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Twelve new reports released Nov. 14 reveal that the State Policy Network (SPN), an $83 million web of right-wing "think tanks," is moving to seize the legislative agendas in every state across the country.
Although SPN's member organizations claim to be nonpartisan and independent, an in-depth investigation reveals that SPN and its state affiliates are major drivers of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)-backed corporate agenda in state houses nationwide, with deep ties to the Koch brothers and the national right-wing network of funders.
The reports show how these groups masquerade as "think tanks," and describe how some of them may be skirting tax laws while really orchestrating extensive lobbying and political operations to peddle their legislative agenda to state legislators, all while reporting little or no lobbying activities.
"The 'experts' of State Policy Network groups get quoted on TV, in the papers, or in the legislature as if they were nonpartisan, objective scholars on issues of public policy," said Lisa Graves, Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD). "But in reality, SPN is a front for corporate interests with an extreme national policy agenda tied to some of the most retrograde special interests in the country, including the billionaire Koch brothers, the Waltons, the Bradley Foundation, the Roe Foundation, and the Coors family."
Denise Cardinal, executive director of Progress Now added, "The bottom line is these organizations of the rich, by the rich and for the rich are representing themselves as groups that are looking out for the best interests of everyday, working class Americans and it's just a blatant lie. What we're doing is trying to bring some transparency to the damaging work they're doing on a daily basis. From policies that promote polluting the air and water to the destruction of our public education system and a tax system that benefits their rich donors, what these organizations are doing is shameful and it's time that someone brought this to light."
The reports - a nationally-focused report written by CMD and eleven state-focused reports written by Progress Now member groups and CMD - can be viewed here:www.stinktanks.org.
Key findings include:
While it has become an $83 million dollar right-wing empire, SPN and most of its affiliates do not post their major donors on their websites. The identities of the donors discovered reveal that SPN is largely funded by global corporations - such as Reynolds American, Altria, Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon, GlaxoSmithKline, Kraft Foods, Express Scripts, Comcast, Time Warner, and the Koch- and tea party-connected DCI Group.
Corporations likeFacebook and the for-profit online education company K12 Inc., as well as the e-cigarette company NJOY, also fund SPN, as demonstrated by its most recent annual meeting.
Although SPN's affiliates are registered as educational nonprofits, several appear to orchestrate extensive lobbying and political operations to peddle their legislative agenda to state legislators, despite the IRS's regulations on nonprofit political and lobbying activities.
SPN and its affiliates push an extreme right-wing agenda that aims to privatize education, block healthcare reform, restrict workers' rights, roll back environmental protections, and create a tax system that benefits most those at the very top level of income.
SPN and many of its affiliates are some of the most active members and largest sponsors of the controversial ALEC, where special interest groups and state politicians vote behind closed doors on "model" legislation to change Americans' rights, through ALEC's task forces. SPN has close ties to, and works with, other national right-wing organizations like the Franklin Center and David Koch's Americans for Prosperity.
Photo: The state capital (state house) in Boston, Massachusetts. Wikipedia


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Press Release: Brian May and Kerry Ellis Announce 'The Candlelight Concerts' for 2014
Due to the phenomenal success of their previous tours, legendary Queen Guitarist Brian May and singing sensation Kerry Ellis are to perform together once again, in a brand new show, The Candlelight Concerts.
Beginning at the Gordon Craig Theatre in Stevenage on 18th February, this is a chance to see one of the world's greatest guitar players, Brian May and Britain's newest First Lady of song, Kerry Ellis take to stage. Join them for a magical evening of world class acoustic music, performed by candlelight at intimate venues around the UK.
Kerry Ellis was the creator of the role of Meat in Queen's Rock theatrical, We Will Rock You, and went on to become a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic starring as the Green Witch in the musical Wicked. Throughout this time, Brian May and Kerry Ellis maintained a special musical partnership, with May producing the fine Ellis debut album 'Anthems' in 2010. Their first tour played 12 successful dates around the UK in 2011, including two sold-out nights at London's Albert Hall, for which Kerry won the Best Solo Performance award from Whatsonstage.com. The two then returned to the road with their eagerly anticipated tour in November last year, which was extended in 2013.
The Candlelight Concerts will see Brian and Kerry perform stripped down versions of Queen classics alongside a number of their personal favourite songs, showcasing Kerry's extraordinary voice with Brian accompanying her on both guitar and vocals.
Brian May said: "Although life has taken me into so many new areas recently, music is still what energises me - the greatest joy. And Ms Ellis is the most inspiring collaborator - we're a pretty good band! I'm grateful for the opportunity to bring this show to a wider audience - already working on hardening up the finger ends…"
Kerry Ellis added: "I am so excited to be taking to the road again with the candlelight concerts; it's humbling to have such demand for our show. I can't tell you how much I enjoy performing these songs with Brian and what fun we have with the audiences in these intimate settings. I feel very honoured and can't wait to get going."
Kerry and Brian have performed together to wide acclaim on a number of occasions over the last few years. Preceding their previous tours, they stole the show when they performed together at the Royal Variety Show in 2008 and at the BBC Proms in the Park and at 2010's The Night of 1000 Voices. Along with TV appearances, they also memorably opened the Remembrance Day concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 2010.
Before hitting the road again, Kerry and Brian have also collaborated with legendary British screen actress and animal rights activist Virginia McKenna to record a version of McKenna's original song "Nothing Really Has Changed". It was recorded during Ellis and May's live performance at the recent Montreux Jazz Festival, and all profits from the sale of the track will go to the Sponsor Badger Vaccination Fund.
Tickets for The Candlelight Concerts are on sale now.
Full UK Tour Dates
18 February 2014 - Stevenage Gordon Craig Theatre - www.gordon-craig.co.uk / 01438 363 200
19 February - Buxton Festival - www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk / 0845 127 2190
21 February - Scarborough Spa - www.scarboroughspa.co.uk / 01723 821 888 £39
22 February - Grantham Meres - www.guildhallartscentre.com / 01476 406158 £39
23 February - Bath Theatre Royal - www.theatreroyal.org.uk / 01225 448844
25 February - Eastbourne Congress - www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk / 01323 412000
26 February - Southend Cliffs Pavilion - www.southendtheatres.org.uk / 01702 351135
Tickets priced: £39.00 / £40.00
To book tickets please call the Credit Card Hotline on 0844 758 758
For online bookings please visit www.ticketzone.co.uk
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Press Release: Brian May and Kerry Ellis Announce 'The Candlelight Concerts' for 2014
Claus Müller
"Welch ein Geschenk"
Danke Brian und Kerry!
Freddy findet es bestimmt auch "Sensationell"!
Ihr seid großartig und Eure Musik kommt von Herzen.
Herzlichst Claus Müller Thalfingerstr.36 in Neu-Ulm Bayern
Michael Donnelly
Moscow on 16 March, wow! We'd love to see you in St.Petersburg too. Please come to St.Pete!
zoe bright
Please do another tour soon. Saw this in Southend and found it absolutely beautiful. What an amazing duet.. I could sit through it over and over.
Gareth Morris
Please, please can we have some or even one date in Wales ?
There is nowhere near us.
Please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
are there any other shows planned for 2014 other than the candlelight ones?
Gordon Mcneil
Are you bringing your show to Scotland ?????
Would there be any possibility of coming to perform at Glasgow in 2014 ?
Love it if you'd call on the US west coast - in particular, Tony Starlight's Supperclub and Lounge, in Portland, Oregon. :-) Looking forward to YouTube and commercial recordings of the 2014 Candlelight concerts, and possibly a follow-on album to Anthem, Kerry?
Dagmar Richter
Come to Belarus!!!
huli net?
Susan Angel
Could really do with a date in Northampton!!
Marcio Nojima
Hello ! You will come to Brazil??

