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TECH SECTOR PUSHES POLICY AGENDA -- Michelle Quinn reports: "The tech industry's policy goals aren't getting aired at the kitchen tables of Americans who worry about gas prices, unemployment and the housing market. But Silicon Valley is hoping President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will embrace policies this campaign season that tech companies say will help innovation and ultimately improve the economy." More, for Pros: http://politico.pro/LHSf9k
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LOFGREN NOT SATISFIED WITH HOLDER'S ANSWER ON SEIZED SITE: Rep. Zoe Lofgren plans to follow up with Attorney General Eric Holder on the wrongful seizure of hip hop site Dajaz1 because his answer during yesterday's testimony wasn't "impressive," she said. Wired reported earlier this year that the government delayed returning the site's domain name, in part, so copyright holders could build a case against it. "Not only did I ask him about this in December, but prior to this hearing my staff told his staff to tell him the question I was going to be asking so he could be prepared to answer," Lofgren told MT. "I didn't think it was a very impressive answer, and to suppress free speech for a year with secret proceedings and no probable cause is a problem. ...It's not the way America is supposed to be."
AGAINST U.N. REGULATION OF THE NET -- Rep. Mary Bono Mack's resolution to ward off efforts to give the U.N. power to regulate the Web is gaining momentum in the House. The resolution now has 50 Energy and Commerce co-sponsors. The lawmaker expects all of them to join, a Bono Mack spokesman told MT. Before the resolution goes to a floor vote, Bono Mack will circulate to a "Dear Colleague" letter to gin up some more support. The resolution is likely to be part of a full committee markup later this month, according to a knowledgeable source.
CANTOR SPOX HITS BACK AT DURBIN COMMENTS — Sen. Dick Durbin said on the Senate floor Thursday that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's comments about how Congress was pretty much done legislating until the November election could leave the country vulnerable to a cyberattack. (See POLITICO's story from Seung Min Kim here: http://politi.co/LwadNF) Cantor spokeswoman Laena Fallon hit back by noting the House has passed a set of defense measures — including a bipartisan cybersecurity package — while the Senate has yet to act. "Instead of wasting time playing political paddy-cake on the Senate floor with his friends Leader Reid and Senator Schumer, Whip Durbin should urge his Senate leadership team to work with House Republicans to bolster our national security, prevent the largest tax hike in American history and get people back to work," Fallon told MT in a statement.
Good Friday morning and welcome to Morning Tech, where a map of the planet's most visited websites by country shows Google and Facebook dominate around the world — but, as The Atlantic's Rebecca J. Rosen points out, the "homogeneity masks the diversity; the top websites are the places we make our own." http://bit.ly/Lc7xSD
MT is what you make it, so send comments and tips to email@example.com or @ jesskamen. Find the crew's contact info below today's Speed Read and find Pro on Twitter @ POLITICOPro.
MICROSOFT STICKING TO ITS GUNS — Even after leading players working with W3C signaled that a "Do Not Track" system ought to be set to neutral, not to automatically on, Microsoft hasn't exactly backed down. Brendon Lynch, the company's chief privacy officer, said in a statement: "We are engaged with the W3C, as we are with many international standards bodies. While we respect the W3C's perspective, we believe that a standard should support a privacy by default choice for consumers." The company did not elaborate further.
Still, the W3C's top participants are making clear that nothing on their end is final. Aleecia McDonald, co-chair of the tracking protection group, noted in minutes published online this week that "it will be quite a while before we have a final recommendation with which to comply or not" — meaning that no one, as of now, can be considered in compliance or not. More: http://bit.ly/Lviptv
NO WORD FROM GRASSLEY ON VISA AGREEMENT — It has been two weeks since Sen. Chuck Grassley's office told POLITICO that "an agreement is underway that would allow Sen. Grassley to lift his hold on the Smith-Chaffetz bill." The bill, which passed the House, would lift country caps on work visas. The senator put a hold on the bill and, according to sources, wants more stringent audits of visa programs such as H-1B. Meanwhile, the Startup Act 2.0, which is in both the House and Senate, would lift the caps as well, among other things.
DHS APPROPS BILL PASSES, 234-182 — House lawmakers gave the green light to a $39.1 billion Homeland Security appropriations bill late Thursday night. That spending measure puts aside roughly $564 million for cyberdiagnostics and intrusion detection at DHS, as well as $45.3 million for the agency's National Protection and Programs Directorate and about $884 million for the National Cyber Security Division. "H.R. 5855 strengthens our nation's homeland security efforts by fully supporting frontline operations, immigration enforcement and disaster relief, and by providing key investments in cybersecurity, preparedness grants and research programs that promote job growth and innovation," said Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Robert Aderholt in a statement.
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GOOGLE CNIL REPLIES DUE TODAY — Google must answer by today another round of privacy questions issued in May by the CNIL, the data protection authority in France. Those regulators had pressed the company on changes it instituted March 1 that combine user data from search and YouTube — a move Europe's Article 29 Working Party had criticized, asked to be halted and ultimately tasked the CNIL with reviewing.
The purpose of the answers due today: The CNIL is hoping to "define its position and the potential improvements Google should bring to this policy to comply with the European data protection framework," it said in a late May release. Google did not comment to MT on its timing or next steps.
ALSO TODAY: NATIVE AFFAIRS HEARING ON USF — The House Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs holds a hearing on the "Federal Communications Commission's rule on the Universal Service Fund and its impact on American Indians and Alaska Natives," starting at 11 a.m. Witnesses include the FCC's Native Affairs and Policy Chief Geoffrey Blackwell, RUS Administrator Jonathan Adelstein, Sandwich Isles President Albert Hee, NTCA CEO Shirley Bloomfield, National Tribal Telecommunications Association President Bill Bryant and others. More info: http://bit.ly/NOD0wO
SCHIFF UNHAPPY WITH TIMES FOR LEAK — Rep. Adam Schiff is joining the growing chorus of lawmakers peeved with The New York Times for publishing information about Obama's cyberattacks. "I don't think The New York Times should have published it," Schiff, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, told MT on Thursday. "I don't see the public policy purpose in doing it. This is not a whistle blower situation. All it has done is harm the country. I think it was a very poor editorial judgment." The lawmaker recognized, however, that other papers have followed suit. "But The New York Times is not alone. There are many other papers that have similarly published damaging leaks, which may aggrandize the newspaper that publishes them or the anonymous leaker who supplied the information, but it does real damage to the country."
MARK YOUR CAL: EPIC PRIVACY EVENT — The privacy watchdog holds its big reception June 11, where EPIC will honor Sen. Al Franken, Judge Alex Kozinski and The Washington Post's Dana Priest and award lifetime achievements to Willis Ware and Whitfield Diffie. More on the event: http://epic.org/june11/
QUALCOMM PUSHES BACK ON FTC'S FILING TO ITC: Qualcomm's Sean Murphy, vice president of government affairs, took issue with the FTC's filing to the ITC, raising concerns that the ITC's issuance of exclusion orders in cases involving standards essential patents could potentially hurt U.S. competition, consumers and innovation.
Murphy said the FTC made points about a supposed problem without evidence to back it up. He adds that the battle over standard essential patents is "the clash of the titans in the smart phone operating systems and software space. The undue focus of the media and policy makers is on the idea of a broken standards system," he said. "There is little concrete data that the FTC can point to. Show us where the problem is."
CALIFORNIA REGULATORS TAKE NO POSITION ON VOIP BILL -- The California Public Utilities Commission's Legislative Subcommittee on Thursday declined to make a recommendation on a bill that would block state regulators from overseeing telephone calls that involve sending voice signals over the Internet. The CPUC subcommittee did suggest a list of amendments to the bill, which passed the state Senate and is heading to the Assembly. http://bit.ly/Lq9XkK
The bill, backed by AT&T and Verizon, also has the support of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, TechNet and TechAmerica. Critics say the bill is a way for telecommunications firms to escape regulations and some of their obligation to serve rural and poor communities. "This is part of a national tidal wave for the telecommunication industry to deregulate," said Samuel Kang of the Greenlining Institute. "They have succeeded in passing a version of this bill in more than 20 states."
