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Preamble Now then. There's no middle ground anymore: this will either be one of the most exciting sessions in England's modern history, or an increasingly lonely shocker as you all do one for life-affirming post-work Staropramens. There are 33 overs left, and England need six wickets. The spin twins, Pietersen (3-1-6-0) and Panesar (15-3-45-2), are getting warehouseloads of turn and bounce, so anything's possible. I doubt it'll happen, but sometimes these final sessions can spiral out of control when you have attacking batsmen intent solely on survival - Mike Atherton has rightly just cited the precedent of Old Trafford 2001, when England lost eight wickets in a hilarious final session against Pakistan - but I suspect England will be left with regrets and what ifs: what if they'd declared earlier, so ensuring two new balls; what if they'd bowled Pietersen earlier; what if they'd batted with more oopmh last night; what if Smyth had tried to tempt fate with a lame "England have no chance" offering earlier; what if David Brent's auntie had cojones.
49th over: Pakistan 153-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 21, Razzaq 1) Interesting choice from Strauss, who decides to unleash Harmison from the Pavilion End. I think I'd have stuck with both spinners, which makes Strauss's decision an excellent one. Anyway, that Harmison over is graffiti rubbish, and the camera cuts to Duncan Fletcher perusing the Wisden Almanack, no doubt wondering which pair of eejits wrote the England player profiles contained therein. Yup, it was Booth and Smyth. "Having been blessed with the surname Savage, the only time it is pronounced Suvarj, is when being addressed by hotel staff for some reason," says Mark Savvij.
50th over: Pakistan 153-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 21, Razzaq 1) Monty has four men around the bat, but the pre-tea menace has, for now, drifted away: Inzamam comfortably bats out a maiden, and here's Andrew Bent. "I always thought that if everyone pronounced Chatham (supposedly 'Chattam' but more usually 'Cha'em') with the 'th' like 'Chay-th-am', then overnight it would become a well-heeled spa town like Bath or Cheltenham." Tell that to the locals who've had their trainers muddied and noses bloodied at the Tap and Tin on a Friday night.
51st over: Pakistan 153-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 21, Razzaq 1) Razzaq, who once upon a time (especially in the West Indies in 2000) was an expert stonewaller, edges a dangerous, full delivery from Harmison short of first slip. He's a block/thwack merchant, with very little inbetween, and so far he has 1 from 22 balls. "Oh bloody hell," says Peter McLeod. "Since you're not prepared to, here goes: this evening's session will fizzle out disappointingly like, er, one of my jokes, England won't get a better chance to win in the rest of the series and will end up with a 1-0 defeat followed by a royal pasting Down Under over the winter. Fate: I'm all yours."
52nd over: Pakistan 154-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 22, Razzaq 1) A leading-edge from Razzaq plops tantalisingly to the left of short leg, and then an appreciable inside-edge stops what would have been a half-decent LBW appeal from Panesar. "I was always rather keen to pronounce one-time West Ham washout Joey Beauchamp 'Bowshomp', instead of the unbearably pretentious Beecham," says Peter Collins. "So there." Don't you mean 'so tharr'?
53rd over: Pakistan 156-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 23, Razzaq 1) "Please can we have a little bit of optimism about this series and the Ashes?" begs Rachel Clifton. "I have spent an awful lot of money booking a flight out to Australia in December and am finding it increasingly hard to remain sanguine about our chances in the face of all this defeatist talk. There must be some points of hope about the winter?" You get to find out what happens in Neighbours for the next year?
54th over: Pakistan 156-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 23, Razzaq 2) It's all gone very, very quiet again. I really do think England should have started with two spinners after tea, although it probably would've made little difference. "If you pronounce "melancholy" with the stress on the second syllable, and the "ch" as you would normally (mel-AN-cher-lee) - as happened occasionally at my old school - then you get a startingly different, even pleasingly jolly-sounding word," says Saul Lipetz. "Try it!"
55th over: Pakistan 161-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 23, Razzaq 6) Harmison is battering the bejesus out of the middle of the pitch, but it's a corridor of certainty for Razzaq, who can just bob and weave and steer and guide and chalk another over off: 25 to go.
56th over: Pakistan 162-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 24, Razzaq 6) Monty has a big shout for LBW against Razzaq turned down by Bucknor. Razzaq got a big stride in but that was a very decent shout, and Hawk-Eye has it scraping the top of middle stump. The next ball produces another big appeal, for a bat-pad catch to short leg. Bucknor, quite rightly, tells them where to stick their appeal. And then - three in a row - he turns down another decent-looking appeal for LBW, which Hawk-Eye again has hitting the top of off stump. "Neighbours," says Hugh McCallion. "I know who bombed the plane and it ain't Darcy back from the dead if that's what you're thinking." Jim Robinson's evil twin?
57th over: Pakistan 165-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 27, Razzaq 6) It's Plunkett rather than Pietersen to replace Harmison, but Inzamam is as snug as an alcoholic bug in a boozy fug and he guides one to long-on for three. "Smyth," begins (the) Jeremy Theobald. "Pronounce 'envelope' and 'antelope' the same way as you would 'Penelope'. Can't fail to bring a smile to your face, although the assistants in Ryman's won't know what you're on about."
58th over: Pakistan 166-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 27, Razzaq 6) England's declaration may have been a fraction negative, but in the context of the pastings they've taken recently I think that's fair enough. They needed to restore order, and have done that with a good performance, and hopefully now with Flintoff back they can kick on on what apparently is a lightning-fast Old Trafford pitch in the second Test. "Did anyone hear Michael Atherton describe someone as someone else's ne-MEE-sis the other day," says Eleanor Stanley. "My friend from the north-west doesn't think this is a Manchester thing; perhaps it's an Oxbridge, England captain thing?" Either that or he's seen so many visions of Glenn McGrath in the small hours that he's going doolally. Or should I say doolarly.
59th over: Pakistan 167-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 28, Razzaq 6) Quiet over from Plunkett to Inzamam, who has quelled a potential uprising with an imperious, comical lethargy. "No Nous Strauss does it again," says the venerable Richard Jones, and he has a point: Strauss is to captaincy what Smyth is to gigolodom. "The man is absolutely ruth, not a bad bone in his body. I was proposing Panacea and Pietersen much earlier and when they came on before tea there was real menace. But Strauss the Ruth let them off the hook."
60th over: Pakistan 167-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 28, Razzaq 6) Panesar has a big appeal for LBW against Inzamam, but he was right in Bucknor's way in his followthrough. Bucknor makes various elaborate hand signals to labour the point, when a simple 'get orf moi land' might have done the job just as effectively. A maiden. "Hmm, speaking of name pronunciations, do you call yourself 'Smythe' or are you more of a 'Smith'?" asks Peter Sharrott. "My money's on an upper-class-ingratiating 'Smythe'." Whatever Sharrott. A keeping-it-real Irish peasant Smyth, more like. IT'S NOT BLOODY PRETENTIOUS IF THERE'S NO 'E' IN IT NOW IS IT REALLY?
61st over: Pakistan 168-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 29, Razzaq 7) I told you Razzaq could stonewall: he has 7 from 724 balls now. So, anyway, what happens for the next Test? Flintoff for Bell, obviously, and maybe Mahmood for Plunkett as well - I think he has more mongrel, and a greater capacity to make things happen with the old ball. Plus he has a comically large hooter which makes Ian Rush look like Daniella Westbrook. "To be fair to the staff of Ryman's, they'd probably be mystified as to why you were asking them about antelopes, no matter how you pronounced it," says Andy Gilpin, and a few others, all equally pleased with their quip at the expense of someone who, unlike them, was in the world-renowned film Batman Begins last year. Me and my newfound celebrity e-pals think we know who's winning. You dirty peasants.
62nd over: Pakistan 168-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 29, Razzaq 7) Sorry, there's nothing to say really: it's just meandering to a draw, although Panesar scoots a quicker one past Razzaq's attempted cut there. Another maiden, and the camera cuts to some old broad in the crowd who's out like a light. "Pronouncing Parceline to rhyme with Vaseline always keeps me amused on when I spot one of their vans car journeys, particularly when sung to the Elastica hit of the same name," says Louise Wright, crowbarring in her obligatory BritPop reference. "It's not one of my originals, I read it somewhere. And yes, I am easily pleased. I find low standards lead to fewer numbingly inevitable disappointments." We'd get on famously.
63rd over: Pakistan 177-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 38, Razzaq 7) Kevin Pietersen comes back into attack far too late, and when he drops short Inzamam caresses him through the covers off the back foot - a really good shot. He then hoicks the next ball high and mighty over midwicket for four more, and he is well set to make his ninth consecutive Test fifty against England, which is just a ridiculous statistic.
65th over: Pakistan 181-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 38, Razzaq 11) I've missed an over but nobody cares anymore, and here's one-time OBO type Dan Jones to cattle-prod some life into proceedings. "This may be old hat to your zany readers. But if it is not, then I hope it amuses them as much as it does me. It'd better not be bongo Jonesy.
66th over: Pakistan 190-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 46, Razzaq 12) There are 15 overs left, but a draw can be agreed at any point now, so we should be done soon. Paul Collingwood, Allrounder, is coming on - to bowl off-spin, no less - and his first ball is slapped contemptuously through the covers for four by Inzamam. The second takes the edge but squirts past the diving Trescothick. Nine off the over in all, and it's drinks.
67th over: Pakistan 194-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 50, Razzaq 12) Inzamam slams yet another four through the covers to reach his ninth consecutive Test fifty against England; serene, outstanding batting, and apart from 'yorker to Yousuf early', England really don't seem to have a clue how to get Yousuf or Inzy out. Monty has a naive appeal for LBW turned down. Meanwhile, Richard Jones now wants Strauss dropped from the whole team for the next Test! The years are catching up with you, my dear boy.
68th over: Pakistan 196-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 51, Razzaq 13) "Not for the next Test," says Richard Jones of his plan to drop Strauss. "For eternity."
69th over: Pakistan 197-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 52, Razzaq 13) When even David Lloyd struggles to muster enthusiasm, you know there's a problem: this game is dead, everyone's gone home.
70th over: Pakistan 203-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 53, Razzaq 17) Simon Allardice sends an email asking for advice from Rachel Clifton on T-shirts. Liam Plunkett comes on. Abdul Razzaq gets four to third man.
71st over: Pakistan 204-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 54, Razzaq 17) Someone more comfortable in their own skin, like Vaughan, would've called this off ages ago, but I suppose Strauss wants to be seen to do the right thing, like a newbie at work on their first day who waits uncomfortably, bored and full of increasingly irresistible self-loathing, before asking if it's okay to do one when really they know they could and should have done one half an hour ago. "I don't think England are going to win this," says Adam Munro, ever the pessimist.
72nd over: Pakistan 209-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 55, Razzaq 21) "Drop Strauss?" says Andy Bradshaw. "As captain yes, as an opener - no don't be stupid. Mr Jones has been out in the sun on the Special Brew for too long methinks. Drop Cook, yes - Strauss, no. Beer can: go on say it; bet you can't not say it like bacon."
73rd over: Pakistan 210-4 (need 380 to win; Inzamam 56, Razzaq 21) MATCH DRAWN Bumble and Beefy have started talking about Mike Atherton's pants, so engaging are proceedings out in the middle. Monty is still bowling with zeal and mischief, but Inzamam has given a masterclass in the lost art of batting time. Razzaq then moves from block to thwack, mowing Panesar over midwicket for four, and that's the last action of the match. It was a decent game, with some excellent batting, but in the end both teams missed their injured bowlers too much. Thanks for your emails during the match. It's been sunkissed.


