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I just finished reading the article in today's Baltimore Sun about the obscene number of tickets available for sale online. Now I understand that people have every right to sell there tickets and to whoever with e-bay and ticketstub available but why? I mean if you have no way to get out of work or something like that please sell your tickets to other ravens fans and not potential visiting fans. Just want to see what people have to say about it.


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Below is an excerpt from an article that appeared in National Mortgage News by Brad Finkelstein
December marks seven years since the Federal Open Market Committee cut the target for its benchmark federal funds rate to nearly zero.
The Great Recession technically ended six months after the Federal Reserve's dramatic interest rate cut, though to say the subsequent recovery has moved at a glacial pace would be an understatement.
But as a meaningful economic recovery appears to be finally taking hold, all eyes are on the FOMC amid speculation that it may soon raise rates. That watershed moment, whenever it comes, will necessitate a re-evaluation of many aspects of the "new normal" that have taken hold since the Great Recession.
Case in point: the adjustable-rate mortgage. The product, popular during periods of rising interest rates and home prices — and vilified for contributing to excesses that precipitated the housing crisis — has fallen out of favor among lenders and consumers.
But ARMs may soon be ready for a revival, albeit with tighter regulatory restrictions and a re-calibration of longstanding assumptions about who the product is best suited to serve.
Lenders are already seeing the beginnings of renewed interest in ARM loans. Even exotic variants, like the option-ARM, may have a role to play with the right consumer. "I believe adjustables will make a comeback. "The reason they haven't as of yet is because fixed rates have been so low for so long," said Dave Jacobin, president of 1st Mariner Mortgage, a subsidiary of Baltimore's 1st Mariner Bank.
When FRMs do hit 5%, Jacobin predicts ARM volume will pick up, "but nothing dramatic." Others agree. "But there is a market for ARMs that makes sense," he added.
For example, if a borrower intends to stay in a house for less than five years, a 5/1 ARM offers a lower rate than a 30-year loan and the rate won't adjust before the borrower is ready to move. Even if the borrower stays in the home longer than planned, there are caps on how much the interest rate can increase.
Now, as a new market for ARM loans may be emerging, lenders say they're mindful of the lessons learned during the crisis. "I want to make sure that any borrower I put into that product fully understood the ramifications of the upside and the downside," Jacobin said. Education is the key to bringing the ARM loan back to the mainstream, said Jacobin.
Salespeople need "to make sure they explain every nuance and detail to their customers, describe the worst-case scenario, and make sure the borrower is comfortable with it, and it is not just something where they can get them into a property so they can get a commission."
"It's much more important — and it will benefit them — they make sure the adjustable-rate mortgage products are given to people who it makes sense for them to take it. Frankly that will lead them to a better reputation, more referrals and everybody wins," he added.
Read the full article at NationalMortgageNews.com.
Tags: ARMS, National Mortgage News, Mortgage
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To serve you better, we are proud to announce the opening of our Timonium branch located in the Timonium Square shopping center at 2129 York Road, Timonium, MD 21093. The existing Cockeysville branch closes at the end of business on Friday, November 20th and our new branch will reopen on Monday, November 23rd at 9 a.m. at the new Timonium location.
The new Timonium branch has earned the title "The bank of the future" because of its sleek design and new technology. The branch will include an interactive technology bar, business center, lounge, conference room, and all-in-one ATMs. This branch is not just a space for existing customers; it is a space for the community. The public, including those who do not bank with 1st Mariner, are welcomed to use the conference space and business center to host business meetings, free of charge. The lounge-like environment allows members of the community to have a designated space to collaborate together, even over a cup of coffee.
The relocation and redesign is the first branch of what we plan to use as a model for future growth and expansion. "We see the relocation as a superior opportunity to connect the Timonium, Cockeysville and Lutherville markets together in one convenient location," said Wade Barnes, Director of Retail Banking at 1st Mariner Bank. "As Baltimore's community bank, we want to provide the best facilities, products and customer experience possible, because that is what our customers deserve."
We are excited about this new direction and we invite you to visit the new location to check out all that it has to offer.
Tags: Announcement, new branch, bank of the future, Timonium
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Your twenties is a time of transition and also a great time to set the foundation for your life. Creating a list of goals has helped me keep track of where I am and where I would like to be in my personal and professional life. That being said, here is my list of twenty-five things to accomplish before the age of twenty-five:
1. Earn a bachelor's degree
2. Earn a graduate degree
3. Read at least 5 self-help books
4. Have at least 3 months wages in savings
5. Invest in the stock market
6. Own a car
7. Start retirement savings
8. Expand your professional network
9. Earn a promotion at work
10. Perfect your professional wardrobe
11. Travel to Europe
12. Take a trip to Las Vegas
13. Go on a cruise
14. Take a vacation with your significant other
15. Go skydiving
16. Attend a music festival
17. Attend a wine festival
18. Participate in a marathon or 5K for a good cause
19. Spend time volunteering to a cause close to your heart
20. Have a regular exercise routine
21. Develop a relaxing and healthy hobby
22. Learn how to cook more than the basics
23. Try a drastic make over
24. Let go of all people who no longer serve a positive purpose in your life
25. Most importantly, grow to truly love yourself
If you are already past the 25 mark, how many of these items were you able to accomplish before the age of 25?
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I'm planning to get a hold of a 2008 toyota vios. What are the common problems that are apparent to this make and model?
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Hi....just read your latest update and noticed you are having trouble with wifi coverage. Am I correct that you are sending from an iPad? I HAVE A BRAND NE MINI and also have had problems just this week at LAX airport. Dick had complete coverage with his iPhone. We plan a trip to Greece and Ireland this June and wonder if you have any suggestions. Did you plan this current trip yourself. Or is it with a cruise line? New Zealand and Australia are also on my bucket list!!! Happy traveling!
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The next day we walked to Albert Park and visited the New Art Gallery were we spent the better part of the day. On the way back we had lunch at a Mc Donalds and tried to use their WiFi but no one there could get on. Along the way back we came upon a computer store an picked up a card reader for the Ipad. Which allows us to upload and download from the PC to the IPad. We walked and saw a park with a large Maori arch at the entrance and many entertainment areas boardering the park.their National Maritime Museum contains a replica of the Maori outriggers that were used to travel the Pacific. Jim Siers with his 13 man crew carried them from Kiribati to Fuji in 1976, and a documentary proved the journey was possible.
Noted explorer Kelly Tarlton invested his fortune into a natural marine park in Auckland harbor. The main attraction is a100 foot plexiglass tube beneath the harbor. You don't have to be a child to appreciate the chance to see the world through a divers eyes without ever getting your feet wet. There is a slow moving tread to allow visitors to observe creatures in their natural habit in full 360 degree panorama without getting wet. Graceful rays and sharks glide past octopus,eels and a variety of other fish. And we were told that this is the first attractions of its kind in the world. On our way to the ship we passed by the Sky Tower that we saw down a street and took a few photos, one included a bungee jumper doing his thing. Queen street was a shoppers heaven with many upscale shops along both sides of the street.
