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[Federal Register: May 28, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 104)] [Notices] [Page 30672-30673] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr28my04-64] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Food and Drug Administration [Docket No. 2003D-0537] Guidance for Industry and FDA Staff; User Fees and Refunds for Premarket Notification Submissions; Availability AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of the guidance entitled ``User Fees and Refunds for Premarket Notification Submissions (510(k)s).'' This guidance describes the user fees and refunds associated with the 510(k) program. The guidance document is immediately in effect, but it remains subject to comment in accordance with the agency's good guidance practices (GGPs). DATES: Submit written or electronic comments on this guidance at any time. ADDRESSES: Submit written requests for single copies on a 3.5
diskette of the guidance document entitled ``User Fees and Refunds for Premarket Notification Submissions (510(k)s)'' to the Division of Small Manufacturers, International, and Consumer Assistance (HFZ-220), Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration, 1350 Piccard Dr., Rockville, MD 20850. Send one self- addressed adhesive label to assist that office in processing your request, or fax your request to 301-443-8818. Submit written comments on the guidance to the Division of Dockets Management (HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852. Submit electronic comments to http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.fda.gov/dockets/ecomments. See the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for information on electronic access to the guidance. Identify comments with the docket number found in brackets in the heading of this document. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For device issues: Heather S. Rosecrans, Center for Devices and Radiological Health (HFZ-404), Food and Drug Administration, 9200 Corporate Blvd., Rockville, MD 20850, 301-594-1190 ext. 143. For biologics issues: Leonard Wilson, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Review (HFM-25), Food and Drug Administration, 1401 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852, 301-827-0373. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background The Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act of 2002 (MDUFMA), Public Law 107-250, amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the act) to allow FDA to collect user fees for certain premarket reviews. The new law also permits refunds under certain circumstances. The guidance outlines the user fees due with 510(k) submissions and the circumstances in which FDA plans to provide refunds. This guidance document is immediately in effect because the agency is already collecting user fees under the new law and wants to provide guidance to its stakeholders. On February 4, 2003, FDA published a notice in the Federal Register (68 FR 5643) to establish a public docket (02N-0534), so that we could share information on the implementation of MDUFMA and to provide interested persons an opportunity to share their views. On December 3, 2003, the agency held an open public meeting to update its stakeholders on its progress in implementing the new law, discuss some of MDUFMA's more challenging [[Page 30673]] provisions, and obtain input from interested parties. Since establishing the docket over a year ago, the agency has received quite a few comments from its stakeholders on a number of MDUFMA provisions, including the application and refund of user fees. During the drafting of this guidance, the agency specifically solicited comments to the docket in recognition of the interest in this issue. The agency has considered all comments received to date and believes that the approach presented below is a fair application of its refund policy. FDA will accept comments on the guidance at any time. II. Significance of Guidance This guidance is being issued consistent with FDA's good guidance practices regulation (21 CFR 10.115). The guidance represents the agency's current thinking on user fees and refunds for 510(k)s. It does not create or confer any rights for or on any person and does not operate to bind FDA or the public. An alternative approach may be used if such approach satisfies the requirements of the applicable statute and regulations. III. Electronic Access To receive ``User Fees and Refunds for Premarket Notification Submissions (510(k)s)'' by fax machine, call the CDRH Facts-On-Demand system at 800-899-0381 or 301-827-0111 from a touch-tone telephone. Press 1 to enter the system. At the second voice prompt, press 1 to order a document. Enter the document number (1511) followed by the pound sign ( ). Follow the remaining voice prompts to complete your request. Persons interested in obtaining a copy of the guidance may also do so by using the Internet. CDRH maintains an entry on the Internet for easy access to information including text, graphics, and files that may be downloaded to a personal computer with Internet access. Updated on a regular basis, the CDRH home page includes device safety alerts, Federal Register reprints, information on premarket submissions (including lists of approved applications and manufacturers' addresses), small manufacturer's assistance, information on video conferencing and electronic submissions, Mammography Matters, and other device-oriented information. The CDRH web site may be accessed at http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.fda.gov/cdrh A search capability for all CDRH guidance documents is available at http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/guidance.html. Guidance documents are also available on the Dockets Management Branch Internet site at http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets. IV. 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Apis Mead & Winery now open in Carnegie
Apis Mead & Winery has opened at 212 E. Main St., Carnegie. Owned by Dave Cerminara, formerly the assistant brewmaster at Penn Brewery on the North Side of Pittsburgh, the lounge sells by the glass or the bottle and there are several light snacks to munch on while tasting.
Mead is a fermented type of beverage made with honey. Flavors being featured this month are florea (session mead), peach apricot florea, millifera (house mead) and raspberry blackberry mead. Call 412-478-9172 or visit www.apismead.com for more information.
• Luxe Hair Salon has moved into the former Bev's Hair Salon at 1365 Washington Pike, Collier Township. The stylists are trained in French and English-style hair cutting and the store also offers services such as upscale extensions, Brazilian blowouts, coloring, up-dos and haircuts for men, women and children. Call 412-220-6080 for an appointment or visit www.luxehairsalonpgh.com for details.
• Vape Crusades has opened at 522 Washington Ave., Bridgeville in a former hair salon, offering rebuildable atomizers and more than 30 custom-blended flavors of e-liquid cigarettes. Local art is being solicited for decorating the walls and local musicians can inquire about playing at open-mic nights. Call 412-319-7087 for further information.
• Bower Hill Swim Club, Scott Township is celebrating 50 years in business. The five-acre complex has a heated main pool, baby pool, water slide, volleyball pit, tetherball, playground, beach chairs, and a concession stand. Visit www.bowerhillpool.com for further information.
Other local new business incorporations as compiled from recent state filings include:
• Pitt Solutions, 505 Chestnut St., Carnegie (commercial cleaning)
• Advanced Biofuels, 2 Dorrington Road, Carnegie (biofuels)
• JR Soft Solutions, 100 Chatham Park Drive, Green Tree (consulting, training)
• NAI Pittsburgh, 875 Greentree Road, Building 3, Suite 102, Green Tree (management and sale of real estate)
• Saltzburg Consulting Group, 167 Black Oak Dr., Green Tree (IT consulting)
• MSP Construction, 401 Holiday Drive, Green Tree (real estate)
• Warroom Media, 3594 Washington Pike, Bridgeville (radio and TV show advertisements)
• Mowers in Motion, 208 Coulter St., Bridgeville (landscaping).
Butterfly Bandits fundraiser
Scott Township-based Butterfly Bandits, founded in 2012 by local resident Christine Sypien, a thyroid cancer survivor, will host "Country and More for a Cure" at Legacy Lanes, Baldwin Borough, on Aug. 23. All monies raised at the bowling event will be donated to research for the UPMC Multidisciplinary Thyroid Center cancer research team.
Tickets are $40 and include two hours of bowling and an outdoor concert with Pittsburgh's Dawn Savage. For more information or to purchase tickets, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Selena Gomez at 2010 MTV Video Music Awards (PHOTOS)
Selena Gomez looked stunning in silver as she walked the white carpet at the 2010 Video Music Awards on Sunday.
The "Year Without Rain" chanteuse broke down her good girl image with a revealing silver gown with a thigh-high slit which showed off Sel's gorgeous gams. Selena kept her accessorizes simple and wore her hair straight and long in a side pony-tail.
What do you think of Selena's red carpet look? Check out more photos and let us know what you think in the comments below. Get all your VMAs coverage over at Celebuzz's 2010 VMAs page.


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How do I know if I have the flu?
What should I do if I get sick?
What are the emergency warning signs?
Do I need to go the emergency room if I am only a little sick?
Are there medicines to treat 2009 H1N1?
How long should I stay home if I'm sick?
What should I do while I'm sick?
If I have a family member at home who is sick with 2009 H1N1 flu, should I go to work?
How do I know if I have the flu?
You may have the flu if you have some or all of these symptoms:
*It's important to note that not everyone with flu will have a fever.
If you get sick with flu-like symptoms this flu season, you should stay home and avoid contact with other people except to get medical care. Most people with 2009 H1N1 have had mild illness and have not needed medical care or antiviral drugs and the same is true of seasonal flu.However, some people are more likely to get flu complications and they should talk to a health care provider about whether they need to be examined if they get flu symptoms this season. They are:
Also, it's possible for healthy people to develop severe illness from the flu so anyone concerned about their illness should consult a health care provider.There are emergency warning signs. Anyone who has them should get medical care right away.
