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WINNEMUCCA - Lowry, the defending NIAA 1A state champion, dropped Carson from the ranks of the unbeaten with a 57-44 victory Friday night in the second day of the Winnemucca Tournament at the Winnemucca Events Center.
Carson, 3-1, plays Virgin Valley at 10 a.m. today in its final game of the three-day event.
"They are big up front at 6-7, 6-4 and 6-3, and they come off the bench with a guy who is 6-3," Carson coach Carlos Mendeguia said. "Their height really bothered us; changed our shots throughout the game."
What also didn't help was Carson's Rafe King missing almost the whole first half after picking up two quick fouls three minutes into the game. Mendeguia said he had no qualms about pulling King so early.
"The refs were calling the game really tight," Mendeguia said. "I wasn't able to take a chance by putting him back in."
Matt Nolan picked up the slack nicely, scoring eight of his team-high 23 points as Lowry walked off the floor with a 26-17 lead. Lowry led 14-2 at one point, and was outscored 15-12 the remainder of the half.
"Matt wanted to prove to their point guard that he was better," Mendeguia said. "He took it personally. He really stepped up his game."
Lowry outscored Carson 31-27 in the second half. Mendeguia said the Senators did a better job of finding the openings in the final 16 minutes.
King played the entire second half and finished with nine points. Bruce McIntosh added four points.
RENO - A slow start for the second straight game cost the Dust Devils dearly Friday night at the Winnemucca Tournament.
Dayton, 0-2, plays Fernley at 10 a.m. today and Wooster at 1.
"We came out flat," Dayton coach Cliff Serawop said. "The girls weren't focused and we didn't take care of the ball.
"Our defense picked it up in the second half. We contested a lot of shots and didn't give them any easy shots in the second half. We finished strong like we did Thursday."
Taylor Ingersoll led Dayton with 12 points, Cheyenne Strong added 11 and Maribel Ledezma contributed 10.
Carson High's wrestling team hosts the 15th annual Capitol City Dual Tournament at Morse Burley Gym.
Action gets under way at 9 a.m. Each of the 12 schools entered will wrestle three duals and then there will be two rounds of individual matches.
Carson is wrestling Bishop Manogue, Wooster and Lowry. The first two duals also will count as league duals.
RENO - Baily Allen scored 18 points and Melissa Glanzmann added 10 to lead the Senators to their second consecutive victory.
Glanzmann also had 10 steals and five assists. Serena Miller contributed four points and 10 steals, while Andrea Maffei had six points, six steals and four assists.
"Our defense was impenetrable," coach Nick Halen said. "We ran the offense great and played as a team."


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people can take a good photo - it's really just common sense.
There are however a couple of important things to consider
before you start to take photographs for the Project.
Fill the frame
The image must fill the frame, without being cropped or too
far away. Try to get right down in front of the headstone
and take the picture from that height - see below;
Digital Photo Hints
In a war cemetery or war grave plot within a larger cemetery,
there may be planted greenery or flowers in front of the
epitaph. It should be possible to gently move this aside
while photographing the epitaph. Please photograph the epitaph
separately if it cannot be seen in the photo of the whole
stone. Please take care not to damage the plant. If this
is not possible, then please take note of the inscription
and sent it in with the image.
If any part of the inscription is faded or at all difficult
to read, take an extreme close up of the suspect area. This
is particularly important with the identification number
at the top of the inscription. Sometimes it is difficult
to distinguish between an 8 and a 3, or a 3 and a 5 or a
6 and a 0, depending on the style of the font and the extent
of the deterioration of the engraving.
Now move on to the next stone and repeat the process. Shoot
at the high resolution if you can. Once you have finished
the photography, store the photos in a JPEG format on either
floppy disk or CD.
Please do not manipulate the photos in any way. We have
a pre-formatted system to batch process the images to a
set standard. Please be sure to label each disc with the
contents. Include the name of the cemetery, the location
and your name.
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Photo guidelines
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Photo guidelines
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by Bill Peters and Greg Saulmon, Local Buzz
|The Rogue City: Audio Slide Show
"Its the stage the gang members hit. The first stage, the second stage, the third stage, where this is not fun no more. It's not like the way it was before. I'm getting old, I can't run as fast, these cops are getting younger -- riding bikes now."
-David Serrano, during an interview at his home in June
"Rehab is when they turn 40."
-Western Mass. corrections officer, during a conversation last summer
"Once I got them, they didn't run, they didn't do anything. They put their head down and a lot of them would say, 'I wish it was anybody but you, sensei.'"
-Charlie Youmans, Community Police Advocate
Darryl Moss jokes that when he takes his girlfriend to a restaurant, she insists that he choose one located in Connecticut.
Moss had recently taken his son to eat at the Golden Corral on Boston Road. "I'm sitting down with my son and here comes two guys, they sit at the table, they're like 'D! How you been!' We're talking. My son [...] is just like 'OK. Here we go again.' He's used to it. But my girlfriend's not."
Did it happen often? "Daily," Moss said. "Daily."It's always one of the kids he used to work with, and he always ends up talking for 10 or 15 minutes. "They're not kids anymore; I try and explain to people, it's like, I got to make time, especially if they're to do something positive in some capacity, you know, 30 seconds of encouragement will bring you back," Moss said. "You stay in the back of their minds. Whenever they make a decision, its kind of like, alright, I gotta call them. You don't see them when they're doing bad, but when they try to do good, they'll seek you out. And you gotta do what you can do when you have them with you."
During our interview with Moss, a young man approached -- it was the second time, during the one-hour interview, that Moss had been approached by someone he'd helped through community work. The man said he needed Moss's phone number. The man had been an excellent basketball player growing up, but he continued to get into trouble and was mandated to DYS. His case worker brought him over to Moss when Moss worked at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center. The man had been making a documentary about homelessness and crime in Springfield, showing real drug transactions in Court Square -- his way, he said, of sending a positive message.
The day prior to our interview, the man told Moss, he had been filming on Main Street. Police showed up.
"They're telling me that if they see me walking on these streets here anywhere anything, they're gonna take me to jail," the man told Moss. "So I said word, come on everybody with me, went and sat in the middle of Main Street, taping. 'Cause it's for a movie, me and all my friends, my homies, my little niggas helping me make a movie standing there taping. Police roll up 17 deep on me and my mans' asses. We was in jail all night."
Moss asked what the charges were.
"Disorderly conduct and resisting arrest."
"When did this happen?" Moss asked.
"Yesterday night."
As the man left, he called over his shoulder: "I lost my life to the streets, but I'm gonna get it back!"
The man had asked Moss to do the introduction to his DVD. Moss laughed: "That's city engagement!"
Kids will still fall in and out of programs, and programs will take a hit from the economy. The Hampden County Sherriff's Department went through a very rare round of layoffs -- 25 workers, Fitzgerald said. Youmans told us Michael Cecchetelli, a former head of the Latin Kings who'd received a 37-month sentence in 2006 for possessing a sawed-off shotgun, would be out of jail soon. "And he'll be back out here probably also," Youmans said. Springfield will be facing deep budget cuts in 2010. Statewide, Shannon CSI funding will be cut to $6.5 million. Even this year, Harrington said, they had to cut four Springfield agencies -- first-time applicants -- from participating in the Initiative.
"If we can do this effectively," Harrington said, "then [referrals] should be able to continue when Shannon funding is no longer available. The mechanism is in place for people to cooperate."
Despite David Serrano's attempts at a new life, and his role in the conversation about youth violence, temptation still exists. In June, we asked him about Question 2 on last November's ballot -- would it change the business model of those selling drugs? "The economy's kicking our ass right now, too, you know what I'm saying?" Serrano said. "There's times that I felt like, 'Damn, I should go sell some weed too, I should go sell some drugs too.' But I've pushed myself back. Because it's horrible."
Serrano has arthritis in his knees -- there's a five-inch scar on his right knee from an operation. He plays catcher and first-base on a softball team to stay in shape. He recently joined the PTO at the Gerena School on Plainfield St, where, decades ago, he threw Latin King meetings on the basketball courts, where they'd settle disputes, or get hammered and play a game called "Wood Tag". He sees himself in the kids that he talks to. Some kids have his cellphone number. Jose Claudio, New North Citizens Council's Director of Community Development and Public Relations, said kids love Serrano. He's like a magnet.
"You don't have too many Hispanic role male figures out there that could [make] a difference in [a] kid's life," Claudio said. "If you look in the North End, a lot of them are single-mom, female head of the household. So there's not a real male figure that could deal with that image that could help out, especially with the kids in the neighborhood."
Sometimes, someone like Serrano is enough to turn a few kids around. Sometimes it isn't.
"I met this kid yesterday, it was unbelievable," Serrano said. "I felt like he was my own. He has his mother, no father, two sisters that are older, he's the youngest in the house. I feel sorry for him. He's definitely gonna see a gang member. I guarantee it, by next year, he's down with somebody."
The strangest thing about a city, its crime, and the degree of gang involvement, perhaps, is the circularity. Always the recurrences, indicative sometimes of inertia, sometimes of an opportunity. One afternoon, Serrano drove past a group of protesters standing in front of the abortion clinic on Wason Ave. "I always beep those horns for them," he said. "I like those guys."
Ivan Pena, Serrano's brother and his reason for getting out of the Latin Kings, died on May 10, 2000. David Rene Serrano III, David's eleventh child, was born on May 5, 2009. But David Rene arrived earlier than expected. His scheduled date of birth was the ninth anniversary of Ivan's death, on Mother's Day, May 10, 2009.
When Elliot Serrano noticed Charile Youmans at his brother David's presentation in April, they shook hands and clapped each other on the back. "I know Charlie too," David Serrano said during an interview in June. "He did the North End when I was around, too. He was one of those cops that would cut you a break if you was a good kid. If you was an asshole, you was getting your ass back."
"To see the other cops that he's been arrested by, you see a man just greeting another man and it's like, yo man, I give you respect for the job that you had to do back then," Youmans said of the Serranos, in May. "And it's just that basic understanding that you had. No hard feelings. I know that you got a job to do."
Youmans, a man with raised, hardened cheekbones and a sandpapery voice, had hoped to become a fashion photographer in college. But he ran out of money before his first year ended. For a time, as a patrolman, when he'd show up at murder scene, he'd offer the photographer tips on framing a shot. If Youmans has time, at the end of the day, he might write a poem.
"I get away from the whole day," Youmans said of his writing. "I kind of sit down and relax a little bit so I can write about the things that are going on out here. [...] Some of it's about Springfield, some of it's about my kids, the challenges that we face out here. But the majority of my writing has always been about the kids and what they have to deal with out here."
For whatever they have to deal with, Youmans has done seemingly as much as any one person can to lay some groundwork. He speaks regularly at schools. Nearly 15 years ago, he began teaching martial arts classes to Springfield youth, most of whom grew up poor. He never charged the students. That eventually began to dig into his finances, so Youmans started teaching aerobics classes to adults to bring in more money. He's kept a lot of kids out of trouble that way. But he said he's seen about 15 or 16 former students who were later arrested for drug possession or firearm charges. Knowing a cop beyond the degree to which they chase you around town always helps; Youmans's former students still respect him, even when he arrests them.
"I had a child the other day that used to be with me that got locked up on drugs," Youmans said. "I told his mother, once he gets situated, bring him back. He's 17 now. He left me when he was 8 or 9 years old. He's 17, bring him back. Because I can still get back what we lost because the respect is still there."
In a way, Youmans suggested, initiatives like the Shannon Grant are the community's way of making up for insufficient parenting. Enough kids in Springfield have to raise money -- legitimately or illegitimately -- to pay off their parents' rent, or mortgages, or car loans; in effect, they also end up having to raise their parents.
"Some kids told me today that when they saw something, they asked their mother why they were doing that," Youmans said during the South End deployment. "Or they asked their father why they were doing that. And I thought that was positive, because, for a child to go, 'I don't think that's right' -- I had about four or five different kids come up and go, 'I asked my mother.' And I go, 'Good. Challenge them all the time.' You know? Make them tell you the reasons why they're doing it, and you tell them whether it's good or bad."
Growing up on Sheldon Street, David Serrano got used to coming out of his apartment with his hands up. Sgt. John Delaney -- who Serrano, after all, called "Blondie" -- had citywide jurisdiction then, and always seemed to be around the corner.
"You in a gang, but you tell a cop look, man, I gotta get out of this. There's cops out there," Serrano said. "Delaney was one. Delaney was not an asshole. Delaney knows me since I was 18 years old. Delaney knows my whole family."
During Serrano's era as a Latin King in Springfield, Delaney said, if police caught young adults on the streets, they'd bring them home. If the parents took proper disciplinary action, police wouldn't trouble the courts with another case. Sometimes, though, the parents were involved in gangs, or involved with drugs themselves.
"They just gotta be re-emphasized by the parents, and just keep those moral principles and values working," Youmans said. "You know, and then their kids are fine. They don't have to worry about their kids later on. A lot of these kids got dreams. They talk about what they wanna do. Where they wanna go. What they wanna be. They talk about not wanting to be out here dealing with guns, dealing with drugs. They all say it."


