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In Florida, a common probate scenario occurs when beneficiaries inherit real property comprised of either a residence or vacant land.
Often the beneficiaries don't intend to keep the property and would like to sell it but their title insurance company has required them to first obtain clear title.* In this case, some form of a Florida probate court proceeding must occur to transfer the title to them.
In many instances the process of probating real estate is straightforward, particularly when the beneficiaries agree on the course of action.
Without a doubt the greatest confusion regarding property in an estate is whether a home or vacant land can be sold without probate? The answer is "Yes. And no."
If a home or real property was purchased as husband and wife, then the presumption under Florida law is that the property is considered "tenancy by the entirety" which means that when either spouse dies, the property becomes the sole asset of the surviving spouse, who can then convey the property through a sale or otherwise, without the need for probate.
At the death of the second spouse (provided no one was subsequently added to the title while the second spouse was living), probate will almost certainly be required to correctly transfer the title to the heirs.
Title to property vests (becomes an immediate right) to the heir(s) on the date of death of the decedent.
This means that an heir(s) may enter into a contract to sell property but that all parties involved in the sale would need to be made aware of the need for probate before a final sale could take place. This is a 'contingency' sales contract and any heir(s) who are considering such a contract should seek legal counsel before doing so.
What if the property is a home? The first question is whether the home was the primary residence of the decedent and therefore homestead exempted?
By state law, Florida Constitution, Art. X,§ 4(a), a homestead is real property to the extent of 160 contiguous acres outside a municipality, or one-half of an acre of continuous land in a municipality, owned by a natural person, and the improvements thereon.
If the home was the decedent's homestead property, Florida law protects some or all of the homestead from being sold to satisfy most of the decedent's creditors' claims (other than certain debts such as mortgage or construction liens or valid federal and state taxes and assessments).
In order to maintain this post-death exemption, the homestead must pass to a person or persons who are within the class of the deceased owner's "heirs at law."
If this is the case, the court should be made aware of this through a specific petition in order to preserve the homestead protection.
Like many such exemptions or protections, if you don't ask for this protection from the court, you don't get it! This is one of the biggest dangers of trying to take an estate through probate without an attorney.
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Here's a hypothetical and fairly common example of a simple Florida probate court proceeding involving vacant land.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith, residents of New Jersey, owned a piece of land in Florida in both of their names that they purchased 20 years ago. Mr. Smith died in 1989 and his will was probated in New Jersey. Mrs. Smith, his surviving spouse, became the sole owner of the Florida land by operation of law because in Florida a husband and wife listed as joint owners on real property are considered to be tenants by the entirety, (unless the deed specifically states otherwise), which automatically vests title in the surviving spouse's name.
Mrs. Smith subsequently died in 2001 and her will was also probated in New Jersey. At the time the Smith's two children, both residents of California, did not open a probate Florida probate court proceeding as they were uncertain what they wanted to do with the Florida property and did not want to incur additional attorney fees and costs.
Several years pass, the children continue to pay the property taxes and in the current year, one of the children receives an inquiry from an interested party in Florida who would like to buy the land.
The problem is that while entitled to the property by their mother's will, and vested in the right to ownership, the children don't technically own the land. They have no authority to sell the property outright because it was never legally transferred to them in Florida through the Florida probate courts.
Provided the children are in agreement, this would typically be a straightforward ancillary summary probate or admission of foreign will to record proceeding.
We would obtain certified copies of the parents death certificates as well as certified copies of certain probate court documents from the probate that occurred in New Jersey for the mother (since she would be the sole owner listed on the property by operation of law). We would then prepare court pleadings for the children to sign to open the appropriate proceeding in the court in the Florida county where the land is physically located.
While My Florida Probate does not provide legal advice with regards to foreclosure or real property transactions, we do recommend that heirs be aware of the seriousness of potential foreclosure, and that they may need at some point to consult with an attorney specializing in foreclosure either before or during the probate process.
*If you are an heir to real property and are interested in selling it, one of best ways to determine the necessary steps is to contact a Florida title insurance company. While probate is used to obtain title to real property, the reality is that title companies provide the coverage to insure the conveyance of a clear title by the seller(s), and it is their insurance underwriters who will determine what it will take on a seller's part to obtain this coverage. An additional benefit is that multiple heirs will have an objective assessment of what will be required to close a sale. Obtaining title by probate may be the first step in selling real property, but understanding all requirements at the outset can help speed the sale process and avoid unnecessary delays and frustration.

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An autorickshaw driver was Sunday arrested in Punjab's Amritsar city for molesting a young woman from Denmark, police said.
Vicky molested the woman near the railway station Friday evening. The victim complained to the police Saturday.
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Under Wayne State University's David Adamanny Undergraduate Library Textbook policy the library is limited to purchasing one copy of most textbooks for General Education Introductory (1000-2000) level courses only. Under this policy the library will retain a limited number of previous editions of some textbooks.
