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Jurisdiction: Develop and recommend proposals for the effective delivery of high quality legal services in Michigan, equal and fair to all. This committee consists of several initiatives whose activities include
The State Bar of Michigan supports many justice initiatives that help make available high-quality civil legal services to all Michigan citizens, assuring that the justice system is strong, equal, and fair in its application.
The Committee on Justice Initiatives organized into 4 major areas:
Criminal Issues Initiative—examines collateral civil consequences of criminal convictions and representational issues in the criminal justice system.
Equal Access Initiative—develops policies and programs to benefit underserved populations, including those with special needs, cognitive disabilities, and juveniles.
Justice Policy Initiative—analyzes and recommends positions on proposed legislation, court rules, and other policies relevant to the Justice Initiatives.
Pro Bono Initiative—encourages and coordinates free or discounted fees for civil legal services. Pro bono service is a way that Michigan attorneys assist low-income individuals in need of legal assistance.
Best Practices for Language Access in Michigan Courts
An Assessment of Pro Bono in Michigan—February 2013 Report
Implementing Crossroads: A Proposal for Evaluating Ability to Pay Fees, Fines, and Costs by the Michigan State Planning Body for the Delivery of Legal Services to the Poor
Judicial Crossroads Task Force Report of the Access to Justice Committee
Documenting the Justice Gap in Michigan
"Blueprint for Justice"
Justice Initiatives Summit Report
Annual Reports
2013-18—Proposed New MCR 2E.001 et seq. & Draft Standards for e-Filing
2012-03—Proposed Adoption of MRC 1.111 & 8.127
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5 years in microstock photography! It went so fast. I started submitting to iStockphoto and then to other agencies in November of 2007. Perhaps, it's time for some reflections. I will start with updating my selling statistics.
Return per Image (RPI)
I calculate RPI in reference to the total number of images in my microstock portfolio, so I can add RPIs from different agencies and examine the total RPI.
Any statistics for 2008, my first full year in microstock, are not reliable due to a small portfolio. However, next three years show …
My adventure with microstock photography started in November 2007. 3 years in microstock is an occasion for a statistical summary.
Is it just a hobby providing a supplemental income or business? Am I really making any money here?
I started selling my pictures through microstock almost two years ago in November 2007. Today, I have about 1800 pictures in my stock portfolio. Since I am using Adobe Lightroom 2 to catalog all my pictures, I can easily sort them according to camera and lens.
There is always a lot of discussion among photographers which microstock agency is the best performing one, which belongs to the "Big 6", is it Big 6 or Big 5, 4, …
Here is an update and another view of Return per Image (RPI) from my microstock photography. I calculate RPI in reference to the total number of images in my microstock portfolio, so I can add RPIs from different agencies and present a total RPI here.
I started microstock photography in the end of 2007 year. Any statistics for 2008, my first full year in microstock, are not reliable due to a small portfolio. However, next three years show systematic increase of RPII. Right now in July/August of 2012, my RPI experiences a serious summer dip. Will it recover? Will it go up?
During recent months I practically worked full time on microstock. Now, I am getting busy with other projects not related to photography. My microstock will be running mostly on autopilot with very limited submission of mew pictures for the next half of year or so. It will be interesting to check how my RPI will look in 2013.
Related posts:
Payout Structure from Microstock Agencies in 2012
Return Per Image (RPI) from Microstock Photography – Istockphoto, Shutterstock, Dreamstime and Mid/Low Earners
Microstock Portfolio Return Per Image (RPI) – 2009-2011 Trends
Return Per Image (RPI) from My Microstock Portfolio – 3 Year Trends
After analyzing the long term trends in RPI (return per image) from my microstock portfolio I am looking now how much I am paid for a single picture download – RPD (return per download). It is just one factor affecting RPI and total earnings. Do higher image prices affect a volume of sales? Do they improve or not total earnings? These are open questions.
I derived $/download statistics for my 6 top microstock agencies (as in 2012). I smoothed monthly data from 4.5 years (9 months running average – thick lines) since I am interested in long term trends. However, I plotted original data (thin lines) for two agencies, iStockphoto and Shutterstock, to give you a sens of month to month variability (much higher at IS than SS). I included all types of licenses.
Going up and down around $1/download. High month to month variability.
Going slowly up, but maximum was in the second half of the last year when I got unusually high number of extended licenses. Currently ~$0.66/download.
In the two previous posts I looked at trends in RPI (return per image) from my microstock portfolio. Now, let's look at the payout structure, i.e., how much (in %) of actual money is coming from different stock sites. I calculated it for the first half of 2012 (including payouts scheduled until middle of July).
Most of my microstock income is coming this year from Shutterstock. iStockphoto used to be my leader for several years. Dreamstime is slowly loosing ground in the top 3 group. It is the agency with the smallest part of my microstock portfolio online.
7 agencies with regular payouts. It looks like Zoonar is also falling into this group. Earnings and payouts from Zoonar may be high, but are very irregular. Fotolia is going downhill and, recently, is behind Depositphotos.
with low and occasional sales. I am actively uploading to sites with fast submission process. Alamy is included here. I started to upload pictures to Alamy 6 months ago and have only about half of my microstock portfolio and a few RM pictures there. Actually, my uncleared balance at Alamy is much higher than payouts so far. I also keep my portfolio at Smugmug. In the second year, the sales are finally covering hosting fees of the pro account.
I have been submitting pictures to multiple microstock agencies for the last 4.5 years. Nowadays, microstock photography is my major source of income, but I don't look at sale statistics too often. I just count and record my monthly payouts. Nevertheless, it is useful to check some trends time to time and try to figure out where this industry is going from the perspective of my portfolio. I use RPI (return per image) for this purpose.
To derive the total RPI for my portfolio I am using the total number of pictures prepared for microstock. This way I can use RPI to compare performance of different agencies. I can add RPIs from different agencies since the denominator, i.e., number of pictures, is the same.
This is a general picture showing the RPI for the entire portfolio and how much different groups of agencies contribute to this statistics:
(1) Top 3: iStockphoto, Shutterstock and Dreamline. In my previous posts I used to have top 4, but Fotolia dropped down as it is obvious from Figure 3.
(2) Middle tier: 7 agencies with regular payouts (Fotolia, 123RF, BigStock, CanStock, Veer, DepositPhoto and PhotoDune).
(3) Low earners with low and occasional sales. I am actively uploading to sites with fast submission process like Graphic Leftovers, Yay, FeaturePics, iSign, Zoonar.
Is my total RPI still growing or just reaching plateau? I guess I will learn after summer months.
RPI for my 3 top agencies. IS and SS are recently changing places. It looks like the performance of IS is not going down anymore. Unfortunately, DT is experiencing a stagnation or worse. I have the lowest number of pictures from my portfolio with DT due to their infamous "too similar pictures" policy.
Finally, middle tier agencies. The fall of Fotolia during last one and half year is really spectacular in terms of RPI. 123RF takes the first place in this group. DepositPhotos shows a nice growth. Generally, the middle tier agencies are smoothing jumps in the performance of major players and their contribution is growing.
I am not going to analyze my low earners – not enough sales data for any reliable statistics.
In June 2011 I posted 3 year trends in return per image (RPI) from my microstock portfolio. How it looks 6 month later? Here is an update for 2009-2011 years.
Calculating RPI is straightforward for a single agency – just divide earnings from sales by the number of pictures in your portfolio there for a given time period, e.g., a month. It is getting more complicated when you are submitting pictures to multiple agencies. You cannot calculate RPI separately for each agency and then add those numbers together. That would be mathematically incorrect. You need to use the same number of pictures as reference for each agency, e.g., the average size of your portfolio.
I am submitting pictures to multiple microstock agencies. To derive the total RPI for my portfolio I am using the total number of pictures prepared for microstock. This way I can use RPI to compare performance of different agencies. My RPI depends obviously on the acceptance rate. So, the agency, which regularly rejects my pictures as too similar or duplicates, has a lower RPI in my system. The "similarity" issue is a major problem in the case of Dreamstime and to a much lower degree of iStockphoto.
After 4 years of my microstock adventure I have around 3800 pictures in my stock portfolio: 68% in iStockphoto, 83% in Shutterstock, 59% in Dreamstime and 66% Fotolia counting just the 4 top agencies. I do not analyze separately other agencies with lower sales, instead I am looking at total sales from them as "others" (Bigstock, 123RF, Canstock, Veer, Graphic Leftovers, Deposit Photos, PhotoDune, Panther Media, StockFresh, FeaturePics, Yay).
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Difine Hiba? What is mean Hiba ?Discribe menaing of Hiba and its important in muslim law and its uses
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Hiba means gift. A muslim can make a gift of his property during his lifetime. ,
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So, I'm lying in bed at around 9:30 pm, trying to figure out what to eat so that I can take my second dose of chemo, when the phone rings.
It is my girlfriend, BS, who is spending the month in a month long study program, in the Judean dessert.
She called to tell me she found a ride to Jerusalem, and she is on her way. She will stay the night, then we will have time to hang out tomorrow for a few hours, until she makes her way back to the desert.
She took the ride, even before she called, 'cause she knew it would be ok!
It is SO COOL that my friends still feel comfortable enough just calling and coming!!
Please daven (or send happy, healing thoughts) for RivkA bat Teirtzel.
With love and optimism,
Thursday, September 24, 2009
How Cool is That??
Posted by RivkA with a capital A at Thursday, September 24, 2009
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3 comments:
- Karen said...
That's not going to change, Rivka, unless you tell people that you need it to change. People take their lead on how to behave from you. You made it clear very quickly afer you were diagnosed that you wanted to be treated normally, that you were still you, so why would people stop barging in on you? :)
- September 25, 2009 at 3:00 AM
- Cheryl said...
My cousin and I are close like that. It's a great feeling to know you accept each other as you are (no matter what your house looks like!) LOL
- September 25, 2009 at 4:27 PM
the name of the place in the desert is MIdreshet Ein Prat, at the yishuv, Alon.
check it out on the internet.
Bracha Silverman
- October 3, 2009 at 6:36 PM
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This A-Z Guide was created by the Cincinnati Reds to assist Guests during their visits to Great American Ball Park.
The information is presented in alphabetical order for your ease of use and is always subject to change.
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Monday, 21 January, 2002, 13:07 GMT
Bristol babies: Will the reforms make a difference?
The death rates of individual cardiac surgeons are to be made public as part of a drive to create a more open, patient-centred NHS, Health Secretary Alan Milburn has announced.
The measure is part of the government's response to the report into the deaths of children undergoing heart surgery at Bristol Royal Infirmary.
Ministers have already responded to the Bristol tragedy by introducing a number of measures, which include the establishment of two new bodies to minimise the risk of similar events in future.
Do the reforms go far enough? Will they make a difference?
This Talking Point has now closed. Read a selection of your comments below.
Both my elderly parents died this summer, my mother from cancer, my father from a heart problem. Even though my mother was misdiagnosed by the hospital for some months, I have nothing but praise for the doctors, surgeons, nurses and carers. With both my parents, despite their age, every effort was made on their behalf and the doctors took great pains to explain to me everything that was happening. Doctors and surgeons are not God; they do their best, and they don't want to lose patients. This will just put more and unjustifiable pressure on them in what is already a very difficult job.
Anthony, England
Instead of wasting money on producing lies, damn lies and NHS statistics, why not spend some money on staff and equipment?
The introduction of league tables can only be a good thing. It will hopefully lead to increased scrutiny of the medical profession. As humans we are all fallible. It is time that surgeons realised this. As a health care professional, I have witnessed the increased accountability for NHS workers. Medicine appears to have been overlooked. My colleagues and myself feel it is time this changed!
