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Illegal passengers caught hanging or sitting on train coach risk trial for attempted suicide and imprisonment, the Nigeria Railway Corporation has said. Currently, 23 of of such illegal passengers are standing trial.
The Assistant Director, Public Relations, NRC, Mr. David Ndakotsu, who spoke to our correspondent, said the corporation was collaborating with law enforcement agencies to arrest and prosecute defaulters.
Ndakotsu spoke against the background of last week's event in Lagos, when an illegal passenger that sat on top of an Iddo-bound train battered a photo-journalist for taking shots of their action.
He said that their officials would be deployed in all rail stations especially along the Lagos-Ogun axis where the disorder was rampant, to ensure enforcement.
He said, "There are measures put in place. There is a five-year-old law that prohibits anybody from hanging and standing on train coaches; it allows their arrest and prosecution. About 23 of those arrested are being tried for attempted suicide because what they did was suicidal.
"Passengers must obtain their tickets to allow them sit in the cabins; that is only when insurance can cover them. However, it is unfortunate that these lawbreakers usually join a moving train just after it departs a station. On our part, we have continued to sensitise the public and to ensure passenger's safety. However, we have collaborated with law enforcement agencies to ensure orderliness."
Ndakotsu attributed the problem to congestion, saying the agency would deploy more coaches in the Lagos metropolis to accommodate the increasing number of rail passengers.
He said, "Part of the problem is congestion and we have called for more coaches from Maiduguri, Jos, Bauchi and Kaduna. They are undergoing refurbishment and will be in Lagos in two weeks. We planned to raise the number of coaches on a train to between 18 and 22 per hour."
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Manuel Pellegrini warns players: Stoke match is as important as Real Madrid clash
Instead, the Manchester City boss has told them to stay focused on Stoke today to make sure they are playing in the Champions League again next season.
City are just four days away from their stellar clash with Real in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final.
They will be boosted by the return of David Silva after two games out and an injury scare for Real superstar Cristiano Ronaldo.
But Pellegrini says they should keep their minds on the Premier League for now.

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Apple's next mobile gadgets to have dual-core chipset with 4x the graphics muscle
Since each of those cores is supposed to have twice the graphics processing power of the current SGX535 in the iPhone 4, iPad and the iPhone 3GS, we are looking at roughly 4x bump in the graphics and video performance, compared to those oldies. Good, now we can sleep better, knowing that the iPad 2, and, most likely, the iPhone 5, will encode and decode full HD video with ease, which should be a pleasure to watch with the iPad's new screen resolution. They'd better ship with at least 64GB of storage then.
PowerVR is a part of Imagination Technologies, which licenses mobile graphic chipset designs to companies who actually produce them, like Samsung, similar to what ARM does with its mobile CPU designs. In 2008 Apple, Samsung and Imagination Technologies started their cross-licensing partnership, which resulted into what went into the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPad for Apple, as well as Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung Wave for Sammy.
The notable difference between the two companies is that since Samsung released its handsets later than the 3GS, it used PowerVR SGX540 in its 1GHz Hummingbird chipset, which pushes about three times more polygons per second than the SGX535 we have in the iPhone 3GS. The theoretical 90 million count makes Samsung's Hummingbird chipset still the undisputed leader in graphics, beating even NVIDIA's dual-core Tegra 2.
PowerVR SGX543, in its quad-core configuration, is supposed to go into Sony's PSP2, so that's a vivid testimony of its abilities. Still, Samsung will be using ARM's own graphics subsystem called Mali in its upcoming Orion chipset, which Sammy claims pushes 5 times more of those little triangular thingies per second than the previous model. Depending on whether that means the previous Mali models, or the Hummingbird chipset, Orion is rumored to process anything between 130 million to 450 million triangles, so the next-gen iPad and iPhone will be given a good run for their money, all for our geeky benefit. Don't you just love competition?
via AppleInsider
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1. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
Everyone wants to throw their best this year looking forward 2011
2. clevername (Posts: 1436; Member since: 11 Jul 2008)
And of course android fanboys(not android lovers) will still hate and say it's still behind the times.
If this is what iPhone 5 will have, I can't wait to see iPhone 6
6. ikkuh (unregistered)
Please grow up. Most android users just dont want limitations and don't want to pay twice the price for just design.
Competition is good for everybody.
3. skymitch89 (Posts: 1378; Member since: 05 Nov 2010)
Who says that the next iPhone will be called the iPhone 5? Sure, it'll be the 5th generation of the iPhone, but considering how AT&T is now focusing on it's 4G network I wouldn't be surprised if it would be called the iPhone 4G or, according the the possible specs above, the iPhone 4GS.
5. clevername (Posts: 1436; Member since: 11 Jul 2008)
No one has ever said that's the name of the next iPhone. It's the phrase being used to refer to the next generation iPhone that we all know is going to come.
4. c.holla (unregistered)
idc what its called i cant wait to get my hands on it !


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Tasmanian integrity watchdog seeks wider powers to investigate corruption
Tasmania's Integrity Commission wants similar powers to police so it can better investigate allegations of corruption and misconduct.
In a submission to a parliamentary review, the watchdog asks to be given the status of a law enforcement agency.
It believes its investigations have been hindered because it does not have the power to access information from Tasmania Police or listen to intercepted phone calls.
The commission's chief executive has also revealed it is impossible to assess the extent of public service corruption, because reporting is not mandatory.
Ms Merryfull says it would be easier for the watchdog to keep Government agencies to account if it was compulsory to report serious misconduct.
"We have no way of knowing that's why we want to have mandatory reporting, so we can keep an eye on how agencies are dealing with misconduct that comes to their attention," she said.
The commission also wants broader powers to be able to publish reports to both houses of Parliament, outside of sitting times.
Ms Merryfull says she hopes the process will increase awareness of the organisation.
She says any changes are now up to the parliamentary committee, led by Liberal MLC Vanessa Goodwin.
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After being eliminated on Tuesday's episode of The Biggest Loser, Stephanie Anderson, the 29-year-old radio sales executive from West Hollywood, still has plenty to smile about. She spoke to reporters Wednesday about finding love with costar Sam, her total weight loss of 96 lbs., and resolving drama from the show. –Nina Tyler
When did your relationship with Sam begin?There was definitely a flirtation very early on and we became friends and started hanging out and working out. I was more capable than some of the other contestants at the time in terms of my cardio level and I could never quite keep up with Sam but I always felt that he pushed me to be better. We just had fun together. It was about week three that we were all hanging out, having a little dance party in the rumpus room and then one by one everyone went to bed and Sam and I were just talking and I was like, "I really like this guy but I don't want to mess things up. We're having so much fun as friends." Once I realized that I really genuinely liked him, I just decided to let my guard down.
Are you surprised that more of your relationship with Sam wasn't shown on the show?Sam and I formed a really great friendship and it fell into like, and then it fell into love. The show is not Survivor. This is not Big Brother. This is The Biggest Loser. They don't showcase a romance because that truly isn't what this show is about. It's about our efforts and about our transformations, and about our overcoming obstacles, so we were aware that they weren't going to showcase Sam and I. Obviously in the beginning– as a woman who's never been in love — I was happy that they weren't going to show it because it's very personal. I'm happy now to share with everyone because I am genuinely and truly the happiest I've ever been.
What do you and Sam do together for fun?When we get the chance to hang out, we love hiking — that became a passion of both of ours. I've found a new love for the outdoors. I like to be outside with Sam. We love spin class. We just like laughing. That sounds so clich but I have a blast with Sam … He's a genuinely great guy.
Has the drama been resolved between you, Ashley, Koli, and Andrea?The situation came to light just recently. Watching the show was one of the first times I saw what was happening behind the scenes with Koli and with the girls. Ashley and Andrea have both called to reach out to me and apologize. They both have said they were wrong and that they were sorry and they're genuine apologies. I believe that they feel that they were misguided and they were. I didn't know such things that were described of me — I didn't throw the weigh-in, I didn't manipulate the game. I wasn't playing the game. In terms of Koli, it hasn't been resolved. I'm definitely looking forward to a chance to have that resolved in the future.
How is the balance between time for work and time for fitness?The balance is really tough. I'm working out everyday. I'm eating on my plan. I've had a few slip-ups here and there of just not wanting to go work out or if I don't write down my calories or keep close enough track and that's real life. That's going to happen but then I hop right back on track. I haven't gotten fast food. I haven't binged. I haven't cheated. I mean, have I had a bite of ice cream? Yeah. A quart of ice cream? No. I'm just really trying to stay focused on finding that balance. NBC


