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Rep. Robert Brawley has filed a bill to once again allow lobbyists to give unreported gifts to N.C. legislators. House Bill 640 "would roll back many of the ethics reforms passed by state lawmakers in the wake of the Speaker Jim Black scandal of 2006," reports WRAL.com. "The measure would repeal bans on gifts from lobbyists to lawmakers and relax requirements that lobbyists disclose such gifts."
*** Edited: Rep. Brawley responded on Facebook last night. Here's what he said:
"All the ethics laws passed after Jim Black went to jail, did nothing but make crooks out of honest people. If a person has integrity they will not be involved in unethical behavior, If they do not have integrity then no law will make them ethical, so I propose to allow people to deal with each other and report it. If the public considers the dealings unacceptable then they can speak with their vote. Much better than forcing it underground and acting as if it does not exist."
Also in the news this morning, WSOC-TV reports that due to contaminant levels, people should limit the number of fish they eat from Lake Norman and Mountain Island Lake. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, according to the report, says the water itself is safe, but it recommends that people eat no more than two meals a month of large-mouth bass and one meal a week of striped bass from Lake Norman. Also from WSOC's report: "The department also recommends that people not eat any channel catfish from Mountain Island Lake ... (and) that pregnant women and young children shouldn't eat largemouth bass or blue catfish from the lake, and everyone else should eat those fish sparingly."


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In last week's column, Sedona Public Library in the Village manager Cheryl Yeatts cited statistics demonstrating that Arizona residents heavily depend on the services public libraries provide. She also praised the efforts of our state library agency in supporting public libraries across Arizona. At Sedona Public Library, we're offering a valuable new service sponsored by the Arizona State Library—the addition of two public computers dedicated to job-seekers.
Approximately 200 public libraries throughout Arizona are installing similar dedicated computer workstations by participating in the State Library's Arizona Job Assistance Center (AzJAC) project. While the AzJAC project is administered by the State Library, the program is funded by a national federal grant intended to address the increased demand by job-seekers on local libraries as places where they can apply for jobs or gain job-related skills. The computers supplied to Arizona libraries through the AzJAC project are officially referred to as Virtual Workforce Workstations, but here at Sedona Library, we call them the "job computers."
Under the terms of the AzJAC program, a library's job computers can be used only by individuals looking for employment, applying for positions, planning careers, improving their job skills, creating a business, or engaging in educational or training activities. These conditions are not as limiting as they first appear—anyone with education or training goals can use a job computer.
In addition to providing Internet access and Microsoft Office applications such as Word and Excel, the Library's new computers include special features for job-seekers. For example, a software program called WinWay Resume helps applicants create resumes and cover letters. Also, the web browser homepage on the computers, the AzJAC project web site, contains Arizona employment information and includes links to other useful resources. From the AzJAC web site, you can access online tutorials on topics such as using social media, practicing for the GED, and preparing for interviews.
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By it's nature the dam is used for evaporating water, and given the waters high hydrocarbon concentrations it naturally volatilises some of these compounds leading to a distinctive odour and hence nuisances to people external to the operations. We have introduced a number of methods to reduce the hydrocarbon loading, some of which exploit simple weirs and cyclones, periodic skimming of the dams to remove lighter fractions accumulating on the surface. In addition to this we treat the water thru a wastewater treatment plant to reduce overall organic loading.
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The battle for the last two spots in the Western Conference playoffs has come down to an incredibly tight race between three teams – the Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns, and Memphis Grizzlies. To make it even more exciting, each of these teams will play one another in the final days of the season, starting Saturday night with Dallas hosting Phoenix. The three teams are currently separated by just one game. Phoenix is percentage points ahead of Dallas, with Memphis currently on the outside, but tied with the Mavs in the loss column.
Phoenix controls its own destiny thanks to a one-game advantage in the loss column over Dallas, but they also have the toughest closing schedule. They travel to San Antonio tonight to take on the team with the league's best record. Meanwhile, the Grizzlies play two cupcakes (the Lakers and 76ers) in addition to their matchups against the Suns and Mavs, while Dallas has only the two games against their competitors for the last two playoff spots left on their schedule.
The tie-breakers are surprisingly straight forward given that these teams will play each other in the closing days of the regular season. Memphis has played Dallas and Phoenix three times each so far – they are 3-0 against Phoenix, and 0-3 against Dallas, so neither of the remaining games involving the Grizzlies will impact the head-to-head tiebreakers. The Mavs and Suns will only have played each other three times when it's all said and done, and they have split the two games thus far. The winner of Saturday night's game between the two will hold the tiebreaker.
These tiebreakers hold up if only two of the teams finish with the same record – Memphis would have the advantage over Phoenix, but not Dallas, and the Mavs/Suns winner Saturday would have the advantage over the other. The real complexity comes if all three teams finish with the same record. In that case the next tiebreaker would be combined winning percentage against the other two teams. If it makes it that far, the results from the head to head matchups over the next few days will have a big impact on who gets in.
