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It was revealed on Thursday that Costco's (NASDAQ: COST) fiscal third quarter net income shot up 19% on lower asset charges, as the buy-in-bulk wholesale store saw money come in from membership fees.
The numbers certainly make for nice reading for COST executives, with the company posting earnings of $386 million, or 88 cents per share, for the period ending May 6. Compare that to the previous year's numbers of $324 million, or 73 cents per share.
The membership fee factor is interesting. Customers at Costco have to buy an annual membership, the idea being that the cost of the membership ($55) will be more-then made back through savings by buying items in bulk. If there is a certain time of year when more memberships are up for renewal than usual, like the beginning of the calendar year, for example, then Costco's numbers for that quarter will look particularly good. That seems to be what happened here.
That isn't all though. Revenue went up 8% to $22.32 billion, from $20.62 billion last year. That tops the Wall Street estimate of $22.11 billion. It is important to note, however, that revenue at stores that have been open and active for one year minimum increased 5%, which is a key detail because it excludes revenue from stores recently opened, which can be inflated as local customers become excited early on by the new store.
Costco has said that it is planning to open six new warehouses before the end of the current fiscal year, adding to the 602 that it already has, including 435 in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, 82 in Canada, 32 in Mexico, 22 in the UK, 13 in Japan, eight ion Taiwan, seven in Korea and three in Australia.
Costco's brand is incredibly strong in the U.S., with Sam's Club the closest real competitor. Consumers seem to like the idea of buying certain non-perishable items in bulk, like toilet paper, cleaning supplies and some frozen goods, even in difficult times, making significant long-term savings in the process.
It is also important to note that the last quarter included the tax refund period, when consumers might be more likely to stock up on the aforementioned items.
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"Glee" Will End Next Year, Show's Creator Says
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(NEW YORK) — Following the death of star Cory Monteith last July, some speculated whether Glee would be able to go on. The answer is, it won't.
Variety reports that at an event Wednesday night, Glee creator Ryan Murphy said the show will end after its sixth season. The show is currently in its fifth. He also said that he's been forced to come up with a different series finale than he had planned.
"The final year of the show, which will be next year, was designed around Rachel and Cory/Finn's story. I always knew that, I always knew how it would end," Variety quotes Murphy as saying, referring to Lea Michele's character Rachel and Monteith's character, Finn, who were lovers on the show.
"I knew what the last shot was; he was in it. I knew what the last line was; she said it to him," Murphy continued. "So when a tragedy like that happens you sort of have to pause and figure out what you want to do, so we're figuring that out now."
Last week's episode, "The Quarterback," paid tribute to Monteith's Finn, who died off-screen of causes that were not revealed.
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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- A second Pakistani court called on Interior Minister Rehman Malik to answer questions over corruption following a scuttled amnesty law, lawyers said.
Amjad Iqbal, a lawyer for the interior minister, held a news conference in Rawalpindi, saying his client is not afraid to face the charges, Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reports.
"The accountability court has summoned my client to appear on Jan. 2. Mr. Malik will appear in court," he said. "We are not afraid of appearing in the courts."
A Pakistani high court last week overturned the National Reconciliation Ordinance that placed a moratorium on corruption investigations into several high-ranking figures.
The U.S.-backed measure was part of a 2007 deal with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf that paved the way for former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to return to politics following a self-imposed exile.
Prosecutors last week charged Malik with abuse of power and kickbacks from Toyota Motors in connection with a government contract.
Iqbal, Malik's defense attorney, said his client would be exonerated in the courts.
"He is doing his work with courage and bravery," he said. "We are sure that we will get justice from the courts."
Government officials, including Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, are facing mounting pressure to step down as the corruption charges pile up.


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At a press conference this afternoon Racine County District Attorney announced he would not seek reelection. Tricia Hanson, Deputy District Attorney for Racine County will seek the position of District Attorney, according to Attorney General Brad Schimel.
We spoke with District Attorney Chiapete today and he stated after speaking with his family, he felt this this was best decision made. He stated he loves his job as District Attorney and felt it an honor to serve Racine County.


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Fifth in a nine-part series previewing the Browns before the start of training camp on Saturday. Today: Offensive line. Monday: Defensive line.
The Marines are always on the lookout for a few good men. During training camp, the Browns will be on the lookout for two good men to fill out their offensive line.
Specifically, the task of Coach Eric Mangini and offensive line coach George Warhop is to find a starting right guard and a starting right tackle. The candidates are Floyd Womack and rookie Shawn Lauvao at guard and Tony Pashos and John St. Clair at tackle. Pashos could play guard and Womack could play tackle.
Somewhere between the start of training camp on Saturday and the start of the regular season on Sept. 12, Mangini and Warhop hope to hit on the best combination.
"We will continue to rotate those guys through and see how it plays out," Mangini said at the conclusion of minicamp last month. "Shawn got some reps both in OTAs and this camp with the ones, twos and threes, so he will be in that mix. He's done a good job. He's gotten a little bit better each time we've gone out there. He's a smart kid. He's stout. That's what he was in college, and that's what it looks like here early. George Warhop did a nice job with his planning of how we are going to build flexibility."
The Browns drafted Lauvao in the third round and signed Pashos in free agency. The Pashos signing is an obvious indication they want to upgrade right tackle, where St. Clair started 14 games last year.
Right guard was in a state of flux all season last year.
Rex Hadnot started six of the final eight games at right guard and the Browns let him walk in free agency.
There is no mystery about center or the left side of the line. Left tackle Joe Thomas, the third overall pick in 2007, went to the Pro Bowl each of his first three years in the league. Eric Steinbach beefed up to 295 last year and had his best season with the Browns. Alex Mack, the Browns' first-round pick last year, improved steadily.
One of the ongoing stories of training camp last summer was how many laps Mack had to run for a bad snap or a penalty. There will be no Mack Watch this summer.
During the four-game winning streak at the end of last season, the Browns averaged 4.6 yards a carry (vs. Pittsburgh), 7.2 (vs. Kansas City), 3.5 (vs. Oakland) and 4.4 yards (vs. Jacksonville) while rushing for 900 yards.
The Browns gained 43 percent of their net rushing yardage (2,087 yards) in the final 25 percent of their games. The macho linemen want to resume that smashmouth style of football.
Mangini has to find a backup center in training camp. Hank Fraley filled that role last year and so did Hadnot, but they're both gone.
Billy Yates, now in his seventh NFL season and second with the Browns, could win the job as Mack's backup. Yates has played in 25 NFL games with 11 starts. He is primarily a guard but can play center.
Offensive linemen in Browns camp
73: LT Joe Thomas, 6-6, 312, fourth season
65: LG Eric Steinbach 6-6, 295, eighth season
55: C Alex Mack, 6-4, 311, second season
77: RG Floyd Womack 6-4, 328, 10th season
79: RT Tony Pashos 6-6, 325, eighth season
78: John St. Clair, 6-6, 320, 11th season
66: Shawn Lauvao 6-3, 315, rookie
68: Billy Yates, 6-3, 305, seventh season
67: Joel Reindeers, 6-7, 320, rookie
75: Pat Murray, 6-3, 315, first-year player
74: Scott Kooistra 6-6, 335, eighth season
Paul Fanaika, 6-5, 327, second season
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Cleaner Fracking Makes Cover Story at Chemical & Engineering News
Some companies have developed chemical treatments to remove contaminants and microbes from the wastewater, which can then be reused, while others use evaporators to separate fresh water from the brine. Bomgardner notes that treating the wastewater is a special challenge in the Marcellus Shale area of the Appalachian Basin, where wastewater — millions of gallons per well — must be trucked away for disposal. The cost of disposal is spurring oil and gas companies to adopt these and other technologies that could limit the amount of contaminated water that reaches people, plants and animals, the article notes.