ICYMI: BRILL TALKS TO MLEX ON FB KIDS PRIVACY -- FTC Commissioner Julie Brill told MLex that the "devil is going to be very much in the details" on whether Facebook can open its site to users under age 13 in a way that keeps with federal law and protects kids. More here: http://bit.ly/KYsseU
SPEED READ, by Brooks Boliek
CHEAPER IPLAN: The iPhone will become available this month on Virgin Mobile USA, Sprint's service for prepaid plans, where customers pay for the service as they use it, The New York Times reports. http://nyti.ms/KkuUrT
ERGAN DISHES ON TV: Dish Network Corp. Chairman Charlie Ergen told The Wall Street Journal a new ad-skipping feature that has infuriated major broadcast TV networks is a "competitively necessary" response to the explosion of cheap Internet video. http://on.wsj.com/JR6MNV
APPLE'S ON THE BARBIE: Apple will pay more than $2 million as penalty after agreeing it misled the public in Australia by selling its new iPad as 4G-compatible, The Australian reports. http://bit.ly/NQTCEg
GOOGLE WINS A ROUND: Apple Inc.'s patent-infringement lawsuit against Google's Motorola Mobility unit was tentatively dismissed by a federal judge, four days before it was scheduled to go to trial in Chicago, Bloomberg reports. http://bloom.bg/L6quHU
MOONING THE HADRON: The Large Hadron Collider's Pauline Gagnon describes in the Quantum Diaries the changing force exerted by the Moon as it orbits — the same thing that drives the tides — creates subtle differences in the position of the hardware within the LHC, according to Ars Technica. http://bit.ly/LyQEAb
LINKEDIN TALKS TO THE COPS: LinkedIn contacted police about the compromise of its users' passwords that hackers were actively cracking earlier this week, CNET reports. http://cnet.co/LAINlE
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The Lancaster Post of the State Highway Patrol announces an OVI checkpoint for Friday evening.
The checkpoint will take place in Fairfield County and is funded by federal grant funds. It is planned to deter and intercept impaired drivers.
Lt. Craig Cvetan commander of the Lancaster Post said, "Based on provisional data there were 429 OVI related fatal crashes in which 478 people were killed last year in Ohio.
State Troopers make on average of 25,000 OVI arrests each year. The location of the checkpoint will be announced Friday morning.

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The ancient Normans that arrived in England following the Conquest of 1066 are the initial ancestors from which the many generations of the Pettitt family have grown. The name Pettitt was given to a member of the family who was a small person, or the smaller of two people with the same given name. Pettit derives from the Anglo-Norman-French word petit, meaning small.
Pettitt Early Origins
Kent. The Petet variant is most interesting. "This family are known to have flourished at Ardevors, co. Cornwall, as early as the time of Henry I., and to have had a succession of six knights. The name was anciently written De Petyt, and it must therefore be local." [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lowe, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
Pettitt Spelling Variations
Pettitt Spelling Variations
The English language only became standardized in the last few centuries. For that reason, spelling variations are common among many Anglo-Norman names. The shape of the English language was frequently changed with the introduction of elements of Norman French, Latin, and other European languages; even the spelling of literate people's names were subsequently modified. Pettitt has been recorded under many different variations, including Pettit, Petit, Petitt, Petet and others.
Pettitt Early History
Pettitt Early History
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Pettitt research. Another 225 words (16 lines of text) covering the years 1400, 1641 and 1707 are included under the topic Early Pettitt History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Pettitt Early Notables (pre 1700)
Pettitt Early Notables (pre 1700)
Outstanding amongst the family at this time was Alexander Petit, also known as Alexander de Balscot, (died 1400), an English-born, leading Irish cleric of the late fourteenth century, holding the offices of Bishop of Ossory, Bishop of Meath...
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Pettitt In Ireland
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The Great Migration
The Great Migration
To escape the uncertainty of the political and religious uncertainty found in England, many English families boarded ships at great expense to sail for the colonies held by Britain. The passages were expensive, though, and the boats were unsafe, overcrowded, and ridden with disease. Those who were hardy and lucky enough to make the passage intact were rewarded with land, opportunity, and social environment less prone to religious and political persecution. Many of these families went on to be important contributors to the young nations of Canada and the United States where they settled. Pettitts were some of the first of the immigrants to arrive in North America:
Pettitt Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
Pettitt Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century
Pettitt Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century
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Contemporary Notables of the name Pettitt (post 1700)
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What to bring from your trip in Colombia
What to bring from your trip in Colombia Reviews
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What to Bring from your Trip to Colombia Apr 13, 2006
1. A Bracelet with Colombian flag (Whenever Colombians travel, they take some of these with them and give them to people they meet. It's so nice!)
2. Handmade jewelry: earrings, necklaces, bracelets from materials as totumo, tagua, coconut, Iraca palm, asai.. There are so many and they are all beautiful and unique.
3. Colombian Coffee from Juan Valdez. You must absolutely bring some Colombian coffee to share with your family and friends.
4. A Mochilla. A handmade bag in natural colors (beige, brown) that is really nice to wear during the summer.
5. Arequipe. Veeeery sweet muss that you eat with waffles or by spoons :) Colombians put it in different kinds of deserts.
6. A Chiva. Little porcelain or wooden colorful bus that is typical in Colombia. Usually you can see it in the mountains packed with people, fruits, luggage, animals and everything else. In the cities Chiva is like a moving disco that has music and takes people around town.
7. If they allow you, a fresh mango or any other exotic fruit such as granadilla, lulo, guayaba or papaya.
8. A CD with salsa, merengue, cumbia and vallenato song to enjoy during cold long evenings.
9. a Sombrero - typical handmade hat that people wear in the coast of Colombia.
10. Smile :) This is guaranteed after spending some days in Colombia, getting to know its nice people and wonderful culture.
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FBI rounds up seven Valley residents amid drug investigation
Tue, 19 Nov 2013 21:40:00 GMT —
FBI agents rounded up seven Rio Grande Valley residents who allegedly ran a drug smuggling operation that moved heroin, cocaine and marijuana to Washington DC.
Teams of FBI agents spanned Hidalgo County on Monday and arrested the following seven people:
Armando Christian Gamez, 43 Carlos Adame Benavidez, 47 Ashley Rose Nuez, 24 Gabriel Adame Benavidez, 41 Juan Antonio Saldaa De Leon, 22 Anna Luisa Jaime, 48 Ricardo Jaime Jr, 25
Court records shows that four of the suspects were arrested in Edinburg and three of them were arrested in Pharr.
According to federal indictment filed in Washington DC on Monday , the seven are among nine members of a drug trafficking group that ran drugs from the border to the DC metro area.
Differents members of the organization are accused of charges ranging from drug trafficking to money laundering.
In addition to the criminal charges, federal prosecutors are using the RICO statute to seize any property or cash profits made by the group.


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i have problem after 3-5 mins game crash
i have problem after 3-5 mins game crash
try it guys its work..... goood luck
instal this : VisualStudio.com
MSVCP80.DLL is from Visual Studio 2005
MSVCP90.DLL is from Visual Studio2008
MSVCP100.DLL is from Visual Studio 2010
MSVCP110.DLL is from Visual Studio 2012
MSVCP120.DLL is from Visual Studio 2013
for more information how install ,see this video : youtube.com/watch?v=jp_bQ5CfBTY or youtube.com/watch?v=KdfZHfcByO0
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I see that a lot of people are getting errors with the version.
For everyone that has these errors, did you have any issues with the previous version?
If the answer is no, then add this program to the Anti-Virus exceptions list.
Anouther thing, take a look at these posts, as they may help solve some issues regarding the missing Dll Error(msvcr120d.dll) and others:
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is not work in 32 bit !!! can u make hack for exp fore windows 32 ?
Well it does nothing,when i launch AVA it givs some kind of error and i press OK,then AVA starts,i select what i want from the hack but nothing changes,and the hack says AVA is on and working...Help?
Omfg a lot of problems .
If u want to make this hack work u need to have Windows 7 x64 SP1 becouse of Visual Studio 2013 .
If u dont have Visual Studio u get error with dll .
Now I need to install SP1 Pack and VS 2013 , if dont work I f*** this game .
I have Win7 64bit and couldnt get the hack to run without crashing, I then tried running the hack in XP SP2 compatibility mode and it works perfect.
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A THIRD suspicious package has been discovered in the same region south of Perth where highly volatile explosive chemicals were recently found.
Bomb squad technicians are at a disused caravan park at Peppermint Grove Beach in the Capel region working to render the area safe, a police spokesman said.
