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CEO Sundays: 5 Reasons Research Professors Make the Best Tech Startup Founders
As a research professor, I played a role in both developing cutting-edge technologies and inspiring the next generation of tech professionals. I loved the adventure of diving into projects with my colleagues — never fully...
CEO Sundays: The Data Revolution Should Inspire a UX Revolution
From tracking devices that inspire people to get up and move to goggles that add a digital overlay to the material world, electronics are becoming inseparable from our everyday lives. The data revolution is in... [Read More]
CEO Sundays: Plenty Of Room For Innovation In The Sharing Economy
As a concept, the "sharing economy" isn't new. The time-share, the car pool, and even the traditional bed-and-breakfast all operate by allowing multiple users to share a single resource. But until fairly recently, scaling up... [Read More]
CEO Sundays: Failure Is Crucial When Developing Your Prototype
About the Author: Gina McDuffie is the executive vice president of global marketing at GES No team wants to hear the brutal truth about the shortcomings of its product. Even if that product is just... [Read More]
CEO Sundays: How I Turned a $10 URL into a Multi-Million Dollar Business
By FreeConferenceCall.com CEO David Erickson More than a decade ago, I decided to purchase a $10 URL that would change my life – and my customers' lives – forever. Throughout the process of... [Read More]
CEO Sundays: 5 App Features Your Customers Can't Live Without
About the Author: Emily Egbert is the spokesperson for the HitUp App I shouldn't have waited until I was starving to try GrubHub. It was late, I had just downloaded the app and I was... [Read More]
CEO Sundays: Decoding The 3 Types of Angel Investors
Angel investment dollars used to mean asking friends and family members to invest in your budding business. These days however, angel investing has gone mainstream. More 'regular' folk are interested in jumping on the angel... [Read More]
CEO Sundays: How Brownies Will Save Your Startup
By Cassandra Paré, CEO and Founder of Favoire When I was asked to write for CEO Sundays, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to tell you our story right alongside some truly great companies.... [Read More]
CEO Sundays: 5 Marketing Predictions for 2015 and How CMOs Should Leverage ...
By Chris Lucas, VP of Marketing, Formstack It's likely your team is brainstorming ways to advance your business in 2015. The marketing landscape is shifting, and the new year is all about personalized marketing. Most... [Read More]
CEO Sundays: Entrepreneur 101 with Tyler Ornstein, Tyler's Coffee
This article was contributed by the CEO of Tyler's coffee, Tyler Ornstein The entrepreneur- what is this word that is so often tossed around in the small business world? What is it that will lead... [Read More]
CEO Sundays: Three Major Struggles of a Startup CEO
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CEO Sundays: So You Have A Product Idea…Now What?
I remember the day vividly. It was the summer of 2012 and I was about to enter my freshman year of college. Instead of spending my days playing video games, watching Netflix, or relaxing by... [Read More]
CEO Sundays: 4 Reasons You'll Love Working in Health IT for a Startup
Health IT startup funding has reached $956 million in 2014, according to HIT Consultant, leading to a boom in hiring. In fact, health IT has become one of the fastest growing career paths in the... [Read More]


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The 'Yes Man' actor criticizes the former Playboy Playmate for not considering her son's privacy when accusing him of cutting contact with the kid.
Jim Carrey didn't stay quiet when his ex-girlfriend Jenny McCarthy accused him of refusing to visit her autistic son when she asked him to after they broke up. The actor didn't deny that he didn't see the kid, but he hinted he had his own reason.
"I will always do what I believe is in the best interest of Evan's well being," the "Bruce Almighty" star said in a statement to the press. He added, "It's unfortunate that Evan's privacy is not being considered. I love Evan very much and will miss him always."
Jenny called out Jim when doing an interview on Howard Stern's radio show on Monday, June 4. The former Playboy Playmate said, "I've tried to ask [Jim] numerous times [to see Evan], because my son still asks."
Jenny and Jim split in April 2010 after dating for more than five years. The 39-year-old mother of one is now dating Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher. She was previously married to actor/director John Mallory Asher.

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Covers principles of wildlife ecology such as habitat use and selection, population and metapopulation dynamics, and predator-prey interactions, and illustrates how they apply to wildlife conservation problems with terrestrial, aquatic, and marine wildlife. Prerequisite: ESRM 350; recommended: introductory statistics. Offered: W.
Class description
This course is designed to give advanced undergraduates and graduate students entry into the current practices of wildlife ecology and conservation with a focus on forest landscape ecology, processes, and conservation. We will draw heavily from the current primary literature in this field to survey what is evolving and emerging as important theoretical, methodological, and conceptual foundations. • Objectives:1) Introduce you to current thought in the field of wildlife and forest conservation; 2) Immerse you in the primary wildlife conservation and forest landscape ecology literature; 3) Increase your comfort with new ecological paradigms including scale, emergence, disturbance, and patch dynamics; 4) Increase your familiarity with analytical methods to quantify and project landscape change; 5) Increase your understanding of local, regional, and global conservation issues; 6) Improve your ability to work in interdisciplinary settings to solve problems, devise conservation strategies, and plan effectively.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
Podcasts and powerpoint presentations are on the website so that class time can be devoted to discussion of important topics and student questions.
Recommended preparation
This class requires a solid foundation of understanding in Natural Science Disciplines (including Forest Resources, Biology, Zoology, Environmental Studies, and Comparative Psychology), and quantitative approaches to ecology and conservation (especially basic statistical reasoning and GIS).
Class assignments and grading
Discussion questions, lab exercises to learn software and analyze data, culminating project.
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"It sets a clear path for the region."
-- Melinda Eden, one of the Oregon members of the four-state council Northwest Power and Conservation Council who's recent plan finds that the Northwest can meet its future power needs without coal
In this issue:
1) Take Action: Support Jobs and Save Energy
2) Take Action: Save the Winter Olympics, Say No to Oil Sands!
3) Go Green: We're Making It Easy
4) Oil: Thousands Protest Offshore Drilling
1) Take Action: Support Jobs and Save Energy
Congress is drafting legislation meant to jump start our economy and put America back to work. As they do this, we need investments in energy efficiency in our homes through home energy retrofitting.
Renovating our homes saves money, and puts people back to work. Saving energy is also one of the fastest and cheapest ways to cut global warming pollution.
Contact your senators today and urge them to help you invest in energy efficiency in your own home.
2) Take Action: Save the Winter Olympics, Say No to Oil Sands!
All across the world, people are coming together to watch the winter Olympics. At the same time Canada is proudly displaying itself as a winter wonderland, it is pursuing a dirty oil sands project, forming an energy policy that will accelerate global warming and destroy winter snowpack -- and with it, the future of sports like skiing and snowboarding. Right now the oil industry is trying to get a presidential permit to transport this oil into the U.S. through a new pipeline.
Tell President Obama that Canada's oil sands threaten our clean energy future.
Grab the code and place the widget on your site, or bookmark this page for future reference. We're making it easy to be a healthy and green in 2010.
4) Oil: Thousands Protest Offshore Drilling
More than 10,000 people gathered Saturday at 83 events along Florida's coastline, like the one at Key West to protest proposed oil drilling off Florida's shores. The events come as additional oil exploration proposals make their way through the legislative process in the both the US Senate and Florida Legislature.
The first Hands Across the Sand event featured Floridians linked hand in hand along the state's numerous beaches demonstrating the united, bi-partisan opposition of the state's coastal communities to any drilling off Florida's beaches.
Sierra Club and more than 50 groups including environmentalists, chambers of commerce and elected officials from both parties participated.


