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It was truly a gift of Valentine's Day love when the most glorious spousal unit came home with this Chef'sChoice 315S Diamond Electric Sharpener for Asian-Style Knives (what a mouthful).
I am not being facetious either. I fess up to having a fondness for sharp objects and a therapist might even say that cooking is just a vehicle to allow me to utilize them without looking like a hoodlum standing on a street corner flipping a butterfly knife open and closed.
I've even been known to sharpen knives for friends (or purchase sharpeners for them) as well as buy entire knife sets for folks who dared provide me with a dull knife whilst helping prepare a meal. Yes, it is an obsession that I have honed to perfection.
We have kitchen knives of every sort: light ones for the most glorious one and heavier ones for me. We have knifes made by illustrious companies like Wüsthof, J.A. Henckels, Messermeister, and Shun (a division of Kershaw) that push $200 each. We also have some really cheapo knives that cost about $3.50 that are made in assorted developing countries. Each serve their purpose.
Knives with names like santoku, nakiri, and yanagiba are racked right alongside your basic chef, utility, boning, and paring knives. Up until now, I had a high quality sharpener for the latter (Chef's Choice 120), whose blades are ground at 20° but nothing for those in the former group, whose blades are ground to 15°. Further, my yanagibas are traditional which means they are only ground on one side. I've been sharpening these by hand for years.
But no more!
I opened the box to reveal the stylish high gloss black and red finish with Asian characters stamped on the side to lend credibility. I have no idea what they mean. The "1" and "2" on the red things lend particular significance to how stupid us Americans might be.
First, you shouldn't use this thing facing the other direction (there are no numbers on the other side). Second, apparently us USA born morons can't tell our right from our left. The "1" is the grinding side and the "2" is the stropping (polishing) side. This is very important.
Using this is pretty obvious. You turn it on, slide a knife into the respective slots and pull. If the knife ain't sharp, do it some more. However, since we are such an ignorant lot, I would strongly suggest reading the clearly written instructions (which, ironically, use the words "left" and "right" instead of the numbers in most places).
In all seriousness, the instructions are very valuable especially for knives ground only on one side.
So, to take this for a test drive, most glorious handed me her santoku. It's a very lightweight stamped-steel blade that she truly enjoys using. Following the instructions, I reground the double beveled edge with about 10 slow strokes on each side in the "1" slots. I then dropped it into the stopping slots ("2") and lightly hit it with 2-3 quick strokes on each side.
Whilst reading through the instructions, I ran across this phrase: "shaving sharp." As in, if the blade isn't shaving sharp when you're done, start over and do it right! Well, it didn't say that exactly, but I used the quoted phrase in the spirit intended.
I finished the knife. It was sharp. But was it shaving sharp?
Present hairy forearm. Lay the blade flat on the forearm, then tilt blade up about 10°. Observe most glorious spousal unit turn her head away. Observe lawyers saying: DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME. This professional driver is on a closed course. Side affects may include bleeding and trips to the emergency room. Stitches may be necessary if you screw up. Come on folks, engage the brain and don't be stupid.
I gave the blade a slight push. It was as though the hairs leapt off my arm and onto the blade. Yep, this baby was now shaving sharp.
For those of you a little squeamish about using this shave-test method, Chef Morimoto uses this one:
If you run a dull knife over your thumbnail, it won't catch. However, if you try it with a shaving sharp knife, it will not only catch, you'll be able to carve florets into your thumbnail. Again, don't try this at home without supervision.
To be completely safe, don't test the blade at all and just take my word for it.
And the next time you are looking for a gift for a hard-to-please spouse, give a gift of true love.