So who do the other playoff teams, specifically the Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder (the likely opponents for the winners of this end of season sprint), want to see make it out of this impromptu round-robin and into the actual playoffs?
None of these teams has been hotter than the Grizzlies of late. Since the start of March, they are 14-7 (it's worth noting that they've all been playing well – the worst record of the bunch in that time is the Mavs' 12-8). Unfortunately for Memphis, their brand of grit-and-grind basketball, emphasizing tough defense and the high post/low post synergy of Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph for their offense, plays into the hands of both the Spurs and the Thunder. The offenses are too easy to stop in a seven game series, and relying on defense is all well and good until you have to face Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook or the San Antonio offensive machine. Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, and Manu Ginobili (along with newcomer Kawhi Leonard) aren't about to lose their way against a Memphis team they've owned for the last couple of seasons. Mike Conley is having a great season, and Randolph and Gasol keep plugging along, but neither San Antonio nor OKC will worry if they draw the Griz in round 1.
The wide open offensive attacks of Dallas and Phoenix offer a lot more problems – for the Thunder. It helps that each has a sweet-shooting big to pull Serge Ibaka away from the rim. Dirk Nowitzki is shooting as well as ever, and the Suns' use of Channing Frye has opened up the floor for the rest of the Phoenix offense. These offenses, and innovative coaching from Jeff Hornacek and Rick Carlisle, may keep a series between OKC and either of those teams close, although the Thunder offense would make them the favorites in either series.
As for the Spurs, the only one of the three squads vying to make the last two spots to pull off even a single win against them was the Suns. Phoenix will have a chance to pull even tonight on the road, but it's unlikely that anyone is upsetting San Antonio in the first round barring an injury. Just getting into the playoffs shouldn't be the goal for Memphis, Dallas, and Phoenix – avoiding the Spurs' juggernaut may be the real prize.


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Sunday Series: Top Movie Sites in Oscar Season
In the wake of the Academy Awards at the end of February, I thought movie sites would have an interesting top movers list. I was surprised that the category as a whole had 9% less Unique Visitors than January–though still a sizable amount of traffic with nearly 59 million UVs. Neither Oscars or Academy Awards appeared on the top 100 list of keyword referrals.
The Weekly Compete Pulse
Happy weekend marketers! Here's a round up of the most popular stories Compete shared online this week. Enjoy! PCs are for daytime while tablets come alive at night. Marketingland reported on a new study that showed desktop computer usage spikes during traditional working hours (8am-5pm) while tablets are used more heavily during the evening hours. Smartphones are used throughout the day. The numbers are not surprising, but marketers should consider this
Donglegate and the Evolving Role of Social Media At Work
PyCon, the annual conference for Python developers, was different this year. The event was overshadowed by a heated debate about gender, conduct, and the role of social media in the workplace. For those unaware of the "incident": A female PyCon attendee tweeted a picture of two male attendees after being offended by their conversation that included sexual innuendos regarding "dongles" and "forking code."
Search Marketers, Pick Your Keyword Battles Wisely
Getting found online is one of the major challenges every marketer faces, and it's a problem that can have any number of solutions. One channel that digital marketers rely on to serve this need is search. Whether it's bidding on the right keywords in your paid search efforts or creating keyword-rich content to attract the right customers, doing a bit of competitive research before you dive into search can pay…
Does Loyalty Even Matter for Best Buyers?
With a high expectation to improve customer loyalty this next year, Best Buy has rolled out changes to My Reward Zone with hopes of turning shoppers into loyal buyers. As Best Buy continues their push to match Amazon and Walmart's prices and fight against the ever increasing trend of showrooming, can Best Buy turn their shoppers into buyers and loyal buyers at that?
Registering To Be the Biggest Baby (Brand) Online
The online channel is important for every brand, but it is especially important in the baby category. Brands are fighting to establish a relationship with new and expectant parents, in hopes of establishing a long term relationship with that consumer that they hope to span multiple children. This week, we decided to take a look at one of the best ways to build loyalty with new or expectant parents…
Different Is Better: Blackberry Must Emphasize the Z10's Competitive Strengths
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13 Assassins, his remake of a 1963 film that, I am sorry to confess, I have not seen. Perhaps Miike's film bears such a strong resemblance to the original that it has virtually no personality of its very own, though I strong doubt it, from the evidence. Miike's 13 Assassins is not merely a remake of one single film, but a moderately satiric commentary on the whole body of '50s and '60s jidaigeki (costume dramas set during the more than 250-year Edo period, to us Westerners), dismantling the aesthetic tools of those films and replacing them with something far more acerbically modern.
