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Amid hearty renditions of apartheid-era songs and wails from vuvuzelas, South African President Jacob Zuma was swept to victory on Tuesday in his party's leadership election. Since his party—the African National Congress—holds dominant influence over the black majority of South Africa's population, the win effectively secures Africa's most powerful office until 2019.
Zuma's victory has sobering implications for South Africa because he has repeatedly condemned the white minority's control of the country's economy, and has worked toward a widespread transfer of wealth to the nation's black population, including the redistribution of white-owned farms.
At present, only 8 percent of South African farms are owned by blacks—a number far short of the 30 percent goal by 2014 proposed by former President Nelson Mandela. Those zealous about achieving Mandela's target have turned South Africa into a nation where it is more dangerous to be a white farmer than to be even a policeman.
This fact is especially sobering because South Africa is awash with violence and crime, making it abnormally dangerous to be among the police forces of many of its cities.
The dangers posed to South Africa's ever dwindling number of white—mostly Afrikaner—landowners have become so serious that a group of activists and farmers marched to the capital of Pretoria in December to demand state protection of their lives and property. "Farm murders are not only a crisis," said AfriForum deputy ceo Ernst Roets. "They are a catastrophe."
The Transvaal Agricultural Union of South Africa says nearly 1,600 farm murders have been reported since 1990, but think tanks place the number closer to 3,000.
With Zuma's office secured for six more years, the situation for South Africa's white farmers is not likely to improve in the short term.
Ezekiel 7:23-27 describe South Africa's present situation with startling accuracy, and make plain that in the near term, it will only get worse. Bloody and violent crimes will be committed so frequently that they will be like the links of a chain—one right after another. This passage even discusses citizens' homes being wrested from them, and clashes between different nationalities.
The conditions in South Africa will deteriorate to such an abysmal state that the people will eventually wage a search for God. They will cry out for Him, pleading for deliverance from the turmoil. But God explains that He is purposefully sending the punishment upon the people as correction. (To prove that this passage refers to the nation of South Africa, read the book The United States and Britain in Prophecy.)
Yet there is breathtaking hope on the horizon for all races of the people of South Africa—a revolution that will replace socialistic and violence-spawning policies with a government and a body of laws that is literally perfect (Revelation 11:15; James 1:25). Ezekiel 7:27 says that God is sending the punishment on the people so that "they shall know that I am the Lord." Bringing obstinate people to the understanding and acceptance of who He is requires extreme measures. But it is foundational to this imminent revolution.
Ezekiel 33:11 makes plain that God does not want any people to suffer. He loves all races and all nationalities, and He yearns for all men to be truly happy. But true, lasting happiness and peace can only result from obeying His perfect laws. God's will is for the people of South Africa—and the whole world—to obey Him. Obedience to Him would saturate their lives with blessings of prosperity and peace.
To understand more about South Africa's bleak present, and its awe-inspiring future, read South Africa in Prophecy.


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After Dave Eggers' endearing presentation on the design detail of his 826 Valencia locations–you know, like the pirate supply store in SF that doubles as a tutoring center, or the superhero supply store in Brooklyn designed by the super Sam Potts–he made a plea to any designers living in a city where they have an 826 to please volunteer. They have plenty of writers, he says (indeed, we thought it was just a place for writing workshops) but they are always in need of designers.
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Rocha was dedicated dad, avid volunteer
Published 7:48 pm, Wednesday, December 25, 2013
SAN ANTONIO — Reserved yet open-hearted, Sam Rocha had a 35-year career in the U.S. Civil Service but always put family first.
Making time to volunteer for both his community and church, Rocha is remembered by his family for the encouragement he gave everyone.
"Because of him, I went to a Catholic school, ... and my brother and I have good jobs," his daughter Cheryl Ponce said. "He was dedicated, always wanting his family to be together."
Rocha died Dec. 19. He was 87.
Born in Waring and growing up the oldest of five siblings near Sisterdale, he would walk three miles to school each day in the Kendall County community, then return to help his dad on a farm, harvesting corn, his son Sam Rocha Jr. said.
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After his two-year military service, he began working at Kelly AFB as an electronics specialist, installing radar equipment on planes.
At the beginning of his Civil Service career, Rocha met his future wife, Lily, who had been living in the same neighborhood. He was living in an apartment in the back of his aunt's house when his uncle met Lily's brother at a barbershop next door.
"They started talking. Eventually mom's brother introduced them, and that's where it all started," Rocha's son said.
Throughout their 30-year marriage, Rocha often volunteered at his children's school at St. John Bosco parish.
In 1980, Rocha's wife died in a vehicle accident. She was 53, and Rocha had just retired from the Civil Service.
"After my mom died, he decided to share his life on his own," his son said. "Family always came first."
Rocha continued volunteering with several organizations, spending 12 years managing Holy Family Catholic Church's finances. "He was very modest and he didn't want any acknowledgement," Ponce said. "He didn't do anything for pay."
He was also a member of the Knights of Columbus 4th Degree Assembly 1102, helping set up materials during festivals and parades.
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Died: Dec. 19, 2013, San Antonio
Survived by: Daughter Cheryl Ponce and son Sam Rocha Jr.; grandchildren Samuel Rocha III, Lisa Rocha, Lily Ponce and David Ponce; five great-grandchildren; brother Clemente Rocha Jr.; sisters Mary Lopez, Irene Nieto, Anita Valenciano; sister-in-law Bertha Mendoza, numerous nieces, nephews and other family members and friends.
Services: Visitation 1-9 p.m. Thursday, with Rosary at 7 p.m., at Castillo Mission Funeral Home. Funeral Mass at 12:30 p.m. Friday at Holy Family Catholic Church, 152 Florencia Ave., followed by burial in San Fernando Cemetery II.
As a member of the Salesian Cooperators, a religious help organization, he went on a trip to the Vatican in Rome on one of its yearly pilgrimages.
"That was a highlight of his life. He just never stopped talking about the Vatican," his son Sam Rocha Jr. said. "He was very devoted to religion in his retirement."
His son said many also remember him for his involvement in the Loma Park community.
"He was very generous and always donating," his daughter said. "He was there if people needed help."


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In order to minimize the need for taxpayers to respond to multiple revenue agencies, some countries have integrated their revenue administrations, either by merging tax and customs administration, or unifying collection of tax and social contributions. This book examines the experience of 11 countries in doing so. Their experiences indicate that integrating collection entails modernizing the revenue administration and reducing contact between the tax office and taxpayers, thanks to the extensive use of ICT.
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Pope in Israel / Pontiff Will Leave Behind Many Disappointed Souls
Reactions to Benedict's visit were similar to reactions to the Depeche Mode concert in Israel this week.