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PRAGUE, Czech Republic — It's been 20 years since Czechoslovakia's young people initiated the overthrow of their communist government.
Now, a sizable slice of the next generation isn't happy with the political culture that their parents helped bring about. One group of young Czechs has petitioned government officials for change with specific demands that echo strains of 1989's Velvet Revolution.
Inventura Demokracie, a student group made up of 15 core members with an additional 1,700 Facebook fans, wants to reform the political system, which it sees as beset by public apathy, corruption and cronyism, according to the group's spokesperson, Silvie Mitlenerova, a 21-year-old political science student.
It does not, however, want to bring about a revolution, said Mitlenerova.
"We would like to improve communication between politicians and the public," she said. "We don't only blame the politicians, but the public too."
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Having been born within a year or so of the Velvet Revolution, which brought about the collapse of communism here in 1989, Mitlenerova's generation is the first to grow up in a democracy. And they are savvy enough to see the flaws in the current system, but smart enough to seek advice from older political hands in order to maximize their ability to bring about successful reforms. Today's students are more about persuading politicians behind closed doors.
In the run-up to last month's anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, Inventura Demokracie knocked on doors and pressed politicians on four specific areas, an initiative they dubbed: 'Give us a present.'
On their list of grievances were liberal protections from prosecution under parliamentary immunity, legislative reform and reform of unregulated lobbying and media councils.
Almost all the political leaders they sought after agreed to meet with them — all, that is, except Mirek Topolanek, who was prime minister until his right-of-center coalition collapsed in a no-confidence vote this past spring. "Topolanek refused to meet us," Mitlenerova said. "He told us we bore him."
Jiri Paroubek, on the other hand, who is the leader of the social democrats, the largest left-of-center party in the country, not only met with the students but told them he agreed with everything on their list.
"Mr. Paroubek, [made] no sense," Mitlenerova said. "He repeated, 'when I'm prime minister I will pass all these but until then I can't help you.' He really stuck to that sentence."
Ondrej Liska, the 32-year-old chairman of the Green Party was also open to the students' reforms, but said he wasn't in a position to offer much tangible help given that his party is struggling to maintain the 5 percent minimum public support they need to stay in parliament.
Count Karel Schwarzenburg, the former foreign minister who now leads the newly formed TOP '09 party, wowed the students with his candidness.
"He spoke very clearly and plainly and he agreed with us," Mitlenerova said.
He was so plain-spoken, in fact, that he aroused suspicion. "It can't be a politician, something smells there — but maybe not," Mitlenerova said. "I trust him that he's not in politics for the money — he has money enough."
(Indeed, that seems to be Schwarzenberg's broader appeal — an aristocrat with considerable wealth, combined with a moral compass in-line with his friend Vaclav Havel, has created a public perception that he is above reproach. His TOP '09 party regularly garners 10-15 percent support in opinion polls — an exceptionally high number for a start-up political entity.)
In the end, "[We] didn't get very far," Mitlenerova said, though she added that they were far from discouraged. The group had originally planned to phase out with the revolution's 20th anniversary. But instead they've decided to try to keep the flame burning.
Inventura Demokracie member Jiri Boudal said he'd like to focus on pressing the public to become more engaged like they are in other European countries. "My aim is to help found a center for civic education," he said. "In Germany, there are public service announcements on television telling you how you can participate, and change your environment, instead of just sitting around and complaining."
Vladimira Dvorakova, a political science professor at the Prague School of Economics, says political reform is urgently needed, and she's heartened by the students' enthusiasm.
"They can do a lot, or nothing," she said, "If they try to change everything in a year they'll be frustrated."
She traced the low-grade political culture here to a prevailing arrogance and insecurity among politicians. The result is a lack of civil discourse, which leaves the public feeling alienated from the process and reluctant to criticize those in power.
"We don't want this type of behavior from our politicians," Dvorakova said. "We need to make changes towards a liberal democracy based on the rule-of-law."
Jaroslava Gajdosova, a sociology professor at the Anglo-American University in Prague, said it could be the dawning of a new era.
"Every generation has its horizon," she said. "For the generation that brought down communism their horizon is fading."


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Anthony Arostegui '84 has been added as a partner at Nossaman LLP, the firm has announced. Arostegui's practice is focused on complex transactions involving the acquisition and divestment of real estate, commercial leasing and real estate financing. He will join the firm's Real Estate Practice Group and be based in the Sacramento office. Arostegui is a Northern California Super Lawyer in the area of real estate, a member of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys and the Lambda Alpha Honorary Society, and has lectured on a variety of real estate topics to both lawyers and non-lawyers throughout the state. Arostegui's wife, Sylvia Arostegui, was also hired as a partner at Nossaman and will also join the Real Estate Practice Group in Sacramento.


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Ray Wert reports Scott Burgess quit as Detroit News auto writer on Wednesday after editors gave in to a request by an advertiser to water down his negative review of the Chrysler 200. "Yes, I resigned from The Detroit News as of today and I have been sending notes to carmakers announcing such," says the critic. "The resignation was not planned. I choose not to answer the reasons for the resignation."


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If he could change his mind about abortion overnight, what's a year for a politician?
Every time I think of Romney, it seems, I can't help but say "Ugh!" out loud.
It's a primary and they are running against each other. Do we really expect them to say lovely nice things? All this proves is that when they aren't going head to head they support the party and its candidates. It is actually a positive for Romney in terms of pure logic (admitteldy something that is a rarity in a primary too).
We all know that Perry's ONLY goal at this point is to get Romney elected...after all his campaign is dead meat, after his 'heartless' comment a while ago and his de-facto Amnesty plan that he rolled out just yesterday.
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Seagate's GoFlex Desk 4TB External HDD Reviewby Anand Lal Shimpi on September 10, 2011 9:27 PM EST
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There's no point in looking at USB 2.0 performance since all drives there are limited to under 40MB/s thanks to the speed of the interface. Over USB 3.0 however we're able to talk to the drive at much closer to its native performance:
|Windows 7 Performance Comparison
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Sequential read speeds are very high over USB 3.0 at 174.6MB/s. Oddly enough sequential write speeds are noticeably lower, perhaps a limitation introduced by the USB 3.0 controller inside the GoFlex dock. Max sequential write speed is lower than last year's 3TB model while read performance is improved.
Random performance is also a mixed bag. We got better random write performance but slightly lower random read performance than last year's 3TB model.
We turned to HD Tune once again to plot out performance vs. logical block address. Last year we had a somewhat odd graphs from the 3TB drive where performance dropped down to 16MB/s as we wrote to the inner most tracks of the platters. The 4TB solution doesn't have that problem but it does exhibit its own strange behavior:
Write performance remains relatively flat over the majority of the LBA range of the drive. Performance should decrease almost linearly but instead we get consistent performance across the first ~3TB of the drive. It's only in the last 1TB that performance falls down to 75.8MB/s. As I mentioned before, I suspect we may be bottlenecked writing to the GoFlex's USB 3.0 controller which results in this behavior.
Read performance is both higher and linear, indicating once again this issue seems to only limit write speed.
If you're migrating from a 3TB GoFlex Desk, do expect to see a tangible decrease in write speed but once you've got your data on the drive expect to be able to read it back faster.
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As the world becomes more mobile, external storage becomes even more important. Having moved to a notebook-as-a-desktop usage model myself, I completely understand the need for high capacity external drives.
Seagate is certainly pushing the envelope when it comes to capacity with the GoFlex Desk. Just a few years ago I had to build a file server with multiple drives to reach 4TB and today Seagate is delivering it in a small, single drive enclosure. If you need a ton of storage in a relatively compact space, the 4TB GoFlex Desk gets the job done.
The usual caveats apply however. There's always a price premium for these high capacity external drives, although Seagate is only charging an extra $50 for the 4TB version compared to the 3TB model. If you wanted to buy a standalone drives however you could easily buy two 2TB HDDs for less than half the cost of this 4TB external drive. Granted there is the convenience of having an all-in-one package with a single drive but you're almost always better off financially buying internal drives and sticking them in a cheap chassis. Then there's the problem of finding a good way to back up 4TB worth of data.
Finally there's the issue of cooling. If you're going to be constantly reading/writing terabytes of data from/to the GoFlex Desk then you'll want to look elsewhere. Seagate's modified chassis does keep the drive cooler than its predecessor but it's just not designed for extended heavy use. Google's study on hard drive reliability showed that average temperatures above 45C corresponded with an increase in failure rate, particularly for drives that had been running for 3 or more years.
I suspect most users of the GoFlex Desk will be fine however. Moving a couple hundred GBs here or there never resulted in any dangerously high temperatures. Given that this isn't an enterprise drive, I wouldn't expect most users to continuously write 1TB to the drive with any sort of regularity.
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MarkLuvsCS - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkI have two WD external drives, a single 2tb and a 3tb and neither has any heat problems sitting in a small cubby hole devoid of any kind of real circulation. While writing ~80TB of info the drive barely warms up to ~44C for the 3tb and ~42 for the 2tb. The external drives are not 7200rpm but they certainly don't need to be. Transfer rates for the drives are ~120-140MB/s.
Although Google's HDD study showed temperature increases not having a big impact on average failure rates, their charts did show 50C+ it seemed that drive failure did start to increase a little bit.
I am staying clear of Seagate for the time being because of all these issues that seem to crop up time and time again. Reply
khanov - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkBack around May Seagate announced they would be the first to ship drives with 1TB per platter. I'm curious if they ever did so, and if not then what happened? Reply
Death666Angel - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkHitachi beat them to it:
http://www.g-technology.com/news/news.cfm || http://www.g-technology.com/news/pdf/G-Tech%204TB%...
"09/09/11 - G-Technology by Hitachi Showcases its First 4TB Hard Drives — G-Technology™ Demos a Two-Drive 8TB G-RAID™ Thunderbolt® External Storage Solution With Blazing Throughput for Post Production; New 4TB Hitachi GST Hard Drives are First to Ship in G-Technology's G-RAID and G-DRIVE™ solutions "
There ya go. :) Reply
Watwatwat - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkI've had several of the older model seagates bake themselves to death inside their cases, it seems seagate wants these things to fail. the refurbs they sent me as warranty replacement also had a pretty damn high failure rate. so yes, if you get one, don't leave it plugged in for any extended length of time, its pretty pathetic how they are designed. Reply
Nihility - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkHitachi already has 1 TB platters, it's only a matter of time before we see a 4TB drive with only 4 platters from them. Reply
iwodo - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkI had always thought 5 Platter was an Hitachi Exclusive Tech. Reply
vailr - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkWill Windows 8, OSX Lion and/or Ubuntu now provide the ability to boot an external USB 3.0 drive?
I'm guessing "no" for Windows 8, but maybe if enough interest is shown during the beta testing...
Otherwise, go with an external HD housing that includes both USB 3.0 and eSATA. And boot Windows 8 using the eSATA interface. Reply
name99 - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkWTF are you talking about? Mac's have been able to boot from USB officially since Intel Macs, and unofficially even on later PPC models.
Of course this is a USB3 drive connected to a USB2 port, since that's what Apple ships today. I would imagine that when Apple ships a USB3 mac, it will be able to boot from that port right away.
Likewise Apple supports booting from Thunderbolt today.
I've never understood why other OS's can't get this right. OBVIOUSLY the user wants the ability, at least sometimes, to boot from any disk anywhere on there system, whether it's FW, USB or TB connected. Reply
DanaG - Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - linkToo bad most external USB 3.0 controllers don't have a boot ROM. Without that, you won't be able to boot ANY operating system from USB 3.0 devices.
Once chipsets have native USB 3.0, hopefully that will change.
At the very least, they could probably load the kernel via 2.0 mode, and then let the OS flip it into 3.0 mode. Reply
jdietz - Monday, September 12, 2011 - linkAre there available 4TB internal drives / bare drives? Reply


