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NVIDIA today launches its newest mainstream part, the GeForce 8800 GT
NVIDIA today is set to launch its newest midrange graphics card part, the GeForce 8800 GT,
previously known by its codename G92
. NVIDIA guidance states that its newest graphics card will be sold at a retail price in the $199 and $249 price range.
Development around the G92 processor revolved around reducing the thermal and power draw on the GeForce 8800 GTX (G80) processor. G80 was manufactured on TSMC's 90nm process node while the G92 is manufactured on TSMC's 65nm node. This shrink allows a single 8800 GT to operate on a 105 Watt draw, almost 80 Watts less than the 8800 GTX during heavy operation.
Top-to-bottom, the GeForce 8800 GT fits snugly between NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB, which NVIDIA sets at a retail price of $349, and NVIDIA's GeForce 8600 GTS, which is sold for $149.
The GeForce 8800 GT sports a 100 MHz speed bump over the 8800 GTS, and comes factory clocked at 600 MHz. The 600 MHz clock speed of the 8800 GT is actually 25 MHz higher than the 8800 GTX's default GPU clock, which is set at 575 MHz. The 8800 GT's clock speed also comes within striking distance of the GeForce 8800 Ultra's 612 MHz GPU clock speed.
The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT features 112 stream processors, 16 fewer than the 128 stream processors found on the ultra high-end 8800 GTX and 16 more than the 96 stream processors found on NVIDIA's 8800 GTS.
The stream processors of the 8800 GT come clocked at 1500 MHz, the same speed as the stream processors of the GeForce 8800 Ultra. Comparatively, the GeForce 8800 GTX comes with its stream processors clocked at 1350 MHz while the 8800 GTS' stream processors are clocked at 1200 MHz.
The GeForce 8800 GT features up to 1024MB of GDDR3 memory, which is based on a 256-bit memory interface. According to NVIDIA, total memory bandwidth rings in at 57.6 GBps, and the texture fill rate is 33.6 billion/second. Naturally, the two preceding figures are only theoretical values; actual values are bound to be quite different.
The GDDR3 memory of the GeForce 8800 GT comes clocked at 900 MHz -- equal to the memory frequency of the GeForce 8800 GTX. However, the 8800 GT falls short of the 8800 Ultra's memory speed, which is 1080 MHz (2160 MHz effective).
NVIDIA guidance states that the GeForce 8800 GT supports the new PCIe 2.0 bus standard. The
PCI-Express Special Interest Group claims
that the new bus standard yield improvements in bandwidth.
High-definition video fans will be glad to hear that the GeForce 8800 GT comes integrated with support for NVIDIA's 2nd generation PureVideo HD engine, which allows for H.264 video decoding to be offloaded from the processor and on to the video card. HDCP support is also present on all reference designs.
NVIDIA guidance promises a hard launch with its GeForce 8800 GT cards, however, so far only Gigabyte, Palit and Zotac have 8800 GT-based offerings. Newegg independently confirmed with
that the card will be available online after the 6AM embargo lift.
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Celebrity in Professional Marketing
How to painlessly inject Star Power into your business
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"Confessions of a Media Extremist could be an alternative title for this collection of actual strategies and critiques of others who have used celebrities for promotion/causes/charity. If you are a business person or professional that wants to learn the magic combination that can help you rise above the average competitor and get noticed you must buy this book and soak in the ideas drizzled throughout this book. If you need proof that it works just check out all the press the author has attracted- Time Magazine, Jay Thomas SIRIUS Radio, Anderson Cooper, Bill O'Reilly, BBC, TV and film...it's almost hard to believe."
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The Chisago County Sheriff's Office along with Lakes Area Police Department, North Branch Police Department and Wyoming Police Department ticketed 61 motorists traveling at illegal and unsafe speeds during a stepped-up speed enforcement week, Nov. 5-9. The campaign was coordinated by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Office of Traffic Safety.
Unsafe and illegal speed is the most commonly reported contributing factor in fatal crashes. During 2009-2011, speed was a contributing factor in three fatalities in Chisago County and 254 traffic deaths statewide.
In Chisago County, if a motorist is cited for traveling up to 10 mph over the speed limit, the fine is $120. Motorists stopped at 20 mph over the speed limit face a $220 fine, and those ticketed for traveling more than 100 mph can lose their license for six months.
"When we increase our speeds behind the wheel, we increase our chances of crashing," Chisago County Sheriff Duncan said. "This campaign was about educating motorists that speeding is a dangerous and potentially deadly habit."
Chisago County law enforcement agencies are conducting "speed weeks" – extra speed enforcement and education efforts – through Sept. 30, 2013, as part of the Department of Public Safety Office of Traffic Safety Toward Zero Deaths traffic safety initiative. A primary vision of the TZD program is to create a safe driving culture in Minnesota in which motorists support a goal of zero road fatalities by practicing and promoting safe and smart driving behavior. TZD focuses on the application of four strategic areas to reduce crashes – education, enforcement, engineering and emergency trauma response.


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- Mix the spices, herbs and 1 tablespoon each of salt and pepper with 1 1/2 cups of the oil. In a very large bowl, combine the mushrooms, fennel, red peppers, eggplant, asparagus and whole scallions and gently toss with most of the seasoned oil. Brush the onion slabs with the remaining seasoned oil.
- Light a grill and oil the grate. Working in batches, grill the vegetables over moderately high heat, turning, until tender and charred, 10 minutes per batch. Arrange the vegetables on a platter and keep warm.
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In various ways we are reminded of the truth that despite our different-ness and differences, we are gifts to one another. This day is remembered for the violence and the terror unleashed against unsuspecting and innocent civilians in the USA, but also after that, in Iraq and Afghanistan. We remember the shock and horror as hatred played itself out in front of us. In many instances (too many to mention!) the hatred was justified in the name of religion.
We as religious people often find justification for the hatred we mete out against people who are different from us. We become sophisticated in the ways we exclude those others who come and interrupt our comfort. If anything, the memory of 9/11 and of the so-called 'War on Terror' interrupts these comforts and remind us that we need to consciously build bridges. Unless we consciously build bridges and work against exclusion, we will remain in the vicious cycle, where another volcano bubbling under the surface, may explode any-time. I might sound like a prophet of doom. I am not. What I am (or better, want to be) is some-one who consciously add my effort to build bridges, between people. The healing of memories is critical in order to be able to find in the person on the other side of the fence, a sister or a brother. Hence, I am not one of those who want us to believe that we should forget the history and simply move on. We cannot. The myths of the past will haunt us and the empires that are built on those foundations of sand, will collapse, sooner or later. In building bridges, we start to build our future, based on a new foundation, i.e. the relationships that hold us together. This we do with the view of building a home for all.
It is indeed the message of most religions that its in dreaming of a new world of brother and sisterhood that we find sense on our present struggles. In my faith tradition, we believe that Jesus Christ came to restore not only our relationship with God, but also, that through him, we are reconciled to one another and this good news is embodied in a new alternative household. This is a household, which challenge and transgress worldly borders and separations. It is in living in this new home, that we become a gift to the world.
Of course, for most of our history, we as faith communities have not been this gift to the world. We have supported and sustained exclusion; we have sowed seeds which bear bitter fruit. Today, perhaps we can only pray, God have mercy on us to help building bridges, towards a household for all.
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Fresh, light, and perfect for a summer barbecue. This salsa is fairly mild, but you can easily add more or hotter peppers to kick it up. Cooking time is refrigeration time.
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We really liked this recipe, so fresh-tasting! I used canned jalepenos instead of fresh because that is what I had on hand, and added a little salt to help the flavors pop. Thanks, Jester's Lace, for a very nice salsa recipe. Posted for 2013 Pick A Chef.
