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Violet Henry, 84 - July 09, 2008
Violet A. "Vi" Henry, 84, of Callaway, formerly of Gothenburg, died Wednesday, June 25, 2008, at Callaway Good Samaritan Center.
Funeral services were Monday, June 30, at the Callaway Lutheran Church with Fred Werkmeister and Terry Poole, PMA's, officiating.
Burial was in the Stop Table Cemetery near Callaway.
Henry was born on Oct. 4, 1923, north of Cozad to Martin and Alma (Fiskenscher) Block. She was a graduate of Gothenburg High School, then attended Teacher's College at Greeley, CO. She moved back to Gothenburg where she taught at numerous country schools in the Gothenburg and Cozad area.
She was united in marriage on Oct. 1, 1947, to Donald Henry at Gothenburg. The couple then moved to Callaway, near Stop Table. To this union, three daughters were born.
Henry worked as a partner with her husband on a farm, but for a time, worked at the Good Samaritan Center kitchen, baking homemade cinnamon rolls which the staff and residents enjoyed, according to family members.
Religion was a driving force in her life, said family members, and she was a founding member of the Callaway Lutheran Church, where she taught Sunday school for many years.
She enjoyed family, baking and China painting, belonging to a China painting club. She painted a lamp for each grandchild as they were confirmed.
Henry was preceded in death by: her parents, Martin and Alma; her husband, Donald in 1993; four brothers—Walt, Lawrence, Clarence and Arnold; a sister, Lillian Kuhlman.
Survivors include: her three daughters—Alane (James) Patterson of Stilwell, KS, Joann (Mike) Pandorf of Callaway, and Carol (Duane) Divis of Norflolk; seven grandchildren—Brandon Patterson, David Pandorf, Jodi Pandorf, Jesse (Melissa) Pandorf, Amy Pandorf, Carrie and Kristin Divis; two step-grandchildren—Robbie and Dan Patterson; two sisters-in-law—Signe Block of Colorado and Marge Block of Gothenburg.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (September 28, 2011) – The ETSU volleyball team, fresh off a sweep against USC Upstate in its Atlantic Sun opener last Tuesday, continues conference play with matches against Belmont and Lipscomb this weekend in Nashville, Tenn.
The Bucs open the weekend against Belmont inside the Curb Event Center on Friday at 8:15 p.m. (EDT) ETSU will then head across town to face Lipscomb on Saturday at 3 p.m. (EDT) inside Allen Arena.
Heading into the weekend, ETSU sits at 7-8 overall and a perfect 1-0 in Atlantic Sun Conference play. The Bucs have now opened A-Sun play with a victory in three consecutive seasons, tying Lipscomb for the longest streak in the league.
ETSU opened up conference play at home last Tuesday with a 3-0 victory against USC Upstate. The Bucs were led by sophomore Megan Devine (Kingsport, Tenn.) with 13 kills and nine digs, while freshman Meredith Hardy (Kingsport, Tenn.) added nine kills, four digs, three service aces and a block.
The Bucs continue to be dominant across the frontline as they lead the Atlantic Sun in blocks with 2.36 per set. ETSU ranks in the top half of the conference in every other statistical category.
Individually, senior Jamie Stancliff (Advance, N.C.) continues to lead the league in blocks at 1.31 per contest. Helping her cause is three matches with double-digit block totals, which is the most by an A-Sun student-athlete since Jacksonville's Melissa Merchant tallied three double-digit matches in 2007 - two of which came in league play. Stancliff is the only student-athlete in the league to post a single double-digit block match so far this season. In addition, Devine ranks second in the A-Sun in both kills (4.26) and points (4.68).
For fans unable to attend the matches this weekend, live video and live stats will be available for both matches. Live video for each match will be shown on ASun.TV for a fee. Meanwhile, free live stats will be available for the Belmont match at BelmontBruins.com and the Lipscomb match at LipscombSports.com.
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Belmont enters Friday's match with a conference leading 11-6 overall record on the season, including a perfect 2-0 mark in A-Sun play. The Bruins most recently defeated Mercer and Kennesaw State to open up conference play last weekend. Belmont is led by Maggie Johnson as she leads the A-Sun in both kills (4.61) and points (5.01). Meanwhile, sophomore Jamie Lundstrum lead the league in digs (4.98), Hannah Miranda leads the conference in assists (10.95) and Jen Myer leads the A-Sun and the NCAA in service aces (0.82). As a team, Belmont leads the A-Sun in assists, service aces and digs. ETSU is 3-6 all-time against Belmont, but last season the Bucs defeated the Bruins 3-2 in Johnson City.
Lipscomb enters Friday's match with a 7-6 overall record on the season, including a perfect 2-0 mark in A-Sun play. The Bisons most recently defeated Mercer and Kennesaw State to open up conference play last weekend. Kaycee Green leads the Lipscomb attack with 3.85 kills per set, putting her third in the league in kills. Lauren Ford and Katie Rose also rank among the top-15 in the A-Sun in kills. As a team, Lipscomb leads the A-Sun in kills (13.43) and hitting percentage (.227). Lipscomb has won 37 straight A-Sun matches, which dates back to the 2008 season and is the longest in the nation. Lipscomb posted undefeated conference records in 2010 (10-0) and 2009 (20-0) and won the final five matches in 2008. Lipscomb's last loss came at the hands of Belmont on Oct. 28, 2008 in the Curb Event Center, 3-2. ETSU is 4-8 all-time against Lipscomb, which includes two losses to the Bisons last season. The Bucs dropped a 3-2 heartbreaker to Lipscomb in the Atlantic Sun Championship final.
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Sony has announced individual Blu-ray releases to cash in on the new movie...
Starring: Tobey Maguire
Released: 18th June 2012
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced the individual Blu-ray releases of the Spider-Man films for the 18th of June, priced at around £12.99 apiece. Details of all announced bonus material can be found below, along with the artwork.
- Spider Sense Trivia Challenge" - Rise to the ultimate web-slinging challenge as you test your SPIDER-MAN movie knowledge in this over feature trivia game. Do you have the spider sense to achieve the highest score?
- "The Spider-man Cutting Room" - Create and share your own video using clips and music from the movie!
- Filmmakers and Cast Commentary Sam Raimi, Laura Ziskin, Grant Curtis, and Kirsten Dunst
- Visual Effects Designer & Crew Commentary John Dykstra & Special Effects Crew
- Tobey Maguire and J.K. Simmons Commentary
- "Spider-Man: The Mythology of the 21st Century"
- HBO Making of Spider-Man
- "Spider-Mania" an E! Entertainment Special
- Director Profile: Sam Raimi
- Composer Profile: Danny Elfman
- Costume Design Featurette
- Seven Behind The Scenes of Spider-Man Featurettes
- Screen Tests with Tobey Maguire, J.K. Simmons, and CGI Spider-Man
- Costume and Makeup Tests
- Gag/Outtake Reel
- Six Muti-angle Webisodes
- Music Video: "Hero" performed by Chad Kroeger and featuring Josey Scott. Performed by Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger, Saliva vocalist Josey Scott, Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron, and Theory Of A Dead Man guitarist Tyler Connolly
- Music Video: "What We're All About" performed by Sum 41
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- Commentary with cast and crew (Theatrical Version)
- Technical commentary (Theatrical Version)
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No, it's actually the sequel to Spiderman 2, and the finale of the Spiderman 3 trilogy.
I like it that the cover art reminds you what number these films are. A big number at the bottom reminds you that Spiderman 2 is the second film, whilst Spiderman 3 is the third film. That's really helpful.
Wow - that is truly some of the worst sleeve art I've seen in a long, long time! Sony should get an award or something for this...