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In adults
No. The emergency room should be used for people who are very sick. You should not go to the emergency room if you are only mildly ill. If you have the emergency warning signs of flu sickness, you should go to the emergency room. If you get sick with flu symptoms and are at high risk of flu complications or you are concerned about your illness, call your health care provider for advice. If you go to the emergency room and you are not sick with the flu, you may catch it from people who do have it.
Yes. There are drugs your doctor may prescribe for treating both seasonal and 2009 H1N1 called "antiviral drugs." These drugs can make you better faster and may also prevent serious complications. This flu season, antiviral drugs are being used mainly to treat people who are very sick, such as people who need to be hospitalized, and to treat sick people who are more likely to get serious flu complications. Your health care provider will decide whether antiviral drugs are needed to treat your illness. Remember, most people with 2009 H1N1 have had mild illness and have not needed medical care or antiviral drugs and the same is true of seasonal flu.
CDC recommends that you stay home for at least 24 hours after your fever is gone except to get medical care or for other things you have to do and no one else can do for you. (Your fever should be gone without the use of a fever-reducing medicine, such as Tylenol®.) You should stay home from work, school, travel, shopping, social events, and public gatherings.
Stay away from others as much as possible to keep from making them sick. If you must leave home, for example to get medical care, wear a facemask if you have one, or cover coughs and sneezes with a tissue. And wash your hands often to keep from spreading flu to others.
Employees who are well but who have an ill family member at home with 2009 H1N1 flu can go to work as usual. These employees should monitor their health every day, and take everyday precautions including covering their coughs and sneezes and washing their hands often with soap and water, especially after they cough or sneeze. If soap and water are not available, they should use an alcohol-based hand rub. If they become ill, they should notify their supervisor and stay home. Employees who have an underlying medical condition or who are pregnant should call their health care provider for advice, because they might need to receive influenza antiviral drugs.
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WHILE Windermere are guaranteed top-flight hockey next season, skipper Scott Santamera wants his side to grasp the tag of champions and finish the campaign as the division's leading lights.
A Liam Derome doubled proved sufficient for Mere to claim a narrow victory over lowly Formby, a win which secures the South Lakes outfit promotion – their fourth in as many years.
But after losing their opening two games of the season to Bowdon and Prescot, Santamera admits promotion was the last thing on his mind after such an inauspicious start.
"It's good to get promoted and we're happy with that but it would be even better to win the league title – the cherry on top of the cake," he said.
"We didn't have a great start to the season and lost our first few games so weren't sure how we would fare as we progressed through the campaign.
"In the early stages we were thinking more along the lines of just trying to win a few games so it hasn't been a bad turnaround in the end.
"Promotion is not what we initially envisaged and wasn't the aim but we were top at Christmas and knew we would be in with a great shout if we maintained our form."
Derome fired Mere ahead with the only goal of the first-half, running onto a flick from Richie Jackson before shooting into the bottom right corner.
In an unconvincing second period, Derome netted again from a rebound before a ball along the base line resulted in Formby making the scoresheet with a late own goal.
Although not at their best, Mere claimed their 14th success of the season while victory at Bangor on Saturday will see Santamera and Co. crowned champions of North West Hockey League Division Two.
"To be honest we didn't play our best hockey against Formby but saying that we weren't particularly threatened at the back and their goal came from a defensive error.
"We didn't create too many chances of our own but it was more about getting the win to be fair and if we can play badly and win things can't be too bad."


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DJ Nuts & Forty Fivan at BRAZA!
Antonio Guedes
Friday, July 6, 2012 at 10:00 PM - Saturday, July 7, 2012 at 3:00 AM (PDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
DJ Nuts is Brazil's turntablist champion and greatest Hip Hop DJ. As a producer he has worked on albums for the biggest name in Brazilian hip hop, Marcelo D2, and has also worked with Brazilian music legends: Gilberto Gil, Planet Hemp, João Donato, Trio Mocotó, O Rappa and Dom Um Romão.
DJ Nuts was the main Brazilian consultant and DJ alongside Cut Chemist, J-Rocc and Madlib, in São Paulo, for B+'s "Brasilintime: Batucada com Discos" (Mochilla). "Cultura Copia" was released in 2004 as DJ Nuts' first commercially available Mix CD outside of Brazil with 54 tracks cut, mixed and blended to perfection showcasing a range of styles. It is the perfect introduction to Brazilian music for those who have never experienced its diversity or for those who think they have but have never heard a Brazilian perspective. He has since released a 78 minute mix of compositions and arrangements by his long time friend Arthur Verocai.
DJ Nuts skills matched with the depth of his crates make him unique in his home country and worldwide. BRAZA! is the perfect venue to showcase DJ Nuts as he chops up, juggles and bends obscure Brazilian Funk, Jazz, Soul, Samba, Bossa Nova, and Tropicalia.
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Date: 07/06/12
Ticket Price: $10-$15
Headliner: DJ Nuts
Special Guest: Forty Fivan Live
Resident Djs:
Elan and Zamba
Percussion by:
Henrique Padilla / Congas (Afrolicious)
Starts: 10pm Ends: 3am
Location: Som Bar - 2925 16th Street, San Francisco
*Bottle Service Available:
When & Where
2925 16th Street
San Francisco,
Friday, July 6, 2012 at 10:00 PM - Saturday, July 7, 2012 at 3:00 AM (PDT)
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Dr. Jon Forché, an optometrist at Five Points Eye Care, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Georgia Eye Care Alliance.
The Georgia Eye Care Alliance is a vision plan that is owned and operated by doctors through a state IPA (Independent Physicians Association).
Forché is the only member of the board from Northeast Georgia.


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by Staff Writers
Christchurch, New Zealand (AFP) June 15, 2011
Simon Bourke moved into his dream house in New Zealand's Christchurch four years ago, but now says: "I'll sell it to you for a dollar, and chuck in the wife as well.
"I just want to get out".
Bourke's cheeky quip about his wife earns him a shove in the shoulder from a female friend standing nearby but, like many in this quake-scarred city, he is serious about wanting to leave following another powerful tremor this week.
Monday's 6.0-magnitude shake was the third major quake in Christchurch in the past nine months, including a devastating 6.3 temblor last February that killed 181 people.
The latest quake left huge mounds of silt and mud up to two metres (six foot) high dotting Bourke's street in the suburb of Parklands, created when the force of the seismic pounding broke the bonds that hold soil together.
Prime Minister John Key this week said the process, known as liquefaction, meant thousands of homes in New Zealand's second-largest city would have to be abandoned because the ground was now too unstable to rebuild.
"You could see all this stuff bubbling out of the ground, it was much worse than February," Bourke's wife told AFP.
It was a bitter blow for the couple, who had to abandon their house for three weeks after the February disaster because its foundations had been undermined.
"I'd never even heard of liquefaction before September," Simon Bourke said, referring to the first 7.0 quake in Christchurch last year.
"Now here we are again."
Combined with the threat of constant aftershocks -- a shallow 5.0 shake early Wednesday jolted residents awake but caused no further damage -- the latest liquefaction setback has steeled the couple's resolve to leave.
Simon found himself thigh-deep in ooze when he fell into a sinkhole while inspecting damage from Monday's quake and, though he was unharmed, Anna said it was the final straw.
"If it was deeper he could have disappeared over his head," she said, as construction diggers worked on the street to clear the mess.
"It's hard when you've got kids, you've got to think of your family. No one can guarantee this won't happen again."
The couple's neighbour Chris Innes was preparing to move back into his house on Saturday after extensive repairs following February's quake.
Instead, he found himself shovelling silt from his pathway next to a sinkhole that swallowed his front garden.
"The whole place will have to come down now," he said. "The house itself fared quite well but the land it's built on is stuffed."
Innes said he would like to move away but can't because he is still paying a mortgage on his ruined property.
"That's it," Bourke chipped in. "If you move away you chuck away your whole financial future."
In the city's port area of Lyttelton, a woman named Marie, who declined to give her surname, said she was staying put.
"My lifestyle is here," she told AFP as clouds of dust from silt that had dried in the sun rolled over the town.
