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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Dennis Hawley, associate vice president for facilities, discusses Academic West and downtown projects. || Related news story: Academic West
Q: Construction of a new academic building, Academic West, will begin in about eight weeks. What's the status of that project?
A: Academic West will be on the south side of Bertrand Library and is the beginning of what will eventually be a new academic quad. Around the end of March a fence will go up, Fraternity Road will be blocked at Coleman Drive and contractors will begin preparing the site. We'll work on that project for about a year and a half, and Academic West will open for classes in August of 2013.
Q: Why is Academic West a priority?
A: By building some larger classrooms in Academic West, we will be able to modify classrooms in other buildings to better support Bucknell's approach to teaching and its small class sizes. For instance, a class in Coleman Hall might be held in a room with 50 tablet-arm chairs, but the room would be better suited with movable tables and chairs to accommodate about 24 people. Of course, the new, larger classrooms are large only by Bucknell standards — the largest is 72 seats.
Academic West will also enable us to bring academic departments together. Right now, some faculty members within the same department are housed in separate buildings. And that's a hindrance, especially to newer faculty members — they need to interact with their colleagues and be near their mentors.
Q: What are some of the special architectural features of Academic West?
A: Hearth spaces — places where faculty, students and staff can informally interact as they await classes or as they're studying between classes. We have a really nice hearth space in Dana Engineering, but we have very few others around campus. Academic West will have a number of attractive spaces where people will be able to put their heads together on group projects, plug in their laptops to a flat-screen TV to work on presentations, and study between classes.
The building will also be built using sustainable practices according to LEED silver certification standards. Most visually noticeable will be a vegetated, green roof.
Q: What else is happening on the south side of campus?
A: Fifty acres have been under development since last spring in order to prepare to build Academic West, as two fraternity houses — Lambda Chi Alpha and Kappa Delta Rho had to be removed. We've built new residences for the two fraternities, both of which are LEED certified. Lambda Chi will move into its new space right after Spring Break.
In addition to these construction projects, planning is underway for new student housing. Most of the utilities have been run, and Bucknell is studying the type of housing we want to build. Our target is to open up some student housing by August of 2015.
Beyond that, Academic East will eventually form the other side of the new quad, and an art building is in the pipeline.
Q: What's happening with regard to facilities in downtown Lewisburg?
A: The new bookstore has been running for a year and a half now, and we did a full renovation of the Campus Theatre. It's a pretty spectacular building and getting lots of use.
We've also acquired and renovated the Federal Building, which was the old federal courthouse and Post Office, which will remain on the first floor. The Development staff will move to the Federal Building when it opens in the beginning of April. This will open up other office spaces on campus, creating a domino effect of office moves.
The DeWitt Building on Market Street is another downtown project. One of its two upper floors will house the Small Business Development Center, which is associated with the College of Engineering. The other floor will house the Bucknell University Entrepreneurs Incubator, a center that's run through some government programs to stimulate small businesses. It's a natural pairing for Bucknell, especially with some of our students being young entrepreneurs and needing a place to have their first office.
Finally, we're working to make the campus more pedestrian friendly and to address parking, traffic, environmental and sustainability issues. We're building parking lots and continuing to close roads and make walking paths more available. And we're studying the possibility of making connections to the local Buffalo Valley Rail Trail.
Interviewed by Molly O'Brien-Foelsch
New editions of "Ask the Experts" will appear on the Bucknell website on most Thursdays during the fall and spring semesters. If you have ideas for future topics or are a faculty or staff member who would like to participate, contact Molly O'Brien-Foelsch.
To learn more about faculty and staff experts who can speak on a variety of news topics, visit Bucknell's searchable Experts Guide.Contact: Division of Communications


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Caltrans will be cleaning up mudslides from last week's storms
Highway 33 south to Ojai and Ventura is expected to remain closed for two more weeks because of mudslides from last week's heavy rains.
Caltrans said the road is closed on north from Lockwood Valley Road south to Wheeler Gorge.
The roadway was first closed on March 1 because of numerous rock and mudslides from the storms that moved through the area.

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Suicide try by former Raymond man delays trial in rape caseBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
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April 22. 2013 8:36PM
BRENTWOOD - A former Raymond man recently sent back to prison to serve a 20- to 40-year prison sentence on a sexual assault conviction attempted suicide just as his latest trial was to begin on charges that he raped a 7-year-old girl.
A judge has set a June 17 trial date for Patrick Eschenbrenner, who faces six counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault for allegedly abusing the girl between in 2002 and 2007.
Judge N. William Delker said in a court order that Eschenbrenner's trial on April 8 had to be delayed because he was being treated in an infirmary for injuries related to the suicide attempt.
The court order does not say when the suicide attempt occurred. Delker said he was informed about the matter on the day the trial was set to begin.
If convicted in the latest case, Eschenbrenner, 51, could have decades added to his current prison term. He faces up to 10 to 20 years in state prison on each of the latest sex assault charges.
Eschenbrenner was briefly freed from prison two years ago after being convicted by a jury in a 1998 rape case.
Superior Court Chief Justice Tina Nadeau decided that Eschenbrenner did not receive effective assistance from his lawyer during his 2008 trial, and that the jury should not have been allowed to hear opinions of police officers during their testimony.
Nadeau concluded that the officers improperly conveyed to the jury that they believed the victim's allegations of sexual abuse.
The state Supreme Court disagreed with Nadeau in February, concluding that Eschenbrenner did not deserve a new trial.Eschenbrenner had been in state prison for roughly three years when he was freed on bail in 2011 in the wake of Nadeau's decision.
A Rockingham County jury convicted him after a trial in May 2008.
A second victim stepped forward after Eschenbrenner was released on bail.
An investigation into that case resulted in Eschenbrenner being arrested again in December 2011 while he was living in Glenburne, Maine.
Eschenbrenner was also indicted on a single count of witness tampering. Prosecutors allege that Eschenbrenner wrote to the alleged victim following his arrest in December 2011, asking her to not appear in court to testify.
After Nadeau's decision, Assistant County Attorney Jerome Blanchard convinced the state Attorney General's Office to appeal her ruling.


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Almost all the Bruins players are back in town to start training camp Friday at TD Garden.
But before they officially hit the ice, the Bruins will hit the poker tables to benefit the kids of Franciscan Hospital for Children Wednesday.
The first ever "Sturmy's Poker Party" will be hosted by injured winger Marco Sturm at the Liberty Hotel in Boston in partnership with the Bruins Foundation. Sturm and his teammates — including Patrice Bergeron, Zdeno Chara, David Krejci and Milan Lucic — are expected to be dealt in to benefit the kids.
"We're totally excited. We're a pretty small hospital. So we're completely honored that Marco Sturm chose us as his charity for this first-time event," said Steven Snyder, Chief Development Officer for Franciscan Hospital. "Having met Marco a couple of times, aside from his incredible reputation as a hockey player I've gotten to know him and have seen him with the kids and he has great character."
In addition to the Texas Hold 'em tournament, the evening will include a silent auction.
A limited number of tickets are available for $250. For information, call Erin Perron at Blue Sky Sports & Entertainment (617) 951-3799 x336 or firstname.lastname@example.com or Erin McEvoy at the Boston Bruins Foundation 617.624.1955.


