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Red hot cheers for Chennai Super Kings
Chennai Super Kings may have one of the most unique uniforms amongst all the Indian Premier League (IPL) teams, however, their cheerleaders look like they are very much a part of the Royal Challengers Bangalore outfit. The cheerleaders' outfit have little that resembles CSK's yellow. The attire has more red than yellow.
Chennai Super Kings' cheerleaders perform during their team's tie against Mumbai Indians at Wankhede yesterday. Pic/Suresh KK
Mohit Sharma's time-management exemplary
Chennai Super Kings pacer Mohit Sharma believes in time management. Yesterday, after CSK were asked to bowl by Mumbai Indians, Mohit took a paint bucket from a groundsman to mark his run-up at both ends before the match started. He first counted the number of steps he would require for his run-up and then removed the paint brush from the bucket to mark it, while the groundsman stood next to him. He then quickly rushed to the dressing room to get ready for the action. It's a smart way to not waste any time during the match.
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Sea of blue? Not quite
Yesterday's match was supposed to be in MI's den, but that wasn't the scenario at the Wankhede. There were enough yellow-jersey fans in the stands as Mumbaikars had their loyalties split this time. In fact, one saw many families stand divided when it came to lend their support for MI or MS Dhoni's yellow brigade. CSK t-shirts were also in good demand outside the stadium.


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Today Pope Benedict XVI approved the rite of beatification for the parents of St. Theresa of Lisieux, Louis Martin and Marie Zelie Guerin. They will be beatified on October 19 in Lisieux, France.
According to the Office of Liturgical Celebrations, the beatification ceremony of the parents of St. Therese, Doctor of the Church and Patron of Missions, will take place in the Basilica of St. Therese in Lisieux.
The Pontiff also approved the beatification of four Servants of God:
- Vincenza Poloni Mary - virgin and founder of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy, on Sunday, September 21 in Verona Italy.
- Miguel Sopocko – priest and founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of Merciful Jesus, on Sunday, Septmber 20, in Bialystok, Poland.
- Francesco Pianzola, - priest and founder of the Missionary Sister of the Immaculate Queen of Peace, on Saturday, October 4, in Vigevano, Italy.
- Giovanni Francesco Bonifacio - priest and martyr, also on Saturday, October 4 in Trieste, Italy.

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Last time, on Nerd TV we looked at some SP whose actual Ks didn't jive with their expected Ks from last season. That's 2011, for those of you traveling through time while reading this. In case you can't read minds or remember 70 random characters at a time, I've used this formula for the expected Ks:
Today, we'll subjectively select some sandbaggin' and overachievin' RP for your fantasy baseball draft strategy. Please, blog, may I have some more?Please, blog, may I have some more?


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Try following this KB article along with the sample test I have attached. See if this approach will work for you.
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My apologies. I missed the part about wanting to use SQL.
Let me see if I understand correctly... you want to change which SQL database/table is bound to a subtest based on which parent test is executing, is that correct?
It is not possible to change what database & table a subtest is actively bound to, but in the SQL world I can think of a couple of alternatives:
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We aren't SQL experts, but one approach that comes to my mind is to create one table in your database that contains all of the data. Have one column in this table (let's call it "testid") which identifies which test set it belongs to. Let's just say you put in it the values 1 - 10. Then you have another table with just a single row and also a testid column. The parent test writes the value 1 - 10 in this testid column. Then in your T-SQL you do a join between the two tables along with a where clause. The where clause says where table1.testid = table2.testid.
Taking this approach the parent test can very effectively control the T-SQL filtering that the subtest will do via your join and where clause. You can easily expand on this and use a two or more column join if your filtering needs to be more complex than a single value comparison. Does that make sense?


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I have heard that self-publishing can make it harder to become traditionally published later. Does this still hold true if you've self-published poetry and then try to get fiction traditionally published?
It can be difficult to re-publish the same work commercially (the first rights having been used already) but even so, it's not impossible, and it's mattering less than it used to.
But self-publishing poetry shouldn't really influence your success / failure to publish another work later unless you're the sort of author who becomes notoriously offensive or something like that.
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I've self-pubbed my haiku and haven't had any problems....
That was the post was one of the reasons I gave up on trade publishing as an option. When I started self-publishing I had thought I could try trade again a couple years later, but when I read that blog post I came to the understanding that unless I was massively successful, that door was pretty much permanently closed.
I mean, if I couldn't do it when my record was clean, why should I think I could pull it off now?
Christwriter, the OP asked if self publishing poetry would make it more difficult for her to then sell fiction to a trade house:
I don't think that clashes at all with what's been written here: what will matter will be the book on submission.There's nothing wrong with publishing shorter works on Amazon first, but it's not some sort of golden ticket to a big-ass book deal.
Remember that Amazon doesn't share sales figures, so it's impossible for agents and editors to find out how many copies a Kindle edition has sold (although their Amazon ranking will give a rough indication), whereas the sales of print editions are much easier to track. As most self publishing focusses now on electronic editions, agents might well find it impossible to find out those sales numbers.


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John Dennehy (Asst. Prof., Queens) and Diana Bratu (Asst. Prof., Hunter) have each received a 2012 Career Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Dennehy studies the spread of viruses from one host to another as a means for understanding the evolutionary processes and population dynamics that underlie viral spread. A goal of this work is to more reliably predict the likelihood of pandemics arising from newly emerging pathogens. Dr. Bratu studies the spatial and temporal localization of particular messenger RNAs involved in complex developmental processes. She has developed a method for visualizing RNAs in living cells, a novel technique that will have important applications in numerous fields of biology. The NSF Career award is highly competitive, is limited to early-stage research scientists, and provides recipients with five years of research funding.
Mitchell Goldfarb (Prof., Hunter) has been named SFARI Investigator (Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative; sfari.org). Dr. Goldfarb's laboratory is studying the potential contribution of two neighboring genes to the development of autism spectrum disorder in individuals that carry deletions near the tip of chromosome 22. In support of these studies, his laboratory received a three-year individual research grant from SFARI. Work on this project is being spearheaded by Research Asst. Prof. Michael Urbanski in the Goldfarb lab.
The Human Frontier in Science Program has awarded a $1.2 million renewal grant (2012–15) to an international team of collaborators working on egg color mimicry in parasitic cuckoos. The award was made to Mark Hauber (Prof., Hunter) as Principal Investigator and his collaborators, Dr. Matt Shawkey (University of Akron), Dr. Geoff Waterhouse (University of Auckland, New Zealand), and Dr. Tomas Grim (Palacky University, Czech Republic). The title of the grant is "The chemistry of visual trickery: Mechanisms of egg colour mimicry in parasitic cuckoos." More than 800 preproposals were submitted, with only thirty-one full proposals receiving funding.
John Waldman (Prof., Queens) will be honored in October with the 2012 New York Conservation Leader Award from the Wildlife Conservation Society. Among other research interests, Dr. Waldman studies environmental issues affecting New York and surrounding areas. He is the author of two books forthcoming by Fordham Press: Heartbeats in the Muck: The History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York and Still the Same Hawk: Reflections on Nature in New York.
The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) honored Eleanore Wurtzel (Prof., Lehman) with their annual Fellow of ASPB award, in recognition of her "distinguished and long-term contributions to plant biology and service to the Society." Dr. Wurtzel will be chairing the 2013 Gordon Research Conference on Carotenoids, to be held January 6–11 in Ventura, California, along with a new Gordon Research Conference Graduate Research Seminar on Carotenoids (January 5–6), which she founded. Dr. Wurtzel serves as chair of the Plant Sciences subprogram within Biology.