"Anyway, who'd buy your house now? Who's going to buy a house in a place that's shaking to bits?"
Lyttelton was among the worst hit areas in Monday's quake, with the historic 134-year-old Timeball Station -- which used to indicate the time to ships -- reduced to rubble.
Even the dead cannot rest in peace amid the area's constant seismic rumblings, with Lyttelton's graveyard closed and a large sign erected among its toppled stone memorials warning "dangerous headstones".
However, Henry, a demolition worker who was helping remove debris at the Timeball Station, said Christchurch would prove resilient.
"Never mind, we'll tear it down and reconstruct it," he said, gesturing to the ruins.
"Reconstruct, reconstruct, reconstruct, that's what we'll do."
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Tokyo (AFP) June 15, 2011
The second extra budget that Japan is set to compile to cover costs to rebuild the region devastated by the March quake and tsunami will be around $25 billion, media reports said Wednesday. Katsuya Okada, secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, was quoted by Jiji Press as saying the size of the extra budget is expected to be some 2 trillion yen. Okada made the remark d ... read more
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"I'm working on just getting better for the fall, working on my fundamentals, like shedding blocks, getting more physical, stuff like that"
On looking noticeably bigger:
"I gained like 15 lbs, I'm at 240 right, I want to play between 240 and 245"
On how the weight has affected his skillset:
"The weight feels better, it feels good, better than last year because since that time I've gotten used to working with it."
On his goals for the spring and becoming a more well rounded player:
"I'm just polishing up trying to be a run stopper and a pass stopper. That's what I'm basically working on this spring."
On the first week of practice:
"First week has been good, because I've been able to work on stuff that I didn't get to work on after. So now we're trying to get all that stuff."
On adjusting to a new scheme:
"It's been pretty simple for us. I don't think it's going to be any different, I think it's going to be the same."


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A couple weeks ago, Matt Yglesias had a post arguing, correctly, I think, that the current economic conditions in the US aren't Bush's fault. Yeah, Bush was president when things went south, but a better government could have done a lot more to fix things by now.
Trouble is, that doesn't mean it's Obama's fault either. By the time we all vote in November, we'll have had nearly two years of the government being unable to do much of anything because Republicans control Congress while there's a Democrat in the White House. If you're a voter whose voting strategy consists entirely of "vote the bastards out when the economy is bad," which party do you vote for?
Now, before people comment to say people should vote based on something else, let me say that I personally don't follow the "vote the bastards out when the economy is bad" strategy. But there's a lot to be said for it. Few of us know enough about economics to vote based on an intelligent analysis of economic policy, and it would be a burden to get enough of us up to that level. But having a bunch of people vote based on the economy gives politicians a very strong incentive to actually figure out good economic policy for us.
Yet that doesn't work so well when, as is frequently the case, different parties control Congress and the Whitehouse (or different parties control the House and the Senate). I think that's a pretty big disadvantage of the US system relative to a parliamentary system.


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* Listed as Super Lawyers Rising Star, Criminal Defense: White Collar (2009-2014)
* Recipient, National LGBT Bar Association's Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40 Award (2010)
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey
New Jersey State Bar Association
Member, Leadership Council, Out & Equal Metro New York (2011-present)
Member, Seton Hall Law School Dean's Diversity Council (2008-present)
Mentor, New Jersey Law and Education Empowerment Project (2008-2011)
Seton Hall University School of Law
J.D. magna cum laude 2004
Concentration: Criminal Law & Procedure
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Member, Seton Hall Legislative Journal
Rutgers University, NCAS
B.S. Criminal Justice/Psychology 1996
Spring Semester 2016-17 School Year
Adjunct Professor of Law: Taught third-year advanced skills course: Trial of a Criminal Case.
Law Offices of Janet Costello, L.L.C.
July 2010 - present
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September 2005-June 2010
Associate Attorney, Criminal Defense Practice Group at AmLaw 200 Law Firm: Practice focused on the representation of both individual and corporate clients defending criminal prosecutions and facing investigations and regulatory enforcement. Worked alongside some of the region's top litigators on some of the region's most publicized criminal matters. Drafted briefs and argued motions in State, Federal and local courts in New York and New Jersey at every phase in a criminal prosecution from bail, to pre- and post-trial motions through sentencing.
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Panelist: Criminal Trial Preparation 102
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May 31, 2011
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May 18, 2011
Panelist, Annual Meeting of the New Jersey State Bar Association: Making Smart Technology Decisions in a Tough Economy
New Jersey State Bar Association, Young Lawyer's Division
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Gun Control Fears, and Crackdowns, Come to California
Guns--and Desalinizing the Ocean…
The state legislature is not likely to make it easier to buy guns and ammo in California. As predicted at the Ontario gun show, lawmakers are making proposals to make it harder than ever.
Anna Scott, Producer, 'Press Play' (@AnnaKCRW)
Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times (@mcgreevy99)
The latest reports about this year's High Sierra snow pack are good news for California's water supply, but drought is always only one season away in California.
Saul Gonzalez, KCRW producer (@SaulKCRW)
In 2009, President Obama promised comprehensive immigration reform, but his first term saw record numbers of deportations. The partial "dream act" won him a break in November's election, but growing numbers of Latino and Asian voters are losing their patience. As for Republicans, the angry white voters they've come to depend on are declining in number. All that has led some to predict that comprehensive immigration reform is "not only possible but also likely."
David Grant, Christian Science Monitor (@DW_Grant)
Thomas Mann, Brookings Institution / University of California, Berkeley (@BrookingsGov)
Trey Grayson, Director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (@KYTrey)
Ann Morse, Program director of the Immigrant Policy Project at the National Conference of State Legislatures
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February 18, 2002
Education of the Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Task Force To Hold Second of Four Meetings in Albuquerque
(Santa Fe, NM)-The newly formed Education of the Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Task Force will hold its second meeting on Monday, February 25, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the Community Outreach Program of the Deaf, located at 10601 Lomas Boulevard in Albuquerque. The New Mexico State Department of Education (SDE) and New Mexico School for the Deaf (NMSD) announced the formation of the 21-member task force in November. This is the second of four meetings planned by the task force.
"The February meeting provides an opportunity to better define and prioritize the problems facing deaf/hard-of-hearing children in New Mexico. Our goal through the task force is to effect change so that deaf/hard-of-hearing children can reach their full potential," said Sam Howarth, the SDE's special education director. He added, "This is an unprecedented collaborative initiative between the SDE and New Mexico School for the Deaf."
The public is invited to attend the meetings to provide input.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has expanded its mental health services to include professionals from two additional health care fields: marriage and family therapists (MFT) and licensed professional mental health counselors (LPMHC).
"The addition of these two mental health professions is an important part of VA's mission to expand access to mental health services," said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki. "Veterans and their families can face unique challenges. By providing a complete range of services, we can help them address those challenges and help keep more families together."
The two fields will be included in the hiring of an additional 1,900 mental health staff nationwide that VA announced last week. Recruitment and hiring will be done at the local level. The new professionals will provide mental health diagnostic and psychosocial treatment services for Veterans and their families in coordination with existing mental health professionals at VA's medical centers, community-based outpatient clinics, and Vet Centers.


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So i had just come back from the island off of Bibiki bay. and was running across to bubumiru. well there was a gob in the way and at 40 Beastmaster the goblin checks EP so i charm an Eft to take care of it. well it's fighting owning the goblin and it gets 100% tp. So i use Sic (Makes pet do weapon skill) and my Eft uses a AoE skill and hits a freshly spawned Intulo (Notorious monster drops Magic slakcs i think and curaga earring) these items sell for alot of money. so i'm throwing pets at it and winning, i do /sh please do not take it i would like to kill it. i sea Spiridon /s ok.
So i am winning it is about halfway down and i am close to full hp when i have to grab another pet the NMs name turns white and Spiridon casts a fast spell (not sure which one) and takes the Intulo.
i was furious, i called a GM and am currently waiting for a reply
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I keep praying for fewer buttons on my TV remote, yet we keep going in the opposite direction. Thankfully, AT&T (s t) seems to understand my pain and is looking to ease it by leveraging voice technologies. The carrier showed off some new concepts today for adding voice control and cloud-based natural language processing to the TV remote.