Utterly awful cover arts! Won the most ugly cover art award of the decade!
That's some seriously ugly cover art.
They didn't have necks or shoulders in the original Spider-man?
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AbstractPermanently frozen ground, permafrost, dominates high latitude terrestrial landscapes and represents a crucial reservoir of greenhouse gases. The potential impacts of warming on Arctic permafrost include the release of large quantities of methane and CO2 to the atmosphere, nutrients to the Arctic oceans, and changes to Arctic ecosystems. Cryoturbation, which refers to soil movement caused by the forces of freezing and thawing, is an important landscape process in polar permafrost regions. The zone of cryoturbated soil movement closest to the air surface, referred to as the "active layer", is one of the key feedbacks between atmospheric temperature and chemical fluxes from the permafrost. Despite the importance of cryoturbation and the response of permafrost systems to global climate change, the chronology of soil formation and the rates of cryoturbation are poorly known. This proposal seeks funds to use in situ produced cosmogenic nuclide measurements to determine Arctic cryoturbation rates. In situ cosmogenic nuclide methodologies are well established, but have rarely been applied to soils, and have never been applied to Arctic permafrost. The abundance of cosmic ray produced nuclides decreases exponentially with depth in undisturbed bedrock; any soil or bedrock movement will cause a deviation from this exponential behavior. Simple models suggest that these deviations can be used to understand the nature of Arctic soil convection and quantitatively estimate the convection rates. Sharp changes in the depth profiles will reveal the maximum depth of the active layer, averaged over long time periods (i.e. ~ 20 Ka), which is a key parameter for estimating fluxes. We will measure the depth profiles for 3He, 21Ne, or 10Be at two locations in the Alaskan Arctic: Toolik Lake and Barrow Stations, both of which are within regions of continuous permafrost and are readily accessible. Cryoturbation is generally manifested by patterned ground; our sampling strategy is to target patterned ground of several different ages from each of these two locations. These two sites are ideal because there are preliminary maps of surficial geology and a wide range of exposed surficial ages, most of which are glacially deposited. Barrow Station, which is on the northern-most coast, should be representative of the permafrost regions that deliver most of the material flux to the Arctic Ocean. The results will be interpreted within the context of field data and soil advection-diffusion models, allowing evaluation of permafrost models and cryoturbation rates.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will give a joint interview to CBS's "60 Minutes" news program that will air on Sunday, the White House said.
The interview, to be conducted at the White House on Friday, comes as Clinton prepares to step down and the Senate confirmation process moves forward for U.S. Senator John Kerry, picked by Obama as her successor.
Clinton on Wednesday forcefully defended her handling of the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in the Libyan city of Benghazi and denied any effort to mislead the American people.
There is widespread speculation whether Clinton, who leaves with high public approval ratings after serving from the start of Obama's first term, will make another White House run in 2016.
The interview, which will be broadcast at 7 p.m. EST (0000 Monday GMT), will be Obama's first since his ceremonial inauguration on Monday. It will also be the first time he and Clinton have been interviewed together.
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Mark Zuckerberg's Sister Should Just Admit She Doesn't Understand Facebook's Privacy Rules Either
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Digital etiquette: always ask permission before posting a friend's photo publicly. It's not about privacy settings, it's about human decency.No matter what you think of Facebook's privacy settings and the controversy they create, it seems that this response is particularly silly, and seems completely bogus. Danny Sullivan's response to her statement makes the point clear:
Sure Randy Zuckerberg asked all in her family if she could share that pic before posting. That's just human decencyI think that's the bigger point in this story. Yes, Facebook's privacy settings are complex and confusing and people get tripped up by them all the time. And, if Randi Zuckerberg were being honest, and not trying to brush this situation under the rug, she'd just admit that. Making a silly claim like it's about "human decency" to ask permission from every single person whose photo you share just seems silly. Hell, if it were true, then wouldn't Facebook change its setting so instead of an easy one-click "share" button on pretty much every photo, it would instead alert those associated with the photo and ask for permission first?


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The European Union intensified its campaign against U.S. Federal Reserve proposals to toughen oversight of bank units belonging to overseas lenders, warning of "potential retaliation" against the plans.
Michel Barnier, the EU's financial services chief, last week sent a three-page critique of the draft measures to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, saying that they risk driving up costs at EU-based banks, leaving them at a competitive disadvantage. The move follows a meeting this month between Barnier and U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew, where the Frenchman pressed for a change of course.
The proposals are "a radical departure from the existing U.S. policy," and may undermine efforts to ensure that large banks can be safely wound down if they fail, Barnier wrote in his April 18 letter to Bernanke, obtained by Bloomberg News. The standards "could spark a protectionist reaction from other jurisdictions, which could ultimately have a substantial negative impact on the global economic recovery."
Under the draft Fed plans, published in December, foreign lenders would be forced to organize their U.S. subsidiaries under a locally regulated holding company, with its own reserves of capital and easy-to-sell assets that could be tapped in crises. Bernanke has said the measure would be an "important step" in addressing "the risks that large, interconnected financial institutions pose to U.S. financial stability."
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The Fed proposals shouldn't apply to banks that are already subject to rigorous regulation in the country where their headquarters are based, according to Barnier's letter.
Banks would be required to comply with the new Fed rules if they have consolidated assets of $50 billion, with U.S. subsidiaries accounting for $10 billion.
"The U.S. operations of large foreign institutions have changed in recent years -- marked in part by significantly greater reliance on potentially unstable, short-term wholesale funding and rapid growth in their capital markets activities," said Barbara Hagenbaugh, a Fed spokeswoman.
The "targeted adjustments" to the Fed's supervision "create a more consistent regulatory structure for all firms operating in the United States," Hagenbaugh said. The U.K., "the most comparable host country to the United States, has already required that subsidiaries of large foreign financial firms in London meet local capital and liquidity requirements."
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The proposals would allow overseas-based banks to maintain branches in the U.S. without setting up the holding company structure. Branches allow banks to carry out some activities overseas, with regulatory oversight still largely conducted by the lender's home country regulator.
The measures, which are open for comment until the end of April, would take effect from July 1, 2015.
The draft Fed rules are one of two main battles Barnier is waging to change draft U.S. financial rules.
Barnier was among nine overseas finance officials that signed a separate letter last week urging Lew to limit the cross-border reach of swaps rules that they say are fragmenting the market for over-the-counter derivatives.
"We fully understand the American concern to safeguard financial stability, but we would like to ensure that there is a fair, level playing field for European banks operating in the U.S., and that the regulatory approach to them is proportionate," Chantal Hughes, Barnier's spokeswoman, said by e-mail. She confirmed the authenticity of the April 18 letter.
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Margaret R. Hainsworth, 103, Shawnee, Kan., formerly of Brookfield, died Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012, at Shawnee Heartland Assisted Living, Shawnee, Kan.
Margaret R. Hainsworth, 103, Shawnee, Kan., formerly of Brookfield, died Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012, at Shawnee Heartland Assisted Living, Shawnee, Kan.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, at First Presbyterian Church, Brookfield, with Rev. Brian Butler and Rev. Julie King officiating. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. until service time Thursday at the church. Visitation will be held from 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, at Davis Funeral Chapel, Leavenworth, Kan. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery, Brookfield.
Memorials to First Presbyterian Church may be left at or mailed to Wright-Baker-Hill Funeral Home, P.O. Box 496, Brookfield, Mo. 64628.
Margaret R. was born January 5, 1909, in Brookfield, daughter of Gustave and Amy Runge. She married Tommy Hainsworth on December 26, 1937. He preceded her in death July 15, 1965.