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Love is such a powerful word, and it accomplishes so much. In 1 Corinthians Chapter 13, when the apostle Paul talks about love, he refers to it as charity in the King James Version of the Bible. He tells us all what love is and does, Paul tells us that love will not fail and that love is a symbol of all that is good. Love defines what a Christian is all about. Love is never out of season, love is never old fashioned, and love is what keeps sanity in our fast moving world today.
I remember way back in the 1960s and 1970s there was a slogan that stated love is the answer. But I was not sure what the question was, but I knew the answer. Today there are still people searching for the answer to all kinds of problems, love may not seem to be the right answer to the people searching for the answer, but it is not far from the answer. In this fast-paced world we live in, love is used so easily. It gets confused with lust so often, but love and lust are so far apart that they are not even related to each other. In the Gospel of St. Matthew in Chapter 22, Jesus tells the Pharisee as he asked Jesus which was the great commandment, this is what Jesus told him: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind." This is the first and most important commandment. The second most important commandment is like this one and it is to "love your neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and prophets."
In Romans Chapter 13, Paul the Apostle says to "owe no man anything but to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law." So as I understand the Bible, then I owe a debt of love to my fellow man. The Bible also says in Romans 13 that "love works no malice to his neighbor, so that love is fulfilling of the law of God." Several years ago, I preached a sermon that I titled "What Kind of Shadow Do You Cast?" or how far is your love reaching out. This question goes out to the church today and also the individual. A few weeks ago, I had the annual charge conference for the East Elkins Charge of the United Methodist Church. At the same time I was interviewed by my district superintendent. He asked me a question, "What did I think was most needed in West Virginia in order for church growth?" My answer was commitment; the lack of commitment is essentially the lack of love. If you love God, you want to be committed to your home church. You realize you owe a debt of love to your fellow man or your neighbor. Oft times, we as Christians think that we are home free when we become Christians. But along with the name Christian comes responsibility. You might say, "what kind of responsibility?" The responsibility to live a life out in front of my neighbor that would present to them Christ.
How are they going to recognize us as Christians? Is there a credential that Christians carry with them all the time? Yes there is, it is called love. There is a song in some of the hymn books that say "They Will Know We Are Christians By Our Love." If you were on trial today for being accused of being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you? This might seem to be a harsh question to ask, but it is one that needs to be asked of every person that claims the name Christian. What kind of shadow are you casting today? Is it a very dim or a very bright shadow? How far does your shadow reach? Is it a shadow that stands as if it were right under the light and the shadow is only covering the person that the light is shining on, or is it one that has chosen to move out of your comfort zone and go out to try to reach some person in need? The church today has the greatest opportunity to cast a shadow than it ever has before in history. With the economy as shaky as it is today, the church has such an opportunity to shine as never before. There is always a need to be filled and if the church is not there to fill it, who will be there?
There are two things required in order that there is a shadow. The first thing is a source of light. The second thing is an object for the light to shine upon. In the Gospel of St. Matthew Chapter 5 verse 14, Jesus tells us "that we are the light of the world." In verse 16, he says to "let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and praise your father which is in heaven." You know as I think about light, it is a wonderful thing. Without it, we would not be able to survive. Light is required for survival of all life forms. It is the same way for a Christian. Without the light of Christ, we cannot survive. The moon has no light of itself; it has to reflect the light of the sun. We as Christians are the same as the moon:?We have no light of ourselves, we have to reflect the light of the son (Christ).
Love is not an option. If you are a Christian, it is a requirement. Love is enduring, love is not easily provoked, love is kind and love is not prideful. The list could go on, but these are benchmarks by which each one of us may judge ourselves. There is the age-old question of what is wrong with the world today? The answer is commitment or lack of commitment. You never hear anyone ask what is right with the world. The answer is love is the only thing that is right with the world. Love, the word, encompasses many things. When disaster strikes today, the faith-based community is always there. This sometimes aggravates some of the organizations that are not faith based. They are sometimes a little slower or have more requirements for the people affected to meet in order to get the help that is needed. But with the faith-based organizations, love is the ruling factor. If there is a need, then love is the answer.
Love will always win out over hate because the only thing that you must do to ensure that the supply of love does not run empty is to give it to someone in need. Hate on the other hand must be fueled everyday. You must constantly remember why you hate someone, you have to do this every moment or you will forget. Hate is a consuming foe, it must be fed. But love is an endless supply if you give it out everywhere you go. What kind of shadow do you cast? Ask yourself this question often. Hold yourself accountable to love. Make sure you never forget about the debt of love you owe. May God richly bless you as you go about doing the work of love.
(The opinions of this article are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Inter-Mountain, the Randolph County Ministerial Association or the author's church affiliation.)


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a very nice white...dry with nice fruit....it's a very good value
hat is this wine...what grape, whar area (Lombary?)
Technical Notes
The Crinale Cellar stems from the experience of the Quitadamo family in the field of viticultural growing and the marketing of wine grapes in the whole of Italy. The family tradition in this area starts in the Seventies-Eighties with the sale of wine-grapes in their Lombard wholesale shop specialized in selling fruit and goes on in the Nineties with the experience in the field taking care of their grapevines. Today, beginning from this proved experience, the Quitadamo family feels the need to form a structure of wine-making where it is possible to carry out the experience and the knowledge acquired in the grape-growing and wine-making.
The Crinale Cellar is founded in 2006 summer just from the wish to realize a ten-year passion: to devote oneself to a production of his own of excellent wines based on an in-depth knowledge of this typology of growing and also of the grapes and their particular times. The care and the passion that the Quitadamo family puts in each different activity which carries out are also clear in the wine production. All the activities are joined by the interest towards the naturalness and the real production genuineness.


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The value of foreign investment in Istanbul in 2011 was more than the total foreign investment in Istanbul for the 2008-2011 three-year period, figures say
Austrians look to invest in Turkey
Austrian investors are shifting their investment activities to Turkey – especially the energy sector – because of the economic crisis in Europe, Austria's commercial counselor for Turkey has said.
"Turkey's economic performance and stance show that the country has chosen the right path. This in turn strengthens the relations between our countries and Austrian investors are aware of this," Konstantin Bekos said.
In addition to the energy sector, Bekos said Austrian investors were also interested in agriculture, animal husbandry, security technology and winter tourism in Turkey.
Many Austrian firms are investing in spare parts in Turkey's automotive sector and were therefore closely eyeing developments regarding the Turkish government's plan to create a domestic Turkish automobile, he said.
"We are ready to collaborate on the domestic automobile. If we are successful, we can create new avenues of business and support the creation of new sectors," Bekos said.
Source: February 21, 2012 ANATOLIA NEWS AGENCY, ANKARA