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From La Grange to Memphis the distance is forty-seven miles. There were no troops stationed between these two points, except a small force guarding a working party which was engaged in repairing the railroad. Not knowing where this party would be found I halted at La Grange. General Hurlbut was in command there at the time and had his headquarters tents pitched on the lawn of a very commodious country house. The proprietor was at home and, learning of my arrival, he invited General Hurlbut and me to dine with him. I accepted the invitation and spent a very pleasant afternoon with my host, who was a thorough Southern gentleman fully convinced of the justice of secession. After dinner, seated in the capacious porch, he entertained me with a recital of the services he was rendering the cause. He was too old to be in the ranks himself—he must have been quite seventy then—but his means enabled him to be useful in other ways. In ordinary times the homestead where he was now living produced the bread and meat to supply the slaves on his main plantation, in the low-lands of Mississippi. Now he raised food and forage on both places, and thought he would have that year a surplus sufficient to feed three hundred families of poor men who had gone into the war and left their families dependent upon the "patriotism" of those better off. The crops around me looked fine, and I had at the moment an idea that about the time they were ready to be gathered the "Yankee" troops would be in the neighborhood and harvest them for the benefit of those engaged in the suppression of the rebellion instead of its support. I felt, however, the greatest respect for the candor of my host and for his zeal in a cause he thoroughly believed in, though our views were as wide apart as it is possible to conceive.
The 23d of June, 1862, on the road from La Grange to Memphis was very warm, even for that latitude and season. With my staff and small escort I started at an early hour, and before noon we arrived within twenty miles of Memphis. At this point I saw a very comfortable-looking white-haired gentleman seated at the front of his house, a little distance from the road. I let my staff and escort ride ahead while I halted and, for an excuse, asked for a glass of water. I was invited at once to dismount and come in. I found my host very genial and communicative, and staid longer than I had intended, until the lady of the house announced dinner and asked me to join them. The host, however, was not pressing, so that I declined the invitation and, mounting my horse, rode on.
About a mile west from where I had been stopping a road comes up from the southeast, joining that from La Grange to Memphis. A mile west of this junction I found my staff and escort halted and enjoying the shade of forest trees on the lawn of a house located several hundred feet back from the road, their horses hitched to the fence along the line of the road. I, too, stopped and we remained there until the cool of the afternoon, and then rode into Memphis.


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I Don't Do Boxes 4th Issue: #OUTerSpace is now online.
QueerLab is a youth-led media program exploring LGBTQ experience in North Carolina. Each QueerLab session brings together an editorial team of queer identifying youth to publish I Don't Do Boxes, and organize workshops focused on creative media production and digital storytelling. This season we focus on queer performance and activist traditions, explore issues in self-presentation for the stage and everyday life and create performance based actions and stories about how and why we act out.
Join I Don't Do Boxes Staff
I Don't Do Boxes is a youth focused zine dedicated to presenting stories of LGBTQ experience in the South. The Editorial Team meets bi-weekly September-December to produce and promote each issue. Meetings are held at Elsewhere; they are free and open to all. For more information on joining the staff, becoming a senior editor, and to get involved please contact I Don't Do Boxes at email@example.com.
Past Issues of I Don't Do Boxes
The first issue of I Don't Do Boxes collects over 30 artworks, stories, poems, comics and essays exploring queer southern experience and beyond. Launched on June 7, 2013, the issue was distributed to local schools and spaces around the Triad featuring advice, news, essays, youth commentary, lesson plans and ideas for organizing and sustaining Gay-Straight Alliances (GSA) at local schools. Download (PDF) | Purchase Online
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Title: America at War
The America at War digital collection includes a significant number of artifacts contributed by members of the Teaching American History in Louisiana (TAHIL) partnership. TAHIL providers include the Louisiana State Archives, Louisiana State Museum, The Historic New Orleans Collection and Tulane University Library Special Collections.
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Title: Historic Photographs of Southwest Louisiana
The Historic Photographs of Southwest Louisiana Collection documents McNeese State University, Lake Charles, and the Imperial Calcasieu region from the early 1890s to the present.
Contact: Pati Threatt; firstname.lastname@example.com; 337-475-5731
Title: Huey P. Long Collection
The Huey Long Digital Collection contains original documents concerning depression-era Louisiana and detailing Huey P. Long's "Share Our Wealth" program.
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Title: Louisiana State Documents Digital Archive
Louisiana law requires that state agencies submit copies of their publications to the Recorder of Documents for distribution to the member libraries of the Louisiana State Document Depository Program. This program preserves and assures the availability of state publications for use by the public throughout the state.
State agencies are allowed to fulfill their statutory obligation to participate in the Depository Program by providing documents in electronic format. The primary goal of the Digital Archive is to provide the public with permanent access to these digital publications that state agencies submit.
Louisiana state documents, print and digital, are cataloged in the State Library's online catalog and are available for use by all libraries regardless of depository status.
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Title: Loyola University New Orleans Special Collections and Archives Online
This is a small representation of the many photographs, manuscripts, and other materials found in the J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Library's Special Collections & Archives.
Contact: Loyola University New Orleans Special Collections & Archives, firstname.lastname@example.com
Title: Print Culture of the Civil Rights Movement, 1950-1980
This digital collection highlights the newspapers, posters, broadsides, pamphlets, and other printed ephemera produced by student groups, leading civil rights organizations, and individuals, which document the efforts of civil rights efforts in the United States.
Contact: Jeff Rubin; firstname.lastname@example.com; 504-289-7168
Title: Telling-Grandon Scrapbook
The Telling-Grandon Scrapbook is a 28-page scrapbook/diary containing photographs and ephemera collected by an Evanston, Illinois group during a visit by train to the New Orleans Carnival of 1903. The New Orleans section includes brief references to Begue's Restaurant, Fabacher's Restaurant, Christ Church, Metairie Cemetery, St. Roch Cemetery, Tulane University, the French Opera, the U.S. Mint, the Young Men's Gymnastic Club, U.S. and French battleships in port, Royal Street, the French Market, and the Rex and Proteus parades. While the scrapbook has no single author, several of the entries are signed by individuals within the group. Two of the more prominent among these were an Irving Telling and Willie Grandon; thus the title of the collection, Telling-Grandon.
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Title: WTUL - a collection from Tulane University's independent radio station
WTUL is Tulane University's independent college radio station. This collection features photographs, interviews, playlists, and a range of other materials from the station's beginnings in 1959 through the post-Katrina present.
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After uninstalling some uncessary programs like games and other stuff like google chrome (i use firefox and IE) off my computer and then restarting, most of the shortcuts orignal picture icons were repalced with general icons. When i try to open one up it says "Item that this shortcut refers to has been changed or moved".
So, I tried going to properties on all of the shortcuts but Icouldn't access the general tab it says "the name specified in the target box is not valid."
When i try to open some one of the shortcuts , like Microsoft Works, directly throguh "all programs" or the actual folder it says " Windows is searching for MSWorks.exe, to locate the file yourself, click Browse." When i locate the file and try to open it, it just continues to say the same thing.
I have also tried a system restore to the date before i unistalled some programs, but when I tried I got an error message that said system restore failed and now when i try to restore it that date no longer exists so i cant system restore anymore...
The thing I am most worried about is that my the Itunes Music Library Folder which held all had all of the files for my music has now turned into one Notepad File. (I was going to backup all of my music on hard drive right after now i cant)
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Av Hazard publicizes safety and operational concerns to help prevent accidents but it works only if we hear from you. Use the postage-free Av Hazard card to describe the hazard and return it to Pro Pilot. To obtain an official FAA review send NASA an ASRS form. For immediate action, call the airport, FBO, ATC, FSDO or the 24-hour FAA Safety Hotline at 800-255-1111. Note: Telephone numbers for all US Towers and ARTCCs are published in Ac-U-Kwik and Pilots Express Airport/Heliport/FBO directories. To report safety concerns outside the US, contact ICAO HQ at 514-954-8219 or via fax at 514-954-6077. ICAO has worldwide telephone and fax numbers to expedite Av Hazard reports to civil aviation authorities.
Obliterated airport markings at OGD
At OGD (Ogden UT) the main runway surface markings are obscured by new seal coating applied to the ramp, runway and taxiways. The contractor did a poor job of seal coat application, in addition to which the seal coat was wet and not cured when the airport opened. Aviation traffic has taxied over the seal coat and obliterated the airport markings. The issue was addressed with airport management, which said that funds would be available next year to address the problem. The contractor should have fixed the seal coat and repainted the markings.
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- Proper visible airfield markings are critical to aviation safety—especially during times of poor visibility or bad weather—to ensure that ground vehicles and aircraft can navigate on the airport areas without incident. Thank you for stepping forward and bringing the aviation hazard to airport management. This unsafe condition was forwarded to the FAA Safety Hotline but without including pilot information.
New NYC VFR special flight rules
FAA has changed the airspace rules for aircraft operating in the New York City area VFR over the Hudson and East Rivers. It did so as a result of the Aug 8, 2009 midair collision that took place between a sightseeing helicopter and a fixed-wing airplane over the Hudson River. On Nov 19, 2009, FAA amended 14 CFR Part 93, establishing a Special Flight Rules Area (SFRA) in the vicinity of New York City and creating operational procedures pilots must follow within the SFRA.
The SFRA covers mandatory procedures when operating in the Class B airspace exclusions over both rivers while operating VFR. The most significant changes in the new procedures are altitude corridors. Transient aircraft not intending to use local heliports or seaplane bases must maintain an altitude of 1000 ft up to but not including 1300 ft MSL. Local aircraft may operate from the surface up to but not including 1000 ft MSL over the Hudson River while fixed-wing traffic is prohibited over the East River entirely unless authorized by ATC. A kneeboard-size airspace aid to help pilots operating in the airspace and an NYC SFRA online training course are available from FAA at www.FAAsafety.gov.
Late ATC instructions on landing
As we passed taxiway Juliet on landing roll out on runway 9R at KPTK, the tower controller instructed us to exit at taxiway Romeo. We had passengers on board and we normally use minimum braking to save our company tire and brake money. Heavy uncomfortable braking would have been required so we advised unable but would exit 200 feet further down the runway at taxiway Hotel. We received a verbal reprimand on the tower frequency for tying up the runway and were told other airplanes needed to use the runway too.
This tower controller needs to learn that these special requests need to be made early. These requests should not be made during high speed landing roll outs. Traffic was very light. Passenger safety and comfort are our first priorities. Saving the company money on brakes and tires is a close second. I will do anything I can to accommodate local traffic and ATC needs, but it is my runway until I am clear of the runway. Next time let's be professional and give me a telephone call for the reprimand, but be ready for the rebuttal.
- ATC must make special requests for early turn off in sufficient time for the pilot to react. Had the tower controller made the request earlier, this pilot may have been able to accommodate ATC's request. Secondly, the author agrees completely that the radio is no place for a reprimand. Praise in public and correct in private (if warranted).
If the work load was so high, which required a quick turn off, how could there have been any time for a radio dress down? ATC should issue a telephone number and ask for a call. The procedures ATC uses to expedite traffic when needed is fine, but when the traffic is light, ATC should space traffic appropriately allowing for a stabilized approach and a normal touchdown and roll out.