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JEREMY HOBSON: Three of the nation's largest cell phone companies are launching a test run for mobile payments in Salt Lake City. AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon will let riders of the Salt Lake City transit system pay for tickets with their phones in the hopes that we can all pay for all kinds of things with our phones soon.
For more on mobile payments let's bring in Marketplace's Steve Henn. He's with us from Silicon Valley. Good morning.
STEVE HENN: Good morning.
HOBSON: So this seems like a no-brainer Steve. I mean my maps are on my phone, my email's on there. Why shouldn't my credit card be?
HENN: Well, people have been paying with mobile phones in Japan and Europe for ages. So the technology's all there. The biggest problem in the states is that there are literally millions of retailers who would have to buy new credit card processing machines that could talk your phones before this could happen. And they're worried about fees and those fees going up. So you know, it's a huge market, lot's of people want to crack it. There's something like $3.5 trillion in payments made each year with plastic, but getting the retailers to spend the money, to buy new machines is the big hurdle.
HOBSON: And who are the players, Steve, who want to get into this game of mobile payments?
HENN: Well, you know at times it feels like pretty much everyone. Google, Apple possibility could get into it. They're start ups like Bling Nation, established companies like VeriFone. Even Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter has a start up that would turn a phone into sort of a virtual cash register. His company is called Square, and Dorsey thinks within a generation, cash could almost disappear.
JACK DORSEY: I use cash less and less. For instance, I locked myself out of my apartment last night. And I was expecting to have to go rumble up some cash and go to the ATM, but I was delightfully surprised that my locksmith took Square. So I could just pay with my credit card and it was completely secure.
HOBSON: Completely secure he says Steve. But obviously that would be a big question: Is it going to be secure to use your phone as a credit card?
HENN: Well, that is a big question. You know, and it's one of the biggest challenges for the industries. Dorsey's company Square has been accused of being hackable by people who can convert his little credit card reader into a machine that would just steal your credit card information. Cell phones generally are pretty insecure devises. They talk to lots of different things, wireless networks and cellphone towers. And security experts I've talked to said this is really going to be the biggest challenged for this industry -- figuring out how to really lock down a cell phone and make it safe.
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Rep. Bill Shuster, delivering the GOP's weekly media address, said the layoffs were caused by "bad policy" -- across the board budget cuts from sequestration, ABC News Radio reported.
Charging such a practice was "the wrong way to reduce the deficit," the Pennsylvania Republican noted that Congress approved a temporary solution to the flight delays on Friday, restructuring $600 million in FAA cuts, The Hill said.
The president has said he will sign the bill.
The solution shouldn't have taken so long, he said.
Shuster, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, charged "there are some in the Obama administration who thought inflicting pain on the public would give the president more leverage to avoid making necessary spending cuts, and to impose more tax hikes on the American people."
He said sequestration needed to be replaced with "smarter, more responsible cuts."
In his weekly address Saturday, Obama called Congress' bill to fix the FAA cuts "a Band-Aid."
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Preachers appointed, and thanked.
RESOLVED, upon the Question, That Mr. Chute of Lumberd-street, and Mr. Harris of Hanwell, shall be intreated to preach before the House of Commons, the next Fast.
Mr. Arth. Goodwyn and Sir Simonds D'Ewes are appointed to return Thanks to Mr. Goodwyn, and Mr. Carroll, for the great Pains they took in the Sermons they this Day preach. in St. Margarett's,Westminster, at the Intreaty of the House of Commons; and likewise to desire them, from the House, to print their Sermons. And it is farther Ordered, That none shall presume to print them for the Space of Two Months, but such as they shall appoint.
Proceedings concerning Hull.
Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee Yesterday appointed to prepare Heads for the Conference concerning Hull, or any Three of them, to make a Narrative of all the Proceedings that have been, touching that Business, from the Beginning till this Time; to the end that it, together with the Votes passed Yesterday, may be published: And are to meet presently, in the Court of Wards; and to bring it in To-morrow Morning.
Tothill-fields Church.
Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee for the Bill concerning the Christ Church in Tothill Field, to consider how it may be prepared, and made fit, against the next Fast.
Ordered, That the Committee concerning the Ministers shall have Power to meet de die in diem, as they shall think fit.
Sir S. D'Ewes' Subscription.
Sir Simonds D'Ewes, a Member of this House, freely offering and subscribing a Note, to allow Fifty Pounds yearly, to the Relief of Ireland, so long as the War lasts, without expecting any Part of the Rebels Lands in that Kingdom (besides what he shall be charged with in his Particular, by Aids granted by Parliament); the House, being acquainted herewith, commanded that this Promise and undertaking of his should be entered in the Journals of this House; for a Testimony of his good Affections to the Reducing of That Kingdom, and to the Peace and Safety of This.
Peard's Subscription.
Mr. Geo. Peard, likewise a Member of this House, promised and undertook to allow Twenty Pounds yearly, to the Relief of Ireland, so long as the War lasts, expecting nothing for it: The House doth take this for a very acceptable Service; and doth Order, That it should be entered in the Journals of this House; for a Testimony of his good Affections to the Peace of that Kingdom, and This.
Conference concerning Hull.
A Message from the Lords, by Sir Edw. Leech and Mr. Page;
The Lords desire a Conference, by Committees of both Houses, touching the Matter of the last Conference, concerning Hull, presently in the Painted Chamber, ir it may stand with the Conveniency of this House.
Answer returned by the same Messengers; That this House has taken their Lordships Message into Consideration; and will give a present Meeting as is desired.
Mr. Holles, and Mr. Pym, are appointed Reporters of this Conference.
Votes concerning Hull.
Mr. Holles reports, That at this Conference the Lord Privy Seal delivered the particular Answers to the Votes sent up from this House to the Lords, concerning Hull.
To the First, they agree, leaving out the Words "Lords Lieutenants and Deputy Lieutenants:" and instead, adding the Words "Justices of Peace:" Because it is not possible to write out the Commissions so speedily as this Business requires. And they have likewise ordered the Votes to be printed.
To the Second, they have agreed: And accordingly an Order is given to the Lord Admiral, to which the Lords desire the Assent of this House [a].
And the House, by Vote upon the Question, assented unto it.
To the Third, they have agreed: And ordered to print it.
To the Fourth, the Lords have agreed: And have appointed to send Two of their Members.
To the Fifth, concerning the speedy Removing the Magazine at Hull, the Lords have ordered the same.
To the Sixth, concerning the sending for the Pinnace and Captain, riding at Hull, the Lords have given Order accordingly.
To the Seventh, concerning the Declaration, the Lords do agree unto it: And have ordered the same to be printed.
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By Vote upon the Question, Sir Edward Aiscough, Sir Christ. Wray, Sir Sam. Owfield, and Mr. Hatcher, Members of this House are appointed and nominated Committees by this House, to reside in Lincolneshire; and, upon Occasion, to resort to Hull, according to the Order of both Houses.