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Mary Jo White, the former U.S. attorney in Manhattan, is under consideration to become the next chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, three people with knowledge of the matter said.
White, now a partner at law firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York, would succeed Elisse Walter, who took over as SEC chairman last month, said the people, who asked not to be named because the matter isn't public.
The choice of White, who was known as a no-nonsense prosecutor, would be a departure for the agency which has tended to be run by lawyers steeped in financial policy-making and the securities industry. Her relative inexperience in those areas, along with her work defending corporate clients including Ken Lewis, the former chief executive officer of Bank of America Corp., is likely to draw fire from some lawmakers and advocates for investors.
As U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1993 to 2002, White became a leading terrorism prosecutor, winning the conviction of four followers of Osama bin Laden for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. Under her direction, prosecutors won convictions for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a failed plot to blow up the United Nations headquarters and other New York landmarks. During that time, she supervised Robert Khuzami, the SEC's outgoing enforcement director, and George Canellos, his deputy.
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SEC spokesman John Nester declined to comment on her possible nomination. White didn't respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
White, who was also on the board of the Nasdaq Stock Market, could also face questions over some of her clients. She represented Ken Lewis, the former chief executive officer of Bank of America Corp., during an SEC probe of claims the bank didn't disclose bonuses that Merrill Lynch & Co. paid to executives before buying the brokerage. The SEC didn't accuse Lewis of wrongdoing; the bank settled the claims for $150 million.
White was also hired in 2011 by News Corp. to defend its independent directors against claims related to the company's role in phone hacking by its former News of the World tabloid.
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Release Date: April 15, 2014
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Unfortunately The Secret Sisters have canceled their performance for the March 18 XPN Free At Noon. The bill instead will be a set by local musicians Andrew Lipke & Hezekiah Jones.
Local musicians, Andrew Lipke and Raphael Cutrufello of Hezekiah Jones will perform with a band of some of Philly's finest musicians. Hezekiah Jones have a new album called Have You Seen Our New Fort?. The album was produced by Lipke, and they just recorded a session for Shaking Through - XPN's and Weathervane Music's online emerging artist audio and video initiative. Raphael and Andrew will share the stage performing a mix of old and new songs.
Born in South Africa, Andrew Lipke has literally and figuratively come a long way to where his music thrives today. After moving to the U.S. in 1987, Lipke eventually migrated to Philly to pursue a career in music composition at The University of the Arts. Having always played music, (he started piano at the tender age of five) Lipke has played in multiple bands, one being Philly fans' favorite, Metagroove. In 2008, Lipke was chosen by WXPN as one of seven local artists to be featured in the WXPN and Minneapolis Music Exchange, where his music was featured prominently on both radio stations. In 2009 Andrew Lipke & the prospects played the XPoNential Music festival presented by Subaru. His next record The Plague is almost finished and will be out this fall.
Hezekiah Jones is a collection of Philadelphia-area artists based around the songwriting of Raphael Cutrufello. They have released one full-length album, Hezekiah Says You're A-Ok, and two EPs, Come to Our Pool Party, and Bread of Teeth, all on Yer Bird Records. The band is made up of a large and revolving cast of players. Recently Hezekiah Jones were selected to be the April artist in the WXPN and Weathervane music Shaking Through series. Andrew Lipke performs on the track as well.Website: www.yerbird.com/hezekiah-jones-albums/
The Secret Sisters are off to a good start in the music world. Backed by the legendary Jack White, their debut album (produced by White) was just released via Third Man Records. It's full of old-time country and folk, complete with a Johnny Cash cover and the two sisters' take on "Wabash Cannonball."{readmorelink}Read More...{/readmorelink}


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Iberia Deputies Arrest Four Following Investigation of Stolen Items
Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal says his detectives have recovered close to $40,000 in stolen items.
Deputies say the investigation started when detectives found multiple stolen items at a home in the 7000 block of Jackie Street.
Detectives say they found stolen utility trailers, laptop computers and power tools.
The search of the Jackie Street home then led detectives to search a home in the 400 block of Bayard Street in New Iberia where they found other stolen items including a handgun and two motorcycles. They also found illegal narcotics
Three people were arrested at that time:
- 26-year-old Ashley Duhon was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia
- 23-year-old Joshua B. Boudreaux was arrested for failure to appear
- 21-year-old Rusty Derouen was arrested for violation of a protective order and resisting an officer
Detectives also had warrants out for a fourth suspect, 42-year-old Scotty Latiolais of New Iberia. He has been charged with:
- Possession of schedule II
- Possession of drug paraphernalia
- Possession of stolen property over 500
- Parole violation
- Possession with intent Schedule II
- Felon carrying illegal weapons
- Possession with fire arm with controlled dangerous substance
- Subsequent second offender
- Creation operation clandestine lab
- Possession of drug paraphernalia
The stolen property that was recovered from these addresses come from Iberia and other parishes.
Detectives say their investigation continues, and likely more arrests will be made.


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Iowa State engineers on The History Channel
The History Channel's "Monsterquest" series will feature an Iowa State engineering team on Wednesday, Jan. 9, at 9 p.m. Central. Cameras follow aerospace engineering students Hirofumi Igarashi, Jack Lin and Adam Roland as they test models of "flying rods" in an Iowa State wind tunnel. Hui Hu, an assistant professor of aerospace engineering, led the students' work in the lab. Tom Shih, professor and chair of aerospace engineering, was also interviewed for the show.
Iowa State University researchers collaborate in identification of new influenza subtype not previously found in pigs
Iowa State University researchers have helped identify and characterize a subtype of influenza in swine that hadn't been found in the species. The subtype, H2N3, is frequently found in birds. The finding was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Fraudsters beware: Iowa State engineer is developing cyber technology to find you
Yong Guan, Iowa State's Litton Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has filed a patent on a technology that protects Internet advertisers from "click fraud" -- falsely driving up hits to ads on Web pages. The extra clicks drive up costs for pay-per-click advertising. Guan is also developing other technologies to improve computer security.
University holiday
University offices will be closed for the holiday Tuesday, Jan. 1. Some university offices may be closed or have shortened hours through Jan. 1. Check individual office web sites for more information on holiday hours.
ISU psychologists explore public policy and effects of media violence on children
Three ISU psychologists have authored a new study that reviews the literature on children's exposure to media violence and assesses the lack of effective public policy response to curb the risks. They also recommend more effective public policy strategies in the future.
Hoovers pledge $1.5 million for new endowed chair
Gary and Donna Hoover of Scottsdale, Ariz., have pledged more than $1.5 million to create the first endowed chair in the department of mechanical engineering at Iowa State University.
An Iowa Stater talks about his life in space
Iowa State University President Gregory Geoffroy recently invited Clayton Anderson, an Iowa State graduate and NASA astronaut, to appear on the president's monthly radio show. Anderson told host Rob Dillard and "Talk of Iowa" listeners about his boyhood dreams to be an astronaut, his days studying engineering at Iowa State and the 16 times he applied to be an astronaut before making the corps. Hear the show by visiting the WOI Radio Group's audio archives and clicking on "Talk of Iowa - President Geoffroy and Astronaut Clayton Anderson - 12/12/07."
ISU's link to the 2008 Iowa Caucus
Get a recap of all of Iowa State's presidential campaign activity and a list of its political experts who can comment on issues related to the Jan. 3 caucuses at this new site.
ISU Greenlee School grad student studies effectiveness of the political bumper sticker
Patti Brown, a graduate student in Iowa State's Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, has put together a complete history and analysis of political bumpers stickers from United States presidential campaigns as a class project. It includes a political blog documenting her research and welcoming outside opinion, and a sculpture featuring two Ford pickup trucks covered in bumper stickers.
In the news
Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2007
2. Chimpanzees Make Spears for Hunting. Following a troop of the primates in a Senegalese savanna, Jill Pruetz of Iowa State University and Paco Bertolani of Cambridge observed them breaking the branches off of trees, picking leaves from the sides, and sharpening the tips to deadly points.
Iowa caucus can elevate second choice
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A poll by Iowa State University found that 22.7 percent of likely Iowa caucus participants say Edwards is their second choice. Obama was the second choice of 20.1 percent of those surveyed, while 13.8 percent favored Clinton as their second choice.