Reactions to Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Israel were surprisingly similar to reactions to the concert by the British pop band Depeche Mode earlier this week.
Both the pope and Depeche Mode aroused high expectations. And both left behind many disappointed spectators, along with at least as many satisfied ones. In both cases, the disappointment stemmed from misunderstanding the limits of what the guests could do.
Benedict's visit was very political, both because he is a very political pope and because the visit occurred so soon after the war in Gaza. Against this backdrop, and with liturgy serving as mere filler between political statements, his speeches turned into a competition between Israelis and Palestinians over recognition of their misery and the justness of their causes.
The Palestinians won the competition, thanks to the pope's open support for a two-state solution, his condemnation of the West Bank barrier and his repeated references to their plight. They too expected more, but they received quite a bit.
They also won the design competition. The dozens of Israeli flags at the site of Benedict's mass in Jerusalem's Gethsemane Church were meant to project ownership and mastery, but they ended up reflecting insecurity. The mass in Bethlehem featured no Palestinian flags. Their mastery was self-evident. So was the fact that the pope is a Christian, and his main goal in visiting Israel was to unify his dwindling flock in the Holy Land, not to please the Israelis.
Moreover, this particular pope has a very traditional perception of his role. From the moment he was elected to the post, he distanced himself from his former identity and internalized what he had become. This is the explanation offered by German Catholics for the meagerness of the pope's speech at Yad Vashem: As far as he is concerned, he is no longer a German. He is the pope.
Nonetheless, what he omitted from his speech at the Holocaust remembrance site embarrassed prominent Church officials in Germany, as well as the German media - who were happy to declare "we are the pope" when he was elected to the post. Those who know the pope say that everything he says is carefully thought out in advance. The same goes for what he does not say.
About two weeks before Benedict's predecessor, Pope John Paul II, visited Israel in 2000, he offered a special prayer in which he begged forgiveness from all those the Church had maltreated throughout its history. Joseph Alois Ratzinger - now known as Benedict XVI - was reportedly opposed to that move.
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Olaf Build Guide by Bjork Is Wild
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|Oh nasus, you and your legendaty slow. Well it isen't very legendary for olaf! Nasus has an very short range and almost no poke (unless ap nasus wich isen't very commonn)when he gets close you can put in some true damage and when ganking just pop your ult when he uses his extreemly long and powerfull slow
Hi I just want to start of with welcoming you to my guide! (just as evry guide does)
You came here maybe because you want to improve your skills with olaf or you want to try him out and doesen't know how to play this bad boy. Anyway im just going to keep it simple.
Olaf is an great champion that you can choose to play either top or jungle. In this guide im going to focus the jungle part of this champion
-Perma slow (if you land your skillshots)
-CC immune with ult
-High damage output
-True damage
-Good clear speed
-No escape mechanisms
-Reckless Swing takes HP
-Not the best in teamfights
-Falls off a bit late
Greater Mark of Attack Damage
Greater Seal of Armor
Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist
Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed
Armor seals Extra armor, handy before your first armor item.
The scaling magic resist is nice if your game lasts long.
Movement speed quintessencesMovespeed is needed because olaf doesen't have any natural escape mechanisms. Also handy with extra mobility and chase efficiency.
Double-Edged Sword - Extra damage nothing more to say
Fury - Very effective along with your vicious strikes (W) to gain as much lifesteal as possible.
Sorcery - That is good combo with your reckless swing (Q) and Fury that way you will be avavible to throw that true damage all the time.
Butcher - For extra clear speed
Feast - Even more sustain!
Brute force - Just more AD why say no?
Martial Mastery - More damage, just plain out increased ad
Warlord - More damage
Devastating strikes - 4% armor penetration is really usefull! That one time that teemo got away with 4 hp wont happen now!
Havoc - This with warlord you now have an total 8% extra damage to all off your abilities! That is awesome!
Recovery - Extra health regen
Enchanted Armor - More Magic Resist and armor, good for this kind of playstile since you will buy one Armor item and one Magic Resist item.
Veteran's Scars - 24 extra hp, that is almost 1/6 of an ignite!
Fleet of Foot - Since Olaf doesen't have any dash, speedbuff etc you will need all of the movespeed that you can get. For chasing, escaping and extra mobility.
Hunter's Machete
Hunter's Machete is the optimal starting item for olaf in the jungle. Makes you deal more damage against jungle monsters but also recive less damage from jungle monsters.
Spirit of the Elder Lizard
This is the item you will need to rush! It gives you much higher clearspeed, sustain and gold.
Ravenous Hydra
After you finish this item you can throw away the B button because you will have such an amazing amount of lifesteal.
Randuin's Omen
Buy this after lizard and hydra if you play against an more attack damage based team. Its active will allow you to stick to your oponent or to run away from them. And its passive will make your 1v1 scenarios (against ad) easier when your oponent have lowered attackspeed.
Spirit Visage
Buy this after lizard and hydra if you play against an more ability power based team. I love this item since it fitts so well with this champion, it is an defensive item but when you build it on olaf your Vicious Strikes (W) will become 20% efficient.
Early game
Option 1: You need to farm as much as possible so you can get out of early game asap! But if you see some easy kills in the lane feel free to gank. But don't sit and wait in the bush for an better oportunity.
Option 2: I like this one! If you see an enemy jungler that will start with bluebuff and isen't very strong early game you can sneak up to their redbuff and ward it after you take your bluebuff. Then take their golems (Watch the minions so they won't grant vision on you).
After you'we done this you wait in the bush at their redbuff and wait untill you can either smite the redbuff and kill him. Or just kill him and steal the redbuff from his dead corpse. If this succedes the other jungler will have an hard time while you start off your game with an kill. (THIS IS RISKY, WONT BE FUN IF HE KILLS YOU OR THE MID-LANERS COMES TO HELP HIM)
Mid game
This is where the magic happends. By now you should have your first tank item, try ganking as much as possible if you're doing great. If you aren't doing very well focus on farming and ward your jungle so you won't get counter-ganked.
Late game
Here is where olaf sadly falls off a bit, but you can still provide your team with damage and you are still tanky. If you face an amumu , gnar /Mega Gnar, nami or any other champion that has an big AOE CC ability you can just ult and try to keep the enemies from reaching your team and buying some time for your team mates to recover.
Thank you for reading my guide. This is my first one so it probaly looks kinda dry and boring. I also want to apologize for any typos spelling errors and grammars, I come from Sweden and my english isen't the best. Please rate my guide and give feedback so I can inprove!
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When was the last time you went to a fast food restaurant and decided what to eat based on calorie information? If you have hard time remembering, apparently you're not alone.