Back on the ship we showered and went to a vigil mass before eating another sumptuous diner and headed to the nights entertainment.
Next day we took a bus to Parnell a upscale suburb to see some of the sights which included a visit to the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. It consist of a cluster of parts the 100 year old wooden St.Mary's, the brick-clad chancel into which we entered a spacious nave. Here we could see the beautiful stained glass windows which are said to be the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. The artist is Nigel Brown, and the windows were made in his studios in Auckland. The cathedral organ was built by Harrison& Harrison has many pipes and the console is located on a bridge above where the organist plays. We walked back to the ship mostly downhill to Auckland and passed the many unusual buildings along the way.
The following day we went with the Thornton's to Devonport by a 12 minute ferry ride across the bay. Here we walked along the coast and had great views of Auckland and Sky Tower. The Devonport Peninsula has beautiful colonial architecture with a peaceful and tranquil village setting. In fact most of New Zealand is the most livable country we have experienced, walking we passed the yacht club and went to the marine museum. Here we spent about 2 hours exploring the exhibits from the European expansion all the way to the Second World War. We slowly walked back to the ferry for our return trip,for which we bought round trip tickets. We wanted to visit Waitombo a Maori cave about two hours from Auckland but were unable to get a good deal from any of the tour agencies and forget the ship which is always two hundred percent above the tour agents on shore. So I noticed we could visit the caves from our next port and decided to try there. That evening the entertainer was a ventriloquist, not usually my favorite performers, but we decided to go and sit in the back so if we didn't like it sneaking out would be easy
The next port was Tauranga, New Zealand on the Western part of the Bay of Plenty. Captain Cook sailed into the bay on the Endeavor in October 1769, and called it the Bay of Plenty because there were so many thriving and friendly communities around the bay that gave him many supplies he needed. Tauranga is the principal city, which enjoys one of the highest proportions of sunny days in New Zealand. We were surprised at the great amount of lumber exported from this area, they replace every tree cut down so there resource is renewable . Many retirees are attracted to the temperate climate and modern facilities including beaches and the headland scenery of the volcano Mount Maunganui across the Tauranga Harbor. Tauranga is a Maori name meaning the "resting place for canoes", for this was where some of the first Maori to arrive in New Zealand landed.
Well we went ashore and tried to get a tour to see the glow worms in a cave over two hours away in Waitomo. Their were many tour guides, but only one was going to the Waitomo caves. While negotiating with Terry the driver another passenger came up looking for the same tour her name was Elsa and she was from California. This helped our negotiations because now we had three going instead of two. We settled on $160 per person and headed to the caves, this was a little high but we had a private car and a good speaker. He told us about the areas as we traveled through the countryside,he was a retired Air Force Captain and has been a travel agent for nine years. Our first stop was to see the national bird a nocturnal bird called a kiwi , it has brown feathers a long beak to dig for worms and lays very large eggs. It was very dark in the area keep that way to fool the bird, who are nocturnal, and would ordinarily be sleeping durning the day,we saw two of the birds but it was difficult to get a good photo
From there we drove to the caves were he told us were to stand to be in the best spot for the tour. The guides name was Mark and he led us through a dimly lite cave to see the usual stalagmite and stalactites in the limestone cave. The cave is owned by the Maori chief and one of his granddaughters was married in the cave. Mark lead us to a boat and we all squeezed in and floated down the river into the glow worms. Where they hang from the roof of the cave and in their larval form they spin a sticky thread that hangs down and traps flying insects in the cave. There whole life cycle is only eleven months while spending nine months in this larval stage. The roof of the cave was aglow with the light coming from the worms. And Mark explained that the glow is a chemical reaction that makes the light the same as the glow sticks. After leaving the cave we took a few pictures,but we're unable to take any pictures or make any sound in the caves. The trip back to the port was long, but our guide took us to a store that sells a medicinal honey that Elsa was interested in buying. We went in and there were actual tubs of honey selling for big bucks, they also had bee pollen in capsule form. From there we headed to the ship and our next port.
Napier, New Zealand in Hawke's Bay, is a popular tourist destination for its Art Deco buildings and the statue of Pania of the reef,which is regarded in the same way as the little mermaid statue in Copenhagen
Sheep outnumber people in New Zealand with a human population of 4.3 million and a sheep population of 45 million. In the 1850's, the first large scale wool producing operation was established in the Wairarapa Valley on the Southern part of the North Island. With the advent of refrigeration the meat industry started with a ship called the Dunedin that sailed to England in 1882 bringing mutton. The sheep dogs are highly trained and manage the flocks in an amazing way
Next stop is Wellington the Capitol of New Zealand and the second largest city and replacing Auckland where William Hobson had established his Capitol in 1841. Even though the Capitol moved in 1863 the city did not become the official Capitol for some time. it was only the move for the South Island to form a separate colony that forced them to make Wellington the official Capitol, since it was close to Cook strait, where they were closer. Wellington is the Southernmost Capitol city in the world with a latitude of 41 degrees South. Because it is located in the roaring forties latitudes, and the omnipresent winds, it is known as "Windy Wellington".
We left the ship after breakfast with the Thornton's and took the shuttle to town. The first stop was the tram to the hilltop for an impressive view of the city and waterfront. We could not see the Parliament building or the famous Beehive from there, but we took some pictures when we came down. We walked around quiet a bit and saw the botanical gardens, and a small planetarium. Mary Ann and I were going to walk down, but the Thornton's wanted to take the tram since we all bought round trip tickets. After getting down we walked to the library but were unable to use their free network, so we went to the Parliament buildings
The next day we arrived in Picton, New Zealand across the Cook Strait on the South Island at the head of Queen Charlotte Sound. The inter island ferry was docked next to our ship and a number of people on the Waitomo cave tour had taken the ferry that day from the South Island to make that tour. This is a very busy port in the summer with all the people using the ferry to go from the North to the South Island and vice versa. The rest of the time this is a very sleepy town. There were a number of kiosks set up for wood workers and other crafty people. We walked about and went to the museum housing the hull of the Edwin Fox an old sailing vessel that is scheduled for refurbishing. It is said to be the ninth oldest ship in the world. Built of teak in the Bengal region of India, the 157 foot, 760 ton vessel was launched in 1853
Valentines day is coming up and the crew are busily making preparations decorating making all kinds of food and drinks. Our table mate John is a 4 or 5 star traveler and he gets the wine packages for half of what I pay, so he offered to buy the package for me, and I would repay him. Tomorrow we arrive in Sidney, but we are not docking at the dock across from the Opera House so we wil have to be shuttled to the city center. This should work fine, since it is only a few miles from downtown.


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It was a few minutes after they left the party that his 24-year-old assistant, Benjamin Wegg-Prosser, broke the news to Mandelson that his pounds 373,000 home loan from Geoffrey Robinson, arranged in 1996, was soon to become public in a book about the Industry Secretary. If Mandelson was terrified by the prospect, he did not show it.