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Jacob Volkmann has quickly landed back on his feet following his release from the UFC last week.
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This situations the exact opposite, there's no real logical way for the heroes to lose as well as there being no real logical way to beat Aijimu in a straight confrontation in which Medaka ironically lost in the last arc. Hence why there's practically zero tension in this arc. The only real way to bring it back would be for the heroes to actually permanently lose or at least for Medaka's plan to fail but even that would not neccesarily bring back the tension as it would just make prevalent how convulted this entire plan was as Aijimu a god-like existence was willing to help.
Which leads us back to the original issue of Aijimu.
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Even before Ajimu, Medkaa basically filled that position by sheer virtue of being the 'main character' that Ajimu (and on some level Kumagawa) spoke of. Medaka used to annoy fans back when the manga started but Ajimu makes things worse with 10,000,000,000 skills and abilities. Any 'fight' Ajimu enters will end in a curb stomp battle but Medaka isn't really that much better. Medaka will not lose even when she does, she even beat the person who was stronger than she was.
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Last couple of chapters have been my favorites of the arc. Definitely made the wait worthwhile.
Funny we managed to have an actual explanation for why certain Kurokami family members go overboard with 'love'. Its all hereditary lmao. Only Kujira seems to be exempt and I have to wonder if its the Momozono side of her blood counteracting that given how her cousin is acting in this Shiritori game.
Interesting that Medaka's mom was a Tsuburami family member and that makes Kamome her actual cousin as opposed to just a distant relative. Professor Tsuburami makes a lot more sense now as well. Dude has some amazing foresight to be able to set this up never mind how he came up with these language abilities.
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This headline in the Minneapolis Star Tribune caught my eye: Mpls. City Council president frustrated, angry over racial equity plan. Here is the story:
In a rare display of emotion, City Council President Barb Johnson said she's frustrated and angry at the time employees at Minneapolis City Hall are spending on a plan to close racial disparities, noting the rampant gunshots and other problems afflicting her North Side ward. …
Civil Rights Director Velma Korbel addressed council members about a project called the Racial Equity Action Plan, which would identify strategies for improving minority citizens' health, academic achievement, job opportunities and other areas in which they lag behind whites.
It is fair to say that this wish list goes far beyond the traditional competency of a municipal city council.
It would draw on input from many stakeholders, including people across City Hall departments, and builds on a new 28-point assessment for city workers to consider racial equity in their decisionmaking.
Which means to distribute those pothole repairs equally, I suppose. The Council President explained her concerns:
Johnson said she was late to the meeting because of "critical issues" in her ward, including drug arrests and gunshots, and that people she's asked for help in dealing with public safety are spending a lot of time on the equity plan instead.
"I am so frustrated about this," she said. "I see it as another task force, another report, another reporting mechanism. I've got all the reporting mechanisms I need. … I'm really angry. I want an estimate of staff time, I want to know from each of these people how much time are you spending on these multiple, multiple initiatives that we're using to produce more reports.
Some might think it impractical for city government to achieve the utopian objective of those race reports, but others say there is precedent for the Minneapolis City Council addressing global issues successfully:
Supporters of the equity plan say it can offer benchmarks and goals similar to the city's existing plan on reducing climate change.
The Minneapolis City Council has a plan to control the Earth's climate? Who knew? My guess is that the Council will have as powerful an impact on racial disparities as it has had on global temperatures. In the meantime, the very real problems of crime, street repair and lack of economic development take a back seat.