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Papercut allows you to print remotely wherever you are. The system is designed such that you upload a file (doc, xls, ppt or pdf) to the webserver, then release the print job at a copier when it suits you. This enables printing directly from your personal laptops, without the need to install any drivers, or perform any configuration.
For security reasons, you will only be able to upload files from the university network. However, this includes OWL and Eduroam. This also means that you can run the University VPN when outside of the university network, and then upload the files.
Uploading files to the server will not be charged to your account, it is only when they are printed that they will be charged. Documents left unprinted after 3 days are automatically deleted fro the queue.
Prior to using this service, you will need to update your password in the College computer room. So you'll need to login to a computer in the hayloft using your SSO. Once logged in, you need to press CTRL-ALT-DEL together, and select the Change a Password option. You may wish to set this the same as your SSO password, but it needs to be at least 6 characters long with a mixture of letters and numbers. This will be the password for accessing Papercut through the web.
Note - Students who have been here for more than two years may have a username that doesn't match their SSO. To find out your GTC username, you'll need to login to a computer in the hayloft. Once in, select - Control Panel - User Accounts - Configure advanced user profile properties. The name field will give you your username. If you have any issues, book in to see someone in the IT team who can otherwise assist.
This requirement is temporary. Development work is underway to synchronise these accounts such that in future only the SSO will be required.
Remote Printing
As stated above, you can only login to the system from a University network (cabled, OWL or Eduroam). If you live in private accommodation, please connect via the University VPN client first before trying to connect.
1)To login, you need to go to the following webpage :
You will receive a warning that this site has an untrusted security certificate, but this can be ignored, and the site is indeed safe.
From the login screen, please enter your username and password (as setup above).
You'll then come to the welcome screen :
2)Select Web print.
3)Then Select - Submit a job
4) Select the print options you'd like for the print job:
(So Black or Colour, A4 or A3, single or double sided).
5) Click the Print Options and Account Selection button. From the Option page, select the number of copies and click Upload Document.
6)Click the Choose File button to select a file :
7) Click Upload and Complete. The system will process your file, and it will then show in the queue, ready for printing :
8) Now you go to either the ASC1 copier in the Walton building, or the MFC1 copier unit in the admin building, swipe your card, and release your print job.
Additional notes
The web interface doesn't offer such a full range of printing options as you would get printing directly to a local printer. For example, you cannot select which pages of a document to print. To workaround this, you can (in MS Word) print just the pages you want to a PDF printer, and upload this to the webprint server. Alternatively, you could just save the pages you want to print in a separate document.


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All the people that call into his show thanking him for making them "Mad Money" must know when he's right and when he's just full of crap because everytime I've listened to him, I've gotten burned.
I've kept MO because the Goldman Sachs price target ($27 currently) keeps moving up, the dividend keeps going up and I seriously can't find a lower price risk (beta is 0.45) 5%+ yielder out there. Ditto for PM ($74 price target currently) but the 3.5% yield is getting a little light.
MO was a great call by him, I had it and cashed it in but could have held a little longer for more gain. I really didn't think it would continue its run but it has. Great div with it.
He has never owned it, most of what he recommends on tv isn't what he holds in his trust.
"most of what he recommends on tv isn't what he holds in his trust."
This is true. One reason is that Cramer has so many restrictions on trading for the Trust that, for example, he can never buy Apple because he is always talking about it or being asked about it. He has a tiny tiny position in Apple, despite being so enamoured of the stock and the company.
He did have MO at one time, but sold it. Cramer has to worry more about headline risk than a small investor does because of the reputation of his show. He now prefers PM because of U.S. political risk to MO.
KMP has been a big gainer for me, I kept averaging in when it was going down so I ended up wiht alot of low 60 buys .... it's great getting up on a high div stock so you are up on the stock and just collect the div.
I've just updated my MLP spreadsheet and corrected two errors that now show EEP and EEQ yields approaching 7%, ETP yield 7.59%, EPD yield 6.06%, SPH 6.62%, KMP yield 6.4%. Many of these had mid 5% yields which was too low in my opinion and were trading above their Goldman Sachs price targets. I always have a hard time making money on an MLP buying it above the Goldman target price.
KMP is the Blue Chip in the group but it is still over its Goldman Sachs price target of $69. In the case of KMP, the best I can do is buy it at the Goldman Sachs target price.
I'm looking to buy and will look at distribution growth. I would assume the lowest yielders in this group have the highest growth rates in distributions. Part of NRGY's problem is no growth in distribution until the acquistions start kicking in and the core propane business recovers.
Cramer's advice is as good as the small invester is going to get. I watch him not so much for specific stock buys, but for his take on what's going on in the market.
Is not one of the stocks he buys for his AA portfolio. If it was one of his "favs" as you say, then it would be in his charity account. Be aware that many he likes on TV are not ones he buys and sells for AA portfolio.
I don't think you can own MLPs in a charitable trust. Ditto for REITs.
Does anyone think MSNBC would promote a show with many callers that are critics? Wouldn't that put a crimp on advertising revenues? Duh....its rigged.
But that should be obvious to anyone. Nonetheless, the information the show provides can be valuable. One has to exercise good judgement with any advice, not just Cramer.
Mad Money often takes calls from callers who are down in a stock that Cramer recommended. Cramer often mentions mistakes in stocks, and in fact, apologizes. You don't hear the rabid, screaming investors who gambled big on one stock and lost big time, though. They attack Cramer through emails (which he refers to but doesn't read aloud on Mad Mail) and on Twitter. Obviously, those people don't get through on the call line (assuming they bother to call--and agree to the terms.)
Cramer thought NRGY was OK when it was trading $37-38 after the last meltdown. Rallied to $42. My bad for not getting out, but the 7%+ distribution yield looks sustainable and NRGY should recover $2-3 over the next several weeks.
Nothing wrong with selling some and holding some, you can trade with it and hold a long position also for the div (which is what I do)
Agree. I'm sorry I held so many of my MLP's over the dividend/distribution this quarter. On the other hand, I had become underweight by trading, so I only took profits where I was up 40% or better. So the answer is to take profits at the next run-up. Nothing wrong with accumulating 7% plus and being ready for July.
Cramer is an entertainer who is about 40% right. That means that flipping a coin, or just doing the opposite of his recommendation would result in better returns. That said -- he's honest. He tells you to do your own homework and to listen to nobody including himself.
As for NRGY, I think he is right on this one, and I'm a buyer on this weakness. I'm investing long term and looking for high dividends and stable long term industries. NRGY fits the bill perfectly.
No, he's up huge in his portfolio. TV maybe because he likes alot of them on tv, but in his AA he's really up big, I subscribe and I can tell you I'm up big on his picks also.


