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The Detroit Red Wings remind me of the protagonists in one of those cheesy 1950s-style Dracula movies. You know the kind. Someone has a chance to kill off the Count early, fails to do so – and all sorts of mayhem subsequently ensues.
The Red Wings were like that with a week to go in the regular season – on the cusp of missing the playoffs for the first time in 22 years. Somebody just had to come in and finish them off when they were down and out, and couldn't. The end result is what you see right now, a team very much alive in the Stanley Cup playoffs and threatening to knock out the President's Trophy-winning Chicago Blackhawks in the second round.
After eliminating the No. 2 seeded Anaheim Ducks in the opening round, the Red Wings pulled ahead in their series against the Blackhawks Monday night with a 3-1 win at the Joe Louis Arena in the only game on the schedule.
There were a couple of controversial moments in the game (more on that later), but the bottom line is, for the second game in a row, the Red Wings were the better team. Anaheim had them on the ropes in the previous series – up 3-2 – but Detroit won a pair of elimination games. After getting spanked in the opener, a loss that you could attribute mostly to the fatigue of going seven games in the opening round, the Red Wings have recovered nicely from that setback and look like the far more poised team.
Most of the good things that have happened to the Red Wings since they made that 11th hour push towards the playoffs could be attributed to the play of their top forwards, Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk, who've been great. But the Game 3 victory was mostly keyed by the bottom two lines, which contributed two goals 31 seconds apart in the middle period to break up a scoreless tie.
From there, Detroit did what good, experienced teams do – and kept the Blackhawks at bay. Playoff officiating has been front-and-centre this post-season and there were two calls, one each way, that influenced the direction of the game in the third period. On the first, Red Wings' forward Johan Franzen was wiped out by a check from behind deep in the Blackhawks zone by defenceman Niklas Hjalmarsson. With Franzen down and out, the Blackhawks scored on the counter attack, Duncan Keith putting Patrick Kane in behind the defence for his second goal of the post-season.
Could Hjalmarsson have been called for a penalty there? Coach Mike Babcock thought so. But moments later, the Red Wings also benefited from a close call that went their way – a goal by Viktor Stalberg wiped out when it was determined Andrew Shaw had interfered with goaltender Jimmy Howard. Shaw actually made no contact whatsoever but he was camped out in the crease, which is technically a violation – one that rarely gets called anymore. Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford figured it was the first time since about 2000 that a goal was disallowed for a foot in the crease – he must have been thinking of Brett Hull, Dallas Stars, 1999, against the Buffalo Sabres. Blackhawks' coach Joel Quenneville said it was the turning point, given that Stalberg's goal would have tied the score and shifted the momentum their way. Instead, Franzen made a good play on a subsequent rush, fed Datsyuk for a laser-shot that skipped in and out of the net in the blink of an eye, and the two-goal lead was enough of a cushion for the Red Wings the rest of the way.
You can pretty much complain about the refereeing every night if you want to, because the game is so fast, the refs do not have the benefit of multiple replays and even if they did, not everybody agrees, even after the fact, what the right call might have been. Kings' coach Darryl Sutter made a reference to that the other day. He basically finds it's a waste of time to argue about, or criticize the referees. His contention is that his team needs to take three or fewer penalties in every game. If they do, they usually win.
Even though they are bruising, hard-hitting, L.A. does a good job mostly of staying out of the penalty box. Sutter has been around long enough to know that officiating is a factor in the game, the same way as defensive zone turnovers and or superlative saves are factors in the game.
It's hard to dispute the fact that as decently as Crawford played in goal for Chicago, Howard's performance for the Red Wings – 39 saves on 40 shots – made him a difference-maker in the game.Report Typo/Error
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I encountered an interesting issue with this couple of months ago.
Using mechanize you can select or click form dom elements, submit forms and automate
interaction with websites. But let's say there's a case when you select an element
or click on a button – and it's calling a Javascript function to get the result.
In such cases, you can't directly get the result by mechanizing the element. Rather
you could just follow two simple steps to get the result,
1 – View the page source or inspect the element using firebug.
2 – Do the exact thing in your ruby script that the javascript function is doing.
for example: If the javascript function is trying to load the data by opening another
Url then open that url in your Ruby script. Here, you can by pass the mechanizing step
and get the result directly!

subset: commoncrawl


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|Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@xxxxxxxx>
|Re: [RFC] textsearch infrastructure + skb_find_text()
|Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx>
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* Jamal Hadi Salim <1115470985.19561.58.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2005-05-07 09:03 > On Fri, 2005-06-05 at 16:43 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote: > > > As you can see, it expects a char * in args[0] and the length of it > > in args[1]. All it does is check whether all bytes have been read > > already and if not return the remaining part of the buffer so even > > if the search algorithm can't consume all the bytes returned it will > > still work as expected. > > > > Ok, makes sense - in the case of a string spanning multi skbs, i suppose > it wouldnt matter, correct? Strings spanning multiple skbs can be handled just like a paged skbs _iff_ all skbs are known at the point the search starts, otherwise we'll need more trickering. > Sorry - I thought you were talking about pre-fetching text as in > lookahead for text in a regexp state machine. > I am not sure i see the L1 cache connection. Both seem to have tight for > loops and depending on the algorithm there would be no difference > in cache warmth afaics. Infact your scheme may suffer more because it > has a lot of stuff on the stack. However, playing around with the code > is the only way to find out. You're probably right, I suspect mine to perform better because in a typical search there is less work to do per loop and the interruption to fetch the next block of text is less intrusive. Time will tell.
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Internal Revenue Service audits aren't limited to individuals. Just ask the folks in charge of three popular college football bowl games.
CBS Sports reports that the IRS is investigating tax returns recently filed by organizers of the Alamo, Gator and Fight Hunger bowls.
Apparently, the bowls made a lot more money this past college football postseason than they did the year before.
Audit income issues
Yes, unexpected changes in income, both up or down, can cause an IRS examiner to want to find out exactly what caused the dramatic change, be it for an individual taxpayer or an entity such as football bowl organizations.
A review last year by the San Diego Union-Tribune found that nonprofits that host college football bowl games command between $2 million and $54 million in revenue every year.
Gary Cavalli, executive director of the San Francisco Bowl Game Association, which puts on the Fight Hunger Bowl, told CBS Sports that an IRS official told him audits often stem from tips or media reports. That, said Cavalli, makes him think that bowls with increased revenues could spark tax interest.
If the IRS finds irregularities, in addition to collecting more from the bowls, the tax agency's findings also could affect a bowl's nonprofit tax status. Bowl operating groups generally operate under this favorable status because some of the money goes toward scholarships at the games' participating schools.
Interesting audit tidbits
While the overall issue of auditing bowl games is interesting, two other items in the news report caught my eye.
First, from the timing is everything file, the Alamo Bowl's internal auditor reportedly is speaking at the Football Bowl Association convention in April about how to respond to an IRS audit. I suspect this will be a very well-attended session this year.
Second, the sponsor of the Gator Bowl is TaxSlayer. The tax preparation software company, which first signed with the Jacksonville, Fla.-based bowl in 2011, recently extended its sponsorship deal for another six years.
Or for as long as the IRS says it's OK to play the game.
Prepare for, don't fear audits
Audits are one of the six tax terrors highlighted in today's Daily Tax Tip.
And yes, the bowl officials face the same IRS demands as audited individuals.
They will need to provide the IRS with complete and accurate records justifying the entries on their tax returns. As long as the bowl organizers -- or you -- can prove the tax claims are valid, they -- and you -- will be fine.
More tax info from Bankrate
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Veteran contributing editor Kay Bell is the author of the book "The Truth About Paying Fewer Taxes" and co-author of the e-book "Future Millionaires' Guidebook."


