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This article was published 10/5/2013 (1564 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A GRISLY homicide case on a tiny British Columbia island may be the key to unlocking a longtime Manitoba missing-persons mystery.
The two separate investigations — one still active, one seemingly ice-cold — collided this week when information from B.C. prompted officers to descend en masse on a Winnipeg rooming house.
Investigators with a joint task force of RCMP and Winnipeg police officers have since discovered "significant" forensic evidence inside the residence at 97 Lorne Ave. in Point Douglas, sources told the Free Press Thursday.
Neighbours reported hearing the sound of a jackhammer inside the home Wednesday. A source has confirmed police are digging into the foundation as part of the ongoing probe. They have also removed several boxes.
Police have released no official details more than 48 hours after they began their top-secret search. But sources said the ongoing probe involves a Winnipeg woman who vanished several years ago and has been on the radar of those involved in the Project Devote task force.
As well, sources confirm a link to a recent homicide investigation in B.C. Police discovered scattered human remains Monday on a remote island near Alert Bay, off the east coast of Vancouver Island. They were confirmed as the remains of Jennifer McPherson, a former Winnipegger, who was reported missing from Hanson Island, B.C., on April 29.
Police have charged McPherson's husband, Traigo Ehkid Andretti, with second-degree murder. Few details have been released about the killing while the investigation is ongoing.
Sources said Andretti, 37, and McPherson, 41, previously lived at the Lorne Avenue residence in Winnipeg before moving west about five years ago. The search of the rooming house, which has been vacant for at least six months, is directly connected to Andretti's arrest this week and an ongoing investigation into his past, sources said.
The Free Press has learned Andretti, who may have used aliases in the past, has a form of autism and has previously caused concern among police and justice officials for failing to take prescribed medication. He has a prior criminal history in Manitoba and B.C., including a violent attack against McPherson.
Police in B.C. confirmed this week Andretti and McPherson were living on Hanson Island as caretakers for the past five years of a remote fishing resort called the Pacific Outback Resort.
Court documents obtained Thursday show Andretti was convicted in Winnipeg of three courtorder breaches in 2005. The offences occurred months earlier in the city and drew a fine.
After moving to B.C., he was charged with assaulting McPherson at the fishing resort in 2008 and received nine months' probation. According to a July 2008 story in the North Island Gazette, lawyers told court he has a form of autism and was off his medication at the time.
"Mr. Andretti and his wife got into a verbal argument and she asked him to leave," Crown attorney John Blackman told court at the time. "He punched her once, nothing more, and she had a bloody nose. Mr. Andretti does have a form of autism and was off his medication. When he does that, it leads to negative behaviour."
The judge ordered Andretti to stay on his medication as a condition of his probation "so he will not be a danger to others and himself." McPherson wrote a letter to the court asking that the charges be dropped, according to the Gazette report.
"I miss my husband dearly," she wrote.
Defence lawyer Paul Grier told court the couple looked forward to resuming their jobs as resort caretakers.
"They want to live together and she has no fear of him," Grier said. "She really wants to be with her husband."
Court records show Andretti was charged with another assault in B.C. in 2010 — it doesn't say who the alleged victim was — but was found not guilty at trial a year later.
McPherson is survived by two adult daughters.
The RCMP and Winnipeg police teamed up for Project Devote in 2009 and have identified 20 homicides and eight missing-persons cases linked by one factor — the individuals were all at a high risk of becoming victims of violent crime.
Each had substance- or alcohol-abuse issues, was transient, had mental-health issues, worked in the sex trade or hitchhiked.
The slain and missing Manitobans range in age from 15 to 46.
Last year, Winnipeg police charged Shawn Lamb with three homicides involving high-risk young women and are continuing their investigation to see if other cases could be linked to Lamb, a drifter from Ontario with more than 100 prior criminal convictions.
Lamb has told the Free Press and police homicide detectives he has information that could help them solve at least five other cold cases. He remains in custody without bail, awaiting trial.
Sources said Thursday this week's search on Lorne Avenue is not connected in any way to Lamb's case.


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CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Police say the 23-year-old Chesterfield Township man, who forced his ex-girlfriend into a Christmas tree bag, threatened to shoot her and then escaped, has been captured.
Jonathan Elbers was found in a heavily wooded area near I-94 and New Haven Road at 12:45 p.m. Sunday.
Chesterfield Township police say he was found hiding in a deer blind and was taken into custody without incident.
Police have been searching for Elbers since confronting him early Friday morning at his 20-year-old ex-girlfriend's parents' home on Nicolette Drive.
Officers were called by the woman's family members in Florida who said they feared she was having a problem with her ex-boyfriend.
More: Chesterfield Township headlines
When officers arrived they were greeted by the woman's sister, who let them into the house.
They could hear the victim screaming "help me" from the basement. Officers went to the basement stairway where Elbers appeared bleeding heavily from his head. He refused to comply with officers or listen to their commands.
He struggled with police until he broke free and fled on foot.
According to police, the victim told officers Elbers choked her while forcing her into the bag. However, she then heard the officers calling out her name. Elbers paused. That's when she struck him in the head with a porcelain statue. He tried to flee toward the stairway, where police first confronted him.
The victim says Elbers was upset about the recent break-up and showed up unannounced at the home while her parents were in Florida. She couldn't reason with him before he forced her into the basement where he started to bind her and place her in a Christmas tree bag.
Macomb County prosecutor charges Elbers with intent to murder
Elbers now faces charges from the Macomb County prosecutor including assault with intent to murder, home invasion, unlawful imprisonment and assaulting an officer causing injury.
Police called him a dangerous suspect while they searched for him.
It is anticipate that Elbers will be arraigned on Monday at the 42-2 District Court in New Baltimore.
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A technology business is to create 35 jobs after receiving £1.6m venture capital backing for expansion.
AdInsight, which was founded in 2008 by Ross Fobian and Richard Hamnett, will more than double its workforce after securing funding from Eden Ventures, which specialises in investing in technology companies.
The company, based in Salford Quays, is also taking extra space to accommodate its growth.
It is looking to recruit across all its operations, with additional roles for software developers, sales and administration, support and marketing staff.
AdInsight has developed a system which allows online traders to follow customers as they surf the internet and find out how they came to phone to place an order.
Its software can track the exact path each visitor takes to a client's website and can report back on every key word, advert, referring website and click that causes them to pick up the phone to call.
The analysis helps AdInsight's customers to target their marketing and promotions appropriately, and see how visitors interact with their websites.
Clients include TUI Travel, Thomas Cook, RAC and British Gas.
The funding from Bath-based Eden Ventures will help AdInsight to accelerate its expansion plans.
Mr Hamnett said: "The deal is a great facilitator, allowing us to grow at an even faster pace and develop a wider suite of products.
"We will be investing in infrastructure and more than doubling our highly-talented team, which we prize."
Mr Fobian said: "Data-driven marketing is experiencing tremendous growth and we have seen phenomenal expansion over the last 18 months as a result.
"Our growth reflects the shift towards better-targeted marketing activities as businesses focus on accurate data."
A corporate finance team at Manchester law firm Pannone, including Philip Treanor, Tom Hall and Katie Simpson, advised AdInsight on securing the funding package.
Mr Treanor said: "The company has grown into a leader in the industry and the funding will help it capitalise on the huge potential in the market and fulfil its ambitious growth plans."
Eden Ventures' Peter Jones said: "Call tracking technology is a key component of digital marketing and AdInsight is at the forefront of a rapidly-growing industry."
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Wiltshire Police are appealing for witnesses following an assault on a man in Chippenham.
The incident took place on Tuesday, April 29, in Wood Lane between 2pm-3pm.
The victim, a 44-year-old man from Calne, was walking with a woman in Wood Lane, near Bakehouse Close, when he was approached by a man and assaulted.
The victim was punched and kicked, sustaining cuts and bruises, before the offender ran down an alley off Wood Lane.
Detective Constable Mark Hutchinson said: "The incident lasted for a few minutes and it is likely that there were people in the area who would have seen the assault.
"Although this type of crime is not common in the Chippenham area, the impact on the victims can be significant.
"I would like to appeal to the public to come forward with any information about this assault."
Anyone with any information about this incident is asked to contact DC Mark Hutchinson at Melksham CID on 101 or call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 where information can be left anonymously if preferred.