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J&J to Improve Drug Marketing Reviews in Lawsuit Accords
Johnson & Johnson, the world's biggest health-products maker, will provide more corporate oversight of its units' drug manufacturing and marketing practices to resolve investor lawsuits alleging directors ignored wrongdoing, according to court filings today.
J&J officials agreed to create a board-level group to oversee subsidiaries' compliance with regulatory rules and to adopt updated risk-management policies as part of the settlement of claims filed against directors in federal court in Trenton, New Jersey.
The corporate-governance changes are designed to force directors to "take responsibility for identifying and addressing problems" before they spin out of control, attorneys for J&J investors said in court papers.
J&J is in talks to resolve investigations of the marketing of its Risperdal antipsychotic drug and other medications, company officials said. The company has agreed to pay as much as $2.2 billion to settle, people familiar with the accord said on June 11.
A J&J spokesman, Al Wasilewski, said in an e-mailed statement that the settlement resolves the Trenton litigation and is subject to court approval.
He said the company "has a long commitment to compliance, quality and good corporate governance" and "continues to deny the claims" in the lawsuit while agreeing to the settlement to "eliminate the burden" of further litigation.
Risperdal Sales
The U.S. government has been probing Risperdal sales practices since 2004, including allegations the company marketed the drug for unapproved uses, J&J has said in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings. The company also has said in securities filings that it is negotiating with the U.S. to resolve the investigation.
J&J, based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, disclosed in August that it agreed to a settlement involving a misdemeanor criminal charge related to Risperdal marketing. It wasn't clear from the filing whether J&J or one of its units would plead guilty.
Investors sued J&J in 2010 with so-called derivative claims that directors ignored "red flags" about the company's marketing practices for Risperdal and other drugs and production miscues that led to recalls of products such as children's Tylenol.
Recalls in 2010
J&J recalled more than 40 types of medicines in 2010 because of contamination and incorrect labeling. U.S. lawmakers began investigating J&J after a recall of batches of children's Tylenol forced the company to suspend operations at a Pennsylvania plant.
"Plaintiffs filed suit in light of the tsunami of regulatory and legal difficulties overtaking J&J," investors' lawyers said in today's filing. "Plaintiffs believed the J&J board and senior management should be held responsible for not stopping widespread wrongdoing that had seriously harmed J&J's business."
The shareholders contend J&J's decentralized corporate setup, which allows subsidiaries such as its Janssen unit freedom to operate independently from corporate headquarters, meant directors weren't getting information in a timely fashion on the units' missteps.
'Recipe for Disaster'
The "decentralized approach to compliance and quality control resulted in a lack of accountability, a structural excuse for plausible deniability among senior management and J&J's board, and ultimately, a recipe for disaster," investors' lawyers wrote.
U.S. District Judge Freda Wolfson in Trenton threw out investors' derivative claims against J&J directors in September 2011 but allowed them to refile amended suits against the drugmaker. Any recovery under derivative suits is returned to the company's coffers rather than distributed to shareholders.
The corporate-governance settlement resulted from "good-faith settlement negotiations" and relied, in part, on policy changes vetted by Harvey Pitt, ex-head the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, investors' lawyers said.
One of the changes requires the board's new Regulatory, Compliance and Government Affairs Committee, which must consist solely of independent directors, to "provide an annual report to J&J shareholders" about the units' regulatory compliance efforts, according to the filing.
Another benefit of the oversight changes is that "critical information will no longer be confined to the level of J&J subsidiaries," shareholders' attorneys added.
The provisions are designed to force directors and executives to "take ownership of regulatory and legal issues before they become major problems," the lawyers added.
The case is In re Johnson & Johnson Derivative Litigation, 10-cv-2033, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey (Trenton).


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Kan. lawmakers may have special session over 'Hard 50' sentences
Supreme Court decision raises constitutional concerns
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is asking Gov. Sam Brownback to call the Legislature into special session to rewrite the state's "Hard 50" sentencing law.
The statute allows people convicted of first-degree murder to be sentenced to a minimum of 50 years in prison before they can seek parole.
In a letter Wednesday to the governor, Schmidt says a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision raised questions about the constitutionality of the Kansas law. The high court held that juries, not judges, should have the final say on facts triggering mandatory minimum sentences.
The Associated Press obtained a copy of Schmidt's letter from a source who was not authorized to release it publicly. Schmidt did not return a cell phone message seeking comment.
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The Mandeville City Council has agreed to spend nearly $60,000 to renew an environmental education program focused in part on watershed protection, wetlands conservation and wastewater treatment. Under separate resolutions adopted by the council with little discussion, the city will pay Connie Marciante $38,814 and Janiece Mistich $19,632 to continue Mandeville's Environmental Interpretive Program, which teaches children and adults about watershed protection, waste water treatment, wetlands assimilation and environmental conservation through field trips, lab analysis and community outreach.
Asked about the price, city officials said they were mindful of the program's cost to taxpayers but praised the program.
Under the contracts, Marciante and Mistich run the educational programs during the academic year, from August through May 22, 2012. Among the tasks are working with schools and teachers; arranging field trips; maintaining a database of all collected water quality data for use by teachers, students and the Mandeville Public Works Department; seeking grants; and promoting the city's biological treatment process and wetlands assimilation project. Mandeville Mayor Donald Villere said the program also organizes three one-week camp sessions each summer for children as well as the annual Watershed Festival.
The educational program began in 2002 as an outgrowth of the wetlands assimilation project, and initially it was financed by grants. Mistich, a science teacher, built the program from the ground up, city officials said.
The city's wetlands assimilation project is an innovative method of treating sewage. Instead of a chemical process, the sewage makes its way through a series of ponds at the city facility at the end of Mandeville High Boulevard and then into the vast wetlands nearby. The process cuts the city's treatment costs, while also providing nutrient-rich wastewater to nourish the wetlands.
Councilman Jerry Coogan said the educational program is worth the $58,446 the city will spend this year, calling it "a drop in the bucket."
"My four girls have all gone through the presentations," he said. "It's a great first step for kids to learn about conservation and pollution and so on," he said.
Villere agreed.
He said his administration has asked Mistich and Marciante to seek ways to increase adult participation in order to broaden the program's outreach and to pursue additional grants so that the program can eventually rely less on city financing. But, he added, "I don't want to pull what I think is a valuable program for the citizens."
Villere said Mistich and Marciante's teaching backgrounds enable them to tailor lesson plans to specific groups.
"We have a unique activity here,'' he said. "It's been a good program for the city."