By connecting its Watson speech technology to an iOS remote control app, AT&T researchers are able to create a simple way to search for upcoming shows or look for specific content with recorded shows. One project allows you to speak into an iPhone (s aapl) and use normal sentences to find upcoming episodes or movies. You can ask for specific shows, which are pretty easy to find. But it's surprisingly good at nailing down what genre, time or channel you're looking for in broader searches. If you say, "What are some comedy movies on tonight," or "Movies with Woody Allen and Diane Keaton" the system recognizes your request and pulls up the corresponding results. You still have to navigate a little through longer lists but it's pretty cool to just say what you're looking for and get back immediate results.
Another project allows you to apply voice search to find very specific information in your recorded content on your DVR. Say you remember a funny joke Jay Leno said about Obama last night, you can say, "Show me the joke about Obama from the Jay Leno show." The system analyzes the metadata of your recorded shows and then examines the close captioned transcripts for shows that match that description before offering up shortened clips that feature your results. You can also view the results from an iPad or then sling the video to a TV with the push of a button like Apple's AirPlay.
There are voice-activated remotes on the market now, but often, it's just training your remote to respond to pre-set commands you record. Google TV (s goog) is also supposed to get an Android remote app that allows you to conduct voice searches. AT&T's voice capabilities appear to go further than just search with its deep data extraction from transcripts. But overall, I think voice is a perfect way to interact with the TV. When we watch TV, it's still more of a lean back experience, so it helps to have a way to unlock TV data without having to haul out a keyboard. This also shows how cloud-based voice services are able to really change the way we interact with machines. It's unclear when, or if, these AT&T projects will get deployed, though it's easy to see them working with AT&T's U-Verse TV system. It could also be adopted by other pay TV providers, which would be a great thing.
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Brussels has been working overtime on financial matters, coming out with no less than three controversial documents today. Presumably the European Commission is trying to cram in as much as possible before a new Commission is appointed in September. Charlie McCreevy, the EU internal market commissioner, wants to leave his mark.
There has been much tearing of hair and gnashing of teeth by private equity managers and hedge funds over one of these documents, which proposes to introduce a pan-European regulatory framework for alternative investment managers.
The new rules, which could be substantially changed before they have to be observed, would bring all alternative investment managers into the regulatory net except those managing less than €100m, or €500m for managers who do not use leverage and have a five-year lock-in period for their investors.
This is an improvement on the €250m threshold that had been expected, at least for private equity managers, but appears to be a victory for politicians who had complained the threshold was set too high. In practice, it is likely all managers would be caught by the regulation, as few set up aiming to manage less than €100m, and investors would be ill-advised to prefer unregulated to regulated managers, particularly if they are fiduciaries.
Probably of much more interest to the traditional asset management industry is another communication out today that declares an intention to apply the same rules to sales of all packaged retail investment products. Fund managers feel disadvantaged by the current sectoral regulatory approach, which makes it much quicker and easier to get a structured product to market than an investment fund.
This is just as revolutionary as regulating alternative investment managers and asset managers are applauding the announcement, having been pushing for just such a change. Stuctured product providers may be less impressed. But is anyone looking out for investors' interests in all this?


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Do Frogs Have Warts?
No. The bumps and the lumps you see on the skin of some amphibians (usually toads) are glands filled with foul-tasting poison, which protects them from hungry predators, says David Mizejewski, a naturalist at the National Wildlife Federation, in Reston, Virginia. By the way, frogs are hopping mad that they've been unfairly blamed for causing warts. Warts actually come from viruses and can be transferred only from human to human. Toadally gross.


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South Jersey Man Sentenced In Hit-Run Death Of Elderly PedestrianA southern New Jersey man who was high on heroin when he killed an elderly pedestrian in a hit-and-run accident has been sentenced to nine years in prison.
One Dead, Another Injured In Hit-Run Crash In JuniataIt happened around 10:30 p.m. Sunday near East Luzerne and I Streets.
Phila. Police Hoping For Break In Fatal Holmesburg Hit-Run Case Capt. John Wilcynski of AID said the vehicle shouldn't be hard to recognize: "Left side front-end damage; headlight and left turn signal clearly were left behind."
Pedestrian Struck, Killed By Hit-And-Run Driver In VinelandPolice are on the lookout Monday for the driver who hit a man in Vineland and left him to die in the street.
Search Continues For Suspects In Deadly North Philadelphia Hit-And-RunThe manhunt continues for the pair responsible for the deaths of three children who were run down Friday in the city's Tioga section by a carjacked SUV. Their mother remains in critical condition as well.
Authorities in Delco Release Vehicle Details in March 8th Fatal Hit-RunDetectives say they are now looking for a light-colored -- possibly tan or gold -- Chevrolet Tahoe or GMC Yukon, model year 1992-1999, with five distinctive "clearance" lights located above the windshield.
Police Search For Driver In Fatal Hit-Run In CollingdaleDelaware County authorities are searching for a driver who struck and killed a pedestrian in Collingdale and then fled the scene.
Upper Darby Police Think Car That Killed Man, Dog Was Caught on VideoUpper Darby police superintendent Mike Chitwood says authorities are looking for a white, midsize sedan which probably has significant front-end damage, with the bumper falling off.
Driver Pleads Guilty In Fatal Atlantic City Hit-And-Run A driver who struck and killed a man in a motorized wheelchair in Atlantic City last summer has pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of a fatal accident.
Woman Killed In Hit-And-Run In Haddon TownshipA woman has died from her injuries after police say she was struck by a hit-and-run driver in Haddon Township, New Jersey.
Arrest Made In Hit-And-Run Death Of Delaware County Man29-year-old Pacurie Huynh was arrested on Monday in connection with the 2012 hit-and-run death of 28-year-old Thomas Quercetti of Boothwyn.
Driver Indicted In Fatal Atlantic City Hit And RunA driver who allegedly struck and killed a man in a motorized wheelchair in Atlantic City last summer has been indicted on a charge of leaving the scene of a fatal accident.


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Web Services
The term Web services is the latest hot phrase in development circles. Although the term has the word Web in it, it is not a Web application–specific technology. Instead, it uses Web technologies, such as Web servers and HTTP, to provide a set of services that can be invoked by other programs on the network.
The concept of Web services dates back to the early 1990s with Sun Microsystems's "the network is the computer" campaign. The idea was that with a strong and reliable network as the infrastructure, business problems could best be solved by distributing the solution of discrete problems to specialized components across the network. This decentralization of the processing mechanism has significant advantages as the system evolves, because relatively fewer places need to be updated when things change. Standards-based Web services first got some serious attention when Microsoft unveiled its .NET strategy. Web services play an important part in .NET applications.
Simply put, a Web service is a collection of functions packaged and published on a network for use by other client programs. From the highest levels of abstraction, a Web service is simply another type of remote procedure call (RPC). The difference, however, is what Web services bring to the concept of RPC. Much as component models—COM and JavaBeans—have made component reuse practical, Web services make RPC practical by providing a set of standards for discovering and invoking the services.
Component models define how components interoperate and how they can be found and examined programmatically. Both COM and JavaBeans have an introspection mechanism that allows other components to bind to them late and programmatically construct the appropriate function calls. Web services define a similar mechanism for the discovery of functional metadata.
Any Web service can interact with any other Web service. They can aggregate themselves to provide higher-level functions. After all, they are software components themselves, and all components have the potential to invoke Web services.
One key to making all this practical is the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).[4] SOAP is built on top of XML; that is, a SOAP message is simply an XML-formatted document that validates against a certain DTD or schema. When used with HTTP, SOAP messages—documents—can be sent to Web servers, which invoke the specified function defined by the Web service.
A SOAP message consists of a mandatory SOAP envelope, an optional SOAP header, and a mandatory SOAP body. The envelope is the top element of the XML document. The header is a way messages can be extended in the future with prior knowledge, similar to the use of the <META> tag in HTML. SOAP defines namespaces for the envelope and the encoding used by the communicating parties to ensure that the message is interpreted correctly.