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Missing Boys Located in Austin, After 10 Day Search (VIDEO)
Two boys who went missing at the beginning of winter vacation have been found near Austin, Texas.
The boys were found unharmed with their father, Daniel Cleary. Their mother, Theresa Nash, expressed her relief.
"I'm ecstatic, I'm in shock," Nash told CNN after speaking with her boys on the phone.
Henry Cleary, 8, and his older brother, Ben, had been missing for 10 days from the Georgia home in Roswell. Daniel Cleary was taken into custody according to authorities, and charged with interstate interference with custody, a felony.
Cleary, who had an estranged relationship with his ex-wife, had taken the boys on a trip to Tennessee on December 19th, but failed to return them on the agreed date. Nash declared that she was unsure why Clearly had not returned the boys or any of her phone calls.
"He's trying to take care of them," she told CNN. "But I think it's a scary situation for everybody at this point."
The boys were supposed to return home on Wednesday; an Amber alert was issued on Thursday. Nash had stated that she was concerned for the boy's safety because Cleary had been under stress, was drinking, and had recently purchased a gun.
Authorities were unsure if Clearly had the gun, when the boys were discovered. Prosecutors will weigh whether or not to press charges. The boys were last seen on surveillance footage taken from a Wal-Mart camera in Tennessee on December 23 and 24.
"This vacation has been overdue. It's time to come home, and we welcome you home ... safely," Nash told CNN, begging Cleary to return home days before she was found. "Your whole family is behind this, as is my whole family. We are working together, and we really want you to come home."
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Motorola is working on a smartwatch, a successor to the Moto X, and is working on bringing the Moto Maker customization utility to more markets.
Motorola held a Q&A event at the Mobile World Congress, where it announced that it is working on a smartwatch that will be available sometime later this year. It didn't give out much in the way of the details of the watch, but has mentioned that style and battery life are two issues it is looking to fix before launching the device. It is certainly a better strategy than the one Samsung took with the original Galaxy Gear, with the manufacturer deciding to address these issues in the next iteration of the device.
Rick – We are working on a watch that will be available this year. We aim to address consumer issues like style & battery life #MotoMWC
— Motorola Mobility (@Motorola) February 25, 2014
Q from twitter: When is next version of Moto X? A: Keep posted – hint – late summer. #MotoMWC
— Motorola Mobility (@Motorola) February 25, 2014
Motorola also stated that the Moto X successor will likely launch in the summer. The manufacturer also reiterated its commitment to Android, and mentioned that it continue to launch handsets only on the Android ecosystem. Also, Motorola announced that the first-gen Moto X is set to launch in India and Australia in the coming weeks.
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Moto Maker will be rolled out to the UK and Germany soon, with other countries in the region set to receive the customization utility in due course of time. Users in Mexico will get access to this utility sometime in the second quarter of this year. When asked about availability of the Moto X and Moto G in China, Motorola stated that there weren't any plans to do so immediately, but that both handsets might be available at a later stage.
Both the Moto X and Moto G were very well received globally, with the Moto G becoming the most successful handset from Motorola in just under three months of availability. With a new smartwatch in the works and the successor to the Moto X set to launch in the summer, Motorola is gearing up for a strong 2014.
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The King says: "If you can win two games in a row out of three games, you shall go free." He scratched his goti and looked at you with an interested face. "The three games will be alternating of me and my wife. You can play me first, the Queen second, and me last. Or you can play the Queen first and last, and me second, in the middle. KQK or QKQ. Either way is fine."
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Kenyans starving, says UN
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says that a number of Kenyans are dying of hunger because of poor harvests .
In a report out this week, the FAO says that "starvation-related deaths, particularly among children are being reported".
The long rains season, which normally runs from March to May, has failed in much of the country - the fourth successive rainy season to do so.
The FAO says that as a result, Kenya will need to import large quantities of maize, the national staple.
The FAO said that most of the country, including the "bread basket" Rift Valley Province and Central Province which is normally close to self-sufficiency in food, have received little or no rainfall.
This has led to widespread crop failures as well as large livestock losses - a situation that the FAO said was particularly serious for pastoralists.
The FAO noted that the prices of maize was very high and continued to rise, leaving many poor people hungry.
It concluded that, to get by until the next main harvest in September 2001, Kenya will need to import 1.4m tonnes of maize, more than a third of its annual requirement.
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In neighbouring Ethiopia and Eritrea, problems caused by the regional drought have been exacerbated by the war between the two countries.
A United Nations relief coordinator, Caroline MaCaskie, who is on a fact-finding tour of the region, said that Ethiopia needed more medicine, as well as assistance for developing its water capability.
She told the BBC that in Eritrea, the task was getting assistance to the people affected by the war and drought -- about half the population, she said.
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Tax expenditures: a theoretical review
Tax expenditures are an instrument frequently used when a government wishes to achieve certain economic and social effects. But because of the increasing number and scope of tax expenditures, their proper use, quality of administration and record-keeping have become a major challenge for the tax authorities and the whole of the government. The article considers and explains very diverse forms of tax expenditure such as reliefs, tax deductions, tax allowances, tax exceptions and special rates of taxation and the ways in which they are defined and calculated. The key problems in the analysis are the absence of a single definition and of methodology for the calculations; these ultimately make it impossible to compare tax expenditures between or among countries.
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Four people who went out for a sailing race around the Farallon Islands Saturday are still missing two days after their boat crashed into the island's rocks.
The U.S. Coast Guard called off its search Sunday night saying they could not have survived that amount of time at sea.
In all, 8 people were aboard a 38-foot sailboat named Low Speed Chase when it was hit by a big wave that knocked several crew members into the ocean. The boat was then hit by more waves that forced it to crash into the rocks during the rescue attempt of that group. It is presumed that in all five people will be lost in the accident.
The Coast Guard and Air National Guard searched an area of more than 5,000 square miles over a period of more than 30 hours following the deadly boating accident Saturday afternoon, Petty Officer Caleb Critchfield said.
Members of the Rescue 129th and the Coast Guard were able to pluck three survivors from the chilly ocean waters 26 miles outside the Golden Gate. They also retrieved one body, but were unable to find four other people who apparently perished in the boating accident.
The names of the missing are:
- Alexis Busch of Lakrspur
- Jordan Fromm of Kentfield
- Alan Cahill of Tiburon
- Elmer Morrissey of Ireland
Most were experienced sailors. Morrissey was not. He was a visiting scientist and went along for the ride.
A fifth person, Marc Kasanin, 46 of Belvedere was pronounced dead after being pulled from the water Saturday afternoon. He was a local artist and had been a sailor on the San Francisco Bay all of his life, according to friends.
The three survivors were identified as Nick Vos of Sonoma, Brian Chong of Tiburon and James Bradford, who was the captain of the boat. All three attended a vigil for the lost on Sunday night at the Belvedere Yacht Club which was home to the crew.
Vos and the only woman on the boat, Alexis Busch, dated. Busch was a former bat girl for the San Francisco Giants. The team announced Monday it would hold a moment of silence prior to Monday night's game. During her tenure with the team, Busch was the person to first greet slugger Barry Bonds at home plate after he hit home run No. 500.
In a statement issued Monday by America's Cup to the family and friends of the Low Speed Chase, representatives offered their "deepest condolences" to the family and crew who died this weekend. "As sailors, we are all one family, and our hearts are with those affected..."
The group was participating in the 2012 Full Crew Farallones Race that began at the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco.
A man who identified himself as Captain Joe took the photo to the left on Sunday. It shows the boat on the rocks of the island.
It was not clear if it was seaworthy enough to be towed back to the Golden Gate.
Below is an interview with the Coast Guard where they explain what they think happened Saturday.
A century-old tradition, the Full Crew Farallones Race has never been for the faint of heart: Winds averaging 10 to 20 knots and churning 14-foot Pacific Ocean swells are among the rough conditions typically braved by yachts and their crews during the daylong regatta, a spring favorite of skilled sailors.
But on Saturday, powerful waves and a disastrous series of events brought rare tragedy to the august race and the San Francisco Bay area's large sailing community.
Two strong waves swept them from their boat near the rocky islands, the halfway point of the 54-mile race that began at daybreak in San Francisco and had 49 entrants.