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Barneys New York: Limited Edition GAGA'S WORKSHOP Gift Card
And when all else fails . . . card them! This year THE card to give is the limited-edition Lady Gaga from Barney's New York. In case you haven't already heard, Barneys is letting LG play Chief Elf throughout its store this holiday season. If you cannot make it to the display, you can enjoy it virtually through the coordinating, interactive website. And, always with her fan base in mind, LG has established a charitable organization: Born This Way Foundation that will benefit from a portion of gift card and Gaga merchandise sales. Who's your Santa in 2011?!


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Through its Awards to Stimulate and Support Undergraduate Research Experiences (ASSURE) Program, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) supports undergraduate research in DoD-relevant disciplines. For this purpose, since FY2003, DoD has contributed several million dollars per year (through an interagency agreement with NSF) to support particular REU Sites that focus on research relevant to DoD's interests. The Sites below, though managed by NSF, are supported by funds from DoD's ASSURE program. Most of these REU-ASSURE Sites are jointly funded by NSF and DoD; a few are entirely funded by DoD. (Each of these Sites is also listed in the "Search for an REU Site" directory of the NSF research unit/discipline that manages the REU-ASSURE Site award.)
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From celebrities to clergy, politicians to consumers, all eyes are on Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam as he wrestles with signing or vetoing the state's so-called "ag gag" bill.
If signed, the bill would require those with evidence of animal abuse – such as videos or images – to turn the material over to local law enforcement within 24 hours. Read more about the bill. According to Knox News in an article here, the 24-hour reporting time frame is no different from current law requiring reporting of child abuse to authorities.
Haslam now has until May 14 to make a decision, according to Food Safety News.
While Haslam mulls the bill, both sides of the spirited debate are vying to be heard.
A number of celebrities, including country music star Carrie Underwood and comedian Ellen DeGeneres, have called on Haslam to veto the bill. The celebrities were also recently joined by a group of clergy leaders.
While the voices against the bill are growing louder, supporters of the bill are also standing their ground. Food Safety News reports that Tennessee Republican Representative Andy Holt battled Underwood in a "twitter war."
Holt also took aim at Humane Society of the United States staffer Kayci McLead.
"I am extremely pleased that we were able to pass HB 1191 today to help protect livestock in Tennessee from suffering months of needless investigation that propagandist groups of radical animal activists, like your fraudulent and reprehensibly disgusting organization of maligned animal abuse profiteering corporatists, who are intent on using animals the same way human-traffickers use 17 year old women," Holt wrote in a heated email exchange available here.
While the debate rages, Haslam continues to "wrestle" with the decision.
"At the end of the day it comes back to is it good policy? Is it constitutional, and do we think it's something that will actually help the welfare of animals and livestock?" he asked.
Read, "More Time to Decide Whether to Sign or Veto TN 'Ag-Gag'"


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Topic: Hello to all my name is Celia,
My husband has just been diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma he is 42 years old and his name is Richie we have been married for 22 years on new years eve. We have three children. There ages are 18,16, and 8 years. The doctors say he only has months to live. We are all so upset we dont know what to do. Im trying to get other doctors to see him. Anyway does anybody out there have some advice for me please I need some friends. Thank all of whom may read this my name is Celia.


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Introducing myself...with a huge desire to get involved in the ongoing discussions. My name is Tom, 68 years old living in Eastern Washington State. I was diagnosed with CC towards the end of February of this year...after a small time period during which my family physician and a general surgeon believed that something else might be going on....and it almost goes without saying that I am extremely worried as to how this thing may develop. I had all of the usual symptoms at that time...rapid weight loss (30 pounds in 6 weeks), very high bilirubin level, loss of appetite, etc. After a week in the local hospital...and a failed attempt to place stents in the bile duct I was sent home with a biliary drain in my side. At the end of March stents were finally placed in the bile duct which the doctor described as a very difficult procedure (the doctor indicated that it took 5 times longer than normal to do the procedure). I began chemo treatments in the middle of April and they are ongoing at present....Oxaliplatin and Gemzar. My oncologist and several other doctors feel that resection and radiation are out of the question since the cancer has wrapped its nasty fingers around the blood supply going into the liver....and one lobe of the liver is also showing presence of the CC there. My concern is underscored by the fact that about three weeks ago I had a CT scan which shows that the tumor has neither shrunk in size (it was 4 centimeters in size at the start) nor has it enlarged at all....sooooo, chemo treatments continue. I am heartened to read here that there is hope...and I am also made aware now that there are other avenues of treatment to explore. I agree wholeheartedly with a statement that I read on this website that "The last thing to die is hope!".....it has to be that way.


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Aprilco roasters
have two of these -- an oval and a rectangle -- and I employ them daily in my kitchen. I can roast cauliflower, potatoes, or Brussels sprouts in them. They're excellent for baking salmon en papaillote or broiling chicken breasts. I've even used them for small Thanksgiving turkeys or pork loins. Not only do they clean up well, but they look beautiful as serving pieces at the table.


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Based on the popular television show, Shark Tank, the new Owl Tank event held in April at the Jones School is similar to the extraordinarily successful Rice Business Plan Competition, the largest such competition in the world. Owl Tank is designed to give students a chance to present their business pitches to an audience of successful business leaders and receive valuable feedback.
But Owl Tank's key difference is its focus on "small" ideas—those that don't require a patent or millions of dollars in funding.
Why small ideas? "We came up with something that would complement the Rice Business Plan Competition," explains Owl Tank planning committee member, Gene Brieck '10, also a part of the Jones Graduate School Entrepreneurship Organization (JGSEO), a sponsor of the event along with the Houston Chapter of the Entrepreneur's Organization (EO). "We wanted to support students who were building sweat equity in their companies and needed quick cash flow. Our goal was to help them launch their businesses by providing them with good resources and angel investors."
"And it's the small businesses that fuel local economies," says Ashley McDonald, owner of Ashley IT—an IT services company with dreams of creating a storefront in Houston's busy downtown underground tunnel system. Rice MBA Jay Vinekar '12 developed Ashley IT's business plan, which landed a third-place win.
Nine teams took on this year's challenge to present their three-minute business pitches to a panel of six judges made up of Houston-area business leaders and successful entrepreneurs. "It was invigorating for presenters and judges," says John Carter, who organized the Houston EO's participation.
The Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice has earned a stellar reputation for its development of entrepreneurial business leaders, fostered in large part by Dr. Al Napier's and Dr. Ed Williams' support of the JGSEO, says Brieck.
"The Jones School is one of the top entrepreneurship programs in the country," he explains, "and entrepreneurship in Houston is also big." That means students receive a great deal of support and advice from a community of leaders engaged in the type of innovation and business-building that will help them in their future endeavors.
Amaethon, the first place winner of the Owl Tank competition, netted $750 in cash for its development of an alternative sugar source that can be converted into a renewable fuel. Second- and third-place winners received $500 apiece. All received valuable in-kind gifts of either website support or other business development services.
But what was invaluable, says Vinekar, who just graduated this year, is the connections students were able to make with people at both the competition and in the MBA program. "Houston business leaders are very approachable," he explains. "For example, at the school, anyone can join conference calls with CEOs in roundtable discussions, and professors often bring in business leaders to class." At this McDonald interrupts, "And I've already been approached and met someone from the event who has offered a potential partnership."
So stay tuned: A second Owl Tank event is slated to be restocked next year.
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enca.spec - Character set analyzer and detector
Enca is an Extremely Naive Charset Analyser. It detects character set and
Currently, it has support for Belarussian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech,
This package also contains shared Enca library other programs can make use of.
Install enca if you need to cope with text files of dubious origin