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Fort Bragg is implementing the Workload Mapping Tool system to track the work that Soldiers do during daily operations. Training for the new tracking system began in June and everyone supervising Soldiers needs to implement the use of WMT to account for all military personnel work hours by Friday. "The intent of the system is to track the labor hours for each common level service (task) of the active-duty military," said Gloria Moore, a Fort Bragg finance manager. "The primary purpose is to determine the cost for the hours. Previously, there was no way to determine how much the military hours cost." Supervisors are responsible for making sure each of their Soldiers' CLSs are accounted for in the program. Each supervisor can manage the work hours entered for each of the people assigned to them. WMT allows the supervisors to review and certify the work hours entered for everyone in their section when they log into the system, said Moore. Entering information about the amount of time Soldiers spend performing daily tasks will allow Army leaders at all levels to run queries to see how Soldiers are spending their time. Reports have the ability to show hours spent on a particular task and can even track the rank of Soldiers performing the various CLSs. As with any new system implementation, there are some initial difficulties while getting accustomed to tracking military work hours. "Initially the system can seem intimidating, but like anything else, the more you use it the easier it gets," said Moore. "Once tasks are set up, the system is very easy to use. Supervisors can add additional tasks their Soldiers are performing to the tool. Right now people just need to get used to using it." In addition to tracking daily tasks, the system also tracks borrowed manpower. Borrowed manpower is when Soldiers work outside their specialty for other units that require them to perform operational tasks. Examples of borrowing manpower would be the Department of Public Works using Soldiers from across Fort Bragg for post clean up activities or Soldiers from the Warrior Transition Battalion assisting units around post with their daily operations. The unit borrowing a Soldier from their assigned unit is responsible for entering the task into WMT. All Soldiers need to have a user ID and password even if they are not the one physically inputting their time into WMT. Having their own ID allows them to show up in the system so their supervisor can review their work hours. If you have questions about WMT or requests for training, call Gloria Moore at 907-4736.


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LocationOHLN is one of five sites installed as a pilot test for the Plate Boundary Observatory, known informally as the Mini-PBO project. This site is known as SFOHL in the USGS Low Frequency Network and is located in Ohlone Park, in Hercules, CA.
NetworkBK, UL, BARD (Mini PBO Network, USGS Low Frequency Network, and Bay Area Regional Deformation Network)
Vault/Borehole ConditionsThe OHLN borehole was the first of the MiniPBO sites to be drilled and was installed on 7/16/2001. The strainmeter is emplaced at a depth of 670.5 ft and the seismometer is at a depth of 645.5 ft. This figure shows the location of equipment in the borehole.
GPS Monument Description1.25" pipe bolted into borehole casing
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A southwestern Indiana man who pleaded guilty to making methamphetamine in an apartment above a day-care center has received a 20-year sentence.
A Warrick county judge ordered 33-year-old Brandon Grubbs of Boonville to serve a 10-year prison term and 10 years in community corrections.
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The mother of a 6-year-old girl has been charged with aggravated child abuse after the girl showed up to school with a laceration on her head that required stitches, deputies said.
A cafeteria's assistant first noticed the injury when serving breakfast. She said she saw "something red" running down the child's face.
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On Tap for Today: John Gurda, Ex Fabula and the Brewers
Welcome to your Wednesday. If you are looking for things to do, artist and photographer Kevin Miyazaki will be talking about "Perimeter," a photographic portrait of Lake Michigan and its people, at the Haggerty Museum of Art at noon. At the same time, the guys at The Disclaimer will be chatting about things Milwaukee on WMSE, which you can stream (or listen to later) from their web site.
PBS to air Milwaukee Ballet's 'Peter Pan' in April
PBS president and chief executive officer Paula Kerger announced Tuesday that the Milwaukee Ballet's adaptation of "Peter Pan," produced by Milwaukee Public Television, will be nationally broadcast by the public TV network April 18.
Kerger made the announcement during a "thank-you dinner" for friends and supporters of MPTV on Tuesday night. Earlier in the day, she met community members and Milwaukee Area Technical College students, and was "taping promos" for MPTV stations WMVS-TV (Channel 10) and WMVT-TV (Channel 36). »Read Full Article
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On Dec. 8, members of seven Milwaukee museums will receive free general admission for each participating institution. It's known as "Member Swap Day."
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Gun documentary recalls Oak Creek Sikh temple shooting
An MSNBC documentary about gun violence showing Friday, on the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination, includes a segment on the 2012 Sikh temple shooting in Oak Creek.
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It's the first Monday back, and your teacher is asking people what they did over winter break. You sink in your seat, hoping that you'll slide under the radar, but to no avail. You're called on. You flush and stutter and say something about doing your homework, while other kids snicker with their cinnamon-colored tans.
Don't be that guy (or girl).
There are a lot of fun ways to spend midwinter break, and they don't have to involve empty wallets or plane tickets. School breaks are a good time to try new things that you've always wanted to try without having to worry about getting all of your homework done or studying for tests – you can save that for Sunday night.
1. Ice skating. In a conversation with a friend of mine, I was shocked to realize that she'd never been ice skating. Now that I think about it, I can't even remember the last time I went. A copy of the open skate schedule for the Northtown Center can be found on the website for the Town of Amherst (www.amherst.ny.us/govt/recreation/ice), with ticket and rental prices ranging from $3 to $6. While the weather this winter hasn't been particularly reliable, if temperatures stay as low as they're supposed to, you can probably find a frozen pond somewhere – just make sure you chuck a rock at the ice first to ensure that you won't be taking a swim.
2. Snow-tubing. As an avid skier, the best thing I can think of to do when the temperatures drop is to strap on my boots and hop on the lift. However, for those of you who have never tried skiing or snowboarding, it might not be the best choice for a spur-of-the-moment activity. Snow-tubing is an enjoyable activity that pretty much anybody can do. It doesn't take a whole lot of skill, and a three-hour ticket is only $16 (or $12 if you happen to be under 42 inches) at Polarwave in Batavia (www.snowtubingny.com/) or $15 for two hours at Colden Tubing Co. in Colden (www.kbski.com/content/pages/tubing).
3. Sports games. Spectator sports can be extremely fun events, especially when they are at a high level. Tickets to professional games, however, can get pretty pricey. I would suggest the high-energy Bandits lacrosse games, but they don't have any home games during February break. My solution, then, is college games. Whether you are an avid sports fan or just enjoy being in the crowd with your friends, college sports such as hockey and basketball don't disappoint. Division I teams are scattered throughout the greater Buffalo area, and the chants and cheers led by a youthful crowd make any game an electrifying experience.