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PARIS, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- There are moments, as this European drama of debt and deficit grinds on, when one wonders what Cecil von Renthe-Fink might have made of it.
A Prussian aristocrat and German diplomat who joined the Nazi Party in 1939, Renthe-Fink is one of those footnote figures of history who nonetheless embodied something important for his own time and for our own.
Having been the German plenipotentiary in Denmark, in 1943 he was moved to Vichy France to keep an eye on the nominal French head of state, Marshal Philippe Petain who was trying to open discreet links to Charles De Gaulle and the Free French movement overseas and to the British.
He succeeded in keeping Petain under control but Renthe-Fink's real claim to fame lies in a memorandum he drafted in August 1943 for Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop on the idea of a united Europe.
It was to be a confederacy under German leadership "based on free cooperation among independent nations." He proposed a customs-free economic union with a single central bank and eventually a common currency. There was to be a common transport plan to build an integrated system of railroads, river and air transport and autobahns, and a special plan for agriculture.
"Only by uniting can Europe maintain the position it has hitherto occupied in the world," he wrote.
The purpose of the confederacy was "to end the period of intestine wars and overcome European particularism." The key to the process was that the confederacy "does not mean domination, but a mutual relationship of trust and loyalty instead of the imperial methods of the former era."
His plan, written as the British and Americans had invaded Italy and as the German armies were reeling in retreat on the Eastern front, never went anywhere while Hitler remained in power. But as a prototype for today's European Union it looks uncannily accurate, with one exception, Britain, whom he described as "the continent's ancient enemy."
"Germany's fight against England is the European War of Unification," he wrote, and from his grave Renthe-Fink doubtless shared the delight with which many Europeans have greeted Britain's self-imposed isolation from the latest plan to rescue the eurozone.
And from Britain has come endless suggestions that today's Europe is unfolding according to Renthe-Fink's plan. The Daily Telegraph declares: "The euro crisis will give Germany the empire it's always dreamed of." The Daily Mail announces: "Rise of the Fourth Reich, how Germany is using the financial crisis to conquer Europe."
Germany's Der Spiegel magazine tried to analyze not only the overheated British reaction but also developments in Germany that triggered it, like the proud assertion that "suddenly German is being spoken in Europe" by Volker Kauder, the parliamentary leader of Germany's ruling Christian Democratic Union.
And his counterpart on the left, SPD parliamentary leader Frank-Walter Steinmeier, chimed in that there are Germans who already anticipate "Britain's departure from the EU." And Brits bridled at the threat to the City of London when Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that "no country, no financial center and no financial product can be unsupervised from now on."
And yet the curious feature of this so-called Fourth Reich is how reluctantly the Germans themselves seem to approach the idea. Their foreign policies are relentlessly pacifist and their defense budget isn't much more than half of what the Brits and the French have been spending.
German policy in the euro crisis has been to avoid leadership and to reject the kind of full-blooded economic integration that Europe's federalists seek. Berlin has repeatedly turned down suggestions of a common euro-bond, backed by all the member states.
Above all, Germany doesn't want to be stuck with the bill for rescuing this Europe that is alleged to embody its long-held dream of a German-dominated continent.
The Germans know, because they have tried and counted the cost of their failure, that it cannot be done. Nor do today's Germans want to do so. What they want is for feckless Italians and Greeks to work hard and pay their taxes and control their debts like Germans do and not expect Germany to continue paying Europe's bills.
The harsh reality is that Germany will be less and less able to do so in the future. The Germans know that they have one of the lowest birthrates in Europe. They remain today the country with the largest population in Europe but within 25 years they will be outnumbered by both the French and the British who have Europe's highest birthrates and will this in the future have Europe's main potential labor force.
Today there are fewer than 7 million little Germans below the age of 10. There are 8 million little Brits of that age and 8.2 million little French boys and girls.
That is the ultimate refutation of the dream of Cecil von Renthe-Fink and the irony of modern Europe. They have created a Europe that rests and depends on a strong and vibrant German economy but we are running out of Germans.


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text: From the rumors going on,Samsung galaxy 3 and 5 are not going to get gingerbread update.Gingerbread has more better power management. Now Galaxy 551 is a just a galaxy 5 + keyboard with a bigger screen. And since due to less popularity with developers,there arent any custom mods either.(HTC phones are way too good) Samsung has a knack of providing new better phones while forgetting any phones more than 3 months old. LG Optimus One on the other hand is getting a 2.3 update. So do you guys think 551 has a chance


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Firefighters have so far managed to contain just 30% of the fast-moving blaze, which began just before noon on Tuesday in the rural Pope Valley area of Napa County.
As the fire surged over roads in Butts Valley and Snell Valley, plumes of thick, black smoke could be seen above the hills east of Calistoga and St Helena.
Towering flames lit up the night sky as evacuated residents made their way to a shelter set up in a local school.
An estimated 2,700 acres - equivalent to more than 2,000 American football fields - of land has already been destroyed, with at least five buildings razed to the ground.
Crews from Napa, Lake and Solano counties are battling temperatures of 90F (32C) as they attempt to stop the flames spreading any further.
No one is thought to have been killed or injured and the cause of the wildfire has not yet been confirmed.
However, the blaze came just hours after severe "red flag" warnings for lightning were issued for the western Mendocino National Forest, 48km (30 miles) north of Calistoga.