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BioMed Research International
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 503421, 6 pages
Heart Rate Variability Is Associated with Survival in Patients with Brain Metastasis: A Preliminary Report
1Institute of Physiology, National Yang-Ming University, Beitou, Taipei 11221, Taiwan
2Department of Radiation Oncology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Niao-Sung, Kaohsiung 83306, Taiwan
3Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
4School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan, Taoyuan 33302, Taiwan
5Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Beitou, Taipei 11217, Taiwan
Received 30 June 2013; Accepted 12 August 2013
Academic Editor: Tsair-Fwu Lee
Copyright © 2013 Yu-Ming Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Impaired heart rate variability (HRV) has been demonstrated as a negative survival prognosticator in various diseases. We conducted this prospective study to evaluate how HRV affects brain metastasis (BM) patients. Fifty-one BM patients who had not undergone previous brain operation or radiotherapy (RT) were recruited from January 2010 to July 2012, and 40 patients were included in the final analysis. A 5-minute electrocardiogram was obtained before whole brain radiotherapy. Time domain indices of HRV were compared with other clinical factors on overall survival (OS). In the univariate analysis, Karnofsky performance status (KPS) <70 () and standard deviation of the normal-to-normal interval (SDNN) <10 ms () significantly predict poor survival. The multivariate analysis revealed that KPS <70 and SDNN <10 ms were independent negative prognosticators for survival in BM patients with hazard ratios of 2.657 and 2.204, respectively. In conclusion, HRV is associated with survival and may be a novel prognostic factor for BM patients.


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The numbers gameJanuary 24, 2012 By Cindy Weiss in Other Sciences / Mathematics
Dipak Dey, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Statistics and associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been called an ambassador for the field. A prolific researcher, he is best known for his contributions in the areas of statistical decision theory and Bayesian statistics.
A Fellow of both the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, he is also recognized for developing and maintaining collaborative research programs with other departments and organizations. He recently sat down to answer questions about his field.
Weve all heard the saying, Statistics dont lie. Yet its not uncommon to see statistics misused to prove a point. As a statistics expert, does this frustrate you? And how do you respond?
Statistics do not lie, but sometimes researchers do by misusing and misunderstanding. Sometimes people try to misuse statistics to get across a particular agenda. As a discipline, statistics is a sound science and is being prominently used in all disciplines. Unfortunately statisticians and scientists cant control how others with a specific agenda may or may not misuse the sound principles and paradigms for their personal benefit.
Data can often be manipulated or ignored to come to a specific conclusion, but that in and of itself is not a reflection on the theory and modeling used in the field. The situation is similar to misusing any kind of legitimate system for ones personal agenda. People are warned against doing such things, but every year we hear about some powerful interests misusing statistical data to prove a specific point. This is unfortunate and indeed frustrating. In case of such cases, are the principles of statistics at fault? We need to think before we answer.
Personally, I feel happy and proud to know what statistics is about, and how it helps society and life as a whole. After, all knowledge is golden. So I keep learning through the knowledge that can be acquired through the regular use of statistics.
Why should we all know more about statistics?
We all need to know more statistics because it is the science of using data in all fields and disciplines to determine and draw true conclusions about the world. The knowledge gained from statistics is used regularly in technology, business, economics, medicine, social science, and can be related as fact-based knowledge to help peoples daily lives.
What are statisticians doing to expand the publics understanding of statistics and how they are used?
Besides teaching statistics at the educational level, statisticians have now joined various government agencies, nonprofit organizations, corporations, and other sectors in everything from technology to fashion. As I mentioned before, the discipline of statistics is used in virtually all fields. Whether it is for the analysis of polling data for politics or the analysis of air and water quality for the environment or the analysis of cancer data for smokers, statistics plays a key role in gaining fact-based knowledge. Specifically when it comes to the example of our government, where the decisions being made impact all citizens of the country, statisticians are playing determinative roles in the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the United States Department of Agriculture, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the National Institute for Environmental Research, the National Institute for Educational and Health Statistics, etc.
What role do statistics play in the public debate about an issue, such as what governments should do to deal with climate change?
Statistics play a major role in the public debate about various issues, often controversial issues. Fact-based data gathered through surveys and opinion polls often determine how much support the government has toward a specific point of view or agenda. Statistics can be used to model and track climate change through scientific data. Similarly, statistics can be used to determine how people feel about certain scientific conclusions. Statistics can be used to both refute and support specific claims. Many debates are resolved by using appropriately designed models to demonstrate a point. Many agencies, e.g. Gallup and Westat, are taking polls on major issues from the public. The Roper Center at UConn is a major archive that maintains a huge database of public opinion about science, economics, and government matters. The government constantly turns to statistics to gauge the way to make policy.
What the government should or wants to do in regards to climate change is based both on public opinion statistics as well as various fact-based expert opinions from scientists. Climatologists, for example, often extensively use statistics in risk analysis and extreme event modeling to factually measure climate change. They draw conclusions based on the detailed statistical analysis.
Why should students who are considering a major pick statistics?
The two primary reasons would be a love for science and, arguably more important, the need for a fruitful career. The job market in statistics is flourishing at a rapid pace. One North American job website recently published its 2011 job ratings where they ranked statistician as the fourth best job of 2011. Statistics as a field is extremely popular in all sectors, and its popularity and the need for statisticians will only grow. A statisticians talent is needed virtually everywhere and most students should have no problem finding a job post-college. A statistics major has the choice to join various sectors, as I mentioned before, ranging from sports to the government. With a BS or BA in statistics, students can also choose to pursue higher education in a specialty fields such as biostatistics, bioinformatics, computational statistics, actuarial science, financial statistics, etc.
What are some of the career paths for statisticians now that didnt exist a few years ago? And what types of jobs do your graduates get?
There are many career paths for todays statisticians. Many of them evolved due to the cutting-edge development of computers that didnt exist in the past. These include but are certainly not limited to opportunities in pharmaceutical companies, market research firms, biotech companies, insurance industries, and the government. The job prospects are endless and yet to be fully determined.
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"The numbers game" January 24, 2012 https://phys.org/news/2012-01-game.html


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No one has ever looked to give Kris Jenner a "Mom of the year" award. But maybe she is more supportive that we would think? OOOOOOOOOOOR maybe this will make you think she's even crazier lol.
Kim talked with Oprah about her first serious boyfriend in an interview that aired this weekend. She ALSO talked about losing her virginity. According to Kim, she talked with her mom ahead of time, and her mom helped her get on birth control and gave her advice.
Oprah grilled kim a little bit asking if she could disclose how old she was when she first had sex…Kim claimed that it was just before she turned 15. But then Kim went on to defend herself saying that her and her boyfriend were together for a long time before and after the losing of her virginity. Do you think this is cray cray?
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Recently purchased a Swell FG T-700 with carbon shaft 230 cm in length.
Bought this paddle because i wanted a top quality low angle touring paddle. Very light design, and the shaft is truly great quality. Purchased the three position snap button ferrule system to save weight. The ferrule had some play in it right out of the box. More play than I would like in a high end paddle. No play would be what I would expect. Aquabound would return if I paid freight, not practicle for me to spend another $ 40.00 to ship the product back.
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I would not have bought this paddle if I had the opportunity to try it first. The cheaper and slightly heavier EagleRay carbon would likely have been a better choice. :(
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Title: Interactive Poetry - Learning Poetic Elements and Structure Through Exploration
This is an online exploration poetry lesson. Students will navigate through the interactive PowerPoint presentation and complete different tasks while acquiring knowledge on the various aspects of poetry.