You have to bear in mind that heart surgery is very often high-risk surgery and the death rate is going to be higher than for conventional surgery.
It seems a pity, therefore, that cardiac surgeons are singled out - a bit of a witch-hunt really.
Richard, UK
While I have every sympathy for the parents of the children that died at Bristol, I also have another memory. My Mother who was then 65, had serious bypass surgery performed by the very same team at Bristol. She was told then by them that given her age and state of health, she was marginal but nevertheless, they did the work. Now many years later, she is still with us and will celebrate her diamond wedding anniversary this year. My worry about these league tables is simple, would my mother have been operated on if they had existed then?
As an expat with contact with other cultures, I see surgeons as humans who are justified in making decisions based on ethics more than public cries. If he is quite certain that he would only be keeping a patient alive for a short time, should he work to that end? I say yes.
The reforms may not go far enough, but they are bound to make a difference and that can only be a good thing. If even one life is saved then they will have been justified but let's hope the improvement is more marked than that. We all appreciate the complexity and difficulties faced by surgeons but we are all accountable in one way or another.
The league tables themselves will not make a blind bit of difference - they haven't in education or transport. Why is the public so obsessed with these meaningless statistics?
This latest initiative will result in surgeons refusing to deal with marginal cases. Worse still, it could result in the very best surgeons who have greater ability to deal with marginal cases receiving the worst "scores", merely as a consequence of the relative difficulty of their work. The only way the government seems able to approach these matters is by marking people out of 10. The worst candidate for this is Alan Milburn who seems willing point to fingers at anybody so that he looks good. Why don't we score death rates attributable to the failure of the Health Secretary to make proper healthcare provision in this country?
Bernard Stedman, UK
No, the reforms do not go far enough. We should have equal visibility and transparency on ministers' decisions and actions not only in the health service but other areas as well. Their decisions impact lives. They are professionals as well and part of the system, its problems and solutions.
It's time for proof and action not "talking" which is all any government seem to do; talk, but rarely ever carry out these promises. I think we should wait and see whether this is just another promise used to get the public of their backs, or an actual pledge, which will be carried out to the bitter end. Let's hope for our children's and our children's children's sake, that it is the second of those! Boys we know you can talk the talk, now its time to show you can walk the walk.
Paul B in Oxfordshire is absolutely right: 'Surgeons will not accept marginal cases'. My father in law died after having his heart by-pass. The surgeon told him he had at best a 20% chance of survival. My father in law took the chance because without it he had about a month to live. After he died the surgeon who is acknowledged as one of the best at one of UK's most renowned teaching hospitals, told us he only saw patients who everyone else had given up on. Hopefully he will not be put off taking on such people to get a higher rating. 20% survival is better than 0%.
No. When the figures are published it will cause a massive stir amongst the public and make even more of a mockery of our NHS system.
Jon Harley, London, UK
There is an ethical dilemma in informing patients re: death rates of surgeons in a collective system, where the patient does not fully have the power to "shop around". If you find your neighbour is seeing a surgeon with a lower death rate than the one you are seeing, will you be able to swap surgeons half way through your treatment? Merely informing patients without giving them the right to change is unethical.
However, how can a collective system like the NHS operate if patients have absolute choice? Who would want to be treated by a Junior Doctor who has never performed the procedure before, and what implications does this have for future training of Doctors? I have no answers but patients should try to understand the full implications of what is being recommended by the Kennedy Report.
On the contrary Pat, doctors are more likely to take on the more challenging cases knowing that they're finally going to get the recognition they deserve. Plus: we should be able to choose doctors who we think are up to the job.
Surely this is likely to lead to many doctors refusing to even attempt to treat the more difficult cases, concentrating instead on the easiest to treat in order to protect their precious statistics.
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Review for Sky Island Alliance, Tucson, AZ, USA
This group, Sky Island Alliance, is studying climate changes on the ground, starting with water. Not too surprising in the desert. But, knowing how facts about seeps and springs are changing is almost as important as knowing how to reverse it. One must study any aspect of life on earth to know what it means, and what the future could be like, and also know if there are changes one direction to the other. Sky Island is studying and working to know our environment for the health of our Sky Island area so that the animals and the humans have a better place to live and benefit from in all ways.
Review for Sky Island Alliance, Tucson, AZ, USA
This group of conservation oriented people works by bringing international scientists and citizens together to discover the wildlands of the Sonoran Desert. It does work with developers, ranchers, interested citizen trackers, re-establishing water courses, advising road planners about crossings and wildlife tracks to surrounding mountains and much much more. Because the Sonoran Desert knows no barrier walls or fences we deal with the lovers of the desert from both sides of the international border and the animals that traverse the geography in the area.
The "sky islands" are sources of genetic diversity that all the inhabitants need to visit in order to maintain their species. This occurs across the Sonoran Desert and therefore human interruptions of the acreage is important and crucial. Repair and knowledge of the area is very important to all inhabitants. Groups such as the Sky Island Alliance are quietly protecting, teaching and repairing as much as they can as fast as they can.
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Global, Alzheimer's Association, Crnic Institute Announce $1.2 Million in Alzheimer's-Down Syndrome Research Grants
The Global Down Syndrome Foundation, the Alzheimer's Association, and the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome have awarded $1.2 million in research grants to five scientists for innovative investigations that explore the development of Alzheimer's disease in individuals with Down syndrome. The goal is to eventually translate the findings into improved treatments for all people with Alzheimer's.
The organizations are supporting this growing area of study through a new joint grants initiative called "Understanding the Development and Devising Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease in Individuals with Down Syndrome."
"The Alzheimer's Association is very interested in understanding why people with Down syndrome are at such high risk for Alzheimer's, and how it relates to other variations of the disease, so that we can identify new therapies to treat Alzheimer's in both the Down syndrome and typical populations," said Maria Carrillo, Ph.D., Alzheimer's Association vice president of Medical and Scientific Relations. "Research in this population may also help us develop predictive tools for Alzheimer's and design more effective clinical trials."
"Investing with the Alzheimer's Association has been so rewarding. The science our joint initiative is funding is of the highest caliber, and each grant approaches understanding, treating or preventing Alzheimer's in people with Down syndrome from a very different angle. If initial results are promising, we hope that the National Institutes of Health will continue to fund this excellent science," said Michelle Sie Whitten, executive director of the Global Down Syndrome Foundation.
Read more about the grant announcement, and learn about the researchers and their projects.
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- Global Down Syndrome Foundation announces new collaboration for groundbreaking Down syndrome – Alzheimer's disease research project
- Global Down Syndrome Foundation Urges U.S. Senate To Maintain Important Patient Protections and Coverage As Part Of Health Reform Plan
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- Global Employment Grant Winners thriving in communities across US
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Ask any sports fan the secret of a great game and the answer's always the same ---- the clash of two storied rivals so closely matched in skills and strength, the winner emerges only in the final breathless seconds. That's the recipe for success in "Inherit the Wind," the spellbinding courtroom drama that opened Tuesday at The Old Globe Shakespeare Festival.
The two actors who face off this fictional re-creation of the famed Scopes Monkey Trial ---- Adrian Sparks and Robert Foxworth ---- are so perfectly suited for their roles, and so well-directed as brilliant opponents, that watching their heated debates is like watching a great tennis match you never want to end.
Written in 1955 by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, "Inherit the Wind" was inspired by the famous trial of schoolteacher John Scopes, arrested in 1925 for violating state law by teaching evolution in a Dayton, Tenn., 10th-grade public school science class. Nationally known defense attorney Clarence Darrow, a liberal agnostic, and celebrated orator William Jennings Bryan, a conservative Christian and three-time Democratic presidential candidate, leapt at the chance to debate Charles Darwin's theory on the national stage (the trial was broadcast by radio coast to coast). For their play, Lawrence and Lee changed the names of the characters and some facts, using the trial as a metaphor for the attacks on intellectual ideas that had occurred at the McCarthy hearings.
As Matthew Harrison Brady (the fictional version of evolution foe Bryan), Sparks is larger than life, with a warm and humble manner, unquestioning religious devotion, round, padded belly and slow folksy drawl. And as Henry Drummond (the fictional Darrow), Foxworth is all sharp angles, tall and slim, cerebral, clinical and aloof, and he delivers his lines in terse, rapid-fire fashion. They're yin to each other's yang, and ---- like the real-life Bryan and Darrow ---- they clearly relish the contest.
Confident of his actors and his subject matter, director Adrian Noble has stripped away all artifice with a bare-bones but effective scenic design by Ralph Funicello that uses nothing but rustic tables and chairs, some used as platforms and bridges, moved about the stage by the actors (with sepia-toned, painterly lighting by Alan Burrett). The audience becomes the jury, analyzing along with two actors seated in the front row, the evidence (heavily stacked against evolution) presented in the trial.
In this fictional, devout town of Hillsborough ---- described by cynical Baltimore journalist E.K. Hornbeck as "the buckle on the Bible belt" ---- the citizens revel in the excitement of the trial, sway with devotion in prayer, tote signs reading "Are you a man or a monkey?" and sing a cappella devotional hymns arranged by music director Elan McMahan (a longtime collaborator at Vista's Moonlight Amphitheatre).
Although accompanied by an army of scientists, Drummond is never allowed by the judge (a restrained Bob Pescovitz) to present his defense of evolution, so instead he puts a willing Brady on the stand and challenges his unbending faith in biblical dogma. What's on trial, Drummond insists, is not the book of Genesis but freedom of thought. If God endowed man with the free will, he would bless man's scientific discoveries. "What's on trial," Drummond says, "is the right to think ... an idea is a greater movement than any cathedral."
The festival repertory company is especially strong here as an ensemble. Noble moves them beautifully around the stage in fascinating stage pictures, particularly a prayer meeting led by fire-and-brimstone preacher the Rev. Brown (a demonic Charles Janasz) that gradually whips itself into a vengeful frenzy against the "evil-utionist" Bertram Cates, the jailed high school teacher (played with quiet earnestness by Dan Amboyer).
Vivia Font is believably conflicted as Cates' fellow teacher and girlfriend Rachel, the daughter of the Rev. Brown, who begs Cates, "Why can't you be on the RIGHT side of things?" And Joseph Marcell chews up the scenery as the arch newspaper columnist Hornbeck, who sneers at the simple Southerners and describes himself in Shakespearean fashion as "a friend of enemies and an enemy of friends" who's admired for his detestability. Also a standout is young Aiden Hayek, as Cates' teen student Howard ---- whom Noble evocatively depicts as a mischievous, wise-beyond-his-years Huckleberry Finn lookalike.
"Inherit the Wind" is the third production to open in this summer's Globe Shakespeare Fest repertory (behind "Richard III" and "As You Like It"). All three plays will run through the end of September. Noble's direction of "Inherit the Wind" is assured and masterful, and its two stars are at the top of their craft, so get ready, sports fans ---- this is definitely a battle worth watching.