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The Harmony Area Community Foundation was established in 2012 by a group of residents dedicated to improving Harmony's quality of life. HACF received its "seed" money from the former Trust for a Better Harmony, which was instrumental in building the Harmony-Preston bike trail and other large community projects. The trust has received several generous donations over the years – HACF is proud of this legacy and is excited to carry this torch forward!
- Parks & Trails
- Fillmore Central Schools
- Public Library
- Arts & History
- Health & the Environment
- Community Support and Growth
HACF is now establishing a Founders Club. This is one of the first steps in creating awareness and raising funds for the Foundation's endowment fund, as well as provides grant monies to be used towards approved focus area projects. Becoming a member of the Founders Club requires a minimum investment of $1,000. Pledges that are met within a 10 year timeframe are acceptable.
Please consider ways you may be able to become a part of the Founders Club: individually, part of an extended family, employees of a business, members of a service group or other organization.
If we all play together we can create a symphony to make our shared dreams happen within our community. Your contributions, like Notes on the Scale, can make our city's dreams come true. No matter what the size of your note is, you can help us make the music happen in Harmony! You may choose which note you want to contribute to make our dreams come true!
- Whole Note – $5,000 & up
- half Note – $1,000 – $4,999
- Quarter Note – $100 – $999
- Eighth Note – $5 – $99
How to make your donation:
- On-Line – Go to bit.do/harmony-community-fund
- First, in the drop-down box, select Harmony Area Community Foundation.
Second, in the white text box, type FOUNDERS CLUB.
- By Check – Make check out to Harmony Area Community Foundation.
- Mail checks to Harmony Area Community Foundation, PO Box 342, Harmony, MN 55939
- Gift of Grain – Click below to see how to donate grain to each cause.
- Donate grain to benefit HACF or Donate grain for Fillmore Central Scholarship Foundation
- Use the Contribution Pledge Card – Download and print the brochure which includes the pledge card.
Please contact Chair, Vicky Tribon at 507-886-1970 or vtribon@harmonytel or Treasurer, Steve Donney at 507-886-2304 or email@example.com with questions.
Your contribution is tax deductible due to our 501©(3) status with the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation.
HACF Grant Policy Procedure
Click here for the HACF Grant Application.
- Grant Applications should be received at least two weeks before regularly scheduled quarterly meetings. Applications will be sent to board members for their review- any concerns should be forwarded to the President who will then share with the applicant. Applicant will be asked to attend the scheduled meeting to present their application and to answer any questions.
- Grant requests will wait for our regularly scheduled quarterly meetings.
- Grant Requirements must meet our mission statement- "To serve the City of Harmony and it's surrounding area by supporting projects which improve the quality of life and build stronger communities"– and have ongoing community benefits and generally considered a one time gap financing of a project.
- Grant request voting to take place after applicant's presentation and applicant has been dismissed.
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Endless April: Keeping up the Conversation
In the thirty days of April 2012, Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) has brought together individuals and communities to raise awareness about sexual violence and educate towards prevention. From exploring the topic of healthy sexuality to declaring SAAM and sharing teal ribbons – April has been eventful!
Throughout the month, headlines and social media lifted the topic of sexual violence to the forefront. Events, activities and local programs declared the prevalence of sexual assault. Institutions and campuses examined the reality of sexual assault and the safety of their community environments. Proclamations we made on the community, state and national level. Individuals were recognized for their dedicated efforts to end sexual violence. Communities stood together in support of survivors and in protest of rape culture.
During April, we hear a resounding cry of commitment to long-term efforts to eliminate sexual violence. All of these efforts aide us in proclaiming, "It's time… to talk about it!" It is an amazing time. The culture of shame and silence surrounding sexual violence is challenged by dialogue.
But there is this tiny part of healing that can't be ignored. Whether you are talking about scrapes, lives, or culture – healing is a process. Healing happens over time, and when we talk about the need for social change, this too requires time. The prevention of sexual violence requires consistent attention and ongoing, proactive efforts. The rich dialogue, awareness and involvement of SAAM are resources that must outlive April. As long as sexual violence still exists, it's still time to talk about it.
How do we keep at this conversation? For those interested in continuing the task of sexual violence prevention, you are not alone in this mission and there are many resources available to learn more and connect with others.
Part of building an ongoing conversation is hearing from you! We want to know your SAAM successes, share creative ideas and hear your feedback. Tell us – how do you plan to make for an endless April?


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Lois Lowry's Blog
in Maine
I drove up here Saturday with the car loaded (and still, forgot some stuff but nothing vital). Both dog and cat are good travelers and Alfie is clearly thrilled to be back here in his country life ... though since he was here last I have had my guy cover the underside openings to the barn with wire mesh...no more critters, I hope! But Alfie is frustrated; he used to love going under there to see what was going on...risky! He paid the price one night and came away loaded with porcupine quills. You'd think he'd learn)
New screens on the porch because Lulu, a kitten last summer, had torn them by climbing. I can't afford to replace them yet again so instead have been teaching her to stay off. Complete Pavlov by way of water pistol, and she is learning quickly. Beware of Woman with Plastic Gun.
The grandsons have been here this weekend and found a plastic snake in the toy closet, which made for a lot of torment-the-cat moments:
Flowers are in bloom (this is clematis):
and the weather was good enough for a hike...Here is Rhys, age 11, at the top of Pleasant Mountain (2000 feet) whihch we can see from our upstairs windows here at the farm.
He's looking west, toward the White Mountains in New Hampshire.
All five bedrooms were filled last night but this evening the house is empty but for me and the animals, and I have the coming week to myself for work. I head to New York on June 5th to the annual convention of Booksellers , to speak the next morning at a breakfast; so this week I'll be preparing that speech. Sometimes I feel as if I have absolutely nothing left to say. But then out of the recesses of the brain, thoughts emerge and take shape.
AND: here is what my grandson did with a label-maker!
The checkout girl at the supermarket loved it.
(Well, so did I, actually.)
Hi! I'm glad that I was able to register for your blog! It's very heartwarming to be invited into your life like this!
I'm not sure if your blog is an appropriate avenue for this, but my students and I are finishing The Giver and have a question for you. One student asked me this, for which I had no answer... if the people in the community didn't have the memory of war, how would they get the idea for the war game? Was the game created based on a memory that was transferred back in when Rosemary released herself? Any info you could give us would be great!
what happens to the community in the giver when jonas leaves
please do tell, 3 other students from my class were with me when we were reading this and at the end we were not satisfied what happens?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Meredith: Individual questions like this are best emailed to me by clicking on "EMAIL ME" on my website.
But since I'm here: I will try to answer. There are certain pieces of history that become embedded in our collective consciousness and emerge in sometimes startling ways. For example, the child's rhyme "Ring Around the Rosey" is said to have originated in Medieval times and is a reference to fear of the Black Plague. Children singing it now have no knowledge of the plague years but the chant continues. IN the same way. knowledge of war would have become part of the collective experience and emerges, here, in war games, though the children (as Jonas points out) have no awareness of the histroy they are re-creating.
Farhad: Yes, the ending of THE GIVER is ambiguous. But there are two books that follow it: GATHERING BLUE, published in 2000; and MESSENGER, in 2004. And very soon the fourth and final book, SON, will be published.
On the home page of my website http://www.loislowry.com" rel="nofollow">www.loislowry.com) on the right hand side, there is a cartoon of me at a computer and the words EMAIL ME are quite large.
Very nice label.
And to think that the last time I went through the checkout line (this morning) the only thing the checker noticed was my six-week old screaming his tiny head off. I bet your checker was much happier than mine...