Huffington Post reports researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) found that when participants were given calorie guidance, such as recommended calories per meal or per day before eating at McDonald's, where calorie labeling is already available, they consumed no fewer calories than if they were given no calorie advice at all.
This research can be added to a growing body of evidence that question the impact of calorie labeling in restaurants, which some restaurants have already put in place and all others (if they have more than 20 locations) will need to add in next year or so to meet Obamacare's requirements.
"Most people are not going in and doing very specific math to figure out how many calories for each meal they should have. They are focusing on the entree only or deciding if they eat more now, they will eat less later," explains Prof. Julie Downs of CMU who led the study.
But is this really the case? Does menu labeling really have no impact on consumer behavior?
First, let's look at the CMU study. The researchers wanted to explore the potential interaction between pre-existing menu labeling and the addition of recommended calorie intake information. In other words, they were wondering if people would choose lower-calorie items after they were given some more information to help put the calorie counts they see on the menu in context.
The research team analyzed the purchase behaviors of 1,121 adult lunchtime diners at two McDonald's restaurants in New York. Participants were divided into three groups that received different information before entering McDonald's: The first group received recommended daily calorie intake (2,000 calories for women or 2,400 calories for men), the second group received recommended per-meal calorie intake (650 calories for women or 800 calories for men) and the third group didn't receive any information.
The results? Researchers found, according to Huffington Post, that "providing calorie recommendation benchmarks – such as calories per day or calories per meal – did not reduce calories purchased, nor did it appear to help participants to better use the calorie information posted on menus." In fact, the researchers reported in the study, "we found some evidence that recommendations may even have promoted purchase of higher-calorie items."
These results don't come as a total surprise. In the last couple of years there have been a few other studies suggesting similar evidence of the very little impact menu labeling has on consumer behavior. For example, researchers found that an effort in King County, Washington, to add nutrition facts labeling to fast food menus had no effect on consumer behavior in its first year. Another study from New York University showed in 2011 that teens didn't necessarily buy fewer calories even if they saw menu calorie counts.
The problem with giving people nutritional information and relying on them to use that information to make wise choices, explains behavioral economist Dan Ariely, is that "traditionally, such interventions are more successful at changing attitudes than actual behaviors, and when it comes to health — attitudes and behaviors don't always go hand-in-hand."
Ariely makes a good point, and if you add this logic to the latest study, as well as the others mentioned above, you might start wondering if this Obamacare provision makes sense at all given our behavioral flaws as well as the difficulties it might cause some businesses.
Apparently, the answer might be that this provision does make sense after all. Only one month ago the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation published a research review summarizing new information published in 2008-2012 on the impact of menu labeling on consumer behavior. This is a comprehensive outlook, reviewing dozens of studies and, therefore, providing a much better understanding of the body of evidence compared to looking just at couple of random studies.
The results show a complex reality, but certainly indicate that menu labeling is not meaningless. "The review finds that the evidence about the impact of menu labeling on calories purchased or menu items selected is mixed," the authors write. They go on to say that the impact of menu labeling may have a greater effect on women than men, on higher calorie items, and among certain types of restaurant chains
The review also reports that emerging evidence suggests that menu labeling does not impact revenue (there's evidence lower-calorie items drive sales up for many chain restaurants, but it might not be related to labeling), and could have positive effects on the reformulation of menu items and other aspects of the restaurant environment, such as reduction in promotion of less healthy foods.
This last point can make the calorie labeling requirement a game changer. While we (especially men) might not use the labeling that often in our decision making process on what to buy in restaurants, it can drive changes in restaurants, from promoting healthy items to reducing the size of some dishes to changing items' formulations in order to make them healthier.
These changes will eventually be reflected in the choices consumers make, which means that while calorie labeling will not directly help us to make better choices, it will help us do so indirectly through the restaurants' choice editing. In the end, it's a win-win for everyone.
[Image credit: Matt McGee, Flickr Creative Commons]
Raz Godelnik is the co-founder of Eco-Libris and an adjunct faculty at the University of Delaware's Business School, CUNY SPS and Parsons The New School for Design, teaching courses in green business, sustainable design and new product development. You can follow Raz on Twitter.


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Added a tiny blurb here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+UDF#LanguageManualUDF-UDFinternals Comments/suggestions welcome! Thanks for bringing it up, Justin. Mark Mark Grover, Business Intelligence Analyst OANDA Corporation www: oanda.com www: fxtrade.com e: firstname.lastname@example.com "Best Trading Platform" - World Finance's Forex Awards 2009. "The One to Watch" - Treasury Today's Adam Smith Awards 2009. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Coffey" <firstname.lastname@example.com> To: firstname.lastname@example.com Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 5:19:15 AM Subject: Re: Lifecycle and Configuration of a hive UDF Hello All, Thank you much for the responses. I can confirm that the lag function implementation works in my case: create temporary function lag as 'com.example.hive.udf.Lag'; select session_id,hit_datetime_gmt,lag(hit_datetime_gmt,session_id) from (select session_id,hit_datetime_gmt from omni2 where visit_day='2012-01-12' and session_id is not null distribute by session_id sort by session_id,hit_datetime_gmt ) X distribute by session_id limit 1000 For the rank it looks like: create temporary function rank as 'com.example.hadoop.hive.udf.Rank'; select user_id, time, rank(user_id) as rank from ( select user_id, time from log where day = '2012-04-01' and hour = 7 distribute by user_id sort by user_id, time ) X distribute by user_id limit 2000 As mentioned by others this appears to force the UDF to be executed Reduce side. At least, I can't figure out how it works otherwise because only one MapReduce job is created (with multiple reducers). As a note to the documentation maintainers, it might be nice to have the procedural workflow of UDF/UDTF/UDAF's documented in the wiki. I know it is logical that an aggregation function happens reducer side, but I think there is sufficient complexity in an SQL to MR translator that it is worth the effort to explicitly document it and the other functions (or please just bludgeon me over the head if I happened to miss it). Not to be pedantic, but for example, the UDAF case study doc does not even mention the word "reduce": https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/genericudafcasestudy.html Thanks again to all the pointers! -Justin On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Alex Kozlov < firstname.lastname@example.com > wrote: You might also look at http://www. quora .com/Hive-computing/How-are-SQL-type-analytic-and-windowing-functions-accomplished-in-Hadoop-Hive