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ST. PAUL — The Dayton administration plans to construct 10 highway projects around Minnesota to improve commerce transportation.
"It will give Minnesotans an indication of what's possible with increased funding," he said of the $300 million program known as Corridors of Commerce.
While just two of the eight projects are in the Twin Cities, transportation officials say money spent will be about even between the metropolitan area and greater Minnesota.
Dayton and Transportation Commissioner Charlie Zelle said that unless something changes, the state will fall $10 billion short of what is needed just to keep state highways at today's levels.
Most state highway funds go to preserving existing roads, not expanding them.
The governor said the Corridors of Commerce program will serve as an example of what is possible.
Dayton plans to give legislators a proposal to increase transportation funding next year, but on Thursday said he does not know how it will look. He said the gasoline tax, even if raised, would not provide needed money.
He said that he did not know if he can garner the needed support next year, during a legislative session he wants to be the "unsession," dedicated to overturning unneeded laws and other items that have little budget impact.
"This is a down payment," Zelle said of Corridors of Commerce. "It is not nearly enough. ... It is essentially to add capacity ... and help freight movement."

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Professor Layton is the eponymous protagonist of the best-selling Professor Layton series for the Nintendo DS. He is a 37-year old professor of archaeology at Gressenheller University who loves tea, solving riddles and, of course, puzzles.
|Professor Layton (SSBGA)
|Full Name
|Professor Hershell Layton
|Current Age
|Main Weapon(s)
|Archeology, Adept Puzzle Solver
|First Appearance
|Professor Layton and the Curious Village (2007)
Character Description
Professor Layton is an archaeologist who lives in London, and is known around the world for his puzzle-solving skills. He teaches archaeology at Gressenheller University. Professor Layton is an English gentleman. He is incredibly brave, itelligent and athletic as shown in all of his games. When he solves a puzzle incorrectly, he becomes embarassed. His pride and joy is the Laytonmobile, his card, customized with a high roof because "a true gentleman should never take his hat of".
A classic gentleman, he has a great love for tea, and an even greater love for puzzles. He is also followed by his young apprentice, Luke Triton, who has an analogous relationship to one shared by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, with Holmes/Layton being the primary, more adept puzzle solver, and Dr. Watson/Luke being the less experienced, but equally logically minded assistant.
Like Mario, Professor Layton is a well-balanced fighter, with smooth attacks, which deal medium damage and knockback. For most of his attacks, Layton uses a Rapier, a kind of sword, and other multiple devices from his series such as a camera, a mechanical umbrella, a slot machine gun, laser goggles and even his hat to attack his enemies. He has avarage recovery and jumping but great aerial combat and is very unprecidented for his attacks. His Special Moves deal more damage whereas his Smash Attacks deal more knockback. Layton's Standard Special, the Slot Machine Gun, works similarly to the Nintendo Scope, only less knockback. It can also be charged. Layton also has the ability to reflect attacks, just like Mario, with his Side Special, the Camera. Not only does it reflect projectiles, but it also disables opponents by making them dizzy, thus making it more efficient for Layton to attack them. His Up Special, the Umbrella, is a great move for horizontal, vertical and even diagonial recovery and also deals quite damage and knockback. Layton's Down Special, the Laser Goggles can trap opponents and deal heavy damage but have slight knockback.
One of Layton's drawbacks are his Grabs and Throws due to being very slow and having below avarage knockback. But aside that, Professor Layton is a character suitable for Intermediate players.
Ground Attacks
- Neutral Attack - Swipes his rapier twice, then performs a combo of multiple slashes while holding his hat with one hand. 12%
- Forward Tilt - Spin kicks forward. 8%
- Up Tilt - Swings his hat in an arc. 10%
- Down Tilt - Sweeps low to the ground with his leg. 7%
- Dash Attack - A slow but powerful attack, Layton rushes forward towards the direction he's facing with his rapier stretched in front of him, releasing a blue shockwave. Does multiple hits. 15%
- Side Smash - Swings his rapier forward. Medium Knockback and damage. 20% (if fully charged)
- Up Smash - Lifts his hat upwards. Great knockback but slight damage. 19% (if fully charged)
- Down Smash - Shoots downwards with the Slot Machine Gun while spining in a 360 degrees circle. Opponents may be trapped and receive heavy damage and fair knockback. 22% (if fully charged)
- Ledge Attack - Pulls himself up while hitting with his hat. 7%
- Floor Attack (face-up) - Swings his rapier back and forth. 6%
- Floor Atatck (face-down) - Does a short breakdance while getting up, similar to Mario's Down Smash. 8%
- Floor Attack (sitting) - Swings his hat back and forth very quickly while getting up. 7%
Aerial Attacks
- Neutral Aerial - Swings his camera around him. 8%
- Forward Aerial - Does a two-kick combo. 12%
- Back Aerial - One of Professor Layton's most powerful attacks; he hits opponents with his mechanical umbrella. Hits multiple times. 18%
- Up Aerial - Headbutt with his hat. 9%
- Down Aerial - Similar to Samus' down aerial, he hits opponents with his hat while bending downwards. 10%
Grabs & Throws
- Pummel - Hits opponent with his hat. 2%
- Forward Throw - Slices opponent with his rapier. 8%
- Back Throw - Shoots opponent with his Slot Machine Gun. 12%
- Up Throw - Kicks opponent upwards. 7%
- Down Throw - Photographs the opponent multiple times using his camera. 12%
Special Moves
|Professor Layton's Special Moves
|Standard Special
|Slot Machine Gun
|Side Special
|Up Special
|Down Special
|Laser Goggles
|Final Smash
- Up - Takes off his hat and takes a bow.
- Side - Layton's most famous action. He turns his back to the screen while adjusting his hat, then rapidly turns around and points at the screen, smiling.
- Down - Drinks some tea.
Idle Animation
- Rapidly adjusts his hat.
- Puts his hand to his chin while thinking. Similar to Snake's from SSBB.
Arrives at the stage, driving his Laytonmobile.
- Drinks tea, then looks at the screen and says "The true victor here, is YOU".
- Walks around while thrinking, then turns towards the screen and points at the screen while saying "Consider this puzzle solved!" and smiles.
- Takes a bow as he says "A true gentleman always takes a bow when succeeding".
Claps to the winner with his hat hiding his face.
Victory Theme
Extract from Professor Layton Theme Orchestrated
- Professor Layton is one of the very few characters in the game whose attacks are completely non-violent or do not involve any kind of physical attack.
- Professor Layton has the longest Victory Theme in the game.