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Oct. 28, 2010 -- Glass flakes have led to the recall of Sandoz and Parenta brand injectable methotrexate, a drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, and psoriasis.
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As someone who was part Indian, part English, what is known as "Indian-English," Jillian Haslam and her family endured a hard life while living in India. The family was very poor, and Jillian had siblings who died in infancy either because of malnutrition or because of disease. Her young sister, Vanessa, is dear to Jillian's heart, and the two of them struggle together to help the family. But it's not starvation or having money to pay rent the family needs to worry about, but the terrible racism they must endure by many native Indian men.
Indian.English. is Jillian's memoir of what it was like to grow up an Indian-English girl in India. She is treated very harshly because of the color of her skin, but she also must endure extreme hunger and unsanitary living conditions because her parents cannot afford to buy food or rent a home. For the longest time, she, Vanessa and her mother live under a flight of stairs outside of a building while her father recovers from a heart attack in hospital. Her mother is beaten by the cruel women renting them the space under the stairs, and when Jillian and Vanessa are sent to live with a woman, she, too, hurts the children.
For a good portion of Jillian's early life, it is one struggle after another. She and her sister learn to "keep house" while her parents are away working, and Jillian is even kept out of school so she can help take care of siblings or the home She and Vanessa endure terrible things in order to get food or medical help for the family, and the children struggle to survive from one day to the next with empty bellies and very little to keep them warm. As she grows older, Jillian is often molested and touched by men who consider Indian-English girls to be trashy. I was appalled that so many men openly violated her and saddened by how she was powerless to fight back.
I found it difficult to read about Jillian's early life because of all the abuse, racism and starvation she and her family endured. But I was very moved by how the whole family had such a strong connection to each other through all the struggles they faced. The mother tried to protect her children and put them somewhere safe, even going without food so that her children could eat, and the father was a source of wisdom, guidance and strength. Indeed, Jillian's father is her rock through these turbulent storms, and her mother a source of inspiration. The family is so close and they know that despite everything they go through, they still love and appreciate each other. All they have is each other, really.
As Jillian grows older and begins the journey of trying to make a better life for herself and her siblings, she finds that even after she leaves India, her heart is still there. She talks about how grateful she is to the people who did help them, giving them diluted milk or a piece of bread. She remembers all of the poor people in India struggling to survive just as she once did. And her memories of hardship are turned into reminders of the good lessons she learned from them and how far she truly came in life. I was moved by the fact that she even revisited the flight of stairs she once lived under as a child. The place was filthy, with cockroaches and rats, and it seemed like a place better left forgotten about. But Jillian cannot, will not, forget. And even better is that she is strong enough to be able to look back on all that she survived in her life and not let it break her.
This story of how one woman rose from the depths of poverty and racism in India was a true inspiration to read. I applaud how Jillian has survived so much and feel grateful that such a strong, inspirational and beautiful soul is taking the bad she was dealt in life and turning it into something good.
Indian. English. is Jillian Haslam's memoir of growing up an English girl in post-colonial India. Her harrowing yet ultimately redemptive story of living in the dark squalid by-lanes of Calcutta, abused and misunderstood by many, recalls the darkest moments of Angela's Ashes and the inner turmoil of The Glass Castle.
For every atrocity described in Indian. English., however, there is found a parallel kindness - a sacrifice, really - on the part of the poorest of the poor, who helped her family to survive. One cannot overlook those small, seemingly insignificant and mundane acts of human kindness. Within these humble people thrive a grace beyond description that literally saves lives every hour of every day.
Such was the case with Jillian and her family, which suffered through the death of children, abject starvation, trauma and humiliation.
In vivid detail, the author recounts how she learned to look for the positives embedded in the numerous challenges encountered on her path; and how to overcome adversity to be successful. The rich story of her life, of finding the road to success, and how she utilizes her wisdom and vision to help others through her foundation, vividly illustrates how and why Jillian Haslam inspires everyone she meets.


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Lucid Dreaming
Do you remember all the hype around Virtual Reality about 10 years ago?
If you believed what the experts were saying back then, we would be spending our time today exploring alternative worlds and having a lot of fun with adventures as special agents, powerful warriors or even superheroes … all as if we were really living the experience right there and then.
Sadly, technology has not gotten quite there yet … but some exciting prototypes are being tested as I write this (Dec, 2016.) However, there are people who enjoy adventures in virtual reality one, two or more times per week, and without fancy technology. These fortunate few have learned to harness the power of lucid dreaming.
Unlike usual dreams which can be hazy, strange and frequently forgotten as soon as you wake up, lucid dreams are very different and quite special because when you dream in this fashion you are actually awake inside your dream!
In other words, imagine this: You are warm in your bed and start dreaming. Only you know you're dreaming, yet the things you are dreaming about are 'out of the ordinary.' Nevertheless, the world around you seems as 'real' as the one you're in now, as you are reading this article. Exciting, uh?! But you might be asking…
Why Would I Want to Learn Lucid Dreaming?
A sleeping person who is dreaming lucidly knows that he(she) is awake inside the dream and can even remember the dream, totally or partially after he awakens. The amazing thing is that those who have developed this amazing ability are able to control or redirect the outcomes of their dreams. This could be compared to plotting a sci-fi movie in which you get to decide what you do (how about flying like Superman?) and how the story ends.
Now, think about it… This is HUGE because you can manipulate your dream to your liking and experience the dream 'as if' it was a reality which helps you modify limiting beliefs, handle fears, achieve seemingly impossible things, and reprogram your subconscious mind to succeed at anything you want!
Imagine the possibilities!
Let's say that you had fear of heights and that you have trained yourself to lucid dream. You go to sleep and through a series of prompts, you begin to dream lucidly.
This means that you are awake within your dream. Then, you purposefully picture yourself climbing a ladder in total confidence. You can add as many details as you want and see yourself totally confident, fearless, courageous, and enjoying the experience. Since your subconscious mind doesn't know the difference between yes and no and can't discern reality from fantasy, you will be living and feeling the experience as if you were actually there.
Think about it… you can use lucid dreaming as a self-development technique to achieve goals, enhance your self-growth and become the person you want to be, easier, faster, and having fun… almost effortlessly!
Types of Lucid Dreaming
There are two ways with which lucid dreaming begins. The first one is called the dream-initiated lucid dream. It refers to a person who is asleep, starts dreaming and then begins to be conscious of the fact that he is dreaming while being able to remain asleep. The second one is called the wake-initiated lucid dream. In this one the person is still fully awake yet falls into a state of dream and can 'live' the experiences as if they were real as well.
How To Lucid Dream
The good news is that everyone can develop the ability to dream in this fashion. There are simple methods and techniques to develop the ability to lucid dreaming which have been proven to be effective and safe for many people. To start, all you need to do is believe that you will be able to achieve the goal of gaining this ability, and you will.
Here are some points to learn and follow:
- Practice Reality Checks
If you are in a state of disbelief about something that you consider out of the ordinary or abnormal, check it out against something that is real. That's how you'll know you are dreaming. For instance, grab a pencil with your right hand right now and try to pierce the palm of your left hand with it. You will feel pressure and if you do it long enough, you will feel pain. This will indicate that you are awake. If you were dreaming, you'd be able to pierce the palm of your left hand and see the pencil going straight through, with no resistance, blood or pain.
The practice of reality checks while awake will eventually leak into your dreams and will become the signal that let's you know you are actually asleep. When this becomes habitual, you will start to dream about this and soon conclude that indeed you are dreaming. Make it a habit to practice reality checks like these while you go about your day.
- Write Your Dreams in a Journal
As soon as you are awake, recall your dream and write it down with precision; such as place, people, events, facts, and what exactly happened; write down as much details as you remember. Don't wait long as significant points become blurry soon after awakening.
When you keep a dream journal, you will soon discover that there are common dream patterns or details that are present in your dreams.