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Millennials across the Delaware Valley are losing to baby boomers in the job race as the older generation outpaced their younger counterparts in workforce growth from 2007 to 2013, according to a recent study.
"Companies were cautious. They were trying to do more with less and that affected millennials the most," said Ryan Hunt, a senior career advisor with CareerBuilder, which released the report earlier this month. "The jobs they are not going to add right away during a recession or a tepid recovery is entry level."
The number of jobs held by millennials – defined as those aged 22- to 34-years-old – remained flat, increasing a meager 0.2 percent in Philadelphia during the six-year period, according to the report. Meanwhile, Philly's boomers, aged 55- to 64-years-old, held 9 percent more jobs in 2013 than they did in 2007.
Millennials in Atlantic City fared even worse. Jobs held by the group fell 7 percent as boomers' jobs jumped 7 percent, the report shows.
"Atlantic City's economy has really suffered over the last several years, partly because of the growth of casinos elsewhere in the region," said Ryan Sweet, a director with West Chester, Pa.-based Moody's Analytics.
The lifestyle choices distinguishing millennials from other age groups – renting instead of buying a home and ditching cars in favor of public transit – also contributed to the drop in AC, Sweet explained.
"They are more mobile," he said. "So if the job market is rough in Atlantic City, they can go to a more dynamic metro."
The lack of millennial job growth in Philadelphia mirrors the national trend.
Across the U.S., jobs held by 22- to 34-year-olds rose a paltry 0.3 percent while boomers' jobs jumped 9 percent, according to CareerBuilder.
But the fields in Philly where the younger cohort lost jobs – architecture and engineering, computer and mathematical, and life, physical and social sciences --point to a long-standing local issue known as the "brain drain."
"They come, they get educated and then they leave," Sweet said. "But Philadelphia is in a much better position to retain more of those graduates now than it was 10, 20 years ago."
The boomers, who put off retirement during the recession, will start to step down soon – which will help millennials, as well as Generation Xers move up the corporate hierarchy, Hunt said.
Sweet points to the city's various tech start-ups and Comcast's planned incubator space as reasons for millennials to stay.
A rebounding construction industry should also help local twenty-somethings gain jobs, Sweet added.
"You will start to see job growth shift from the low paying industries, like retail, to the high-paying industries – various parts of healthcare, business and professional services, information and technology, construction and manufacturing," Sweet said. "That will be enticing."
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When Alexander Fernandes founded QImaging, which designs and produces high-end cameras for medical and industrial use, he went shopping for video surveillance equipment to monitor his facilities. Despite buying top-of-the-line cameras, the quality was wretched: The images were grainy and barely decipherable. After he sold QImaging and exited in 2004, he figured it was time to develop a fix.
At the time, digital photography was getting incredibly cheap, yet the majority of video surveillance systems at security-dependent locations such as airports, casinos, banks and nuclear power plants were still severely dated. And that was a problem. International airports, in particular, couldn't ignore the threat of terrorism.
Despite the immediate need, Fernandes spent nearly three years working on prototypes in Vancouver. He figured that the people who wanted high-definition surveillance required it because the stakes were high, so he refused to sell them anything that wasn't top-notch. Meanwhile, much of the market stuck with dated cameras. Even today, when television broadcasts of golf tournaments can pinpoint individual blades of grass, the majority of video surveillance systems installed globally still use analog technology, according to ABI Research.
The power of Fernandes's cameras, now sold through his company Avigilon Corp., can be seen inside the Rogers Centre, home of the Toronto Blue Jays. Just 19 of Avigilon's high-definition cameras are needed to monitor the baseball stadium's 46,000 seats in mind-blowing quality. But this is only half the story: Crystal-clear images are extremely pricey to transmit because they require a lot of bandwidth, so Fernandes developed a system – High Definition Stream Management – that makes it easy and affordable to store and send the images.
As sales started to explode, Avigilon went public in November, 2011. In just over a year, the share price rose 156 per cent, and Deloitte recently named Avigilon the country's fastest-growing technology firm. Since the Vancouver-based start-up secured its first commercial sale in 2007, it has gone on to post $68-million in revenue during the first nine months of 2012, when it earned a $4.1-million profit. Avigilon is now a dominant global player in video surveillance, and over 90 per cent of its revenues come from outside Canada's borders. Clients include the University of Sydney, the Oklahoma County sheriff's office and San Diego metro transit.
Avigilon fills a big void in the Canadian economic landscape. The country has myriad private tech start-ups, but there is a serious dearth of high-tech corporations that can wean the economy off its reliance on manufacturing and resources. Tech companies make up a minuscule 1.3 per cent of the TSX. And "for every guy that designs a killer app, there's probably 10,000 that never see the light of day," says Fernandes. Even if they do, "where are they in five years?"
He acknowledges that he was lucky to have start-up capital, in part from selling QImaging for $22-million, plus millions more that he raised from angel investors. But he believes all start-ups should be careful when they lay their foundation. "Where most entrepreneurs fail is they have these grandiose plans, they go to the money trough, and then the VC starts dictating [terms]," he says. "Rather than go out and raise ten million bucks with a bunch of VCs and get a fancy office and fill it with fancy furniture…maybe start small. Find a first customer."
The three years that Fernandes spent perfecting a value-added product is what set Avigilon apart. But it also presented him with a dilemma: "If you want to be competitive and cutting edge, you have to extrapolate. You have to look forward in time to where technology will be," Fernandes says. When he started Avigilon, he had to predict the future of digital video. "If you design a product using current technology, by the time you develop it, perfect it and then market it…it's actually old technology."


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London, Aug 17 (IANS) Ghanaian international footballer Baba Rahman will move to English Premier League (EPL) defending champions Chelsea on a five-year deal from German club FC Augsburg.
"I am very happy to sign for Chelsea, one of the biggest clubs in the world, and I can't wait to train with my new teammates and very much looking forward to working with them and (head coach Jose) Mourinho," the defender told Chelsea's official website on Sunday.
Chelsea will sign the 21-year-old, who has played 11 times for Ghana, for an initial fee of 14 million pounds, dailymail.co.uk reported on Sunday.
The deal will see a further 3.5 million pounds paid in bonuses depending on Chelsea performances, 700,000 pounds after he completes 20 games and a further 3.5 million pounds after he has made 100 appearances — meaning the total value of the deal could reach almost 22 million pounds.
Rahman, a pacy and attacking full-back who can also operate as a midfielder or winger, made more successful tackles than any other player in the Bundesliga last season. He also attempted the most crosses from the left flank.
He arrives after one season with Augsburg, in which he helped them qualify for the Europa League, making 31 league appearances.
Rahman previously spent two seasons with Greuther Furth in Germany, having been spotted as a youngster with Asante Kotoko in his homeland.