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Still, I come to a halt – both to calm my nerves and to not obliterate the two gaping old men by the side of the road. Sensing they expect some kind of acknowledgment that I have nearly killed them, I cut the engine, roll down the window, and mutter, "Maranello?" For a moment they stare in silence, two puckered faces under shabby trilbies. And then, like the sun emerging from behind a cloud, they flash sparsely toothed grins. For five minutes they point and gesture and laugh, but I am able to distinguish only two words: "bella macchina."
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I've been pleasantly surprised at least from my perspective of things in the last few days how calm it seemed with all the craziness," Haddy said. "Just anxiety and fear. And I haven't encountered a lot of that."
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"If we didn't say a word and we painted a panacea for these people that live here -- the residents -- and we told them everything was just fine, and then it did happen, you would have people that would be angry with us for not warning them," Heimerl. "It's better to be warned and to ask them, just like we have call 911 if you see something suspicious. We have a lot of officers right now. it doesn't take anything to stop and say 'do you belong here?' "
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"Alright. Catch you later!" Issac responded as he put his xtransiever back into the side pocket of his backpack. He then picked up his duffel bag and opened the door, letting Trunks go in first then following him through making his way towards the secretary's desk.
"Can I help you?" she asked with a smile.
Already a lot nicer than that other lady..
"Oh yes. I just started today and need to know my room assignment." Issac replied returning the smile as he once again placed his duffel bag on the ground.
"Alright! Last name please."
She started typing on her computer at an unreal pace. "You will be here on the first floor. You'll go down that hall," she started pointing down the designated hall, "go left at then end and the last room on the left is yours."
"Thank you ma'am!"
"It's my pleasure. Oh and here is your key," she declared as she handed him a card.
"Well let's go!" Issac exclaimed to Trunks.
"Tuuuhwwig!" He called as he started to run down the hall. Issac snatched his bag up and made his way to his room.
"Well here it is, pal. Out new home." Issac slid the key smoothly and he pushed the door opened.
"Twig! Twig" Trunks announced as he strutted into the room.
"Wow.. this is just great."
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"Going to have decorate a bit, though." He commented to himself as he placed his fossil on top of his dresser.
I can't help but to wonder what you are..well, were.
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I don't see C.J. yet. That's good. I still got a bit more to do.
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Wow! Seven posts in seven days. I kind of felt like a wimp for only doing a week of daily posts, since plenty of other bloggers commit to doing the same thing for a full month, but I see now that a week is verrrrry much my limit. It's been great, I've learned a lot, I'm more energized to write, and I'll definitely do it again in a few months…but it's good that Sunday is the last day. It would only take a couple more days of this to end up collapsed with my head on my keyboard, drooling and muttering, "Too…much…blogging."
One of the biggest things I've taken away from this experiment is how little free time I have right now. Well, I guess I already knew that. But I understand it now with a whole new level of clarity.
For years, if I could get the littlest kids to nap at the same time, I'd have a good block of time to work on writing or other projects almost every afternoon. Alas, that time does not exist anymore. Even when I can get the baby and the toddler to do simultaneous naps, the four bigger kids have all these pesky demands like, oh, wanting to be fed lunch, and by the time I'm done helping them, one of the little ones is awake again. (I recently posted my daily schedule here.)
I will go for hours at a time jumping from one task to the next, trying to hold in mind the four other things that I'm also supposed to be doing. For example: I'll be making lunch for the five big kids, but at the same time, the toddler's diaper needs to be changed, the baby is waking up from his nap and starting to fuss, the phone is ringing, and someone starts screaming that her sister poured orange juice into her milk. These days, I consider it a slow period if I'm just working hard at one urgent household task and don't have a million other things that should have been dealt with five minutes ago.
This is why I've been staying up too late. I'm the type of person who absolutely has to have a little quiet time in order to stay sane. I could easily go days — maybe even weeks — without socializing or even leaving the house. No problem at all. But give me a full day with noisy people all up in my grill all day long, and I start to feel like my brain is melting.
In theory, I believe that it's best to take your personal time in the morning. I'm the world's biggest night owl (I'm not entirely convinced that "morning people" even exist), but I think that having some time to get in a good mental place in the morning is a key factor in feeling on top of your life. Rolling out of bed at the very last minute would be like an NFL player sleeping on the field and waking up to play once the game has already started. If you don't stay ahead of the curve, you'll be crushed.
But here's the thing: in our small house, I'm likely to wake up the kids if I get up early (there is this one creaky spot in the stairs that betrays me EVERY TIME). Right now, the late-night hours when everyone else is sound asleep are my only chances to get a few moments of silence. One of these days I'll aim to get back on an early-rising schedule, but for now I'll stick to staying up late.
I got to sneak away to meet Calah Alexander for lunch this week. I first discovered her site when she wrote "What a woman in crisis really needs, " which is one of the most powerful blog post I have ever read. I've followed her writing ever since then, and love her thoughtful, humorous style. Her posts are humble and honest, and she always brings a fresh angle to everything she writes about. If you don't follow her, you should.
I don't think I ever mentioned that we had the baby baptized. It was an amazing day, of course. His godfather is my cousin, Br. Claude Lane, the Benedictine monk iconographer (who couldn't make it because of vows of stability and stuff). I was surprised and delighted that his godmother, my friend Jessica, was able to make it.
Jess and I originally met through blogging circles, and we'd never actually met in person since I live in Texas and she lives in Virginia. It was such a treat to finally meet face-to-face, and really made the weekend extra special.
So, I got an iPhone. My cell phone company caught me in a weak moment, and I accepted their offer to get a free one if I signed my life away to them for another couple of years. I blame Instagram: I kept seeing all these crisp, gorgeous photos that everyone was taking with their iPhones, and then I'd try to do the same on my Android and end up with a black, blurry mess. Here's my short Android vs. iPhone review:
The camera on the iPhone is better — vastly better — but the Android has a better user experience. It is as if the Android designers worked day and night to create the most amazing phone possible, but by the time it was time to deal with the camera, they were exhausted and just didn't care anymore. I do like my iPhone, but, other than the camera, it's not the vast improvement over Android that I thought it would be.
Anyway, what apps do I need?
I was cleaning up blog files and found my old "two stout monks" commenting policy, based on old Benedictine monastery rules for guests. That sign really does offer the perfect rules for blog commenters. I think I'll add it back to the main page.


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A proposal to boost the retirement benefits for the middle class from the Canada Pension Plan through increases in contributions is rekindling momentum for pension reform ahead of a key December meeting with Finance Minister Jim Flaherty.
Prince Edward Island Finance Minister Wes Sheridan is trying to rally his colleagues around changes that would raise the maximum CPP contribution to $4,681.20 a year from $2,356.20 starting in 2016, and increase the maximum annual benefit to $23,400 from $12,150.
This chart shows the difference between the current pension plan and the proposed increases.
1. Find your annual income on the bottom axis
2. The line shows your corresponding annual pension (retirement income)
Under the current plan, your retirement income from CPP is capped at $12,150 per year. The average payment is $7,234. Only people who pay the maximum in premiums receive the maximum benefits. Currently, only people with income of about $51,000 or more pay the maximum premiums. The proposed changes would see that ceiling rise much higher — to $102,000. Workers who paid the new maximum premiums throughout their working life would qualify for a maximum CPP pension of $23,400 a year.
How will you pay for this higher pension?
Currently the cost of CPP premiums is 9.9 per cent (split evenly between employer and employee) of income between $3,500 and $51,100. The proposal would increase the percentage cost of premiums from 9.9 per cent to 13 per cent (still split evenly between employer and employee) on income between $25,000 and $51,000. For incomes between $51,000 and $102,000, the combined contribution rate would rise from zero to 3.1 per cent.
SOURCE: "Strengthening Canada's Retirement Income System," Wesley Sheridan
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On an average day, General Electric's treasury workstation processes about 7,500 wire transfers. When things heat up at the end of a quarter, that number doubles. The importance of wire transfers to the $182.5 billion company had led treasury to mull what would happen if one of its primary banking partners experienced a money transfer system failure. Then, the unthinkable occurred. "It was a Monday morning in June 2008," recalls GE deputy treasurer Dennis Sweeney.
The previous weekend, the money transfer bank had upgraded its software. Something was amiss, however. "When we got to the office we realized a predicament--a queue of wire transfers we had sent the bank via SWIFT were stuck in the funds transfer complex," Sweeney says. "We halted sending wires to the bank, so as not to exacerbate the problem while the bank tried to bring its systems online. However, they could not confidently predict when or if they could bring their system back up, and the clock was ticking."
GE's treasury had to decide whether to get the fund transfers--involving 3,600 payments--to customers via some other means. It had already contacted Bank of New York Mellon about acting as a backup. "First we pulled together a team of IT and cash management subject matter experts and brainstormed for a while; then we decided on the redirection approach we had originally considered," Sweeney says.
GE and Bank of New York Mellon worked out the details in conference calls. They came up with a method to route all of GE's SWIFT-enabled messages to debit a designated omnibus account, essentially redirecting funds transfers from the primary bank to Bank of New York Mellon. "We took the extracts from our treasury management system and edited them so only one account would be debited at Bank of New York Mellon," Sweeney says.
GE's financial services customers were funded, albeit a little later in the day than normal. Problems continued all week as GE successfully redirected 3,600 payments to its backup partner. Since then, GE has established procedures to deal with such an event, Sweeney says. "We had a conceptual plan and enacted it during a crisis, learning from it at the same time."