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Ready for a new Quentin Tarantino film?
The first, full-length teaser trailer for Django Unchained, due in theaters on Christmas Day, has just been released.
Set in the South two years before the Civil War, the film stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz, played by Christoph Waltz.
Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture of the Brittles – dead or alive.
Django, meanwhile, remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago.
Django and Schultz's search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie -- Leonardo DiCaprio, the proprietor of "Candyland," a plantation where slaves are groomed by trainer Ace Woody (Kurt Russell) to battle each other for sport.
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Just was given a link to this site by someone recommending "The Yes Men," which I watched and is a pretty neat story about these two pranksters that went all over the world impersonating WTO officials on an anti-globalization agenda.
But the real point is they have like 100 documentaries available for streaming.
Since it's free, my first guess was that they would all be flicks made by fringe, extremist whack-jobs*, but there are plenty of mainstream ones as well such as Fog of War, Bowling for Columbine, Born into Brothels, Life and Debt, Super Size Me and others that I've already seen and know are at least widely considered to be credible even if you don't love the perspective.
Anyway, check it out:
* Indeed, things like "Loose Change" and another that I haven't seen called Origins of AIDS are there which seem pretty full of ****.


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Walk in a nutshell
Heading south from the medieval town of Conwy, the walk takes you past the imposing Conwy Castle. Once into farm land, along short stretches of narrow lane you arrive at the village of Llechwood. The route then rises up over moorland to Conwy mountain, with fabulous views across the sea and Snowdonia.
Why it's special
Conwy Castle and the town walls were built by Edward I in 1283-1289, creating employment for more than 1,000 craftsmen and labourers. The castle was part of the king's "iron ring" around rebellious north Wales. Edward was besieged at Conwy in 1295, but the 5m-thick walls held off his attackers. Today the World Heritage Organisation calls Conwy "one of the finest examples of late 13th-century military architecture in Europe".
Keep your eyes peeled for
Red kites, brought back from the brink of extinction.
But bear in mind
The ridge of Conwy mountain is hard going.
Recover afterwards
At Anna's Tea Room on Castle Street in Conwy.
01492 580908
If it's tipping down
Aberconwy House, originally a merchant's home, dates back to the 14th century and is the only medieval house to have survived the town's turbulent history.
How to get there
By car
The A55 is the main route to the town across north Wales. Exit at the A546, then turn on to the A547 following signs to Conwy. If you can't find the castle car park (signposted the coach park), others are within easy walking distance.
By public transport
Conwy train station is next to the castle.
Step by step
1. Leave the car park by the main entrance, cross the road and turn left. On the right is a kissing gate by a farm gate.
2. Go through the gate and up the steepish slope to a ladder stile.
3. Cross and turn right on a path just inside the wood (note: your OS map may show this path as outside the wood, but ignore). The path leads to a stile with a kissing gate beyond it. Go through these into a field and, by a signpost, you will find a ladder stile on the right and just inside the field.
4. Cross the stile and walk through a narrow field to an enclosed path on its far side. Continue to a kissing gate by a farm.
5. Join the farm track, which leads to a lane.
6. Turn left. 150m away is a kissing gate on the right.
7. Go through and keep to the left of the fields to a signpost where two paths meet.
8. Don't take the path to the right but keep straight ahead over the brow of the hill. Then make your way to the far-right corner of the field, where there is a kissing gate.
9. Behind the kissing gate there is a path between a hedge on the left and a row of pollarded birches on the right. It ends at the access road to a caravan park ...
10. ... and continues on the far side. Go through the gate and follow a gravel path down to the access road again. Go through the gate and continue downhill to the B5106 by a bus shelter.
11. Turn left and stay on the verge, which leads to a layby. Just beyond this, there is a kissing gate on the other side of the road.
12. Go through and down the field to another gate by a farm.
13. The farm track is to the right. Don't take this but keep straight ahead and you will soon be in an enclosed path that ends at a narrow lane.
14. Turn left. 150m away is a road junction.
15. Turn right and follow this rising lane through the hamlet of Groesffordd. You pass a telephone box and crossroads.
16. Cross straight over on to a narrower lane, reaching a T-junction after 800m.
17. Turn right. After 500m, look for a path rising on the left on a bend to the right.
18. Go up the track, which is substantial. There is a fairly steep but short climb, the terrain levelling out when you have passed a house on your left. Beyond this there are some sheepfolds and then the track divides, about 250m from the road.
19. Take the right branch and you will see a stone track going into the distance. Follow this track for 200m or leave it at any point for a green path to the left.
20. The green path passes close to the lake, which will be on your right. It then rises to a ladder stile over a stone wall.
21. Cross and continue on a now stony path to a little col.
22. You can see clearly from here how the path divides. Drop to the fork and go to the right, keeping close to a stone wall on your right. At a further division of the path take the right fork again, keeping by the wall. The path ends right at the top of the Sychnant Pass by a gate.
23. Cross the road and continue on the track opposite. Walk beneath steep cliffs then join a wall that bends to the right.
24. Keep on the main track, which follows the wall closely at first then runs parallel to it before curving left to a signpost.
25. Turn right, cross a small stream and keep to the bigger, right-hand track as it rises. You reach a crossing of tracks.
26. Go straight over. The track divides.
27. Take the right fork to a signpost for the North Wales Path, after which the path curves to the right, reaching a point low on the crest of the hill, where it again divides.
28. You should be able to see a stone wall to the right, which is where the North Wales Path goes - in bad weather this might be a good option, as we re-join the NW Path further on. Otherwise, take the left fork and then all the little paths that lead over the highest ground. Near the top you pass the remains of an iron age hill fort. The highest point is when Conwy comes into sight.
29. Keep to the highest ground, which is still rocky. Eventually you need to get down to the right of the ridge and this is best done where what has now become a broad grassy track curves to the left.
30. The path curves around a short stretch of steep ground and comes back to the right very quickly. You will see another broad green track signposted to the North Wales Path.
31. Turn left and follow the NW Path downhill through a lightly wooded area, which ends at a ladder stile on to a road.
32. Turn left and follow the road as far as a junction, where it curves to the right.
33. Take the narrower road on the left; this leads to a footbridge over the railway.
34. Cross the bridge and arrive at the A547.
35. Go over the road and along the street opposite. Pass a large school, and at the very end of the buildings you will find a footpath on the right.
36. An enclosed path takes you alongside the river as far as the town walls, where it curves right to a junction.
37. Here turn left and go through a narrow gap in the wall and on to the quayside. Follow this to the lifeboat station and take the road going up to the right. This ends at a roundabout next to the castle.
38. You need to go left and cross with care here; go under the green footbridge and then through the walls again to find the car park on the right.


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I base the higher probability for a market rebound on notable divergences between important indicators and that price action is taking place near major support levels for both SPY and QQQ. In addition the market is oversold but this last condition does not mean much in isolation. Is this going to be a correction in a developing bear market or the formation of a base for another leg up?
A week ago I wrote the post "Short-term Market Correction May Resume". Some, aspired to technical analysis, placed to much emphasis, hopes and dreams for a quick gain on the fake island reversal signal in QQQ. Some are very upset with me instead of being upset with themselves and with technical analysis. I wrote in this April 27 , 2012 post about this island reversal pattern:
"…as far as I am concerned it is not a very significant pattern and I only mentioned it here because I know many traders are looking at it due to the mentioned proliferation of software that identifies this type of traditional chart patterns. Traders should know that in the era of HFT and low latency trading it is becoming very difficult or even impossible to profit from such old notions."
It may be seen on the above daily chart that SPY made a low just above major support at $134.36. The RSI(14) is dropping indicating a buildup of downward momentum but the MEI(14), my proprietary indicator, is flat, indicating that the downward pressure is exhausted.
In the QQQ daily chart above, the divergence between the RSI(14) and the MEI(14) is clear. Either the RSI(14) is wrong or the MEI(14) is giving a false signal. We will find out today by the close.
If a rebound occurs, will it be just that or an indication of a base for another leg up? I hope nobody believes that anyone can answer this question using any technical method. One can only assign a subjective probability to various scenarios based on experience. My probability breakdown is as follows but be aware that subjective probabilities are constantly updated based on new information: Correction continues: 30% – Bull market resumes: 70%.
Disclosure: no relevant positions.
Charting program: Amibroker (Charts created with AmiBroker – advanced charting and technical analysis software. http://www.amibroker.com/")