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Something momentous happened in Charleston 44 years ago, something that was at once a result of the changing emphasis of the civil rights movement and a trigger for broader, national transformation.
Text of historic marker
Hospital Strike of 1969
Civil rights marches on Ashley Avenue and elsewhere occurred during strikes at two hospitals from March 20 to July 18, 1969. Workers, mostly black women, cited unequal treatment and pay when they organized and walked out of the Medical College Hospital (MCH) on Doughty St. and Charleston County Hospital (CCH) on Calhoun St. Some picketers were arrested, the state of South Carolina refused to sanction a union, and talks stalled. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference joined the strike in its first major campaign since the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. Protests were marred by violence, and Gov. Robert McNair called out the National Guard and set a curfew. In May, King's widow Coretta Scott King led 5,000 marchers down Ashley Avenue. A settlement at MCH in June and CCH in July gave workers raises and promised better treatment.
In March 1969, after two years of local organizing efforts, hospital workers at the Medical College Hospital (today the Medical University of South Carolina) went on strike. They were unhappy about discriminatory practices, unequal pay, institutional harassment and widespread racial discord.
5 civil rights era markers
James Simons Elementary: A marker was installed at the school in April recognizing the 1963 desegregation of the Charleston County School District. That year, Oveta Glover and Barbara and Gale Ford were the first black students to attend James Simons Elementary; Millicent Brown, daughter of J. Arthur Brown, was the first black student at Rivers High School.
The Cigar Factory: American Tobacco Co. workers, mostly black women, walked out of the segregated Cigar Factory in October 1944 to protest wages and fight discrimination. (From 1946 to 1948, the factory became a site of voter registration drives in Charleston.) The strike helped lay the foundation for the civil rights activism of the 1950s and '60s, and it popularized the song "We Shall Overcome." A marker was erected here in April.
S.H. Kress & Co.: The sit-ins of the 1960s swept across the South and reached Charleston when 24 Burke High School students stationed themselves at the lunch counter of the Kress store in protest of its policy of segregation. A marker was unveiled Aug. 4.
The Progressive Club: Founded by Esau Jenkins in 1948, The Progressive Club on Johns Island provided civic education to residents and after-school activities for the island's youth. It also became a center for civil rights activists such as Bill Saunders, who was once nearly shot when a bullet came through the front window. The historic marker was dedicated Sept. 8.
Medical University of South Carolina: Hospital workers went on strike in 1969, led by Mary Moultrie, in an effort to address unequal pay and unfair treatment of black nurses. Prominent civil rights leaders, including Coretta Scott King, lent a hand in the protest, which lasted 113 days. Saunders helped negotiate a settlement that included the rehiring of all strikers and the implementation of grievance procedures. The marker was unveiled Tuesday.
For more information on the Preservation Society's Seven to Save program, go to preservationsociety.org.
Mary Moultrie, a Burke High School graduate and licensed nurse, whose credentials were not fully recognized by the Medical University when it employed her in 1967, decided to take action. She organized informal get-togethers, sought advice from Septima Poinsette Clark and invited community leaders such as Bill Saunders to join the fight. Saunders would become a lead negotiator, confronting hospital president William McCord and working, often productively, with hospital vice president William Huff, who proved to be an ally of the strikers.
"They wanted to be treated fairly as human beings," he said.
Before long, Henry Nicholas, president of the Hospital and Nursing Home Employees union, AFL-CIO (1199) showed up, funded the strikers and helped facilitate the unionization process.
The strike lasted 113 days. About 450 people from the Medical College and 80 from Charleston County Hospital joined the effort. The first hospital union branch in the nation, Local 1199B, was established. Tensions in the city rose. Negotiations ensued, often acrimonious, sometimes promising.
Coretta Scott King, honorary chairwoman of the hospital union, came to march down Ashley Avenue. So did Andrew Young and Ralph Abernathy, leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Abernathy, president of the SCLC, was jailed in Charleston on a charge of inciting riot, though no serious violence erupted during this tense period.
That history was recognized on Tuesday when an historic marker was unveiled on the Medical University campus, paying tribute to those who risked their careers and incomes to improve working conditions.
Moultrie, now 71 and slowing down because of a heart condition, unveiled the marker Tuesday after offering her remarks in the Basic Science Building Auditorium.
The marker is the last of five to be installed by the Preservation Society of Charleston in recognition of important civil rights era events and places. It's part of the "Seven to Save" initiative, which began in 2011 and identified seven projects that year, including "Civil Rights Era Sites." (Other projects were named in 2012 and 2013.)
The strike can be understood as part of the movement's accelerating shift toward economic justice issues during the last half of the 1960s. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had established that black people were to be treated equally under the law. But implementing the law was another matter, and the thick residue of Jim Crow was proving difficult to scrub away.
The strike did something else, too: it inspired hospital workers (and others) across the country and helped clear the way for the formation of other local union branches. All the country's health care workers seeking fair pay and equal treatment looked to Charleston as a beacon of change, Nicholas said.
At the afternoon ceremony, Moultrie spoke eloquently about the strike and events leading up to it — about the nightly rallies, the boycotts, the quiet closed-door meetings, the grass-roots participation of the Ministerial Alliance, the attempts to influence management.
The state, prohibited from bargaining with the union, would not fulfill all the protestors' demands, offering instead a compromise that modestly raised wages and established a grievance procedure.
"We did not get a bona fide contract," Moultrie said. "We got a memorandum of agreement."
Since the strike, much has changed, she said. The progress is visible.
"The difference is they have oodles of young black RNs, and a lot of positions that were originally all-white are now filled with blacks," she said. "So there is some improvement there."
But there are still lessons to be learned, she went on. Discrimination still can be a problem in the workplace. And people who complain about it don't always take necessary and appropriate action.
"We've got a long way to come," she said.
Saunders said that, before the strike, nurse's aids, housekeepers and janitors, cafeteria workers and other low-level employees ate their meals in the boiler room. "They got paid according to how much your supervisor liked you," which was typically below minimum wage, he said. They were given no formal job description that set parameters and protected them from exploitation. After the strike, the hospital adjusted wages, provided job descriptions and granted all employees full access to the facilities.
Nicholas, now 77 and still working hard, came to Charleston from Detroit in 1969 to support the protest, which galvanized national attention, he said.
Coretta Scott King made an important symbolic contribution to the fight because the majority of hospital workers were women, Nicholas said.
Nicholas also was senior vice president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, a union that represented civil servants such as sanitation workers. And he collaborated with Martin Luther King Jr. on projects that sought to address intransigent economic problems. He was with King several days before the SCLC leader departed for Memphis in April 1968 to throw his support behind striking garbage collectors.
The fight for economic justice had been part of the civil rights struggle for a long time. In Charleston, that struggle came to a head in 1969.
"In essence, (the hospital strike) launched the national union into its permanent role across country," Nicholas said.
Saunders said he appreciated the effort to acknowledge the event with an historic marker, but took issue with the wording of the monument, which cites violence that never occurred, fails to name Mary Moultrie and gives too much credit to the SCLC, even though local organizers had laid the groundwork for the strike beginning two years earlier.
The marker doesn't sufficiently describe what happened and why, he said. "What they're doing is actually sanitizing history."
The marker is a good idea, he said. "I wouldn't protest the one that's there." But it would have been better to emphasize local accomplishments. "It only takes a line or two."
The Preservation Society's Aurora Harris said the text was first prepared by a group of historians, then adjusted by the State Historic Preservation Office to conform to across-the-board standards and rules (for example, no living person can be named) and to abide by space limitations. Several people in the community, including Saunders were given a chance to review the final draft, but that was two years ago, Harris said.
Moultrie said the outcome of the strike is evidence of the continuing need for worker protections.
"I'm a union person," she said. "We need a union in South Carolina, regardless of the law or policy that South Carolina cannot bargain with unions. Something needs to be changed, something needs to be done. 'Right to work' — a whole lot of people don't even know what that means."
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At the head of the protest march on May 12, 1969, in support of striking hospital workers are (first three people from left) Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers of America, Mary Moultrie, president Local 1199B and the Reverend Ralph David Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.×
To pressure local officials, strike supporters urged an economic boycott of local businesses until the labor issues were resolved. The governor's office responded by sending in the National Guard, leading to tense confrontations like this one on King Street.×
At the head of the protest march on May 12, 1969, in support of striking hospital workers are (first three people from left) Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers of America, Mary Moultrie, president of Local 1199B and the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.×