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(a major fishery and ecological resource) is taken off the US government's
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remarkable places in the offshore area of Alaska.
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Also known as Niginganiq, this extensive area off the coast of Baffin Island, Nunavut, became a sanctuary for bowhead whales in 2008.
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TULSA, Okla. - The Arena Football League named former Wesley College Bryan Robinson its Riddell Defensive Player of the Week.
Robinson, a member of the Kansas City Command, recorded four tackles, four sacks and one blocked kick in the Command's victory over the Spokane Shock, 45-42. Robinson ranks second in the AFL in tackles for a loss (10.0).
He shares this honor with Chicago's Vic Hall.
Robinson has been a member of the AFL's Cleveland Gladiators, played in the United Football League for the New York Sentinals and with the Manchester Wolves of areanafootball2. He finished ninth in AF2 with 10 sacks for the Wolves. He had also signed with the Hamilton TigerCats of the Canadian Football league after the AF2 season, before being scooped up by the UFL.
In the summer of 2008, he was among the final cuts of the Arizona Cardinals in the NFL.
Robinson anchored the Wesley defense for four years, leading the team to a 44-7 record, three trips to the NCAA Playoffs and two trips to the national semifinals. As a senior, he led a team that advanced to the national quarterfinals and won both the Lambert-Meadowlands and ECAC Team of the Year Awards. Robinson was named to the AP Little All-American First Team and the American Football Coaches Association All-American First Team in 2007. His selection to the D3football.com All-American First Team was his third selection by that outlet, as was his D3football.com All-South Region Defensive Player of the Year Award. Robinson was also chosen as the ECAC All-Southwest Region Player of the Year. He was named All-Atlantic Central Football Conference (ACFC) First Team four times and was the ACFC Defensive Player of the Year three times.
Robinson finished his career as both Wesley's and the ACFC's all-time leader with 47 sacks and 92.5 tackles for loss. He also ranks among the school's all-time leaders in tackles.
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Samsung is one of the most prolific makers of messaging phone handsets, with one in almost every carrier in the country. That includes the fledgling Alltel, which still has a few markets unclaimed by Verizon Wireless in the recent Verizon-Alltel merger. The Samsung Freeform for Alltel is not a bad messaging phone, with GPS for navigation, corporate e-mail support, and a few basic multimedia options. It's available for $199.99 without a contract or for $69.99 with a one-year contract and a $50 mail-in rebate.
Unlike its name, the Samsung Freeform actually has a quite a rigid and familiar design. It measures 4.4 inches long by 2.4 inches wide by 0.5 inch thick, and it's made mostly of a hard lightweight plastic except for a soft-touch matte-black border around the sides of the phone. That, combined with its curved corners and rounded edges, makes the phone comfortable to hold in the hand. It's also rather light at 3.63 ounces, so it won't weigh you down.
Right on the front of the Freeform is the 2.2-inch display with 262,000-color support. It's bright and colorful, graphics look great on it, and text is sharp and legible. You can change the clock format, the greeting banner text, the backlight time, and the size of the dialing font.
Underneath the display is the navigation array. There is a large rectangular toggle with middle confirmation key in the center–the toggle also doubles as shortcuts to four user-defined functions when the phone is in standby mode. Surrounding the toggle are two soft keys, the Speakerphone key, the Back key, and the Talk and End/Power keys. All keys are raised above the surface for ease of use, but the Speakerphone and Back keys especially stand out because they are raised a little higher than the rest. We found this arrangement a little awkward initially, but it was acceptable overall.
Though the keyboard on the Freeform is not exactly spacious, the keys are raised sufficiently above the surface so it's easy to text and dial by feel. However, the keys are rather small, and they do feel a little stiff when pressed, so we weren't able to type as quickly as we would like. The number keys are marked in black. Also on the keyboard are a dedicated calendar key and a dedicated e-mail shortcut key.
On the left of the phone is the volume rocker while the camera key and charger jack are on the right. On the top is the 3.5mm headset jack, and on the back is the external speaker and camera lens with a self-portrait mirror. There's also a microSD card slot but you have to remove the battery cover to find it.
The Samsung Freeform has a 1,000-entry phone book with room in each entry for five phone numbers and two e-mail addresses. You can save callers to groups, pair them with a photo for caller ID, or with one of 16 polyphonic ringtones or one of five alert sounds. You can set an incoming text message alert tone as well. Other basic features of the phone include a vibrate mode, a speakerphone, text and multimedia messaging, a calendar, a memo pad, an alarm clock, a world clock, a calculator, a stop watch, a unit converter, and a tip calculator. More advanced features include voice command support, Bluetooth, GPS with Alltel's turn-by-turn navigation software, and a wireless Web browser.


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Hi guys, apologies if this is in the wrong place but unsure where it'd best fit.
I've been asked to re-develop a site for a friend - the site uses Wordpress for it's CMS side, with vBulletin as a community/forum space.
At present, the Wordpress install is using default-style permalinks, which we want changing to another format. Unfortunately, when I try to do this, the site shows a plain "page not found" error.
I've looked into the htaccess file and various help sites, and come to the conclusion (after installing a blank htaccess file) that there's a conflict somewhere in it, but I'm not sure where.
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Owner of Newington nail salon pleads guilty to bribing IRS agent
April 04. 2013 2:16PM
CONCORD - A Seabrook man faces up to 15 years in federal prison for bribing an IRS agent who was conducting an audit on his nail salon business in Newington.
Hoang O. Hoang, 45, pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court to one count of bribery of a public official. A news release issued by the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Hampshire, does not identify the IRS agent. A call to the U.S. Attorney's Office for comment was not immediately returned.
Hoang's business was audited on Dec. 9, 2011, by the IRS agent. According to the news release, Hoang offered to pay the agent $4,000 in the course of several conversations if the agent would reduce his business' tax liability.
On Jan. 12, 2012, Hoang paid the unnamed IRS agent a $2,295 bribe so the outcome of the audit would be a reduction in taxes.
Hoang is to be sentenced July 10.
The case was investigated by the office of the U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration and prosecuted by assistant U.S. Attorney Arnold H. Huftalen.


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When you think of Simchat Torah, the imagery that immediately comes to mind is dancing around the bima with the Torah scrolls -- while singing traditional songs.
The problem that many people encounter is: What exactly are the words of those songs? And how can I learn the melodies beforehand to be prepared?
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- Only a maximum of three people can dine in the kitchen, and only 2 comfortably. As such, we've started a mini photo gallery on the tiny wall above our placemats along the diningt counter, so we can toast to friends and lost loved ones. On a separate, space-saving note, there is a custom, built-in rolling trash can that we are grateful for daily, as there are too many filters and pipes under our sink to store the bins there.
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"Byzantium" is a very different sort of vampire drama for director Neil Jordan, whose undead were so fabulously rich and fashion-forward in "Interview With the Vampire" so many years ago.
This vision of the immortal has more of an Irish fable quality, complete with swirling mists, choppy seas and the grit of hard lives.
The movie's stars are haunting as well. Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton portray daughter and mother vampires on the run, bound and torn in ways that mothers and daughters always are.
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From the lyrical and deeply sad journal entries of 16-year-old Eleanor (Ronan) to the tricks turned by Clara (Arterton) to keep money in their pockets, there is real suffering in their existence both before and after that dark gift. As one expects from a species that survives on the blood of others, there is a good deal of gore from waterfalls that run blood-red every time a new vampire is made to the necks that are pierced when they feed.
But there is real humanity in "Byzantium" too. Screenwriter Moira Buffini brings a worldly authenticity to the characters in a way that those most famous of movie vampires, "Twilight's" charmed Bella and Edward, never did. In tone, "Byzantium" is closer to the darkness of her script for director Cary Fukunaga's edgy 2011 reimagining of "Jane Eyre" than the lighter irony of Stephen Frears' "Tamara Drewe" in 2010, which also starred Arterton.
As the film opens, Eleanor seems like any other angst-filled teenage romantic, putting her secrets and lies in a journal, then tearing the pages out and tossing them to the wind. That soon changes when an old man picks up a page and begins reading. The conversation with Eleanor that follows sets out the rules these particular vampires follow as well as the meditative sensibilities of the film.
In addition to the complications of daily life, Clara and Eleanor are being hunted by older vampires determined to stamp out all female immortals. That chase quickly moves the action from a city to a far more photogenic seaside town. They soon set up camp in a failed but elegant old hotel. Its name, Byzantium, is spelled out in neon and Noel (Daniel Mays), its owner, is a decent bloke. Both provide a rare bit of light in their darkness.
Since immortality is a central conceit, the conflicts Clara and Eleanor face are from the distant past and the present. Though we learn through flashbacks that Eleanor and her mum have been around a few centuries, the teenager is only now amid a coming-of-age crisis. It's because she meets a boy.
Frank, played by an excellent Caleb Landry Jones, is moody and dying, exactly Eleanor's type. Though she resists, she is drawn to him. A creative writing class seals the deal. The questions for vampires and filmmakers alike is how to grapple with conflicting love and loyalty issues, and this is where the film spends its time.
Like most of Jordan's work, "Byzantium" is saturated with mood and beautifully shot. Sean Bobbitt, who handles the cinematography, is building quite a résumé for shooting dark evocatively — 2011's "Shame," this year's "The Place Beyond the Pines" and "12 Years a Slave" in the fall.
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For the director, who has been busy writing and directing the intrigues of Jeremy Irons and "The Borgias" on TV, "Byzantium" is an unexpected choice for his return to long-form. Though the movie has little of the intellectual heft of "Michael Collins" or "The Crying Game," the filmmaker, always so good with damaged lives, brings more emotional depth than we normally get in vampire films.
For Ronan, the film comes at an especially good time.
After several so-so roles — most recently the Stephenie Meyer post-"Twilight" sci-fi fiasco "The Host" this year — "Byzantium" is a reminder of how good the 19-year-old can be with the right part. Eleanor is an enigma that you want to watch unravel, and Ronan does so with great subtlety. Sometimes with nothing more than the slow blink of her eyes, the turn of her head.
As with Eleanor, "Byzantium's" appeal is not so much its bite, which could use some refining, but the emotional journey its undead take. In Jordan's hands, the vampires are so very human.
MPAA rating: R for bloody violence, sexual content and language
Running time: 1 hour, 58 minutes
Playing: Landmark Theater, West Los Angeles