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Saros is a Eclipse plugin for collaborative text editing that in particular targets distributed pair programming (also called remote pair programming), but can support arbitrarily many participants at once. All members of a session have an identical copy of an Eclipse project and Saros keeps these copies in sync as editing progresses.
Scopserv Communicator is an audio/video Internet phone and instant messenger that supports some of the most popular VoIP and instant messaging protocols such as SIP, Jabber (XMPP), AIM/ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, and a whole lot of other useful features. ScopServ Communicator is based on the SIP Communicator softphone.
SecuXabber is a secure Jabber-client for Android that uses strong, asymmetric encryption on top of the XMPP protocol. A key pair is generated on application start-up. Users can send their public key to other SecuXabber users via Bluetooth. This face-to-face check ensures the veracity of the public key. After the keys have been imported by both users, all communication between them is encrypted using strong 4096 bit encryption. It supports all relevant XMPP features, works with multiple accounts, is highly customizable, and has many other useful features.
Trumpeter is a stand-alone server that integrates RT (Request Tracker) with an XMPP chat server (used by Jabber, Pidgin, Google Talk, etc.). It regularly queries RT, and posts notification messages in chat rooms when new tickets arrive, when they are about to expire, and when they are past their due time. It is quite configurable, making it easy to watch several RT queues simultaneously and post the results to different chat rooms.
TurnKey ejabberd Appliance is a server appliance that combines ejabberd with Speeqe to create a live chat server that supports strong encryption and works with any Web browser or XMPP client. ejabberd is a powerful XMPP server that supports clustering, live upgrades, shared roster groups and provides support for virtual hosts. It is designed to be easy to use and easy to maintain. Security patches are automatically installed. It provides a Web management interface, configuration console, and an AJAX Web shell. To minimize footprint the appliance is built from the ground up with the minimum required components. It runs everywhere thanks to multiple build formats, including an installable live CD, a VMDK with OVF support, and an Amazon EC2 AMI.
Ybot is erlang bot software inspired by Github hubot. It supports IRC and XMPP transports and is extensible with plugins. Plugins can be written with Python, Ruby, or shell. It supports IRC chat, XMPP multi user chat, and 37 signals Campfire chat. It can simultaneously run any number of bots on different transports.
jj is a simple FIFO and filesystem based Jabber/XMPP client. jj is inspired by the ii IRC client. jj is more tool than traditional instant messanger client. It can be easily extended with normal Unix tools. It is perfect for bots and notifications. Interaction with jj is done by writing and reading files from the server directory that jj creates.
A PHP class to authorize and access APIs using OAuth 1.0, 1.0a, and OAuth 2.0.
Complex special functions, numerical linear algebra, and statistics in JavaScript.