4. Volunteering. Many kids don't think of doing work – and without pay, too – as a very glamorous prospect. What kind of break is it, after all, if you're not getting a break? If you keep an open mind, though, volunteering can be fun, and a lot of schools require at least some service hours. There's a certain pride that comes with knowing that you're helping somebody, and staying positive makes the time fly. Bringing a friend along can make the experience even better, but if you don't, chances are you'll make one on the job. Food pantries and soup kitchens can usually use all the help they can get, and midwinter breaks are as good a time as any to lend a hand and chip away at required community service hours without the added daily stress of school.
It's not difficult to find something fun to do if you put a little effort into it. Even simple things like trying out new restaurants or watching that movie that you've always wanted to see can reduce boredom and make you feel like you're making use of your time. Time off from school is a rare blessing. Take advantage of it, because the next thing you know you'll be trudging through the halls again, counting down the days until the next break.
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Study: Short Yoga Sessions Boost Brain Power
Your yoga practice may be doing more for your body than combatting work stress and giving your muscles a good stretch between strength workouts. New research from the University of Illinois suggests that short bouts of yoga may also make your brain work better.
In the study published in the Journal of Physical Activity & Health, 30 college students were asked to complete two cognitive exercises that involved identifying shapes on a computer screen. The first time through, the participants conducted the experiment without working out beforehand; the second time, they walked or jogged on a treadmill for 20 minutes before doing the exercise; and the third time they preceded the exercise with a 20-minute hatha yoga session that included yoga poses, seated meditation, and deep breathing.
Researchers found that yoga outperformed both aerobic exercise and no exercise when it came to keeping the students sharp. The single 20-minute bout of yoga improved their focus and helped them process information faster and more accurately than they did without it. Plus, its brain benefits kicked in more quickly than compared with cardio—they students got a cognitive boost about 30 minutes after completing their last pose.
So, does that mean it's time to completely abandon your running shoes for a sticky mat? Probably not. Previous research has shown that cardio is also good for the brain. Still, yoga has a leg up (literally) on a sweaty run. In addition to scaling back stress and anxiety (which in turn improves brain function), yoga keeps your mind focused on a single task—a technique you can easily transfer to other areas of your life.
So, if you've got a big work presentation on tap for this afternoon, use your lunch break to squeeze in a short yoga class instead of zoning out on the treadmill.
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Eight days before Kevin Rudd exacted his revenge, Julia Gillard entertained a capacity crowd at the press gallery's annual mid-winter ball with a witty tour de force, a 15-minute speech without a note, gently poking fun at her critics and their double standards (and herself).
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While it was difficult to lose the ballot against Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she decided to give the party 'the gift of silence', in her first public interview at the Sydney Opera House.
The night she was torn down came another impressive performance. With grace and dignity, she exhibited not a trace of bitterness towards those who had undermined her and those supporters who finally succumbed to the pressure to replace her.
The question before the first of two 90-minute conversations with Anne Summers - her first public appearance post-politics - was what side of the former PM's personality would be most assertive before a universally sympathetic, indeed adoring, audience at the Sydney Opera House?
With the election done (and a book deal signed), would she feel less constrained in dropping a huge bucket on Mr Rudd and those who turned against her? The answer was clear soon enough: no bucket, just a not-too-subtle contrast between the loyalty she insists she displayed to Mr Rudd until the day she challenged him, and the undermining that dogged her almost from day one.
If Mr Rudd had been concerned about unflattering reflections, he need not have worried. Tony Abbott was the main target of Ms Gillard's good-humoured barbs and the disdain of the audience.
Perhaps the biggest applause (and the most laughter from Dr Summers) came after Ms Gillard was asked what advice she would offer the new PM.
''It's a big step from criticising what you think is wrong to working out and implementing what you think is right,'' she began. ''On current indications, Prime Minister Abbott is intending to take that step slowly - and for all of us, I think, that might well be a good thing.''
There were no big revelations, but some new insights on the misogyny speech of October last year, with Ms Gillard maintaining the speech from Mr Abbott that prompted it was the ''crack point'' in her thinking about the sexism and public life. Revealing that she still has the handwritten notes that were jotted down as Mr Abbott spoke, she said: ''Once it started, it got a life of its own.''
There was the concession that her government had made mistakes and not communicated its achievements well, but the satisfaction that ''we did get a lot done that is changing this nation for the better right now''.
The diplomacy was evident when Ms Gillard declined to nominate a preference between the two contenders for the Labor leadership, Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese, though there was glowing praise for Tanya Plibersek.


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Friday, March 26, 2010
feel good friday...!
Here goes:
Yesterday, Hayden and I foolishly ventured out to Wal-Mart. Why foolishly you may ask…
Answer: Because as we left, it was VERY cloudy, lightly raining, and the forecast called for more rain. I figured it wouldn't get worse - and it was only drizzling. I assumed we wouldn't get caught in the rain. I was wrong.
So we go to Wal-Mart, do our shopping, and as we near the automatic doors to exit the building I realize that it is POURING. We are not talking about a little rain. Oh no. This is a full-out, drenching rain.
Great. So now I am pushing the cart as I run through/in the rain to my car. I get to the car and notice a "cart worker" nearby. He quickly approaches us and asks if he can help put my groceries in my car. I said, "yes." So as I unfastened Hayden from the cart and placed him in his car seat, this kind, young man put my groceries in my car (and then took my cart back to the cart corral for me).