The following morning, in his large, modernist eighth-floor office, its huge picture window looking down over Westminster Abbey, he convened a meeting with Sir Michael Scholar and other officials. He took this remarkable meeting in what one of those present would later observe was a very "Peterish" way. He asked Sir Michael to refresh his memory on his role, or lack of it, in the DTI investigation into complaints over Robinson's business and financial affairs, including the letters he had written to Conservative MPs on the subject. Back in September, when Scholar had told Mandelson about the investigation into Robinson, by now a Treasury minister, he had accepted the permanent secretary's view that he and other DTI ministers should not be "involved in the process".
When Scholar had finished his resume, Mandelson said quietly: "Well, even if I had not had a loan to buy my house from Geoffrey, I would have still stood aside from the investigation." There was a long, ominous pause. "I didn't know you had a loan to buy your house," Scholar replied, just as quietly. "We'll have to look into it." It was a conversation which should have taken place almost exactly six months earlier, when Mandelson, thrilled to be in the Cabinet at last, and with a department of his own, first arrived to replace Margaret Beckett at the DTI on the day of the reshuffle. Now, though he did not yet realise this, it was too late.
How did it happen? How was it that a politician so famous for being Tony Blair's human radar, so skilled at spotting the treacherous shallows and reefs that lie in wait for any government, could fail to see the jagged rock on which his own boat would founder? One of the Labour Party's most uncompromising chieftains puts himself under an enormous obligation - however generously and innocently conferred - to one of his greatest adversary's closest allies. Then he fails either to consult or inform Tony Blair, his own best friend in politics, apparently for no better reason than that his benefactor has exhorted him not to. When he arrives in government, a bloodied veteran of campaigns against Tory violations of ministerial standards, he does not tell the Cabinet Secretary of his plainly embarrassing financial obligations.
At any point he could probably have prevented the coming catastrophe. If a colleague had been in the same position he would have convened crisis meetings, organised swat teams, devised a media strategy, enlisted accountants, told him to sell his house - virtually anything to defuse the ticking explosive under the seat of government. Instead, even when every three months or so Wegg-Prosser mentioned the loan, usually when they were sitting in the very house it had funded, he merely shuddered briefly and changed the subject. This was, above all, a very secret secret.
Mandelson's own explanation for the secrecy about his home loan was that, back in 1996, he was honouring Robinson's request to keep it confidential; however, he would not have been able to withhold what would anyway have been a prize item of gossip had Blair asked him how he had paid for his house. But Blair had not asked him; and to have told Blair once he was in government would have unacceptably complicated every judgement Blair made which had the remotest bearing on Mr Robinson or his future. But did this really explain why Mandelson did not tell anybody about the loan, apart from Wegg-Prosser, whose father, a solicitor, had carried out the conveyancing for the house purchase and had processed the loan agreement?
After the meeting between Mandelson and Sir Michael Scholar on Thursday 18 December, Wegg-Prosser telephoned Alastair Campbell, the Prime Minister's Press Secretary, to break the bad news, first about the loan, and secondly that it would shortly be made public. The timing was unfortunate. In two hours' time the Prime Minister was due in the House of Commons to make a statement about the bombing of Iraq which had begun the previous night. Indeed, when Campbell, recognising immediately that the loan was what he would later call a "big bad story", went to pass the unwelcome information on to Blair, the Prime Minister looked with understandable irritation at his watch, as if to say: "Why is he bothering me with this now?" Nevertheless Blair paused long enough to ask Sir Richard Wilson, the Cabinet Secretary, to look immediately into the question of whether the loan had placed Mandelson in a conflict of interest because of the DTI Robinson investigation.
Among some of those at Downing Street - though not yet all - there was almost straight away a sense that this might be serious enough to lead to Mandelson's resignation; Mandelson himself believed that, provided it could be established that there was no conflict over the investigation, he would be able to ride it out.
The responsibility for taking the loan was Mandelson's and his alone. He was not the victim of some elaborate honeytrap. He had acted of his own free will. The question of who had exposed him was therefore secondary. But according to all the evidence, exclusively circumstantial as it was, he would not have been exposed had it not been for the fratricidal conflict between himself and the politician he had once idolised above any other. The loan was as secret as it had been inadvisable to take. But its existence had long been known to a handful of Gordon Brown's closest allies, of whom Robinson was one, at least since the turn of the year 1996-97.
According to one source close to the Brown camp, the Shadow Chancellor himself knew about the loan from that period. The author of the imminent Mandelson book, Paul Routledge, was a close friend of Charlie Whelan, the Chancellor's Press Secretary. Routledge and Whelan strongly denied that Whelan had been the source, Routledge being, by his own account, so fastidious in exculpating Whelan that he had tried at the eleventh hour to excise the story of the loan from his book about Mandelson in order to protect his friend even though he was not responsible for it.
But in any event, Whelan was not alone in Brown's circle in knowing about it.It is virtually certain that Brown was not personally responsible for the disclosure. It is much more likely it was from among his most zealous supporters, who knew what deep feelings of betrayal and mistrust he had harboured against Mandelson since the leadership crisis in 1994, that the secret leaked out. It now seems probable that the informant was someone who had believed that if Mandelson was not first destroyed, he would destroy Brown; someone who, like Henry I's knights, set out to rid him of this troublesome priest.
In the immediate period after he had learned that the loan was to be disclosed, Mandelson showed little outward sign of anxiety; on Thursday, he went about his office duties as normal and in the evening went to three separate parties.
At one, given at Duke's Hotel in London by The Independent's editor Simon Kelner, he stayed for an hour or more, chatting amiably to a number of journalists on several topics, including, remarkably, the future of the New Statesman and whether his friend Robert Harris would succeed in buying it from Geoffrey Robinson. He suggested that anyone who had "looked at the figures" would be wary of making the purchase. He went on briefly to a party given by Max Hastings, editor of the London Evening Standard, before returning to the DTI, where the annual party held by all the ministerial private offices was in full swing. Never one to pass up an opportunity to dance, Mandelson enthusiastically led the company in a boisterous conga. The following day he travelled to Hartlepool and held his own annual Christmas party for his constituency activists at his house in Hutton Avenue.
It was when Campbell spoke to Mandelson on the telephone from Downing Street - where he spent most of the weekend because of the Iraq bombing - on Saturday, that Mandelson began to realise just how serious his problem was. He would have to reschedule the loan. And this was precisely what Blair, in two separate telephone conversations with Mandelson that weekend, firmly advised. The loan, he was clear, would have to be paid off. By Sunday Mandelson was able to reassure Blair that he had spoken both to his mother and to his brother Miles and that they had agreed "in principle" that his mother would take an "equity stake" in the house so that he could repay Robinson. But he also acknowledged to Blair that his mother"s funds were not so accessible that this could be done "immediately".
Or in time to stave off mounting crisis. Exposure was now imminent; by Monday The Guardian, quite independently of the forthcoming book, had assembled enough information to put it to both principals that Robinson had lent between pounds 300,000 and pounds 400,000 to Mandelson to buy his house in Notting Hill.