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Join us for a private screening of the film and celebration of Mark Bingham's birthday!
When: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 6:30-9:30 PM
Where: Delancey Screening Room, 600 Embarcadero Street, San Francisco
After ten years in production, the documentary feature, The Rugby Player, about Flight 93 Hero Mark Bingham and his mother, Alice Hoagland, is almost ready for a world stage!
The screening takes place Wednesday, May 22, on what would have been Mark's 43rd birthday. This will not only be a celebration of the movie and a fundraiser supporting its completion, BUT ALSO a celebration of Mark's life.
Reception starts at 6:30 PM; Screening starts 7:15 PM; Event ends 9:30 PM. There will be complimentary appetizers and soft drinks. Wine and beer will be available for purchase. Tickets start at $35. Proceeds benefit the launch of the film worldwide. Come celebrate the life and legacy of one of our brothers!


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Whitney Houston Grammy Tribute Concert: Jennifer Hudson, Usher Salute Fallen Icon
Last night, a special show paying tribute to Whitney Houston was taped at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. Jennifer Hudson, Usher, Halle Berry and Britney Spears were among those present to perform and commemorate the singer's life at the event, entitled "We Will Always Love You: A Grammy Salute to Whitney Houston."
Hudson paid tribute to Houston earlier this year, after the singer's sudden death on the night prior to the Grammy Awards, and she took the stage again last night (Oct. 12). She performed a three-song medley of "I'm Every Woman," "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody." Her '80s Whitney-inspired look was a highlight of the evening.


