The CEO of Under Armour announces he will be divesting some of his ownership shares, UA falls 50% in three months. Everyone thinks there is a recession, stock market is tanking, Fed steps in, and now it's not nearly as bad as it used to be (as of this writing, international markets have begun rebounding incredibly off the Fed rate drop news). Either way, there are a lot of things that affect the stock market that have a lot to do with external factors (I don't think the economy is an external factor, I was merely using it as an example of how emotion can play a large role). Those external factors are difficult to gauge and this they contribute to a volatility that is only bearable if you have time – hence the five year rule.
If you are limited by a concrete timeline, self-imposed or otherwise, that is less than five years, I recommend that you don't put it into the stock market. A prime example for someone in my age group (I'm 27) is your house buying fund. If you intend to make a purchase in the next five years, I strongly urge you to leave those funds in something safe because the allure of historic 11% annual returns could pull you into a situation where you lose 11% in a month (such as the one we're in right this very moment).
If this sounds eerily familiar to the advice you read for retirees, it's because it's exactly the same. If you are looking to retire on your investments, you should start divesting yourself of equities as you near retirement. You'll want to keep some of it in stocks but given the immediate need of the funds, you'll want to keep only that percentage you can live without for some period of time.
Do you use any sort of rule like this when you decide whether to commit funds to the stock market? It was a big jump for me to start investing non-retirement funds into the stock market and I started using this rule as a way of slowing down my eagerness and reducing my exposure to risk.


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LOCKPORT – Darius M. Belton, of Niagara Falls, rejected a plea offer Wednesday in the shooting death of his uncle, and the case appears ready to go to trial April 17 in Niagara County Court.
Belton, 18, is charged with second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in the Sept. 25 slaying of Luis A. Ubiles, 37, who lived next door to Belton on South Avenue. The killing allegedly followed an argument between Ubiles and Belton's mother, who is married to the victim's brother.
Deputy District Attorney Doreen M. Hoffmann said she had offered Belton a chance to plead guilty to first-degree manslaughter with a sentencing cap of 20 years.
Defense attorney Angelo Musitano said, "We preferred the second count [the weapons charge], which would have been a cap of 15 years. We understand the people are under no obligation to offer a plea that we want."
Hoffmann said that if Belton is convicted as charged, he could be sentenced to as long as 40 years to life in prison, saying the sentence for the weapons count could be added consecutively to the 25 years to life that is the murder maximum.
However, Musitano is challenging the weapons count's validity, arguing that Ubiles possessed the gun at his home, which would not be a crime if the gun itself were legal. Hoffmann said Belton was standing on his front porch when he shot Ubiles; the legal question is whether the porch is part of the home.
Musitano also has said he may argue at the trial that Belton acted in self-defense, because Ubiles allegedly was running toward Belton.
Wednesday, Detective John Conti testified about the identification of Belton in a photo array viewed Oct. 9 in Hoffmann's office by witness Craig Mathis, who made the initial 911 call to police. Mathis said the shooter was a man he knew from the neighborhood who was called "Drizz," which police say is Belton's nickname.
Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas said Mathis' identification of Belton will be admissible at the trial. She also said she will rule on Musitano's objection to the weapons count before the final pretrial conference April 12.
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April 4, 2013
The city surveillance camera system is expected to be scanning Roy A. Flanigan and Memorial parks by this summer....
Cameras will just push crime and problems elsewhere! Of course we see everyday that criminals don't care if cameras are present or not, Otherwise these caught on camera shows or Worlds dumbest criminals would not be so popular.
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Fixed cameras are old technology.
Need to get some drones.
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Let's start a count of crimes solved by these cameras.
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"Police" cameras??? Already?? It's a term that sounds a tad ominous, sinister, portentous and invasive, if you ask me. The SG used it as a headline for today's edition. From now on, though,let's just go with "surveillance" cameras instead. We all feel the "big brother" era is not too far away, but don't run towards it. SG, don't hurry what will happen soon enough to America.