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I found this (unreplied to) email floating around in my Lucene folder from during the holidays...
From: Timo Nentwig To: java-dev Subject: Fuzzy makes no sense for short tokens Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:01:11 +0100 Message-Id: <firstname.lastname@example.com> Hi! it generally makes no sense to search fuzzy for short tokens because changing even only a single character of course already results in a high edit distance. So it actually only makes sense in this case: if( token.length() > 1f / (1f - minSimilarity) ) E.g. changing one character in a 3-letter token (foo) results in an edit distance of 0.6. And if minSimilarity (which is by default: 0.5 :-) is higher we can save all the expensive rewrite() logic.
I don't know much about FuzzyQueries, but this reasoning seems sound ... FuzzyQuery.rewrite should be able to completely skip all TermEnumeration in the event that the input token is shorter then some simple math on the minSimilarity. (i'm not smart enough to be certain that the math above is right however ... it's been a while since i looked at Levenstein distances ... tests needed)
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This makes sense, Timo. Could you please attach a patch + a simple unit test?
This optimization is correct. Highlights some interesting things about fuzzy query as well i.e. if you put a minsim of 0.9, your query term has to be over 10 chars to have any hope of getting a match. For the default of 0.5 its 2 chars, so in the common case the optimization doesn't do much good, and you do have to pay for the check every time no matter what. For larger minsim values though, this will turn a lot of fuzz queries into no ops.
- Mark
Computing the needed term length in the constructor is probably better.
I don't deal with FuzzyQueries much, but skimming this issue it seems to touch on a lot of hte same things that spawned the creation of the "mm" syntax for specifying the "minNumberShouldMatch" value on BooleanQueries in the Solr dismax query parser...
...perhaps something similar could be used to allow people to specify simpel expressions for dictating the "fuzzyiness" of short input vs medium length input, vs long input.
This fix breaks the case when the exact term is present in the index.
Attach patch (based on 2.9) showing the bug, along with the fix. Instead of rewriting to empty BooleanQuery when prefix term is not long enough, I rewrite to TermQuery with that prefix. This way the exact term matches.
I'll commit shortly to trunk & 2.9.x.


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The muscle behind the music / When orchestras get into trouble (or thrive), blame (or praise) the board
Published 4:00 am, Sunday, December 2, 2001
Symphony orchestras may be in trouble nowadays, but some are in a lot more trouble than others.
Alongside such non-events as the financial travails of the mighty Chicago Symphony (which recently excited musical Jeremiahs by announcing a piddling $1. 3 million deficit on an annual budget of $60 million) there are genuine causes for alarm in the orchestral world -- most notably the recent suspension of activity at the San Jose Symphony in the face of critical budgetary shortfalls.
Meanwhile, other orchestras -- the San Francisco Symphony is as good an example as any -- purr along happily, in the pink of artistic and financial health.
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What makes one orchestra succeed and another fail? There are plenty of causes for the discrepancy, but the most important factor is the one that most audience members are probably least aware of: the board and its leadership.
It is the board that sets financial priorities and makes sure -- or fails to make sure -- that management follows them. It is the board that creates a culture in which artistic excellence is either fostered or not.
And it's the board that is responsible, above all, for forging the all- important relationship between an orchestra and its community, without which the musicians might as well be visiting artists in town for a series of tour dates.
Anyone looking for a culprit in the San Jose debacle could find plenty of potential candidates. They would range from the succession of feckless orchestra managers who allowed financial problems to go unaddressed (and therefore worsen) for more than a decade, to music director Leonid Grin, whose narrow repertoire and workaday interpretations have rarely inspired much excitement.
But in the end, those paths and all the others lead back to the same place. It is the board -- and by extension the civic movers and shakers of the entire South Bay -- that has fallen down on the job.
An active, involved and far-seeing board leadership would never have allowed the orchestra's financial woes to drag on until they became dire enough to shut down the operation. It would have moved long ago to install a management team with the requisite experience and expertise.
It might even have been able to diagnose the artistic malaise that has crept into the Center for the Performing Arts -- or again, hired a manager who could. The board's performance remains the bottommost of bottom lines.
The converse, of course, is also true. When an orchestra is in a position as strong as the one that the San Francisco Symphony is in these days, there is more than enough credit to go around.
The musicians are a formidable ensemble, playing at or near the top of their game. Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas has brought passion, excellence and a sense of adventure to the orchestra's activities. Two executive directors, Peter Pastreich and now Brent Assink, have charted a sure course through the financial and political perils that face any modern American orchestra.
But again, the chain of authority goes back to the board, and it is Nancy Bechtle -- who steps down tomorrow as president after 14 years of visionary leadership -- whose presence ultimately made all those achievements possible.
Without Bechtle and the vigorous, incisive board that she helped forge, it's hard to believe that the Symphony would be in the commanding position it's currently in. It was Bechtle and the board who brought in Thomas and Assink and set in motion the extraordinary musical flowering that Davies Symphony Hall has witnessed in recent years.
So if the folks in San Jose are really interested in salvaging their 122- year-old musical institution -- the oldest symphony orchestra this side of the Mississippi River -- they have a valuable role model just up the freeway.
The trouble that their orchestra is in is financial, most pressingly, and artistic as well. But fundamentally, it's civic. A board as assured of its mission as the San Francisco Symphony's -- and as determined to achieve it -- is the critical first step toward recovery. That's the source from which everything else will follow.