After graduating from Kirksville Teachers College, Kirksville, Margaret started her career as an elementary teacher in the Brookfield area. After marrying Tommy, she joined him in the operation of Hainsworth Rexall Drug Store, Brookfield. Following her husband's death, she became a Social Worker for the State of Missouri. She was a member of P.E.O. Chapter A.G., DAR, and many other civic organizations. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church, Brookfield.
Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Janet and Donald Hein, Basehor, Kan.; her nephew and his wife, Mike and Carol Baker, Leawood, Kan.; her niece, Joan Baker Andrews, Westwood Hills, Kan.; and three great-nieces.
She was also preceded in death by her parents; and one sister, Helen Baker.


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America's seafood and shellfish communities mourn the death of longtime industry champion Michael "Mike" Voisin who died on Saturday.
America's seafood and shellfish communities mourn the death of longtime industry champion Michael "Mike" Voisin who died on Saturday.
Since 1971, Mike was a strong and clear voice for the interests of America's shellfish harvesters, processors and distributors and the thousands of families which depend on the farming, processing and distribution of seafood for their livelihoods. Mike continuously led industry efforts to improve product handling and quality control while seeking to protect the industry from over-regulation and government over-reach.
Mike distinguished himself through his many pro bono leadership roles in important organizations including the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board, Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission, Gulf and South Atlantic Fisheries Foundation, the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference and National Fisheries Institute. Fisheries interests from around the world frequently sought Mike's counsel and wisdom in the management of their own policy and resource debates.
Mike was a gentle giant, soft spoken and hard-working, who never shied away from an opportunity to tackle a problem or find a solution where others only found obstacles. He provided strong and measured leadership and distinguished himself as a consensus builder who believed that bringing people together was paramount to winning a political point.
Mike's public service went far beyond his leadership in the shellfish community. For many years, he was a board member and guiding force at Terrebonne General Medical Center in Houma and played an important role in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Louisiana.
Perhaps most notably, Mike distinguished himself as a husband and father, totally dedicated to his wife, Sarah, and his five children and serving as a quiet but inspirational role model for all who knew him and now mourn this great loss.


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One person was rescued from a vehicle that crashed into a Dover building Saturday.
Emergency medical personnel on Saturday safely removed an individual from a car that had crashed into a Dover building.
The crash took place 9:21 a.m., said Dover Fire Department spokesman Michael J. O'Connor Jr., when the vehicle ran into a structure at 1030 S. DuPont Hwy. The crew from one fire engine secured power to the building while others stabilized the vehicle, O'Connor said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose after the opening bell on Wall Street after the government reported a burst of hiring in February.
The Dow Jones industrial average gained 28 points, or 0.2 percent, to 14,357 in the first half-hour of trading. The index surpassed its record close Tuesday and is on track for its sixth straight increase.
The Standard & Poor's 500 rose two points, or 0.1 percent, to 1,546. The Nasdaq composite advanced four points, or 0.1 percent, to 3,236.
U.S. employers added 236,000 jobs and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent from 7.9 percent in January, the Labor Department reported. That's far better than the 156,000 job gains and unemployment rate of 7.8 percent that economists surveyed by FactSet expected.
The strong job growth shows that employers are confident about the economy despite higher taxes and government spending cuts.
Optimism that hiring is picking up has been one of the factors bolstering the stock market this year. Stocks have also gained on evidence that the housing market is recovering and company earnings continue to growing.
The Dow has gained 9.5 percent this year and is trading at record levels, having broken its previous record of 14,164 on Tuesday. The Standard & Poor's 500 is up 8.4 percent since the start of the year, but remains about 1.2 percent short of its all-time high close of 1,565 set Oct. 9, 2007.
Twenty stocks in the 30-member Dow index advanced, with McDonald's logging the biggest percentage gain in early trading. The index is on course to advance for a third straight week.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to its price, rose to 2.05 percent from 2 percent Thursday.
Among stocks making big moves;
— Pandora gained $2.20, or 20 percent, to $13.93 after the Internet radio company issued a strong profit forecast and said its mobile business was improving. Pandora also said its CEO, Joseph Kennedy, would leave.
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A Florida Highway Patrol trooper was making an improper turn last month when his car started a four-vehicle crash on Interstate 75 that left three children seriously injured, according a reported released by the FHP.
A Florida Highway Patrol trooper was making an improper turn last month when his car started a four-vehicle crash on Interstate 75 that left three children seriously injured, according a reported released by the FHP.
The crash report also noted that two other drivers contributed to the accident by driving too fast.
However, until the investigation is complete, no one is being charged or ticketed, officials said. The trooper remains on duty.
The FHP report provided this description of the accident:
On the night of May 18, Trooper Raul Umana, 20, was heading north on I-75 in the middle lane approaching an official-use-only U-turn near Mile Marker 345 south of Ocala. The trooper tried to make the U-turn by steering to the left, but the right front of his car struck the end of the southbound guardrail.
The car, which was traveling 45 mph, keep going out into the inside southbound lane.
A Nissan Altima driven by Christeia Tionna Jones, 27, of Orlando, was in that lane going about 88 mph. Her three children, Logan Grant, 2, Lanard Maybin, 5, and Denard Maybin Jr., 7, were passengers in the Nissan.
Also in that lane, going about 85 mph in the 70 mph speed zone, was a Mercedes driven by Terry Scanes, 40, of Miami.
An older model Peterbilt tractor-trailer driven by William Richmond, 61, of Detroit, was going the speed limit in the middle lane.
In the Nissan, Jones tried to avoid hitting the trooper's car by braking and steering to the right but still struck its front push bumper. The Nissan then went into the middle lane. In the Mercedes, Scanes tried to avoid a collision by steering right but also struck the right front of the trooper's car.
The Mercedes then hit the left side of the Peterbilt, and both went into the guardrail in the median. The Mercedes struck the guardrail with its front, spun around counterclockwise and hit the guardrail again with its rear.
The semi struck the back of the Nissan, and both vehicles traveled onto the west shoulder where the front of the semi again collided with the car before hitting a tree.
The Nissan caught fire after coming to rest against a tree.
According to earlier reports, Marion County sheriff's deputies arrived but were unable to put the fire out with their extinguishers. The deputies, along with another FHP trooper and a bystander, tried to get the children out of the back of the car but could not open the doors.
Jones had pulled out earlier, according to Marion County Sheriff's Office reports.
Marion County Fire Rescue arrived a short time later, put out the fire and got the children out of the car. They were taken to UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville.
Investigators said that, as far as they know, the injured children are still at UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville. They said that, on request of their mother's lawyer, the hospital is not releasing information about them.
The Orlando Sentinel reported on its website Tuesday that Valerie Terry, the children's grandmother, said one is recovering but two of are not doing well and remain in the hospital.
The trooper and the drivers of the other two vehicles were taken to area hospitals with minor injuries.
The two older children were not wearing seat belts, according to the FHP report. Jones and Scanes also were not wearing seat belts. The rest were buckled in.
Michael James Allen, a witness out of Georgia, told the Star-Banner he didn't want to talk about the crash until he first talked with investigators. As of Tuesday, he said, he had not been contacted.
Umana has not yet given a statement. So investigators cannot say why he was making a U-turn. Authorities said he had been assisting a disabled vehicle not far from where the accident occurred.
Reached by phone, Richmond, owner of Richmond Trucking LLC, said he was hauling meat to Miami when the crash occurred. He declined further comment, instead referring questions to DLD Lawyers, a Miami law firm. The lawyer representing Richmond was not available for comment.
Jones is being represented by Randall Rutledge of Farah & Farah, a Jacksonville law firm. He could not be reached for comment. Neither Umana or Scanes could be reached for comment.