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Dr. Christina Clamp has over 30 years of teaching experience at SNHU, where she is a professor with the School of Arts and Sciences and is the director of Co-operatives and Community Economic Development.
Clamp received her Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from Friends World College, her Master of Arts in Sociology and her Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology from Boston College.
At SNHU, Clamp's committee work has included development of the Institutional Research Review Board, NEASC Self-Study Committees, the College Budget Advisory Committee, adhoc Salary Equity Committee, Human Resource Committee, and the Curriculum Committee
Clamp is a member of the Association of Cooperative Educators, American Sociological Association and the American Association of University Women. She is on the board of directors of the ICA Group (Boston), the Food Cooperative Initiative (MN) and the Allston/Brighton Community Development Corporation (Boston). She also serves on the Steering Committee of the Mel King Institute of the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations. Formerly, she was a member of the board of directors of Childspace Development and Training Institute (Philadelphia), the National Cooperative Business Association (Washington DC), The Council of Overseers for the Friends World Program at Long Island University (NY), and a former associate of the Harvard University Program on Non-Violence Sanctions and Civilian Defense (Cambridge, MA).
Presentations include "Faith Based Community Economic Development: Assessing Community Needs," City of Montgomery AL, Office of Faith Based & Community Initiatives, Alabama State University, December 6, 2011.
Clamp has numerous publications including "Social Entrepreneurship in the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation and the Challenges of Successful Replication," co-authored with Innocentus Alhamis. Journal of Entrepreneurship September 2010 19: 149-177.
Dean Spiliotes has been Civic Scholar in the School of Arts and Sciences at Southern New Hampshire University since 2007. He is also founder of the political blog, NHPoliticalCapital.com. Spiliotes' teaching focus is presidential politics and policy, campaigns and elections, and New Hampshire politics and its presidential primary.
Spiliotes is author of the book, Vicious Cycle: Presidential Decision Making in the American Political Economy, and has published in a variety of professional journals including, The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and Society. His political commentary and analysis is frequently sought out by major media outlets throughout the United States and around the world.
He earned his BA in history from Haverford College, and his MA and PhD in political science from the University of Chicago.
Dr. Francis Catano, an assistant professor of sociology, has worked at SNHU since 2005. Catano brings over 30 years of community experience to SNHU. A champion of hands-on, community-based learning, Catano is a community psychologist and sociologist. His areas of expertise include community development and human services, youth counseling, and human environments.
Catano received his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from St. Anselm College, his Master in Education in Community Mental Health Counseling from Northeastern University, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Human Services from Walden University.
His publications include ''Childcare Worker Assumptions about Caring.'' (2008), VDM Publishing, Lightning House.
Catano received the Leadership and Service Award, New Hampshire Division of Children and Youth, 1998; the Community Leadership Award, Greater Manchester Association of Social Service Agencies, 1997; and the Juvenile Justice Award, U.S. Department of Justice, 1982.
Dr. Pamela Jordan joined SNHU in 2015 as an assistant professor of politics/global affairs. She arrived with two decades of teaching experience at universities in Canada and the United States. Outside of academe, Dr. Jordan has worked for the NGO Committee on Disarmament, which facilitates contacts between nongovernmental organizations in the field of disarmament and the United Nations, New York City; and for the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the Wilson Center (Smithsonian Institution), in Washington, DC. She has also worked as a consultant for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Soros Foundation, the American Bar Association, and USIA- and US AID-funded projects concerning civil society and legal reform in Russia.
Dr. Jordan received a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts; a Master of Arts in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science from the University of Toronto, Canada.
Standard political science courses that Dr. Jordan has taught include surveys on American politics, comparative politics, and international relations. Her more specialized offerings have encompassed the theme of peace and conflict in the modern age. Among these are political violence, mass killing and genocide, Cold War history, espionage and intelligence, U.S. foreign policy, international cooperation and conflict, weapons of mass destruction, and world legal traditions.
Dr. Jordan's publication record reflects her versatile, interdisciplinary approach to scholarship. Her latest book, Stalin's Singing Spy: The Life and Exile of Nadezhda Plevitskaya (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), follows the remarkable life of a Russian peasant girl who achieved fame as one of Tsar Nicholas II's favorite singers and infamy as one of Stalin's agents. Her previous publications include Defending Rights in Russia: Lawyers, the State, and Legal Reform in the Post-Soviet Era (University of British Columbia Press, 2005) and articles in such scholarly journals as African Studies Quarterly, American Journal of Comparative Law, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Europe-Asia Studies,and The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.
Paul A. Barresi holds a full-time appointment as Professor of Political Science and Environmental Law at Southern New Hampshire University, and a part-time appointment as Adjunct Professor of Law at the Sun Yat-sen University School of Law in Guangzhou, China, where he was a Fulbright Lecturer in Law in spring 2016. Before joining the SNHU faculty in 2001, Professor Barresi helped to advise Fortune 500 companies in complex environmental compliance matters at one of New England's leading law firms; taught legal practice skills to law students; explored the interpretation and implementation of forestry law and policy on-site in Poland and Albania as a visiting scholar in the Development Law Service of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; and for a decade was certified as an associate wildlife biologist by The Wildlife Society. At SNHU, he teaches courses in environmental law and politics; the American legal tradition; environment and development; and sustainability. Professor Barresi also coordinates SNHU's Law and Politics, Pre-Law Certificate, and Sustainability Certificate programs. He was nominated for an SNHU Excellence in Teaching Award in both 2009-10 and 2010-11.
Professor Barresi holds a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University, where he majored in Natural Resources; a Juris Doctor With Highest Honors from the George Washington University National Law Center; a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he was a Ford Foundation Fellow in Public International Law; and a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science from Boston University, where he was a Presidential University Graduate Fellow. Along the way, he interned on the majority staff of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation's Subcommittee on Water Resources in the U.S. House of Representatives; in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at the U.S. Department of the Interior; and at Cornell University's Shackelton Point Biological Field Station in Bridgeport, New York.
Professor Barresi's scholarly work has been published or has been accepted for publication in three languages on four continents. His conference and workshop presentations and ongoing scholarly collaborations and other professional activities are equally global in scope. He has authored or co-authored chapters in several books, including the leading U.S. treatise on the law of hazardous waste; the world's first reference handbook in the field of environmental leadership; two volumes of the world's longest-running book series on matters related to education, communication, and training for sustainable development; one of the inaugural volumes of a new international sustainability book series; and the original Massachusetts Environmental Law Handbook. His articles on legal, political, and other topics have been published in a broad array of peer-reviewed academic journals and law reviews in the United States and abroad. Most recently, Professor Barresi has been serving as co-editor of a planned book of papers in collection by non-Chinese scholars of relevance to China's efforts to build an "ecological civilization" (shengtai wenming) for publication in China, and of a planned book on sustainability education based on the work of the Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems Roundtable, which he also co-chairs. He also has been serving as a pro bono legal advisor to the Cambodian Ministry of Environment's effort to draft a comprehensive Environmental Code.
Professor Barresi was Founding Chair of the Northeastern Political Science Association's Section on Environmental Politics and Policy; has served on the Executive Committee of the National Council for Science and the Environment's Council of Environmental Deans and Directors; and serves on the editorial board of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Association's Interdisciplinary Environmental Review. At SNHU, he has served as President of the Faculty Senate, and on a broad array of governance and other committees. Some of Professor Barresi's scholarly work involves translating Russian legal materials into English. He also reads some Chinese characters and speaks some Mandarin Chinese.
Robert MacAuslan joined SNHU in 2015 as an assistant professor of sociology. He has over ten years of experience teaching ESL and Sociology at all education levels. MacAuslan is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and proficient in Japanese. He is also the founder/CEO of Phonologics, Inc. a pronunciation software company.
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Sinead O'Connor Splits From Husband... Again
Posted Friday January 13, 2012 2:26 PM GMT
It looks like marriage just isn't in the cards for Sinead O'Connor and Barry Herridge, as the Irish singer has called off their union again.
For the second time in a month, O'Connor posted a statement to her website explaining that things aren't working out for them, and she's blaming the media.
Sinead wrote, "Certain sections of our media… caused enormous damage deliberately and maliciously to my innocent flower of a husband, purely because he was with me."
She also vowed that she will "never again associate myself romantically with anyone as I could not bear to see these things done again to someone I love."
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Each year for the past five years, the office staff of the South Central Conference has gone to a small church and spent the Sabbath with them. The individuals in the office bring an entire Sabbath program to the membership of the designated small church on what is called "South Central Conference Small Church Day."
The office staff is responsible for the Sabbath School program, the Divine Worship, the AYS; often, the office staff involves itself in some type of community service or witnessing program in the community. The office staff even provides the ushers for the day.
Past Small Church Days have been held in Atmore, Alabama (the venue for the very first Small Church Day), Harriman, Tennessee, Covington, Kentucky, Rolling Fork, Mississippi and last year, in Greenwood, Florida.
This year's Small Church Day was held in Brent, Alabama. Brent is a part of the newly re-districted Bessemer/Eutaw/Brent, Alabama district, pastored by Elder W.C. Scales, Jr. Brent is approximately an hour west of Birmingham and 30 minutes from Tuscaloosa.
The first person from the conference office to arrive for Sabbath School was, appropriately enough, the Sabbath School and Spirit of Prophecy Director for the conference, Dr. Craig Newborn. He was followed by Elder and Mrs. Edmond and hard on their heels, were the Treasury team-Mrs. Merkita Mosley, Treasurer, Mrs. Jennifer Bennett, Under Treasurer, Mrs. Sonja Crayton, Assistant Treasurer, along with the Conference Information Technology Manager, Jermaine Alexander.
Sabbath School promptly at 9:00 a.m., with a lively song service, led by Mrs. Mosley. Mrs. Edmond reprised her role as the musician, when she would play for her husband, back in the days when they pastored small churches, like Brent, and served as the pianist for Sabbath School.
Mrs. Sonja Crayton served as the Sabbath School Superintendent for the day. The theme was the "Sabbath School Clinic." People such as " Mr. Friendless" (played by Dr. Newborn) and "Mr. Grumblestone"( played by Elder Edmond) and "Gloria Gossip" ( played by Mrs. Mosley) all came into the "Sabbath School Clinic" and were diagnosed by "Dr. Crayton" and "Nurse Bennett." Various cures were prescribed and the patients were sent home "healed"-provided they received a final dose of medicine-an outstanding Sabbath School lesson study, by Dr. Newborn.
Elder Michael A. Harpe, the Stewardship Director for our conference, delivered a strong word from the Lord. His sermon was " Just My Imagination." He expounded on how King David's "imagination" when he saw the bathing Bathsheba, led him to linger on inappropriate thoughts, which lead to inappropriate actions.
The office staff provided good music for Divine Worship-a solo by the Director of Human Resources, Mrs. Margaret Weathers and a musical group composed of the office staff-Jermaine Alexander, Mrs. Weathers, Mrs. Mosley, Mrs. Bennett and one of our office secretaries, Mrs. Toyin Mattison. All were blessed by their renditions.
After a meal provided by the Brent Church, the next activity was a lively AYS, led by the Associate Youth Director, Elder Wayne Hewlett, in which all attendees were thoroughly engaged.
The last activity of the day was a witnessing activity. Co-Community Service Director, Mrs. Barbara Barnes arranged for 100 copies of this year's sharing book for the conference, Darkness Before Dawn. High heels were exchanged for comfortable walking shoes, suit jackets were doffed and after a prayer from Prayer/Men's Ministry Coordinator, Elder I. Roy Rugless that the Lord would direct the books into the hands of those seeking truth, the office staff, their spouses and children, Community Service leaders from nearby churches and members from the Brent church hiked up the hill from the church to the neighborhood near the church. Soon all the books were given away, whereupon the office staff bid the Brent church farewell, got into the cars and headed home.
It was a full day of service to the believers at Brent by the South Central office staff, who desired their brethren to know that even though they are small, they matter to God and to the staff at the South Central Conference. It is a message that the office staff looks forward to taking to a small church in Tennessee in April of 2015, at our next Small Church Day.