He did not have to do that. It was not his job to unload my groceries for me (in the rain). But he did. And that really made me smile. I truly appreciated his simple gesture of goodwill.
So thank you Wal-Mart "cart worker," you made my "Feel Good Friday."
My thanks again to 'The Girl' and her meme. Feeling good on Friday is a great way to end the week!
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That made me smile too! What a simple kind gesture.ReplyDelete
Have a great day.
I love the Nice people.ReplyDelete
that's so awesome. yayReplyDelete
Proof that there are good people in this world. Just not me :)ReplyDelete
- Tamara SprengerMarch 26, 2010 at 8:28 AM
Love it! If only everyone was this kind...what a difference it would make in the world! Enjoy your "feel good friday"!ReplyDelete
Wow! That is really a great thing to feel good about!!!! Especially at walmart. Our walmart employees are not the friendliest.ReplyDelete
You should write a letter to the store. Maybe he will move up from Cart Guy to something better!!
Aww..that was so sweet.ReplyDelete
I love it running into randomly nice people who go out of their way for you! Even something as simple as unloading your groceries - that was really sweet!ReplyDelete
Wow, a nice WalMart story! Those are hard to come by! ;) Happy Friday!!ReplyDelete
Geez, we need these kind of cart workers at our Wal Marts. Around here, you're lucky if you make it through the parking lot without getting run over by the cart worker and all of his carts!ReplyDelete
Yay for nice people!
I agree with the girl next door- you should write Wal-Mart a letter telling them about their experience. We have a "happy letter" board at work and I love it when I get a happy letter. People always appreciate it when you show gratitude.ReplyDelete
What a simple yet lovely and kind gesture :) happy friday !!ReplyDelete
It is so nice to hear stuff like that.ReplyDelete
I'm from FGF and glad of it. XD
Wow, that's awesome. And I thought there were no nice workers at Walmart:)ReplyDelete


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AUBURN HILLS -- Kyle Singler's versatility has been recognized by another Detroit Pistons coach seeking ways to get the second-year player on the court.
For now, that wouldn't seem an issue for Singler anyway, with small forward competitor Gigi Datome's NBA transition stalled by a hamstring injury.
But the Pistons' lone muddled position, shooting guard, happens to be where Singler played and started for much of his rookie season. That Singler started there in Thursday's preseason loss to Miami made the situation even more unclear, while reinforcing his value.
Singler made the transition back to shooting guard, and saw some time at small forward, in the most challenging possible situation.
"When you're going against guys like Dwyane Wade and LeBron (James), it's tougher," he said. "But it's something you've got to be conscious of. The players in this league, from the twos and the threes, are a little different.
"You've got guys who are quicker and more athletic at the two. And guys who are at the three are a little bit more versatile, guys that I'm more used to guarding. So I've just got to be more conscious and game-savvy when I'm switching from the two to the three."
Pistons coach Maurice Cheeks promised to try different starters at shooting guard this preseason, which continues at 7:30 tonight at Brooklyn.
Chauncey Billups started the preseason opener against Maccabi Haifa.
Rodney Stuckey presumably would have gotten a start, but those plans were scrapped when a broken thumb sidelined him the rest of preseason.
The Datome and Stuckey injuries have translated to more opportunity for Singler at two positions.
"With the guys that are out, it does give me an opportunity to be out on the court and prove or show people what I can do," Singler said. "But deep down, I believe I belong out on the court and I can help the team win. With that being said, I'll be happy that I'll be able to get a little bit more minutes."
Singler found minutes last year because he didn't take plays off, rebounded well for his position, and added some offensive punch without having plays designed for him.
The Pistons might like a little more shooting and ballhandling than Singler offers in the backcourt. When Singler was starting there last year, his ballhandling was rendered largely moot by small forward Tayshaun Prince's ball skills.
But that perfect mix hasn't presented itself yet and shooting guard may be one position the Pistons bootstrap together until they figure it out.
Whether Singler is part of that mix permanently or not, he is resolute that he can help this team.
"The talent on this team has risen since last year," he said. "I didn't feel any pressure last year to produce that much. But this year, I feel I can fill my role pretty well and do it to the best of my ability, and just take advantage of things that are open."
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Hyderabad Metro Rail: public display of model train coach on October 2BV Shiva Shankar | TNN | Sep 22, 2013, 02.27 PM IST
HYDERABAD: Claiming to have been progressing on the construction of Hyderabad Metro Rail project, the Larsen & Toubro is planning to put up the first model coach for public display on October 2. Officials of L&T said people can have a feel of the Metro train as they would BE allowed to checkout the prototype which includes a driver cabin hitched to a passenger coach.
"The Metro Rail service would be a new mile stone in the public transport history of the city OF Hyderabad which has just completed 400 years this month. And the arrival of the prototype coach is an important phase in the construction of the Metro Rail project. We have chosen October 2 for the inauguration of the public display of the coach since the day also marks Gandhi Jayanthi," said a spokesperson of L&T.
While the Korean-based Hyundai-Rotterdam is manufacturing the train coaches, sources said the prototype had already left for India and it is expected to be in Hyderabad anytime next week.
The L&T authorities said they had zeroed-in on a location on the Necklace Road for the public display and it would be a free-entry for the public. The 12 meter-long coach would accommodate over 400 passengers with a sitting arrangement being provide for over 200.
As the project work is progressing, the Hyundai-Rotterdam is said to have been putting the manufacturing of the train coaches on fact track, and the first set of the real train set that consists of an engine and coach is expected in four to six months now, according to the sources.