By this time the wise lawyers of the Blair political family, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, and Lord Falconer, Mandelson"s emollient successor as Minister without Portfolio, had gathered with Campbell, Lance Price and Benjamin Wegg-Prosser at Downing Street (while Mandelson paid what would be his last ministerial visit to the Dome) to discuss both when to release what would now inevitably become public, and what line of defence, if any, would be credible. In the end, despite Campbell"s lingering reservations about the timing, Mandelson and Wegg-Prosser confirmed the Guardian story, adding the detail of the exact amount. So began Mandelson's 24-hour fight for his political life.
The Ministerial Code, which Mandelson was adamant he had not violated, does, in paragraph 123, place a burden on ministers to consult the permanent secretary about "any action which they are considering to avoid any actual or potential conflict of interest" and to inform the Prime Minister in "cases of doubt". Equally, the Members' Interest Register requires registration of "any gift or material advantage received by the Member... from a UK source, which in any way relates to membership of the House". In January the incoming Registrar of Members' lnterests acknowledged that many MPs in all parties believed that loans from fellow MPs did not have to be registered, but made it clear that she was now advising all MPs to register "all loans wherever they come from".
There was, however, a third question, quickly spotted by the Tories. Had he mentioned any loan when he filled in his application form for a Britannia Building Society mortgage? He had not - though at this stage he said that he was sure he would have filled the form in fully, and later that that the loan had not been agreed when the form had been filled in. It would not be until January that the Britannia announced the information at the time of the application had been accurate and that there had been no undue risk to the Society.
In between his visits to the studios, with the experience of mounting a public defence becoming more and more, as he would put it later, "wretched", he telephoned two of his closest friends, Robert Harris and Sir Dennis Stevenson, chairman of Pearson's, to review the struggle. Stevenson, in particular, advised him not to rule out the "option" of resignation as the cleanest way to defuse the crisis. At 10pm he had his first direct conversation with the Prime Minister, by now at Chequers, since the weekend. Blair, worried, tired by the Iraq crisis, and concerned for his friend, asked him for his assessment, as he had done in the past on countless issues in which Mandelson had not personally been involved. Mandelson's reply was that the press were "completely hysterical, out of control, and out for my blood". He was prepared to say that he had made a mistake but not that he had done anything "fundamentally wrong".
The press, however, was unwilling to view either the mistake, or his acknowledgement of it, sympathetically. He was therefore faced with a choice: either he could continue to defend himself and hope - probably vainly - that the tide would turn; or he could go on to say that when politicians made a mistake, they should pay a price - this would almost certainly mean resignation, which would be "very painful". It was at this point that Mandelson appears to have mentioned the dangers of seeming to be, as Blair would later recall it in writing, "like the last lot". Blair listened and suggested that the two of them should sleep on it.
Which Mandelson did. At 7am, he telephoned Wegg-Prosser and proposed that he should telephone Downing Street and ask Campbell, his deputy Lance Price and Jonathan Powell to go over to the DTI later in the morning. The ostensible purpose was to discuss the next stage of his fightback. But Mandelson now acknowledged to Wegg-Prosser for the first time that he might have to resign. At around 8.30, not yet having read what was certainly the most uniformly hostile press coverage he had ever received, he telephoned Gordon Brown.
The very fact that he did so illuminated the complexity of his relationship with that complex man. On the one hand Mandelson firmly believed that the story now threatening his destruction had been leaked by one of Brown's allies.
On the other he was reverting at a moment of maximum crisis to the one trusted friend and colleague he would have consulted unhesitatingly at any point in the period between 1988 and 1994. Brown, moreover, sounded traumatised by the unfolding events. Nor did he think, at this stage, that Mandelson should resign, believing instead that he should face out the embarrassment, make an admittedly quite fulsome apology, but live on to fight another day. Not long after 10am, just as Mandelson was perched on his desk reading his papers, Powell, Price and Campbell arrived; after a short period Price and Powell, though not Campbell, left the room so that Mandelson could telephone Blair. Campbell had been at his side at each of the two most traumatic points of his life: his "outing" by the News of the World in 1987 and the immediate aftermath of his father's death in 1988. Now he was about to witness at first hand his traumatic resignation from the government they had both lived for.
In retrospect this all seems embarrassingly maudlin. At the time it seemed like a family bereavement, which in a sense it was. Indeed, Cherie Booth indicated as much when she telephoned Mandelson from Chequers at around noon and told him warmly that he would "always be part of the family". Where was he going to be later? At home. No, that wouldn't do. He must come down to Chequers in the evening; her children would be there, along with her mother Gale. It would, in other words, be a family occasion. Blair came onto the line and reinforced the invitation: "We want you to be with us."
This was a warm gesture from Blair, a kind man - but also a steely one. Did Mandelson jump or was he pushed? The answer appears to be that Mandelson acted with propriety in raising spontaneously and directly with Blair the possibility of resignation as early as his telephone call of Tuesday evening. By Wednesday morning, Blair had come to his own clear view that Mandelson should go. Mandelson, in other words, had been prepared to resign. But if he hoped, and it would have been unnatural if a part of him had not, that Blair would talk him out of it, then he was disappointed.
It was true that Sir Michael Scholar, who was deeply dismayed by Mandelson's departure, had cleared him of a conflict of interest over Roinson's affairs; Lord Jenkins, a former Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, subsequently told a friend of Mandelson's that in view of that he did not need to resign. On the other hand the political price paid by the party and the government, not to mention Mandelson himself, would have been too heavy to contemplate. In the event Blair went out of his way in his official letter to say that he expected Mandelson to do "much, much more with us"; he believed that politicians can rebuild themselves.
Much less officially, he took the trouble to write out, for Mandelson's arrival at Chequers, some private advice on how he might do just that. It was full of common sense. Having faced the knocks, he should accept them and get on with life. He should demonstrate that he was a conviction politician "freed to do and say what you believe in". He should spend more time in Hartlepool. He should "mix more in Parliament and be a team player". And he should sell his house.
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IT WAS during the summer of 1996 that Mandelson went, at Geoffrey Robinson's invitation, for dinner a deux in the annexe of the Grosvenor House Hotel, where the MP, now a multi-millionaire, occupied a flat with a wide balcony looking across Park Lane and Hyde Park.
The principal topic over the sole was Gordon Brown, and Mandelson's painfully fractured relationship with him. They had already spoken on this subject several times since the traumas of the leadership crisis in 1994, when Robinson, unlike Mandelson, had remained a Brown man. Robinson always made it clear to Mandelson that one of his prime responsibilities was to ensure that the bond between Blair and Brown was never `rent asunder'.