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A man punches Frank and then kicks him in a men's restroom. Frank then punches this man in the crotch, but the man then punches Frank in the face again (knocking him unconscious). He then prepares to kill him via strangulation, but some people walk in and interrupt him.A man visits a murder scene (a body with some blood is seen).A man gets his hand blown off and he is then shot dead.Some other scenes of intense fighting.
4 uses of shit, 3 uses of bullshit, 14 hells, 4 damns, 4 asses (3 used with "hole"), 2 S.O.B.s, 6 uses of "Oh my God," 2 of "Jesus" and 1 use each of "G-damn," "For Christ's sakes," "My God," "Oh God," "Oh Jesus" and "Swear to God." Bastard is used once.
Frank smokes more than 10 times, although he eventually gives it up (from John telling him about the dangers). Despite that, John smokes around 10 times. Meanwhile, various cops and other miscellaneous/background characters also smoke.The smoking in this film is pretty heavy by the two main characters (especially since on of them is a fire man) and others. There's some occasional drinking too.
Facing an imminent explosion, Frank climbs down into a tunnel, tries to rescue a trapped man before a live electrical cable hits the water they're standing in, and get out of the tunnel before an explosion gets them.The final scene where Jack Shepard breaks into the house (future and past) and tries to kill Frank and John may be frightening to some.Frank is in a burning building and forced to make a decision of how to exit the building that could end his life this could be to intense for some.
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By Edward Iwata, USA TODAY
The average pay for directors of nearly 1,500 companies tops $160,000, as boards now spend more time monitoring the performance of publicly traded companies, says a study released Tuesday.
Corporate filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission last year show total cash and stock-based pay for directors rose an average of 11.6% to $160,493, according to Institutional Shareholder Services, a proxy research firm in Rockville, Md.
Carol Bowie, ISS vice president of governance research, says, "Pay for directors has never been at the lofty levels that executive pay has reached, but it's still accelerated with increased workloads and responsibilities in the aftermath of Enron and Sarbanes-Oxley."
At the same time, fewer directors enjoyed stock options, last year's filings show. Only 54% of companies granted stock options to directors. That's down from a peak of 74% in 2002, Bowie says.
Why? The stock-option backdating issue, tougher corporate-governance rules and other factors have spooked companies from issuing more stock options, ISS says.
In its yearly report on corporate board practices, ISS studied 1,433 of 1,500 large, midsize and small companies on Standard & Poor's indexes that had disclosed information through Nov. 3 on their annual shareholder meetings. Those companies have 13,000 directors.
For many years, directors have been criticized by shareholder activists for being too cozy with corporate officers and ignoring problems. The study found that boards may finally be growing more independent of management.
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•Independent directors. About 57% of the companies have so-called lead directors, who oversee the board's decision-making, compared with barely 3% in 2002. And 70% of the companies have boards at least two-thirds filled with independent directors, or directors who have no close business or financial ties to the company.
•Audit and compensation committees. About 85% of companies last year have fully independent audit committees, which oversee the finances of companies, compared with 70% in 2002.
•Fewer "classified" boards. The number of classified boards, those with staggered terms for directors, fell to 55% in 2006 from 59% the year before. Many companies began staggering directors' terms to make it harder for corporate raiders and shareholder activists to oust directors.
Last year, 19 companies, including Anheuser-Busch (BUD), ConAgra Foods (CAG), Lehman Bros. Holdings (LEH) and Marathon Oil (MRO), declassified their boards, the report says.
Since Enron, Bowie says, lawmakers and shareholders have made progress in strengthening rules for directors and executives. But, she says, "The jury is still out" on whether recent attempts by business groups to undo some of those laws will hurt investors.


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I'll need to update my leg shot there with my scab/scar/bruise look I'm now working on.
Nice monthly mileage Erika!
Good luck Paul this weekend!
Sorry to hear about your fall AG and enjoy tapering!
Hope you enjoyed your rest day Lou.
As for me I did a double today. 5.25 by myself this morning then 7 with my husband. Tomorrow is supposed to be a tempo day we shall see. I have this huge blister on the side of my pinkie toe that I keep ripping over. My shoe was all bloody after todays second run. Hope this liquid bandage does it's job. Anyway with a crappy start this month I still managed to end it with 167.1. Not too shabby
Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don't so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head." - Joe Henderson
Not too bad, Pam. Hope the blister gets better soon.
AG, only reason I asked about the streak is that I think if I were running a streak during taper it would hurt my marathon performance. I know I need to let my body rest/heal from training cycle before the race. Of course, I'm 53 and your mileage may vary. But this is "team blister marathon trainers" so I figure I'd share my perspective.
Having said all that, I know others who seem to thrive on big miles, streaks, etc., more so than race performance. We're running to have fun and feel good about ourselves, so whatever makes it fun is the important thing. This perspective is interesting to me also, as the big miles, streaks, etc., are there every day, and distance race performance is only every several months at a minimum. Personally I like to put in relatively big miles, too, not Perry big, but 2000+ a year is definitely a goal for me.
I also know a guy who has a 35 year streak going, which I have to admit is truly amazing.
4 easy with half dozen striders thrown in for me this morning.
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honestly I didn't think I'd keep it up past 10 days, but my legs feel so much better than when I was running 5 days a week. If I rest my tired legs, they're even more sore the following day, yet if I take an easy short run and follow with a good stretch, they feel great. So it's not a streak for the sake of a streak kind of mentality, more than I'm finding my legs feel like I have more range of motion and I'm not all stiff like before.
Interesting discussion about streaking. I've never even considered it, even when I was much more serious and running way more miles per week than now. I wonder if it would help me, though, if I determined that there were no off days.
I feel a resurgence of my motivation coming back. I have been blah about my running every since Boston. And I want to have fun with it, but I don't know how much fun it is to just show up to a race and try to phone it in. So, a little insight into the mind of Kimmie.
Great to see you here, Pam, if I didn't say it already. I'm with Erika- we miss you when you're not around. Bugs, too, although we do have FB to see what everyone's up to- have pity on Erika- and check in.
Great fastish 4 miles in the wind and hills- 37:00 exactly. I love the two girls I've been running with- really push sometimes and other times, nice and easy.
Keep us updated on your taper, AG.
... I'm finding my legs feel like I have more range of motion and I'm not all stiff like before.
... I'm finding my legs feel like I have more range of motion and I'm not all stiff like before.
Well it seems like it is working for you. We are all an experiment of one.
Hi, Kimmie! Good to hear you're getting your mojo back.
hope you get out of you blah, I hate that. Having done Boston is amazing!
I knew after a couple of weeks that running every day was easier on my legs, so it's worth a shot. You've got enough experience to learn early on whether it's working for you.
One thing I found interesting lately is that I couldn't figure out why my resting heart rate was at 60 bpm every morning. Initially I chawked (sp?) it up to not enough sleep and too much caffeine, but now in my glorious taper I'm back to 54. I guess 'overtraining' by my body's definition. I need to get tough like Perry.
Thanks Kimmie!! Glad to hear that your motivation is coming back!!!
6.4 moderate miles today. Cut it short and had dh pick me up since the blister on pinkie toe opened back up. After I got home I checked and it was just a tiny bit that got reopened so hopefully it will still be healed enough to get back to either wearing my Vibrams or my 101's. TGIF!!!
Hope everyone has an AWESOME weekend!!
Tempo run on the plan this morning, and I followed through.
8.2 miles, 1:04:18, 7:53/mi, AHR 159 (77% MHR)
2@8:46(150), 4@7:20(163), 2.16@8:05(157)
Nice run Lou.
Had a really nice tempo run this morning. Blister is still there however my vibrams didn't seem to bother it.However since I haven't worn them much lately wearing them created other blisters on feet. Guess I need to wear them a bit more. I'm planning on running my HM in may in them so guess it's time to start.
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Off to a 10mi race. I'm posting before Lou this morning; wonder if he's already out running.
It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.
Off to a 10mi race. I'm posting before Lou this morning; wonder if he's already out running.
heh. slept in until 6:10
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Heh, and it's all just one week away.
Determination: The feeling you get right before you try something incredibly stupid.
Good luck, Bryan. Remind me: which race?
16.3 miles, 2:23:33, 8:48/mi, AHR 142 (69% MHR)
11@8:57(140), 5.32@8:28(148)
Usually I pick up the pace a bit for the middle miles, but since I ran the tempo yesterday, and since my ITB was giving me a little grief during the run, I decided not to push it. But still, somehow, I ended up finishing faster.