As per the self-imposed deadline, the L&T authorities said, the first 8-km stretch between Nagole and Mettuguda, on Corridor-III, would be thrown open for the public use in March 2015 coinciding Ugadi celebrations.
Before that, the project must obtain safety clearance from both the Commissioner for Railway Safety, a regulatory body governed by the ministry of civil aviation, and the Research Design and Standard Organisation (RDSO). And VB Gadgil, chief executive and managing director of L&T Hyderbad Metro Rail Limited, said the first stretch would be ready for the test by 2014 December.
A mandatory trial run for over 2000 km has to be conducted before applying for the safety clearance, and Gadgil said the trail run along the viaduct and on the test tracks laid down at Nagole depot would be completed by 2015 February.
He said the rails for the test tracks had already been laid down at Nagole Depot where around 92 per cent of the construction work and 50 per cent of the technical work had been completed, and the laying down of the track on the via duct has just begun. Following the track work, electrification and interiors of the six Metro stations along with the 8-km stretch would be done which includes installation of escalators, lifts, and automatic fare collection system.
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Spending in the region on mega sporting events since the Dallas Cowboys moved to Arlington could top $1 billion when next month's Final Four and next year's college football championship are played.
Those numbers — a combination of spending projections for eight past and future events — are highlighted by boosters and treated with suspicion by some scholars. But supporters and skeptics partly agree on the long-term benefits of events from the Super Bowl to NBA All-Star Game. They conclude it's extremely difficult to quantify, if that's even possible.
John Crawford, president and CEO of Downtown Dallas Inc., said he's certain there's a lasting and significant benefit to hosting these mega events, one after the other. But he said the only research he's seen focused on short-term effects.
"I've never seen anything to quantify the indirect returns on investment," he said. "I don't even know how they would go about doing that."
Since Cowboys Stadium opened in 2009, the region has held the attention of sports fans in perhaps an unprecedented way. The Super Bowl and NBA All-Star Game were played at AT&T Stadium in back-to-back years. The Texas Rangers hosted the World Series in consecutive years in 2011 and 2012, while the Dallas Mavericks won the NBA championship in 2011.
The NCAA men's basketball Final Four will be played April 5 and 7 in Arlington. And early next year, the NCAA returns with its first College Football Playoff championship. North Texas is competing to land another Final Four between 2017 and 2020.
Victor Matheson, economics professor at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., said researchers pursued these types of questions without much luck.
"A lot of people have tried to look and see whether there is any long-term impact [of sports mega events]," he said. "We've never been able to pick up any. … I can't even think anecdotally of an example about a business that relocated a corporate headquarters because the CEO had such a great time at the Super Bowl or Final Four."
Officials in Dallas and Arlington said they couldn't point to many specifics. However, the Arlington Convention & Visitors Bureau hopes to fill that research gap.
Decima Cooper, a bureau spokeswoman, said the bureau is talking with unnamed Arlington partners about conducting extensive research on the impact of large tourist events. If possible, they want to look at everything from mega events at AT&T Stadium to the much smaller Art on the Greene festival and calculate the benefits beyond the initial spending.
"What we're trying to find out is exactly the impact of the events that happen in our city, not only the obvious impacts," Cooper said.
She said she couldn't be more specific since this is still in the planning stages. The scope of the research is expected to be finalized this year.
The CVB previously looked at the overall economic impact of tourism on Arlington but did not specifically single out AT&T Stadium events.
Matheson said any benefits would likely be so small that they would be lost in the region's huge economy.
"No one has been able to identify these lingering impacts, especially from these short events where you don't build anything new," Matheson said. "It's bad enough when you're trying to quantify a bunch of people coming to town for one weekend. But then looking two or three years and seeing if you can see a bump, that's a really small needle in a really big haystack."
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Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck is confident benefits extend far beyond the point when fans return home.
"Objectively, I can't give you a number," he said. "It has to be economically good. … It's big business."
The stadium has become a tourist destination, and Cluck said it's sometimes as big of a draw as the event. Also, he said the out-of-state mayors he meets now have a much greater familiarity with Arlington, in part because of the stadium.
Cooper said the worldwide exposure has allowed Arlington to boost its international tourism since 2010. That has included a major travel trade show, sports tourism from Mexico, and Japanese executives stopping in Arlington on their way to and from Mexico for business trips.
The Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau has seen a 66 percent increase in bookings of sports events in the past three years. Monica Paul, the bureau's vice president of sports, attributes at least some of that to publicity from high-profile events in Arlington.
Bernard Weinstein, an economist at Southern Methodist University, said name recognition and image are difficult to quantify, but it can be valuable.
He conducted an economic impact study years ago for the San Antonio Spurs and said he found the affect on the local economy was fairly small. The more significant result was how it shaped the national perception of San Antonio as a major city rather than just the home of the Alamo.
"It helps portray the city of San Antonio as being an important place, a big city," he said. "That helps to change the image of San Antonio, and maybe even directly, it helps San Antonio attracts businesses."
Weinstein said the Cowboys helped redefine Dallas in the 1960s and '70s.
"What did people know about Dallas?" he asked. "It was where [John F.] Kennedy was shot."
The Cowboys and the 1970s television show Dallas have long been credited with helping the city in moving past its post-assassination stigma. Weinstein said that type of attention isn't as necessary now.
"Dallas doesn't need the publicity," he said. "Everyone knows Dallas."
Cluck has said previously that AT&T Stadium has taught people nationwide that there are more Arlingtons than just the Washington, D.C., suburb.
The negative
Any city wishing for publicity that comes with mega events should be cautious though, Matheson said. He said the negative news from Russia in the lead-up to the Winter Olympics in Sochi is a prime example.