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The chief financial officer of Southern California's Metrolink system has resigned after a report found accounting irregularities.
The Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/12ImwAk) says Nancy Weiford stepped down over the weekend.
An internal report released last Friday called the railroad's accounting system a "morass." It said the agency that serves 40,000 riders daily had underfunded cash accounts by tens of millions of dollars and that its record-keeping was so poor that Metrolink board members couldn't understand it's financial situation.
Weiford declined to comment to the Times.
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SOUTHEND United manager Paul Sturrock expects Ben Reeves to extend his loan spell with the club.
Reeves' initial month long stint from Southampton expires after tonight's game at Barnet.
But Sturrock expects the midfielder, who fired Blues to Wembley with a late goal in the JPT against Leyton Orient last week, to extend his stay in south east Essex.
"We're in talks with Southampton right now about making Ben's loan spell longer and I would imagine everything would soon be sorted out for that to happen," said Sturrock.
"Ben has shown during his time with us already that he's a good player and we're working on making sure he stays with us for longer."
Reeves has made seven appearances for Blues since arriving at Roots Hall at the end of January.
And the 21-year-old, who has scored two goals during those games, also wants to extend his loan spell with Southend.
"It's out of my hands at the moment really but if it's down to me then I'll definitely be staying here, "said Reeves.
"I feel a part of things here now. The lads have all made me feel very welcome, there's a great atmosphere around the club and I want to play a part in what will be an exciting end to the season.
"Promotion is still very much the number one aim, despite having got to Wembley, and want to try and help that happen.
"The manager has spoken to me about what might happen and they're thinking about delaying the loan signing so I can then play until the end of the season.
"But I just want to be playing and helping Southend do well."
Reeves' next chance to impress comes tonight when eighth placed Blues head to Barnet, who are just above the relegation zone.
However, the midfielder is taking nothing for granted against the Bees.
"Barnet have got some good results just recently and will be hard to play against," said Reeves.
"They have people like Edgar Davids in their team but we're full of confidence after the last couple of games and will be going there to try and get another good result to move us up closer to the play-offs again."


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Greenfeet Water Bottle 27oz
This water bottle is great - light weight and durable. I also love not having to worry about toxins leaching into my sons' drinking water. This week they are using them all week at camp. They love them too. We have the smaller klean kanteens for them to take to school, but the 27oz bottles are the one's we sent with them to camp. Also using reusable water bottles cuts down on the amount of plastic water bottles we use.


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The mission of the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) is to cure Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, and to improve the quality of life of children and adults affected by these disease
How Your Donation Helps
Since its founding over four decades ago, CCFA has remained at the forefront of research in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Today, CCFA funds cutting-edge studies at major medical institutions, nurture investigators at the early stages of their careers, and finance underdeveloped areas of research. In addition, CCFA's educational workshops and programs, along with our scientific journal, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, enable medical professionals to keep pace with this rapidly growing field. CCFA is very proud that the National Institutes of Health has commended CCFA for "uniting the research community and strengthening IBD research."
CCFA sponsors basic and clinical research of the highest quality. CCFA also offers a wide range of educational programs for patients and health care professionals, while providing supportive services to help people cope with these chronic intestinal diseases. These programs are supported solely through donors, grants, and fundraising efforts.
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Here's Looking at EuclidWhy geometry matters in the life of the mind.
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Many ancient societies knew important mathematical facts, but only one discovered mathematics—which is not a collection of accurate rules of thumb, but a body of knowledge organized deductively, by the radical notion of proof. And Euclid is its prophet.
The Elements, composed in about 300 b.c., is a landmark of human thought. It has exerted a profound influence on science and philosophy by serving as both a basic geometry textbook (widely used for more than 2,000 years) and an archetype of rigorous knowledge. Accordingly, the ultimate subject of The King of Infinite Space is the life of the mind. Written with David Berlinski's characteristic mix of hothouse prose and standup comedy, it is aimed at the Intelligent General Reader—though I often found myself wondering what that admirable creature might make of it.
Berlinski begins with Euclid's foundations—definitions, axioms, and common notions (general logical principles)— and devotes much attention to their shortcomings. For example, Euclid appeals to the notion of figures "coinciding," meaning that one figure can be placed on another so that their sides match up exactly. Are we now in a bind?
If the figures in question are physical objects, we understand what it means to move one and place it on another; but physical objects will never match exactly. If, on the other hand, they are nonphysical, perceived only by the mind, then the notions of moving and placing are metaphorical. So what, exactly, do they mean? Euclid shows, Berlinski says, "a willingness to repose his confidence in things he could neither explain nor justify."
Is the author condescending to his subject? Is he suggesting that an interest in Euclid is some embarrassing affectation, like an enthusiasm for Renaissance fairs (excuse me, faires)? In fact, the point of this discussion is to show how bold Euclid's project was and how remarkable was its success. Without benefit of certain refined logical tools and distinctions (that would be unavailable for another 2,200 years), Euclid erected an enduring architectural marvel: an axiomatic system, the first, a rich body of results supported on a tidy footing of "evident" principles by timbers of the strongest possible kind, proofs that compel belief.