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It was reported that a week ago Dirk Scheringa Beheer (DSB) bank of Netherlands said they had "a hacker attack" which kept their site down for days. It turns out, it is likely no hacker, but the fact that the bank was not allowing withdraws! They had a run on the bank.
Clients of independent bank DSB were unable to transfer their money electronically on Thursday, leading the company to blame a concerted attack by hackers.
But the Telegraaf claims the site crashed because too many customers were trying to shift their money following a tv programme.
Pieter Lakeman, who leads a lobby group of DSB clients who believe they have been over-sold mortgages, said on tv show Goedemorgen Nederland that people should take their money out of the bank. By forcing its bankruptcy, they could then get compensation for their losses, he told the show. The lobby group represents some 1,200 people and is currently preparing a legal claim against DSB.
DSB directors meet after bankrupty claim
Monday 12 October 2009
The board at independent bank DSB is meeting on Monday morning to discuss its reponse to claims made by the Volkskrant that the bank is on the verge of collapse.
On Monday, the paper said the Dutch central bank is poised to take over the running of DSB which it said is on the verge of bankruptcy. The paper based its claims on finance ministry sources.
The paper said the central bank is about to impose 'emergency rules' on DSB, which is the equivalent of court protection from creditors.
However, in an apparent backtrack on Monday morning, the paper quoted a DSB spokesman as saying the central bank is not about to get involved, nor is the bank technically bankrupt.
According to Nos tv, the central bank has so far declined to comment. But, finance minister Wouter Bos was at the central bank for talks on Sunday night, Nos says.
The Financieele Dagblad reported on Monday that efforts to persuade another bank to take over DSB have failed.
Both papers says the finance ministry has indicated it will not step in and bail out DSB, which has a balance sheet total of €8bn and is considered too small to rescue.
DSB, started by former policeman Dirk Scheringa, has been hit by a crisis of confidence following claims its salesmen saddled customers with mortgages they could not afford and unnecessary insurance policies.
You can find the original article hosted on DutchNews
Dutch lender DSB in central bank's hands after run
AMSTERDAM — The Netherlands' central bank said Monday it has taken control of DSB Bank NV after clients began a run amid fears the regional lender might collapse.
Doubts about the health of DSB, a small but well-known bank based in the north of the country, grew since the start of October as media reports questioned its solvency and clients began having problems withdrawing money from their Internet accounts.
De Nederlandsche Bank said in a statement Monday it had asked the Amsterdam District Court to put DSB under its curatorship "because of a large outflow of liquidity that brought the existence of DSB in danger in the short term."
DSB's failure is the first suffered by a bank in the Netherlands since several major banks were given bailouts or taken over by the government at the peak of the financial crisis last year.
DSB told critics at the start of October it had 1.5 billion euros in cash – enough of a buffer to withstand a run on its 4.3-billion euros in deposits.
Bank accounts in the Netherlands are insured by the government for the first 100,000 euros, and the central bank said customers would be able to pull money from their accounts using bank passes until midnight Wednesday.
Original article appears on Associated Press
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After announcing Cookie Mela, I was planning to bake some cookies naturally. But you know how it is right, you plan something and it never gets executed. Especially when everything seem to go against those planned items. Now it's to be seen if those planned cookies ever make an appearance!
Our minds are so fixed at most times. Even with one person on vacation, we feel we don't know what to cook. With Athamma on tour, I am out of ideas on what to make, she was the last person to give importance to her liking. It was always either kids or hubby's choice. Still I find myself so confused on what to make.
Which is why this recipe comes handy. Not only is it a one shot cooking gravy, where you need not worry about sautéing and looking over it, it's rather very simple in it's method. Amma's sister, who takes care of a home, suggested this recipe after getting us a bag full of fresh alasandalu or black eyed pea. These fresh ones are available in abundance during the season and it's another one of those classics that you shouldn't miss cooking.
|Fresh Black Eyed Beans Curry
Then when I was talking to my Aunt, she asked me if I tasted the alasandalu kura. I said yes and that I was cooking it again for clicking pictures. She was so excited that I wanted to share that simple, yet classic Andhra delicacy. She was specifically mentioning the method of cooking in this dish. In villages, when they have huge families, they do need lot of gravy as they serve this with rice. So to make more gravy, the onions and tomatoes are always ground into paste. Imagine I always thought that it was the modern tread and I heard that for ages it's been cooked this way.
Coming to the recipe, it's such a simple and uncomplicated recipe that I am sure when you try this, you will love making it again and again!
|Alasandalu Kura
Fresh Black Eyed Peas, shelled - 2 cups
For the ground masala:
Onion - 1/2 of a big
Roasted Groundnuts / Peanut - 2 -3 tbsp
Tomato - 1 big
Garlic - 3 -4 cloves
Red chili powder - 1 tsp
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Turmeric a pinch
For tempering
Onion - 1/2 of a big
Mustard seeds, Urad dal - 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves few
Oil - 1 tsp
How to make the kura
Shell the peas and wash. Take the peas with twice it's amount of water and bring to boil. When the water starts boiling, simmer.
Meanwhile make a paste of all the ingredients listed under masala to a smooth paste. Add this paste to the boiling peas, and continue cooking till the froth comes out on the top.
When the gravy reaches it's consistency, simmer completely.
Heat a pan with oil, temper with mustard, saute the onions and curry leaves. Then pour this over the simmering peas.
Serve with rice or roti.