for a way to utilize secondary sort for analytic windowing functions. RANK() OVER(...) will require grouping and sorting. While it can be done in the mapper or reducer stage, it is better to utilize Hadoop's shuffle properties to accomplish both of them. The disadvantage may be that you can compute only one RANK() in a MapReduce job. -- Alex K On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Philip Tromans < email@example.com > wrote: Have a read of the thread "Lag function in Hive", linked from: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hive-user/201204.mbox/thread There's an example of how to force a function to run reduce-side. I've written a UDF which replicates RANK () OVER (...), but it requires the syntactic sugar given in the thread. I'd like to make changes to the hive query planner at some point, so that you can annotate a UDF with a "run on reducer" hint, and after that I'd happily open source everything. If you want more details of how to implement your own partitionedRowNumber() UDF then I'd be happy to elaborate. Cheers, Phil. On 20 April 2012 18:35, Mark Grover < firstname.lastname@example.com > wrote: > Hi Rajan and Justin, > > As per my understanding, the scope of a UDF is only one row of data at a time. Therefore, it can be done all map side without the need for the reducer being involved. Now, depending on where you are storing the result of the query, your query may have reducers that do something. > > A simple query like Rajan mentioned > select MyUDF(field1,field2) from table; > > should have the UDF execute() being called in the map phase. > > > Now to Justin's question, > rank function ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176102%28v=sql.110%29.aspx ) > seems to have a sytax like: > RANK ( ) OVER ( [ partition_by_clause ] order_by_clause ) > > Rank function works on a collection of rows (distributed by the some column - the same one you would use in your partition_by_clause in MS SQL). > You can accomplish that using UDAF (read more about them at https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/genericudafcasestudy.html ) or by writing a custom reducer (read about that at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+Transform ). > > I don't think rank can be done using a UDF. > > Good luck! > > Mark > > Mark Grover, Business Intelligence Analyst > OANDA Corporation > > www: oanda.com www: fxtrade.com > > "Best Trading Platform" - World Finance's Forex Awards 2009. > "The One to Watch" - Treasury Today's Adam Smith Awards 2009. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Justin Coffey" < email@example.com > > To: email@example.com > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 10:29:11 AM > Subject: Re: Lifecycle and Configuration of a hive UDF > > Hello All, > I second this question. I have a MS SQL "rank" function which I would like to run, the results it gives appears to suggest it is executed Mapper side as opposed to reducer side, even when run with "cluster by" constraints. > > > -Justin > > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Ranjan Bagchi < firstname.lastname@example.com > wrote: > > > Hi, > > What's the lifecycle of a hive udf. If I call > > select MyUDF(field1,field2) from table; > > Then MyUDF is instantiated once per mapper, and within each mapper execute(field1, field2) is called for each reducer? I hope this is the case, but I can't find anything about this in the documentation. > > So I'd like to have some run-time configuration of my UDF: I'm curious how people do this. Is there a way I can send it a value or have it access a file, etc? How about performing a query against the hive store? > > Thanks, > > Ranjan > > > > > > -- > email@example.com > ----- -- firstname.lastname@example.com -----
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Both in practice and in the academic literature, models for setting margin requirements in futures markets classically use daily closing price changes. However, as well documented by research on high-frequency data, financial markets have recently shown high intraday volatility, which could bring more risk than expected. This paper tries to answer two questions relevant for margin committees in practice: is it right to compute margin levels based on closing prices and ignoring intraday dynamics? Is it justified to implement intraday margin calls? The paper focuses on the impact of intraday dynamics of market prices on daily margin levels. Daily margin levels are obtained in two ways: first, by using daily price changes defined with different time-intervals (say from 3 pm to 3 pm on the following trading day instead of traditional closing times); second, by using 5-minute and 1-hour price changes and scaling the results to one day. Our empirical analysis uses the FTSE 100 futures contract traded on LIFFE.
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- Roger Craine., 1992. "Are Futures Margins Adequate?," Economics Working Papers 92-192, University of California at Berkeley.
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Tower of the Americas
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|Tower of the Americas
|General information
|Observation tower
|San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
|29°25′08″N 98°29′01″W / 29.418888°N 98.483611°WCoordinates: 29°25′08″N 98°29′01″W / 29.418888°N 98.483611°W
|Construction started
|August 9, 1966
|April 6, 1968
|City of San Antonio
|City of San Antonio and Landry's Restaurants
|Antenna spire
|750 ft (230 m)
|622 ft (190 m)
|Top floor
|579 ft (176 m)
|Design and construction
|O'Neil Ford
The Tower of the Americas is a 750-foot (230-meter) observation tower-restaurant located in the Hemisfair district on the southeastern portion of Downtown San Antonio, Texas, United States. The tower was designed by San Antonio architect O'Neil Ford[1] and was built as the theme structure of the 1968 World's Fair, HemisFair '68.
It was the tallest observation tower in the United States from 1968 until 1996, when the Las Vegas Stratosphere Tower was completed.[2] It is the tallest building in San Antonio, and the 27th-tallest building in Texas.
The tower is located in the middle of HemisFair Park and has an observation deck that is accessible by elevator for a fee. There is also a lounge and revolving restaurant at the top of the tower that provides panoramic views of the city.[3]
The fastest recorded time up the tower's 952 steps is 5 minutes 18 seconds on January 29, 1981.[4]
Construction history[edit]
Construction of the tower began on August 9, 1966 and was completed in approximately 18 months, just in time for the opening ceremonies for the fair held on April 6, 1968. The tophouse of the building was constructed at ground level and hoisted to the top of the poured concrete shaft. As the tophouse was being hoisted into place, on October 30, 1967 some of the cables used to hoist it snapped, leaving it resting on and precariously tilted on the Tower's shaft. Eventually, oil field pipes were used in lieu of cables to complete the job.
Tower restaurant[edit]
In 2004, Landry's Restaurants, Inc. won the bid for a 15-year lease to manage and operate the property for its owner, the City of San Antonio. Landry's undertook an extensive $8 million renovation of the existing restaurant and lounge and observation deck and added a 4-D film "ride" called "Skies Over Texas," that gives the history of Texas in a film format. Additionally, Landry's spent another $4 million to add approximately 200% more space for ground level attractions such as a gift shop and cafe. Renovations were completed and the tower re-opened with the new Eyes Over Texas Restaurant, Bar 601 and the Flags Over Texas observation deck on June 21, 2006. The restaurant rotates slowly, and observation deck entry is included in the cost of a tower ticket.
In September 2007, Landry's converted the Eyes Over Texas Restaurant into one of its Chart House outlets.[5]
Prior to Landry's, Frontier Enterprises (owner of San Antonio-based Jim's Restaurants) operated the Tower of the Americas' restaurant for more than three decades.
Building heights[edit]
- 750 ft (229 m) to top of the antenna.
- 622 ft (190 m) to top of roof.
- 579 ft (176 m) to indoor observation deck.