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Keep Texas Beautiful recently honored Baylor University as the first place winner of the organization's 2010 Civic Organization Award, which recognizes Baylor's efforts to enhance its community and protect the Texas environment.
The Civic Organization Award is one of nine categories in the Keep Texas Beautiful Awards and recognizes contributions by civic organizations. Award winners were recognized June 21-24, during the 43rd Annual Keep Texas Beautiful Conference in Austin.
Each year, Keep Texas Beautiful acknowledges deserving senior citizens, community groups, individuals, civic organizations, media, government entities and law enforcement officials for their commitment to litter prevention and cleanup, illegal dumping enforcement, education and publicity of environmental issues and community beautification.
Baylor was recognized for the significant strides it has made in the area of sustainability over the past several years. The university's efforts in its athletic recycling initiative, its campus recycling initiative, as well as other programs designed to make Baylor more sustainable contribute substantially to the improvement of the Baylor University campus and have a positive impact on the Waco community.
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Personalization is a common technique used to draw reader's attention by making the email unique to them. Email marketers typically personalize an email by adding the recipient's name in either the subject line or the message portion of the email.
Adding a recipient's first or last name in the subject line of an email often generates negative results. These emails are frequently associated with spam thereby earning a bad reputation and causing most recipients to delete the message or file spam complaints.
Conversely, it appears that personalization within the message portion of the email will likely lead the recipient to interact with or open the message. As previously mentioned, MailerMailer tracks an open only when the recipient interacts with the email by either enabling images or clicking on a link in the email. So even if the recipient has images automatically disabled but see their name in the message they are often more inclined to enable images and will spend more time reading your message.
As illustrated below, each personalization method generated drastically different results. Emails which contained personalization in the subject line had a 4.1% open rate versus personalization in the actual message which turned out to be a much higher open rate of 12.6%. This data suggests readers are more likely to dismiss an email with their name in the subject line by deleting it, ignoring it or submitting a spam complaint whereas personalized messages appear to encourage more engagement from the reader.
The click rate trend closely mirrors that of the open rate trend. Messages that contained a personalized subject line only generated a 0.8% click rate, while personalization in the message portion of the email generated a 3% click rate.
Interestingly, emails that were not personalized at all had the same results as that of personalized messages at a 3% click rate.


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Tony Pulis has been impressed with how club-record signing Nacer Chadli has settled into life at West Brom both on and off the pitch.
Chadli, a £13million arrival from Tottenham, has made a bright start with the Baggies, scoring three goals and setting up two others in his four matches for the club.
Such early season form earned him a call-up to the Belgium squad after he was overlooked for the European Championships in the summer.
However, Chadli's demeanour away from the field and his ability to bond with the rest of the West Brom team has also caught Pulis' eye.
"Nacer's done well, we've been really pleased with him not just the way he's played, but also the way he's mixed well with the group," he said ahead of Saturday's visit of Chadli's former club Spurs to The Hawthorns.
"All the players we brought in and have integrated well. The spirit there is very good and we've got to try and maintain that with good results.
"Performances help, but he's settled in with the group off the pitch as well. He's got a good manner about him.
"I think they look up to him as well in respect that technically he's an exceptional player. Let's hope he keeps scoring goals."


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If you are familiar with filmmaker Kevin Smith, then you likely know Jay and Silent Bob. The two characters (played by Jason Mewes and Smith) appeared in nearly all of Smith's movies in the 1990s and early 2000s - "Clerks," "Mallrats," "Chasing Amy", "Dogma" - and even starred in their own film, "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back."
Although we haven't seen them on screen since 2006's "Clerks II," the actors who embodied these characters have remained busy recording a weekly comedy podcast titled "Jay & Silent Bob Get Old" available for free on iTunes.
Now, they are taking the show on the road. On March 15, Mewes and Smith will be recording their podcast at the Carolina Theatre in downtown Durham. Tickets for the show, which range from $29 to $49, go on sale Friday through Ticketmaster.