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Two squadrons at Eglin Air Force base are being sent packing � across town.
Two squadrons at Eglin Air Force base are being sent packing � across town.
About 400 people with the 9th Special Operations Squadron and the 1st Special Operations Maintenance Squadron will move to Hurlburt Field this spring and take their fleet of MC-130P Combat Shadow aircraft with them.
The move will at last unite all 1st Special Operations Wing squadrons at Hurlburt. It also will allow for more efficient aircraft maintenance because the newcomers will be able to work closely with squadrons maintaining very similar planes at Hurlburt.
The 9th Special Operations and the 1st Special Operations Maintenance squadrons have been at Eglin under various names for years.
When the 1st SOW at Hurlburt took over the 9th SOS in 1989, the squadron remained at Eglin because that�s where it always had been, said Maj. Zak Blom, who is overseeing the move as the 1st SOW�s chief of programs.
�Since then it was known that the right answer was for them to be at Hurlburt,� he said. �Things just never worked out to make it happen.�
Blom said the effort to move the squadron gained momentum again in the last year. He�s been tasked with the project since last March.
�It has support from all levels of leadership now,� he said. �We�ve been able to show that we can do the move not only at very little cost, but we can actually save a lot in manpower, resources and efficiencies by bringing the two units that belong to the 1st Special Operations Wing to Hurlburt with the rest of their assets.�
The real savings will be in maintaining the planes, he said.
Hurlburt already has a fleet of sister MC-130Hs that are very similar, especially in maintenance and support, Blom said.
�The biggest gain is on the maintenance side,� he said. �We�ll have the equipment to support both these aircraft all co-located and won�t have to maintain duplicate equipment.�
He said the units also will be able to train more efficiently and operate more effectively by being on the same base as their command.
�Being geographically separated from your bosses, there�s a lot of time spent going back and forth,� he said.
The 9th SOS uses MC-130Ps to support special operations forces, primarily through nighttime, low-level flying missions. They insert, extract and resupply special ops teams, as well as refuel helicopters in flight.
The 1st Special Operations Maintenance Squadron ensures the planes are mission capable.
Blom is also an MC-130P pilot. He was assigned to the 9th SOS for a year and a half before being tasked with overseeing the move to Hurlburt.
He said in general the people in the squadrons are excited about the move.
�I think anytime there is change there�s always going to be a little trepidation involved,� he said. �There�s going to be some obstacles up front, but I think everyone realizes you overcome those obstacles to get to the better end state in the long run.�
Blom said a lot of the effort in organizing the move has been devoted to getting approvals from high-level staff. Those approvals are now in place.
They also had to conduct a lot of analysis to make sure Hurlburt had enough resources to take on the squadrons.
�There�s manpower challenges across the board in all the support functions on base, but we�ve determined that they can handle the two units and the aircraft,� Blom said.
The squadrons will be housed in existing facilities. The move required no new construction, which drove down cost, he said.
Blom said Eglin�s command staff has been helpful throughout.
�Eglin has been gracious through this whole process and supported the move from start to finish,� he said.
Anyone affected by the move who lives in Eglin housing will be allowed to stay if they choose, Blom said.
The move is set to take place in May and June. An official ceremony is tentatively set for May 22, the anniversary of Air Force Special Operations Command standing up at Hurlburt in 1990.
Col. William Holt, vice commander of the 1st SOW, said the move is a great step forward.
�By moving the two squadrons to Hurlburt, we will consolidate resources and gain significant efficiencies with our MC-130 maintenance teams,� he said in a written statement.
�I thank Team Eglin for the tremendous support they have provided to our MC-130Ps, and I look forward to having the entire 1st Special Operations Wing co-located at Hurlburt Field.�
Contact Daily News Staff Writer Lauren Sage Reinlie at 850-315-4440 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @LaurenRnwfdn.


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Jurisdictions Participating in IFTA
United States
Currently, all states participate in IFTA except Alaska and Hawaii.
NOTE: The District of Columbia does not participate.
The Canadian provinces participating in IFTA are:
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Newfoundland
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
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Number of Canadians without traditional cable TV at home approaches 25 per cent
By Michael Oliveira
TORONTO — Another new poll suggests so-called cord cutting may be growing in Canada.
Nearly a quarter of the respondents in an online survey conducted by Ipsos Reid in recent weeks said they did not have a traditional TV subscription.
The increasingly compelling selection of streamable content available online and access to free over-the-air TV signals have convinced some consumers to cut the cord, or go without paying for TV.
But Ipsos Reid noted that an even bigger trend is so-called cord stacking, when TV subscribers decide to pay for a la carte digital services to complement their TV package.
Among the three quarters of Canadians that told pollsters they do pay for TV through a cable, satellite or IPTV provider, nearly half also paid for video content through another source.
Apple's iTunes marketplace, Netflix and sports subscription services including NHL GameCenter and MLB.TV are among the most popular of the sources, sometimes called over-the-top content providers.
About one in five of the TV subscribers polled said they pay for two or more OTT services on top of their TV bill.
The poll of 1,000 Canadians was conducted between Jan. 30 and Feb. 4.
The polling industry's professional body, the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error because they do not randomly sample the population like traditional telephone polls.
A telephone poll released by the Media Technology Monitor last month found that one in seven Canadians said they were either somewhat or very likely to quit their TV service and opt for free or cheaper alternatives.
The Media Technology Monitor's survey of 4,009 anglophone Canadians was conducted by Forum Research and is considered accurate within 1.5 percentage points 19 times out of 20.
In November, the Convergence Consulting Group estimated about 400,000 Canadian TV subscribers out of 11.8 million have cut the cord since 2011, which is about 3.5 per cent of the market.


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March 2011
A US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) analysis of 26 trials comparing Ziagen (abacavir) to other drugs found no evidence that this antiretroviral raises the risk of myocardial infarction (heart attack).1 Ziagen is part of the two-drug combination Epzicom or Kivexa and the three-drug combination Trizivir.
Earlier, a large study of people taking antiretrovirals2 and analysis of SMART trial results3 suggested that Ziagen does raise the risk of heart attack and other heart disease. But the FDA study contradicts that finding. For people with HIV and physicians unsure about how to interpret all these findings, the FDA offers some advice, summarized below in What the results mean for you.
The DAD Study Group analyzed the impact of current or recent nucleosides in 33,347 people taking antiretrovirals.2 Using standard statistical methods, the DAD researchers found no associations between the heart attack rate and total or recent use of Retrovir (zidovudine), Zerit (stavudine), or Epivir (lamivudine). But in an analysis that accounted for 10-year risk of heart disease, recent use of Ziagen raised the heart attack risk 89%, and recent use of Videx (didanosine) raised the risk 49%.
The SMART trial randomized HIV-positive people to take antiretrovirals continuously or to interrupt treatment according to their CD4 count. Analysis of heart disease rates in these people determined that recent Ziagen use almost doubled the risk of major heart disease (heart attack, stroke, or surgery for coronary artery disease).3
Partly because of the DAD and SMART results, experts who write antiretroviral guidelines in the United States removed Ziagen from the list of drugs recommended for a first antiretroviral combination. But several other studies found no link between Ziagen and heart disease. And safety data collected by Ziagen's maker saw no hint that Ziagen makes heart disease more likely. The FDA decided the issue is important enough to examine in a different way -- by comparing heart attack rates in people who took Ziagen in randomized trials with rates in people who did not take Ziagen in those trials.
The FDA team used standard statistical methods to determine whether heart attack rates differed in people taking antiretroviral combinations including Ziagen versus people taking combinations not including Ziagen.