"What we got was that they had not mastered the technology of flushable toilet paper," Matheson said, referring to problems at some hotels. "And it's a nice place to visit as long as you don't mind being there with 65,000 of your most heavily armed best friends, protecting you from terrorists while simultaneously making sure you don't go there if you're gay."
Closer to home, injuries from falling ice and snow at AT&T Stadium and seating problems days later at Super Bowl XLV generated negative news in 2011 and beyond. Both issues are working their way through the legal system.
Massive snow and ice storms during the Super Bowl and NBA All-Star Game also appear to have given some a misleading impression of the Dallas area's typical winter weather.
"If everything goes well, no one remembers the city at all," Matheson said. "The city is more likely to get blamed if things go wrong, and you just remember the game if it goes perfectly."


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The prevalence of viremia and its relationship to the pathogenesis of nephropathy in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients with renal disease is unknown. To assess the prevalence of plasma viremia in HIV-infected patients with chronic renal disease, we performed a cohort study in two urban university medical centers.
Samples of blood from 11 HIV-infected patients with renal failure who were treated with hemodialysis were analyzed concurrently with control samples from three non—HIV-positive patients receiving hemodialysis treatment. Samples from four HIV-infected patients with chronic renal insufficiency were evaluated concurrently. Thirty-three HIV-infected patients with serum creatinine levels of less than 132 μmol/L (1.5 mg/dL), and trace or absent dipstick proteinuria served as controls for the population with renal disease. The patients infected with HIV were staged by CD4 cell counts and the presence of opportunistic infections. Blood samples were analyzed for plasma HIV p24 antigenemia by antigen capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Blood samples were analyzed for the presence of viremia by infection of normal stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cell cultures with plasma samples and detection of HIV p24 antigen in culture supernatants.
Two of the 11 patients treated with hemodialysis had evidence of HIV p24 antigenemia, while seven of the 11 had evidence of plasma viremia. The proportion of hemodialysis patients with detectable antigenemia and viremia was similar to that in patients with chronic renal insufficiency. A significantly greater proportion of HIV-infected patients with renal disease had plasma viremia and antigenemia, compared with HIV-infected patients without renal disease. In logistic regression analysis, race, CD4 cell count (either on a continuous scale or dichotomized at 0.2×109/L), and treatment with zidovudine were not significantly associated with the presence of plasma viremia, but patient age and the presence of renal disease were factors independently associated with viremia.
The similar proportions of HIV-infected patients with viremia in groups of patients with chronic renal insufficiency and with renal disease treated with hemodialysis suggest that dialysis treatment does not increase the prevalence of plasma viremia in HIV-infected patients with renal disease. The similar proportions of HIV-infected hemodialyzed patients and patients with chronic renal insufficiency with plasma viremia, and the greater prevalence of viremia in patients with renal disease compared with HIV-infected patients without clinical renal disease suggest that plasma viremia and renal dysfunction are related. Whether this represents a cause and effect relationship is unknown. The greater prevalence of viremia in HIV-infected patients with renal disease has implications for the pathogenesis of HIV-related renal diseases and for caregivers in clinical settings and dialysis units.(Arch Intern Med. 1995;155:1578-1584)
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Acquisition provides HID with substantial distribution resources and enhances its service and support organization throughout Europe.
IRVINE, CALIF. – July 30, 1999 – HID Corporation has announced its intention to acquire its largest international distributor, ID Plus. The acquisition is expected to close in August, 1999, and reflects HID's ongoing commitment to deliver superior customer service and to expand internationally.
ID Plus, voted by its customers, "Distributor of the Year" at IFSEC '99, is located at Anne of Cleves House in Haverhill, England. ID Plus was founded in 1994 as a spin-off from Hughes-Scotland when Hughes divested itself of HID and its parent company, Palomar Technological Companies.
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Google launches the Nexus One smartphone
Google sees a future where carriers have to compete on price and the quality of their networks, rather than exclusive deals with handset manufacturers like AT&T's lengthy exclusive deal with Apple for the iPhone and subsequent models. The Nexus One is its first baby step toward that future and it's currently available in unlocked form to consumers in the US, UK, Singapore and Hong Kong for US$529. If for some reason you want to be locked into a contract, the only option is T-Mobile, with the phone available for $179 with a two-year contract, with Verizon (US) and Vodafone (EU) options available in the not-too-distant future.
Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering at Google, refers to the Nexus One as a "superphone" due to the 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU inside. To put this into some perspective, the Motorola Droid, iPhone 3GS and the Palm Pre all use a 600MHz Arm Cortex A8 CPU. I say some perspective due to the lesson that Intel taught us with the Pentium 4 - clockspeed doesn't mean everything.
The Nexus One supports quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900) and tri-band 3G (2100/AWS/900). This means the phone will not support 3G on the AT&T (US), Rogers (Canada) or Telstra (Australia) networks, all of which use the 850MHz band. In terms of speed, there is support for 7.2Mbps HSPA, which T-Mobile have just launched across their entire US network. Those of you on Verizon and Sprint shouldn't feel left out, as Google is preparing a CDMA version of the Nexus One.
Perhaps the biggest flaw in the handset so far (at least, in the US) is the lack of multi-touch capability, despite the hardware being technically capable. This is obviously due to Apple being granted a US patent for multi-touch last January, but whether it's reluctance on Apple's part to license the patent to their biggest competitor, or reluctance on Google's part to license the patent, is not so obvious. Either way, when you're using a device that's designed to be operated with your fingers, and forced to use just one of them at a time, it's less than ideal. Having said that, it won't be long until multi-touch is hacked in to the Nexus One - Android hackers are a crafty bunch, and have recently managed to get multi-touch working on the Motorola Droid's browser.