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From: "Mary AsaWoman" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Ancestry test - a must-read article URL
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 14:26:12 -0700
References: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
This is an exact quote from the AncestrybyDNA web site: Those who ordered
2.0 before the cut-off date stipulated below, will get a free 3.0 test as
soon as it is developed.
a.. Ongoing research at DNAPrint has suggested a more logical grouping based
on the four BGA delineations shown on the map in the home page - where South
Asian, Middle Eastern and European are grouped into a single group called
Indo - European. This grouping makes sense in light of anthropological
evidence and cultural connections between these groups (for example, their
languages are derived from a common base), and our data suggest these groups
are far more similar to one another in genetic sequence content than to
other groups. We have also found that the test performs more accurately
when Pacific Islanders are grouped with East Asians. Because our desire is
to produce the most accurate results possible, we will use the following
four groupings for the ANCESTRYbyDNA 2.0 test: 1) Native American (those
peoples that migrated to inhabit South and North America), 2) Indo -
European (Europeans, Middle Easterners and South Asians such as Indians, 3)
East Asians (Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Pacific Islanders) and 4) Africans
(sub-saharan). We originally presented the test as capable of refining
between 6 proportions (Native American, European, African, South Asian, East
Asian and Pacific Islander), and the current test is capable of this feat
but the confidence intervals are a bit too large for our comfort.
Constructive criticism from other Molecular Anthropologists have also
suggested this new 4-way grouping is a more reasonable task for our current
test, and we agree. Thus, we have decided to wait to attempt to distinguish
between South Asian and European, as well as Pacific Islander from East
Asian with the ANCESTRYbyDNA 3.0 test. To compensate for the change,
customers who ordered ANCESTRYbyDNA 2.0 prior to 10/8/02 at the special
introductory rate would receive a free ANCESTRYbyDNA 3.0 test once it has
been developed and announced. This improvement in the test illustrates our
continuing evaluation and commitment to obtaining the highest test accuracy
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From: "Steve Williamson" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 13:49 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Ancestry test - a must-read article URL
> I certainly wanted a way to prove or disprove my family's Indian
traditions (either way is OK). I guess if I have to ask, it can't be very
much. I was expecting either 100% European, or <4% either African or NA or a
bit of each. It does appear the test in its current version is incapable of
doing this with any certainty.
> Caveat emptor, I guess. I made the cut-off date for the free Version 3.0.
If it's free, I'll do it.
> I don't recall you mentioning - did you do the test? What were your
results, if so?
> Steve W.
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3. Hard-to-Find and Discontinued Items in Stock
It's near tragic when one of your staple items gets discontinued. While there's clearly a limited supply of a discontinued product, Amazon often seems to deliver. The same can be said for new or popular products that are rarely in stock at your local bricks-and-mortar shops. That includes perfumes and eyeshadows, hair serums and lipsticks, and even edibles or home goods.
4. Large Range of Sizes Available
In the real world, those who cross over into "non-standard" sizes are forced to seek out a speciality shop. What's worse, these specialty stores often charge top dollar for their goods, wreaking havoc on your poor wallet and causing unnecessary frustration. Whether you're shopping outlier sizes in undergarments, shoes, apparel or even hats, Amazon has got you covered. Literally.
5. Awesome Search Functionality
Let's face it, sometimes walking into a store causes sensory overload. And the bigger the store, the more distracted you get. Amazon, clearly, is a huge shopping outlet, but its fancy search engine allows you to narrow down your search by size, style (relaxed, contemporary, trending, etc.), seller, brand, color and so on.


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ST. FRANCISVILLE — A prosecutor told a jury Tuesday that Angola inmate Robert G. Carley was a leader in an escape plot that led to the death of prison security Capt. David C. Knapps nearly 12 years ago.
Carley, now 43, participated in the stabbing and beating death of Knapps, 49, inside the Education Building at Angola's Camp D when the escape plan began to fall apart on the night of Dec. 28, 1999, said Tommy Block, lead prosecutor in the so-called Angola 5 murder trials.
"The blood found on Robert Carley binds him to those final moments of Capt. David Knapps' life," Block said during opening statements in Carley's first-degree murder trial.
Attorneys in the case chose the jury of five men and seven women from St. Tammany Parish on Tuesday morning, and the panel was taken to St. Francisville for the trial.
Jury selection began Aug. 29 but was delayed by Tropical Storm Lee.
Retired Orleans Parish Judge Jerome M. Winsberg is presiding over the trial, the second of five trials planned in Knapps' slaying.
Another jury drawn from St. Tammany Parish convicted inmate Jeffrey Cameron Clark, 50, in May and sentenced him to death.
The state is seeking the death penalty against Carley.
Block is assisted by Mike Futrell, of Jefferson Parish, and Lea Hall and Hugo Holland, both of Caddo Parish.
Twentieth Judicial District Attorney Sam D'Aquilla recused himself from prosecuting the suspects because he briefly represented one of them before he was elected to office.
Tommy Thompson and Clayton M. Perkins are representing Carley, a New York native serving a life sentence for the Oct. 15, 1987, murder of gas station attendant Robert Esposito during an armed robbery in St. Bernard Parish.
Thompson told the jurors in his opening statement he will concede Carley helped plan the escape and engaged in an aggravating kidnapping, two of the elements the state must prove to convict Carley of first-degree murder.
The defense also will concede Knapps was a peace officer acting in an official capacity when he was killed and Carley was lawfully confined at Louisiana State Penitentiary, having been convicted of a felony, Thompson said.
The question jurors must decide is whether Carley had the specific intent to kill Knapps, Thompson said, suggesting inmate Joel Durham was the main instigator of the escape plan and was "suicidal and homicidal" when the plan fell apart.
Angola security officers killed Durham, 26, when they rescued two other officers being held hostage in the building.
Thompson said the testimony would show Carley surrendered first and offered to go back into the building to end the standoff without further bloodshed.
"We will never bring David Knapps back. God, I wish we could. But don't kill Robert Carley. He's not the man who killed David Knapps," Thompson said.


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Your Own 3 Room Suite...On An Airplane!
(Photo courtesy of YouTube)
Beginning in October, Airbus will begin shipping redesigned A-380s with a reimagined upper deck that will have 9 private suites called 'The Residence'. You will be able to book one if you fly with Etihad Airways, the national airline of The United Arab Emirates.
I hope with all these amenities that they don't ever lose your luggage!


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Philomela was changed, at her own prayer, into a nightingale that she might escape the vengeance of her brother-in-law Tereus.
The least eccentric orbit in the group is that of Philomela ; the most eccentric that of thra .
In Book V the description of a painting in a studio depicting the rape of Philomela had "a hidden significance."
Philomela regarded him for a moment with an expression of pity and horror.
Not to have known the hope is blameless: one may sing, unknowing, as the swan, or Philomela.
Jim Hicks told me this afternoon that 'Philomela' was by Shakspere.
As the boat regained her speed, Philomela Brooks approached him.
Of all the singers in the woodland choir the Nightingale (Luscinia Philomela), by common consent, stands first.
It is to win the love of Philomela that the male nightingale studies, watches, and pours forth his soul in song.
Philomela (Philome′la) was a daughter of Pandion, king of Athens, who was transformed into a nightingale.
"nightingale," late 14c., from Greek Philomela, poetic name of the nightingale, in mythology the daughter of Pandion, transformed into a nightingale; probably literally "lover of song," from philos "loving" + melos "a tune, song;" but perhaps "lover of apples" (Greek mela). In the myth, proper name of Pandion's daughter, who was turned into a nightingale (Ovid).