The spokesman said roadblocks were in place around the caravan park.
The discovery comes after a Tactical Response Group dawn raid of a Bunbury home on Friday, which led to a man being taken into custody for questioning over the chemicals.
Last Tuesday, a member of the public discovered about 3kg of the substance - TATP - hidden underwater near a jetty at Leschanault Estuary, Australind.
A second package was found at the same site 36 hours later.
Both packages were destroyed in controlled detonations.
On Friday, police resumed scouring the waterway, having previously scaled back the search for more of the chemicals.
Four jetties were cleared on Friday, Deputy Commissioner Chris Dawson said.
Road blocks have been put in place at the raided house on Moore Street and at an industrial facility in Harris Road, Picton, which is believed to be the workplace of the man in custody.
Police guards are at both locations, which are not at this stage considered unsafe and have been declared 'protected forensic areas'.
Homes in the Peppermint Grove Beach area may be evacuated while the package is detonated, police say.
"The only location that we are presently concerned about is the Peppermint Grove caravan park," Mr Dawson said.
He said the four jetties were not considered unsafe, but divers would search the entire estuary on Saturday.
"That will be an ongoing operation," Mr Dawson said.
"We have no reason to believe at this point there are any matters that will cause any immediate (risks) to the safety of the public, but we are broadening our search and that's because we need to be thorough."
He said no charges had yet been laid against the man in custody.
TATP, also known as "Mother of Satan", was used in the London terrorist bombings in 2005.
It is created through the chemical reaction between hydrogen peroxide and acetone, is highly volatile, and particularly susceptible to heat, friction and shock.
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As Belgium reels from the recent terror attacks and the likes of Burkina Faso are still coming to terms with the hotel siege that saw at least 30 people killed in January, a recently published report highlights the heavy toll that terrorist activities can take from both a human and broader socio-economic perspective.
The report, says Nigeria's This Day, which is part of a Post-Insurgency Recovery and Peace-building Assessment, an intervention programme involving the World Bank, European Union and the UN with the six northeastern states, found that about 20,000 people have been killed since the start of the Boko Haram insurgency in Borno State, putting the cost of destruction at an estimated USD 5.9bn.
The report laid bare the extent of the damage since the insurgency began in 2009 and which at one point saw the Islamists control swathes of territory across the north-east.
Assessments in each of the states were carried out in areas including education, health care, water, sanitation, housing, municipal buildings, energy, environment, transport, economy and business. In Borno, sources conversant reportedly said that some 20,000 citizens are thought to have been killed during the violence – a higher figure than previous estimates. In addition, the majority of the more than 2 million internally displaced persons came from the state.
In the 27 local government districts that make up the state, the fighting destroyed or damaged the following: 956,453 (nearly 30%) out of 3,232,308 private houses;5,335 classrooms and school buildings in 512 primary, 38 secondary and two tertiary institutions; 1,205 municipal, local government or ministry buildings; 76 police stations; 35 electricity offices. Others include 14 prison buildings; 201 health centres; 1,630 water sources; 726 power sub-stations and distribution lines. In some areas such as Bama, the destruction was near total, with only 20% of houses unscathed. The report also estimated that parks, game, forest and grazing reserves, orchards, river basins and lakes have been poisoned in 16 of the 27 areas, and 470,000 livestock killed or stolen.
The source close to the Borno State Government said the report has yet to be approved by the World Bank and a decision was expected soon on funding. The federal and the six state governments are also expected to provide counterpart funds to demonstrate commitment.
But given the cost of the damage – about USD 5.9bn – and Nigeria's struggling economy caused by the global oil shock, matching external funding for reconstruction could be problematic, the source added. The World Bank in Nigeria reportedly declined to comment. Boko Haram remains a major concern not just for Nigeria but indeed in the neighbouring countries and will continue to be a major headache for the Buhari administration which despite claims to the contrary, is struggling to achieve its promise to wipe out the insurgency.


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October 21 - 26, 2014
The Festival website launches on August 15th, 2014. Check back for complete Festival details, find out about our 86 events and learn a bit more about our 103 authors. In the meantime, have a look at our Festival book list and get a head-start on your Festival reading.
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The VERA (VEstal Review Award) is the award for a flash fiction story under 500 words published by any magazine in print or online in the previous year. The winning selection receives a prize of $100 and a publication in Vestal Review, and the runner-up entry gets publication in Vestal Review at our usual terms.
2/1/17 Accepting submissions for Award 2016 (administered in 2017)
Award 2015 (administered in 2016)
This is the award for stories published in 2015.
1st place: When the Bough Breaks By Jayne Martin Nominated by Midwestern Gothic
2nd place: The Box of Skinny Women By Ingrid Jendrzejewski Nominated by The Conium Review
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12/15/16. The semi-finalists are selected. Please vote for your favorites. The two finalists will be selected based on the combination of the voting and the decision of the editors. The voting will close on December 30, 2016. The stories are posted below.
1/3/17. The voting is extended until 1/10/17.
1/12/17. The winners are announced. They were chosen as the combination of the voting and the decision of the editors.
The submissions for the 2016 VERA award are open.
by Elizabeth Wade
Nominated by Weirderary
You were everywhere that summer, summer of the research lab, summer of the white coat, summer when I learned how energy can move through the air unnoticed. I thought it sounded a lot like love, the way something you cannot see can take hold of your body, can seep into your cells. I never said the word, but my body knew. Each weekend, as I left my job and drove toward the city we'd picked from the map, my skin would quicken, even the air on it too much some days. Calculations were my distraction: if two cars leave two different cities at the same time and drive toward each other, how soon will they meet? To answer, you must know what separates them. To answer, you must know how fast each party is moving. I never knew these things, never knew how to predict when I would find you. I only knew that I must find you, knew the number of hours we had was finite, no more than fifty-six per weekend. I remember how each Monday I left you, sleeping, and drove straight to the lab. I remember the comfort of ritual, how I donned my white coat and unclipped the badge from its left breast pocket, how I reported to the technicians for clearance to work another week. I never understood just how the device functioned, though I loved the sound of it: thermoluminescent dosimeter. Each Monday, I fumbled for caffeine while technicians hovered over my badge, measuring the amount of light emanating from the space near my heart. Each week, they assured me the risks were minimal, said I hadn't yet gotten too close.
My father is Trying to Set the World Record for Days Spent Petting a Shark
by Nancy Stohlman
Nominated by Blink-Ink
The trick, he says, is to just lightly move the fingers. The shark has the frozen, unimpressed expression of all sharks. Are you coming home for dinner?
I can't stop now, he said. It's only been 9 hours. It's about goals, he added. Your mother never taught you the importance of having a real goal.
The Box of Skinny Women
By Ingrid Jendrzejewski
Nominated by The Conium Review
I have a box of skinny women that I keep under my bed. It is a small box as the women are, indeed, very skinny. I get them out once in a while when I'm not able to sleep. Somehow, leafing through their paper hearts and dusty smiles helps me make sense of living.
Once upon a time, I was a skinny woman too. I slid through days, hardly parting the wind. Nobody could see me when approaching my flat sides. Then, one day, I grew large and unwieldy; gravity began to tug at my heartstrings, making them fray. Once my footsteps started causing sink-holes, time started to snap at my heels. Now, when I sing, people's teeth shake.
I used to think about evicting the skinny women. I imagined myself dumping the box in a skip without even opening it to say goodbye. I imagined the skinny women in filthy darkness, drowning in chicken bones and coffee grounds. I imagined them clinging together, wondering where they are, their pancake bodies shifting over each other and fluttering.
But then, every time I got close to acting, I would hear their faint voices seeping through the mattress and I would wonder whether the skinny women had a future. In recent years, I have had a stomach for many things, but never for atrocity. Now that I am larger than life, anything might be possible.
When the Bough Breaks
By Jayne Martin
Nominated by Midwestern Gothic
If they don't get here soon, he is sure he will bust wide open. The bright yellow lily he'd picked for her this morning was already starting to wilt in the muggy heat of the Iowa noon.
Seems like it was just spring when his father had carried him up the ladder to a thicket of Juniper branches where four tiny spotted eggs rested among the carefully-arranged twigs of a sparrow's nest.
"It's no bigger than that right now," his father explained.