Nexus One: Hardware
- Display: 3.7" AMOLED 480x800 WVGA display
- Thinness: 11.5mm; Weight: 130g
- Processor/Speed: Qualcomm Snapdragon™ 3G QSD8250 chipset, delivering speeds up to 1GHz
- Camera: 5 megapixel auto focus with flash and geo tagging
- Onboard memory: 512MB Flash, 512MB RAM
- Expandable memory: 4GB removable SD Card (expandable to 32GB)
- Noise Suppression: Dynamic noise suppression from Audience, Inc.
- Ports: 3.5mm stereo headphone jack with four contacts for inline voice and remote control
- Battery: Removable 1400 mAh
- Personalized laser engraving: Up to 50 characters on the back of the phone
- Trackball: Tri-color notification LED, alerts when new emails, chats, text messages arrive
Nexus One: Software
- Google Maps Navigation: offering turn-by-turn driving directions with voice output.
- Email: multiple Gmail accounts; universal inbox and Exchange support.
- Phone book: aggregate contacts from multiple sources, including Facebook.
- Quick Contacts: easily switch between communication and social applications.
- Android Market: access to more than 18,000 applications.
Nexus One: Functionality and Enhancements
- Enter text without typing.
- Use a voice-enabled keyboard for all text fields: speak a text message, instant message, tweet, Facebook update, or complete an email.
- Tell your phone what you want it to do.
- Search Google, call contacts, or get driving directions by just speaking into your phone.
- Take personalization to the next level.
- Dynamic, interactive, live wallpapers react to the touch of a finger.
- More widgets and five home screen panels allow for further device customization.
- Capture camera-quality pictures and video with your device.
- 5 megapixel camera includes LED flash, auto focus, zoom, white balance and color effects.
- View pictures and Picasa Web Albums in the new 3D Gallery.
- Record Hi-Res MPEG4 video, and then upload to YouTube with one click.
- Read your voicemail messages.
- Get transcribed voicemail with Google Voice integration, without changing your number.
For more information, or to purchase a Nexus One, head over to www.google.com/phone.


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Ten Tiny Dances – the yearly set of performances held on 4-foot-by-4-foot stages – is back this July, and this time attendees will be able to meet the artists after their performances.
This year's lineup includes the Sundari Dance Company, POV Dance and Portland Taiko, as well as others. The performances will be held Saturday, July 12, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Beaverton Farmers Market. The market stage is located at Fourth Street and Hall Boulevard.
Programs, maps, and instructions will be available at 10 a.m. Performances begin simultaneously on each of the five stages at 10:30 a.m. and will repeat every half hour.
Audience members can learn more about the performances from dancers, choreographers and Ten Tiny Dances founder Mike Barber in an "artist talk-back" area in front of the Beaverton City Library.
-- Anna Marum


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The United States' World Cup win over Ghana on Monday was so big, the White House got in on the act.
Vice President Joe Biden was in Brazil to see John Brooks' incredible goal and visited the team in the locker room afterwards, as you'll see in the video above. He even made a punny joke (it's unconfirmed whether it was intentional or note) : "This is a kick, man!" he remarked while giving handshakes.
Biden also told DaMarcus Beasley he owned him a drink before the shirtless defender posed with him -- you can hear someone say, "Beas, put some clothes on!" -- and greeted goalkeeper Tim Howard as if they were old friends.
Check out the video above to see Biden's appearance. Plus, check out President Barack Obama's tweet on Monday to show support for the U.S. national team:
11 on the field, more than 300 million cheering them on. #WorldCup #USMNT pic.twitter.com/vVjgAMXN0J— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 16, 2014


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The top ten Aussie films to scare off tourists
A sweaty handful of films that make Tourism Australia's job that little bit harder
More than a few trips down under have likely been inspired by the Movie's depiction of this green and golden land. Ever since cinema-goers gasped at the turn of the century as they watched Ned go down guns blazing in The Story of the Kelly Gang, Australian film has been enticing travellers with panoramas of untamed wilderness buzzing in dusty magic, charmingly unkempt rogues with smiles as quick as their fists, and golden sands lapped by perfect blue waves.
Some filmmakers however prefer to take these tropes and twist and tear at them some until the remoteness, the dreadful beauty of the Australian wilderness, and the rugged free spiritedness of its people are transformed into something rather more unpleasant.
The scariest Australian horror films: 10-6
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Arguably the most iconic Australian films ever. The first two chapters offer a brutal vision of a post apocalyptic Australia in which the rubber road is ruled by savage bikie gangs that terrorise the rapidly crumbling remains of civilisation. Sort of like Geelong. The breathtaking pace of George Millar's muscular direction and the many scenes that remain unmatched to this day in terms of excitement and ruthlessness have ensured the films' place in action movie history.
Most people say that the trilogy had been neutered by the third instalment; I say if a gone-to-seed Tina Turner's awful acting and terrifying hair, Neighbours' Benito Alessi in bondage gear and Mel Gibson beating the living crap out of a mentally handicapped (possibly Jewish) man-child isn't one of cinema's most chilling depictions of the apocalypse, then I don't know what is.
Razorback (1984)
Everyone knows that Australia is home to some pretty nasty critters: crocs, funnelwebs, great whites, dropbears. The ways in which nature can bite you on the arse are as numerous and varied as they are well documented. Something that visitors might not be expecting to have to worry about however are giant homicidal pigs.
Thankfully, Melbourne-born director Russell Mulcahy found time in between directing some of the 80's most famous and campest music clips to address this lack in essential outback survival knowledge and cook up this fun and visually startling cult classic. Surprisingly smart for a film about a boar the size of a combi-van leading a squealing horde of pigs in a vendetta against the local populace.