About 80% of people in these trials were men, and their ages averaged about 40 years. CD4 counts when trials began averaged 360 in the GlaxoSmithKline trials, 236 in the ACTG trials, and 252 in the university trials. The FDA rated overall heart attack risk in these people as "moderate" (0.45%).
The main analysis found no difference in heart attack rate between people taking Ziagen and people not taking Ziagen in these studies. When the FDA team looked only at trials run by Ziagen's maker, they also found no difference in heart attack rate with and without Ziagen. The same was true for the ACTG trials and the university trials. No single trial analyzed had evidence that Ziagen raises the risk of heart attack. The FDA performed further analyses to determine the statistical power of their study to detect a heart attack difference between people taking versus not taking Ziagen. Note 4 in the References summarizes these technical details.
It is important to understand that the FDA study analyzed trials that were not planned to figure the risk of heart attack or any heart disease in people taking Ziagen or non-Ziagen combinations. One of two earlier studies that did find a higher heart attack risk with Ziagen is a cohort study.2 In this type of study, researchers monitor many health changes in antiretroviral-treated people over time, but those people are not randomly assigned to take one set of antiretrovirals or another. As a result, it is possible that factors not included in the analysis may explain why a higher proportion of people taking Ziagen had heart attacks.
An advantage of this kind of cohort study is that it includes a much larger number of people than an analysis of randomized trials. There were 33,347 people in the DAD cohort study and 157,912 person-years of observation.2 In contrast, there were 9868 people in the FDA study and an average of 719 person-years of observation in each of the 26 trials analyzed.1 Also, average age in the FDA study was 40 compared with 49 in the cohort study, which means people in the FDA study would be less likely to have heart attacks because they were younger. However, statistical analysis by the FDA researchers convinced them that their results make it highly unlikely that Ziagen raises the heart attack risk in these 26 trials.4 In a statement about this study, the FDA said "healthcare professionals should continue to prescribe [Ziagen] according to the professional label. Patients should not stop taking their [Ziagen] without first talking to their healthcare professional."5 The FDA also advised people with HIV to discuss any questions or concerns about Ziagen with their physician.
As people with HIV grow older thanks to effective antiretroviral therapy, heart attacks and other heart disease pose a growing threat. The two preceding articles in this issue of HIV Treatment Alerts! review studies that identify factors that raise the risk of heart disease in people with HIV. It is important to realize that several recent studies, including the original SMART trial,6 found that antiretroviral therapy lowers the risk of heart disease when all antiretrovirals are considered together. Interrupting antiretroviral therapy in the SMART trial raised the risk of major heart disease. Fear of heart disease is certainly not a reason to stop antiretroviral therapy or to delay starting. However, many people with HIV have heart attack risk factors that can be avoided or changed (see box).
Heart Attack Risk Factors That Can Be Avoided or Changed
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State prison officials dedicated an $839 million inmate medical complex in Stockton on June 25. Workers are expected to arrive at the California Health Care Facility in early July, and ill inmates from prisons throughout the state are expected to arrive later in July.
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Salvisa Christian to host clothing drive
Salvisa Christian Church will sponsor a free clothes day 1:30- 4 p.m. Monday, Jan. 5, according to a news release.
The church is located at 155 Sugar St., Salvisa.
For more information, contact Pam Votaw at 502- 839-5626 or Charlotte Fallis at 859-865-2226.
-from staff reports
Claylick UMC to host Christmas Eve services
Claylick United Methodist Church will host Christmas Eve services at noon and 10 p.m., the church announced.
Both services will features familiar carols and retelling of the Christmas story. There will also be a special collection to benefit the Kentucky State University Wesley Foundation.
For more information, call 859- 865-2963 or visit Facebook.com/ClaylickUMC. The church is located at 225 Claylick Church Road in Salvisa.
My father used to be a kickboxer. To this day, I can still remember him sparring.
While wearing his giant red boxing gloves, suited up in his matching leather padded gear, he would stand there taking hit upon hit. I can recall the times when he would squint his brow and grit his teeth onto his mouth guard as his body was being struck. My father was invincible, strong; he was and still is my protector.
Lawrenceburg Presbyterian to host Christmas cantata
Lawrenceburg Presbyterian Church will host a Christmas cantata titled "There's A Song In The Air, Jesus," at 11 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 21.
"Join the Lawrenceburg Presbyterian Church congregation's worship service and enjoy a wonderful way to ring in the Christmas season," organizers said.
The church is located at 101 North Main St.
Claylick UMC to host Christmas Eve services
By Larry Coleman
Faith columnist
By this time several things should be surfacing in your consideration.
The first being that true biblical faith has to be placed in a person – Jesus the Christ. Secondly, it is what he does in and through you, not what you do for him on his behalf that is significant.
Distraction, a popular word used in sermons and Bible study lessons as it relates to our purpose and destiny, has a much deeper meaning than you may think.
I have always heard this word used to describe the actions of individuals who have lost focus or in some way had their attention diverted to something they shouldn't. However, a few years ago, I took time to really look at this word and upon further study, came away with a slightly different take on its popular usage.
First Baptist Church is seeking applications
First Baptist Church of Lawrenceburg is seeking applications for a part-time contemporary worship leader.
Preferred qualifications for the position include guitar/instrumental training and worship service experience, according to a news release.
Resumes should be mailed to First Baptist Church, attention Jeremy Sivils, 111 N. Main St., Lawrenceburg KY 40342 by Dec. 12.
For more information, call 502-839-6966.
Well, have you reached any answers to the questions in the Nov. 19 column? If not, not to worry, we will be looking at them from a biblical or Christian perspective today.
We'll examine later what is hidden in the word Christian, but let's stay focused as we continue the chair illustration of true faith.
1: What are you doing for the object of your faith — the chair?
Salvisa Christian to be featured on Holiday tour
Salvisa Christian Church will be featured during the annual Christmas Holiday Homes Tour, according to a news release.
The tour is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 6 from 1 to 6 p.m. Tickets are available through the Harrodsburg Historical Society or at other tour locations.
The church's sanctuary was built in 1880-1881. The church will be decorated in the period and photos of Salvisa through the decades will be on display.
Glensboro Baptist offers Thanksgiving meal
A Thanksgiving meal will be served Thursday at Glensboro Baptist Church starting at noon, the church announced.
Meals can also be delivered by calling 839-8290.
The church is located at 2910 Glensboro Road.
Salvisa Christian to be featured on tour
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LU to confer 1167 degrees, Bart Simmons speaker
Lamar University is scheduled to confer 1167 degrees at fall commencement Saturday, December 14, in the Montagne Center. LU alumnus, Bart Simmons, will be the keynote speaker. The ceremonies will begin at 9:30 a.m. for the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business and Engineering and at 1:30 p.m. for the Colleges of Education and Human Development and Fine Arts and Communication.
Graduates hail from 18 countries, 21 states outside Texas and 242 cities and towns in Texas. Lamar is scheduled to award the 1167 degrees to 1157 graduation candidates – 21 for doctorates; 617 for master's degrees and 529 for bachelor's degrees. Doctorates include 14 in educational leadership, one doctor of audiology, four doctors of engineering and two doctor of education in deaf studies and deaf education.
Seven students earned two bachelor's degrees; two earned both a Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Science in accounting and another student earned a Master of Science in accounting and Master of Business Administration. The master's candidates include 503 students who earned degrees in education as part of Lamar's online education program.
As Lamar University celebrates its 90th year, LU alumnus and entrepreneur, Jay Barton "Bart" Simmons will deliver the commencement address. A visionary business leader, Simmons graduated magna cum laude from Lamar University while lettering three years in football. He served as president of the student government association and was a member of the Students for Free Enterprise. He credits his time at Lamar with sparking a life-long interest in economics and resource management.