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Hello Vitamin B12 is essential vitamin that is found in foods like meat,eggs, milk, etc and is absorbed in the small intestine with the help of a protein called intrinsic factor( released from stomach).
If there is gastric atrophy , it leads to low or no production of intrinsic factor and ultimatly the absorption of vitamin B12 is impaired which leads to low levels of B12 in the blood.
Low levels of B12 in body leads to many problems . most notable is megaloblastic anemia (low hemoglobin with bigger red cells) and also neurological problems.
There are several possible causes of low B12 like
Strict vegetarian diet Stomach problems.
Problem with absorption in small intestine.
Problem with pancreas
Problem with transport in the blood
Problem with B12 metabolism at cell levels
. Heavy prolonged alcoholism.
You need a complete work up in order to know the underlying cause behind your low B12.
Its low level in blood is associated with anemia( low hemoglobin) Neurological problems like paresthesias or numbness, weakness, gait problem etc. In advance stages it may also cause memory problems.
You should take B12 shots as advised by your physician.
Consume diet comprising of egs, milk, meat etc.
you can also take oral B12 in the form of multivitamins.
Have complete work up by endocrinologist.
In early stages specially treated with B12 shots, it should not effect your daily life.
But as long as you have anemia( low hemoglobin) because of B12 deficiency, you should not be involved in any sternous physical exercise.
Best wishes for your health.
As I said earlier, B12 deficiency is asscoiated with two major problems.
1-Anemia with larger sized red cells
2-Neurological problems like paresthesia, gait disturbance, memory problem, nerve hyper sensations etc.
Once your body stores of B12 will be repleted preferrably with I/M injections, these problems disappear.
Sternous exercise during severe anemia can pose risk to the heart as congestive heart failure because of extra stress on the heart muscles. But it happens only in prolonged and severe cases.
One thing that came to my mind afterwards that there is a parasite called diphylobothrium latum or Fish Tape Worm , can also cause Vit.B12 defeciency.
I read it almost 15 years ago and your question reminded me of that.
Best wishes
nice to hear from you .
fasting shouldnot have effected your vitamin B12 reading.
Vit b12 is stored in liver and is continously poured in blood to meet body needs.
Fasting or non fasting should yield same results.
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Voters have shown their disdain for the Queensland Government's handling of the state's health crisis by ousting Labor in two byelections.
While the loss yesterday of the two seats will not unseat the Government - after today it will hold a 17-seat majority in State Parliament - it does indicate a dramatic shift away from Premier Peter Beattie's Labor for the first time in seven years.
"This could be the rebirth of conservative politics in Queensland," Opposition and Nationals leader Lawrence Springborg said.
The Nationals did not contest either of the seats, which traditionally are safe Labor territory, but supported the Liberal Party candidates.
Mr Beattie admitted the byelection losses would destabilise his Government, which came to power in 1998.
He blamed the health crisis for the shift in voter sentiment, saying the Morris inquiry into the Dr Death scandal in Bundaberg had severely damaged both the Government's and his own reputation.
Indian-trained Dr Jayant Patel, dubbed Dr Death, has been linked to more than 80 deaths at the Bundaberg Base Hospital during his two years as surgeon in the south-east Queensland town.
The Government has set up two independent inquiries to look into problems in the health system. Both inquiries have meant an almost daily barrage of bad news for the Government.
The inquiries were due to report their final recommendations by September 30, but the head of the Patel inquiry, Tony Morris, said last week he might need more time.
"We'll have to hold our nerves and be very clear about what we're going to do. It will destabilise us," said Mr Beattie, who was shunned at polling booths in both electorates today, with many voters ignoring him or refusing to shake his hand.
Former Liberal Party state president Michael Caltabiano will become the member for the eastern Brisbane seat of Chatsworth, after a swing of more than 11 per cent against Labor, and Terry Rogers took Redcliffe in Brisbane's north with a swing of more than 7 per cent.
Mr Caltabiano, a former Brisbane City councillor, won 51.84 per cent of the two-party preferred vote, against 48.16 per cent for Labor's Chris Forrester.
In Redcliffe, voters gave Mr Rogers 51.55 per cent of the vote, compared with 48.45 per cent for Lillian van Litsenburg, for Labor.
The two seats became vacant last month with the resignations of Treasurer Terry Mackenroth after 27 years in Parliament, and former Speaker Ray Hollis, who had held Redcliffe for 16 years.
Liberal leader Bob Quinn thanked the voters of both electorates for their support.
"Up until today both Chatsworth and Redcliffe were considered the Labor heartland, but not now," Mr Quinn said.
"I think people now are looking behind the (Beattie) personality smokescreen, behind the slick media conferences, behind stunts, and are judging this government on its performance and its policies, and they're not happy with what they see."
Mr Beattie blamed the media for turning the electorate against Labor.
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It's bad enough that A&E exploits hoarding for profits, but to turn it around and make this series into a spoof as a commentary on straight women who collect gay bff's is ridiculous. Hoarding is a very serious issue and it had in many cases destroyed families. Children raised in these situations sometimes become hoarders themselves because this is all they see. From people collecting rats, to houses falling apart and bags filled with human excrement the show hoarders is meant not to inspire empathy with the people who have this condition but for us to gawk and judge. If this were not the case the rat hoarder would not have been saved for the season finale.
This little spoof wasn't even successful with the comment that it was trying to make because the gay men involved were reduced to trite stereotypes. Really gays in a wall building a disco and men in a closet clutching shiny gold purses? I don't even know what to say to this. Finally, telling Tori at the end that she could keep one gay, reduces gay men to possessions and I don't care that Clay Aikeen was her prize for riding her life of the gays.
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July 19 - Recent Amherst graduates Ashley Harmeling and Carter Hamill were each named Second-Team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), while rising junior Sarah Harper was tabbed an All-American Scholar by the National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA). Full Story
Jeffs Sweep Williams, Claim Second at Spring Invitational
May 2 - The Amherst women's golf team closed its regular-season spring slate with an outstanding weekend, sweeping Little Three rival Williams College 9-0 in a dual match on Saturday and following with a second-place showing at Williams' Spring Invitational, played at Taconic Golf Course on Sunday. Senior co-captain Meg Sullivan led the way on Sunday, tying for medallist honors with a round of 80. Full Story
Jeffs Open Spring with Second-Place Showing at Mass. State Championships, Fifth at Northeast Championships
April 25 - The Amherst women's golf team opened its spring slate with a second-place showing at the Massachusetts State Championships, hosted by Mt. Holyoke College at The Orchards Golf Course on Friday, and followed with a fifth-place finish at the Northeast Championships, also played at The Orchards, on Sunday. Sophomore Sarah Harper led the way, placing sixth and 12th individually. Full Story
Jeffs Finish Seventh at CCSU Invitational
October 11 - The Amherst women's golf team concluded its fall schedule with a seventh-place finish at the Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) Invitational, played at Stanley Golf Course over the weekend. The Jeffs shot a two-day score of 342-356-698, led by sophomore Sarah Harper, who finished 11th overall, firing an 86-82-168. Full Story
Foran Leads Jeffs to Third-Place Finish at Wellesley Invitational
October 4 - Senior Emily Foran shot a two-day score of 81-79-160 to finish second overall and lead the Amherst women's golf team to a third-place finish at the Wellesley Invitational, hosted by Wellesley College at the Nehoiden Golf Course over the weekend. The Jeffs shot a season-low 351-346-697, finishing just 11 strokes behind tournament champion Wellesley. Full Story
Jeffs Sixth at Mt. Holyoke Invitational
September 26 - The Amherst women's golf team tied for sixth place with host Mt. Holyoke College at the Mt. Holyoke Invitational, played at the The Orchards Golf Club in South Hadley, Massachusetts over the weekend. The Jeffs posted matching days of 355 for a total of 710, led by senior co-captain Meg Sullivan's 86-88-174. St. John's University took home the tournament title with a two-day score of 329-316-645, 30 strokes better than the second-place University of Hartford. Full Story
Jeffs Place 13th at Season-Opening Dartmouth Invitational
September 20 - The Amherst women's golf team shot a two-day total of 349-356-705, good for 13th place at the Dartmouth Invitational at Hanover Country Club over the weekend. In a 20-team field the Jeffs faced mostly Division I competition and were the top placing Division III team overall. Senior co-captain Meg Sullivan shot a 79-87-166 to lead the Jeffs and tie for 23rd overall. Yale University won the tournament, shooting 320-309-629 and besting second-place St. John's University by 18 strokes. Full Story
New Coach, Trio of Seniors Look to Lead Women's Golf
September 8 - Interim head coach Jim Plumer and seniors Meg Sullivan, Emily Foran and Sarah Godwin lead a strong cast as the women's golf team looks to continue its tradition of excellence. The Jeffs open their fall slate Sunday, Sept. 18, at the Dartmouth Invitational. Full Story