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Apple has lost their legal claim to the iPhone name in Mexico
0. phoneArena 01 Nov 2012, 15:00 posted on
A court in Mexico City has denied an injunction that would allow Apple to continue using the "iPhone" name, as a lawsuit against telecommunication firm iFone backfires against the tech giant...
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1. Jphones (Posts: 235; Member since: 10 Feb 2012)
haha viva la revolution. Apple stop acting like its apples and pears. iFone will win because unlike you there lawsuits aren't iphoney.
3. PhenomFaz (Posts: 1236; Member since: 26 Sep 2012)
I coouldnt have said it better myself...its very ironic the patent thing Apple started has come back around to bite it in its butt!
9. ZEUS.the.thunder.god (unregistered)
wow .. now I really wish ifone was registered in more countries. Now I love ifone lol
59. someones4 (Posts: 625; Member since: 16 Sep 2012)
They will lose the only thing from them that sounded original
71. MeoCao (unregistered)
Apple has become so arrogant it lost the sense of reality.
They think they are Justice itself and allowed to do anything as they please?
It's like a robber suing his victim.
Well done Mexico!
52. whysoserious (Posts: 318; Member since: 20 Jul 2012)
" the iFone trademark was filed in Mexico in 2003, a full four years before Apple filed to trademark the iPhone. Despite the rather obvious priority issue, Apple decided to sue iFone in 2009 in an attempt to invalidate the company's name for being too similar to the iPhone."
Oh God. I don't know if Apple is playing bully, or just being plain stupid. No wonder why Judge Koh thinks Apple and their legal team is on crack.
77. TheMan (Posts: 490; Member since: 21 Sep 2012)
Apple game plan:
1. Sue into submission.
2. Repeat Step 1.
68. squallz506 (banned) (Posts: 1075; Member since: 19 Oct 2011)
82. vishu9 (Posts: 252; Member since: 03 Mar 2011)
Lol..Now there will be a bigger bite in that Apple logo :D
85. MeoCao (unregistered)
haha, you made my day
98. cdnfreak (Posts: 26; Member since: 13 Mar 2012)
Actually if you want to get really technical, Cisco came up with the name iphone in 1998 for their internet phone, well before either company was even on the radar.
105. cbush1018 (Posts: 1; Member since: 04 Nov 2012)
actually that was called IP phone.
2. gabe92 (Posts: 27; Member since: 25 Oct 2012)
ahaha thats what they deserve.
64. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 13100; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
I guess no one cares about protecting intellectual property.
66. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Maybe you didn't read the second paragraph.
iFone filed their trademark back 2003 and Apple filed the trademark for iPhone in 2007. That's a four year difference. What Apple wants to do, because they have some balls, is to try to invalidate the trademark even though they files theirs four years later.
This just proves you're seriously brainwashed and totally biased in EVERYTHING.
70. someones4 (Posts: 625; Member since: 16 Sep 2012)
In this case, they did. IFone protected their intellectual property from Apple
74. networkdood (Posts: 6330; Member since: 31 Mar 2010)
Are you really that DUMB?? Seriously?? The Mexican company had it first - now it is spelled differently and APPLE has a ton of money - I am sure a couple billion Pesos a year may clear up the situation.
Seriously, Mxy, you need to start using that brain of yours - you are starting to sound like an 8-yr old, and that is an insult to my 8 yr old son.
78. ojdidit84 (Posts: 458; Member since: 16 Jul 2011)
Apple didn't originally come up with the names for iOS or iPhone. Both names were taken from Cisco's VoIP phones and router/switch OS. They license both trademarks from Cisco.
sco_and_apple_agreement_on_ios _trademark/
Just to give you a little perspective on the company that you blindly support.
96. GeekMovement (Posts: 2156; Member since: 09 Sep 2011)
Talk about
4. AnTuTu (Posts: 1580; Member since: 14 Oct 2012)
50% Apple has been rotten so far and old black days have been started.
57. someones4 (Posts: 625; Member since: 16 Sep 2012)
I love the smell of victory in the morning. I hope it makes them think twice before trying to go against other companies.
65. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 13100; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
This isn't victory.
67. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
It isn't for Apple.
72. someones4 (Posts: 625; Member since: 16 Sep 2012)
You are right, it isn't a victory. Not until, Apple has paid every company it has wronged (samsung, motorola)
or reduced to the humble company it once was.
81. cncrim (Posts: 826; Member since: 15 Aug 2011)
I have a feel you are Taco just diffirent name, we don't see Taco lately but you.
94. seronis (Posts: 1; Member since: 02 Nov 2012)
Its a clear victory for the company that is clearly in the right.
5. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
Cant defend apple on this one. The company clearly existed before the iphone did.
I cant see Apple trying to claim that they got that name based on apple's ipod naming, but I dont see that going far since nobody probably even thought about Apple making a phone back in 2003.
16. roldefol (Posts: 4258; Member since: 28 Jan 2011)
And even if people thought Apple would make an "iPhone" back then, they had no idea it would be the wildly successful all-touch app monster we ultimately got. Early concepts were just an iPod with calling features and the familiar click wheel. There were a lot of naysayers about Apple's ability to break into the phone market as recently as 2006. So for Apple to say the iFone name was somehow obviously theirs is just arrogant.
39. cheetah2k (Posts: 1579; Member since: 16 Jan 2011)
Oh, but for sure there will be prior art.... Just wait, they'll find it on some old napkin Jobs wrote on in some restaurant back in 2001 - after watching 2001 A Space Odessy the movie.. HAHAHAHAHAH Effing Apple
48. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
Not only that, iPhone was a CISCO name before apple stole it, then bought it from them (and not nearly enough)
6. smdeezy (Posts: 66; Member since: 17 Jun 2011)
Wow. This is Apple just trying to be a bully here. I'm glad they are going to lose this one and I hope it hurts a little.
19. corporateJP (Posts: 2431; Member since: 28 Nov 2009)
You know what they say about it...
7. BuddyGlass (Posts: 20; Member since: 11 Jun 2012)
What goes around, comes around...
8. androiddownsouth (Posts: 598; Member since: 02 May 2012)
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!....*gasp catch breath*.....BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!.....*pass out*
10. Kronic (banned) (Posts: 321; Member since: 11 Sep 2012)
Why not just quit operating in mexico
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12. maxican16 (Posts: 364; Member since: 29 Sep 2011)
This is what you get for trying to play bully to everyone.. justice at its finest!
13. TheRetroReplay (Posts: 254; Member since: 20 Mar 2012)
"the iFone trademark was filed in Mexico in 2003, a full four years before Apple filed to trademark the iPhone. Despite the rather obvious priority issue, Apple decided to sue iFone in 2009 in an attempt to invalidate the company's name for being too similar to the iPhone."
That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard Apple doing.
15. blingblingthing (Posts: 529; Member since: 23 Oct 2012)
They must think this is the us patent office where you can make applications for vague patents and trademark retangularly edged cell phones.
Oh and wanting Sammy to pay 30$ to use your patents while wanting to pay Sammy 0.017 to use their patents is crazy. Hope the Mexican if one gets their 40%.
20. corporateJP (Posts: 2431; Member since: 28 Nov 2009)
Whoever thought these guys were smart in the first place, they're in for a suprise.
37. UBhacked (Posts: 4; Member since: 03 Apr 2012)
You just said it!
58. Googlethis (Posts: 179; Member since: 05 Jul 2012)
Thats apple for yah.
14. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 3791; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
What's done has been done!
Now let's move on...and think what Apple will rename the i(whispers)Phone...
I'm guessing iPat (short for patent)!
89. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
Probably something silly like ipod voice or something.
93. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 3791; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
lol!! Liked!!
17. roldefol (Posts: 4258; Member since: 28 Jan 2011)
Hasn't Apple resolved issues like this in the past by simply licensing the name? That's certainly lower risk than attempting to sue your way into owning it. Definitely preferable to losing all rights to your own product name and marketing, even if it's "only" Mexico.
90. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
Apple's first step when there's an issue is to litigate. I wonder if they get a bulk discount on billable hours with their lawyers....
18. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
thats what happens when you reach the heights Apple has.... hope they settle as the ifone allied with Apple could reach new heights..
21. corporateJP (Posts: 2431; Member since: 28 Nov 2009)
Ha ha ha...you're still a funny dude.
23. AnTuTu (Posts: 1580; Member since: 14 Oct 2012)
Which heights are you talking about mate? If you are talking about heights then Apple's head-office should be at Mt. Everest :p
80. someones4 (Posts: 625; Member since: 16 Sep 2012)
or in the bottomless pits of Hell
26. mas11 (Posts: 1034; Member since: 30 Mar 2012)
You mean you become a cocky asshole that thinks he owns everyone.
99. androiddownsouth (Posts: 598; Member since: 02 May 2012)
Become? Apple is already there dude, and has set up camp lol.
31. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
Apple is getting back what it deserves from market so they have to give that bloated ego a little "prick" so that they shun that shameless arrogance of theirs and compete in market rather than courts ...
Even Columbian Drug Lord reaches hieghts but has anyone gone about suing them in such force
Apple has been like this since the famous theft at XEROX :)
38. Stuntman (Posts: 836; Member since: 01 Aug 2011)
You are correct about what happens when you reach the heights Apple has. Before, Cisco actually had a device called the iPhone many years before Apple's iPhone. Apple ended up working about an agreement with Cisco. Now, Apple doesn't bother working out agreements. They just try to bully other guys like this Mexican company. If they had entered negotiations instead of filing the law suit, maybe things would have worked out better for Apple.
61. tedkord (Posts: 11712; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Do you ever get dizzy from all that spinning?
22. mas11 (Posts: 1034; Member since: 30 Mar 2012)
So Apple sued them first even though, "the iFone trademark was filed in Mexico in 2003." Yep sounds like Apple they steal others ideas, call them their own then sue the true inventor.
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Vaginal Dryness During Menopause - FemHealth.net
Vaginal Dryness
What causes Vaginal dryness?Vaginal dryness occurs when your estrogen levels drop. Your vagina is usually very elastic, able to easily stretch for sex and childbirth. But as estrogen levels go down, your vaginal walls get thinner and lose some of their elasticity. Your vagina becomes dryer and takes longer to become lubricated.
Finally, it may atrophy becoming somewhat smaller in width and length. This symptom may appear due to a sudden drop in estrogen. Also, it can be experienced when going through a natural premature menopause. Click here to read more about the causes of Vaginal Dryness.
What are approaches for treating Vaginal Dryness:Three levels of approaches can be considered for treating Vaginal Dryness:
(1) Lifestyle changes,
(2) Alternative approaches and
(3) Drugs and surgery.
The safest way is to start with the least risky approach and go on to the next level only if it is necessary. Click on treatments for Vaginal Dryness and don't miss these three excellent approaches.
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In FemHealth.net you can find useful information about the causes of Vaginal Dryness during menopause. Keep in mind that knowing the causes of Vaginal Dryness will let you be aware of what steps to take to control this symptom.
Vaginal Dryness during Menopause can be treated efficiently when the right treatment is followed. Get informed about the most effective Treatments for Vaginal Dryness during menopause and choose the one that suits your specific case.
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All about the 34 menopause symptoms. Learn how to identify menopause and perimenopause symptoms.
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Eight simple but stunning ways to decorate your pumpkins this Halloween. Our no-cut methods utilize reused and recycled items you probably already have in your home to reduce the carbon footprint of your Halloween. Not cutting the pumpkins means you get to enjoy eating them once their ghoulish goals are realized.
This Halloween pumpkin will give you goose bumps! Make pompoms from left-over yarn. Glue in place with a glue gun.
This sassy Halloween pumpkin is easy to make and looks really posh. Push pumpkin down to the toe end of a old pair of fishnet leggings. Tie a knot in the top, cut with a scissors and secure with a ribbon.
This arsenic and lace Halloween pumpkin utilizes your old haberdashery scraps for a good scare. Use old scraps of lace or cut out sequins from dresses (pictured here). Use a glue gun to secure to pumpkin.
Cut bat wings out of scraps of felt or old fabric. Use a glue gun to secure to the pumpkin. You can stiffen the fabric with starch or paint on white glue and leave to dry. Hang this pumpkin from fishing line for added effect.
Cut out felt or fabric mustaches and hearts for these simple, but effective designs. You can also use a black marker to achieve the same result on your Halloween pumpkin.
Use a black marker to draw designs onto your Halloween pumpkins. You can also use left over black paint. Make stencils by printing shapes onto used cardboard and cutting them out. Hold the cardboard cutouts against the side of the pumpkin and paint over them. Select pumpkins with flat sides for best results.
Color the heads of sewing pins black with a marker. You can press the pins into the Halloween pumpkin to spell out ghoulish words.
This Halloween, keep it green. Decorate your home and make costumes from recycled materials to reduce the carbon footprint of your house of horrors.
The features pumpkin carriage picture is made from recycled hardware supplies. You can find the tutorial here.
Watch a video of these Halloween pumpkin crafts here.
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Playground fire under investigation in Overland Park
No injuries reported in Crestview Park fire
UPDATED 9:33 PM CDT Jul 24, 2013
Overland Park police said they're investigating a fire at a park playground.
Firefighters were called to Crestview Park near 61st Street and Robinson Lane about 3 p.m. after getting reports that a playground was on fire.
Firefighters said they were able to limit the damage to the wood mulch play area. Damage was estimated at $15,000.
No injuries have been reported.
Investigators have not said how the fire started but they said it is suspicious in nature.
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A federal judge has sentenced a Bettendorf woman to over four years in prison for her role in a heroin overdose death.
The U.S. attorney's office says Melissa Edwards, 25, was sentenced in U.S. District Court on Thursday for conspiring to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin. She pleaded guilty in June.
Prosecutors say Edwards admitted she was aware of a customer's history of overdosing on heroin, but was involved in dealing the drug to that person in March 2011. That person used the heroin, overdosed and died.
Edwards was sentenced to 51 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release.