Geoffrey Robinson would say later, when both men had resigned from the government, that Mandelson had "asked" for a loan. The Mandelson version was slightly different: he had indeed explained he wanted to "get settled" soon; once he was a minister he wouldn't want to be bothered with selling his "poky little flat in Clerkenwell". According to Mandelson's friends, it was Robinson, a famously generous man, who said something like: "Eventually, you'll be in the Cabinet, you should have somewhere in London where you can have a good home, where you can bring people round." Mandelson said that he did not have the "resources" and Robinson said: "Well, one day you'll write your memoirs." Mandelson then told him that he would inherit a substantial legacy. When Robinson asked how substantial, Mandelson replied that it would be "in the region of half a million pounds". Then, as Mandelson would later confide in his friends, Robinson said: "Fine - I could tide you over." The conversation was left hanging, with the loan from Robinson not finalised until early October. It was clear from Robinson's tone that he would be in no hurry for repayment.
Mandelson now accepted some more immediate help from Robinson. As someone who knew about property, he could help him find a place. Together, driven by Robinson's chauffeur, they set out house-hunting in W2 and W11.
They visited two or three flats which Robinson pronounced unsuitable. Why not go for a small house instead? This appealed strongly to Mandelson. The first house which attracted him was in Ladbroke Road, just behind Notting Hill Gate. It had an asking price of pounds 500,000. Mandelson made an offer on it but he was swiftly gazumped. But then they found the narrow, four-storey Georgian house in Northumberland Place, a significantly quieter street. It also had the added advantage of being pounds 35,000 cheaper. Mandelson had found a London home he wholeheartedly liked.
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Digital is key to improving trust for banks and insurance companies, finds new BT & Avaya research
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Youbiquity Finance survey shows that convenient digital services such as video chat can help people better understand financial products and improve trust
Banks and insurance companies can ride a wave of digital transformation to deliver better services and improve customer relationships. Those are some of the key findings of new research by BT and Avaya.
The research, Youbiquity Finance, is based on a survey of 3,000 consumers in Germany, Spain and the UK and builds on previous studies published in 2012 and 2014. It finds that consumers' growing use of technology for financial products and services is coinciding with a warming of their relationships with their banks and insurance companies.
Thirty-five per cent of UK consumers now say that they have a strong relationship with their bank, up from 29 per cent in 2014. In Germany, the figure stands at 59 per cent, while in Spain it's 40 per cent.
The improving relationship between banks and their customers is also evident in the number of people who say that their bank puts customers at the heart of their business. In the UK, this figure grew from 19 per cent in 2014 to 33 per cent in 2016. In Germany and Spain the figures for 2016 are 50 per cent and 34 per cent respectively.
In the same period, consumers' use of technology for financial services has become widespread. The research finds that 46 per cent of UK consumers now use a PC or MAC once a week or more to check balances, while 27 per cent of those surveyed use a smartphone banking app. This is similar to numbers in Germany at 51 per cent and 17 per cent respectively and in Spain at 54 per cent and 35 per cent respectively.
This familiarity with technology is giving people the confidence to try more complex banking interactions digitally. Twenty nine per cent of all respondents say that they have applied for mortgages online, versus 17 per cent in 2014. And in the same period, the number of UK consumers applying online for current accounts rose to 31 per cent from 25 per cent, while in Spain the number grew from 19 per cent to 22 per cent.
Similar confidence can be seen in the use of digital technology for complex insurance enquiries with 37 per cent of people saying that they've tried to make an insurance policy change online. Twenty eight per cent of those making a car or a home insurance claim now turn to online channels first and 42 per cent of those reviewing their personal pension start online too.
Paradoxically, financial services firms should be most mindful of the need to retain person-to-person support for younger customers. Despite being the most adept age group in their use of digital technology, the research finds that only 47 per cent of 16-24 year-olds say that they are confident in making their own financial decisions, versus 66 per cent of people aged 55 years or more.
Video chat may help. Fifty-five per cent of all consumers surveyed agree that having conversations with advisors by video conference would help them better understand the information being given. This rises to 63 per cent of 16-24 year olds. Overall, 62 per cent of people said that video chat could help improve trust compared with 70 per cent of 16-24 year olds.
The increasing appetite for new channels, such as video, has not been at the cost of more traditional digital contact methods. The proportion of consumers who would choose email to get help from their financial service provider rose between 2014 and 2016. Web-chat has become more popular too, with demand from consumers up by more than 100 per cent across Germany, Spain and the UK since 2012 (24 per cent in 2012 to 62 per cent in 2016).
Despite the clear benefits that technology offers their customers, financial services firms need to be aware of growing challenges presented by the digital consumer. Two in three people surveyed expect web chat conversations to start right away and three in four people want their phone calls answered within 30 seconds. For email, people want a response within three hours. And 57 per cent of people say that they expect a full response within three hours to a tweet or Facebook post.
Stuart Booth, director of digital at global insurance group, RSA, says: "This research illustrates the great progress insurers have made in using the latest digital technology to improve engagement with customers. It's important that in any digital transformation, an organisation looks at the complete picture, from the channels they use to interact with their customers through to how they share information and collaborate internally. Insurers, such as RSA, are rising to this challenge and we can already see the benefit that digital technology brings to our customers and our business."
Ashish Gupta, president, UK and global banking & financial markets, BT's Global Services division, says: "Youbiquity Finance clearly shows the possibilities of digital technology in transforming customer relationships. With 24-7 access to online and automated services, and companies now offering person-to-person engagement via video, phone or web chat, it's easy to see why trust in financial services firms is beginning to grow again. At BT, we see call this 'digital possible'."
Steve Rafferty, UK managing director, Avaya, says: "The Youbiquity Finance research contains an encouraging message for financial services firms but it also highlights new challenges. Firms must act now if they are to continue to satisfy the rising expectations of digital consumers. They need to build digital contact platforms around the customer and ensure that they're integrated across each channel. If they do this, the research suggests that they will continue to nurture improving relationships with their customers."
About Youbiquity Finance
The Youbiquity Finance research programme has been run by BT and Avaya since 2012. In total, over 7,500 consumers have been interviewed about their relationships with banks and insurance providers. The research has mapped changes in consumer behaviour which have helped providers deliver better customer experiences and more sustainable relationships. For example in 2014, it showed that the number of channels used by consumers annually to contact banks and insurance providers had increased from 4.3 to 6.2.
The latest Youbiquity Finance research (Youbiquity Finance 3), completed in April 2016, interviewed 3,014 consumers across Germany, Spain and the UK. The survey was carried out online using a nationally representative sample of 1,000 consumers in each country. On average the questionnaire took 37 minutes to complete. Around 35 questions were asked exploring the ways that consumers want to contact and deal with banks and insurance providers.
The research is carried out for BT and Avaya independently by Davies Hickman Partners who work according to the UK Market Research Society guidelines.
Consumer attitudes on retail banking.
BT & Avaya carried out consumer research on attitudes towards digital banking from 3000 customers across the UK, Germany, and Spain. This video explains some of the top findings from the in-depth report, which can be accessed by completing the form on this page.
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BT & Avaya carried out consumer research on attitudes toward general insurance from 3000 customers across the UK, Germany, and Spain. This video explains some of the top findings from the report available athttp://www.globalservices.bt.com/uk/en/point-of-view/youbiquity-finance.