In general, a SOAP message specifies three parts:
In the following example, the address-lookup problem discussed earlier in this chapter might have been solved in part with a Web service. An example of the SOAP message that might have been used follows:
POST /CityStateLookup HTTP/1.1 Host: www.wae-uml.org Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" SOAPAction: "http://www.wae-uml.org/examples/CityStateLookup" <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"> <SOAP-ENV:Body> <m:LookupCityState xmlns:m="http://www.wae-uml.org/examples/ CityStateLookup"> <zip>29072</zip> </m:LookupCityState > </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
The SOAP response to this message is:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/> <SOAP-ENV:Body> <m:LookupCityStateResponse xmlns:m="http://www.wae-uml.org/examples/ CityStateLookup"> <City>Lexington</State> <State>SC</State> </m:LookupCityStateResponse > </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
The rules and encodings for more complex data structures can get a little involved and are beyond the scope of this simple introduction. Fortunately, most tools today make the use of Web services very easy. In fact, in some tools like Visual Studio .NET make it is possible to couple an application to a Web service with simple drag-and-drop operations and a minimal amount of coding.
In order to make Web services practical, you need more than SOAP. You also need a mechanism for publishing and describing Web services to potential clients. This mechanism is a standard: Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI). A UDDI Business Registry is a set of replicated registries of information about Web services on the network. Registration of a service involves four core data structure types: business information, service information, binding information, and specification information.
The general usage scenario is for a programmer to use a Web-based interface or specialized tool to query the UDDI registry via its inquiry API. The programmer can read about the business, search by categories, and follow URLs with a browser to obtain more detailed information. After finding the service that will do the job, the programmer selects an appropriate binding template and tModel. With this information and the information that it points to, the programmer can write the code that will use the Web service in an application.
This information described in a UDDI business service is packaged in an XML structure as defined by the UDDI specification and managed by UDDI registries. In general, this information categorizes and points to URLs that describe Web services but doesn't provide enough detail for a programmer to code a system that can accept and send SOAP-based Web service messages.
What is needed next is a more detailed specification of the SOAP interface. The UDDI specification is focused only on finding the right service, not on explaining how to use it. The tModel structure in the service description points to the next specification and document in the mix, the Web Services Description Language (WSDL).[5] The WSDL specification describes in detail how to invoke a Web service and what to expect when it responds.
A WSDL description defines a Web service as a collection of network end points, or ports. Each port defines a collection of operations that can be invoked. Each operation includes a set of input and output messages: the parameters. A binding maps a port type to a specific protocol, HTTP, and data format, SOAP. A port instantiates a port type and binding at a specific network address.
A WSDL document contains five major elements:
In general, the first three elements are an abstract description of the service. The binding connects these abstract descriptions and associates them with transport and encoding protocols. The service element provides the final piece of information and the instance of the Web service.
When all the pieces—UDDI, WSDL, and SOAP—are put together and with the right tool support, Web services can become a reality. Figure 4-6 shows how an application developer uses a UDDI registry to find and to locate a service that will make the development of the client application easier. With this service and by following the link to the WSDL document that provides the details, the developer can either use a tool or do the appropriate coding that will allow the client application to use the Web service. In the running client application, SOAP and HTTP are used to communicate with an instance of the Web service.
Figure 4-6. Web services in the development and runtime environment
In Figure 4-7, a Web service developer codes—builds—a Web service and deploys it to an appropriate host. A WSDL document that describes in detail how to use this service is created. Also created is a UDDI document that describes the business and is used to publish the Web service on a UDDI registry.
Figure 4-7. Development of a Web service
Like distributed objects and XML, Web services are not required by Web applications; nor is the use of Web services only for Web applications. The two are independent. Web services might be an important part of your Web architectures. Those services depend on HTTP, as do Web applications as a principal communications protocol. In many ways, Web services can be thought of and even modeled as a Web application. For the most part, Web applications produce HTML responses to HTTP requests, whereas Web services provide SOAP responses to HTTP/SOAP requests.
What makes these two technologies truly akin is that they use HTTP, a connectionless protocol designed for scalability and robustness. Many issues related to modeling and designing Web applications are a direct result of the use of HTTP. It should not be a surprise that the same issues can be found in modeling and designing Web services. Although this book is not directly devoted to an exploration of how to build Web services, it is hoped that an understanding of the issues involved in building Web applications can be applied to the building of scalable, robust Web services.
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Editor's Note: Every week through the draft we will have a Full Count Trends piece running here on SCOUT. Every weekend I will look at three players who had a strong weekend and two who had a down week or had their draft stock impacted by something negative (health or otherwise). I am looking at a full count from the hitter's perceptive, so players on the rise will be in the three-balls category and those who have had negative performances or health news will be in the two-strikes category. Think of this feature as a running stock watch on draft prospects. A player in the two-strikes category may recover in plenty of time before the draft commences. You will also likely see names jump into the three-balls category that may not have a high profile yet but will be worth watching in the lead-up to the draft.
No time to waste, we're three weeks into the division one college season. The JUCO ranks have been going for longer and there's warm climate high school baseball to discuss as well. So many players, too little space, so let's dive into the good.
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David Peterson, LHP, Oregon
Peterson had himself quite a game on Friday night, one for the ages as a matter of fact. Peterson went eight innings, allowing no runs on three hits and a wild pitch. He struck out 17 of the 29 batters he faced from Mississippi State, including Jake Mangum. Mangum is a centerfielder to watch for this year's draft. The 17 strikeouts were a new school record, beating Tyler Anderson's total of 14 in 2011.
Peterson's first two starts had not been as strong, so it was nice to see him come out and dominate. The big lefty has had a big jump in his strikeout rate this year, with a walk rate that has plummeted. At the same time, he has just three starts and, when you strikeout 17 in eight innings in one of those starts, your strikeout rate is going to jump. At the same time, Peterson's signature game is going to mean more eyes his way this spring.
Peterson is a big lefty, 6'6", with a long college track record. His stuff has not been overpowering but, when talking with people, there has always been a feeling that his velocity could tick upwards, which would change his ceiling. This college starter class is very deep and Peterson is in that group fighting to go in round one. His size and being a lefty, along with surprising athleticism, will keep him in that discussion.
Keegan Thompson, RHP, Auburn
Now, if you have been reading these articles for a while, then you know I love to keep track of streaks. Thompson is on quite a streak; so far this year, he has pitched 21 innings and hasn't given up a run, earned or otherwise. This is quite good for a player who missed last year after injury. Normally, I expect rust and issues with command and control, but Thompson has shown none of this.
This weekend, he faced Lipscomb, and before you say "of course, he pitched well", look at who he faced. Lipscomb has Michael Gigliotti leading off and patrolling centerfield. Gigliotti is a potential first round pick and is listed among the top ten college bats in the draft class this year. Thompson went seven innings, allowing one hit, walking two, and striking out five. He has been this
This comparison makes a lot of sense, as Gallen started out on fire a year ago as well. Both pitchers are undersized
Brendon Little, LHP, State JC of Florida
I am breaking the rules here for Little. Instead of going over what he did this week, I want to comment on his year so far. I had Little's name come up in a few conversations and he is generating a lot of attention.
Little was a known arm in Pennsylvania in 2015. He had a strong commitment to North Carolina and fell to the 36th round. Little, as a freshman, got to pitch in all of four innings, so he decided to transfer to a JUCO program in order to be draft eligible this year and not have to sit out. Little pitched out of the pen in the Cape and that was where he really got noticed. So far this year, Little has started six games, pitching 32 innings and striking out 55 for a strikeout per nine of 15.47. He has also walked 15 during that time, which gives him a walk per nine of about 3.56, which is not ideal, but not bad either.
Little is a
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Alex Lange RHP, LSU
Lange burst on the scene as a freshman at LSU and then was not as dominant as a sophomore, but still pitched very well. At least, this is the common refrain one hears with Lange. The interesting thing is, statistically, he was basically the exact same pitcher, but his home run rate increased and he had a slight uptick in hit rate. This is what caused his ERA to balloon, but his walk and strikeout rates were very close to the previous year.
Lange faced TCU Friday, with less than stellar results. TCU has been the best team in the country this year, so many pitchers struggle when facing them. Lange went one and
Pitchers from LSU have been a bit of a mixed bag over the last few years. There have been some big name failures and two notable successes, in Gausman and Nola. If one is looking for upside in Lange, there would be room to compare him to Nola. He has the chance for multiple above average pitches, though he doesn't have overpowering stuff. Lange is likely a first round pick, but I don't see a top ten pick.
Dalton Guthrie SS, Florida
I swear I think very highly of the Florida baseball program. When people ask me about the top programs in the country, I always put Florida in the top five in terms of development. So it's just bad luck and performances that have a Florida player in this section for the third week in a row.