This will help you first identify if the dream is lucid, and then it will help you fall into this kind of dream on purpose and more often.
- Concentrate on Dreaming Lucidly
Before falling asleep, focus your attention and concentration on having a lucid dream. Soak your mind deeply in the subject by reading, learning, and thinking about it as much as possible. Talk about this interest of yours with others and make it a subject of curiosity and exploration so it becomes a frequent instance in your mind.
- Establish Your Own Sleeping Schedule
Lucid dreaming can be induced by establishing a sleeping time and pattern, because as with any habit, the more you do it the more predictable it becomes. So plan to determine the best time for you to go to sleep and stick to it to train your mind to fall asleep at a certain time and follow patterns with ease in this manner.
- Create a Personal Reminder
A personal reminder can be a small object to help you confirm that you are awake after having had a lucid dream. It will be your clue to determine whether you are indeed awake or not. When you see and feel this object in your hand, it creates a signal that prompts you to realize that you are indeed awake.
Here's an example of this…
If you watched the mind-bending movie "Inception" by acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan and leading actor Leonardo DiCaprio playing the character of Cobb, you'll recall that at the end of the movie the viewer is left to make his/her own conclusions based on perception and interpretation of what happens to the spinning top.
Was Cobb still dreaming when he went back to his children or was the spinning top about to fall over and confirm the scene was an awaken reality? The top was the signal (personal reminder) that Cobb used throughout the movie to determine whether he was awake or dreaming because no top will spin indefinitely, unless it is in a dream.
- Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreaming (MILD) Technique
This technique was introduced by Stephen Laberge, a psycho-physiologist and leader in the scientific study of lucid dreaming, and founder of "The Lucidity Institute." The technique allows you to recall your dream in as much detail as possible and becoming conscious that you are dreaming by repetitively telling yourself that you are dreaming.
Of course, these are a few basic principles of this practice. To become very good at lucid dreaming, more learning, understanding and practice are needed. Experts can do this effectively and at will, and the benefits are only limited to one's imagination. Just think about this… anything is possible when you are dreaming, and the subconscious mind does not differentiate between fact or fiction… what would your plan be if you were to dream lucidly tonight?
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Glory moved above Dringhouses with their convincing away win, but they are 14 points adrift of leaders Dunnington and three points shy of second-placed Wigginton Grasshoppers having played three games more.
Alex Yates netted a hat-trick for Glory and Mark Fisher also got on the scoresheet, while Adam Fisher turned in a man-of-the-match display.
Christopher Coxon was Selby's scorer, while Matthew Muscroft was their top performer.
The remaining premier division games were postponed due to waterlogged pitches.
Church Fenton White Horse are playing catch-up in division one – and they were grateful for a game as they beat Amotherby & Swinton 4-2 on Malton Community Sports Centre's artificial pitch.
White Horse have only played six league games this season, and they are 14 points behind leaders Aviva with six games in hand.
Pocklington Town are sixth after beating visitors Haxby United 3-1, while Tockwith picked up their third win of the campaign, beating hosts Total Sports United 3-0.
Joe Vale netted four goals as basement side Wilberfoss held fifth-placed Hemingbrough to a 5-5 draw.
Robin Walker was also on target for visiting Wilberfoss.
Struggling Crayke and Huby United played out a 2-2 draw in division three, while Melbourne were 5-1 winners over lowly Moor Lane in division four.
Unbeaten reserve 'C' leaders Malton & Norton were 5-2 home winners over Thorpe United, while Stamford Bridge won 4-1 at Tockwith.
Meanwhile, Tadcaster Magnets Reserves beat visitors Crayke Reserves 2-0 in round four of the York FA Saturday Junior Cup.
The tie between Dunnington Reserves and Tadcaster Magnets' first-team was postponed and has been rearranged for Saturday, January 12.
Osbaldwick and Strensall were also thwarted by the weather and their fixture has been relisted for this Saturday.
Yesterday's York FA Junior Minor (Under-13s) Cup round three game between York Cubs and Copmanthorpe was also postponed. The tie will now be played on Sunday.


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How Does Martial Arts Help With Bullying?
With back-to-school season in full swing, we can't help but talk about bullying once again. However, today we're taking a different approach and integrating martial arts into the discussion. Learn more about how practicing this sport at a young age can help children with bullying below:
- It can help them be prepared: In some martial arts classes, children may have the opportunity to roleplay in different scenarios. A popular one? Confrontation! By having the chance to practice responding to confrontation, kids can develop the skills and confidence needed to respond to bullies.
- It can help them with body language? When it comes to dealing with a bully, children must be able to show that they are confident without necessarily using their words. In martial arts classes, children can learn how to present themselves in a way that shows they are not afraid and ready to defend themselves.
- It can help them improve communication: Once children are comfortable with using body language to communicate with bullies, it's time for them to work on their verbal skills. When children possess the ability to speak clearly and confidently, it can be much easier for them to prevent a situation from becoming physical in martial arts class, children will also learn how to effectively communicate in this way.
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After an exhaustive search, Canadian actress/writer Stacey McGunnigle has been cast in the title role of NBC's pilot Ellen More Or Less, written/exec produced by JJ Philbin, directed by Peyton Reed and exec produced by Jason Katims and Michelle Lee. The single-camera comedy, from Universal TV and Katims' True Jack Prods., centers on Ellen (McGunnigle), an average-size woman who, after losing 100 pounds, begins reinventing herself in life and love. This marks the US TV debut of McGunnigle, making her one of the discoveries of this pilot season. She landed the role after wowing NBC brass with her screen test, possibly aided by the fact that Ellen mirrors her real-life story of a "former fat girl." McGunnigle, who has only a couple of screen credits in her native Canada, is a member of Toronto's famous Second City comedy troupe and is probably best known for her online video series Stacey Helps and her contributor posts on the female-centric site HelloGiggles. She is with ICM Partners and Principato-Young.
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Who was the Casting Director on the pilot?
Good on NBC for taking a chance on a fresh face. So sick of seeing the same ten faces in pilots every year. This script is one of the highlights of the comedies this season….even more excited to watch now
Just watched a bunch of her "Stacey Helps" videos. She seems kinda charming, but I don't see how she's possibly going to carry a pilot. That's just asking a lot. Good luck to her though.
Fact Checker – Like all pilots in the internet age, IMDB was the casting director on this pilot.
Stacey is amazing! congrats to her!
Congratulations! Saw Stacey last year at Second City. She was so funny:)Great to see Canadian talent being discovered.
would love to know when the agent and manager came on board! Neither office would ordinarily work with someone this "green" – did they just get her after she booked this?


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STEP 7: Sample File and Your Thesis
sample3 is a sample file prepared using the iitthesis_class style file. It is recommended that you run this sample file in LaTeX and see the dvi or pdf output files that are generated in the same folder. Note that the style file should be in the same folder as your tex file (sample3) to avoid compile errors. The font files (font12, font11) should also be in that folder.
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Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?
Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?
William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1
Members of the Utah Legislature this session have spent a great deal of their time, and a fair amount of your money, trying to call spirits from the deep. Or, perhaps to banish them back to the depths of Washington, D.C., whence, to hear some of our elected officials talk, most evil spirits come.
It all amounts to a giant waste of the body's precious time. It is a nasty habit that needlessly frightens some and dishonestly raises hopes among those few who truly think that seizing millions of acres of federal land, opting out of Medicare or sheltering Utah children from a set of national education standards are either possible or a good idea.
In terms of pure grandiose hubris, a package of bills and resolutions that seek to evict the United States of America from the 30 million or so acres of land it owns inside the borders of Utah has to take the cake.
A twisted reading of the 1894 federal law that led the Utah Territory to become a state has encouraged the Legislature, egged on by Republicans running for governor and for attorney general, to not only pass those measures, but to also earmark a few million dollars to fruitlessly pursue the matter in federal court if Congress does not capitulate by 2014.