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Ducks take residence in racecourse fence
Races at Sedgefield racecourse in County Durham have been diverted to avoid fence six because of nesting ducks.
All chases on May 14th will omit the Roadside fence.
Nesting ducks divert race horses!
The sixth fence in all races will be omitted at Sedgefield in County Durham on May 14th because of nesting ducks.
The British Horseracing Authority listings state: 'Fence 6 (Roadside) will also be omitted in all Chases due to ducks nesting.'
North East runner escapes horror of Boston Marathon explosions
Sedgefield Harrier Ean Parsons says he has had a lucky escape after completing the Boston Marathon just minutes before two bombs exploded at the finish line, killing two people and injuring many more.
53 year old Ean said, "There was a huge explosion and then 30 seconds later we heard a quieter one, but we were told it was actually bigger than the first. You think to yourself, 'Is it a gas explosion or is it a bomb?'
"As I was approaching the finish line, I remember thinking, 'I'll only be here once,' so I was taking in everything. I remember seeing all the people cheering on the grandstand.
"Then when I later watched the coverage on the television I saw the grandstand blown to bits. I can still remember the faces of the people who were sitting there just hours earlier."
Windfarm petition handed to Parliament
A County Durham MP is handing a petition to Parliament, opposing the growth of windfarms in the county.
Around 150 signatures have been collected from people living around the village of Wingate, where proposals for five turbines have ben put forward.
The Sedgefield MP Phil Wilson says his constituents are not 'nimbies'. He says the county already has a large number of windfarms and cannot cope with more.
Racing off at Sedgefield
Racing at Sedgefield race course today has been abandoned due to poor weather - it was due to be Cheltenham Festival Raceday.
The main bar will remain open with food, drink and betting services available. Racing can be watched on big screens.
The racecourse office can be contacted on: 01740 621925.
Full Report: Europe's biggest fire training centre
Fire-fighters from across Europe have travelled to a training base on Teesside to use its facilities.
The International Fire Training Centre near Darlington provides simulations of aeroplane fires and helicopter crashes.
Watch the full report from Jonny Blair below.
Firefighters from across the globe training near Darlington
Fire-fighters from around the world have travelled to the International Fire Training Centre near Darlington to use its facilities.
Training scenarios at the base include tackling blazes outside and inside aeroplanes, as well as a simulated helicopter crash.
People have travelled from Poland, Germany and Canada to use the site.
Dennis Perkins, the director of training, told ITV News about the training taking place at the centre near Tees Valley Airport.
Tony Blair: "I'll miss him very much"
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is among the mourners today at the funeral of his former parish Priest and long-time friend Father John Caden.
Father John Caden baptised all four of Mr Blair's children.
The funeral service took place at St. Edmunds Church in Sedgefield, in the former Prime Minister's constituency.
Mr Blair told ITV News that Father Caden was a great mentor.
Tony Blair attends former Priest's funeral
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is among the mourners today at the funeral of his former parish Priest and long-time friend Father John Caden.
Rare look at work of International Fire Training Centre
The largest fire training ground in Europe has opened its doors and allowed cameras behind the scenes today.
The International Fire Training Centre, near Sedgfield, is now the main training provider for Libyan and Nigerian oil and gas fire fighters.
It's recently been approved by the French Civil Aviation Authority, making it the only organisation outside of France to deliver fire training to their airports.


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Many medical students are understandably eager to get out of the classroom and begin treating patients.
The classroom work, the studying, are necessary for getting through medical school.
But many students, perhaps, don't begin to feel like doctors until they've had a taste of clinical work.
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Dr. Kenneth Durrwachter, left, goes over medical records with a patient as first year TCMC student Rahul Goel, of Pittsburgh, center, and third year student Christopher Decker, of Williamsport, look on at Durrwachter's office. The doctor is the preceptor, or working teacher, for both students.
Commonwealth Medical College students Chris Decker and Rahul Goel can attest to that.
As a third-year student, Decker has begun to get a feel for "real medicine."
He's mostly out of the classroom now, learning to treat patients, getting an idea of what it's like to be a doctor.
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It's been five years since The Commonwealth Medical College began. Below are a few key details about the school:
Year started: 2008
Year of first graduating class: 2013
Number of students in 2017
graduating class: 101
Regional campuses: Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Williamsport
Number of clinical faculty
members: More than 900
Number of participating hospitals and health care facilities:
More than 25
As a first-year student, Goel mostly is hitting the books.
Most recently, however, he was given a chance to shadow a physician. It was in that setting that the Sun-Gazette caught up with both Decker and Goel during the college's Community Week this past week.
"It's nice to get out of the classroom," he said.
Goel, a Pittsburgh resident and son of a physician, isn't quite sure what route he'll take once he earns his medical degree.
"I think it's too early to make a decision," he said.
Like all students, he's been assigned to a family with health concerns, an experience that will
allow him to take part in deciding their medical needs and to learn how they navigate their health care.
"We can see how they feel through their eyes," he said. "It's a very personal experience."
Dr. Kenneth Durrwachter, a Susquehanna Health family medicine physician, is among a number of physicians who serve as preceptors to the school's students, instructing them and giving them a chance to see medicine close up. Overall, there are more than 900 volunteer clinical faculty personnel serving the medical college.
The college offers what's known as a community-based model of medical education at regional campuses in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Williamsport.
Students in their first two years spend three, one-week rotations in the region to gain clinical experience. They also work with local health agencies and participate in community service projects to enhance the health of citizens.
Third- and fourth-year students live and work at a regional campus full time.
Decker has embraced being in his hometown studying medicine.
A graduate of Williamsport Area High School and the University of Pittsburgh, Decker likes the way the school's curriculum is set up to help the student.
"The school is student-centered," he said. "They make you feel welcome. We always have a support system."
The small class sizes help.
But working with a preceptor is invaluable.
"There's a lot of preceptors here. The one-one-one time you spend with a preceptor is great," Decker said.
Durrwachter said it's rewarding for him to play some part in helping them become doctors.
He said he's able to adjust his own schedule to make time for students.
"It doesn't bog me down," he said.
And, he said, the patients are very receptive to having students on hand for diagnosis and followup care.
The students, he said, both learn and grow while in school and especially through working with patients.
The medical school is among the first to offer the Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship, a model under which students are given a chance to follow patients over the course of a year. They live in the community and train with preceptors in family medicine, internal medicine, psychiatry, pediatrics, general surgery and obstetrics/gynecology.
"I think the school does a good job of allowing you to assimilate," Goel said.
Susquehanna Health is one of a number of health systems in the region that partner with the medical school.
Durrwachter noted that over time, his students will carve out their own niches as doctors.
"Having them in here makes me feel younger," said Durrwachter. "It kind of reminds me why I'm doing what I'm doing."
The college draws students from a 16-county region and throughout the nation interested in studying evidence- and community-based medicine and who have a strong desire to serve their communities.
The college was established to provide more physicians and improved health care resources for northeast and northcentral Pennsylvania, with the goal of creating a unique medical education experience that focused on caring for people in their lives and community, according to officials.