The plot has received its fair number of comparisons to Kurosawa Akira's legendary Seven Samurai, which I think tells us more about American film critics' relationship with Japanese cinema than it does about 13 Assassins, though I take it as read that Miike was not exempting Kurosawa from his catch-as-catch-can approach. What we have here is fictionalised historical figure Lord Matsudaira Naritsugu (Inagaki Gorô), a young man who enjoys doing evil things almost solely because he can: the younger son of the last Shogun, and brother of the present Shogun, he is one of the most powerful men in the country. He takes this as a license to murder in particularly brutal ways, until eventually, one of the survivors of Matsudaira's savagery commits seppuku as a form of very public protest - it is with this beautifully-shot scene of violence that the film opens, in fact.
Recognising an untenable situation when it slices open its own belly, the high-ranking Lord Doi (Hia Mikijiro) decides to execute a dangerous plot: he hires the wise old samurai Shimada Shinzaemon (Yakusho Kôji) to assassinate the decadent prince, by whatever means necessary. Shinzaemon gathers 11 other samurai to serve as his assassination squad; while traveling to the city where they plan to ambush Matsudaira and his guard, the 12 assassins come across a weird little fellow named Kiga Koyota (Iseya Yûsuke), and thus fulfill the title.
In the international cut running just over two hours - and how damned irritating it is, too, that 20 minutes were snipped out of the Japanese release for what I imagine was no particular reason - this part of the film, the "gather assassins and make a plan" part, runs for about 75 minutes. The rest is the execution of the plot, with "execution" being a pun on the fact that they are not just performing tasks, but killing Lord Matsudaira, or "executing" him. Anyway, the much-ballyhooed 40-minute ending action sequence turns out to thus be slightly longer than 40 minutes, which means in fact that we are getting more than we bargained for. Better yet, the 42-ish-minute ending action sequence is every bit as incredibly well-choreographed and designed as you have probably heard, if you keep your ear out for good Asian action-adventure movies (which is a good thing to do - they are better than ours). It's a little bit like a violent caper movie set in a really muddy rural Japanese village: watch the assassins design traps, and then continue to watch as they trick a much, much larger army of bodyguards into wandering right into those same traps. It is the most Miikevian (Miikeish?) part of the movie, the most rousing, the most enthusiastically bloodthirsty, and the most fun, which are all reasons why it's the part that gets talked about the most.
And that's all well and good, but let's be fair to the rest of the movie: for without the foundation that the first hour and change builds, that action sequence would not be terribly interesting simply because we'd have no investment, and without the outstanding ending, which I will not spoil except to say that it is the culmination of several threads throughout the movie in which violence and authoritarianism are deplored as inherent evils, the action sequence would be so much empty sizzle and the movie itself a shallow exercise in flashy fighting. Not something Miike is inherently opposed to, but I'm rather glad he didn't indulge here.
What the film really is, isn't a delivery system for a hell of a good action setpiece; it's a deconstruction of the medieval Japanese focus on honor and discipline, in reference to similar films that either treated that subject with relatively straightforward appreciation, or similarly satirised and attacked that idea. Visually and narratively, 13 Assassins reflects back to films at least as far apart in time and disparate in tone and theme as Mizoguchi Kenji's 1941 The 47 Ronin and Kobayashi Masaki's 1962 Harakiri (which Miike remade immediately following this film - redundantly, given how much Kobayashi influence there would appear to be in every inch of 13 Assassins). It is a film about how jidaigeki function as much as it is, itself, a jidaigeki, and this extra layer of distance from the subject matter allows Miike to consider the plot critically as much as any of those films ever did - and this is not, I hasten to say, an act of counter-mythology like an American making a neo-Western that deliberately subverts the militarism and racism of classic films. The directors Miike is referencing are mocking or subverting the traditions of Edo period Japan as often as they are upholding and praising them. But none of them do it in such a smirking, playful way as Miike does, nor with the smart use of violence to underline the brutality of this period (not that they could, of course; I might also point out that Miike is not here half as violent as we otherwise know he can be). The point is the same: being driven by honor and only honor is a fool's game. But getting there, here, is a much fresher experience than would seem likely for such a well-trod genre.
And so, for all that the first hour does seem a little bit pokey and exposition-heavy - tightly-constructed and outstandingly well-acted exposition, beyond a doubt, with all of the characters making an impression no matter how little screentime they get: with the titular 13 assassins, one villain, one chief henchman, and one nobleman in charge of the assassins all qualifying as "main" characters, screentime is at a premium - it's hardly the case that 13 Assassins is just a waiting game for an outstanding setpiece, as I've seen it described; the opening hour, with all of its narrative intrigue and visual references, is every bit as important as the setpiece, the "classical" portion of the film where the action is the "Miike" portion. Taken hand in hand, the two halves of 13 Assassins do in fact add up to one very great whole, as engaging and fun as you could ever want an epic tale of corruption-fighting samurai to be.