This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (7) 5: Analyze how a drama's or poem's form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning. [RL.7.5]
Title: Weaving the Threads: Integrating Poetry Annotation and Web Technology
Students read a poem by a Native American, explore Native American culture and then create a Website that explains words and phrases from the poem.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (8) 41: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. [L.8.6]
Title: Cosmic Oranges: Observation and Inquiry Through Descriptive Writing and Art
Students will eat up this lesson about oranges as they practice the skills that help them investigate and make detailed observations for descriptive purposes.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (8) 40: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. [L.8.5]
Title: Mathematics and Children's Literature
In this five-lesson unit, from Illuminations, students participate in activities in which they focus on connections between mathematics and children s literature. Five pieces of literature are applied to teaching a wide range of topics in the mathematics curriculum, from sorting and classifying to the meaning of averages.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (8) 9: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of Grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. [RL.8.10]
Title: In the Poet's Shoes: Performing Poetry and Building Meaning
Students take poetic license when they interpret William Carlos William's poem '' The Red Wheelbarrow'' to help create a poem of their own.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (8) 35: Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. (See Grade 8 Language standards 36 and 38 for specific expectations.) [SL.8.6]
Title: Analyzing Advice as an Introduction to Shakespeare
Popular culture provides an introduction to Shakespeare's poetic devices in this lesson, which asks students to explore an excerpt from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (8) 9: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of Grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. [RL.8.10]
Title: Using the Four-Square Strategy to Define and Identify Poetic Terms
How do poets play with language? Students will explore some answers to this question as they search through poems for examples of alliteration, assonance, simile, and rhyme.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (8) 28: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. [W.8.9]
Title: Playing with Poetry the Interactive Way
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Title: What Makes a Poem an Epic?
This student interactive, from an EDSITEment lesson, prompts students to identify examples of the epic hero cycle from a story with which they are familiar.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (8) 30: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on Grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly. [SL.8.1]
Title: April is National Poetry Month!
Students are assigned to be '' poets of the day'' and are provided several models to create, illustrate, and present their different poems to the class.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (8) 29: Write routinely over extended time frames, including time for research, reflection, and revision, and shorter time frames such as a single sitting or a day or two for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. [W.8.10]


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The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) yesterday confirmed that about GH¢1million was taken from their account to pay for the supply of the alleged importation of second-hand uniforms for personnel.
The controversy over the supply of the camouflage uniforms to the service by Jild Ventures became a heated national debate last October when issues about the quality of supply hit the media terrain.
The scandal even got murkier when Chairman of the Fire Service Council, Alhaji Amadu Sorogho who is MP for Madina, Accra, stormed the studios of Oman FM to vary the details already in the media.
Alhaji Sorogho had engaged the other panellists on the programme in a bid to pour cold water over the fire generated by the reports claiming, among other things, that the board did not know the quality of the uniforms which he added were not destined for personnel of the GNFS but rather 'for fire volunteers and school fire cadet corps.'
Interestingly, he had said that the uniforms were distributed to officers only to retrieve them when they realized that they were mismatched and that some of them had condoms and name tags of the original users.
Yesterday, the Chief Fire Officer, together with the police, military and prisons all appeared before the Commission of Enquiry investigating the payment of judgement debts to give details of notices of intention to sue filed against the various security agencies.
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Brig. Gen. John Bosco Guyiyri who is acting Chief Fire Officer told Sole Commissioner Justice Yaw Apau that the court had ordered the GNFS account to be 'gleaned'.
'Details of all our accounts particularly at Ghana Commercial Bank and Bank of Ghana were garnisheed. In the course of the ruling the court called the managers and ordered them to pay,' and added that 'our account has not been replenished by the state following the incident.'
Flanked by Wynni Azomyan of the Logistsics Department of GHNS, he said, 'Before the case we were made to write to advise the Attorney General about the details of the case and from my lay man's point of view, I thought we had a case but it turned out the other way.'
He said 'the exhibits are still there and the facts are also there. Some of the uniforms were old. Some were torn and some even had name tags on them.'
He said what brought the action was that it had been stated that 'we wanted a certain quantity of pairs of uniforms and that was advertised. Instead of pairs, the contract stated pieces of uniforms and the supplier arrogated to herself interpreting pieces to mean the top and down as separate pieces in which case we will pay double for one pair.'
Brig. Gen. Guyiyri said 'it was at the time I had assumed the seat so when they brought the vouchers I refused to sign and that went on with jostles here and there until the supplier sent the case to court,' adding, 'The GNFS Council has written to the government through the Ministry of the Interior expressing reservations about the judgement and we are awaiting any action that would be taken.'
The military
Lt. Cols. Charles Gbekle and Benjamin Amoah-Boakye, both of the Legal Directorate of the Ghana Armed Forces also testified and tendered documents that indicated that before the military was sued notices of intention were served on them as the law mandated.
Lt. Col Gbekle, however, told the commission that some of the cases were pending in court and could not go further.
Alidu Fuseini, Chief Director of Ministry of Defence flanked by Group Captain Mike Kwame Appiah-Agyekum of the Ghana Air Force also testified in the case in which a civilian died in helicopter crash in Atiwa Forest in the Eastern Region and his family never received compensation from the military.
According to documents available to the commission, Victor Adu Nyarko was a nurse at the Holy Family Hospital, Nkawkaw, and when some soldiers we injured in a road accident he was asked to accompany them to 37 Military Hospital by air but the plane crashed in the Eastern Region.
Subsequently, the families of the deceased were paid compensation but Mr. Adu Nyarko's family was discriminated against by the military. However, it was on record that the deceased's lawyer sought compensation from the government for him.
Group Captain Appiah-Agyekum confirmed that documents available indicated that families of the deceased soldiers were paid compensation but said they did not have any record indicating Mr. Adu Nyarko's family got any compensation.
He told the commission that any civilian who uses military aircraft, vehicles and other equipment was mandated for complete what he called an indemnity form and that absolved the military from any liability should there be an accident adding 'the case of the nurse lies in the legal realm.'
Lt. Col. Amoah-Boakye again testified in the case in which a military fire tender collided with a KIA truck, killing three people and injuring two others around Kintampo, saying the report on the accident was yet to be endorsed by the Chief of Defence Staff and therefore he was tendering the report with a caveat.
Prison Service
Earlier, Assistant Controllers of Prisons Twumasi Appiah and Gloria Essandoh had submitted the Ghana Prisons Service's notices of intention to sue served on them to the commission.
Anthony A. Kokroko, Legal Officer of the Ghana Police Service also appeared and requested for more time to be able to present all notices of intention to sue the police, explaining that the volume of work in the search was huge.
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Unfortunately this also means that those who are still trying to change their password password via Playstation.com or Qriocity.com will be unable to do so for the time being. This is due to essential maintenance and at present it is unclear how long this will take.
In the meantime you will still be able to sign into PSN via your PlayStation 3 and PSP devices to connect to game services and view Trophy/Friends information.
[Update 17/5/11]
If you have any queries regarding the PSN outage, please click on the link below. This will hopefully answer some of your questions. If you have any addtional queries please post them in this board and I will update the FAQ.
I am having issues resetting my PSN Password? (error code 80023156)
Some of you have mentioned that you have not received your password reset emails. With the huge number of people coming back online at the same time and resetting their passwords, it is creating significant email traffic to ISPs. The consequence is that some of the ISPs are throttling the emails.
We are currently trying to resolve this, but in the meantime please be patient and refrain from submitting multiple requests. You will receive you reset email and be able to get back to enjoying your online gaming.
We're currently experiencing an extremely heavy load of password resets, so we recently had to turn off services for approximately 30 minutes to clear the queue.
If you've requested your password reset, please give it a bit of time to reach your email.
Update #3 15/5/11
PSN Restoration Begins Now
Thank you for your patience and encouragement over the last few weeks. As covered in the post from earlier today, you can now update the firmware on your PS3 and change your password. Kazuo Hirai just announced that we have begun the phased restoration by region of some of the services, starting with online multiplayer functionality.
Please note that these services will take a bit of time to be turned on and rolled out to the whole region. The process has begun and some countries are being turned on now, so please be patient as we reach you.