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Sonatrach, Algeria's national oil and gas company, and the U.S.-based Conoco Inc. have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) according to which Conoco will evaluate the potential use of Algerian natural gas reserves to fuel power generation projects in Algeria, Spain and Turkey.
According to Abdelhak Bouhafs, the president and CEO of Sonatrach, the agreement establishes a framework for studying fully integrated energy projects, including the development, transportation and processing of Algeria's natural gas reserves, and their use as a clean-burning fuel for electrical power.
The cooperation between the two companies will not be limited to only upstream oil and gas projects, he added.
Bouhafs said the feasibility study would take approximately one year to complete.
J. Dee Simpson, president of Conoco Africa was similarly optimistic. Conoco is pleased to partner with Sonatrach in a program that could further develop Algeria's natural resources and build fully integrated power systems in the region, he stated. – (Albawaba-MEBG)
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Arthur James Dance Band at Pitman's on January 11
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LACONIA — Pitman's Freight Room will host Dance Night featuring the Arthur James Dance Band on Saturday, January 11 at 8 p.m.
Admission is $12 and Pitman's is a BYOB venue.
Arthur James became a fixture of the New England blues scene in the 80's. From 1990 to the present James has become the John Mayall of NH. He has shared the stage at festivals and clubs with a who's who of the New England blues world. Some past band mates have gone on to play with Roomful of Blues. Recently James is the winner of two Granite State Blues Challenges. The Band will perform Blues and R&B Dance favorites.
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CINCINNATI Procter & Gamble is going 3-D with its new Crest and Oral-B 3D White collection, which launches this month.
"Research shows that many consumers are overwhelmed by the vast selection of whitening products available, which causes them to experience confusion when making purchasing decisions and ultimately express dissatisfaction with their results," stated Doreen Bayliff, VP of P&G North American Oral Care. "We created the new 3D White collection so that consumers can easily choose the ideal combination of products for them, based on their desired level of whitening, effort and price point. And, with the use of the 3D White collection, we can guarantee consumers will not only see a whiter smile, but also be happy with their results."
The Crest and Oral-B 3D White collection includes Professional Effects Whitestrips with Advanced Seal Technology, Vivid toothpaste, MultiCare whitening rinse, and Advantage Vivid and Pulsar Advanced Vivid toothbrushes.
The collection works in combination for noticeable whitening results. According to P&G, the system was created to address both the surface stains as well as embedded stains.


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Grants demonstrate the confidence others have in Earlham's scholarship and the value of an Earlham degree.
Professor of Music Marc Benamou received a three-year Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant of $290,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for his project "Javanese Sung Poetry in Translation." With collaborators in Indonesia and the U.S., Benamou is developing a searchable database, website and print publication of Javanese gamelan song texts, translated into both Indonesian and English, for use by gamelan ensembles throughout the world.
Professor Emeritus of Biology John Iverson received National Science Foundation funding through a sub-award from Iowa State University. The award of $94,044 funds "Climate change and environmental sex determination in a geographically widespread species," part of a long-term collaborative project that supports Iverson's research with Earlham students in the Sand Hills of Nebraska for three summers. Students monitor several species of nesting turtles, and capture, measure, mark and release each female, while also recording microhabitat data at each nest site.
Earlham was awarded $1.1 million from the U.S. Department of Education beginning October 2013 to further develop the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program over a five-year period. The McNair program began at Earlham in 2009 and prepares low-income, first generation and underrepresented students for graduate study by providing programming and research opportunities.
Associate Professor of Chemistry Lori Watson and collaborators at other institutions including Hope and Reed colleges received a four-year, $437,962 grant from the National Science Foundation to further the work of the Interactive Online Network of Inorganic Chemists (IONiC). The current grant expands the network's website and social networking hub and funds four weeklong summer workshops and ancillary activities that introduce faculty to cutting-edge topics in several subfields of inorganic chemistry, develop at least 100 high quality teaching resources in conjunction with research experts, and disseminate these materials to the global inorganic teaching community.
In June 2012 Earlham College received a $525,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue development of its Middle East Studies Program and broaden internationalization on campus and in the curriculum. The grant strengthens instruction in Middle East history and the Arabic language and supports joint faculty-student research activity.
The National Science Foundation awarded Assistant Professor of Biology Chris Smith, Associate Professor of Biology Peter Blair, Professor of Computer Science Charlie Peck and colleagues at Indiana University-East a $168,739 grant for their project, "Using metagenomics to realize an education partnership and stimulate curriculum development." The project has engaged students at both institutions in collecting soil samples from farm fields around Richmond and from the soil under the receding edges of glaciers in Iceland. Students have been helping to extract DNA from the samples that is then processed, sequenced and analyzed. In addition, curriculum modules in metagenomics based on these data sets are being built and tested at Earlham.


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NHL Daily Fix: Hartnell cleared to practice; great Harlem Shake
The NHL Daily Fix is your morning wakeup call, with news and notes for the day's hockey action. Here's what's going on Thursday: Scott Hartnell cleared to practice, more Alex Ovechkin criticism and a unique NHL Harlem Shake.
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• We have steadfastly avoided the Harlem Shake here at Eye on Hockey (you're welcome) but the one above was too good to pass up.
You probably saw the goal Wednesday night, which my colleague Adam Gretz described as "the hockey equivalent to the circus jamming 50 clowns into a tiny car." It might have been made even better by being set to the Harlem Shake meme.
• If you didn't see this one Wednesday, Predators forward Rich Clune was fined $1,452.70 (believe it or not, that was the max he could be fined) for boarding Aaron Palushaj on Monday. (NHL.com)
• Here's some great news for the Flyers: Scott Hartnell was cleared to practice on Wednesday. That means he could be back in the lineup by next week. That'd be a huge lift. (Courier-Post)
• Is Alex Ovechkin washed up? Is there something wrong with him? Chuck Gormley thinks it's about time he answer the growing number of critics. (CSN Washington)
• In light of another horribly missed call -- Matt Duchene being offside against the Predators on a goal -- the coach's challenge debate is rising again. (CBC)
• The Lindy Ruff era came to a startling end Wednesday when the Buffalo coach was fired after almost 16 years. Team owner Terry Pegula was not present for the news conference but did issue this statement:
"The hockey world knows how I and the entire Buffalo Sabres organization feel about Lindy Ruff not only as a coach but also as a person. His long tenure with the Sabres has ended. His qualities have made this decision very difficult. I personally want Lindy to know that he can consider me a friend always."
Thursday's schedule
Florida at Philadelphia (7 p.m. ET)
Winnipeg at Carolina (7 p.m. ET)
New Jersey at Washington (7 p.m. ET)
Buffalo at Toronto (7 p.m. ET)
Boston at Tampa Bay (7:30 p.m. ET)
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Yesterday I wrote about Silicon Valley investment levels compared to Canadian, as well as the perception outside Canada that our tech sector is no longer innovative. One could easily be left with the perception from those pieces that the Canadian technology sector is in deep trouble, and doing a lot wrong. In actual fact, the conditions for a successful technology industry in Canada are mostly right.
The ecosystem of Silicon Valley is anchored in three key sectors – education, finance and industry. The educational institutions fund research and turn out high quality graduates that then become the leaders of industry. Stanford University, founded in 1876, is the Silicon Valley powerhouse that turns out industrial and academic leaders alike.
When founded, one of the Stanford's credos was that it would produce "cultured and useful citizens" when most universities of the day were only concerned with the former. Stanford had a practical bent from the get go. Fifty years later, Stanford graduates David Packard and William Hewlett would found their company in a Palo Alto garage, beginning the industrial connection which is the other driver of Silicon Valley. Today Stanford is a wealthy lynchpin in the Silicon Valley ecosystem, funded by endowments, royalties, and more and producing the leaders that the ecosystem needs to prosper.
The story is similar on the other side of the US in Boston, where Harvard and MIT were the educational underpinnings of the famous Route 128 tech corridor.
Here in Canada there are two or three possible areas where a similar ecosystem could be built.
- In the Golden Triangle area, the University of Waterloo, Guelph University and McMaster University all turn out high quality graduates. Waterloo, in particular, has borrowed (whether by accident or design) from Stanford's model heavily with its focus on partnering with industry and the practical bent it has displayed from the start. Moreover, Waterloo is the home to Research In Motion, the current darling of the Canadian tech sector.
- A similar ecosystem could also be built in Toronto, centered around the University of Toronto. Waterloo has a lead on University of Toronto, in my opinion, but Toronto is the heart of the Canadian financial sector.
- Montreal is another possibility. Montreal has McGill University, and investment dollars have been flowing to Quebec companies the last few years after the McGuinty Government's ill-considered decision to cancel the tax benefits associated with Labor Sponsered Funds in Ontario.
And what of Ottawa? A decade ago Ottawa was the heart of the Canadian technology sector. The collapse of telecom in 2001 dealt the city a harsh blow, which it has never recovered from. Former tech sector employees opted for safer government work, or left the city altogether shrinking the labour pool. Hard hit companies were gobbled up by foreign competitors. Today Ottawa still employs more people in tech than anywhere else, but the number of Canadian success stories left in Ottawa is dwindling, and Waterloo is quickly moving to surpass Ottawa in terms of employment.
We have the educational institutions. We have a few of the anchor companies. The biggest missing ingredient to drive Canada's technology industry is funding. Venture, as an investment class, has returned poorly in recent years, while natural resources have provided stellar returns for investors. It's not a surprise that the Canadian venture sector is shrinking, not growing.
It's also worth remembering that every dollar diverted from venture toward digging resources out of the ground is a mortgage on the future of all Canadians.
Addressing the venture funding gap should be a top priority for the Conservative government's budget on January 26th. In fact, it should a top priority for every level of government from Federal to Provincial and even Municipal. We don't necessarily need government funding for venture capital. We do, however, need conditions that encourage a private sector venture industry to prosper.