As if there were any reason to believe that Democratic congressmen from New York (who much play up their environmentalist credentials), or Republicans from South Carolina (who want to prove they aren't totally nuts) would give in to such a demand. And as if there were a chance that any federal court would force the transfer.
Another of the year's "message bills" is a misbegotten plan to remove the state from the clutches of Medicaid and Medicare, on the actuarially unsound premise that the health care plans for the poor and for the elderly could be better managed by a state that barely funds its schools.
A third message bill seems to have served its purpose by becoming a formal message. That's the letter from State Education Superintendent Larry Shumway putting the federal government on notice that the multi-state Common Core academic standards are an option for Utah to accept, amend or abandon as it suits the state. Which is sort of like a letter to water telling it that it has to be wet.
Message to Utah voters: Your lawmakers have waaaay too much time on their hands.


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"I had spent three nights at hot springs near the center of the peninsula," Yasunari Kawabata wrote in his short novel "The Izu Dancer," published in 1925. "And now, my fourth day out of Tokyo, I was climbing toward Amagi Pass and South Izu."
In Kawabata's story, a high school student on a walking tour of the peninsula is captivated by a young dancer he espies among the members of a traveling troupe. The boy follows the dancer and her companions through the Amagi Tunnel until they reach Yugano Spa.
Without referring to the spot by name, the writer describes the approach to Fukudaya Inn in the Amagi Pass in a passage that holds true even today: "We climbed down over the rocks and stone steps 100 yards or so from the road," he says. "There was a public hot spring on the riverbed and just beyond it a bridge led to the garden of the inn." The narrator, it seems, was able to catch glimpses of geisha bathing in the public bath he describes.
The inn and the baths, looking as worn and rustic as in Kawabata's day, face each other across the river. It was at Fukudaya, in a modest, second-floor tatami room overlooking the Kawazu river, that the author wrote his story, and his affection for the place was such that he often returned over the years to work on other projects.
Visitors prepared to pay the small surcharge can stay in the author's two-room quarters. There is even a small museum of memorabilia, where the Nobel laureate's personal effects are displayed. These include examples of hanging scrolls of calligraphy in the author's spidery but vigorous hand. There are also stills from the many films inspired by "The Izu Dancer" and comments from the movie crews, who seem not only to have shot on location here, but to have stayed at the inn itself — drawn, no doubt, by its atmosphere. Even the old, square-shaped kaya (Japanese nutmeg) bathtub that Kawabata soaked in is still there, carefully drained and brushed each night as it has been ever since the dawn of the Meiji Era in 1868. Other writers, such as the late Osamu Dazai, as well as contemporary writers like Tomomi Muramatsu, have also stayed at the inn.
Although an early work, Kawabata's semi-autobiographical story supports a lucrative microtourism industry, its influence evident even in the name of the Izu Odoriko (Izu Dancer) express train that brings scores of travelers to Shimoda on the east coast of the peninsula and the popular Odoriko hiking courses.
This shouldn't put you off venturing into Kawabata country, though. Even during national holidays, there always seems to be enough space to go around. Although the train is packed with travelers, curiously enough, the place never seems crowded where you get off.
The southern section of the Amagi Pass joins the Shimoda Highway, a road that feels more like a rustic country route than the vector for east-west traffic that it is. As the local bus from Shimoda climbs and descends through the hot-spring valleys that dot the southern interior of the peninsula, unmistakable images of the region come to the mind of anyone familiar with the book — or one of the six film versions that have been made since 1953. The wandering performers, charcoal-makers and peddlers noted by the writer have long since vanished, but much else, including the more than century-old cedars Kawabata mentions, a variety called sotaro suginamiki, have remained remarkably unchanged.
Cedars and other trees line the gorges leading to hot-spring resorts like Kawazu Onsen-kyo and nearby Kawazu Nanadaru (the Seven Falls of Kawazu). The latter are in a scenic gorge, linked by an attractive hiking trail. The southern fall, called Odaru, is the most popular. This has a perfect waterfall and a swimming hole and hot baths beside the stream. Shokei-daru, with its bronze Izu Dancer statue beside the waterfall, remains the favorite of literary pilgrims, though.
The bus from Shimoda to Matsuzaki, a fishing port on the west coast of the peninsula, passes through a landscape of lumpy green hills, random conical shapes resembling giant topiary. There is ample proof of the region's southern climate in the small orange groves, riverside trellises of wisteria and odd outcropping of cactus. A striking feature of this region is its namako-kabe — a crisscross plasterwork design in gray and white used to decorate walls. The appealing harlequin patterns also fortify buildings against the typhoons that lash the peninsula from its two coasts.
In the unassuming port of Matsuzaki at the very end of the highway, there is a museum dedicated to Chohachi Irie, the prominent Edo-Period exponent of koto-e, or plaster-work art. Irie took the simple exterior designs a step further and produced pictorial works of great detail and range. Many can be seen hanging like plaster medallions in the museum.
A nearby bridge crosses the town's main river, and visitors can enjoy a stroll along willow-lined banks dotted with succulent plants and banana fronds. The bridge, which itself bears plaster-work decoration in high relief, leads to Nakasetei, an elegant Meiji-Era home and former kimono-and-tea shop purchased by the government as part of its national heritage program and now open to the public.
Matsuzaki, with its modest beach, plaster walls, old storehouses and quaint quayside fish restaurants, or nearby Osawa Onsen, a 400-year-old converted samurai villa, are ideal places to spend a night or two, teasing out the aches and pains of a day's sightseeing — before settling in with a good Kawabata novel at the end of the day.


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The Lady Lake Police have identified the suspect as Sharon Staub, 54. On the afternoon of June 23, police say she jumped over the counter of the hotel and placed her hand in her bag, as if she were about to pull out a weapon. Staub took $180 from the cash drawer.
Police said Staub had been arrested back in February at the same hotel and that she had been released the day before last week's robbery.
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Selbst Pots the Lot!: Event 19 - The Vanessa Selbst Interview
After celebrating her win with a frenzied rail, she chatted to PokerListings.com.
Well done on your win Vanessa. How did you navigate your way through to the final table?
I obviously ran pretty well to get to the chip lead. I applied pressure where pressure was due, I raised where I might have called in coin-flip situations ... to get other people, who didn't want to coin-flip, to fold.
Have you ever experienced anything like that final-table atmosphere before?
It was awesome, all the fans with beers; the rail was even cheering for the other guy, Jamie, for a while; he was potting blind and stuff. Everyone's been so supportive, it's been really great.
How did you get into poker, and what is your background?
I actually found poker at law school, at Yale, at a home game with a lot of really good players.
I've known I've had the potential to do this for a while, I've been to a final three different times and haven't made it, but it's just another tournament, and I won and it's awesome I've got the bracelet.
This doesn't change the fact that I'm going back to law school - you know this may or may not be my last WSOP; I don't know what I'm doing next year.
I'm just happy to have won one. If it is my last WSOP, it feels so great to have won one.
Probably one of the most crucial hands you had was when you knocked out Tony Phillips on the final-table bubble with K-J-9-8 double-suited against his aces, with a lot of money going in pre-flop. What were your thoughts on this hand?
I reraised pre-flop with a connected double-suited hand, which is more of a cash-game play, but I was playing more a cash-game style, applying pressure to the shorter stacks, because they didn't want to gamble.
The bubble was so tight and no one wanted to be the guy who got knocked out before the final table.
When I got re-repotted by Tony, I know that he's got aces at that point, I thought about it for a while. In a cash game it's a 100% standard call; I get 2-1 immediate pot odds and 3-1 on his shove.
For me it's a call in a cash game; the only question was whether I want to gamble in a tournament with so many chips.