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Earlier in the autumn I spent an afternoon in a newly planted walled garden. We have set it up as a place to grow fruit and vegetables, herbs and cut flowers. The four walls provide the microclimate and face towards the four points of the compass. It includes cut flowers, a lavender garden for drying and, most importantly, a generous area left in a cool corner for propagation. Every garden, however small, should have a propagation area so that it is properly self-sustaining.
Propagating does require patience, but the rewards far outweigh the wait. A peony seed, for instance, will germinate roots only in the first year and take two years to show the leaf above ground. It will then take another two to three years to flower, but in that time you will have developed a bond which will never be quite the same as with the plant bought from a nursery. The wild Helleborus viridis gathering strength in my cold frame are testament to that. I remember the slide down the mossy slope in the ferny nut wood and the trickle of black oily seed as they fell into my hand. The delight the following spring when they germinated only furthered this connection, and I will guard them carefully until I find the perfect home for them.
Late autumn is one of the best times in the year for propagation and I have been busying myself to get to the berries before the birds do. The Malus transitoria have fruited for the first time this year, the amber beads turning to a rich apricot orange once they soften. They were sticky in my hands and I had to scrape them off my fingers on to the surface of the potting compost when I sowed this autumn's gatherings last weekend.
My pockets were also full with treasures from gardens visited: an unnamed yellow-berried mountain ash with brilliant red foliage that I didn't recognise, and a clutch of Euonymus planipes seed, to name just a couple. The seed, and their pulp in the case of the berries, will be covered with a layer of sharp grit and held in a cocked frame to be subjected to a freeze-thaw-freeze, which will help to break their dormancy come the spring. After a summer's nurturing in pots to keep them free of predatory slugs, the seedlings will be lined out directly in a nursery bed in a year's time to grow into saplings.
As soon as the leaves drop, it is also time to take hardwood cuttings. Willow, poplar and coloured-stemmed dogwoods are often given as good examples of woody plants that will easily form roots while dormant, but there is a wealth of trees and shrubs which offer this as a means of reproducing themselves. Grape vines, and ornamental vines such as Vitis coignettiae, Virginia creeper, honeysuckle and jasmine all strike easily, as do many deciduous shrubs. Sambucus, buddleia, the wilder roses, forsythia and philadelphus are also obliging.
Although the books say that hardwood cuttings are best taken shortly after leaf drop or just before bud burst, I prefer to do it now while the sap is still in the stem and there is the winter ahead of us for cuttings to take root. That way they are out of the blocks come the spring. Selecting a strong limb from which to strip the cuttings makes life easier: that vigour will be carried into the wood, which should be about pencil thickness and anything from a pencil in length to a foot. Cut the wood with a sloping cut above a bud – this is as much to shed the water as it is to tell it from the bottom – and cut horizontally below the bud to the base.
Once you have gathered your material, dig a trench, line it with sharp grit if your soil lies heavy, and cover two-thirds of the cutting back up again. Use hormone rooting powder as a belt-and-braces exercise and work the same principle of a third above ground, two-thirds below if you want to try the same thing in pots. It's as simple as that, bar the waiting.
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Certain evergreens can be propagated now from ripe cuttings taken as slips. Box and camellia are good examples, but find a sheltered corner or cover with fleece so the foliage doesn't dry out in winter.
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Got alot for you today. 1. Here's a helpful talk Tim Keller did on raising kids in the city. I enjoyed his talk, which lists three cons and eight pros. I also liked the Q&A–some great stuff came up. It starts after roughly thirty minutes. 2. Speaking of Keller, he did a debate with Ligon [Read More…]
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1. Have you heard about the Henry Center's CCI essay series for college students? If not, you should check it out, and pass on a few essays to some thoughtful students that you know. 2. As one who loves studying urban churches, and who loves to see urban churches with a vision for the city, [Read More…]


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The 5 questions you need to understand if you want to reach millennials (VentureBeat)
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Executive pay performance
One of Australia's leading company directors is urging a more simplified pay structure for executives that would immediately give them shares allocated as long-term incentives.
The average fixed pay for chief executives of top 100 companies fell in 2012 – for only the second time in 11 years.
"Fundamentally, boards have realised people's pay is too high and the economy has come down," Mr Broomhead told Financial Review Sunday on Channel Nine.
This year's annual general meeting season is the third since the introduction of the two-strikes rule which has increased shareholders' say on pay. Mr Broomhead criticised the rule as unnecessary and said executive remuneration had become too complicated.
"The real question is whether remuneration should be such an important issue that it requires its own legislation and its own enormously complex engagement with shareholders. I think our remuneration system has become far too complex and that's the real problem here," he said.
He proposed that shares awarded as a long-term incentive vest immediately "so the shareholders are absolutely clear as to how much of their money is being paid to the manager and the manager's . . . future value of the share component will go up and down as they do for all shareholders".
Bosses would receive dividends
Company chiefs would be required to hold onto the shares for the duration of their tenure, he said. They would also receive dividends like other shareholders. Typically, long-term incentives are paid by way of shares that only vest if performance hurdles are met over three or four years. That means a CEO's actual take-home pay is often different from what was disclosed in the company's remuneration report.
Martin Lawrence of proxy advisers Ownership Matters said before the global financial crisis executives tended to pocket more than what their shareholders were told they would be paid. Now the increased difficulty in meeting performance hurdles means the reverse is often the case.
"The rules around disclosure of executive pay in Australia present a deeply confusing picture. This is entirely due to just one part of the executive pay disclosure rules as to how to value share-based payments," he said.
Mr Broomhead was "one of the few company directors who shareholders would not dismiss out of hand", Mr Lawrence said. But he rejected the BHP director's suggestion on the basis that long-term incentives subject to performance hurdles were demonstrably the best method of paying executives in closest alignment to the interests of shareholders.
He said Mr Broomhead's concerns about complexity could be better addressed by changing the accounting treatment of share-based payments so that they are recorded in the year they actually vest.
Pru Bennett, head of corporate governance for Asia at the world's biggest fund manager, BlackRock, agreed that executive remuneration had attracted too much attention in recent years. She said BlackRock would be focusing its attention on independent directors in this year's AGM season.
"We're looking for a diversity of skills amongst those directors. It's really important for there to be directors with core industry skills," she said.
Accountability 'the next frontier'
Dean Paatsch, of Ownership Matters, said the accountability of directors is "the next frontier" in corporate governance. Concerns about the skill set of directors has already claimed casualties at goldminer Newcrest with the early departures of chief executive
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Administrative Council
November 17, 2008
1:30-3:00 p.m.
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1.) Draft document "Acceptable Use of Library Technologies"- Beth Sandore (25 minutes). The draft was distributed to the AC on Nov. 10.
2.) Draft document "UIUC Library Electronic Resource Use Policy for Library patrons"-Tom Teper (25 minutes).
3.) Discussion of the need for additional staff training in regards to our security procedures (20 minutes)-Scott Walter and Jeff Schrader
4.) Update on the Library's migration to the illinois.edu domain name-All. http://news.illinois.edu/II/08/1106/illinoisedu.html


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Neighbours calling for the reinstatement of a pledge to give them 200 hours of visitor parking each year branded Liberal Democrats an "obsolete party" after their pleas were rejected.
People living in the Sutton South and Belmont controlled parking zones (CPZs) used to get 200 hours of free parking for visitors until this was scaled back to 100 hours in 2007 and then 50 hours in 2009 to save Sutton Council money.
Angry members of the Sutton South, Cheam and Belmont Local Committee decided to use the group's allowance to spend just under £8,000 on reinstating the 200 hour scheme at a meeting in July.
But rules meant the decision had to be referred to councillors as the group does not have the power to go against council policy. Councillors had the chance to give the decision the go-ahead at a meeting on Monday night but Liberal Democrats voted down the proposal on the grounds it would cost too much.
The ruling sparked anger from the public gallery with one man shouting: "You're a waste of space, all of you. You're an obsolete party after this".
Conservatives, led by Councillor Tony Shields, said the plan would only cost under £8,000 - around £2 per house - but Liberal Democrats claimed the Tories got their calculations wrong and the cost would actually be £100,000.
Coun Jill Whitehead said: "Sutton already has 50 hours of free parking, which is the most generous in the entirety of London. We do not believe that we should impose further financial burdens on the taxpayer when we have already made £30m savings over the last 3 years and are being asked to make more in the near future."
Coun Shields said the ruling is part of an anti-driver campaign from the council saying punishing the motorist "is like Viagra for Lib Dems".
He added: "Let's remember we are elected to serve the residents not punish them. I have a letter from a resident assured by a Lib Dem councillor that the 200 hours was safe forever - but forever means up until the next election for Lib Dems."