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WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — When a fire broke out yesterday at the Meridian Village Apartments, firefighters initially thought the building was empty. At least one family, though, was home. They made it out safely, but they lost just about everything they had, including a child's beloved pet.
"The fire took Charlie, and Charlie ran away," four-year-old Luke Hall said of his cat. It's just one of many treasured items he and his family lost Thursday when fire ripped through their apartment building at Meridian Village on Northchase Parkway.
Diane Johnson was home with her grandson and daughter when the fire started directly below them.
"I got to smelling something, and i said, 'Do you smell that? is something burning?' and she said, 'yeah,'" Johnson said, "and I got up, went to her storm door, and they got a little patio, they are upstairs, and I saw the smoke coming between the boards, and I turned and said, 'Grab Luke. It's a fire.'"
The family got out. Johnson said about 10 minutes later the apartment was engulfed in flames. She and her daughter then thought of their neighbors.
"We were going to apartments and knocking on doors saying, 'Get out! Get out! There is a fire.," Johnson said.
While Johnson and her family got out, their loss was complete.
A day later, Johnson thinks of what could have happened.
"What if i had not been there, and my grandson was taking his nap, or my daughter was resting from studying?" she asked. "Who would have gotten them out?"
Johnson says the fire alarm in the apartment did not go off. Meanwhile, investigators still do not know how the fire started.


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Although it's quite a statement
Well, it happens to be true
The best friend I have ever had
glad to say, is you.
You're there if I should need you
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I know I can depend on you
At any time of day.
We've had our ups and downs
As nearly everybody does
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With whom they spend their time
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A high-speed pursuit began when authorities received a call that a man had passed out in his sport-utility vehicle in the drive thru of an Anaheim restaurant, and ended early Saturday in shots fired.
The pursued driver was injured in the incident, police said, adding that the man's injuries appeared to be minor. They did not confirm whether he was injured because of the shooting or the crash. Authorities said they did not believe any law enforcement agents were hurt.
The driver had apparently passed out in the McDonald's drive-thru near Beach Boulevard and Katella Avenue, officials said. When deputies tried to approach the man, he took off, jumping the curb and hitting a sign post. He also slammed into a patrol unit with a deputy inside.
Police said they performed a PIT maneuver to force the driver to a halt. His SUV spun out of control and crashed near Ball Road and Gilbert Street, in front of a second McDonald's restaurant nearly two miles from where the chase began.
Capt. Steve Doan, with the Orange County Sheriff's Department, said that at some point during the pursuit, shots were fired, authorities said.
The wanted motorist was taken into custody, police said.
Doan speculated that the driver may have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
"He's driving at high rate of speed, he's ramming police officers in marked patrol units – so he's already exhibited the fact that he's going to be danger to people on the road," Doan said.


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transportation, future technology and vehicle concept - man using car control panel
I consider myself a tolerant person. To each his (or her) own, I say.
And following that logic, I consider myself a fan of all types of auto racing. Yes, I like some forms more than others, but I appreciate it all and can watch it all and enjoy it all over the course of time.
And while I used to think that some types of auto racing were more difficult than others, that it was harder – say – to drive a Formula One car at tenth-tenths through the streets of Monaco than to handle a midget on the high-banked dirt oval at Belleville, Kansas, I have since changed my mind after actually going racing myself and discovering, in my own little world, that it's just plain hard to do.
The drivers I have come to admire and appreciate the most are the competitors in a series that races in all sorts of different conditions in all sorts of different configurations. I used to think, for instance, that the CART Indy car drivers were the cat's meow because one week they would be on a super speedway, the next on a road course, the next on a short oval and the next on a street circuit. The only thing missing from the national championship, I thought, was a round on a dirt track at – say – the Indiana State Fairgrounds or maybe the miles at Springfield or Du Quoin, Ill.
The drivers who race in the NASCAR Sprint Cup these days are a pretty versatile group. They have to go from the high-banked, restrictor-plate, flat-out-balls-to-the-wall Daytona Speedway to the short, tight, relatively flat Phoenix International Raceway to the even shorter and tighter Bristol Motor Speedway and then, later in the year, to the up-hill-and-down-dale, right-turn-left-turn, gear-up-gear-down Watkins Glen International and they do it all with speed and style and panache.
Yes, watching the Daytona 500 unfold last Sunday was maybe not the riveting sports spectacle that we all had anticipated (not really knowing how the Gen 6 cars were going to behave, for instance), but it was amazing to watch and appreciate the skill, daring and particularly the concentration of all those drivers rocketing around and around that race track at 200 miles an hour and not one of them making a false move. It really was – cliche time here – poetry in motion.
So it was both surprising and disconcerting to come across a Facebook entry from retired sports car racer Bill Adam that basically dissed the entire 43-car field on Sunday. Wrote Adam:
"Amazing race cars…", "the best drivers in the world….". Are these comments directed towards McLaren, Red Bull or Ferrari? Are they about Vettel. Tom Kristensen, or……??? Nope. All were just uttered on the NASCAR broadcast……
"So let me get this straight………these drivers and cars ALL run flat out, all the way around the Daytona speedway, in this long follow the leader procession and the only time they have to lift off the throttle is to come into the pits. And this is racing ???? Give me a break !!!
"I WILL agree that they are amazingly boring, and that the drivers are the best drivers on the Daytona track – at this moment. Sad……Bill Adam."
As I said, I'm a tolerant guy. I believe in freedom of speech. People can say what they want. I do it all the time; it's how I make my living.
But that doesn't mean I don't shake my head on occasion and wonder where some of these people are coming from.
Yes, some of the things Darrell Waltrip said last Sunday were a bit over the top – but so what? It was the Daytona 500, stock car racing's biggest day. Does anybody really think ol' Dee Double-ya's gonna say something like, "And look at these cars, the greatest race cars in the world – except fer Formula One cars, of course. Or sports cars. And there's Jimmie Johnson and Kyle Busch and Dale Jr. and they're the greatest racing drivers in the world – oh, maybe not as good as Sebastian Vettel, but they're tryin' jest as hard."
Give me a break.
Bill Adam has a wonderful road-racing curriculum vitae. He's a member of the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame and is about to debut as a colour commentator on Sportsnet's coverage of the IZOD IndyCar Series this summer.
If anybody should appreciate the skill needed to be a top racer, and the hyperbole that tends to leak out of any announcing booth attached to any racing series just about anywhere, it's him.
That Tony Stewart was the only one of the 43 NASCAR stars to go over to the hospital in Daytona and visit some of the fans who were injured in that Nationwide deal last Saturday should come as no surprise.
Stewart went to the Halifax hospital Sunday night and stayed for about two hours.
Despite being a champion stock car star, team owner and speedway owner, Stewart is still a short-track racer at heart. At local speedways, fans go down to the pits after the races to chat with the drivers and to drink beer and even help load up if some of the car owners don't have a lot of help.
It's a community feeling that you don't get at the big league racing events.
Stewart knows of this and appreciates it. As well as racing at NASCAR events, you'll find him behind the wheel of a midget at the Fort Wayne indoor races in January, at the Chili Bowl in Tulsa, with the World Outlaws sprint cars at Volusia County in February and half a dozen times during the summer, including at the Brantford-area Ohsweken Speedway in July, and when he's in that environment he's not Tony Stewart, great big important NASCAR driver, he's just another face in the crowd.
He might got out and win the race but when he's in Victory Lane he thanks the fans for coming out and the guys he's raced against for letting him do it and he's just down-home natural. When he got out of his car after he won that race last Saturday in Daytona, the first thing he talked about was the crash and his concern for what might have happened to people in the grandstands – his people.
Those folks might wear the T-shirts and buy the souvenirs and cheer for the Martin Truex Jr.'s and the Greg Biffles and the Joey Loganos but they are not "their people."
But they sure are Tony Stewart's people and that's why he was at the hospital and the others weren't.
For years, tickets to sporting events had a little disclaimer printed on the back about how the holder accepted the risks associated with attendance. In fact, I have an old ticket stub around here someplace from Maple Leaf Gardens (Leafs vs. Red Wings, 1952) that has a message like that on it.
One winter, some fan sitting up behind one of the nets got a puck in the mouth and sued the living daylights out of the NHL, the Gardens and the Toronto hockey club. There hasn't been anything on the back of hockey tickets since except advertising.
There have been suggestions that NASCAR and the Daytona Speedway will fight lawsuits launched by some of the fans who were injured last Saturday when parts of a racing car and a wheel flew into the grandstands. Apparently, on the tickets they held, they were reminded that the sport of auto racing is dangerous and to keep their heads down. Or words to that effect.
If NASCAR doesn't quietly try to settle out of court, they're foolish because they'll lose. Maybe not immediately, but at some point. Better to get it over with quickly before it gets out of hand.
Humpy Wheeler has been quoted as saying that Charlotte Motor Speedway, which he used to run, settled for between $10 million and $15 million with the families of three people killed in the 1990s when a wheel off an IRL car flew into the stands and hit them.
This is nowhere as serious, in that nobody was killed. But 28 people required medical treatment and nearly 10 of them were still in the hospital Wednesday, so their injuries sound somewhat serious. If NASCAR is smart – and I think NASCAR is very smart – they will reach agreement first with the two or three who are most hurt and then pay off the others on a sliding scale.
When I say it's inevitable that they'll have to pay up, let me tell you a little story. It is the way things work in the United States of America.
I have a friend we'll call Bill (not his real name and, in fact, not even close). Bill was working on a barge in a river in northern New York one January day about 10 years ago when the local power authority opened a dam without telling anybody and the barge my buddy Bill was on was ripped from its moorings.
Bill was thrown into the river and it's just by the grace of God he was plucked out of the frigid water. Hypothermia was setting in and it took about two days in hospital for him to thaw out and get some colour in his cheeks.
On the third day, he was feeling pretty chipper and another friend of ours, a lawyer, dropped in for a visit. The conversation went something like this:
"Bill, if you want to sue for negligence, I guarantee you will win. If you want to settle for $100,000, I can have a cheque for you by next Monday afternoon. However, although it will have to work its way through two or three courts and will take about a year, I can probably get you at least $1 million. Your choice, but I take 10 per cent regardless."
Bill thought for a moment and opted for the latter. Just over a year later, the power company cut him a cheque for $1.2 million and he's been living happily ever after ever since.
NASCAR should get in there fast before my pal Bill's lawyer starts laying out the options for people in Halifax hospital.
- during practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Allstate 400 at the Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on July 25, 2008 in Indianapolis, Indiana.