It came down to the fact that if I folded, Tony would have more chips than me. He's a very aggressive, very skilled player who's going to have position on me on the final table, so you know what?
I'm playing for the bracelet, I want to gamble it up here, it gives me a chance to knock out Tony, who will otherwise have more chips than me, have position and be outplaying me the next day on the final.
If I win, I'll be able to cruise through the final table, and even if I don't I'm still going to make the final table; I'll still have $160,000. So I figured, gamble it up, go for the bracelet, and that's what I did.
When you got heads-up against Jamie Pickering, he started playing blind and raising every pot pre-flop also. How did you manage?
I was pretty scared. I had no moves; I called a pot bet and then check-raised all-in.
At that point, I thought it was great, I wasn't 100% at all, but I thought, "You know what? You're gambling, my queens are beating a random hand," which is what he had.
He's a really fun guy, I couldn't imagine that's how I'd win a bracelet!
It's unreal, this is like my fourth final table and I keep getting so close, and it's not just the bracelet, it's the money too, I've never made it past third before. I can't believe it!
As mentioned before, you're actually at Yale training to be a human rights lawyer, can you elaborate a bit more on this?
The fact that I can flip coins for $80,000 shows what advantages I have.
I'm passionate about giving back, and I'm lucky to be in a position where I can work for a salary that isn't huge and still have a tangible life through poker or whatever else.
I think it's important for everyone to do their part, it's important to do other things otherwise you'd just go crazy and gamble all the time. Whatever it is, I think you just have to things to keep your sanity and help the rest of the world.
Thanks for your time.
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Author's Note: First off, I would like to apologize for this taking so long to update. I've simply gotten myself in too deep with starting fics and now RL is stepping in, not to mention I'm losing my computer tomorrow cause I can't afford the note due to Christmas approaching and I'll have to wait till after the first of the year... waaay after the first of the year, before I can get a new one. -sigh- Sometimes, I hate my life... Oh well, but at least I did manage to get this chapter up before I lost it. Big thanks to Mithryl, who helped me tremendously and without her, this chapter would've never gotten finished. I'm sorry for the shortness, but at least it's something, ne?
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Natural Realm
The multitude of servants that constantly filled the work offices of the Reikai palace were busily going about their jobs of filing, typing and running errands as the group of three made their way to find the co-ruler of Spirit World. Keiko noticed the glances that Hiei kept giving her, an almost longing look that, for some reason, made tingles run down her spine. She quickly shook them off, however. After all, it wasn't right, him looking at her that way. No matter what he claimed, she was not his mate. How could she be? She was with Yusuke. And Hiei just simply did not think of her in that way, right?
As they walked, she also noticed the looks he shot toward Botan. It was strange, seeing the normally emotionless face displaying obvious confusion and disbelief. His eyes even grew a fraction wider as he watched Botan knock upon the enormous doors that they came to. For a moment, no one spoke. Then, from the other side of the doors, a familiar voice called out for them to enter. Botan immediately threw open the doors and lead them inside.
"Koenma-sama!" Botan spoke as she walked up to the large desk where the chibi ruler of the Reikai sat.
Keiko hung back timidly, not sure what to do, seeing as she'd never been in Koenma's office before...never even been in the Reikai before for that matter. She observed quietly as large brown eyes turned from the stack of paperwork piled on top of the desk as Koenma addressed his ferry girl, blinking in surprise.
"Botan, I thought I told you to go assist Yusuke and the others, what are you doing back?" The pint sized prince questioned his ferry girl before noticing Keiko and Hiei at the door. "And what is Hiei doing here? Or Keiko for that matter? Botan, what is going on?"
Botan fidgeted, tapping her fingertips together nervously, before finally exclaiming, "Oh, Koenma-sama, I think we've got a problem."
"I should think it was perfectly obvious that you have a problem! Why is he sitting in your desk, princess?!"
Three shocked expressions immediately swung to the glaring fire demon, who stood with arms crossed and feet braced slightly apart. His red eyes stared pointedly at Koenma in a way that showed he did not believe the situation he was in. Botan cleared her throat as she once again turned to her boss.
"See what I mean? Something is wrong with Hiei, he's been acting strangely ever since I bumped into him on my way to where the group was. He seemed unusually upset and kept referring to me as "princess" and demanding to see Keiko. Then, when we got to Keiko's house, he... well, to put it bluntly, sir, he kissed her and claimed that she was his mate!"
Koenma's eyes widened a bit as he stared from one person to the other as he sucked nervously on his pacifier.
"Oh dear..." The chibi ruler worried over what he had been told before turning his attention back to the group. "Botan! I want you and Ayame to scour any and all documents that have anything to do with possible parrallel dimensions, at once!"
Botan immediately saluted. "Yes, sir!" She said as she hurried out of the office, leaving a nervously fidgiting Keiko standing beside a silently fuming Hiei while being eyed by a very aggitated, bordering on paranoid, Koenma.
Hiei looked around as the ferry girl left, still trying to get over the fact that she was not the princess, but a simple ferry girl and that this upstart, who was nothing but a ferry boy was in fact prince. He still did not stray far from his mate's side. "How is it that you are as you were before we mated?"
Keiko looked up, slightly startled. 'He still doesn't realize...' She thought, suddenly feeling bad for this other Hiei that had apparently been dropped into their world. As much as she was wary of the Hiei from her realm, this one seemed a bit different. There seemed to be some sort of calming aura wafting off of him and making her warm to this version of the dark demon.
"It's because, in this world, we never mated, Hiei. I mean, the first time we met, you kidnapped me and used me against Yusuke. You don't even like me in this realm." Keiko said softly, trying her best to explain things to the confused demon.
Hiei looked back at her with widened eyes, "What? I never! Kurama sent me to save you from that demon who was setting us up!" He sat down on the floor, trying to figure out how this world could be so different, and yet so similar to the one that he knew. He could not imagine ever using his mate in such a low fashion, even before they mated, if nothing else his sister would have chewed him out.
Keiko could only stare down at the seated fire demon in surprise, his response to her declaration not what she had expected. Before she could ask what he was talking about, Botan came rushing back into the room carrying a large stack of folders piled high in her arms. She was followed by two oni, each ones' arms piled high with folders just as Botan's was.
"Here you go, sir, I hope there's something in these that can be useful." The ferry girl stated as she sat her folders down in front of Koenma, the stack hiding the toddler prince from view. It didn't help any that the two oni also unloaded their armloads onto the desk as well, the result being that it completely hid the desk from view, much less the diminutive diety seated behind it. Koenma could not be seen at all.
Keiko's heart went out to the demon sitting on the floor. He looked, and sounded so lost.
Koenma and Botan were completely flabbergasted by Hiei's behavior, considering that this was completely foreign to the foul-tempered demon that they both knew, though Botan knew that he was just as capable of biting out comments with the Hiei that they both knew. With Keiko, he was showing a completely softer side than he had ever shown before.
Keiko knelt down in front of the Hiei that she had, for all intents and purposes, been kidnapped by, albeit unknowingly on his part, thinking he had a right to her. She wanted to know more and reached a hand out to touch his shoulder. She had almost touched him when suddenly the doors were slammed open and Yusuke stormed in, closely followed by Kurama and Kuwabara.
Yusuke was about to say something when he was brought to an abrupt halt by the sight of Hiei, completely withdrawn into himself, and Keiko kneeling in front of him, looking like she wanted to comfort Hiei, if that was possible.
Kurama was silent, just observing for right now, but the responses of Hiei were not the responses of anyone he knew, that was certain.
Kuwabara just took one look and asked, "What's wrong with the shrimp?"