After 50 years of strict price controls and regulation, the U.S. government deregulated the natural gas industry in 1985 creating many opportunities. Armed with a bachelor of business administration degree in finance and a master of business administration degree from Lamar University, awarded in 1978 and 1979 respectively, Simmons, along with his petroleum industry work experience, wrote a business plan for a start-up company and, in 1992, founded his own business. Today, the privately held Tristar Companies, co-founded by Simmons, do business in the western half of the United States and have revenues of $120 million a year.
In 2002, the Texas electricity market went through similar deregulation. This provided Simmons the opportunity to use his entrepreneurial skills in the mechanics of moving from a regulated world to a free market enterprise. As CEO of Texas Power, he led the company in navigating the complexities of the electric grid while gaining statewide recognition in customer satisfaction and performance.
His privately held BESS Investments Company, founded in 2003, provides grass-fed all natural beef to the market through effective ranch operations and modern management processes. The investment firm's other portfolio assets are geared to agricultural companies focusing on healthy living, innovation and technology.
He is a strong believer in giving back to his community and served on the Board of Directors of Wesley Rankin Community Center and as chairman of the board of Stewards of Lovers Lane United Methodist Church. He and wife, Martye Sculley Simmons, (accounting, 1978) funded the Vernon Glass Field of Champions Practice Field and the John Payton Academic Success Center at Lamar. They also funded the Patricia and George Sculley Scholarship in Business and the Martye and Bart Simmons Endowment in Business.
Simmons stays connected to Lamar as a member of the Board of Advisors to the College of Business and as a Trustee of the Lamar University Foundation. He was inducted into the College of Business Hall of Fame in 2013 and the university honored Simmons in 2008 as a distinguished alumnus.
President Kenneth Evans will present Plummer Awards, recognizing the top academic graduates. Students graduating summa cum laude, magna cum laude and cum laude with bachelor's degrees will be recognized as they accept their diplomas. Steve Doblin, provost and vice president for academic affairs, will introduce Bart Simmons as speaker and certify degree candidates.
The ceremony will begin as Barbara Hernandez, professor of health and kinesiology and president of the Faculty Senate, leads the academic processional. Paul Hemenway, professor of communication, and Victoria Price, professor of modern languages, will present the graduates for the ceremony.
The Lamar Wind Ensemble, conducted by Scott Deppe, director of bands, will perform the processional, recessional and musical prelude. Noel Turner, instructor of voice, will lead in singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" and Lamar Alma Mater


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We set up the Biogenesis tools on March 15th according to the Lantos instructions [as explained below and as shown in the photo]. This was a simple process that required little effort on our part and yet the results were significant! We returned on March 17th to find columns of light radiating vertically from the circle of wheels that were like a ring of protection, a force field, around Japan and the surrounding area. We kept our distance, about fifteen feet from the table upon which the map rested, for comfort.
On March 22nd we returned again and observed another shift in the energetic dynamic of this set up. In the center of the light columns, where energy was being created through a type of generator, rose strands of DNA that were being altered, an indication that the DNA of the people in the area was more capable of adjusting to environmental abnormalities. It is clear that the Biogenesis tools when used according to Lantos' instructions have a powerful ability to bring harmony and resonance to an unbalanced situation.
It is reassuring for us to realize that we can be of assistance in creating balance in the world. Thanks to Lantos and all who are helping us with divine intervention! We have left the BioGenesis tools in place on the map and will be asking what to do next weekly.
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The explosive growth of Google's YouTube and video-sharing services such as BitTorrent has led to a dramatic increase in the amount of data traversing the internet -- Google CEO Eric Schmidt has pointed out that internet traffic generated by YouTube in 2006 was larger than all internet traffic combined in the year 2000.
There is room for further growth -- even with YouTube's success, less than 1% of video is delivered over the internet, as existing broadcast systems such as television dominate. But that could change.
It's unclear how online video will impact the telecommunications carriers (such as AT&T (T) and Verizon Communications (VZ)) that own the pipes that deliver video to the end user, or the content providers (such as CBS (CBS), Time Warner (TWX), and Viacom (VIA)) that create the video in the first place. Because of the breadth of video located all overy the web, Video search will be very important to users as well as for those working on Video advertising models.
One thing is clear, however -- online video requires massive amounts of bandwidth. A single 30-minute sitcom requires as much bandwidth as over two years of email messages for an average user.[1]
The bandwidth required for online video will require telecom companies to spend massive amounts of money on network upgrades to keep pace with the additional traffic.
Companies who operate along the supply chain getting DVDs to viewers are clear losers from the rise of online video, as online video donwloads could cut them out as middlemen.


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Hey folks, Ambush Bug with an exclusive preview of RED LANTERNS #25 written by Charles Soule with art by Alessandro Vitti. I haven't been following this title, but with the addition of Guy Gardner to the ranks of the Red and some cool art by Vitti, color me intrigued.
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Minnow Tower
Proposed Canon
Minnow Tower was the Tower of Garrison in the capital city of Goodminton around the time when Wanda popped.
It is described as being "a somewhat taller gray rectangle than those that comprised the rest of the Garrison." The Tower hosts the war room, as well as Overlord Firebaugh's quarters, private office, and public reception on the floor above it. The tower's top was manned with archers and ballistas for air defense, but poorly protected with air defense spells.
Wanda used a Dirtamancy scroll purchased in the Magic Kingdom to upgrade the Tower before a battle with Goodminton's former ally Frenemy, to great effect.IPTSF Text 20
According to Delphie Temple the Tower offered very insignificant bonus for spell casting prior to the upgrade by the Dirtamancy scroll.IPTSF Text 3
Delphie's claim may have only been an excuse for choosing the Dungeon as her quarters and refusing to protect the Garrison with air defense spells.
Real World References
The name is a pun on "minotaur".
Minnow is a general term used to refer to small fish, especially those used as bait fish. This may be a reference to relative sizes of Goodminton and Haffaton.


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ROME (AP) — Italian officials say the southern Italian port of Gioia Tauro will be the site for the transfer of a shipment of chemical weapons materials from Syria to a U.S. ship.
Transport Minister Maurizio Lupi identified the port in a joint meeting of the parliamentary foreign affairs commissions.
The raw materials for poison gas and nerve agents currently are on board a Danish ship, and Italy has agreed to serve as the transfer port to a U.S. ship.
Lupi said a total of 60 containers of the material would be transferred ship-to-ship at the port in Calabria, near the toe of the Italian boot, and none would be brought to shore.


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NEW YORK (AP) — By adopting the nation's toughest abortion law in the face of certain legal challenge, Arkansas legislators have exposed sharp tactical divisions within the national anti-abortion movement.
Some activists welcomed the new law — a ban on most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy — as a bold challenge to the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that established a nationwide right to abortion. Others fear the ban is headed toward emphatic rejection in court and favor more incremental strategies.
"When you pass a law, the end goal is surviving in court," said Michael Gonidakis, president of Ohio Right to Life. He predicted the Arkansas law would be struck down because it contradicted Supreme Court rulings allowing abortions prior to viability — the stage at about 22 to 24 weeks of pregnancy when a fetus could survive outside the womb.
"It's easy to say, 'Let's save all the babies,'" said Gonidakis, an attorney. "But you could pass 100 bills a day, and they'll never go into effect and save one baby's life."
The Arkansas ban, which would make exceptions in cases of rape, incest and certain medical contingencies, is scheduled to go into effect 90 days after the current legislative session adjourns. Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe had vetoed the measure, but was overridden on Wednesday.