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wine on 64bit
I am requiring 64 bit installable for wine.
Thanks in Advance
What have you tried ? So far wine can only be compiled as 32-bit even on a 64-bit system, meaning that you need to have a kernel that has 32-bit emulation enabled and either a multilib distro or a 32-bit chroot, including 32-bit gcc and toolchain.
A good answer depends on your distro. Some distros, like Ubuntu, make it as easy as installing a deb file, as far as I remember. On Arch, you need to install it from the AUR. I don't know about other distros, but on each case, the wine binaries need to access 32-bit libraries to operate even in your 64-bit installation. Again, it depends on which distro you're using because each has a different method of providing the 32-bit binaries. You should try looking it up in your distro's wiki pages.
Wine will compile as a 64-bit binary. The problem is the x86_64 ABI is different between Linux and Windows. You should take a look at http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64 for current status of Wine64.
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The buzz The youngest and most charming member of The Jam Tree family, located off-the-beaten-track at the Western end of the King's Road.
Perfect for A long, lazy lunch with friends be it a classic Sunday roast, relaxed dinner with board games, or a sunny Saturday BBQ in the amazing back garden that goes on until after dark!
The lowdown The décor is fun but stylish think Andy Warhol-esque pop art prints on the wall while never losing that element of cosiness you seek from an enjoyable pub outing. Arriving for lunch with the girls, the space was airy and bright, with a shiny copper-covered bar, teak wood floors, and a jumble of antique furniture youll feel instantly like youve stumbled upon a real gem.
And its impossible to go without mentioning the super-friendly staff whose irresistible rapport will have you chatting at the bar for far longer than it takes to pour a very reasonably priced glass of wine.
Menu highlights Crucially, theres something for everyone on this well-conceived menu of classic British fare, buoyed by bold global inspiration. Colonial influences from India to South Africa are the brainchild of chef James Browne, who is also shrewdly passionate about seasonal, carefully sourced produce.
The Pulled Pork Burger with Pico de Gallo, tomatillo salsa, coleslaw was immensely delicious and bursting with flavour. Beef Burgers were cooked to perfection and equally brilliant all accompanied by paper-wrapped fluffy chips of the extremely moreish variety Elsewhere, Jamaican Chicken Curry with Basmati Rice, Singapore Laksa with marinated tofu and shitake mushrooms, and starters like Seared Scallops with crispy chicken wings, pea puree, radish, leek croquettes and chicken jus, looked remarkably tempting.
Hearty portions of the savoury dishes are guaranteed, but try and leave room for dessert: the Chocolate and Pecan Brownie with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce that arrived on the table was one of the gooiest and most luxurious ever tasted.
Quench your thirst with over 38 different bottles of wine, bubbles for a special occasion, or let the bartenders show off their skills and whip you up a flawless Watermelon Martini, among many other cocktail creations on offer.
Final word Ushering in a affable new era for the gastropub and offering seriously satisfying food The Jam Tree deserves the title of your favourite neighbourhood haunt, regardless of whether you live in Chelsea or not.
Contact The Jam Tree, 541 Kings Road, SW6 2EB
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is it 3x1
is it 3x1
The formula you want to remember (or write in your notes) is:
( m x n ) x ( n x p ) = ( m x p )
The columns of the first matrix (n) need to equal the rows of the second matrix (n).
In your case, you have:
DC = (3 x 5) x ( 5 x 1)
Applying ( m x n ) x ( n x p ) = ( m x p ), you get the dimensions of DC:
( 3 x 1)
Hope that helps!
Remember that matrices have dimensions listed in row,column order so your Matrix C is 5X1 (meaning 5 rows and 1 column) and your Matrix D is 3X5 (meaning 3 rows and 5 columns). When you have an operator between the two matrices, for example D X C, you arrange the dimensions in that same order. In your case, 3X5 x 5x1 and the middle two (columns of the first matrix and rows of the second matrix) MUST match for the operation to be possible. Your resulting matrix will have the rows of the first matrix and the columns of the second, in this case 3x1 Hope this helped!
Yes....its a 3x1, but make sure you order the matrix as 3x5 times 5x1 the middle numbers have to match...columns from the first match the rows of the second.


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Discussion in 'Landscape Lighting' started by TheHotShotKid, Mar 11, 2006.
a station wagon?
were fans of a trailer..we modified the inside with shelving and a work bench. got a tall one so we can stand up inside. have power in it so we have fans in it in the summer and even more important for you and me hotshot...heat in the winter. nice to be able to pull up to job and just drop it and leave it to advertise for you while your on job. also does a better job of advertising while were on the road than lettering on a truck...much larger pallet to put your info on. turns my truck into more of a dual use vehicle..personal/work.
We just ordered our new trailer 6x12 Black enclosed. Niteliters, I plan on building shelving and a bench as well. I felt the trailer will work best for the reasons you stated. Having nice graphics and logo's put on next week hopefully. If you have any suggestions on setting it up I would appreciate it. Right now we are going to have a rolling fixture cart to roll out with power on it. Can't wait to get it on the road.
chris, were you at lvlia conference or Nightscaping U or am I loosing my mind. I think I have your business card somewhere??
I was not at Lvlia this year. I am thinking about joining and hopefully will be involved next year. I have not met you yet. Someday soon, you have some nice knowledge of this field. I have chatted with Paul over on his site, very knowledgable as well.
Ps. if you have any setup tips for the trailer I would appreciate it.
I started looking for a trailer a couple of weeks ago. I'll be giving you a call Chris, real soon about that.
I bought a Nighthawk, by American Hauler. Fairly new company I believe. I liked Haulmark and wells cargo as well. I met the American Hauler rep at a hardscape show. He was closer and could have it ready faster. Had some extras put in. I had the side door moved back an extra foot, to give me a larger workbench up front. Also a V-nose. 6'7 interior height i believe .Plywood floors and walls,No Luan.16" floor beams. 2 interior lights and vent. 6x12 Black
talk to you soon
Chris, does the back door open from the top down, to make a ramp? I think that would be the way to go.
Paul didn't know you were looking into trailer too. our trailer is 6'7" or around there...big enough to walk in. Side door is a must..improved ventilation, also sometimes you have to get your trailer into places where back or side can't both be used. we have electrical with breaker box in our trailer. we have a 150' we hook up to customers outlet. Nice to be able to have heat in the winter and fans in the summer. We usually are about 10 degress cooler in the in the summer.
let me know about that v shape front end and how it works for you chris. plywood floor has worked out fine for us...water from rain..sweat hasn't been a problem..no warping etc. The shelving was made out of that heavy duty board...looks like several thinner boards compressed together. I'll try to find out the name. the finish is smooth..no splinters and it's heavy duty so it doesn't buckle. One final idea I can think to pass along is my dad put a piece of trim around the outside of the workbench. Keeps things from just roling off


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Earlier this afternoon, Chris Seitz took to Twitter to ask you guys whether he should keep the beard or shave it?
Here at Toyota Stadium, we're partial to a little #FearTheBeard action, but what do you guys think?
Shave it? Keep it? Let us know in the poll!
P.S. In case you didn't know, Seitz has been pretty much awesome so far this season and currently sits tied for second in saves in MLS.