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As we move into Pre-Fall, collections get darker and more texture-heavy, reflecting the autumnal chill that is soon to come: well for most designers at least. With his assortment for the season, Prabal Gurung is showing that he doesn't believe in more neutral hues for Fall, as his latest creations are as bright as they come. The modern printmaster continues his signature patterns, taking from a bevy of inspirations including his native country of Nepal, Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film Romeo + Juliet, and vintage ads from Versace and Versus. All the influences are apparent from the collection's visual beauty to the avant-garde and sexy vibe that runs through almost every look.
I hope you've studied your print mixing because Gurung is throwing it into high-gear for Pre-Fall. Florals juxtaposed against windowpane patterns, splashes of baroque wherever possible, flowers dancing together on colorblocked ensembles: nothing is off limits for the season. The daring and bold fashionistas will fall in love with this collection.
Not to worry: there are looks that are minimalist-friendly, though you will certainly still stand out in a crowd. Gurung makes sure of that with metallics and colorblocking (which even goes down to the shoes).
There are more than enough red carpet-worthy ensembles and I must admit that these are my favorite looks in the collection. A black and white dress with a ruffled collar and draped tulip skirt is so beautiful in its simplicity and exact in its tailoring that there is no way you can deny the talent and skill on display here.
What do you think?
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The Reverse Alert System is reporting an interruption in the 911 service in the Coastal Bend including here in Corpus Christi and Portland.
Crews are currently working to resolve the problem with the phone system.
Officials say lines are down from Victoria to Raymondville and is a phone company issue and not related to the power interruption earlier.