Within moments after the override vote in the Arkansas House, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights announced that they would challenge the ban in federal court.
"I believe the courts will be very quick to strike this down," said Jennifer Dalven, director of ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project. "This law is blatantly unconstitutional and an extreme intrusion by politicians into the personal decisions of a woman and her family."
Yet regardless of the Arkansas law's fate, abortion-rights lawyers will likely be confronted with a series of other laws posing similarly direct challenges to Roe.
In Oklahoma, a "personhood" bill has been introduced that would ban abortions by defining human life as beginning with conception. In North Dakota, the House of Representatives has passed a bill that would ban doctors from performing an abortion if a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can occur as early as six weeks into pregnancy.
A similar "heartbeat" bill was debated by Ohio lawmakers last year before being blocked by the Senate president. The measure, which could be revived this year, fractured Ohio's anti-abortion movement in a debate over its tactical effectiveness.
Gonidakis was among the anti-abortion leaders opposing the heartbeat bill, saying that if it did reach the Supreme Court, which he considered unlikely, it could backfire by producing an even a stronger ruling in favor of abortion rights.
Instead, Gonidakis prefers the incremental approach that anti-abortion activists have employed recently in many states — mostly Republican-controlled — by passing a variety of laws that curtail access to abortion without challenging Roe head-on.
In Ohio, these include a requirement that a woman seeking an abortion meet with a doctor at least 24 hours beforehand to be cautioned about medical risks and informed of alternatives that would lead to childbirth.
One of the groups most active in pushing state anti-abortion bills has been Americans United for Life.
Its spokeswoman, Kristi Hamrick, declined to criticize the Arkansas 12-week ban, but made clear that AUL preferred a less draconian approach taken by 10 states — prohibiting most abortions after 20 weeks under the disputed premise that a fetus may be capable of feeling pain at that stage.
"That's a good way to go forward," she said. "We believe it has a good chance of surviving legally."
On Wednesday, however, Idaho became the first of those 10 states to have its so-called fetal pain law struck down by a federal court as an unconstitutional violation of Roe v. Wade.
Abortion-rights groups welcomed the Idaho ruling, and so did the National Right to Life Committee, from a different perspective. The committee voiced hope that an appeal would lead the case to the U.S. Supreme Court and produce a ruling upholding the right of states to use fetal pain as a ground for banning abortions after 20 weeks.
It could take at least a year, likely longer, for any legal challenge to reach the Supreme Court, even if the justices did agree to hear an abortion case. And there's no guarantee the court's makeup would be the same; at present, it's generally viewed as representing a 5-4 majority in favor of upholding Roe, with Justice Anthony Kennedy considered a swing vote willing to consider some substantive state-level restrictions.
Steve Aden, who helps oversee abortion issues for the Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, suggested that the 20-week bans had a better chance of reaching the high court than measures such as the heartbeat bill or the new Arkansas ban.
However, he said the entire swath of bills conveyed a common message.
"What they demonstrate," he said, "is that there's a tidal wave of sentiment at the grass-roots level that abortion is unconscionable and that states should do their utmost in restricting it."
From the other side of the debate, Nancy Northup of the Center for Reproductive Rights said she saw some educational value in laws like the Arkansas ban.
"They reveal what the end game is, which is to ban abortions as early as possible," she said. "This isn't chipping away. It's taking a sledgehammer."
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Yesterday, I got invited to a media event located at Windsor Arm's newest restaurant called "The Living Room". By just reading the name of the restaurant, I could sense that the theme of this newest hotspot is to provide a comfort, relaxing and a cozy gathering place that travellers and Torontonians would found in a "Living Room" type of setting. And this is exactly what The Living Room aims to provide and I am super impressed the moment I stepped into the restaurant.
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Upon us is the promise of days spent at the beach with friends, road trips, picnics, BBQ's, delicious food, cooling drinks and lots of good music.
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SAP NEWSBYTE — SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that ContiTech Conveyor Belt Group (CBG), a business unit of ContiTech AG and one of the world's leading specialists in rubber and plastics technology, is implementing the SAP Cloud for Sales solution to engage its customers like never before. Using SAP Cloud for Sales, ContiTech CBG can deliver rich data and insights that empower its sales team to connect with customers anywhere, anytime, on any device and deliver a differentiated experience.
The CBG business unit of ContiTech concentrates on conveyor-belt technology solutions and advises customers all over the world. With many of its customers operating in remote locations, CBG's sales force must be able to connect to back-office applications via mobile devices. And to ensure flawless execution of its global sales processes, the company also needs a flexible cloud solution to which it can link seamlessly and extend its existing processes, platforms and mobile architectures.
"We were impressed by the contemporary look and feel and comprehensive range of functions in SAP Cloud for Sales right from the start," said Torben Franzke, head of IT management at ContiTech Conveyor Belt Group. "The solution enables us to bundle and display all of our global customer data in a highly structured way and to integrate it seamlessly with our ERP system. What's more, our sales personnel can access the data on their mobile devices and in offline mode whenever they need to."
SAP Cloud for Sales offers reps deep intelligence that they can leverage to better understand customers' unique challenges and apply innovative approaches to help achieve their goals.
"Cloud solutions from SAP, particularly in the area of customer data management, are a highly attractive option because they empower enterprises to optimize day-to-day business, work more closely with their customers and achieve desired business results," said Angela Mazza, global vice president, Line-of-Business and Cloud Solutions for EMEA & MEE, SAP. "By ensuring that its sales force is optimally connected and therefore more productive, ContiTech CBG has set the course for a successful future."
ContiTech CBG's implementation of SAP Cloud for Sales in Germany and Hungary. In the next stage of the project, the company plans to roll out the solution to all other CBG locations across Europe, Americas and Asia.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An influential Democratic senator questioned on Thursday the Obama administration's insistence that Afghan President Hamid Karzai sign a security deal by the end of 2013, suggesting that Washington wait for a "more reliable" leader to take office.
In a letter to President Barack Obama, Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said demands that Karzai sign the Bilateral Security Agreement by December 31 add to what he termed "the mistaken belief" that Washington needs the deal more than Kabul.
The United States should tell Karzai that if he will not sign, Washington will wait for whoever is elected Afghanistan's new president in April, Levin said.
"The next Afghan president, whoever he is, is also likely to be more reliable than President Karzai, and there would be greater confidence in his sticking with an agreement he has signed," the Michigan Democrat wrote.
Obama administration officials say the security pact, which would allow American troops to stay in Afghanistan beyond the end of 2014, needs to be signed this year, and that a delay would risk holding up vital military planning and eroding international support.
An assembly of Afghan elders, called a Loya Jirga, endorsed the pact last month.
But Karzai suggested he might not sign it until after the national elections and made additional demands, including that foreign forces immediately stop raids on Afghan homes and Washington repatriate all Afghan detainees at its military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Intel authenticated Flash memory and ARM TrustZone technology security capabilities improve embedded system performance and drive SoC cost savings
CAMBRIDGE, UK – Oct. 15, 2007 - ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMHY)] today announced that the Flash Memory Group at Intel Corporation, a member of the ARM® Connected Community®, has endorsed ARM TrustZone® technology as a trusted security solution to complement the features of its Intel Authenticated Flash technology. The combination of the ARM TrustZone technology from the ARM1176-JZ™, Cortex™-A8 and Cortex™-A9 applications processors with Intel Authenticated Flash memory offers a comprehensive, reliable approach to delivering a trusted environment, specifically targeted at securing consumer products such as mobile phones, PDAs and set-top boxes, as well as other products running open operating systems such as Symbian, Linux and Windows CE.