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30 artists on tap for Hallwalls' Artists and Models party
There are black-tie galas. There are casual fundraisers held in banquet halls. And then there is Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center's Artists and Models, the longest-established and most highly anticipated event on Buffalo's crowded art party calendar and the venue's largest fundraiser.
This year, the party takes place Saturday night in a downtown venue known as The Garage (151 E. Eagle St.), a short walk from the Hotel @ The Lafayette. As usual, it will feature a dizzying array of installations, projects and other activities from about 30 of Western New York's most popular artists. The event also will feature an exhibition of dozens of GIF loops (those fun animations that occasionally pop up on your Facebook feed) curated by Toronto-based GIF artist Lorna Mills.
In addition to the art, local musicians ABCDJ, Josh Yourmoms, DJ Culter, DJ Lo Pro and the 12/8 Path Band will perform throughout the evening. As in past years, there will be a preparty from 7:30 to 9 p.m. for $50. After that, tickets are $20 at the door, or $15 for students or when purchased in advance.
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A computer expert has claimed the ticketing fiasco should never have happened, with organisers suggesting it could be days before technical problems which have left 40,000 unsold are sorted out.
The cause of the computer glitches is still being probed by the system's operators Ticketmaster and it appears unlikely that the remaining allocation for the Glasgow event will go on sale again today.
Problems emerged within hours of the 100,000 tickets being issued on Monday as demand drove the booking system into meltdown.
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A Glasgow 2014 spokeswoman said: "Glasgow 2014 and its Official Ticketing Provider Ticketmaster are urgently reviewing the performance of the ticketing website with the aim of resolving the issues experienced by some of our customers.
"Once this review is complete and any measures have been implemented and tested we will be in a position in coming days to advise when ticket sales will be back up and running.
"It is our absolute priority to be able to meet, as soon as possible, the enthusiasm and demand that sports fans have shown for the Final Sprint for tickets and we thank all of our supporters and customers for their patience."
The announcement appeared to contradict earlier reassurances by Ticketmaster chairman, Chris Edmonds, that the site would be up and running again "very soon".
The tickets website and call centre were closed indefinitely on Tuesday after transaction errors and lengthy delays which saw some waiting up to 25 hours online on secure bookings.
Customers took to Twitter in exasperation after repeatedly reaching the payment stage only to be diverted back into the queue and eventually finding events they had tried to purchase tickets for were sold out.
As the joint investigation investigation by Glasgow 2014 and Ticketus continues, Professor Bill Buchanan, an expert in software security and infrastructure at Edinburgh Napier University, said: "It has been a major disaster, and really shouldn't happen in these days of Cloud Computing, where it is possible to create many servers and cope with the demand.
"I can't believe that they did not test it fully on the expected loading on the system. Many companies now detect increases in network requests, and spin-up other servers to cope with the demand. There were other ways they could have filtered the responses, such as asking for questions when they first access the site, and move them onto the correct place, with given priorities."
Glasgow 2014 chief executive David Grevemberg said the system being used with Ticketmaster was "tried and tested" and had been put through a rigorous testing regime.
However, he conceded it had let down customers.
He said: "The ticket system has not met capacity and has not coped with demand. In the past 28 hours we've gone through a number of technical solutions with Ticketmaster which have not solved the situation."
First Minister Alex Salmond said the problem had caused huge frustration and had to be "sorted out as quickly as possible".
Mr Edmonds, chairman of Ticketmaster UK, yesterday apologised to customers who had been disappointed by the booking process. He said: "We are aware customers have experienced long delays and some challenges. We do regret any frustration."
The tickets chaos comes just weeks after Games organisers were forced into an embarrassing climbdown over controversial plans to demolish five of the remaining six Red Road tower blocks as part of the opening ceremony.
Games minister Shona Robison has urged the Prime Minister, who is visiting Scotland, to confirm personnel from the Royal Regiment of Scotland will be used to support safety and security around the event.


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SAN FRANCISCO - President Obama visited The Golden Gate City of San Francisco where he spoke to a boisterous crowd at The Veni Vidi Vici Coliseum.
The president told the crowd of 13,739, that he wants them to know that the future lies with today's youth and not with old fogey's like Mitt Romney, John McCain, or Don Rickles.
He said that The Celluloid State of California leads the nation in many areas including wine vineyards, the number of Lamborghini's, botox treatments, earthquakes, sales of tanning spray, the number of Enchanted Enchilada Restaurants, mudslides, unemployed movie and television stars, smog, wildfires, and cellulite removing products.
The president stressed that he has not forgotten that The Left Coast State voted overwhelmingly for him in 2008, and he knows that it will again vote overwhelmingly for him on election day in November.
He told the assembled crowd that he wants them to know that unlike his Mormon opponent "Old Mittens" Romney he is not a flip-flopping flip-flopper.
He made it crystal clear that like he has stated in interviews with Tittle Tattle Tonight, iRumors, Hollywood Innuendo, Bedroom Pillow Talk, and Sports Balls Illustrated Weekly that he plans to legalize marijuana.
The crowd of young San Franciscans erupted into a tumultuous burst of applause.
The president remarked, "I hear ya. And I know where y'all be comin' from. I can fa shizzle ma nizzle and I can sho nuf a-wop-bop-a-loo-lop-a-lop-bam-boo too."
The crowd clapped thunderously and yelled even louder as they began chanting, "O-BA-MA! O-BA-MA! O-BA-MA!"
When someone in the crowd hollered out when he plans on legalizing weed, the president grinned, took a sip of his Diet Dr. Pepper, and replied, "Ah dat be happenin' two days before da November presidential election y'all."
SIDENOTE: After making his speech the president was asked by Sinclair Petaluma with The Political Salad Bar News Agency if the rumor that he is thinking about naming Willie Nelson to be the Secretary of Agriculture was true. President Obama grinned and simply winked.