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( I Do Believe It's Much To Late Of Those Fatalities Here In Our City Parks / Streets. So Now This Is What It Takes In Order To Catch Invaders / Criminals That Come Here With Their Guns And Drugs. The High Crimes Here Are Never Going To End No Matter What Devices Are Installed. The Problem Here Is That Nobody Wants To Be Nor Willing To Take That Step In Becoming Involved. So They Set Up Neighborhood Watch Programs In Collaboration With The Local Police Department. Though What Good Does It Do Us When Others Simply Wont Participate. Stuck On Stupid As Usual. Sad...
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Great! Do you think we could get a couple of benches so we can sit and watch our kids play on the equipment at brandon? There are benches lining the sidewalks there but only two by the playground and one has obstructed view of the playground! Also, what about strategically placed porta potties during peak seasons? Loyalsock and South Williamsport both have bathrooms at their parks!
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You make it sound as though if you remove housing for the crime "element," you will decrease crime. I highly doubt this would work considering the drug market for this area. As long as there is a a high demand for drugs and not enough supply, you are going to have crime.
I think it's a good idea for these cameras to be installed, but I could also name a few other areas in the city where cameras could be installed as well.
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Great! Doesnt take long until they know there are cameras there and they just move on to the next beatiful park and destroy that and the cycle continues. Just like when they knocked all those houses down for the hospial and the Y the ghetto just moved out one block further and devalued those houses, we should start looking at containing and immobilizing crime, let it happen around little league blvd and the center and the weightman building, and patrol heavily outside that area to keep it contained so the rest of the city wont turn to crap.
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Them's some expensive cameras.
Hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars spent just to spy on ourselves. What a country.
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Now they can just sit there and watch them shoot each other free entertainment.
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This is definitely a step in the right direction to combat crime and promote safety within the city. The Streets will and should be next for camera placement but this is the first step.
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In January, Roaring Spring Police Chief Milton Fields placed a standard order for a 1,000-round case of .223-caliber ammunition, the bullet for the AR-15 assault rifle often used in law enforcement.
"They informed me that they were 10,000 cases on back order," Fields said. "I still haven't received mine."
After years of shifting supply in the global ammunition market, a surge of demand spurred by mass shootings and gun-control fears has cleaned store shelves and forced police to wait months for bullets.
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Sgt. Justin Davis with the Martinsburg Police Department practices with his weapon on the training range at the Martinsburg Sportsmen's Club on Friday.
Roaring Spring patrolman Allen Fochler (front) and Sgt. Justin Davis with the Martinsburg Police Department shoot at the Martinsburg Sportsmen's Club on Friday.
There's no end in sight, police and distributors said this week, and some departments have begun stockpiling ammunition in time for state-mandated shooting tests.
"Everybody's rushing out, buying guns and ammo because of possible gun bans," Martinsburg Police Chief Kerry Hoover told council members at a Monday borough meeting.
Hoover said he placed a routine order in February with a state-approved ammunition supplier. Everything appeared to be moving smoothly until he received an email from the company, he said.
"They said, 'If you need ammo for fall qualification, order it now," Hoover said. The distributor said they could expect a six-to-eight month wait for pistol rounds, and as much as a year's wait for shotgun and rifle ammunition.
The Municipal Police Officers' Education and Training Commission, a state arm that sets local officers' training standards, mandates shooting tests at least once each year; in practice, many departments test twice, with practice sessions in between.
Each office can expect to fire 60 handgun rounds during a typical qualification, Fields said, and as many as 90 rounds if he hopes to qualify with an assault rifle. If an officer fails, he must take the test again to carry a firearm.
The numbers - and expense - add up quickly, especially at large departments.
And police don't get a fast-track for ammunition: Their supply is affected by the same delays and market forces that hit civilian consumers, said Lee Markl, president of Markl Supply Co., a Pittsburgh-based law enforcement supplier.
"The police are actually the smaller part of the market," Markl said, noting that departments buy only about 5 percent of all handgun ammunition nationally. "It's a major consideration for law enforcement agencies."
Markl said the short supply has been a growing issue for years, as growing countries like China and India have upped demand for lead, brass, copper and aluminum, the raw materials that go into bullets.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan also have cut into the supply, Markl said, with the U.S. military emptying millions of cartridges each year. Meanwhile, restrictions on cheap imported ammunition has shrunk the pool available to hunters and casual range-shooters, he said.