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Lord Moran asked Her Majesty's Government:
What progress has been made since the Intermediate Ministerial Meeting on the Integration of Fisheries and the Environment at Bergen in March 1997 on restricting sandeel fishing in areas that are important to other fish and to birds.[HL1316]
Lord Donoughue: The Government support precautionary management for the North Sea sandeel fishery. They therefore supported the introduction of a
The Government are also funding a range of research projects on sandeels in order to develop new assessment and management approaches. This research includes participation in a collaborative project (ELIFONTS), ending next year, to examine the impact of industrial fishing on sandeel abundance and the effects of variations in that abundance on predators in the Wee Bankie and neighbouring fisheries. The contractors have undertaken to give early warning of any interim results which show that the fishery is having adverse effects on the various species.
The statement of conclusions of the Intermediate Ministerial Meeting on the Integration of Fisheries and the Environment in Bergen in 1997 included an invitation to the competent authorities to consider restrictions on fishing in any areas where it is judged the ecosystem requires protection. The results of the ELIFONTS project will assist in responding to this point. More broadly, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has been examining the ecosystem effects of fishing including the identification of areas holding sandeels that need protection in order to safeguard important concentrations of birds and other wildlife. The ICES report is expected in May 1998.
Lord Moran asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord Donoughue: No basking sharks have been caught by Norway under the EC/Norway fisheries agreement since 1993. However, the Government have drawn the listing of basking sharks under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to the attention of the European Commission.
Earl Baldwin of Bewdley asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord Donoughue: Officials in the Department of Trade and Industry have received one letter from the Office of the United States Trade Representative which, among other things, notes that the Government's proposed controls on dietary supplements containing vitamin B6 would have implications for US trade in this product. The Government have also received a representation on this subject from two United States senators.
The Government consider that the proposed controls are fully consistent with World Trade Organisation rules. They are based on sound scientific principles, and would apply equally to home produced and imported food supplements. Any food supplements containing vitamin B6 which are imported into the UK from the United States would therefore have to comply with the proposed limit of 10 mg per daily dose.
The proposed controls would not affect trade between the United States and other member states of the European Community, many of which already have much lower limits on the level of vitamin B6 in supplements sold under food law. The implications for trade within the European Union will be considered by the European Commission and other member states as part of the notification procedure under EC Directive 83/189.
The Earl of Sandwich asked Her Majesty's Government:
The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence (Lord Gilbert): The 1992 National Audit Office report into the Ministry of Defence's involvement in the Al-Yamamah programme has not been published as it refers to arrangements which are confidential between the Governments of the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia.
The Countess of Mar asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord Gilbert: The Government are aware of the "Dispatches" programme "Saddam's Secret Time Bomb", shown on Channel 4 on 23 February 1998, which concerned the incidence of ill-health among the population of the area around the town of Halabja in northern Iraq. So far as the Government is aware, there have been no epidemiological studies of this population.
There is still no medical or scientific consensus concerning Gulf veterans' illnesses, and we are not aware of any evidence showing an increased incidence of adverse reproductive outcomes in the families of Gulf veterans. However, an epidemiological study led by Dr. David Cowan, which was published last year in the New England Journal of Medicine, concluded that there was no evidence that children born to US Gulf veterans were suffering from a higher than average incidence of birth abnormalities. An MoD-funded epidemiological study under Dr. Patricia Doyle at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is currently examining the reproductive health of UK Gulf veterans and the health of their children.
Epidemiological research is currently underway, sponsored jointly by the Department of Health, the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food and the Health and Safety Executive, into the effects on human health of low-level exposure to organophosphate pesticides in the context of the health concerns of some farm workers.
The Earl of Carlisle asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord Gilbert: Of the £3,651,000 spent by the British Government on retraining projects for unemployed former Army officers in Russia since 1994, £3,155,000 has come from the United Kingdom defence budget and £496,000 from the Know-how Fund, currently managed by the Department for International Development. The estimated provision for such expenditure from the defence budget for 1998-99 is £1,000,000.
Over the course of the resettlement project we have taken appropriate steps to ensure that funds are used for the purposes for which they have been provided and that the interests of the British taxpayer are protected. These steps include the establishment of agreed budgets for retraining courses at each resettlement centre, and their close and systematic monitoring by the UK project officer based in Moscow. We have no direct evidence that funds have been illegally diverted by Russian organisations or individuals, but, where our monitoring suggests that funds are being managed unsatisfactorily or inefficiently, it is our policy to terminate our involvement with the centre concerned. So far this has happened on two occasions.
Baroness Park of Monmouth asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord Gilbert: The Hardway estate comprises 200 properties, all of which have been declared surplus to Service requirements and are being released to Annington Homes in accordance with the release schedule of the sale. Eighty two homes are currently vacant and the families in the other 118 houses have been given notice to move, but not before September 1998.
All the families affected live on the Hardway estate in Gosport. Of the service personnel involved, 13 married men are currently serving in the Gulf. On current plans, they will all have returned to the UK before the moves are due to take place. Special arrangements are being put in place to deal with personnel serving in ships about to deploy.
Although the Defence Housing Executive, DHE, need give only 93 days' notice, this longer notice period, of a minimum of seven months, enables DHE to take due account of each family's circumstances, such as likely return dates of spouses, leave periods, and schooling requirements. There are nine other Service families accommodation locations in the area and families displaced by this move will be offered suitable accommodation, although four bedroomed properties are limited to the Old Rowner Estate.
As part of the continuing consultation process, a meeting took place between representatives of DHE, the Ministry of Defence, and 27 residents of Hardway Estate. A full record of all the issues raised was made, and this is being distributed to all 118 families affected by the closure, together with responses to the points raised. In addition, an allocations officer will be located on the estate once a week, to assist families who find it difficult to get to the area office, and a regular newsletter will be issued to keep residents up to date with developments.
This release does not breach any undertaking given by the previous administration. The requirement is that the properties must be surplus to Service requirements, but not necessarily empty, when selected for release. The site backs on to Fareham Creek, not the Solent. This fact has no bearing on its release.
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Padres to honor radio voice Coleman Saturday
Padres to honor radio voice Coleman Saturday
The team will reveal a statue in Coleman's honor at Petco Park. Fans who are attending the game are encouraged to be in their seats by 5 p.m.
San Diego manager Bud Black, for one, is looking forward to the ceremony to honor Coleman, who has spent the last 70 years in professional baseball as a player and broadcaster, 40 of which have come with the Padres.
The first 25,000 fans in attendance will receive a commemorative Jerry Coleman Day patch. There will be a flyover of Marine Corps F-18 jets as well. Coleman was a Marine fighter pilot in World War II and Korea.
"A lot of native San Diegans, when they think of the Padres, they think of Jerry Coleman," Black said of Coleman, who turned 88 on Friday.
Third baseman Chase Headley, who made his Major League debut with the team in 2007, said he's never met anyone quite like Coleman.
"He's an older guy, but has so much energy," Headley said. "He's awesome. I didn't know his story when I first got to meet him. Then you find out what he did on the field, his military service and then what he has done as a broadcaster. It's amazing."
Headley was surprised to hear that Coleman turned 88 on Friday.
"For turning 88, you'd never know it," he said. "[He] has a tremendous personality and he loves what he's doing. He's just fun to be around."