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When you get up at 4 a.m. a cold water wash can be a bit of a shock. Pinky prefers warm water, but the cold water wakes her and Logan Duyck up quick.
Logan, 12, from Cornelius, is showing a pig for the first time at the Washington County Fair. His pig, "Pinky" N Pancake, is a 256 pound Hamp Yorkshire cross in the market pig category of 4-H.
The routine for showing a pig at fair is not an easy one. Logan's mom, Karolyn Duyck, said he's been putting in all the work and earning his own money for taking care of Pinky since she was just a piglet.
The hard work isn't over when Logan gets to the fair. Up before the sun rose, there were all kinds of chores to prep Pinky before the 9 a.m. swine showmanship category started.
First the wash. Then the dry, which Logan does with the sleeve of his sweatshirt since a towel wasn't handy. There are lots of touch up details like shaving stray hairs, baby wipes to clean dirt, and a last feed before they enter the ring. Sort of like caring for an infant, except this infant weighs 256 pounds.
Logan makes a quick change into dark pants and a Banks Show Swine T-shirt with his name on it and a little pink outline of a pig. He's ready for the ring.
Pinky seems pretty relaxed, taking a nap before showtime. Logan says he's not nervous about the showmanship in the ring.
Eddie Miguez, 58, the swine judge from Eastern Oregon, said the hardest part in pig showing is that it's a team event. Both the pig and the handler need to be giving it 100 percent. Sadly, sometimes the pig just doesn't do its part. It's hard not to get frustrated.
Today wasn't Pinky's day. She gave Logan all he could handle. Miguez made a point of talking to Logan while he was in the ring and encouraging him that he was doing all he could. Some days it just doesn't go perfectly well.
After he got back to his pen, Pinky laid down for another nap. Logan hung his blue ribbon. Karolyn gave her son a big hug. It was, after all, a very successful day for Logan.


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black matte trend was indicative of the country's concern over the grave state of the economy, while the rebirth of color this year shows a return to optimism, a belief in a brighter future." - Oh look! I just did.) But I will say this: it's a lot of fun, and while I am generally a neutrals girl, I may find myself adding a punchy piece or two to my kitchenware. What do you think? Related: Home + Housewares 2012: Le Creuset's Newest Color is Marseille Blue (Images: Cambria Bold)


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Le Portugal est un pays qui s'apprécie avec lenteur, comme une gorgée de son meilleur porto.Membre fondateur de l'Union européenne et de la zone euro, le Portugal est passé d'une économie basée sur les industries traditionnelles à une économie fondée sur la technologie. Les plus grandes entreprises internationales investissent ici.En savoir plus sur les propriétés de luxe à Portugal


text: You can fly from London Gatwick to Orlando International Airport in just over nine hours. With regular departures, getting away to Florida's theme park capital couldn't be easier. Take advantage of the award-winning British Airways service – with complimentary food, drinks and newspapers on-board the time will fly. Check in 23kg of hold luggage and take two bags on-board with our package holidays. For your convenience, British Airways offers passengers a choice between cabins and flight times. We also offer priority boarding for families and Skyflyer activity packs to keep little ones entertained.


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Net Working Capital Management Strategies as Factor Shaping Small Firm Value
Grzegorz Michalski
Oficyna Wydawnicza Szkoly Glownej Handlowej w Warszawie, 2005
Actually determining the intrinsic value of liquidity is one of the unsolved problems in finance. Firms hold liquidity for a variety of different reasons. Generally, liquidity balances held in a firm can be called considered, precautionary, speculative, transactional and intentional. The first are the result of management anxieties. Managers fear the negative part of the risk and hold liquidity to hedge against it. Second, liquidity balances are held to use chances that are created by the positive part of the risk equation. Next, liquidity balances are the result of the operating needs of the firm. Having information about value of liquidity we can better dissolve the problem of liquidity management. The net working capital management leaning on the information about the intrinsic value of liquidity drives to increase of the value of the firm. The theses of article show how firm should manage net working capital to maximise value of the firm.
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Keywords: Net working capital. Small Enterprise, Value Based Management, Risk, Uncertainty
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10 ladies who could replace Megan Fox in 'Transformers 3'
Some serious candidates for director Michael Bay and Paramount pictures to consider
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Best known for: "Melrose Place" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street"
Why: She's a known quantity to Bay and the Platinum Dunes team after "Elm Street" and she was one of the only good performances in that flick.
Why not: She might be a wee tall to star opposite LaBeouf.
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Kevin Feige and the Russo brothers reveal why no Avenger got killed off in 'Captain America: Civil War'