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San Jose crews fanned out Monday night to clean up tagging and graffiti on U.S. Highway 101 at the 13th Street bridge. Lots of business owners are upset with all the graffiti. Councilman Sam Liccardo wants the city to build higher fences and barricades to keep the taggers away. George Kiriyama reports.
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A 62-YEAR-OLD pilot has died after crashing a recreational aircraft in northern NSW.
The crash happened shortly after 8.50am (AEDT) on Sunday at Lismore airport, police say.
The pilot is yet to be formally identified, but a police spokeswoman said he's believed to be a 62-year-old Lismore man.
Because the plane was not an ultra-light or a fixed wing aircraft, no investigation will be conducted by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, she added.
Lismore airport was closed for most of Sunday, but reopened just before 5pm.
A report will be prepared for the coroner.
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ConnecticutRestaurantWeek.com provides menus and online reservations for more than one hundred twenty five restaurants participating in this falls culinary celebration. Upcoming weeks include: Greater Valley Restaurant Week (October 3-10), Connecticut Restaurant Week (October 10-16), Greenwich and Port Chester Restaurant Week (October 16-21), West Haven Restaurant Week (October 17 - 23), and Mystic Restaurant Week (October 28-November 5).
Restaurant weeks have become wildly popular across Connecticut with an ever-growing number of cities and towns participating. Said Chris Pooley, founder of ConnecticutRestaurantWeek.com. We are committed to providing Connecticut residents up to date information on all of the upcoming restaurant weeks. Connecticut foodies searching for gourmet fare at bargain prices can use our website to view all the participating restaurants, browse menus, and make reservations. With so many options to choose from, everyone is able to enjoy the variety, value, and hospitality of Connecticuts restaurant scene.
Restaurants involved in a restaurant week typically offer an appetizer, entrée, and desert from a special price fixed menu. This allows diners to try new restaurants and revisit old favorites for an affordable price. Participants can select from a wide array of restaurants, from old favorites to the newest culinary hot spots, from nationally known restaurants to up-and-coming local bistros.
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PROFESSOR Robert Langdon is back.
But this time bestselling author Dan Brown's character is more Jason Bourne in a blazer than a Harvard academic unravelling the codes locked in religious iconography.
Director Ron Howard returns to The Da Vinci Code series with Inferno.
The plot focuses on an extremist called Bertrand Zobrist (Ben Foster).
He believes the world is at a crisis point and the only way to save humanity is by wiping out half of the world's population with a deadly virus.
After waking up in a hospital room in Florence with no memory of what has occurred for the last few days, Langdon (Tom Hanks) suddenly finds himself caught in the middle and the target of a manhunt as he goes on the run with plucky doctor Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones).
There are a couple of decent twists but Inferno eschews the brains of the first two films of the series for something more action orientated.
Some scenes come across as something you would more likely see in The Terminator while Howard uses apocalyptic visions to pad out the film and distract from the flimsy plot.
At times it seems like Howard, behind Apollo 13 and Frost/Nixon, did not know whether he wanted to make an action film, a horror or a thriller.
It is also hard to suspend your disbelief when Langdon goes from suffering from amnesia to being back to genius level within the space of about an hour in film terms.
One minute he can't remember the word for coffee, the next he remembers every minute detail of Dante's Inferno.
Switch off your brain and there is popcorn fun to be had but that is about it.
Hanks and Jones, fast becoming the go-to actress for big budget films, make an enjoyable pairing but there is little chemistry.
Meanwhile, Irrfan Khan steals the show as Harry Sims, a fixer from a shadowy agency.


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Video: PS Engineering's PAR200 Multi-Function Audio System
There's a need for affordable audio system upgrades for basic aircraft. �PS Engineering attempts to answer the call with the PAR200 -- a three-in-one system that combines an advanced audio panel, a stereo intercom, and a remote comm radio. �In this video, Aviation Consumer's Larry Anglisano takes a look at the unit during it's introduction at AirVenture 2013 at Oshkosh.


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Our Church Weeknd away this year will be taking place at Hothorpe Hall in Leicestershire from November 3-5. If you would like to download an application form for the weekend click on this link.
Hothorpe Hall is an extremely well-equipped Christian conference centre in the middle of the beautiful Leicestershire countryside. Set up in the late 1980s by two Christian couples from Kent, it has developed over the years and has now become one of the premier Christian conference centres in the country.
It nestles in the serene and gentle Hothorpe Hills, right in the heart of England, but is only 5 miles from Market Harborough and is easily reached in just over an hour by car from Moreton. There are plenty of places to visit locally, and the Centre itself offers a wide variety of facilities.
It contains accommodation for over 150 people, and almost all the rooms have en-suite facilities. It boasts an excellent conference room, with modern equipment, as well as numerous other smaller rooms for group discussion or seminars. There is also a small chapel on the site for quiet prayer or contemplation.
There are excellent facilities for children and babies, with plenty of toys and other useful equipment. There is a well-stocked bookstall, and there are hot and cold drinks available at all times, and a bar available in the evening.
It will be an excellent weekend - so sign up soon!


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Nigel Smith
Partner, Kerr Smith Design
Nigel Smith, Creative Director at Kerr Smith, is a designer, art director and photographer by education and a businessman through experience. He has worked in London, Toronto and in Milan for five years and taught at Harvard for seven years. He has 20 years experience with diverse international clients in a variety of commercial and cultural sectors, from art museums, international architects, fashion retailers, wealth management and healthcare. He won a Presidential Design Award for the work with the Smithsonian Institution in 2006. He has lectured across North America and served on many design juries. He has written numerous articles on branding for the National Post.
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Israeli Arabs decry state 'regression' as thousands march on Land Day -
The sector traditionally protests every March 30 against the expropriation of their lands by the Israeli government.
Some 1,500 Arabs attend Lod rally, launch Land Day events. Demonstrators protest against demolition of homes, plans to expel Arabs.
By Jack Khoury, Hassan Shaalan
Thousands of people gathered in the Israeli Arab "triangle" in the north on Wednesday to mark the 35th annual Land Day, in which the sector traditionally protests the expropriation of their lands by the government.
Demonstrators marched through the town of Sakhnin waving Palestinian flags and black cloths, culminating their parade at the main square in the village of Arabe.
Despite preparation by the Israel Police for possible unrest, the events went on without any disturbances. Police forces stationed patro
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Hollywood Babies in 2026
Check out this fake cover from US Weekly. It predicts what headlines may look like in 20 years... Tom and Brooke are still feuding, Suri finally comes out of hiding and says her parents will wed "any day now." So this is how tabloids create the news.... interesting.
US also created a fun game to see what these beautiful babies will look like in 20 years. Click here to see Sean Preston, Apple Martin, Maddox and more all grown up.


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Why Come Here? Some of South Beach's best upscale food, relaxed atmosphere, pool and ocean views
Right Amount for 2: 1-2 apps, 2 entrees
I never would have come across Florida Cookery had it not been for a recommendation from Miami blogger Food For Thought who is a big fan of Chef Kris Wessel from his previous restaurant, Red Light. I'm very glad I did though as this may be the best spot on South Beach for great food without pretension or (much of) a scene.
Florida Cookery is located in the James Hotel, although "hidden" may be the better term here. There are no signs once you walk into the hotel and you have to walk all the way to the back then up two flights of stairs to find it. Once you do though, you're rewarded with a cool, sleek modern space overlooking the pool with the crashing waves of the Atlantic in the distance. Add in friendly and attentive service and music and patron noise at the right level and you have one of South Beach's most pleasant hotel dining experiences. The only issue with the location is perhaps the world's longest walk to the bathroom (which is outside the restaurant, down a flight of stairs and a long hallway.) So if you're decked out in traditional South Beach attire with the 8-inch stilettos, you may want to pee before you go.
The menu is fresh and local, with a nod to the diverse heritage of Florida cooking (think pecan-dusted grouper w/ grits, gator empanadas, creole oxtail). Yes,probably half the restaurants in South Beach make this claim. But while most charge the same amount ($15 apps, $25+ entrees), few do it this well. It's also one of the rare restaurants where I would have been happy eating anything on the menu. And on a recent Saturday night, it was inexplicably only about half-full. So get in before the secret gets out.
Here are my thoughts on what we ordered. You can find more photos on DishEnvy.
Oxtail, Oyster & Alligator Empanadas (1 of each) If you're into empanadas (who isn't?) these are a solid way to start your meal. The oyster was a little strange, but the lemon cayenne sauce makes everything better.
Kris' Biscayne Blvd Shrimp Grilled and covered in a spicy tangy sauce somewhat reminiscent of Worcestershire that you'll want to lick out of the bowl. Fortunately it comes with baguettes to soak it up so you won't have to.
Goat Cheese Broiled Great mix of hot/cold elements with the baked goat cheese and hot tomatoes against the cool arugula and cucumber salsa. Really transforms a basic sounding salad.
"Florida is the South" Pecan Dusted Grouper Sweet pecan, salty cheese grits and citrusy sauce. It's surprisingly a fairly light but it packs a ton of flavor nonetheless.
Key Lime & Tomato Mahi Mahi The tomato and lime combined for a dish I found a little heavy on the acid. You do get a nice cut of mahi mahi, but there are too many great options here to settle for this.
Florida Cookery (James Hotel)
1545 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL
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WASHINGTON (WUSA9) – On Thursday, the DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department (DCFEMS) issued Final Agency Decisions for the firefighters who did not help Medric "Cecil" Mills after he collapsed in a parking lot across the street from a fire station.
You may remember that 77-year-old Mills suffered from a heart attack in late January and died steps from Engine 26 on Rhode Island Avenue NE.
SEE WHAT MILLS' FAMILY HAD TO SAY AFTER HIS DEATH HERE: http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/local/dc/2014/02/05/cecil-mills-dc-fire/5221803/
In disciplinary proceedings held on June 17th, 20th and 25th, the trial board panels recommended an official reprimand of one firefighter, found another firefighter not guilty and suspension for another firefighter.
"The disciplinary actions recommended are not severe enough. It's completely unacceptable for these firefighters to not respond to a request for emergency medical services," said Interim DCFEMS Chief Eugene A. Jones in a written statement. "Unfortunately, our disciplinary process does not offer the Fire Chief any latitude to render discipline autonomously."
According to a press release from DCFEMS, "Under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement, the Fire Chief has no authority to increase a proposed penalty recommendation from a Fire Trial Board. The Fire Chief can only accept or reduce a proposed penalty or dismiss a case."
Chief Jones will not dismiss or reduce any of the proposed disciplinary actions.