He'd seen babies before, watched as his Aunt Ellen grew large and round as a pumpkin with his cousin Ray. He knew they took a lot longer to hatch than sparrows. His mother, too, had grown large and round as a pumpkin. Some days she could barely get off the sofa. Her ankles had become thick purple rivers emptying into swollen ponds of flesh that he would rub as she stroked his head and called him her good boy.
"She's going to depend on you to protect her, you know," his mother had said.
He could do that. He was good at protecting things. When their barn cat tried to climb up to the sparrow nest, he'd chased it away with the hose and it never tried that again. He would hold her hand when they walked to school bus, and teach her how to tell the good snakes from the bad ones, and when it thundered so loudly that their whole cabin shook and lightning lit up the sky for miles around, he would hide his own fear so that she would feel safe.
By then the baby sparrows had flown off, all but one that he had found lying stiff and cold at the base of the tree. When he had cried, his father said that was just nature's way sometimes, and together they had buried it and said a prayer.
He had clung to his mother's skirt while his father half-walked, half-carried her to their car. They told him not to worry about the blood that trailed from their doorway.
Soon dusk would begin to cast shadows like ghosts across their land. Still, he waited.
Nature was especially unforgiving that year.
Ways to Mourn an Asshole
by Venita Blackburn
Nominated by Baltimore Review
Once is not enough. Believe in Santa and Jesus and Clark and Bruce but only 'til daylight. Remember not to be a child. Pretend to be ill. Wear black slacks. Pray. Cut your hair without a mirror. Buy a casket. Use the casket. Invite all of the friends. Invite no one at all. Bury the empty casket. Collect the ashes. Hold the ashes. Kick the ashes with your heel. Be glad the plastic did not break. Put the ashes away for later. Play basketball. Write an obituary. Remember not to be small. Go hunting. Go mountain climbing. Remember to be very strong. Look at your muscles. Touch your abs. Remember to be proud. Take out the death certificates. Make copies of the death certificates. Draw penises on the back of the copies. Draw faces on the penises. Put the originals away for the insurance company. Open the ashes. Smell the ashes. Cough. Feel a little sick, and shake it off. Put the ashes in glass containers. Pretend they are Canopic jars. Pretend to be a pharaoh. Pretend these are the organs of ancestors. Pretend to come from greatness. Remember not to be afraid. Put one jar outside for the rain. Kill ants outside with an index finger while the rain falls. Remember to be big. Go inside. Open the plastic bag from the hospital full of clothes. Take out the wallet. Pocket a hundred and sixty eight dollars. Look at the driver's license. Pull out the belt. Wear the belt. Remember to get fat enough to fit the belt. Collect the jar of wet ashes. Drop the license inside. Take the license out and wipe it off. Put the jar of ashes and rain in the freezer. Take it out of the freezer the next day. Sit it out on the fence. Find your hunting rifle. Fire one shot. Miss. Fire again. Don't miss. Remember not to care. Remember there are other jars left.
Award 2014 (administered in 2015)
This is the award for stories published in 2014.
Update: All the nominations have already been submitted by the magazines' editors.
Update: The first stage of the process is completed now. We have selected 4 semi-finalists. Please vote for your favorites. It would help us to select the winning two. The voting will close on May 15, 2015. The stories are posted below.
Update: The results of the award are in. Our editors selected four semi-finalists, and then the readers voted. We received 473 votes.
"Fireworks" by Matthew Fogarty, originally published in Pithead Chapel, was chosen as the recipient of the award. "Resurrection Man: A Litany" by Sarah Banse, originally published in Harvard Review, was chosen as the runner-up. The winner receives $100 and publication in Vestal Review, and the runner up publication and an honorarium.
Resurrection Man: A Litany
You Will See a Bright White Light
Strange Animals
Fireworks ( Pithead Chapel)
by Matthew Fogarty
We were on the granite coast with the sun going down and the fireworks starting. There was the park with the army-green grass faded in the dusk and you and I were on the swings watching new stars shoot out over the ocean and you said you'd never seen those colors before. I didn't believe you at first. I said every kid's seen sparklers against the red sun, even kids from the desert. Though as soon as I said it I realized you weren't looking at the sky, you were looking at my cheek, which was a purpling sting.
They left me at the edge of the cliff above the beach, while below, they lit dazzlers and fountains and roman candles, shot yellow globes up into the gray. It was beautiful but seemed like a waste, all that money and whatever just for a few seconds of skyglow. Then you were back with light in your hand, like you'd caught one and saved it. You had a towel and dabbed at my forehead, kept saying you'd never seen anything like it. That's when I thought this might be something.
I thought I had it wrong when you went back inside without saying anything. You had that look, both at his vincible wreck and my bleeding lips, one of those last looks like you were storing the image of it—our sweaty hair and the bruised ground—to remind yourself never to go through this park again. The others thought it was all so funny, the way he and I went at each other, our lousy ocean legs and arms swimming slow. But my chest felt like you'd gotten a shot in before you left, knocked the wind out of my lungs.
There was the guy who thought you were his, grabbed at you with words and hands that'd worked with other women. I stepped in between and he got mad and there we were in the park near the swingset and the sandlot with thick red gloves swinging drunken punches. They circled us; you sat on the low end of the teeter-totter. I clipped the side of his head and he followed hard with a right. I fell backward, recovered, came running at him, and didn't stop when his hair hit dirt.
We were the only ones awake in the early morning house. I made coffee, asked who you were with. You said no one. There was that smile. We ate eggs on the porch as the fog burned off and we wondered if you could see the fireworks from space, whether the moon would feel lonely in its orbit, would strain to reflect their firelight the way it reflects the sun. Or whether the stars could be jealous we replace them so easily—just gunpowder and flames.
Resurrection Man: A Litany (Harvard Review)
By Sarah Martin Banse
Before Dr. George Parkman disappeared from Boston on that fine November afternoon, the Friday before Thanksgiving in 1849; before he stopped for groceries for his family; before he went to Quincy Market and bought a most extravagant head of lettuce for his institutionalized daughter, Harriet; before he went to the medical college, where ghastly dissections were performed, flesh ripped from bodies and carcasses dumped in the Charles River; before he went to collect a debt from Harvard chemistry professor John Webster, a long-time friend and fellow parishioner at New North Church—
Before Ephraim Littlefield, janitor and Resurrection Man, read of the $3,000 reward for the discovery of George Parkman's body; before Littlefield spent the day digging in the dark through five layers of brick among sewage, waste, and body parts; before he spotted a pelvis, genitals still intact, in the bowels of John Webster's private privy—
Before Marshall Francis Tukey was hired to clean up the city and take care of the Irish; before he and his Constable, Deratus Clapp, arrested John Webster; before they discovered teeth and hair in Webster's office furnace; before they found the dismembered body parts seemingly belonging to George Parkman; before sixty thousand people witnessed the trial in fifteen-minute shifts for eleven days; before the jury deliberated for three hours, two hours and fifty-five minutes of which they prayed; before John Webster was sentenced to death and hanged before a crowd of thousands at the Leverett Street Jail—
—there was George Parkman, landlord and shylock, who tended his debtors with a watchful eye.
George Parkman, not lovingly referred to as "The Chin," ill-natured, stingy, and shrewd. A man not opposed to taking a mother's last dollar for groceries or medicine when the rent was owed; a man determined to call in his note to John Webster. And so he followed him in the street, appeared at his home, interrupted his lectures, generous no more. There was the amiable and round John Webster, who had wasted his inheritance on minerals and rocks and could not survive on his Harvard salary, for he was unable to deny his wife and four daughters their lavish parties or beautiful gowns. John Webster, who had nothing left to mortgage and who sought out the benevolence of friends like George Parkman when institutions would no longer lend to him. John Webster, who confessed to the killing but declared his crime an act of passion, if only to end Parkman's constant taunting.
Afterward, the City of Boston was known for gentlemen butchering gentlemen, and Webster's lab became a destination for the likes of Charles Dickens. Afterward, Governor George Briggs noted that capital punishment united the imbecile, the Negro, and the Harvard professor. Afterward, a collection of twenty thousand dollars was taken up for the widow Webster and her girls, the widow Parkman contributing five hundred dollars to the fund. Afterward, John Webster was buried in an unmarked grave on Copps Hill so the Resurrection Men wouldn't nab him.