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Update from practice Monday in Edmonton: Wings general manager Ken Holland said defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom (sprained MCL) should begin skating later this week and estimated that he could return in 10 to 14 days from today. Despite persistent Internet rumors that Lidstrom has a concussion, Holland and coach Mike Babcock both categorically denied that claim.
"Zero, none,'' Babcock said of a possible concussion. "He got dazed.''
Said Holland: "There's a chance he can skate by the end of the week, and then you're hoping he's a week to 10 days away (from when he first skates). I still think he's 10 to 14 days away from today.''
Niklas Kronwall (sprained clavicle) is not expected to play Tuesday against the Oilers. Goaltender Dominik Hasek is making good progress and might back-up Chris Osgood tomorrow, as the Wings are contemplating sending Jimmy Howard back down to Grand Rapids today. Hasek said he could be ready to start Friday vs. San Jose.
Chris Chelios (leg contusion, chipped fibula) did not skate and continues to be listed as day-to-day. His status for the weekend is in doubt. Brian Rafalski hasn't skated since Thursday but said he's feeling better and is day-to-day.
Also worth noting that, as rumors swirl prior to Tuesday's 3 p.m. trade deadline, Babcock said Valtteri Filppula isn't going anywhere. He had been rumored as possible trade bait for Atlanta's Marian Hossa. Filppula was back on a line with Pavel Datsyuk and Tomas Holmstrom in practice.
"Guys like Val Filppula and (Johan) Franzen ... they're not going anywhere. I can tell you right now, they're not going anywhere,'' Babcock said.
Holland acknowledged the team's need to bolster its secondary scoring and will be looking to add a second-line forward, in addition to a depth defenseman. He said Darren McCarty, signed Monday and assigned for a two-week conditioning stint to Grand Rapids, will join the Wings after two weeks. Then it's up to Babcock to decide whether he belongs in the lineup.
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The presence of top athletes from the UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup tour at the inaugural UIAA Open North American Championships in Bozeman, Montana was a boost to the development of the sport in America.
Among the 50 plus athletes who participated at the two-day competition (14 – 15 December, 2013) were Angelika Rainer of Italy who won the Women's Lead and Janez Svoljšak, 20 of Slovenia, the winner of the Men's Lead.
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Will Gadd, the legendary America climber who participated in the early days of the UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup Tour, and competed again in Bozeman after a long hiatus, came second in the Men's Lead competition.
The Speed results were dominated by American and Canadian athletes, with Maureau being the only European to stand on the platform. Maureau, who placed second in Women's Speed was defeated by American climber Kendra Stritch.
UIAA Ice Climbing Commission officials hope that the conclusion of the inaugural UIAA-styled event is an encouraging sign for the possible inclusion of the U.S. event in the UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup Tour which takes place in Korea, Italy, France, Romania and Russia every year between January and March.
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3rd Place: Katie Bono USA
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Victory State Bank Points to Preparedness Planning for Your Business
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Being prepared for hazardous situations is an important part of owning a business. Victory State Bank would like to remind our customers that it is better to be safe rather than sorry when it comes to your business and your personal safety. The Small Business Administration has provided the following guide to help you and your business be prepared in the event of an emergency situation:
- Program Management
- Organize, develop and administer your preparedness program
- Identify regulations that establish minimum requirements for your program
- Planning
- Gather information about hazards and assess risks
- Conduct a business impact analysis (BIA)
- Examine ways to prevent hazards and reduce risks
- Implementation
Write a preparedness plan addressing:
- Resource management
- Emergency response
- Crisis communications
- Business continuity
- Information technology
- Employee assistance
- Incident management
- Training
- Testing and Exercises
- Test and evaluate your plan
- Define different types of exercises
- Learn how to conduct exercises
- Use exercise results to evaluate the effectiveness of the plan
- Program Improvement
- Identify when the preparedness program needs to be reviewed
- Discover methods to evaluate the preparedness program
- Utilize the review to make necessary changes and plan improvements
About Victory State Bank:
VSB Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSBN) is the one-bank holding company for Victory State Bank. As Staten Island, N.Y.'s only community-based commercial bank, Victory State Bank operates five full-service locations on the Island: The main office in the community of Great Kills, and branches in the communities of West Brighton, St. George, Dongan Hills and Rosebank. For additional information, Victory State Bank may be reached at 718-979-1100 or visited online http://www.victorystatebank.com.
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The "smell of money" in Greeley could be less potent in the near future, pending a $1.5 million endeavor by JBS USA.
Land use requests and permitting were recently approved by the city of Greeley for a 180-foot "odor control stack" at the JBS packing plant.
Cameron Bruett, sustainability and corporate communications specialist with the company, said the project could be put in motion as early as this spring.
Once in place, it would serve as an extension to the existing odor-control stack at the packing plant on 8th Avenue, where 5,400 cattle are processed daily.
Making the stack taller would send the odor higher into the atmosphere, farther away from Greeley's residents.
Bruett said JBS has taken similar measures at its plant in Green Bay, and now odor complaints surrounding that facility "are basically zero."
"We're not doing this because of any regulation ... this is just another step in us trying to be a good citizen," Bruett said of JBS USA, which is headquartered in Greeley, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of JBS S.A., based in Brazil.
The construction project marks the newest effort in a long line of attempts to minimize Greeley's infamous smell.
In the mid 1990s, Greeley helped move feedlots outside of the city limits, created an odor hotline and patrol to respond to complaints, and established an odor ordinance.
The city also has tried addressing other odors, such as one at a truck wash in east Greeley and has made improvements to wastewater treatment facilities.
In addition to the odor-stack extension, officials at the JBS packing plant already spend thousands of dollars every month on scrubbing and chemical treatments to eliminate odors at its facility. Bruett said the company will continue putting more dollars into those efforts.
For decades, the city has tried to battle the odor, in reality and perception.
Some of the most memorable comments of Greeley's odor go back to the 1980s, coming from Denver Broncos players and sports writers during that time. The team trained at the University of Northern Colorado for 21 summers until 2003.
Former quarterback John Elway and other Broncos players made wisecracks about Greeley's smell every year they trained here. And as recent as 2011, former Broncos running back Terrell Davis pointed out Greeley's smell when he came up for the grand opening of the King Soopers Marketplace on 71st Avenue.
"We've certainly come a long way from where we once were," Greeley Mayor Tom Norton said this week. "It's because of many efforts ... like the ones being put in place by JBS, that are helping us make the improvements needed."
We've certainly come a long way from where we once were. It's because of many efforts ... like the ones being put in place by JBS, that are helping us make the improvements needed.
— Tom Norton, Greeley mayor


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Google recently announced that it has designs on Facebook's social media crown by launching its own rival site. In spite of rumours that it's going to be called 'Google Me', we're not sure how much of a chance it has.
Since February 2004, when Mark Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com, Facebook's early predecessor, few could have predicted the speed or the level of impact it would have on the online advertising community. With the imminent launch of 'The Social Network', it seems interest will continue to grow, but now, a mere 6 years since it has been available to the public, how do we feel about it?
It has given marketers all over the globe a new medium for communication based on the traditional aspects of word of mouth or referral marketing. It allows advertisers the ability to target an audience by the information they have provided about themselves – information varying from merely their age and gender to their likes, dislikes, favourite films, music and literature.
Adverts on Facebook can be relatively cheap and available to the majority of businesses, allowing nearly everyone who wants it to have the opportunity to advertise themselves online. It begs the question; 'If everyone can do it, does it lose its effect? Does it become spam and easily ignored by users?'
Facebook was said to have generated between $700 million and $800 million in advertising revenue in 2009, a figure higher than was expected. With Facebook's 500 million users browsing the site's pages, it seems the chance to reach that large a number is attractive to advertisers, regardless how many click on their ads.
With its users spending 700 billion minutes a month on the site, such a concentrated amount of people actively swapping information about themselves online has never existed before. But it is the information swapping that made Facebook both brilliant and controversial.
In its short lifetime Facebook has been no stranger to controversy, attracting a number of lawsuits and a wealth of criticism over those who use the site and how they use it. With ever growing reports that Facebook has been used by adults to groom children, schools reporting accounts of cyber- bullying and with tribute pages being set up for people such as Raoul Moat, it could make you begin to doubt Facebook's future.
Over the past year Facebook announced regular changes regarding its privacy policy, one of which was that it planned to share information with a third party. It's constantly changing privacy settings have left some users feeling exposed. With Facebook allowing people to display as much or as little personal information as they choose, with as many different people as they choose, the controversy seems unfair. If you don't want someone to know your phone number, don't put it on the internet, right? But should the default settings on Facebook be that everything is shared and to hide information so it is only shared with your 'friends' and you have to manually change it? This may have been acceptable when Facebook's members were confined to one campus, but now its users are spreading across nearly the entire globe, is it not time for Facebook to reflect that?
It seems comparing Facebook to Twitter, LinkedIn or foursquare is a little pointless as none have reached the same level of popularity or even offer the same service. Although each are information- sharing social sites, they don't offer the level of depth Facebook can. Although, as reported recently in The Guardian (23rd July 2010) it is possible to follow and make contact with a stranger (as one journalist proved) just via their tweets and foursquare updates. So they are still viable for the level of criticism usually reserved for Facebook, if not the success it seems. Even with on-going privacy squabbles, it seems advertising on Facebook shows no signs of waning, and especially as socialmediatoday.com (2010) has predicted a 39% increase in advertising spend on the site this year.
So with nearly a billion in advertising revenue, 500 million users, an MD that goes to meetings in his PJ's and its own Hollywood film, it seems we may still be a while off asking people we just met in the pub to 'Google me!'.


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Reality mining
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reality mining is the collection and analysis of machine-sensed environmental data pertaining to human social behavior, with the goal of identifying predictable patterns of behavior. It was declared to be one of the "10 technologies most likely to change the way we live" by Technology Review Magazine.[1]
Reality mining studies human interactions based on the usage of wireless devices such as mobile phones and GPS systems providing a more accurate picture of what people do, where they go, and with whom they communicate with rather than from more subjective sources such as a person's own account. Reality mining is one aspect of digital footprint analysis.[2]
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- "The Results of Reality Mining at Where 2.0", O'Reilly Radar
- "Clive Thompson on Real-World Social Networks vs. Facebook 'Friends'", Wired Magazine
- "Your Brain, Your Computer, and You", Evan M. Peck
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Rocking the Stevie Wonder at Jam night at Vamp'd In Las Vegas
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Sneed's book stranger than Hollywood fiction
"Little Known Facts"'
By Christine Sneed
Bloomsbury; 292 pages; $25
Christine Sneed's debut novel, "Little Known Facts," doesn't exactly fulfill the promise of her book's title.
Much of her insights into Hollywood culture feel all too familiar. But it is an entertaining, formally inventive read. Renn Ivins is a twice-divorced, charismatic A-list star -- a Clint Eastwood or Robert Redford-like character with artistic integrity and sex appeal who, in his early 50s, has turned his hand to screenwriting and directing.
He also founded the requisite charity, a Katrina-relief organization called "Life After the Storm" that's conveniently in sync with his most recent film, "Bourbon at Dusk," filming in New Orleans.
Renn is like a swirling, black hole around which the people in his life orbit. His daughter, Anna, is a medical intern brimming with talent, but she has also succumbed to an affair with her much older, married attending doctor, a clich� she's all too aware of.
Renn's son, Will, flounders, directionless, in his father's shadow, seemingly paralyzed by privilege. One of Renn's ex-wives has just published a tell-all memoir, and his young strawberry blond starlet girlfriend is fraught with conflict over her feelings for Will, who's in love with her.
What makes this book so different from the standard Tinseltown saga is the way Sneed tells her story. She is a lauded short-fiction writer -- her collection "Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry" won numerous awards -- and "Little Known Facts" feels almost like an anthology of linked short stories. Each chapter is told from a different person's perspective, and it's through these supporting characters that Sneed paints an intimate, well-rounded portrait of Renn, illuminating, from the inside, our society's almost maniacal obsession with celebrity.
There are also excerpts of Renn's movie reviews, snippets of poetry, love letters and Renn's own journal entries as well as notes from the writing of his ex-wife's scathing memoir, listing what Renn spent his money on and memorable "things he said."
Such as, after the bombs started dropping on Afghanistan: "If I were a younger man, I'd go to Kabul and teach drama classes for a year." The movie reviews are effusive and overblown; both the Q&A and memoir outtakes are purposefully trite. It's all a successful, if obvious, sendup of the types of pop cultural offshoots that celebrity culture generates.
Ultimately, the rigor of Sneed's prose, her well-drawn characters and her eye for precise, telling detail aren't quite enough to counterbalance that her narrative offers few Little Known Facts about Hollywood or, even, about the more universal struggles of familial strife and the search for love and finding one's place in the world.
One almost wishes she had applied her sure hand to a more benign but perhaps more fertile topic.