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The county library system will host a series of free acoustic concerts at various branches through February.
Today: Joe Rathburn plays a 3 p.m. show at the La Mesa branch.
Sunday: Nicole Torres plays a 4 p.m. show at the San Marcos branch.
Information: sdcls.homestead.com
A free concert series at San Diego County Library branches featuring acoustic music performed by local artists kicked off Friday night in Solana Beach.
The series has scheduled 18 performances through February, said Ross Moore, who organized the series for the county library with music promoter Veronica Graciano of eliteAudience. The series focuses on contemporary folk music.
The concerts will be held at library branches around the region, including in Fallbrook, Imperial Beach, Vista, Spring Valley and Descanso.
Joe Rathburn will play at 3 p.m. today at the La Mesa branch, and on Sunday, Nicole Torres will perform at 4 p.m. at the San Marcos branch. The full concert schedule and artist biographies can be found at sdcls.homestead.com.
"For the audience, it's an opportunity to hear some of San Diego's best local acoustic musicians, for free, in a good listening environment," Moore said.
The performances, which will cost about $2,000 to present, are being funded by Friends of the Library groups at county branches, Moore said.
Moore, a contractor with the library, said he was hired to explore partnerships to bring programming to the library system. Surveys filled out by library patrons showed a strong desire for musical performances by local artists, he said.
Graciano, who recently quit her job at a gift basket company to launch her music promotion business, said she is a fan of all the musicians in the library's concert series.
"You can't go to a Gregory Page show without instantly becoming a fan and falling in love with him. It's just impossible," Graciano said, referring to one of the series' featured performers.
The concert series, she said, "is a way for us to support something that's local, something that's positive, and for all of us to come together as a community."Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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I Ride Park City: Episode 7
The season might be winding down at Park City Mountain Resort, but that doesn't mean the park isn't in full force. Some might even say that the park is the best it has been all winter. Watch as Blaze Kotsenburg, Griffin Seibert, Caleb Flowers, Ozzy Henning, Spencer Schubert, Scotty Arnold, Scott Stevens, and Brandon Hobush show you just how much fun a slushy park and pipe can really be.


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Research Topics
Stéphanie Petitpierre
Affiliation: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois
Country: Switzerland
Detail Information
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Service d immunologie et d allergie, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne
Rev Med Suisse 4:1030-4, 1036-8. 2008..Urticaria is then typically absent and anti-histamines, as well as adrenalin, are ineffective...
- [Use of autoantibodies in clinical practice]Stéphanie Petitpierre
Departement de Medecine Interne, CHUV, Lausanne
Rev Med Suisse 5:823-31. 2009..Due to its high sensitivity indirect immunofluorescence is used as a screening test; when positive, ELISA is performed to search for antibodies more specifically associated with certain auto-immune diseases...
- [Cardiac involvement in connective tissue disease: the example of systemic lupus erythematosus]S Chappuis
Service d immunologie et d allergie, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne
Rev Med Suisse 6:804, 806-11. 2010....
- [Unusual cause for a dyspnea.]Mathilde Gavillet
Service de Medecine Interne, Departement de Medecine Interne, CHUV, Lausanne
Praxis (Bern 1994) 99:1157-62. 2010..We describe the clinical features, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of the disease with special focus on haematological and pulmonary involvement...


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• You Did It, Fans! Last night's fan walk-out at PNC Park magically fixed the Pittsburgh Pirates, I'm happy to report ... either that, or the Nationals just happen to suck worse than the Pirates. The Buccos won 7-2, thanks to a solid performance from Tom Gorzelanny, and also to the 1,000 or so people who left their seats in the third inning, and then, for the most part, returned. It must've been inspiring. Gorzelanny went 7 and a third, allowing 2 runs and 5 hits, making his case to be the Pirates representative on the All-Star team. They might just send the Parrot.
• They Might As Well Have Worn Matching Earrings. Brad Penny and Jake Peavy did fine impressions of one another last night. They both threw 7 innings and gave up 1 run. Peavy issued 1 less walk, and Penny had one more strikeout. Neither of them got the win, but that's alright, they've still got 19 between then. Both bullpens did their job, too ... until the 12th inning, when the Dodgers trotted out Brett Tomko, who got beat up for 2 runs, allowing the Padres to bring in Trevor Hoffman to nail it down. When a game comes down to Tomko vs. Hoffman ... I like the Padres chances.
• He Likes It, He Loves It. I guess the Mets are just going to make a weekend out of kicking the hell out of the Phillies. They've won the first three of the four-game series, and Carlos Beltran homered twice (again). None of this would be happening if Pat Burrell were still alive. Oh, and Tim McGraw threw out the first pitch ... he's schedule's cleared up now that has Nashville Kats missed the Arena Football playoffs.
• Proud To Be in Purple Today. Look at that ... a Rockies game that doesn't end in total misery for the team in purple. Hm. The Rocks ended an 8 game losing streak behind seven excellent innings from Jeff Francis, and then one each from Latroy Hawkins and Jeremy Affeldt. The Astros managed just 4 hits all game, 2 of them from Craig Biggio, who joins the 3,004 club.


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Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen Reportedly Sign On For Love Triangle in Sarah Polley's Take This Waltz
Link Time! Seth Rogen and Michelle Williams Ready to "Waltz"
- Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen are rumored to get romantic for Take This Waltz — Deadline Hollywood
- Former Bachelor Jason Mesnick to marry Molly Malaney on ABC — TV Watch
- Brittany Murphy's husband is blaming Warner Bros. for her death — The Daily Beast
- Check out this goofy video from the Macgruber set — TV Squad
- Mel Gibson in talks for the thriller Cold Warrior — Cinematical
- Joe Dirt is getting an animated series on TBS — News Briefs
- The Grammys: 40 iconic missteps — BellaSugar
- FOX greenlights comedy pilot from Ron Howard — Inside TV
- The 15 biggest breakout films of Sundance — Moviefone
- I can't wait for this Lost issue of Entertainment Weekly! — PopWatch