text: Three best practices for social media monitoring at conferences Published on March 20, 2013. Conferences around the world are occurring on a weekly basis, and if you're not monitoring social media you're missing out on valuable insights that you can extract from conversations, observes Andrew Gothelf on the Salesforce.com Marketing Cloud blog .Even if you do have a social listening tool in place, the process of deciding what to listen for can be quite overwhelming. What should you take into account when determining what to monitor on the social Web during conferences related to your business? Gothelf offers some best practices. READ MORE Most Popular In this article: BtoB


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A former Washington County worship leader has been indicted on 11 counts of sexual abuse by a grand jury.
Jonathan Linwick, 29, of Lexington, and formerly of Mockingbird Lane in Springfield, was charged with 11 counts of sexual abuse in the 1st degree, a Class D felony.
See the complete story in this week's edition of The Springfield Sun!
An indictment indicates that a grand jury found sufficient evidence for a case to go to trial, and does not indicate guilt. Anyone who is indicted is innocent until proven guilty.
By Jimmie Earls
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The Washington County Commanders' record improved to 5-0 Friday night with a thrilling 3-0 victory over the heavily-favored Marion County Knights. A field goal by senior Seth Mattingly was the deciding score as the Commanders shut down the Knight offense and held them scoreless.
For a complete wrap-up, see the Sept. 29 issue of The Springfield Sun.
When most men were little boys, they spent time playing with toy trucks in the dirt. Even when you didn't have a toy truck, a nice big rock was a good substitute. Like all kids at heart, some guys grow up, but they still feel the need to play in the dirt. That was never more evident than this past Saturday at the Mackville Community Center. Mackville Community Development, in cooperation with the Mackville Lions Club, hosted their annual fall truck and tractor pull. All money raised helps to keep the community center funded throughout the year.
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It was a tough week for Adam Stevenson's St. Catharine College volleyball team. After losing a tough match to conference foe Cumberlands in five sets, the Patriots suffered some key injuries that led to their demise in the TranSouth/Mid-South Volleyball Classic played over the weekend at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tenn.
The St. Catharine College womens' soccer team has two wins on the season and both have come in convincing fashion. The 2-2 Patriots opened the 2010 campaign with an 11-0 rout of Ohio Christian. Then, after dropping the next two matches, the Patriots routed the visiting Berea College Mountaineers 8-0 Saturday.
"It was a good game to get everyone playing time," said SCC head womens' coach Paul Patton. "We were able to dominate the play the entire game."
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The past week was a tough one for the Washington County volleyball team. The Commanderettes fell 2-0 (25-18, 26-24) to Bardstown on Sept. 9, and then lost to Marion, Taylor and LaRue counties during the Abraham Slam Jam at LaRue County over the weekend. Head coach Curt Scifres said while the freshman and JV squads are doing well, the varsity has been struggling lately.
It's no wonder kids all over the county enjoy attending the annual kids' day sponsored by the Cantuc Whistlers chapter of Quail Unlimited. Where else can you shoot BB guns, take archery practice, play tug-o-war and chase a greased pig?
At last count, more than 100 kids participated in the event that promotes safety while giving the youth a taste of the outdoors.
Members of the Blake Hoppes Youth Football League, plus any middle school football player in Washington County, can enjoy a free night of football this Friday when the Commanders host Lincoln County. All they have to do is wear their jersey to the game and they will receive free admission.
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In last month's Off the Hoof, I discussed the impact of heat stress on pregnancy rates. Heat stress reduces conception rate to 30-35 percent and can result in fetal loss during the early stages of pregnancy. Pregnancies can be lost between days 25-45 due to heat stress. Both of these factors lead to low pregnancy rates.
The week started on a positive note for the St. Catharine College volleyball team as they won at Midway College 3-2 last Tuesday. But the notes turned sour over the weekend at the Rumpke Invitational in Georgetown where Adam Stevenson's team went 0-4.
"Yes, the competition was tough (in the tournament)," said Stevenson. "Cumberland (Tenn.) was 9-0 coming into the weekend and Union received votes for the top 25. Embry-Riddle (Fla.) was 13th in the nation."
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SAP NEWSBYTE — World-leading companies base their decision-making on data rather than "gut-feel," according to Information Culture: Leveraging Collective Insight in the Connected Enterprise, a new survey commissioned by SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) and conducted by BARC (Business Application Research Center), a leading independent business software market analyst firm.
Each day, businesses generate so much data that a large portion of it ends up stowed away to be ignored or forgotten in data warehouses and silos. According to the Information Culture study, 62 percent of organizations use less than half of their available data for decision-making. Companies that create an information culture by driving collective insight, based upon trusted, governed data discovery and collaborative decision-making, are more likely to treat information as an asset and use it to identify new business opportunities, predict future trends and behavior and generate revenue.
The study captured the opinions of 743 people with both business and IT backgrounds from a wide range of industries worldwide on the topic of information culture in companies. The study showed that despite having the best technology, a company culture can inhibit information from being treated as an asset and a valuable resource. Other notable findings include:
- More than half (58 percent) of respondents say their companies base at least half of their regular business decisions on gut feel or experience rather than on data and information.
- Less than 50 percent of respondents agree that information is highly valued for decision-making or treated as an asset in their organization today, but two-thirds believe it will be in the future.
- Only one-third of companies currently use information to identify new business opportunities and predict future trends and behavior, but most of the remaining two-thirds plan to do so in the future.
- An overwhelming 78 percent of respondents in laggard companies — those that believe they do not utilize their data as well as rivals — said collaborative decision-making is the key to unlocking the value of data in their organization and turning that data into a competitive advantage.
"Our study shows that companies understand the value of information," said Dr. Carsten Bange, founder and CEO, BARC. "But in order to unlock the full potential of their data, they need to address and improve data quality, increase the speed at which information is made available, raise awareness of business intelligence at senior management levels and foster a collaborative style of decision-making."
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A lot of useful ideas here
Though on that one point, I think junk mail should be assigned some sort of bulk mailing rate discount.
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The United States Postal Service is being set up to fail as a public institution so an excuse can be found to privatize it.
If we had politicians working for the good of the people U.S. Postal Services should have been expanded to include a publicly owned Internet Service Provider and a publicly owned National Banking System. And the U.S. Postal Service should have expanded into the larger parcel delivery like Fed Ex and UPS. Had the U.S. Postal Service been enabled to expand small profits large enough to finance something like a National Public Child Care System could have come from this while saving the American people a lot of money, pain and misery. The pensions for U.S. Postal employees should have been consolidated with Social Security with everyone on Social Security receiving the same good pensions postal employees receive--- the additional funds required should have come from an increase in the payroll tax which would be insignificant compared to the benefits with the increase falling heaviest on employers.
Instead of looking to do what is good for society as a whole, these Wall Street bribed politicians we have sitting in Congress whose only constituents are the parasitical Wall Street crowd, they have enabled the wholesale robbery and gutting of the U.S. Postal Service choosing to allow their corporate friends who are bribing them to profit from the very services the U.S. Postal Service should have expanded into.
In addition, instead of lowering the price of postage for first class mail they lowered the price of postage on corporate junk mail and advertising which should be subjected to higher rates than first class postage--- again, everything is done backwards to serve corporate interests instead of the people.
The American people are being ripped off left and right so corporations can profit while our public institutions are driven into the ground and replaced with private for-profit businesses.
Once again we have seen where the unions have failed to promote policies in line with what society needs and have tried to defend the interests of postal workers in a very narrow and short-sighted way and once again we see this very backwards thinking on the part of labor leaders who refuse to place all options on the table for their members to consider has left the very workers they claimed they were defending without jobs. When are union leaders in this country going to learn they can't win anything by sucking up to management that they have to ally their members with what is good for the entire working class. We have seen what the results are of this "sucking up to management" trade union policy very clearly with what is going on with the long, painful demise of the U.S. Postal Service; which, if it continues without massive intervention by the people the result will be a complete end to one of our oldest and most important public institutions--- and when these crooked and corrupt shysters sitting in the White House and in the halls of Congress are done we will be paying $5.00 to mail a letter instead of 50 cents.
Obviously, the Congressional Progressive Caucus has been out dining on a corporate paid lunch while all this has been going on since no progressive alternative has been advanced.
Contrary to what all these political hacks, Wall Street bribed politicians, the over-paid pundits and muddle-headed well-heeled middle class "economists" and fuzzy-headed professors are saying--- there is nothing the private for-profit sectors can do that publicly owned enterprises can't do better.
Strengthening and expanding and developing new public institutions and enterprises is the only way we are going to be able to extract ourselves from the social and economic crisis we find ourselves mired in which is not of our making.
We are confronted with a failing U.S. Postal Service; less service, higher rates--- when the solution to saving the U.S. Postal Service is expanded and new services with lower rates.
I do find it interesting that the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party has not added its voice to the public dialog on this most important issue concerning the future of the U.S. Postal Service (and thousands of jobs here in Minnesota) which, if allowed to go through as Obama and Congress plan will result in a lower quality of life for Minnesotans. Rural Minnesotans are likely to suffer the most.
For the Wall Street crowd the United States Postal Service is too public to save.
I do find it interesting there is never a war too expensive to fund but when it comes to the U.S. Postal Service the politicians decide they need to be miserly and penny-pinching.
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Though on that one point, I think junk mail should be assigned some sort of bulk mailing rate discount.
See, I was thinking the opposite. I think corporations should pay MORE for the right to advertise directly to our homes.
As a business, if you adhere to the Do Not Mail list, you get the discount; any reported violations (which is as simple as comparing a mail piece with the mailhouse's record of your mailing list), and you get the bump-up in rates.
Make mail meaningful again -- and take back all the parceled-out business given to anti-union delivery services. And, of course, a national ISP *and* broadband provider, fairly run, fairly priced, subject to the same privacy regulations a piece of mail has.