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Puddle of clear fluid, a bit of spit and foul odor. What is this or has anyone else experienced this?
So my puppy woke up whining this morning (which isnt like him) so I took him out to pee, came back in and put him back in the kennel. He continued I whine so thinking he was thirsty or hungry I let him out. He just walked out and sat there and was a bit damp when i went to pet him so I took a look in the kennel. There was a decent size puddle of clear liquid with a bit of what looked like spit and smelled horrific. Does anyone know what this is or has anyone else experienced something like this?
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Sometimes when a human or pet has an empty stomach, they will vomit a bit of bile. This kind of vomit is usually a clear yellowish fluid, sometimes with a bit of what looks like spit or foam in it. If your puppy seems fine otherwise and if it doesn't happen frequently, I wouldn't worry too much about it. However, if it becomes frequent or if you see any other symptoms, then have your puppy checked by the vet.
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It could be anal gland excretion... if your puppy is older. Depending on breed, their sacs will need to be expressed regularly. ^_^ Groomers can perform this for you.
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Previewing the 57th Annual Pikes Peak Marathon and Ascent
By Andrea Chalfin News Dir. On August 17, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Andrea Chalfin, KRCC News, Manitou Springs, Sports, Text
While top cyclists prepare to hit the pavement in the USA Pro Challenge next week and the Leadville Trail 100 race kicks off tomorrow, world-class runners have also come from all over to Manitou Springs to take part in the 57th annual Pikes Peak Marathon and Ascent this weekend. KRCC's Andrea Chalfin has this preview.
In the Pikes Peak Ascent, runners race just over 13 miles to the summit of America's Mountain, with a gain in elevation of 7800 feet. Marathon runners do the same, then turn around and come back down.
Race Director Ron Ilgen says it's an entirely different type of running than a road race, and calls the competition a "bucket list marathon."
"It's just the challenge…the beauty of running up there and the sense of accomplishment. When they start, they can see all the way to the top of the mountain. And to think that you're gonna run all the way up there and for the marathoners all the way back is very daunting."
Ilgen says he's run the Ascent and the marathon twice each. But 30 year-old Michele Suszek hasn't run either before. The Littleton resident won the USA 50-mile trail championship earlier this year and is expected to be one of the top women's contenders in the Pikes Peak Marathon. Part of Suszek's training has included running portions of the trail and running the Manitou Incline.
"So you know, I kind of have an idea of what I'm getting myself into, and I love it. It's going to be such a great challenge, and no matter what, no matter my performance, 1st, 2nd, 3rd place whatever that may be, it's still going to be an awesome experience, a learning experience, and the trail just outdoes the road any day."
Suszek says she has high hopes, and is aiming for breaking the women's course record, which has stood since the early 80s. The Pikes Peak Ascent takes place Saturday morning with the marathon on Sunday. Ilgen says 2600 runners in total are participating over the course of the weekend.
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So, what IS the womens course record?
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The women's course record was set in 1981 at 4:15:18 for the marathon. It was set by Lynn Bjorklund. The men's record was set in 1993 by Matt Carpenter, with a time of 3:16:39.
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|Crime drama
|Directed by
|Walter Doniger
Fred Hamilton
Jack Herzberg
Henry S. Kesler
Otto Lang
|Macdonald Carey
John Doucette
|Country of origin
|United States
|Original language(s)
|No. of seasons
|No. of episodes
|Executive producer(s)
|Frederick W. Ziv
|Jack Herzberg
Henry S. Kesler
|Camera setup
|Running time
|30 minutes
|Production company(s)
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United Artists Television
|MGM Television
Peter Rodgers Organization
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|Original release
|September 26, 1959– June 17, 1961
Lock-Up is an American crime drama series that premiered in syndication in September 1959 and concluded in June 1961. The half-hour episodes had little time for character development or subplots and presented a compact story without embellishment.
Series overview[edit]
The program stars Macdonald Carey as real-life Philadelphia corporate attorney Herbert L. Maris and John Doucette as police detective Lieutenant Jim Weston.
Each episode began with the following introduction: "These stories are based on the files and case histories of Herbert L. Maris, prominent attorney, who has devoted his life to saving the innocent."
The foundation of each episode is the cornerstone of English and American jurisprudence: a person charged with a crime is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The series featured stories persons who were unjustly accused, usually due to circumstantial evidence. The program's primary theme is that when individuals are charged with a crime not all is as it first appears and a thorough investigation is duly warranted in order to uncover vital facts pertinent to the case.
Herbert L. Maris had an uncanny sense about the honest, innocent persons who had been falsely accused. He was an attorney who spent his spare time helping defendants unjustly charged by the State. The stories do not involve federal crimes.
Guest stars[edit]
Among the many guest stars on the show were:
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ClassicFlix has announced that later in 2017 they will release Season 1 on DVD in region 1.[1]
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Orcas in Captivity can be Detrimental to Humans too
Keeping whales in aquariums often affects more than just the orcas themselves, though they are the primary victims. Many trainers who have worked with captive whales have been injured, some fatally, by killer whale attacks. We can't know for sure if the orcas who have harmed their trainers have done so due to the years of distress that they have endured or just due to the fact that they are wild animals, not "tamed" like the entertainment industry would have spectators believe.
Jean-Michel Cousteau's Statement on Captive Orcas
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- dragging trainers underwater until they become unconscious or drown
Attacks on Killer Whale Trainers (from mid 1980s to present):
- 1987 – Trainer Jonathon Smith grabbed and dragged through pool by two orcas, suffers ruptured kidneys and lacerated liver. (SeaWorld CA)
- 1987 – Unnamed whale lept onto trainer Joanne Webber during rehearsal, she suffers broken neck.(Sea World, CA)
- 1987 – Trainer Mark McHugh bitten by whale during feeding. (Sea World, CA)
- 1987 – Trainer Chris Barlow rammed by whale during show and requires hospitalization. (Sea World, CA)
- 1987 – Trainer John Sillick crushed by Orky when riding another whale and suffers broken pelvis, ribs, and leg. (Sea World, CA)
- 1989 – Trainer Henriette Huber bitten by Nootka during feeding and requires multiple stitches. (Sealand of the Pacific, Canada)
- 1989 – Trainer Steve Huxter pulled into tank by Nootka by hand. (Sealand of the Pacific, Canada)
- 1991 – Tilikum and 2 other whales drown trainer, Keltie Byrne (Sealand of the Pacific)
- 1999 – Unknown man found drowned in Tilikum's pool, drowning/hypothermia ( SeaWorld Orlando)
- 2002 – Orkid pulls trainer into pool by her foot, she receives a broken arm (SeaWorld San Diego)
- 2004 – Trainer Steve Aibel slammed repeatedly underwater by Kyuqet. (Sea World Texas)
- 2005 – Trainer bumped repeatedly by whale in pool, suffers minor injuries ( Sea World Orlando)
- 2006 – Trainer Brian Rokeach grabbed by the foot by Orkid and dragged under water, no serious injuries (Sea World San Diego)
- 2006 – Trainer Ken Peters is dragged by the leg underwater and pinned by Kasatka; suffers broken foot (Sea World San Diego)
- 2007 – Trainer butted off a low wall by Orkid, minor injuries ( SeaWorld San Diego)
- Dec 2009 – Trainer Alexis Martinez hit in the chest by Keto and drowned. (Loro Parque, Canary Islands)
- Feb 2010 – Trainer Dawn Brancheau killed by Tilikum, dragged under water by her arm until drowned (SeaWorld Orlando)
Tilikum & Dawn Brancheau: The Tragedy That Opened Many Eyes
The Dawn Brancheau incident was particularly sobering for many people—both opponents of keeping whales in captivity and those who up until then supported the practice—because it was so obviously a deliberate act on Tilikum's part and because the incident took place in front of a huge audience so it got a lot of exposure. In other cases where killer whales have attacked trainers, it has been easy for witnesses to misinterpret the actions as "playfulness" or an accident, particularly when the audience can't see what's happening under the water; but the attack on Dawn Brancheau was an obvious aggression to all of the witnesses in attendance.