Everyone was shocked when Hiei gave out a weak laugh. "Well, at least some things haven't changed." He looked up, only to see Keiko kneeling in front of him, hand poised to rest on his shoulder and all he could do is stare into her chocolate eyes that brimmed with compassion, compassion that he had often seen on the face of his own mate. He found that he was struck speechless once more.
Keiko's eyes locked with Hiei's and her reluctance all but disappeared when she saw the desolate look in his eyes. Without even thinking of the consequences, or of her audience, she allowed her hand to complete its motion and let it come to rest on Hiei's shoulder.
"A-are you okay?" She asked softly, completely oblivious to the audience around her who proceeded to gape at what she had done.
Hiei reached up his own hand to slowly cover hers. He felt a small easing at his heart, but he knew what the answer would be. "Not really, not until I get back to my own place and mate."
Kurama was floored by this note. The Hiei he knew would never have said such a thing, to admit to such a weakness. He looked over at his other teammates to see how they were taking this.
"What the hell?!" Keiko and the other Hiei's eyes broke contact as their heads swung toward the door to find an apparently fuming Spirit Detective. "What the hell are you talking about, Hiei? You don't even have a mate!"
Beside him, Kuwabara was nodding in agreement as he continued to stare blankly at the two on the floor. In his mind, all he could think was, 'Huh, that's weird.'
Across the room, both Botan and Koenma were exchanging worried glances as the same thoughts ran through their minds. Apparently, their Hiei had been swapped with another one from some other deminsion. But how had this odd switch occured in the first place? Could they even reverse it? Remembering the tender look that the fire demon had bestowed upon Keiko, an even better question arose in the child ruler's mind. Did they even want to reverse it?
Hiei slowly stood, giving Keiko's hand a gentle squeeze to let her know that he needed to get up. When he faced them, it almost looked as though their old friend had been returned. "Yes, Detective, I do. However, it seems that I am A-misplaced, and B-separated from her. However, her double is here, and I would assume my double is there. I have one question, where's Kurama?" He looked around, seeing almost all familiar faces, save for the red-head and took a quick inventory and decided that he had another question, "And where is my sister, normally she is by your side?" He aimed the last at Yusuke.
Yusuke blinked in surprise, but before he could say anything, Kurama stepped in to answer the fire demon's first question. Looking up, Kurama wondered why Hiei wouldn't recognize his best friend, "You don't recognize me, Hiei?"
Hiei shook his head, "Should I? You are human, Kurama is a youko, one of the rare silvers, and he raised me."
Koenma wondered just how much he could take in one day. His voice came from the other side of the files that still hid him from sight. It sounded as if Kurama was well and truly shocked this time. "Kurama, I think you're going to have to show him."
Kurama looked at his diminutive friend. "I am Kurama, Hiei, and I shall prove it to you." He reached into himself and changed into his youko aspect. "It's me, Hiei."
Hiei looked back into the golden eyes and took in the youko that he knew. "But how? What?" Instinctively his hand reached back for Keiko's, seeking silent reassurance that only his mate could give.
Without hesitation, and much to Yusuke's surprise, Keiko grasped Hiei's searching hand with hers and gave it a small squeeze. "It's alright, Hiei. It really is Kurama." She said, hoping that her words would wipe the uncertainty from his red eyes. For some reason, it was almost painful to see his eyes with that look in them.
Hiei took a deep breath and cocked his head, "Thank you." He told her absently, shocking everyone.
Kurama asked softly, the only other one in the room who seemed to comprehend what was going on. "Hiei, Keiko's your mate, isn't she?"
Hiei gave a single nod, not answering out loud, only remembering Kurama when he had first figured it out himself. Kurama had asked that very same question, in that very same fashion.
"The hell she is!" The exclamation drew everyone's attention away from the doppleganger Hiei and back to the now red faced detective. "Keiko's my girl, so get your hands off!"
Hiei's eyes narrowed warningly. "Oh, really, Detective? Or what? What would you do to me?" Now this Hiei they knew. His eyes smouldered with barely suppressed rage and his voice was hard and unyeilding as their Hiei could ever be. He held up his other hand, wrappings and all. "Are you ignorant of your heritage, or are you simply human here?"
"Bastard! I'll show you ignorant, you little piss ant!" Yusuke spat, raising his hand, index finger already beginning to glow in that familiar blue energy.
"Uh, Urameshi? I don't think that's such a good idea!" Kuwabara began backing away, making his way toward the door.
Kurama stepped forward, "Yusuke, you are still ignorant of many things in your heritage." He put his hand on Yusuke's shoulder, knowing he was risking the toushin's wrath. "Fire demons only get one true mate and it appears that in this place where this Hiei comes from, since we all know I didn't raise him, though I wish I had," He added sadly, "He has well and truly mated with that Keiko. From what Hiei said earlier you have been involved with his sister." He said delicately, looking at Kuwabara as he avoided the name.
Yusuke nodded wordlessly, accepting Kurama's logic. However, it took a few moments more before he had calmed down enough to power down his Spirit Gun and lower his hand, all the while never taking his eyes off of Hiei. In doing so, he did not miss the fact that throughout all of this, Keiko had not let go of the other demon's hand.
Hiei looked over at the tall stack of folders, then back at the group, "So, you still have not answered my question, where is my sister? Where is Yukina?"
There was a collective wince as Kuwabara's voice rose in pitch as he responded accordingly to this revelation...
...and then he promptly fainted.
Hiei simply raised his brow, then glared at the desk, "Okay, what else is different, and how soon can I go home? Because I really want to get back to normal!"
Kurama looked around at his friends. Kuwabara was still out cold. Yusuke seemed to be beyond words, trying to hold his temper and confusion at once at the image of himself and Yukina. Botan was speachless and Koenma, well, nothing could be seen around the humongous pile of folders, however, nothing could be heard, either. He sighed. "Hiei, you've been resisting telling your sister for years that you are her brother, in spite of myself and others urging you to, including Yusuke. So, she doesn't know." He looked at the pile of folders, books and other information. "As to how to get you home, I'm guessing from the appearance that these books should have a clue on how to do so. I'm sure our Hiei will be equally anxious to get back."
Hiei looked up into Kurama's sincere golden eyes and nodded. These were the eyes that had guided him through some of his hardest trials, and he trusted the youko on a very deep level. "Very well, I shall wait, however I miss my mate, my sister and I hate to say it to you all, but my friends, even the baka." His head slumped down, "You are as familiar and as different as can be." He pulled Keiko into his arms, whispering against her, admitting his weakness to her, but not to the others, "I'm homesick, Keiko."
Silence filled Koenma's office as everyone waited to see what Keiko would do. Yusuke expected her to slap him down just like she used to do him whenever he'd do things like that, but got the shock of his life when, instead, Keiko simply wound her arms around the demon and returned the embrace, whispering things into the other's ear that, much to Yusuke chagrin, he couldn't hear.
Botan watched breathlessly as Keiko whispered in his ear, seeing Koenma come out from behind his desk and assuming his teenage form to actually observe the drama.
Hiei listened to Keiko as she talked. It had been something that his mate had told him when they first started seeing each other, and both had been unsure of the other. His shoulders relaxed and he held her tighter, trying to remember that she was a ningen, and not a fire demon. He lifted his eyes up to look at Koenma and Botan. "I shall be waiting with Keiko for the two of you to find a way to get me back to where I belong, but for the time being, I will stay with she who is this realm's equivalent to my mate."
"Of course, that will be fine." Koenma stated, giving a pointed glare inYusuke's direction when the beginnings of a threatening growl began in the toushin's direction. "Botan and myself will begin researching this right away. I believe I will also get a few ogres on the job as well. Might make for faster progress."
Kurama looked at Yusuke's angry face and had more than enough questions. "I can help her Yusuke, and besides, I'm curious to see how our timeline could have been so altered that I am still in my youko form."