We are next led through a sample of these proofs, taken from the first of Euclid's 12 books—including the proof of its most famous result, the Pythagorean Theorem. To understand the life of a certain kind of mind, we must see that mind in action. Berlinski adds an ahistorical gloss claiming that Euclid didn't really "get" the Pythagorean Theorem, which ought to be understood as an algebraic statement about the numerical lengths of the sides of a right triangle: a2+b2=c2. Euclid's formulation, about the areas of squares drawn on the sides of the triangle, is a clumsy second best.
Berlinski does acknowledge that a notion of number applicable not only to the counting numbers (such as 2 and 12), but also to lengths and areas and volumes as well, wasn't developed until nearly two millennia after Euclid, and that a few additional centuries were then required to make rigorous sense of the maneuver. But that concession feels grudging.
The remarkable fact, which deserves celebration, is that Euclid's account of the quantitative aspects of geometry was rigorous from the get-go. For Euclid, multitudes (collections of things that can be numbered) are distinct from magnitudes (continuously variable entities, such as lines). And magnitudes themselves are of different kinds. We can add a number to a number but not to amagnitude. We can add like magnitudes (line to line, or area to area) but not unlike magnitudes. We can "multiply" a line by a number—by adding together two or three or four copies of it—but we cannot multiply a length by a length. Multiplicity is reserved for multitudes. This makes perfect sense.
The need for these careful distinctions was reaffirmed by the surprising and unwelcome discovery that the side and the diagonal of a square have no "common measure": There exists no unit of length of which both are exact multiples. (An algebraist would say that the square root of two is irrational.)This caused metaphysical problems for the Pythagoreans, who seem to have believed that numbers were in some sense the ultimate constituents of the world. It also presented a serious obstacle to the creation of a rigorous account of geometry.
To explain the concept of similarity—of having the same shape, if not the same size—we need an account of ratios and proportions. This is easily provided for multitudes—or for magnitudes with a common measure, so that proportions among them can be understood as proportions among multitudes of that measure. The solution to this very difficult problem, presented in Book V, is the most brilliant technical achievement in the Elements. And it is attributed not to Euclid but to Eudoxus.
A bit more than half of The King of Infinite Space is spent chewing slowly on Book I. The rest ranges beyond Euclid proper, the pace accelerating through discussions of geometry and algebra, non‑Euclidean and Riemannian geometries, Gauss's intrinsic curvature, Hilbert's reformulation of Euclidean geometry, groups and fields (ordered Archimedean fields, to be precise), and whips past, at the speed of light, Felix Klein's "Erlangen Program."
These are deep subjects. I fear that readers will find much of the account gnomic, partly because so much is compressed into so small a space, and partly because of the author's strenuous manufacture of lapidary phrases. Many succeed: It is apt to call mathematics a form of "mountain‑climbing pastoral," a quest for worlds of ideal beauty accessible only by grueling and dangerous journeys. Some seem merely to have had tailfins slapped on, as when railroad tracks in a perspective drawing are said to "converge toward a distant, soundlessly spinning point." Would any insight be lost if that point were "angrily motionless" or "mysteriously aloof"— or left unadorned? And some want to conjure drama where none exists: Noting that a proposition proven in Book I is equivalent to one of Euclid's axioms, Berlinski says that, in proving it, "Euclid had demonstrated what he had already assumed." From that point of view, every proposition Euclid proves is merely a restatement of something already assumed, since it follows from an axiom.
Non-Euclidean geometries occupy much of the book's latter half, and their discovery is a fascinating episode of intellectual history. Euclid's parallel postulate amounts to saying that, given a line and a point, exactly one line can be drawn parallel to that line through the point. (Euclid formulates it differently.) To succeeding generations, this seemed both "evidently" true and more complicated than Euclid's other axioms. And centuries of futile effort were spent trying to prove it from the others. In the 19th century, Janos Bolyai and Nikolai Lobachevsky independently developed consistent and rich theories of "geometry" in which the parallel postulate is false. They made themselves at home in a new mental world—one that was, from some points of view, literally unthinkable. Euclid's geometry had been the paradigm of certain knowledge. How could denying one of its basic principles lead to anything other than incoherence? What exactly was geometry true of ?
The ensuing story satisfies Berlinski's taste for drama. He quotes a letter to Bolyai from his father, who had himself spent many years trying to prove the parallel postulate and was alarmed by his son's growing interest in the problem:
Do not in any case have anything to do with the parallels. I know every twist and turn in this business and I have myself wandered in its fathomless night, which has extinguished every light and joy in my life. I beg you in the name of God. Leave the parallels in peace.
It has been a long time since any professional mathematician worked in classical Euclidean geometry, searching for theorems that Euclid overlooked. So why study it? Once a theorem is proven, why should anyone pore over the proof and learn how to prove it all over again? According to a famous story, Euclid believed the work to be its own reward, dismissing a request from the pharaoh for a less arduous way to learn mathematics, telling him that "there is no Royal Road to geometry." What Euclid offers, Berlinski says, is "a method of proof and so a way of life."
Could it become obsolete? Berlinski cites a major achievement of modern mathematics, officially called the "classification of finite simple groups." It is a consequence of results published over decades by more than a hundred mathematicians and totaling more than 10,000 densely packed journal pages. It seems hard to believe that those pages are entirely free from error. (Errors have been found, but have turned out to be correctible.) The authors are retiring and dying off. A generation from now, will there be anyone who understands the proof? Is this the wave of the future?
No matter: "The Euclidean academy . . . confers a form of immortality on its academicians. It is the immortality in having participated in one of the arts of civilization."