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So after a long day riding up a 3000m Volcano on a rented Specialized Roubaix, I'm convinced I can get back on the bike after herniating a disc a year ago.
Since I've always preferred long days out in the hills rather than group/club riding, and ride sportives rather than races (opening door for clichéd anti-sportive comments, I'm ready for them! ) I'm quite happy to go for something a little more upright than my old CAAD9, although I did love that bike.
The Bianchi is the leading contender, I'm a sucker for the brand and the finishing kit (105 with Fulcrum wheels) is all kit I'm happy with.
The Cinelli is gorgeous to look at, and apparently handles a little faster than the average sportive bike, but I couldn't get many details on the spec and Cinelli are a bit of an unknown to me.
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Frontier hires superintendent search consultant; also raises school breakfast and lunch prices
The Frontier School District isn't wasting any time delving into an intensive search for its next superintendent.
The School Board on Tuesday unanimously approved hiring School Leadership, a regional search firm, to lead its search to replace outgoing Superintendent James C. Bodziak, who is retiring in September.
The board also debated an expected shortfall in the 2013-14 food service budget and decided to boost the cost of all meals by 50 cents apiece, effective in September.
The board hired the Malverne-based consulting firm to head its search at a maximum cost of $18,500, in addition to related expenses.
It is the first time that Frontier – which has had an active turnover in superintendents over the last decade – has used the consulting firm in looking for a superintendent.
Board President Janet MacGregor Plarr afterward said that the firm's strong networking relationships were a significant factor in Frontier's decision to hire it. Retired Williamsville School Superintendent Howard Smith is an associate of the search firm.
"We also want a consulting firm that can dedicate its time to Frontier," Plarr said.
Donald A. Ogilvie, district superintendent for Erie 1 Board of Cooperative Educational Services, was the other front-runner to be Frontier's search consultant. Plarr noted how well-qualified Ogilvie is, but how full his plate is with regional educational issues in Buffalo and elsewhere.
The board plans to begin compiling key dates with the search consultant, probably as early as its 5 p.m. executive session Aug. 20, followed by its regular business meeting.
Newly hired interim Superintendent Paul G. Hashem attended Tuesday's meeting.
In another matter, the board questioned the inhouse food department budget of $1.91 million that it approved. The big news emerging from warnings of fiscal shortfalls was the board's decision that it had to raise breakfast and lunch prices at all of its schools by 50 cents, starting this fall.
The result means that school breakfasts will cost $1.75, with lunches at $2.50 at the elementary schools and $2.75 at the middle and high schools. The increase last year was 20 cents for lunches, but not breakfasts.
The board will review the food service budget in December to determine whether a second-semester increase of another 50 cents for lunches should be implemented.
If the district did not increase the cost of breakfast or lunches, it would face a $150,325 shortfall. With the 50-cent increase for the first semester, the shortfall would be $75,162. And if the district decides to continue with a second, 50-cent increase for lunches only in the second semester, the food service budget would be in the hole by $37,581.
Food Service Director Susan Birmingham and Business Manager Rick Calipari gave a detailed presentation on the food service operation's budget, with Birmingham noting that she had cut $25,000 in labor costs for September.
"If we were to go further, I would not have enough pairs of hands to serve lunches and handle the cash register," she said. "Our enrollment has been going down, and so have the number of meals we're serving," Birmingham said, also noting that food and repair costs always rise each year. "With this kind of a jump, we'll lose some. You never get them all back."
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James struggles in short-yardage situations
Last season, Priest Holmes led the league with a 53 percent conversion rate. Short yardage specialists like Moe Williams (50 percent) and Zack Crockett (46 percent) were also among the league leaders. But Edgerrin James only converted 20 percent of his short yardage attempts. In 2001, before he went down with his knee injury, James converted just 16 percent.
James never tries to jump over the pile, and he rarely tries to go wide if there's no hole immediately in front of him. Instead he gets low, looking to power his way through the line. This season he has had a lot more success on his short yardage runs. Before this week's game against the Patriots, James had converted 16 of 26 attempts, for a huge 61.5 percent success rate. His interior offensive linemen have been better this year at moving the line of scrimmage, and he has also been aided by having fullback Detron Smith and tight ends Joe Dean Davenport and Dallas Clark helping out in short yardage situations.
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Legal Question in Criminal Law in North Carolina
I'm a victum of domestic abuse do I have to testify against my husband
Asked on 5/06/13, 1:15 pm
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Clarke Dummit Dummit Fradin (Winston-Salem Office)
The North Carolina Statutes specifically do NOT allow you a privilege not to testify. This is a double negative way of saying that you probably do have to testify. However if you have an attorney, and you choose to exercise your 5th amendment right not to incriminate yourself, and you have a good faith belief that you may have also committed some crime such as simple assault against him, or you two were in a mutual fight (afrey), you can exercise your right to remain silent. Also, unless you are under subpoena or a court order to appear, you do not have to go to court. But if you are validly ordered to appear, then you could face sanctions if you did not.
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Pileated Woodpecker
Posted by William Bulmer on March 6, 2014 at 4:04 pm
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This female adult Pileated Woodpecker was feeding with its mate in woodland near the C&O Canal, at Swain's Lock, MD. The shot was taken with a Nikon D80 and Nikon 300mm f4 lens with a 1.4x teleconverter, on the afternoon of March 5th. The woods along the canal are a regular haunt of woodpeckers. The woodpeckers were really hammering the tree with bark chips flying as they sought out food.
The photograph was taken by William Bulmer of Rockville, MD.


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'15 BS Environmental Engineering
"As a student, I know how tight money can be. The fact that I received a Student Philanthropy Council scholarship means everything…that these students sacrificed their own money to help me out has made such an impact. I don't have to work now, and I can focus on school, on soccer, and I can focus on giving back."
Diane is a sophomore interested in working in water quality systems because of her concern for sustainability in the environment. She plays defense for the NAU Women's Soccer team and was honored this fall by the Big Sky Conference as the "Defensive Player of the Week."