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Eleven banks have joined to form a new alliance called The Global Alliance for Banking on Values in a move to build a positive alternative to the current crisis in the global financial system. According to a press release on the Netherlands based Triodos Bank's website, this new partnership plans to develop new ways of building organizations better suited to long-term sustainable thinking and also to develop new forms of ownership and economic cooperation. The alliance was launched at an event held in The Netherlands from March 2-4, 2009. The event was also attended by Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima of The Netherlands, a former banker and former member of the United Nations Group on Inclusive Financial Sectors, and Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program. The eleven member alliance was founded by the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) Bank based in Bangladesh, ShoreBank Corporation the United States based community development and environment bank and Triodos Bank in The Netherlands. Other member banks of the alliance include Alternative Bank ABS in Switzerland, Banca Popolare Etica in Italy, Banex, Banco del Exito in Nicaragua, the GLS Bank in Germany, Mekur Bank in Denmark, Mibanco, Banco de la Microempresa in Peru, New Resource Bank in the United States and the XacBank in Mongolia.
The member banks, with assets worth over USD 10 billion and serving over seven million customers in 20 countries, also came together for their first meeting during the event. Given the current financial crisis and its profound influence on the global economy, the members believe the timing of the alliance's launch is crucial. Speaking at the launch, Mr Peter Blom, the CEO of Triodos Bank described the leaders of the 11 member banks as 'forces of change' who stuck to simple, core banking services that balance 'people, planet and profit'. He brought to attention the fact that these banks were still profitable and crisis resistant, unlike their mainstream contemporaries and stated that the leaders of these 11 banks held some of the solutions to the global financial crisis. Ms Mary Houghton, President of the Shorebank Corporation stated that the establishment of such an alliance was very important given the current crisis and the need for a healthier, more sustainable economy. Ms Houghton said the alliance would focus on promoting 'responsible' finance, supporting existing banks in this regard and also helping develop new ones. Speaking at the event, Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima of The Netherlands called for banks to 'go back to [the] basics' and follow the traditional banking activity of acting as an intermediary between the saver and the borrower in addition to building a strong relationship with customers. She also stressed on the need for banks to thoroughly assess how much each customer could really handle as a loan. No further information on the alliance's plan of action or the outcome of the meeting is publicly available.
To qualify for membership to the alliance, each institution had to meet the following three criteria:
- Should be an independent and licensed bank with a focus on retail customers.
- Should have a minimum balance of USD 100 million.
- Should be committed to responsible financing and the triple bottom line of people, planet and profit.
As of now, no information is publicly available as to whether the alliance is open for new membership.
The resilience of the microfinance industry to the global financial crisis has been much discussed about and has also been covered extensively by MicroCapital. Several key microfinance practitioners and advocates have publicly voiced their support for microfinance as a stable alternative investment. Dr. Muhammad Yunus of the Grameen Bank, referring to the fact that the microfinance sector was quite insulated from the financial crisis, said: 'in the middle of all these bad news: microfinance still works'. The TIME Magazine featured an interview with Ms. Mary Ellen Iskenderian, the CEO of Women's World Banking in December 2008, where Ms. Iskenderian acknowledged that there was evidence backing the resilience of the microfinance industry to the global market movements. Citing the still high repayment rates in the range of nearly 97- 98 percent, Ms. Iskenderian stated that equity did still seem to be available for microfinance. Former US President Bill Clinton, in his speech at the 2008 Clinton Global Initiative, called for investors to consider the poor of developing nations as viable investment alternatives to today's turbulent markets. As reported in this MicroCapital story, Mr. Clinton lauded international microfinance investors as 'smart people' earning money the 'old-fashioned way' in a 'real economy based on real people doing real things for a real rate of return.' A MicroCapital story quotes the CEO and Managing Director of Sri Lanka's Hatton National Bank, Rajendra Theagarajah, as stating that investment in microfinance, as opposed to focusing on subsidies, is one of the reasons Asia has been able to better withstand shocks of the global financial crisis. A 2008 study by the international management consulting firm, Arthur D. Little (ADL), strongly predicts that microfinance is poised to become a new asset class for traditional investors. Further, many countries have also witnessed slow but steady growth in their microfinance sector despite the financial crisis. MicroCapital has covered such steady growth of the sector in several regions including Latin America, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia and China.
By Bharathi Ram, Research Assistant
Additional Resources:
Triodos Bank: Home, Global Alliance for Banking on Values launched
TIME: Microfinance Still Hums, Despite Crisis
March 12, 2009: Expanding Microfinancing in Latin America
Feb 24, 2009: Bosnia and Herzegovina Microfinance Analysis Benchmarking Report
Feb 18, 2009: Customer Savings and Deposits Ensure Stability of Cambodia's Microfinance Sector
Jan 9, 2009: Push and Pull of China's Microfinance Expansion
Nov 24, 2008: Are Microfinance Operations Boosting Asian Banks against Financial Shocks?
Nov 27, 2008: Microfinance on the Rise
Oct 2, 2008: Bill Clinton extols Microfinance


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Ramona High School's varsity and junior varsity teams opened their summer passing schedule at the Dawg Pound hosting Temescal Canyon High School last Tuesday and San Pasqual High School on Thursday.
Only the varsity participated in the scrimmage against Temescal Canyon. The scrimmage started out with the alternating positions. Each team played 20 minutes of offense and then switched to defense. Both squads had the ball twice.
In that segment of the scrimmage, Ramona outscored the Titans eight touchdowns to four. Erik Ernst hit Seth Drake for two scores. Ernst also connected with Tyler Jackson and Kyler Fitting for scores. Ian Hunt hooked up with Quincy Watts for a score.
Trevor Kerchner, Jake Graham and Watts scored on intercepted passes.
In the second half of the scrimmage, the teams played using rules closer to real football. If a team's offense was stopped, the other team took over possession of the ball.
Temescal Canyon scored on an interception on Ramona's first offensive possession. The Titans then scored on their possession.
Ramona tossed another interception. The defense took over the tone of the scrimmage. The Dawg defense recorded four stops and scored on a Kerchner interception.
The offense came alive as Ian Hunt recorded a scoring toss to Kerchner. Rocco Hemphill drove the team 70 yards on two plays hitting Kerchner with a long toss to set up a fitting TD. Ernst hit Drake for the final score of the night.
"We were a little rusty. It was the first time that we went against another team. We had too many drops and our quarterbacks were a little late on their reads and throws," said Coach Damon Baldwin.
Coach Ed Munyer was pleased with the work of the linebackers and secondary but sees "room for improvement."
The varsity and junior varsity hosted the Golden Eagles of San Pasqual High School. The squads used format similar to the one used against Temescal Canyon.
The Dawgs started out hot. They shut down the Eagles on their first defensive stint, then scored four touchdowns on its first offensive series. Ernst hit Kwayde Miller, Kerchner and Drake with scoring tosses. Hunt hit Watts for a TD. San Pasqual did score on an interception.
Ernst finished the scrimmage hitting Tyler Jackson and Drake with scoring passes. Hunt hit Fitting for the final score.
"We started out well but lost our intensity on defense," said Munyer. "We got away from doing what we like to do and we played their game. We did well but we have to play our game to succeed."
"Overall we had a good week," said Baldwin. "We have some adjustments to make and some decisions to make. I am pleased with the competition and the hard work we have done so far."