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 700M Series Launchedby Dustin Sklavos on 5/30/2013 5:00 PM EST
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tipoo - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkI don't see anything about power consumption or TDP here, if the same architecture is used but with higher clocks for the performance gains, will they suck more power? Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkNVIDIA doesn't disclose TDPs on notebook parts, mostly because that's up to the laptop OEM. One OEM might go for slightly higher performance with a higher TDP, while another OEM could use the same part (in theory the "same") at lower clocks to work with their cooling design. According to NVIDIA, the GTX 780M should be at roughly the same 100W TDP as the GTX 680M, but take that with a grain of salt -- I suspect it uses more power, but how much more is difficult to say. Certainly, NVIDIA (and AMD) are more familiar with 28nm now, so perhaps some tuning was all they needed to reduce power use even more. Reply
Zandros - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkI saw 122 W claimed for the 780M, which makes sense to me compared with the 100 W for the 680M. (Source: http://www.game-debate.com/news/?news=5440&gra... )
Looking forward to the review. Would be interesting if you could throw in a desktop 660Ti/7870 or something as well to serve as a reference. Reply
tipoo - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkThat's what I'm wondering, if some tweaking offset the higher clock speeds, where the power consumption will fall. Reply
huaxshin - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkAnandtech should mention the reason why Nvidia manage to be able to keep the GTX 780M TDP to 100W like the GTX 680M despite having more cores and higher clocks, is because the GTX 780M is running on lower voltage than GTX 680M.
GTX 780M: 0.887V for the highest clocks
GTX 680M: 0.900V for the highest clocks
That is why GTX 680MX have 122W TDP, and GTX 780M does not.
;) Reply
Zandros - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkInteresting, thanks. I'm assuming the clock speeds for the higher performance states for the 780M are wrong in that screenshot? Reply
huaxshin - Saturday, June 01, 2013 - linkYes the 780M states are wrong except P8. GPU Shark didn`t read all the information because we didn`t have the correct vbios :) Reply
Khenglish - Saturday, June 01, 2013 - linkthose voltages are incorrect. 680m will run up to .987V on a default BIOS. It will also run at .9V at times when there is a light workload on reduced clocks.
The .987V is not boost. 680m never had boost implemented. Reply
Khenglish - Saturday, June 01, 2013 - linkUse gpu-z or nvidia inspector to read the clocks and voltages instead. Reply
huaxshin - Sunday, June 02, 2013 - linkAh, after revisiting my data you are indeed correct. I have to check 780M to compare again
0.9870V Reply
huaxshin - Sunday, June 02, 2013 - linkFigured it out.
Idle clock: 0.8370V for both
Boost clock: 0.9870V for 680M and 0.981V for 780M. Reply
Zink - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkThere is an update at the bottom of the article listing that some GPU runs BioShock Infinite at 41.5 fps on your enthusiast settings. Did you purposely leave out what GPU it is because of an NDA? From that score it is probably the GTX 765M or GTX 770M I'm guessing. Reply
junky77 - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkthe 780M - see the address Reply
cmikeh2 - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkWhat address? It sounds like they're referring to the 770m to me... Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkDustin has a GTX 780M in house for review; it's an MSI notebook with Haswell, which we can't talk about just yet.... ;-) Reply
tipoo - Friday, May 31, 2013 - link"700m-series-launched-early-780m-benches-inside"
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whyso - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkCmon AT 660m specs are wrong. Almost every version supports boost which runs at 950/2500. Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkhttp://www.geforce.com/hardware/notebook-gpus/gefo...
All of the GPUs in the GTX family support varying levels of boost, which we have not attempted to list in the table. The 835MHz clock is the base for the GTX 660M; without user overclocking I'd be interested to know who is running GTX 660M at 2.5GHz GDDR5. Anyway, all of the clocks are basically guidelines and NVIDIA works with OEMs on a case by case basis. Reply
Assimilator87 - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkSo the desktop GK104 only comes with 2GB in its stock configuration, but they slap on 4GB for the laptop model!? Reply
Meaker10 - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkYes becuase in nitebooks more vram sells along with them heing higher margin products
770 desktop = 400 dollar, 780m = 650 dollars Reply
nixtish - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkDo you think this will make it into the next gen rMBP ? Reply
shompa - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkNo. Apple have never used a high powered GPU in their laptops. Its not "elegant". They prefer thin and long battery time. (And rMBP really needs a SLI 780. Even at non gaming the 15 inch rMBP is sluggish when you use non native resolution since OSX renders the picture at 4 times the resolution before converting to the non-native resolution. We are talking upwards 8 megapixels for a 1920x1200 resolution)
This is why I beg Alienware to release a Retinal display laptop with SLI. Reply
xinthius - Saturday, June 01, 2013 - linkDo you own a rMBP, because I do, and it is not slugging at non-native resolutions. Fact of the day for you. Reply
CadentOrange - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkIf Haswell's GT3e performance is of a similar level to the nVidia 650m, it's little wonder that nVidia needed to dramatically improve the performance of it's midrange parts. That 660m -> 760m jump should provide a substantial boost. What I'd like to see are the benchmarks between the GT3e and the 750m, as the 750m appears to be the 650m with a minor clock speed bump. Reply
shompa - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkBut at what power is GT3e? I read 65watts. Not to many ultrabooks that can use that. Reply
Flunk - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkThese new Nvidia mobile chips are fantastic, but I can't shake the feeling that Nvidia purposely underclocked their previous generation so that they could release new chips with the same architecture this year. I'm gotten my 650m up to 1150/1400 (GDDR5, bios hack) and it runs quite cool and stable. Reply
Khenglish - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkEven the 680m will overclock well over 30% on stock voltage. The most ridiculous overclocker is the 675mx. The default is 600mhz and people have clocked them over 1100mhz with moderate voltage increases.
What I find interesting is that ES 780ms that people have gotten can clock far higher on the memory than what a 680m can do, even though they have the same memory chips and with the 680m's memory raised up to the 780m's memory voltage. The highest 680m memory I've seen is around 5350 effective, while someone has already ran benchmarks on a 780m over 6000.
http://forum.techinferno.com/alienware-m18x/3596-a... Reply
shompa - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkActually Nvidia was very lucky that their midrange GPU was so fast. Remember that Titan was the real GTX 680. It was released almost one year after its intended release date.
Nvidia didn't "underclock" their previos generation. They even had to fuse of parts since yields where not high enough. With one year time and chip redesign (I think this is the 5 stepping/spin of the GK104) they could enable all clusters + they underwolted a bit + GPU boost 2 to get upwards 30% gains.
If you want to talk about a company that have held back: Intel. Since 2006 they have had no competition. Every single chip for the last 5 years have clocked 4ghz+. Still you cant buy an official 4ghz chip. Why? Intel have no competition.
Nvidia have competition. Thats why they cant hold back (and as I wrote: Nvidia was very lucky with the GK104 that it could clock so high. A mid card chip that could be sold as a 680GTX. GK110 takes almost double die area = cost almost twice for Nvidia to produce. Thats why Titan/GTX 780 are so expensive. This will be solved with the next TSMC shrink to 20 nm) Reply
jasonelmore - Saturday, June 01, 2013 - linkand then nvidia will make a bigger gpu with more cores and do the same thing all over again. 480 was supposed to be 580, titan was supposed to be gtx 680 and so on. Reply
cstring625 - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkIs the table wrong? Earlier it was said that the gtx 780 would use the gk110 http://www.anandtech.com/show/6973/nvidia-geforce-... Reply
cstring625 - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linknevermind... I guess this is the gtx 780m... Reply
huaxshin - Friday, May 31, 2013 - link@JarredWalton:
This makes absolutely no sense at all.
960 cores @ 700MHz
1536 cores @ 849MHz
= 16% more FPS? (41.5FPS/35.6FPS).
Theoretically the GTX 780M should produce 2x as much FPS.
Please go over your test methods before releasing a review that does not tell the truth. The numbers you gave us cannot be correct.
"BioShock Infinite is able to produce 41.5 fps at our enthusiast settings with the GTX 780M, which are 1080p and all the settings dialed up. The outgoing GTX 675MX produced only 35.6 fps, while HD 7970M currently gets 45.3 fps." Reply
huaxshin - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkI forgot to mention that the specs posted is from GTX 675MX and GTX 780M Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkThe GTX numbers are from Dustin while the 7970M numbers come from my testing. However, we're looking at three different laptops so it's possible other factors are at play -- different CPUs for one. Based on GPU bandwidth and compute, the difference should be much larger. I suspect at max settings we're hitting bandwidth harder than compute, so a 2X increase is unlikely, but even then we should see 30-40%. Regardless, Dustin should have the full MSI laptop review early next week. Reply
huaxshin - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkIf you guys don`t share your methods and don`t use the same maps and the same areas while testing, the review is going to be highly skewed in whoever get tested in the least demanding areas, From the FPS numbers you gave us, its pretty clear that that 7970M got the lucky straw.
That you used a 3610QM with 7970M and Haswell (4700MQ) with 780M doesn`t matter at all. So the system difference is a moot point. Look up CPU scaling from Bioshock Infinte and you will see that wether you run @ 3.0GHz or 4.5Ghz they still produce same FPS with the same GPU.
Again, please share your test methods with Dustin and do a proper analysis. Thats all I`m asking. 15% is not remotely accurate with the right testing :) Reply
JarredWalton - Saturday, June 01, 2013 - linkOf course we share our testing methods. I have a full document going over every benchmark and how to run it. Plus, Bioshock has a built-in benchmark, so it's pretty hard to mess that up. Best guess right now: maybe he had old drivers on the 670MX. I know he has a sinus infection and has been busy meeting with several OEMs over the past couple of days, plus trying to write up the MSI review before the NDA. Check back Monday and hopefully all will be made clear. Reply
huaxshin - Saturday, June 01, 2013 - linkThank you for replying Jarred. I like the articles Anandtech make for notebooks, and the community which is pretty big. Previously there wasn`t much reviews to find from the top hardware, but the focus seems to have shifted more towards it.
I have a request for future reviews: You should add overclocking analysis, measure power consumption from the GPU and not the system as whole (that goes for all reviews), GPU heat idle and gaming (especially important).
MSI Afterburner could help you a long way with overclocking plus heat measurements. GPU power however I guess you need some special hardware to measure it which may not be possible to do with a notebook.
Hoping that the review on Monday will be good. Reply