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She's up and smiling. Olympian Amy Van Dyken-Rouen updated fans on her progress Tuesday, June 10, posting a picture of herself in the hospital via Instagram. The six-time Olympic gold medalist severed her spine in an ATV accident at an Arizona golf club near her home last Friday, June 6.
"Making progress.. First day I sat up," Van Dyken, 41, wrote. "Thank you all for the thoughts and prayers," she added, alongside a photo of herself smiling in a hospital gown and sitting on a bed.
The athlete, according to CBS News, told emergency workers she could not feel her legs or move her toes after the accident. Van Dyken was airlifted to the Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn Medical Center, where she had surgery to stabilize her spine. A spokesperson said Monday, June 9, that the former athlete was in good condition.
Van Dyken, on the road to recovery, has received an outpouring of support from her husband, former Denver Broncos player Tom Rouen, her many fans, and teammates—past and present. "Doing great today," she wrote on Instagram Tuesday in a separate post. "My room is the most decorated in ICU. Thx for ur thoughts & prayers!"
USA Swimming released a statement to Us Weekly, which read: "The USA Swimming family is devastated to learn of Amy Van Dyken's unfortunate accident this weekend. We're happy to hear that she escaped and is now in great care. That she is already 'acting like her typical spunky, boisterous, ebullient self' shows she's on a great path."
"Amy is a champion," the statement continued, adding that the swimmer "has proven throughout her life that she is a fighter who takes on challenges and comes out on top. We know Amy will tackle her rehabilitation with vigor and be back on her feet sooner rather than later."
The Van Dyken and Rouen families posted on Facebook about Amy's condition, and explained that she had severed her spinal cord at the T11 vertebra. The broken vertebra, according to the families, "miraculously" came within millimeters of rupturing her aorta. Van Dyken shared a picture of family members visiting her at the hospital and wrote, "Never get us all together anymore. This is amazing. I have the best family."
Van Dyken remains in the ICU of Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn Medical Center.
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UK ruling elites DON'T CARE that many thousands of British children are gang raped by Muslim monsters. What UK elites care about is a woman and two men leaving a pig's head.
Patriotic Brits who protest the Islamization of Britain and protest Muslim monsters gang raping British children are treated as enemies of the state, as Tommy Robinson is.
If only EDL leader, POLITICAL PRISONER, patriotic, caring human rights activist, Tommy, could be home with his family! PLEASE SIGN!
Petition: Free Tommy Robinson!
Mohammed said, "We are very, very peaceful … We are not here to take over anyone's land," he said.
Muslim invaders wage rape jihad across Europe and Britain.
Many THOUSANDS of Britain's (and other nations) non-Muslim children have been gang raped by Muslim MONSTERS and forced into prostitution by these filth sons of the devil who look upon non-Muslims as prey.
An excellent video by Paul Weston of the British Freedom Party:
Muslim Rape, Liberal/Left Complicity
UK ruling elites stomp on our children who are offered up as a sacrifice to Islam.
Ruling elites ALLOW and are COMPLICIT in the cruel massive Muslim rape jihad against many thousands of Britain's defenseless children. Angels weep.
South Yorkshire Police and Rotherham Council Are Complicit in Child-Rape
…thousands of predominately Pakistani Muslim gang rapes of white English girls in the Rotherham area…
Our despicable leaders must heed our cries!
We must have protection! We must survive! Join in the fight for freedom and safety!
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Mohammed said, "We are very, very peaceful … We are not here to take over anyone's land," he said.
Abu Baseer in London: "One of the goals of immigration is the revival of the duty of jihad and enforcement of power over the infidels. Immigration and jihad go together.
Koran 9:5 "Kill Jews and Christians wherever you find them".
Founder of Islam, Mohammed: "I have been made victorious with terror", "Wage war on the infidel and kill them until Islam is dominant" (Koran 8:39)
People were arrested for leaving an incomplete ham sandwich? What's the crime here, other than non-compliance with sharia?
Ask those Muslim bastards what race they represent? Muslims push their evil ideology upon everywhere they go and wonder why nobody wants them around. Muslims trying to turn every empty building into a Mosque. Its no wonder folks are getting a little pissed off. Sadly the UK has submitted to these bastards.
They try the minority but need a majority to win. To many passifists now from the indigenious because of fears of racism arrests, jobs loss, death threats from Muslims etc and the lefties helping the Muslims. Sad but true!!!
follow this link for the Mosque buster to help.
Moslems have a duty to TAKE OVER EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD under Sharia Law:
Jihad defined in Sharia Law:
Reliance of the Traveller, O9.0: "Jihad – JIHAD MEANS TO WAR AGAINST THE (KUFAAR) non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from the word mujahada signifying WARFARE TO ESTABLISH THE RELIGION."
O9.6 "It is offensive to conduct a military expedition against hostile non-Muslims without the caliph's permission (A: though IF THERE IS NO CALIPH (def: o25), NO PERMISSION IS REQUIRED)."
O9.9 "The caliph FIGHTS ALL OTHER PEOPLE UNTIL THEY BECOME MUSLIM (O: because they are not a people with a Book, nor honored as such, and are not permitted to settle with paying the poll tax (jizya) ) (n: though according to the Hanafi school, peoples of all other religions, even idol worshippers, are permitted to live under the protection of the Islamic state if they either become Muslim or agree to pay the poll tax"
The mullah is STRAIGHT LYING. HE IS A SUPREMACIST and MISOGYNIST.
So I just announced to my husband (after reading this) that I want a pig's head mounted above our front door. He said some people may not like that (meaning some friends). I said: The Pig Stays!!!
"We are not here to take over". We just want you to give us this place that we did not build and we did not pay for and we did not use before as a place where only the muslim followers of the baby raping, halucinating, murderous Poppet of islam can enter so we can wag our hineys in the air as we bang our heads on the floor and preach death and slavery for Infidels. We are but peaceful, loving , travellers in a world that eats pigs.
Bang on right.
So much Muslim seed had been forcibly "placed" into pigs by Mohammed and his sick fuck co-cultists that they came to see it as almost cannabalistic to eat pork. This is the other part of the reason muzscums don't eat pork.
Well you know
Pigs,dogs""unclean"; but they are still more attractive and smell better than the female muzslime.
The only thing better to Mohammad,is a five yr.old orifice!
Mohammed said, "We are very, very peaceful … We are not here to take over anyone's land," he said.
That is what they all say Blah! Blah! then they are not Muslims then he needs to explain why he is not following the Qur'an surely. Lairs to apease the non Muslims as usual sad tyhing is there is the lefties whom believe them and they are the greatest enermy home goals.
Wider community whom might that mean none Muslims welcome to be converted. I am sick of hearing these same old statements. Link for the mosque buster. 🙂
My comment to Muzzie Mohammonds (last paragraph) Yeah and pigs will fly! 🙂 Peaceful my ass.
with a name like Lockhat you'd think he'd get the hint. guess not. more people need to stand up to them Islam is anything but peaceful
Yeah….I was just venting 🙂
Yea, we've brought this up on East Anglian's EDL Radio Show. This is not the way to protest, people.
An effective way to protest is by holding big signs in blood red with quranic verses. Make sure the muslims see them. Ask them what the verses mean in front of reporters and police.
Another good way of protesting: GLAMOR BOMBING.
Simply leave on tables in waiting areas verses of the quran in big letters. People will pick them up and read them. No hate crime can be charged since it's straight out of their book of 'love' and 'tolerance'.
How can we tune in to EDL radio?
F IsmM ,oink oink and a merry Christmas to all muslims
YES!! and I too am STILL enjoying some of that leftover CHRISTMAS HAM, AND a little DELICIOUS soy sauce pork with rice as well!! Mmmm…..
Good start…how bout a pigs head on every one of their graves…payback for all the Jewish and Christian graves they've desecrated over the years….
Yes, Amen to that!!
I'm starting to understand what this site is all about, even though I agree with it in principle.
However, it was you god damned Jews who allowed for this uncontrolled immigration to happen, and you still encourage it. To all European countries.
But you won't have any of that in Israel. Don't worry though – more and more are opening the eyes and thus seeing who is behind this disastrous development. In the end it's going to be you lying Jews who have the mouths stuffed and kicked out…along with your Middle Eastern friends.