In the meantime, now's a great time to get your PS3′s firmware updated and change your password, both of which are required to get online.
Update #2 15/5/11
Statement from Kazuo Hirai
Update #1 15/5/11
PS3 System Software Update 3.61
We have been working on a new PS3 system software update that requires all PSN users to change their password once PlayStation Network is restored. The update (v3.61) is mandatory and is available now.
If using a PS3, your password can only be changed on your own PS3 (or a PS3 on which your PSN account was activated), as an added layer of security. If you have never downloaded any content using your account on the system, an email will be sent to the registered sign-in ID (email address) associated with your account when you first attempt to sign-in to PSN. This e-mail will contain a link that will enable you to change your password. In this email, click on the link and follow the instructions to change your password. Once you have changed your password you can sign-in to your account using your new password.
We strongly recommend that all PSN account holders with PS3s update their systems to prepare for when PlayStation Network is back online. The release of this update is a critical step as we work to make PlayStation Network significantly more secure. Thank you for your continued support and patience.
The PSN is undergoing an outage and currently these services have been affected:
We will update this thread with more information and when the PSN resumes normal operation.
For more information for:
Spanish Community please see here
Portugese Community please see here
French Community please see here
Italian Community please see here
German Community please see here
Scandinavian Community please see here
Russian Community please see here
Please note that some people will be unable to log into the forums due to the PSN outage. If you have any queries please tweet me and I will endeavour to answer them. I will also put together a FAQ when I have more information (and to help when the PSN returns).
[Update 13/05/11]
Thank you for your continued patience during this the PSN downtime. At the moment there is no specified time for the PSN return, although all efforts are being made to ensure this happens as soon as possible .
If there are any questions regarding the outage, please PM or Tweet me and I will put together some answers and guides when the PSN returns.
[Update 10/05/11]- Nick Caplan- Head of Communications, SCEE
I know you all want to know exactly when the services will be restored. At this time, I can't give you an exact date, as it will likely be at least a few more days. We're terribly sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we work through this process.
[Update 09/05/11]
Regarding the aim of the full restoration of PSN services by the 31st May : -
Restoration of Online Gamplay is the FIRST phase of the plan to restore the PSN.
[Update 07/05/11] Nick Caplan- Head of Communications, SCEE
As you may know, we've begun the process of restoring the service through internal testing of the new system. We're still working to confirm the security of the network infrastructure, as well as working with a variety of outside entities to confirm with them of the security of the system. Verifying the system security is vital for the process of restoration. Additional comprehensive system checks and testing are still required, and we must complete that process before bringing the systems online.
As you've heard us say, our utmost priorities are the security of the network and ensuring your data is safe. We won't restore the services until we can test the system's strength in these respects.
When we held the press conference in Japan last week, based on what we knew, we expected to have the services online within a week. We were unaware of the extent of the attack on Sony Online Entertainment servers, and we are taking this opportunity to conduct further testing of the incredibly complex system. We know many of you are wanting to play games online, chat with your friends and enjoy all of the services PlayStation Network and Qriocity services have to offer, and trust me when I say we're doing everything we can to make it happen. We will update you with more information as soon as we have it. We apologize for the delay and inconvenience of this network outage.
[Update 06/05/11] Nick Caplan- Head of Communications, SCEE
As you will have read in the letter from Sir Howard Stringer, that we posted a few hours ago, in the US we are offering all PSN users one year's free access to an identity protection scheme. I can assure you that here in the SCEE region, we are working incredibly hard to offer you something very similar. As is often the case here, with so many countries in our region, this is a very complicated thing to achieve, but we are close.
F.A.Q.'s posted recently on the Blog:
Q: Will our download history/friends list/settings be affected by the PSN downtime?
A: No, they will not.
Q: Will trophies that were earned in single-player offline games during the outage be intact when the service resumes?
A: These trophies are intact and will be re-synched when the network is once again operational.
Q: Will my PS+ cloud saves be retrievable?
A: Yes, once PSN is restored.
Q: What if we have a subscription to PS3 MMOs DC Universe Online or Free Realms? Will we get compensation for that?
A: From Sony Online Entertainment: "We apologize for any inconvenience players may have experienced as a result of the recent service interruption. As a global leader in online gaming, SOE is committed to delivering stable and entertaining games for players of all ages. To thank players for their patience, we will be hosting special events across our game portfolio. We are also working on a "make good" plan for players of the PS3 versions of DC Universe Online and Free Realms. Details will be available soon on the individual game websites and forums."
Q: Will there be a goodwill gesture for the time we haven't been able to utilize PSN/Qriocity?
A: We are currently evaluating ways to show appreciation for your extraordinary patience as we work to get these services back online.
Thank you for your continued feedback.
Q: Are you working with law enforcement on this matter?
A: Yes, we are currently working with law enforcement on this matter as well as a recognised technology security firm and local law enforcement to conduct a complete investigation. This criminal attack against our system and against our customers is a criminal act and we are proceeding aggressively to find those responsible.
Q: Was my personal data encrypted?
A: All of the data was protected, and access was restricted both physically and through the perimeter and security of the network. The entire credit card table was encrypted and we have no evidence that credit card data was taken. The personal data table, which is a separate data set, was not encrypted, but was, of course, behind a very sophisticated security system that was breached in a malicious attack.
Q: Was my credit card data taken?
A: While all credit card information stored in our systems is encrypted and there is no evidence at this time that credit card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, out of an abundance of caution we are advising you that your credit card number (excluding security code, sometimes called a CVC or CSC number) and expiration date may have been obtained.
Q: What steps should I take at this point to help protect my personal data?
A: For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of email, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your PlayStation Network or Qriocity user name or password for other unrelated services or accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them, as well.
To protect against possible identity theft or other financial loss, we encourage you to remain vigilant, to review your account statements and to monitor your statements.
Q: What if I don't know which credit card I've got attached to my PlayStation Network account?
A: If you've added funds to your PlayStation Network wallet in the past, you should have received a confirmation email from "email@example.com" at the email address associated with your account. This email would have been sent to you immediately after you added the funds, and will contain the first four digits and last four digits of your credit card number. You can also check your previous credit card statements to determine which card was attached to your PlayStation Network or Qriocity accounts.
Q: When or how can I change my PlayStation Network password?
A: We are working on a new system software update that will require all users to change their password once PlayStation Network is restored. We will provide more details about the new update shortly.
Q: Have all PlayStation Network and Qriocity users been notified of the situation?
A: In addition to alerting the media and posting information about it on this blog, we have also been sending emails directly to all 77 million registered accounts. It takes a bit of time to send that many emails, and not every email will still be active, but this process has been underway since yesterday. At this time, the majority of emails have been sent and we anticipate that all registered accounts will have received notifications by April 28th. Consumers may also visit uk.playstation.com/psnoutage and www.qriocity.com for notices regarding this issue. In addition, we have taken steps to disseminate information regarding this issue to media outlets so that consumers are informed.
Q: What steps is Sony taking to protect my personal data in the future?
A: We've taken several immediate steps to add protections for your personal data. First, we temporarily turned off PlayStation Network and Qriocity services and, second, we are enhancing security and strengthening our network infrastructure. Moving forward, we are initiating several measures that will significantly enhance all aspects of PlayStation Network's security and your personal data, including moving our network infrastructure and data center to a new, more secure location, which is already underway. We will provide additional information on these measures shortly.
Q: Has Sony identified the party or parties responsible for the PlayStation Network hack and subsequent theft of personal information?
A: We are currently conducting a thorough investigation of the situation and are working closely with a recognised technology security firm in order to find those responsible for this criminal act, no matter where in the world they might be located.
Q: When will the PlayStation Network and Qriocity be back online?
A: Our employees have been working day and night to restore operations as quickly as possible, and we expect to have some services up and running within a week from yesterday. However, we want to be very clear that we will only restore operations when we are confident that the network is secure.