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I am trying to render Google Visualization API (google charts) on ExtJS 4 panel, but no luck.
Getting the following error :
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Creating a successful company game plan--from customers and products to sales efforts and pricing.
By Marty McGhie
Successful marketing in today"?s ever-changing business
world is a difficult challenge for any company. Like other
industries, the graphics world is constantly faced with changing
markets, new customers, tough competitors, emerging technologies,
and evolving products.
So how do you market your company in the midst of so much
If you wish to execute a successful marketing strategy, keep
in mind the following aspects of your business. Hard work in
these areas will undoubtedly yield dividends to you and your
"? Your market;
"? Your customers;
"? Your products;
"? Your strengths and weaknesses;
"? Your competitors;
"? Your sales team; and
"? Your pricing.
Shrinking and expanding markets
Knowing your market seems rather obvious, but it"?s surprising
how often we implement a marketing campaign that ends up
completely missing the market we should be after. In the graphics
and display industry, our targeted markets often seem to
elude us. We think we know our markets quite well, only to see a
particular segment of the market disappear, while another unanticipated
market emerges in its place.
Let me illustrate this point with something in my own company"?s
experience. As recently as 4 or 5 years ago, exhibit and
display companies represented a significant part of our business.
But with the improvement of digital technologies and the
lowering of economic barriers for entry into the production side of
graphics"?namely, lower-cost machines producing acceptable
quality images"?we began to see the exhibit companies ordering
less printing from us and producing more themselves. They simply
saw the advantage of vertical integration in the marketplace.
As a result, that particular market has all but disappeared for us.
On the other hand, we have experienced much larger growth
from commercial customers who are buying directly from us. In
the past, most commercial companies relied upon advertising
agencies, exhibit companies, and design shops to supply their
graphic needs. Now, most have their own graphics and design
departments that produce the front-end work and they end up
directly sourcing their graphics output from producers like us.
These are examples of shrinking and expanding markets"?both
of which were just the opposite a few years ago.
My point is that you really must analyze the markets you are
currently selling to and determine how long they may be around.
Are they expanding or shrinking? What will happen over the next
3 to 5 years? Are future markets that you currently don"?t service
maturing? Knowing your market is critical to your company"?s
sustainability in the present"?and to your future growth as well.
Know your customers
Right in line with knowing your marketplace is knowing your customers.
Many of us miss great opportunities here. When was the
last time you asked your key customers what they like and, more
importantly, what they dislike about your company?
Try doing a survey or focus group with your customers to
determine whether or not you"?re meeting their needs. Ask them:
"? How would you rate our customer service?
"? How would you grade our responsiveness to your needs?
"? Why do you buy products from us?
"? How would you rate our quality?
"? How do we compare in price with our competitors?
"? Are there services that we currently don"?t offer that would
help you out?
"? Is your sales rep taking good care of you?
"? Do you feel like our management team is aware of and
responsive to your needs?
"? What products are you currently buying elsewhere that you
would buy from us if we offered them?
It may be painful to ask these questions, particularly if you
don"?t want to hear the answers. The problem is, we sometimes
fall into the trap of believing that just because someone is currently
buying from us, they must like everything we do. In fact,
we may be doing things that really irritate our customers. If we
don"?t solicit feedback, however, we might not even know until
they go somewhere else. By then, of course, it"?s too late.
By understanding your current customers, you can learn
what you are doing well and where you may be performing
poorly. By correcting bad behavior and continuing the good, you
will develop a much stronger marketing team and become better
at earning new customers and retaining your current ones.
Your products and technologies
Now that you know your market and your customers, it"?s time to
examine your products. It may seem silly for me to advise you to
"know"? your products"?in fact, you probably know them quite well.
From a marketing perspective, however, you need to know
more. You need to know what your products should be. As you
examine your market and evaluate the direction the market is
heading, make sure your strategic plan includes the type of products
that the market will demand in the future. You would be very
lucky (and very much in the minority) if your current product
offering perfectly matches the direction you believe your market
will head. Only a constant re-evaluation of your product offerings
will help you remain flexible and responsive to the market.
A warning: Be careful to not allow your product portfolio to
determine the direction your market evaluation goes. In other
words, if the market analysis doesn"?t match the type of products
you are currently producing, don"?t try to change your market
analysis. Instead, change your product mix.
There are too many variables in the marketplace that you cannot
control"?but you can control, to a large degree, the products
you offer your customers. A successful marketing plan will align
products with the market and to your customers. Knowing what
your products should be is critical to this alignment.
One of the areas requiring your particular attention, by the
way, is the rapid changes in technology that occur in our industry.
If you choose to only develop products with your existing
technology and equipment, you might quickly find yourself
behind the curve"?producing inferior products with higher costs.
Our market changes too fast for any business to be ignorant of
advances in hardware, software, workflow, etc.
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
Regularly assessing your company"?s strengths and weaknesses
is crucial to identifying and executing your marketing strategy.
For example, one of your shop"?s strengths may be the variety
of products and services you have to offer your customers. Your
customers may love the fact that, no matter what they need, you
provide a solution to them through your diverse product offerings.
On the other hand, perhaps because you have so many
products to focus on, you are not considered the best at producing
any single product. You may have some competitors that
operate with the opposite strategy: offering a few products, but
striving to be the best at those few products. They may produce
them more efficiently than you, and may even offer better prices.
I"?m not suggesting that one strategy is necessarily better
than the other, but I am recommending that as a part of your
marketing plan you determine what you do best. If you take the
time with your team to identify your strengths and weaknesses,
you"?ll then be able to determine a marketing direction that will
focus on your strong points and compensate for your shortcomings.
This exercise will also force you and your management
team to work on the areas you have identified as weaknesses in
order to strengthen your overall position in the marketplace.
Let me give you an example of how this process can work.
Once a quarter, our company"?s extended management team"?
which includes the owners of the business, all the operations
managers, and the department supervisors"?holds a SWOT session:
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. This
SWOT session affords us a chance to discuss the areas where we
believe we are performing well and the areas that need improvement.
After evaluating our strengths and weaknesses, we then
discuss opportunities that the market may have to offer our
business and marketing model. Finally, we discuss threats to our
business, whether these are internal performance problems, competitors,
or perhaps just general market conditions. These types of
discussions form the basis for our marketing strategies, budgets,
and business plans, and govern the way we execute them.
The opportunity to gather feedback from multiple levels of
management always creates value. At times, the upper management
may believe that we are doing quite well in a particular area,
whereas the department supervisors may disagree and feel dramatic
improvements need to be made. This type of exercise may
seem to dwell on issues outside the realm of marketing, but if
you are to execute a successful marketing strategy, you must
understand your strengths and weaknesses in all areas.
Details on your competitors
Every marketing strategy should include a detailed assessment
of the competition in your market. Just as you have identified
your own strengths and weaknesses, you should also evaluate
those of your competitors.
As you go through this assignment for all of your primary
competitors, use a flowchart to diagram the list (see p. 46). Document
in detail each competitor"?s strengths and weaknesses.
After you have completed the list, you"?ll likely see some areas in
the marketplace that are open"?if not ripe"?for opportunities for
your business.
I have an associate in another industry whose company
makes occasional assignments to its sales reps to visit their
competitors. The reps are assigned to actually order something
from each of their primary competitors to find out how their
competitors are doing business. They evaluate customer service,
product selection, pricing, and other key areas that help determine
the competition"?s strengths and weaknesses.
Sales-team personalities and structure
Whether you have only a few sales reps or several, getting to
know their individual talents is critical. But although each rep
sells with a different style, you should avoid building your sales
and marketing plans around their individual personalities. The
challenge in building a marketing strategy, then, is setting up a
structure that is defined enough to set clear expectations and
guidance for your sales team to accomplish your overall sales and
marketing goals"?yet still be broad enough to allow each sales
rep to accomplish these goals utilizing their own selling style.
For example, if your business is like most, you will have quite
a variety of sales reps. Some may be rather technical in their
approach, while others may be very personable and hands-on
with customers; some could be very seasoned in the industry,
while others may be quite new; and so on. You have to build a
marketing strategy that will allow each type of sales personality
the chance to succeed. Then, once your marketing plan is in
place, spend the necessary time with each sales rep to capitalize
on their strengths when executing the marketing plan.
A few years ago, my company entered the direct-to-media
print world and bought our first UV flatbed printer. We immediately
sent out samples and pricing to our sales reps and told them to go
to work. Since they had all been begging for us to enter this type of
business, we naturally assumed they would all sell a great deal of
flatbed work. We soon found, however, that most of our sales reps
weren"?t comfortable selling that type of work because they didn"?t
know much about it. It wasn"?t until after we held a sales training
seminar"?which focused on the types of substrates, market
applications, pricing, turnaround times, etc."?that our sales reps
became comfortable in selling the product.
And even though we now have some sales reps that sell a lot
of direct-to-media printing, others still find it difficult to get out
of their comfort zone and sell something new. Again, getting to
know the strengths and weaknesses of your sales reps is valuable
information in formulating your sales and marketing plans.
Where your pricing needs to be
Getting comfortable with where your pricing should be in the marketplace
will be derived from some of the knowledge garnered in
the previous sections. That is, if you"?ve done a good job of knowing
your market, your customers, your competitors, and your products,
then pricing will evolve naturally from that knowledge. For
example, if you have unique product offerings that your primary
competition doesn"?t offer, there"?s no need to cut your price to the
lowest margins. On the other hand, if you are pricing a product that
is more of a commodity, your pricing will need to be aggressive.
One of the tougher dilemmas with regards to pricing is what
to do when all your suppliers continue to increase their prices
on materials, yet the competitive environment doesn"?t seem to
allow you to do the same. With the recent increases in interest
rates, this year"?s roller coaster of fuel prices, and so on, virtually
every one of our company"?s suppliers within the last year or so
has increased pricing, some more than once. Undoubtedly, you
find yourself in the same situation.
Our shop currently faces the daunting task of increasing prices to our own customers. As we review our monthly financial statements, we see a
continuous trend toward higher costs of direct materials. A business can cut some costs in these areas with production efficiencies, but only to
an extent. If material costs continue to climb, the only way to alleviate that cost burden
is to increase your prices. As you take on the task of increasing
prices, consider these points:
"? Identify those products you offer that are most affected by your supplier increases; these products may need a higher price increase as
opposed to products with less-expensive materials.
"? Try to avoid a sweeping price increase"?notifying your customers
that "your prices are now 10% higher"? sends a message that you are asking them to solve all of your pricing problems. On the other hand,
giving them specific price increases that differ from product to product will indicate that you are increasing prices in a systematic and
discretionary manner.
"? Communicate with your customers. Don"?t try to slip modest price increases by them assuming they either won"?t care or won"?t
notice. Send out a blanket letter to all your customers explaining the extent of the price increase, which products will be affected, a future date
when the increase will take effect, and the reasoning behind the price increase. In addition, call your top-tier customers
personally and let them know about the price increase and how it will affect them specifically.
Time and resources
When it comes to marketing strategy, there are countless areas that require your focus and attention. I"?ve just touched on some of the general
marketing concepts relevant to your business. If you spend the necessary time to understand these simple concepts and invest the resources
required to execute a sound marketing plan, you"?ll then have a clear idea of what to sell, how to sell it, who to sell to, and at what price you
should sell.
Marty McGhie (email@example.com) is VP finance/operations
for Ferrari Color, a digital-imaging center with locations in Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Sacramento.