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Arizona firms are on the verge of getting new secrecy protections for the internal reviews they do of their health and safety practices.
On a 40-19 margin the House on Wednesday gave final approval to legislation creating a special "privilege'' for such reports. In essence, that means they would be off limits to those suing the companies for damages caused by their practices or products. And that, in turn, could make it difficult, if not impossible, for challengers to win in court.
That privilege would not be absolute. Companies would have to actually fix the problem in a reasonable time to gain the protection.
With the Senate already having passed the measure, it now goes to Gov. Jan Brewer.
Brewer does not generally comment on pending legislation. But she signed a nearly identical proposal into law last year dealing with internal audits of environmental practices.
This measure, however, was described by Rep. Heather Carter, R-Cave Creek, as "cutting edge.'' She said its approval by the governor would make Arizona only the second state in the nation to have such a law, behind Texas.
Proponents contend the measure is both good for business and ultimately will result in safer practices and products.
Carter said nothing in the legislation exempts companies from monitoring what they already are required to do under state and federal law. What it does, she said, is encourage them to take that extra step and actively search out problems, ranging from safe practices for their employees to safer products for their customers.
"It's a tremendous incentive to go beyond what is already required,'' she said. And if they fix those problems -- a precursor to getting to shield the report -- then everyone is better off.
But Rep. Bruce Wheeler, D-Tucson, said he doubts the latter premise is true.
He cited the groundwater pollution problems around Tucson International Airport in the 1980s that left city wells polluted with trichloroethylene and area residents suffering from lupus and other forms of cancer.
Lawsuits eventually were filed against the companies involved in dumping the toxic industrial solvent. They resulted in both cleanup efforts as well as funding medical monitoring programs for those living there.
He said there were multiple parties involved in the use and disposal of TCE on the site since World War II, including the Air Force, the Tucson Airport Authority and Hughes Aircraft, now known as Raytheon.
Wheeler said if only one of those entities had chosen to do an audit of their practices and the others did not "the contamination would have continued.''
That, he said, undermines the contention of supporters that having a law like this in place will encourage firms to pay closer attention to their practices and clean up their own messes long before they become public health problems.
"This law is being sold as a remedy to fixing bad problems,'' he said.
And Wheeler said without some positive reason for shielding these audits from view, there's no reason to approve it.
"I don't believe in self policing,'' he said, saying he doubts that the law will make anyone safer.
But Rep. Catherine Miranda, D-Phoenix, said opponents are worrying too much.
"This is not an immunity bill,'' she said.
Miranda said nothing in the legislation precludes a firm that finds a problem from filing the same reports now required by government agencies.
"And a company can lose the privilege if it fails to correct a compliance issue in a timely and appropriate manner,'' she said.
With no real downside, Miranda said she has to look at the potential positives. And top among those, she said, is the chance to lure firms to Arizona.
"It makes Arizona's regulatory framework more competitive,'' she said. "And help attract businesses to Arizona from other regulatory-burdensome states.''
Carter also dismissed concerns that the audit protections will result in less safe workplaces or products, pointing out that Texas law after which her bill is modeled has been in effect since 1999.
"I don't see or hear any national headlines related to Texas having a disproportionate effect related to this legislation'' as compared with problems at firms elsewhere, she said.


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Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) today announced that the company has made steady progress on the four strategies within its Sustainable Growth Plan -- building brand value, transforming the portfolio, expanding global scale, and driving out costs and assets. Kraft unveiled the plan just six months ago.
"We are pleased with the progress we've made in building a stronger Kraft through our Sustainable Growth Plan," said Roger Deromedi, Kraft's Chief Executive Officer. "We're in the early stages, but with our renewed sense of passion, innovation and speed, we're confident that we will continue to build value for consumers, customers, employees and shareholders over the long-term."
During an Investor Day at Kraft's Northfield headquarters, the company presented to more than 100 analysts, investors and members of the media the specific actions it is taking to advance its Sustainable Growth Plan. Deromedi was joined by five other members of the Kraft Executive Team: Betsy Holden, President, Global Marketing & Category Development; David Johnson, President, Kraft North America Commercial; Hugh Roberts, President, Kraft International Commercial; Franz-Josef Vogelsang, Executive Vice President, Global Supply Chain; and James Dollive, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer.
With building brand value as its highest priority, Kraft is focused on delivering to consumers the right bundle of product benefits - taste, innovative packaging, availability, brand image and service - at the right price. To help build brand value, the company has stepped up its investment in marketing. During the second quarter, Kraft improved top-line momentum in categories where its marketing spending increased 10% or more versus last year, with aggregate volume in these categories up 4% and revenues up 7%.
Kraft also continues to enhance its strong retail support programs. This includes further leveraging its Nabisco Direct Store Delivery system to merchandise select Kraft products as well as developing specific products and promotions for emerging channels, such as Dollar Stores, and growing consumer targets, including those consumers seeking natural and organic products. Also, by evolving from profit-weighted, volume-based planning and incentives to revenue-based planning and incentives for the Kraft sales force, the company is focusing further on profitable growth, better aligning with customer objectives and increasing the efficiency of its trade spending. And, as of this month, Kraft completed its migration in the U.S. to consumption-based trade spending for its retail partners. Under this program, trade support funds are paid based on what is purchased in-store by consumers versus what is shipped into warehouses, thereby reducing supply chain costs and increasing the effectiveness of trade spending.
With a new global marketing organization in place, Kraft is transforming its portfolio by focusing more on expanding its brands globally across its Beverages, Snacks, Cheese & Dairy and Convenient Meals sectors. The company is meeting key consumer needs for health and wellness, and convenience, while also responding to shifting demographics, as the population ages, becomes increasingly diverse, and lives in a growing number of one- to two-person households.
Kraft is driving incremental growth through new products by: building underdeveloped segments within Kraft's current categories, such as single-serve frozen pizza with DiGiorno Microwave Rising Crust Pizza; sourcing volume from adjacent categories, such as salted snacks with Ritz Chips and breath-freshening gum with Altoids Gum; creating or entering new categories, including on-demand hot beverages with its Tassimo system currently launching in France; and penetrating new markets, geographies and channels. At the same time, the team is implementing processes to improve speed to market.
In expanding global scale, Kraft will continue to grow in developed countries by leveraging its leading share positions in core categories, while addressing a challenging retail environment by building superior brand value and accelerating innovation. Kraft also will expand its sizeable business in developing markets by expanding its core categories into large countries with the greatest growth potential. With a combined population of 2.8 billion, the five top developing countries (China, Brazil, Russia, Mexico and India) represent 54% of the developing market population. Yet, they only represent about 34%, or $1.2 billion, of Kraft's annual revenues in developing markets. Importantly, in Kraft's focus markets of Mexico, Brazil, Russia and China, the company's revenues have doubled over the past four years.
Kraft is succeeding in driving out costs and assets, with its previously announced restructuring plan, including the announcement of 12 plant closings year-to-date. The company expects to further its strong productivity track record by continuing to eliminate unnecessary complexity in its supply chain. "Decomplexity" initiatives will include: global sourcing and harmonization of ingredients; reducing the number of individual varieties of products, or "stock-keeping units"; and streamlining product formulas and packaging designs on a global basis. Ultimately, these efforts will enable the company to better leverage innovations and bring products to market with greater speed at a lower cost.
Finally, at its investor meeting, Kraft reviewed its long-term financial outlook. The company reiterated its long-term financial targets for constant currency revenue growth excluding divestitures and including acquisitions in the 3% range, supported by volume growth of 2%-3%, and earnings per share growth of 6%-9%.
Kraft Foods Inc. is the largest branded food and beverage company headquartered in the United States and the second largest worldwide. Kraft Foods markets many of the world's leading food brands, including Kraft cheese, Jacobs and Maxwell House coffees, Nabisco cookies and crackers, Philadelphia cream cheese, Oscar Mayer meats, Post cereals and Milka chocolates, in more than 150 countries.
Forward-Looking and Cautionary Statements
This press release contains projections of future results and other forward-looking statements. One can identify these forward-looking statements by use of words such as "strategy," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "will," "continues," "estimates," "intends," "projects," "goals," "targets" and other words of similar meaning.
One can also identify them by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. These statements are based on the company's assumptions and estimates and are subject to risks and uncertainties. In connection with the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, the company is hereby identifying important factors that could cause actual results and outcomes to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement made by or on behalf of the company; any such statement is qualified by reference to the following cautionary statements.
Each of the company's segments is subject to intense competition, changes in consumer preferences and demand for its products, including low carbohydrate diet trends, the effects of changing prices for its raw materials and local economic and market conditions. Their results are dependent upon their continued ability to promote brand equity successfully, to anticipate and respond to new consumer trends, to develop new products and markets, to broaden brand portfolios, to compete effectively with lower priced products in a consolidating environment at the retail and manufacturing levels and to improve productivity. The company's results are also dependent on its ability to consummate and successfully integrate acquisitions and to realize the cost savings and improved asset utilization contemplated by its restructuring program.
In addition, the company is subject to the effects of foreign economies, currency movements, fluctuations in levels of customer inventories and credit and other business risks related to its customers operating in a challenging economic and competitive environment. The company's results are affected by its access to credit markets, borrowing costs and credit ratings, which may in turn be influenced by the credit ratings of Altria Group, Inc. The company's benefit expense is subject to the investment performance of pension plan assets, interest rates and cost increases for medical benefits offered to employees and retirees. The food industry continues to be subject to recalls if products become adulterated or misbranded, liability if product consumption causes injury, ingredient disclosure and labeling laws and regulations and the possibility that consumers could lose confidence in the safety and quality of certain food products.
The food industry is also subject to consumer concerns regarding genetically modified organisms and the health implications of obesity and trans-fatty acids. Developments in any of these areas could cause the company's results to differ materially from results that have been or may be projected by or on behalf of the company. The company cautions that the foregoing list of important factors is not exclusive. Any forward-looking statements in this press release are made as of the date hereof. The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement.