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Anti-incumbent super PAC's leader starts second super PAC
WASHINGTON – The leader of a super PAC that says it wants to hold entrenched House incumbents accountable by targeting them in primary elections has launched a separate political action committee that's attacking a Tennessee Republican who has served in Congress for less than two years.
The Campaign for Primary Accountability has multiple ties to the Congressional Elections PAC, which has reported spending $45,000 this month on television advertising to oppose freshman Rep. Diane Black ahead of next week's GOP primary in Tennessee.
The Congressional Elections PAC shares an address with American Strategic Analysis and Performance Services, a political-consulting firm owned by Leo Linbeck III. Linbeck, a Houston construction-company executive, founded the Campaign for Primary Accountability; the two groups share a treasurer.
STORY: Investor funds drive against Tennessee Republican
STORY: Super PAC targets congressional incumbents
All of the money the Congressional Elections PAC has spent against Black to date comes from Andrew Miller— a close ally of Black's opponent, Tea Party activist Lou Ann Zelenik, according to Miller and Curtis Ellis, a Linbeck spokesman.
Linbeck, who has said he created the Campaign for Primary Accountability to "level the playing field" for newcomers seeking to challenge well-funded House incumbents, did not return telephone calls Thursday.
Ellis, however, described the new Congressional Elections super PAC as offering another outlet for "civic engagement."
He said Linbeck's consulting group created the new PAC "for the explicit purpose of people such as Andrew Miller, who would like to use the expertise of the team" even if the contest doesn't involve longtime House members.
A pair of 2010 federal court rulings, including the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, paved the way for corporations, unions and wealthy individuals to spend unlimited amounts to influence federal races through super PACs such as these. Individuals, however, can only give $2,500 to a House candidate for a primary election.
Critics charge Linbeck's super PACs have emerged as a vehicle for wealthy individuals to have undue influence in congressional contests.
"The Campaign for Primary Accountability undermines the people's voice and will," said Jose Borjon, a spokesman for Texas Rep. Silvestre Reyes, an eight-term incumbent defeated in a May Democratic primary after the Houston-based super PAC spent $240,000 on the race. "They don't want to just 'level the playing field' as they claim. They want to buy seats in Congress for the super rich."
In the May primary, Robert "Beto" O'Rourke, a former member of the El Paso City Council, defeated Reyes, despite the incumbent's nearly 3-to-1 fundraising advantage.
In February, USA TODAY reported that Campr II Partners, a firm owned by O'Rourke's father-in-law, El Paso real-estate developer William Sanders, had contributed $18,750 to the Campaign for Primary Accountability.
Campr II Partners gave another $18,750 in the final weeks before May primary, Federal Election Commission records show.
Ellis called complaints by defeated incumbents about the super PAC's spending "laughable," pointing to numerous defense-industry donations to Reyes, the No. 2 Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee.
"Everyone who gripes has been the recipient of huge amounts of special-interest money, much of it from outside their districts," he said.
In all, the Campaign for Primary Accountability has pumped more than $1.8 million into last-minute spending to shape this year's House primaries. So far, the Tennessee race between Black and Zelenik is the only contest in which the Congressional Elections PAC has reported spending.
Miller, a Nashville investor and Zelenik's former finance chairman, told USA TODAY this week that he donated $80,000 to the Congressional Elections PAC. He said another $180,000 has gone to Citizens 4 Ethics in Government, a super PAC he founded.
As of Thursday morning, the two groups had spent a combined $216,955 on last-minute ads opposing Black, federal records show. The primary is Aug. 2.
Miller said he will use Citizens 4 Ethics in Governmentin the months ahead to help more conservatives who he says will defend states' rights, rein in government spending and curb what he views as President Obama's executive overreach.
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Amy Lee on Her New Children's Album, Covers and the Future of Evanescnce"I am always dying for that opportunity to flex a different muscle and do something different and work outside my zone. I love surprising people."
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I help couples in therapy to discuss their problems in order to work issues out in a calm way. If one or both of you need one-to-one therapy, it will be recommended, each seeing a different therapist. With more understanding of oneself, it will be easier to see the other's point of view and to compromise. In couples or marriage counseling I help you both to recognize projections so that you may relate to each other in a healthier way.
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No matter how well suited two people are for each other, there are times when resentments or insecurities can get in the way of a truly functional relationship. Whether you are married, planning to get married, or having difficulty with a child or parent, we can help both of you address what might be impeding your ability to have a more satisfying relationship. It is not always easy, but talking with a neutral person can provide you with a deeper insight into the dynamics of your relationship so that you can revisit your interpersonal style.
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Wroclaw, Poland (AFP) Sept 23, 2011
European Union states on Friday called for "more robust" action from the international fleet in the Indian Ocean to step up the fight against increasingly daring and well-armed pirates.
The defence ministers of the 27 EU countries also demanded a boost in spending on Atalanta, the EU's naval operation launched in 2008, at their meeting in Wroclaw, Poland, which holds the rotating six-month EU presidency.
"The pirates are building up their capabilities, ready to resume their operations once the monsoon is over," said Gerald Howarth, Britain's Minister for International Security Strategy.
"There is a limited window of opportunity for us to take more robust action," he told reporters.
The stricter stance demanded also by France and Spain could involve Atalanta vessels firing on hideouts of Somali pirates on land.
"We have brought up the possibility of action seeking to neutralise the pirates' nests on the coast. But we're not there yet," Belgian Defence Minister Pieter de Crem told AFP.
However, some European countries including Germany are sceptical, saying it goes beyond the current mandate based on a United Nations resolution.
They argue that Atalanta's primary mission is to protect the boats of the World Food Programme, carrying aid to starving, displaced Somalis.
French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet backed the use of force, citing the example of the recent liberation of a French woman taken hostage in a September 8 attack during which her husband was killed by pirates.
Evelyne Colombo was then freed unscathed by a Spanish Atalanta vessel which opened fire at the pirate boat.
The Spaniards were "efficient" because they allowed themselves to "destroy a boat and force the pirates who fell in the water... to become prisoners", said Longuet.
Some ministers also expressed "concern on a possible lack of resources" for Atalanta, which is facing a shortage of ships as of the end of the year, said Polish Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak.
They "have expressed strong support for the operation and are committed to continue it" and "engage new resources" despite budgetary restrictions forced by austerity steps affecting spending on defence, he added.
At the moment, Atalanta can reckon with a mere six ships -- two Spanish, two German, one Dutch and one French -- to cover the extremely vast area.
Somali pirates have seized at least 49 vessels and taken more than 500 hostages, according to the monitoring group Ecoterra.
The United Nations registered 171 attacks in the first half of 2011.
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SAN BERNARDINO - The San Bernardino Community College board could see a majority of seats go to new members this year, with four of the seven seats on the board up for grabs and eight candidates competing for them.
The board oversees both San Bernardino Valley College and Crafton Hills College.
Board President John M. Futch, along with fellow incumbents Carleton W. Lockwood Jr., John Longville and Jess C. Vizcaino, Jr., are all seeking reelection to the board.
They're being challenged by Gloria Macias Harrison, the former president of Crafton Hills College and founder of Inland Empire Community Newspapers; educator Kathleen Henry; warehouse associate Abraham McNally; and retail supervisor and student Joe Navarro.
Futch, Harrison, Lockwood and Longville paid for statements to be run in the ballot for the Nov. 6 election.
"At the age of 46, I transferred from San Bernardino Valley College to CSU San Bernardino obtaining a B.A. in Political Science and an M.A. in Social Science," Futch's statement reads in part. "I am an example of a re-entry student who used the community college system to change careers and further my education. As a former student I know the issues facing students pursuing an education."
"As an educator and business owner, I am uniquely qualified to be a trustee," Harrison's statement reads in part. "I know firsthand that our future depends on providing our students opportunities for higher education and training. I am a testament to this belief - without my education I would not have been able to form IECN weekly newspapers."
"During my 20 years of service to the district, I have focused on combining prudent financial budgeting practices with student-centered decision making so that we can maintain important educational programs, even in challenging times," Lockwood's statement reads in part. "I have and will continue to contribute my expertise in Civil Engineering as we complete both colleges' bond-funded construction projects."
"Some people enjoy solving crossword puzzles, or sudoku, or video games. I enjoy solving public policy problems. Over the years, you have elected me to several positions where I could use my problem-solving skills," Longville's statement reads in part. "In 1992, a few friends and I created - and found ways to pay for - the Metrolink train system. Soon after that, I led a group that funded the conversion of high-polluting diesel buses in Southern California transit systems to clean-burning natural gas. A few years later, I brought the freeway patrol free tow-truck system to San Bernardino County."
In addition to the seven elected board members, who serve four-year terms, the board also has two student representatives voted in by their campuses. Each serves a one-year term.