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Welcome back to the Otherworld Baseball Classic. Not a faraway place, for us anyway, but quite strange.
It's a global tournament designed to foster not only love of the great game, but baseball brotherhood. Yet over the weekend, two teams from the same continent were seen sprinting out of each dugout and pummeling each other with punches near the mound.
But the truly scary scene was in the stands. I saw fans bolting from their seats towards the Chase Field exits, mothers crying, fathers gripping children to get them away from the heated hostilities in the seats.
The rules of the actual game, written and unwritten, are in a different language. In a game that has its own etiquette, ostensibly designed to maintain a sense of sportsmanship, teams are encouraged to blow up scores for the determining factor of run differential. Bunt and steal at will, even when the scoreboard says the game is essentially over.
Originated and always decided in the United States, the Classic is one big home game for Team USA. When the U.S. played Mexico in the Pool D finale, the game could have been in Guadalajara or Monterrey, given the fact that roughly 85 percent of the crowd seemed to be wearing green, red and white and cheering loudly against the U.S. Likewise, at least 15,000 of the 22,000-plus in attendance at the U.S.-Canada finale were adorned in maple leaves, more than a few of them wearing hockey helmets.
Good on 'em. Good for the WBC, too. But while WBC attendance is on the rise, believe me, Team USA isn't the impetus for it. Americans are staying away from WBC games by the tens of thousands. Maybe it's because U.S. teams loaded with MVPs and All-Stars have gone no better than 9-8 overall in the three tourneys.
Or maybe it's because that's simply not baseball as they know it. Under the odd format, Team USA would not only advance to the next round, but win its pool by beating Canada. With a Canadian win, though, the U.S. would've been a last-place team eliminated from the tournament entirely, suffering the indignity of having to play in qualifying rounds just to get into the next WBC.
"It would have been embarrassing," said U.S. second baseman Brandon Phillips. "I would have been embarrassed."
Still, when the Americans were two innings away from ouster by Canada, winning seemed to be taking a back seat to courtesy and obligation. That is, to the major league baseball teams who didn't want their players overworked so early in their baseball calendar.
With the Canadians leading 3-2 and batting a lineup of seven lefties, then, U.S. manager Joe Torre began running in right-handers from the bullpen, not even warming up a southpaw.
"The team over there, Canada?" said U.S. manager Joe Torre. "They don't know if you're left-handed or right-handed; they whack the hell out of the ball…So I don't think that was a priority to match up, necessarily."
Great man, Joe Torre. Virtually unassailable. Noble. I'd just like to have seen him try that strategy – and explanation -- on Yankees fans a few years back.
But this was March 10, 2013. U.S. lefty reliever Ross Detwiler had thrown four innings, southpaw Jeremy Affeldt one, in the defeat of Italy the night before. The pitchers may have wanted to pitch, but the Washington Nationals and San Francisco Giants wouldn't have wanted them to, and that was the overriding thought at work. (Likewise, Torre sat superior position players just to get others onto the field, not unlike a Little League coach squeezing in subs in the sixth inning.)
"Big league clubs are still in spring training, and we're borrowing their players," said Torre. "We still have to be mindful of the promise I made to take care of these players and make sure they get back and ready to start the season. So we're going to do the same things, try not to repeat with the bullpen."
The U.S. prevailed, primarily because Adam Jones delivered a huge go-ahead double to wake up the American bats and second baseman Brandon Phillips thwarted a major Canadian rally with his brilliant, bases-loaded defensive play.
Team USA's now in Miami, facing the stiffer competition from the Caribbean, the Dominicans and Puerto Ricans. Those teams are loaded with major-leaguers, too, and supposedly obliged to both protect them and get everyone into the game.
But that's the thing about unwritten rules and agreements, isn't it? Sometimes, they're really, really hard to read.


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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Valley Authority's inspector general testified Thursday that he stands by his report that criticized the utility for its December 2008 coal ash spill, saying TVA for years failed to heed advance warnings and afterward refused to include management issues as a possible cause.
As chief executive of the utility's independent watchdog agency, General Richard Moore testified at a trial on lawsuits that seek damages caused by more than 1 billion gallons of toxin-laden sludge that spilled on a rural riverside community.
TVA contends environmental tests and medical surveys show the spill caused no harm and that as a federal agency it has immunity for all but proven compensatory damages. A $1.2 billion cleanup is continuing.
The inspector general's report in 2009 said TVA ignored an engineer's internal memo in 1985 and consultant warnings in the years before the spill about the coal ash storage facility at the coal-fired Kingston Plant on the Emory River west of Knoxville. Moore said TVA at a news conference after the spill wrongly failed to include management issues as a possible cause.
Moore said a consultant hired by TVA after the spill to find the cause was not allowed to look at management issues.
In questioning in the fifth day of the bench trial, TVA attorney Edwin Small confronted Moore with emails that he had sent during the spill investigation and while he and top TVA executives were scheduled to testify to congressional panels afterward. Small described the inspector general's report as the "centerpiece" of the court fight.
Asked by plaintiff attorney Jeff Friedman if he stands by his criticism of TVA's training and maintenance before the spill, Moore testified, "There's nothing in the report I want to change."
"There were poor engineering practices that outside consultants that we talked to were surprised to see," Moore said.
Small also asked Moore about his emails sent as inspector general to co-workers, including one in April 2009 that referred to hiring a consultant to assist in the investigation and saying the reason was "to step out with some credibility and say TVA is wrong." In November 2009 he sent an email asking staffers for suggestions on "what we can say about what they have done to stop their lying ways. In other words, what have they done to avoid lying about stuff like the root cause analysis?"
Moore in another email sent to his staff also said "Let's focus on a lean power punch here." In another he asked an investigator in his office to quickly interview some top TVA executives to see if they were coached about what to say in explaining the spill.
"That wasn't said in the most artful way," Moore testified.
Coal ash contains arsenic, selenium, lead and mercury, and those contaminants can pose health risks.
The EPA has proposed either regulating coal ash as a special hazardous waste, bringing it under direct federal enforcement as favored by environmentalists, or siding with the coal and ash-marketing industries in designating it as non-hazardous and leaving regulation to the states.
Some industries use "coal combustion residues" in wallboard and some concrete products and contend there is no evidence that it is a health hazard. Coal ash recyclers and manufacturers contend tougher federal regulations would place a stigma on the substance and hinder efforts to reuse the ash.
Testimony resumes Monday.
TVA supplies power to about 9 million people in Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.


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|These photos not only offer a uniquely personal view of a champion, but also reveal details of the cars that he drove and the preparation that went into racing each of them. These include everything from his earliest home-built efforts to the highly refined Camaros, Javelins, and Porsches that made him a champion and American icon in the 1960s and 1970s. Each image is accompanied by Argetsingers detailed, insightful captions. And Marks contemporariesincluding his Penske teammates and fellow drivers Dan Gurney, George Follmer, David Hobbs, John Surtees, and Bobby Unseralso offer their recollections and commentary.
Even readers who are already familiar with the life and legacy of Mark Donohue will be dazzled by this stunning collection of images and memories. Mark Donohue: His Life in Photographs vividly presents the life and times of an American racing hero.