Hiei looked over at Kurama, "You are not the only one to have questions, Kurama." He looked down at his mate, he couldn't think of her as anything else, and asked, "Shall we go?"
Keiko nodded. She didn't dare look in Yusuke's direction. She knew that he must be furious for how she was acting around this new Hiei, but she just couldn't help herself. It felt so.. natural, to comfort him and to support him like she had done only moments before. At any rate, she was pretty much in charge of caring for him now and she would do her best. Without a word, she was escorted from the Reikai office by Hiei and Kurama, leaving a fuming Yusuke to cart out a still unconscious Kuwabara.
After the office had emptied, Botan turned to Koenma, surprised to find him still in his teenage form and standing very close. She couldn't help but blush a bit. Fortunately, he didn't notice. Koenma turned back to his desk and stared forlornly at the large pile of folders that he and Botan were now obligated to tackle in order to find a solution to their little Hiei swapping problem. With a resigned sigh, he said, "Would someone care to explain how we got into this mess?"
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EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — Township residents and others sought help from federal officials on how to navigate the varied and complex channels of disaster recovery at a special meeting Thursday night.
About 100 people attended the forum at the Egg Harbor Township Community Center, where speakers about Hurricane Sandy relief included representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Small Business Administration.
Many who attended were like Cathy Stanley, 52, who lives in the Seaview Harbor section of the township. She leaned over a one of a dozen folding tables, clutching a worn notebook of data and speaking with FEMA reps Katelynne Wolf and Cheryl Copeland about the its Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.
The program potentially offers grants of up to 75 percent to elevate buildings, buy properties and build minor flood-control projects, Wolf said in an earlier presentation.
But people interested in the program have to file with their local municipality, who will prioritize and forward the list to Trenton, where government officials will ultimately decide which projects receive funding.
Wolf said the process would take up to a year and warned that anyone who applies and then goes forward with a project before being formally approved, would be stripped of eligibility.
Stanley, who has lived in the house with her husband for seven years, said the house had about 17 inches of water in the ground floor. Reconstruction is mostly complete, she said, but said her husband believes the new flood maps indicate they will have to elevate the home 11 feet.
"I'm going to apply," Stanley said.
The meeting came on the Gov. Chris Christie announced new, tougher flood maps for post-Sandy rebuilding that will force some homeowners and businesses to either relocate or build at higher levels. Speaking in Seaside Heights, the governor said property owners who build to the new standards won't have to apply for flood hazard permits, saving design and engineering costs and about $500 in fees.
As the state and region recover from fall's crippling Hurricane Sandy, a number of towns, churches and others have set up meetings for federal officials to walk residents through the upcoming steps of recovery.
At times officials have been met by residents who are confused, frustrated and lacking information about how to proceed.
Officials previously took questions in Margate and Brigantine in separate December meetings. In Little Egg Harbor Township, more than 900 people packed into the Pinelands Regional High School for a presentation Jan. 4.
Darrell Habisch, a FEMA spokesperson, said the organization has been called on to provide subject matter experts for a variety of events organized by local officials, schools, businesses and others. These events have included town hall meetings as well as information workshops.
Habisch said he believed the information would likely vary. FEMA and officials from the Small Business Administration plan to help residents process and return the assistance packets by the March 1 deadline.
Other experts would likely include people to explain the National Flood Insurance Program or otherwise address rebuilding, repair or new elevation standards.
Two FEMA Disaster Recovery centers remain open in Atlantic County: at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, and adjacent to the Hamilton Mall, 4403 Black Horse Pike.
While FEMA has received much of the attention, the SBA offers up to 30-year federal loans to homeowners, renters and businesses. Loans can go up to $200,000 for homes, $40,000 for personal property and $2 million apiece for both damage to businesses and for working capital.
Barb Kyle, 50, lives on Naples Avenue in the West Atlantic City section of the township, where 3 feet of floodwater inundated the home. Forced into a hotel, her family moved back in Dec. 1, even though the walls were largely stripped to bare studs.
As a real estate professional, she wondered what would happen to the region if properties became too costly to either protect or insure. "It's going to be devastating," she said.
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text: One Christmas Eve a parcel falls from Santas sleigh and lands in a small garden shed inhabited by three pets: Archie the rabbit, Duke the guinea pig and Babs the hamster. Determined to deliver the lost Christmas present by daybreak to its rightful owner, they embark on an exciting new adventure. Second Star to the Left is a beautifully animated film from the team behind the BAFTA and Royal Television Society award-winning The First Snow of Winter. It features the voices of Barbara Windsor, Hugh Laurie and Mark Williams (of the Fast Show), with the musical score provided by Becky Taylor.Check stock and price


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Savings continue to be the default way of measuring how well procurement is doing its job.
If marketing (and agencies) are regarded as a cost, no wonder the lack of value created.
Dove applies their "Real Beauty" filter to the selfie concept, inviting young girls and their mothers to publish their honest selfies at dovebeautyis.com and discuss it with #beautyis
The new campaign is based on the 8 minute documentary Selfie where director  Cynthia Wade reveals "how we have the power to redefine what is beautiful in all of usâ€.
Once upon a time, a Twitter account was born, with almost daily musings on advertising and facial topiary. Then, a book happened. And an app. And even legendary ad man Lee Clow spoke about it.
Oh, just follow the damn thing: @leeclowsbeard
Last August, Coke shared a glimpse of their creative agenda, toward content excellence. Have a look at part 1 and part 2, if not for the visual mapping.
Besides the marketing lingo, there's one part that interested me the most: Liquid Content, or how content can be apart but share the same molecular brand DNA. Liquid content assumes the brand acts as a catalyst for play and takes risks in a culture of creativity. On the same presentation, Coke shared their 70/20/10 principles of Liquid Content, where 70% of investiment is dedicated to low risk content, 20% to innovation and 10% to high risk / prepare to fail content.
No surprise then that Coke is launching simple initiatives such as Falling Dominoes, with a Coke Bottle on a digital Rube Goldberg animation.
The site was revealed as part of exclusive "liquid content" for Coke's Facebook page, with a new riddle revealing a new microsite every day, such as BlowingBubblesinthesky.com.
One of the best examples i've seen that fully understands the importance of exclusive content on Facebook (specially on the new Timeline).
Credits: Agency: Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam ECDs: Eric Quennoy, Mark Bernath Creatives: Daniel Maxwell, Nacho Guijarro, Ivan Cash Digital production: Random, Amsterdam
Vanessa from DDB Brasil just sent me an example of Digital Out, Interactive In.
Brastemp, a Brazilian electronics brand shows how you can be interactive with radio. The campaign was so successful that it was replicated in Portugal by a couple of radios.
The spot, that aired simultaneously in 11 major radio stations in the capital city, suggested: "Right now, millions of people at their cars, listening to the radio. All serious, sleepy, until an inspiration changes everything. We invite you to smile to the driver next to you. If he heard it, he'll smile back …. See? Inspiration changes everything and life becomes just likeee… a Brastemp. "
If you're curious what conference I'm talking about, start by visiting http://www.switchconf.com/ . Too busy? Well, in a nutshell, it's a 2 day event bringing together passionate people with different backgrounds to discuss and share ideas about innovation, entrepreneurship, science and technology.
Ricardo Sousa and his talented young team rolls out the 2011 edition in Oporto (Portugal), the next 16th and 17th of April, and yours truly was kindly invited to speak a few minutes on the subject of advertising, fire and jogging. Now that you're curious, are you attending SWITCH Conference? If yes, give me a nudge as i'd really love to chat with you. Not networking. Hate that word. See ya in a few days then. Go buy your ticket, now.
The glittering lure of targeting hipsters.
Economics and demographics tell us that young people are no longer a terribly attractive target for most marketers. Over 75% of the wealth of the country is in the hands of people over 50. And yet our advertising and marketing strategies today, if anything, are more focused on youth and youth culture.