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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
In the olden days, messengers who brought bad tidings risked being killed for their efforts. Times and customs have changed, but this much remains the same: No one likes being the bearer of bad news. Unfortunately, it is becoming more and more necessary these days.

 Profits are falling, salaries and benefits are being cut, projects are being canceled, people are being laid off, plants are being shut down, and businesses are going under. When you're a leader, whether or not you have the title, what can you say? What should you say?

 This much is clear: You cannot not communicate. Refusing to talk about problems won't make them go away. It won't win your people's trust and respect. And it won't reassure them or gain their willingness to take the actions and make the changes that are necessary.

 One way or another, the bad news will get out. The question is not whether but how to communicate it. Follow these guidelines to make a potentially painful experience more positive, both for you and for the people you're addressing.

 1. BE CREDIBLE. Your words and sentiments are only as believable as you are. Make sure your message is consistent with what your audience already knows about your values, actions, and commitments.

 2. CHOOSE THE RIGHT TIME AND PLACE. As a general rule—there are exceptions, of course—you'll want to communicate the bad news as soon as possible. People will feel betrayed if they think you have unnecessarily kept them in the dark. But there is a time and a place for everything, and the time and the place for breaking bad news to people is where and when they feel safest.

 3. TAILOR YOUR MESSAGE TO THE AUDIENCE. In some situations, you'll only have to address one audience—your employees, your department, your team, your clients. But in larger organizations, you may be faced with several audiences—the board of directors, your executive team, stockholders, department heads and managers, the rank and file, the public, the media—and you'll have to create a message that is suited to each audience's particular concerns, roles, and responsibilities.

 4. GIVE PEOPLE AN ADVANCE WARNING. Letting people know the general purpose of the meeting will give them a heads-up and brace them for bad news. In person or by e-mail, simply let people know when and where the meeting is being held and tell them you'll be discussing "recent developments" or "news from the main office." Don't go into details at that time and don't provide false reassurances. It's all right to let people start worrying, as long as you don't keep them on the hook for long.

 5. BE PREPARED. Whenever the news is bad, the stakes are high. And you wouldn't approach any other high-stakes presentation without knowing what you're going to say and how you're going to say it, would you? This is not the time for ad-lib remarks or for shooting from the hip. This is the time for carefully chosen words and a confident delivery.

 6. START WITH THE FACTS. Be truthful and never say anything that you can't substantiate. For all-too-obvious reasons, people today have grown distrustful of leaders in both politics and business. So it's even more imperative for you to lead with integrity. Tell people what they need to know as objectively, fairly, and completely as possible. Do not sugarcoat or downplay the bad news. Pattern yourself after Sergeant Joe Friday: "Just the facts, ma'am." Then, tell people what those facts mean.

 7. BE EMPATHETIC. Acknowledge people's feelings in a compassionate way without turning the event into a therapy session or a sob fest. Avoid telling people you know exactly how they feel or going into too much detail. You might want to say something like, "I know how difficult and painful these changes will be." If appropriate, share your own feelings. Whatever you say, your underlying message needs to be both credible and caring. And then, put your organization's actions behind it.

 8. PROVIDE HOPE. Do not make promises that you may not be able to keep or give assurances about the future that may not hold true. But give people reason to believe that their work has meaning, their contributions have value, and their prospects have potential. Leaders see possibilities when others see only failure, and people need hope now more than ever.

 9. ENCOURAGE ACTION. You have people's attention. (Bad news has a way of making people sit up and take notice.) You've told them what is happening and explained why. You've given them hope. Now set them to work. Tell people exactly what you want them to do, and show them how they will benefit from doing it.

 10. REINFORCE VALUES. Show people how everything your organization is doing to address the situation or to respond to the crisis is in alignment with its values. How your organization acts and how you personally act under pressure tells people more about what you really value than anything else you say. Use this time as a teaching moment.

 11. REPEAT. REPEAT. REPEAT. Don't be like the proverbial husband who told his wife that he loved her on the day they got married and hasn't told her again because he said it once and, darn it, she should know. At best, people only hear part of any speech, rarely the whole of it. This is especially true when they are steeling themselves for what they fear is coming. So you have to say it again and again and again. Once you've spoken face-to-face to everyone involved, schedule follow-up meetings. Make yourself available to talk in a variety of settings.

 No one wants to be the bearer of bad news, but leaders do it without flinching because they know it needs to be done. They know it is in the best interests of the people they serve. And that's the hallmark of a real leader, isn't it?

 As an executive speech coach with more than 25 years of professional speaking experience, Chris Witt is author of Real Leaders Don't Do PowerPoint and founder of Witt Communications LLC. He helps CEOs gain board approval and company-wide support for initiatives, empowers newly promoted managers, helps technical experts win multimillion-dollar contracts, and enables entrepreneurs to grow their businesses through the power of effective speaking and presenting. For more information about his services, call 619-295-8411 or visit www.wittcom.com.

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text: Lexus Unleashing Pulse-Racing Performance Vehicles January 31, 2014 09:00 AM RC F Performance Coupe to Take Windy City by Storm With More Than 450 Horsepower RC Coupe Features Muscular Stance and Striking Interior LFA Nürburgring Edition Sports Fixed Rear Wing and Larger Front Spoiler for Improved Stability Enthusiasts visiting the Lexus exhibit at the 2014 Chicago Auto Show are sure to get an adrenaline rush when they see the exciting and aggressive performance coupes on display. At center stage is the RC F – a low-slung, athletic coupe that was designed to support the most powerful V8 performance car ever developed by Lexus. The RC F recently made its global debut at the North American International Auto Show. This coupe will produce more than 450 horsepower and has the most aggressive use yet of the brand's iconic spindle grille. "The Lexus RC F was one of the most talked about reveals in Detroit," said Joe Howard, Lexus Auto Shows and Dealer Events Manager. "Large crowds gravitated to the vehicle because of its aggressive styling and brilliant blue color. We look forward to seeing the public reaction in Chicago." Visitors anxious to see the RC F in action can step up to a special track driving simulator, featuring assorted gauges and meters. By stepping on the simulator's platform, guests can push the start button and hear the RC F roar around a virtual track. The platform vibrates in conjunction with the video experience, while combination meters, such as the digital speedometer and tachometer, appear simultaneously to mirror the car's instrument panel display. Akin to the RC F, the RC 350 will also be coming to McCormick Place. The striking and aggressively styled RC 350 coupe features a 3.5-liter, V6 engine teamed with an eight-speed sequential transmission. Inside, the RC 350 features an elegant cabin and available navigation screen with Remote Touch interface. Also within its exhibit, Lexus will show off its F SPORT accessorized vehicles and components, as well as a heavily-customized Lexus IS, as seen at the 2013 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show in Las Vegas. These vehicles will be flanked by the distinctive LFA Nürburgring Edition supercar. Considered one of the finest performance cars in history, the LFA Nürburgring Edition is powered by a V10, 562-horsepower engine. A rear fixed wing and larger front spoiler are unique to this special edition and help improve high-speed down force. The 20,100-square-foot Lexus exhibit will also feature a lineup of award-winning sedans and luxury utility vehicles, as well as a number of hybrid vehicles. Lexus has the distinction of offering more hybrids than any other manufacturer in the luxury segment. Social media-savvy Chicagoans will also enjoy Lexus' "light room," where they'll be able take a special Lexus-branded photograph and post it to their Facebook, Twitter or Instagram accounts. Back to News