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When a gillnet is "set" the bottom is weighted to the sea floor by weights and the top is held up by floats creating a wall of net.
These nets are difficult for larger cetaceans to see or detect with echolocation. So they frequently run in to them when swimming or feeding and become tangled in the netting or in the ropes holding the netting.
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Sonja Scharf photography will be part of the Gladstone's exhibit 10×10: 100 Portraits opening reception on Thursday June 28 from 7 to 10 p.m. 10×10 is a photography project celebrating Canadian queers involved in the arts. The project features 10 LGBT photographers focusing on 10 LGBT artists to create 100 portraits.
Sonja Scharf has been making images since 1982, after borrowing a friends point and shoot camera. She began her formal education in 1988 at The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton, where she completed a two-year professional photography program. After graduating her focus was fashion and commercial work, however her photographic interests soon evolved to explore her artistic practice within the realm of fine art photography. Since 2000 Sonja has devoted herself to creating art and has been actively exhibiting her work in galleries and other public venues. Sonja is represented in Canada by Edward Day Gallery.


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The Old Farmer must be seriously reassessing his position. His 2014 Almanac, if I read it right, called for heavy rains in January, up to and perhaps including this very day.
So how can we believe him when he tells us that we will have heavy rains in February?
Now that the drought is official, we really need to talk about the weather. Not the current weather, of course. There are plenty of people doing that already. We need to talk about times past, other weathers, other years. It might be a comfort to know that the Old Farmer isn't the first to be fooled.
Robert Thompson, the 19th century's chief Sonoma County booster and its first historian, wrote that "The season of rain commences in October and ends in May, though it sometimes rains in June. It is rare that it rains longer than two or three days at a time. And the intervals between rains vary from a few days to a month or six weeks. Californians consider the winter the most pleasant part of the year."
Californians have never been realistic about weather. Like Thompson, we seem to be more Chamber of Commerce than Weather Bureau.
I guess the main problem with Thompson's weather report -#8212; in which he ascribes February as being "a growing month ... as pleasant as May" is that he just wasn't here long enough.
The Thompson brothers (his brother was the long-time editor of the Sonoma Democrat) rolled into Sonoma County from Virginia in the mid-1850s. If he had hung around for the February of 1986, he would have seen roofs blow off and the barns blow down and the Russian River rise so high in Guerneville that people had to be helicoptered out from the top of the town's only hill. "Pleasant as May" indeed! He also missed the January and February of 1975 when it rained 40 days and 40 nights, a winter of Biblical proportions.
Some of us make the same mistake, believing, as we tend to do, that history begins with our own earliest memories. We talk as if this drought, just declared official by Gov. Jerry Brown, is the first time California has dried up around us. And we like to blame it all on overpopulation.
But think about this. In the 1830s and '40s, when there was a handful of Californios and a very few Russians along with the Native Americans, living lightly on the land, there was a killer drought.
It was no Chamber of Commerce California that Lt. Charles Wilkes found when he paid an exploratory visit, including the Mexican pueblo of Sonoma, in 1841.
Lt. Wilkes, a naval officer commissioned by the U.S. government to check out the Pacific Coast, wrote in his report that there was no land suitable for agriculture anywhere around Sonoma and, furthermore, the Sacramento Valley was "a barren wasteland." He had come in a drought year.
So had James Bidwell, who was in the first wagon train to cross the Sierra into California. Near starvation after 24 weeks of hard traveling, they abandoned their wagons on Sonora Pass and ate their mules. Bidwell recorded all this in his diary. In November of 1841, he wrote, when they came down from the mountains to John Marsh's ranch at the foot of Mt. Diablo, they found: "The country was brown and parched ... wheat, beans, everything had failed. Cattle were almost starving for grass and the people, except perhaps for a few of the best families, were without bread, and were eating chiefly meat, and that often of a very poor quality. ... It had been one of the driest years ever known in California."