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|MRCC > SEC Filings for MRCC > Form 8-K on 27-Nov-2012
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Regulation FD Disclosure, Financial Statements and Exhibits
On November 27, 2012, Monroe Capital Corporation (the "Company") issued a press release, filed herewith as Exhibit 99.1, announcing the underwriters' exercise in full of their over-allotment option issued in connection with the initial public offering of shares of the Company's common stock.
The information disclosed under this Item 7.01, including Exhibit 99.1 hereto, is being furnished and shall not be deemed "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into any filing made under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, except as expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
99.1 Press Release, dated November 27, 2012.


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IPL6 DD Vs KKR – Match Report , Highlights
The first match between KKR and DD in IPL 6 has been a predictable one with DD looking clueless for the major part of the innings barring a special innings from Jayawardane while KKR going all guns with the attack lead by their trump card Sunil Narine and Brett Lee .
Delhi Dare Devils Poor Batting Effort
Sunil Naraine was the best of the bowler with 4 / 13 in his four overs . Bret Lee ended up with 2 /40 including the prize scalp of Mahela. Batting First Delhi Daredevils were bowled out for a paltry score on a wicket that was offering some turn and was on the slower side . Mahela was the lone star in DD innings with a valiant knock of 66 . David Warner scored 21 . It was a great opportunity for someone like Irfan to step up and rise to the occasion and start the IPL with a decent outing . But that did not happen and no one in DD team tried to stay at the crease as well.
KKR cool chase
Chasing 129 for the victory , KKR had two people tailor made for such an occasion . The Spearhead opener for Indian Team Gautam Gambhir and the ever consistent in all forms of Cricket and the best all rounder ever Jacques Kallis . They did not disappoint with a solid 60 run partnership after Bisla was dismissed cheaply for 4 . Kallis eventually fell for a silly delivery which short and could have been hit anywhere , but only ended up in holding to deep mid wicket for 23 .
Gautam Gambhir played solidly at the other end and kept the team always in hunt with the required run rate always around 6 and under control. Eventually , Gambhir was out LBW caught infront of the stumps to a Botha Delivery that has hurried on to Gambhir and caught him napping. Gambhir however has looked little reckless in the stay with couple of run out chances missed for him . Eoin Morgan who came in the place of Gambhir ensured that there are no further hiccups and guided KKR swiftly towards a deserving victory . Manoj Tiwary also played his part with run-a-ball 23. Yusuf Pathan hit a lusty blow on otherwise a slow match as per the opening match standards.
Delhi Dare Devils bowlers were also made errors with too many short slow deliveries on the spin track giving ample scope for the KKR batsmen to go on backfoot and rotate the strike.
Player of the Match – DD Vs KKR – Sunil Narine
Final Note : If a match is in Eden Garden get atleast 3 spinners in the team . The pitch has died out and has hardly anything to offer for batsman. It is slow , it is assisting turn and a fast bowler is a free gift on this pitch . 150 would be a winning score on this pitch.
Sharukh Khan and Deepika Padukone both dressed in white did a victory lap across the ground cheering the KKR fans and supporters.
You can find the Video Highlights of 1st Match of sixth edition of IPL 6 here : http://www.iplt20.com/videos


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ROGERS CITY -- A father and four children died today in an early-morning house fire in a community along Lake Huron, officials said.
The victims were discovered after the fire was brought under control, Rogers City Fire Chief Tim Luebke said.
A neighbor across the street made a 911 call at 4:34 a.m., and emergency responders found the Rogers City home engulfed in flames, the Presque Isle sheriff's department said in a statement. No other details were immediately available.
Rogers City is located between Cheboygan and Alpena and is about 60 miles southeast of the Mackinac Bridge.


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2013 was the year of "Get Lucky." Daft Punk's disco jam hit No. 1 in 28 countries and sold more than 7.3 million copies, bringing the French duo back to the mainstream and inspiring a horde of covers that included ones by U2 and, no joke, the Russian police choir (If you haven't seen it, you have to find it on YouTube). It wasn't, however, the year of "Random Access Memories," the woefully one-dimensional album that spawned the infectious single. Sometimes when I was listening to "R.A.M.," I thought, much like Sascha Frere-Jones of The New Yorker, this is "some of the worst music I've ever heard." It definitely has its champions, count The Telegraph and Entertainment Weekly among them, but you won't find it on my list.
What you will find in my Top Ten is an eclectic mix that doesn't reveal any real narrative of 2013. My list doesn't stand as evidence for a certain argument about what defined 2013, but rather exists as a highly personal jumble of stuff that has connected with me the most. So, without further ado, here's my picks for the best albums of the year.
10. Juana Molina - "Wed 21"
The standout single "Eras," with its eerie video that features a masked creature with three eyes sewing lettuce to kill people (yep), will draw you in, but in order to get the most out of this headphones-necessary LP, you have to pay close attention. It's easy to get used to Molina's sound and to fall into the trap that all the songs sound the same. But they really don't. Molina always has some weird sound in her back pocket that keeps things interesting. You just have to be actively listening.
9. Mudhoney - "Vanishing Point"
Eternally under-appreciated, Mudhoney consistently puts out better music than any of the grunge survivors they inspired. The group's 2008 record, "The Lucky Ones," was the defining post-grunge rock record. It featured lyrics like "The lucky ones have already gone down. The Lucky ones are lucky they're not around." What's more grunge than that? Anyway, "Vanishing Point" continues their hot streak with punk bursts like "Chardonnay," a 1:40-long rant about why Mark Arm hates the "soccer mom's favorite sipper." It's hilarious, raucous, and better than anything on Pearl Jam's "Lightning Bolt."
8. Laura Marling - "Once I Was an Eagle"
When I first heard this record, I was disappointed. It seemed like Marling had traded in her the silly quirks and creative spirit for minimalism and atmospherics and had lost the essence of what made her music interesting. But then I kept listening. And sure, these songs are less short story-like than "Ghosts," but, in the end, they're no less effective. There's just as much insight here and perhaps even more emotional power. Her sound has matured, but it's not boring yet.
7. The Field -
"Cupid's Head"
The most exciting recent records for me, artistically speaking, have been electronic albums. The realm of dance music seems to be the only place where musicians are still succeeding in trying to fulfill the The Beatles' promise that rock 'n' roll can be art. "Cupid's Head" is a great example of this. Listening to it is a journey, one that goes from the stormy dynamics of "They Won't See Me" through the techno persistence of the title track to the transcendent, grinding progression of "No. No" Just put it on, let it play and it will take you places.
6. Elvis Costello and The Roots - "Wise Up Ghost"
I've never listened to Elvis Costello or The Roots that much, but after hearing this album, I definitely should. "Wise Up Ghost" is like a how-to for pop rock albums. It's filled with smart lyrics, great hooks and beats that make you move your feet. But make no mistake, it's definitely a Costello album featuring The Roots - these songs are structured like '80s pop songs and have the pop troubador's mark all over them.
5. Tegan and Sara - "Heartthrob"
Speaking of the '80s, Tegan and Sara was, along with Haim, one of the groups leading the yearly '80s revival in 2013. The former indie duo embraced their inner Go-Go's with seductive results. In my opinion, besides "Get Lucky," no pop song in the past year was as effective as "Closer." Every time I hear that beginning, "All I wanna get is/ a little bit closer," accompanied by the synthesizer, I get giddy. It's such a fun song to, like they do in the wonderful video, jump on the bed and sing-along to. The naysayers (or haters, if you will) say their indie stuff was better. But just like in R.E.M.'s case, I always find it more impressive when indie groups risk their cred to get in touch with their inner pop star.
4. Blood Orange - "Cupid Deluxe"
Continuing the '80s theme, I've been indulging in this pseudo-Prince, pop funk bliss almost every day since I downloaded the album. I never get tired of hearing Dev Hynes' falsetto soar in "No Right Thing," feeling the heartbreak of "You're Not Good Enough," or rocking out to the towering beat of "Time Will Tell." Several of my friends on Facebook, who are pretty tough critics, were pretty dismissive of this music. But I say they're missing out on some great pop.
3. Arcade Fire -
Suddenly, it's not cool to like Arcade Fire. But I guess the backlash was inevitable - they've been considered indie royalty for nearly a decade now and after their superb last record, "The Suburbs," won Grammy album of the year, the chorus of boos was bound to come through.
In spite of this, Arcade Fire has made one of their best albums - "Reflektor" has all the grand gestures of "Funeral," but is fueled by livelier beats and production tweaks that give a little more to the listener who isn't particularly interested in hearing Win Butler complain about technology or talk about God.
2. Jenny Hval -
"Innocence is Kinky"
It completely makes sense that John Parish, a favorite collaborator of PJ Harvey, would produce Jenny Hval's "Innocence is Kinky." Sometimes the album is so intimate, so emotionally charged, that it would put you in mind of Harvey and some of her best whisperings. Parish also makes use of the grungey, soft-loud dynamic here as well, of which Harvey is a master. But Hval is no Harvey clone - she's got Bjork's love for the unexpected, the curve ball and the punishing sound that pushes you out, which keeps listeners on their toes and makes for a very exciting experience. One never knows where a song will go and even upon repeated listens, the tension is somehow always there.
1. Jon Hopkins - "Immunity"
My introduction to Jon Hopkins came through the sprawling video for "Open Eye Signal," directed by Aoife McArdle. It features a kid on a skateboard going from one visually stunning landscape to another. We see suburbs, a desert, people on fire, and a monstrous, "Lord of the Rings"-like tree as well. All the while, he's squinting into the sun with a black eye and a dirty face. It feels like a great, minimalist, indie short film and is a perfect representation of the type of feeling Hopkins' electronic music evokes.