For latest information please check out our EU Blog
If you have any queries regarding the PSN downtime that you would like me to address- be it security or account related please PM me, or catch me on Twitter @RabidWalker
I will address as many of these as I can during the downtime and when the service resumes.
Damn, been working away all week and wanted to get my game on this morning before I am away again, is their any expected/approximate time for it to be back up?
To bad its not maintenee....but infact its the hacking groupd Anon...
B1GbOnG wrote:
Something tells me this was unplanned maintenance
Planned/unplanned if it has to happen it has to happen, why does that matter? Its better this morning then tomorrow when everyone/most people are on holiday.
Something is seriously wrong with PSN since those attacks. I'd rather Sony get to the bottom of it with what ever means they need to.
I hope this fixes what ever damage those attacks have done because since then PSN has been crap for me. If it needs done it needs done lets just hope they fix it and we can sign in consistently again.
Why now?
BradleyUK wrote:
Why now?
Don't think it was planned, I was up at 7 this morning and couldnt get on at all. Probably more attacks on PSN or the last attacks have finally toppled the whole thing. If they didn't do it today then they would have to pay staff double time for the bank holiday weekend so it's best they get it out the way today haha
Yep Error must wait
well it's now 5 day's and counting, when they do get it up and running there will be the sound of 70 million people sigh with relief
Well day 6 is here and still down i think this has being a PR disaster for Sony is this a Japanese thing to give out very little information remember the nuclear power plants the news was sketchy at best for quite a while
I think it's best they do it now. As it's bank holiday weekend and the PSN is going to get hammered. Even if it is a BBQ Singstar party. :p
We sincerely regret that PlayStation Network and Qriocity services have been suspended, and we are working around the clock to bring them both back online. Our efforts to resolve this matter involve re-building our system to further strengthen our network infrastructure. Though this task is time-consuming, we decided it was worth the time necessary to provide the system with additional security.
We thank you for your patience to date and ask for a little more while we move towards completion of this project. We will continue to give you updates as they become available.
So were they say they're re-bulding the system does this mean all our data will be gone for example like level 1 on call of duty and stuff?
At Last I Have Some Great News People.
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At Last I Have Some Great News People.
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A source with close connections to Sony Computer Entertainment Europe reports that the attack to the PlayStation Network may be a bit deeper than originally reported by Sony. According to the source, who wishes to remain anonymous, the PSN sustained a LOIC attack (which created a denial-of-service attack) that damaged the server. There was also a concentrated attack on the PlayStation servers holding account information. In addition, "Admin Dev accounts were breached."
As a result, "Sony then shut down the PSN and [is] currently in the process of restoring backups to new servers with new admin dev accounts." The SCEE source said Japanese servers may be restored tomorrow while the U.S. and E.U. servers will likely be operational the following day.
Full story @ http://www.psu.com/news/11425
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Single Family Home and Condo Sales Volume Through April at Nine-Year High;
First-Half 2015 Sellers Realizing Biggest Home Price Gains Since 2007;
Distressed Sales at New Low in June, Institutional Investor Share Matches Record Low
IRVINE, Calif. – July 23, 2015 — RealtyTrac® (www.realtytrac.com), the nation's leading source for comprehensive housing data, today released its June and Midyear 2015 U.S. Home Sales Report, which shows distressed sales, cash sales and institutional investor sales in June were all down from a year ago to multi-year lows even as sales to first-time homebuyers and other buyers using FHA loans increased compared to a year ago in June and reached a two-year high in the second quarter.
Buyers using Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans — typically low down payment loans utilized by first time homebuyers and other buyers without equity to bring to the closing table — accounted for 23 percent of all single family home and condo sales with financing — excluding all-cash sales — in the second quarter of 2015, up from 20 percent in the first quarter and up from 19 percent in the second quarter of 2014 to the highest share since the first quarter of 2013.
The report also shows 914,291 single family and condo sales through April 2015 — the most recent month with complete sales data available — at the highest level through the first four months of a year since 2006, a nine-year high.
"As the investor-driven housing recovery faded in the first half of 2015, first-time homebuyers, boomerang buyers and other traditional owner-occupant buyers started to step into the gap and pick up the slack," said Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac. "This is good news for sellers in many markets, providing them with strong demand from a larger pool of buyers, and U.S. sellers so far in 2015 are realizing the biggest gains in home price appreciation since 2007. In June sellers sold for above estimated market value on average for the first time in nearly two years.
"Higher-value markets with a larger share of homes priced above the loan limits set by FHA and Fannie and Freddie Mac are the most likely to struggle in the second half of the year as the recovery continues to become more dependent on traditional buyers relying on financing," Blomquist noted. "The health of these high-priced trophy markets will in many ways be tied more to global economic forces driving foreign cash buyers than U.S. economic and real estate fundamentals."
Cash buyers down nationwide, up in New York City and 20 other markets
All-cash buyers accounted for 22.9 percent of all single family home and condo sales in June, down from 24.7 percent of all sales in the previous month and down from 29.1 percent of all sales in June 2014 to the lowest share of monthly cash sales nationwide since August 2008. The June cash sales share was almost half the peak of 42.1 percent in February 2011.
Metros with highest share of cash sales in June were Homosassa Springs, Florida (53 percent), Naples-Marco Island, Florida (52 percent); Miami (50 percent); Sebastian-Vero Beach, Florida (50 percent); and New York (49 percent).
"The first six months of sales in South Florida have been at a record pace. The millennials are entering the market along with many homebuyers who had difficulty during the last recession while the investor market has quieted," said Mike Pappas, CEO and president of Keyes Company, covering the South Florida market. "It is a real market with real buyers and sellers. The buyers have many lending options and are still enjoying low interest rates and many sellers are selling at their peak prices."
In New York and 20 other markets analyzed for the report, the share of cash sales increased from a year ago, counter to the national trend. The New York metro share of cash sales increased from 40 percent in June 2014 to 49 percent in June 2015. Other markets with an increasing share of cash sales included Raleigh, North Carolina; Greenville, South Carolina; Bellingham, Washington located between Seattle and Vancouver, Canada; Knoxville, Tennessee; Providence, Rhode Island; and San Jose, California.
"Cash buyers have been a significant player in the Seattle housing market over the past 18 months, but the modest drop in this buyer segment doesn't come as a surprise given the aggressive rise in home prices in recent months," said Matthew Gardner, chief economist at Windermere Real Estate, covering the Seattle market. "Higher prices are forcing these buyers to dig deeper into their pockets and this process has started to push some out of the market. The same can be said for first time buyers; many of them are having a hard time qualifying for a loan also due to the rise in home prices in Seattle."
"Particularly, in the first-time home buyer market, we are seeing multiple offers and in many cases sellers are choosing the cash offer over FHA or conventional financing," said Greg Smith, owner/broker at RE/MAX Alliance, covering the Denver market in Colorado. "This can skew the numbers of the actual makeup of buyers in the marketplace. As we continue to see the market move towards equilibrium we should continue to see the FHA numbers grow and a slight decrease in cash buyers."
Institutional investor share in June matches record low
Institutional investors — entities purchasing at least 10 properties during a calendar year — accounted for 1.7 percent of all single family and condo sales in June, the same share as in May but down from 3.5 percent of all sales in June 2014. The 1.7 percent share of institutional investor sales in May and June was the lowest monthly share going back to January 2000 — the earliest data is available — and was less than one-third of the monthly peak of 6.1 percent in February 2013.
Metro areas with the highest share of institutional investor sales in June 2015 were Macon, Georgia (10.2 percent); Columbia, Tennessee (9.5 percent); Memphis, Tennessee (8.7 percent); Detroit (7.8 percent); and Charlotte (5.3 percent).