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DIOR ADDICT PLASTIC GLOSSI love this gloss! I got into the nude look for so long, I needed a gloss w/ color, especially with my plum shadows that I got back into. I picked up this color because it is the only gloss in from Dior that gave my pigmented lips color. I love all the Addict Plastic glosses and the Lip Fuids as well. They just give so much color! This particular color is a nice rosy beige. The color payoff is won...read morederful in any kind of lighting and shows up so well in photographs. I love this color! Looks great with any color clothing or with neutral, brown, plum eyeshadows. It is such an everyday color as well. This takes forever to come off my lips. I use this for events I go to because it looks great in photos and it is hard to wear off while talking and sipping. I love this for everyday as well, but I blot it down and it just looks like my lips. They make my lips so full! Love it! I am slightly embarrassed to admit that I was compelled to try this product after I read Jessica Alba couldn't live without it. I generally gravitiate towards neutral gloss so I picked this color. In the tube, it looks like a brownish rose w/ some shimmer (not exactly beige as the name implies). It is slighly more pigmented and less glossy than most of the lipglosses I own. The effect is still natural but I want to say it is somewhere between a lipgloss and a lipstick. It isn't sticky or tacky and it lasts a while. The one thing I dislike about this gloss is the fact that it tastes gross, like old Revlon lipstick(flowery perfume taste). I saw this on Hilary Duff in Cosmo and decided to give it a try. the word "plastic" kind of worried me, like this gloss would seal onto my lips and give it a vinyl-ish look, but it actually looks like a gloss should, just has great staying power. the color is beautiful and I don't see any orange either. I am extremely pale and this shows up as a dark nude on my lips, and can easily be toned down if I want something lighter. Overall, a great lipgloss I wouldn't mind wearing almost every day — 5 years, 4 months agomihshelle | 182 reviews
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Stand out color!I love this gloss, the colors are WOW! Too pricey any more unless you can find at a bargin online site! It LASTS! — 9 years, 6 months agothedragonslady | 483 reviews
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The best gloss money can buyI've been using this gloss for many years. I love the formula. Unlike other high end glosses, this gloss is more pigmented and creamier, lasts longer, while somehow still maintaining a slick shine. I've owned this product through numerous packaging changes (which are all decadent and beautiful) and still have my first tube! Yes, with product still in it! Amazing stuff. If you like a fuller coverage gloss, this is the ONE. — 4 years, 3 months agomacsmomma | 7 reviews
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SMWC students provide free tax assistance
January 27th, 2014 | SMWC
Deductions, exemptions, credits, contributions – tax season is upon us, and these words have a way of making the best of us feel inferior, especially if the only time you think about taxes is when it's time to file. For those who need assistance with tax returns, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (SMWC) College provides the services of trained volunteers to those who qualify.
For the sixth year, SMWC participates in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program to help low- to moderate-income (generally, $52,000 and below) people who cannot prepare their own tax returns. Through VITA, which is a national program, certified volunteers sponsored by various organizations receive training to help prepare basic tax returns in communities across the country.
At SMWC, eight students received extensive training to assist citizens and residents with their federal and state income tax returns. These business majors must successfully complete a 15-20 hour advanced certification test. During the last tax season, students prepared 175 tax returns.
"The VITA Program provides our students with practical tax experience outside the classroom," said Jamie McCracken, SMWC assistant professor of business and co-coordinator of SMWC's VITA services. "VITA is a perfect way for students to receive real life experience while helping the community."
The SMWC VITA site will offer free electronic filing (e-filing) and, according to the website www.IRS.gov, "Individuals taking advantage of the e-file program will receive their refunds in half the time compared to returns filed on paper – even faster if you have your refund deposited directly into your bank account."
- Those who wish to have tax returns prepared at a VITA site must bring:
- Proof of identification – Picture ID
- Social Security Cards for you, your spouse and dependents or a Social Security Number verification letter issued by the Social Security Administration or
- Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) assignment letter for you, your spouse and dependents
- Proof of foreign status, if applying for an ITIN
- Birth dates for you, your spouse and dependents on the tax return
- Wage and earning statement(s) Form W-2, W-2G, 1099-R, 1099-Misc from all employers
- Interest and dividend statements from banks (Forms 1099)
- A copy of last year's federal and state returns if available
- Proof of bank account routing numbers and account numbers for Direct Deposit, such as a blank check
- Total paid for daycare provider and the daycare provider's tax identifying number (the provider's Social Security Number or the provider's business Employer Identification Number) if appropriate
To file taxes electronically on a married-filing-joint tax return, both spouses must be present to sign the required forms.
The VITA site is on the second floor of Hulman Hall, room 213, on SMWC campus. VITA services will be provided at SMWC on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. beginning February 4, 2014, and lasting through April 15, 2014.
If you have a simple return and the entire information ready, it may be dropped off at the tax site in Hulman Hall, room 213, during the open hours of the site, as well as Mondays and Fridays from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. The completion of additional forms is required. Please provide a valid phone number with your information.
To reserve an appointment with SMWC's VITA site to file your e-file or paper return, call 812-535-5223. For directions, visit http://www.smwc.edu/about/campus-map.
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BURNLEY'S revamped railway station is taking shape ahead of an anticipated March handover.
The iconic blue fin on the Yorkshire-bound platform of the Manchester Road hub is now in place and contracts have recently been handed out by the borough council for trackside work around the station complex.
Work on reinstating the Todmorden Curve – the 500-yard link to enable new services to Manchester -– should be finished after signalling work is completed later this month.
And campaigning is continuing to ensure the promised new city-bound service will be operational as soon as possible, with no rolling stock currently available. Hopes are currently pinned on trains being released when work on the electrification of the Manchester to Liverpool line is completed in December.


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Pre-Owned Chanel Timepiece crafted in white ceramic and stainless steel. Designed with a white dial, this timepiece features diamond hour indicators, a date window, and a center seconds hand all surrounded by a white, ceramic and stainless steel, round rotary bezel with silver baton and Arabic numeral hour indicators. The 33mm case rests on a three row, white ceramic bracelet and is secured with a center folding clasp.
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Keep in touch with your classmates on EMU alumni social networking groups:
Congratulations Graduates!
Soon you will join our alumni association, comprised of over 19,500 of our alumni around the world who have benefited from an EMU education.
Throughout your years here, you have been challenged in mind, nurtured in spirit, and given skills to go forth and share your knowledge and gifts with the broader world. BUT, before that happens, you will need to graduate!
This page is a resource to you in which you'll find information useful to you through the academic year, ranging from grad requirements to class gift, from senior banquet to grad photos!
After you graduate, we will want to continue to stay in touch with you so please make sure the university has your correct address every time you move. This ensures that important correspondence from EMU gets to you in a timely manner and also helps us help your friends get in touch with you. You may do so by updating your information with us using our alumni update form, or emailing us at or calling (540) 432-4294.
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A shirt made for every occasion, Ariat's Ryle Snap Plaid Western Shirt is ideal for every occasion. The polyester cotton blend, plaid print, and pearl snap buttons give this shirt a classic stylish western look. Loaded with advanced technology, this shirt does more than look good—it's perfect for work. The SPF fabric is treated with a UV protective finish that prevents harmful UV rays from penetrating through fabric. The Performance fit has greater arm mobility with an extended inseam construction that improves the range of motion in the arm and longer shirt tails to keep your shirt tucked in. This shirt is also equipped with moisture movement technology that boosts natural cooling process by drawing heat and moisture away from the body for quick evaporation. This unique fabric will keep you cool and dry during strenuous activity.
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About one fourth of all people with lung cancer have no symptoms when the cancer is diagnosed. These cancers are usually identified incidentally when a chest X-ray is performed for another reason. The other three-fourths of people develop some symptoms. The symptoms are due to direct effects of the primary tumor; to effects of cancer spread to other parts of the body (metastases); or to disturbances of hormones, blood, or other systems.
Symptoms of lung cancer include cough, coughing up blood or rusty-colored phlegm, fatigue, unexplained weight loss, recurrent respiratory infections, hoarseness, new wheezing, and shortness of breath.
- A new cough in a smoker or a former smoker should raise concern for lung cancer.
- A cough that does not go away or gets worse over time should be evaluated by a health care provider.
- Coughing up blood (hemoptysis) occurs in a significant number of people who have lung cancer. Any amount of coughed-up blood should be evaluated by a health care provider.
- Pain in the chest area is a symptom in about one fourth of people with lung cancer. The pain is dull, aching, and persistent.
- Shortness of breath usually results from a blockage in part of the lung, collection of fluid around the lung (pleural effusion), or the spread of tumor through the lungs.
- Wheezing or hoarseness may signal blockage or inflammation in the lungs that may go along with cancer.
- Repeated respiratory infections, such as bronchitis or pneumonia, can be a sign of lung cancer.