- 560 ft (170 m) to outdoor observation deck.
- 550 ft (168 m) to restaurant and stationary level.
FM radio[edit]
Since 1970 the roof has hosted a 30-meter-tall (98 ft) tapered steel mast, used as support for three FM antennas; 101.9 KQXT (then known as KCOR-FM), 102.7 KJXK (then KTFM), and 104.5 KZEP (then KITE-FM). In 2007, the three individual antennas were replaced by a 16-bay master antenna that radiates all three FM signals including the HD signal for KQXT. Clear Channel Radio and Electronics Research Inc. headed up the project along with their contractors and involved the City of San Antonio and Landry's Restaurants. The new antenna system improved coverage for all three radio stations. An option existed for several years to add facilities for a move in signal on 97.7 (requiring rearrangement of ten other stations) to share the site. This was organized by Bret Huggins and David Stewart of Rawhide Radio, LLC (partly owned by Hispanic Broadcasting now Univision radio).
Transmitters are located between the public areas of the observation deck and the revolving restaurant in equipment bays along with air conditioners and plumbing.
See also[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tower of The Americas, San Antonio, Texas.
- ^ Gerem, Yves (2001). A Marmac Guide to San Antonio. Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company. p. 271. ISBN 1-56554-821-3.
- ^ "Tower of the Americas". Emporis.com. Retrieved April 17, 2010.
- ^ "Tower of the Americas". Planeteyetraveler.com. Retrieved April 17, 2010.
- ^ San Antonio Express News, January 30, 1981, page 12-A
- ^ "A top draw at the tower could be at the bottom". San Antonio Express-News. February 14, 2008. Retrieved October 11, 2009.
- "A Guide to the San Antonio Fair, Inc., Records, 1963-1995 (Bulk 1964-1968)". Texas Archival Resources Online. Retrieved Feb. 9, 2006.
External links[edit]
- History of the Tower of the Americas research guide with archival photographs
- Tower of the Americas restaurant
- Emporis: Tower of the Americas
- Tower of the Americas at Structurae
- FCC-Entry
|Preceded by
Elm Place
|Tallest Building in Texas
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|Preceded by
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Playing devil's advocate, I ask art collector Jordan Schnitzer how contemporary art can possibly fulfill us in an age of flickering screens and attention spans. Immediately I regret siding with the devil, even if only momentarily. Schnitzer's response is so passionate, so righteous and, frankly, so absolutely correct that his indignation at the thought that art could ever be irrelevant reverberates through the phone.
Since I work at home a lot of the time I frequently eat lunch there. Lunch usually means salad, and many of the components come from my own garden. For the past three years I've been recording, month-by-month, what goes from the garden into my salads. Picking garden greens for lunch on a nearly daily basis, all year round, turns out to be one of the real pleasures of having a vegetable garden, and I probably eat salad more often because of it.
Ah, yes — when God finally arrives in all his glory to destroy the wicked and raise up the true believers in a dazzling city of eternal happiness, how beautiful it all will be! Right? Right?
Sniffing out what you shouldn't miss in the arts this week.
Grab your flashlights! The Eugene Springfield Art Project (ESAP) is hosting the "Last Ever Flashlight Guided Art Walk" 5 pm Friday, Jan. 9, in downtown Springfield on Main Street.
Who's who and what's what in dance this month.
All across town, dance is lighting up the New Year.
A chapter in the local dance scene has closed, as Geni Morrow, who has served as the director of The Reach Center and its dance company The EDGE, also serving as the impresario behind the 20-year-running performance fundraiser Dance for a Reason, announced that there would be no Dance for a Reason this year.
Comedian Brian Regan is beloved for the same reasons Jerry Seinfeld became a household name: He does observational comedy without relying on profanity to edge-up his act. But don't confuse "clean" jokes with boring — fellow funnyman and f-bomb launcher Marc Maron has said Regan is the favorite comedian of other comedians. Need a refresher or an introduction? Regan's appearance on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Seinfeld's latest show, is a good start (watch at wkly.ws/1vj). See Regan's act 7:30 pm Thursday, Jan.
A seafood stew, cioppino or bouillabaisse can be an expensive and labor-intensive undertaking to put together, but with my recipe I present a different version of this extraordinary holiday entrée.
I wanted to make this easily accessible to a new cook but also offer an affordable dish (just under $30) and wrap it up in about an hour. I'm calling it Goldfish Stew.
I hunkered in my chair, rolling behind the desk, periodically gazing down through grimy windows 17 floors above Eugene's winter-wet streets. Derelicts and "travelers" huddled in the park, smoking, yakking, looking to score, ducking cops. Through the pebbled glass on the office door, I caught sight of a deformed shadow. The door creaked open.
The following is an extended interview conducted for eugeneweekly.com. The condensed print edition can be found here.
Former KVAL reporter Dan Carlin lives in the past. That is, at least when he's working on Hardcore History, the podcast he delves into with fanboy fervor, humanizing the past with episodes about everything from Ancient Greece ("The Macedonian Soap Opera") to World War I ("Blueprint for Armageddon"). Hardcore History, which he records in his home studio in Eugene, has been downloaded almost 70 million times and was recently named Best Classic Podcast in iTunes' Best of 2014 awards. Carlin squeezed in a quick phone chat with EW in-between recording the 5th installment of the "Blueprint for Armageddon" (it's due out before the end of December) and producing his other podcast, the current events-centered Common Sense.
The following is an extended interview conducted for eugeneweekly.com. The condensed print edition can be found here.
Appeared in the 12/24/2014 print edition of Eugene Weekly. An extended interview for the web can be found here.
The following appeared in the 12/24/2014 print edition of Eugene Weekly. An extended interview for the web can be found here.
Since leaving the Navajo Nation at 18 to join the U.S. Army as a young man, Eugene visual artist Lemuel Charley has both nurtured his native roots and honored his brothers in arms, fueling unique insights and ambitions.
With an exposed red brick wall, weathered wood accents and a general rustic-bohemian flavor, the newly opened Gilt & Gossamer doesn't show any signs of its former life as a Rapid Refill ink store at 873 Willamette St. Sprinkle in some nubby sweaters, flirty party dresses and chic house décor, and the shop joins what's becoming somewhat of a boutique mecca downtown.
I recently took a couple of hours to do something I've been putting off for ages: cleaning and oiling my gardening tools. Until we moved into a different house five years ago, I kept my tools in a dry, attached garage. Now I keep everything but my best pruning tools in a garden shed that's more or less open to the moisture-laden air.
Although the tools are out of the rain, they are rusting. Perhaps this would have happened eventually in my old garage, but whatever deterioration there was in 15 years, I didn't notice it.