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Ronald F. Packard service
Rockland — Ronald F. Packard, 87, died at his home surrounded by his family, early Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, after an extended illness.
Friends and relatives are invited to visit Friday, March 1, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Burpee, Carpenter & Hutchins Funeral Home, 110 Limerock St., Rockland, where a celebration of Ron's life will be held Saturday, March 2, at 11 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Winslow-Holbrook-Merritt American Legion Post No. 1, P.O. Box 582, Rockland, ME 04841.
To share a memory or story with Ron's family, please visit his on line Book of Memories, at bchfh.com. A full obituary will be published.


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League makes move to lower expenses and increase efficiency among its member credit unions.
Former Board Member Fryzel spends the majority of his travel budget in his hometown of Chicago; Chairman Matz will make board travel data public.
In August, the Hawaii Credit Union League was an active member of Hawaii's Partnership Against Fraud, a coalition designed to protect the state's citizens, particularly senior citizens, from falling victim to financial scams.
The Spirit of Aloha helps mainland foes work together toward a common good in paradise.
How do state income tax rates affect credit unions?
FBI agent tells CU Times he's never seen a case where three employees independently stole from the same institution without collusion.
The Honolulu FBI says three employees embezzled funds in similar ways from the $12M OTSEFCU, but did not collaborate.
Farouk Wang, longtime board member at the $553 million University of Hawaii Federal Credit Union, died this past weekend at age 70.
According to recent reports in The Wall Street Journal and other publications, Hawaii's tourism economy is experiencing a big wave of double-digit increases in visitor arrivals and spending over the past year. However, Hawaii credit unions reported a flat return on average assets during first-quarter 2012, according to the NCUA's...
Second-quarter NCUA stats show Aloha State credit unions waiting for the wave of returning tourism dollars to lift their fortunes.


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Parents looking for ways to save on back-to-school purchases
K Mchenry, ILAug. 19, 2013 11:38 p.m.
Child still needs a pair of shoes, undies, socks, clothes. The only thing a homeschooling child might be saved is that extra pair of shoes to be left at school for gym. Unless they get the use of the public school gym and need particular shoes for that. A homeschooling child may spend way more on curriculum than what a public school child pays in book fees.
The only real school supplies! notebooks and pencils and such cost little. Maybe $20 a kid. Older kids need the special calculators that can be costly. But usually last three years.
The non school supplies like kleenex would also be something the parents would be providing in a homeschool situation.
Backpacks if bought from a high end place can last years. But older ones can be used as travel and sports bags.
It is an exciting time of year.
JSB Sugar City, IDAug. 19, 2013 10:15 p.m.
A great way to save on back to school purchases is to home school. The money can then be put to real educational experiences.


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NEW YORK, March 15 (UPI) -- "The Sopranos" star Michael "Christopher Moltisanti" Imperioli is ready to reprise his role as Detective Nick Falco on NBC's "Law & Order."
Imperioli, who appeared in the role four times last season, will be back behind the badge during April sweeps, the New York Post reported Wednesday.
Previously, Imperioli's character was teamed with Dennis Farina's Detective Joe Fontana while Jesse L. Martin was off filming "Rent," the Post noted.
In the new episode that started shooting Wednesday, Imperioli will be working alongside both Farina and Martin.
"The Sopranos" began its final season Sunday on HBO.


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Here's a Little Poem
This is our current gift pick for kids in the three-year-old range/pre-school range. It's a great way to introduce poetry and a love of words to toddlers.
It contains over 60 poems, most just a few lines. You might be surprised by how much poetry appeals to children, even children who have not shown an interest in other reading previously. "Here's a Little Poem" is available right here.


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Enjoying Summer. I hope you are too, because it goes by so fast! Soak it in while you can sisters!
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You probably have a dozen devices in your house that can stream music from your phone already. But you probably DON'T have something quite like Gramofon, which recently launched on Kickstarter. Gramofon, created by 'social Wi-Fi' company Fon, connects to your home's internet connection and acts like a social jukebox. Your friends can log into the device with their Facebook account to queue up songs on a Spotify playlist. They send the songs they want to hear to Gramofon, which queues up the music without using Bluetooth or AirPlay or taxing your battery in any way. But Gramofon is more than just a jukebox; it also lets your friends connect to your home Wi-Fi network, too, as long as you're Facebook friends with them. That means you'll no longer need to memorize a 25 character password for your router – connecting to Gramofon is all they'll need to get online. If it sounds like a device you've got to have, you can secure a device on its Kickstarter page for $60 right now.
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I thought it was fantastic and definitely on par with the original overall. Not in terms of innovation, obviously, but in terms of sheer quality and gameplay fidelity.
That said, it had some unfortunate weaknesses. For my part, the two biggest issues were too many PRAXIS points (nullifying replayability) and a poorly thought-out energy cell system. Both things could be tweaked to something MUCH better with a trivial effort. Sadly, they seem to think their "recharge-only-the-first-bar" system is actually good.
The boss fights were completely unnecessary and silly, but they didn't actually bother me. I'm not sure why, but I think it's because I beat them actually using my powers - which felt very appropriate. But that archaic iteration of boss fights had no place in DE:HR - just like it had no place in Alpha Protocol.


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The following was compiled from police reports collected from the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office (SJCSO), St. Augustine Police Department (SAPD) and St. Augustine Beach Police Department (SABPD):
Who: David Wayne Crnkovich, 18, St. Augustine. Charge: Simple domestic battery (not verified) (SJSO)
Who: Christopher Shane Crowder, 26. Charge: Burglary of a structure or conveyance (unoccupied) (SJSO)
Who: Shelia Lee Fankhauser, 41. Charge: Driving under the influence (first offense) (SJSO).
Who: Gary Edward Griffith, 54, St. Augustine. Charge: Retail theft, retail theft with resistance, trespass after warning (SJSO).
Who: Ricky Jordan Heisel, 22. Charge: Retail theft (SJSO).
Who: Dolly Michelle Hogan, 29. Charge: Violation of probation/prostitution (two counts) (SJSO).
Who: William Harley Long, 45, Jacksonville. Charge: Battery, domestic battery, tampering with a witness, victim or informant (SJSO).
Who: Derrick Lamond Martin, 24. Charge: Failure to appear/uttering a worthless check (two counts) (SJSO).
Who: Michael Lee Miller, 33, Keystone Heights. Charge: Aggravated battery, driving while license suspended or revoked, fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer (SABPD)
Who: Jennifer Lynn Olsen, 24, St. Augustine. Charge: Failure to appear/domestic battery, failure to appear/resisting arrest without violence (SJSO).
Who: George Washington Pooler, 48, St. Augustine. Charge: Principal to attempted robbery by sudden snatching, simple battery (SAPD).
Who: Gary Frank Posey, 40, Hastings. Charge: Disorderly intoxication (SJSO).
Who: George Charles Schmid, 55, St. Augustine. Charge: Possession of cannabis with intent to sell, manufacture or deliver (SJSO).
Who: Michael Sean Stewart, 22, St. Augustine. Charge: Failure to appear/burglary of a structure or conveyance, failure to appear/petit theft (SJSO).
Who: David Bruce Teele, 29, St. Augustine. Charge: Organized scheme to defraud, failure to appea/trespass in an occupied structure, violation of probation/attempt to obtain a controlled substance, violation of probation/possession of blank prescription form (SJSO).
Who: Thomas Rodney Wright, 37, St. Augustine. Charge: Retail theft (SAPD).
Who: Travis Aaron Johnson Wynn, 18, Hastings. Charge: Possession of cannabis less than 20 grams, possession of drug paraphernalia (SJSO).
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The Vancouver Public Library (VPL) is the second largest public library system in Canada, with more than 2.8 million items in its collections, 22 branches, approximately 375,000 cardholders, and nearly nine million item borrowings annually. The administration centre, and also the largest branch, known as the Central Branch, is located at Library Square in downtown Vancouver.