"It's not that humans and non-humans are identical... but the lack of understanding that led to the slave trade is the same lack of understanding many people have about animals today. When slaves were brought over from Africa, many people believed they were not humans, that they didn't have feelings. Many people believe that primates and other animals don't have feelings, too, but they do."


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QUARTERBACKS -- Grade: A
Alex Smith's maturation as a legitimate front-line NFL quarterback took a major step forward with his cool and consistent performance on the biggest of season-opening stages. Smith outplayed reigning NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers, finally getting some vindication for all those people over the years who have clamored that they wished the Niners had selected Rodgers instead of Smith with the No. 1 overall pick of the 2005 NFL draft. Smith played with poise under pressure and with a newfound aura that seemed to pervade his calm and collected performance. He protected the ball well despite being sacked four times and hit on at least six occasions, stretching his string of consecutive passes without an interception to 185 - breaking Hall of Famer Steve Young's previous franchise record of 184 in a row. His pinpoint passing was as good as it has ever been as Smith dissected the Green Bay defense with a short- and medium-range assault that saw him complete 20 of 26 throws for 211 yards while recording a gaudy passer rating of 125.6. And he was on the money on key red-zone touchdown passes to Randy Moss and Vernon Davis, the latter coming on a key third-and-goal play that put the Niners in control to stay midway through the fourth quarter. Just an exceptional all-around performance for a quarterback that took a notable step in his career Sunday.Throw in Colin Kaepernick's long-legged 17-yard sprint up the middle of the field on his only snap, a play that set up David Akers' NFL-record 63-yard field goal, and it just doesn't get much better than this from the QB position.
RUNNING BACKS -- Grade: A-plus
The Niners couldn't have asked for anything more here. It was a vintage performance by veteran Frank Gore, who ran with power and purpose on his way to a game-high 112 yards on 16 carries, averaging 7.0 yards a pop. Gore showed the burst of his prime and ripped off sizeable gains whenever he found a crease. He was not to be denied the end zone on his spinning, gyrating, sideline-riding 23-yard touchdown run that sealed the deal midway through the fourth quarter. Kendall Hunter also made an impact while complementing Gore with 41 yards on nine carries. The Green Bay defense had no answer for either of them. Fullback Bruce Miller led the way with several key blocks and also pulled in a 15-yard reception that helped extend a drive when the 49ers were attempting to run out the clock in the fourth quarter. Nothing short of exceptional from this entire unit.
WIDE RECEIVERS -- Grade: A
Alex Smith targeted Michael Crabtree, Randy Moss and Mario Manningham on 17 of his 26 passes Sunday. The team's trio of top wideouts combined to catch 15 of them, including all eight intended for newcomers Moss and Manningham. Crabtree continued to emerge as the team's go-to target and made several key receptions to keep drives moving while recording team-high totals of seven receptions for 76 yards. Moss displayed that he hasn't lost anything at age 35 – not to mention respect from opposing defenders – and he was at his best near the goal line, working wide open to catch a 14-yard pass from Smith for the 154th touchdown reception of his career. If first impressions mean anything, there is little question the addition of Moss and Manningham has added firepower to San Francisco's passing attack and will help open up an offense that ranked 26th in the NFL last season.
TIGHT ENDS -- Grade: B
Vernon Davis came up with two of the game's biggest receptions – a 29-yarder that pushed the 49ers to the Green Bay 9-yard line and set up his diving 4-yard catch on third-and-goal three plays later for the touchdown that put the Niners in command to stay at 23-7 midway through the third quarter. Davis' usually stellar blocking also contributed to San Francisco's strong running game. Davis doesn't get style points, however, for getting rejected by the crossbar on his dunk attempt after his TD reception. Delanie Walker didn't fare nearly as well as Davis in the passing game, flat out dropping one pass and missing the other Alex Smith throw that came his way.
OFFENSIVE LINE -- Grade: B
This unit gained control of the line of scrimmage early and wore down the Packers to pave the way for a ground game that rushed for 186 yards and averaged 5.8 yards a pop. Alex Boone had an auspicious debut as the starting right guard, and he and tackle Anthony Davis cleared out a lot of room on the right side. Boone also collaborated with center Jonathan Goodwin to make Green Bay nose tackle B.J. Raji a non-factor. Raji finished with just one assisted tackle and did little to clog the middle as the 49ers ran pretty much wherever they wanted through Green Bay's front wall. The pass blocking wasn't quite as stellar, however, as Alex Smith was dropped four times for sacks and hit hard several other times. Joe Staley did a good job of keeping Clay Matthews off Smith's back early in the game, but he could not maintain that over the course of four quarters. Matthews held the upper hand in that individual battle by the end, finishing with 2.5 sacks, all of the damage coming against Staley on the left side.
DEFENSIVE LINE -- Grade: A
The Packers made an early half-hearted attempt to run on the 49ers, and the NFL's best rushing defense said simply, "No Way." San Francisco played most of the game in a four-man front that didn't feature usual starting nose tackle Isaac Sopoaga, and tackles Ray McDonald and Justin Smith practically stuffed Green Bay's running game by themselves. McDonald finished with four tackles and he and Smith stood up their Green Bay counterparts. The Packers gave up on the run – they tried just three rushing attempts by a running back in the second half – and halfback Cedric Benson was shut down for just 18 yards rushing on nine carries. The Packers finished with just 45 yards on the ground – 27 of them coming on scrambles by Rodgers. Smith and McDonald never got a hand on Rodgers as pass rushers, but the pressure they applied helped open lanes for others.