But the final factor - and the one police said has most noticeably affected them - is the skyrocketing demand since the December school shooting that left 26 dead in Sandy Hook, Conn.
The shootings renewed the gun-control debate in Washington, D.C., and in state capitals throughout the country, provoking fear that the government could limit gun and ammunition sales.
"When everybody feels the government is going to restrict guns and ammunition, you have added impact. ... The shelves just get cleaned off," Markl said.
Back-ordered ammunition is so delayed, Altoona Police Department Lt. Jeff Pratt said Friday, that officers thought an order that arrived in January was sent by mistake: They'd ordered it nearly nine months earlier, he said, and forgot it was on the way.
"And the ammunition you can locate has nearly doubled in price, even tripled or quadrupled," Pratt said. "I should have invested in ammunition futures instead of the stock market."
It's the first time in his life, Pratt said, that he has seen nearly every type of ammunition on delay.
While the situation isn't yet serious enough to prevent local departments from meeting state qualifications, some acknowledged that it's a possibility in coming months or years.
Pratt said he hopes police groups can press the state Legislature to lift some test requirements if the shortage becomes more severe.
"That's absolutely a concern," Fields said, noting that departments would have to request waivers from the state training commission. "It's never happened as long as I've been here."
Hoover said his department has sought to keep ahead of demand for the last several years, since an earlier gun-control scare led to a similar nationwide rush for ammunition.
"At that time, we started to buy a little extra each year," Hoover said. "Now we've started stockpiling a little bit."
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HOLLIDAYSBURG - If Deanna Jubeck ever decides to hang up her whistle and give up coaching basketball, she might have a future in fortune-telling.
She certainly was on the mark with her latest prediction.
"We've talked to them that there's going to be a time when [senior post player Morgan Griffith] isn't going to score 20 or 25 points. So they had to step up," Jubeck said of the message she's been conveying to her Hollidaysburg Area High School girls players, particularly the guards, over the last two weeks. "They took that, and they ran with it."
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Altoona's Kayla Grimme battles Hollidaysburg's Susie Ellis (right) for a loose ball on Thursday.
Altoona held Griffith to 10 points. However, four Lady Tigers scored at least six - led by Hannah Mercer with 15 and Courtney Storm with 12 - and Hollidaysburg took advantage of a press-induced 14-0 run at the end of the first half to defeat the Lady Lions for the second time this season, 56-44, at the Hollidaysburg Senior High School on Thursday night.
Hollidaysburg, which edged Altoona by a point at the AAHS Fieldhouse on Dec. 12, raised its record to 16-1. The teams might play again in the District 6 Class AAAA playoffs, but this win still tasted very sweet to the Lady Tigers.
"Me and the rest of the seniors were talking about how this was going to be the last time we were going to play Altoona on our home court with our home fans, We were like, 'This is our last one. We've got to go out and leave it all on the court,'" said Mercer who scored nine points in the last 5:24. "I know districts is in a while, and that's important. But, right now, this was the most important game.
"I don't know when was the last time we beat Altoona twice in a season."
It was 2007-08, when Griffith's older sister, Taylor, was a Lady Tiger senior. That time, Altoona avenged two regular-season losses in the 6-AAAA semifinals.
Although the final difference was 12, the Lady Lions (9-6) actually were within three points with less than six minutes to play. Hollidaysburg managed to surge to a 14-point lead at halftime by turning to its full-court press to break open a 19-all tie in the last 3:46 of the second quarter.
"The game was like a yo-yo at that point. We looked for something to be a spark," Jubeck said.
Hollidaysburg caused four straight turnovers in the backcourt in that span to provide it.
"That's what beat us. We practiced against their man-to-man. They threw that press on there, and our girls panicked. It gave Hollidaysburg something to feed off of," Altoona coach Jill Helsel said. "We wanted to start off strong in the fourth quarter, and we did that. We wanted to stop Morgan Griffith, and we did that. I thought we rebounded well. I thought our bigs played well. If we handle [the press] a little better, we don't get down by so much, and we don't have to expend so much energy coming back."
Kayla Grimme fronted Altoona with a near-triple-double of 15 points, 22 rebounds and eight blocked shots, while forward Darby Lee netted 11 points.