Dalton Guthrie is a sure shortstop and the son of former Major League pitcher Mark Guthrie. He has been a solid hitter for Florida the last two years. Over this weekend, while facing Columbia, Guthrie went two for eight, with a pair of walks and a stolen base. It was not a bad weekend but, when facing Columbia, one hopes for a bit more from their leadoff man.
This class is very weak on college bats. Shortstops always rise up the draft and Guthrie is viewed as a safe one. He has hit well in college, has bloodlines, and comes from a top program. All of this has combined to push him up boards this year. I see more of a future utility player, as I don't see any skills that are more than average and his power is well below average. I would label him a second round talent but, because of position, I could easily see him going in round one.
Other Notable Performances
- Griffin Canning was the last cut from this list. I had been hearing a lot of talk on him before his performance on Friday. He faced Michigan and went eight innings, giving up no runs on three hits and three walks. He struck out 12 batters. Canning is pushing his way into the first round with his performances. I know there are a lot of fans of his right now.
- JB Bukauskas faced Long Beach State and went seven innings, allowing one run on six hits and a walk. He struck out nine and UNC didn't
win,because the pen faltered. Bukauskas has over a 13 strikesper nine, with an ERA of .45 and a walk per nine of 1.35. He has been amazingly good, the only knock is his height. Oakland feels like a floor for him, in my view. They have gone arm heavy of late, have no fear with height, and love power arms.
- Kyle Wright was talked about as one of the top arms this year, but it has been a bit of a struggle early on. He was facing California State Northridge and went five innings, allowing three runs on six hits, two walks, and a wild pitch. He struck out eight batters. When a player is considered in the running for the top pick, one expects to see dominant performances. Wright has plenty of time to prove why so many of us viewed him as a potential
top fivepick.
- Alex Faedo was my number one player heading into this season. After his rough first start, Faedo is back to his usual excellence. While facing Columbia on Friday, he went seven innings, giving up no runs on two hits and two walks while striking out nine batters. Faedo is still my top player in this draft, because of his mix of upside and safety.
- Seth Romero is another name I have heard a bit more of late. Romero pitched eight innings on Friday against Cal State Fullerton. He gave up three runs on seven hits and one walk. He struck out ten batters. Romero has been a strikeout machine in the early going, with a strikeout per nine of 15.5. The
left handerhas always shown excellent control numbers in college and is looking more and more like a first roundpick.
- Tanner Houck finally had the start that people expected from him when he was discussed as a possible top ten pick. He was facing the University of
Illinois Chicago, a team which faced Kyle Wright last Friday and took two out of three from Vanderbilt. Houck went six innings and didn't give up a run. He allowed just four hits and hit a batter. He didn't walk anyone and struck out seven. The big thing in this stat line was the zero walks; after his early season control problems, it was great to see him perform well. I don't think it is a coincidence that Houck had a strong performance when his control was back to what it had been the previous two years.
- Keston Hiura was another near miss from the upper portion of this article. The UC Irvine DH was facing Portland University and went 5-9, with three doubles and three walks. Hiura had an elbow issue, which is why he is still playing DH. He has played second and outfield for Irvine. If he could handle second, it's a big change to his outcomes. He is likely a left fielder, though. Hiura has a potential plus hit tool and gap power. In this class, he is likely a top five college bat and a first round pick.
- Garrett Mitchell is a high school player, but his performance this week needs to be mentioned. I was talking to people in California who saw his performance against Hans Crouse and Hagen Danner. While he was solid against Danner, he really excelled against Crouse. The reports from that game had Crouse in the low 90's, but the people I talked with who were there that day came away impressed with Mitchell. Mitchell has potential plus power and speed. It will be interesting to see if he can continue to
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Getting more urgent performance from an unusual combination in the final minutes, the Hurricanes got their deficit down to four points with less than two minutes left and had the opportunity to cut it down to one point on their next possession.
But forward Kenny Kadji and guard Shane Larkin missed consecutive three-pointers, and the Wolfpack wiggled off the hook and stretched its advantage back to 10 points before the Hurricanes got five quick points at the end.
The lineup that rallied the Hurricanes featured only two starters -- Trey McKinney-Jones and Kadji -- along with reserves Larkin and Rion Brown in the backcourt and DeQuan Jones up front at the start of the comeback.
Starter Durand Scott joined the group after about a minute but later fouled out.
Left on the bench for nearly half of the second half were senior G Malcolm Grant and junior C Reggie Johnson.
With just a little over 48 hours between the loss to the Wolfpack and Miami's next game at Georgia Tech, the Hurricanes had little time for major adjustments.
With a 1-3 ACC log and 10-7 overall record, they needed at least a split of their next two games -- they are at Boston College after visiting the Yellow Jackets -- to avoid falling into an even deeper hole in the conference race.
"We will explore several options," Larranaga said when asked if lineup changes might be included in those adjustments. "I will discuss it with my staff."
The Hurricanes left for Atlanta right after the Sunday afternoon loss to the Wolfpack, not wanting to risk flight delays that could come about because of the weather.
"We've got a lot of work to do," Larranaga said, who took over the program last spring. "I was anticipating what our squad would be like before the staff and I arrived, and I've found we've got a lot more work to do than we originally thought."
--Miami got off to a horrendous start shooting in the loss to North Carolina State, going 7-of-25 from the field (28.0 percent) in the first half. The Hurricanes rallied over the final 20 minutes, going 20-of-36, to finish at 44.3 for the game.
But after going just 1-of-9 on three-pointers in the first half, they were only 1-of-11 in the second half to finish 2-of-20.
"I think that comes from being passive," coach Jim Larranaga said. "Aggressive works. Playing hard works."
The Hurricanes were shooting 37.8 percent from behind the arc going into the game.
--Freshman G Shane Larkin came up with three steals against the Wolfpack to give him 12 in the last three games. He had nine points, including one of Miami's two three-pointers, and added five assists, matching his season high.
Two of his assists came on passes to F Kenny Kadji that resulted in dunks during Miami's comeback bid.
--Kadji posted his fourth double-double in his last seven games with his team-high points 20 points and 11 rebounds against N.C. State. He has averaged 18.8 points and 7.2 rebounds over the last five games.
Kadji recently was reclassified as a junior after being listed as a sophomore on the early season roster. He began his career at Florida during the 2008-09 season and was injured in 2009-10. He sat out 2010-11 after transferring to Miami.
BY THE NUMBERS: 1 -- Miami had one assist in the first half against N.C. State. The Hurricanes finished with 10 for the game.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "Most of our issues are mental. Most of them are about being mentally tough and when the opponent challenges you to rise up to that challenge as a competitor does and not avoid the competition and think that you can get away with less than 100 percent effort." -- Coach Jim Larranaga, who was highly disappointed in his team's play in the loss to North Carolina State.
--at Georgia Tech, Jan. 24
KEY MATCHUPS: Glen Rice Jr. has led the Yellow Jackets in scoring (13.3 points a game) and veteran G Mfon Udofia also has averaged in double figures. Rice had 28 points in the first of the two meetings for the team last season but was scoreless in the rematch in Atlanta.
--at Boston College, Jan. 29
KEY MATCHUPS: Miami beat the Eagles in both meetings last season, but BC has pretty much a new team. Five of the top six scorers, including the top two (7-0 C Dennis Clifford and F Ryan Anderson) are freshmen.
FUTURES MARKET: A lot depends on how radical a change coach Jim Larranaga plans to make after the disappointing loss to North Carolina State at home, but it wouldn't be surprising to see G Shane Larkin move into the starting lineup. He has shown the ability to come through in the clutch after knocking down free throws to clinch the win over Clemson, then hit two more to keep the Hurricanes in the contention against the Wolfpack.
--Senior G Malcolm Grant, who seemed to be getting over the personal issues that had affected him following the death of his brother in late December, went back into his shooting funk against N.C. State. After scoring 16 points in the previous game, he missed all of his seven field-goal attempts but got five points at the free-throw line against the Wolfpack. He played 21 minutes, two more than his season-low of 19 against UNC-Greensboro in his first game back from his brother's funeral.
--Sophomore F Erik Swoope, who had eight starts early in the season, saw his most playing time since C Reggie Johnson returned to the lineup on Dec. 27 when he played six minutes against the Wolfpack. He made one of his two free throws but missed his only attempt from the field.