Other major metros with a high percentage of institutional investor sales included Tampa (4.3 percent); Atlanta (4.0 percent); Tulsa, Oklahoma (3.9 percent); Oklahoma City (3.7 percent); and Nashville (3.7 percent).
The share of institutional investors increased from a year ago in just four markets: Detroit; Macon, Georgia; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Birmingham, Alabama.
Distressed sales drop to new record low
Distressed sales — properties in the foreclosure process or bank-owned when they sold — accounted for 8.0 percent of all single family and condo sales in June, down from 10.6 percent of all sales in May and down from 19.0 percent of all sales in June 2014 to the lowest monthly share since January 2011 — the earliest that data is available. The share of distressed sales reached a monthly peak of 45.9 percent of all single family and condo sales in February 2011.
Metro areas with the highest share of distressed sales in June were Salisbury, North Carolina (30.6 percent); Gainesville, Georgia (23.8 percent); Jacksonville, North Carolina (22.2 percent); Boone, North Carolina (22.1 percent); and Marion Ohio (21.9 percent).
Major metro areas with a high share of distressed sales in June included Chicago (14.7 percent); Baltimore (14.4 percent); Orlando (13.8 percent); Jacksonville, Florida (13.6 percent); and Memphis (13.4 percent).
Markets with highest and lowest share of FHA loan purchases in first half of 2015
Nationwide, buyers using FHA loans accounted for 22 percent of all financed sales in the first half of 2015, up from 19 percent of all sales in 2014 and up from 20 percent of all sales in 2013.
Among markets with a population of 1 million or more, those with the highest share of buyers using FHA loans in the first six months of 2015 were Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario in inland Southern California (35 percent); Las Vegas (32 percent); Oklahoma City (31 percent); Salt Lake City (30 percent); and Phoenix (29 percent).
"Low interest rates and FHA loan availability continue to help the first time market place," said Craig King, COO at Chase International brokerage, covering the Lake Tahoe and Reno, Nevada, markets. We have very limited inventory in the under 300,000 market price range. This indicates strong interest from first time buyers. Those first time buyers are also creating a move up market place."
Major markets with the lowest share of buyers using FHA loans in the first six months of 2015 were San Jose, California (7 percent); Hartford, Connecticut (10 percent); San Francisco (12 percent); Boston (12 percent); and Milwaukee (13 percent).
First-half 2015 sellers realized highest home price gains since 2007
Single family home and condo sellers in the first half of 2015 sold for an average of 13 percent above their original purchase price, the highest average percentage in home price gains realized by sellers since 2007, when it was 30 percent.
Major markets where sellers in the first half of 2015 realized the biggest average home price gains were San Jose, California (41 percent); San Francisco (37 percent); Denver (29 percent); Portland (25 percent); Los Angeles (25 percent); and Seattle (20 percent).
"Sales activity has been strong this year and the metrics point to a solid foundation for steady growth. Growing boomerang buyer interest and first time buyer participation combined with smarter lending requirements are fostering a sustainable market," said Mark Hughes, chief operating officer with First Team Real Estate, covering the Southern California market. "Lower investor, cash, and distressed activity are three reliable indicators that peripheral buying and selling activity is settling back down and the traditional owner occupied residential market is back on solid ground and healthy."
There were six major markets where sellers in the first half of 2015 on average sold below their original purchase price: Chicago (7 percent below); Cleveland (7 percent below); Hartford, Connecticut (3 percent below); Jacksonville, Florida (2 percent below); St. Louis (1 percent below); and Orlando (1 percent below).
Homes sold in June sold above estimated market value on average
Single family homes and condos in June sold for an average of $291,450 compared to an average $287,634 estimated market value for those same homes at the time of sale — a 101 percent price-to-value ratio. June was the first time since July 2013 that the national price-to-value ratio exceeded 100 percent.
Major metro areas with the highest price-to-value ratios — where homes sold the most above estimated market value — were San Francisco (106 percent); Hartford, Connecticut (105 percent); Baltimore (105 percent); Rochester, New York (104 percent); and Providence, Rhode Island (103 percent).
Other major markets with price-to-value ratios above 100 percent in June included Washington, D.C. (103 percent); Phoenix (103 percent); Sacramento (103 percent); Portland (103 percent); Seattle (102 percent); San Jose (102 percent); and St. Louis (102 percent);
Sales volume at highest level since 2006 in 16 percent of markets analyzed
The number of single family homes and condos sold in the first four months of 2015 were at the highest level in the first four months of any year since 2006 in 43 out of 264 (16 percent) metropolitan statistical areas with sufficient home sales data. Markets at nine-year highs included Tampa, Denver, Columbus, Ohio, Jacksonville, Florida, and San Antonio.
There were 23 markets where sales volume in the first four months of 2015 was at 10-year highs, including Denver; Columbus, Ohio; San Antonio; Tucson, Arizona; and Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, Florida.
"As we reach the midyear point across the Ohio markets, the best description would include the words robust and balanced. With double-digit sales growth, increasing home prices, and increasing employment numbers the Ohio housing demand has continued to increase," said Michael Mahon, president at HER Realtors, covering the Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus markets in Ohio. "With nearly 25 percent of the market accounting for first time and boomerang buyers taking advantage of low down payment loans through programs such as FHA, and nearly 25 percent of the opposite end of the buying pool accounting for all cash sales, this leaves a market in balance with nearly 50 percent of home purchases accounted for in conventional loans."
Among major metro areas with a population of 1 million or more, 22 out of 51 markets (43 percent) were at eight-year highs for single family home and condo sales in the first four months of the 2015, including New York, Dallas, Houston, Seattle and Portland.
Report methodology
The RealtyTrac U.S. Home Sales Report provides percentages of distressed sales and all sales that are sold to investors, institutional investors and cash buyers, a state and metropolitan statistical area. Data is also available at the county and zip code level upon request. The data is derived from recorded sales deeds, foreclosure filings and loan data. Statistics for previous quarters are revised when each new report is issued as more deed data becomes available for those previous months.
All-cash purchases: sales where no loan is recorded at the time of sale and where RealtyTrac has coverage of loan data.
Institutional investor purchases: residential property sales to non-lending entities that purchased at least 10 properties in a calendar year.
Distressed Sale: a sale of a property that occurs while the property is actively in some stage of foreclosure (NOD, LIS, NTS, NFS or REO). This includes only sales to third-party buyers or investors not involved in the foreclosure process. It does not include property transfers from the owner in default to the foreclosing bank or lender.
About RealtyTrac
RealtyTrac is a leading provider of comprehensive U.S. housing and property data, including nationwide parcel-level records for more than 130 million U.S. properties. Detailed data attributes include property characteristics, tax assessor data, sales and mortgage deed records, distressed data, including default, foreclosure and auctions status, and Automated Valuation Models (AVMs). Sourced from RealtyTrac subsidiary Homefacts.com, the company's proprietary national neighborhood-level database includes more than 50 key local and neighborhood level dynamics for residential properties, providing unrivaled pre-diligence capabilities and a parcel risk database for portfolio analysis. RealtyTrac's data is widely viewed as the industry standard and, as such, is relied upon by real estate professionals and service providers, marketers and financial institutions, as well as the Federal Reserve, U.S. Treasury Department, HUD, state housing and banking departments, investment funds and tens of millions of consumers.
RealtyTrac Media Contacts:
Ginny Walker
949.502.8300, ext. 268
Jennifer von Pohlmann
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Tax Initiative Deal Struck, Gathering Signatures Will Be Pricey
2:00 p.m. UPDATE: Governor Brown confirmed to reporters in southern California this afternoon that a deal has, in fact, been reached on a November tax initiative. As such, this posting includes updated information and has a slightly tweaked headline from its original form.
By all indications, there's now a détente in the works that would head off the otherwise expected November ballot clash between Governor Jerry Brown and liberal activists over a tax increase.