You Will See a Bright White Light (Tin House online, February 2014)
By Jill Kronstadt
It is what it is, and before that, it was what it was: night, the marks of your hooves in the lawn, the vegetal burst of daylilies between your teeth and on your tongue. You will see your herdmate raise her head from the shrubbery, nostrils flared, ears flicking to reassure herself that there is nothing to hear. You will stride across the gravel driveway and the crickets will break their cadence as you push clumsily through a hedge, but then they will resume, and you will amble toward the thing that pulls you.
If you are truly hungry, you can easily cross the line of human urine whose scent rises up in whorls between you and the garden. You can leap over the white fence that loops through the white gate, and when you land you will be up to your knees in cabbages just starting to form heads, so sweet after first frost; and pungent feathers will tickle your legs to remind you that they are attached to carrots, their flavor a bell that rings in your mouth. On a trellis, a miraculous late crop of pole beans will wave gently to offer leaves and pods both, because this is heaven, and you are for now a trespasser.
At night on the road, so many of your herdmates become apparitions that fly out of the woods, clatter across the gaze of a car's headlights and then hurtle out of sight again. The driver feels the terror of having missed catastrophe; you slip between tree trunks, and the smell of earth and bitten bark and broken foliage settles into the fragrance of peace.
From the garden, you will see the slow drip of headlights along the road and feel that you are safe. Your herdmate will follow you over the white fence and tear the pole beans from their trellis. You will hear her breathing and chewing and the soft grunts of your own satiated hunger. When a pair of lights widens and moves toward the driveway, you will vault back over the fence toward the road and snort, tails up, to warn each other of danger. When night enfolds you again, you will slow to a walk and stop to graze together on the shoulder.
When the lights return, they will be an apocalyptic silver that bolts through your veins. Your herdmate will bound into white nothingness. You will try to follow, and as your hooves touch the road's surface you will see the light sluicing over her silhouette, beautiful and luminous, before she vanishes up the embankment and you float, weightless as breath, gently calibrating your last moment of being before the long scream of tires on asphalt announces your return to the garden.
Strange Animals (Witness XXVII.3 Winter 2014)
By Jennifer Pashley
Jost kept a crow, the size of a chicken, lame and broken-winged, in his shirt. He carried it next to his breast, where it listened to his heart, became his true love, his companion. Its oiled black head, a comfort under his thumb. Those were the last days, before the war, before the Germans came through and tossed babies in the air like skeet, shooting them before their fathers dug their own graves. Before people stood in line for rookwurst water. Then, there were mussels from the sea. A waving field of flowers, bright under the sun. When the crow learned to speak, he said fiets, calling for the bicycle, riding with Jost along the canal, under his shirt, the only way he still felt like flying.
The deer mother lay dead on the side of the highway, but the baby, steps behind, wobbled into the yard. Ida bottle-fed it in the kitchen, months, waiting for her own baby. It slept, curled at the foot of the bed like a big dappled dog. Female. No antlers burgeoned at the crown. The baby, female. No threat burgeoning below. When the baby came, Melvin let the deer go. The smell of a small human, the milk that came from Ida, more than the yearling could bear. It wouldn't come up the step, but stood in the yard, looking in, lowering its head the way a dog stakes out prey. When it left, Ida watched it for a long time, its hind legs leaping, the tail, a soft white beacon, way into the trees.
Queenie was shot. My grandmother's dog, who looks just like my dog now, a sleek, velvet-headed rat terrier. The house on Sleepy Hollow Road burned down to the foundation, nothing but char and ash and smoke for days. And Queenie, shivering in her haunches with no place to go after, met the barrel of a neighbor's rifle. Twelve pounds of nothing.
My mother kept a woodchuck named Beaufort. It stayed in the house like a domestic cat, kept to a litter box it made itself out of rolls of toilet paper, wadded up in the cellar way. If you gave him a can of beer, the woodchuck could open it with his prehistoric hands, and lay on his back and drink the whole thing. He'd stumble around the house after, drunk, knocking into furniture, dropping the can on the kitchen floor, until he passed out on his back. He learned what he saw. If he could speak, he might shout out with anger. He might drive the car off the road.
Across town, my brother shoots a mouse with a CO2 gun as it runs across the kitchen counter. Only the back is hit, the legs limp, and it spirals in frenzied terror, trailing its own guts, screaming. My kid shouts, Shoot it again, to end it, but the violence is inherited. It comes to us in our blood, in our hands. We leave our prints on the wall, running down hallways toward light. The only way we feel like flying.


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Beach Bistro scores near perfect in Zagat ranking
STAFF REPORT – Herald Tribune
Beach Bistro on Anna Maria Island was again awarded the highest Zagat Ranking for food excellence in Florida: a 28 out of a possible 30 points.
The Bistro also scored 27 points out of 30 for service.
Owner Sean Murphy was understandably pleased: "Twenty-eight for food and 27 for service are the highest scores in the state and some of the highest in the country. Higher scores have been increasingly difficult to accomplish. The numbers arrived on my birthday — it was a very special gift."


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Holding Hands
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I really enjoyed doing this painting. The children are holding hands and talking as they are about to walk across over the bridge. The kids are my neighbors grandkids, she was taking them to the park.
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So last week Zack Synder spoke about how good the Batman & Superman suits looked next to each other and that was with no one in them, he said this is going to make superhero history.
Then costume designer Michael Wilkinson tweeted on March 9
"Great photo shoot today with amazing photographer Steven Simko http://www.simkophoto.com - stand by for awesome photos in the next few weeks...." So the photos have been taken. And we could expect them any day with in "the next few weeks".
Kevin Smith has gone on record as saying he was lucky enough to see a photo of his buddy Affleck in the suit. The writer-director explained in his Fatman On Batman podcast (via Comic Book Therapy) that the photo he saw of Batman's new suit was set on a rooftop, and actually included Superman!
Smith says: I have seen the suit. I did this Man Of Steel Yahoo, fan event when the DVD came out. I was hosting Zack Snyder was there, Amy Adams, we had Henry Cavill from satellite over in the UK, and you know it was all about Man of Steel. And at one point Zack talked a little bit about the future and Batman Vs Superman, but when the show was all done, Zack was all like, 'Kev come here, come here.' He takes me over to the corner and whips out his phone, and he shows me a picture of Batman. Live action version of Batman. A very familiar Batman, I might add. It didn't look like any of the cinematic Batmans that have ever gone before.
He shows me that picture and behind Batman… Superman, in the suit, looming in the distance. Both on a roof top kind of thing. It was on a set, a little set they put together for this photo shoot. So I was like 'Oh my god! Is that the suite?! The suit looks amazing! Did you get people to model it?' And he goes, 'That's your boy.' And I look closely and it's Ben Affleck wearing the suit. The suit, it is not mine to spill, in terms of what it looks like, you'll see it. They'll tell you when they want you to know, but any Batman fan is going to be pleased. I'm going to tell you that right now. They gave you the suit you all wanted to see."
So ever since Kevin Smith spoke about the suits I can stop thinking about the Batman suit, Whats it going to be?
This suit with some light but strong armor would be amazing next to Superman.
Lets take a look back at the Bat suits from the past Bat suits
I like all the Bat suits to be honest but would love to see Jim Lee or Frank Miller inspired suit.
Frank Miller suit from the dark knight returns:
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"DEUS É BOM PRA MIM" in English means "God is good to me." This line of verse is a refrain from a children's bible song. Everyone sang this beautiful melody at Casa Betesda before lunch each day. They sang this song to motivate their guests or themselves. We joined them in the chorus to celebrate their optimism and let them know even people from thousands mile away also care for them. This convinced us that volunteering for the CIIP was one of the best decisions we have made in our lives!
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Ruling says tax-increment financing must begin immediately
Tax-increment financing is something that just can't wait.
The Colorado Court of Appeals has affirmed a court ruling from one year ago that favored the Arapahoe County Assessor's Office and its strict interpretation of the legally accepted timeline for when such approved financing plans should begin in a city's urban-renewal areas.
In 2015, then-Arapahoe County Assessor Corbin Sakdol was sued by the City of Aurora and the Aurora Urban Renewal Authority in a challenge to his interpretation of a state law on the start date of such plans.
Tax-increment financing is a tool municipal governments can use to finance the redevelopment of so-designated "blighted" property by diverting property taxes that would have been collected by counties, school districts and special districts for up to 25 years to help pay off certain costs associated with urban renewal.
In 2014, the City of Aurora approved two urban-renewal plans, each with its own tax-increment provisions, including a delayed start date of up to three years in some areas.