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I just recently started an online book discussion of Captivating by John & Stasi Eldredge. You're welcome to join us at
If you've got a few minutes, I'll share with you what I learned from Chapter 1.
Women stuggle with feeling like I am not enough and I am too much at the same time. Feeling like that takes us to our deepest fear of being abandoned. Do you all struggle with that too? Feeling like you're not worth effort for others to pursue a relationship with because you're just too you? That if we were better women that life wouldn't be so hard?
We feel unseen, even by those who are closest to us. We feel unsought– that no one has the passion or courage to pursue us, to get past our messiness to find the woman deep inside. And we feel uncertain– uncertain what it even means to be a woman; uncertain what it truly means to be feminine; uncertain if we are or ever will be.
As I read that, I realize that all of those messages are spiritual attacks – meant to keep us fighting with failure, instead of seeing ourselves as created in God's own image as a woman to reflect God's heart.
What does every woman long for? What will make her feel alive?
-To be romanced
-To play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure
-To unveil beauty.
I think we can all relate to wanting to be romanced. We don't all want the same kind of romance, but what we want is to feel desired, to be pursued by one who loves you and to be someone's priority.
Next they talked about how women want adventure, but more than that, we want to be in an adventure with others. Oh yeah. That's true for me. I couldn't even just read the book alone without wanting to share this journey with others. I always want to have a friend "help" me when I'm trying to tackle a project. I much prefer to share the time with others.
Then they get to that whole beauty thing. I could really see what they were saying when they talked about how little girls love playing dress up and being the princes and how we continue with that by dressing up for proms, weddings, and special events later. Hello – maybe that's why some people do beauty pageants? They are actually willing to risk losing, just to have the opportunity to dress up and unveil their beauty to others. Some of us have just about pulled out of the game. It's not much fun to keep trying if you feel like you'll never measure up. We can't all go get an Extreme Makeover. But when we think of our beauty as being an inward, as well as an outer beauty, I think we see God's loving hand. He created each of us and we are beautiful to Him. He's sees us through Jesus. I'm pretty sure that if we could all live daily truly resting in His love, we'd feel a lot more beautiful. He was willing to pursue us, fight for us and was willing to die for us. He is our hero.
Finally they talked about how all of our desires and men's desires were created to fit together.
*Men want a battle to fight and we want to be fought for.
*Men long for adventure and we want to have an adventure with them.
*He wants a Beauty to rescue and we want to be his Beauty.
When those work together, it makes us draws out our feminine strength and beauty and we inspire his strength and desire to be a hero. Wow! Doesn't that sound a lot more wonderful than the everyday bickering and insecurities we deal with? When those desires go unmet or are abused, many of us quit trying, deny that we even have those needs or try to cover the pain with other things. But no matter how we respond, that need is still there. God placed it in us. So with this book hopefully we can learn a few things and heal a few things so that we can rest in the way God created women to be – glorious, powerful and captivating!