Multiple sources confirm a compromise is being crafted that would adhere in some ways to Brown's existing initiative — mainly, by still including a small sales tax increase — but would boost the income tax increase on the wealthy above where the governor has proposed, while still making all of the taxes temporary.
Neither leaders of the millionaires tax campaign nor Brown's political team have confirmed any of the details, after the story was first reported this morning online by the Los Angeles Times. But conversations with several Democratic and Capitol sources reveal a tax proposal that feels much more like the governor's than the one being promoted by a coalition including the California Federation of Teachers.
The signs of a negotiated truce between the two sides seems to be taking some in political circles by surprise, after weeks of increasing tensions between the two camps and Brown's own prognostication on Monday that multiple tax measures appeared a done deal for November.
But two questions seem most prominent as this news breaks. First, can the deal actually withstand the scrutiny of daylight? That is, will the most die-hard supporters of solely an income tax hike on millionaires… and one that's earmarked for a number of programs… accept an initiative that still includes a sales tax increase and does not permanently raise taxes on the wealthy?
Similarly, after a week which saw the state's powerful business groups formally oppose all but Brown's tax hike, what will those groups say if Governor Brown embraces a different measure? Sources report the proposed compromise goes beyond the Brown initiative's 11.3% tax on incomes over $1 million. It also would apparently be a longer temporary tax than the five years in the governor's current measure.
These are all questions that will no doubt be answered in the hours/days/weeks to come. But there's also a huge logistics question to answer: is there time to draft and qualify an alternative tax initiative?
Here's where it gets tricky. By law, an initiative must have collected sufficient valid signatures at least 131 days before election day — that's June 28. But to hit that date, the Secretary of State's office is already suggesting that the second week of May is probably the de facto deadline for actually submitting signatures to elections officials.
Plus… any proposed compromise still has to receive an official title and summary from the Attorney General's office, which also takes time.
All of this means that a compromise tax initiative may have to break records in how fast it qualifies for the ballot… and how much money is spent gathering signatures. Keep in mind that Governor Brown's proposal, which is taxes plus language codifying the 2011 state/local realignment, is a constitutional amendment. That means 807,615 valid signatures.
There doesn't seem to be any official record of the fastest qualifying initiative in state history, but the consensus among politicos seems to be the November 1998 initiative authorizing Indian gaming, for which backers submitted more than a million signatures in just 28 days.
Even at that blistering pace, a compromise tax increase initiative would have to be on the streets by mid-April. And that means political and policy wrangling aside, the real question here could come down to campaign cash and logistics.
4:45 p.m. Update: Perhaps not surprisingly, the initiative's language had already been drafted and it's just now been officially filed with the Attorney General (PDF), though a more easy-to-digest version can be found in the governor's official news release on the deal from this afternoon.


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Teens and Drinking
Parents Actually Hold the Remedy For Underage Drinking
One of the things that scares me the most about being a parent is all the pressures my kids are going to face when they become teenagers. Seriously, peer pressure? Scary stuff. I was there once; I remember. Add a driver's license, a car, and some alcohol into that mix and it's a teen drinking scenario that no parent wants to imagine.
So often we talk about how we are going to have the "sex talk" but what about the "alcohol talk"? My mom had the alcohol talk with me many times when I was younger. Yes, it often was followed with "See how your relatives get when they drink too much? Don't be like that." And I understood exactly what she meant. And never wanted to be like that.
Not all my relatives, of course. Just the ones with the drinking problem. So of course since I grew up around people who were alcoholics, it's a topic -- a potential situation -- that is often on my mind. Not my kids, I think. This cannot happen to my kids.
Wanting something not to happen though doesn't always make it not happen. And with drinking and getting drunk a rite of passage for teenagers, it's hard to stop. But it's been proven that having that talk with your kid helps. The Century Council, a national not-for-profit dedicated to fighting drunk driving and underage drinking, reports that 83 percent of kids says their parents are the biggest influencers on them to not drink alcohol. And that number is up 28 percent from when the stat was last released in 2003. How great is that!?
So even though our kids may roll their eyes when we want to talk about serious stuff, they are listening to us. The rest of the study revealed that 33 percent listen to friends/teachers, fear of punishment makes up for 28 percent, sibling influence comes in at 24 percent, and concern about breaking the law is 23 percent.
The big question is how do we talk about alcohol with them. Good conversation starters are when there is something in the news to jump off of and turn it into a learning. Or there could be something on TV or in a movie that brings up the topic of drinking. Of course if someone your child knows gets caught with alcohol, seize the moment to start the talk.
Have you had the alcohol talk with your kids yet? Any tips to share?
My DS is 17 and yes this scares the crap out of me because my side of the family and DH's side are all big social drinkers. So I have had the drinking talk with my son more times than I can count.
Sadly he has come home a couple times and I could tell he had been drinking...he doesn't deny it and says yes mom I had a few beers.
Of course now every time he leaves the house I give him the drinking lecture.
DS is a good kid, always home when told, calls me while he is out to let me know where he is, good grades, work, and works part time.
We have good communication and what scares me is the stories he tells me about no matter where they go there is ALWAYS alcohol, pot, and other drugs.
Even though he has promised he will NEVER drink again I can't help but worrying:(
Glad you posted this b/c I have been so stressed out lately. I just hope and pray all the talks his dad & I have had with him will help him to make good choices.
the oldest ones come from another blood line so to speak, previous marriage, and that whole family drinks. I never ever condoned underage drinking, and the oldest 2 did it anyway. my oldest son even got a DWI, permanently on his record now. the rest we seem to have a chance with, even with the others would come over or what ever, I never let anyone underage drink in my house, period!!! caused many an argument around here.
Jessica is only 11, but I've been talking to her about drinking all her life. My dad was an alcoholic (brain cancer sobered him up and killed him) and Jessica's dad's mom is a recovering alcoholic. So, it's in her genes. I don't drink, Hubby doesn't drink, so Jessica doesn't see it happening. Her BFF's mom drank before she went to treatment, so Jessica has seen what drinking can do to people. I just hope that she understands how she's already at risk to have a problem with it...and doesn't do anything stupid.
if you drive, don't drink, if you drink don't drive, if you drive and start drinking, Call Me! I would rather pick you at the party than the police station, hospital or morgue
it's more fun to be a designated driver,you go out have just as much fun, get your friends home safe and then you can do it again next time
I wont say my method will work for everyone but it not only worked for my kids but it worked for my mom with me and my brother..
We told our kids if they have to drink it will be at home and they will NOT be allowed to leave the house.. My kids said it was unfair because we gave them permission and who wants to do something when they know its ok.. My oldest DD didn't drink until she left my house and after she was 18 and out of my care but never drank and drive...
Funny story... My son ( Kevin) found some Boones Farm Lemonade wine in our fridge. It was given to us and it was in the fridge for awhile... My son didn't see the wine part but saw lemonade ( he loves it) and so he open it and yes you guessed it drank it.. He was about 17 and said Momma that lemonade in the fridge tasted weird so after a cup I poured it out. LMAO!! Poor guy he said that cured him from ever drinking again....
I did this with my oldest. If you ARE going to drink (I am not stupid), I am not going to rag on you, but please do it at home (if AT a friend's house (which almost never happened either at home or a friends), please stay the night or call us!), and be responsible. You don't have to get drunk to have fun/feel good.
I have had too many friends die from drinking and driving. TOO many. :( I have told him since he was young (he didn't have friends, due to serious social anxiety), if and when the time came, we would always, always pick him up, no questions asked.
He truly never drank much, doesn't drink any more than he did, now that he is 21. I am very dissapointed he started smoking. :( After seeing what it has done to people, what it can do, how much it cost, ect... and he still took up smoking.