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The Winchester Mystery House is a California tourist attraction that is reputed to be haunted. Winchester Mystery House coupons can save visitors dollars off their Winchester Mystery House tour, and are available online as printable coupons from select tourist websites.[1] Additional savings are available for groups of 15 or more people, or by signing up for the Winchester Mystery House's free online newsletter.
The Winchester Mystery House is located in San Jose, California, and was built between 1884 and 1922. The house was built at the instruction of Sarah Winchester, heir to the Winchester rifle fortune. Upon her death, the house contained 160 rooms, 10,000 windows, 2,000 doors, 12 bathrooms, six kitchens, 47 fireplaces, and 47 stairways.[2]
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- Visitors can sign up for the free 13th Hour Newsletter to receive insider-only discounts to the Winchester Mystery House, as well as all the latest news, videos, and photos from the attraction. Visitors can sign up through the official Winchester Mystery House website.[4]
- Guests can access printable coupons for $2 off the Winchester Mystery House Mansion Tour from tourist websites like MapWest and Bay City Guide.[5][6]
- Visitors can purchase an annual pass online or from the Winchester Mystery House gift shop and get free admission all year.[7]
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Finntroll - Nifelvind (2 CD Special Edition) (Music CD)
Release Date: 26 September 2011
Artist: Finntroll
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Release Date: 26 September 2011
Artist: Finntroll
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Both of you know how infrequently I shop, given that I live in the Middle of Nowhere. Tiny Kroger is a 12-mile, one-way drive from my house, and that's the closest place to buy basic groceries. They've just now begun selling cilantro, occasionally, but don't look for tahini or fish sauce or hot curry powder. (They're well-stocked on mild, thankyouverymuch.)
And fuhgeddaboutit if you're even remotely crafty. Michael's Arts and Crafts is an hour and a half away from my house. Here, though, I can be there in no time. My daughter's house is 10 minutes away from a mecca of consumerism.
I'm not a big consumer and I manage quite nicely with the internet. (Just ask my husband. Or pay my credit card bill.) But there are times when it's helpful to actually look at, touch, hold, examine what you want to buy, rather than just clicking to enlarge. (Wow, that sounds like a male-enhancement ad, doesn't it?)
So I'm on my own today and I. Will. Be. Shopping. On my list:
- a Dutch oven, a kitchen necessity I've finally decided I can't live without
- Weck canning jars (for storage, just because they're pretty)
- sesame seeds (to make tahini. Yes, I could just buy tahini but that doesn't solve the eventual problem of having to buy more in the future. Homemade tahini is easy-peasy.)
- raw sunflower seeds in bulk (to add to my granola, I can only find roasted, salted locally)
- various and sundry crafty supplies, including dimensional Mod Podge and some blank stretched canvases
Pinterest (my new crack habit), and some of the projects therein, have inspired part of my shopping list. Frankly, though, it'll just be nice to walk around a Trader Joe's or a Whole Foods or even a Target.
Instead of a Tiny Kroger.


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- Base of skull chordomas in children and adolescents: a clinicopathologic study of 73 casesBenjamin L Hoch
Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, One Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 30:811-8. 2006..Overall, base of skull chordomas in children and adolescents treated with proton beam radiation have better survival than chordomas in adults. However, poorly differentiated chordomas are highly aggressive tumors...
- Aggressive angiomyxoma of male genital region. Report of 4 cases with immunohistochemical evaluation including hormone receptor statusMohammed T Idrees
Department of Pathology, The Lilian and Henry M Stratton Hans Popper, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 10029, USA
Ann Diagn Pathol 10:197-204. 2006..From our small series, hormone positivity (1 case of ER+, 3 cases of PR+) does occur in the male cases of AA, and a large number of cases should be examined to determine the frequency at which these tumors express hormone receptors...


text: Beards and Man Buns Are Not for the Lazy I'm not a guy, but I don't want to leave guys out of my beauty blog. They can be beautiful, too! Just look at my friend Nicholas, in the picture for this article. Or Vin Diesel, my ultimate celebrity crush. Those arms! Read More


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Some companies freeze up when they're between CEOs. But Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest tech company by revenues, just keeps rolling along. On Monday, it announced it would buy security software maker ArcSight for $1.5 billion.
It's almost as if Hewlett-Packard has something to prove — namely, that it didn't need that Mark Hurd guy anyway.
After noisily and messily ousting Hurd as its CEO last month, HP went on to wrest storage-software company 3Par away from Dell in a heated bidding war that drove its price to $2.4 billion, enriching Silicon Valley venture capitalists like Mayfield Fund in the process.
This time, it's Kleiner Perkins that's hitting the jackpot. As Dan Primack notes in Fortune.com, Kleiner retained more than half of its 19 percent stake after ArcSight's IPO in June 2009.
There's one other bond between HP and ArcSight: questions about executive compensation. Former ArcSight CEO Robert Shaw retired, reportedly for health reasons, in early 2009, after sharp-eyed readers of SEC filings noted that the company was paying for his yacht-club membership, a rare perk that clashed with the image of a Silicon Valley startup.


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A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:
"The Great Gatsby" (PG-13): Leonardo DiCaprio gives an Old Hollywood-style star turn as the title character in director Baz Luhrmann's wildly anachronistic take on the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic.
Elsewhere, a trio of low-rent bodybuilding criminals (Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie) leave a bloody trail through Miami in Michael Bay's "Pain & Gain" (R).
Topping today's TV transfers: "Sons of Anarchy: Season Five," "The Walking Dead: The Complete Third Season," "Grey's Anatomy: The Complete Ninth Season" and "Elementary: The First Season."
Avenged Sevenfold, "Hail to the King": It has become one of the biggest acts in contemporary hard rock, but hey, at least Avenged Sevenfold isn't bragging about it or anything, right?
Humbly titling their new record "Hail to the King," these '90s-mad rockers channel Metallica, Guns N' Rose, Megadeth and more on their latest disc.
For those about to rock, these dudes salute … themselves.
Also in stores: Alabama, "Alabama & Friends"; Big Sean, "Hall of Fame"; Black Joe Lewis, "Electric Slave"; Everlast, "The Life Acoustic"; Franz Ferdinand, "Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action"; Alejandro Fernandez, "Confidencias"; Robbie Fulks, "Gone Away Backward"; Goodie Mob, "Age Against the Machine"; Jars of Clay, "Inland"; Juicy J, "Stay Trippy"; Little River Band, "Cuts Like a Diamond"; and Michael Monroe, "Horns and Halos."
"Bones of the Lost" by Kathy Reichs: In this latest series installment, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan balances trouble in her personal life while examining a hit-and-run, which leads to an investigation into human trafficking.
In nonfiction, members of the boy band One Direction reflect on the highs and lows of their careers in "One Direction: Where We Are: Our Band, Our Story."
Also hitting shelves: "Blind Justice" by Anne Perry; "Declan's Cross" by Carla Neggers; "The Fall of Five" by Pittacus Lore; "How the Light Gets In" by Louise Penny; "I, Saul" by Jerry B. Jenkins; "A Question of Honor" by Charles Todd; "The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism" by Naoki Higashida; "The Returned" by Jason Mott; "Welcome Home Mama and Boris: How a Sister's Love Saved a Fallen Soldier's Beloved Dogs" by Carey Neesley; and "The Whole Enchilada" by Diane Mott Davidson.