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Huber Named President of Alcoa European Region (5/23/06)
May 23, 2006
Alcoa has named Rudolph P. (Rudi) Huber president - Alcoa European Region, responsible for coordinating human resources, media, and legal and government affairs for Alcoa's operations in the European region, including Russia. Huber replaces Ricardo (Ric) Belda, who will end his 38-year career with Alcoa at the end of 2006. Huber will help coordinate Alcoa's activities and profile across Europe, where the company has 100 facilities in 16 countries and more than 39,000 employees. Alcoa European revenues in 2005 were approximately $6 billion.
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A dozen hours before Pedro Martínez was supposed to start a vital game against the Oakland Athletics at Fenway Park tonight, he called in sick.
Martínez contacted Boston Red Sox medical personnel around 7 a.m. because he barely slept all night, felt awful and must have known that his chances of pitching in this wild-card tussle were in doubt.
Martínez spent several hours undergoing tests at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center today, and the Red Sox said he was diagnosed with a fever and an inflamed throat. So the Red Sox replaced Martínez, their ace, with Casey Fossum, their long reliever, and said they were unsure when Martínez would return. The A's surely exhaled as the Red Sox shifted from a three-time Cy Young Award winner to a third-year spot starter.
But the soap opera of a Red Sox season that never contains enough twists and turns or days and lives went in an unexpected direction today as the Red Sox, even without Martínez, hammered the A's, 14-5. Fossum did not imitate Martínez. He was not even decent as he allowed five runs while lasting into the sixth inning, but the rookie Rich Harden was much worse in surrendering eight runs, which enabled the Red Sox to forget about Martínez. Figuring out these Red Sox is maddening.
''I'm not going to sit here and say we're glad we're facing Casey Fossum,'' A's General Manager Billy Beane said before the game. ''That would be foolish. We're not exactly a great offensive club against left-handed pitchers. I'll let you know after the game if it was a break.''Continue reading the main story
Obviously, it was a break. The A's simply did not exploit it and saw their lead for the wild card shrink to one game. Boston and Oakland played each other seven times over the last 11 days, with the A's winning four games. The one victory is why the A's left Boston with the slimmest of leads, but, for one night, the Red Sox still gloated.
''It's easy to say now, but I knew we were going to win this game,'' said Johnny Damon, Boston's center fielder. ''Harden is going to be a good pitcher, but he's still young. We knew he was beatable.''
As relieved as the Red Sox were to avoid being swept, they truly felt as if they should be ahead of Oakland. The Red Sox were sidetracked by Derek Lowe's annoying blister because it led to relievers who could not protect a 2-0 lead on Tuesday, and they botched a 6-2 lead and botched another save on Wednesday. Then the premier pitcher on a team that was playing its most critical game of the season was thwarted by a sore throat. What will hit the Red Sox next? Athlete's foot?
General Manager Theo Epstein called today a disappointing day and said, ''There's always concern when your best pitcher can't pitch.'' While Epstein declined to forecast when Martínez might return, Kevin Shea, a team spokesman, said the pitcher would be evaluated on Friday and considered it doubtful that Martínez would start against the Seattle Mariners that night.
Epstein pointed out that the last time Martínez missed a start was against the Yankees on May 20 and the Red Sox won, which was one way of viewing Martínez's absence in a positive way. Now Boston is two for two without Martínez. Of course, the Red Sox would prefer having him pitch regularly, especially when they are trudging through a stretch of nine losses in 13 games.
''It was a terrible feeling to know our ace was out sick today,'' said David Ortiz, the Red Sox designated hitter, who left Martínez a message before the game and then hit a booming three-run homer in the first.
Damon, Ortiz and Kevin Millar were among the Red Sox who have discussed chasing the wild card and seemingly shutting out all thoughts of catching the Yankees, whom they trail by seven games in the American League East. When Epstein was asked about these comments, he broke into a cliché and said the Red Sox can only focus on themselves.
''The one thing we can control is winning as many games as we can and, wherever it leads, it leads,'' Epstein said. ''The lead in the wild-card race is smaller than the one in the division.''
Manager Grady Little had arranged his rotation so Martínez would face the Yankees twice in the six games the teams play in the next two and a half weeks. Martínez was scheduled to start against New York on Aug. 31 here and on Sept. 5 at Yankee Stadium. Now that the Red Sox are focusing on the wild card, they need Martínez as soon as he is healthy.
The usual hysteria that accompanies a franchise that has not won a World Series title since 1918 has blossomed again. There are several factors that create an extreme environment in Boston, from the passion of the fans to the exhaustive news media coverage to the ghosts of the ignominious past, but Epstein is confident the Red Sox will survive all of these elements.
''Things are intense, so they become exaggerated when you go through the inevitable tough times teams go through,'' Epstein said.Continue reading the main story


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RSA Victims Still Waiting 9 Years on
RSA Victims Still Waiting 9 Years on
9 years after one of New Zealand's most brutal crimes the victims and families of those murdered are still waiting for answers.
It was the 8th December 2001 that William Bell bludgeoned three people to death in the Mt. Wellington RSA and left Susan Couch so badly beaten she was not expected to survive.
Not only did Sue survive, she has taken her battle for accountability to the highest Court in the land, but having won the right to sue the Department of Corrections no date has yet been set for the case to be heard.
The outcome of that Court case is also holding up Tai Hobson's x-gratia claim for compensation. Tai's wife was one of the three Bell murdered and his attempt to sue the Dept of Corrections was struck out even though the Department acknowledged it must take a real measure of responsibility and said it, "sincerely regrets the awful consequences which resulted for the victims and their families".
Garth McVicar, spokesman for the Sensible Sentencing Trust who has helped fund the Court action said it was despicable that the victims of this tragedy had been made to wait so long even though the Department responsible had admitted it was culpable and must take a real measure of responsibility.
Mr. McVicar said numerous compensation claims for criminals had been settled in the years since Bells murderous rampage but victims and the families such as those involved in the RSA tragedy had been hung out to dry.


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Let's face it: taxes are going to have to go up on everybody if we want to spend the way we're spending and keep on our current path (even with the reductions brought about by the results of the sequester). We've already increased taxes on "the rich". We can tax them more, but at a certain point that's not going to be an option (if you even want to consider it a good one now) and we still will not be able to spend what we are today.
This quote from Mayor Bloomberg really freaks me out:
We are spending money we don't have. It's not like your household. In your household, people are saying, "Oh, you can't spend money you don't have." That is true for your household because nobody is going to lend you an infinite amount of money. When it comes to the United States federal government, people do seem willing to lend us an infinite amount of money. … Our debt is so big and so many people own it that it's preposterous to think that they would stop selling us more. It's the old story: If you owe the bank $50,000, you got a problem. If you owe the bank $50 million, they got a problem. And that's a problem for the lenders. They can't stop lending us more money.
Source: http://politicker.com/2013/03/mayor-bloomberg-dont-panic-about-the-sequester/
It seems to me that the reason that people buy US debt is because it is considered a safe investment–that the United States isn't going to fail to pay its debts back. It's low risk. They expect to get at least a small return in exchange for a small risk. Well, at some point between here and infinity, there's a number where most investors decide that there's no way that the people of the United States can actually afford to pay back the money (with interest). Sure, there's things the government can do that my household can't do, but that doesn't mean those things are a good idea. They could print a bill with an "∞" in each corner and pay pretty much any debt with that, but at that point that bill is meaningless. There may be no numerical limit to the dollars we can borrow, but there certainly is a limit to the amount of actual, real goods out there. We can only manipulate the distribution of that stuff so far before people stop liking it.
Perhaps more easily said: If we can borrow an infinite amount of money because no one will ever stop buying US debt, why haven't we already borrowed it?


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