Body Melt (1993)
Australia's entry into the very small and very sloppy 'melt' genre. Whilst these films were primarily a (thoroughly commendable) excuse for the special effects guys to see just how much latex and corn syrup they can shovel into a film before someone calls them on going that little bit too far over the line, Body Melt manages to keep the viewer entertained during the parts where Melbourne suburbanites aren't turning into puddles of colourful gloop.
It's maniacally funny, has a killer electronic soundtrack and gets in many a dig in at the image obsessed, health gimmick fixated culture of the pill popping early nineties. If you have a strong enough stomach this film is worth tracking down even if it's only to watch Ramsay Street's Harold Bishop gleefully throwing himself into the madness as a psychotic doctor.
Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
A film to make you glad that you decided to leave Adelaide and come to Melbourne, Bad Boy Bubby tells the twisted tale of a 35-year-old man taking his first steps into the outside world after having been confined to his room for his entire life by his abusive mother.
Bubby's darkly funny and oddly touching odyssey through the city of churches involves incest, murder and blasphemy, but it's the scenes of him 'playing' with his pet cat that really got people worked up. I'm pretty sure that isn't an animatronic kitty, and would be willing to bet that the words 'no animals were hurt in the making of this film' aren't to be found anywhere in the credits...
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
As if rampaging bikies, killer fauna and Harold Bishop with a handgun wasn't enough to worry about, the villain here is a million year old volcanic rock formation. The dreamy feel and period setting of this film, which tells the story of the unexplained disappearance of several schoolgirls and their teacher during an outing to the eponymous rock, belies a creepiness that settles over the imagination and is difficult to shake.
Whilst the supernatural is never explicitly alluded to, the film does an excellent job of anthropomorphising Hanging Rock into a malignant, manipulative entity capable of stirring a weird fascination and repulsion in the impressionable young minds of those who wander too deep amongst its crevices and phallic peaks.
Like the novel it was based upon, the film ultimately offers no real explanation of what happened to the girls, and is all the more disturbing for it.
The scariest Australian horror films: 5-1
Dead-End Drive In (1986)
Lawless youth running amok and daring escapes from unusual prisons are two things that filmmakers in the 80's apparently couldn't get enough of, and this film combines both in a masterstroke of celluloid genius.
Problem teenagers are rounded up into a drive-in and left to their own devices. Attempts to keep them occupied with fast food, trashy television and Hunters and Gatherers songs inevitably go tits up and the movie lot is soon looking like an adolescent version of Mad Max. Rather surprisingly based on a short story by esteemed Victorian novelist Peter Carey.
Turkey Shoot (1982)
Prisoners are hunted down and creatively murdered for entertainment in a bleak dystopian future. No, it's not The Running Man, it's a low budget but imaginative, bat-shit insane exploitation film notable for it's ludicrously over the top gore and sheer number of Australian soap actors and actresses.
What it lacks in Arnold Schwarzenegger/Jesse Ventura cage matches it more than makes up for in crossbow wielding lesbians, severed limbs, top-hat wearing wolfmen and gratuitous scenes of 70's bush in the shower block. Possessing the same crazy genius as Peter Jackson's Bad Taste, it makes modern day grindhouse imitations such as Machete and Planet Terror seem like anaemic shadows in comparison.
The Reef (2010)
Sharks: Australia has 'em in spades (those famous underwater scenes in Jaws were filmed off Adelaide, FYI) but it was only in 2010 that someone decided to make an Australian stranded-yacht crew-getting-picked-off-by-a-great-white movie.
The characters in Andrew Trauki's film are as shallow as the water they're frantically paddling in isn't, but the actors (including Gyton Grantley) are good enough to make you feel their terror as the monster fish stalks and devours them one by one. Welcome to the famous Barrier Reef!
Wolf Creek (2005)
The bleak documentary feel, the senselessness of the slayings and the everyman mundanity of the antagonist in Greg McLean's shocking debut feature set the worms of doubt squirming in the brains of many a backpacker planning a road trip through the Australian outback. Nicely touching on themes explored in films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock and Jindabyne, it drops hints that the land itself holds a mysterious and not necessarily benevolent power over those that walk upon it.
It is also responsible for tainting a much loved scene in cinema: here the words "that's not a knife..." aren't followed by an affable bloke showing some New York street thugs who the boss is, but rather an affable bloke giving an explanation, then demonstration, of what a 'head on a stick' is.
Snowtown (2011)
All too believable in its depiction of the horrific Snowtown murders of the 1990s, Justin Kurzel's film has had viewers all over the country asking, is it too soon?
By showing how popular and likeable John Bunting (Daniel Henshall) was, and yet how utterly without remorse he went about torturing and murdering anyone he took dislike to, the film puts a question mark above the head of every seemingly friendly ocker bloke the unsuspecting visitor should happen to meet. Gourmet travellers, beware: in South Australia, it's not just the wine that ferments in barrels.
You're right about Bad Boy Bubby. I went to the same drama school as Nick Hope (Flinders University) and yes, that kitten was real.
I have never watched the film.


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A new report says Missouri gained about 8,200 jobs in April while the state's unemployment rate dipped slightly.
The state Department of Economic Development said Tuesday the growth in seasonally adjusted nonfarm jobs came partly from increases in construction work, the leisure and hospitality sector and retail trade.
It said Missouri's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell by one-tenth of a percentage point to 6.6 percent in April.
Missouri's seasonally adjusted civilian labor force of about 3 million people declined by 1,456 people in April. The labor force counts people with jobs and those who are on unemployment but looking for work.