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Comic books, sports cards stolen in Bailey Avenue burglary
Valuable collections of Marvel and DC Comics books and sports cards were stolen from a Bailey Avenue home sometime after Tuesday, Ferry-Fillmore District police learned Saturday.
The victim told police the value of the collections totaled more than $3,000. The burglar broke through a back door to enter the house.


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Zur Rendite-Risiko-Beziehung am deutschen Aktienmarkt Eine empirische Analyse der Beziehung zwischen dem Deutschen Aktienindex DAX und dem Volatilitätsindex VDAX
This study examines the empirical relationship between the volatility indices VDAX as well as VDAX-New and the stock market index DAX. Extending prior international evidence, we document a negative relationship between the implied volatility indexes and the stock market index for the German stock market. This negative relationship is asymmetric, i. e., it is more pronounced for negative stock returns than for positive ones. In contrast, we are unable to uncover additional quadratic effects, which could be interpreted as investor panic or exuberance. These findings are robust with regards to the selected volatility index, data frequency, and sample period. Overall, our empirical results are consistent with loss aversion and prospect theory. Finally, we document weak predictability of daily volatility index returns using lagged stock market returns, and this relationship is strongest in bear market periods. These observations could be explained with the leverage effect hypothesis.
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That the pay TV industry is getting tougher every day is nothing new, but cable operators and satellite TV providers' profits have been decreasing slowly, calling for a change in the traditional operating scheme. They year 2012 was an especially difficult one for DISH Network Corp. (NASDAQ:DISH), as it reported declines on several aspects of its balance sheet. However, management is fixed on making fiscal 2014 a different story and has initiated several moves to boost profits and expand the company's reach. And many investment gurus seem convinced about the upside potential, as George Soros (Trades, Portfolio) and Stanley Druckenmiller (Trades, Portfolio) recently bought large amounts of Dish shares. Let's see what this firm has in store for the future.
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Over the past few years, Dish has been trying to readapt to the ever-changing consumer habits of the pay TV industry. Ever since the spin-off of its set-top box business, excess satellite capacity, and additional investments into the Echostar Corporation (NASDAQ:SATS) in 2008, the company has been searching for new ways to gain market share and jump from its position as the third-largest pay TV provider, becoming a more equal rival to DirecTV (NYSE:DTV). While the traditional pay television model will remain profitable for the foreseeable future, Dish's recent acquisition of wireless spectrum covering the U.S. reflects the company's aim of expanding its business operations. In fact, the firm has entered into negotiations with Sprint Corporation (NYSE:S) to offer a wireless broadband service for mid-2014. This deal should help the company level its competitive disadvantage with cable operators, many of which are offering triple-play service packages, including television, broadband Internet and phone service.
Nonetheless, the firm's current scale has benefitted negotiations with content producers so far, given its nationwide service and low expenses required for equipment installations. In fact, the company's 14.1 million customers were tempting enough for The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS), which set aside its initial differences with Dish last week, in order to roll out its innovative deal with the satellite provider. The agreement will allow Disney's "WATCH" apps, as well as a vast array of ESPN programming to be streamed on-demand to Internet connected devices for Dish's subscribers. Not only will this system attract the much needed younger 18 to 34-year-old audience, but since the $20 to $30 monthly fee charged for the service is much lower than that of cable operators, the company could gain more strength as an industry player.
Financial Outlook
Looking forward, Dish should be able to hold its customer base somewhat flat for the next five years, although the content deal with Disney will surely show a positive trend. While the core television business will grow at a moderate 3% annual average rate until 2018, with revenue growing at 2.3% ($13.9 billion), increasing programming costs will likely pressure profitability to some extent. Moreover, the company's $5 billion investment in the wireless business could be a major risk, if the planned service execution fails to jump start. Nevertheless, I feel bullish about Dish Network's long term future, as management has shown strong commitment to keep up with the industry's changes and adapt its business model to customers' needs.
Furthermore, the company's operating margin of 9.7% is relatively healthy and free cash flow has maintained its levels since 2012 (at approximately $1 billion), thereby allowing for a high return on equity of 82.64%. Nevertheless, the stock's trading price of 35.5x trailing earnings is far above the industry average of 16.8x, making this investment a pricey matter. While the firm may be overvalued, I think investors should consider the profit boosts that could derive from the latest agreements with Disney and Sprint.
Disclosure: Patricio Kehoe holds no position in any stocks mentioned.