Hollidaysburg, though, got production from all over. In addition to Mercer, Storm and Griffith, Morgan Jennings came off the bench to finish with nine points, and Altoona transfer Alexia Servello provided six points and two assists in the early going.
Storm's points came in spite of foul trouble and having the task of defending Lee, who had 28 points in the first meeting.
"When I do good on defense, I get more relaxed on offense, because I'm playing better. It keeps me in a good attitude," Storm said. "We were hyped. We knew what we had to do, and we came out and did it."
Mercer, Jennings and Storm scored all the points during the 14-0 run. Jennings, a transfer from Academy of Notre Dame in Philadelphia, used her 6-foot wingspan to make a couple of big steals. She's the daughter of former Altoona great Anita Moore.
"I just want to make her proud. I hope [I did,]," Jennings said. "All the anticipation and preparation had me ready. Today was a good day to show it."
Rarely a shooter before this season, Mercer came up two points shy of matching her career high of 17 from five days earlier.
"I'm starting to have a little more confidence," Mercer said. "We have a really balanced team."
Natalie Knab gave Altoona eight points off the bench. Helsel looked at the big picture afterward.
"We play our scheduled to get better," Helsel said. "Every game we take something from, and we get better."
Game notes: Griffith finished with five steals. ... Helped by committing eight turnovers to Altoona's 24, Hollidaysburg took 12 more shots from the field, 59-47. ... The Lady Tigers held on for a 40-38 win in the junior varsity contest after Altoona stormed back from an 11-point deficit at the end of the third quarter to draw even late. ... The Lady Lions host Bishop McCort tonight. Hollidaysburg's next game is at Ambridge on Saturday.
ALTOONA (44): Hatch 2 0-0 5, Reffner 0 5-6 5, Donley 0 0-0 0, Lee 5 1-5 11, Grimme 7 1-3 15, Knab 3 0-0 8, Feathers 0 0-0 0, B. Davis 0 0-0 0. Totals - 17 7-14 44.
HOLLIDAYSBURG (56): Mercer 5 5-6 15, Servello 3 0-0 6, Muir 0 0-0 0, Storm 3 4-4 12, Griffith 5 0-1 10, S. Ellis 2 0-0 4, Jennings 3 3-5 9. Totals - 21 12-16 56.
Altoona11 8 14 11 - 44
Hollidaysburg13 20 6 17 - 56
3-point goals: Altoona 3 (Hatch, Knab 2); Hollidaysburg 2 (Storm 2).
Records: Altoona (9-6); Hollidaysburg (16-1).
Officials: Kevin Lewis, Chris Rickens, Dave Baronner.
JV: Hollidaysburg, 40-38. High scorers-Sierra Kirsch, H, 17; Brittanee Davis, A, 9.


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I was away for a couple days, only one night, but it was not like me to go somewhere by myself, and I was nervous. Nervous to be on my own, meet new people, not feeling super confident about my appearance, etc. That was also not like me.
I didn't take any photos outside of my hotel room. But I did love my room (at The Wit Chicago- literal next door neighbor to the Chicago Theatre.) I was on a business trip (I feel like I can say that, because I am getting paid in real money.)
When I lived in Chicago, my most vivid memories are of the hot summer. But I didn't feel any of them flooding back like I expected. There was the el right outside my window, but even that didn't spark anything in my heart. It's like, I'm a grown up now. And while I sometimes miss those days, I look back and am so glad I got through them. And that they're over.
Jeff didn't email or text me about the kids, like, the whole night. I indulged in a bubble bath and my big bed all to myself and then I hopped up and opened the curtains, with the city lights pouring in, and then crawled back into a dozen pillows. I didn't like not hearing from home. At that moment I would have given anything to just see the kids asleep in their beds. I saw it in my mind, but wanted to see it in real life. And I couldn't.
I ended up calling hubs in the morning and everyone was fine. They'd slept well, and Ivy kept asking if I was at the store "Mommy at the stow?" and then she'd say "Oh, Mommy in the 'cago."
When I got home after midnight last night, I woke her up to relieve my breast(s) and nursed her like she was two days old. Only, it felt like I was holding a teen-ager.
We crawled into bed, with the sheets that won't stay on the corners, and a pile of laundry on the floor. And I decided to stop trying to make friends with time. And we just made peace instead.