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Best Hip-Hop Videos Of The Week
Busta Rhymes Feat. Q-Tip, Kanye West And Lil Wayne- "Thank You"
Busta Rhymes' all-star single gets the visual treatment. "Thank You" features cameos by Kanye West and Lil Wayne (who only provide ad-libs), as well as Mack Wilds and A$AP Ferg. Pour up and toast to the good life.
Busta's E.L.E. 2 is slated for 2014.- Eric Diep


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Texas Tech rallies for 37-27 win over WVU
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — There are reasons why some teams win and others lose, and Texas Tech's 37-27, come-from-behind victory against West Virginia before 54,804 fans at Milan Puskar Stadium on Saturday afternoon was the perfect example.
Perhaps it is best explained in comments from each head coach.
"Fortune favors the bold," said Kliff Kingsbury, Texas Tech's first-year head coach.
"We didn't have the fight and the will to want to win," said West Virginia's Dana Holgorsen.
That provided the essence of a game that West Virginia could have won, believes it should have won, but didn't win because it shut down at the end while true freshman quarterback Davis Webb and tight end Jace Amaro simply outfought the Mountaineers down the stretch.
The unbeaten Red Raiders, ranked 16th in the nation, trailed 27-16 late in the third quarter before scoring 21 unanswered points on two 1-yard touchdown runs by Kenny Williams and a 10-yard TD pass from Webb to Amaro to put away a seventh consecutive victory.
Webb completed 36 of 50 passes for 462 yards and two touchdowns without an interception.
"We're not going to leave it up to anyone else," Kingsbury said. "We knew it was up to him to make good throws, and today he did that."
"I can't believe the efficiency with which that guy throws the ball," said WVU defensive coordinator Keith Patterson. "It looks like he's been the starting quarterback since Aug. 1."
Instead, it was Webb's second start, replacing Baker Mayfield, who injured his knee against Kansas.
Amaro, a 6-foot-5, 260-pound tight end, was no secret to West Virginia coming into the game. A year ago, he caught five passes for 156 yards and a touchdown against them before exiting for the season with an injury.
In this game, he caught nine passes for 136 yards and both of Webb's TD passes.
"He said to put it on his shoulders for the second half, so that's what I did," Kingsbury said. "I told him we were going to get a lot of balls to him. When they went up by 11, the ball went his way and he kept making plays. His size, speed and determination are a deadly combination."
"He's a matchup nightmare," Holgorsen said.
WVU's ground game took control of the game through the second and third quarters, as Dreamius Smith made two strong runs of 38 and 12 yards for touchdowns, finishing as the game's leading rusher with 89 yards.
Clint Trickett completed 27 of 43 passes for 254 yards and a touchdown for West Virginia.
Late in the third quarter, WVU led, 27-16, but the Red Raiders had all the answers the rest of the way.
"They had enough fight and will to make enough plays to win the game in the end. We did not have that," Holgorsen said. "We felt good mid-third quarter when we were up 27-16, but the game wasn't over. We refused to make a play on offense, defense or special teams the last quarter and a half. We refused to coach well enough to win the game. That will be addressed."
The Red Raiders roared back, driving 80 yards to score on a 1-yard run by Williams to make it 27-23.
Another 1-yard burst by Williams early in the fourth quarter regained the lead for Texas Tech, and then Amaro caught his second TD pass with 61 seconds left to clinch it.
Bob Hertzel is a freelance writer.


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Descendents of a man who was hanged for murder in Bristol 190 years ago have given him a funeral.
John Horwood was sentenced to death in 1821 after he murdered his ex-girlfriend on seeing her with a man.
But his skeleton ended up in a display cabinet for medical students at a university so he was never buried.
Mary Halliwell from Greater Manchester was researching her family tree when she discovered she was related to him and decided to give him a funeral.
Mary's great-great-great grandfather was John's brother.
She said: "My wish was to lay him to rest as his parents wanted, and for him to be buried in a dignified way. It will give me peace of mind that I have put closure to it."


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Fashion & the Law
Interested in how fashion and the law intersect? While the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week wraps up in New York City tomorrow, you can stay current with fashion laws through a variety of sources, including the new book Fashion Law: A Guide for Designers, Fashion Executives and Attorneys.
The Office of Textiles and Apparel (part of the Department of Commerce) has a lot of information about the legal aspects of fashion law, including importing retail goods to the U.S., Federal Register notices, and Free Trade agreements. The Office also hosts webinars related to fashion law - check out the upcoming webinars and archives here.
New York Law School also provides information about fashion law through its Institute for Information Law & Policy. The institute hosts a blog and events that deal with cases and practical issues of fashion law. Of course, Utah is far away from New York; however, you can still read publications by speakers at the Institute's events. For example, the upcoming event, "Fashionably Law: Fashion & the Law Firm" features Karen Artz Ash, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenmann LLP. Access her publications via the law firm's web site.