It's a timeless literary trope, from Ecclesiastes to Groundhog Day: A cynical man, mired in despair and the funk of worldly resentments, is confronted with the error of his ways to such an extent that he undergoes an immediate and permanent transformation, emerging from darkness into light. Such victories of the spirit are the epitome of happily ever after, and we never tire of their telling.
The theater community, and Eugene at large, is mourning for Mark Lewis, the beloved Emmy-winning storyteller, actor, author, teacher and father who passed suddenly Sunday, Dec. 7. Lewis' talents will be remembered near and far for his voiceover work with Disney Imagineering on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride; for Word Pictures: Storytelling with Mark Lewis; for his appearances on Grimm and Northern Exposure; and for teaching presentation skills at the UO's School of Journalism and Communication.
A good friend of mine in Seattle — an Eritrean immigrant who helped pen that country's as yet unratified constitution — once pointed out that, should I really want to understand the collision of race and politics in the U.S., read the sports pages. I figured he was being coy, but the more I think about it, the more I comprehend sports as a microcosm of society, where all sorts of racial and social tensions play out, often in the subterranean codes of privilege, ability and competition.
Bob, Phil and Larry are in the existential hell that is the 26th-floor suite of a Holiday Inn overlooking Wichita, Kansas. Their JCPenney grey suits and their hopes of selling industrial lubricant set the prosaic scene for this morality tale.
Sniffing out what you shouldn't miss in the arts this week
KLCC's arts and culture reporter Eric Alan hosts the Dec. 5 First Friday ArtWalk starting at 5:30 pm at Eugene Piano Academy and hitting stops MECCA, MODERN, Oh So Jo and The Gallery at the Watershed. Keep an eye out for the beautiful modern and almost Fauve-like painting of Shelley Roenspie at Oh So Jo as well as new works by Adam Grosowsky — stunning gestural large-format oil portraits — at Karin Clarke Gallery (off the guided walk).
Carly Aquilino has been doing standup for less than three years and she's already got a hit show — millennial favorite Girl Code, a comedy series where women in entertainment "weigh in on the sisterhood that all girls share" — and a cult following: In a recent episode, a fan gets Aquilino's face tattooed on her thigh (another fan shaved her face into his back…). EW caught up with Aquilino over the phone from her New York apartment. She brings her act to Eugene for the first time Dec. 6 at McDonald Theatre.
Christmas? Already? Light the lights, jingle those bells, let's wassail all season long. It's a love fest. Quick switch from giving thanks for our gifts, to giving gifts, with our thanks — and lots of love.
Now, you might imagine that because you have a wine fiend on your gift list you have this one in the bag: Plunk for a jug of plonk, plop into glitzy bag, designate, done.
Not so fast. True, there are thousands of decent wines in stores, and gobs of wine-related gadgets, but getting a wine gift just right can be challenging.
Sports are funny. If folks in this country cared half as much about the political process as they do about football, we'd all be living in some elegant utopia right now.
Sports are funny. If folks in this country cared half as much about the political process as they do about football, we'd all be living in some elegant utopia right now. Even casual sports fans can hold a civil, intelligent discussion about the pros and cons of the nickel defense, but bring up Obamacare and most of us degenerate into retrograde morons, hurling incoherent epithets at each other. Politics these days have become a nightmare, but football — it's our religion. And that's sad.


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The husband of a high school teacher accused of having sex with five students will make a statement Thursday, the couple's attorney said Wednesday.
Brittni Colleps, 27, was arrested Monday on five counts of having an inappropriate relationship between a student and teacher, a second-degree felony.
Arlington police said investigators found explicit text messages and cellphone video of Colleps, a Kennedale High School English teacher, having sex with a student.
Colleps declined to comment on her arrest after she was released on bond Monday afternoon.
Despite the ordeal, the Collepses are doing well, said Lex Johnston, the couple's attorney.
"Brittni is holding up very well," he said. "This is a nerve-racking, very stressful time for the entire family -- I'm sure for all the families -- but she is doing well."
Colleps' husband plans to keep his family together.
"Her husband was stationed in the Army at Fort Polk, La.," Johnston said. "He is with her. He is standing by her side."
Arlington police removed several items from the couple's home while executing a search warrant.
Colleps, a mother of three, has not been formally charged by the Tarrant County district attorney's office.
"Until she is actually charged or if she is actually charged by the district attorney, we won't know what we are going to do," Johnston said.
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SAN DIEGO, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Donnie Edwards had two interceptions Sunday with one returned for a 30-yard touchdown late in the fourth quarter as San Diego beat Tampa Bay, 31-24.
LaDainian Tomlinson rushed for 131 yards and a touchdown for Chargers (10-3), who have won seven straight games and lead the AFC West by two games.
Drew Brees was 17-of-23 for 220 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions for the Chargers, who have won 10 games in a season for the first time since 1994 when the club finished 11-5 and reached Super Bowl XXIX.
Brian Griese was 36-of-50 for 392 yards with three touchdowns and three interceptions for the Buccaneers (5-8), who have lost two of their last three games.


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June 25th, 2013 09:24 AM #1Junior Member
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Story characters name trouble
Hello everyone,
I have so many ideas for the story I am writing, but I just can't come up with good character names..
The story is about an 11 year old girl (character 1) who suffers from OCD. She is very intelligent, perfectionistic and into photography. She has lots of freckles, hazel eyes, blonde hair. Her last name is going to be Hayes, I was thinking of the first name Chloe for her. The main character has two older sisters and one older brother. Her oldest sister (character 2) is very rebellious, confident, artistic and outspoken. She died her hair brown and has hazel eyes. I was thinking of the names Zoey, Aria, Lola or Eliza for her. Her brother (character 3), is confident, sporty, intelligent and just the perfect child, I was thinking of Tobias or Conor for him. Her other sister (character 4), is very popular, social and sporty. She has wavy blonde hair and deep brown eyes, she is very pretty. I was thinking of these names for her: Audrey, Isis or Eden. There happens something terrible to character 4 which changes the life of this whole family.
Please tell me what you think of the names and you can also give some other suggestions
Thank you!
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June 25th, 2013 01:25 PM #5
I agree that Audrey is the only one that makes since for character 4, because it is the only one that is common enough to match the other options. But I don't like that name for that character, a) because I know someone named Audrey, and she is nothing like the character you describe, which makes me biased. b) because the other 2 are a lot prettier and more unusual, and I like unusual more. I like both Isis and Eden, but I like Eden more for your character. Maybe the name could be Audrey, and Eden could be a nickname. Aubrey is another option.