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At KFC we pride ourselves on using quality chicken and local ingredients from trusted suppliers.
KFC landed in Australia in 1968 when the first store was opened in Guildford, Sydney NSW.
Today KFC serves 2 million customers every week (that's a lot of chicken) through over 600 stores across Australia. This makes KFC one of the largest fast food chains in the country.
We are passionate about serving our customers freshly prepared, great tasting food with a key part of this being The Colonel's signature blend of 11 herbs and spices. Even today these remain a secret with the original recipe under lock and key in our headquarters in Kentucky, USA.
Illustrated Timeline
Sanders turns 40 and starts to serve up his southern fried chicken to the public.
Colonel Sanders develops his fried chicken seasoning from 11 herbs and spices.
Colonel Sanders dons his dapper white suit for the first time.
Colonel Sanders sells his Corbin, Kentucky restaurant and goes on the road to sign up new KFC franchisees.
KFC opens its first Australian restaurant in Guildford, NSW.
Colonel Sanders dies aged 90. His legacy lives on.
KFC announces new KFC name, packaging, product ranges and uniforms.
The KFC logo was redesigned again. To launch it, we spent 24 days building an 87,500 square foot version that's so big, it's visible from space.
KFC Australia switches from using sustainable palm oil to Australian canola oil.
KFC Australia opens its first energy efficient restaurant (LEED Certifiable) in East Maitland, NSW.
Over 600 KFC restaurants span across the country.
In 1930, in a humble service station in Corbin, Kentucky, 40-year old Harland Sanders began cooking for hungry travellers who stopped by for gas, serving them his southern-style fried chicken from his very own kitchen table. As word spread and Sanders' fame began to grow people started travelling from far and wide just for a taste of his food. Sanders spent the next nine years perfecting his secret blend of 11 herbs and spices, and the basic cooking technique that's still used today.
In 2014, there are more than 18,000 KFC outlets in 115 countries and territories around the world.
The first KFC store in Australia opened in 1968 in Guildford, NSW employing 25 people.
Today, KFC has grown to more than 612 stores across the country.
KFC Australia owns and operates 160 stores with the remainder owned by our community of franchisees.
We employ more than 30,000 Australians and serve more than 2 million customers weekly.


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Review: Great value, fast delivery
The title says it all, fast delivery of quality spares at a good price. Unfortunately the motor on my Vax blew one week later but the filters will fit the replacement cleaner I purchased.
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Honor Flight Organizer Planning Another Trip Thanks to Big Donation
Another round of Nebraska veterans could be taking a trip to Washington,D.C. to check out the city's monuments and memorials thanks to a donor'spromise of $90,000 for the cause.
Bill Williams, of Patriotic Productions in Omaha says he now wants to chartertwo planes for the honor flights that would take more than 300 veterans to thenation's capital. He organized a Korean War honor flight that took more than130 veterans from Nebraska to D.C. just last week.
He is calling the effort Operation Airlift, but he says he'll need more helpto make the trip happen.
Patriotic Productions can be found on Facebook.


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Whether you're giving notice or going through the departure of a deputy, here's how the world generally interprets length of notice.
• Several months to a year. Applies to the retirement or transfer of a top executive who's leaving on excellent terms.
• Four weeks. This is the notice period for a senior person on good terms, someone who is interested in making a smooth transfer.
• Three weeks. The company is caught flat-footed and needs a week beyond the standard notice period to cushion the departure of a valued professional. No bridges are burning.
• Two weeks. While this might be a shockingly short period in the case of an executive, it's fine for both parties if they agree it's time for a change.
• Less than two weeks. It's chintzy on either side and indicates trouble. In sales, finance or HR, it suggests the company doesn't want the employee around data but has a specific reason to hold him there.
• Now. Usually it's a layoff or a breach of some kind involving a legal, policy or security issue. Barring that, such a precipitous departure tells everybody there's been a major error or a cataclysmic disagreement.
— Adapted from "Need to Resign From Your Job to Take My Offer? Here's What Your Length of Notice Means," Kris Dunn, HR Capitalist, www.hrcapitalist.com.
Whether you're giving notice or going through the departure of a deputy, here's how the world generally interprets length of notice.


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Deputy acted in self-defense
The Van Buren County Attorney's Office has determined that the deputy who shot Brighton resident Robert Dooley on Oct. 16 did so in self-defense and will not press charges against the deputy.
According to a press release from the Van Buren County Attorney's Office, Van Buren County Sheriff's Deputy Jon Tharp shot Dooley, 59, while Dooley was standing on the side of Highway 2. Dooley was armed with what appeared to be a rifle. He refused to drop the weapon when asked to do so multiple times and pointed the rifle at Deputy Tharp, whereupon Tharp shot Dooley.
Dooley's weapon turned out to be a vintage air rifle manufactured to replicate a Winchester Model 1894 lever-action rifle. It was found with a wire attached to it that went over Dooley's right arm.
The Van Buren County Attorney's Office came to its conclusions after reviewing the 911 calls to the sheriff's office on Oct. 16 as well as interviews with the responding officers and photographs of the scene and images from an in-dash camera in a patrol car.
Based on that evidence, the Van Buren County Attorney's Office has pieced together a narrative of what it believed occurred on Oct. 16.
At 11 a.m. that day, Tharp and Chief Deputy Brad Hudson responded to a 911 call of a male subject, Dooley, walking west along Highway 2 in Van Buren County, east of the town of Cantril.
Reports from motorists indicated that the subject was armed with a rifle and wearing a Civil War-era military uniform. One caller reported that the subject was making obscene gestures at passing motorists.
While en route to the scene, Tharp and Hudson were advised that the subject appeared to be walking away from a disabled vehicle, which was displaying an upside-down American flag. The deputies received more reports from passing motorists who said the subject was making obscene gestures at them.
Hudson activated his emergency lights but did not activate his siren for fear of alerting the gunman of his approach, which would give the gunman time to take up a defensive position.
Upon arriving at the scene, the deputies saw a vehicle parked on the westbound shoulder with its trunk open and an American flag hanging upside down near the trunk. This was near the intersection of Highway 2 and Hickory Avenue.
The deputies could see Dooley walking west along the shoulder of Highway 2. Tharp called out to Hudson and he could see the man had a rifle. Hudson saw Dooley make an obscene gesture at a passing vehicle.
As the deputies' vehicle approached Dooley, Tharp had his weapon trained on Dooley and he began shouting at Dooley to drop his rifle. Hudson stopped the squad car about 20 yards from Dooley and then exited the vehicle.
Dooley turned around and raised his rifle barrel toward Tharp, who was then outside the passenger door of Hudson's vehicle. Both deputies believed Dooley was raising the rifle to fire it at one or both of the deputies.
Dooley made no statements to the deputies. Hudson had trained his weapon on Dooley and could see him through his optical sight. He was preparing to engage Dooley when he heard Tharp fire one round, which Hudson could see struck Dooley, causing him to fall to the ground where he lay motionless.
The deputies determined that Tharp's shot killed Dooley instantly. This was confirmed by the Van Buren County Medical Examiner at 12:03 p.m. that day.
The Van Buren County Attorney's Office received information about the incident from Division of Criminal Investigation Special Agents Jeff Uhlmeyer, Rick Rahn and Matt George, who investigated the shooting.
Four days before Dooley was shot and killed, he led Washington County deputies on a high-speed chase along Highway 1 near Kalona on Oct. 12. Dooley was arrested at that time for reckless driving, eluding a law enforcement vehicle, speeding, failure to obey a stop sign and failure to maintain registration plate.
Court records show that Johnson County authorities reported that Dooley was known to go armed and to have a BB gun that had the appearance of a real pistol.