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They asked Art Cashin, one of my favorite stock market personalities, what he thought of Nasdaq 4000. Art usually gets it right, but he said the 4000 barrier was just psychological and there was really nothing else attached to it. In that way, he was right. However, the big number was not 4000; it's 4100. The market still hasn't peaked, but the Nasdaq did work its way to 4069 in last week's volume and storm-interrupted sequence.
It was an unusual week, not only because it was shortened by the Thanksgiving holiday, but the weather also played a factor. Holiday volume kicked in as early as Tuesday, and instead of a flat week, the few were able to bully whoever was there to kick the Nasdaq up near its long-term target.
Here's the updated version, the same calculation we've been waiting on since 2010. There's so much debate as to whether there truly is a bubble. But with a 161 relationship being perfectly normal and within the confines of the 95th percentile of a bell curve, we most certainly are not in bubble territory yet. Want to see a real bubble? The last time we had this discussion, the Nasdaq went from 1300 and change to 5000 in 18 months. Now it has covered most of the same territory in 56 months. This is hardly a bubble. The only reason anyone should think it could be a bubble is because of a lack of selling interest. We made it through September, October and November without a correction of any consequence. But due to this chart, risk is as high as it has been at any time this year simply because the 161 relationship between legs is the single most important and reliable Fibonacci signature. It doesn't have to validate here. It can go to a 261, but odds are high that even if it ends up higher we'll get a reaction right here. Perhaps as important is few people are looking for a pullback right now. In fact, they are looking for just the opposite. According to the seasonal factor, the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas is just about the highest probability rally point for the whole year. That's why I was looking for a pullback in November, and it just didn't happen. They can certainly hit it on Monday as the Nasdaq hits its number, but chances are the seasonal factor will only create a sideswipe. Chances are a full-blown correction won't materialize anymore.
We'll hear threats about tapering, but it's not going to happen, not during the key holiday shopping season.
The Nasdaq isn't the only key test coming this week. The other one comes across the Pacific in Japan. Here's a monthly chart of the Nikkei, which peaked seven months ago as it hit a multi-year trendline dating back to the 1990s. This line has stoned every rally since then. What are the chances it gets through this time?
The yen contract hit the lower rising Andrews channel, which could be support. If this is going to hold and there is no guarantee it will, then the Nikkei would reverse at the high. Why is this so important? If the Nikkei turns, it could be the tell for the entire market, which is trying to put in that elusive high it can never achieve. But if the Nikkei breaks through, chances are the Nasdaq breaks through and they continue this rally through December.
I can't help it, but my finer market sensitivity finds it hard to believe there is no pullback coming. This is from a person who has been exceptionally bullish these past few years. When it's time, it's time. What you can take from these three charts is they are at extreme points and exactly where they need to be to get an important reversal.
As I've gone through some of the important sectors they don't necessarily look like they need to top, although Banking and Transports are getting extended while Housing still looks okay. The SOX still has a near-term calculation that could get it to 525 while it's sitting at 510. A new high for AAPL is important because it took out the key bearish power bar at the October high, which means there was somewhat of a short squeeze to get to where they are now. The week ended with 3 aggressive soldiers and if it weren't for the light volume this would be exceptionally bullish as opposed to just being bullish.
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March 14, 2013
By Kurt Braun, RYT - Teva Yoga Instructor
Spring Equinox is celebrated as the first day of Spring, when day and night are equal in both hemispheres. All of nature is stirring now and showing signs of activity after the Winter sleep. Buds are bursting on the trees, Spring flowers are coming out and seeds are germinating. (At least we can dream of such things with snow still on the ground in Wisconsin!)
The power of the Sun is increasing, the days are lengthening and the nights are shortening. We begin to feel empowered to reach out for what we want and to take risks, strike out on our own, go for walks and connect to the Earth again.
We can use the potential and fertility of this time to create opportunities for positive change in our lives and in the world. At this point we are poised between opposite forces, light and dark, receptive and active, unconscious and conscious, inner and outer. These can be united within us so that we are whole and balanced individuals. This gives birth to actions that come from the heart.
Celebrate new life and rebirth of the earth and within yourself - Please join me in the traditional yoga practice with 108 Sun Salutations (and learn some of the significance of this number) on Wednesday March 20th at 7:00 PM in the Teva Yoga Studio at the JCC.


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NEW YORK (AP) — The California standoff involving fugitive Christopher Dorner shortened television's previews of President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday but did not interrupt coverage of the speech.
CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC had set aside the hour before Obama spoke to discuss the annual Washington ritual but instead spent most of that time showing aerial footage of a cabin burning in southern California, marking the apparent end of Dorner's effort at targeting police officers — even as information on what was actually happening was sketchy.
Fox at one point showed a split screen of the burning cabin on one side with anchor Bill O'Reilly talking to analyst Charles Krauthammer about Obama on the other.
MSNBC stuck with the California story the longest before turning its attention to Washington as Obama began making his way to the podium.
The State of the Union address is "still the big national story," MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews said. "But this one certainly challenged it. This was a saga."
ABC briefly mentioned the Dorner drama before shifting into a discussion of gun violence being on the minds of many attending Obama's speech. CNN's sister network, HLN, presented full-time coverage of the Dorner story when the main network presented the State of the Union.
Following the speech, CNN immediately shifted to Anderson Cooper reporting that Dorner had apparently died, before returning to Washington for a pundit panel on the State of the Union. ABC also briefly reported the Dorner story following the speech.
But no equivalency — or split screen — was given to the California story while Obama spoke on the cable news or broadcast networks.