So, considering that, here are my ideas:
1: Chloe is a fine name for this character, in my opinion
2: I like Zoey for the character, but Chloe and Zoey would not work, so Aria is my second option.
3: Tobias. Definitely.
4: Audrey nn Eden"I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to the most amazing places. When I got older, I realized I couldn't find books that took me to all the places I wanted to go. To go to those places, I had to write some books myself."
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#1 - Chloe Hayes is fine.
#2 - I wouldn't use Zoey for obvious reasons. Lola I still think is a bit close with the Chlo and Lo starts to the name, even though they end differently. Eliza Hayes would be my pick.
#3 - I try to avoid key characters with the same initials unless necessary, I've heard it's meant to make it more difficult to read if you do. As much as I like Conor Hayes better in the sibset, I think Chloe and Conor is too much in the family. Tobias is a bit posh in comparison though - I'd go with just Toby Hayes.
#4 - I don't think any of these names work, tbh. Eden just is completely different in style, as is Isis, and Audrey I find really dated. How about Isla instead of Isis, Evelyn nn Evie instead of Eden, or Ava instead of Audrey?
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For just the third time in the 50-year Super Bowl era, the defending champions will begin next season with a quarterback who had nothing to do with winning the title. And as strong as the Denver Broncos are on defense, there is little reason to believe this change will work out any better for them than it did for the previous two teams.
In other words, if you are betting on a Broncos repeat, save your money.
At the moment, the only quarterbacks on the Denver roster are Mark Sanchez, whose career has been on a fairly steady downward trend since he got to AFC championship games his first two seasons with the Jets, and Trevor Siemian, who had a decent career at Northwestern which, you might have heard, is not known as the cradle of quarterbacks.
Of course, Denver still could find another quarterback, maybe someone like the 49ers' Colin Kaepernick, and in many ways he would be a perfect fit for the Broncos if he could again play like he did a few years ago. With a quarterback like that, Denver could spread the field and play its run, run, run game because he would be a big part of it.
No matter who they wind up with, however, the 2016 Broncos will join the 1999 Broncos and the 2001 Baltimore Ravens as the only champions in a half-century to start their title defense with a new quarterback.
Just like now, Denver lost its starter following back-to-back Super Bowl victories in 1997 and 1998 when John Elway retired. At the time, it was thought that Bubby Brister, who who won all four of his starts as a backup in Elway's last season and had been an on-and-off starter for years in Pittsburgh, would inherit the starting quarterback job.
Instead, coach Mike Shanahan chose Brian Griese, who as a rookie the previous season had thrown exactly three passes. Griese looked good in exhibition games, but struggled right from the start in the regular season. Once running back Terrell Davis, the linchpin of the offense, suffered a major injury four games into the season, the Broncos were dead.
Denver finished 6-10 that season, reached the playoffs only once in the ensuing three years, and did not win another playoff game for six more years. Denver did not reach another Super Bowl until after both Shanahan and his successor, Josh McDaniels, had been fired, and the Broncos had finished their flirtation with starting quarterbacks Jake Plummer, Jay Cutler, Kyle Orton and Tim Tebow before Elway signed Peyton Manning for the 2012 season.
Baltimore's 2001 situation might be a more apt comparison to the current Broncos because the Ravens, in 2000, won the Super Bowl on the back of their defense, just like Denver.
The Super Bowl-winning QB was Trent Dilfer, who perfectly fits the term, "journeyman." Baltimore chose not to resign him, instead plunging into the free agent market to give Elvis Grbac a five-year, $30 million contract.
Grbac played one middling season for the Ravens and, after they lost in the divisional playoffs, he retired at age 31. It was seven years before Baltimore won another playoff game.
Which brings us back to Denver.
Manning had become a latter-day version of Dilfer, a game manager, and you can argue that Denver won the title in spite of him, pointing to the run-run-run offense the Broncos used in the fourth quarter even though that gave them no chance of first downs or running out the clock. And you would largely be correct. But Manning at least gave the Broncos the aura of a quarterback who could - possibly - help out his defense if he had to. Now, the Broncos quarterbacks - Sanchez and Siemian - don't give off the same vibes.
All we know for sure about the current Broncos is that their management had no faith in a quarterback who started seven games last year, winning five, including one against New England. That would be Brock Osweiler, and Kubiak can talk all we wants about how he "believed in'' Osweiler and how he "think(s) the world of Brock," but letting him leave in free agency shows what the Broncos really thought of Osweiler.
For what it's worth, Sanchez has at least experienced playoff success.
He helped the New York Jets reach two AFC championship games in his first two seasons in the NFL, but he also has a career passer rating of 74.3 and has thrown only two more touchdown passes than interceptions.
It's not exactly a resume that inspires confidence, even among teammates. Safety T.J. Ward probably spoke for a lot of Broncos earlier this week during an appearance on the NFL Network when he said, ?"We got to find someone back there."
--Ira Miller is an award-winning sportswriter who has covered the National Football League for more than four decades and is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Selection Committee. He is a national columnist for The Sports Xchange.


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Steve Chiotakis: There's more economic trouble at another European country: Hungary. Both Moody's and S&P have cut Hungary's debt to junk status. And its currency -- the forint -- is starting to collapse. And now the country is talking to the IMF about a new bailout plan. But, Hungary's troubles are different than Italy's or Greece's -- because Hungary is not a member of the eurozone.
The BBC's Nick Thorpe is in Budapest with the latest on that story. Hey, Nick.
Nick Thorpe: Hi Steve.
Chiotakis: Where did the country's debt troubles come from, Nick?
Thorpe: They really were built up over the previous administration -- eight years of socialist and partly socialist, liberal rule. Huge debts ratcheted up and this new conservative government, the Fidesz government, came into power in 2010 with this massive debt burden -- the highest per capita in the EU.
That's what the government's trying to deal with. Its answer was to try and make the economy grow out of that, to create new job places and so on. But the end result has been everything has got much worse for everybody out on the street because of this near collapse of the Hungarian currency.
Chiotakis: Do you think it's any better or worse off because Hungary doesn't use the euro?
Thorpe: This is a moot point. Hungary would like to join the euro one day, despite all the troubles, of course, that the euro's going through now. But for the time being, it doesn't satisfy the criteria necessary for that with the EU. So it's stuck with its own currency. It's own currency's very weak.
But even though it's not part of the eurozone, it's very dependent on it. It exports almost all... its main exports go to the eurozone, especially to Germany. And at a time when the eurozone's in trouble -- like now -- that's really bad for Hungary. So Hungary's on the periphery of all that, but it's getting really battered by the storms within the eurozone.