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Happy Halloween! While you're carving your typical scary face or cat designs into pumpkins, MILEY CYRUS has other plans with her pumpkins. Yesterday she posted some very sexual and stoner themed carved pumpkins. Surprised?
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— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) October 30, 2013
Oh and she was also dressed as Lil Kim from the 1999 VMA awards…
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— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) October 31, 2013
Guess who's pregnant! The Hills star KRISTIN CAVALLARI and Chicago Bears quarterback JAY CUTLER are expecting their second child! There's no word on Kristin's due date or the sex of the baby yet. Kristin gave birth to a baby boy, Camden, just 14 months ago. Kristin posted the news on Instagram yesterday:


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Spider John Koerner has inspired enough legendary musicians to almost qualify as a legend himself. His concert here Saturday at the all-ages AMSDConcerts in Normal Heghts will mark his first area appearance in at least 30 years.
Artists who have cited Koerner as a key inspiration range from Bob Dylan, David Bowie and Bonnie Raitt to John Lennon, Beck and members of The Kinks and The Doors.
Bowie and Lennon were especially big fans of "Blues, Rags and Hollers," the 1963 debut album by Koerner, fellow singer-guitarist Dave "Snaker" Ray and harmonica player Tony "Little Sun" Glover. In a 2004 article in Vanity Fair, Bowie cited it as one of his 10 most inspirational albums. After the trio reunited in 1996 to make its first recording in 30 years, Dylan opined of the resulting album: "Stunning. Koerner, Ray and Glover haven't lost a step. Every time they play the lights shine."
Dylan singled Koerner out for praise in his memoir, "Bob Dylan Chronicles, Volume One." In it, he recounted befriending Koerner in 1959 at the University of Minnesota, back when Dylan was still known as Bobby Zimmerman.
"Koerner was tall and thin with a look of perpetual amusement on his face. We hit it off right away," Dylan wrote. "When he spoke he was soft spoken, but when he sang he became a field holler shouter. Koerner was an exciting singer, and we began playing a lot together. I learned a lot of songs off Koerner by singing harmony with him and he had folk records of performers I'd never heard..."
Raitt was no less impressed after hearing Koerner when both were living in Cambridge, MA.
"John was the 'Old Venerable One,' the guy that influenced a lot of other musicians that would come up," she recalled in "Blues, Rags & Hollers — The Story of Koerner, Ray & Glover," a 1986 film documentary. "It was like having a big celebrity living right in town. He became the fulcrum of the whole scene. I watched his hands, I learned a lot of things from him."
Koerner quit music in 1972, in his words "forever," moved to Copenhagen and marrying a Danish woman. It didn't last, although he did not release any albums between 1974 and 1986, and became an inventor and a telescope builder.
In 2005, he was profiled in the documentary "Spider John Koerner: Been Here...Done That." Much more than a historical footnote, if not one of the legends that some of his admirers became, this former U.S. Marine is an essential link to an era that changed contemporary music, if not the world.
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Is the anxiety about the Chinese data justified? The economists surveyed by the Financial Times continue to indicate 2015 as the moment of hikes in the USA.
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Heidenhain couples Acanto Absolute Length Gage and ND 2100G Gage-Chek metrology readouts to form a no-drift absolute gaging package.
Heidenhain Corporation coupled the Acanto Absolute Length Gage with ND 2100G Gage-Chek metrology readouts. The Heidenhain Acanto Absolute Length Gage with EnDat 2.2 provides the benefits of an optical encoder and solves many of the problems of different length gages, the company said. The Acanto's measuring principle is the measurement standard and does not drift over time nor does it require mastering. "Sweet spots" are nonexistent with the Acanto as 2 µm of accuracy are held throughout the entire measuring length. The absolute technology, using EnDat 2.2, enables the Acanto to know its position upon power up with no need to reference. The Acanto comes in spring operated and pneumatically operated models and is offered in 12 mm and 30 mm measuring lengths.
Heidenhain ND 2100G Gage-Chek will handle gaging and inspection tasks with ease, from simple pass/fail detection up to complex logic statements communicating to a PLC. They can be configured for basic or advanced operations where inputs can be assigned and combined as desired, along with mathematical, trigonometric or statistical formulas. This makes it possible to measure even complex dimensions such as thickness, flatness, volume and more. Rapid acquisition of measurement data can monitor dynamic events such as the eccentricity of a rotating shaft.
The product now has a color LED lit display which will display results numerically or graphically as a bar graph or dial indicator. The ND 2100G Gage-Chek can manage up to 100 parts, each with up to 16 visible measurement features and 16 hidden ones and can save thousands of data entry points for internal statistical process control (SPC) or export. User customization is easy with programmable soft and hot keys. Min/Max functions monitor and store data, and warning and tolerance limits can be set to each display value.
A plug-and-play routine allows for effortless interfacing of the Acanto and ND 2100G Gage-Chek. The ND 2100G Gage-Chek can interface with 1 to 8 Acanto Gages and will be an effective solution for many gaging applications. The ND 2100G Gage-Chek will also accept any EnDat 2.2 encoders from Heidenhain including linear, rotary, and angle.
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Before the calendar turned, 2016 already had the makings of a pivotal year for manufacturing, and for the world.
There were the big events for the year, including the United States as Partner Country at Hannover Messe in April and the 2016 International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago in September. There's also the matter of the U.S. presidential elections in November, which promise to shape policy in manufacturing for years to come.
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OAKLAND — Four men accused of a triple slaying outside a San Leandro warehouse party two years ago must stand trial for murder before a jury, a judge ruled Friday.
The ruling by Alameda County Superior Court Judge Gloria Rhynes came after a lengthy preliminary hearing that revealed new details on a horrific shooting on Oct. 2, 2011, that left two teenage girls and a 23-year-old man dead.
Accused of killing the three victims are Paul Arthur Stevenson, 22; Alvin Perry II, 22; Stanley Leon Turner, 20; and Aaron Isaiah Stewart, 20.
Evidence presented during the preliminary hearing showed that the shooting occurred because Stevenson and Perry had "problems" with Joshua Alford, the 23-year-old who was fatally shot.
According to both surviving victims and others who saw the shooting, Stevenson and Stewart began shooting at Alford as revelers were leaving a "tattoo party" that was being held at a San Leandro warehouse.
Alford, who was from Oakland, had just gotten into the rear passenger seat of a Ford Explorer when Stevenson and Stewart walked up from both sides of the SUV and began firing their handguns, witness said.
In addition to allegedly killing Alford, the two are accused of killing Shanice Kiel, 19, of San Francisco, and Leneasha Northington, 16, of San Leandro, who were also in the Ford Explorer.
Stewart admitted to police that he was one of the shooters and implicated Stevenson and Perry by telling police they arrested the correct people.
Although no witnesses identified Perry as being a shooter, deputy district attorney Patrick Moriarty said statements Stewart gave police coupled with information police gained from a friend of the four men proves that Perry also was a shooter.
Turner is being charged with murder because prosecutors say he supplied one of the guns used in the crime, helped plot the killing and helped at least one of the four men escape the scene.
In addition to three counts of murder, the four men are also charged with three counts of attempted murder and various gun enhancements. Taken together, the charges can result in the men facing the death penalty, or more likely, facing life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Why the men had a problem with Alford remains unknown. Evidence presented at the preliminary hearing did not explore the cause of the confrontation and Moriarty declined to comment about it after.
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Pawleys Island: It isn't too early to plan for the Fourth of July
By Charles Swenson
With Christmas just days away, the town of Pawleys Island this week turned its thoughts briefly to the Fourth of July.
Town Council agreed at a special meeting that it will again sponsor a flyover of military jets as part of its Independence Day parade. Salute from the Shore began in 2010 as an idea of a couple of Columbia businessmen who have vacation homes at Litchfield Beach. The idea was to show support for the nation's armed forces.
The effort has grown since then, said John Michael Otis, one of the organizers and nephew of Pawleys Island Mayor Bill Otis.
"We have people coming to us asking 'How can we help grow this event,' " he said.
Salute from the Shore, a registered nonprofit, is starting early to get approval from the Department of Defense for the 2012 event. The first year, it applied five times before getting the process right, Otis said. With Pentagon approval, organizers have to find a military unit willing to undertake the flight. In 2010, they got a C-17 cargo jet from Charleston Air Force Base. This year, four F-16s from Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter made the flyover.
"The expectation is that the Air Force is going to be cutting back on civilian support missions," Otis said, so the group wants to have a "four-ship flyover" secure.
Eventually, organizers would like to have aircraft from all branches of the service.
"They're run as training missions. We're not extracting resources from the military," Otis said. "But we're aware of the perception."
So is the Air Force. A spokesman for Shaw Air Force Base said this year's flyover was one of only two approved this year.
"We have teriffic support for Shaw Air Force Base," Otis said.
Although Pawleys Island is the sponsor, the flyover runs the length of the South Carolina coast. Video shot by chase aircraft of people on the beach waving flags is posted online and sent to military units overseas.
"It's a powerful and moving event. People don't understand until they see it," Otis said.
Salute from the Shore uses sponsorships to pay for the video and to help promote the event. They want to get even more people on the shore in 2012, Otis said.
Town Council members are pleased with their role as sponsors. Council Member Sarah Zimmerman said the F-16s in this year's flyover made the event more exciting. In a nod to the town's part in the event, the jets circled over the ocean in front of Pawleys Pier before continuing south along the coast.
Council Member Mike Adams also liked the F-16s, but said his wife preferred the C-17 because it was slower and took longer to fly by. It took the fighters 20 minutes to fly the length of the coast.
"The reaction has been tremendous," said Otis, who has gone to the Pawleys Island Fourth of July Parade all his life. "We're hoping this will continue to be something to augment the parade."