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Fairfax Countywide Transit Network Study
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Planners have mixed ideas on Rt 1 - some want it to be a major commuter corridor, others want it to become a mixed-use walkable community. The two visions are ordinarily incompatible (fast traffic kills pedestrians), but there is a way to satisfy both: (1) extend Yellow Line (underground) to Ft Belvoir (or, preferably, to Lorton or Woodbridge) to reduce overall traffic count; and (2) build traffic tunnels (like Dupont ...more »
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Web Design – How It Helps Drive More Traffic
From the time internet was introduced, there is now limitless possibilities of reaching customers even from different parts of the world. A website makes this possible. But, getting the results may never be that easy. A lot of them don't realize that the web layout play a very important role. This would simply mean that a web with bad design will not attract potential customers. You don't only spend much time ensuring the quality of your products and services, you should also ensure that your website is impressive. Customers can determine what kind of company you are by the website you have.
You should ensure that your clients get impressed by your website where trust slowly creeps out. A website with good layout and informative content will get their interest to see what you can offer. This is the best way to increase traffic to your site. Your site should be impressive. With the many competitors you have, you have to ensure that your website is far more better than the other.
Clients and visitors prefer a site where they can get plenty of information. Below are some of the benefits that users can get out of a good website design.
1. Very easy to use. Users don't have too much time to spend in a website that is difficult to navigate. The good thing is that they will no longer deal with their questions or complaints since it is easy for them to understand the whole site.
2. Information is quick. The site should be well organized in order to make sure that the visitors and customers will not have hard time locating the information that they need. In this way, customers will be more interested to learn more about what you are offering to them.
3. Offers complete experience. When users understand the layout of your site, they will be satisfied in browsing your website.
The results of a goodly designed site will be more satisfying. Though, every company should understand the great challenge of designing a site. For this reason, you need to hire professional web designers to do the job for you. There be many web designers around, so you have to be very careful in choosing.
The proper design of a website will increase the number of clients who visit your site. Visitors can be your customers once they are impressed and satisfied with your website. Remember how important it is to create a good design for your website.
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What is a 'Return'
A return is the gain or loss of a security in a particular period. The return consists of the income and the capital gains relative on an investment, and it is usually quoted as a percentage. The general rule is that the more risk you take, the greater the potential for higher returns and losses.
Return is also used as an abbreviation for income tax return — see 1040 Form.
BREAKING DOWN 'Return'
While some investors will settle for principal protection, most investors are in search of return, specifically alpha returns. Alpha returns are generated when an investment generates more money than it costs. In general, there are three different types of return measures: return on investment, return on equity and return on assets. Each one is essentially calculated the same way, but the inputs have different labels.
Return on Investment
The most common return measure, also referred to as the return on investment, or ROI, is calculated by dividing the difference between the cost of the investment and the gain on the investment by the cost of the investment. It is the most generic way to calculate return and is the basic formula used to calculate other return measures. For example, if an investor pays $100,000 for real estate and then sells it for $110,000, the return is calculated by taking the difference between $100,000 and $110,000, and then dividing that number by the cost of the investment, or $100,000. The calculation is $10,000 divided by $100,000, or 10%.
Return on Equity
Return on equity, or ROE, is another commonly used measure of return used by those analyzing business performance. In this case, a company's net income is the gain or loss, and the cost is the average of the company's equity. ROE is used by investors looking for a return on the company's equity capital. If a company makes $10,000 in net income for the year, and the average equity capital of the company over the same time period is $100,000, the return on equity is 10%.
Return on Assets
Yet another commonly used measure of return is the return on assets, or ROA. It is commonly used as a measure of return by those analyzing financial stocks. In this case, net income is also the gain, but the investment is the assets of the company. Net income divided by average total assets equals ROA. For example, if net income for the year is $10,000, and total average assets for the company over the same time period is equal to $100,000, the return on assets is $10,000 divided by $100,000, or 10%.


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WASHINGTON, May 14 (UPI) -- The U.S. government has deep concerns about the political situation in Mali and calls for the return to civilian rule, a U.S. State Department official said.
Rebel Capt. Amadou Sanogo led the military seizure of the country in March, saying the military was frustrated that the country's leaders were unable to control rebels in northern Mali. Rebels have since claimed autonomy for the region.
Victoria Nuland, a spokeswoman for the State Department, said, in a statement, that Washington was "deeply concerned" by the political situation in Mali.
She said junta leaders should stand aside and let interim civilian authorities make plans for a presidential election as soon as possible.
"A strong, stable democratic government in Mali is essential in order for the country to deal successfully with its multiple economic, social, and security challenges," she said.
Coup leaders in Mali handed power to interim President Dioncounda Traore and Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra. Both leaders have pledged to organize elections and to end the rebellion in the north of the country.
Nuland said the U.S. government would keep sanctions against Sanogo, his supporters and the Malian government in place until full democracy is returned.


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There's a guide on here to fix your problem. Search for it.
Hi There,
I got a Wii the other day and tried to run some games. I didn't notice a big green incredible hulk channel that I was apparently supposed to enter to play these games.
To cut a long story short I did a format...
I formatted and obviously lost the channels that were installed.
Now I want to load the Homebrew Channel but I'm getting a specific error when I try.
I goto Wii -> Data Management -> Channels -> SD Card.
I then load the boot.elf/boot.dol file and the HackMii process begins. Then I receive this error:I have version 4.1U"This installer can NOT continue!
There is a known vulnerablility IOS installed on this Wii.
Please note that we will not use a fakesigned IOS due to security reasons.
Try to get an updated version of HackMii installer, If this is the latest version well... suck it."
Using Bannerbomb (tried twilight but don't have zelda and tried indiana pwns but don't have indiana jones)
HackMii v0.6 (have tried 0.2, 0.4)
Can anyone help me or just tell me what to do?
Thanks a lot in advance.
There's a guide on here to fix your problem. Search for it.
Ok I will look again. I found one where he suggests to use some wad file. If you don't mind could you please give me the URL and I will follow the guide.
I found some links you have posted under your FAQs. I will check em out.
you need to enable trucha bug. Trucha bug restorer or dop-mii will do it.
in trucha bug restorer you need to 1st downgrade ios 15 then install ios 36 with trucha bug, then upgrade ios 15 again.
in dop-mii you just need to click "install a vulnerable ios"
Thanks for the reply lorho,
This is how I solved my problem.
First I used this guide to solve the problem of "There is a known vulnerablility IOS installed on this Wii"
I installed the IOS 36 which worked first time round.
Then I used this one
To install my Homebrew Channel Etc.