It really would have needed a calmer situation in the eurozone for it to be able to continue borrowing money from largely eurozone countries, and the United States of course, in order to finance its debt and to climb out of this crisis -- sort of up the stairs, as it were.
Chiotakis: The BBC's Nick Thorpe in Budapest. Nick, thanks.
Thorpe: Thank you, Steve.


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A mother who was rescued from a house fire that killed four of her children was charged Friday with setting the fire, authorities said.
Bobbie Kugler, 31, was scheduled to be arraigned in City Court on Saturday on four counts of manslaughter and arson, Rochester Fire Chief John Caufield said at a news conference.
Kugler is the mother of 14-year-old Gage Reavey, 13-year-old Greg Kugler, 12-year-old Kandee Kugler and 6-year-old Kaiden Kugler. All died in the Feb. 18 fire in their two-story Rochester home.
Firefighters rescued Kugler and her 2-year-old son from the first floor.
"This fire is a result of human intervention. This was not an accidental fire," Caufield said.
Fire officials said the blaze began in a first-floor bedroom but declined to say how it started or elaborate on the mother's involvement or motive, citing the pending legal case.
"She is being charged specifically with arson, that being setting a fire and causing the death of her four children," Deputy Chief Mike Wood said.
Charges of manslaughter, he said, stem from "recklessly causing the death of another human being."
Officials didn't discuss whether more serious charges were considered or are possible.
Kugler was arrested Friday in Poughkeepsie, where she has been living. It wasn't known if she had a lawyer. No one answered the phone at a telephone listing in her name.


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Tapjoy has a new software developer kit (SDK) out that enables advertisers to re-engage with an offer.
Tapjoy is an advertising network that drives monetization for mobile apps. Its ad model enables consumers to find and use premium content in exchange for engaging with premium advertisers. Tapjoy inserts ads into apps, targeted at consumers who enjoy similar apps. If those individuals install the apps that are recommended in the ads, then the advertiser pays Tapjoy and the developer for the installation.
Onstage at MobileBeat 2013 today, the company's new chief product officer, Jeff Drobick, discussed what it takes to generate value in mobile.
"Incentives offered in the past had a bit of a stigma," he said. "Incentivizing consumers with something that isn't in their best interest is not sustainable in the long-term. If you are doing stuff that is good for consumers, then it is good for brand advertisers, and they get the premium content they want. What's wrong with that?"
Tapjoy's approach helps developers get their apps in front of consumers. User acquisition and monetization remain two of the largest challenges for app developers and Tapjoy has been a significant force in using incentive-based advertising to address both. It reaches users on more than 1 billion devices and its marketplace reaches a global mobile audience of more than 97,000 applications. The company is currently driving $200 million in revenue to publishers of all sizes, and typical app publishers see a 50 percent to 300 percent increase in monetization.
Apps represent a powerful channel for advertisers to connect with their target audience. For example, a baseball brand or game can connect with baseball lovers through a baseball-centered app. Tapjoy's new SDK is a way for advertisers to follow-up with consumers to maximize the revenue opportunities. If a consumer already expresses interest in an offer, advertisers can hit them again with another one. Drobick said this provides a "rich, multilayered experience that is low risk for advertisers."
Tapjoy has been busy lately. In addition to the new SDK, it recently released Tapyjoy Reconnect that gets consumers to come back to an app. It also partnered with streaming movie service Screen Media Ventures to expand its reach in the entertainment field, and announced a collaboration with Korean company Kakao Games to offer ads to the developers on the platform. Kakao games has 90 million users.
Tapjoy's faces competition from Flurry, Kontangent, and ChartBoost, but in a world filled with mobile apps and the continued struggled to make money off of them, there is plenty of room for any solution that drives revenue.


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Vizio has become the first TV manufacturer to offer a complete home theater solution that includes a flat panel HDTV and a complete 5.1 audio system with the launch of the Jive SV5.1 Enhancement Kit which it claims makes home theater installations easy and attractively reduces cable clutter.
The SV5.1 is designed to combine with the SV42LF or SV47LF 'Black Tie' range of LCD HDTV's to provide an affordable Home Theater system. It uses the internal left and right speakers, so only needs to add the center, rears and sub-woofer, which is wireless and transmits through 2.4GHz.
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Senator Díaz to Wayne Barrett: "Get Your Facts Straight!"
January 12, 2010
For Immediate Release
Senator Díaz to Wayne Barrett: "Get Your Facts Straight!"
I don't know why there are some reporters and news media people that are always attributing to me quotes and statements that I have never said.
The most recent of these aberrations was committed yesterday, Monday, January, 11, 2010 by Mr. Wayne Barrett from The Village Voice. Mr. Barrett, is apparently trying to stop NYC Councilmember Simcha Felder from becoming NYC Deputy Comptroller. In his effort, he is also linking Felder's points of view to mine and in doing so he writes, "Felder, on the other hand, has aligned himself, and his votes against gay legislation, with the two or three Republicans in the Council and the Democrats like former councilman and current State Senator Rubén Díaz, who said Silver was 'an embarrassment as a Jew' at anti-gay rally last year!"
Well Mr. Barrett's statement is nothing further from the truth. I never said that. Mr. Barrett was nowhere to be seen at that rally. Oh yes, there was a big rally in front of Gov. Paterson's Manhattan office. Oh yes, I organized that rally. Oh yes, there were more than 25,000 people; and yes, the statement was made, but not by me. That statement was made by Brooklyn Rabbi Yehuda Levin.
So ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Wayne Barrett today has joined those that continually attribute quotes and remarks to me that I have never said. But, the most interesting thing is that they have never yet attributed a positive statement to me. They always find something negative and destructive to say about me. I wonder why? My advice, ladies and gentlemen is that I don't mind them talking and writing about me; I never mind it. But please, always get your facts straight.


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Diddy Has Life-Changing Experience at Burning Man Festival
Diddy is a new man after attending the Burning Man festival. And there's pictures to prove it!
The hip-hop impresario took to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada for the annual experimental festival celebrating self reliance. The event is centered on a barter economy and includes massive raves nightly.
"#BurningMan Words cannot explain! I'll never be the same. Do u see the glove?" he asked in a caption for a photo he posted on Instagram. The image finds Diddy wearing a sequined gold glove, pilot's hat and gold-rimmed frames as he gazes at his hand.
Other photos of the Bad Boy Records head honcho have popped up online including him seemingly rocking out during a pink party. One of the stranger flicks has the producer-rapper standing under a pink umbrella with a matching pink scarf.
The festival says it "challenges its members to express themselves and rely on themselves to a degree that is not normally encountered in one's day-to-day life." So perhaps this is Diddy expressing his true self.