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BAKER — Louisiana Development Ready Cities and the Mayor's Office are sponsoring a Monday forum at the Municipal Building's auditorium on improving Baker's school system.
A steering committee working with the state Department of Economic Development said in a news release the 6 p.m. forum will focus on how residents can be engaged in enhancing the educational opportunities for Baker children.
State Education Superintendent John White, Baker Superintendent Ulysses Joseph, Baker Councilwoman Joyce Burges and Eric Lewis, director of the Black Alliance for Educational Options, have been invited to attend and participate in a panel discussion, the news release says.
The steering committee, which includes residents, business leaders and elected officials, is working on a strategic plan to improve the business climate, workforce development and quality of life in Baker.
Surveys and community meetings have been used to gauge public input, according to the department's news release.


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Josh Saucier couldn't believe it when his bow exploded in his hands with a buck standing within range.
The Mississippi hunter experienced that unfortunate happening while on a multi-day hunt in the Panther National Wildlife Refuge in January. Not only was his bow a mess, but the buck he was eyeballing had turned tail after the terrifying experience and Saucier had a long, disappointing walk back to his vehicle.
Silver linings, though. Silver linings.
A hunting partner had a spare bow. Saucier got acquainted with it and arrowed a 10-point swamp daddy a couple of days later. It rough scored 170-plus and made the long trip out of the woods with his big buck a lot easier!
Check out the full story in Louisiana Sportsman.


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Most U.S. stocks rose, as the Standard & Poor's 500 Index extended its record level, following data last week that showed American employers added more workers than forecast in April.
Financial stocks rallied the most out of 10 S&P 500 groups, as Bank of America Corp. climbed 4.6%. Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. added 6% after being raised to outperform from market perform by FBR Capital Markets. Humana Inc. added 2.2% as its rating was boosted by JPMorgan Chase & Co. Tyson Foods Inc. slumped 3.7% after posting second- quarter profit and sales that missed estimates.
The S&P 500 rose 0.2% to 1,617.76 at 3:31 p.m. in New York. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.96 point, or less than 0.1%, to 14,973. About four stocks rose for every three that fell on U.S. exchanges. Trading of S&P 500 stocks was 9.2% below the 30-day average at this time of day.
"The market's still feeding off the positive jobs number and the central bank easing that's been going on," Sean Lynch, the Omaha, Nebraska-based global investment strategist for Wells Fargo Private Bank, said by telephone. His firm oversees about $170 billion. "We still like equities. If you look at the landscape of alternatives and opportunities out there, equities are probably the more favorable asset class right now."
The S&P 500 jumped 2% last week as U.S. payrolls expanded by 165,000 workers last month. The median forecast of economists in a Bloomberg survey called for an increase of 140,000 positions. Global equities also rose as the European Central Bank cut its main refinancing rate. Of the 407 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported profit so far, 73% exceeded analysts' earnings predictions while 53% missed on sales, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
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U.S. stocks are in the fifth year of a bull market, as better-than-estimated corporate earnings and three rounds of bond purchases by the Federal Reserve has driven the S&P 500 up 139% from a 12-year low in March 2009. The benchmark equity gauge traded above 1,600 for the first time last week, while the Dow briefly surpassed 15,000 on May 3 and ended the week 1.8% higher.
The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, or VIX, fell 0.2% to 12.82 after falling 5.6% last week. The equity volatility gauge is down 29% for the year.
Birinyi Associates Inc., which predicted the S&P 500 would reach 1,600, purchased options betting on more gains. The firm, among the first to advise buying U.S. stocks before the bull market began in 2009, said the S&P 500 may climb 18% to 1,900 should it conform to bull markets that began in 1982 and 1990.
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Peter wrote:I dont think that anyone with a scientific bias is saying it cant be proven just that as of now it isn't proven so that is open minded.
I hope you are right, but it doesn't look that way to me. I think it's pretty obvious that a discussion concerning a subject such as "astral travelling" has really nothing at all to do with science (at least currently). And as for the general topic of "paranormal activity", do you know of any sciences called "paranormal" anything? So then please enlighten me as to why we need to keep interjecting the same argument that astral projection or any other "paranormal activity" is not scientific, has not been proven, is all in our mind, etc. etc. ad infinitum. How many times is it necessary to hear that? Or is the real purpose of that an attempt to suppress the discussion and attempt to make people feel ignorant, stupid, uneducated, etc. so that they are intimidated? That looks more like the truth to me. Why do people who have no interest in making positive contributions to a discussion like to "hang-out" in topics where they have no real interest?
I would prefer to discuss the topic based on ideas, proven or unproven so that I have the chance to decide for myself without constantly being told what is "right". As for now I am just ignoring it, but hope others will be able to as well. The last thing most of us want, is to intimidate people into not expressing their opinions. What we will end up with is a monoculture of the same opinion and even it's it one that some people agree with it will do this forum a disservice.


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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Former Republican officials in Oklahoma joined a coalition of business groups from across the country on Wednesday in urging Congress to pass new immigration laws they say are vital to the nation's economy — even while acknowledging the political difficulty the issue presents.
Former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating and ex-House Speaker Kris Steele were among those who decried the current immigration system as woefully inadequate and pointed to the massive influx of children from Central American countries as evidence of the need for immediate congressional action.
More than 1,000 unaccompanied teenagers from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala are being detained at a facility in Fort Sill in southwest Oklahoma after being caught trying to enter the country illegally.
Keating, a two-term governor in Oklahoma until 2003 and now president of the American Bankers Association in Washington, D.C., said he believes the crisis involving an estimated 57,000 children picked up at the U.S.-Mexico border since October could serve as the impetus for meaningful legislation this year.
"The reality is that this children's invasion probably will do more to bring the parties together at a crucial time to fix the system," Keating said on a conference call as part of a push for immigration reform involving 25 states that's sponsored by a coalition of manufacturing, farming and business groups.
Among the group's goals are increasing opportunities for immigrants to enter the U.S. workforce and for foreign students to remain in the country to work. The coalition also wants to streamline the process for employers to hire immigrant workers and to establish a path to legal status for those workers who are currently living in the country.
Craig Parker, an executive with Moore-based Silver Star Construction, said the company has about 50 immigrants on its 175-employee workforce. The company could easily expand if he could find more workers to fill as many as two dozen construction jobs that start with a $13-an-hour salary, Parker said.
"The problem is the worker shortage at this time in Oklahoma in our industry is drastic," Parker said. "It's holding us back from growing our company. It's holding other companies back from growing their companies. It's stifling the economy."
The nationwide push for immigration reform comes one day after President Barack Obama appealed to Congress to give him $3.7 billion in emergency spending to deal with the growing number of children coming across the border, which has sparked fierce debate on Capitol Hill and beyond.
U.S. Rep. James Lankford, the GOP nominee for Oklahoma's open U.S. Senate seat, said Wednesday the Republican-controlled House's response has been "fairly tepid."
"The proposal the president has put on the table isn't about solving the crisis at the border," Lankford said. "It's managing the crisis at the border. This is a problem that needs to be solved and not managed."