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Since 1984, the Everett AquaSox have provided fun and affordable family entertainment in a safe clean and positive environment. Everett Memorial Stadium is a place where Northwest families feel at home and where nearly three million fans have become part of the legacy of Minor League Baseball. Everett is also the first stop for Seattle Mariners' minor leaguers on the road to Safeco Field.
Through a commitment to customer service, the AquaSox have become a special part of the Puget Sound area with fans and supporters that cover a wide geographic and demographic range.
With AquaSox signage your company will literally become a part of the landscape. Your full-color outfield sign at Everett Memorial Stadium will be a key ingredient to the look and feel of AquaSox games. Our in-stadium video board "AquaVision" has a 16 ft. high by 26 ft. wide 25mm Lighthouse LED screen. It's the source for in-game promotions and crystal clear replays of all the action.
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In-game promotions continue to be our specialty - and there's no more original way to highlight your product or company. AquaSox fans come to games for the family-friendly environment and entertainment that in-game promotions offer. Your company name and logo will appear in front of a captive audience. Fans are continually delighted by our entertaining video features, on-field games and great prizes.
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We are proud to partner with Fox Sports 1380 as our flagship radio station, which airs all 76 AquaSox games between June and September. Fox Sports 1380 broadcasts at a powerful 50,000 watts, with a signal that covers the Puget Sound. All radio broadcasts can also be heard worldwide online at aquasox.com as well as via the free TuneIn™ mobile application for an even broader reach. Click here for a KRKO coverage map.
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Game Day Program: The official stadium publication at Everett AquaSox games is the AquaSox Game Day program. The AquaSox will print and distribute five editions and 50,000 complimentary issues.
Fan Advantage: The Fan Advantage is a coupon book featuring special offers to AquaSox fans. 25,000 will be distributed throughout the season.
To learn more about an AquaSox corporate partnership, please contact Pat Dillon at (425) 258-3673 or firstname.lastname@example.com


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It came either through a settlement house or through the generosity of some interested private patron.
Her dream was to live at the settlement house and give all her time to the work.
Here the telephone served to put her into communication with her superior at settlement house.
All I knew was learned at the settlement house, or from books.
I'm down here on the Earth, and in our settlement house, safe and sound.
"The whole system is corrupt from top to bottom," said the head of one settlement house to me.
They arrived at the settlement house and Mrs. Harris ordered tea to be brought to her sitting-room.
Why, one Christmas, we at the settlement house had a tree and gifts that cost hundreds of dollars.
I'm down here on the Earth and in our settlement house, safe and sound.
The next day they came to a party at the settlement house togged up in their plunder.
an inner-city institution providing educational, recreational, and social services to a large community
1620s, "act of fixing or steadying;" from settle (v.) + -ment. Meaning "a colony," especially a new one, "tract of country newly developed" is attested from 1690s; that of "small village on the frontier" is from 1827, American English. Sense of "payment of an account" is from 1729; legal sense "a settling of arrangements" (of divorce, property transfer, etc.) is from 1670s.


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My fiance has something similar to this on her desk at work, and she and her co-workers love it. These work with both sunlight AND most artificial light, are 100% silent, and have an OFF switch so you can shut them down if they get annoying. These make good gifts since they're cute, easy to use, and can be put almost anywhere.


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Lacoste make a move away from their traditional sneaker profile to release something a little different with their Mesocco chukka boot. Coming in both suede and leather choices, the boots feature subtle punched details along the upper as well as a heeled Vibram outsole. All together there are four separate versions in brown, gray, black and tan.
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CDMA-enabled telematics solutions are delivering the business intelligence that both dealers and lenders need to monitor and manage their vehicle assets as efficiently and cost effectively as possible.
Connectivity player DataXoom says it has launched an initiative for healthcare workers using tablets and specialty devices and needing access to information services on the go.
The company – which provides mobile data services for businesses – is to support healthcare workers' connectivity needs on a mixture of LTE, CDMA and GSM networks.
Kore Telematics and B&B Electronics have unveiled a new M2M service that is aimed at allowing customers to develop fully connected industrial M2M applications more quickly and conveniently.
The networking player and MVNO have taken the wraps off an M2M-enabled cellular router that comes prepackaged with GSM or CDMA data connectivity options.
Branded Spectre, the router is being made available through a three-month promotional data plan from Kore (Alpharetta, GA, USA) and targeted at companies looking for industrial M2M monitoring and control applications.
Asset-tracking player AirIQ is to use M2M connectivity services from Kore Telematics to support services for customers in North America and Europe.
The agreement allows AirIQ – whose customers include commercial fleets and vehicle dealers targeting the consumer market – to offer customers access to GSM-, GPRS- and CDMA-based network services.
Aeris Communications maintained its M2M momentum with the launch of a new global service platform (GSP) aimed at helping mobile network operators to address the M2M opportunity.
The company is offering its GSP as a standalone service or part of a package and says it will allow operators to deploy M2M services without incurring the expense of developing purpose-built systems.
Kore Telematics has launched an educational program in partnership with modem maker Multi-Tech Systems aimed at supporting M2M players facing a shutdown of 2G networks.
Leading US operators AT&T (Dallas, TX, USA) and Verizon Wireless (New York City, NY, USA) have both announced plans to switch off their 2G networks over the next few years and run all voice and data traffic over 3G and 4G infrastructure.
The plans have generated concern among companies that currently use those 2G networks for their M2M services.
Cellular networks will generate nearly 60% of all M2M connectivity revenues by 2018, according to a new study from ABI Research.
The market-research company predicts that M2M connectivity will be embedded in more than two billion devices across nine key industries by that date, but reckons cellular will be the dominant technology in terms of revenues generated by M2M services.
Global revenues from M2M services will more than double between 2012 and 2017, rising from just less than $15 billion to more than $31 billion, according to a new study from Infonetics Research.
The market-research company also expects the number of M2M connections to surpass four billion by 2017, up from around 1.4 billion in 2012.
However, Infonetics urges operators to think beyond cellular technology when envisaging their future M2M services.
Network operator Sprint has struck a five-year agreement to support usage-based insurance (UBI) services and telematics solutions on behalf of Himex.
Himex (Scottsdale, AZ, USA) – which claims to offer "the fastest and most complete route in the industry to the implementation of UBI" – appears to have chosen Sprint (Overland Park, KS, USA) largely because of its ongoing commitment to support 2G services, in contrast with larger operators AT&T (Dallas, TX, USA) and Verizon Wireless (New York City, NY, USA).
Cellular M2M connections are set to reach more than 450 million globally by 2018, according to a new study from ABI Research.
The market-research company says that Europe dragged down worldwide connection growth in 2011 and 2012 but that an improving world economy will help connections to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 26% between now and 2018.
Nevertheless, while connections appear to have been growing, average revenue per user (ARPU) has continued to decline, notes ABI.
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