--Sophomore G Rion Brown scored 10 points against the Wolfpack for his first time in double figures since going for 15 against Appalachian State on Dec. 30.


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"The Bourne Legacy" Movie Trailer: Watch Now!
It's one of the most-popular action franchises around, and "The Bourne Legacy" treated potential theatergoers to its first trailer and film poster today (February 8).
The latest Bourne film stars Jeremy Renner in the lead, while he's joined with a strong cast including Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Oscar Isaac, Joan Allen, Albert Finney, and Scott Glenn in the latest chapter of the popular series.
Directed by Tony Gilroy, the film is described as "a story centered on a new CIA operative in the universe based on Robert Ludlum's novels."
Promising to be quite the wild ride,"The Bourne Legacy" is due in theaters on August 3rd.


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Location: Tamworth, Staffordshire
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Drayton Manor Park boasts some of the biggest, wettest and scariest rides around.
It is home to Thomas Land with 21 rides and attractions from the hit television series Thomas and Friends™.
You will also find 'Ben 10 Ultimate Mission' the ride, Ben needs you to stop Vilgax from stealing the Omnitrix and the only way is to board the 'Mecha Vehicle', Good luck on your mission!
Our 4D movie film for 2014 is A Fish Story. The musical underwater adventure sees Deepo, an orange Garibaldi fish and Billy, a trainee at the aquarium who magically turns into a fish, travel on a journey to the depths of the ocean. They encounter many different sea creatures along the way, such as lively dolphins, stinging jellyfish, kind-hearted sharks and singing sea turtles.
Discover 100 rides and attractions for the whole family including a zoo and an abundance of shops and restaurants. Now you can play and stay at the hugely successful 4 star Drayton Manor Hotel. The hotel has 150 bedrooms 15 of which are Thomas and Friends™ themed family rooms. There really is something for everyone at Drayton Manor Theme Park!
Tokens can be exchanged for one adult OR one child OR one senior entry ticket for 1 day only. Height and size restrictions apply on some rides. Tokens cannot be used in food outlets or shops. Tokens may be used against standard admission, but cannot be used for special events and/or shows, other promotions or discounted tickets, or annual passes. 2 - 3 Year olds enter for €5 on the day.
A token is not a pre-booked ticket. Opening Dates 29th March - 2nd November 2014. Park Closed on Sunday 14th September.
Tokens are not transferable and will be issued with the name shown on your Clubcard vouchers.
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'Boardwalk Empire' Star Michael Pitt On the Perfect Suit & Cocktail
Dressed in a sleek black suit, his trademark long hair slicked back and his girlfriend Jamie Bochert by his side, Michael was adamant about bringing back men's fashion from the '20s and '30s, telling Celebuzz:
"Certainly the three-piece suit has got to come back. Once you put that suit on… For me, I've never been into fashion but when I put on that three-piece suit, I got into it."
Michael plays James "Jimmy" Darmody on Boardwalk who is working his way up to running the alcohol business in Atlantic City, but in season two finds himself having to choose between his mentor Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (Steve Buscemi) and his wealthy father. Regardless of his predicament this character knows how to dress!
"I've learned about the time," the actor, 30, said of working on the prohibition period piece. "You learn about the present when you look at the past." That goes for fashion too! Michael's campaign for three-piece suits seems to be working as both Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Justin Timberlake have been spotted sporting the style.
Tanqueray in particular.
"I'm all about Tanqueray 10. It's like the Tanqueray that you drink in a martini. … That bottle is really good. … [Also], they have a drink called the South Side. It's kind of a mojito."
The South Side cocktail requires, Tanqueray gin, fresh lime juice and mint.
Aside from his flourishing acting career and his fabulous taste in suits and fancy drinks, Michael has been working on his music. His band Pagoda has been around for several years and he's finishing up a record as of late. "We're just waiting for the right time to release everything," he said, adding that he's also working on some solo musical projects and some stuff with his girlfriend Jane.
If you haven't heard of Pagoda or watched Boardwalk, you may recognize Pitt's starring roles in the thriller films such as Funny Games and Murder By Numbers. So which does he prefer: TV or movies?
"I wouldn't choose. There's no difference for me. I don't judge the form in which the work comes. I judge the work. If the work is good, I'll do it wherever in whatever medium. … I think that it's a very old school mentality, you know, telvision and movies. To me, it's all filmmaking."
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"Finishing Touches" will be based at the Rosewood Sand Hill, 2825 Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, where guests will park and check-in, then be transported to each home by shuttle bus on Dec. 1, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. A limited number of self-driven tour tickets are available online.
Guests may also shop in the holiday boutique at the hotel Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
On Friday there will be a luncheon and self-driven tour and evening party, "Mistletoe and Martinis," at the Rosewood Sand Hill. On Saturday morning, Dec. 1, Isabella Sikaffy of Florabella will host "Home for the Holidays.
Visit juniorleaguehometour.com to purchase tickets for all the events.
Since its founding in 1965, the Junior League of Palo Alto-Mid Peninsula has contributed more than $4 million to the community and hundreds of thousands of volunteer hours.


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M&B and Mira opt for e-book shorts
Mills & Boon and sister imprint Mira are trying different strategies with e-book shorts releases.
M&B is releasing ten original e-book only shorts for Valentine's Day, to be priced at £1.99. The seven novellas, all by established M&B authors, and published on 14th February itself, will be His Darling Valentine by Carole Mortimer, The Billionaire's Blind Date by Jessica Hart, The Bridesmaid's Proposal by Rebecca Winters, The Ordinary King by Nina Harrington, Chosen as the Sheikh's Wife by Liz Fielding, Their Baby Bond by Amy Andrews, The Governess and the Earl by Ann Lethbridge, Italian Boss, Housekeeper Mistress by Kate Hewitt, The Reluctant Queen by Caitlin Crews, and The Count's Secret Child by Jennie Lucas. The e-books will be available across all digital formats and devices.
Harlequin digital and marketing director Tim Cooper said the plan was to release more e-book shorts at regular intervals from now on. He said: "We just want to find a way of getting our content out there to readers, and it's an easy entry point; they are enjoyable little bite-size pieces of content."
He added that M&B has discussed releasing e-book only content by new authors, and said it was an option for the future, but said: "For a start, we wanted to go to our existing authors and give them the chance to write short stories, it's something our readers love."
Meanwhile Mira will be releasing e-book shorts in advance of authors' paperback publications. Three 10,000 word shorts by Victoria Fox will come ahead of the her novel Temptation Island in June. Rivals will be released in March, followed by Pride in April, and Ambition in May. Each of the stories will focus on one of the three main female characters in Temptation Island, with their price point to be confirmed. Mira also plans to release e-books shorts ahead of the paperback publication of works by other key authors, including Anne O'Brian.


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SquareSpace is so great for it's Drag and Drop abilities, but once in a while, SquareSpace gets a little stubborn and won't let you change the simplest things. One of those things is your blog post publish date.
If you would like to remove the blog date and time from SquareSpace, there is an easy bit of CSS code you can use to make it work. The catch is that you have to do a bit of research first. I've listed the steps below, which are super simple, but they work best if you're working within a Chrome browser.
How to remove the date from your SquareSpace blog posts:
- First, move your cursor over the date on your blog and right click.
- Click "Inspector". This should bring up all the code from your SquareSpace site.
- Find the "Class" that contains the date. The "class" name should look something like this: <time class="thisisthenameoftheclass">March 31, 2016</time>
- Copy and paste the class name into your Custom CSS. To get here, go to DESIGN -> CUSTOM CSS and paste in the code below. (Make sure you change .insertclass to the name of your class from Step #3).
.insertclass { display: none; }
And that's it! You should now have hidden all the dates from showing on your SquareSpace blog.
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A financial planner and two advisory groups operating in the self-managed superannuation market have been shut down in the past two weeks, raising concerns about the increasing level of risk trustees of do-it-yourself funds face.
This week a Sydney financial planner, Craig Dangar, pleaded guilty to obtaining a financial advantage by deception and making a false or misleading statement.
Dangar had sold $250,000 of shares he owned personally to self-managed fund clients.
A week earlier, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission obtained a court order against the operators of two Queensland self-managed superannuation advice companies, preventing them from carrying on some of their activities.