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Olivier: The Authorised Biography
by Terry Coleman
624pp, Bloomsbury, £20
The day Laurence Olivier died I was directing a play in New York of which the star was Ellen Burstyn. She was Lee Strasberg's heir as head of the Actors' Studio, an organisation that might be said to embody the exact opposite of what Olivier stood for. Yet when she arrived at rehearsal she was in tears, and she remained inconsolable all day. "We are all diminished by his death," she said.
Whether you admired his performances or not, Olivier had raised the stakes for acting; his achievements were a spur to us all. His career was prodigious, from his rapid ascent to fame, his early successes in the classics, his consolidation of Hollywood stardom with Wuthering Heights in his early 30s, the assured directing debut with the film of Henry V, the legendary triumphs with the Old Vic during and after the war (Richard III and Oedipus), two more Shakespeare films, then a self-reinvention, when he threw in his lot with the "angry young men" in Osborne's The Entertainer; all this culminating in the creation of the National Theatre. As careers go, this is stupendous stuff; his personal life was on a Shakespearean scale too, from the great romance with Vivien Leigh which so rapidly became a nightmare, to his sudden dismissal by the board of the Old Vic in the 1940s after he had led it to glory, the ugly intrigues surrounding his departure from the NT he had created, to the physical horrors of illness which beset him more or less continuously for the last 20 years of his life. He manifested an overwhelming and awe-inspiring loyalty to the talent with which he was born, wrecking his body and to some extent his life to serve it. He was, in his own life, Romeo, Hotspur, Hal, Henry IV, Othello and finally Lear; at the end he wrote, making the comparison explicit: "Is it now possible that I have placed a part of his clothing on me? I wear an invisible theatrical crown, which I like, am very attached to and will not give up."
There have been many books about Olivier, none without merit, but what we have been waiting for has been the authorised biography. It was always going to be an enormous task: Olivier, conscious throughout of destiny looming, was a compulsive hoarder and the sheer mass of the papers now in the British Library has defeated at least one previous biographer. Terry Coleman, who accepted the challenge, is an immensely distinguished journalist and biographer. He has approached his task in the spirit of a reporter and investigator determined to tame the unruly materials of Olivier's life, cutting a path of verifiable truth through the jungle of myth and mystification, much of it engendered by his subject. This he has done admirably, clearing up confusion, adjudicating between conflicting versions and establishing the course of events beyond doubt. Here you will find exactly what Olivier's war record was, what happened between him and Peter Hall during the unhappy handover of power at the NT, the economics of the Oliviers' baronial establishment at Notley. Coleman has provided surely the last chilling word on the course of Leigh's mental illness and how Olivier handled it, and his account of Olivier's physical decline is all the more harrowing for being so clinically precise.
Everything about the book is as far removed from the standard showbiz biography as could be imagined, from its clean and muscular prose to its rigorous methodology. This is refreshing. But it remains a report. Coleman eschews analysis, and makes little attempt to enter into his subject's mind. It is stuffed with fascinating new information: Coleman's account of his subject's family history and education, for example, make it clear that Olivier played down the distinction of both, preferring to present himself as impoverished and lowly, without the slightest intellectual capacity. Characteristically, Coleman reports this piece of self-reinvention, but he does not try to tease out its meaning. There is also the fairly sensational revelation of letters to the 29-year-old Olivier from the actor Henry Ainley, 30 years his senior, which unmistakably attest to a sexual relationship (though exactly what happened between them is unclear, since Coleman somewhat coyly refrains from quoting from the more explicit ones). Again, though there is lengthy discussion of the ins and outs, so to speak, of Olivier's sexuality, there is no insight as to what it was about Ainley that enticed Olivier into his bed - the only man, as far as we know, who did.
It was inevitable that Coleman would have to leave something out: sadly, what he has left out is the man. A figure called Laurence Olivier leaps, races, staggers, through these pages, to be sure, but his motives and his manners are equally incomprehensible to Coleman. This is for one principal reason: Olivier was 100% an actor, and actors and their world are a closed book to Coleman. He is often hard-pressed to conceal his impatience with it all: describing Shakespeare's early masterpiece, Titus Andronicus, and Peter Brook's audaciously stylised production of it, Coleman writes "astonishingly, Brook and Olivier made a success of all this". Coleman must have a blind eye for Brook, since he fails to mention that he directed Olivier in the notoriously unhappy film of The Beggar's Opera, and completely misreports the conflict between Brook and Olivier over Oedipus at the National Theatre.
There are howlers in the book which suggest unfamiliarity with this world - it was not the Dean of St Paul's, William Inge, who wrote the play Come Back Little Sheba, but his Kansas namesake; it was not Sophocles' Antigone that the Old Vic Company did in 1946, but Anouilh's. These are insignificant details, perhaps; what does matter is that Coleman fails to mention that Olivier rather famously appeared in the production of Antigone himself, as a dinner-jacketed chorus. Only a tiny handful of his roles are described, and then without any effort to grasp what Olivier was aiming for, the nature of the acting enterprise. His Romeo is described, but the Mercutio with which he alternated it, and which caused the real sensation, is not.
Coleman's attempt at an analysis of acting stretches no further than to note that where some actors play themselves, Olivier became the character. But that is by no means the outstanding attribute of Olivier's work, which was above all notable for the vividness of his conceptions and the dazzling brilliance of their execution. Olivier rebelled against the abstract-noun school of acting, where actors sought to embody nobility, vulgarity, power, in favour of detailed realism, rooted in specific psychology, and then brought it to a heightened level of expression. He was not a man of particularly great imagination, and certainly no poet: to many of his contemporaries, his interpretations seemed reductive, cutting down to human size the characters he played. Rather like Shakespeare himself, he seems to have had an overplus of every human emotion, benevolent and malign, and was prepared to explore them in his work to the furthest extreme; it was the misfortune of his nearest and dearest, and sometimes his colleagues, that he was equally free with these emotions in real life.
The physical élan of his work was incomparable; he set himself superhuman challenges, falling down the back of cliffs, leaping 14 feet off rostra, giving voice to unprecedented and larynx-shattering shrieks. It was visceral stuff: the job of the theatre, he said, was "to shock the soul, very much in the same way as violent exercise is to stir the liver". He had no truck with the art that conceals art: he wanted people to know what he was up to. From the start, he told Kenneth Tynan, he wanted "to interest people in the art of acting".
Coleman has a particular animus against Tynan, but every word of his that he quotes is not only vivid and perfectly expressed, but frequently full of sound sense. Trying to persuade Olivier to play Churchill in Hochhuth's Soldiers, Tynan writes to him: "My god how like you the old bastard is! The passionate maddening love of detail; the concentration that can wither people by simply ignoring their presence; the sudden changes of subject; the sudden focusing on apparent irrelevancies; the love of anecdote and quotation ... the brutally realistic assessment of human motives; the impatience; and the patience." Like Churchill, Olivier was a slave to what in his case he called "a black monkey" which convinced him, long before experience confirmed it, of "the tragic condition of being a man"; like Churchill, he was moved by complex emotions regarding his mother and father. We need to know the dynamics of his personality, which baffled his own contemporaries in its mixture of the sublime and the skittish, the heroic and the petty.
Olivier's achievements, as chronicled in this biography, are vast and unprecedented, and in need of explanation. What is it that takes a man to such heights? Coleman prefers not to speculate. Often he tells us of Olivier's behaviour that it is a mystery, which is understandable, but it seems somehow incumbent on a biographer to have a go at cracking the mystery. He has provided us with all the raw materials, but there is further, much further to go in trying to understand the man who wore the crown of acting in the 20th century. When asked to whom he wouldgive Kean's sword, he snapped back: "No one. It's mine." And so it still is.
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"LIVE" Achieves its Best November Sweep Ratings in Key Women Since 2007
Season to Date, "LIVE" Delivers Growth in Key Women Over the
Same Point Last Year, Marking its Strongest Numbers in 5 Years
"LIVE with Kelly and Michael" National Ratings
With just 3 days left in the 2012 November Sweep, "LIVE with Kelly and Michael" ranks as the No. 2 syndicated talk show in both Households (2.7 rating – tie) and Total Viewers (3.560 million), despite the fact that it airs in an early time period with lower overall HUT levels.
- "LIVE" is up 13% in Women 18-34 (0.9 vs. 0.8) over the year-ago November Sweep, which included the high-rated final week of Regis as host, while retaining 100% of its Women 18-49 rating (1.3). In fact, "LIVE" ties its best numbers for the month in both Women demos in 5 years – since 2007.
- On average for the 2012-13 season to date, "LIVE" is up through the same weeks last season by 14% in Women 18-34, by 9% in Women 18-49 and by 7% in Women 25-54, marking its biggest numbers through this point in any season in 5 years – since the 2007-08 season. The year-to-year growth for "LIVE" becomes even more impressive considering its year-ago averages include the highly promoted and high rated weeks leading up to the departure of Regis last November.
Emmy Award-winning talk show "LIVE with Kelly and Michael" is distributed in national syndication by Disney-ABC Domestic Television. Produced by WABC-TV in New York and executive-produced by Michael Gelman, "LIVE" airs in more than 200 markets across the U.S. Visit "LIVE" on the web at LIVEKellyandMichael.com, on Facebook, or follow "LIVE" on Twitter, @KellyandMichael.
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UN Body Closes Loophole in Fight Against Illegal Fishing
Move paves way for mandatory identification numbers
Under current fisheries laws in most of the world, a 100-ton fishing vessel can essentially "disappear" by completing basic paperwork to change its name, radio call sign, or flag of registration.
But a Dec. 4 move by the UN body responsible for global maritime safety could spell an end to that major regulatory gap: The International Maritime Organization, or IMO, removed an exemption for fishing vessels from the IMO's ship identification scheme.
The seven-digit IMO number—similar to serial numbers required for mobile phones and vehicle identification numbers on automobiles—has been mandatory for all merchant and passenger ships in excess of 100 gross tonnes (gt) since 1996. Fishing vessels, however, have been exempted from the requirement. Because ship names, call signs (the codes used during radio transmissions to identify ships), and other identifiers are not permanent and can easily be changed by owners, authorities have faced a significant obstacle in tracking fishing vessels.