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The latest stable release of GRASS GIS is 6.4.1. Binaries are already available for several operating systems and distros, but not yet for RHEL 6 or its clones. With the legwork done by the folks at FedoraProject, we can prepare RPMs and install GRASS with little ado also on SL6
We begin, as usual, getting the basic tools for building, the python GUI software and the GIS stack of libraries. The best approach is to configure your system to use the EPEL repository. Here's the list of required packages (run as root):
yum install geos proj proj-epsg gdal proj-devel geos-devel gdal-devel proj-nad
yum install gcc gcc-c++ gcc-gfortran flex byacc ncurses-devel bison pkgconfig readline-devel blas-devel lapack-devel
yum install wxPython wxPython-devel wxGTK wxGTK-devel swig python-psycopg2 numpy PyQt4 PyQt4-devel sip sip-devel
yum install mesa-libGLU-devel libXmu-devel lesstif lesstif-devel libjpeg-devel
yum install tcl tcl-devel tk tk-devel fftw2 fftw2-devel hdf5
yum install unixODBC postgresql-devel mysql-devel sqlite-devel freetype-devel
One of the dependencies for building GRASS: mesa-libGLw and mesa-libGLw-devel is still missing from the Scientific Linux and EPEL repositories. But it's available for Fedora, and the Fedora 13 binary seems to install fine. So download both of the above from the Fedora Project website (be sure to choose the correct package for your architecture). and run
rpm -Uhv mesa-libGLw-*fc15*
to get them installed.
Now download the Fedora source rpm for GRASS from here for GRASS 6.4.0 . Yes it's currently one minor version behind, but we'll fix that presently…
You can not just install the src rpm, since it's configured for a different distro. But all we want it to extract the spec file and patches. Here's a simple way to do that (no root privileges here):
rpm2cpio grass-6.4.0-3.fc15.src.rpm | cpio -idmv
This breaks open the rpm archive and extracts all its files.
OK, time to setup your rpm build environment (See the Fedora Project wiki for details)
From the Fedora source rpm that we unpacked a moment ago copy all the *.patch and the grasslogo_vector_small.png into the ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES directory. Also copy the grass.spec file into the ~/rpmbuild/SPECS directory. Next we download the grass source tarball for 6.4.1: Change into the rpmbuild SOURCES directory and get the source:
wget http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.1.tar.gz
Now we must enter one last simple change to the spec file in order to build this latest version. Open ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/grass.spec with your favorite editor and alter the second line to read:
Version: 6.4.1
instead of the original 6.4.0
Now we should be ready to roll. Change into the spec directory and issue:
rpmbuild -bb grass.spec
Time for a beverage while the computer churns along. When it's done, you should have, under the rpmbuild/RPMS directory three grass*.rpm files.
At this point you need to get root privileges again for installing and:
rpm -Uhv rpmbuild/RPMS/grass*.rpm


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text: Miriam W. Motto, 92, Bedford, died Saturday at Colonial Courtyard. She was the daughter of Dr. Guy S. and Carrie A. (Noble) Tippery. She married Leonard E. Motto on July 31, 1954, in Altoona, and he died Aug. 15, 1985. Surviving are a son, Brinton L. of Camp Hill; and two grandsons. She was preceded in death by a sister, Janice Rupp. Friends will be received from 4 until the 6 p.m. funeral service Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, in the chapel at Timothy A. Berkebile Funeral Home, Bedford, the Rev. Doug Friant officiating. Burial will be at Alto-Reste Park Cemetery, Altoona.


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Super Yacht Industry - 2007
Composite Technologies
Westport Shipyard has always been at the forefront of technological advancement, especially when it comes to the sue of composite materials. Nowadays the company applies the most advanced composite technologies and materials – like infusion resin impregnation and advanced coring materials – to create vessels that are both light in weight and superior in strength, without vulnerability to corrosion. Composite yachts require less maintenances, so their owners spend more time cruising, endless time in dry dock. Additional advantages include the absorption of sound which reduces hull and mechanical noise levels and superior thermal insulation properties which make it easier to air condition for greater comfort in warm-water cruising. This in its turn makes generators operate more efficiently. Every Westport yacht features the very latest in composite construction technology. Westport Shipyard builds all hulls and major deck parts in one-piece, precision-engineered moulds. This ensures that there is greater structural integrity and resistance to stress.
A fine composite yacht requires exceptional moulds, and in this field Westport excels. Computer-driven milling processes ensure a flawless finish on every part, and they allow engineers to integrate more features into each mould to reduce the number of mechanically fastened sub-assemblies for superior structural integrity. Airex, CoreCell and other state-of-the-art coring materials impart exceptional thermal and acoustic insulation properties, so Westport yachts are quieter, more comfortable and free of condensation problems. Awlgrip paint systems …
Nothing But the Best
The investment in design, tooling, infrastructure and process engineering pays enormous dividends, enabling the company to eliminate non-productive hours for a faster build and on-time delivery while adhering to the strictest quality standards. Westport's pricing is highly competitive in the industry and the contracted price is the price an owner pays, with no surprises, no delays and no surcharges – on-time, on-budget as promised. All these are highly important qualities that definitely ingratiate Westport Shipyard with the public. Moreover, said price is for a fully-equipped yacht, complete with electronics, tender, dock lines, lines dinnerware and even a full load of fuel. As important as what a yacht costs, is what it is worth. That is why Westport has enlisted the talent of leading naval architects and designers William Garden, Donald Starkey, Greg Marshall and Jack Sarin working in concert with Taylor Olson and the rest of the Westport design engineering team to develop beautiful, …thoughts govern the minds of those working on a Westport yacht. One: to build a great ship and two: to provide the owner with the best service possible. An example of this is the way Westport Shipyard installs the ships engines. This takes place much later in the build than conventional sequences would allow, and ensures the owner a fresh, new propulsion system that has not sat in a hull for months or years, tying up capital while becoming dated and often serving as a very expensive set of workbenches. It is but one example of the way in which they try and build smart in order to provide their customers with nothing but the best quality.
Earning Confidence
Westport's exhaustive design, tooling and build engineering processes result in a range of yachts that meet known standards for speed, draft, sea keeping abilities and range. Those performance standards include exceptional cruise speeds, allowing fast crossings and more frequent … deliver cruising range comparable to slower vessels.
Delivery schedules are equally predictable. Each Westport yacht undergoes extensive testing, system checks and a pre-run in the finish bay prior to launch and are therefore ready to run typically within mere hours of launch. While owners of other yachts often must endure weeks or months of completion and fitting-out, Westport owners are out cruising and enjoying themselves. No wonder Westport has earned the confidence of owners and captains who know they can count on their yachts to perform as promised.