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Financial Institution Reports
Financial Institution Reports gathers data that aids the Federal Reserve in carrying out its responsibilities for the conduct of monetary policy, the supervision and regulation of the banking industry, and the protection of consumers' rights.
Reports and data series collected and produced by the Chicago Fed's financial reporting group.
Reporting Guidance
FAQs, links to relevant information and interactive worksheets to aid in preparation of reports.
Report Forms & Instructions
Current and historical report forms and instructions.
Financial Reporting Updates
Quinquennial Report Stage One Completed, Stage Two Ends October
August 2, 2016 - Since June 1955, the Federal Reserve System has surveyed the assets and liabilities of finance companies at five-year intervals through its Quinquennial Census and Survey of Finance Companies (the Quinquennial). Over the past year, the Chicago statistics group, as well as groups from all of the Reserve Banks, has been gathering information from a pool of 35,000 domestic companies throughout the System via the Quinquennial.
The Quinquennial is a two-stage survey of finance companies. The first stage is the Census of Finance Companies (FR 3033p) that is sent to all known domestic companies that are likely to supply credit or lease financing to households and businesses. From the questionnaire respondents, the Federal Reserve draws a random sample of companies for the second stage, the Survey of Finance Companies (FR 3033s). This survey requests detailed information from the respondents' balance sheets.
The data obtained from the Quinquennial survey have been instrumental in identifying finance companies in the United States and supplementing the data in the monthly domestic finance company reports (FR 2248). The FR 2248 report data is presented in the Federal Reserve System's G.20 statistical releaseand provides a comprehensive update on these companies' sources of funds. This information in turn becomes an important input to the estimates of total consumer credit presented in the Federal Reserve's G.19 statistical release and the U.S. flow of funds accounts all produced by the Federal Reserve System.
Currently all districts are in the second survey stage and will begin contacting nonresponsive companies in July. The Quinquennial will come to an end in October and begin again in 2020.
Additional information about these reports can be found on the Board website.


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YEMEN. Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co is set to acquire an interest in an oil and gas field in southern Yemen from Australian resources developer Adelphi Energy, it was learned on Friday.
The prospective deal, seen to be worth ¥400 million (US$4.1 million) will give Mitsui an 8.5% stake in an undeveloped area of the field. It will be the first time for the company to obtain a stake in a Yemeni oil and gas field.
Mitsui plans to conduct joint exploration with other companies, the sources said.
Since there is a field nearby that produces 100,000 barrels of crude oil per day, the area to be explored by Mitsui is seen to be promising, the sources said.
Mitsui is promoting oil and gas development in the Middle East. It has acquired concessions in Oman, Qatar and Abu Dhabi of the UAE.


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Supercross Starts Jan 5th
January 4th, 2013
Well local boy Villopoto is going to be back on the scene. This is a little crossover action…moto being filmed by Clay Porter of mountain bike fame video fame. Stoked to see him making some moves into other racing. Cant wait til tomorrow for some Supercross action!
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Pereira Picks Up AMC Player of the Week
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
by Cindy Fotti
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Hannibal-LaGrange junior Thiago Pereira has been named the American Midwest Conference Offensive Player of the Week for men's soccer.
Pereira, a 6-0 midfielder for the Trojans, helped his squad to a 2-0 week with commanding wins over Culver-Stockton College and Lindenwood University at Belleville. The Belo Horizonte, Brazil native was instrumental in both victories, earning eight points on the week. Against the Wildcats of Culver-Stockton, Thiago netted one goal and had two assists. He followed that with a two-goal outing against Lindenwood-Belleville.
The Trojans improved to 5-2 on the season and have their first AMC contest of 2011 on Saturday when they head to Parkville, Mo. to take on the Park Pirates.
HLGU is a Division I NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) school and a member of the American Midwest Conference.
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Up yours, Russo!
so timely! Coinciding with the Oscars!
PS: it sucks being47 :(
I get high88 on Brian's body
How often are we going to see Brian naked? Ass, crotch, chest… Brian must looooooove his body. Bet it looks great in the evening62.
Once Gulliver gained the trust of the Lilliputians, he went to work convincing them he was sent by God himself. The small minded folk, agreed that only through this activity71, would they stand a chance at making it to tiny Heaven. The Golden tongue of Gulliver would be their undoing.
Somehow, I can see this being how they actually make Oscars
No, nobody deserves the little man and like him they are covered46 in gilt.
Ah, this must be an attempt to strike a karmic balance in Gender Fanservice. I hope the scales are in balance, and we can move away from dude-skin back to babe-skin.
Easily my favorite of the week. In fact it was so brilliant that it caused growth56 in my pants.
this never happens! now twice late uploads.