Manuel Castiano, director of fisheries surveillance in Mozambique, says the IMO number has been vital to his successful prosecution of industrial foreign-flagged vessels for illegal fishing.
The IMO numbering scheme was introduced to enhance maritime safety and security; registered vessels carry the same unique indicator from construction to scrapping. Originally established and maintained by Lloyd's Register, numbers are currently administered on behalf of the IMO by IHS Fairplay. It is widely regarded as the best available global vessel identification system, because each number is coupled with an independently managed data source on the vessel's specifications, history, and ownership, which is continually updated and cross-checked against multiple sources.
The amendment to remove the exemption for fishing vessels of 100 gt or more passed at the IMO's 2013 General Assembly in London. The move allows IMO member states, as well as regional fisheries management organizations, or RFMOs, coastal States, and flag States to require that all fishing vessels of this size have an IMO number. Owners can obtain a vessel ID free of charge through a simple process. Fisheries experts agree that mandating an identification number will greatly aid in the identification of fishing fleets worldwide and help maintain reliable lists of authorized vessels distinguish them from those known to be engaged in illegal activity.
A 2011 article in the journal Science cited the lack of IMO numbers for fishing vessels as a major reason for the failure of port officials to identify and act against illegal operators. Research by The Pew Charitable Trusts also found numerous inaccuracies and inconsistencies in the records of vessels authorized to fish in areas managed by RFMOs, including:
- Multiple instances of the same vessel listed under different reporting flags with different tonnage and length specifications.
- Vessels listed twice under different names and flags.
- Many vessels listed with the same radio call sign.
- Vessels that had sunk still listed as authorized to fish.
In November, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources became the first marine management organization to require IMO numbers on all vessels fishing within its jurisdiction. The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission will consider a similar move at its annual meeting in early December. Pew is now urging all major RFMOs to adopt similar mandates for vessels of at least 100 gt or 20 meters in length.
IHS Fairplay has already issued identification numbers to some 22,000 fishing vessels in a voluntary extension of the scheme. It is estimated that thousands of vessels could be required to register now that the exemption has been lifted.
Tony Long, who leads Pew's project to end illegal fishing, said: "The IMO has opened the door to a new era of transparency in fisheries. This is a landmark moment in the global fight to prevent operators from circumventing control measures and avoiding tracking if they are blacklisted." He added that mandatory IMO numbers will be "a critical building block" in a system of accountability and visibility for fishing vessels. "Next, we need widespread adoption of stronger controls at ports and tamperproof tracking systems on board vessels involved in fishing operations," Long said.
Pew advocates a worldwide system of mandatory IMO numbers for fishing vessels and recommends the following actions now that the exemption has been lifted:
- RFMOs should require that all vessels authorized to fish in their waters carry IMO numbers.
- Coastal States should mandate that foreign-flagged ships secure IMO numbers before being permitted to fish in their waters.
- States should promptly ratify the IMO's 2012 Cape Town Agreement, which establishes international rules on fishing vessel safety.
- Port States should require that all foreign fishing vessels entering their ports have IMO numbers.
- Banks financing the purchase or repair of large fishing vessels should require them to have IDs before offering financing.
- Insurance companies that insure large fishing vessels should make policies conditional upon having IMO numbers, and coverage should be voided for vessels that are successfully prosecuted for illegal fishing.
For more information see http://www.pewenvironment.org/news-room/factsheets/illegal-fishing-your-numbers-up-85899498000
Contact John Briley, communications officer: +1-202-540-6394, email@example.com
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Topics: Oceans, Environment
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MY preference is to hunt with single shot rifles. However, since I had an accident out in the hill and trashed my right knee, just going hunting is a challenge. These days I hunt through an outfitter for elk and he forbids single shot rifles. I'm going to try and convince him to let me use one nest January when I do my hunt as on the hunts I've done with him so far, an antelope and two elk have all been one shot kills. I've done in a few deer with a handgun and even took one with a bow an arrow. They just didn't float my boat.
Probably my biggest challenge was glassing for coyotes and then doing a stalk. I even had a special rifle built up for that hut, a Ruger #1 action, Remington M7 barrel and a custom stock. A 3X El paso Weaver completed the package.. It was a lot of fun but the coyotes usually won that race. No matter as until I wrecked my knee, I was a pretty darn good stalker especially on deer.
I never have been too keen on muzzleloaders although I am certified to teach muzzleloader in the Hunter Ed program. I just hate cleaning the darn things.
My biggest hunting challenge though is drawting a tag, any tag. I've been here in AZ since 1979 and I've drawn 8 deer tags, 5 elk tags and zero tags for antelope and Bighorn Sheep.
Since the knee got trashed haven't put in for the sheep tag.
I just turned 75 so there probably aren't too many hunts left for me so I hope I can get tags next year just so I can get out and hunt.
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But when Harry is caught between his client's desire for discretion and his suspicion that murder may have been committed, he enlists the help of Superintendent Kerridge of the Scotland Yard and Lady Rose herself.
©2003 Marion Chesney. All rights reserved.; (P)2004 BBCA
"campy cozy"
While I'm not a huge fan of Chesney/Beaton's Hamish MacBeth mysteries, I found this novel charming and look forward to the rest in the seies.
The Edwardian setting, the slighly campy tone (enhanced by the author's selection of period quotes to set the theme for each chapter), and the ALMOST tongue-in-cheek narration by the talented Davina Porter made this a jolly listen. You know that Lady Rose and Capt.Cathcart are going to live happily ever after in some distant future, but till then the lightweight sexual tension between the characters keeps you laughing and believing in "ever after." Meantime there is nothing truly dark in this novel to disturb the present moment, if a relaxing listen is what you're after.
"Light and amusing series (Book 1)"
If you want a period piece that is essentially a teensy bit of romance, a teensy bit of mystery, and a teensy bit silly, check out this series by Marion Chesney. There are four books in the series - I'm just about to start Book 3, and so far I find them fun to listen to while I'm working. This series is light enough that you can multi-task while listening, unlike some authors (Anne Perry or Tess Gerritsen) that require you to really concentrate on the details. (I do love both Perry and Gerritsen, though)
I will say that Harry's solutions to problems seem to border on the unrealistic and rather slapstick at times, but otherwise it is a nice listen. And I ALWAYS enjoy Davina Porter's reading. That's actually what led me to the series in the first place - she narrated many of Anne Perry's books and I loved her in those as well.
"Thoroughly enjoyable cozy"
This is an Edwardian era English mystery with lots of intrigue and female "spunk". The mystery is great. I didn't guess, though at one point, I thought about it and dismissed it! The writing is clear and easy to follow. This is an excellent beginning to a series!
The narrator is one of my favorites. I never wondered who was speaking.
Yes, I'd recommend this anyone liking a great cozy English mystery.
"Wonderful Escape!"
The rich Edwardian English accents of the reader, Davina Porter, whisk the you away to an England long since gone. The characters are richly developed and entirely believable, if eccentric to our modern temperaments. Marion Chesney includes dashes of humor that lighten the murderous mystery at the manor. Daisy, with her spunk and cockney verage, was my favorite. As maid to the rebellious Lady Rose, she comes to the rescue on several occasions and levels. Loved this story and can't wait for the next!
"Great Fun!!!!"
I loved it. It is shame the author isn't continuing the story line. I hope she changes her mind.
"Bit hard to follow to follow at times."
Liked it but not as attention holding as her others. But I still want to finish the series.
"Entertaining book"
Really nice book with a lot of potential. Buttttt way to short to make it in to really good mystery book. For me this was an in between book.
The voice of Davina Porter was as usual superb she takes this book to another level.
"Frothy, Friviolous Mystery of Fripperies & Murder"
It was mildly entertaining so the time in the car listening to it was well spent.
I think the young lady who was the main character was not very appealing to me. It could be my age is quite a bit older. I think if the young woman had a little more understanding of the world and herself, she would have been more believable. Of course it was her stupidity and lack of social skill that got her into trouble.
Cathcart, the main male character was not well formed so his appeal to the young lady or his interactions with anyone but his manservant were not well fleshed out. So when the two main characters were thrown together, their appeal and attraction to one another had no (or not enough) foundation.
I was more interested in the life and love of the two servants and a story about them (and the society that they lived in as servants) would have been more interesting to me. It's a writer's dilemma when secondary characters become more interesting than the primary ones.
It worked fine.
Probably not. Not enough depth of character to be appealing. It would have to be absolutely gorgeous clothes and scenery for me to consider it and even then I'd wait until it got streamed.
This is a frothy and frivolous Edwardian story of fripperies and foul play. Lady Mary is a stubborn marriageable daughter possessed of a fortune embarking on her first season with scandal already dogging her heels. For she went to a Suffragette demonstration and got her picture in the paper. Thinking a season too frivolous to her more serious nature, Lady Mary had refused a season until she fell in love.
The object of her affections seems to return it, but her father is suspicious. He hires the brooding and wounded Captain Harry Cathcart to find out about her love object. Cathcart does and Lady Mary creates another scandal by speaking up for her self.
Cathcart's new career as a fixer for the upper classes is now assured and Lady Mary is to rusticate. Not that she can keep out of trouble. And thus follows, murder, scandal and the comedy of manners.
I didn't enjoy this as much as Chesney's writing as M.C. Beaton. I think my appetite for these little social vignettes is over. I found Lady Mary to be an annoyingly silly and stupid girl with pretensions to intelligence. The secondary story of the maid Daisy was more interesting.
I listened to this and the narrator did a good job with the various voices. Lady Mary was, however, high, soft-spoken and even squeaky. I shall not read or listen to the rest of the series. This was a entertaining way to pass the time but I am over it now.
"davina porter makes the book"
i only recommend books that were particularly enjoyable. this was only ok.
davina is always excellent
tv maybe
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