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NextDoor Finds New Funding
Nextdoor, the online, neighborhood-focused social networking site backed by such local investors as Rich Barton, has raised $21.6M in a new funding, the firm said today. The San Francisco company said the funding was led by Greylock Partners, and also included Benchmark Capital, Shasta Ventures, DAG Ventures, Allen & Company and Pinnacle Venture. The firm also said that Bezos Expeditions--the investment firm of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos--has joined as a new investor, alongside Google Ventures. NextDoor said the funding will go towards product development and market expansion. Rich Barton was the seed investor in NextDoor. Ne More information »


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The Use of Mediation
The process of
mediation benefits the clients and their attorneys by providing a
confidential setting in order to discuss all issues and interests of
both sides to a dispute without the formal rules of a courtroom
The Missouri
Supreme Court describes mediation as "a process in which a neutral third
party facilitates communications between the parties to promote
Rule 17.01. The mediator approaches the issues using a structured
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understand their interests, needs, risks and options, thereby working
out an agreement that suits both participants in the conflict.
Mediation can be
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complete settlement of all issues. Also mediation may be used at any
point in the proceedings of a settlement negotiation or of a litigated
case, such as a motion to compel discovery. Furthermore, mediation works
well even before a conflict exists in order to negotiate any type of
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Both participants in the conflict decide the
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like the imposed outcome, he or she can appeal or may in practice
not fully comply with the court's decision. Rather than rehash the
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needs and interests are addressed rather than following general
standards used by the Court that may not fit everyone's
Participants can learn the skills necessary for resolving
future disagreements.
The parties do
not have to get along with each other in order to use mediation.
The process is for people in conflict. Being friendly is not a necessary
prerequisite for participation in mediation. However, mediation may not
be appropriate for a party not willing to be honest, is mentally
incompetent, is physically abusive or has fear of physical abuse.
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in order to discuss options. Whenever resolution is accomplished, the
participants will be encouraged to seek the advice of their attorney to
review the draft of any proposed agreement. The mediator does not offer
legal advice or make the decisions for the participants.
Confidentiality: Clients and their attorneys should not fear what might be discussed
during a mediation session, with some specific exceptions, such as
unreported child abuse or threats of serious harm. Missouri law at
Section 435.014, Revised Statutes of Missouri protects the
confidentiality of the mediation process. However, this law requires a
written agreement to mediate between the parties. See attached a
Agreement to Mediate. Court-ordered mediation pursuant to
Rule 17 for
civil cases in general and pursuant to
Rule 88 for
family law cases also protect the mediation process as confidential
settlement negotiations.
Mediation cannot
guarantee instant settlements. However, because a significant amount of
communication typically occurs during mediation sessions, the parties
may generate options learned in mediation that become the basis for a
later settlement. Rather than a rushed negotiated settlement on the
courthouse steps or a court-imposed order unsatisfactory to both sides,
mediation can offer both the client and the attorney opportunities to
maximize satisfactory and durable resolutions.
Resources for Further Study
Mediation Program (Mediation Achieving Results
for Children) provides no cost mediation services for parents to
cooperatively resolve disputes about custody, access, child support, and
parenting plan issues. More information at
the website or
at its toll free number, (800) 595-9750.
Association of
Missouri Mediators has information about the mediation process, how
to select a mediator and how to use mediation effectively.
Missouri Supreme Court Rule 17
Missouri Supreme Court Rule
88 .
Local Court may have Alternative Dispute Resolution coordinator.
Mediation Survivor's Handbook, by Peg Nichols [ ISBN 0-9778711-0-X]
Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators.


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Imagine spending an evening stuck in a one-room apartment with a couple on the skids, a man and woman who never had much chemistry in the first place – and who, now, never stop nattering at each other while never really listening to one another.
And, worst of all, these two are Stephen Sondheim fans.
That's Marry Me A Little, the Sondheim revue masquerading as musical theatre currently playing at the Tarragon Theatre. The show's score is cobbled together from the great American composer-lyricist's rarities (tunes from Saturday Night, written in 1954, and Evening Primrose, a 1966 musical created for TV), B-sides (songs cut from Company and Follies) and even one never-before-heard outtake (Rainbows, removed from the upcoming Into the Woods movie).
In Marry Me A Little's original 1980 version – created by Craig Lucas and Norman René – the man and woman singing these songs lived alone, in side-by-side studio apartments. Since then, other versions have been staged with up to four actors.
For this production, director Adam Brazier has come up with a completely different idea. Adrian Marchuk plays an unnamed man who seems to be a composer, and Elodie Gillett plays a woman who seems to be a singer. In a extended flashback, we watch them go through a relationship, from excited beginnings to blissful domesticity to a parade of bittersweet breakups (Sondheim's speciality).
Brazier's attempt to link the songs into a coherent story fails, since the characters shift class, time period and context from one song to the next. And his attempts to paper over the cracks between what's being sung and what's being shown are – like a bad Sondheim imitator – all cleverness and no depth.
For instance, Marchuk will occasionally sing a song as if his character is writing it in that moment – and then marvel at his own lyrical ingenuity, the surest way to kill a tune. Gillett, meanwhile, will often carry a sheet of paper while singing the lyrics for the first time, then furrow her brow as if, say, Uptown, Downtown – a song cut from Follies – has something meaningful to say about their relationship.
My brow furrowed most deeply when Gillett's character sang the title song Marry Me A Little – originally sung by perpetual bachelor Bobby in 1970's Company – to Marchuk, and then Marchuk sang Happily Ever After – an earlier, bleaker version of Bobby's Being Alive – to her. These are songs from the same fictional mind and are not contradictory, but Brazier stages them as if this is the musical fight that breaks them up.
Here's the paradox about Sondheim. He is the greatest living proponent of integrated musical theatre in its purest form – he has written that his songs are meant to be sung "in particular musicals by individual characters in specific situations." He doesn't believe in the "take-away song" that can be divorced easily from its context – which is why his only top-40 hit is Send in the Clowns, a tune that, notably, no one understands.
At the same time, however, Sondheim's fans are so rabid that there are countless revues that take his songs out of context like this. The best approach is to treat each tune as a one-act play, and the numbers in Brazier's production that work include the opening Saturday Night, with Gillett and Marchuk singing to themselves, and Can That Boy Foxtrot!, in which we are moved into a fantasy world of cabaret.
For the most part, however, Brazier goes for overly busy kitchen-sink realism – and his two actors are constantly tidying up the room, moving cushions around, making tea or getting beer from the fridge in their Lululemon bottoms and pyjama pants. Maybe not everybody ought to have a maid, but these two certainly could use one, so they can simply sing their songs.
Marry Me A Little may please Sondheim fans eager to hear the worst songs by their great hero. But, at least in Brazier's version, it is a Sondheim show that Sondheim himself would hate.
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Tourism focus significantly shifted at INDABA 2012
The industry truly came together at INDABA 2012 to share ideas and collaborate for future growth. Delegates have emphasised the value of their interactions at INDABA, the quality of the networks made, and business relationships forged. – Thulani Nzima, South African Tourism CEO.
INDABA 2012 ended yesterday after 4 days, in which the show's theme 'Shaping our Future Together', was taken to heart by more than 1 500 exhibitors from the southern African tourism industry.
INDABA 2012 heralded a significant shift in emphasis. It focused on consolidating 2011's solid arrivals growth and put the emphasis squarely on partnerships geared to ensure South Africa's global tourism competitiveness and future growth.
Tourism Minister, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, set the tone for INDABA 2012 at the opening ceremony when he invited the southern African tourism sector to collaborate in the face of strong competition.
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South Africa's combination of people, culture and lifestyle emerged this year as a unique offering of the destination.
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The 3 sessions focused on responsible tourism, adventure tourism, and culture and heritage tourism, respectively. The culture and heritage session was kicked off by South African music legend Johnny Clegg, who emphasised the opportunities presented by a strong focus on cultural tourism.
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SAT also addressed its marketing plans and market performance in 4 regional media briefings that focused on Africa, Asia and Australasia, Europe, and the Americas.
International media were given insight into the country's urban culture and vibe with a memorable lunch at the Max's Lifestyle in Umlazi.
Millions of rands of tourism business was conducted in the nearly 4 000 meetings scheduled through the electronic matchmaking diary.
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