From a young age (before he could fully understand), we would see people pulled over, and I'd say "he was drinking, and smoking, not wearing a seatbelt, hanging out the window (everything you could imagine LOL). And now see, his car is broke (or worse, the cop pulled over to help him LOL). Use "examples".
I suspect Aiden will be just like Joey. Lydia... she is going to be tougher.
Quoting dana63:
I wont say my method will work for everyone but it not only worked for my kids but it worked for my mom with me and my brother..
We told our kids if they have to drink it will be at home and they will NOT be allowed to leave the house.. My kids said it was unfair because we gave them permission and who wants to do something when they know its ok.. My oldest DD didn't drink until she left my house and after she was 18 and out of my care but never drank and drive...
I had the talk with both daughters ending with if you decide to drink or you get in a situation where you had something and you drove there please, please do not drive home. Call me, I will come and get you. NO HASSLE, no bitching, because I want you to come home safe.
Now both my girls have gone off to college. I know they are doing some drinking, however the rule still applies. CALL someone or don't go anywhere. Be smart, watch your surroundings.
My older daughter also talked with her sister before she went off to college and basically said the same thing. Be smart about it. Don't let yourself get in a situation that is compromised or worse.
I have one more thought to share. The youngest daughter came back to the dorm after a birthday night of celebration. She was buzzed but not drunk. The RA saw the girls, asked if they had been drinking and gave them a warning. It FREAKED out my younger daughter. She thought she was going to get kicked out of school for underage drinking. Her sister says to me, Mom, she waited till her birthday, nobody waits that long to test those waters! Her birthday was in April. She told her yeah, you got a warning. So think about it. They are not going to kick you out for one warning but they'll be watching you. Then a picture of my youngest was posted on FB with a drink in her hand. I saw it, her sister saw it. I said nothing because I knew her sister would. She again told her, hey...other people also watch those pages. It could be the picture that costs you a job etc. Don't post that kind of stuff on your pages.
I couldn't of said it better myself. Big sisters and brothers, gotta love them!


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yesterday rosamunde opened their new venture in the mission. i swung by today for lunch. its in the space previously occupied by cafe arguello, and before that it was a jack in the box, by 24th street bart. the new space has tables, many tap and bottled beers, four barrel coffee, etc. they've expanded their menu, adding split pea soup after 11AM, a salad with walnuts and blue cheese. there is also a breakfast sandwich option served until 11AM, with "sausage, poached egg, cheddar."
i had the beer sausage with kraut and onions, and i brought my friend the bratwurst with onions and beef chili, which i believe is a new topping? no? very satisfying lunch. oh and they have "cheese and meat boards" but the menu doesn't elaborate.
nice open space, friendly staff.
having trouble linking. Rosamunde Sausage Grill, 2832 Mission St., San Francisco 94110


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Wafu Burger
American Comfort Food Localized in Japan
The rice burger has a layered structure which
allows it to hold ingredients like this kakiage tempura.
This could never be accomplished in an onigiri.
Quick, cheap, and casual—these three words are at the heart of fast food and they are the reason why it attracts so many people. But more importantly, there is comfort food rooted in every culture. Each country has its own version of fast food and vendor food culture, as well as its favorites. For example, hamburgers, hot dogs and fried chicken in the U.S., fish & chips in England, kebabs in Turkey, crepes in France, and udon, soba, ramen and gyudon ( beef rice bowl) in Japan. In our internationalized society, such food cultures easily crossover and new flavors are spawned.
In Japan, the burger sandwich, an import from the U.S., is uniquely localized according to the country's ingredients, taste buds and consumer behavior. Even American food chains that do business in Japan create inventive products marketed for the local taste. In July, Wendy's introduced a wafu (Japanese style) chicken sandwich. Mizuna (a type of leaf) is used in its place of lettuce, and it makes a great match with the freshly fried chicken because mizuna's texture is crisp enough to harmonize with the fried chicken's crusty batter. Also, the sauce made of grated daikon radish and ponzu delivers a summery flavor with the support of mayonnaise that has been spiced up by tougarashi (red pepper) and yuzu-koshou (yuzu citrus pepper). The vege-chiki wrap (vegetable chicken wrap) is one of the seasonal flavors offered by Kentucky Fried Chicken in May. Charbroiled chicken is wrapped with burdock root, carrot salad and lettuce in a soft tortilla, and its teriyaki sauce with a touch of spiciness especially adds yakitori (chicken skewer)-like flavor. The burdock root and carrot salad are dressed with sesame flavored mayonnaise, and its nuttiness really accentuates the wrap.
Japanese brands also keep contributing new flavors to the market. Probably the most inventive burger-inspired creation and the biggest hit in Japan is the kinpira burger from Mos Burger, which was introduced in 1990. Mos Rice Burger (kinpira) is its official name, and as it implies the burger uses a rice pate (called a "rice plate") instead of a bun. What the rice pate contains is kinpira gobou, a hearty, comfort food for the Japanese. It is made of jullienned burdock root and sautéed with soy sauce and sugar, and its distinctively crisp texture is what makes this dish special. Since the Japanese have a tradition of eating onigiri (or omusubi) rice balls with toppings inside as fast food, the idea of rice pate seems natural to them. However, what is innovative about the rice burger is how it layers the ingredients, thereby including more than what is in the average onigiri. Since being introduced, the rice burger concept has became a standard of fast food, and many different flavors have made their debut, among them pork ginger, miso katsu (pork cutlet with miso sauce), tori tsukune (chicken pate), and kakiage tempura.
In terms of marketing strategy, it is not so easy to introduce new food items that appeal to the Japanese, as they are fastidious about food. But there are some keywords that can nudge them, which are "seasonal," "regional," "healthy," and "limited time offer." Recently, "traceability" was also added to this list. Many fast food chains have started to emphasize their ingredients' safety by claiming that they use "all domestically grown" ingredients. It is not cost effective to provide a food product without using imported ingredients, but Japanese consumers are really influenced by the tagline "domestically grown." As trends shift, American comfort food keeps evolving in Japan. It might not be far in the future that these sorts of fusion burgers are enjoyed by people in the country they came from.
——— Reported by Noriko Komura
Since Mos Burger employs a made-to-order system, you have to wait for about 5 minutes after you place your order. However, the reward at the end is tremendous: a steaming hot burger sandwich! Just be careful not to burn yourself by eating it. Make sure to use a paper wrap to protect your fingers from the heat as this young lady does.


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Atmosphere delivers a long-overdue video for the hidden track on Seven's Travels, in honor of the 10th anniversary re-release.
To celebrate the 10 year anniversary, Rhymesayers will reissue Seven's Travels for the first time ever as a 180 gram triple vinyl gatefold package. The original album will be recorded on two pieces of vinyl spanning four sides. To complete the Seven's Travels anniversary edition, the third vinyl will contain: the hidden track, "Say Shh" along with the three bonus songs from the original vinyl pressing, plus two b-side only releases and three additional tracks recorded in 2003. The bonus vinyl will be packaged in an exclusive new full-color double-sided illustrated sleeve. Up at Amazon now.
Seven's Travels 10th Anniversary bonus tracks
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"Masters Of War (Reinterpretation)" – 3:23
this song isn't a bonus track….its the last song on the tracklist….the song later on at the end of this track…say shhh I believe…is actually the bonus track. shoulda made a real video
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Most experts estimate that it takes 1.5 days of recovery for every time zone covered. My colleague had just returned from a two-week educational program in Southeast Asia. I had just returned from a speaking engagement in Ireland. Since there are 12 time zones between Southeast Asia and Minnesota, my colleague needed approximately 18 days to fully recover, and it would take me eight or nine days to be back in top form.
We're reasonably intelligent people, yet we completely underestimated our ability to bounce back. So what's the important lesson for us? We have to recognize that we have limits. Ignoring them has consequences for us, for others and for our work.
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