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North Platte Business Robbed, Suspect Still on the Loose
North Platte police are looking for any information that may lead them to the person responsible for breaking into and robbing a North Platte business.
NPPD responded to a call around 5 a.m. Wednesday at Ideal Linen on Sixth Street.
Officials say that sometime between 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and 3:15 a.m. Wednesday an unknown person broke into the building and took the safe. The thief is believed to have possibly drove away in an Ideal delivery truck, which was located near Lake Maloney around 8 a.m. Wednesday.
The contents of the safe are unknown at this time. Anyone with any information about this incident should call the North Platte police department at 308.535.6789 or contact crimestoppers online at lincolncountycrimestoppers.com.


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- Phone: 540-396-4751
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Against the Wind Ranch AKA Sarah Chaney Purchased a Quarter Steer, never received it, company has gone off the radar McDowell Virginia
We found Against the Wind listed on the Eatwild MD website, and were looking to purchase some grass fed beef. On April 4th, we contracted to purchase a quarter steer from Against the Wind Ranch by placing a deposit through Paypal, and were told it would take 5-8 weeks before knowing the final hang weight of the beef. We were contacted on April 16th stating that they had the final hang weight of the meat and asked for a payment of the remaining balance of the weight.
We were contacted on May 28th by Sarah Chaney saying it would be about two more weeks because the "butcher was backed up."
On June 11th, I received another email from Sarah Chaney stating that they had the meat ready but would be unable to make it up to Front Royal where we would be meeting to pick up the meat. The reason was that they were dealing with flooding in VA.
Since that email I have been unable to reach Sarah and Against the Wind, and now I see that their website is no longer operational, they do not answer their phones, do not respond to emails, and they have been taken off of the Eatwild MD website.
We have lodged disputes with Paypal, but unfortunately they are beyond the 45 day limit, and have also sent a request for refund via an invoice directly to their accounts.
I believe this is an elaborate scam, and I would advise anyone to not do business with Sarah Chaney and Against the Wind Ranch (which may not exist anymore).
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Due to the historical nature of the murders, the lack of CCTV footage, the lack of a murder weapon and the generally poor state of the bodies, the work of forensic scientists and other experts played a massive part in the police investigation.
A preliminary investigation of the bodies was carried out at Nottingham Queen's Medical Centre by Home Office pathologist Dr Stuart Hamilton, who then called on a raft of other experts - from archaeologists and insect experts, to firearms specialists.
Dr Hamilton told the court that the Wycherleys' remains were discovered with bullets within the area of their chest cavities.
One of Mr Wycherley's ribs had a groove in it where a bullet had hit the bone, while Mrs Wycherley's remains had a shell lodged in her spine.
Dr Hamilton said that the location of the bullets suggested they would have passed through major organs and, in Mrs Wycherley's case, her aorta, killing her very rapidly.
Dr Hamilton told the court that after a week in a warm room, the Wycherleys' bodies would have shown signs of marbling and blistering of the skin, which may have come away as the Edwards carried the remains downstairs and dumped them in the makeshift grave.
He also told the court that their remains would have oozed a black fluid from orifices and would have created an 'overwhelming' smell.
"Two human beings left at an average of 12 degrees would have created a smell that would have overwhelmed everything else," he said.
"If you left a chicken out at that temperature for a week it would create a smell that overwhelmed everything else, and here we are talking about two adult human beings.
"It's pungent, it's foul and it's pervasive - on opening the door it would have been instantly apparent. It's not a subtle smell."
Entomologist Dr Martin Hall, from the Natural History Museum, in London, also told the court that no evidence of blow flies was found on either body, which suggested that they had been buried soon after they were killed.
Giving evidence earlier in the trial, firearms expert Khaldoun Kabbani also said a total of four bullets were found with the remains of William and Patricia Wycherley.
Mr Kabbani, who examined the bodies of Mr and Mrs Wycherley at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre, told Nottingham Crown Court that they had both been shot twice and the bullets that killed them were found with their skeletal remains.
Both the Wycherleys had damage to their pelvic bones caused by .38mm bullets, one of which was found lodged in Mrs Wycherley's spine, the court heard.
Mr Kabbani told the court that the reclusive couple had most likely been shot by a Second World War Colt Commando revolver, which fires low velocity bullets.
When asked by defence counsel if the Wycherleys could have been shot by another make of revolver, he said it was unlikely due to marks left on the recovered shells.
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Members of the Norwegian tourist board won't be flipping cartwheels over the dingy, smothering, rain-sodden views of the Oslo slums director Pal Sletaune employs in his new feature Junk Mail. And the film's scruffy, rat-faced protagonist, Roy (Robert Skj3/4rstad), a furtive postman who takes revenge on his nasty bosses by stashing huge bundles of letters in a train tunnel, is not exactly the guy they'd photograph for visitor brochures.
But as the study of an alienated outsider who finds a redemption of sorts when he slips into the troubled life of a deaf woman who works at a dry-cleaning shop, Junk Mail has its several beauties. Among them, tenderness discovered amid misery. And the pull of romance revealed like a miracle among the loveless souls of the city's underbelly.
Director Sletaune, who peddled his work at half a dozen film festivals, finally picked up a distributor (Lions Gate) after winning first prize in last year's International Critics Week at Cannes. That's nice to see. Because this modest tale about a tormented, no-talent bureaucrat who winds up saving a woman from suicide (and perhaps saving his own life as well) is the kind of film that can easily slip into oblivion. Instead, it's seeing the light of day abroad.
Skj3/4rstad and co-star Andrine S3/4ther, who plays the deaf girl, Line, are astonishingly effective as strangers caught in a web of violence that is not of their doing. The real villain, who has beaten his victim into a coma, is Line's surly boyfriend, George (Per Egil Aske); the real grace of Junk Mail is the way it gives Roy and Line a way out while dispatching George not with violence, but via a tidy black joke involving mistaken identity.
If you have a taste for dismal gloom leavened by unexpected laughter, take time to see this.--Gallo
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Media Malpractice: CBS Pins Bush Debt on Obama
I've often compared various administration's fiscal records. The honest way to do so -- the only honest way -- is to consider budgets that a president requested from Congress and then signed into law. Budgets are passed during the prior year, so while Reagan entered office in 1981, his first budget was in 1982. Reagan's fiscal record therefore spans the 1982-1989 budgets, George H Bush was responsible for 1990 through 1993, Clinton's first budget was for fiscal year 1994, and so on.
George W. Bush sent Congress a budget request in 2008 for fiscal year 2009. He then signed the 2009 budget into law. At the end of the 2009 fiscal year, our public debt stood at $11.87 trillion. According to the latest figures released by the Treasury Department, it now stands at $14.639 trillion. So, under Obama, the debt has increased by $2.769 trillion.
But that's not what CBS says! Reporter Mark Knoller basically offers a case-study in how the American people are so poorly informed by our media:
National debt has increased $4 trillion under Obama
The latest posting by the Treasury Department shows the national debt has now increased $4 trillion on President Obama's watch.
The debt was $10.626 trillion on the day Mr. Obama took office. The latest calculation from Treasury shows the debt has now hit $14.639 trillion.
It's the most rapid increase in the debt under any U.S. president.
Totally inaccurate. But wait, it gets even better.
The national debt increased $4.9 trillion during the eight-year presidency of George W. Bush. The debt now is rising at a pace to surpass that amount during Mr. Obama's four-year term.
The first budget Bush signed was for fiscal year 2002. At the end of FY 2001, the national debt stood at $5.777 trillion. His final budget was for fiscal year 2009, which ended with a public debt of $11.876 trillion. So, during Bush's presidency, the debt rose by $6.099 trillion. CBS took the $2 trillion in debt run up during Bush's final budgetary year and pinned it on Obama.
Finally, as if our intellects weren't bruised enough, Knoller takes basic facts that absolutely nobody disputes, and turns them into a classic 'Democrats say' passage:
Mr. Obama blames policies inherited from his predecessor's administration for the soaring debt. He singles out:
"two wars we didn't pay for"
"a prescription drug program for seniors...we didn't pay for."
"tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 that were not paid for."
He goes on to blame the recession, and its resulting decrease in tax revenue on businesses, for making fewer sales, and more employees being laid off. He says the recession also resulted in more government spending due to increased unemployment insurance payments, subsidies to farms and funding of infrastructure programs that were part of his stimulus program.
All of that is true, but it's not just Obama saying it -- this is what the CBO says as well.
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Airline Baggage Regulations – Is Carry On Luggage the Way to Go?
The Thanksgiving holiday just passed and thousands of people will be heading to airports, to fly around the country after spending quality time with their families or friends. With all of the hustle and bustle of airports during this very busy season, many of you may wonder how you will manage to keep your sanity. With longer waits and more airlines putting restrictions on the items that passengers can travel with, you have to ask yourself – is it really worth it to fly?