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Review: PC-BSD 1.5
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| once again grown, going from version 1.3 to 1.5 in just under a year. In
| that time it's grown, prospered, and had it's fair share of growing pains as
| well. But version 1.5 is only one subversion up from the previous version
| 1.4 that we reviewed. So what makes version 1.5 better than its predecessors
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First look at PC-BSD 1.5
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So far we have taken a look at how we can add or enhance color, but what about those situations where we want to remove or correct color? Let's take a look at how we can do that. In particular, let's take a look at how we can brighten or whiten teeth. Here you can see that I have a couple of different adjustments that I've made, and you can notice the pins here. What I like to do in order to make a new adjustment is to press the K key once to exit out of those, and then to press the K key another time so that none of these are selected. Now at this juncture, I'm going to go ahead and reset all of my Effect settings, and I'll do so by holding down the Option key on a Mac, Alt key on a PC, which will then change Effect to Reset, and I'll click on that.
A lot of times you want to do that just so you have a nice, clean, fresh start with all of your settings. All right, well, let's zoom in and let's do so by clicking on the 1:1 view so that we have a nice close-up view of the teeth. Well, here what we want to do is we want to desaturate. Now desaturating 100 points will be overkill. The teeth won't look good, but a lot of times what you do with this tool is you exaggerate your adjustment, and then you sweeten it up. You find that sweet spot after you've made the adjustment. All right, well, what about our Brush Size? Probably just kind of a medium- sized brush, about as big as a tooth.
So I'll press the Right Bracket key here to make this a little bigger. Flow, let's bring this up a little bit, and then Auto Mask, turn it on. Next, all that I need to do is to click and drag and what I want to do is just make sure that what's happening here is anything that I paint on with the crosshairs, so the little plus in the middle that is the area, that will receive this particular adjustment. It's going to build a mask based on what I'm clicking on there. All right, well, so far so good. That looks nice. Here you can see that we can do a number of different adjustments now that we have the teeth.
What we can do is we can change the Exposure. Now a quick word of caution here. If I go too far, it's going to look really bad, whether darkening those teeth or brightening those teeth. So when you're using these other controls like Exposure, Brightness or Contrast, just be a little bit cautious, but you know that sometimes this can help. Now the main thing we need to focus in on Saturation. So what I need to do is to bring this up so that I have essentially a little bit of a shade that's closer to white, but I'm not interested in pure white and I'm definitely not interested in gray.
That gray color completely desaturated isn't interesting at all. So I'll go ahead and just find in a sweet spot for this. Okay, well, let's say that I think this looks good. Here is what I want to do. Press the H key to hide those Edit pins. Next, what I'm going to do is click on the flip switch here. Here is my before and then click it again. There's my after. Nice, subtle and clean adjustments. Now it maybe a little bit too strong. In that case, I might bring back a touch of the Saturation, because remember, one of the things that's important when you are working with the teeth is you don't want to draw too much attention to the teeth.
What you want to do is draw attention to the overall face. Because the teeth are already so bright, you have to be really careful with this. So let's zoom out a little bit and then flip this switch. Here's our before and then after. And at least on my monitor, this looks really nice, and now we have successfully corrected color.
- Understanding the difference between Lightroom and Photoshop
- Using interface shortcuts to navigate the workspace quickly
- Working with catalogs
- Making incremental adjustments
- Grouping images with collections and smart collections
- Creating virtual copies of adjusted images
- Correcting white balances
- Adjusting color with Vibrance and Saturation
- Cropping images and changing aspect ratios
- Using the Adjustment Brush
- Toning with the HSL controls
- Outputting images to slideshows and web galleries
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Cambridge Audio Azur 752BD Upsampling Universal Player
Arriving in the US next month, the new Cambridge follow-up to the 751BD has a retail price of $1299. Arcam's Dan Poulton was quick to point out that though it has a similar feature set (most disc formats supported as well as streaming services), this is not just an Oppo in a Cambridge box.
Audio is upsampled to 24/192 using Cambridge's Adaptive Time Filtering (ATF) system and allows the user to set the digital filter from several options as with the company's DacMagic.


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Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Lois Capps, have introduced the Pause for Safety Act in response to the May 23 incident involving Elliot Rodgers, a former student at the college. Seven people, including Rodgers, died in the attack. The man's family had previously expressed concerns about his mental stability.
"We must do everything in our power to keep firearms out of the hands of those who pose a serious risk of harm to themselves or to others," Feinstein said. "The bill would allow those who know the most about the condition of someone who poses a risk of committing violence to take steps to remove firearms from that individual's possession."
The bill would establish a federal grant program so states could set up a system where family members could petition the court for a warrant that would prevent someone from buying a gun. It would also allow the police to confiscate guns already owned by the person if the court deems they are a threat.
The act would also make it mandatory for law enforcement to check gun registries for those states that have them.
Rodgers family had contacted police about the man after seeing a series of videos he made threatening violence, but law enforcement said he did not meet the requirements for an involuntary hold.
"It is haunting to me that the family of the gunman was desperate to prevent an act of violence and alerted police, but they were still unable to stop this tragedy," Senator Boxer said. "When the people who know someone best fear there is a threat of violence, they should be able to go to court – with due process for everyone involved – to help prevent a tragedy."


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The Pasco School Board is set to do its part to get the Penny for Pasco sales tax back before voters in November.
On Tuesday, it's scheduled to approve the ballot language and a list of projects that the district would fund with the anticipated $226 million it would receive from the 10-year tax extension.
The list includes school remodeling projects, technology improvements and upgrades for schools, and replacing physical education equipment. School Board members have generally supported all of these items.
One line on the list has raised some eyebrows on the board, though. It's an $11.3 million expense for a new student information system. Board members expressed surprise when superintendent Heather Fiorentino first mentioned the item at a workshop this spring, saying they knew nothing of the project.
Fiorentino and her staff told the board that the computer upgrade for monitoring and analyzing student records was required under Race to the Top, and that the state only recently told districts that the cost was to be borne by local districts. Yet state officials have said they announced this cost expectation in early 2011, and not mid-2012.
Board members have questioned the item, but haven't yet taken it off the Penny list.
The main projects on the list are renovations and/or expansions of 15 schools, some of them 1970s "Kelley schools" with cramped spaces, outdated electrical systems and leaky roofs.
The schools slated for major renovations are: Anclote Elementary, Bayonet Point Middle, Cox Elementary, Gulf High, Hudson High, Land O'Lakes High, Mittye P. Locke Elementary, Northwest Elementary, Pasco Elementary, Quail Hollow Elementary, Ridgewood High, San Antonio Elementary, Shady Hills Elementary, Woodland Elementary and Zephyrhills High.
The proposed list also includes technology upgrades and traffic safety improvements at numerous schools.
Voters originally approved the 10-year Penny for Pasco sales tax in 2004. The school district and county government each received 45 percent of the revenue, with Pasco's cities dividing the rest. If voters decide Nov. 6 to extend the Penny for another decade, the school district and local governments would split the revenue the same way.
By law, the money must go to capital expenses — such as building schools, improving roads, buying conservation land and purchasing patrol cars for sheriff's deputies. It cannot pay for workers' salaries or other operational costs.