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State police have released the names of two people injured in an ATV accident Sunday.
Police said Michael Starkey, 20, and Allie Knight, 18, are recovering at Ruby Memorial Hospital after they lost control of the ATV. Starkey is listed in good condition and Knight is listed in fair condition, according to hospital records.
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Two people were flown by two medical helicopters after an ATV accident in the Adamston area of Clarksburg Sunday.
It happened on Junkins Avenue Extension just after 6 p.m.
Witnesses said a man and woman were riding together on an ATV when it lost control, flipped several times and landed in a ditch.
Witnesses said both were not wearing helmets.
A HealthNet helicopter and Air Evac Lifeteam helicopter landed at the scene. The two teenagers were taken to Ruby Memorial Hospital.
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When one thinks of a typical Chinese breakfast, Dim Sum usually comes to mind. What some people don't know is that Dim Sum is a Cantonese-based breakfast and like most Chinese cooking, it's not the only game in town. So if you're looking for something a little bit different, why not check out the Taiwanese breakfast and that's exactly what I did for a couple of outings to Yung Ho in San Gabriel.
While the Taiwanese breakfast does include dishes found at Dim Sum restaurants like dumplings and congee (rice porridge), the main influence seems to come from Northern China, which is known for their noodles, steamed breads, and pancakes. I'm by no means a Chinese food expert, so if I'm incorrect, please let me know, but based on the meals I had at Yung Ho, I could see the connection.
Between two different visits with my dining group, I was able to sample 14 dishes. 3 of them included vegetarian buns, pork and mushroom buns and pan-fried dumplings, which are standard fare at Dim Sum. Although they were fine, I'm going to skip over them and concentrate more on those foods that may not be as familiar.
First and foremost, there's the Twisted Cruller also known as You Tiao. It's basically dough that is long, twisted and fried and usually eaten as an accompaniment for congee or soy milk, both of which are served in a bowl. We had ordered a sweet soy milk to go with the cruller, but with or without the soy milk, I found the cruller to be a bit oily and lacking in crispiness.
The other soy milk option was the Salty Bean Flower with tofu, green onions and cruller. I was actually quite surprised at how much I liked this dish. Salt and milk didn't seem like a good combination, but in an odd way, this salty soy milk reminded me of oatmeal and I just happen to like oatmeal.
One of two favorites from both visits was the Hubei Doupi , a three-layer extravaganza of sticky rice topped with minced pork and green onion and then topped with some kind of egg-flour pancake. The browned pancake had a light crispy texture and I liked the sweet and savory combo of the rice and pork. My other favorite and a must order was the Beef Pancake, which is actually beef that's rolled into sesame bread. The bread was wonderfully crusty and went well with the thinly sliced marinated beef.
Soup is something I usually don't associate with breakfast, but at many a table, customers were consuming various different bowls, so we followed suit and ordered a Spicy Beef Noodle Soup. I will never be a naysayer again. Forget oatmeal. Give me a hot bowl of soup any day, especially when it has tender cuts of beef and a delicious spicy broth.
As a Filipina, I'm used to the idea of having rice as part of breakfast and apparently so are the Taiwanese. First, there was the Hubei Doupi that I mentioned earlier, but we also had two different kinds of stuffed rice rolls. One was a Sweet Rice Roll with a sugar filling and the other was a Salty Rice Roll with a pork filling. Both were okay, if not really that memorable.
The one dish that confused me the most was the Steamed Taro Bread. It was large and lumpy and there didn't seem to be much to it. I did take a bite of it but found it dry. I later found out that it's usually eaten like a sandwich. Break it in half, stick egg in the middle and you're good to do, which is kind of strange because I don't remember seeing eggs a la carte on the menu, so if I'm incorrect about the right way to eat it, please let me know.
When it came to egg, the next two dishes weren't lacking in that respect at all. First, there was the Green Onion Pancake with Egg, which was basically an omelet put between two green onion pancakes and than cut into pizza slices. What a perfect use of these two ingredients. The egg by itself is nothing exciting, but I loved the crispiness of the pancake when both were eaten together. Second, there was the Turnip Cake with egg wrapped around it. Turnip cakes are always one of my favorite Dim Sum dishes to order, but having egg wrapped around it took it an entirely different direction and I loved it.
With all these savory items, we did manage to sample one sweet item which were the Sweet Boiled Sesame Dumplings. The texture was a little too glue-y to my taste, so it's not something I'd order again.
Between the noodles, the various breads, the pancakes, rice and the cruller, eating breakfast Taiwanese style could certainly put you into carb overload, but for a once in a while morning option, why not? You can always walk around the block a few times afterwards, right?
Yung Ho Restaurant
533 W. Valley Blvd.
San Gabriel, CA 91778
(626) 570-0680
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Marketplace's Eve Troeh reports.
Huggies commercial: When it's a number two, I look like number one.
Eve Troeh: That's Huggies' ad for its "limited edition" blue jeans diapers, printed to look like real denim. They cost about 40 percent more than regular Huggies. They've been selling out online at Wal-Mart and Target.
Today, Pampers announced its new designer diapers in plaid, stripes and ruffles. They'll be sold exclusively at Target.
Amy Colton: Something kinda quirky and special for your baby, something to talk about with other moms.
Amy Colton is with Current Marketing. She says diapers have always been printed with teddy bears or rainbows, you know, kid stuff.
Colton: And it was really more about them. This is more about mom, to have a little more fun and infuse fashion into their mominess.
She says designer disposables extend the trend of Gucci diaper bags and Burberry strollers. And she says it's no coincidence they're out in time for hot weather, making it fashionable for babies to run around with their pants off.
I'm Eve Troeh for Marketplace.


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