Sakdol, who retired in January, determined the 25-year clock was to begin as soon as the plans were adopted. Aurora filed an unsuccessful lawsuit in district court disputing that contention.
"Nothing in the plain language of [state statute] permits an urban-renewal plan's [tax-increment financing] provision to have a start date that is different than the effective date of approval of the plan itself," stated Sakdol's legal argument as now affirmed by both courts.
Assessor Marc Scott, who was appointed to the position upon term-limited Sakdol's voluntary retirement two months ago, was gratified by the Court of Appeals' decision.
"We are pleased that once again the courts have reaffirmed our interpretation of Colorado law as it pertains to urban -renewal authorities and [tax-increment financing]," Scott said. "We look forward to working with our municipalities and urban-renewal authorities on future projects that will benefit the citizens of Arapahoe County."
Aurora could appeal the case to the state Supreme Court.
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text: Lloyd's Register has won the classification contract for four 155,000 cu-m Technigaz Mk III membrane-type LNG carriers, ordered by BP Shipping at Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) with a further four options. These ships are the largest LNG carriers ordered to date. The ships are also noteworthy in that they will have dual fuel diesel electric propulsion and will be the first LNG ships with this type of propulsion to be built in Korea. Only a handful of LNG carriers in the world feature this form of propulsion, with most owners and operators opting for steam turbines. The last of the first four ships will be built at Hyundai's Samho yard, representing this particular yard's first LNG carrier. The BP ships are intended for trade in the Atlantic basin and will serve, among others, Trinidad and Tobago's Atlantic LNG project, the UK, the US and Spain. Lloyd's Register already classes three of BP Shipping's LNG carriers, all built at Samsung and delivered in 2002-2003: British Trader, British Innovator and British Merchant. "The winning of this contract confirms Lloyd's Register's position as the number one classification society for LNG carriers," says Tony Bingham, Lloyd's Register's Global LNG Business Manager. "Our technical experience and expertise, coupled with an unrivalled number of fully trained and qualified LNG surveyors uniquely enables us to provide shipowners and yards with the high quality classification service they require."


text: Delighted for them. My Dad used to work over in Burton and the company had tickers for Albion, so l remember those days! Who says it has to stop at the Championship too? Sheffield Wednesday were languishing for years and could well be in the Premier League next year. Hull went from the bottom to the top, Bournemouth did it, Leicester too. What a story that would be.


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Irritated by his players' casual approach to a 9:15 a.m. practice Friday, Maryland Coach Mark Turgeon kicked them out of the gym after less than 30 minutes. Then, after giving them the day to reflect on it, Turgeon reconvened the squad for an evening workout, scuttling any players' plans for a night out.
Whether the lesson in tough love helped the Terrapins shoot any better or defend more vigorously is an open question. But the Maryland team that took the court at Comcast Center on Saturday posted its most decisive victory of the season, defeating Samford, 75-63, to extend its record to 9-3 with a sixth consecutive win.
Sophomore Terrell Stoglin matched his career high with six three-pointers to pace the Terps with 24 points. Freshman Nick Faust came off the bench to shake his shooting slump, adding 13 points, including three three-pointers, and dishing out four assists with just one turnover.
And point guard Pe'Shon Howard (team-high nine rebounds) and center Alex Len (13 points, seven rebounds) got two more starts under their belts.
After barely squeaking past a series of mid-major opponents in recent weeks, Maryland built a healthy enough second-half lead (twice topping 20 points) for Turgeon to reward all six walk-ons with playing time in the waning minutes — a show of appreciation for their work in helping Howard, Len and the short-handed Terps through trying times.
"They bring it every day," Turgeon said of Jacob Susskind, Arnold Richmond, Spencer Barks, Jon Dillard, John Auslander and Jonathan Thomas, who were cheered on by the starters. "It meant a lot to everyone in our locker room that they got in today."
That's not to say that Maryland cruised to victory.
After Stoglin drilled a three-pointer early in the second half to extend Maryland's lead to 47-31, the Terps went 3 minutes 26 seconds without a field goal. And after leading by 21, Maryland eased up on defense, allowing Samford to pull within 13.
Moreover, in bruising tussles in the paint, Maryland's big men were shoved around too easily and denied what should have been straightforward put-backs.
And the young Terps have yet to close a game authoritatively — or display anything resembling a killer instinct.
Still, the victory marked another step forward, with only one more nonconference game (Tuesday against 4-7 Cornell) before Maryland's Jan. 8 ACC season opener against N.C. State.
"It's very good for us to get these types of wins," Howard said. "With Alex and I coming back, it helped us a lot. It changed our team. The first game that I played [Dec. 23], the offense played a little bit better but [the victory was] still close. With Alex, the offense played a lot better, but still close. Every game is us growing."
Maryland's first two offensive plays were scripted for Len, who was fouled each time. It put the Bulldogs on notice that they'd have to guard the 7-foot-1 center closely, which helped free up Stoglin.
Maryland didn't make things terribly difficult for Samford (3-9) on its end of the court, allowing the Bulldogs to hit 50 percent of their shots through the first 12 minutes. With improved defense, Maryland took a 44-31 lead to the break.
In a 30-second span, Faust struck twice from long range to put the Terps ahead, 58-38. Turgeon was pleased with the freshman's shot selection on only one of those attempts, shouting "Bad shot!" as the ball left his hands.
But by game's end, the coach said he was happy for Faust, given how hard he has worked on his shooting and the effort he pours into rebounding and defending.
Said Faust: "It was definitely a great thing — a confidence booster. I get on myself a little bit about shooting, but I just have to push through it and keep mentally tough and mentally strong."


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Democrat Northam wins Virginia governor's race. Here's who turned out to vote
- published: 08 Nov 2017
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Democrats picked up wins in the two biggest races of the 2017 elections. Ralph Northam outpaced Republican Ed Gillespie in the Virginia\'s governor\'s race, while Phil Murphy is projected to easily win in New Jersey. Judy Woodruff sits down with Stu Rothenberg of Inside Elections to explore the results and demographics....


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MORE than 150 law firms have signed up to join the new national Solicitors' Trust network for small practices aimed at localised legal markets.
And about 10,000 potential clients have asked for a copy of the booklet which outlines the services provided by the network's member firms.
The response comes after the launch of a massive £10,000-per week marketing campaign highlighted by a joint promotion with The Daily Mail.
Steve Royal, the trust's sales and marketing director, said the scheme would offer local firms, which join by invitation, the benefit of a large marketing campaign.
Royal said: "Now the thing has started, people are beginning to take an interest. I think there are people who read about it who don't have a solicitor, who hopefully will be needing the services of one in the foreseeable future.
"If we got 4 or 5 per cent of people wanting to see their solicitor in the next couple of months then I will be delighted."
The booklet covers trusts and tax planning, personal injury and crime, and comes with a card offering a free half-hour consultation with a member firm.


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From misdemeanours to more serious violations of the law, like murder, crime has long featured in the news headlines. Many early Australian newspapers, like the Sydney scandal sheet Truth, sensationalised crimes to increase their circulation. The mid- to late-19th century Australian press often adopted a rich and expressive vocabulary, especially in its descriptions of the scandalous indiscretions of the nation's convicts and colonial outlaws. In November 1879, a correspondent for the Melbourne Argus reported on the 'gallant capture' by police of the bushranger Captain Moonlite and his accomplices. The reporter recounted how Captain Moonlite had become exasperated with one of his hostages, telling the man that he would 'cut his nose and ears off, and make him eat them, and then cut his throat'. Reports in the same newspaper the following year reminded readers of the 'perpetration of a tragedy almost unparalleled in the history of the colony' of Victoria, and the murders of three police officers by a 'band of marauders': Ned Kelly and his gang.
Popular press-inspired moral panics and crime waves dominated early- to mid-20th century crime reporting in Australia. The press regularly devoted column inches to coverage of juvenile delinquency and youth gangs, whose crimes—according to one correspondent in a 1936 edition of Lismore's Northern Star—were motivated by a desire for 'gangster notoriety' and were attributable to the popularity of cheap literature, such as 'penny dreadfuls' and mobster films.