LINEBACKERS -- Grade: A-plus
It was yet another eye-popping performance by this unit, which just seems to keep getting better and better as it develops into the NFL's best. Aldon Smith had a strong debut as the starter on the right edge, and it seemed he was chasing down Rodgers most of the day before finishing with one sack and three tackles. Smith was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct for taking off his helmet after his sack, but it was a bogus call since Rodgers had inadvertently kicked Smith's helmet back on his head when both players fell to the turf. Ahmad Brooks made his presence felt from the left side with three quarterback hits and a key sack of Rodgers that was big in thwarting Green Bay's final offensive drive with the Packers trailing by eight points. Patrick Willis was solid in the middle with six tackles, but the star of this unit clearly was Willis' partner in the middle, NaVorro Bowman. The third-year veteran was perhaps the star of the game, making plays everywhere, leading the 49ers with 11 tackles and two passes defensed, and making an athletic interception deep in Green Bay territory midway through the fourth quarter just after the Packers had gotten back in the game and were gaining momentum. That was the game's only turnover, and it set up Frank Gore's clinching touchdown run on the next play. Once again, this unit played a key role in a key 49ers victory.
SECONDARY -- Grade: A
Considering the opponent, this was a shutdown performance by this unit, which played much better than Green Bay's final passing numbers might suggest. Rodgers completed 30 of 44 passes for 303 yards and two touchdowns, but most of the damage came when the Packers were passing from behind after abandoning the run. And when it counted, this unit stepped up to make plays throughout the day, all the way down to Chris Culliver's knockdown of Rodgers' fourth-down pass in the final minute while draping Jordy Nelson in man coverage down the right sideline. Carlos Rogers did a job on Greg Jennings all day and recorded his first career sack, and the lethal Green Bay passing attack hit only two completions beyond 20 yards. Donte Whitner almost got his hands on an interception and Tarell Brown also knocked down a pass. San Francisco DBs were beaten a few times, but that's going to happen against a passing game like Green Bay's. All told, there was sure tackling by this unit and few breakdowns in coverage as the secondary minimized the impact of one of the NFL's best passing games throughout the afternoon.
SPECIAL TEAMS -- Grade: A-minus
When the 49ers surrender a 75-yard punt return in the fourth quarter that allows a dominated opponent to vault back into the contest, we usually can't give these units an overall 'A' grade. But this is an exception, because that play should have been nullified by an obvious blocking-in-the-back penalty that was called and then reversed when officials picked up the flag. Still, the 49ers can't allow that play to happen. But it was basically the only glitch in another standout performance by San Francisco's specialty units, which was highlighted by the amazing David Akers' NFL-record-tying 63-yard field goal. That was one of three Akers field goals from 40 yards or beyond, and he and punter Andy Lee both performed on the big stage like the All-Pros they are. The coverage units were stingy beyond Randall Cobb's TD return, and Kyle Williams had a 20-yard return while displaying sure hands handling punts. Kendall Hunter also broke his only kickoff return for 31 yards.
COACHING -- Grade: A
Defensive coordinator Vic Fangio once again dialed up a winning game plan against one of the most difficult offenses to stop in this NFL era. Fangio correctly strategized that the 49ers could stop Green Bay's run from the start with a base four-man front backed by two middle linebackers and five defensive backs, and that set the tone from The Opening series as Rodgers had difficulty working against San Francisco's nickel and dime coverage packages throughout the day. The Niners had outstanding balance on offense and kept the pressure on with a diverse attack until appearing to take the pedal off the gas in the fourth quarter after going comfortably ahead by 16 points. But that offense put up 377 yards and 30 points on a big stage, which shows how far it has come since the season opener last season. Coach Jim Harbaugh threw two challenge flags when he had little chance of getting a reversal either time, but there was no doubt he had his team well prepared and ready to play amid consequential circumstances. And Harbaugh and his staff, without question, out-coached one of the NFL's best staffs across the field that featured offensive guru Mike McCarthy and defensive guru Dom Capers. The Niners were up against the very best here, and they came out convincingly ahead.
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Police have labelled their haul a success, with 10,244 plants uncovered in the year to April following 10,134 cannabis plants being seized the year before.
"The total number of plants seized this year is outstanding," Detective Senior Sergeant Keith Borrell said.
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Last year's haul included 5918 plants discovered in aerial searches using Air Force Iroquois helicopters while the remainder were located during the execution of search warrants.
Mr Borrell said it was "a strong blow to illicit drug rings".
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Seefeel - "Dead Guitars" (Seefeel)
Nostalgia may be the rage in musics chillier climes these days, but for a group on the return, like Seefeel, its a dangerous game: tread too close to the bands original sound, perfected on a string of three albums across the mid 1990s, and its irrelevant; stray too far from expectations, and its a dilettante. Seefeel was, of course, the quiet pioneer of the Warp label, the first group signed that played guitars, and alongside Broadcast, the most forthright when it came to reconciling electronics music and pop though by the time of Succour, its 1995 album, the latter had largely fallen by the wayside. But pioneering has a funny way of feeling old hat, 15 years on which is precisely how long its been since its understated album of post-Succour flotsam, (Ch-Vox), released on Rephlex in 1996.
But to cut to the chase, Seefeel has managed somehow to reconcile all of those different responses and emotions apprehension, expectation, impatience, the simple fear that it might bore the pants off you and run off with the title. Seefeel takes approximately one minute to be exactly like you want Seefeel to be at the very moment its typically denuded, spasmodic rhythm patterns kick in, on Dead Guitars, it cant be anyone else. There may be two new members on board, E-Da and Shigeru Ishihara replacing Darren Seymour and Justin Fletcher, but the internal consistency of Seefeel proves that Mark Clifford and Sarah Peacock were always the torch-bearers, and if youve clocked whats missing from their other (admittedly rather excellent) projects Disjecta, Woodenspoon, Sneakster, Cliffordandcalix for Clifford, or Scala and January for Peacock youll know theirs is a peculiar alchemy. For what its worth, E-Da and Ishihara add rock-solid heft to the bottom end, the rhythms as imposing and structurally hefty as ever, the bass navigating that airless space between the dread of dub and the amorphous drift of isolationist electronics.
But its ultimately all about the guitars, and if Seefeels first wave of releases subtly rejigged your notion of what guitars could do, turning an orgasm into an environment, as Simon Reynolds once memorably put it, here it has you thinking of how tough and grainy the guitar<->processing interface can be. On Dead Guitars, the hymned instrument hums like striplights, grinds like teeth, scrapes and claws like nails against polystyrene. Further into the album, on more extended tracks like Step Down and Aug30, some of the jouissance of yore returns, but brittle with it, as though at any moment it could go molten. Its this kind of textural insight, a rare touch of Cliffords in particular, that has Seefeels return feeling more vital than most.
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It was the bride's second marriage.
Some 300 guests -- including John Wayne and Pope John Paul lookalikes -- witnessed the ceremony at the graveyard's Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection, publicist Monique Moss said Monday.
The Rev. Robert Schuller of Orange County's Crystal Cathedral officiated and the couple was serenaded by close friend Debbie Reynolds. Dubbed A Wedding to Die For, the ceremony concluded with a cocktail reception.
O'Brian may be best known to baby boomers as television's tough Old West marshal from 1955 to 1961 on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.
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