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Basketball is a global phenomenon.
Sadly, so are poverty, hopelessness and crime.
Samardo Samuels was one of a half dozen players working out for Raptors brass, Tuesday at the Air Canada Centre Practice Court.
He has seen all of the above.
Samuels is 21, seven years removed from his childhood in Trelawney, Jamaica. His mother, father and three siblings still live there.Samuels was confident he opened some eyes in Toronto.
It was a good workout. I think I did really well. I have been working out a lot and working on stuff I didnt get to show in college where I was a low post player. I showed that I can mix it up and that Im not just a back to the basket player.When I go back and see the things, the guys I used to hang with and the way we were living, it makes me thankful to have gotten the opportunity to play basketball in the ninth grade, he said.
Thats why I dont take any days off. A lot of guys would love to have the opportunity that I have and to be in my shoes. That just made me work hard, when I go back and see that.
The future was not bright. I will put it like that. I wasnt big on school; I was missing class, not going to school a lot. Basketball came into my life and turned everything around. I thank God for that. I am a strong believer in God. He does things in mysterious ways.
Opportunity comes but once. It was like, my Mom said you are 14 years old, youve got to go there and make us proud. I never forgot those words. All I have ever thought about was making them proud.Mike Ulmer's BlogSafety, thats my number one priority. With the news, the bad publicity, the crime, I want to prove something good can come out of Jamaica so thats known not just for crime and violence but good athletes."
Over the last month he has worked on his condition, really worked on going down the court, said Jim Kelley, the Raptors senior director of player personnel. I think hes made some really great strides in that part of his game.


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I have a alcatel one touch 5020t evolve its a MTK6575 (t-mobile but is used in el salvador), I used to MTKDroidTools to install CWM Revocovery, I did back up with the same program but apparently did not because i look and i cant find anything in the back up folder, only left some files called:
in the folder called recovery.
Now the phone on, the startup screen and then turns off, I can enter a menu by pressing on + vol +, where it says enter recovery mode or normal mode, before they tried to install cwm I could go in and delete everything from there, now I get the menu of recovery mode and normal mode but since does not enter recovery mode, got it turns off, like when entering the normal mode.
I tried to flash with sp flash tool but I get an authentication error that is on the img
The pc recognizes my phone, makes the sound when you connect something, now if we go to Device Manager, a device called first appears:
MTK USB Port
After that is disconnected and then a new one appears called :
Media Tek Preloader USB VCOM Port
But there ir a problem, then this becomes a repetitive one disconnects and connects the other, but only when I connect the phone without battery only stays in:
MTK USB Port.
Help what can i do to revive my phone ???????????????


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Skyrim, finding the Easter Eggs in the DragonBorn DLC.... Got to the flying ship and the weird wizard so far
Also just mining some new stuff
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Just been playing mp in blops.
Starhawk MP. I cannot get sick of this game.
Black Ops 2 is ALL I play, working on 2nd prestige. When I finally get sick of this game I have AC3 waiting on my shelf. :)
Black Ops 2 and Day Z are my currently most played games.
Walking dead the game right now. Finished episode 1. Awesome story so far.
I just finished Transformers: Fall of Cybertron.
Amazing game with some truely epic moments.
Currently playing Everybody's Golf on Vita and about to start Dishonored on 360
Super Mario 64, DmC: Devil May Cry and some Resident Evil 6 Mercenaries here and there.
Witcher 2, the boss-fights are seriously hard, even on normal.
Black Ops and Far Cry 3, both taking up all my free time!
playing skyrim still. Just chilling with my companion going on killing spree's
Got a new list of games.
Sacred 2 Gold Edition (Seriously love this game on PC)
Path of Exile (If you like ARPG, it's going open beta in about 9 days)
Titan Quest Immortal Throne
Diablo III
Torchlight II
FTL: Faster than Light (Epic)
Minecraft (PC and Pocket Edition)
Sniper Elite V2
Basically, I'm an Action-RPG fiend at the moment.
Kirby 64..damn good times.
Assassin's Creed 3
Far Cry 3
I started playing Dead Space 2 again on zealot after playing the DS3 demo. DS2 was/is fun.
Devil May Cry 3 HD
Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer, and God of War 2. I plan on beating the God of War Saga Collection before the release of Ascension.
Playing my engineer on Torchlight 2.
Final Fantasy XIII
Super Mario RPG
I am playing Atelier for the PS3. The game is completely different from the old games. :\
Having another run through dragon age origins. Playing as a dwarf for the 1st time
I'm currently playing NFS: Most Wanted - need the custom challenge trophy to plat the game.


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Description: This has to be the easiest way of creating your own DIY photo display stands. And the great thing is, you can get the candle blocks in a whole range of colors. I got the green box, which had 3 different green hues (9 candles in total).
There are only 2 things you need to do. 1) take out the wick, and 2) slowly cut a slit for the photo to fit in – and you're done! Check out my blog post for more pictures.
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Great idea – then you also know where your power-cut emergency candles are instead of having to search them out in the dark!


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BLACKSBURG, Va., Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Normal activities resumed at Virginia Tech's Blacksburg campus Thursday and university officials lifted a campus alert following a report of a possible gunman.
"Police have not received nor discovered additional information about a person possibly carrying a weapon beyond that reported this morning," the university said on its Web site. "The university community may resume normal campus activity. Only Blacksburg campus classes have been canceled today."
Even though the campus alert was lifted, a "large police presence" would remain on campus and the university suggests "people remain vigilant" and report suspicious activity to campus police, the post said.
University officials recommended that students, employees and others on campus remain indoors, canceled classes and urged students not to come to the campus after receiving word of a man possibly carrying a gun near a dorm.
Three juveniles attending a camp at the university reported seeing a white male "holding what may have been a handgun" that was covered by either a cloth or clothing, the university Web site said.
"There have been no other sightings" since the initial one, the post said.
Law enforcement officers from the campus police department, the Blacksburg and Christiansburg police departments, the Virginia State Police and Montgomery County Sheriff's Office were searching for the subject.
In 2007, a lone gunman opened fire on the Virginia Tech campus, killing 32 people and wounding 25 others before committing suicide.


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MIAMI - The mother of a girl who was killed after she was snatched from South Beach and raped says a judge's decision in the case is forcing her to speak publicly about what she says is a failure of the system.
Margarita Osorio has stayed out of the public eye and has rarely left her home since her 18-year-old daughter, Ana Maria Angel, was kidnapped and killed four years ago.
Police arrested four men and a teenager who they say killed Angel and beat and stabbed her boyfriend, 18-year-old Nelson "Eddy" Portobanco. He was dumped on Interstate 95 in Pompano Beach. He survived having his throat slashed and 15 stab wounds.
Angel's body was found lying near the interstate in south Palm Beach County.
If convicted, Joel Lebron, Cesar Mena, Hector Caraballo and Victor Caraballo all face the death penalty in Angel's death.
Jesus Roman faces life in prison if convicted because he was 16 at the time of the killing.
Circuit Judge William Thomas recently threw out the confessions of accused triggerman Lebron and Roman, he said because the teens were not properly read their Miranda rights when interviewed by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Osorio told Local 10 that she is confident that Portobanco's testimony will be enough to convict the five defendants. But she fears that even if convicted, suppressing the confessions might help the suspected killers get out sooner.
Osorio said she has decided to try to raise awareness of the damage done by the suppression of confessions. Osorio said that she plans to write to elected officials to try to gain support for her cause and she wants to make the public aware of the loopholes in the system that she says only benefit the guilty.
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle says prosecutors have appealed judge Thomas' ruling but it could take some three or four months before they get a decision from the appellate court.
Fernandez-Rundle said it still could be another couple of years until the case goes to trial -- but she also said that it is important that Angel's mother has started speaking out.
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- April 30, 2002: Lawyer Problems Arise After Teen's Slaying
- April 30, 2002: Mass Planned For Slain Teen As Suspects Await Arraignment
- April 30, 2002: Suspect's Fiancee Speaks To Media
- April 29, 2002: Family, Friends Try To Cope With Teen's Death
- April 29, 2002: Girl's Death Called Random Act Of Violence
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Fayetteville, AR 72701
Monday - Friday / 10am to 6pm
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What questions will on the ballet for the November 12 special election? Voters will be asked to approve a bond to do the following three things. Each issue is voted on separately:
- Provide $1.5M to pay off existing Town Center bond
- Provide $6.9M to help fund Walton Arts Center renovations
- Provide $3.5M for development of regional park (soccer and baseball fields)
What happens to our taxes if the bond doesn't pass? What happens if it does pass? Nothing! If the bond issue doesn't pass, the tax money would go back into the A&P general funds. Approval of the bonds would not result in a tax increase, and defeat would not lower taxes.
What will the $6.9M go toward? The bond will help fund the design and construction of expanding and renovating the Walton Arts Center on Dickson Street.
If the vote passes, what is the timeline of the WAC expansion?
- Fundraising is underway, goal is to complete the campaign in 2-3 years
- Construction to begin early to mid-2014 – completed by 2016
What will happen to the WAC expansion/renovation if the bond does not pass? This expansion is critical for the future of Fayetteville. The bond money is a key part of our fundraising plan, if it does not pass, we will have to re-evaluate our plans.
How will you raise the rest of the $13M? The bond is a cornerstone of our fundraising plan as it will leverage other gifts to expand and renovate this facility, that is jointly owned by the City of Fayetteville and the UA. We anticipate approximately 1/3 of the funding coming from public sources (the bond); 1/3 from individuals; and 1/3 from foundations.


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Crown B Burslem CHINTZ Flower VASE Staffordshire Englan
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CROWN B BURSLEM CHINTZ VASE Made in Staffordshire England Black background with blue, yellow, and pink flowers 9 3/4"high, 6 1/4 wide In GREAT condition BEAUTIFUL!! PLEASE REFER TO PICTURES :) Any questions please let me know. Thanks for looking! Please check out my other auctions! :) ****FAST SHIPPING**** * Terms of Sale *
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