By the 20th century, the concepts of the 'crime beat' and the police rounds reporter were firmly established in many Australian newsrooms. Newspapers like the Sydney Sun and the Daily Mirror even hired former policemen to report on crime. After World War II, police rounds relied almost entirely on a journalist's contacts, which included cultivated relationships with both cops and crims. Veteran crime reporters, such as Basil Sweeney, Ced Culbert, Noel Bailey and Ken Blanch, and later Geoff Wilkinson and Malcolm Brown, did most of their work outside the walls of the newsroom. In the 1960s, the 'king of Sydney's crime reporters'—the Daily Mirror's Bill Jenkings—was almost as well known on the street and in the famous Thommo's Two Up School as the criminals he covered. But crime reporting of this calibre required both patience and stamina. As chief police reporter for the Herald Sun, Keith Moor faced what he described as 'incredibly tight' deadlines. His shift would start at 6 a.m. and, if an incident had occurred the previous night, he was expected to have visited the crime scene, spoken to the police and other key players, and filed his news story by 9 a.m.
The exploits of these crime newshounds were personified in the 1950s and 1960s by fictional characters like Randy Stone, star of the popular American radio drama, Night Beat. Adapted from the original US scripts by Grace Gibson Productions, the Australian version of Night Beat was first broadcast in 1951. Australian actor Alan White starred as Randy Stone before American actor Harp McGuire took over the role. Other popular radio dramas were inspired by true crimes. The storylines of Crawford Productions' D24 (1951–60), which served as a forerunner to the highly successful television series, Homicide, were based on files from the Victorian police force, which sponsored the first two years of D24's production costs.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the daily routines of real-world police rounds reporters were supplemented by an upsurge in investigative crime journalism. The legacy of this period can be identified in the work of contemporary Walkley-nominated journalists, such as Kate McClymont, Andrew Rule, John Silvester and Les Kennedy, whose crime reporting resulted in exposures of cronyism and corruption and led to several breakthroughs in criminal cases, including the arrest of one of Australia's biggest amphetamines dealers. Described as a 'career crime reporter', Kennedy acquired a legendary status after the many years he spent at the Daily Telegraph, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun-Herald, investigating some of Australia's most notorious and serious crimes, including the disappearance of Donald Mackay, the murder of Dr Victor Chang and the Belanglo backpacker murders. Kennedy was always cautious about allowing his photograph to be published, but 2011, in the days before his death from cancer, Fairfax Media's Sun-Herald newspaper ran a picture by-line to accompany his last exclusive story: a scoop on the discovery of a pistol linked to the 1997 disappearance and murder of Kerry Whelan.
Less media shy was veteran television reporter, Harry Potter, who retired in 2010 after 32 years with Network Ten and more than 50 years as a journalist. His career highlights included news coverage of the Terrigal massacre; the murder of Anita Cobby; the arrest of Sef Gonzales for the murder of his family in 2001; and the trial of Andrew Garforth, convicted of the murder of Ebony Simpson in 1992.
While communications between crime reporters and police are as old as journalism itself, the dynamics between the two have changed as communications technologies and police and media management styles have evolved, and police–media relations have become more complex. The development of professionalised public relations and media liaison units within Australian police agencies in the mid- to late- 20th century significantly impacted on the crime news-gathering and story-selection processes. The centralised production of police media releases, management of journalist inquiries and requests for interview, and coordination of press conferences lessened the imperative for the individual police contacts nurtured by early police rounds reporters. It also resulted in the marriage of police corporate branding with crime portrayals in the form of popular television programs, such as Australia's Most Wanted (1989–99), renowned for its graphic crime scene re-enactments and appeals for public information about unsolved cases, and Forensic Investigators (2004–06), which featured exclusive access to police crime scene videos. In 2009, figures obtained under freedom of information laws and published by the Daily Telegraph showed that the growth of police public relations had netted the NSW police alone over $1 million from reality television shows, like The Force (2006– ) and Crash Investigation Unit (2008– ), and consultations on other broadcast productions.
The demands of the digital age also significantly shaped crime reporting in Australia. As Nick Richardson explains in Journalism Research and Investigation in a Digital World (2013), the arrival of web-based news, blogs and the 24-hour news cycle—with its speed imperative and demands for the latest developments in crime and corruption stories, traffic accidents and emergencies—has left modern-day crime reporters with less time than their predecessors to cultivate police contacts and other sources of information about criminal activities and police investigations. In the 21st century, traditional consumers of crime news also became sources of information in the crime-reporting process, often enlisted by news organisations to contribute tip-offs for stories and images related to crime news narratives. The pervasiveness of surveillance technologies, like CCTV, and social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, also brought media audiences closer to the action and scene of the crime—in some cases, enabling citizen journalists to 'scoop' mainstream media outlets. Police agencies in Australia also started to use social media and video-sharing platforms more actively as communications tools to appeal for public information about crimes and to provide updates on the status of criminal investigations—sometimes bypassing traditional news media altogether. Media outlets wishing to conduct paid interviews with convicted criminals are also restricted by the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
Despite such developments, almost all major newsrooms in Australia continue to have reporters dedicated to crime, courts and police rounds, although many now work across multiple media platforms. Some have also adapted their crime reporting experiences into true-crime novels and other forms of popular entertainment, such as television dramas like the Underbelly series. In 2013, the Murdoch-owned newspaper, the Herald Sun, had recruited a number of these journalists (and ex-police officers) as contributors to its special online multimedia news section 'True Crime Scene'. The section offers readers information about 'new crimes, cold cases, latest investigations', as well as top 10 blacklists of Australia's worst criminals, written by veteran crime reporters.
REFs: P. Grabosky and P. Wilson, Journalism and Justice (1989); A. Mitchell, 'Fatal Obsessions', Overland, 208 (2012); A. Rule and N. Richardson, 'Crime Writing', in S. Tanner and N. Richardson (eds), Journalism Research and Investigation in a Digital World (2013).
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There have been several message board threads and discussions regarding views. At the moment, there is one fairly intense discussion ongoing because of a change in the way Dreamstime counts views. One of the arguments is that views are important for beginners as an indicator of success, either for a particular image or as meaningful feedback on one's ability as a stock photographer.
I do understand someone new to the business wanting any kind of feedback they can get when trying to put it all together. I was a newbie myself not long ago. However, my experience has been that counting views to determine images that will ultimate success or to find guidance about where to concentrate similar images is an inaccurate way to learn how to be successful.
The only real indicator of success is actual downloads. This puts new contributors at a disadvantage because it takes considerable time to build up a portfolio and to accumulate downloads. Patience is a virtue I fear is becoming more and more rare. A quicker solution is to take time to study portfolios and individual images that have large amounts of downloads already. Look at the images closely and try to determine what it is about them that has download appeal and commercial viability, not just viewing appeal.
Best wishes and happy shooting! And above all, be patience. Microstock success comes slowly and view counting is but a very small and relatively insignificant part of the business...


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CORTLAND, N.Y. -- GM John Idzik told people close to him he wasn't going to bend on the issue of offset language in Dee Milliner's contract -- or any rookie contract, for that matter. And he didn't. Milliner's four-year, $12.66 million contract, fully guaranteed, includes the offset.
Basically, the offset prevents Milliner from "double dipping." If he gets cut by the Jets during the contract, which is unlikely, the salary he receives from his new team is subtracted from the salary he was due to make -- and that difference is the Jets' responsibility. In the grand scheme of things, it's not a huge financial issue, but the Jets have maintained an organization policy to include offsets for rookies. They didn't include an offset in Mark Sanchez's 2012 contract extension, and they got burned.
Details on Milliner's deal, per ESPN Insider Adam Schefter:
Signing bonus: $7.588 million, divided into three payouts -- $5 million on Aug. 15, $2.338 million on Oct. 15 and $250,000 in March, 2014.
Base salaries: Minimum rookie salaries.
Roster bonus: He receives $485,505 in 2014; $971,010 in 2015; $1,456,424 in 2016.


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Dean Emeritus
San Jose State University
A visionary leader in higher education, Charlie Bullock also is an expert on inclusion of people with disabilities.
Dean Emeritus
San Jose State University
Dr. Charles Bullock, dean of the College of Applied Sciences and Arts at San Jose State University, has helped The Health Trust strengthen its ties to the local university community and lends his expertise in public health. Charlie is a visionary leader in higher education and an expert on the inclusion of people with disabilities, especially in sport and recreation. He came to SJSU in January 2009 from the University of Nevada, Reno, where he was Dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences. Prior to his time in Reno, he had been on faculty for 17 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Charlie holds B.A. and M.S. degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Robins Law Group
Roberta L. Robins is founder of Robins Law Group, specializing in intellectual property matters. Roberta is a long-time advocate of women's issues, including women's health, gender abuse and gender bias.