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FLORENCE — In his first game as the defensive coordinator at Florence High School back in 1986, Nick Lubrano watched quarterback Tony Sacca and his Delran teammates snuff the Flashes 60-0.
Sacca, then one of the most prolific offensive players in South Jersey history, would go on to a successful career at Penn State before playing briefly in the NFL. He now is the head coach at Burlington City.
"After that game, Ron Luber, the guy I succeeded, came up to me and said, 'Fun, isn't it?' " Lubrano recalled.
"What I found out was that it looks easy until your feet are hanging in the fire."
Lubrano, who learned defense as a player and coach under Frank Paris at Holy Cross High School, got better ... much better.
"Hey, you live and you learn," Lubrano said.
Lubrano has.
Florence, as it has been for 39 years under head coach Joe Frappolli, remains a defense-first football team despite its reputation as an offensive machine.
"I hope the offense can score some points this week, because I don't know if we're gonna be able to stop those guys," Lubrano said of Shore Regional, the team Florence will play at 10 a.m. Saturday in the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group I final at The College of New Jersey.
"Every week, I mean every week, I hear the same thing," Frappolli said.
And every week, Lubrano pulls something new out of his hat or from up his sleeve.
Lubrano came up with a plan that limited high-scoring Delran to seven points, controlled Robbinsville's dynamic rushing duo of Chad Scott and Ryan Alston and rendered Lawrence's Semei Mitchell ineffective in the second half.
"Florence does a good job of moving people around to create mismatches," Lawrence head coach Rob Radice said. "Against us, they moved a defensive end inside to stop the run. They'll move nine guys in the box to stop the run if they have to."
"It's simple, blue-collar, in-your-face defense," added recently retired Robbinsville coach Jason Gray, "they try to break your will before you break theirs."
Last week, in a 17-14 upset of top-seeded and previously unbeaten Point Pleasant Beach, Florence slammed the breaks on a Beach offense that averaged 325 rushing yards and 45 points per game.
It was Lubrano's Mona Lisa. With interjection from line coach Joe Frappolli Jr. and secondary coach Steve Ordog, Florence switched from the standard four-man front to a five-man line pretty much in, well, a flash.
"It doesn't sound like a big deal, but putting someone over the center really disrupts the guards, especially in a Wing-T offense," Frappolli Sr. said. "And at a small school with guys going both ways, in-game adjustments aren't easy."
Against Point Beach, Lubrano reached back so Florence could move forward. The 50 look was the one Holy Cross used when Lubrano played cornerback in high school.
"If a high school center hasn't practiced with a guy over him, it can really mess him up," said Shore coach Mark Costantino, who also runs the Wing-T. "Needless to say, we're preparing for everything."
At a point in the season where time is precious, Florence wants Shore to be working its offense against both a four- and five-man front. Working one takes time from the other.
"Who knows, they might even see something else," Frappolli said with a grin.
Frappolli probably doesn't know exactly what Lubrano is thinking, because it never stops.
"Nick keeps everything right here," Frappolli said, pointing to his temple. He isn't big about putting things down on paper.
"I let them go off and do their thing. As late as Thursday last week, they (the defensive coaches) were still putting things in and taking them out (the Beach game was Friday night).
"I know this," added Frappolli, who is South Jersey's all-time winningest coach and has five sectional titles and 25 playoff wins, "I wouldn't want to scheme against him."
With a style that is part Robert DeNiro — silent, iron-jawed, cerebral one instant — and Joe Pesci — volatile, intimidating, quick-talking in another, Lubrano is a hands-on coach who walks 100 miles during a practice.
He can go from silent to "cheese and crackers, you're killing me" quicker than a Maserati goes from 0-to-60. Lubrano will lead a player by the arm to the spot he should have been when necessary.
"He coaches everybody," Frappolli said.
Lubrano, who is a salesman for Coca-Cola and not a teacher, is an avid film watcher.
"Nick is the guy who notices the little things the rest of us don't see," Frappolli said.
"At this point, we know them and they know us," Lubrano said. "There really aren't any surprises.
"But," he added, "you always have something in your back pocket just in case."
"They always have a wrinkle," Costantino said. "They do an excellent job."
Lubrano said Florence always falls back on the defensive style that has become its hallmark.
"Aggressive and physical," Radice said.
"Physical and relentless," Gray explained.
"Smashmouth," Costantino added.
"We are no-nonsense coaches," Lubrano said. "When the kids believe in what you are doing, you can push them a little bit harder ... We do."
Lubrano's defensive philosophy can be summed up in one word.
"Attack," he said. "We're going to try and take away you're number one thing."
Costantino believes that will be his perimeter game.
"If you can't stop No. 1, you aren't going to be able to stop No. 2," Lubrano said. "For us, preparation is the most important thing. If you aren't prepared, you can't adjust."
Florence blanked Shore 23-0 last year in the sectional semifinals.
"We are so much better prepared for them this year," Costantino said. "We know we have to be more two-dimensional."
And in one of his pockets, on a napkin or a scrap of paper, Lubrano will have an answer for that, too.
"We've been out here since July 5th, so at this point, come Saturday, it should be fun for the kids and not full of pressure," Lubrano said. "In the end, it always comes down to the kids."
Rushing yards allowed: 1,064
Passing yards allowed: 2,190
Yards allowed per game: 199.1
Fumbles recovered: 12
Interceptions: 11
Punts blocked: 2
Total points allowed: 115
Point per game: 10.5