ASIC was concerned that the companies, Royale Capital and ActiveSuper, misled investors about their investments. Royale and ActiveSuper raised $4.75 million from 200 SMSF clients.
They were selling shares in companies based in the US and the British Virgin Islands and had not lodged appropriate disclosure documents with ASIC.
These companies were said to be purchasing distressed properties in the US.
ASIC says it was concerned Royale and ActiveSuper were operating an unlicensed financial services business, their disclosure to investors was inadequate and they provided misleading information. It was also concerned the companies conducted their marketing by making unsolicited calls. While ASIC did not say that either of the companies had committed fraud, the case fits the template for investment scams being committed with increasing frequency in Australia - and increasingly targeting self-managed funds.
Australia a target
Earlier this month the Australian Institute of Criminology issued a report, Serious and Organised Investment Fraud in Australia, which spelt out the common characteristics of a scam.
Australia is an attractive location for fraudsters because of the high level of household wealth and, in particular, the high level of superannuation and retirement savings. Organised investment frauds are usually launched from overseas, although, more recently, operations have been found in Australia. The fraud usually starts with a cold call.
Common types of investments promoted by fraudsters include green energy investments, new technology shares, real estate investments, options trading and foreign currency trading.
Sometimes the fraud involves investment in a legitimate business but the promoter misrepresents the high risk or illiquidity of the asset; in other cases the business is a sham.
Investors need to recognise that frauds are likely to be the product of well-organised groups that go to a lot of trouble falsifying company details and sending out high-quality paperwork, such as bogus offer documents and account statements. Investors need to check with a number of sources, starting with the list of licensed providers on ASIC's MoneySmart website, to make doubly sure they are dealing with a legitimate operation. The profile of the typical victim is a big surprise. The Australian Institute of Criminology says victims are typically "educated, computer-literate and have undertaken preventative research that provides them with sense of assurance".
They are more likely to be middle-aged or older men who are self-funded retirees or small business owners. They are people who consider themselves financially literate. Investment fraud victims usually have above-average incomes and savings and are inclined to take more risks with their investments.
What can be done?
Following the collapse of Trio Capital, Australia's biggest superannuation fraud, in 2009, some of the superannuation funds that had invested with Trio were able to apply for government compensation, while others were not. Super funds that were regulated by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and had invested in Trio products, such as the Astarra Strategic Fund, were able to claim compensation under last-resort provisions of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act.
The decision to award compensation is made by the Minister for Financial Services in consultation with the APRA. Compensation was paid on the basis that the value of the investment in Trio was destroyed by fraudulent conduct on the part of the provider.
Trustees of self-managed super funds (which are not regulated by APRA but by the Australian Taxation Office) were not eligible for that protection. A lot of self-managed fund trustees are unhappy about that, but it is not about to change.
The policy rationale for the exclusion of SMSF trustees from last-resort protection is that, as trustees of their own fund, they have direct control over their super savings and can protect their own interests.
A widely held view, which was reaffirmed in a report to government in April, is that self-managed funds are more like private investors than broad-based APRA-regulated funds.
The report on compensation arrangements for consumers of financial services, by academic Richard St John, conceded they have developed in a piecemeal way over the years and this structure was a cause of concern for a lot of people.
St John recommended against expanding the compensation scheme. He said reforms should be aimed at making existing standards more effective. SMSF trustees have the option of taking action against another party involved in the fraudulent transaction, such as a financial planner.


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In the past few days, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has shown up at a dinner for a business group that publicly called on him to step aside – and which says he arrived uninvited. He's also claimed he found $50-million in budget cuts but doesn't want to try to build advance support from city councillors because he doesn't trust them.
Are Mr. Ford's recent moves the clumsy fumbling of a doomed politician? Or, as municipal observers argue, are they part of a populist mayor's re-election strategy?
"The campaign is on as far as Mayor Ford is concerned," said Myer Siemiatycki, a municipal politics expert at Ryerson University. "It's evident he plans to try to take advantage of every day between now and election day."
Mr. Ford's apparent strategy is likely to be aired Wednesday as city council debates the 2014 budget in what is expected to be a heated meeting. The Mayor, who opposes the executive committee's budget, is promising to present more than $50-million in spending cuts on the floor of council. He has said that councillors, who stripped him of many of his powers after revelations of his drug and alcohol use, "stabbed me in the back."
Mr. Ford's positioning on the budget issue appears to be part of an effort to bolster his image as a gravy-train-cutting mayor while creating a contrast between himself and the rest of council in advance of the Oct. 27 election, said Lorne Bozinoff, president of Forum Research, a polling company.
"This is the trap that he's set for them. He wants them not to pick up on his suggestions. He's not going to bend over backwards and encourage them. His argument is this: 'Look, I suggested these savings.' He wants to be on the campaign trail and say, 'Hey, I can cut $50-million. I tried to do it and council said no'," he said. "The central theory of his campaign will be rejection of elites."
Prof. Siemiatycki agreed, saying Mr. Ford appears to be reaching "beyond City Hall" to burnish his image with voters.
"I think he has so burnt bridges and alienated his fellow members of council, the media, large cross-sections of Toronto that his only hope, in a way, can be to run a campaign based on a subtext of. 'They've done me wrong and I'm the protector and saviour of Toronto taxpayers'."
Meanwhile, Mr. Ford's awkward appearance at the Toronto Region Board of Trade's annual dinner on Monday can also be seen through the lens of political strategy. The Mayor, who wasn't on the guest list, was given an empty seat at a table in a back corner and left after about half an hour.
"He picks his spots of where he wants to be seen and who he wants to cultivate and show support for," Prof. Siemiatycki said. "So I think clearly he saw the Board of Trade [dinner] was an opportunity for him to try to message: 'I am still the mayor, I am still the leader'."
Mr. Ford's presence has sparked a debate over whether he was even invited to attend the dinner. The Board, which called on Mr. Ford to take a leave of absence for the sake of the city after he admitted to using crack cocaine, says he wasn't invited. Mr. Ford's Twitter account distributed a photo of an invitation letter dated Nov. 11. A board spokesman said the letter was sent inadvertently and that the board left a voicemail with Mr. Ford's office to confirm he was not invited.
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text: Like you, I'm giddy over 2-1, wishing Bruce Carter or Dez Bryant would have made "that play" to put us to 3-0. Just as much, I'm relishing in the ineptitude and disaster of our divisional brethren. Are you kidding me? 38-0? How glorious. RG0andIII. Philly headed to 1-3 shortly. Amen. But perhaps my favorite development thus far is the early implosion of the blasphemous read option. It ain't working too good, and I love it. Colin Kaepernick not only can't get the edge, he can't get back to the line of scrimmage. He was losing five yards a pop against Indy when they ran it, so they abandoned it, and he looks grossly lost since. It really hurts my heart. (Giggle) Terrelle Pryor got concussed. RG3 can't even do it right now because he got hurt doing it before. Vick is getting hammered in Kelly's communist offense, yards or not, as defensive coordinators are wising up fast. Russell Wilson is a real quarterback and doesn't rely on it, so the Seahawks still have it in their bag of tricks, but not as a staple. Not good news for Johnny Manziel and his ilk, or any team that was breaking bad that direction. I hoped and believed the league would catch up to this dumbed-down high school junk, but I sure thought it would take longer. Apparently, the key was fairly simple. Basically, you stay in a 4-3, move your end and tackle over a gap on the QB keep side, and drop the OLB on that side back a bit. Done. That's an oversimplification, I'm sure, but that's the nutshell version. Then, you brutally punish the quarterback whether he keeps it or not. In fact, that threat alone is influencing teams to get away from it. It's just not worth the risk, especially with the rewards drying up. Now that it's been schemed and neutralized, the 49ers have 10 total points in two weeks and are vowing to get back to their power run attack. Plus, such an offense requires TWO quarterbacks that can run it, so you're not bumping into walls if you lose your starter. A team has to install two offenses, just in case. It'll always work in college, where the talent differential is usually huge among teams, and players in general, on the field. But in the NFL, where everybody is good, it comes down to scheme, risk, health, and strategy. So I raise my glass high....to the impending abolition of this demonic practice! May it be banished to the memories of the Run-and-Shoot, Wing-T, Wildcat, and Parachute Pants. Salut!