"The need for security protection of wireless applications represents a significant issue for the embedded world," said Jim McGregor, principal analyst and research director, Enabling Technologies Group, In-Stat. "With complementary technologies from players like ARM and Intel, In-Stat believes the industry is heading in a positive direction to address the issues of security while enhancing the core technology for these applications."
The need to improve security is being driven by the costs associated with the failure of embedded systems to secure critical data and applications such as payment services. With the spread of wireless systems, particularly in mobile phones, as well as the exponential growth in the connectivity of devices, the natural concern is to address security as a system level concern, where Flash memory chips play an important role.
"The security of consumer and wireless devices is coming under greater scrutiny. With increasing threats of mobile fraud, content hacking and virus attacks, operators and businesses are at risk of losing significant revenue opportunities. We are enabling system security by integrating protective measures into the heart of our processors and providing secure software to complement the efforts of our Partners," said Tiago Alves, security solutions manager, ARM. "The alignment of Intel's Authenticated Flash technology with ARM security solutions provides developers with the increased flexibility and assurance needed to bring secure applications to market more effectively. The value of the ARM Architecture in complementing and powering the Flash memory segment becomes more evident and we expect to see much more happening in this space in the near future"
The ARM TrustZone security architecture addresses this issue by offering trusted execution of code and hardware isolation, enabling the protection of on- and off-chip memory and peripherals from a range of software and hardware attacks. The Intel Authenticated Flash memory also provides trusted computing by supplying optimized hardware memory protection that can prevent unauthorized modifications to Flash memory content. When combined, the two complementary technologies offer OEMs, carriers and end users a highly protected system architecture that provides the interoperability and software compatibility needed in a complete security system, thereby reducing system-on-chip costs by managing the complexity of custom hardware security outside the CPU.
ARM TrustZone technology is a complementary solution to the Intel Authenticated Flash memory in that it provides an extra level of trust, including protected decryption of messaging and verification of code authenticity.
First introduced in the ARM1176JZ-S processor, the ARM TrustZone architecture extensions are present in all subsequent applications processors from ARM. The TrustZone framework can also be extended for ARM7™ and ARM9™ family processors through a combination of customized hardware and the TrustZone software. Intel Authenticated Flash memory can also be used in these platforms and is an effective solution for adding hardware integrity protection. ARM TrustZone technology is available for licensing now from ARM and consists of TrustZone technology-enabled ARM processors, TrustZone technology-aware ARM fabric IP and the TrustZone Software.
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ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from mobile, home and enterprise solutions to embedded and emerging applications. ARM's comprehensive product offering includes 16/32-bit RISC microprocessors, data engines, graphics processors, digital libraries, embedded memories, peripherals, software and development tools, as well as analog functions and high-speed connectivity products. Combined with the company's broad Partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com.
ARM and TrustZone are registered trademarks of ARM Limited. ARM1176-JZ, ARM1176JZ-S, ARM7, ARM9 and Cortex are trademarks of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings plc; its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM, Inc.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan Limited; ARM France SAS; ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; ARM Belgium N.V.; AXYS Design Automation Inc.; ARM Germany GmbH; ARM Embedded Technologies Pvt. Ltd.; and ARM Norway, AS.
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DETROIT (AP) — Four people were found shot to death in a Detroit home, authorities said Wednesday, padding the city's homicide total that already has surpassed last year's.
Officers discovered the bodies of a teenage boy, two men and woman Tuesday night at a home in an east-side neighborhood. Investigators believed the killings were drug-related, police spokeswoman Yvette Walker said.
The Wayne County medical examiner's office identified the victims Wednesday as Shawn Bender, 16; Janetta Harris, 22; Jason Koester, 28; and Dyrelle Davis, 34. Harris died of multiple gunshot wounds, while the other three were shot in the head, according to the office.
The block where the bodies were found has about two dozen two-story homes. Like many Detroit neighborhoods, several of the homes are vacant. On the front door of one vacant home, someone affixed a sign that reads: "This building is being watched."
Carla Collins, 49, said that in August, she and some of her neighbors formed the "Tacoma Street Block Club," a neighborhood watch, because suspicious activity in the area spiked when an abandoned building across the street from her home became a "dope house."
"This was a quiet neighborhood," said Collins, who moved there three years ago.
The killings were the latest in what has been a particularly violent year in Detroit. The city announced last week that homicides rose this year, reaching 354 through Thanksgiving after totaling 344 for all of 2011.
At a news conference Wednesday, Mayor Dave Bing said safety was a top priority and announced that 13 police mini-stations would open throughout the city by the end of the winter.
"We heard you," Bing said, referring to citizens' complaints that police officers sometimes are hard to find on the streets.
The mini-stations will be situated in recreation centers, shopping centers and other sites, and each location will be staffed with a permanent officer, a police reservist and a community volunteer.
Six were open on Wednesday, two are to debut by the end of the month and the remaining five will be in place by March.
"For way too long, no doubt about it, there's just too much crime in our city," Bing said.
Interim Police Chief Chester Logan said he was a mini-station officer years ago and referred to Detroit as a "pioneer" in the community policing concept. But, Logan said, the city gravitated away from the mini-station idea in the 1970s as Detroit's population began to decline and public funds became scarce.
"I'm so excited that the mayor approved this concept," Logan told reporters at the Butzel Family Center, home to one of the newly reopened mini-stations.
Bing said the mini-stations will be "much more than a place to report crime."
"You're going to get to know each other," the mayor said, referring to the sometimes strained relationship between residents and law enforcement in the city.


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Pattern Number: 0797502
Pattern Name: Trend 01834 Pottery Fabric
Brand: Trend
Contents: 55% Linen 45% Rayon
Trend Fabric Collection: Jaclyn Smith Home Color Red / Spice
Width: 54 in (137.16 cm)
Vertical Repeat: 27.0 in (68.58 cm)
Horizontal Repeat: 54.0 in (137.16 cm)
Usage: Bedding, Drapery, Multipurpose, Upholstery
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Jamie Dornan will be the new Christian Grey, according to "Fifty Shades of Grey" author E.L. James.
Dornan, 31, who played hunky Sheriff Graham Humbert in ABC's "Once Upon a Time," is the actor replacing "Sons of Anarchy" star Charlie Hunnam. Dornan will play the sex-driven Christian Grey in the film adaptation of the erotic B&D trilogy's first book.
"Stow your twitchy palms ladies...our man is here. Welcome to #TeamFifty @JamieDornan1 x," James confirmed in a tweet Thursday.
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Variety reported this week that the scruffy British actor was the new star of the Sam Taylor-Johnson-directed film, playing the craven young billionaire opposite actress Dakota Johnson's Anastasia Steele.
"Jamie has a really good reputation as someone easy to work with, easygoing and is seen as someone who will be very appreciative of this role," a source told Us Weekly. "It's his charm and personality that is winning people over."
The Irish actor fills in for Hunnam, who abruptly dropped out of the highly anticipated project Oct. 12. Since the announcement, the studio appeared to have scrambled to recast its co-lead in order to make the November production start date and the film's August release.
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Dornan has previously appeared in Sofia Coppola's 2006 adaptation of "Marie Antoinette" and has modeled Calvin Klein underwear. (A B&D-inspired shoot for GQ with "Transformers" actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is particularly revelatory.)
Unfortunately, the actor is off the romantic market. Dornan married singer-songwriter Amelia Warner earlier this year and announced in June that they're expecting their first child.
Warner was previously married to bad-boy Colin Farrell and Dornan has previously been linked to actresses Keira Knightley, Lindsay Lohan and Sienna Miller and model Kate Moss, People reported.
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