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Ambry Genetics Launches Illumina HiSeq 2000 Next Generation Sequencing Services
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Aliso Viejo, CA, USA, December 9, 2010 / b3c newswire / – Ambry Genetics, a global leader in genomic services to the healthcare and life sciences industries, announced today that it has officially launched their Illumina HiSeq 2000 Next Generation Sequencing Services. Ambry Genetics has been an early adapter of Illumina sequencing systems since 2007 and has extensive experience as a Certified Service Provider.
Ambry Genetics is a CAP-accredited and CLIA-certified commercial clinical laboratory headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California. Since the company's inception in 2000, it has become a leader in providing genetic services focused on clinical diagnostics and genomic services. Ambry has built a solid reputation for unparalleled service, and has been at the forefront of applying new technologies to the clinical molecular diagnostics market and advancements in disease research. To learn more about testing and services available through Ambry, visit www.ambrygen.com


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A VoIP option for Google Voice has been rumored for quite some time now. There was even that leaked desktop client that showed up on TechCrunch a while back to show that Google was working on it. Today's announcement isn't precisely a Google Voice VoIP desktop client, but it is certainly close.
Google today has announced that any Gmail user will be able to call any phone right from the Gmail. The feature is free in the US and Canada for the moment, and will continue that way for "at least the rest of the year." Calls to other countries will be really cheap, with many countries' rates as low as 2 cents per minute.
For those who have Google Voice, that number will be the number showed when placing a call from Gmail. There is even a way to receive calls to your Google Voice number through Gmail. This might be the closest we'll ever come to getting a Google Voice VoIP client. As it stands, it is a nice thing to have, but it would be nice to have a dedicated desktop client that can do the same thing for those of us who don't keep Gmail open at all times.
As with all Google features, this will be rolled out over the next few days. The feature will show up as "Call Phones" when it does appear. If you want to use it, you will have to install the voice and video plug-in if you haven't already, though it's likely that most people already have. The feature won't be available to Google Apps accounts, though Google promises it is working on getting it to more users soon.
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Pakedge Device & Software and D -Tools Renew Partnership
The latest detailed Pakedge product information in System Integrator™ is now completely up-to-date and available to current SI users free of charge.
CONCORD, CA. DECEMBER 20, 2011 - D -Tools Inc., the worldwide leader in system integration software today announced that Pakedge has recently renewed their MVP Partnership. Detailed information on the entire family of Pakedge products are available in D -Tools product database, better enabling D -Tools System Integrator™ users to specify Pakedge products. Pakedge is a U.S. based company and manufacturer of innovative networking products for people who demand performance, features, and reliability.
"D -Tools software allows integrators to create visually stunning designs and proposals, allowing them stand apart from competition. We are pleased to be a partner and offer SI users our product information," said Nick Phillips, Pakedge Vice President of Sales and Marketing . "Providing our product information to D -Tools users offers them solutions they can confidently recommend to meet their clients' home networking needs. We look forward to continuing our work with D -Tools, and anticipate a rewarding partnership. "
The D -Tools Manufacturer Vantage Point (MVP) program is designed to help provide system integrators with the most up -to -date product information to over 3000 companies using D -Tools System Integrator software. D -Tools MVP members are dedicated to helping companies streamline the design process and making it easier for system integrators and installers to provide accurate proposals to their clients.
"With their highly innovative and professional networking products, it is no question why Pakedge is an award -winning company. Their products will certainly enhance the MVP Program as a whole," said Adam Stone, President and CEO of D -Tools. "We are pleased to have Pakedge as a Partner and look forward to working with their team for the upcoming years."
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