Robins Law Group
Roberta L. Robins is founder of the Robins Law Group, a law firm specializing in intellectual property matters. Roberta has over 25 years of experience in the patent field and specializes in biotechnology, including the areas of vaccines, therapeutics, molecular biology, immunology and genetics.
Roberta has a wide range of interests and is a long-time advocate of women's issues, including women's health, gender abuse and gender bias. She is currently on the Board of the Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration (ORAM) whose mission is to advocate for refugees fleeing sexual or gender based violence. She is also on the Board of the Women's Intellectual Property Law Association (WIPLA), an organization dedicated to providing a forum for interaction, communication and support among women intellectual property lawyers and promoting the honor and dignity of women in the intellectual property legal profession. Roberta has served as a trustee of Montalvo Arts Center, whose mission is to foster community engagement through the creation and presentation of multidisciplinary art.
Roberta received a B.S. degree in Biological Sciences from San Jose State University and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She also pursued several years of graduate work in cell and molecular biology at San Francisco State University and worked as a researcher in genetics at the University of California-San Francisco.
Community Volunteer
Cindy Ruby has served as a member of the Saratoga Union Elementary School District Board of Trustees and on several other nonprofit boards.
Community Volunteer
Cindy Ruby, a long-time community volunteer, has served as a Saratoga Union Elementary School District Board Member, a FIRST 5 Commissioner and Chair, and a member of several nonprofit boards. A former elementary school teacher, Cindy has significant experience supporting education throughout Silicon Valley. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University and has been involved in a number of school fundraising campaigns.
Regional Vice President
Ivy Funds
Darren A. Cde Baca brings more than 30 years of experience in the investment management business to The Health Trust board of trustees.
Regional Vice President
Ivy Funds
Darren Cde Baca, Regional Vice President for Ivy Funds, has more than 30 years of experience in investment management. Before joining Ivy Funds in 2006, he was with Dreyfus, where he was both wholesaling and managing the retail and institutional distribution for the Western half of the United States. He also served as the National Sales Manager for The Royce Funds and spent 12 years at PaineWebber (now UBS) in various marketing positions. Darren obtained his B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College in 1982.
Keker & Van Nest LLP
An experienced attorney specializing in white-collar criminal cases, Michael Celio brings strong analytical skills to The Health Trust.
Keker & Van Nest LLP
Michael Celio is a partner with the San Francisco law firm Keker & Van Nest LLP, specializing in white-collar criminal cases, complex civil litigation, and enforcement actions brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or the Department of Justice. An experienced trial lawyer, Michael has significant expertise defending civil and criminal cases involving antitrust actions, shareholder lawsuits and theft of trade secrets.
Michael earned a B.A. degree from Stanford University, an M.S. from the London School of Economics and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He brings strong analytical skills to organization's complex challenges and helps engage the legal, venture capital and technology communities in the work of The Health Trust.
Jim comes to The Health Trust with 25 years of hands-on experience in executive, investor, and adviser roles for early stage technology companies. He is currently an adviser to early stage companies and nonprofits.
Jim comes to The Health Trust with 25 years of hands-on experience in executive, investor, and adviser roles for early stage technology companies. He is currently an adviser to early stage companies and nonprofits.
Jim was co-founder and CEO of IQVine, Inc., which provided crowd-sourced market research and expert advice. Previously, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Sunvolt Nanosystems, Inc., which developed a materials system to power electronic devices, the first of which was solar cells. Before Sunvolt, Jim was President and CEO of NtechRA, Inc., a venture-backed developer of enterprise software based in San Jose, CA. He began at NtechRA after founding and running Bridge Partners, which specialized in investing and advising early stage electronics and software companies. Prior to this, Jim was Senior Vice President and COO of V-One, Inc., a publicly traded developer of network security software. Before that, he was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Telogy Networks, a developer of real time communications software. Jim has held senior sales and marketing management positions with Bell Atlantic, Tymnet and Infonet.
Jim received his BSE in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science from Duke University in 1980 and his Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1986. Jim was an officer in the Civil Engineer Corps of the US Navy and is a member of several advisory and non-profit boards. He lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and three sons now attending college.
President & Founder
3g Human Capital Consulting
Marianne Jackson has devoted her career to leading effective human capital strategies. She has served as Chief Human Resources Officer in some of California's best known corporations.
President & Founder
3g Human Capital Consulting
Marianne Jackson has 20 years of experience as the Chief Human Resource Officer in some of California's best known corporations. Her experience spans both healthcare and technology industries including Cisco Systems, Palm, Sandisk, Sun Micro Systems and Blue Shield of California. She is well known for her practical approach to organizational effectiveness, executive coaching, workforce optimization, strategic planning and culture-shaping.
Marianne recently retired from Blue Shield of California after serving as their Chief Human Resource Officer for nearly ten years. She is credited with leading a critical shift in Blue Shield's legacy culture and is nationally known for the unique design of one of the most successful corporate wellness programs.
Marianne Jackson currently is the president of a human capital company that assists organizations with improving competitiveness. Her approach effectively links the business strategy with a targeted people strategy ensuring the right capabilities have been invested in and the culture propels performance. She speaks on a variety of topics including human capital planning, culture shaping, corporate wellness and C-level succession planning. She has addressed audiences such as: The Corporate Leadership Council, Argyle Forums, Oracle World, the HR Strategy Forum, The Economist Forum, and IMD International, a global business school.
Marianne holds bachelor's degrees in Psychology and Sociology from University of California-Santa Barbara and has done graduate work at Santa Clara University.
Director of Policy and Government Affairs
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
As the Director of Policy and Government Affairs for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, Emily Lam has a deep understanding of the forces that shape health policy at the state and federal levels.
Director of Policy and Government Affairs
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Emily Lam is the Director of Policy and Government Affairs for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), a $1 billion/year San Francisco department that provides water, power and sewer services to 2.6 million Bay Area residents. In this role, she oversees the agency's public policy and political strategy at the local, state and federal level around water, wastewater, energy, climate change, infrastructure financing and workforce development.
Previously, Emily was the Vice President of Health Care and Federal Issues at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, a public policy trade association representing 390 employers on issues, programs and campaigns that affect the economic health and quality of life in Silicon Valley. She also worked for a start-up health care IT company, the San Mateo County Health Department and in Washington D.C. for the research and consulting firm, The Lewin Group.
Emily is a San Francisco native and received a B.A. with Honors in Community Health from Brown University and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard. She is a Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Fellow, Latin American Legislative Fellow, and Royce Society Fellow. She was named in Silicon Valley Business Journal's 40 under 40 in December 2013.
In addition to having more than 20 years of business experience in Silicon Valley specializing in corporate and individual tax compliance and planning, David Neighbors is an active volunteer who has assumed leadership roles with several community institutions.
David Neighbors is a partner in GALLINA LLP's Silicon Valley Tax Practice and has more than 20 years of business experience in Silicon Valley specializing in corporate and individual tax compliance and planning. He has experience in the areas of compensation planning, start-up and emerging growth issues, mergers and acquisitions, accounting for income taxes, research credits and stock option planning.
Prior to joining GALLINA, David was with KPMG Peat Marwick and Ernst and Young in San Jose. He works with high net worth individuals, closely held businesses, partnerships, limited liability companies, nonprofit organizations and fiduciaries. An area native, David graduated from San Jose State University with a B.S. degree in Business with an Accounting emphasis and a M.S. degree in Taxation.
David is involved in many professional and civic organizations in the community. He is an active member of the AICPA and Past President of the Silicon Valley/San Jose Chapter of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants. He is a member of the adjunct faculty at San Jose State University's Lucas Graduate School of Business and a member of the Board of Trustees for The National Hispanic University Foundation and the Beta Alpha Psi Scholarship Committee at San Jose State University. Additionally, he has served on the Governing Board of the Berryessa Union School District and on the East Side Union High School District's Audit Committee. He regularly volunteers his time helping local non-profit organizations with their annual tax filings and has served as a board member of the Big Brothers and Sisters of Santa Clara County and Alum Rock Counseling Center.